Wayne Township (part 9 of 22)

GREER, ROBERT (deceased), Jefferson township, bora in the county of Antrim, Ireland, March 12, 1806; when* at the age of twenty years he sailed, in company with his mother, two brothers, and four sisters, for America, landing in BaltinTore, Maryland, .August 22, 1826, where they remained until 1827, when they moved to Jefferson township, Knox county, locating on the place now owned by Thomas Greer. Here he remained with the family two years. On the sixteenth of April, 1829, he united in marriage with Sarah Severns, daughter of Joseph and Mahala Severns, bom in Monongalia county, \''irginia, April 14, 1803. After his marriage he moved on the farm now owned by Levi Butler, where he remained about five years, during which time he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres southwest of and adjoining the village of Greersville, where he then moved, and remained imtil 1841. During that time he laid out the village of Greersville, which was in 1836, from whom it derived its name. In the spring of 1841 he opened a dry goods store in Greersville, and continued to do business, and farming in connection, until 1857; he then moved back on the farm, where he remained until his death, which occurred March 13, 1865, aged fifty-nine years ten months and one day. Sarah Greer, his companion, died in 1869, aged sixty-six years six months and twenty-seven day.";.

Mr. and Mrs. Greer became the parents of one child, a son, Alexander W., born February 7, 1830, who now lives on and owns the old farm formerly owned by his father.

GREER, ALEXANDER W., farmer, post office Greersville, son of Robert and Sarah Greer, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Febniary 7, 1830, where he was reared and educated. On the eighteenth of May, 1856, at the age of tvventy-six years, he was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Baker, a daughter of Philip and Sarah Baker, who was born m Jefferson township, Knox county, December 26, 1835. In 1857, after his marriage, he located in the town of Greersville, where he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued about three years, when he sold his store to A. C. Tuttle. He still remained in town and farmed his home place for his father until 1863, when he purchased a new stock of dry goods and opened a new store in the town of Greersville, where he continued to sell goods eleven years, in connection with farming, when he sold the store to J.J. Freiermuth. Mr. Greer is at present giving his attention to farming. He is a good farmer, and now resides on and owns the old farm formerly owned by liis father, and is among the most desirable farms of Jefferson township.

GREER, RICHARD, Jefferson townnship, deceased, was born in 1810, October loth, in county Antrim, Ireland, near Belfast. In 1827 he came to America, and was married September 20, 1838, to Lydia Remmington, who was born Novem- ber 27, 1814, in Coshocton county, Ohio. Richard and Lydia Greer became the father and mother of three children, viz: William E., Thomas E., and Robert A. Thomas E. is the only child who yet survives. Robert A. enlisted in the late war, November, 1861, and died near Corinth, Mississippi. He belonged to .company K, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. Richard Greer was sick for years with inflammatory rheumatism, of which he died December 14, 1878, in his sixty-eighth year. His companion survives him in her sixty-sixth year, living with her son Thomas, on the farm formerly owned by her husband. Mr. Greer held the office of township treasurer. Mr. Greer was a member of the Wesleyan church, of Gre'ersville. Mrs. Greer is also a member of said church.

GREER, THOMAS, farmer, post ofifice, Greersville, a son of Richard and Lydia Greer, born in Jefferson township, Knox county, January 5, 1842, where he was reared and received a common school education. After he became of age he still remained at home and farmed for his father. This he continued until May 2, 1864, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, company F, under A. B. Cummings, of Jelloway, where he served until the second day of September of the same year, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home and assumed his old business of farming, which he has since continued. In 1867, January 20th, he married Miss Minerva Shrimplin, daughter of Absalom and Priscilla Shrimplin, born in Knox county, Butler township, December 6, 1840. Their marriage resulted in three children, viz: Robert A. Greer, bom January 9, 1868; Charles E., September 8, 1869; Fordyce F., June 5, 1876; all of whom are living. Mr. Greer has held the office of trustee of said township.

GREER, ALEXANDER, deceased. - Mr. Alexander Greer was one of the pioneers of Jefferson township. His parents were natives of Antrim county, Ireland, and about the year 1800 emigrated to America and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where, on the eleventh of March, 1805, the subject of this sketch was born. In x8ii John Greer, father of Alexander, moved to Knox county and located in its eastern portion, at or very near the site of the present Nillage of Rossville, in Union township. There they remained a few years and then settled upon an improved tract of land situated about two miles north of the present village of Danville, where Alexander spent the years of his minority, working industriously in clearing land and in farm labor generally. He attended school in winter and managed to secure a limited education. He was a young man of good mind and excellent habits. Of quick perceptions, he early became familiar with the practical affairs of life. He was of studious habits, a careful reader and close observer; his mind was soon stored with useful knowledge, and an unusual fund of information for one of his years and limited opportunities.

In August, 1826, Alexander Greer entered into the married relation with Margaret Robeson, who is still living. He settled upon a tract of woodland he purchased of the Government, situated a Uttle more than a mile north of the present village of Danville, and had there the usual experiences, hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. Here, being industrious, frugal and temperate, he made life a success, and acquired more than a competency. He had the well merited reputation of a man of integrity, and of one who favored educational enterprises and whatever tended to promote good morals, religion,

Mr. Greer served as justice of the peace of Jefferson township for twelve years, decidirig about one thousand cases. Few appeals were taken from his decisions, and none were reversed. In 1859 he was elected treasurer of Knox county, but his health failed him and he had to discharge its duties by deputy, consequently he was not a candidate for reelection.

Alexander Greer's death took place March 24 iSb8. at the age of sixty-three years, his widow and some children surviving him. He reached the end of a well spent life in philosophic composure and Christian resignation, and was mourned by many surviving neighbors, friends and acquaintances, who knew him as one who had been faithful in all the varied relations of son, brother, husband, father, magistrate, friend, neighbor, patriot, and Christian.

GREER, HENRY HARRISON, Mt. Vernon, lawyer, was born in Knox county, Ohio, [uly 22, 1837. He spent his youth on a farm. He attended school at Millwood, Haysville, and Denr.ison university, and commenced reading law with Messrs. Delano, Sapp & Smith. The firm dissolving, he finished his course of reading with Walter H. Smith, esq. He was admitted to the bar May 8, i860. His father having been elected treasurer of Knox county, he (Henry) enTered the office as deputy treasurer.

In 1861 young Greer was nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for treasurer, and was elected. He continued in that position until 1864. He declined nomination for another term. He commenced the practice of law with the Hon. W. R. Sapp in 1865, and continued with nim until April, 1869, when he took charge of the Hon. W. H. Smith's practice, and found about one hundred cases on the docket. Since that time he has practiced alone.

Mr. Greer was married to Miss Josie E. Gaines, of Knox county, September 18, i860. Two children are the issue of this union - a daughter and a son. The daughter, Millie G. , was born September 12, 1863, and the son, Robert, was born April 15, 1867.

The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was - Major Alexander Greer, who emigrated to America from County Antrim, Ireland, about the year 1785. He settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He had three children, one of whom was Colonel John Greer, the grandfather of Henry. Alex, ander Greer (Henry's father) who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1805. He came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1810 or i8ii, and settled in Union township, and was one of the very early settlers of the county. He remained in Union township two or three years, when he removed to Jefferson township, where he resided up to the time of his death, which event occurred in 1849. Mr. Alexander Greer had been twice married.

GRIFFITH, B. L., fanner. Pike township, post office, North Liberty; born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and was married in 1867 to Rachel Hiner, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1844. They have two sons: William M., born November 22, 1868; and Calvin J., born May 23, 1870. Mr. Griffith came to Ohio with his parents when he was young. He is a farmer, enterprising, and active; he is making a success of farming, and is now classed among the leading citizens of Pike township.

and was manied in 1870 to Mary E. Mishey, who was born in this township in 1851. They have one daughter, Ella Lizzie, bom December 24. 1874. Mr. Griffith emigrated with has parents to Wayne county, Ohio, in 1855, and remained there one year then removed to Pike township, this county. He is a farmer, and an active and honorable citizen.

GRUBB, D.ANIEL H., retired, post office, North Liberty, was born near Hasrerstown, Maryland, in 1799; his parents emigrated to Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and remained there until 1830; he then came to Ohio and located in Pike township. He was married in 1823 to Elizabeth Broombaugh, who was born in Woodbury township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1807. They had thirteen children, viz.: Anna, born in Pennsylvania February 19, 1826; Samuel, November 8, 1827; Elizabeth, September 11, 1829; Mary Ann, bom in Pike township December 13, 1831; Henry, December 4, 1834; Daughter, November, 1836; Daniel B., December 13, 1838; Esther, December 5, 1844; Levi, April 14, 18^3; Catharine, April 4, 184s; Joseph, May 26, 1847; Lncinda, June 2, 1849; Isaac, June 7, 1851; and Lavina, August r, 1853. Mrs. Elizabeth Gmbb died June 25, 1870, aged sixty-three years, three months and twenty-nine days. Anna died in Pennsylvania Augusts, 1830, and Mary A., December 9, 1832.

Mr. Gmbb learned the tanner trade in the east; he built the first tannery in this purt of the county; he tanned by the old process, which made the very best leather; his reputation as an honest man was extensively known. He and his wife were members of the German Baptist church. He is a pioneer of this township, and has reared a large and respectable family, most of whom are married and have left the paternal roof. He still survives, has a good memory and health; he resides with his son, Daniel B.

