White Eyes Township (part 13 of 20)

DAUGHERTY S.VMUEL M., Adams township; farmer; postoftice, Evansburgh; born in Keene township, July 2, 1826; stn of John and Jane (Mitchell) Daugherty, and grandson of James and .lane (Lawson; Daugherty, and Samuel and Nancy (Lyons) Mitchell. His grandparents came from Ireland to America in 1778. His father was born in Ciiambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1788. and moved to Keene township, this county, in 1818, where the subject of this sketch was born. He began the carpenter trade at the age of eighteen, and continued until the age of twenty-three; then moved to his present location, where he worked at the trade and farmed for about six years. He was then bereft of his companion, and compelled to quit housekeeping, but worked at his trade three years; then turned his attention to farming, and is still following that business. He lives on a farm of two hundred acres, pleasantly located in the southern part of the township. He has also a farm of two hundred and seventy-four acres one and one-half miles east of the home farm. He was married November 29, 1849, to Miss Mary Beaver, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Clous) Beaver," of Irish and English descent. Mrs.

Daugherty died February 2;^, 1856. She was the mother of one child, Mary, born February 4, 1856. JNIr. Daugheity was inarried February 3. 18.59, to Jliss Eliza Watson, daughter of Robert and Agnes (M unco) Watson, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Xeely) Wat.soii, and Thomas and Margaret (M<'Knight) ]Munce, and greatgranddaughter of Mary Moultrie. Mrs. Daugherty is of Irish and Scotch j)arentage. She has a son, Robert ^y., born March 25, 18t)l). Mr. Daugherty is a gentleman of high standing, and is at present tilling the office of county commis- sioner.

DAUGHERTY J. L., Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born in Keene township, in this county, in 1829; son of John and Jane (Mitchell) Daugherty; married in 1851, to Nancy Karr. daughter of J. W. and Mariah Karr." Mrs. Daugherty died in 1880. Mr. Daugherty is the father of seven children, viz: Priscilla '.\., William T., Mariah J., Nancy Fl, G. C, Emma "B., Lula M. F'our are married and living in this county. Mr. Daugherty enlisted in the army as captain of Company G, One Hundred and Fortythird Ohio regiment, in 18154 - Army of the Potomac.

DAUGHERTY ROSS, Oxford town.ship; White Eyes Plains postoffice; farmer; was born in this township in 1831 ; son of James D., a native of Wilmington, Delaware, of Irish descent. His mother was a native of this town.ship. Both parents have died. The sultject of this sketch was married to Miss Sarah Wurtsbaugh, of Keene township, daughter of Harrison W. and Lucinda (Spira) Wurtsbaugh. They have had six children, as follows : David Peaft, deceased, aged eleven months; jNIartha Ann, Byron, Mack, John, Jennie May. Mr. Daugherty took part in the war, going out in Company A, Eighty-eighth Ohio V. I., and and served two years and eleven months. He owns sixty-three acres of good land, and is honest and well spoken of by all. They are members of the Baptist Church.

DAUGHERTY ROBERT M., Oxford township; farmer; i)Ostoffice, Plaintield. Mr. Daugherty was born ^lay 19, l.Sgn, in Harrison county, Ohio. He was raised on the farm, and had followed that occupation all his life. In ]s;i9, he went to Tuscarawas county, and remained two years. He then went to Jcflerson coimty, and lived there two years ; then came to Cosliocton county, and has resided here ever since. Mr. Daughert)' was married, .\pril 9, 1K59. to Miss Mary Jones, of this county. They are the parents of seven children: Seth, Charity J., Willis, John, Frank. Marv and Clara B., all of whom are living. One, Charity J., is married. His oldest son,Seth, is engaged in teaching, having taught successfully for five years. Mr. Daugherty has

D.VVIED JOHN, Franklin township; born January 22, 1S14, in Vittoncourt, Favilgueniont Canton" Moselle Department, France; son of John Oavicd. In 1S47, he emigrated to .\nierica, landing at New Orleans, and coming up to Zuncsville, by water. He had been a stonemason, in France, but engaged in farming here, the first two years in Muskingum county; then a year in Fountain county, Indiana; next in Franklin township. Married, in 18&3, to Ann Grand- Girard, born in Voinehaute, France, January 25, 1S25, I5y a former marriage to John N. Daniel, she had 'two children, viz : John N , born January 14, 1. "^54, and Margaret (Burton), born November 30, 1,''51. Mr. Davied's children are Ferdinand, born .\prd 23,1850; Mary (Burton), born Ai)ril 3, 1S5S; .Vnna (Collet), Marcli 31, 1800, John, November 20,1801; Leo, March 14, 1803, and Matilda, March 14. 1800.

DAVIS BENTON, Lafayette township; farmer; Plainfield postoffice; only son of John Davis; was liorn in this township, in 1840; was married to Miss Blanche Beelsford, of Linton township, who became the mother of four children, viz: Beelsford, Stejihen, Blary and Blanche. The sidijoct of this sketch was educated at Vermillion Institute, Ashland county, and is a progressive young farmer.

D.A.VIS JOHN N., Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh ; born in Adams township, Coshocton countv, Ohio, .Vpril 26, 1850; son of James and Kachcl J, (Kimball) Davis, and grandson of John and .\nn Davis and Abner and Nancy (Jefi'ries) Kimball, He remained with his father until twenty-three years of age, when he married and began farming for himself. The date of his marriage is September 15, 1874, to Mi.ss Hannah McFariand, daughter of Ezekiel and Isabella (Corbit) McFarla'nd, and granddaughter of Robert and Ann McFariand, and Robert and Susan (Fuller) Corbit, She was born October 30, 1845, They are the parents of three children: George C, born July 10, 1875; Richard G,, born January 19, 1877, and Isabel J,, born July 15, 1878.

D.'lVIS J. T., O.xford township; physician; Orange, Evansburgh postoffice; son of Thomas Davis; was born in 1845,in this county, and after receiving a good high school education, he took up the study of medicine about the year 1865, under Dr. Bates, of Wheeling, and finished under Dr, Chapman, of Bakersville. and commenced the practice in 1860,in Harrison county. After prosecuting his ]irofession in that county about two years, he met with misfortune, loosing his entire accunudalions by fire, and his next location was at his present place, where, by strict attention to business, he has had a flattering degree of success. He has a good practice, and is surrounded by the comforts of a good home. He was married in 1800, to INIiss R. E. Spurgeon, of Kno.v county, and they have one child, a boy, Charles H., now in his twelfth year. The doctor finds time to handle better road horses than any body in this part of the county, and is a genuine lover of a good horse, of which he has handled a good many.

D.VVIS JAIMES R., Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; born in Hereford.sliire, England, November 4, 1818 ; son of John and .\nn (Baily) Davis. He came to America in .lime, 1,832, on the Sarah, of Petersburg, Virginia, landed in New York, from thence he came to Adams township, Co.shocton county, via Hudson river, Erie canal, Lake Erie and Ohio canal, and has been a resident of this township since. He was married May 5, 1,S41, to Miss Rachel J. Kimbah, daughter of Abner and Nancy (JetiVie.s) Kimball. They are parents of eleven children, viz : Emily A,, liorn December 20, 1842, died October 19, 1807; September 29,1844; Curtis, born October 19, 1840; Charles born .\ugust 17, 1848, died October 17, 1875; John N., born April 20, 1.S50; Abner T., born February 18, lSo2. Ernest J. S., born December 1, 1853; Eleanor M., liorn March 28. 1850: Hereford H. C, born December 12,1858; Horace F, H., born November 8, 1800, and Laura born August 14, 18<i3. John is married and living in Adams township; Abner and Ernest are farming in Kan.sas; Curtis is in Knoxville, Iowa. He formerly lived in Idaho and while there was representative two years. Mr. Davis' father died in September 1833, and his mother died September, 1840.

DAWSON MARCUS, Virginia township; born in East Virginia, in 1808; settled in Coshocton county in 1829; son of ^^'illiam antl Hanna Dawson. Mr. Dawson has been married three times. His first wife was Mary Reed, who bore him four children.' His second wife was the mother of eight children. His third wife was Katlierine Clark. Postoffice, Willow Brook.

DAWSON WILLIAM, Jackson township; born in this county, in 1833; son of Marcus and Mary Dawson; married November 2, 1801, to .\ugusta M, Adams, daughter of John Q. and Lovina".\dams. Their union was blessed with nine children, one of whom is dead, viz: J, Q., Murrell E,, Effie L., Ora B,, Aba M,, Kate L., William M., Glide W. Postoffice, Roscoe.

D.VY WILLIAM H., Tuscarawas township; farmer; Canal Lewisvilte; born March 15, 1.Sd3, in Wayne county, Pennsylvania ; son of Barney Day, of Irish ancestry ; raised on the farm, came to this county in the spring of 1847, and settled in Jaekson township, near Roscoe, and came to his present residence in 1852, and has followed farming during his entire life. He at present is living with his brother-in-law.

DEAN EGBERT, Bedford township; farmer; postofRee, ^^'arsaw, Ohio; son of Samuel and !Mary (McCurdy) Dean; was born April 5, 1810, in Jetl'erson eounty, Ohio. He came to this county in 1848, and has since remained. Mr. Dean was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married April 3, 1851, to Miss Margaret J. Hamilton, of this county. Thev are the parents of five children, viz: Charlotte J., Mary A., John H., William L. and Wilbur S , all of whom are living. Mr. Dean owns a good farm, in Bedford township, and is respected by all his neighbors, as a man of integrity and business qualities.

DECIOUS CORNELIUS, Jackson township; Roscoe postoflice ; born in Page county, Virginia, in 1813, settled in this county in 1843; son of Frederick and Magdaline Decious; married, in 1830, to Katharine Davis, daughter of William B. and Jane Davis. They have six children, viz: Charles, .John, Frank, Lewis, Howard, decea.sed, and William. All are married but two. Those married are all living in this county.

DEAN WILLIAM, Bedford township; farmer; postoflice, Tunnel Hill ; born in 1823, in Jefferson county, Ohio, and was married in 185.3, to Miss Asmath Starr, of the same county, who was born in 1836. They came to this county in 1853. They are the ])arent3 of ten children, seven of whom are livintr, viz: George H., decea.sed, Mary M., John H., Eliza J., William H., Dennis, Nettie, Henry H., Lina, decea,sed, and Ella B., deceased Mr. Dean ha.s lived where he now is since 1868. He is one of the large land owners of the township, having about 325 acres.

