White Eyes Township (part 2 of 20)

BROWNING JAMES, Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Coshocton; farmer; was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, March 12, 1813; son of James and ijlary (Snjith) Browning. Young Browning was raised a mechanic, and worked at wagon making until he was twenty-four years of age, when he engaged in farming which he has followed to the present time, with the exception of one year Spent in Indiana, working at mill building. Mr. Browning was first married July 13, 1837, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of John Elson, of this County. Their children were Oliver, Mary Jane, Samuel, killed at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, James Edward, and Hamilton. Mr. Browning was married to Mrs. Mary Jane Jennings, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Brown) Shrawyer.

BROWNING OLIVER, Franklin township; farmer; born in Franklin township, March 6, 1840; son of James Browning; enlisted October, 1861, in Company F, Fifty-first 0. V. I., and was in service four years and two months ; captured at Stone River, paroled at Murfreesboro, and exchanged about eight months afterward ; re-joined regiment November 12, 1863; was in battles of Lookout Mountain, Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville, and all through the Georgia campaign; married in 1866 to Mary E. Gaumer, of Adamsville, Muskingum county, and has five children living, viz: Rebecca Anna, James L., Harvey Allen, Melinda Jane and Eleanor Olive.

BROWNING J. E., Franklin township ; born in Franklin township, July 23, 1847; son of James and Rebecca (Elson) Browning. His father, a native of Maryland, moved from Virginia to this township about 1885. When seventeen years old, in October, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-ninth 0. V. I., and served nine months ; was with Sherman in his march from Atlanta, Georgia, to the sea. He was married February 4, 1873, to Josephine Conley, of this township, and has two children, viz : Charles H. and Edna.

BKENNEMAN JAMES, Bedford township; farmer ; postofBce, Tunnel Hill ; born in 1833, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He went to Kansas, with a company of 100, in 1856, and came to this county from there in 1857. He went to California in 1849, and remained there eighteen months. He -^as in the 100-day service. He was married in 1864, to Miss S. S. English, of this county, who was born in 1842. They are the parents of four children, viz : Almira, Susan J., Josephine and Thomas S. David Brenneman, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1800, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Jane Pinkerton, of the same county, who was born in 1790. They came to this county in 1856. She died in 1868. They were the parents of three children.

BRYAN AMBROSE, Pike township ; postoffice. West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county, in 1827 ; son of John and Mary I. (Deyarman) Bryan. Mr. Bryan's father came to this county in 1816, from Maryland, died August 19, 1850. Mr. Bryan was married October 6, 1856, to Miss Mary A. Hufi, daughter of Eleven and Louisa Huff. They are the pSrents of five children, viz : Sarah I., Robert B., Elizabeth E., Louisa, Martha J.

BURCHEIELD EDWARD, Roscoe village; blacksmith; postoffice, Roscoe; born March 21, 1835, in Jefferson county; son of Andrew Burchfield, a native of Ohio, of Scotch ancestry. Young Burohfield was raised on a farm until sixteen years of age, when he went to his trade and worked at it until August, 1861, when he enlisted in Company I, Ninety-seventh 0. V. L, and served to the close of the war. He was a prisoner about fifteen minutes at Kenesaw, Georgia. Mr. Burchfield came to this county in 1858 and worked journeyman work two years In 1860 he established a shop and conducted it until his enlishment in the service of his country. At the close of the war Mr. Burchfield resumed his trade, and has followed it to the present writing. He was married first in March, 1860, to Miss Susan McNabb, daughter of Geo. McNabb, of Jefferson township. This union was blessed with six children - Mary, Charles, Martha, George (deceased), Ann and William. Mrs. Burchfield died February 14, 1872, and is buried at West Bedford. Mr. Burchfield was subsequently married to Mrs. Maragret J. Noble, daughter of Major Richard Landing (deceased), of Coshocton city. This marriage was blessed with three children - Ida May, Lottie, Fay and David.