GRUBB, SAMUEL, farmer, Pike township, was bom in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and was married in 1845 to Mary Zook, who was born in this township in 1824. They had seven children - David, bom in 1846; Joseph, in 1848; Sarah Elizabeth, in 1849; Daniel, in 1852; Mary Ellen, in i860; Ezra, in 1862; and Amanda, in 1864. Mary Ellen died in 1861, and Ezra in 1864. David is married to Mary Jane Silcot; Joseph to Elizabeth Moore - both families living in Mt. Vernon. Sarah E. is married to Isaac Hess, and lives in Richland county; and Daniel to Maggie Cunau, of this township.

Mrs. Grubb's father, David Zook, was bom in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. He was manied in 1817 to Nancy Mock, who was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1795. They had the following children: John, born in 1818; Catharine, in 1819; Elizabeth, in 1821; Jacob, in 1822; Joseph, in 1823; Mary, in 1824; Alexander, m 1826; Louisa, in 1828; Hannah, in 1829; Lydia, in 1831; Sally, in 1833; and David, in 1835.

GRUBB, JOSEPH, farmer, post office. North Liberty, was bom in this township May 26, 1847. He is a son of Daniel H. Grubb, and is engaged in farming on the David Leedy farm. He is a young man of good habits.

GRUBB, ISAAC, teacher, post office, North Liberty, was bom in this township, and received a liberal English education in the common branches. He engaged in teaching district schools a number of terms, and in the spring of 1881 he started in a theological course in the Ashland college. He is a prominent member of the German Baptist church, and in some future day will be a minister of that church.

GRUBB, HENRY, farmer and stock raiser; son of Daniel H. and Elizabeth Grubb ; was bom in Pike township, this county, December 4, 1834. In 1856 he married Miss Mary A. Jeffries, born in Stark county, Ohio, September 15, 1835, and came with her mother in 1841 to this county. Mr. and Mrs. Grubb settled in Pike township, remained two _years, then moved to Morris township where they remained until 1874, when they purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township where they now reside. They have four children, three sons and one daughter.

. GRUBB, DANIEL B., Pike township, farmer, post office. North Liberty; bom in Pike township, Knox county, in 1838, and was married in 1874 to Catharine Betchel, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1847. They have one son, Lawrence E., who was born in 1876.

GUTHRIE, DAVID, Pike township, deceased; bora in Pennsylvania in 1796, and was married in 1820 to Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, who was born in 1802. They had six children: Jane, Ann, Elizabeth, Hugh, Samuel, and Sarah. Mrs. Ann Guthrie died in 1833. Mr. Guthrie was afterwards married to Sarah Parish, who was born in TrambuU county, Ohio, in 1812. They had ten children: William, David C, Francis M., Rachel, Jane, John, Elza, Nancy, Mary, and Nathan. Mr. Guthrie died in 1870.

GUTHRIE, JOHN N., farmer; post office. Democracy. He was born in Pike township on June i, 1847. He is a member of a pioneer family. He is a carpenter.

GUTHRIE, JOHN, farmer, Beriin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was bom in Knox county, in 1845. He was married, in 1873, to Rachel Cole, who was born in Berlin township, in 1851. They had five children: Marilla, bom in 1874; James A., born in 1875; infant (deceased); Arabella, bom in 1878; Maude, in 1880.

GUY, JOHN (deceased), was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1792. He emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Woodbum, in 1819, a native of Ireland, born in 1790, and migrated to America in 1810. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, near Ale.xander, and remained there until in 1853, when he sold his farm and moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio, remained about one year and a half, when, in 1855, he purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son John, in Clinton township, Knox county, where they passed the remainder of their days. His wife deceased March 19, 1863, aged seventy-three years. He deceased April i, 1876. He served in the War of 1S12. They reared a family of five children: Joseph S., John, Martha J., Elizabeth, and Margaret. Only two of the above named are now living, John and Martha.

GUY, JOHN, farmer, second son of John Guy, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1822, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1855. He married Miss Emeline Lafever in 1859, daughter of Thomas P. and Eliza Lafever, who was born in 1836. They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. Their union resulted in two children (daughters). He has followed farming as his vocation.

HADLEY, ISAAC, of the First ward, Mt. Vernon, is a New Yorker by birth. From the a^e of fifteen he has been a resident of Mt. Vernon, and has been honored by his fellow citizens, not only with their confidence and respect, but he has been placed in offices of profit as well as of honor, and faithfully and honorably has he discharged the duties of his several posts.

Mr. Hadley was born in the town of Willsborough, Esse.x county, New York, January 14, 1795, within sight of the waters of Lake Champlain, since made famous by Commodore Mc- Donough's victory, September 11, 1814. In 1810 Mr. Hadley's father, with his family, came to Ohio, and settled in the county of Knox. His father, Mr. Smith Hadley, was born August 14, 1765, and died February 4, 1850, aged eighty-five years, five months, and twenty days.

November 9, 1825, Mr. Isaac Hadley was married to Miss Sarah Davidson, of Mt. Vernon. She was born in Knox county, November 22, 1805, and deceased January 16, 1873, in the sixty-ninth year of her age. To Mr. and Mrs. Hadley were born seven children, six of whona are still living. Four reside m this city, one in Iowa, and one in Bellaire, Ohio.

Mr. Hadley's public life has been a remarkable ©ne, having, for twenty-four years, held commissions, either from the President of the United States, or from the Governor of Ohio. Mr. Hadley acted as sheriff and postmaster, at the same time, four years.

April 28, 1830, he received the appointment of deputy United States marshal, and served as such four years. During that time he took the census of Knox county, and in the discharge of that duty he visited every house and every family at that time within the limits of the county.

August 12, 1831, Postmaster General Barry appointed him postmaster at Mt. Vernon. He served in that capacity about nine years. In 1832 he was appointed by General Bevins, deputy sheriff. In 1834 he was elected and commissioned sheriff of Knox county, and in October, 1836, he was reelected, without opposition; thus, with his own four years, he was acting as sheriff six years.

Mr. Hadley was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas April 13, 1839, and served seven years, that being the constitutional limit. In 1834 Governor Robert Lucas commissioned him as paymaster of the volunteer brigade of Knox county, with the rank of major.

April 30, 1863, he was appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States, commissioner, with the rank of major, for the Thirteenth Ohio Congressional district, composed of the counties of Knox, Licking, Muskingum, and Coshocton, and served as such until the close of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged.

Notwithstanding his fourscore years, few men in the prime of their manhood can compete with Mr. Hadley in the discharge of the duties of every-day Mfe.

HAGERTY, MORRIS, Fredericktown, merchant, was born in New Jersey, 1844; came to Ohio in 1869; located in Fredericktown, and was married in 1873 to Anna Adams, who was bom in Knox county, Ohio. They have one son, Hugh, who was born in 1875.

Mr. Hagerty is a member of the firm of Hill & Hagetty, dealers in hardware, established in 1872. They carry a complete stock, and an extensive line of goods in the hardware

HAGERTY, WILLIAM H., Wayne township, carpenter, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Muskingum county, August 22, 1845, and married August 26, 1871, to Alice King, who was born in Mt. Vernon, July 18, 1850. They had the follewing children: Bessie F., born June 19, 1872; Nellie, September 27, 1873, and Edna, August 17, 1877, who died June 12, 1878.

HAIDEN, JOHN K., farmer, was born in HiUiar township, in March, 1838. His father, David Haiden, was born in Pennsylvania. His mother was a Virginian by birth, and when quite young went to Pennsylvania. His father came to Morgan township about 183c and purchased a tract of land, and then returned to Pennsylvania and married Miss Sarah Bottenfield, and the following year moved to Ohio and remained in Morgan township until March, 1837, when he came to Hilliar township and purchased a farm on the Parker section. He built his cabin and began to clear the land and make for himself and family a home, a future dwelling place. He died on the old homestead August 6, 1859, aged about fifty-five years; his wife survived him until March, 1878, aged near seventy-four years. Thus ended all that was mortal of two of Hilliar township's most esteemed and respected citizens. They have passed away, but left their impress on the minds and hearts of those they left behind.

In the "old cabin" the subject of this notice was born. He was an only child, and was reared with solicitude. His home training, by Christian parents, was kind but firm; his youth was thus spent. He assisted on the farm during the summer and attended school during the winter. He attended a select school at Centreburgh, and made fine progress in his studies. He never availed himself of a collegiate course. He is self educated to a great degree; studied at home, searched lor the "fountain of knowledge" by himself; he delved deep and revealed the hidden treasure; is a ready and impressive speaker; deals in facts rather than rhetoric; is a good debater, a close observer, and a deep thinker; a well informed man. He is unassuming, affable and pleasant in his manners, and social in his habits, and a leading member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

HAIR, OSCAR, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Utica, Licking county, September 15, 1842, and was married in 1865 to Emily Rapp, who was bom in Knox county in 1844. They have four children, viz.: William L., born August 30, 1867; Charles W., born December 7, 1870; Wiley E., born July 22, 1872; Clara B., born January 14, 1874; Mr. Hair has been a citizen of this township about fifteen years, and owns a good farm.