DEEDS ABRAHAM, O.xford township; farmer; postofflce, Plainfield, Ohio; son of John and Mary (Seabault) Deeds ; was born September 23, 1802, in Westmoreland county, Penn.sylvania Mr. Deeds was raised on the farm, and has followed that occujiation all his life. In 1830, he removed from Pennsylvania, and came to this county, remaining nine years. He then removed to Athens county, Ohio, and resided there six years, returning then to this county, where he has since resided. Mr. Deeds was married September 11, 1828, to Miss Agnes Singson, of Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of ten children, viz; John, Susannah, Samuel, deceased, Sarah, Abraham, deceased, Drusyla. Fannie, Josephus, decea.sed, and Williani H., dece.ased. When Mr. Deeds came to this county, it was generally a wilderness, the few settlers living in

DENMAN A. D, Tuscarawas town,ship; Coshocton postoflice; of the firm of A. D. &. D. F. Denman, farmers and stock raisers. A. D. Denman was born in Springfield, E<scx cjunty. New Jersey; son of David and Mary (Lyon) Denman, of English ancestry, and came to his present residence in October, 1834. He was married No^ vember 16, 1828, to Mi.ss Eliza A., daughter of Moses and Lydia (Mimn) Condit, of New Jersey. This union was blessed with three children. George and Matthias died, and only one is living. D. F. Denman, of the above firm, was born April 15, 1830, in Essex county. New Jersey. He was married October 18, 1855, to Miss jNlatilda W., daughter of C. L and Sophronia (Hamilton) Whiting. This union has been been blessed with six children, three deceased, viz: Alfred W., E. Alida and Emma L. Their three living children are Clara B., Herbert and Matthias. This firm is engaged in stock raising and agriculture, succeiling well in both, having their farm and buildings in first class repair and raising the breeds of stock. The farm now owned by this firm was patented to Matthias Denman, grandfather of the senior member of the firm, April 24,1816. They also hold patent for lands granted to said Matthias Denman, March 28, 1800, and signed by President John Adams. M^atthias Denman was, at one time probably, the largest landholder in the State. He was also one of three partners who founded the city of Cincinnati.

DEVORE ELI, Tiverton township; farmer; postoflice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1844, in Holmes county, and was married in 1804, to Miss Elizabeth A. Crider, of Holmes county, who was born in 1847, in Knox county. They came to this eounty in 1808. They are the parents of five children, viz: Mary F., born February 11,1865; Nancy J., born March 23, 1867; Lucy, born August 24, 1870; James R., born February 12, 1875, and Lyman, born November 16, 1877.

DEVORE WILLIAM, Tiverton township; farmer; postofRce, Gann, Knox county; born in 1840, in Carroll county. He came to Holmes county with his parents in 1843,and to this county in 1855. He is unmarried, and has lived on the same farm since 1855.

DeWITT IS.VAC C, Adams town.^hip; farmer; postoffice, Bakersville ; born in Adams towu.^hip, Coshocton county, October 14, 18:^9; son of Vincent and Eleanor (Oirdray) DeWitt, and grandson of Tiiomas Cordray. He attended school until the age of maturity, and has since devoted his time to farming. He was married September

1, 1864, to Miss Delila Smith, daughter of Bartholomew and Mary A. (Reed) Smith, and granddaughter of George and Elizabeth (ElHs) Smith. She was born in Bucks township, Tuscarawas county, July 24, 1845. They are the parents of three children, Asmer A., born June 20, 1805; Francis M., born June 20, 1868, and Ira A., born June 17, 1872.

DeWITT W. W., Lafayette township; wagon and carriage maker ; West Lafayette ; was born ' in Adams township, this county, December IS, 1849; son of Jonathan and Margaret DeWitt. W. W. followed carpentering and cabinet making for about nine years, then engaged in his present business, which he has been conducting seven years, and in that time has built up quite an extensive trade. He was married in 1877, to Miss Angeline McLain, of this township; they have had one child ; Clifford Monroe.

DeWITT SOLOMON, Crawford township; proprietor of hotel, Chili; born in Adams township, August 23, 1820; son of Vincent DeWitt and Elenor( Cord ray) DeWitt, both of whom were natives of Maryland. Mr. DeWitt left home in 1853 and followed farming until 1870, when he went into the dry goods business at Chili, married Miss Nancy Fisher October 13, 1853. Her parents, Ab.so'lem Fisher and Harriet (Johnson) Fisher were both native born. Their family consists of four children; Lenox, Phebe, John, Alice and Frank.

DICKEY WILLIAM, Keene township, farmer ; born July 28, 1857, in Mill Creek township ; son of Hiram and Jane (Ling) Dickey, and grandson of John Dickey. At the age of twenty Mr. Dickey left home and traveled through Iowa, Illinois and Indiana; then came home, but soon returned to Indiana, where he was married July, 1, 1877, to Jennie J. Belser, born June 23, 1860, in Decatur county, Indiana, daughter of Augustus and Catharine (Hazelrigg) Belser, and granddaughter of Godfrey and Abbie (Dupee) Belser. Her grandmother, Abbie, was a native of Boston, of French descent. Her maternal grandparents were Charles and Caroline (McCoy) Hazelrigg. Karl F., born December 17, 1879, was their only child.

DICKEY JOHN, Jackson township; born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1810; son of William and Elizabeth Dickey; settled in this county in 18;31»; married in 1845, to Miss Jane Thompson, daughter of John and Mary Thompson. Mr. Dickey is the father of five children, two of whom are dead, and two are married. The names of those living are as follows : William J., A. W., J. F. Postoffice, Tyrone.

DICKEY WILLIAM, deceased, Bedford township ; born in 1771, in county Tyrone, Ireland : came to this country in 1785, and was married to Miss Elizabeth Graham, who was born in 1781, and died in 1832, in Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Dickey came to this county in 1840, and died in 1848. They were the parents of eleven children, only three of whom are living; one in Cincinnati, one the wife of Park Wheeler, of this county, and Fanny, who lives on the old homestead.

DICKERSON WILLIAM, Bedford township; farmer and blacksmith ; postofiice. Tunnel Hill; born in 1827, in Fayette county, Pennsj-lvania; came to this county in 1847 with his father, who was born in 1788, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811 to Elizabeth Doney, of the same countv. who was born in 1795. He died in 187-1. She died in 1870. They were the parents of ten children ; the subject of this sketch being the eighth. He was married in 1850 to I\Iiss M. J. Eaton, of this county, who was born in 1832 in this county. They are the parents of twelve children, all living.

DICKERSON JAMES F., Bedford township; farmer; postoffice. Tunnel Hill; born in 1829, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1847 with his father, who was born in 1788 in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811 to Elizabeth Doney, of the same county, who was born in 1795. He died in 1874, and she died in 1870. They were the parents of ten children ; the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1856 to Miss Margie Fisher, of this county, who was born in 1839, in Harrison county, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, Ida M.

DICKERSON JOSHUA, Bedford township; farmer ; postofiice. Tunnel Hill ; born in 1845, in this county. His father was born in 1798, in in Harrison conunty, Ohio, and was married in 1820, to Miss Nancy Glasner, of the same county, who was born in 1796. They came to this county, in 1820, and he died in 1879. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh child.

DICKERSON JOHN, farmer; Washington township; postofiice, Wakatomaka ; born in 1822, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania ; came to this county in 1831, with his father, who was born in 1783, in Fayettte county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1811, to Miss Jane Morrison, of the same county, who was born in 1792. He died in 1857, she died in 1878. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch being the seventh. He was married in 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Crumley, of this county, who was born in 1828, in Harrison county. They are the parents of eleven children, viz : Susan J., Mary C,

DICKEKSON LEVI, farmer; Washington township; AVakatoniaka, born in 1832, in this county. His father was born in 1783, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811, to Miss Jane Morrison, of the same county, who born in 1792. He died in 1857, she died in 1878. They were the parents of ei<j;ht children, the subject of this sketch beina; the youngest- He was married in 18.54, to Miss Sarah E. Middleton, of this county, who was born in 183i, in Pennsylvania. They are the parents of eleven children, viz: Morrison, Mary E., Hartley, Emma J., Harriet S., John C, Charles H., Carrie B., Efhe J., Armor and Daniel.

DICKERSON JOSEPH, farmer; Washington township; postoftiee. Tunnel Hill; l)orn in 1820, in Harrison county. He came to this county in 1834, with his grandfather, Levi Dickerson," his father having died in 1821, in Harrison county. Joseph was married in 1841, to Miss Mary Jones, this county, who was born in 1821, in Harrison county. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Elizabeth, deceased; Susan, Lavina, Sarah J., deceased; Martha, Aaron W.,Mary A., EmmaO.

DICKERSON LEVI, farmer; Wa.shington township: postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1827, in this county. His father was born in 1798, in Pennsylvania. He settled in Harrison county, and was married there to Miss Nancy Glasmir, of this county, who was born in 17;»r), in Pennsylvania. They came to this county in 1825. He died in 1879. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in 1850 to Miss Amy Howell, of Tuscarawiis county, who was born in 1825, in Belmont county. They are the parents of seven children, viz: Joshua, Isabelle, Benjamin, David. Nancy, Amy and James.

DIEFENBACH A. A., Crawford township ; boot and shoe manufacturer; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio; was born December 10, 18,55, in Tu.scarawas county; son of .\dam and Louise (Greeannabold). He remained with his j)arents on the farm until eighteen years of age, when he went to his trade and, in 1874, established business in New Bedford Simon P. Sprenke, and continued the partnership until October 1, 1879, wlien Mr. Diefenbaeh became sole ])roprietor. He is doing a first-class business for a country town. He and two other good workmen being const;uitly employed.

pINGLEDINE SEBASTIAN. Adams township; saddler; postoffice, Bakcrsville ; born in Hesse Darmstadt. Germany, March 18,181.2; son of Bolthazer and .Vnica C. Dingledine, and grandson of John Dingledine. He left his native country for .\merica in 1830, landing in Baltimore after a voyage of si.xty-four days, then came to Pennsylvania, whore he remained about four years, and from there came to Tuscarawas comity, Ohio, where ho resided about thirtyseven years, being the second ixistmaster of that village. He then moved to Illinois, and after remaining there about three years, he again moved to Ohio, and settled in Bakcrsville, where he has resided since, engaged at his trade, doing a fair business. He is at present serving his fourth term as justice of the peace of Adams town.'ihip. He learned his trade with Sampson Shalter, of Canal Dover, in 1838. Jlr. Dingledine was married May 7, 1846, to Miss Julia A. Gard, daughter of John and Susannah C. (Oswalt) Gard. She died in November, 1867, from injuries received by being thrown from a buggy. By this marriage he became the father of one child, James, born July 5. 1860. He was married September 16. 1868, to Miss Delila Carnahan. daughter David and Eliza T. (McCuno) Carnahan, and granddaughter of James and Margaret Carnalian. and James and Margaret IMcCune. She was b(jrn in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1837. They have "three children, viz: Agnes C. born September 12. 1869; Charles M., born May 25, 1871 ; Howard S., born December 2, 1877.

