Wayne Township (part 5 of 22)

BUTLER, JOHN, Brown township, grocer,^ post office, Jelloway, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1838. He came with his parents to Ohio in 1844, and located in Wayne county. In 186 1 he commenced teaching school, and followed that profession for fourteen years, spending most of his time in Ashland and Knox counties. In 1864 he manied Miss Susan Weirick, of Ashland county, daughter of George Weirick. They lived in several neighborhoods, he teaching in the schools. In 1878, they moved to Jelloway, where they are now living. In .August of the same year he

BYERS, ELIZABETH OGLESBY, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on February ii, 1788, and died at her late residence, corner of Gay and Vine streets, Wednesday morning, August 4, 1880, aged ninety-two years five months and twenty-four days. Her husband, the late Samuel Byers, died in '1832. Her son, Joseph M. Byers, came to Ohio, and located in Newark, in 1841, and in 1842 went back to Pennsylvania and brought his mother to his Ohio home. In 1854 the family came to Mt. Vernon, and located in the house at the corner of Gay and Vine streets, where they have remained up to the present time. The deceased was the mother of seven children. Four children, Mr. Joseph Ml Byers, of this city, Mr. James D. Byers and Mr. John H. Byers, both of California, and Miss Margaret Byers, of this city, survive her. Some si.xty years ago Mrs. Byers associated herself with the Presbyterian church, and up to 1838 ratained her membership with that organization, but on account of being removed from church privileges by a change of residence, she joined the Methodist Episcopal church by letter, and remained a member to the close of her life. Besides her four surviving children, deceased leaves si.xteen grandchildren and numerous gregitgrandchildren, with a large circle of friends and acquaintances to mourn her departure. An intimate acquaintance with Mother Byers for nearly thirty-five years enables the writer to say that the beauty of a blameless life has been shown in her every act, as a wife, as a mourning widow, and as a mother mourning for the loss of her children; and the cheerfulness with which she patiently waited for long years the call to meet those members of her family who had gone before her, evidenced a life free from guile.

CAIN, ELIAS, deceased. - He was born in Harrison county, Virginia, in 1798. He came to Ohio in 1802, and located in Muskingum county. He remained there until 1810. He then came to Kno.x county; he was married to Ann Eliza Britten, who was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1802. They had five children, namely, John, James, Nancy Ann, Sarah E., and R. W. Mrs. Cain died in 1859. Mr. Cain afterward married Margaret Latta, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1822. Mr. Cain was a pioneer of this county. He left his farm and moved to Amity in 1823. He died at his residence November 16, 1880.

CAIN, JOHN, Pike township, shoemaker, post office. Democracy, was born in Amity in 1823, and married in 1858 to Sarah E. Kesler, who was born in Columbus in 1833. They had four children, viz.: Elias (deceased) Francis S., Elias H., and Allen. Mr. Cain has been engaged in manufacturing of boots and shoes for many years in Amity.

CAMPBELL. RICHARD, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, horn in Virginia, September 10, 18 14; emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Butler - township. He lived there until 1838, when he bought a farm. In 1841 he was married to Sarah A. Huddle, and settled on his farm in Union township, where he still remains.

1855, and manages the farm for his father. The other three children have deceased. John married Miss Siza Lyle, in 1877. and located on the farm. Richard Campbell's father died in 1870, and his mother three months previous. They had ten children, all living e.xcept Abner and Elizabeth G.

CAMPBELL, JOHN, Miller township, farmer, was born in Washington township. Licking county, February 28, 1815. His father was a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he married Mary McDonald. Shortly after their marriage they came to Ohio and settled in Washington township, Licking county, Ohio, where they lived and died.

The subject of this notice was born on the farm and continued to reside on it until he moved to Miller township, where he has since resided on the farm situated on the southeast corner of the township. He is an estimable citizen, and a consistent member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. He is one of the leading farmers of Miller township. Honest and conscientious in his dealings, and ever ready to lend a helping hand to the poor. In 1844 he married Margaret Magill, a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. They had a family of eight children; three of whom are living, viz: William G. and Joseph O. R., druggists in Kansas city, Missouri; William Boyd, at home. James R., served three years in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He died at home.

CAMPBELL, JOHN, farmer, was born in Butler township in November, 1817, and was married to Phebe Babcock January, 1841. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have had no children, but their niece, Miss Marietta Campbell, resides with them. . Although quite young. Miss Campbell is an accomplished artist, and has painted many very fine pictures. Politically, Mr. Campbell is a Republican, and a much esteemed citizen.

CAMPBELL, JAMES, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Butler township March 14, 1818. His parents, David and Mariah Campbell, nee Vance, were natives of Virginia, and came to Ohio prior to 1817, but at what time is not definitely known. Mr. Campbell came to Butler township some time before he was married, and entered a tract of land, and returned to Virginia where he manned Miss Vance, and then returned to his land. He lived for some time in a_ wagon until he roofed his log house. He resided there until the spring of 1824, when he moved to Morgan township, where he purchased the farm on which John Campbell yet resides, and where he died in 1825. His widow married Samuel Coe, and has deceased. They had a family of six children - three deceased. The living are James, Mrs. Buckingham, and Margaret, wife of Rev. Benjamin Tulloss.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm and received a common school education. He has always followed farming as his chief occupation, and has been successful in acquiring considerable of this world's goods. He is an upright man, a close observer, and well informed, and a leading member of the Baptist church. January 29, 1844, he marriedMiss Eliza A. Sperry, daughter of Jacob and Mary Sperry. They have a family of seven children, viz: David P., of Utica, Ohio; Mary A., wife of E. W. Bell; Mattie M., wife of Rev. W. E. Stevens, of Dayton, Ohio; ElizabethJ., wife of W. H. Sellers; H. S., E. J., and Clyde E.

CARSON, ROBERT, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon; bom in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, came to Ohio with his parents in infancy, and was married in 1856 to Sarah A. Masteller, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1825. They have one son, William Carson, who was born November 25, 1862. Mr. Carson resided in Coshocton till he was twenty-three years old, then came to Liberty township, and in 1869 moved to Wayne township. He owns a well improved farm with good buildmgs.

CARY, JOSEPH, deceased, Pleasant township, was bom in Morris county. New Jersey, October 17, 1778. In 1800 he married Miss Susan Morris of same State, and in 1822, he, with wife and family, emigrated to Kno.x county, Ohio, and located on a farm in Morgan township, on which they lived until 1829, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, this county, now owned by his son, George L. Cary, and where he died in 1839. His companion survived him until 1865, when she died at the age of eighty years. Their union resulted in eight children, viz.: Mahala, born in New Jersey December 15, 1801; James B., bom in New Jersey April 10, 1804; Daniel M., born in New Jersey June 17, 1806; Joanna, born in New Jersey October 12, 1808; Aaron, born in New Jersey July 19, 1811; Martha, bom in New Jersey May 6, 1816; Nancy, born in New Jersey September 9, 1819; George L. , born in Kno.x county, Ohio, May 5, 1823, who married Margaret J. Turner, daughter of John B. and Ruth J. Turner, October 16, 1861. They settled on his father's home farm where they are now living. He is following farming and stock-raising as his vocation.

CARSON, J.-\MES, Pike township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, bom in Coshoction county, Ohio, in 1834, and was married to Susan Bird, who was born in Liberty township, this county, in 1835. They had three children: Clarrissa E., born in 1856; Martha A., in 1862, and Hugh, November 21, 1867, who died September 28, 1868.

Mrs. Susan Carson's father, Elisha Bird, was born in 1791 in Pennsylvania, and was married to Susan Haggerty, who was bom in Pennsylvania in 1794. They had the following children: Samuel H., bom in 1818; Julia A., in 1821; Amada, in 1823; Simon, in 1825; Sarah A., in 1826; George Washington, in 1829, and Susan, in 1835. Mr. Elisha Bird died in 1850, and Mrs. Susan Bird in 1853. They were among the first settlers in this county.

CARY FAMILY. - The family of Cary in England is one of the oldest, as it has been one of the most illustrious and honored in the kingdom. Those of the family who wish to learn particularly of their English ancestry can consult Rurk's History of the Landed Gentry of England.

In 1198, according to Sir William Pole, Adam De Karry was Lord of Castle Karry or Kari, in the county o( Somerset. This castle now only exists in history. The village situated in that locality is known as Castle Cary. As early as the reign of Edward I, the name was spelled C-a-r->. William and'John Cary represented the county of Devon in the English Parliament in the thirty-sixth and forty-second of Edward III. John Cary was made a baron of the exchequer by Richard II. Sir Robert, his son succeeded to his honors and estates. Sir William Cary, a grandson of Sir Robert, fell in the battle of Tewsbury, 1471. Lucius Cary was chancellor of the exchequer under Charles I, and his marble statue stands at the entrance of the Parliament house. He was regarded in England as the greatest man of his day. Sir William Cary married May Boleyn, a sister of Anne, the unhappy wife of Henry VIII. HerTrj' Cary was created by his cousin. Queen Elizabeth, Baron Hunsdon.

The Carys of Ireland are very numerous. Although descended from a common ancestor they spell the name C-a-r-e-y. These few fragments are only given to show the antiquity and distinction of the name, and not to give a connected history of the family in the old country. The family is still numerous in England, and traces back its history through many centuries with pride.

The name Cary is quite common in almost every one of the United States. They are doubtless descendants of DeKarry, of the Domesday book of William the Conqueror, whether of English, Irish or Scotch extraction. Most of those who spell the name with an e are of Irish extraction, but this rule is not universal, as persons not remotely connected spell the name both ways.

Those of the descendants of John Cary, of Plymouth colony, who spell the name with an e do so without authority, as he spelled the name C-a-r-v. John Cary joined the Plymouth colony about 1634. He came from Sometshire, England, near Bristol.