HALL, JOSEPH W., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. In 1815 his parents emigrated to Holmes county, Ohio, and lived for some time in a block" house the first year during the trouble with the Indians. Mr. Hall came to Berlin township, this county, in 1852. His first purchase was the Jackson farm, then the Cole and Handley farms. The Hall family owns seven hundred and seventy acres of land in this township. He is one of the most extensive farmers in Knox county. On the farm where he now resides is one of the best springs in Ohio, the main one being about a half mile from his house. He has the water conducted through stone pipes to his house and barn, and has a beautiful fountain in the front yard. The water is cool, pure and inexhaustible. Mr. Kail has been a very extensive dealer in stock, and in shipping horses and cattle to the eastern States. In Oliio and other States he is widely known as a man of superior judgment in business affairs. Mr. Hall was married in 1838 to Rachel Waddell, who was bom in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1816. Their children are James M., born in 1838; David F., in 1841; Phillip C, in 1842; William A. B., in 1844; George W. S., in 1846; Susan S., in 1849; John W., in 1850; and Rigdon P., in 1855. The deceased members are James W., v.ho died September 22, 1847; David F., Augusta, 1855; Susan (Mrs. Phillips), died in Berhn township.

HALL, JOHN' M., farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shaler's Mills. He was born m Holmes county, Ohio, and was married to Amanda Durben, who was born in Knox coiuity. They have one daughter, XeUie. Mr. Hall devotes most of his time to buying, selling and shipping horses and cattle. In this he is very successful.

HALL, J. N., Hilliar township, carpenter, Rich Hill post office, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1829. Ten years later his parents, George and Jane Hall, nee Cherry, came to Ohio, and remained one year in Guernsey county, and then moved to Delaware county, purchasmg a tract of one hundred and forty acres of land. The parents both died on the land on which they settled in 1840. The father died in 1858. The mother survived her husband until 1876.

The subject of this brief notice remained on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he went to learn the carpenter trade. He built a number of the buildings in Knox and Delaware counties. He is a good workman, and aims to do justice to those who employ him, and is held in high esteem by the community, who know him to be an honest man. He was married to Miss Nancy Hupp, of Knox county, April 5, 1855. His wife died in 1871. They had a family of five children, all of whom are living, viz. : Sarah Jane, married to George Patton; Julia A., Mary Lutetia, Laura, and Robert M., living at home.

HALL, THOMAS J., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Francis and Harriet Hall, born in England, November 7, 1833, was brought to America by his parents in 1836, who located in Connecticut, and remained there until 1849, when they emigrated to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. He remained in Mt. Vernon working in the woollen factory two years, and clerked in a grocery store until 1853, when he moved to California, where he remained seven years, then, in i860, he returned to Knox county, remained a while, then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and commenced working with H. & F. Blandy, in their machine shop, doing the wood work for machinery.

In 1862 he married Miss Emily Hillier, born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 3, 1836, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hillier. They settled in Zanesville, remained until 1873, then purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Pleasant township, two and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Gambler road.

Hall, E. M., physician and surgeon, Fredericktown, was bom near Delaware, Ohio, October 31, 1845, removed with his parents to Morrow county, Ohio, when a child, and in August, 1862, left school to join the One Hundred and Twenty-fit st regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, remained with it until 1864, when he was severely wounded in one of the battles before Atlanta, Georgia, and was mustered out in 1865. For the next six years he was engaged in preparing himself for the practice of medicine.

Immediately after graduation, in the spring of 1871, he located in Fredericktown, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine. He was married in 1874 to Laura B. Nevius, daughtei of Aaron and Susan Nevius, who were among the earlier settlers of this county. They have two daughters, Mary and Aletheia.

HALL, JOSEPH K., fanner and dealer in stock; post office, Shaler's Mills; was born in this county in 1853, and was married in 1879 to Mattie W. Knox, who was bom in Holmes county in 1859. Mr. Hall is one of the enterprising farmers of this township. He also engaged quite extensively in dealing in stock.

HALL, LAXE, Jackson township, farmer, post office, Bladensburgh, is a native of Jackson township, and was born on the ninth of August, 1855. He is a son of Obadiah Hall, one of the pioneers of Jackson township. July 2, 1879. he was married to Mary B. McCamment, who was bom in Clay township on the twenty-first day of January, i86r. Politically Mr. Hall is a Republican.

HALL, WILLI.AM B., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1855, and was married in 1868, to Margaret Knight, who was born in Holmes county in 1845. They had two daughters, Leila, born in March, 1874, and Jennie R., in June, 1875. Mr. Hall is engaged in farming, buying and selling stock.

HALL, GEORGE S., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, was born in 1846, and married in 1872, to Mira M. Auten, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1852. They have two children: Alice, born in 1873, and Joseph, born in 1875.

Mr. Hall came to Knox county in 1852, and located in Berlin township. He is a farmer and also a dealer in stock. The Hall family are of Irish descent. The grandparents came from Ireland.

HALSEY, D. F., farmer, son of Henry and Elizabeth Halsey, was born in Flanders, Morris county, New Jersey, July 18, 1808. In 1830 he married Miss Lucinda Wolfe, born in New Jersey, in 1807. They settled on a farm in their native county, and remained nine years, then, in 1839, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Hilliar township, near Rich Hills. He purchased and moved on a farm, where they lived until 1853, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Clinton township. They reared a family of five children: Henry, Jacob, Lydia A., Mahlon K., and Emeline E. Henry and Lydia A. have died.

Mr. Halsey hns made farming his principal business through life. He filled the office of township clerk for three years in Hilliar township, and acted as justice of the peace in the same township one term, being elected in 1849. He also filled the office of county commissioner, from 1869 to 1875.

HAMILTON, REV. J. H., pastor of the Methodist Protestant church; is a son of the Rev. William Hamilton, a native of Virginia, who located in Muskingum county in 1805. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 23, 1826, and is one of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity, and ten of whom were sons who averaged six feet in height and were all men of fine mental and physical development. He received his preparatory education in the district schools, and commenced to preach when but seventeen years of age and has been a faithful aud zealous minister of the cross ever since. He united with the Muskingum conference when eighteen years old and was ordained when twenty-one years, which was in

1847, since which he has had the pastoral care of the following churches, viz: Coshocton, Muskingum and Licking, four years; the church at Louets two years, Circleville two years, Steubenville, five years, Newcomerstown one year, McConnellsville two years; after which he served as president of the conference one year. He came to Kno.x county in 1857, and took charge of the church at Frederrcktown, in which he remained seven years and during which he took an active part in everything that was conducive to the moral and religious development of the community. In i860 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the church on Mulberry street, where he has labored zealously ever since with great success. He commenced a series of meetings December ist and continued until March ist, which resulted in one hundred and fifty-four conversions, and the following spring he administered the ordinance of baptism to thirty-six persons. During his association with the people here he has attended over three hundred funerals, and solemnized more than that many marriages. He was married August 30,

1848, to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Joseph and Mary Rodman, near Zanesville, by whom he has a family of children, all of whom are married and have families.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, November 26, 1822. His parents, Joshua Hamilton and Jane Craig, were natives of Pennsylvania, and by their marriage had nine children, all of whom are living. Joshua Hamilton died in 1870; his wife still survives him.

The subject of our notice was reared on a farm, receiving a common school education. He remained in Harrison county until 1846, when 'he came to Morgan township and with his brother purchased land. He sold his interest in the property and purchased the farm on which he now resides, he is one of the leading farmers of Morgan township, an estimable citizen and takes an active interest in the affairs of the county. January go, 1848, he married Miss Elizabeth Sellers, daughter of John Sellers, of Morgan township. They had a family of five children, three of whom are living.

HAMMETT, JOHN F., harnessmaker, Pike township, post ofiice. North Liberty, born in 1845, in Ashland county, Ohio, and was married in 1865 to Emily Mix, who was born in Independence, Richland county, in 1848. They had one son, Judson ]., who was born in 1870, and one daughter, Emma, born in 1871. Mrs. Emily Hammett died in Independence in 1872. Mr. Hamniett's second marriage, in 1873, was to Mary C. Hammond, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, in 1856.

Mr. Hammett, when a young man, learned the harness trade with L. Ridgeley, in Jeromeville, Ashland county, Ohio. After his marriage he engaged in business in Independence, and remained there until after the death of Mrs. Hammett - then went to Mansfield, worked with F. Johnson for one year - then came to Fredericktown, remained there till 1876, when he removed to North Liberty. He is engaged in the harness business, he is an excellent mechanic, having an extensive custom business. He ' is also keeping hotel, the only one in North Liberty, and it is first-class.

The fathei of Mrs. Hammett, George .\. Hammond, was bom in Frederick county, Maryland; his parents emigrated to Ohio m 1819; he was married in 1837 to Elizabeth Anderson, who was born in Virginia. They had seven children: Sarah P., Ellen P., Thomas J., Francis E., Louis F., Haniet, and Mary C. Mr. Hammond learned the shoe trade when a young man; he is still engaged in working at his trade; he is now among the oldest business men of Fredericktown,

HAMMOND, JACOB, farmer, Union township, post office, Milwood, born October 31, 1G02, in Maryland, and remained there until 1821, then moved to Pennsylvania, remained there three years, then in 1824 came to Knox county and settled in Union township. He married in 1821, nnd his wife lived with him until April 13, 1869. Six of his ten children are living and four are dead : Eliza, Jonathan, Mary, and an infant have deceased. Those living are: Charles, Henry, Jacob, John, Lydia, and Syltia.

In 1848 he labored to bring about the building of the Methodist Episcopal church. He commenced by trying to raise a subscription, but not succeeding, he became discouraged with that plan and concluded to have a church at all hazards. He made a contract with John Musser to build a church for eight hundrei and fifty dollars. He went 10 work with him and hewed all the timber foi it, and assisted in other matters, but finally he fell sick and was unable to do ".nything for a year. A building committee and trustees were organized to assist him in this. work. But not long after they became discouraged and concluded to sell the building to pav the carpenter. Jacob Hammond would not give his consent and they refused to do anything more. He, not feeling satisfied, concluded to borrow the money. He did so, and paid the debt without any assistance. In 1851 he managed to complete the building. He has been an oidained local preacher for forty years. He has preached one hundred and . twenty funeral sermons, and conducted over fifty marriages. He is seventy-nine years of age.