BUCKLEW WILLIAM, Clark township; farnie; postoffice, Helmick; born in Clark township, February 19, 1818; son of Park and Elizabeth (Methany) Bucklew, and grandson of Andrew Bucklew. He owns a farm of 231 acres, in the southwest corner of the township, where he has lived all his life. He was married, in April, 1848, to Miss Mary Maggs, daughter of Joseph and Eleanor (Stewart) Maggs, of English descent. She was born in Bethlehem township, March 15, 1826. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Elizabeth, born March 10, 1860; Emeline, born October 20, 1851 ; Francis M., born October 1, 1853; Howard M., born October 21, 1855; Lambert 0., born April 19, 1858 ; Joseph 0., born January 27, 1860 ; Ida M., born December 26, 1861 (died May 7, 1873), and Lemuel E., born January 9, 1864.

BUCKLEW JAMES, ClarTs: township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's ; born in Clark township, Coshocton'county, April 7, 1844; son of George and Sarah (Pardy) Bucklew, and grandson of John Bucklew. He was married, December 28, 1865, to Miss Catharine Mullet,, daughter of Benjamin and Barbara (Zimmermann) Mullett, and granddaughter of John and Catharine Mullet. She was born in Clark township, December 6, 1843, and was the mother of six children - Melinda, born January 6, 1867 (died June 21, 1879); Cordelia N., born May 17, 1868; Elizabeth M., born August 12, 1870; George A., born December 27, 1873; Edward, born September 25, 1875 (died June 17, 1876); Ella A., born March 3, 1879 (died January 18, 1881).

BUNN & SON, grocers and confectioners, Main and Sixth streets, Coshocton, Ohio. Alfred Bunn, senior member of this firm, is a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, where he was bom, March 13, 1817, and emigrated to Ohio in 1845, locating in this county, in which he resided ten years. He then went to Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, where he resided eight years. In 1864, he returned to Coshocton county, and in 1877, he, in company with his son David H. Bunn, engaged in the grocery business, which they conducted until 1878, when they sold to Williams & Co., and in July, 1880, they bought back the stock, since which they have been conducting the business. They occupy pleasant and commodious rooms in Thompson's block, twenty by sixty feet, and have a first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectionaries, tobaccos, cigars, stove and wooden wares, sugar-cured and and pickled meats, fish, salt, flour, etc.

BUBKM ASTER PETER, Perry township; postoffice, New Gilford ; farmer ; born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; settled in this county, in 1862; son of John and Rachel (Barns) Burkmaster, and grandson of Joshua Burkmaster and of Peter Barnes. Mr. Burkmaster has been married three times - first in 1830, to Miss Marv Nevill, daughter of John and Ehzabeth Nevill. This union was blessed with seven children, viz: Rachel, Rebecca, Peter, Sarah, Mary E., Elizabeth

(dead), Hester (dead).' His first wife died in 1844. He married in 1847, Miss Jane Mattock, daughter of Henry and Jane Mattock. This union was blessed with two children, viz : John ' K. and S. J. His secnd wife died in 1858. He' was married in 1861, to Sarah Shaw. Mr. Burkmaster's son, S. J., married Miss Martha J. Thorn. They hive one child, viz : Anna M.

BU:^KLEW B. F., Monroe township; was born October 15, 1848, in Monroe township. He is a son of W. H. and Martha J. (McBride) Burklew, and grandson of Samuel and Hannah Burklew, and of William and Eliza (McKee) McBride. Mr. Burklew was born and bred a farmer, and educated at Spring Mountain academy and Danville high school, of Knox county. At the age of sixty he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first O. V. I., and served fifteen months in the Atlanta campaign, and under General Thomas, at Franklin, Spring Hill, Columbia and Nashville, where he lost an arm. Since the war, lie has spent his time in teaching, farming and selling patent washers. He was married to Miss Sophronia Thomas, in April, 1871, daughter of Uriah and Jane (Crawford) Thomas, and granddaughter of Eunice and Margaret (Cameron) Thomas. Their children are Emery T., born March 22, 1872; Howard L., May 6,1874; William H., June 17, 1876, and Clyde McBride January 20, 1878.