He is the progenitor of the families of whom we intend to speak. We find his name among the original proprietors and settlers of Duxbury and Bridgewater. Some of his descendants of the eighth generation still occupy a portion of Bridgewater land.

In 1656 he was elected a constable of Bridgewater. He was elected first town clerk and held the office consecutively until 1681. He was prominent among his fellows, well educated and public spirited.

He married Elizabeth Godfrey in 1644, a daughter of one of the first settlers of Bridgewater. The year of his birth is not known. He died in 1681. They had a family of eleven children. Joseph Cary, his son, born in Bridgewater in 1663, was twice married, had si.x children, and died in 1722. John Carey, son of Joseph Carey, was born in Windham, Connecticut, in 1695, married Hannah Thurston in 1716, and died in 1776. He had nine children. John Cary, son of last named John Cary, was born in Windham, Connecticut, in 1717, married Rebecca Rudd, and died in 1788, having eight children.

Jonathan Cary, son of last named John Cary, was bora in Scotland, Connecticut, in 1749, married Martha Hurlbut, and removed to Norwich, Connecticut, where he died, having had seven children.

Frederick Cary, son of Jonathan, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, February 14, 1786, married Ama Savage, in Norwich, Connecticut, June 22, 1817, and emigrated to Ohio the same year, and settled in Liberty township. He died in 1875. His wife died November 13, 1863. Prior to his marriage he had been in Ohio trading with the Indians and the white settlers for furs, which he took east and sold. He had nine children : Thomas, born July 31, 1818, married Cynthia Marriman in 1853. They had one daughter, born March 18, 1855. He is engaged in farming in Liberty township. Emily, born August 8, 1820, married James Merriman, who has deceased. She resides in Liberty township, they had two sons of whom mention is made. William L., born September 25, 1822, he was reared on a farm in Liberty township. His education was obtained at the common schools and the high schools at Mt. Vernon. He taught school for sixteen terms. He married Eveline Graham October 29, 1851. They yet reside in the township and had seven children. Ralph W., born July 2, 1852. He is a physician located in Mt. Vernon; was elected coroner of the county in the fall of 1880. Henry Y. , bom January 4, 1854. Samuel F., born October 11, 1855. John W., born October 9, 1858. Evaline E., born August 24, i860. William, born November, 1862. Grant has deceased. Caroline, born November 15, 1824, died unmarried December 2, 1863. George W., born January 28, 1827; he was reared on the farm, and resides in Liberty township; he was married to Sarah Chambers in 1861; no issue by this marriage. Frederick VV., born July 18, 1829; died unmarried January 2, 1853. John, bom January 22, 1832, died unmarried, August 5, 1856. Charles, born March 10, 1834; he married Martha A. Frazier, December, 1865; they had five children, only one of whom (Rose Ella, born February 23, 1874) is living. James was born May 4, 1838; he was reared on a farm, and enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twentyfirst regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, August, 1862. He participated in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky; was taken sick at Nashville, Tennessee, rejoined his regiment in Georgia, was with the regiment until it was mustered out, participating in the different campaigns. He was married to Miss Rebecca Phillips, September 26, 1871; they have three children and reside on the old homestead.

CASH, E. D., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1831. He came to Ohio, when he was six months old. His father settled in Knox county, and he remained with him until he was fifteen years old, when he left to learn the saddler trade which he followed fifteen years. He was married in 1866, to Susan Buchanin, and settled on his present farm. He has two children: William J., bom January 15, 1868; and Walter B., April 2, 1875. Walter died January 27, 1879.

CASSELL & LEWIS, merchants. They established business in 1876, and have enjoyed a lively trade. They keep a well selected stock of foreign and domestic dry goods, ladies' dress-goods, hosiery and gloves, queensware glassware, groceries and provisions. Mr. Cassell was born in Maryland. L. H. Lewis is a native Buckeye and now serving his second term as treasurer of the corporation of Fredericktown.

CASSEL, HENRY, Fredericktown, merchant. He was born in Maryland in 1823. He came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1830. He was married in 1851 to Viola Jane Beers. They had two children, Ida and Louella.

Mrs. Viola Cassel died in 1861. Mr. Cassel was married again in 1863, to Carrie Hyatt. Mr. Cassel has been a resident of Wayne township since coming to this county. In 1861 he moved to Fredericktown. During the war he took a positior. in the hardware store (which was done to accommodate a friend that went to the army) of WiUiam Rodgers, who went as a soldier and was promoted captain. Mr. Cassel finally became proprietor of the Cassel hardware store. He carries a full and complete line of hardware in every department. He has built up a very extensive trade through bis honest dealing and enterprising spirit. All who want anything in his line will do

CASTEEL, OTHO, Gambler, a son of Mishick and Mary Casteel, was born in Howard township, this county, on the fourth day of March, 1836. Mishick Casteel, a native of Mary land, was born in in 1798, emigrated to this county in abou 1820, and located near Greersville, in Jefferson township. In 1823 he married Miss Mary Critchfield, daughter of Nathaniel and Christina Critchfield, who was bom in Virginia in 1804, and was brought to this county by her parents in 1806, who located in Howard township, where they passed the remainder of their days. Shortly alter their marriage they settled in Howard township and remained until 1842, when they moved to Union township, where he deceased in a few months after their settle^ ment in the township. Mrs. Casteel is now living in Gambier, with her son Otho, aged seventy-six years. They reared a family of five children, viz.: Benjamin, Appleton, Pierce, Sarah C, and Otho. Only two of the number are now living, viz. : Benjamin and Otho. Otho Casteel was reared a farmer, and followed farming as his principal vocation until 1871, when he engaged in butchering, and has since been following that business. In June, i860, he married Miss Sarah E. Hutcheson, bom in Gambier, May 14, 1836, daughter of A. B. Hutcheson. They settled in Gambier, where they now reside. They have had two children, a son and a daughter.

CHALFANT, JAMES, Wayne township, retired farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, bora in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1827, and was married in 1849 to Margaret Statler, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They came to Knox county in 1856. They have the following children: John S., born January 22, 1851; Charles A., January 5, 1853; William B., July 10, 1858; Ellen, November 3, i860; WalterJ., May 18, 1864; Emery W., September 21, 1866; Joseph G., April 5, 1875, and Mary B., July 24, 1855, who died November 11, 1862.

CHANNELL, HENRY, Miller township, farmer, post office. Homer, was born in Randolph county, Virginia, January 22, 1824. The Channell family, of which he is a descendant, emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina, but at what date is not known. The parents died in South Carolina. They left four sons, viz: Aaron, John, Joseph, and Jerry. Aaron went to sea as a sailor and was never heard of afterward by the family.

The three brothers came to Randolph county, Virginia, and subsequently John and Joseph, with their families, came to Ohio and settled in Licking county, being among the first settlers. Jerry remained in Virginia. His descendants are now quite numerous in that State.

Joseph, grandfather of the subject of this notice, married Judith Hodge, a native of Scotland. They had a family of sixteen children, twelve of whom reached maturity. The descendants of these children are now numerous and are scattered throughout the West.

Isom, the father of the subject of this notice, was one of the sixteen children. He enlisted three times in the War of 1S12. His first and second terms of service were of short duration. He served seven months in the last enlistment. He went to Virginia and there married Eve Harper, and in 1829 returned to Ohio and settled in Burlingham township, where he died in 1845. His wife survived him until March, 1877. She died with her children in Missouri. They had nine children, five of whom are living.

Mr. Channel! spent his youth on a farm in Licking county. In 1858 he came to Miller townsliip, where hehasrince resided, being among the most influential and esteemed citizens. In 1843 he married Miss Jane Crusen, a native of Licking county, Ohio. They had five children, three of whom died young. The living are Aaron and Hattie, the wife of Grcenbur)- Sherman.

CHANCEY, JAMES B., Fredericktown, was bom in New York in 1834, was brought to Ohio when three years old, and was married to Martha A. Drown, who was born in this county in 1837. They have si.x children, viz: Cora B., bom February 23, 1859; Mary D., November 10, 1861; Joseph H., November 8, 1863; Ellen R., December 10, 1865: Carrie B., November 13, 1867, and Adda F., December 28, 1869. Mr. Chancey is a painter by trade, and has been engaged in that business for twenty years.

James B. Chancey was a soldier in the late war, and a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio national guard. lie served out the time of his enlistment, and received an honorable discharge. Mrs. J. B. Chancey's father, Samuel Brown, deceased, was born in Virginia in 1798, afid was married to Nancy Carter, who was born in Virginia in 1800.

They came to Ohio in 183 1, and located in Berlin township. They had the following children, viz: Mary E., boin in 1829; James, in 1831; Daniel, in 1833; Jefferson, deceased; Martha, born in 1837; Joseph, in 1838; George, in 1842, and Susan, in 1845-

Samuel Brown died in 1847, in Berhn township. He was a farmer by occupation, and a worthy member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and an honored citizen. Mrs. Nancy Brown is now residing \\ith her son, James H. Brown, in Michigan.

CHANDLER, D.AVID J,, shoemaker, was b< rn ii, day township, August 30, 1841, was married December 5. J&65, to Margaret Finney They have five children, viz: Susan M., Charles H., Edward I',, W ilham M., and James B. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, being a private in company C, l'"ifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and the only Kncx i cjunty man in the regiment.

CHAPLN. L. H., mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard. He was born in Union township, August 19, 1844. His rriother died in 1854., and at this time he went to B. Simmons' in Coshocton county, and farmed there four years. He then returned to Millwocjd and remained there two years. In 1861 he enlisted under Captain Walker in the f'orty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the battle of Corinth in 1862. and at luk;;, Mississippi. ]'l;e\ made a eharfc-, caile<i the endways charge, on the rebels where a portion of the troops crossed the river on pontoons.

tain a year, then removed to Union township, remained there four years, and then canie to Howard. They have five children, Fenton, Elmer, Oliver, Salona, and James.