DILLON ISRAEL, Coshocton; clerk of the courts of common pleas; born June 17, 1819, in Perry township and spent his entire life on the farm until elected to the above office in 1875 and re-elected in 1878, his entire tenure of office being six years. Mr Dillon was elected a justice of the peace in 1853, and served three consecutive terms, and after an interval of two years again served three consecutive terms, making in all eighteen years of .service as justice of the pe'ace. Esquire Dillon has taken an active part in educational matters, having served for a number of years on the board of education of the county. Mr. Dillon was married October 18, 1840. to Miss Elizabeth Jane Fitch, daughter of William and Mary Fitch, of Perry town.ship. This union has been blessed with twelve children, two deceased, viz: Rebecca Jane and William Melville, and ten living, viz: .\mos, Mary Catharine, Eliza, Leora, Deborah Anne, Josiah, .Samuel, Israel Budianan, Elizabeth. Emma and Sarah Frances. Mr.s. Dillon, consort of Esquire Dillin, died in March, 1870, and is buried at New Guilford, Perry township. Mr. Dillon's .second marriage was to Mrs. Isabelle Barrett, of JSIohawk village, September 24, 1874. The result of this marriage one child, a daughter, Ida J?elle. The grandfather of Esquire Dillon was a native of Ireland but came to -America and served in the revolutionary war for the indejiendance of the United Stiites.

DILI.OX AMOS, Perry township; postoifico, i New Guilfonl; born in this county, in 1841 ; son 1 of Israel and Elizabeth (Fitch) Dillon, granilstm of William and Deborah M. (Meredith) Dillun, also of William and Mary Meredith. Mr. Dillon's great-grandfather was a revolutionary soldier. Mr. Dillon, in l.'-'ti5, married Susannah C'asteel, daughter of Thomas and Susannah (Bottomticld) Castoel. Thev have eight children, viz: Sarah E., Israel T.," William J., Howard T., Ettie J., Kachael A., Bertha L. and John C. Mr. Dillon was engaged in the merchandise business some three years; followed farming since.

DILLON F. J., Tu.scarawas township; Coshocton postoftice; farmer; born February 10, 184o, in Knox county; son of Thomas and Eliza Jane (BuxtonI Dillon. His maternal grandfather was Francis Buxton. Young Dilhai was brought up on the farm. When about twelve years of age he located in New Castle township. May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and forty -seconil (). V. I. (lOO-days men); re-enlisted in Company I, O. V. I. for one year. At the close of the war he visited jNIissouri and soon returned ; then went to Illinois and taught one term of school, and again visited Missouri ; then home again, and back to Illinois, where he taught school. He again visited Missouri and returned home, and for the third time went to Illinois and taught school, and from there he went to Iowa and taught school ; then the fourth time visited Mi.ssouri, and returned to Iowa; then went to Minnesota and remained during the cold winter, and in the spring rettirned to Iowa, and from there went to the Pacific coast, visiting California and Oregon, remaining one year; then returned, in 1870, to Ohio, where he has remained to the present time. Mr. Dillon was married lirst August IS, 1868, to Miss Susan Clark, daughter of John Clark. They had four children, three of whom died in infancy. Willis elide is their only living child. His second 7narriage was on October 22, 1879, to Miss Carrie E. Wood, daughter of Andrew Wood, deceased, formerly of Tuscarawas township.

DIV.VN T. E, Perry township; farmer; postoffice, West Carli-sle; born in this county in 1850; son of .Vdolphus and jMary (Hardenbrook) Divan, and grandson of Henry and Blary Divan ; married in 1869, to Miss Harriet Cochran, who died in 1872. He married, in the same year, Anna A. Board, daughter of Thomas H. and Elizabeth A. Board. They are the j)arents of four children, viz: Ola M., Walter M., Floyd and Arazota.

DOAK POBERT, Crawford township; farmer; postofiico, hili. Ohio; born March 9, l.s2ti, in Amwell township, Washington county, Penn.sylvania; son of Williani Doak, of Crawford township. In 1832 he located with his father about two miles east of Chili. He was married May 20, 1.847, to Miss Slary Anne, daughter of Tlioinas M. and Sarah (Hughes) McCollum. She was born .\ugust 17, 1826, in Amity, Washington county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with four children, viz: William R., Thomas M., decea.sed; .Vdam J. and Sarah E. Mr. Doak has succeeded well, being blessed with a good family and a comfortable home.

DOAK WILLIAM, Crawford township; retired farmer; postoftice, Chili, Ohio; born December 5, 1804, in South Strabane township, Washington cotmty, Pennsylvania. His father and he were both born on the farm, jiatented to William's father. William is son of William and Nancy (Dill) Doak, of Irish ancestry. Mr. Doak came to his present residence in 1832. The entire coinitry was new then, his farm being nearly all timbered land, but has lived to enjoy the fruits of his toil. The cabin has changed to a comfortiible frame, and the forest to lields of jiasture, grain and orchards. jMr. Dciak was married about the year 1824, to Miss Evaline, daughter of iVdam and Elizabeth (Mason) Gardner They are the parents of seven children, viz : Robert, .\dam, deceased, Mary Anne, deceased, Nancy Jane, married to David Ewing ; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Wilson; Andrew, married to Louisa Poeock ; and William, married to Sallie E. jMcNary. Mr. Doak started to j)rovide for himself, without wealth, but has now a competency for himself and wife, who still lives to share the comforts of their united toil in early life.

DO.\K A. J., Clark township; dry goods merchant; postoftice, Clark's; born in Crawford townshij), Co.shocton county, December 1, 1837; son of William and Evaline (Gardener) Doak. He attended school, and taught until twenty-fiva years of age, when he began the merchantile business in New Bedford, in the sjiring of 1862, where he remained imtil the fall of 1864, when he came to Bloonifield and engaged in the same business, and has continued here ever since. He has a lioiu-ishing trade, and carries a fine assortment of dry goods, groceries and ready made clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes, and everything usually found in a general merchandising establishment. He was married February 29, 1860, to Miss Louisa M. Poeock, sister of Colonel Poeock, of Coshocton, and daughter of Joshua and Catharine (Wilson Poeock). She was born in Keene township May 19, 1835. They are blessed with three children - Edgar A., born -Vpril 28, 1862; William C, born August 13, 1803; Ella C, born December 23, 1870.

DONAGHY CHARLES B., Coshocton; railroad contractor and plasterer ; born .January 8, 1849, in Wellsville, Columbiana county; son of William Donaghy, born in Lancaster county.

Ppnnsylvania, of Irish ancestors. Young Donaghy was raised in StenbenviUe, Ohio, attending pubHc sehodl until seventeen, wlien he entered Fairlield academy, and remained two and a half years, then attended Keynoldsville academy, under instruction of D. J. Snyder, two years. Messrs Di_inaghy, Sr. and ,Ir., have been remarkable railroad Iniilders, having completed large contracts on the Pan Handle, New Salem, Cincinnati and Louisville Short Line, CUie.sapeak and Ohio, Atlantic and Lake Erie; SpringlieUI, Day ton and Cincinnati Short Line; Cleveland, Mt. Vernon and Cokunbus ; Pittsburgh, Merictta and Cleveland, and Sciota railroads ; also built eight miles of Lancaster and Xew Salem turnpike. Charles B. first came to this city in November, 1873, and remained two years, and after an absence of a few years, building railroads, returned, and is now a contractor fiir plastering, doing a first-class business.

DORSEY CLEMENT, Co.shocton; proprietor barber shop, corner Main and Fourth streets; liorn December 2.5, 1839, in ^Vashington county, Maryland; worked on a farm and canal boating until 24 years of age, when lie oamc to Parkersburg, West Virginia, with I. Cuthber.son, a government agent. In June, 1867, he went to Stubenville, Ohio, and followed steamboating; was on the C. E. Hillman when she collided with the Nannie Byers, which sinik at JIadi.-:on, Indiana, and forty-tive lives lost. In Sejitcmber, 1867. he went to Newark and worked m a barber shop and attended school until December 1, 1868, when he came to this city and established a shop, and continued his business to the present. Mr. Dorsey was the fir.st colored juror of this county, also the first colored citizen to be nominated for a county office. BIr. Dor.sey wa.'^ married, October 14, lt-61>, to Mrs. Martha Lucas, of Janesville, Wisconsin. This union w^as blessed with five children, viz: Mildred Ellie, Ishani C, .Jesse C, Gertrude Hays and Clement G. Mr. Dorsey came to this city with but $48, but now owns real estate and a good home.

DOKSEY ELMOS, Pike township; postofRce, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Muskingum county, in 1842; settled in this county in ISSO; son of .John and Prudence Dorsey. His father settled in Muskingum county in 1812, and died in 1877. His mother died in l.'^7S. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of a family of three children, one living in Missouri and one in Licking county, Ohio. He was married in November, 1870, to Miss Lizzie .Magruder, daughter of George and Margera Magruder.

DR.\PER S.\MUEL H., Tiverton township; farmer; [lostofiice, Yankee Ridge, Ohio; born September 8, 1808, in Knox county. He came to this county in 1830, and was married in 1837, to

Miss Elizabeth Smith, of this county, who was born in November, 1818, in Pennsylvania. She died in 1S44. They were the parents of three children. He was married in 1845, to Miss Catharine Horton, of this county, who wa.< born in 1.^23 and died in 1852. They were the jiarents of three children. He was married in 1S.")2, to Miss Elizabeth Hucy, of this county, who was born in 1828 and died in 1871. He married, in 1871, Miss Isabella Lockard, of this county, who was born in 182.5.

DRESHER JACOB, Crawford township; postoflie, New Bedford; blacksmith; born May 24, 1842, in Hesse-Homburg, Germany; son of Frederick and Margaret (Kline) Dresher; came to America in 18.55 and first located in Adams county, next in Crawford township, went to his trade in 18.58, and has followed it to the present time. He came to his present residence in 1876. Was married June 22, 1866, to Miss Louisa, daughter of John and Catharine (Lyman) Kesler. They have five children: John Frederick, deceased, Emily M,, Caroline R,, Karl H. and Augustus Jacob.

DUGAN WILLIAM, Linton township; farmer: born in January. 18.33, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; son of Francis and s\.m\ (Smith) Dugan, who emigrated from county Down, Ireland, in 1833, remained in Philadelphia a few years, then came out to Harrison county, lived there about ten years, and moved to Guern.«ey county. There Jlr Dugan remained till he came to Linton township, in 1875. He enlisted in January, 1862, in Company I, Eightieth O. V. I., and served three years in the army. He was under fire at the siege of Corinth, battle of Corinth, luka, siege of Vicksburg, Jack.son, Champion Hill, etc. He was married in 18.55, to Hannah Walgamot, daughter of David and Sophia Walgamot, of (iuernsey county. Their children are Jemima Ellen, Jane. Mary, Lincoln, William, David, Sophia, Alva and Samuel,

DULING DAVID, Linton township; saddler: postotfice, Plainlield; born October 18, l.'^45, in Lafayette township; son of William and Rebecca P. Duling. His grandfather, Edmund Duling, came to this county in l.s]5. His maternal grandparents, David and Lucy Richardson were early .settlers in the county. <'oining from Vcrnunit. His father, a Protestant Methodist minis- I ter, died at Stcubenville, in 18.54. He lived in ! Linton township from that time until (>ctober. l.StJl, when he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-first I O. V. I., and remained in the army four years, see- 1 ing active service at Stone river, Ciiirkamauga. the numerous battles in the .\tlanta camiiaign, Franklin, Nashville, etc. .\fter his return lie kept a grocerv in Plainfield one year, then, in 1867, enlisted "in the regular army for three years, and was stationed at Atlanta, Georgia, Huntsville, Alabama, Jacksonville, Alabama, Columbia, South Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. After his discharge he owned a saddler shop in Coshocton till Is""), then moved to Plaintield, and has been lunning a .shop here since. He was married in 1872, to Cliristina Weisser, daughter of Jacob Weisser, of Coshocton. His children are Lizzie, deceased, and Maud.

