White Eyes Township (part 10 of 20)

WAITE R. D., Coshocton; dental surgeon; son of John Waite, deceased; was born March 16, 1851, in Canada West. His father died when the son was but three years old. Soon after, the boy, with his mother, moved to a fafm. in White Eyes township, this county. Here on this farm the son learned what it is to " earn his bread by the sweat of his brow." When about twenty years old he, with his mother, came to this place, and young Waite commenced the study of dentistry with Dr. F. O. Jacobs, and was recognized by the State as a practitioner in 1873, since which time he has been engaged in his profession, at his present rooms, 226 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. These rooms are pleasantly located and handsomely furnished. Dr. Waite is asplf-made man, having educated and established himself in his profession by his own energy and perseverance.

WALKER JOHN, Bedford township; farmer ; postoflfice, West Bedford ; born in 1838, in this county. His father, James Walker, was born in 1802, in Ireland. He came to this country in 1823, and settled at Albany, New York. He was married in 1826, to Miss Jane Little, of Albany, who came from Ireland in 1822. They came to this county in 1827. He died in 1840, she died in 1879. They were the parents of six children. The subject of this sketch is the fifth. He was married in 1866, to Miss Narcissa M. Barnes, daughter of Judge Barnes, of this county. She was born in 1844, in Jefferson county. They are the parents of seven children, viz : Blanche, deceased ; Charles B., William J., Frank and Fred., who are twins, and Wade and Worth, deceased. Mr. Walker has lived in town since 1866.

WALKER WILLIAM, Coshocton ; clerk in county treasurer's office ; born October 4, 1833, in Smithfield township, Jefferson county ; son of Nathaniel Walker, a native of the County of Donegal, Ireland. William was raised on the farm until about twenty years of age, when he began teaching school and taught eight years, then returned to the farm where he' remained, four years, then followed merchandising until 1871, when he was elected county auditor and re-, elected in 1873, and remained one year as deputy after the expiration of his term of office. He began his present duties September, 1880. Mr. Walker was married September 2, 1862, to Miss Catharine Lockard, daughter of John Lockard, deceased, of Crawford township. They have three children, Viz: John M., Clement L. and Laura E.

WALTON D. C, Fafayette township; telegraph operator; postotfice, West Lafayette; was born in Tuscarawas county, in 1852; son of David AValton ; was raised on a farm, which he left in 186S and commenced learning his art at Port Washington. After working in different places, he came here in 1873, where he has since remained. He was married to IMiss Emma Hunt, of Jluskingum county, daughter of Seth Hunt. They have had three children : Edgar, Carle and Anna. Mr. Walton owns a pretty property in the village and is a highly respectixble citizen.

WALSH WILLIAM, Keene township; born in Orange county, New York, December 19,1810; son of Thomas and Sarah Walsh, and grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Walsh- and William and Hannah Wood. , His grandfather Walsh was a revolutionary soldier. Mr. Walsh was raised on a farm, and at the age of sixteen learned the wagonmaker trade. He lAoved to Keene township when twenty-six years old, and after working a year at carpentering opened his present wagon shop at Keene. His lirst marriage was with Eliza Thayer, October 13, 1841, who was the daughter of Ephraim and Sallie (Green) Thaj^er, and granddaughter of Bartholomew and Ehzabeth (Blanchard) Thayer. Bartholomew was a soldier of the revolution. By his first wife Mr. W. had two children, Mary E., born September 9,1842; and Sarah, April 6, 1845. He married Miss Sarah, daughter of Jolm Mt^Michael, April 26, 1853, who became the mother of two children, Ehza J., deceased, born March 19, 1854, and Frances, April 8, 1S57.

WARD WILLIAM, Coshocton; bookkeeper; born April 19, 1830. in Paris, Pennsylvania ; son of Richard and Martha (Hay) Ward. At the age of fourteen, he left his native .village and spent five years in Indiana; then came to Coshocton; here he engaged as clerk, for a while ; then began the mercantile business for himself - first, in dry goods; afterwards in drugs. In 1872. he became conneeted with the Coshocton iron and steel wbrks, serving in the capacity of shipping clerk; subsequently, he was made secretary, and, when the firm closed, was secretary, cashier and director. He was then appointed assignee, by the court. In 1874, he took charge of the books for H. Hay, the present proprietor. Mr. Ward was married, in 1862, to Miss Frank Hutchison, daughter of John Hutchison, of this city. Death has claimed the three children born unto them, Willys Kerr, Katie and an unnamed infant.

WARING DAVID, deceased, Bethlehem township; farmer; was born in 1780, in Essex county, Virginia. His parents were of English descent. Mr. Waring came to this county in 1830, and settled in Bethlehem township. He was married, in 1811, to Miss Louisa Beynhan, of Essex county, Virginia, who was born in 1791. They became the parents of nine children, viz: Elizabeth E., Maria L., Martha A., William T., Henrietta, David, James 8., Arthur L. and Mary. Six are at present living. Mr. Waring was a man of integrity, and, by his own industry, accumulated some property. He followed agricultural pursuits all his life, and died February 24, 1864, aged eighty-four. Mrs. Waring died December 18, 1832, aged forty-one years.

WEATHERWAX JOHN A., Monroe town- , ship; farmer; postoffice. Spring Mountain; was horn March 16, 1841, in the village of Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of Jacob and Susannah (McCoy) Weatherwax, and gr.andson of Adam and Elizabeth (Felton) Weatherwax, and of John and Sarah Weatherwax He was educated at Spring Mountain academy, and, at the age of eighteen, began teaching school, and followed that business for two years. About this time the late civil war broke out, and, Mr. Weatherwax, being possessed of patriotic principles, enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first Regiment O. V. I., September, 1861, and served fifteen months, when he was discharged on account of sickness, caused by takiag cold while having the measles. Thinking himself sufficiently recovered 'for the service, he re-enlisted >vith the lOO-days'' men. Since the close of the war he has followed farming, and very successfully. He has, at present, over two huijdred acres of land. Mr. ^7eatherwax was married to Miss Sevilla Williams October 5, 1864. She is a daughter of John R. and Elizabeth (Fowler) Williams, and granddaugnter of Richard and Elizabeth (Bracken) Williams, and of Richard and Jane (Elsin) Fowler ; also, great granddaughter of James and Rebecca (Johnson) Williams, and of Archibald and Hannah (Roberts) Elsin, and of John and Christina (Hopkins) Elsin. Their children were i Jacob 0., born July 19, 1865; William R., March 18, 1867; Cora J., February 18, 1869; Warner^ February 21,1871; Abram, August 1, 1874, and Ada, August 27, 1878.

WEATHERWAX ABRAM, Clark township ; farmer ; postoffice, Helmick ; born in Clark township, Cosh(3cton county, January 18, 1825-; feon of Andrew and Lydia (Felton) Weatherwax, and grandson of John L. Weatherwax and Olive Felton. The Weatherwaxes came from Holland at an early day and settled in New York State; from there, emigrated to Ohio. His father came to Clark township in 1821, and raised a family of seven children, Abram being the youngest. He owns 235 acres of fine land, and is an enterprising and successful farmer. He was married to Miss Naomi Pettit, daughter of George and Hannah (Severn) Pettit, who was born in Pennsylvania, August 31, 1824, and died August 27, 1875. They have had six children - George, born July 8, 1848 ; Lydia, born May 11, 1850 ; Sarah E., born February 29, 1852, died March 11, 1857; Nancy A., born August 2, 1854; Louvina A., born June 18, 1857 ; Mary W., born October 2, 1859. George, Lydia, Louvina and Mary are married. Mary is married to Mr. William H. Burrell, son of Archibald and Charity (Norman) Burrell, and grandson of Joseph and Nancy (Clark) Burrell, and Joseph Norman. He was born in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county, February 5, 1852. Mr. Burrell is a teacher of common schools ; has had seven years experionce and is a, successful teacher. They have only one child - Frank D., born September 1, 1880.

WEISNER ANDREW, dealer in stoves, housefurnishing goods and tinware, 141 Second street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Weisner is a native of this county, and was born in Roscoe, November 26, 1865, and was educated in the public schools of this county. His first business engagement was learning the tinner trade with the firm of Hirt & Palm, with whom he served three years. At the expiration of this term in 1878, he bought out the firm, and has since been conducting the business himself. He manufactures all kinds of tin, copper and sheet iron ware, does roofing and .spouting, and deals in all kinds of cook and heating ' stoves, granite iron ware, pressed tinware and general house-furnishing goods. INIr. Weisner has thus far made a succ^s of business, and is young man of energy, business tact and integrity.

WEIR JOHN C, hotel keeper; postoflBce, West Lafayette ; is a native of Guernsey county. His father was a native of Ireland, who came to America in 1819. Mr. Weir came to West Lafayette in 1875, and established the present hotel - Weir House - having been engaged in the same "business in Guernsey county for several years. With years of experience, Mr. Weir is prepared to meet the wants of the people. He has built an extensive addition to his building, having ample room. He has also erected a new and commodious barn. With these late improvements he is fully prepared to accommodate the public. Mr. Weir was married to Jafte Stewart, who was born in Ireland, and came with her parents to America when a child. They have four children, viz: William, deceased; Sarah Ellen, Edward, and Charlie.

WELKER DAVID, Linton township; farmer; Tjorn in Union township, Kxox county, January 11, 1816; son of David and Sarah (McMillan) Welker ; the second of a family of eight children. His father moved from Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, to Knox county, before the State government was formed, being among the foremost settlers of Knox county. His mother, also from Pennsylvania, settled there soon after. His grandfather, Robert McMillan, was a revolutionary soldier, seven years. Mr. Welker remained in Knox county till his removal to Linton township, about 1838. He has lived here since. He was married October 1835, to Miss Maria, daughter of Jonas and Sallie (Gaumer) Fox, of Muskingum county. The children by this marriage are George, deceased; Sarah, deceased; 'Susan', deoeased; Ellen (Lawrence), Sylvester, Hiram, and David, deceased. His wife died December 29, 1852. He was a second time united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Jackson, May 10, 1857. She was the daughter of Beeker and Mary (Bainter) Jackson. Children: Charles, Lemon, Flora, Paul, John and Margaret.