CHAPMAN, JUDGE STEPHEN, Mt. Vernon, deceased. Among the early settlers of this county, was Stephen Chapman, who in after years became a man of note, and was honored and trusted by his fellow citizens. He was bom in Saybiook, Connecticut, on the twenty-fourth of April, 1783. His parents came to Ohio and located at Marietta in 1794, when Stephen was only eleven years of age. Grandfather Chapman was an old and intimate friend of General Rufus Putnam, who induced him to take that step. He was to erect a block-house at Marietta, and was to keep within it nine soldiers for the protection of the settlers in the neighborhood, for which the Government was to reward him by two large tracts of land lying within what is now Washington county. Mr. Chapman complied with the wishes of the general in every respect. For the soldiers he substituted his own sons, nine in number, Stephen making one. The Gr,\crnment compensated him with two tracts of land situated one on Duck and one on Bear creek. In 1806 Mr. Chapman, the subject of this sketch, came to and settled in Mt. Vernon, and opened what was then called a "trading station," keeping a little of everything that could be bartered for a little money, deer skins and furs. The currency at that time was "mixed." He was a friend of the red man, and considerable trading was carried on with them. This station was continued for some time.

December 25, 1808, he married Mary Walker, a sister of Mr. Joseph Walker, one of the proprietors of Mt. Vernon. In 1811 he purchased and moved on the farm on Dry creek, where he resided up to the time of his death, making a continued residence of fifty-eight years. During a part of the War of 1812 he was engaged in collecting and wagoning provisions for the sustenance of the soldiers stationed at Milan and Sandusky.

In 1873 tlie p('opleof ihf county became alarmed at rumored Indian raids, and several block -houses were erected in the county. Mr. Chaj)man aidcil l.is neighbors to erect one on Dry creek, on the Hardcstv firm, better known in latter days as the Carey farm, to which liis family was removed, where they remained a short time for safety and protection.

Judge Chapman was a m.tn of more than ordinary ability and sound jiidgmcr;t, and wis huiirn.'d and respected by his neighbors and acquaintances thn-iigl.out the county. In 1817 he was elected a justice of the peace for his township, as his commis.'ion, sij'ned by Go\(riu>r 'I honias Worthington, aiul dated February 15, 1817, show.s. A \acancy occurring on the associate judges bench of the county, Governor Ethan Allen Brown appointed him to fill iha' vai.i.icy, and on the thirtieth of October, 1819, iigned his cominisfion as associate judge. During the session cf the legislature in the winter of 1819-20, he was elected associate judge for r, fiill term. Governor Brown signing his commission on the twenty-sixth of February, 1820. These three old commissions are in a good slate of preservation, and are kept as relics of the p.i«.i by the family. Although by no means a robust man, yet he was a person of strong nerves and athletic, and enjoyed the best of health. He died full of honor and hill of years, 0( tobci ^ ;0og, in l!iu righty-sc\cnl!i year of his age.

CHAPM.\N. DAVID, .Milfcnl town.ship, farmer and carpenter; was tiorn in Ashta!jii:a county, Ohio, in 1822. His father's name was Martin was a native of New York , his mother (Henrietta Wright) was a native of Connecticut, both being of English descent. They were married in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and remained there six or eight years. They went to Upper Canada, remained about eight years and then returned to Ashtabula county, and thereafter succesively Hved in Holmes, Tuscarawas, and Coshocton counties, both parents dying in the latter county. They had a family of twelve children, six yet living. The subject of this notice is the third child. When about nineteen years of age he went to the carpenter trade, and followed it until 1877. In 1844 he married Miss Margaret King, a native of Pennsylvania. At the time of his marriage he was poor, and, as he says, "his wife no better off." He had also to support his parents principally from the time of his marriage until their deaths. Thus he had to struggle against adverse circumstances. In 1858 he moved to Miller township, and resided there until 1868, when he purchased the farm of one hundred and forty-six acres in Milford township on which he now resides. He went in debt on this farm four thousand five hundred dollars, but by industry and good management he has paid this amount. Mr. Chapman is a hard working man, a good citizen and neighbor.

By his marriage they had seven children, six of whom are iving, viz. : Alonzo, a carpenter by trade, who enlisted in company C, Forty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, February, 1864, and was with Sherman from Chattanooga to Savannah, participating in all the conflicts in which his company was engaged until their discharge; Wflliam B., was a member of the same company, enlisting at the same time, and was also with the company and regiment until its discharge; Julia, married Benjamin Hunter; jane, married Robert McCune; Mina, and Belle, live at home; Malissa died young.

CHASE, PHILANDER, D.D., deceased. Rev. Philander Chase, D.D., first bishop of the diocese of Ohio, was for a number of years one of the most prominent men of Knox county, He was born in Cornish, N'ew Hampshire, December 14, 1775. He was descended from Aquila Chase, who came from Cornwall, England, in 1640, and settled at Newbury. His grandson, Dudley, father of the bishop, settled on the Connecticut river and founded the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, where the bishop was born. His parents were plain, pious people, living on a farm, devoted members of the Congregational church, and young Philander adopted their religious views early in life. Philander intended to chose his father's vocation, but the course of events, says his biographer in the "American Cyclopedia," seemed plainly to indicate that a different career was before him. A severe injury to one of his limbs confined him for a long time to the house, and after much reflection upon his position and prospects, he resolved to prepare himself for college and the ministry of the gospel. He entered Dartmouth college in 1791, and was graduated in 1795. At the time of his graduation Philander Chase was a Congregationalist, but having met with a prayer book of the Episcopal church, he examined and studied it with great care, and was led to the conviction that he ought to enter the ministry of that church, Leaving his home in New Hampshire, he set out for Albany, New York, where he was kindly received by the resident Episcopal minister; and after a course of study in theology, he was ordained in St. George's church, New York, in May, 1798. For several years he devoted himself, amid many privations, to missionary labors in western New York. Rev. Philander Chase, in 1805, with wife and children, removed to New Orleans, where, for six years, he was zealously engaged in organizing the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he was successful. In i8n he returned to the north, and for six years was rector of Christ church, in Hartford, Connecticut. Deeply interested in the religious condition and prospects of the great west, and being full of missionary zeal and enterprise, he, in 1817, went to Ohio, and set about planting and enlarging the Episcopal church in that then young and rapidly growing State.

After a year's labor in Ohio a diocese was formed embracing the entire State, and he was elected its bishop, and was consecrated in St. James' church, Philadelphia, February 11, 1819. Amid many and peculiarly severe trials, says his biographer, Bishop Chase persevered in his work. He established a classical school at Worthington soon after coming to Ohio, and conducted it personally until 1822, when he moved to Cincinnati to take charge of the college then recently established there, and remained about two years, serving as president of said institution.

It soon became evident to Bishop Chase that in order to the successful and permanent establishment of the Protestant Episcopal church in Ohio, and in the west, measures must be taken promptly to educate men on the ground for the service of the ministry. Accordingly, with the approbation of the Protestant Episcopal convention of Ohio, although opposed by many Episcopalians in the older States, he resolved to visit England and solicit donations toward founding a college and theological seminary in Ohio. He embarked in October, 1823, arrived safely in England, and, although he at first met with opposition, soon overcame it, and was unusually successful, collecting about thirty thousand dollars for his object. After his return in 1824, the Bishop purchased eight thousand acres of land situated in Knox county, took the initial steps to establish the projected college and seminary upon it, and perpetuated the names of the two generous Englishmen (Kenyon and Gambler), whose munificent donations so largely aided the bishop in his grand enterprise, by giving the name of the former to the college, and that of the latter to the site of the seminary and college, and which also became the name of the prospective village established there.

For a time, says the authority heretofore quoted, everything went on pi'osperously; but difficulties and disputes having risen between the bishop and some of the clergy about the disposal of the funds received from England, and other matters connected with his administration of the college and the diocese, he resigned his jurisdiction in September, 1831, and the general convention the next year gave their assent to this step, and Bishop Mcllvaine became his successor.

Bishop Chase, now removed to Michigan, seemingly intent upon the life of a pioneer missionary bishop. There he remained until 1835, when he was elected bishop of the recently formed diocese of Illinois. Again he visited England in behalf of Christian education in the west, and collected about ten thousand dollars towards purchasing land and founding a college. Jubilee college, at Robin's Nest, Peoria county, Illinois, owes its foundation, in 1838, to this second effort, and here the venerable prelate spent the remainder of his life. The first commencement of Jubilee college took place in July, 1847, and its subsequent career has evinced the perspicacity of Bishop Chase in providing for the future needs of the Episcopal church in the west.

intuitive knowledge of human nature, great shrewdness, and accomplished an amount of good ten fold greater than many incomparably his superiors in scholastic knowledge. Keenly sagacious in reading character, quick to avail himself of opportunities, full of zeal and determination, unwearied in laboring for the cause of religion and the interests of the Protestant Episcopal church, Bishop Chase left his impress upon the western country, and deserves honorable mention as the pioneer bishop. He published in two volumes "Reminiscences of his life and labors," "Plea for the West," "Defense of Kenyon College," and other works.

Bishop Chase was one of fourteen children, eight sons and si.x daughters. Dudley Chase, one of his brothers, was long a member and sometimes speaker of the legislature of Vermont; also chief justice of that State, and United States Senator. Another of his brothers was the father of the late Salmon P. Chase. Four of the brothers were graduates of Dartmouth college.