DULING HIRAM W., Linton township; farmer: born April 4, lS2it, at his present home in Linton townshij) ; son of Edmund and Mary (Dean) Duling, and grandson of William Duling and of Thomas and Jane (Gihnore) Dean. His tither emigrated from Hampshire county, Virginia, to Linton townshiii, in 1.S15. Mr. Duling has always lived in this township. He was married February 18, ISdll, to Sarah Catharine Lawrey, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Piatt) Lowrey. Their children are, Uriella, Joseph L.. James Edmund, and Lowel IMason. He was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., and was in service about four months in Virginia

DUNCAN JONAS, Keene township; farmer; born June 27, 184.3. in Mill Creek township; son of John and Elizabeth (Long) Duncan. He was married April 30, 18(')S, to Amanda Shannon, whose ancestry is as follows : Parents, Nathan and Jfary (Endsley) Shannon ; grandparents, Isaac and Jane (Porter) Shannon, and John and Jane (Blane) Endsley; great-grandfathers, Robert Shannon, born in Ireland, Thomas Porter and Thomas Blane. 5Ir. Duncan's family consists of five children: Mary E., born August 4, 1869; Joseph A., January 9, 1871; Sophia L.October 18, 1872; Cynthia Grace, September, 1874, and Martlia, January 11, 187S.

DUNCAN T. D., Keene township; born July 9, 1846, in Pittsburgli, Pennsylvania; son of Robert (-'. and Nancy (Patterson) Duncan, of Scotch and English descent. His childhood and early youth was spent on a farm in Beaver county, Pennsylvania; from seventeen to nineteen he attended the academy at Beaver, then took a course at Washington and Jefferson college, Washington, Pennsylvania, graduating in lSil9. The following two years he spent at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, and. after a year spent as principal of Callensburg academy. Clarion county, Pennsylvania, he returned and completed his theological studies, graduating in the spring of 1874. Th(> ne.xt year he was engaged as jjrincijjal of the Verona academy, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, then in the spring of 1875, he received a call from Clark Presbyterian church, Bloomfield, which he accepted and was ordained in May. He remained there as pastor until Ajjril, 1.879. After traveling for some time he accepted a position in August, 18S0, as principal of the public schools and academy at Keene. He was married in June, 1S76, to Miss Ella, daughter of George and .lane (Douglas) Craig. Thev have one child - Robert C., born Julv 5, 1877.

DUNLAPJOHN, Bedford town.'^hip; farmer; postoffice. Tunnel Hill ; born in 1839 in this county. His father, James Dunlap, was born in 1796, in Pennsylvania, and came to this county while yet unmarried, and was married to ]\Iis"s Hannah Baker, of this county. He died in 1879. She died in 1839. They were the parents of eight childrsn ; the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1861 to Miss Rachel H. Philips, of this county, who was born in 1844. Tliey are the parents of four children, viz: Samuel L., deceased, Charlie, Sarah E., and John.

DUSENBERRY JOHN, Bedford township: farmer: postoffice. Tunnel Hill; born in 1850 in this county. His father was born in 1799 in eastern Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1832. He was married in 1835 to Miss Rebecca Stevens, of this county, who was born in 1810. He died in 1879, and she died in 1880. They were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He is unmarried, and Hves on the old farm.

DWYER JOSEPH W., Tuscarawas township; was born in Coshocton, Ohio, October 6, 1832; married Emma A., daughter of ,Tohn G and Emma (Denman) Titus, October 21, 1858. Has one child living, named David G. Commenced life as a merchant. Owned and published the Co.shocton Age from 18.56 to 1866. Appointed postmaster of Coshoctcm, Ohio, by President Lincoln in March 1861, declined, and was appointed clerk in treasury dejjartment at Washington City in same month, and for a while w'as assistant private secretary to Secretary Chase, subsequently, being promoted through the various grades to be chief in charge of commissary accounts in the treasury deiiartment. Resigned this office to accept the office of pension agent for the Columbus, Ohio, i)ension district. It being a new district, he entered ujjon the new duties and organized the office in September, 1864, which office he continued to hold until June, 1869, with the e.xception of an interim oi six months. during President .Tohnson's swing around the circle. His successor failing of conlirmation by the Senate, Dwyer was reappointed by President Johnson.

At tlie clo,se of his second and last term as pension agent at Columbus, he received notice from the chief accounting (ifficer of the treasury department at Washington, that his accounts were closed on the books of the department, and that

"during his last term of office, he disbursed nearly tu<(i miUionx of dMtrs to pensioners, with liromptnoss and efficiency that meets the entire ai)j)robation of this dcjiartmenl."

Allen Riitlierford, third auditory of treasury dei>artnient, on closing up his accounts and turn- \n% over the office to his successor, was appointed; by President Grant, chief of supervisors and detectives in the internal revenue service, headquarters at Washington. Holding this office until December, l.'^ilii, when a vacancy occurred by the di-ath of Charles Hedges, of Manstield, Dwyer \va^ appointed supervisor of internal revenue for Ohio and Indiana, with heailquarters at Coshocton, Ohio, holding this office until July 1, 1872, when his resignation was accejited by Hon. John W. Douglass, commissioner of internal revenue, in the following words: "I regret that you feel compelled to take this step, not only on account of the pleasant jiersonal relations which do now and ever have existed between us, but chiefly because the Government is about to lose the services of an intelligent, courageous and incorruptible otHcer."

On retiring from the foregoing office he was appointed one of the three United Slates commissioners to visit, inspect and accept, if com- ]5leted in accordance with the law, the Central Pacific railroad. He met Messrs. Sullivan and Brown, his fellow commissioners, at San Francisco, California, from whence they made a minute inspection of the whole road and all its branches, culverts, bridges, grades, etc., and upon their report the government accepted the road as finished, and gave to its company the subsidy of bonds and lands vote<l by congress.

This ended his services in official position'. He accepted employment with the Atlantic and Pacific railroad com])any and was their agent at Washington, and among other duties, endeavored to induce congress to organize the Territory of Oklahoma out of the jiresent Indian Territory and open it uj) to white settlement, and to this end invited both houses of congress to visit the Territory. Over two hundred members accepted the invitation and made a trip to that country, extending their visit to Galveston, Texas and to New Orleans. Nothing came of the organization of the Territory, but the building of the Ea<ls' jetties below New Orleans at the mouth of the gulf was the outcome and result of this excursion.

During his official career he found time to devote to farming and stock raising, and for a time, when })cnsion agent at ('olumbus, published the Farm/'r's Chnmidi: He engaged actively in whatever would improve and interest the farming community, and to this end was one of the prom -iters of the ",Patrons of Husbandry "in its infancy, and has now in his possession the thiril charter, issued bv the originators of the institution, authorizing the late secretary Klippart, of the State Board of Agriculture, Dugan and others, to organi/.e a grange at Coshocton. He is now a farmer and stock raiser near Co.shocton and a ranchman in New Mexico. He, with his jiartner, Mr. John S. Delano, of Denver, have ujion their New Mexico ranch over 1,400 cattle, 6,000 sheep, and 201) horses.

EARLEY WILLIAM M., Oxford town.ship ; farmer; Evansburgh ; was born in this town.ship in 1854, and was married September 21, 1873. to Miss Enuna Mclntire, in Pennsylvania. Their children are, Rebecca ,Tane, deceased, Desmond, deceased, and Seburtis Mack. They are members of the M. E Cluu-ch in West Lafayette.

EASTER DAVID, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1820 in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1830. His father was born in 1783 in Bedford county, I'enn.«ylvania, and died in 183'.i. his wife in 1871. They were the parents of ten children; David being the eighth child.

ECKELS RICHARD, .Jackson townshi]); postoffice, Roscoe; born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1816, settled in this county, in 1822; son of Thomas and Margaret (Porterfield) Eckels, and grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Eckels, and of Gabriel and Jane Porterfield; married in 1842 to Martha Porterfield (first wife), and in 1849, to Mary E. Nichols, daughter of John and Rachel Nichols. Mr. Eckels is the father of ten children, seven living and three dead. Three are married, two living in this county, one in Columbus, Ohio.

ECKERT C. C, Coshocton; proprietor of C. O. D. store, grocer, baker and dealer in produce, No. 430 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Eckert was born in Ragersvillc, Tuscarawas county, August 22, 1850. His first business engagement was with his father under the firm name of C. A. Eckert & Son, in general merchandising, in which he continued about six years. He then went west and engaged in dealing in groceries and miner's supplies at Central City, Dakota, where he remained one year, after which he returned to Coshocton in 1877, and established his present business. He occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in the Eckert block, where he carries a large, first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries. He also deals in all kinds of country jiroduce, and has a large bakery attached, whore he does an extensive business in baking bread, jjlain and fancy cakes and pies of all kind.s. He also roasts all grades of coflees, which are of a very superior quality.

1799, in Baltimore county, Marvlanil, and came to this county about IS'2.5. He was married in 1828, to JNIiss Catharine Lee, of this county, who was born in 1804, in Pennsyhania. He died in 1875, slic died in 1S74. They were the parents of two children. Dr. Edwards being the oldest. He began reading medicine in 18.53, under Dr. Russell, of Mt. Vernon, and attended his first course of lectures in 1855-6, and graduated in 1857. He has been here ever since. He was married in 1847, to Miss Sarah S. Marquand, of this county. She was born in 1833, in this county. They are the parents of five children, viz: Belle B., Russell C; Birdie, deceased, Edwin S. and Gracic.

EHRICH HENRY. Crawford township; shoemaker; born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1850. Son of Nicholas Ehrich and Margaret (Nye) Ehrich, both natives of the State t>f Bavaria. Mr. Ehrich emigrated to .\mcrica, February 23, 1869, and located in Massillon. He worked as a hand in the shop, until 1873, when he opened a shop of his own in Chili, and still continues to work at his trade there. In August, 1873, he married Catharine Shoemaker, of Crawford township. Her parents, William Shoemaker and Blargaret (Wentz) Shoemaker, are both of German ancestry. Mr. Ehrich has a family of three childrccn : Charles .lacob, born June 12, 1874; Margaret, August 23, 1877 ; Eliza J., January 23, 1879."