BURNS WILLIAM, Je., jeweler, No. 402 Main street, Coshocton. Mr. Burns is a native of Coshocton; born June 29, 1859, and received his education in the public schools of this city. He engaged in the jewelry business in 1877, (having previously served the required time to qualify himself for this department of business), and now occupies a place in Compton's drug store, where he has a well selected stock of first-class American watches, clocks, jewelry, solid and plated silver ware, gold pens, etc. General repairing a specialty.

BURNS & ROBINSON, proprietors of Miner's store. Main street, Coshocton. 0. F. Burns, managing partner of this firm, is a native of Coshocton, where he received his preparatory education, after which he attended the O.W. U., at Deleware, Ohio. His first business engagement was with his father under the firm name of Burns & Son, which continued until his father's decease, after which the business was conducted in the name of C. F. Burns. In 1877 he engaged in the milling business, at the city mills, under the firm name of Balch & Burns, in which he continued tmtil 1873, when he formed a partnership with L. W. Robinson, and engaged in the grocery business, at tlieir present location, where they occupy commodius rooms, twenty-four by sixty-five feet, and carry a large first-class stock of staple

BURRELL THOMAS H., Bethlehem town- - ship; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of S. C. Burrell ; was born in 1845. He was married in 1870, to Miss Amedia Darling of thiscounty. They are the parents of five children, viz : Julia, Charles, Ernest, Bessie and Blanche G. Mr. Burrell owns a fine farm of 150 acres, in the Walhonding valley. He is trustee of the township. He is a member of the 1. 0. 0. F. and F. and A. M.

BURT JAMES M., retired; postoffice. New Comerstown. He was born in Orange county. New York, December 11, 1810; was married April 16, 1834, to Mary Ann Bradner, who was born December 20, 1813, in the same county,, and emigrated to Ohio in 1836. They left their home October 24, arrived in Coshocton county November 9; located first in Bedford township, and remained there till April, 1837, then bought in this township, and was a citizen here forty-oneyears. He was elected justice of the peace in 1844, and was elected representative in the State legislature in 1848, and re-elected, serving twa terms. In 1850, he was elected associate judge, and continued to hold this position till the constitution abolished the office. He was elected a member of the board of equalization from this and Tuscarawas counties, in 1859-60. He was elected a member of the senate in 1865, re-elected in 1871. They had twelve children, viz : Margaret, now Mrs. Carhart, of New Comerstown ;. James B., of this township ; Martha A. (deceased), was married to Perry Keller, and died in Fredericktown, Knox county, on her twenty-ninth birth-day; Daniel, (deceased); Caroline, (deceased);^ Harriet, now Mrs. Rodgers, of this township; Clara, (deceased) ; Louis P., resident of this townphip ; an infant son and daughter, (deceased) ; Mary, (deceased) ; William, now resident of New Comerstown, civil engineer and operator.

BURT J. B., Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice. West Lafayette; was born in 1837, on what is now the fair grounds; was married in 1865, to Miss Margaret Bell, of this township, and they have had five children : Perry E., Mary, Jennie, Carrie (deceased, in February, 1877,) and James R. Mr. Burt was elected justice of the peace, in 1876, his commission bearing date April 12. He and his wife are mem.- bers of the Baptist church - Mr. Burt since 1856, and Mrs. Burt since 1866; he has been a deacon in said church since 1866. Mr. Burt owns 200 acres of land in this toivnship, and is one of its representative men.

born in this township, the 3d of February, 1856; ,son of Judge Burt;, was married the ]6th of October, 1870, to Miss Frances C. Conaway, of Adams township. They have had four children : an infant (deceased), Nellie Bell, James Lewis and Charley Conaway. Mr. Burt lives on his farm of 138 acres in this township, and owns 200 acres in Chase county, Kansas. He is supervisor in this township this year. Mr. Burt and 'his wife are members of the Baptist church.