Bishop Chase's first wife was Miss Fay of Bethel, Vermont, who became the mother of two sons (George and Philander) both dead. The latter married a daughter of Hon. Bazaleel Wells, of Steubenville, Ohio, and died young, of consumption. Mrs. Chase died at Worthington, Ohio, in 1818.

Bishop Chase married his second wife. Miss Sophia May Ingraham, of Kingston, New York, at Zanesville, July 19, 1819, Rev. Dr. Morse officiating. Four children were born to them, viz: Dudley, a clergyman of Philadelphia; Henry, in business in Chicago; Philander, deceased, and Mary, wife of Rev. J. S. Chamberlain.

A severe injury, caused by being thrown from his carriage, hastened the aged bishop's decease, and a few days, after he sank quietly to rest. His death occurred at Jubilee college, in Peoria county, Illinois, September 20, 1852, in the seventy-seventh year of his age.

CHAUXCEY, CORYDON, Fredericktown, barber, was bom in Berlin township, Knox county, in 1837. He was married in 1865 to Mary Roberts, who was boni in Mt. Vernon in 1838. They have three sons, viz.: Frederick E., born in i866; Charles N., born in 1870; Burr Roberts, born in 1874. Mr. Chauncey is the leading barber of Fredericktown. He keeps everything very neat, and is a type of the perfect gentleman.

CHRISMAN, HARVEY, Milford township, farmer and farrier, was bom in Rockingham county, Virginia, February 24, 1828. His father, Benoni Chrisman, came to Knox county with his family, in 1837. He located in Milford township, where he had previously purchased a quarter section of land, and remained there until 1879, when he went to reside in Homer, Ohio. He married Annie Kratzer in Virginia, who died in 1879. Mr. Chrisman died in the winter of 1880. They had ten children. Those living are are Har\'ey, Joseph, Burtley, George, Reuben, Catharine (wife of Lemuel Buxton), and Sarah. The deceased are Benoni, Martha, and Susan. The subject of this notice was the oldest son, and it therefore devolved upon him to assist his father to clear up the farm, and in consequence his educational advantages were limited; but he acquired sufficient to enable him to transact business. He remained at home until he was about twenty-three years of age. Mr. Chrisman began life with but httle aid. He determined to obtain for himself and family a home. About 1851 he came to his present home, and has succeeded in obtaining two hundred and fifty acres of good land, and is one of the leading farmers of Milford township. His farm is under good cultivation. He was married twice. His first wife was Miss C. Hall. His second wife was Miss Sarah E. Jaggers, daughter of Silas Jaggers. They have eleven children, and as they get married he assists each one by giving him one thousand dollars. Their names are Ellen A. (wife of N. J. Coe), Flora P. (wife of Marcus Riley), Josephine, Oscar Caroline, Emma, Elizabeth, Martha, Frank, Edith, and Mary'

CLARK, ABEL, deceased, Jefferson township, bom in Green county, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1792, where he lived until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when, in company with his brother, came to Ohio, locating in Carroll county about 1810. During the time he remained there, he married Mary E. Burtnett, which event occured in 1815, who was born in Green county Pennsylvania, July 21. 1792. In 1822 he moved with his family to Knox county, locating in Harrison township, where he remained until 1836, when he moved to Jefferson township and there entered a farm of one hundred acres, upon which he erected a hewed log house. He carried on farming for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Clark became the parents of nine children, four of whom died in infancy. The other five children were: Michael Clark, born June 17, 1818, killed at Fort Donelson; Priscilla, born December 3, 1821, died August 24, 1880; Josiah, June 14, 1823, died in 1868; Nancy, January 2, 1825; Amos, January 31, 1834, all of whom have died except Nancy and Amos. Mrs. Abel Clark died August 27, 1851, aged fiftynine years. He married again in 1853, and his second wife died in 1872. Mr. Clark became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jefferson township and died in January, 1870, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

CLARK, AMOS, Jefferson township; farmer and stockraiser; son of Abel and Mary E. Clark, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, January 31, 1834. In 1836 his father moved to Jefferson township, locating on Military Land lot No. 2, four miles east of Jelloway, where the subject of this sketch was reared and received a common school education. He remained with his father, farming until 1858, when he bought sixty acres of the home place, and continued to farm the balance of his father's farm in connection with his own. This he continued until i860, and then purchased the balance of the home farm, making in all one hundred and sixty acres. In j866 he bought one hundred and nine acres of land in Jefferson township, adjoining Ashland county, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, which he owned for three years, and then sold it to Conrad Snider for the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars.

October 5, 1856, he married Sarah C. Heyet, a daughter of Jacob H. and Mary E. Heyet, born in Ashland county, December 3, 1839. After his marriage he located on the old farm, which he had purchased of his father, where he remained until 1871, and then moved on a farm of one hundred and forty acres adjoining him, on the southwest, which he purchased in the same year, where he at present resides. May 13, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, in company F, under Captain Cummings, and served until the second day of September of the same year, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home, where he remained until the twelfth day of October of the same year, when he enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cavalry under the command of Killpatrick, where he served until June 7, 1865, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at the United States hospital near

Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home, and proceeded to business as usual. Mr. Clark is at present engaged in the insurance busmess in connection with farming, being a stockholder in the jelioway Insurance company,' and president of the same. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of six children, viz: Mary E. , born September 30, 1857, married J. W. Rice September, 1877, and resides one mile west of Greersville; Jesse E., September 12, 1859, and died August 31, 1864; Emma F., June 10, 1862, and died September 6, 1864; William W., August 16, 1866, and died September 26, 1867; Henry W., August 16, 1868; John B., February 21, 1870. Only three children are livmg,

CLARK, T. L., Mount Vernon, a native of Stuben now Yates county. New York, where he received his education in the district schools, was born June 11, 1811, and when fourteen years old engaged with his brother to learn the millwright trade with whom he served seven years, after which he served four years as a mechinist, and was one of the partners of the firm under the firm name of Clark & Huston, manufacturers of engines and mill machmery, in which he continued until 1836. After this he engaged at the millwright business, which he followed until 1841. He then came to Mt. Vernon where he engaged with the firm of C. & E. Cooper as draftsman and machinist. He remained in this capacity until 1848 when he became a partner under the firm name of Coopers & Clark, in which he remained until 1858, when he took charge of the Kokosing Iron Works for C. P. Buckingham for one year, when he went to Detroit and engaged in building grain elevators for Dr. Clark and continued with him until the summer of 1864, when he returned to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the mechanical department of Coopers' establishment in which he remained until 1868. He then went to Kansas City to superintend the State Line machine shops, but not finding things as he expected and as was represented, he returned after a stay of three months. He then engaged with H. & F. Blandy, of Zanesville, as superintendent of their works in Newark where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he leased the Kokosing Iron Works and conducted them two years, since which he has operated in patent grain shovels for unloading cars of bulk grain in elevators. This invention relates to machinery for unloading grain in bulk from cars, and consists of a shaft which extends parallel with the line of cars to be unloaded, and is automatically reversed in its revolutions and to which scoops are attached by means of ropes for drawing the grain from the cars as the shaft revolves in one direction and allowing the scoops to be returned as it revolves in the opposite direction. This is a great labor-saving invention, and does its work more expiditiously and successfully than any former invention.

Mr. Clark was married July 20, 1836, to Miss Amanda Blair, daughter of Luther and Emblem Blair, of Massachusetts, by whom he had a family of five children, viz: T. Eugene, infant son, liied; Jerome, Alonzo, and John, two of whom, T. Eugene and John, survive, and both are married and reside in Mt. Vernon. T. Eugene received his preparatory education at Kenyon college and Otterbein university and read medicine with Dr. E. M. Clark, of Detroit, and graduated at the medical university at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Middletown, Ohio. In 1863 he entered the United States naval service as surgeon, in which he served two years, after which he engaged in practice in this city in which he continued until recently when in consequence of ill health he retired. John is engaged with his father and is a practical draftsman, proficient in his profession and a successful business man.

CLARK, SAMUEL, harness and saddle manufacturer, West Vine street, near Main, Mt. Vernon, a native of Chatauqua county, New York, born September 5, 1821, where he resided until 1838, during which time he received his education, and learned the harness and saddler trade. His first trip was to Michigan, where he travelled, working as a journeyman, in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. He opened a shop at Coldwater, Michigan, and continued in it for one year. In consequence of inflammation of the eyes, he was compelled to retire from business lor about two years; after which, in 1842, he went to Mansfield, Ohio, and worked for the firm of Smith & Robinson about eighteen months. He then went to Wooster and engaged with a Mr. Dyerman, and worked about two years. He then travelled for about one year with Mr. Dyerman, after which he enlisted in the United States service for twelve months, joining company A, Third Ohio volunteer infantry. Captain McLaughlin. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Samuel R. Curtis.

With this regiment Mr. Clark went to Mexico, ser\'ing some eighteen months. After quitting the service he went to Newark and engaged with Captain Owens. Here he remained only a short time, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and commenced working for the late George W. Hauk. He continued with Mr. Hauk until 1852. He then went to Warrentown, Mississippi, and engaged with his brother, where he worked one year. In consequence of the prevalence of the yellow fever, Mr. Clark came back to Mt. Vernon and was engaged again by Mr. Hauk, with whom he remained till 1858, when his health gave way. From Mt. Vernon he went to McDonough county, Illinois, and engaged in farming. In 1862 he returned to Mt. Vernon, and for a third time was employed by Mr. Hauk, and in 1863 he bought out his employer and commenced business on his own account, and has continued it up to the present time. During part of this time his business has been quite extensive, requiring from three to five hands. At this time he does all the work himself, and has the gratification of warranting all vvork manufactured in his shop. His work embraces heavy and light single and double harness. Repairing is done on short notice, and on reasonable terms.