HAMMOND, WILLIAM P., Howard township; farmer, was born June 17, 1850, in Belmont county, Ohio. His father died when he was eighteen months old, and in .\pril, 1855, his mother was married, and removed to Howard township. His step-father died July 26, 1878.

Mr. Hammond was married February 15, 1876, to Mary R. Sapp, and lived on the old farm for two years, with his mother, and then moved to his present farm. He has two children; Lucy, born March 12, 1877, and Rosa, January 30, 1880. Mr. Hammond contributed largely to the building of St. Luke's church, and gave his services as well. He has taught thirty-four terms of writing school in Missouri, Knox county, Ohio; Albion, Ohio; Hardin county, Ohio, and Muskingnm, Ohio.

December 12, 1869, he went to Missouri, and remained there three years engaged as a teacher. From there he went to Texas by the overland route, doing his own cooking along the trail. He remained there three months, and then returned home.

Millwood, born February 4, 1852, and was married to Miss W. Tracy October 23, 1873. In 1875 he moved to his present farm. His father came from Maryland at an early date. He had two children: J. L. Hammond and Mary S.

HANGER, REUBEN, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born July 5, 1817. In 1816 his father came here, when they had no neighbors except Indians. He had eleven children, viz: Catharine, Susanna, Betsey, Polly, Reuben, Barbara, Sarah, Jacob, Joseph, John, and Priscilla. Jacob died February 29, 1876; Polly, January, 1878; Barbara, July, 1878. Reuben Hanger married Hannah Lydie, September i, 1839, and settled on the old homestead, where he still remains. He has ten children, viz: Mirion Jane, William F., George Washington, Leander Sherman, Isaac Newton, Joseph Curtis, Martin W. , John Russell, Henry B., and May Elizabeth.

HANGER, JOHN, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in Union township. In 1810 his father came from Pennsylvania, and lived here until his death in 1851. In 1868 his mother died. John Hanger married Mary Larabell, March i, 1854, and settled on the old home. They have four children - Lyman, born December 25, 1835; Barnett, November 29, 1857; Seltura, June 27, 1859; and Victoiia, November 29, 1865.

His wife was born August 19. 1834. Seltura died when she was seven weeks old. Barnett married Sarah Shafer September 14, 1879, and lives with his paients.

HANGER, LEE, farmer. Union township, post office, Millwood, was bom August 31, 1841, in this township, and remained at home until 1863. He was married to Christina Hyatt in 1865, and settled immediately on his farm. They have two boys - Curtis, born in 1870, and Charles, born in 1873.

HANGER, JOSEPH, Brown township, farmer and stock raiser, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Hanger, was born in Union township, Knox county, March 3, 1831. At the age of nine years his father died, but he remained with his mother till he became of age. During that time he controlled and farmed his mother's portion of the farm. He married Juliza Winterringer, August 25, 1854, she being a daughter of J. B. Winterringer, born in Union township, Knox county. After his marriage he still remained in Union township, renting and moving on the farm owned by the widow Workman, where he remained about eighteen months, and then rented his father-in-law's farm, where he removed and remained about two years. While there he puichased his brother's share in the old farm, which, with his own share, made him sixty-seven acres. In 1857 he moved on this farm, and remained there ten years, and then sold the farm to his brother Reuben for three thousand dollars. He then purchased the farm known as the John Frost farm, of one hundred and twenty-five acres, in Brown township, where he moved and now resides, it being a very desirable and pleasant home.

Mr. and Mrs. Hanger were the parents of ten children: Alice C, born June 8, 1855, was married to Hudson Majors, and resided in Rosstown, Knox county, until her death, July 26, 1878; J. B. Leonard, born February 15, 1857, and died in July of the

HARRISON, AMZI, Miller township, farmer, was born in ! Morgan township. May 21, 1831. His parents, Timothy and I Phebe (Edwards), were natives of New Jersey, where they were married and shortly after came to Ohio and settled in Morgan township, and subsequently moved to Licking county, where they died, near Appleton. They had eleven children, four of whom are yet living.

Mr. Harrison was reared on a farm, and in his youth attended the common schools. He has always followed farming as his occupation; is a careful husbandman and an esteemed citizen. He came to Miller township in 1867. On the twenty-fourth of December, 1862, he married Miss Malissa Callihan, and has three children: Ella Mav, Charles Wesley, and Frank Wilbur.

HARDEN, COLUMBUS, drayman, Fredericktown, was born in Morrow county in 1840, and married in 1862 Julia Iden, who was bom in Sparta, Morrow county. Mr. Harden has been engaged in farming in Morrow county. In 1876 he moved to Fredericktown where he is engaged in draying.

HARDE:STY, GEORGE, farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Williams county, Ohio, in 1857, and was married in 1879 to Sadie Hogue, who was born in Knox county in 1859. They have one son, Austin C, who was born in 1880. Mr. Hardesty has resided in this county seven years.

HARDING, THOMAS, grocer and coal dealer, was bom in Yorkshire, England, May 4, 1819, on the old homestead where the Harding family had successively resided for over four hundred years. He remained on the home place until he was thirtytwo years of age, during which he was engaged in farming. In i85t he emigrated to America and located in Mt. Vernon. His first engagement was in the employ of J. E. Woodbridge, in the warehouse business, where he remained until October, 1852, when he established a coal yard and office, which was the first in the city, consequently making Mr. Harding the pioneer coal dealer of Mt. Vernon. He has continued in this business ever since, and about three years ago he added to his business that of groceries. In the coal trade he does business to the amount of about twenty thousand dollars per year; in the grocery business he carries a stock of about fifteen hundred dollars, and at the present does « business of about eighteen thousand dollars

HARIMAN, DAVID, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericiitown, born in Knox county in February, 1835, and was married in 1859 to Margaret Sharp, who was born in Knox county in 1837.

HARNWELI., BENJAMIN, merchant, Gambier, Ohio, was born in England in the year 1836. When only six years of age (in 1842) he accompanied his parents, Adam and Leonora Harnwell, to America. His parents located in Geneva, New York, and remained there about one year. From Geneva they removed to Wisconsin, and resided there until the fall of 184-1, and then came to and settled in Gambier, this county.

The subject of this brief sketch entered school in that village, and received his education. In 1848 he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk for the late A. G. Scott, the then leading merchant of Gambier, with whom he remained six years.

In 1854 young Harnwell went to Cincinnati and engaged with George N. Wood & Co. , corner of Fifth and Vine streets, with whom he ramained until 1857. From Cincinnati he came back to Gambier, and engaged in the mercantile business in the room he now occupies. In 1859 he left Gambier and went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he only tarried a few months, when he left the city and went to Memphis, Tennessee, and continued there until 1870. While residing m Memphis Mr. Harnwell was engaged in the publishing business. He published the Daily Argus nearly all through the war and after the war. He published Hardie's Tactics, first edition twenty thousand copies, second edition ten thousand copies, and an edition of the Laws of Memphis. He also edited and published the Southern Monthly. He also published many other works. He printed the blanks for the cotton loan for the State of Mississippi for the amount of twenty million dollars. He also published Scott's Grammar. His printing establishment at Memphis was a large one, superior to any other in the Southern States at that time.

From Memphis, in 1870, Mr. Harnwell returned to his old Ohio home in Gambier, and engaged in the mercantile business at his old stand, where he has continued ever since. He deals in general merchandise. He is also agent for the Union Express Company running over the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad.

On December 29, 1863, Mr. Harnwell married Miss Emma Probasco, of Lebanon, Ohio, daughter of Judge John and Susan Probasco, nee Freeman. This union has been blessed with three children, two sons and one daughter.

HARPER, HON. LECKY, editor and proprietor of the Mt. Vernon Democratic Banner, was born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, December 29, 1815. His parents, Hugh Harper and Catharine (Long) Harper, with their children, three sons and two daughters, emigrated to the United States in the summer of 1820, and settled in Washington, District of Columbia. The following year his father died of malarial fever, leaving his mother and four young children almost entirely among strangers. The bereft mother, being a woman of Christian principles and no ordinary force of character, put forth unexpected energy, attending to their wants, their culture, and their education, assisted, however, by the advice of members of a family to whom they bore relationship. Nothing was neglected to prepare them for a project, which the mother kept always in view, to take them, as soon as practicable, to the

In the month of June, 1826, the little family crossed the Alleghany mountains, and arrived, without any accident, in Jefferson county, where they were met by relatives and friends.

Mrs. Harper died at the residence of her second son, in Akron, in 1866, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. Only two children remain, one a well known citizen of Pittsburgh, John Harper, esq., president of the Bank of Pittsburgh, and the third son, Lecky, the subject of this memoir.

Lecky Harper came to Ohio in the eleventh year of his age, with some education, which was increased by such acquisitions as could be obtained in a country school-house amid the hills of Jefferson county in early days. In 1830, young Harper went to Steubenville, and entered as a clerk in a mercantile establishment. After clerking about a year he entered the office of the old Jefferson Democrat, for the purpose of learning the "art preservative of all arts." In that office he remained a year, when he found but little could be learned in an establishment where the proprietors were entirely ignorant of the profession. He'therefore concluded to enter into an engagement with Judge Wilson, then editor of the Steubenville Herald, to go with him to Pittsburgh, in 1832, where the judge established the first daily paper in that city, called The Penfisylvania Advocate.