BUSBY AAEON, M. D., Crawford township; -Chili ; born in Caroll county, Ohio, 1844 ; son of John W. Busby and Ann (Murryman) Busby, both natives of this State. Dr. Busby was married in 1866 to Rebecca B. Wallace. They have family of five children; Earl W., Carrie, Grace, Clyde and Wade. The doctor began practicing at Tippecanoe, Harrison county, Ohio, remained there two years, and tlien located near Perrysville, Coral county, Ohio, and came to Chili in 1878, where he is now practicing.

BUSH N. C, Perry township ; postoffice, Mohawk Village ; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county in 1841 ; son of John and Anna (Cleget) Bush; married in 1861 to Miss Susanah E. Almac, daughter of John and Mary Almac. He married December 22, 1866, Miss Louisa Cullison, daughter of Ephraim and Harriet Cullison. They have one child, viz : Alma. He enlisted in 1862 in Conipany A, Ninth Ohio Cavalry, (Captain Sims), Colonel Hamilton (commanding), Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Bush was engaged in the battle at Cumberland Gap, siege of Knoxville, Jonesborough and Aikin. This gallant regiment had the honor of fighting the last engagement prior to Johnston's surrender, which occurred near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Colonel Hamilton was promoted by General Grant for gallant conduct during this engagement.

BUTLER FELIX, New Castle township; was born in New Castle .township, Coshocton county, Ohio, September 10, 1810; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Severns) Butler, who came to Muskingum County in 1795, and remained there until the following year, when he came to Coshocton county and settled near the junction of the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers, where he remained three years, he then removed to New Castle township, where he remained until he died at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He is a grandson of Joseph Butler, who came to Coshocton county in 1801, from Monongahela county, Virginia. The name of great grandfather Butler was either Joseph or Thomas ; was a native of Ireland, and was killed in 1740, in Virginia, by the Indians, at which time his wife and son James were taken prisoners by the Indians. The wife escaped the second night, but James was kept eighteen months, when he was released by treaty. Benjamin Butler, an uncle of the subject of this sketch, in company with Joseph Walker, laid out the town of Mt. Vernon, Knox county, in 1805. He was married in 1852 , to Miss Nancy Farquahar, daughter of Enoch and ' Nancy (Moore) Farquahar, and granddaughter of Samuel Farquahar, who came to Mt. Vernon in 1807, from Frederick county, Maryland.

BUXTON LEONE, New'Castle township; was boi'n in New Castle township, January 1, 1859; daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, granddaughter of Thomas and Frances Buxton and James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, and great-granddaughter of Thomas Butler. Her grandfathers were' both soldiers in the war of 1812. . She has one brother and two sisters, viz James, Constance and Mary.

BUXTON N. W., Perry township ; postoffice, West Bedford; born in this county in 1842; son of Noah and Katharine Buxton, grandson of Thomas and Frances Buxton. He was married in 1862, to Miss Hannah Mikisell. Mr. Buxton is the father of six children, viz: J. W., G. B. (deceased), N. D., Warner W., Mary V., Marion and Sarah H. Mr. Buxton's father was one of the early settlers of this county, and still lives, enjoying the fruits of his early toil.

BUXTON JAMES, Jefferson township; post> office, Warsaw ; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, August 13, 1844; son of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and grandson of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, who settled in Tuscarawas county, in 1804. He lived on the farm until the age of twenty, then began clerking in a store in Walhonding, for N. W. Buxton, and continued two years. He then engaged as clerk* with James Foster, of Warsaw, and remained with him two years ; returning to Walhonding, he clerked a year and a half for J. S. McVey, after which he engaged in bridge building for three and a half years, then returned to James Foster's and clerked six months'. He then engaged with Nickols & Gamble in merchandising in Warsaw, and has been there near three years. In 1864 he drove 1,200 sheep to Valparaiso, Indiana, and from there went to Cedar county, Iowa, remaining one year. He is a kind, genial young man, highly esteemed and well adapted to business.