CLARK, JOSIAH, farmer, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown, was born in Connecticut, and came to Ohio in 1850, and was mairied in 1871 to Mary A. Wagoman, who was born in Morrow county. They have two children, Sarah May, and Charlie Russell.

His sister, Betsy Clark, was bom in Fairfield county, Connecticut, came to Knox county in 1852, and now resides with her brother, Josiah Clark.

Salina Clark, the mother of Josiah and Betsy, was born in Connecticut in 1778, and came to Ohio in 1852. She remained here till her death, December 29, 1875.

CLAYTON, JACOB, deceased, died at his late residence in Mt. Vernon, February i, 1881, aged sixty years. The deceased was a native of Maryland, was born at Rising Sun, in that State on the twenty-ninth of December, 1821. Me came to Ohio in 1851, and settled in this city, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Clayton was at his work as usual Monday, in the carpenter shop of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. B. Bounds. He went home after work, and complained some of pain about the heart, and at fifteen minutes of twelve o'clock died, it is supposed, of heart disease. He was a kind neighbor, a good citizen, and an industrious man. He was a member of the masonic fraternity, and held a certificate of membership in the Knights Templar and Masonic Mutual Aid association of Cincinnati, Ohio.

CLEMENTS, HENRY (deceased), a native of X'irginia, was born February 17, 1807. His father died vvlien he was but a small child. In 1821 he came with his mother, Anna Clements, to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township.

On the sixth day of March, 1836, he married Miss Eliza A. Hammond, born in Maryland, September 17, 1816, and daughter of Francis S. and Mary Hammond. They settled in Gambier, remained there three years, and in 1839 he purchased and moved on the farm in Clinton township, now owned and occupied by his heirs, located three miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. He deceased January 5, 1867. They reared a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters. Four of the children are dead, two sons and two daughters. Their son James died in the war of 1861, from a wound received at the battle at the mouth of White river.

CLEMENTS, WILLIAM H., Monroe township, travelling salesman and collector for C. C. Cooper & Co., of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Clements was born in Howard township, this county, January 25, 1829. He is a macliinist by trade, having commenced with C. C. Cooper & Co. as an apprentice, in 1852, and remained in the shop as a mechanic about eight years, then in i860 became their travelling agent, which position he has since filled, travelling over, and doing business for them, in more than half the States in the Union.

In 1847 he married Miss Elizabeth French, a native of Cornwall, England, born in 1826; and emigrated to America in 1845, and located in Mt. Vernon. After Mr. Clements marri.ige to Miss French they settled in Mt. Vernon, remained until 1874, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. They reared two children, viz: John W. and Ada Blanche. John W. Clements was born in Mt. Vernon in 1848, married Miss Didama R. Fresh, of Wayne county, Ohio, in 1870. They settled in Mt. Vernon, where he operated a door, sash, and bhnd factory about seven years. In 1878 he sold his establishment and moved on the farm with his father, in Monroe township, and is now engaged in the saw-mill business. They have one child, Ada B.

CLINE, JOSEPH, farmer. Union township, post office Millwood, born in Germany in 1840 and came to this country in 1845. He moved to Knox county in 1858. In 1867 he was married to Miss S. M. W^interringer, and moved to a farm where he still remains. He has four children: Mary Jane, Saiah C, Joseph, and Manning.

CLOW, ANDREW J., Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty, bom in Holmes county, Ohio, m 1828, and was married in 1854 to Mary Rhodes, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1831. They have three children, Ellen S., born in 1858; Joseph C, in 1865; Gertrade M., in 1869. Mr. Clow came to this county in 1867, located in Brown township, and remained there for eighteen months, then removed to Pike township. In 1S62, Mr. Clow fell from a load of hay, and after falling was kicked by a liorse in the team, and has not been able to do any labor since. He has suffered a great deal, but is enduring it patiently; is a good citizen, and highly respected.

CLUTTER, JOHN, Morgan township, farmer, born inWashington county, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1804. The name Clutter is German, but at what time the ancestors emigrated to America is not known. The father of the subject of this sketch was born in New Jersey; his parents dying a few years after his birth, he was raised by his uncle. Samuel Clutter, the father of the subject of this notice, married Rachel Denman in New Jerse)', and a few years after emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained, being engaged in farming, until April, 1818, when he came to Knox county, and located near the centre of Morgan township. He lived here until 1853, when he died, aged eighty-eight years and seven months. His wife died in 1855, aged about eighty years. They had a family of ten children. The living are Mary McCollum, living in Washington county, Pennsylvania; William, a farmer of Marion county, Ohio; John-James, of Milford township, and Samuel Jackson, of Kansas. The deceased are Joseph, Jane, Eclecta, David B., and Cornelia.

Mr. Clutter was reared on a farm, and has continued farming all his life. He was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Sellers, to whom he was married in 1831. They had ten children, viz: Elvira, now the wife of Daniel Newton, of Wood county; Sarah Jane married David Noffsinger, and died in Iowa. His first wife dying, he in iS^'^ married Miss Rachel Marlin, a native of Morgan township. They had twelve children, viz: Celesta, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Zebina Ann, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Van Buren, deceased; Waldon D. ; Lucy, married to John Euart, of Morgan township; Samuel Judson, deceased; John A.; Hugh, of Clay township; Nancy Alice; Nora Belle, married to David Bell, and William O. Mr. Clutter is a member of the Baptist church, and has the respect and esteem of the community.

CLUTTER, township, farmer, born in Washington county, Pfflns)lvania, September 29, i8o6. In 1818 he came to Morgan township, with his parents, Samuel and Rachel, net; Denman. His paternal grandfather, William Cluttei, was a native of Germany, and some time during the eighteenth century emigrated to New Jersey with his parents, and served in the war of the Revolution. He married in New Jersey and died there. They had three children, two of whom grew up: Samuel and Jane, the last of whom married Mr. Karl, and remained in New Jersey. Samuel married Rachel Denman, and about the year 1800 moved to Washington county, Peniis>lvania, where he remained until 1818, when he emigrated to Morgan township, Knox ounty, Ohio, with the family, and both died there. They had ten children, viz.: Mary, widow of Moses Mc- Collum, who resides in Washington county, Pennsylvania;

William, a resident of Marion county, Ohio; Joseph, deceased; Jane (deceased), married Thomas Harris; John, a resident of Morgan township; James, the subject of this sketch; Electa (deceased), married Joseph Green; David (deceased); Cornelia (deceased), married to John Miller, of Morgan township; and Samuel J., living in Kansas.

The subject of this notice remained in Morgan township until he was about twenty-eight years of age. He then went to Bennington township. Licking county, thence to Clay township, Kno.x connty, and thence to Hartford township, Licking county, and in 1865 he removed to his present farm in Milford township. His first wife was Elizabeth Larason, daughter of Sylvester Larason, to whom he was married November 12, 1831. They had six children. Orlando, two infants, Sylvester W., and Elizabeth have deceased. Amanda, wife of William Reynolds, resides in Jasper county, Iowa. His wife died July 21,1841. He was married to Rhoda Myers August 18, 1842, v.-ho was bom August 3, 1816, in Licking county. They had nine children, eight of whom are living: Troubadour, born July 12, 1845, in Iowa; Emanuel, December 3, 1846, in Iowa; William O. and J ames A., twins, born Angust 9, 1848; Orilla Z., December 7, 1850; Mary E., July 23, 1852, died June 22, 1855; Phila, October 4. 1856; Manceleta, November 17, 1857; Art, September 10, 1859.

Mr. Clutter's first purchase of land was a tract of one hundred and four acres in Bennington township, on which he paid two hundred and seventy-five dollars, al! he had. He now owns a comfortable home and has gained a competency.

CLUTTER, SAMUEL, Morgan township, farmer, was born in Knox county, January 3, 1827. His father, William Clutter, was born in New Jersey in 1798, moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and in 1817 to Ohio. He married Miss Eda McKeown. They had ten children, seven of whom are yet living.

Sam.uel was reared on a farm. He married Miss Ann Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Brov/n, in March, 1853, a pioneer of whom mention is made. She was born in March, 1833, in Morgan township. They had six children, viz; Mary A., wife of Lewis C. Rose, Davis county, Kansas; Anis and Alice (twins); Alice died when four years old; .Anis married Abram Mason, and resides in Marion county, Ohio; William J., and David.

COCANOWER, SAMUEL, Fredericktown, foreman in planing mills, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, emigrated with his parents to this county when a boy, and was married in 1868, to Rachel Pinkley, who was born in this county in 1842. They have one daughter, Mary Ellen, born in 1869. He is foreman in the planing mills of S. S. Tuttle & Co., in Fredericktown.

COCHRAN, MATTHEW, residence West High street, Mt. VVrnon. Mr. Cochran was born April 8, 1794, in Straven, Scotland, and in 1798 his parents emigrated to Am.erica and located in Philadelphia, where they resided until iSio, ard during which Mr. Cochran received his education, and learned the baking business. In the year 1814 he went to Baltimore, where he worked at his trade about one and a half years, when he emigrated to Ohio and located in Liberty township, five miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, in the year 1S16. He here took a squatter's claim in the woods, and erected himself a cabin and commenced to fell the forest. He resided here about seven years, during which he cleared up about twenty acres, and after which he moved about one mile and erected another cabin and commenced a second time in the woods; and by indomitable energy and'perseverance he succeeded in changing the gigantic and unbroken forest into beautiful and productive fields, which yielded him an abundant recompense for his labors, and he was thereby enabled to change his cabin for better improvements. He has an excellent farm house and barn and all the necessary out buildings, a good oichard, and one hundred and and fifty acres of finely improved fields, and fifty acres of excellent timber The timber of this farm was unusually good. He resided on the farm place until 1869, when he felt that he had fought the good fight as a pioneer and farmer, and that declining years would compel him to resign his place to younger hands. He then came to Mt. Vernon and located on West Vine street, where he resided until April, 1876. He then came to his present location on West High street, where, in his eighty-sixth year, he is enjoying the fruits of his labors and the comforts of a pleasant home. Mr. Cochran has been twice married. He was first married to Nancy Slemmons, by whom he he had three children, one of whom is living - Alexander (deceased), John S., who resides on and manages the home farm, and James (deceased). His second wife was Mary E. Brown, daughter of Matthias Brown, of New York city, who is now his companion in his declining years.