During the period of his apprenticeship Mr. Harper spent his leisure hours in reading historical and literary works, kindly loaned him by a valued friend. He made frequent contributions to the Saturday Evening Visitor, a family paper then published in Pittsburgh. In May, 1837, Mr. Harper returned to Stubenville and purchased a half interest in the American Union, the successor of the old Jefferson Democrat. For two years he edited and conducted the Union with marked success. During the session of the Ohio legislature for 1839-40 he re. ported the proceedings of that body for the Ohio Statesman, then under the management of the late Colonel Samuel Medary, and also assisted in the editorial department of that paper. During his connection with the Statesman a warm personal friendship sprang up between the colonel and Mr. Harper, that lasted until the death of Mr. Medary. During the exciting presidential campaign of 1840 Mr. Harper edited the Crawford Democrat, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, whilst the proprietor was engaged in taking the census. At that time Mr. Harper had made arrangements for establishmg a daily Democratic paper at Pittsburgh, but the unexpected defeat of Van Buren changed the political aspect of affairs, rendering it impolitic at that time to undertake so hazardous an enterprise, and induced him to embark in some other profession. He entered the law office of Messrs. Metcalf & Loomis, and in due course of time he was admitted to the bar of Pittsburgh. During his course of study he edited the Pittsburgher, a weekly Democratic paper. In 1843, after his admission to the bar, he located at Cadiz, Ohio, where he practiced law, and purchased the Cadiz Sentinel, which he edited three years, and then disposed of the paper and returned in 1846 to Pittsburgh, by the invitation of leading Dem.- ocrats of that city. He bought the Morning Post, then a small paper, with limited circulation, and printed on a hand press. Under the editorial management of Mr. Harper, the circulation of the Post rapidly increased, soon taking rank as one of the leading papers of Pennsylvania. It became necessary to throw aside the hand press and substitute steam power piesses. Doing all the editorial work of a daily was too severe a task for a constitution at no time robust; he therefore disposed of the Post, so

During Mr. Harper's editorship of the Post, he was drawn into a very exciting controversy on the labor question. The legislature of Pennsylvania passed a law making ten hours a day's labor in all manufacturing establishments, more especially in factories where children were employed. Previously little children had been compelled to work twelve and even fourteen hours a day, commencing at six o'clock in the morning and laboring until seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Mr. Harper sustained the law, not only because it was the law, but that it was a just and hum me enactment. Every other paper in F'ittsburgh opposed the law, taking sides with the manufacturers, who claimed that they could not compete with the manufacturers of the east, unless they run the long hours. The Commercial-Journal at that time was the special organ of the manufacturers, who called to their assistance their attorney, who undertook the task of writing Mr. Harper down and destroy his paper. To accomplish this, it was alleged, he was ruining Pittsburgh's leading mdustries, etc. This was followed by a movement to induce business men to withdraw their patronage from the paper. But a reaction took place, and for everv man that stopped the Post at least fifty new names were added to the list. The mechanics and working men of the city made the cause their own. The largest meeting ever held in Pittsburgh assembled in the old market square to sustain the Post, and when Mr. Harper appeared at the meeting he was lifted on the shoulders' of the men of toil and carried to the speaker's stand, where he addressed the excited people, advissing them to stand up for their rights and the rights of humanity, but to commit no act of violence. The ten hour law was triumphant.

Finding an opening in Mt. Vernon, Mr. Harper, after disposing of the Post, came here and purchased, in 1853, the Mt. Vernon Democratic Banner, which he has since ably conducted and edited. From being a poorly unsupported institution he soon brought the Banner to the front with a large subscription, and it is now one of the most ably conducted and edited newspapers in the State. A few years since the building in which the paper is published was destroyed by fire, including the entire outfit of type and presses. This calamity required a complete refurnishing of both type and presses, which was accomplished within a space of ten days. The Banner office is now one of the most extensive and complete printing establishments in Ohio, outside of the leading cities. Mr. Harper was president of the Ohio Editorial association four years, and is the president of the Democratic Editorial association, organized in 1880. In 1879 he was elected State senator in the Seventeenth and Twenty-eighth Senatorial districts, composed of the counties of Wayne, Hohnes, Knox and Morrow, and is a member of several of the most important committees in that body.

Mr. Harper is one of the oldest editors in the State. From May, 1837, up to the present time, over forty-three years, he has worn the editorial harness, with a prospect of many more years of usefulness before him. As an editor he occupies tlie highest rank, and as a news compiler he is unequalled; as a citizen, honored and respected; as a neighbor, kind and obliging.

On the eighteenth of September, 1844, Mr. Harper was united in marriage to Miss Eliza A. Mercer, at Florence, Washington county, Pennsylvania. She is a descendant of General Hugh Mercer, of the American Revolutionary war. From this union nine children were bom, the three oldest of whom died in infancy. The names of the living are William M., Howard and Clarence B., born in Pittsburgh; John, Frank, and Kate, born in Mt. Vernon.

The Harper ancestors went originally from England to Ireland, after the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion; and, by purchase, became possessed of a town land named Pollyarnon, of the confiscated estate of the Manor of Hastings. The last of his paternal ancestors, whose remains were laid in Irish soil, was his great-grandfather, Robert Harper, who died March 10, 1780, in the forty-fourth year of his age, according to the monumental inscription in the English churchyard at Castlederg, in the county of Tyrone. His grandfather came to this countrj' at an earlier date than his father, and so also at various times others of the family; some settling in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, and some in Ohio. Of the latter branch was the late Judge Alexander Harper, of Zanesville, who was his father's cousin. Mr. Harper's baptismal name, Lecky, was derived from the maiden surname of his paternal grandmother, Lillias Lecky, daughter of Hugh Lecky, of Gortumuck. The Lecky family were Scotch Presbyterians - the Harper family belonged to the English church.

HARRIS, HENRY C, Miller township, farmer, was bom in Miller township, September 29, 1832, and is the youngest son of Emor Harris, who was born August i, 1792, near Providence, Rhode Island, and Sarah Sweet, who was bom April 12, 1797, near the same place. They were married in 1814, and came to Ohio in 1817, settling in Miller township, where they permanently located. They were among the best citizens of the township. Mr. Harris was a justice of the peace for nearly twentythree years, and was regarded as a man of sound judgment, and a safe and wise counsellor. He died September 28, 1850; his wife died Xovember 30, 1873. They had eight children, \iz: Caroline, wife of R. C. Walker; Emor B. ; Sarah; Mary J., widow of Madison Miller; Lydia M., deceased; Betsey and Emily, who died in infancy. Emor B. now resides near Red Oak, Iowa.

Henry C, the subject of this notice, was reared on the old homestead, where his parents first settled. His education was at the district schools. He was captain of company C, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, and served with his command in Virginia. In the spring of 1879 he was elected a justice of the peace. He is ? man of comprehensive ideas, and has the esteem of the community. He was married to Miss Dorcas Gates, February, 1856, daughter of Cyrus Gates, an early settler. She died some years since. They have had four children: Mary W., Cyrus G., Carrie A., and Henry G.

HARRIS, THOMAS, Monroe township, farmer and stock raiser, was bom in Devonshire county, England, January i, 1815. In 1840 he accompanied his parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Harris, to America, and located on a farm in Jefferson township, now owned by John Hobbs, where his parents passed the remainder of their days.

In 1849 he married Miss Ellen McMillen, then of Jefferson township, born in Pennsylvania in 1814, daughter of Joseph McMillen. They settled on his home farm, remained one year, then moved to Defiance, Ohio, remained a few years, and then returned to the old home farm again, where they lived until 1867, when he sold the home farm, and purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they now reside. Their union resulted in four children, one son and three daughters,

HARRIS, MICHEL, Liberty township; farmer, was born in Hilliar township May 1, 1841, arid is the son of Burr and Catharine Harris, nee Shaffer.

Burr Hams was born in Licking county, Ohio, removed to Hilliar township, and thence to Bloomfield township, where he yet resides. They had nine children, five of whom grew up.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm with his parents. In July, 1861, he enlisted in company G, Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. The regiment belonged to the Eastern army. He participated in the battles of Green Briar, Mc- Dowell, Cross Keys, Second Bull Run, besides a number of skirmishes. He was wounded slightly while in West Virginia. He was discharged on account of physical disability contracted while in service in 1863, having been almost two years in service.

November i, 1863, he married Miss Caroline M. Tucker. They have seven children - four sons and three daughters. Mr. Harris is a good farmer, takes an interest in his occupation, and is a good citizen.-

HARRISON.J. C, Pike township, post office, North Liberty; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1829, and was married in 1851 to Martha Matthewson, who was born in Holmes county. They had one child, jerusha (deceased). Mrs. Martha Harrison died in 1872. Mr. Harrison was afterwards married to Cyrene Hathaway, born in Morrow county. They had one child, John, bom in 1873. Mrs. Cyrene Harrison died in 1874. Mr. Harrison was afterwards married to Mary Eley, who was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1848. They have one daughter, Luella May, born in 1875. His father, B. Harrison, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and came to Harrison county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of eighteen months, and remained there until he reached the age of twenty-four years when he removed to Wayne county, remained there till 1855 and then came to Knox county. He was married to Rachel Caldwell, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had two children, Louisa and James. Mrs. Rachel Harrison died in 1876. Louisa, their daughter, died in 1840.