ELDER CYRI'S, Jeflierson township; born January 25, 18;U, in JefTerson township, Coshocton county, Ohio, on the farm where he now lives; son of John, a native of Antrim county, Ireland, and Esther (McConnell) Polder, and grand.son of John Elder and John McConnell, natives of Ireland. Mr. Elder came to Virginia in 1804, and remained there till 1806, when he came to Coshocton county, where he lived till his death, in 1852. At that time his sons, Cyrus and William, became possessors of the home farm. They have since divided it, Cyrus getting the homestead, 310 acres. He was married to Miss Mary A. Waite, October 4, 18()(i. daughter of John and Mary (Boyd) Waitc, and granddaughter of William and Sarah (Maines) Boyd, and of William and Margaret (Milligan) Waite. Their children were Ehvood, William J , Honorah M , John F.. and James H. :Mr. Elder was in the 100-day's service, a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-third regiment, O. N. G.

ELLIOTT MISS KATE. Tuscarawas township ; teacher ; postotfice, Coshocton, Ohio. Miss Elliott received a good conuiion-school education, also attended the national normal school, at Lebanon, Ohio She tau.ght the first school in the Barnes district, Keenc township, in l,sO'.). and has been constantly employed ever since, often teaching as much as nine and ten months in the year.

She has beeiTa successful teacher, having taught two years in the Coshocton schools. She has taught many schools in different parts of the country, always giving satisfaction. She is at present engaged in the Lafayette schools.

ELLIOTT SIMON. Jefrer.^^on township; moulder; postoflice, War.saw: was born in Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, December 15, 1832; son of Thomas and Lucy (Sanders) Elliott, and grandson of John Elliott, and Nathan and Mary Sanders. Mr. Elliott is of Irish descent. Until'about the age of sixteen he attended school and worked with his father in the wagon shop. He then began the moulder's trade in the foundry- at Roscoe. and remained there about two years. He went to Walhonding in 1848. and remained until the year 1864, and the next spring went to Kansas, where he followed farnung fourteen years, and on account of his wife's ill health he returned to Coshocton county and resumed his trade. He has a small foundry in \\'arsaw, and has a very fair line of custom. He married. October 3, 1S.57, Miss Electa Butler, daughter of Allen and Margaret (Smith) Butler. Edward L., born August 25, 1866. in the Osage Indian Reserve, in Kant-as, is their only child. Mr. Elliott is a nephew of Charles Elliott, the founder and editor of the Western Christian Adiveate, of Cincinnati, who never went to school, but was master of five different languages, and was at one time elected a college president.

ELLIOTT R. M., Lafayette township; tinner; postottice, West Lafayette; learned his trade in Coshocton, and has worked at the business about seven years, and at the present time is working for F. M. Familton; was married, in 1877, to Miss Miller, of this township. They have had two children: William, two years of age, and Agnes, an infant. Mr. Elliott has lived in this township about two years, and is steady and industrious.

ELLIOTT ANDREW. Perry township ; postoflice. New Guilford; born in West Virginia, in 1798; son of John and Charity Elliott; married in 1825, to Miss Margaret McLewee, daughter f)f George and Katherine McLewee. Mr. Elliott died in 1858. They had eleven children, viz: Charlotte, deceased ; Simon. Katherine, deceased ; George, Isabelle, John. James, deceased ; Jane, deceased; Andrew, M. E. and Francis A., deceased. Mrs. Elliott still lives upon the old homestead.

spent some .six years of his life in the sold regions of California. He sailed from New York on the ship northern light, in October, 1853, and returned in 1800. Mr. Elliott at one time eanic near being buried alive, wliile engaged in mining operations in California.

ELLIOTT WILLIAM B., White Eyes township; farmer; was born in the State of New York, in 182.), and came to this conntv, with his parents. in 1828. His father, John H." Elliott, emigrated to this country from Ireland, about 182:3, and located in Keene township. He removed to White Eyes in 1832. William B. began working at the carpenter trade in 1.847, and followed his trade for about thirty years. He taught school during the winters for fifteen or si.xteen terms. In 18.11, Mr Elliott married Miss Mary Boyd, daughter of William JI. Boyd, who was born in 1831, in Keene township. They have two childi'en: Milton, born in 18.52, and Almarinda, born in 185.5, both of whom are immarried and live at home. ^Ir. Elliott bought and located on the farm where he now resides, in the spring of 1852. Mr. Elliott has served in the otKce of township assessor two terms, land appraiser, one term, and one term each of clerk and treasurer of township. His father is deceased, and his mother, who is a very old lady, lives in the township.

ELLIOTT COLOXEL JOHN S., Coshocton, of the firm of Elliott & Mar.x, 114 and IIG Main street, is a native of Keene township; born May n, 1817; son of Findley and Catharine (Strong) Elliott, of Irish ancestry. He was raised on the farm. At the age of twenty-three he was elected justice of the peace of his native township and served nine consecutive years. Esquire Elliott was appointed by Governor Corwin lieutenant colonel of the State troops, and served tnitil tin; forces were disbanded by act of the Legislature. He came to this city in 1862, and has served two terms as mayor ; also, president of the National Temperance Christian Union of this city three years, and president of the Coshocton Agricultural Society for a number of years. He was married first to Miss Margaret, daughter of George MeCaskcy, of White Eyes township, and by this luiion had one son - Alonzo Milton. His second wife wa.s Miss Margaret jNIorrison, who died some thirteen years since. The above linn is doing a very extensive business in farming imi)lementsand heavy machinery. In 18.80 they sold three thousand two hundred pounds of wire to bind grain cut by machines sold by them.

ELLIOTT ct MARX, General Agency, Nos. 414 and 4Iti JIain street, Coshocton. This hou.se was first established in I8ti0 by William Elliott. decea.sed, and was conducted by him until 18(i2, when, in consequence of his demise his brother, John S. Elliott, succeeded to the business which he conducted and greatly enlarged during the years of 1S78-9, after which J. \V. Cullison was associated with him under the firm name ot Elliott it Cullison. This firm continued until 1871, w-hen Mr. Cullison was succeeded by H. Marx, changing the firm name to Elliott & Marx. This firm carries a large stock of agricullural implements and does a general agency business in which they furnish repairs for all" kinds of machinery promi^ly on receipt of order. They keep posted in all the improvements of the age, and deal in the best articles in the market. They also furnish on lowest rates and best terms, mowers, reapers and binders, grain drills, jilows and points, field rollers, sulky cultivators, hay rakes, corn planters, straAV cutters, cider mills, corn crushers, farm and church bells, post hole diggers, wood pumps, churns, clothes wringers, washing machines, road scrapers, threshing machines, farm engines, wheelbarrows, sewer pipes, fruit dryersand bakers, ceiling and sheathing paper, etc.

ELLIS GEORGE W., Tuscarawas township; farmer; postoffice. Canal Lewisville; born Janu ary 18, 1841, in Keene township; son of Andrew W. Ellis, and grandson of Samuel Ellis. Hismother's maiden name was Mary A. Crablet, daughter of '\^'illium Crablet. George W. was raised on the farm When about eighteen he learned the shoemaking trade and followed it about three years, and has spent his entire life to the present time in this county. He came to his present residence in 1867, and has remained to the present time. He was married Jlarch 11, 186'.l, to ]Mi.ss Annie E. Reynolds, daughter of Abraham Reynolds, whose father's name was Abraham. Her mother's maiden name was Eliza Binning. Mary S. is their only child.

ELY' JON ATH AX, Crawford township; teacher; postoffice, Chili ; born February lit, 18.57, in Crawford townshi]); son of Frederick and Mary Magdalena (Y'ost) Ely. He was educated in the ptd)lic schools and national normal school at Lebanon. Ohio. He has successfully taught two terms of school, beginning his first teaching October 1.3, lS7;i, and is succeeding first rate.

EMERSON ANDREW, Keene township ; farmer; born December o, 1838, in Keene township; son of (ieorgc and Olive Emerson, and grandson of Jacob Emerson, a native of !Massarhusetts, .\n<lrew and Lydia (Fulton) Wealherwax. He was married December 21. 18.58, to I'hoebe, daughter of John and Phoebe (Stonehocker) Dickev. Thevhad the following children: George, born DeccMnber. 18;5!); Ella. died. February 28, 18()1, and Angeline, February 1, 1863.

Nori'is, in 1855. The result of this union was seven children, as follows : William ¥., Marj- Anara, Tinmthy C, Henry Siegel, Sherman Elmer, U. S. Grant, Sheridan and Alverton. She i.s a member of the M. E. church, at Wesley chnpel; her father's name was William Xorris. Mr. Emerson owned, at the time of his death, 253 acres of good land in this township, and was respected fis an honest, upright man. by a large circle of friends. He died on the 17th of April, ls74.

ENGLISH J. M., Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tyrone ; born, in lS;i50, in this county. His father, Patrick English, was born, in ISOO, in Pennsylvania. He removed to Harrison county, and was married, in that county, to Miss Susannah Dickerson, of the same county, who Wiis born in 179G, in Fayette county, Peinisylvania. They came to this county in 1.S27. He died in 1857. She died in 1870. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the si-xth. He was married, in 1852, to Jliss Isabella Ste))hens, of this county, who was born in 1837. They are the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom are living, and two are iparried.

EVERHART DAVID, White Eyes township; Chili, postoffice; farmer; born March 8, 18.34, in White Eyes township; son of Frederick and Elizabeth' (Miser) Everhart, formerly of Washington county, Pennsylvania. David was married, January IG, 1862, to Miss Sophia, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stilgenbower) Gonter, a native of Pennsylvania. This union has been blessed with six children, five living, Calvin, Mary, Elizabeth, Saloma, Walter, Maggie, Ellie, and one died in infancy, not named. Mr. Everhart has obtained a comfortable farm home, and exerts a good moral influence in his community.

EVERHART SAMUEL, White Eyes township; farmer; born in this county in 1832. His father, Henry Everhart. came to this county from Tuscarawas county. Samuel remained at home until he was twenty-five years old, and married Miss Florinda Hooliler, of Tuscarawas countv, in

1858, is married to Peter Farney, and lives in Tuscarawas county ; Isaac B., born 1859; Catharine, born 1864; John A., born 1872; Delia M., born 1879. Mr. Everhart has always resided in this county.