WELLING THOMAS, Mill Creek township ; farmer and stock raiser; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio; was born in Harrison county, Ohio, .January 15, 1823; son of Henry and Mary Welling, and was married, September 29, 1844, to Catharine Cox, daughter of Elijah and Christena -Cox, born in Harrison county, Ohio, August 20,

WELLING S. D., Pike township; carriagemaker ; born in 1835, in New Haven, Harrison county, Ohio; came to this county in 1850, with his father. He learned the trade in Wheeling, West Virginia, and was engaged in the business, in 1858, in Carlisle. He enUsted, August 15, 1861, in Company K, Thirty-second 0. V. I., Colonel Thomas Ford, commander. He was in a large number of battles, among these, Vicksburg, Atlanta and Macon. He was mustered out August 7, 1864. He engaged in the carriage business in February, 1865, and has been in the business ever since. He makes spring work, consisting of buggies and spring wagons and sleighs. He is the patentee and owner of a patent carriage top.

WELLS JOHN M., Tuscarawas township; farmer; postoffice, Coshocton; was born in Harrison-county, August 22, 1822; son of Francis and Nancy (Moffett) Wells, natives of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and grandson of Charles D. Wells. John M. was married, June 4, 1848, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of James and Annie (Douglas) Conner. They have been blessed withj eleven children, viz: James, deceased; Perry F.; John H., deceased; Hiram D., Isaiah P., Luella J., Samuel Thompkins, Charles Howard, Hattie M., Harvey E. -and Mary A. Mr. Wells is a man highly esteemed by his acquaintances.

WERNETT F. A., D. D. S., of Finley & Wernett, Coshocton ; born March 27, 1842, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a Frenchman, born on the day of the birth of Louis Napoleon. His mother's name was Catharine Romine, daughter of Joseph Romine, who, with his father, accompanied Napoleon to Moscow, in Russia, and was at the famous battle of Waterloo. She was a neice of Romine the great land holder, who exerted a powerful influence in the French revolution, in the latter part of the eighteenth century. At the age of eignt years, his father came to America and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Young Wernett's childhood was spent in his native city. At fourteen he went to Wooster, Ohio, and attended public school about four years, then returned to Pittsburgh and attended school one year. In the spring of 1860 he returned to Wooster and clerked in the store of J. B. Childs until 1863, when he went to Mount Vernon, Ohio, and clerked for L. Munk until January, 1866, when he settled on a farm in Fayette couny, Illinois. But not being schooled to this business, his efforts to induce mother earth to yield to him her increase were a decided failure. In the fall of 1869 Mr. Wernett returned to Mount Vernon and commenced the study of his profession with Dr. Kelsey. At the close of his reading he attended two courses of lectures at the Ohio college of dental surgery, and graduated with the usual honors of the class of 1871-2. Soon after, the present firm was formed, and his interest and success have been mutually shared with his partner, Dr. Finley. Dr. Wernett was married to Miss Normanda Sapp, of Mount Vernon. The result of this union was four children, viz: William H., Pauline, Francis and Mary Louise.

WERTS SOLOMON H., Lintoi^ township; farmer ; postoffice, Coshocton; born January 30, 1815, in Loudon county, Virginia ; son of Peter and Susannah (Huff) Werts, born of German descent. In 1816 they came to Muskingum county, where Solomon H was brought up, working in the blacksmith shop with his father, and on the farm. He came to his present residence in Linton township in 1848. On March 22, of the same year, he was married to Miss Malinda, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Sturtz) Gau-, mer. They became the parents of six children, viz: Susannah, married to William S. Simon; Elizabeth, married to Lewis B.^Barcroft; Mary Catharine, deceased ; Jacob Howard; George R., deceased, and John 0. Mr. and Mrs. Werts began in this county with 120 acres of woodland, and with a little help from their parents, they now own over 550 acres of good and well improved land.

WERTS JACOB F., Franklin township ; farmer; born September 9, 1846, in Linton township; son of John Werts, an early settler, who was born in Loudon county, Virginia. His grandfather, Peter Werts, was an emigrajat from Germany. He enlisted in the spring of 1864, in Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I.; was at Kenesaw Mountain, Franklih, Resaca and Buzzard's Roost. At Kenesaw Mountain he was struck by a shell and confined to hospital several weeks; rnustered out October 3, 1865, in Texas, and reached home November 3, 1865. He married Lavina, daughter of Ehjah Wagner, October 21, 1869, and has three children, viz : Laura Idella, Carrie Luberta and .Sylvester.

WIER SAMUEL, White Eyes township; farmer; born March 18, 1829; son of John Wier and Margaret (Boyd; Wier, who were natives of the county Tyrone, Ireland. His father died before the family came to the United States, and his mother died in White Eyes, June, 1868. The family emigrated to this country in 1-844, and located on a farm in White Eyes. Samuel Wier was married April 4, 1854, to Eleanor Elhott, -daughter of John H. EUiott, who was one of the. -earliest settlers of the' township. They have a family of three children : Allen, born March 23, 1856; Martha Jane, born November 24, 1862, and

_ xet A., born April 27, 1871. Mr. Wier bought a farm in 1854, and moved upon it in 1855. He sold that farm in 1868, and bought the Brown place, where he now resides, and added to it the Dunlavy farm, in 1875.

WHITE L. P., Pike township; grocer; born in 1847, in this county. He was married in 1868,^ to Miss Phoeba Billman, of this county. She was born in 1845, in this county. They are the parents of two children - Presley B. and Clarence H. In May, 1874, he bought a stock of groceries in Mt. Vernon of $205. He continued in this room until 1880, when he went iuto the room he now occupies. He had no shelving at first, but kept enlarging, until he now has the finest room in town.

WHITE DANIEL, Pike township; manufacturer and dealer in shoes ; West Carlisle ; born in in 1828, in this county. His father. Lewis, was born in 1802, in Fauquier county, Virginia. He was married in 1851, to Miss Maria Watson, of this county, who was born in 1832, in Harrison county. They are the parents of six chil- , dren - Nancy J., deceased ; William L., James B.; Charles H., deceased ; Mary I. and John L. They carya stock of ready made boots and shoes. He manufactures and repairs work, and the son is a shoemaker and harnessmaker.

WHITE JAMES B., Pike township; jeweler; born in 1856, in this county. He was married in 1877, to Miss Avila Billman, of Sullivan county, Indiana. He commenced the jewelery business in February, 1878, with 46.90 worth of stock. He now has a stock of jewelry, watches and clocks and silverware.

WHITESIDES JENKIN, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice. White Eyes Plains; son of James and Mary Whitesides, both natives of Chester county, Pennsylvania; was born in same county and Oxford township, in 1814, and went from there to Tennessee, and then came to this county. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Neighbor, of Tuscarawas county, in 1836. Their children are as follows: William; James, deceased; Sarah Jane, deceased; Thomas Jefferson, Samuel F.; Isabell, deceased ; Nettie, deceased, and Jenkin L. He has held the office of Justice of the peace for twenty-six years, beating the Knownothing candidate when there was a majority of fifty-two against him, and is popular and one of Oxford's most respected citizens; owns 168 acres of the home farm, and is well situated as to this world's goods.

WHITMER GEORGE, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford; born July 2, 1816, in Union county, Pennsylvania; son of Jacob and Mary (Row) Whitmer. He came to

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German township, Holmes countv, when quite young, and remained there until October 28, 1838, when he was married to Miss Catharine, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Moore) Young. Of their fourteen children, seven have died, viz: Jacob, Michael, George W., and four died not named. The seven living children are : Elizabeth, married to James Alexander Naragon ; Joel, married to Catharine Arive; Edward, married to Mary Harning; Eebecca; William, married to Clara Gonser; Daniel and Joseph. Mr. Whitmer came to his present residence in 1839, with his young wife, it being then an unbroken forest. He "took out the first grub," and has induced mother earth to yield to him an abundance of her increase, which he now enjoys with the partner of his youth.

WHITTEMORE D. G., Keene township; merchant in Keene ; born in Keene township in the year 1840 ; son of D. B. and Lavina Whittemoore. His grandparents were Ebenezer and Lydia (Richards) Whittemore, and Eobert and Lucinda (Collins) Goodhue. His grandmother, Lydia's parents, were Daniel and Eunice (Sumeiby) Richards. Wm. Whittemore was his greatgrandfather. Mr. Whittemore begun business in general merchandise in Keene, in 1868, with his father, and in 1873 purchased his father's interest, and has since conducted the business alone. His cash sales per year amount to ahout $18,000, which shows an extensive trade. He was married May, 1878, to Miss C. C. Foster, daughter of Ralph Foster, of Keene township, and has one child, George F.

WIGGINS THOMAS, Lafayette township; farmer. His father and mother were natives of Virginia. The subject of this sketch was born in this county in 1811, and was married to Miss Mary Miller in 1837. They have had seven children, viz : George, Sarah, Hannah, Ehnira ; Jane, deceased ; Wilham, and Thomas. Thomas Wiggins was a trustee of this township from the tinie the railroad was built till 1875, when he was elected to the office of infirmary director, which office he holds at present. He owns 645 acres of land, and is comfortably situated.

WIGGINS THOMAS T., Lafayette township ; farmer ; son of T. M. Wiggins ; was born November 6, 1843, and married to Eliza PhiUabaum November 17, 1864. Their children are as follows : an infant, deceased ; Sarah Alice, born September 27,1866; Henry, born May 19,1868; Ross E., born January 23, 1870; Mary M., born September 27, 1873; Ida J., born' July 17, 1874; Lola B., born July 12, 1876, and Ira F., born November 8, 1878. Deaths: Henry L., died March 11, 1872, aged two years, four months and twentytwo days; Lola J., died August 26, 1875, aged one year, one month and eight days. They have 225

WIGGINS WILLIAM, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice. West Lafayette, Ohio; son of Thomas M. and Mary M. (Miller) Wiggins; was born June 23, 1842, in this county. His parents were born and raised in this county, and ar.e among the oldest inhabitants. Mr. Wiggins was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He enlisted, in the fall of 1862, in Company E, Fifty-first 0. V. I., and served one year. He was married, October 29, 1863, to Miss Lydia Marlatt, of this county. They became the parents of one child, Mary 0. Mrs. Wigginsdied March 13, 1867. He was married, March 29, 1868, to Miss Jennie Smith, of this county. They are the parents of two children, viz: Charles C, and Sarah E.

WIGGINS EDWARD, Lafayette township; farmer ; P. 0. West Lafayette ; [son of Isaac Wiggins, deceased ; was born in this township in 1829, and married in 1870 to Mrs. Miller, of this township. Their children were as follows: Jennie, born -July 2, 1871; Eddie, born February 4,1873; Emma, born December 22, 1876. Their stepchildren were Delia, born October 4, 1862, ar^d Isaac, born December 22, 1863. Mr. Wiggins took part in the late war, going out in the Fiftyfirst 0. V. I., and was out two years. He owns one hundred acres of real estate, and enjoys the esteem of his neighbors.