HARROD, WILLIAM L., Hilliar township, proprietor of Central house, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in the county August 14, 1835. His youth was spent on a farm until he engaged in the saw-mill business, which he followed until he enlisted in company C, Thirty-second Ohio volunteers, July 20, 1861, and was mustered into service August, 1861. The company left Camp Dennison September,, 1861, for Cheat mountain, Virginia. He participated in the battles of Green Briar, McDowell, and in the skirmishes of the Virginia valley, and in the battle of Cross Keyes. He was in the battle of and surrender of Harper's Ferry, and paroled on the field, and was subsequently exchanged at Cleveland, Ohio. His regiment was sent to Vicksburgh, where he participated in the fight at Champion Hills and the Vicksburgh campaign. He then veteranized in 1863, and joined Sherman's army. July 22, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Atlanta and sent to that famed prison, Anderson viUe, where he was kept until September 22, 1864, when, fortunately, he was exchanged. During 1864 and 1865 he participated in all the various campaigns and marches in Sherman's army, and was at the surrender of Johnson's army. He was first lieutenant of his company the last seven months, thus serving his country faithfully and honestly for four eventful years, never losing a day e.Kcept when a prisoner. When he returned home he engaged again in the saw-mill business, and subsequently farmed until he came to Centreburgh in the spring of 1880, and became proprietor of the Central house, where he is always willing to wait upon his patrons. In' 1&58 he was married to Miss Mary Hayes. They have two children.

HARVY, JAMES, blacksmith, Fredericktown, was born in Jeromeville, Ashland county, in 1830, and -married Ciracie Hicks, who was born in England, in- 1^38. They had a family of seven children, named as follows : Elizabeth, Philena, Amanda, William, Carrie, Dollie, and Charlie.

Mr. Harvy learned the blacksmith trade in Mt. Vernon with Stephen Bishop. He came to Fredericktown in 1849 ; started in business and still continues. Through his industry and economy has secured a good home, and is otherwise in comfortable circumstances.

HART, WILLIAM T., Gambler, son of John D. and Margaret Hart, was born near the Hopewell church. Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, September 18, 1840. John D. Hart, a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, was born March 13, 1816, married Miss Margaret Taylor, June 5, 1834, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1816.

In 183s they moved to Richland county, Ohio, and remained one year. In 1836 they moved to this county and located in Pleasant township, near the Hopewell church, where they lived until 1853, when they migrated to Noble county, Indiana, where they passed the remainder of their days. His companion died November 17, 1854. He survived her until October i, 1864, leaving a family of eleven children to mourn their loss, viz: Mary A., born May 10, 1835; Nancy, born May 14, 1837; Matthew, bom December 4, 1838; Willifm T., born September 18, 1840; James, born May 4, 1843 ; Samuel, born January 12, 184s ; Sarah F., born October 12, 1846 ; George W., born May 30, 1848; John, born August 29, 1850; Margaret, born May 14, 1852; Susannah, born June 4, 1854. Samuel and Margaret have died.

William T. Hart married Miss Mary A. Wright, December 28, 1865, born in College township, this county, June 29, 1840, daughter of William and Mary Wright. They settled in Gambier, where they are now living. Their union resulted in three children, viz: Lewis E., Eva M., and Frederick W. Eva M. is dead.

Mr. Hart is a carriage-maker by trade and is carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of carriages and vehicles of every description in Gambler. He is also engaged in undertaking, and is doing a first class business. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the three months' service in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. June sth, of same year, he reenlisted in same company and regiment for three years, or during the war. His time expired June s, t 364, and was discharged from the service June 23d, same year. February 16, 1865, he enlisted as a veteran and served until the close of the war. He received two wounds, the first was at the battle of Chancellorsville, the second at North Anna river, on the twenty-third day of May, 1864.

HART, WILLIAM R., carriage painter, Mt. Vernon, is the second son of father Abel Hart, sr., who is now in the eightysixth year of his age. William was born June r, 1828, in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and when about seven years of age came to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Mt. Vernon in 1835, where they have continued to reside. His mother died in 1864. He received such an education as the schools of that day afforded. His first business engagement was made with Mr. Xoah Hill, where he learned the chair making and painting trades. With Mr. Hill he worked four years, and then engaged with Mr. John A. Shannon, as carriage painter, where he worked some eighteen months. The following six years he spent in travelling and working He worked as journeyman painter in different places in the State, and in 1855 returned to Mt. Vernon. He worked for the different firms in the city up to 1874. That year he established his present business, which consists in the getting up of a fine grade of single and double carriages and buggies. Carriage painting is a specialty in all its branches. He does none but first class work.

Mr. Hart became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1850, and joined a lodge of the order in Tiffin, Ohio, a member of lodge No. 20, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, on card. In 1875 he was elected grand junior warden in the grand encampment branch of the order. In 1878 he was elected in the same branch grand high priest. In 1879 he was elected most worthy grand patriarch of the encampment branch in Ohio. Mr. Hart is the only member of the order in Knox county who has attained to the honor of these offices. He has also served as representative of both the grand lodge and the grand encampment. Mr. Hart has represented his ward in the city council.

HART, ABEL, SR., Mt. Vernon was born at Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island, on the twenty-second of September, 1794. His father, Noah Hart, was a soldier in a Massachusetts regiment in the Revolutionary war. He raised twelve children, all of whom lived to a good ripe age, and a number of whom are still hving. His ancestors settled in Massachusetts about the year 1634.

The subject of this sketch came to this part of the country in the year 1817. He first lived with his brother Isaac, who had previously lacated on the Mohican, twenty miles east of Mt. Vernon. After remaining in Ohio a few years, he returned to the east, and in the year 1834 removed to Mt. Vernon with his family, and in the year 1835 built a house on East Gambler street, where he has resided ever since.

Mr. Hart was made Master Mason at Parkersburgh, Virginia, in 1820, and is now, perhaps, the oldest Mason in Knox county. He was one of the charter members of the Knox Mutual Insurance company, and was one of its directors for over twenty years. He is the only charter member now living. Hr. Hart was one of the military escort that accompanied General Lafayette, when he visited Boston in the year 1824. He was well acquainted with General Andrew Jackson. Mr. Hart raised a family of four children, all of whom are living.

H.A.RT, ABEL, JR., Mt. Vernon, attorney at law, is the youngest son of Abel Hart, sr., and was raised in Mt. Vernon. He had a common school education, and learned the carriage making trade. The subject of this sketch read law with Dunbar & Banning, and after that firm dissolved, finished his studies with John Adams, nov/ judge of the court of common pleas. He was admitted to the bar at the March term of the supreme court at Columbus, Ohio. In the year 1868 he was a candidate for prosecuting attorney of Knox county, and was defeated by four votes. In 1870 he was a candidate for the same position, and was elected, and in 1872 was reelected. In 1875 he was elected representative, and reelected in 1877.

tlie best and most extensive undertaking establishments in the county, opened in 1878 by Mr. W. T. Hart, who keeps on hand first-class burial material of all descriptions. He is also prepared to embalm bodies, and can respond to a call on short notice. Special attention is given to this branch of undertaking. He has for his use one of the best and finest hearses and teams in the county. His success in the business has been beyond his most sanguine expectation. He has calls from and attends funerals in a territory of more than ten miles around Gambier. Within thirty months he has received ninety-three calls, and has promptly attended the same. His past experience in that line is a guarantee that the work in the future as in the past will give equal satisfaction to the bereaved.

HART ik DICKESON, proprietors carriage shops, Gambier. Messrs. Hart & Dickeson in 1873 established their manufactory, from which they have succeeded in supplying the wants of the community with remarkable success. They manufacture buggies, light and heavy farm wagons, phastons, and all vehicles necessary to the wants and luxury of man. They also do all kinds of repairing at short notice, and what is more to the point, they warrant every vehicle manufactured by them, and every repair job that leaves their shops. Horseshoeing is a specialty with them, and in which branch they acknowledge no superior in the county.

In their shops they have recently built one of the finest hearses in the county, which is now used by Mr. William T. Hart, the undertaker at Gambier. The people of the county will find Hart & Dickeson enterprising gentlemen, always ready to attend to the wants of their customers.

HARTMAN, WILLIAM (deceased), a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, born December 20, 1807, and a son of Casper Hartman. March 5, 1833 (at the age of twenty-five years), he united in marriage with Sarah Ramsey, a daughter of Thomas Ramsey, who was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1808. After their marriage, he, in company with his wife, came to Ohio, locating in Wayne county, where he remained about four years, and then moved to Knox county, locating in Harrison township, on a farm of one hundred and eleven acres he purchased, where he raised a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters. His death occurred November 29, 1879, in his seventy-second year. Mrs. Hartman, his companion, survives him in her seventy-second year.

HASSON, MARVIN FREW, Hilliar township, station agent of Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad at Centreburgh, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1844, is the second child of William and Rachel Hasson, //ef Black, who were born and mairied in Venango county, Pennsylvania, and still reside near Utica, Pennsylvania.