EVERHART CHARLES, West Water street, Coshocton ; livery man; born-September 1, 1856, in Franklin township; son of Michael Everhart, native of Virginia, and of English ancestry. Young Everhart was raised on the farm, where he remained until he established his present business at this place, in August, 1880. He keeps

EXLINE H. A., Washington township; farmer; postoffice. West Carlisle ; born in 1822. in this county. His father was born in 1777, in Loudon county, Virginia, and was married in 1805, to Miss Elizabeth Betz,of the same county, who was born in 1789. They came to this county in 1818. He died in 1850 and she died in 1860. They were the jiarents of three children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1844, to Miss Mary Gault,of this county, who was born in 1827. She died in 1856. They were the parents of three children, viz: Elizabeth E., Elsie A. and Flora B. He afterward married, in 1861. Miss Elizabeth A. Yunker, of this county, who was born in 1833. They are the jiarents of three children living, viz: Nora W.. John H. and Charlie B

FAIR DANIEL, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1831 ; son of Charles and Catharine (Keefer) Fair, and grandson of Christopher and Elizabeth (Hofman) Fair. He moved to Holmes county, Ohio, with his parents in 1836, when lie was but five years of age; and at the age of eighteen he began to learn the blacksmith trade with Shrock & Miller, in New Carlisle, Holmes county, remaining about nine months. From there he went to South Bend, Indiana, where he finished his trade with Pres. Whitten, remaining about eighteen months. He then went to INIisliawauka and engaged with Graham & Japen.and remained about six months. From there he came to Farmerstown, Holmes county, and began business for himself, where he remained nine years: then sold his .shoj) and began the mercantile business, and continued at that six years, when he sold his store and purchased his ])resent farm of 237 acres, in Clark township, and has engaged in farming since, and is a successful and energetic farmer. He was married April 4. 18r)4, to Lucinda Snider, daughter of Abram and ^lary (Fox) Snider, and granddaughter of Abram Snider and Jacob and Mary Fo-x" She was born October 14, 1829, in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county. Tliey have six children : Phineas F., born Januarv 21, 1855; William H., born August 5, 1857; Ch.irles B., born February 11,1860; Lorenzo D.. born March 24, 1863; Lyman S., born December 24, 1866; Bellmina, born January 15, 1,870. Mr. Fair is a member of Millersburg Lodge No. 12(), F. A. M., of which he was made a member in 1864.

dleton) Familton. His father moved from Port Washington, Tuscarawas rountj', to Jjafayette, in ISti'.i. John remained with him there till 1875, when lie purchased Osborn's st«re, at Bacon postoffice, this township. He remained there till the fall of 1877, at which time he moved liis stock of goods to Plainheld and opened a store there. The following year a partnershij) was formed with Lewis Carhart, which was dissolved in 1.S79, and Nicholiis Familton, his brother, was then admitted as a partner. Nicholas died February, 1880, and since then Mr. Familton has conducted the business alone. He w'as married June 4, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of William Gorseline, of Lafayette township.

FAMILTON T. H., Lafayette township; merchant; born in Harrison county, in 1829. and came to West Lafayette in 18Gi>: was married to Miss Elizabeth Middlctou, of Tuscarawas covnity, in 1852; they have had six children : Nicolas, deceased ; Dora, deceased; John, Frank, George and Will. Before he started business here, a pound of coffee or a yard of cloth could not be purchased in the place, but in his store to-day, you can find anything usuallj' kept in a first-class dry goods and grocery house. His numerous patrons have found him an honest and obliging gentleman, and his prices compare favorably with any house in the county.

FARQUHAR FRANKLIN, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born in this township in 1835; son of Caleb and Katharine Farquhar, and grandson of Samuel and Phebe (Yarnall) Farquhar, and of John and Ellen (Murray) Yarnall. Mr. Farquhar is one of a family of ten children, six of whom are still living.

FARQUHAR SAMUEL, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1S,38; son of Samuel Y. and Mary (Trimble) Farquhar, who came here from Maryland ; grandson of Sanuiel and Phebe Farquhar, and of John and Ellen (Jlurray) Trimble. He was married in 18(i'.) to Miss Harriet Blue, daughter of Daniel and Clara Blue. They have five children, viz: Rollie M., Mary L., Lyman L., Minnie P. and Carrie. He enlisted in 1S61 in Company K, Twenty-fourth regiment O. V. I., Captain Ginnis, and participated in the following battles: (Jreenbriar, Nashville. Pittsburgh Landing, Stone River and Chickamauga. He was discharged in 1804.

FELLER GOTTLIEB, Crawford township; proprietor of a tannery at Chili ; born in Naflen, Kirchdorp, Anit Belb, State of Switzerland, July, 1835; son of John Feller and Barbary (Krebs) Feller, natives of the same place. Mr. Feller emigrated to America in 18.54, and settled on Stone creek, Tuscarawiis county, and started a the business succe.ssfully ever .since. In 1863, he married Catharine Lebold, of Tuscarawas comity. They are the parents of the following named children: John, born November 3, 18G3; Mary Ann Senora, August 31, 1865; .Jacob Edward, August 10, LSCS;" Catharine Amelia, October 28, 1870; Frederick Albert, September 11. 1872; Clara Matilda, ^March 21, 1876, and Lissette Caroline, August 4, 1878. One died in infancy, Jacob Henry. Mr. Feller ownos quite an extensive tannery, the largest in that section of the county. He also carries on the saddlery and harness making busiriess in connection with the tannery. Mr. Feller and family belong to the B. M. church at Chili.

FELVER PIZARRE, Oxford town.ship; carpenter ; Orange postoffice, Evansburgh ; was born in 1840, in the town of Coshocton ; son of John Felver, a cooper by trade, who died in 1842. The subject of this sketch was married in 1861 to Miss Josephine Richmond, of this township. They have three children, as follows: Alice, deceased, aged eight months and si.K days; Harriet, aged seventeen, and Edward, fifteen years of age. Mr. Felver has been working at his present trade about five years, having worked first at coopering under James Butler. He is a natural mechanic, and is honest and well spoken of. He has followed several vocations, starting out at boating, then coopering, then railroading, and was in Terre Haute, Indiana, for some four years, where he was, for some time, on the police force of the city. He has also worked for the Massillon and Canton bridge companies.

FERGUSON VINCENT, Lafayette township; farmer; son of Andrew Fei-guson. who came from Ireland in 18flG and locatcil in Jetl'erson county, and was married in this county to Mary Roaderick, January 6, 1825, whose parents were natives of Maryland. He was born in this township in 1843. His father, Andrew F., was born April 2, 1705, and died in 1870. His mother wiis born October 4, 1810, and died in 1866. The subject of this sketch was married in 1866, to Miss Rachel Bates, of Tuscarawas county, who became the mother of three children: Harry, Halston, deceased, and Homer, deceased. Mr. Ferguson keeps good stock on his farm of 438 acres, which his father bought in 1835. He has been township treasurer in his township for the past seven years, and he and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church. ( )f the fourteen brothers and sisters, one brother and five sisters arc living.

FERRELL J. M., White Eyes township; merchant and jiostmaster at Avondale; born in Mc- Connellsville, Morgan county, .\pril, 1833; son of Josejih Ferrell, who was born in Mercer countj', Pennsylvania, about the year 1801, and emigrated to Morgan county in 1826. He married Hannah Daugherty, in 1827; returned to Pennsylvania, in 1886; lived there two years; moved to White Eyes, and settled on a farm jiurchased of Klisha Swigart. His wife died in 1864. He marrioil Mrs. Mary Johnson, in 1867, and died in 187(» J. M. Fcrrell married Nancy M. Ma.xlield, of Orange, and lived in Orange imtil ]8r)6, when lie ni^oved to Kansas. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he left Kansas, and returned to White Eyes. He enlisted in the Fifty-lh-st O. V. I., in Company I, under Captain llcskett, and served three years. After the close of the war, lie located iii Avondale, and sold goods. His wife died in 187o. Their children are, Hattie, born in 1856, married David Tipton, in 1877, and now resides in Johnson county, Kansas; J. E., born in 1866, clerks in the store, with his father; Emzy, born in 1S69, and Walter, born in 1872. Mr. Fcrrell married Miss Mary Funk, in 187.). Mr. Ferril has been longer in business, in Avondale, than any other person doing business there now.

FEREELL JOHN, Coshocton ; street commissioner; born July 13, 1819, in County Donegal, Ireland; son of William and Nancy (Lane) Ferrell. He came to America in 1849, landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained two years and lired an engine. He came to this county in 1851 and located in Keene township, where he mined coal about five years, then came to this city, in 1861, and remained several years, then ri^tvirned to Keene township and farmed until 1872, when he again came to this city and has remained to the present time. Mr. Fcrrell was appointed street conimissioner in Aj)ril, 1874, and has been reappointed until he is now serving his fourth term. ]\Ir. Ferrell was married in the fall of 1842, to Miss Jane, daughter of John Me- Gee, of Scotland. This union was blessed with four children, Matilda, married to Henry Ondian, now residing in Porter county, Indiana, Agnes, William, niarried to Miss Ella Mateer, of this city, and John.

FILLMAN PETER, New Castle township; postoffi(^e. New Castle ; was born in Oldenburgh, Germany, on the 3d of May, 1832. He is a son of John "and Catharine Fillman, and grandson of David Fillman. He attended school from the age of five until he was fourteen, after wdiich he began to learn the tailoring trade with Bartholomew Ludwick. in Fishback. Germany, finishing his apprenticcshiii at the end of three years. He then traveled for four years on the Continent, seeing the sights, of which he gives many interesting narratives. After he finished his rambles, he entered the German army to serve his time there, but at the end of eighteen months he made good his escape, and embarked for America, landing in June, 1855, in the city of New York, riMnained there until the following September, when he came to Port Washington, Ohio, and engaged with Charles Detman to work at his trade remaining there until the summer of 1857, when he went to Dresden, Muskingum county, and worked for Alexander Marten, and in the fall of the same year came to New Castle, Coshocton county, where he has remained ever since, following his occupation. He is also proprietor of the Buckeye hotel, and is doing well, both at tailoring and hotel keeiiing. He married Miss Mary Fulks, daughter of John and Jane Fulks, who was born in Coshocton county. Their union has been blessed with four children, viz: John, Dorca, Sophia, and Mary. John was born September 22, 18G1 ; Dorca, July 28, 1864 ; Sophia, December 19, 1868; and Mary, March 6, 1870. Mr. Fillman was made a member of the Masonic fraternity in the year 186S, and in the year 1872 he joined the I. O. O. F. He is a kind, genial man, and welcomes rich and poor alike to his ho.spitalities.

FUNK DAVID, White Eyes township; Chili postoffice ; farmer; was born September 20, 1842, on the farm on which he now resides. He is the son of Jacoband Anne - daughter of Abraham and INIargaret (Peck) Miller - Funk, who were the jiarents of eleven children, six living: Abraham, Morgan, Margaret, Ellen, Sarah and David. The latter was married Jlay 14, 1872, to Miss Harriett A., daughter of Simon and Sophia (Grimm) Stough; born January 18, 1850. This union has been blessed with two children, John Grant and Ellma Dottie. Jacob Funk, referred to before, is a n.ative of West Virginia, but when about four years of age was taken to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until about 1845, when he came to his present residence with only about $700, but now has an ample competence for his old age, raising and assisting to start in the world his family of sons and daughters.