COCHRAN, JOHN, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and mar'-;«:d Mary Oram January 28, 1830. They had eight children: Mary A., born December i, 1830; Henry O., in 1831; Frances P. in 1832; Albert C, in 1833; Levi C, in 1835; John C, in 183-; Louisa, in 1839; and Esther, in 1840. The deceased members are: John Cochran, died April 10, 1875; Henry O., June 20, 1848; John C, July 20, 1840; Louisa, July 19, 1839; and Esther, February 4, 1842. The following are married: Mary A., married Jesse Penrose; they have eight children: John C, Eli, Mary Elizabeth, Isaac, Benjamin, Frances, William, and Laura; they reside in Marshall, Indiana. Albert C, married Amanda, daughter of Rev. Scoles; they have one daughter: Olive A. Albert received a liberal education, studied medicine and practiced for some time. Being impressed with a higher responsibility, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is still engaged in that calling. Francis P. Cochran was born in Pike township, and married jane Reed, who was born in this county in 1833. They have seven children: Florence G., was bom in 1857; John B., 1859; Mary N., 1867; Charlie B., 1864; Sarah A., 1866; Amanda J.. 1871; and Walter R., in 1875. Mr. Cochran is a resident of Monroe township, and a prominent member o the Methodist Episcopal church. His son, John B., is attending the theological mstitution at Berea, Ohio, preparnig .for the ministry-. The Cochran family are all identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. The father united with the church in 1833, was an ofificial classleader for many years, and an exemplary Christian. Mrs. Mary Cochran is a resident of Fredericktown, and is also a worthy member of the church, and highly respected,

COE, CAPTAIN, CHARLES HENRY, farmer, Hilliar township. He was born near Fredericktown, Maryland, November 5, 1823. His father, Joshua Coe, was born December 21, 1783, in Frederick county, Maryland. He was married to Mary Bergoon, a native of the same county. She was born

June 7, 1790. They remained in Maryland until 1826, when they emigrated to Licking county and settled near Utica, bringing with them a family of five children. They remained in Licking county a few years, and moved to Milford township, Knox county, where they purchased a farm. They lived and died here. They had a family of eight children, viz: Ephriam; Keturah, married Thomas Wells; Mary E., married James Conrad; Francis, David, Charles H., Thomas D., William J. D. F. ; of these Ephriam, Keturah, Mary E. and Francis, are deceased.

Captain Coe, the subject of our notice, remained with his father until he was seventeen years of age, when lie went to learn the tiade of tanner and currier. He served three years and then set up for himself, and carried it on successfully until 1858. December 10, 1844, he was married to Eliza Ann Conrad, youngest daughter of Joseph Conrad, who came to Ohio in 1805 from Fredericktown, Virginia, and settled in Morgan township. The first building he put up was a hewed log dwelling, which is yet standing. His nearest mill was near where Fredericktown now stands. While at mill waiting for his grist, the inhabitants were suggesting names for the village, but it seems could not agree, so Mr. Conrad suggested the name of Fredericktown, after his native town in Virginia. This name was adopted. Mr. Conrad died on the farm on which he afterwards settled near Utica, at the age of eighty-eight years.

From 1858 to i860 Mr. Coe was improving and stocking a farm in Kansas and driving sheep to the west. In May, 1861, he was commissioned captain, with orders to be ready to go into camp. July 27th, of same year, he was ordered into Camp Chase, near Columbus. When the men came to be e.xamined there was quite a number rejected, and on account of the rejection there was a consolidation of the different companies, thus requiring less officers. Consequently he was detailed to recruit for the First and Tenth Ohio cavalrj-. In August, 1862, he was ordered by the department to recruit a company of First Independent Ohio volunteer sharp-shooters at Zanesville, Ohio. On account of the burning of their camp, they were ordered to report to Camp Cleveland, where, by requirement, they were tested by target shooting.

Each man before he was mustered into service as a sharpshooter was required to make a string of twenty-four inches at two hundred yards range. Those failing were rejected. The captain had the honor of making the best string out of six hundred men. He made a string of seven inches, four of the shots not making over one and a half inches, the last shot making five and a half inches. The company was mustered into service December 20, 1862, and ordered immediately to the front for duty. The captain reported to General Rosccrans at Murfreesborough, Tennessee, and was placed upon his body guard, and was with him at Franklin, Tennessee, Crooked Creek, Tennessee, Liberty Gap, Hoover's Gap, and all the marches and campaigns that his company participated in until December 17, 1864, when he resigned on account of physical disability. After his return home he moved on the farm on which he now resides, which he has improved until it is now one of the best farms in Hilliar township. December 7, 1873, he lost his wife, she dying with consumption. December 13, 1875, he was married to Sarah E. Mills, youngest daughter of Samuel Mills. The captain spends considerable of his time at the hot spiing of Arkansas. He has an interest in Sliver mining in Arkansas.

Licking county May, 1825, and is the son of Joshua and Mary Coe, of whom mention is made in the sketch of Captain Coe, of Hilliar township. When he was about fourteen his father died and in his will he expressed a wish to have his two youngest children (the subject of this notice and William J.) to learn trades, so when about sixteen years of age he contracted with Phillip Pierce, of Homer, to learn the carriage and wagonmaking trade. On the fourth day of March, 1842, he commenced his apprenticeship at Homer, and remained there until his trade was learned, receiving as compensation his board and clothes. Mr. Coe next went to Utica, in the same county, and commenced business for himself and remained there six years and six months. Being successful, he purchased a tract of seventy-five acres of land in Monroe county, where he was engaged in farming and fruit-growing. He then purchased a farm in Milford township, upon which he is now living. He thus started in life under discouraging circumstances, but by hard work and economy he has succeeded. He married Miss Mary E. Scribner, daughter of Asa Scribner, a native of Connecticut, who was born in Newark, New Jersey, December, 1830. He had four children, two of whom are living - Norton J., farmer, resides in Milford; Sylvia J., wife of Sprague Hawkins, of Centreburgh, Ohio. The deceased are Ellis W. and Clifton T.

Mr. Coe is engaged in the cultivation of choice fruits, consisting of grapes, peaches, apples, and small fruits. He understands fruit growing, and has most excellent orchards.

COE, W. J. D. F., farmer, Milford township, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1829; is the son of Joshua and Mary Coe, 7iee Burgoon, and of whom mention is made in this work. He remained on a farm until about fourteen years of age, when he went to learn the trade of carriage blacksmith in Utica, Ohio. After learning his trade he continued working at it until he was twenty-four years of age. He then farmed for a few years, when by his economy he had saved enough of money to purchase a home. He purchased a farm of sixty-five acres in Licking county, and remained there until the spring of 1865, when he moved to the old homestead where his father settled in 1833, and has resided there ever since. He is a leading citizen of the townsliip, a good farmer, and takes an interest in public affairs.

The Coe family of wliicli Mr. Coe is a member are among the most successful ones of the county. They all started poor in life, and have, by theii industry, acquired considerable property, and are among the influential men of the county. Mr. Coe was married in 1856 to Miss Emily Truman, of Licking county. They had four children, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Eddie, Charles Sumner, and Cyntha Ann. Mr. Coe was a member of company A, One Hundred and Thirtyfifth regiment Ohio National guard, and served his term of enlistment.

COGGI.XS, JONATHAN, Pleasant township, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1813. He commenced working at the carpenter trade when sixteen years of age, and has made that his principal vocation during life. In the fall of 1835 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Knox county. In September, 1838, he married Miss Louisa Marquand, of Coshocton county, Ohio, born in 1818.

They settled in Knox county, where they lived until 1852, when they moved to Coshocton county, remaining until 1865, when they returned to Knox county, purchased and moved on the property where they are now living, in Pleasant townshipabout two miles southeast of Mt. Vernon. They have six children, one son and five daughters. Two of the latter are dead.

COLE, THOMAS F., Liberty township. An ancient and very extensive family of British origin, to be distinguished from the German name Kohl by the method of spelling.

Henry Cole, D. D., dean of St. Pauls, preached the condemnation sermon when Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, suffered martyrdom under Queen Mary, 1555.

To the female side of this family was allied Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London, burned for his religion at Smithfield, London, 1555, a full-sized portrait of whom, in a sitting position is preserved in the family homestead of a branch of the family in Downham, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. This homestead, intimately connected with the branch of the family now in the United States, was built some five centuries ago. Its massive dining-table of princely proportions has been an object of curiosity for many years and is suggestive of " The banquet waits our presence, festal joy Laughs in the mantling goblet, and the night, Illumined by the taper's dazzling beam, Rivals departed day - "

The designs of the tapestries hung upon the walls of its dining hall h^.ve long puzzled visitors from all parts of the kingdom, some believing them to represent the pains of purgatory, and others, the torments of the damned. The portraits of the mistresses of the house in due succession (among them a fairhaired Hollander), for a period of nearly three hundred years, still (or did a few years ago) adorn its walls.