The youth of Mr. Hasson was spent on a farm, and attending the schools of the vicinity. He also attended an academy at Utica, and was preparing for college, but when the late war broke out he went with the three months' men, but the quota being full he was not mustered into service. He returned home and resumed his studies until August, 1862, when he enlisted in company I, Sixty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers, and participated in many of the hardest struggles on the field during that ever memorable conflict. He carries the scars of two wounds. At High Hill bridge he received a wound in the knee which kept him in the hospital for about two months and a half, and he was again wounded at Dinwiddle Court House, being struck on the forehead with a minnie ball. He was in the battle of An- tietam, Maryland; Fredericksburgh, Virginia; Brandy Station, Virginia; Getty sburgh, Pennsylvania; Sulphur Springs, Virginia; Kilpatrick's raid; Malvern hill; Deep Bottom; Wyatt's farm, and Stony creek, besides twenty-two smaller engagements. He never missed roll-call nor duty until he was wounded. After his return home he worked at carpentering and teaching school. While teaching he learned telegraphy. About 1871 he came to Ohio and was engaged in Akron in telegraph and railroad service. In 1873 he came to Mt. Vernon, and in the fall of the same year was appointed agent at Centreburgh, for the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. From his quick busineas habits and his systematic regulations he has given general satisfaction to the business and travelling public. He is a positive man. being governed by principle; is decisive in his opinion and convictions. He was married to Miss Hattie F. Rinehart, November 30, 1873. They have a family of three children, viz: Jessie, born September 27, 1874; Emma G., March 10, 1876; and John W., April 12, 1879.

HAWKINS, ISAAC, Liberty township, a successful farmer and stock raiser; was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, May 31, 1821. Joseph Hawkins, his father, was bom in Hampshire county, Virginia, January 18, 1789, married Sarah Larimore about 181 1, and remained in Virginia until about 1829, when they came to Ohio, remaining three years in Licking county and then removed to Milford township, Knox county, where Mr. Hawkins died August 11, 1870. Mrs. Hawkins died there also. They had a family of ten children, viz: John, born June 23, 1812, died in Tazwell county, Illinois, and left a large family; Margaret, born in 1815, died in infancy; Harriet, born November 19, 1817, married Charles Hall, and died November 12, 1859, left a family; James, born March 25, 1819. He is an influential farmer in Licking county near Lock; Isaac, the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth, born December 16, 1824, married Edward Wilson. She is deceased, left a family; Joseph, born June 26, 1826. He is a resident of Milford township; Sarah Jane, born June 29, 1828, married Henry Row. She died August 9, 1877, left a family; Thomas H., born September 6, 1831; he is a resident of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; William D., born December 28, 1833.

The parents of this family were of the renter class; they owned no land, and hence their sons and daughters were in early hfe under the necessity of making for them.selves almost their own way. They all became substantial and useful citizens in after life. Indeed it might be truthfully said that there are few families who had started in life in moderate circumstances that did so well. The subject of this sketch spent his youth at home until he was about nine years of age. From nine to thirteen he was on a farm away from home. He then returned to assist his parents on the farm, as his older brothers were doing for themselves. He aided in keeping his younger brothers and sisters at home. He remained at home until January 24, 1841, when he married Miss Pennennah W. Huddlestun, a native of Virginia who was born November 4, 1822. From this time he began for himself The following summer he farmed with his brother James, and in the fall sold his shareof the crops for seventy-five dollars out of which he paid si.xty dollars of debts, leaving fifteen dollars as net gain for a summer's work. He then went to Licking county, near Granville, and put out a wheat crop, and when the crop was sold he had fifty-one dollars clear of all expenses.

started, the way he obtained his first smoothing-iron. Wishing to have that necessary article in the house, and not having the money to buy it, he contracted to split two hundred and fifty rails, for which he was to have a smoothing-iron made at Porter's foundry, near where he then lived. This iron he still possesses, as a reminder of his early start. He remained over three years at Granville, sold out his crops, and had two hundred and sixty dollars in money. He returned to Milford township, Knox county, and five years after, he purchased ninety head of ewes and thirty lambs for one hundred dollars. This was his beginning in sheep- raising, and in which he has been eminently successful. He purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-eight acres for two thousand three hundred dollars. He had eight hundred dollars in cash, which he paid as hand money. On the balance he had seven years' time, but was able to pay for it in" four years.

The first buying and selling of stock was commenced on the farm, and carried on with eminent success until 1877. In 1868 he moved from his farm to Mt. Liberty, where he has since resided.

Mr. Hawkins, it will be remembered, commenced life with no aid. His advantages for education were limited. In fact, he never learned to write, and it was not until in after years that he learned to read. This was no fault of his, as his time was so occupied in his youth that it was impossible for him to acquire any education. He was kept at work early and late, and when evening came he needed rest. He has been successful in hfe. He worked under the disadvantage of having no education. He is naturally a business man. His judgment has in some degree made up for his lack of education. But had he been so fortunate as to have had the advantages of education, he would have added much more largel v' to his property. He deserves more than passing notice in thus overcoming the many obstacles which met him at every turn. He has given largely to each of his five children as they were married. He made it a point to give them five thousand dollars' worth of real estate, besides an outfit of at least a thousand dollars extra, making at least thirty thousand dollars.

The children are, Levina, married to S. T. Vannatta, of Miller township; Mary, married to J. T. Robertson, of Hilliar townsnip; Ann, widow of J. L. Evans; Louisa married W. A. Wintermute, of Milford township, and Charles O., married to Ella Snyder.

HAWKINS, WILLIAM H., Milford township, brick mason and farmer, Milfordton post office, was born in Rhode Island, near Providence, April 26, 1814. His parents, Stephen and Sallie Hawkins, 7iee Belknap, came to what is now Milford township in 1818. They came in a three-horse wagon, bringing with them their three sons - Emor B., William H. and Joseph S.

Emor B. and Joseph S. have died. There were three more children born to these parents in Milford township, viz. : Stephen, Sallie Ann, and Laura M. Of these Stephen and Laura M. are dead.

The subject of this notice recollects very distinctly when his parents went to locate the site of the cabin. His mother, when she saw the dense forest, and the recollections of her former eastern home filled her mind, she wept bitterly. This site was on the farm on which Mr. Hawkins now resides on the Mt. Vernon and Hartford roads. Here Mrs. Hawkins died in 1841. Mr. Hawkins' second marriage was with Mrs. Petitt, by whom

William H. spent his youth in the cabin. WTien old enough he assisted his father in clearing up the land. At about the age of eighteen years he learned brick laying with his brother, Emor B. He has built many of the brick dwellings in Milford and surrounding country. He frequently made the brick and contracted for the dwellings. He is an estimable citizen. He was married to Miss Emily Beach January 25, 1838. They have one child, Emily C, born September 26, 1844, wife of George Disney.

H.A.WKIXS, THOMAS, Liberty township, was born in Licking county, September 6, 1831. He is the son of Joseph and Sarah Hawkins, of whom mention is made in the biography of Isaac Hawkins.

The subject of this notice remained with his parents until about eleven years of age. From eleven until twenty-two he was with his brother James. In the fall of 1854 he went to Tazwell county, Illinois, where he remained until the fall of i860, engaged on a farm. On October 11, 1858, he married Miss Mary A. McClees, who was bom in Tazwell county, Illinois, April 12, 1839.

In the fall of i860 Mr. Hawkins returned to Licking county, where he remained six years, being engaged in farming, when he moved to Knox, and farmed one year, and then moved to Mt. Liberty. In 1872 he engaged with J. P. Wintermute in huckstering, at which he has smce been engaged. He is an efficient salesman and was instrumental in building up a large trade, which he still holds. He enjoys the confidence of the trading public.

His marriage has been blessed with a family of four children: Joseph W., born September 2, 1858; Mary E., wife of Emmett M. Ramey, born March 11, i860, married November 25, 1880; Emma, born February 24, 1862; and Thomas Clifford, born July 5, 1871.

HAWKINS, WILLIAM D., Liberty township, farmer, was bom in Licking county, Ohio, December 28, 1833, is the son of Joseph and Sarah Hawkins, of whom mention is made in the biography of Isaac Hawkins, of Mt. Liberty.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm, and has continued farming as his occupation. In his younger days he drove stock east, and upon several occasions he took entire charge, and was successful.

Mr. Hawkins has held a number of offices in the township and has always filled them to the satisfaction of the citizens generally. In 1879 he was elected land appraiser.

HAWKINS, JAMES, JR., Milford township, farmer and sheep raiser. Lock post office, was born in Knox county, in January, 1850, is the oldest child of Joseph and Ann Hawkins, of Milford township. August 24, 1871, he was married to Theresa M. Coe, who is the daughter of David Coe. They have four children, viz: Mallie, Burton, Edward, and Elizabeth Ann.

Mr. Hawkins, from his experience, fully understands the raising of first class sheep. His flock consists of choice registered rams and ewes. His first sheep were eight ewes numbered in Vermont register, volume second, Nos. 178, 182, 185, 225, 221,

One of the largest clips from one sheep in this county was from ram W. S. Grant, shorn by Torrence Mitchell, Lock, Ohio, second fleece, April i, 1880; weight of fleece, twenty-six and onefourth pounds. His weight, after beiug shorn, was one hundred and thirty pounds - his age two years.

Mr. Hawkins has a flock of pure Spanish merino ewes. He is determined not to be outdone by any sheep raiser in the county, and makes sheep raising a special business. Those who contemplate purchasing would do well to call upon him. Heresidi's near Lock, Ohio.