FINLEY R. E., D. D. S., of the firm of Finley & Wernett, Coshocton ; was born August 28, 1840, in New Salem, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Eli H. Finley, and grandson of Ebenezer Finley, one of the first settlers at Red Stone "Old Fort," near the Monongahela,in Western Pennsylvania. He there shared the perils, hardships and privations of luoneer life in the wild forest, infested with savage Indian warriors. Young Finley spent his childhcX)d and youth on the farm with his father. .\t twenty-three years of age, he entered Dunlaji's creek academy, and on completing his studies there, in 1865, commenced the study of dentistry with Dr. R. J. Cunningham, of Wooster, Ohio; next read with Dr. William Mitchell, a graduate of Philadeliihia dental college. He next formed a partnership with Dr. C. M. Kelsey, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and renmineil with liini, .-itudyinf; and priietioins; in tlie adjoinin.s connlry and villages, until October, 1.S70, when he entered the Oliio dental cdllege. at Cinciiuiati. and was i;radnated with the usual honors of the ela.ss of 1870-71. On receivin<x his diploma, he located at Dresden, and entered into partnershi]) with Dr. F. A. Wernett, a student of the Ohio dental college. Suon after forming the new lirm. they came to this city .and succeeded Dr. Mottiti. corner Main and Fifth street-s, their present location. Drs. Finley ct Wernett have greatly improved and furnished their parlors in a most elegant and tasteful manner.

FINLEY JOHX A., Clark township; farmer; jiostoffice, Clark's; born in Holmes county, Ohio, October IS, ls.51 ; sun of George au<l Priscilla (Vanbuskirk) Finley. and grandson of .Varou and Alice Fiuly, and Josejih Vanbuskirk. His father was born in Jetfersou county; Ohio, his mother in Carroll county, Ohio. His grandfath(^r came from Ireland. He spent liis youth attending school and assisting his father on the farm. At the age of nineteen he began a two-yeai's' coiu'se at Vermilion institute, in Haysville, Ashland county. After that he engaged in farming, and lias continued successfully to the present. He was married August G, 1874, to Miss Martha Friz(dl, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth (Sowa.sh) Frizell, and granddaughter of John and Ellen (Kelly) Frizell and D.miel and Catharine (Spring) Sowash, also great great granddaughter of Jacob Spring and Absolom Frizell. She was born December 12, 1S51, in Holmes county, and became the mother of three children, viz: Eunna, born Ma_y 18, 1875; George C, born October 3, 1878, and" William W., born August 10, 1880.

FISHER HOX. J. C, Cosliocton ; editor of the Democrat; was born December 15, 1840, in Muskingum county, Ohio. At thirteen years of age he moved, witli his father, to a farm in Licking county, where he remained until 180(>, when he took charge of the above named paper, which he has conducted until the present time. His education was obtained in the ]iublic schools and teaching schools, also a four years course at the Denison university. He was elected to the State senate from the eighteenth district in 1873, and re-elected in 1877. He was also, by Governor Allen, appointed, in 1875. member of the Ohio State Fish Commission, for three years, and by Governor Bishop re-aiipointed, in 1878, for a like term. He was married December 15, 18()(i, to Miss S. A. Hawthorne, of Coshocton. The result of this union is two daughters, viz: Annie and Shirly. Mr. Fisher has succeeded well as an oditor and legislator.

stone mason; born August 20, 1S50, in Mu.skingum county; srm of Clark and Mary (Myers) Fisher. His great-grandfather, Daniel Fisher, was born in Milford, Massachusetts, in 1752, and died in l.s2l), was the owner of a large estate, exceeding I,00i) acres, at Newfaue, Vermont. Daniel Fisher, son of the above, was born February IC), 1770, and died August 17, 1802. He married for his first wife, Milticent Durren, of IS'cwfane, Vermont, in 1707. Clark, the eldest child by this marriage, born April 2;i 17!i.S, died July 1." 1874, engaged in farming in Vermont, and in 'iS^S moved to Canada East, in the spring of 1835 he removed to Xew York, and in 18;3S came to Coshocton county; remained till 184ii - except one year, 1840-17, spent in ]\Ierccr county - then went to Muskingum county, having engaged in teaching school since he quit Vermont. He kept a boarding house in Zanesville a while, then on the pike near Si mora. The subject of this sketch was reared in Muskingum county, and about 1872 came to this township. He was married, April 11, 1875, to Martha E. Adams, born May 8, 1852, daughter of Charles and Susan Adams, of this county. They have two children - Charlie Clark, born June 10, 1876, and Bertha Elsie, born October ti, 187',>.

FITCH JAMES, farmer; Tuscarawas township ; Canal Lewisville postofHce ; born November 30, 1S44, in Lafayette township; son of John jM. Fitch and grandson of David Fitch, of lri.sh ancestry. His mother's maiden name was Hester McCleary, daughter of Abraham McCleary, a native of Maryland. James was raised on tlie farm and has always lived in this county. He came to his present residence in 1878. He was married August 11, ISGO, toMi.ss Lucy Jane Babcock, daughter of .\bel Babcock, of Linton township. His children are, Samuel H,, Jesse, Clarinda and Wilbert A,

FITCH JOHN M., deceased, Layfayette township; .son of David Fitch; was born in Guernsey county, in 1820. He was married in 1845, to Miss Hester McClurg, who was born in Virginia, in 1823. Their children were James, Elizabeth. Lucinda. Louisa. John, Margaret, Hannah, David, Sarah, Susannah, George, Hattie, Frank and Hester. Six are married, the rest are at home. Mr. F. died in 1874, aged (ifty-four years. He was a man of good princijiles, honest in all his dealings. He has always lived in this county and since their marriage they have lived on the farm, where his widow now lives. By his own industry he acquired the home he left to his family. They are a prosperous family and have the respect of all their acquaintjinces and friends.

dleton Brothers; is an ingenious mechanic, and doing an extensive business. His father was a native of Virginia, and was married to EUza A. Gorseline. Tliey had eight cliildren, viz: William, John B. Franklin, Alfred, Simpson, Hester, deceased, Charlie and Persian, deceased. The father, Thornton Fleming, has deceased.

FLYNN JOSEPH, engineer at paper-mills; born March 13, 1847, in New York city ; son of Patrick Flynn, a native of Ireland. Young FljTin, when a small boy, sold newspapers at the newsboys' home, New York city. When about sixteen years of age, came to this county, and worked for Washington Darling, about two years ; also worked for Anthony Wimmer, about one year; then came to this city, and engaged in the mill where he is now employed. Mr. Flynn was elected constable, in 1809, and re-elected, in ISSO, which ofKce he now holds. He was married, July 19, 1868, to Miss Mary Reynolds, daughter of Abraham Reynolds, of Canal Lewisville. Their children arc, Susan, William. Eliza, Ellie, Josie and Matilda.

FORBES J. P., Coshocton ; born April 28, 1855, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio; son of T.J.Forbes; American born, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He obtained a rudimentary education in the public schools of Uhrichsville, Ohio, and finished his studies at New Hagerstown academy, Carroll county, Ohio, and Denison university, Granville, Licking county, Ohio. In 1877 Mr. Forbes entered, as a student, the law office of F. Douthitt and read one year, and then came to this city and finished his reading with G. H. Barger, and was admitted to practice by the supreme court of the State of Ohio, I\Iarch'4, 1879. In the same year he formed a partnership with his recent preceptor, under the present firm name of Barger & Forbes. Attorney Forbes was married December 30, 1879, to Miss Maria E. Hay, daughter of Robert Hay, deceased.

Norris block, Blain street ; born August 28, 1849, in West Carlisle, Pike township; son of Daniel Forker, of English ancestry. W. R. was brought up on the farm till seventeen, when he began teaching school and taught three terms. At twenty-one he began clerking in West Carlisle, and remained two years. In February, 1854, he went to California, but returned in July, 1855, and formed a partnership with his brother Samuel in the mercantile business at West Carlisle. In 1858 he went to Missouri and taught school one term, but returned in the fall of same year. In the spring of 1859 he came to Coshocton and served as deputy auditor for his brother Samuel four years. He also served as city mayor and justice of the peace of Pike township. In 1866 he was elected county auditor, and re-elected in 1868.

In 1874 he engaged in the hardware business, which he continued till 1878 when he established his present agencv. Mr. Forker was married .'Vpril 11, IStit;', to Miss Sarah E., daughter of N. R. Welch, of this city. Their children are Julia A., Grace W., Early and William.

FORNEY A. Z., Linton township; farmer: born in Linton township, April 14, 1828; son of Joseph and Susan (Miskimen) Forney; grandson of Abrani and Polly (Forney), and of James and Catliarine (Bartmess) Miskimen. His grandfather Forney moved his family from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1812. His father settled in this county about 1S26. Mr. Forney is the oldest of six children. He was married October 7, 1849. to Huldah Doty, daughter of Ismic and Maria (Sliaw) Doty, born in New Jersey, and came to this county when a little girl. His children are Clark D., Harriet, Joseph W., Franklin, John, Sarah, and Rachel.

FORSYTHE JAMES, Oxford township : farmer; postoffice, White Eye Plains; was born near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1847; son of Samuel and Mary (Whiteside) Forsythe ; came to this county with his parents when about six years of age. where he has since resided. He was married to Rebecca Lisk, of this county, in 1.S51, who was the daughter of James Lisk. His father passed away in 1872; his mother is still living. He has been township treasurer of this township. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. He owns two hundred and fourteen acres of land in the best part of this township.

FORTENBACHER CASIMER, Jefferson township; wagonmaker; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Londenbach, Baden, Germany, March 8, 1840; son of Andrew and Gertrude (Weimer) Fortenbacher. He commenced work at his trade at the age of eighteen, and at the age of twenty-one he enlisted, October 10, 1861, in Company B, Fortj'- sixth O. V. V. I., and was mustered out of service July 23, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in the following engagements: Battle of Shiloh, siege of Corinth, battle of Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, the campaign to Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea, and the battle of Goldsborough. He was never wounded. After the war he took a trip west, but being disappointed he retiu'ned to Columbus, (^hio, and carried on a shop about five years. After leaving Columbus he located in Warsaw, this county, and has been carrying on his shoji to advantage since, having a very fair trade. He married, November 16, 1876, Miss Emma Buckalew, daughter of William and Mary Buckalew. Two children, Ignatius and Lamburt, were born to them.

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daughter of Jainos and Ellon Johnston. Mr. Fortune ha,< been twice married. His second wife was Gordie Hanna. He liad two eliildren with each wife. Postotlicc, Koscoe.

FOSTER OORXELIUS, Jefferson township; born in March, 1.S44, in Coshocton county ; son of William R. and Elizalieth (Davis) Foster, and grandson of Mi.ser and Hannah (Randies) Foster, and of William Davis. Mr. Foster was brought up on a farm and educated in district schools. He lived at home with his parents till about the; age of twenty-eight, when he married Miss Garo- Hne Speeknian, in Mardi, 1872, daughter of John and Rose (Fredrick) Speeknian, and granddaughter of George and Christina (Davis) Fredrick. He low owns a small farm, and by honest industry ^nakes a good living for himself and family. Angeline, Charles P. and Viola G., are the names of their children.