WIGGINS BENJAMIN, Linton township; retired farmer; Plainfleld; born in Linton township, July 13, 1820 ; the son of Edward and Mary (Greentree) Wiggins. His parents emigrated to his native township in 1807, from Brooke county,. Virginia. His grandfather Wiggins emigrated - from Ireland to the wilds of Virginia at an early day, and there selected as much land as he wanted by blazing the trees around the tract with a tomahawk. Mr. W. was married November 14, 1839, to Jamima, stepdaughter to George Magness. Their children are Charity, deceased ; Edward; Thomas, deceased; Seth, deceased; Samuel, John, Harvey, Mary (Williams), Amanda (Workman), and Benjamin, deceasad.

WILCOX GEORGE, Franklin township; farmer; born April 6, 1834, in Muskingum county;, son of Charles Wilcox. His grandfather, James Wilcox, emigrated at an early day to Muskingum county, from Vermont. Mr. Wilcox lived in Muskingum county till about 1870, then moved to Franklin township, this county, and has resided here ever since. He was married, in 1861, to Mary J., daughter of Sylvester Preston, of Muskingum county. Their family consists of seven children, viz : James Marion, Dorothy Elizabeth,

WILCOX CHARLES, Franklin township'; farmer ; born in Muskingum county. May 12, ISM; son of Charles Wilcox, born in Muskingum county, and grandson of James Wilcox, one of the first of Franklin township. Enlisted, in 1862, in company E, Second O. "V. I., and served a year, during which he was engaged at Stone Eiver. He again enlisted, in 1864, in company K, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth 0. V. I., and served about a year. He married, in 1866, Cynthia Clark, daughter of Hugh Clark, of Muskingum county. Their children are: Nancy, Elizabeth; Jesse 0, deceased; Franklin P., deceased; Elenora, deceased; William Allen; Carrie, deceased; Samuel, and an unnamed infant.

WILCOX IBA,Franklin township; blacksmith; P. 0., Wills Creek ;-born April 21, 1852, in Muskingum county; son of John and Sarah A. (Crumbaker) Wilcox. He went to his trade when about nineteen years of age, and established business for himself first at Mohawk Village, where he remained until March, 1877, when he opened a shop at Frew's Mills, where he is doing business in general smithing. Mr. Wilcox was married September 13, 1874, to Miss Mary Josephine, daughter of Findley and Elizabeth (Hawk) Smith. They became the parents of one child, Nora Ellen, born August 16, 1877. Mrs. Wilcox died December 8, 1878. His only sister, Alice B., died March 2, 1879. They are both buried at Maysville.

' WILLIAMSON ISAAC, Clark township ; farmer; postpfflce, Helmick; born in New Jersey, March 28, 1819; son of Piatt and Sarah Williamson. He came to Zanesville with his parents when an infant, an*, lived there about seventeen years, at which time he moved to Clark township, where he has remained sijjice. He was married to Miss Louisa Matticks, February 21, 1841, daughter of Jacob and Jane Matticks, born July 4, 1825, and died October 10, 1852. They had four children, viz: Piatt, born January 28, 1842; William H., born September 8, 1844 ; Jacob A., born November 17, 1846; Sarah J., born February 3, 1851, died September 22, 1852. His second marriage was February 2, 1854, to Miss Sarah Martin, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Mackey) Martin, and granddaughter of James Martin, and Andrew and Sarah Mackey. She was born in Holmes county, Ohio, March 27, 1819. Their children are Elizabeth, born February 17, 1856, died September 27, 1857; John M., born September 5, 1857, and Anna A., born December 7, 1862.

Coshocton county; son of Isaac and Louisa (Matticks) Williamson, and grandson of Piatt Williamson and of Jacob and Jane Matticks. He was brought up on a farm, and attended district schools. August 15, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Thirty-second 0. V. I., and served till December 14, 1868, when he veteranized and served till July 20, 1865, under Generals McPherson and Howard. He was in the following battles: Cheat Mountain; McDowell, Virginia; Cross Keys, Harper's Ferry, where he was taken prisoner and paroled next-day. He participated in the siege of Vicksburg, Champion Hills, and Atlanta, and was with Sherman on the march to the sea. At the close of the war he returned home, and married Miss Eliza Brillhart, August 24, 1865, daughter of david Brillhart, whose ancestry is given elsewhere in this book. Their only child was Samuel D. B., born December 31, 1866.

WILLIAMS JAMES M., Coshocton ; attorney; was born July 22, 1850, in Plainfield, this county ; son of the Hon. Heslip Williams, formerly State senator, now deceased. He attended the public schools until April 11, 1864, when he entered the army as a member of the Third Regular Cavalry, Company C, Seventh Army Corps, in which he served until the close of the war. In 1866 he commenced teaching school, and graduated June 56, 1873, at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pennsylvania. He commenced the study of law August 14, 1873, with Messrs. Spangler & Pomerene, of Coshocton, and was admitted to the bar September 16, 1875. He commenced the practice of law July 1, 1877. January 14, 1878, he was appointed colonel on Governor Bishop's military staff, and served two years. Colonel Williams was married May 21, 1879, to Miss Mary S. Brockway, only daughter of Charles B. Brookway, of Ripley, Chatauqua county. New York.

WILLIAMS M. H., Monroe township; was born July 24, 183S, at East Plainfield, Coshocton county; son of John R and Elizabeth (Fowler) Williams, and grandson of Richard Williams. Mr. Williams was brought up on a farm and educated in Coshocton and Spring Mountain. He has followed farming all his life, except eight years, when he was in the milling business with his father and brother. He married Mary J. Weatherwax October 6, 1864, who was born May 18, 1847, granddaughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Felton) Weatherwax, and daughter of Jacob and Susannah (McCoy) Weatherwax; also granddaughter of John and Sarah (Stevens) McCoy. Their children are Lizzie S., born in 1865, and Howard D., born February 26, 1870.

attended the university of New 'York; in l?50and 1851, and commenced practice in 1852; was married in November, 1875, to Miss Alice Powers. They have two children - Austin Apollo and Louis Odeseus. Dr. Williams was at one time engaged in a large practice here, and vicinity, but confines himself to office practice at present, as he is engaged writing a work on the book of Revelations, which, he hopes to have completed some time during the year 1881.

WILLIAMS JAMES F., Jackson township; miller; Eoscoe postoffice; was born in Linton township, March 17, 1835 ; son of John R. Miller, a native of Pennsylvania, of Welch ancestry. He was brought up on a farm, where he remained until he was twenty-three years of age, when he commenced his present business, which he has principally followed until the present time. Mr. Williams was married, ii^ October 1856, to Miss Margaret E., daughter of J. D. Johnson. Their three children are George M., Charles E. and Ida. Mr. Williams is doing a first class merchant and custom business. The building of this mill was begun April 1, 1880, and commenced doing work August 1, of the same year.

WILLIAMS H. A., Jackson township; postoffice, Tyrone, born in this county in 1864 ; son of Lewis and Sophia Williams, and grandson of James and Rachel Williams. Married in 1878, to Clemma Sutton, daughter of Jesse and Jane Sutton. He is the father of one child, Ray M.

WILLIAMS W. D., FranMin township ; teacher; postoffice, Coshocton ; born January 19, 1856, in Putnam county, Ohio; but came to Coshocton county in January, 1879 ; son of David M. and Elizabeth Anne (Roberst) Williams. W. D , not being born to wealth, he of necessity was compelled to work industriously ; his education was therefore neglected until the spring of 1879, when he gave his attention to study, and by September 4, 1880, he began his first term of teaching, in which he has succeeded well.

WILLIAMS C. M., Clark township; farmer and fur dealer ; postoffice, Clark's ; born in Holmes county, Ohio, January 23, 1836; s.on of John M. and Lydia (Courtright) Williams, and grandson of Charles and Susan (Carpenter) Williams and Jacob Courtright. His grandfather is closely connected with the early history of the county, being one of the pioneers. He was married December 1, 1857, to Miss Sarah Miller, daughter of Abram and Nancy (McNeal) Miller, and granddaughter of George and Mary (Good) Miller, and of Archibald and Mary (Airly) McNeal She was born in Clark township, March 22, 1835. Her parents came -to this county at an early day, and settled in Clark township.

WILLIAMS JOHN R., Linton townshiprfarmer ; born March 28, 1802, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania ; son of Richard and Eliza- beth (Bracken) Williams. In 1808 he came with his father to Linton towhship, where his father died November 28, 1830. When a young man,- Mr. Williams worked some at house carpentering and cabinet making, but he has farmed principally. He was married November 27, 1828, tO' Elizabeth Fowler, born February 28, 1808, the daughter of Richard and Jane (Elson) Fowler,, married February 5, 1807, and granddaughter of Archibald and Hannah (Roberts) Elson. They have had eight children, viz : Richard, deceased;. John F., James, Marion; Elizabeth, deceased;. William M., who died at Fortress Monroe, August,. 1864; Sevilla (Weatherwax) and Warren.

WILLIAMS DR. HESLIP, deceased, Linton township. Dr. Williams was born in Guernsey county. May 4, 1815; the son 'of Levi and Hannah (Lemon) Williams. His father was born in Virginia,"and, when only fifteen years old, served' under " Mad Anthony " Wayne, in his Indiaru campaign, and afterward moved to Guernsey county. Mr. Williams, read medicine, at Winchester, in that county, and, in . 1836, began a long and eventful practice in Linton township.. He represented his county in the State legislature, both as representative and senator. He was married, September 6, 1842, to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Jarnes and Catherine (Bartmess) Miskimen, pioneers of Linton township, and grand daughter .of David and Rachel (Free)- Miskimen. Her grandfather David was a native of Ireland. Their children are Sarah H. (Kirk), Levi Dwight, James M., Wilbur G., i^mma C ,. Laura E., Charles E. and George L. John enlisted in Company I, Sixty-ninth 0. V. I., in 1862, and died January 24, 1863, >from a wound received at the battle of Murfreesboro', a few days previous.