H.\WN, G. B., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. - He was born Febmary 22, 1809, in Mt. Vernon. In 1827 he came to Millwood, Union township. At an early day his father came to Millwood and bought large tracts of land. He surveyed and laid out the lots in Millwood. The work was done in 1825, and he built a flouring and carding mill, as well as a distillery, and conducted his farm besides. G. P. Hawn was married to Hattie Gifton, May 20, 1830, and settled in Millwood. They had eleven children - Louisa, Charles, Hattie, Sarah, John, Marion, Rebecca, George, Catharine, Robert and Lola. John enlisted in the late war in i86r, for three years. At Lookout Mountain he was taken prisoner, and was in the hands of the rebels three months. He was taken to Atlanta to be exchanged, but a misunderstanding came up among the oflicers in regard to the exchange, and he was started back; but by some good fortune he, with another of the prisoners, escaped from the trail while they were returning. Marion enlisted in the same company, and died in the hospital, in 1863. G. B. Hawn's grandfather was in the Revolutionary war and his father^ John H., was in the War of 1812, serving as quartermaster. His brother, John H., was orderly sergeant in company B. in the Mexican war. His son John served in the late war. It appears from above statement that a John Hawn represented each of the three generations past, one serving in each of the wars of our country. G. B. Hawn's wife died March 27, 1870. He is now cared for by his children.

His parents were natives of Maryland, and moved to Virginia in the spring of 1823. In May, 1835, they came to this county, and located in College township, near Gambier, and remained sixteen years. In 1851 they moved to the State of Indiana, where Mrs. Head deceased, in Febmary, 1877, aged eighty-two years. Mr. Head, father of Thomas R., is now living in Mt. Vernon, aged eighty years.

They reared ten children, viz: Nathan, Mary A., Thomas R., Hannah, Joseph, Sarah A., Nancy J., Penelope, John, and Benjamin F. Only four of the number are now living, viz: Mary A., Thomas R., Hannah, and Benjamin F.

On the twenty-first day of October, 1849, Mr. Head was united in marriage with Miss Angeline Derby, daughter of Rufus Derby. Miss Derby was born in the State of New York, July 17, 1826, and came with her parents to Morrow county, Ohio, in 1836. After their marriage they settled in Gambier, where they have since resided. Mr. Head engaged in butchering and dealing in stock, having made the former his principal vocation for twelve years. In 1861 he gave up the butchering business, and turned his attention to farming, stock raising and dealing, which he has been actively engaged in since, for twenty years. At present he owns a large farm in Harrison township, this county.

HEADINGTON, J. N., Mt. Vernon, surveyor of Knox county. Burder, in his history of all religions, in speaking of the Roman church, says "the first important movement in gaining a footing in the United States was made by Lord Baltimore. In 1832 he reached the shores of the Potomac with about two hundred gentlemen of rank and fortune." In the company were two young unmarried men named Headington. They married and located at Gunpowder falls, a few miles above Baltimore, and from there as far as known descended all the Headingtons in the United States.

This introduction is not to establish nobility of birth, for the per cent, of this gentility or ranking blood remaining, after being reduced with geometrical rapidity through a series of eight or ten generations, would be too small to estimate. He therefore lays no claims to gentility except that resulting from poverty; or to greatness, e.xcept the essential part of it - goodness.

In 1820 Nicholas Headington, from Baltimore county, Maryland, located in Pike township. James, the eldest, who has since gained considerable celebrity as an auctioneer, married Ruth Hardesty, of the same township, in 1835. The family were among the earliest pioneers on Dry creek, and were from Virginia, near Wheeling. She proved a model wife and a good mother. Mr. Headington started in "the free for all" October 10, 1842, in the unsubdued forests of Delaware county. Six months later his father moved to Centerburgh and engaged successively in staging, grocery and hotel, until 1854, when finding himself with a family of five children, among them three sons with sufficient muscle to perform farm labor, purchased and moved on a farm one mile from the village where the old folks are still at home.

Thus, for the first eleven years of his life, Mr. Headington had the benefit of all the opportunities usually afforded by villages for the .moral training of boys. From this period he performed farm labor, and during the winters attended the district school and Centerburgh union school until 1863 when he passed from parental authority and entered the " go as you please.'' He served in the quartermaster's department at Nashville during the campaign of 1864.

During the winters of 1864-5 and 1865-66, and the spring of 1866, he taught school at Newport, Indiana, farming the intervening summer. Returned home and taught the following winter at Warsaw, Indiana. During the summer and fall of 1867 he rode the prairies of central Iowa, engaged in fire insurance. The following winter he attended Holbrook's celebrated National Normal school, Lebanon, Ohio. For a year and a half he had figured as principal in an enterprise that would not pay cash dividends, but absorbed all his remaining resources so carefully husbanded for educational purposes. He was compelled to leave school and returned to Iowa in March, 1868. It was the dark hour. The outlook was not ilattering. A fielder in the pools, he reengaged m insurance with increased efforts and in August, one week before the beginning of the schoo year at Lebanon, he had regained his entire loss - six hundred dollars. After one day's visit .at home he reached the school for roll call, entering the junior class of seventy members. His first address before the class appeared in a public journal, which gave him a high reputation as a writer and speaker, which was maintained during the course. He was assigned the highest position upon the programme, and the significant subject, "Debating an Element of Mental Discipline," for his graduating oration. He maintained his record. On the stage, at the close of his performance, he received the congratulations of the principal, and most of the faculty and members of the class; an honor never before accorded to one of the graduates of this school. -

Mr. Headington taught the Centreburgh school during the winter of 1869-70, and spent the summer and fall of 1870 at Warsaw, Indiana, and Union county, Ohio, teaching at the latter place. He took charge of the schools at Centreburgh again during the winter of 1870 and spring of i87r, and during the summer assisted in atlassing Knox county. From November, 1871, he taught six months at Monticello, Illinois, and one day and a half from the close of this engagement was working on the atlas of Columbus and Franklin counties. He continued here until the winter, when he took charge of the Bridgeport schools. Before their close he was employed as chief engineer of an atlas corps located at Bucyrus, Ohio, beginning in the spring of 1873 and serving until the winter, when he began business for himself as principal of the Champaign County Atlas company, which work was delivered in the winter of 1874. There being no available territory Mr. Headington continued in the business as an employe of an eastern company, operating in Athene county until the summer of 1875, when he received the nomination for surveyor at the Democratic county convention of Knox. Tired of being a child of the world this nomination was quite acceptable. He was elected by three hundred majority, and reelected in 1878 by seven hundred majority.

He filled the position of county school examiner one term. He is a trader in real estate. In politics he is a Democrat. It is but just to say that Mr. Headington is self-made; it might relieve other powers of accountability. This sketch, as far as it goes, is literally true; yet there is much unwritten, but those who know Mr. Headington best will have no difficulty in drawing upon their imaginations to supply the omissions.

HEATHCOT, JOHN H., retired farmer. Liberty township. was bom in the county of Cheshire, England, August 23, 1790. His father was a farmer and manufacturer of cloths. The subject of this notice, when quite young, was put at the same trade. He remained in England until about 182 1, when he emigrated to the United States, working at his trade in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, until 1834, when he came to Ohio and purchased a farm on Granny's creek. He remained in Ohio until 1839, when he went to York county, Pennsylvania, and worked at his trade until 1844, when he again came to Ohio and traded his first farm for the one on which he now resides, in Liberty township. Mr. Heathcot is a man of fine physical form. Kis mind is clear for a man of his age ; he is a good citizen and has the esteem of the community. He was married to Miss Mary Chandler, a native of New Castle, Delaware, about 1824. She died April 24, i88o, aged eighty years. They had a family of three children, viz: Matthew, who resides in Morrison, Illinois; ."llice A., wife of Thomas J. Stone, Sioux City, Iowa, and Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Tarr. She has one son. John W., who married Emma Barton, November 13, 1879, and resides on the farm.

For nearly two years Mr. Henegan was confined more or less to his house by disease beyond a physician's healing art. A short time prior to his death he visited Olathe to close up some business in that place. He lived to finish that business, and then passed away from earth as calmly and as quietly as a cliild slumbering the sleep of innocence, During the last few days of life he named many of his Mt. \'ernon friends, wishing they were with him to soothe and cheer him in his declining moments, the end of which he knew was fast approaching.

From early youth Mr. Henegan devoted himself to railroading. The last of such work was on the Cleveland, iMt. \'ernon & Columbus railway, to the interest of which many years of his life were devoted.

In 1867, in company with his father, he took the contract of constructing a canal around the Des Moines rapids, one of the greatest undertakings of the kind in America. Other hands have just completed this great work.

In the fall of 1874 he commenced work upon the new infirmary building, and brought it nearly to completion. This building is the most substantial of the kind in the State, and an honor to the county, and also to the State. ;

At the age of si.xteen years, the subject of this sketch, witb his father and mother, together with the rest of their family, lefjt Glasgow, Scotland, Septemljer i6, 1849 - Liverpool, England, September i8th, and arrived at New Orleans, United States of Amenca, on the twentieth day of December following; thus the voyage, between the port of departure and the port of disembarkation, appears to have been thirteen weeks and four days in duration. To vary the interest, and to add to the perils of those "who go down to the sea in ships," the vessel, upon whose deck the lives and fortunes of the hardy emigrants were placed, was cast away in a storm, and thrown upon the shores of an island now called Concon, situated near the barren coast of Yucatan, Central America. The passengers and crew were detained twenty-eight days upon that desert island.

During their forced residence upon the island, the passengers and crew, imitating the people of the country in which most of them were seeking a new home, organized a government and made laws for their own protection, and unanimously elected Mr. William Henegan the first governor of the State of Concon, Central America. The necessity of this organization was soon apparent

The island of Concon, for its favorable and safe harbors, was one of the favorite rendevous of the piratical vessels makmg those waters their cruising grounds. One of those sea rovers passing the island, the captain seeing the wrecked ship of the emigrants, determined to take position, and rob it of all the rigging and stores left upon it, (the passengers and crew, while waiting for rescue, living in tents upon the shore).