BUXTON M. W., Jefferson township; born April 15, 1830, in Coshocton county, at East Union ; son of John and Elizabeth (Todd) Buxton (distant relation of ex-governor Todd). Mr. Buxton lived in East Union till about the age of nine years, when his parents took him, to the farm, where he lived till the age of eighteen, when he engaged in various kinds of work, grubbing, clearmg and farming on the shares for three years, when he went into the grocery business with his uncle, Thomas Baxton, for two years; after that he followed farming in Union county awhile, then moved to Knox county, then back to Coshocton county; was butchering and merchandising some time; then began taking contracts for stone work for county bridges, etc., at which he was very successful. Mr. Buxton was married, in 1853, to Miss Lorinda Butler, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler. Their are James B. and John M. James married Miss Malinda Trout and resides in Knox county. John is reading medicine under Dr. Eussell, in Mount Vernon. After the death of Mrs. Buxton, he married Miss Cadence C. Buxton, in 1862, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, and great granddaughter of Thomas Butler. William T., Olive, Mary JE., and GertrTide E., were the names of their 'Children.

CAMPBELL THOMAS, (deceased), was born May 21, 1816, in Steuben ville, Ohio; attended school while a boy until fifteen years of age, when, with his father, he settled on a farm in Adams township, this county. In 1832Tie entered Frankhn college, and remained two years. In 1835 he came to this city, and spent the first year clerking and teaching school. In 1888 he entered, as a student, the law office of James Matthews, and was admitted to the bar March 4, 1841, at Steubenville. In 1842 he commenced the practice of law in this city, and was elected the following year to the office of prosecuting attorney, and was re-elected for the two succeeding terms, serving six consecutive years. In 1852 he was elected probate judge, being the first judge under the new constitution of the State, term of office, three years. In 1866 he was associated with R. M. Voorhes, firm name, Campbell & Voorhes, attorneys and counselors at law. Judge Campbell was mar- Tied August 5, 1841, to Miss Martha Wallace, of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with six children, two of whom, John and Patrick Steel, died at Corinth, Mississijjpi. Those living are. Dr. James Campbell, married to Miss Maggie Crimm, of Dennison, Ohio, and now residing in Iowa county, Iowa ; Mary Jane, married to. Robert A. McKelley, of Upper Sandusky; IsalDelle, married to Dr. Robert H. Bradley, now a resident of Marshal county, Illinois, and William F., residing in lovta. county, Illinois. Judge Campbell died very suddenly on Wednesday morning, July 6, 1881. Up to the time of Tiis death he was in his usual health. He had "been at work about his office table the same morning. A moment before the final summons he walked to a front window, looked out and remarked upon the probability of a rain-fall during the day, and then turned and stretched out his hand in the direction of a chair, when he suddenly fell to the floor. Charlie Hunt, a law student, was the only person in the office. He hastily stepped into the hall and called to Mr. Bargar, who was in the next room. Mr. Bargar and Mr. Triplett in an instant were at the side of the prostrate form. His collar was loosened and the body straightened to an easy position, but by the time this momentary work was done there was no sign of life. The vital spark had fled with his fall to the floor, so quickly, perhaps, that no sensation of pain came to the body before the spirit had flown. Life went out as suddenly as the light of a candle is extinguished.

CARHART J. M., tanner and leather dealer, of the firm of J. & H. Carhart, Main street, Roscoe; born May 10, 1841, in Roscoe; son of, John Carhart (deceased). J. M. was raised in his native village. At eighteen he went into the dry goods store of J. G. Stewart as clerk, and remained until April, 1861, when he enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth 0. V. I. (three months' men), and served to the close of his enlistment. In September of the same ypar he enlisted as musician in Reginiental Band Fifty-first 0. V. I., in which he served about ten months. In July, 1863, he re-enlisted in Company M, Ninth O. V. C, and was appointed first sergeant of the company, and, subsequently, commissioned second lieutenant, which office he resigned in March, 1865, on account of the lop of the left eye. He engaged in the present firm December 6, 1874, which does a general tanning business, and deals extensively in leather of all grades. Lieutenant Carhart was married February 8, 1864, to Miss Emily C. Taj'lor, of Roscoe. They are the parents of three children - Estella, Gertrude and John E. Carhart.