WILLIS S. W., Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Stephen and Mary (Severns) Wilhs; was born March 21,1846, in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, Ohio. Mr. Willis was raised on the farm until fifteen years of age. He then enlisted in Company F, Eightieth 0. V. I. He was in the service one year, serving under Generals Thomas, Pope, Rosecrans and Grant. He was engaged in the battles of luka, and Corinth, Mississippi. He was wounded at Corinth, and honorably discharged because of his wounds, December 19, 1862. In 1868 Mr. Willis removed to California and remained nine years, engaged in the book and stationfery business. He served nine years as postmaster in Auburn, California. He came back to Coshocton county in the fall of 1877. Mr. Willis wag married June 6, 1872, to Miss

Martha J. Frederick, of this -county. They are the parents of two children, viz: William K., born April 8, 1873, and Nellie Grace, born June 15, 1880. Mr. Willis is following the occupation of farmer, and owns a fine farm in Bethlehem township.

WILMAN R. A., Tuscarawas township ; pro- ^fision and grocer dealer, Canal Lewisville ; was born in October, 1822, near the District of Columbia; son of John Wilman. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Hall. When an infant he came to Jefferson with his parents and was raised on the farm, and came to this county in January, 1847. He worked in Roscoe and Various other parts of the State at chair painting. In May, 1868, he went to Illinois and engaged in merchandising, and remained until October, 1874, when he returned and located at Warsaw, and established a grocery, which was entirely destroyed by fire, April 4, 1875. He re established himself in the same businesss and continued about a year, when he bought his present comfortable and convenient property, in which he is doing a pleasant retail business Mr. Wilman was married August 9, 1849, to Miss Ellen E. Thomas, daughter of Philip Thomas, of Jackson township. They have eight children, viz: Winfield Scott ; Robert, who is married and now residing in Illinois; Sada A., Josephine, married to Wesley Babs, now residing in Edgar county, Ellnois ; William L., Stephen, John D. and Edward.

WILSON ROBERT W., Oiford township; farmer; postofifice, White Eyes Plains; son of Robert and Margaret Wilson ; was born in Pennsylvania, in 1816; married, in 1844, to Miss Sarah Craig, of this county. Their children were as follows: Jerusha, Isabel, Robert W., Mary E., Arnall ; Charles, deceased. Mr. Wilson has held offices of trust in the township, owns 120 acres of - land, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

WILSON GEORGE B., New Castle township; postoffice. New Castle; was born December 2, 1819, in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county. I His father, John Wilson, was of Irish descent. His mother, Rebecca (Kay) Wilson, was of German descent. He remained with his parents until he reached' his manhood, working on the farm and attending school occasionally. He then worked four years by the month, after which he began farming for himself and has followed farming successfully ever since. On the 1st of December, 1861, he volunteered in the United States service, to serve for three years or during the war, under Captain Metham, Company F, Eightieth O. V. V. L He entered his first engagement at luka, under General Nelson, from there he was ordered to Vicksburg, and then to Chattanooga and Atlanta, and from thence with General Sherman on his famous march to the sea, and from the sea to Columbia, South Carolina, thence to Goldsboro' North Carolina, and from Goldsboro' to Richtnond, and thence to the city of Washington and attended the grand review, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky, thence to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was mustered out of the service in July, 1865. He then came to Columbus, Ohio, and received his discharge on the 25th of August, 1865. During his entire term of soldiering he never was wounded. He filled all the offices from first corporal to first lieutenant. He was married to Miss Maria Butler, September 4, 1844, daughter of James and Elizabeth Butler, and granddaughter of Thomas Butler. They have been blessed with seven children, viz : Charles, Elvira, Sarah, James, Clara, Frank and Polina.

WIMMER M. W., Franklin township ; school teacher ; posteffice, Coshocton: His father, Anthony Wimmer, Sr., was born May 9, 1804, in Alsace, France; son of Thomas and Barbara (Rickets) Wimmer, who were -the parents of eight children, viz: Thomas, George, Michael, Lorenzo, Jacob, Mathias, Anthony, and Loudon. Anthony Wimmer, Jr., was married in November, 1827, to Magdalena Shue. They came to America and landed in New York City September 28, 1830. They became the parents of nine children, viz : Wilhelmine, who died in France; George, deceased; Magdalena, married to Frederick Hornung, now residing in Dresden, Ohio ; Catharine, deceased; Joseph, deceased ; Anthony, married to Margaret Armbrueler, now residing in Kansas; Barbara (deceased), married, to Wendel Hendrick; Lorenzo, married to Magdalena Hiser; and Michael W., married October 25, 1870, to Adaline Gunther. The last named are the parents of four children, viz: Nora May; Amelia, deceased ; * Alice and Frank Longdon. M. W. Wimmer was brought up on the farm, but early devoted himself to education, and at an early age began the profession of teaching, in which capacity he has been very successful. He has also been elected arid served two terms as county auditor, and now holds the office of notary public.

WINSLOW DR. J. W., Monroe township; born September 2, 1838, in Tiverton township, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of John and Elizabeth (Harris) Winslow, grandson of John Harris, and great-grandson of William Winslow. He was brought up.on a farm and attended district schools until he was twenty years old ; he then went to school at the Spring Mountain academy a short time, then taught school in th^ winter season and went to school in summer for three years. He then took up the study of medicine under Dr. W. R. Wing, and read three years ; attended lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1861; then practiced till 1869, when he took another course of lectures at Columbus ; then returned to Spring Mountain and resumed his practice, where he continued, having a fair practice. Dr. Winslow was married to Miss Harriett Moore, daughter of Silas and Mary (McCoy) Moore, October 8, 1863. Their children are : Edward E., born August 24, 1864; Gladys A., born May 15, 1873, and Mattie G., born July 28, 1876.

WOLF JACOB, Oxford township; farmer; postofflce, White Eyes Plains ; was born in Cumberland comity, Pennsylvania, in 1802, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1806. He was mar- , ried to Miss Elizabeth Leighninger of this township; who became the parents of four children, as follows : Margaret, Sarah, Hiram and George. Jacob's wife died in August, 1879. He is a member of the Baptist church, and is an honest and industrious citizen, working as if he was still 'in the prime of life. He is one of liie oldest men in Oxford township.

WOLF FRANK, farmer; Oxford township; P. O. West Lafayette; was born in 1842; son of John and Sarah (House) Wolf, both of this State. Mr. Frank Wolf was married in the year 1867, to Miss Nancy E. Foster, of Keene township. The fruits of this union has been four children: Addie, deceased; Mary, L., deceased ; Eddie, Jesse, deceased. He owns ninety-four acres of land in this township. They are membera of the Protestant Methodist church. He took dS active part in the late war, going out in Company C, Fifty-first O. V. L, in the fall of 1861, and taking part in all the battles in which that regiment was engaged, and was mustered out November 4, 1865.

WOLF ^ HENRY, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; was born in 1819, in this township; was married November 18, 1852, to Miss Elizabeth Fletcher, of this township. They have had the following children : Eliza, born in 1853; Walonia,bornin 1855; Albert, born in 1858; Lutie, born in 1865, and Carrie, born in 1869. Lutie died October 2, 1867. They own about 400 acres of the finest land in this township, or in Coshocton county, and are surrounded by all the comforts of an elegant home. They are members of the Protestant Methodist church, and are esteemed for living up to their professions. He has been a school director for a number of years, believes in education in all its branches, and supports the same in a financial way that is most encouraging to the cause of education. Eliza was married to Mr. Burne and resides in Harrison county, and Malonia was married to Mr. Leland ai^^ resides in Knox county, Ohio. The rest of the children are at home.

postoffice. White Eyes Plains, Ohio ; son of Philip and Margaret (Wagner) Wolf; was born February 27, 1821, in Oxford township, this county. His parents were of German descent, and came from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Wolf was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He has also been an extensive dealer in stock for forty years. He drove cattle over the mountains before there was a railroad in the State. Mr. Wolf was married, April 6, 1848, to Miss Mary Forsythe, of this county. They became the parents of one child, Emma A. Mrs. Wolf died April 7, 1851. He was married, in 1864, to Miss Louisa Loos, of this county. They became the parents of one child, Ella, deceased. Mrs Wolf died in 1869. Mr. Wolf was married, in 1871, to Mrs. Fransanna Culbertson, of this county. Five children were born to them, viz : Violgt; Lilian, an. infant, not named; Jemima and Henry W. Mr. Wolf owns a fine farm, of 440 acres, situated in the Tuscarawas valley. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf are influential members of the Protestant Methodist church, and are esteemed by all their acquaintances.

WOLFE GEORGE L., farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; was born in Oxford township, and was married to Anna Foster, who was born in England. They had three children, Elmer J., Oreha D., and an infant, deceased. Mrs. Anna Wolfe died in 1877, and was buried in White Eyes Plains cemetery. Mr. Wolfe married Olive A. Maxwell, who was born in this county. Mr. Wolf owns a beautiful farm, and has erected a fine residence.

WOLF MILL-TON N., Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; was born in this township, in 1837; son of Phillip Wolf, and was married to Miss Harriet A. Emerson, daughter of Timothy Emerson, in 1861. They have five children, as follows : Norah E., Lulie L., Clariden C, Minnie L. and Ina M. They live on 148 acres in Oxford township. He is a member of the M. E. church. He served four months in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second 0. V. L, and is a good citizen.

WOLF HIRAM, Oxford township; farmer;* Evansburgh, postoffice ; son of Jacob Wolf ; was born in 1829 ; married in 1853, to Miss Hannah House, their children being - Clara Ellen, born in 1855 ; James Irwin, born in 1860; Mary Nettie, born in 1866, and Jennie Alta, deceased, aged five and a half years, born in 1872. Mr. Hiram Wolf has held offices of trust in the township, and he. and his wife are members of the Baptist church. He lives on his farm of ninety-three acres, and is possessed of other real estate in this township.

postoffice,Evansburgh; son of Jacob and MaryE. (Leighninger) Wolf; was born July 3, 1836, in this county. His parents .were of German descent, and came from Pennsylvania. Mr. Wolf raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married April 14, 1861, to Miss Annie Poster, of this county. They became the parents of three children, viz : An infant, not named; Elmer J. and Orelia. Mrs. Wolf died October 26, 1077. He was married February 20, 1879, to Miss OUa Maxwell, of this county. Mr. Wolf owns a fine farm of 137 acres, situated in the Tuscarawas valley.