Inseparably associated with the history of this family is a tree known in the annals of Downham as the "Old Oak," which, until 1833, stood a few paces from the homestead door. Such was its age and proportions that an extensive ball-room had once been erected among its branches. Its fall will probably be best illustrated by a quotation from a letter written July 22, 1833, by Francis Cole to his brother Michael, in this State: ' ' Our dear eld father is in good health as ever I saw him. A serious accident, however, had like to have befallen him at the fall of the Old Oak Tree, which had liked to have killed him. We employed John Wail to take it down. Its fall was sudden, owing to the decay of its roots. At the time of its fall there were several children playing about it; three met with instant death, and Robert Walsham had his thigh broken, and several others were slightly hurt." The history of this tree and other curiosities of the Isle of Ely, were found in a book owned by C. Baely, M. D., of Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.

There is one character connected with the family of Michael Cole, late of this county, which we would fain notice, /. e.. Miss Jennie Hancock, having been present at his birth, and at the birth of each of his brothers and of his sister, and continually interesting herself in their welfare, they learned to regard her almost as one of themselves. In her latter years she was called the wise woman of England, and was accounted a witch. One pious cottager averring that he saw her and the knobbed cane she carried pass through the key hole of his street door. Another ascribed the shower of pins and needles which fell upon his table while the family were at breakfast to her malignancy. In other cases, well vouched for, the milk became sour and even curdled before reaching the house after milking. Strange sicknesses came upon those who dared to anger her, and all the absurdities usually ascribed to witchcraft were imputed to her. A gratuity, however, appeased her wrath, and an apron full of cabbage, or a donation of half a crown, was presumed to have averted many calamities. Her death, which occurred at an extreme old age about the year 1841, was extensively noticed, and her life and sayings commented upon by the newspapers of the United States, as well as by those of England and the continent.

Thomas Cole, who died about the year 1760, left two sons, Thomas and Ridley. Ridley died young. Thomas inherited the ancestral home at Downham, and married Ann Stubbins. His death occurred March 8, 1836. His wife, Ann Stubbins Cole, died upon the birth of their seventh child, Michael, December 12, 1794. Seven children were born to them: Thomas, Ridley, Francis, Ann, Robert, and Michael, of whom four, Thomas, Robert, Ridley, and Michael, emigrated to America and settled in New York State. To Thomas were born two daughters, who are still living near Ithaca, New York.

Two of Ridley's sons, Ridley and Thomas, and two of Robert's sons, James and Thomas, went to Iowa and settled Colesburgh, in Delaware county.

Of Francis, John, and Ann, who remained in England, Francis became engaged in government works, and' purchased the old homestead. He reared a famav of four children, three of whom, daughters, remain in Englanu. His son, Michael, is now in Colesburgh, Iowa.

Ann, when very young, married Jame. Luddington, of Littleport, England, and became the mother of a family distinguished . for their wealth and culture.

Michael was born December 12, 1794. His schoolmaster was John Aspland, grandfather of the winner of the international belt, 1880. He was married to Mary Utteridge May - , 1815, with whom he embarked for America on Good Friday, April 17, 1832, settling in Chautauqua county. New York, where he invested all his means in a farm, the title to which proving imperfect he found himself penniless. In 1835, with wife and child, he removed to Butler county, Pennsylvania; thence, in 1836, to Allegheny City, now a part of Pittsburgh. During the following sixteen years the family removed twelve times, finally starting from Brownsville, Fayette county, they left the Keystone State and arrived in Knox county, Ohio, in March, 1852, settling in Green Valley, on the farm now owned by G. L. Cochran, esq. ; after one more remove they rested upon the farm in Liberty township, which they called Mt. Airy, and on which they now reside.

On the thirteenth day of October, 1867, in her sixty-seventh year, the mother was called to her eternal rest, and on the eleventh day of February, 1879, Michael Cole, having been counted among the people of God for more than seventy-five years, and successfully braving every vicissitude of fortune, calmly slept the sleep of death, leaving one son.

Thomas Francis, the subject of the present sketch, who was born October i, 1834, in Chautauqua county. New York, was. partially educated in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania; removed with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1852; was married to Charity, daughter of W. O. Phillips, Esq., July 4, 1855. Six children were the result of this union:

Michael Francis, bom March 24, 1856, married lo Sadie' daughter of J. L. Jackson, esq., May 24, 1876, to whom a daughter, Maud, was born March 10, 1877. He is now farming near Mt. Vernon.

S. P. Chase, born .September 24, 1857, married Etta Hull, daughter of James Hull, esq., July 3, 1878, to whom was born, April 16, 1879, a son, I homas Francis Cole. Chase is nowliving at Bangs engaged in teaching.

COLE, WILBERT E., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Connecticut in 181 1. He came to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1815, and to Berlin towhship in 1819, where he still resides. He is the oldest settler of Berlin township now living. He was married in 1839 to Mary A. Woodruff who was born in Kno.x county. She died in 1875 after a protracted illness of four years, with a cancer. Mr. Cole's second marriage was to Sarah Pritchard, who was born in Maine in 1833, and came to Ohio in 1838.

COLE, SILAS, was born February 5, 1836, in Devonshire, England, where he remained until 1867, learning the trade of ship blacksmithing. In 1867 he came to America and settled at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he engaged with the firm of Bucking- ! ham, Gutherie, Taylor & Hupton, whom he served about one 1 year; afterwards worked a short time in Newark and in Cincin- j nati, when he established himself in Mt. Vernon in the blacksmith trade, which he has carried on successfully ever since. In 1879 he added to his shops and commenced making iron bridges, the tirst ever made m Kno.x county. He is doing a good business in every deparimcnt at this time. He was married to Miss j Mary Ann May, daughter of Thomas May, April 5, 1S67, and i is the father of eleven children, three of whom are living. i

COLE, WILLIAM M., farmer, post office. Council Grove, Morris county, Kansas. He was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1840; was married in 1861 to Elizabeth M. ! Hunter, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1840. : They have eight children, namely: Lydia E. born in 1862; ; Mary E., in 1864; Lavina A., in 1866; Frank E., in 1868; Charlie E., in 1870; John H., in 1872; Martha A., in 1874; and William A. in 1879. Mr. Cole and wife were identified with this county till the spring of 1881. They sold their farm and have emigrated to Morris county. Council Grove, Kansas.

COLE, R.ACHEL, widow, Berlin tovvnship, post office, Shalers Mills, was married first to Hugh McBride and had one son, Ambrose, now a resident of Richland county. Mr. McBride died in Pike township in 1842. Mrs. Rachael McBride was afterward married to Thomas D. Brown, and had a son - Thomas D., a resident of Berlin tovvnship. Mr. Thomas D. Brown died in Knox county. Mrs. Rachael Brown's third marriage was to Isaac B. Cole, of Berlin township. They had one daughter, Hannah, who was born in 1854, and was married in 1872 to Levi Grubb. They have two daughters, Nettie A., born November 25, 1872, and Bertie A., December 17, 1875. Mr. Gmbb is a carpenter and farmer.

COLE, V/HEELER W., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Berim township, this county, in 1852, married in 1877, to Alice R. Auten, who was born in this

COLOPY, JOSEPH, farmer. Union township, post office, Gann, bom in Maryland, June 3, 1802. In 1804 he was taken to Virginia, and remained there until 1813, when he came to Knox county and settled south of Mt. Vernon. In 1825 he married Delila Sapp, and settled on the farm which he now owns and occupies. When they came here it was all timber land, but they cleared it up and now he owns a good little farm. His wife died in 1861, and left nine children. The oldest son died in Califomia, and two of the daughters died later. He was married afterward to Mrs. E. Myers in 1868. She was a daughter of Mr. Chase, who is a second cousin of Governor S. P. Chase. She was the first white girl bom in Massillon. Joseph and Levi Colopy remain at home on the farm. Joseph was married to Jennie Durbin in 1871. They have one child, Bessie, bom in 1878.

COLOPY, JACOB, Union township; retired farmer, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, June 3, 1802. With his father, Timothy Colopy, he came to Knox county in 1812. He first settled in Miller township, five miles south of Mt. Vernon, and resided there until he was twenty-two years of age, when he removed to the southern part of Jefferson township, now included in Union. He was married September 18, 1825, to Delila Sapp, who was born August 23, 1804. Their children were: Timothy W., born October 31, 1826; Jonathan A., July 17, 1828; Sarah C, February 27, 1830; George E., March 12, 1832; Joseph H., December i, 1834; Levi F., December 31, 1838; Delila A., July 7, 1841; Mary M., July 29, 1844, and Sarah C, April 29, 1849. Timothy died in Califomia in about 1851. First Sarah C. died in about 1849, and second Sarah C. died June 5, 1855. Mrs. Colopy died May 19, 1861.

Mr. Colopy was married second time, September 15, 1867, to Mrs. Emily V. Myers, who was born in Massillon, Ohio, September 20, 1822. When he removed to Jefferson, it was almost a wilderness. Deer, wolves and wild animals were numerous. I'ossessing an indomitable spirit, he went to work with a determination to succeed, and by dint of perseverance and hard work he was at one time the owner of seventeen hundred acres of excellent farming land lying in Jefferson and Union townships. Owing to his ai'.vancing years and loss of health and strength, he divided this among his children some years since. He voted at the first election held in Jefferson township, and is the only one living of those who voted at that election. He has been a life long member of the Catholic church, and has always voted the Democratic ticket.