CARNAHAN WILLIAM, Coshocton; farmer; was born February 24, 1829, in White Eyes township; son of John and Sarah (Marshall) Carnahan. Sarah Marshall's grandparents (Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell), were killed by the Indians, in Washington county^ Pennsylvania. Her sister was taken prisoner, by the savages, and kept fourteen years, but escaped, on an armed vessel, at Quebec, disguised as a soldier. John Carnahan, father of William, came to White Eyes township, in 1826, being one of the eight who were the only inhabitants of the township. He assisted to organize the township for official and election purposes, and also was one of the first justices of the peace. Esquire William Carnahan owns the old homestead on which he lived forty-five years, but, in 1874, he built his present residence, corner of Orange and Eighth streets, which he has occupied to the present time. He was elected justice of the peace, in 1864, and served until his removal from the township, having been elected four times. He was married May 22, 1850, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Thomas Miller, of Holmes county. Mary Alma is their only child.

CAEE MICHAEL B. (deceased), Linton township; born January 18, 1824, in Massachusetts; son of James and Hannah Carr ; when about twenty-one years old, moved to Linton township ; here married Jane Glenn, born January 4, 1830, in Jefferson county, daughter of John and Jane (Lamb) Glenn. Mr. Glenn was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and moved from Jefferson to this county in 1832. Mr. Carr was a shoemaker and followed his trade in Plainlield, except four years - 1849-63 - spent in Ottawa, until he moved to the farm where Mrs. Carr now resides, in 1866. He. died March 13, 1875. His children are John Calvin (deceased), James C, Sarah A., William B., Hannah J. (Jones), Thomas, Ward, Clark M., Sarah C, Mary Bell, Elizabeth A., Elias Glenn, George M, and Bertha Alice. Four of his sons are school teachers. James C, the oldest has taught nine years ; he was married April 3, 1872, to Eliza J. Tedrick, daughter of Eeed and Amelia Tedrick, and has three children, Charlie Eeed, Earnest M. and Mary Belle.

CAEE E. C, M. D., Coshocton, Ohio, Main street. Dr. Carr was born April 17, 1850, in East Union, Coshocton county,-Ohio; son of Dr. James G. and Eliza (Bond) Carr, of English and Irish ancestors. He received his education in the public schools of the county, Newcomerstown high school and Mt. Union college. His first profession was school teaching, which he followed three years. In 1872 he began reading medicine with his father. He was graduated in the science of medicine in the spring of 1875. His first professional practice was at Millersburg, Holmes county, with Dr. Pomerene ; after which he practiced at Holmesville until April, 1881, when he came to Coshocton, Ohio. I)r. E. C. Carr was married July 6, 1875, to Miss Anna M., daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Holmes) Jack, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are the parents' of three children, viz : Jas. G., Eliza H. and Emma P.

CAKE J. S., M. D., Clark township; postoffice, Clark's ; born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, March 19, 1825; son of Thomas and Orpha (Seawai-d) Carr, and grandson of John and Maragret (Mc- Guire) Carr, and Eli and Ellen Seaward. His father's ancestors were from Ireland, and his mother's parents were Puritans. His father was a minister of the M. E. church ; was admitted to conference in 1820, and remained in active service until 1848, then served as supernumerary until 1856, when he died. Mr. Carr began the study of medicine with Dr. A. E. Bassett, of Portage county, Ohio, in 1846, and, after .reading three years, he attended lectures at the Western, Keserve Medical College, of Cleveland, Ohio, and,, in the spring of 1849, .began practice in East Union, Coshocton county, where he remained five years, then moved to Bloomfield, where hehas had a successful practice since. He enlsited during the war in Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth 0. N. G., in the capacity of assistant surgeon, and was also appointed as assistant surgeon in Twenty-sixth O. V'. V. I. He has been thrice married, the first marriage being on the 12th of April; 1849, to Miss Caroline E. Bond,, daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth Bond, who was born July, 21, 1826, and died July 3, 1851. She was the mother of one child - Edmund C, born April 17, 1850, who is now a practitioner of medicine. Mr. Carr's second marriage was on the- 8th of January, 1852, to Anna McCaughan, daughter of A. and Ann McCaughan, by whom he had one child - James Mc, born October 14, 1852, died February 4, 1863. His last marriage occurred February 16, 1858,. with EUzabeth B. Stover, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Story) Stover, and granddaughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Stover, and Ephraim and Jemimah (Clark) Story. She was born in November, 1824, in Canterberry, Conneticut.