WOLF JOHN, Oxford township; farmer; postofJice, Evansburgh, Ohio ; son of Philip and Margaret (Wagner) Wolfe ; was born August 29, 1813, in Oxford township, and is the oldest living resident of the township. Mr. Wolf was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupa,tion. He was married June 2, 1836, to Miss Sarah House, of Knox county, Ohio, who was born November 15, 1817. They became the parents of ten children, viz : Samuel H., born May 20, 1837; Margaret. A., born October 30, 1888, and died February 5, 1841; Mary, born October 14, 1840; Francis H., born October 11, 1842; David, born October 28, 1844, and died in the .army November 12, 1864; Henry, born February 26, 1847, and died June 6, 1847; Ehzabeth, born October 12, 1849; John W., born February 6, 1851, and died December 14, 1868; Richard W., born March 13, 1853, and Rebecca J., born February 6, 1856.

Mr. Wolf's second marriage took place October 29, 1857, to Miss Lavenia Howard, of Knox county, Ohio. They became the parents of eight children, viz : Joseph C, born July 30, 1858 ; Arminda, born March 8, 1861, died March 31, 1862 ; Almeda, born July 6, 1862; Luella J., born October 7, 1864; Jason G., born February 13, 1866; Addie, born November 8, 1868, died March 3, 1869 ; Nettie, born June 22, 1870. , His second wife died September 30, 1870. He was married the third time, August -24, 1871, to Miss Lavina Page, of Stark county, Ohio. Mr. Wolf's pareiits came from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and are of German descent. In 1837 Mr. Wolf moved to Knox county, Ohio, and remained ten years. He then returned to this county and has since remained. Wr. Wolf has dealt extensively in stock for twenty years. He owns a splehdid farm of 305 acres, situated in the Tuscarawas valley, near the town of Orange. Two of his sons, David and Frank, were in the army. David was wounded in the battle of Chicamauga, and died from the wound. They were members of Company C, Fifty-first regiment, O. V. I. Frank served three years.

WOLFE L. B., dealear in white, bronze monuments, statuary, etc., 139 Second street, Coshocton, Ohio; born June 2, 1834, in Evansburgh, Oxford township; son of Philip and Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Jacob Meek, of Tuscarawas county. He spent his early life at the tanning, sadlery and harness business. In December, 1866, he enlisted in Company K, Captain G. ,H. Stewart, Fourth U. S. C, Colonel, later GeneVal E. V. Sumner. He reported for duty in the spring of 1857, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and assisted in the survey of the southern boundary of Kansas, which required exactly six months. This was the first to succeed, after two previous attempts had failed, from the hostilities of the Indians and scarcity of water in the American desert.

The subsequent fall and winter, the command was engaged to keep the peace and guard the elections in Kansas. March 18, 1858, he started for Utah under command of Col. Huflfman, to escort supplies for Col. Johnston, at Fort Bridger. At Laport creek, sixty miles west of Fort Laraamie, on the morning of April 1, the snow was three feet deep, all having fallen the previous night. One quart of corn for each horse was all the grain they had ; and for ton days the only feed the horses got was the bark from Cottonwood poles which were cut and carried to the horses. Only one horse died ; the others kept in good condition. Going through the South Pass, they arrived at Fort Bridger July 4, in a severe snow storm. They returned under command of Capt. . Dessashore, through Bridger's Pass, via Fort Laramie, to Fort Leavenworth, having been absent eight months and traveled 2,200 miles. Remaining about two weeks, they started for Fort Riley under Major, afterward General, Sedgwick.

In 1859 the command was ordered to the Santa Fe crossing of the Arkansas, to guard the Santa Fe travel from Kansas City to Santa Fe, from the Kiawa and Comanche Indians. Returned in the fall to Fort Riley for winter quarters. After remaining about two weeks, were ordered back to the Pawnee fork of the Arkansas to establish a post, guard mail stations and mail trains from that point to Santa Fe. At this place the command remained about one month, and built a sod corral and winter quarters. Leaving a detachment of thirty men, they returned to Fort Riley, On this march they were caught in a " northwester," which froze their horses so badly that they could not stand, and had to be shot. One man's lower limbs were frozen so that they had to be amputated.

In the spring of 1860, he was ordered, under Major Sedgwick, to scour the plains for Comanche find Kiawa Indians. In the fall, their command was ordered to " Big Timber " of the Arkansas, where they built Fort Lyons, where they remained during the winter and next summer. In the fall, he was discharged, having served five years and witnessed many thrilling incidents, among which was the fata;l shooting of Pawnee, a war chief, while attempting to escape, after having been captured. Returning home, he resumed his trade, learned when a youth. In the summer of 1863, he was unanimously elected captain of Company E, Sixty-ninth Battery, and was ordered out in the 100-days' service, and served four months. At the close of the war, he again resumed his trade, and continued until the spring of 1880, when he assumed his present business, in which he has succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations. His first job was put in the Waggoner cemetery, in Oxford township, over the remains of Mrs. Switzer and family. Captain Wolfe was married, September, 1862, to Miss Sarah J., daughter of Adam and Rebecca (Wiggins) Loos, of Oxford township. They have had five children, viz : Adam Cooper, deceased; Lanna Jane, Iv4n Milton, Esther Ella and Chat Lambert.

WOLF WILLIAM, Coshocton; county auditor ; was born May 11, 1833, in Keene township, this county. Mr. Wolf was engaged in farming until 1871, when he went into the tanning business in Monroe township, this county, and continued the business until he was elected to the office of auditor of Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1875, and re-elected to the same office in 1877. Mr. Wolf was married February 19, 1861, to Miss Malinda Manning, of Tuscarawas township. This union was blessed with three children, viz : Orlando D., Eugene and Ida May. Mr. Wolf's faither, George Wolf, was of French or German extraction. His mother's maiden name was Hannah McGuire.

WOLFE SAMUEL; farmer; postoffice, Mt. Vernon. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1810; came to Ohio in 1829, and was married in 1830, to Sidney Ooker, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1810. They had three daughters, namely : Mary Ann, born in 1832, and was married to Charles Matheny, and resides in Coshocton county ; Susannah, born in 1838, and was married to John Matheny, and are residents of Coshocton county ; Permilla, born in 1844. Mr. Wolfe emigrated to Coshocton county in 1831, and lived there fortyfour years. In 1873 he moved to Pike township, Knox county. He owns an improved farm, m good cultivation, with good buildings, and is a farmer after the Pennsylvania style, and is an honest, industrious man.

WOLFE GEORGE, Keene township; was born April 3, 1802, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania; son of Philip and Margaret (Wagoner) Wolf, natives of Pennsylvania, and grandson of John Wolfe. He came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Oxford township, Coshocton county. Mr.

Wolfe is a tanner by trade and for fifty years has worked at his trade in connection with farming. He married Miss Hannah McGuire February,. 1826, who was born in 1804; daughter of Francis and Mary (Miller) McGinn. The names of the children are as follows : Francis, Margret, William, Mary A., George W.j Thomas and Joseph. After the death of his first wife Mr. Wolfe married to Mrs. Alice Salyard Thomas, born September 9, 1829, daughter of William and Juha (Moffatt) Salyard ; granddaughter of John and Mary (Ayers) Salyard, and great-granddaughter of Equilla and Nancy (Sleeper) Mpffatt. Equilla was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Mrs. Thomas gave birth to four children : Nancy, William , John and Mary; Mrs. Wolfe to four: Jacob, Judge, Julia and Alpha.

WOLFE JOSEPH B., Franklin township ; farmer; born in Keene township, October 20, 1845; son of George and Hannah Wolfe. His father was a tanner by trade, and carried on a tannery in connection with farming He moved to Franklin township, March, 1871; married, October 31, 1872, to Cynthia P. Shannon, daughter of John Shannon, of Mill Creek township. They have one child, Clara Belle.

WOLFE THOMAS, Franklin township; born April 25, 1841, in Keene township ; son of George and Hannah Wolfe; remained there till 1865, when he came to Franklin township, and has lived there ever since, engaged in farming. He was married, December 31, 1862, to Mis AnnieJ daughter of Isaac White of Clark township. By this marriage, he has five children, viz : Power, Charles P., Zenona, Lulu and W. Clyde.

WOLFE FRANCIS, Franklin township; farmer ; eldest son of George and Hannah Wolfe ; born December 19, 1826, in Oxford township. His father was a son of Phillip and Margaret (Wagner) Wolfe, who came from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to Oxford township in 1808. His mother was the daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Miller) McGuire, who emigrated from Romney, Virginia, to the Tuscarawas valley, near Newcomer's town, about 1804, and in 1807 came to Lafayette township. Mr. Wolfe moved to Keene township when four years old, and remained there till he came to Franklin township in 1850. He was married February 28, 1854,' to Camilla Stuart, daughter of Matthew and Eda (GifTen) Stuart. Her maternal grandfather, Robert Griften, was among the earliest settlers of New Castle township. Her father was a contractor in Coshocton. Their children are five in number, viz: Charles, Robert S., Edith, Perry C, and Howard A.

-ette township; son of David and Eliza (Gilbert) Wolfe. His fatlier was from Carlisle- county, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the One' Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G. After his return he farmed a while, and in 1871 begun business with James F. Williams in a planing mill. In 1878 a grist mill was added, and March 1880, he purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted the business alone. His -custom is large and increasing, covering a radius -of many miles. He was married in 1863 to Miss daughter of William and Elizabeth Fowler. Their children are Eva May, William F., Malvern E., and Laura, deceased.

WOODWARD S. P.,^:,inton township; born in Tuscarawas county, July 5, 1844; son of J. M. and Tamar (Dicken) Woodward, grandson of Presley .and Jane (McFee) Woodward, and of Stephen Dicken. His grandfather, Presley Woodward, -came from near Fredericktown, Virginia, to Jefferson county about 1818, here his father was born. His grandfather Stephens, came to Tuscarawas county from near Cumberland, Pennsylvania. His mother died when he was two years old. In 1855 his father, previously a carpenter, en tered the Protestant Methodist ministry, and his place of residence was frequently changed. His family-lived in Monroe county, in Illinois, in Iowa, in Tuscarawas, Monroe, Belmont, Guernsey and Coshocton counties successively. Here the subject of this sketch left his father's family. He' had begun teaching school in Guernsey county in 1861, :and continued it in Coshocton till the spring of 1866, when he became salesman in David Brelsiord's store in Plainfield. In November, 1871, he Taegan business for himself in Plainfield, but in January, 1874, sold out his stock of goods and has been teaching since. He was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., .serving four months. From 1872 to 1879 he filled the office of township clerk, and in April, 1879, was elected Justice of the peace. Married June 3, 1866, to Miss Belle, daughter of David Brelsford, .and they have three children, viz : J. D., C. B. and Verne L.