COLOPY, MRS. HULDA, Miller township, was born in this township February 12, 1817, and was daughter of Alpheus Chapman, who was born in Vermont in 1786. served in the War of 1812, was taken prisoner at Malone, New York, and was confined in Montreal, Canada, during the winter. His father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. After Mr. Chapman was discharged from the army, he went to Vermont, where he remained for some time, and then came to Miller township, where he married Emma Ward, daughter cf Rufus Ward, a pioneer of Miller township, about 1816. They remained some time in Miller township, and then went to Licking county (Homer), where Mr. Chapman died in 1832. His wife survived until 1839. They had a family of five children, viz: Huldn, the subject of this notice; Lucinda, married to James Stone; Julia, married to

Hulda married John Colopy October, 1842, He was a native of Virginia, born in 1812, and died in 1871. Farming and raising slieep was his principal business. He kept hotel in Brandon for a number of years, and was widely known. They hid three children, viz: Albina, married to Charles J. O'Rourke; William C, and Emma C, wife of Shelton R. Butcher. Albina and William C. have deceased.

Mrs. Colopy taught school for a number of terms, and is a woman above the average in intelligence. Her father, A. Chapman, was a commissioned colonel, and took an active interest in military afiairs.

COLOPY, TIMOTHY, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, March 8, 1823. His father, William Colopy, was a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America a few years prior to the War of 18 12. He married Mary Fitzpatrick, in Baltimore, Maryland, a native of county Limerick, Ireland, and in the spring of 1813, the young couple came as far west as Wheeling, Virginia, where they remained a few years and then came to Miller township. Mr. Colopy died on the farm now owned by his son, on the Granville road. His wife still survives him (December, 1880). They had seven children; the living are: Catharine, widow of Elijah Colony; Mary Ann, wife of Oliver Squires; Timothy; Ellen, widow of Jacob Row; and Sarah J., wife of T. L. Marquand; John, and Thomas have died.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has followed farming as his occupation. He enlisted in company F, First battalion, Eighteenth United States infantry, October, 1861, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and served with the armies under Generals Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and, Buzzard's Roost, besides a number of skirmishes. He was taken sick and discharged on account of physical disability, after serving about two years and eight months. He was slightly wounded at Mission Ridge, on the chin. He married Miss Theresa Doyle, daughter of James Doyle, deceased, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. They have five children, viz: iSIary A., James W., Francis T., Nellie M., and John P.

COLOPY, JONATHAN, farmer and stock-raiser, Brown township; post office. Democracy; son of Jacob and Delila Colopy; born July 17, 1828, in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, where he was reared, receiving a common-school education, after which he remained with his father until the nineteenth of Febmary, 1856, when, at the age of twenty-eight years, he was united in marriage with Sarah J. Berry, daughter of James and Lucy Berry, born in Guernsey county, October i, 1832. He afterwards located in Brown township, Kno.K county, on a farm of eighty acres, given him by his father-in-law, James Berry. Three years afterward, in the spring of 1850, he bought, adjoining him on the west, forty acres; and in 1861, two hundred and seventy-five acres adjoining on the south and southwest; in 1868, ten acres on the west; in 1871, eighty-two acres on the north; in 1872, twenty more on the north; in 1878 and 1880, forty-five acres on the southeast, making in all five hundred and ninety-two acres, where he now resides. He is also the owner of three hundred and eighty acres in Union township, Knox county, making a total of one thousand acres. Mr. Colopy also owns a share in the woollen mills at Gann ; is also the owner of a portable saw-mill. He is considered an energetic and shrewd farmer.

Notwithstanding all his losses, he has accumulated a large amount of property. From 1877 to 1880 he paid ten thousand dollars security money, but is nevertheless at present erecting a very fine dwelling house at a cost of five thousand dollars. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Colopy resulted in three children, viz : James E., born December 6, 1856; Lucy B., born October 13, 1858; -who, on the seventh day of October, 1879, married Louis G. Welker, of Howard township, Knox county, where she at present resides on a farm given her by her father; Mary A., born May 3, 1864, all of whom are living. Mrs. Colopy died September 17, 1864, aged thirty-two vears. Mr. Colopy at present remains a widower. He and his family are members of the Catholic church, located near Danville.

COLVILLE, JAMES (deceased), Pleasant township. He was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1767. When a young man he emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, remained there until 1803, when he came to Knox county, Ohio, and located on land now owned by his sons in Pleasant township, a short distance from Mt. Vernon. He at once commenced to improve his land by clearing away the forest, erecting a cabin, and tilling the soil. His cabin was erected as early as 1805, in which he and another man lived, for some months prior to November, 1806. He assisted on the survey of the military land of Knox county. In the lall of 1806 he returned to Washington county, Pennsylvania and on the twentyseventh day of November, of same year, he married Miss Mary Jackson, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1781, daughter of James and Nancy Jackson. In a short time after his marriage he returned with his wife to his forest home in Knox county. His log cabin served them as an abode until about 1824, when he erected a hewed log house, which, with an addition of a frame, erected in a few years, served them as a residence until his death. He filled the office of associate judge, in Knox county, for a short time. He de- I ceased February 7, 1837. His companion survived him until May j 17,1851. Thus ended the Jives of two of Knox county's earliest pioneers. They reared a family of eight children, viz: Martha, Joseph, Nancy, James, John, Thomas, Robert ^f., and Mary J. Two of the number (Martha and Mary J.) have died. Joseph is now living in Iowa; Nancy is in Wisconsin, and the other four brothers are living on the home farm. James and John are not "married. Thomas was born in Knox county, Ohio, November 9, 1818; he married Miss Sarah Patrick in 1847, born in Mt. Vernon in March, 1825, daughtei of Uriah and Delilah Patrick.

They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have five children, three sons and two daughters. He has filled the office of justice of the peace in Pleasant township since April, 1875. Robert M. was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, July 16, 1821. He married Miss Hannah J. Patrick in 1854, daughter of Uriah Patrick, born in Pleasant township, Knox county, February 3, 1831. Thev settled on a p:irt of his father's home farm, where thev are now living. They have four children, three sons and one daughter. COLVILLE, JAMES, was born in Frederick county, near Winchester, Virginia, in 1767. In 1803 he came to KncJj county, Ohio, and settled on a farm in Pleasant township (now owned by his sons), a short distance east of Mt. Vernon. His log cabin was built as early as 1S05. November 27, 1806, he married Miss Mar\- Jackson, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1781. He aided in sur%-eying the Military lands in Knox county. He was one of the associate judges of the county in 1808. Mr. Colville died February 7, 1837, aged seventy years, and Mrs. Colville on the seventeenth day of May, 1851, also aged seventy years.

COLWILL, SIMON, retired, Monroe township; a native of England, and son of Thomas Colwill, was born in September, 1810. He began working at the wagon making trade as an apprentice in 1826; ser\ed three years as such, then worked si.x years as a journeyman at his trade in England. On the twenty-ninth day of March, 1835, he married Miss Ann Heard, of England, born May 28, 1812, daughter of John Heard. On the third day after their marriage, April 1st, they sailed for America, landing in New York, on the si.xteenth day of May, and from thence to Gambler, this countv, arriving at the end of their journey June 7th. He at once engaged at his trade, and carried on a wagon shop in Gambler for twenty years. In 1848 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Monroe township, one mile north of Gambier. He continued in his business in Gambier until 1855, when he erected a shop on his farm, in which he carried on his trade until 1874, when, on account of bad health, he quit business and is now living a retired life. They reared a family of nine children, viz. : Mary J., William H., Daniel, Eli2abeth, John T., Emma L., Frances E., Simon A., and Charles G. William H. Colwili served one year in the war of 1861, and died at Vicksburgh July 30, 1863. Daniel Colwill, served about eighteen months in the war of 1861, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River December 26, 1862, and died from the effects of his wounds January- 3, 1863.

COLWILL, WILLI.\M, Liberty township, farmer, wasborn in county Cornwall, England, December 27, 1831. His parents, WiUiam and Harriet Colwill, uee Harris, came to the United States about 1842, settling in Jefferson township, and purchased a tract of two hundred and eighty acres of land, and were among the best citizens of that section. They have both deceased, Mr. Colwill died on the farm, and his wife survived him some time, and died at Gambier. They had seven children, William being the only son. He was reared on the farm, attended the district schools and select school, and also nn academv at LoudonviJle. He taught school and worked on the farm until the death of his father. He sold his property in Jefferson township, and in 1865 removed to Liberty, where lie purchased a farm, and where he has continued to reside. He was superintendent of the building of the Rossville flouring mill, and was secretary of the company, and one of the partners. He is a director of the Farmers' Insurance company, of Jelloway, and collecting agent, which position he has held since the organization of the company. Mr. Colwill is a man of general information, an accurate and good business man, and is one of the leading men of the township. He was married to Miss Hannah Danbury, of Jefferson township. They had seven children - two sons and five daughters.

CONDON, D. W., Fredericktown, shoe merchant, was bom in Frederick county, Maryland, 1831. He emigrated with his parents to this county in 1851, and was married in 1862 to Melinda Jane Royce, who was born in this county. They had three children, Frank, Jennie and Mary. Mr. Condon learned the shoe trade with his father, and has since worked at that business. He is a member of the firm of D. W. Condon & Co., boot and shoe dealers. He was a soldier in the late Rebellion, was brave, rendered good service, and was honorably discharged.

CONGER, DANIEL, deceased, Wayne township, born m New Jersey, December 24, 1787, and was married to Mary Burch, who was born in Brooke county, Virginia, in May 1802. They had the following children : Elizabeth, born October 28, 1826; Catharine, January 8, 1828; Jane, October 31, 1829; Mary D., January 31, 1832; Daniel L., September 27, 1833;

Conger died November 4, 1845, and Catharine, September, 28, 1835. They came to Kno.v county in 1825. Mrs. Conger is still residing in this township.

CONKEL, JOHN, faimer, Howard township, post office Howard. He was born June 6, 1844 in Union township. In 1866 he was married to Miss Charlotte Hammon and settled on the farm where he now resides. They had three children, Laura, Charles and Birchfield.

His father was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio at an early day. His mother came from the old country. His father has been dead twenty-five years. His mother is still living on the old homestead.