FOSTER JAMES, Jefferson to\vnship; merchant; postofiice, Warsaw ; born in Jackson township, Coshocton countv, October 12, 1830 ; son of William and Sarah A." (Drake) Foster. Mr. Foster wa.s brought up on a farm, and, at the age of twenty-one, lie went to school at West Bedford, and attended tliere two years, then went to Jackson and attended a select school for six months, after which he began teaching conunon schools, and continued ten years. He then engaged as clerk with Dr. Stanton, in a dry goods store, and continued about one and a half years, then formed a partership with Isaac Hogland, purchased the goods of Mr. Stanton, and, in 1874, Mr. Ebenezer Foster became his partner. He afterward purchased his partner's share, and since then has been doing the business himself. He has a good paying custom. His average sales are about $1<5,000 per vear. Mr. F(5ster w-as married October L'4, 1872, to Miss S. S. McCov, daughter of Uriah and Elizabeth (Wolfe) McCoy, and granddaughter of William and Harriet -(Walraven) JlcCoy, and James and Sarah (Jleredith) Wolfe. This union has been blessed with three children - Louis A , born in September, 1873, died Jlarch 14, l.'^77 ; Gladys Pearl, born October 10, 1874, and Glenwood Mc, born March 14, 1878.

FOSTER RALPH, Keene township; farmer; born February, 1822, in Keene township; son of James and Nancy (Ford) Foster, and grandson of John and Catherine (Blain) Foster and of William and Jane Ford, all natives of Ii-eland. Ho was married December 2, 1845, to Madeline Wilson, daughter of .John P. and Grace (Vale) Wilson. Their children were Catherine, Augusta, Etta, William E. and Mary.

pies, in Linton township; the son of Richard and Jane (Elson) Fowler. His father was an early settler in the county. Mr. Fowler was mari-ied July 13, 1842, to Sarah, daughter of Francis Wells, of Tuscarawas townshij). The children born unto them are John W., Richard; Isabel, deceased; Francis, Jeremiah ; Marv, deceased ; Hiram and William Albert.

FOSTER JOHN, Monroe townshij,; son of John and Catharine (Boyd) Foster; was born February 9, 182.3, in Donegal, Ireland, came to America with his parents in 1825, and settled in Coshocton county, where he has since lived; is a farmer; was married in December of 18-55. to Miss Ann J., daughter of W. H. and Martha (Mc- Bride) Burklew; are the parents of two children.

FOX MARTHA, Clark township; postofiice, Helmick; widow of Ira Fox; was born in Ireland, June 13, 1841; daughter of Thomas and Jane Buchannan, who came from Ireland, in 1847. She was married to Ira Fox, August 21,1861; son of Ely and Louvina (Andrews) Fox; born January 25, 1816; died, February 8, 1870. She is the mother of seven children, viz: James H., born December 14, 1862; Thomas I., born July 6,1864; Isabel J., born June 5, 1866 ; Cora E , born January 9, 1869; Joseph D., born January 9, 1872: Wilmer M., born July 18, 1874; George, born April 26, 1878.

FOX EDWIN, Clark township; postofiice, Helmick; born in Clark township, Coshocton county, November 2;^, 1852; son of Ira and Roxanna (Davis) Fox, and grandson of Ely and Louvina (Andrews) Fox. He was raised on the farm, and has spent most of his time at farming, but has also worked at carpentry, and is, at present, partner in a .saw-mill, with George Lowe and Henry Marklcy. He was marrieil, February 23, 1.873, to Miss Mary J. Akin, daughter of James and Sarah (Moore) Akin. She was born in Bethlehem township, July 24, 18.52. They are parents of four children: George, deceased; Cora E., Ira N. and Rose.

FOX ELY, Clark township; farmer ; postofBce. Helmick: born May 8, 1827, in Clark township, on the farm where he now resides; son of Ely and Louvina (.Vndrews) Fox. His father and mother were both born in Hartford, Connecticut, his father in 1789, and his mother in 17'.t4. They moved to Clark town.ship in 1822, entering a tract of land of one thousand acres, two hundred and lifty of which is now owned by the subject of this sketch, and on which he now lives. His father was a ship carpenter, and lived in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1812, and assisted in building the first (Buckingham) bri<lge. His grandfathers were both soldiers of the revolutionary war. He was married February 17, 1849, to Elizabetli Mc-

Coy, cLiiighter of John and Sarah McCoy, from whom he was divorced. He was married again May 17, 1862, to Ann M. Bills, daughter of William A. and Almira (Fulton) Bills, and granddaughter of Allanson Bills and Sam]ison and Elizabeth (Quiglv) Fulton, who was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, July IS, 1832. They are parents of seven children, viz: Ivev I., born

A., June 19, 18G-1; James E., September 24, 1805, deceased; Hannah A., July 20, 1807; Edwin G., December 10, 1808; and Martha J., December 20, 1870. Mr. Fox was a soldier in the late war. belonged to Company E, One Hundred and Forty- Second 0. N. G., and served about four months.

FOX AMOS, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Helmick; born in West Zanesville, Muskingum county, (^liio, June 29, 1801 ; son of Eli and Louvina (Anilrews) Fox, and grandson of Amos Fox. He remiived from Zanesville with bis parents, to Clark township, when he was ten years of age, where he has resided ever since. He is one among the oldest settlers of the town.ship,and -owns a farm of 3o6 acres Mr. Fox was married October 19, 1837,to Miss Chrissa Ann Stover, daughter of Michael and Phebe Stover. She was born in Virginia, December 14, 1800, and came to Ohio at six years of age. They are the parents of eight children, John, decea.sed ; Thomas, deceased ; Ira, Michael H., Louvina, Matthias and Rebecca. John belonged to Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., under Captain James Crooks. He enlisted Sejitember 17, 1801, and died October 20, 1.803, near Chickamauga, Tennessee, where he is buried.

FERGUSON S. T., manager of Coshocton Comn-umwealth, of the firm of Ferguson Bros., publishers and general job printers; born in Harrison county, Ohio, August 24, 1848; resided there until between sixteen and seventeen years old, -when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth O. V. I., and served as a ]irivate in Company I until the close of the war, then served on tlic Pan Handle railroad in tlie capacity of brakoman, freight conductor and pas.senger conductor, for over eleven years. He was married in .January, 1874, to Miss Maggie Ferguson, of Can onsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has one child - Carrie, who is now six years of age. In the year of 1878 be left the railroad and engaged in the fottndry and machine business at Newcomerstown, Ohio, and was burned out shortly after engaging in that business, when he located at Coshocton, Ohio, and is one of the jtartners of that popular sheet called tlie Coshocton O/inmonirenltli. The paper was started on January 1, 1880, the most inauspicious time for such an enterprise, but, through his eflicient management, it has been entirely successful, and reached the acme of excellence, and far surpassed the expectations of the proprietors. It wilt, in the near future, become the paper of Coshocton county.

FERGUSON W. M., editor Coslwdon O/mni'miiridth ; of the firm of Ferguson Brothei's, publishers and general job printers; native of Harrison comity, Ohio, and was born July 29, 1,857; youngest son of Benjamin M. and Cynthia (Haskins) Ferguson. Went to school until about fifteen years old, when, without having ever been under instruction, took up the "art preservative," in company with a younger companion, and published a small paper. In two years he left home and engaged in the office of the Cadiz Sentinel, serving a three years' apprenticeship, being, however, promoted to the foremanship after first six months. He next went to Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county, there establishing a paper called Tlie Eye, and successfully managing it for over a year, when he disposed of his interest and retired for a short time, next, with his brother, jiurchasing an office in Coshocton and starting. January 1, 1880, the Coiihoctim C'umriumuvdlth, which, as a result of their industry, energy and persistent efforts, has now grown into a large, influential, independent weekl}-, ranking among the very best coimty papers in Ohio. The prosperity of the Commonwealtli is evinced in the fact that a new power press and outfit of type has just been added to its office.

FRECK W. C, New Castle township; postoffice, Walhonding ; was born in Holmes county, August 25, 1851; son of Christian and Julia (Miser) Freck. He attended school until the age of fourteen, at which time he began to learn the shoemaker's trade with Henry H. Geiger, of New Bedford, Coshocton county. From there he went to Meadville. Pennsylvania, and engaged with (Carpenter & Mathews in building the court-house of that place. He then went to Garretsville, Ohio, and assisted in building the college and bank in that place, and from there he went to Cuyahoga countf , and assisted in building the court-house in that coimty ; after which he went to Millersburg and served as clerk with R. C. & J. T. Maxwell, in a retail clothing establi-hment, and remained two years. He then went to Lima, Ohio, and engaged with Koch & Levi, retail clothers, and after remaining with them one year he went to St. Louis, and engaged in a wholesale clothing store with L. E. Green & Co., and remained with them three years. His health being impaired he took a trip through the AA'est. visiting Colorado and the Hot Springs, and on returning home to New Bedford he clerked for G. C. Brenner in a general dry goods store eighteen months, after which he formed a partnershiji in general merchandising linder the firm name of Freck & Fair, doing business a year, when he bought the entire stock and moved it to Walhonding on the 1st

-of March, 1879, where he has since been doing a fair business. He was married to Miss Selecta C. Fair August 16, 1S77, daughter of Fenice and Catharine Fair, who was born July 8, 1.S.59, in Hohiies county, Ohio. They liave been blessed with two children, viz: Charles and Mollie.

FREDERICK J. M., Jeflerson township ; farmer; postijffice, Warsaw; born in York county, Pennsylvania, July 13. 1825; son of Jacob and Christina (Frederick) Frederick, who came from Wurtemberg, Germany, and grandson of Casper and Barbara Frederick, who came to Monroe township, Cashocton county, when he was but eight years of age. He never received any schooling, as there were no scho(-ils imtil he was fifteen years old. He was married, November 10, 1S4G, to Miss Sarah Parrot, daughter of John and Dora (Bateman) Parrot, who came from Ireland. She was born March 13. 1826, died June 19, lS5i. They had four children, viz: Robert C, born October 4. 1847; Dorenda A., born September 3, 1849; Martha J., born October 6, 18ol : and William W., born Novcndier 8, 18,53. He was married, November 20, 1854, to Mrs. Phebe Brillhart, daughter of Samuel and Susan (Whitzel) Brillhart, born June 12, 1833. The children of this marriage were ; Mary J., born February IS, 1.S57 ; Samuel J., born August 14, 1859; Surah L., born September 3, 1862; Elizabeth A., born January 22, 1865; Laura M., born August 18, 1867; Rosa C, born October 13, 1869; Emma C, born April 14, 1872; Harriet G., born October 10, 1875, died June 19, 1879. Mr. Frederick is a member of the M. E. church and has been for the past thirty-five years; is a highly respected, pious man. and has raised a large, intelligent family.

FREDERICK BENJAMIN J., Bethlehem township; farmer; son of John C. Frederick; was born August 27, 1856, in Bethlehem township. Mr. Frederick was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married February 12, 1878, to Miss Katie Layman, of this county, who was born in February, 1860. They are the parents of one child, James Clayton, born in August, 1880. Mr. Frederick's father and mother died in January, 1879, aged respectively eighty and sixty years. Tliey were among the first settlers of the township.