WORKMAN WILLIAM, Keene township; farmer; postoffi[Ce,Roseoe, Ohio; son of General Jesse H. Workman; was born January 14, 1833, in Bethlehem township, this county. . His father was of German descent, and came from Maryland in 1800, and settled on the banks of the Walhonding, above Roscoe. He went from there to Co- .shocton and engaged in the tanning business, which he followed for thirty years. He then moved to his farm near Coshocton, where he spent the remainder of his days. He died in August, 1876, aged seventy-three years. He was commander of the musters of the military companies at Coshocton, and thereby received the title of brigadier general.

William and Barbara MaVkly, the grandfather and grandmother of William Workman, came from Frederick county, Maryland. William Makly died November 25, 1835, aged fifty-five years. Barbara Markly died March 16, 1877, aged ninetyeight years. Adam Markly, the gteat-grandfather of Wilham Workman, came from Frederick county, Maryland, in April, 1808, and settled in Bethlehem township, this county. He brought with him eight sons and four daughters, viz: Martin, William, John, Frederick, Amos, David, Abraham, Benjamin, Hester, Catharine, Elizabeth and Anna.

William Workman was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. In April, 1877, he went . to California on account of his health, intending to make it his permanent home, but, being dissatisfied with the State, he returned in September of the same year, and has since remained, engaged in farming.

WORKMAN JESSE H., Tuscarawas township ; postofflce, Coshocton; farmer; born June 12, 1859, in Coshocton ; son of Jesse H., a native of Maryland, and grandson of Isaac Workman, whose father was a native of Holland. His mother's maiden name was Eliza Helabrant. She died in 1866 and his father in 1876 ; they are buried in the Coshocton cemetery. Jesse Workman is at present proprietor of a 375 acre farm, one and a half miles north of Coshocton, in the Tuscarawas valley.

WORKMAN H. B., Tiverton townshij); farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1838, in this county. His father, James Workman, was born in 1812, in Belmont county, Ohio, and came to this county in 1824. He was married in 1833, to Miss Hannah Walker of this county, who was born in 1816. He died in 1878, she died in 1858. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch being the second. He was married in 1860, to Miss Isabella Parmenter, of this county, who was born in 1841, near Hornesdale, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of eight children, viz : Albert, Calona B., Ida J., Alexander, Mary E., Irvin, Nettie and Pery W.

WORKMAN STEPHEN, Tiverton township; farmer ; postoffice, Gann, Knox county ; born in 1824, in this township. His father, Abraham, was born in 1779, in Maryland. He was married in Virginia, in 1800, to Miss Gracie Conner, who was born in 1782. They came to this county in 1820. He died in 1860, and she died in the same year. They were the parents of twelve children, the subject of this sketch being the eleventh. He was married in 1847, to Miss Mary Johnston, of this county, who was born in 1830, in Richland county. She died in 1877. They were the parents of sixteen children, twelve of whom are living.

WEIGHT JOHN W., M. D., Coshocton ; bom July 17, 1842, in Harrison county, Ohio; son of Benjamin Wright, who Avas American born of English ancestry. His mother's maiden name was Lucinda Eager, daughter of Conrod Eager, founder of Eagirsville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. Young Wright spent his childhood and early youth on the farm. At the age of fifteen he com menced teaching school, and taught seven consecutive years, during which time he read medicine with Dr. William Vanhorn. In the winter of 1864-5 he attended a course of lectures at Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery. In the summer he attended a course at Starling' medical college, in 1867 a course at Well's Eye and Ear hospital in Philadelphia, .Pennsylvania, and in June, 1873, was graduated at the first named college with the title of M. D. Dr. Wright first entered upon the practice of his profession at Port Washington, Ohio, and remained two years ; then for the same period at Eagersville. In the spring of 1869 he came to this city, and opened an office in his present residence. Main street. January 14, 1880, he established his office in Columbus, Ohio, considering that point as oflFering superior inducements for the practice of his specialty, the treatment of the diseases of the eye and ear. Dr. Wright was married August 9, 1864, to Miss Belle Hesket, daughter of John Hesket, Esq., sheriff of this county, This union was blessed with six children, all living, viz: Frances Neva, Nellie Corena, John Hesket, Halstedy Columbus Chnton, and Mary Lucinda. Dr. Wright has successfully performed several difficult surgical operations in this county, among which is the operation for cataract, which he has removed, thereby giving sight where there was total blindness.

WEIGHT HENEY, Virginia township; born October 24, 1817, in this county ; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (McCoy) Wright. He was raised a farmer and educated in the district schools. At the age of twenty-one he commenced business in hfe for himself. He married Emily Croy, August 22, 1841. They had six children, viz: Emanuel, Lucinda, B. F., Catharine, William O., Isadora A. Two are living in this township, one in Washington township, and three in Jackson.

WEIGHT LOYD, Virginia township; born in Coshocton county, Ohio; son of Joseph and Ehzabeth Wright; married in 1839, to Eachel Houser, who died July 5, 1878. Their union was blessed with eight children, viz: Henry, Mary, Margaret J., William, Malissa, John, Laura, and Elizabeth. Postoffice, New Moscow.

April 19, 1885, to Miss Mary Wright, who died in 1862. Mr. Wright has nine children living and seven dead. Postoffice, Willow Brook, Coshocton county.

WEIGHT LEWIS, Perry township ; postoffice,. West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county, in 1839; son of William and Martha (Clark) Wright, and grandson of Edward and Elizabeth Wright; married, December 16, I860,, to Miss Martha E. Cochran, daughter of Montraville and Elizabeth (Ashcraft) Cochran. They are the parents of five children, viz: Malissa^ Sylva J., Dora A., deceased; Joseph A. and Wheeler 0. . «

WEIGHT NATHAN, Jefferson townships born February 19, 1798, in Bedford townshjp ;. son of Nathan", Sr., and Hannah (Warly) Wright, and grandson of Acre and Elizabeth Warley, American born. He came to Coshocton county, in 1814. He was a blacksmith and sicklemaker. Mr. "Wright was married, August 22, 1822, to Elizabeth Eipley, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Sheets) Eipley. Their children were Atha» liah, Darius, Acre, Ethan, Ellen, Hannah, Lucas, Mary, William Cass and Almeda, all living.

WEIGHT DAEIUS, postoffice, Warsaw; was born in Bedford township, Coshocton county, January 17, 1825. He worked with his father in the shop, and on the farm, until the age of twenty-two, when he began business for himself, in his father's shop, where he remained two yeairS, then went to Washington township crossroads, and opened shop, and carried on business the_re about twenty-two years ; then came to Warsaw, and has been engaged in smithing in this village since that time. He has a'fair amount of trade, and a splendid shop. Mr. Wright was married to Miss Elizabeth Grove, daughter of David Grove. They are the parents of eight children : Nathan, Mary E., Lurintha, Sarah, William, Hampton, Franklin D. and Darius E.

WEIGHT B. F., Jackson township ; born in Virginia township, Coshocton county; son of Henry and Emily Wright; married in 1871 to Martha McCoy, daughter of William and Catharine McCoy. Mr. Wright is the father of five children, viz : Edward, 'Earl L., Mertie L, Aritta, Harry G. Postoffice, Eoscoe.

ZIMMEE VALENTINE, Franklin township; farmer ; born December 9, 1834, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. His father was a locksmith, and was born October 1, 1797 ; emigrated from Alsace, France, landing at Baltimore, June 9, 1830, and after farming awhile in Muskingum county, worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, eight years in a cannon manufactory. Mr. Zimmer was married in 1865, to Elizabeth Grass, born July 10, 1837;^ daughter of David and Elizabeth Grass. Their children are - William, born March 5, 1858; David, March 18, 1860; John, July 10, 1864; Rosa Caroline, March 1, 1869 ; George Henry, May 8, 1871, and Ann Eliza, January 14, 1874.

ZIMMERMAN JACOB, Adams township; farmer; postoffioe, Bakersville; born in Switzerland, near Berne, January 28, 1838 ; son of Christian and Anna (Margh) Zimmerman. He came to this country October 28, 1854, when he was but sixteen years of age. He came to Tuscarawas county and remained there eighteen years, then moved to Adams township, this county and has been a resident of this place since. Mr. Z. was married November 30, 1859, to Sarah Young, daijghter of Abraham and Anna (Harger) Young, and granddaughter of Christian Young, born August 16, 1840, in Tuscarawas county. They are the parents of nine children, as follows :

ZUGSCHWERT CHRISTIAN; saloon and grocery, 140 Secpnd street; born August 31,1822, in Wurtemberg, Germany. His father's name was Adam Zugschwert. At fourteen years of age he went to the shoemaking trade, which he followed twenty-seven years. He came to America in 1849, worked a few months in New York and Buffalo, and came to this city in the Same year. In 1864 he began his present business, in which he is doing moderately well. Mr. Zugschwert was married February 1, 1856, to Miss Lena G/isbaoh, of Franklin township. They are blessed with five children, viz : Lizzie, Annie, Adam, Wilham and Martha.

Addenda

AGNEW JOAB M., miller in Empire mills, Eoscoe, Ohio. Mr. Agnew was born June 21, 1816, in Princeton, New Jersey, of Irish ancestry. He was brought up in a hotel, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, when he came to Roscoe. In 1842 he commenced milling, which occupation he has followed to the present writing; Mr. Agnew has assisted to Duild two large flouring mills, one of which was burned, and has been miller in the finest mill in the county for twenty-five years. Mr. Agnew has in his possession an ivory cane weighing one and a half pounds, which was presented to his grandfather, Joab Mershon, by Richard Stogdon, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; also a seven-bladed razor, with shifting handle, making a razor for every day of the week. These razors are from 150 to 200 years old, having been an heirloom for six generations. He also has a seven-dollar continental bill, which his grandfather received as pay for services in the revolutionary war.

BERRY WILLIAM, Perry township; New Guilford postoffice; born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 1, 1820; son of John and Elizabeth (Yost) Berry, and grandson of John Berry, and of Peter Yost. Mr. Berry's father settled ysi this county in 1828, and died in 1857. Mr. Berry has been twice married ; first, to Miss Gernuma Lee, with whom he had eight children. Mrs. Berry was killed by a horse running away with her. Mr. Berry married Miss Jane Dillon, in 1874, daughter of John and Keziah Dillon. Mr. Berry has been twice elected to the office of county commissioner, and is now serving his second term.