C AEEOLL EICH AKD, Linton township; shoemaker; residence, Plainfield ; born MsCrch 11, 1820, near Belfast, Ireland ; son of Eichard and Marlha (Hobson) Carroll. His mother's parents were Quakers, but she was converted to Methodism when eleven years old. His father was weighmaster of the grain market at Belfast and landsteward of the large estates of Stephen May. Mr. Carroll learned the shoemaker's trade in Belfast and conducted a large trade there. In 1856, he emigrated with his family to Plainfield, and hascarried on his trade there since. He entered service, September 6, 1864, in company F, Fifteenth O. V. I., performing detailed duty in Sherman's eastern campaign, and was discharged June 8, 1865. In 1842, he was married to Jane Eussell, born at Port Adoun, Ireland, daughter of James Eussell. Their children are Margaret Jane (Tedrick), John, Sophia C, Eichard, Sarah Flora, Anna B. (deceased), and Thomas Benjamin (deceased).

CAKEOLL J. C, Lafayette township; boot and shoe manufacturer; born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1847, and came to this country in 1856; was married, in 1872, to Miss Agnes McCune. They have had four children: Thomas, Maggie, an infant, and Charles. Mr. Carroll took an active part in the late war, going out in company H, Eightieth 0. V. I., and served with that regiment fifteen months, and served three years in the regular army afterward; was census enumerator of this township in 1880, and is an enterprising and skillful workman.

CAKSON JAMES, Keene township; farmer; born in Steubenville, Ohio, December 11, 1818; son of John and Ann Carson; grandson of James and Esther (Reed) Carson and of James and Ann Swain. His father's family consisted of four children: Esther, William (deceased), Sarah and James. At the age of three he was brought to Coshocton county, and remained here till 1854, and then went to California and spent five years in Bute and one year in Sierre county. He next moved to Virginia City, Nevada, where he engaged in the lumber business about two and a half years, then returned to Coshocton county and has followed farming here since.

CASSINGHAM J. W., county auditor; was born June 22, 1840, in Coshocton city; son of George F. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Cassingham. His paternal ancestry is English, and his maternal Irish. Mr. C. began business as clerk in the county treasurer's office, in 1857, where he remained until 1868, when he engaged in the grocery business, firm name of Cassingham & Crowley. This firm dissolved in 1874, when Mr. C. engaged in the coal business, firm name of & Cassingham. Mr. C. withdrew from this firm in the spring of 1881. From 1872 to the present time he has been mrtner in the Coshocton Paper Company. Mr. Cassingham was elected to his present office, auditor of the county, in the fall of 1881. He vws married November 5, 1863, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Samuel and Julia (Crowly) Lamberson. They are the parents of two children, viz : Charles L., and George W.

CASSINGHAM GEORGE F , was born April 19, 1812, in Kent county, Ireland; son of Thomas and Phebe (Ford) Cassingham ; came to America in the fall of 1818, and located in Muskingum county, Ohio, where they remained until the old gentleman's death. He had eight sons and four daughters, viz : Thomas, Richard, James, John P., Henry, William, Ford and George F., the subject of our sketch. The names of the four daughters are as follows: Phebe, Elizabeth, Sophia and Mary Jane. In 1833, George F. came to this city, and engaged in shoemaking. In 1845, he was elected justice of the peace, and, in 1846, recorder, and held both ofiices nine years,. and, in 1879, was again elected justice of the peace, which ofiice he now holds. Esquire Cassingham was married May 23, 1835, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wilson, They became the parents of four children, viz : Juha (deceased), Sarah, Mary Jane and John W.