BURNS SAMUEL, the progenitor of the present Burns family; was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1770. Of his parents, nothing is known more than they were of Scotch- Irish origin, and come to this country at an early date, and he made his home with them until his seventeenth year. He had three brothers, James, John and William, all of whom served in the war of the revolution. William died in the service, of camp-fever. John was taken prisoner at Quebec, and he and two others made theif escape by approaching one of the sentinels, on the walls, to whom they offered an empty bottle to take a drink. As he tipped the bottle up John Burns struck him under the chin, and knocked him off the walls. They then made their escape across the frozen river, enduring terrible sufferings from hunger and exposure, before reaching the American army.

Samuel Burns, when fourteen years of age, came to Wheeling Creek, West Virginia, and from thence to Pittsburgh, where he took passage on a boat to New Orleans. He related that on his passage down the river there. were but two river settlements on the Ohio, one at Marietta and one at a place called Limestone. Arriving at New Orleans, he took passage on an ocean ship and sailed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arriving there he went to Pine Grove Iron Furnace, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he remained until married in the year 1792 to Mrs. Jane Lambertson, and moved to Millerstown, Shenandoah county Virginia. He then worked for four years learning the hatter's trade. He then moved to Waynesburg, Augusta county, Virginia, where he lived for a period of seventeen years. He then came to New Philadelphia, Ohio, in the fall of 1815, where he remained until April, IS^C, when he came to Coshocton, coming down the Tuscarawas river in^ a canoe with his family, where he followed his trade until old age rendered him unable to endure the hardships of that trade. He also served as Justice of the Peace for many years, and was familiarly known as " Squire Burns." He died September 21, 1852.

Jane Burns, his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Leggett, was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the year 1767; was first married to Richard Lambertson, grandfather of Samuel

Lambertson, of this city. He being killed at a raising near Bedford, Pennsylvania, she returned to her father's, where she remained until she was married to Samuel Burns, as before stated. Her father was born, in Ireland and sold for his passage to this country. Her mother was born near Little York, Pennsylvania, and was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, her maiden name being Sarah Yost. Jane Burns died Novembe'r 29, 1845, being 78 years old. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom died at an early age. The eldest of the family was Mary Burns Crowley, born February 5, 1796. She married John Crawley, Sr., of this place, and was the mother of four children, one of whom is one of our prominent grocerymen, John Burns Crawley. She died February 24, 1834.

Joseph Burns, Sr., was born March 11, 1800, in Waynesburgh, Augusta county, Virginia. He was sixteen years of age when he came to this county. He, and the rest of the family, with the exception of his mother and youngest sister, walked the whole distance from Waynesboro' to New Philadelphia. He early showed a dislike for his father's trade, and, when eighteen years of age, wrote for General Adam Johnson, then clerk and auditor of this county. In 1821 he was elected county auditor, which ofEice he held until 1838, when he resigned, having been elected a member of the State Legislature, serving in that capacity from 1838-40. In 1843 he was elected county clerk, which office he filled a term of eight years. In 1857 he was elected congressman from this district, where he served his country for two years. He then engaged in the drug business in the town of Roscoe, where he remained in business until elected probate judge in the year 1869. He remained in said of- ' fice until his death, which occurred , May 9, 1875. When the old State militia was in order he was a prominent officer, having been elected to the rank of a major general, and was known by all as General Burns. At the close of the war he was made a pension agent, and was, perhaps, the most successful person holding that office here. Never exacting as to fees, and always free with his purse among his friends and fellow-citizens, he left at the end of his days only a moderate portion. Many men, with more greed, or less honest or frugal, would have amiassed fortunes with his opportunies. He was twice married, his first wife was Rebecca Lewis, and his second wife was Mrs. Alexander Hay. His oldest son, William, was educated at West Point, and was, during the late war, a brigadier general. He had, in all, six sons and two daughters, five of those and his widow survive him.

with his father's family. In the fall of 1816, December 4, he commenced carrying the United States mail to Zanesville, Freeport, Harrison county, and Mt. Vernon, for his father. On the road to Freeport (at the head of White Eyes plains), there was but one house to the distance of twenty-one miles. On the ridge road to Mt. Vernon, after leaving lower Roscoe, there was a distance of fifteen miles without one house. He served at this for about one year. When his brother Joseph left, he took his place in the hatter shop, and followed the trade until 1842, when, owing to large importations of hats on the canal, brought from eastern cities, and sold at lower prices than they could be made here, he quit the trade and engaged in farming. He followed this occupation until the year 1866. Being desirous of living an easier life, he quit farming, and has since been living a retired life in this city. He was married twice. His first wife was Mary McGuir.e,.-whdi died in 1844, two years after marriage. He was again married December 17, 1 856, to Eleanor M. Ferguson, of Roscoe, daughter of Mathew Ferguson, of that place. He had, in all, two children, one of which died. William Burns, Jr., his only son, is now engaged in the business of a watchmaker and jeweler. Was born June 29, 1859, in Coshocton, Ohio. William Burns, Sr., is now in his seventy-eighth year, and enjoying good health. He is regarded as one of the most prominent pioneers of the county.

Sarah Burns, fifth child of Samuel and Jane Burns, was born September 28, 1804. She was never married, making her home with her brother, William Burns, and at time of death, and some time prior, with her younger sister, Mrs. James Hay. She died in the year 1867, July 27, of cancer of the breast, of which disease she suffered many years.

John Burns was born in Waynesboro',Virginia, September 18, 1805. He came to this county with his father's family, and worked at the hatter's trade until twenty-four years of age, he went to Chillicothe with his brother-in-law, John Siiieltzer, where he remained one year, he then came to Roscoe, and clerked with Smeltzer and his successors, (Medberry & Ransom) until 1838, when he was made a partner, under the name of Medberry, Burns & Co. In 1840 he retired from the firm and entered into partnership with Samuel Moflatt, for the sale of dry goods. In 1845, MofFatt retired and the firm was changed to Burns & Le Retilley, and remained so until 1860, when he bought Le Retilley out and continued to do business in his own name until his death. He was married in 1837, to Rachel Retilley, by whom he had four children, one son and three daughters, the eldest daughter being the wife of one of our prominent attorneys, J. M. Compton. Allhischildrenandhis widow still sur- viyehim. He died July SO, 1871. His good sense and his integrity were marked qualities. Thoroughly interested in public affairs, and always a zealous partizan, and ready to help his friends to public office, he never had any desire in that direction for himself, and, it is believed, never held any official position. He was a pains-taking and successful business man.

Nancy Burns (Smeltzer) was born August 20, 1807, in Waynesboro', Virginia. In 1826 she was married to John Smeltzer, afterward of Troy, Ohio. Her husband was elected a member of the legislature of 1827-8, afterward engaging in the firm of Medberry & Ransom. She removed to Koscoe and lived there a few years. She then moved to Troy, Ohio, where her husband died. She then moved to Lima, Ohio, where she. now resides. She was the mother of four children, only one, a daughter, now living, and with whom she makes her home.

Jane Burns (Hay) was born in Waynesboro', Virginia, August 25, 1811. She was married to James Hay in 1834, and is the mother of six children, two of whom are now living, her daughter Sarah being married to the late James Wilson, a prominent business man. She has been lately bereaved of her husband, who died September 24, 1881. A noteworthy fact of the Burns family is, they all reached a ripe old age, and are all highly respected for their integrity and good sense.

Democratic Standard

The Democratic Standard, Coshocton, Ohio, was established October 1, 1881, by H. D. Beach, editor and proprietor. It is an eight-column folio in size and Democratic in politics. It pays particular attention to gathering the local news of the county and is in a prosperous condition.

The following is a list of soldiers who entered the Union army during the war of the rebellion from Coshocton county, and who lost <their lives in battle or died from wounds received or disease contracted while in the service, and is as near correct as can at this time be made :

One Hundred And Forty-Third O. N. G.

William A. Ricketta, Hiram Compton, Stephen Compton, Alexander Lockard, Oscar Bunn, Perry Riper, Thomas Brown, Allen Brown, Reuben A. Mack, Lanceon Kimble, James Raney, Thomas Raney, Hamilton Raney, Christopher Cott, J. W. Jobe, and William Griffee.

White Bronze

Captain L. B. Wolfe, general agent for the " Monumental Bronze Compan}- " of Bridgeport, Connecticut, at Coshocton, furnishes the following regarding an article now attracting very general attention :

A little over seven years ago the first experiments were made in this country in producing cemetery work from refined New Jersey zinc, and given the trade name of " White Bronze," it being a light colored, non-corrosive metal, possessing far greater enduring qualities for this purpose than any of the different kinds of stone now used. The beginning of this enterprise was on a small scale. Soon the fact was developed than the white bronze for monumental and cemetery purposes. Professor Ogdon Doremus, of New York City, asks : " Why was this not thought of years ago?" The accompanying cuts exhibit some of the designs, and the following is a brief history of its rise and progress: The Monumental Bronze Company is located at Bridgeport, Connecticut.

that a good idea was embodied in the undertaking, and a company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was not slow in accepting an offer to develop the matter, and became the sole manufacturers. Step by step the work went on, until a point was reached where a large increase of capital was necessary, in order to meet the growing demand for the work. In the winter of

1879-80, the Monumental Bronze Company was organized, with a capital of 1300,000, and so rapid has been its growth in popular favor, that the company was compelled to establish a new manufactory in the winter of 1880-81 in Detroit, Michigan, making a combined capital now invested in their business of $500,000.

Up to January 1, 1881, there were standing in the different cemeteries of the land over 8000 of these monuments, they having sold in 1880 over 1000 jobs. From January 1, to July 1, 1881, there were over 2000 jobs sold, and both manufactories crowded to their utmost to fill orders. The company now has under contemplation the establishing of a third manufactory. So closely is the artistic combined with the mechanical, that, from a small photograph of the living or dead, they can put the portrait on their work, showing every lineament of the features just as plainly as the picture represents them.. They also manufacture, in connection with their beautiful monuments, statuary, medallion portraits, portrait busts, etc. All scientific works endorse its durability, and we will quote from the standard authority of the scientific world, i. e. Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry : " When zinc is exposed to the air or placed in water, its surface becomes covered with a gray film of oxide, which does not increase. This film will resist the chemical effects of the atmosphere at all times."

The American Machinist asserts that zinc is four per cent harder than granite - zinc being twentysix and granite twenty-two. Why to stone ? It never rusts or cracks by the action of the atmosphere, and will not grow moss upon its surface. Quite the contrary is the case with marble and granite, both of which will moss, crack, chip, and granite will rust. Granite is formed of alumina, feldspar, hornblende, iron, mica, potash and silica. Our climate dissolves the feldspar and potash, and the iron rusts.

Marble is the crystalized carbonate of lime, and corbonic acid in the air is a solvent, hence it gets dingy and rough after a few years exposure to the action of the elements. Both, being porous, absorb moisture and are great feeders of moss and cryptogam ous plants. Hence it is that the white bronze is one of the important discoveries of the day. The Detroit manufactory now has , completed a medallion portrait of our late President Garfield, which is pronounced perfect by his friends. The company is also designing a statue of him, heroic size, in white bronze.

BARGAR CAPT. G. H., of the firm of Bargar & Forbes, Attorneys at Law, Coshocton, 0., son of Dr. Valentine and Ahce (Lee) Bargar. Oapt. Bargar read law with his uncle, B. S. Lee, graduated at Columbus Law School in 1861 ; served as Captain of Company G, 122d 0. V. I., from the fall of 1861 to Dec, 1864; elected Clerk of Court of Common Pleas of Coshocton county, and served six years. Married in 1863 to Miss Sophia J., daughter of Wm. and Maria Lakin. Family of six children, viz : Minnie Alice, Byron, Gilbert, William, Fannie and Fred. Elected as representative to Legislature from Coshocton county in the fall of 1881.

JUDD LLOYD T, dealer in pianos and organs, 158 Second street, Coshocton. He was born August , 27, 1849, in Fairfield county, Connecticut. He is a son of William and Elizabeth F. (Seeley) Judd. His ancestors came to America in the " Mayflower," and settled in Connecticut, where they became numerous and influential. Both his great-grandfathers served in the war of the revolution, and his grandfather Judd in the war of 18] 2. In 1868, Wm.. Judd, with his family - excepting Elizabeth, who had married David Runyan, and who lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. - came to Miami county, Ohio, where they remained tiU 1874, when they came to Coshocton. His family consists of the following children, viz : Harriet (deceased), John S, who was mortally wounded at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, and died at Army Square Hospital, D.' C, May 30; Wm. Arthur (deceased) ; EUzabeth V., Lloyd T., Alice, Edward, Ida, Stella and Ora.

SNYDER S. P., M. D., Crawford township, was born May 5, 1852, in German township, Holmes county, Ohio, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Sower) Snyder. Young Snyder began teaching common schools, October 21, 1872, and ended March 16, 1878, teaching in all seven terms. He began reading medicine in April, 1876, with Dr. P. J. Lenhart, of Chili, and remained under his instruction six months, then taught one term of school. In the spring of 1877 he resumed his medical studies with Dr. J. Guittard, of New Bedford, and completed under his instructions. September 26, 1878, he entered the medical department of Wooster University at Cleveland, and was graduated with the first honors in a class of forty, March 4, 1880. In the fall of the same year the Doctor began practice in New Bedford, and has been eminently successfal. Dr. Snyder was married May 13, 1877, to Miss Amanda, daughter of John and Melinda Luke. They afe the parents of one child, viz : Myrtle.

Source changes here: from History of Coshocton County, Ohio;, by Hill, Norman Newell, Jr., [from Old Catalog] Comp, published 1881; 156,591 words in this source stream.

White Eyes Township

TN the commissioners' journal appears the fol- -L lowing record under date of Monday, December 1, 1823: " Petition received and granted by commissioners to set offa new town.ship to include parts of Mill Creek and Oxford townships, and bounded as follows : beginning at the southeast corner of township 7, range 5, thence north two and one-half miles, thence west two and onehalf miles to the center of said township, thence south two and one-half miles to the township line, thence west two and one-half miles to the northwest corner of town.-hip 6, range 5, thence south two and one-half miles, thence east two and onehalf miles 'to the center of township 6, thence south two and one-half miles to the township line, thence east two and one-half miles to the southeast corner of township 6, range 5, thence north two and one-half miles, thence east two and one-half miles to the center of township 6, range 4, thence north two and one-half miles to the township line, thence west two and one-half miles to the place of beginning."

As thus instituted the township consisted of three-fourths of what is now Lafayette township, the northeast, northwest and southeast quarters, the northwest quarter of Oxford township and only the southeast quarter of White Eyes township as it now stands. When the change to its present boundaries was made is not shown by the records, but it must have been prior to 1835, for in that year the last of the townships was organized as they now appear. It is now five miles square, being township 7 of range 5 as originally surveyed. On the north it touches Crawford township, on tlie east Adams, on the South Lafayette and on the west Keene.

The surface is usually hilly. In the southwestern corner, which is within a mile of the Tuscarawas river, is seen a gently undulating plain, extending into Keene and Lafayette townships. Like other similar tracts in was scantily timbered when first settled. White Eyes creek is the principal stream. It enters from the north and flows in a southerly direction. Near the center of its course in this township it receives its two main branches, known as the MidtUe and East Forks. The latter flows almost directly west from Adams township; tlie former in a southwesterly direction from Crawford township. Along the valley of White Eyes creek the view is ofttimes quite picturesque. The valley is often narrow, and the bordering hillsides steep and precipitous. Huge frowning ledges of sandstone project from these or rise again perpendicularly forty feet, sometimes from the water's edge. Numerous fissures where these rocks have been rent asunder attest the operation here of the mighty forces of nature. Sometimes a solitary mass of rocks is seen standing in bold relief at the top of some towering hill.

In the northern part of the township, about a half mile soutli of Chili, is an ancient fortification. It stands on an elevated, level piece of ground ; is oval or oblong in shape, and encloses more than an acre of ground. The embankment has been greatly worn down by repeated plowings, and years ago it was four or five feet high. One end of the '- fort " approaches close to an abrupt bluff and overlooks the White Eyes creek valley from a height of forty or fifty feet. Many trinkets, as stone axes, flints, etc., have been found in this vicinity

The name of the township and that of its main stream was doubtless given in honor of Captain White Eyes, a noted Delaware chieftain, who dwelt in the Tuscarawas valley.

The western half of the township is congress land. It was surveyed into half sections of three hundred and twenty acres each by Ebcnezer Buckingham, in 1803. The eastern half comprises two military sections of four thousand acres each. The northern of these was owned by David Lynn, of Allegheny county, Maryland. He never settled on it, but sold it gradually to incoming settlers. About five hundred acres were sold off the northeastern part very early - two hundred and fifty of this to Martin Baum, of Cincinnati, February 1, 1801, for two hundred and fifty dollars. About 1820 the remainder of the section was surveyed into twenty-eight lots of about one hundred and twenty-five acres each, by James Ravenscraft, he receiving, it is said, one lot in compensation for his services.

The other section, consisting of the southeast quarter of the township, was owned by Jacob Bowman, of Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. In May, 1812, it was surveyed into twenty-five lots of one hundred and sixty acreseach, by Joseph H. Larwill. In 1816, Mr. Bowman sold three of these lots, Nos. 17, 18 and 23, to John Henderson, for twelve hun 'red dollars, but he reserved nearly the entire section until the surrounding country was well settled and the value of the land greatly enhanced. The settlement of this part of the township was consequently much retarded.

It is not known who w^as the first settler of White Eyes township, but among the earliest was Robert Culbertson, who settled on the plains in the southwest quarter of section 25, about 1813 or 181-t. He died in the fall of 1815, and his family rented the place and removed from the vicinity.

It is said that a INIr. Ray, before the war of 1812, settled upon the northeast quarter of section 7, and thus became the first settler in the township, and that he afterward sold the place to- Michael Frock, also an early settler. Why he should have selected this rough piece of lund^ far removed frona any settlement or stream of any size, is unknown. Jerry Hostetler, a Pennsylvanian, about 1817, settled on section 23.

Michael Stonehocker, about 1816, settled upon the southwest quarter of .section 16. He came here from Jefierson county, not far from Smithfield, but was originally from Virginia. After residing here for a time, he removed to Washington county, and remained there four years. He tlien went to Powshiek county, Iowa, where he died in 1865. His brother, Jacob Stonehocker, removed from Jefierson county to Tuscarawas county about 1811, and to this town.ship the year after Michael came. He purchased and settled upon the north-west quarter of section 25, where he reiuahied till his death. John Dicky had entered tliis quarter, but had lived here only about six months when he became sick, and, thinking that he had located too near the river, sold his claim and removed to Mill Creek township, where he died. Matthias Huller settled in this same section about 1820. He was from Pennsylvania, and years afterward removed to the western part of this State.

As previously stated, John Henderson pur- <?hased three lots, or 480 acress, in the Bowman section, in 1816. His brother, George, was interested with him in a portion of this property, and both were occupants. They were from Washington county, Pennsylvania. George died on his farm, at an advanced age, in 18C8.

Tiie Ravenscrafts, James, William and John, came to the township, from Virginia, as early as 1820, and became prominent in this locality. James was the owner of lots 6 and 13 of the Lynn section, and William of lot 4. William had been a revolutionary soldier. The former took a leading part in county aliairs. He was a surveyor by occupation and filled the office of county surveyer for a number of years. He also served as county commissioner and State senator. He died in this townshsp about 1854.

Michael Frock came to the northeast quarter of section 7, in 1818. He was born in Chester Pennsylvania, May 9, 1785, and married to Elizabeth Seldenright in 1807. He was the first justice of the peace in this township. His wife died in 1850 and he survived her fifteen yeaPs, reaching the advanced age of eighty-si,\.

Abner Kimball, in 1818, settled upon a tract of 500 acres, lots 12, 14, 18 and 19, of the Lynn section. He was from New Hampshire, and died in 1870. John McPherson, from Virginia, was a resident of the townshp. from 1821 to 1834. He had been a soldier in Anthony Wayne's army. George MoCitskey, from Donegal county, Ireland, came in 1819, and remained upon the same farm until his death,in 1871. He was eighty -six years of age. His wife died in 1862, in her eightieth year. Henry Cliplever was in the township, perhaps as early as 1815. He settled upon lot 7. of the Lynn section, and died a few years later. Junkin Mulvane and .luhn Tij>ton came about

1816. The former settled upon lot 11, of the Lynn section, and, about 1842, removed to Union county. Tipton was the possessor of the west half of the northwest quarter of section 16. He afterward moved further west. James Sondals was another early settler, occupying the northwest quarter of section 8. He remained in the township only a few years.