CASTEEL THOMAS, Perry township; postoffice. West CarHsle; born in Pennsylvania, in 1799; son of Jesse and Sarah Casteel. Mr. Casteel has been twice married ; first, in 1819, to Miss Eutha Dicken. His first wife died in September, 1836. They had ten children, viz : Amos, Darcus (deceased), Jessie, Eliza E., John W., Urias, Perry, Druzilla, Etha and Ruth. In 1836, he married Susannah Bottomfield, daughter of Henry and RacSel (Flagle) Bottomfield. They have seven children, viz: Rachel. Jackson, Jacob (deceased), James M. (deceased), Sarah, Susan and Thomas. Mrs. Casteel has lived in this county fifty-six years, and has been in the town of Coshocton only once in all that time.

CATON GEORGE R., White Eyes township; farmer; postoffice. Chili, Ohio; born December 18, 1831, in White Eyes township ; son of Thomas and Mary (Ringer) Caton; a native of Pennsylvania, but came to White Eyes township among the first settlers of the township ; George R. was brought up in the township. Mr. Caton was married in February, 1855, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hughes McCollum, formerly of Pennsylvania. They became the parents of nine children, \'iz: Franklin, Lafayette, Mary Alice, married to Michael Sherman, now residing in White Eyes township, Sarah Jane, Thomas J., Elsworth C, James L., George W., Solemma Bell and U. S. Grant. Mr. Caton has succeeded well as a farmer, having a good home for a large family.

CATON A. S., Roscoe postoffice ; merchant, of the firm of Moore & Caton, White Woman street; born June 28, 1852, in Berrin county, Michigan ; son of Andrew Caton, American born, of German ancestry. When one year old he came to this State with his parents, and settled on* a farm in Marrow county, and after a few removes, settled in Knox county. At seventeen years of age, he began teaching school and taught two years. He then entered the Ohio Wesleyan college, at Delaware, and attended three years. On leaving college, in company with his brother-in-law, settled on a farm in West Bedford township, where they remained one year, when they exchanged the farm for the building and stock of goods owned by A. Pettit, and continued the business at the place named above. This firm has been very successful, notwithstanding their having had no previous mercantile experience. Their business has increased largely in the last few years. Mr. Caton was married September 11, 1874, to Miss Dottie Moore, daughter of William Moore, of West Bedford township.

CHAD WELL JAMES T., Linton township; farmer; born in Tuscarawas county, July 25, 1826; son of George and Ruth (Taylor) Chadwell, both grandfathers were English born. His grandfather, Thomas Taylor, was brought to America as an English soldier, during the revolutionary war, but deserted the ship before he landed and swam ashore. He was the only one of three to reach the shore. His grandfather, John Chad- well, settled in Virginia. His father, born in Loudon county, Virginia, came to Jefferson county in 1814, when sixteen years old, and afterward moved to Tuscarawas county, where James was raised. In 1850, April 6, Mr. G^iadwell married Miss Sarah, daughter of James and Magdalena (Minnick) Updegroff, born in Carroll county, and at five years of age was brought to Tuscarawas county by her parents. Their children are Mary (Welker), Jane (Marlatt), Samantha (Marlatt), Phcebe (deceased), Maria (deceased), and Ella May. In 1853 Mr. Chadwell moved to Boss county, and lived th«re eleven years. He spent the summer of 1865 in Tuscarawas county, and has resided in Linton township since. He entered military service in May, 1864, as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-ninth 0. N. G., serving four months.

CHAMBERLIN O. P., Linton township; born in Lafayette township. May 1, 1842. His father, John G., emigrated from Vermont about 1838. His mother, Gertrude Shaffer, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Shaffer, was born at Albany, New York. He was married February 7, 1861, to Miss E. J. Moore, daughter of Rev. John and Bosanna Moore; born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Her grand parents were Joseph and Eliza (Glenn) Moore, both of Irish nativity, and Henry and Jane (Lyle) Donnell, of Virginia birth. Mr. Chamberlin has two children, Olive P, and Gertrude R. He enlisted February, 1862, in Company K, Eightieth 0. V. I.; mustered out September, 1865. He participated in the siege of Corinth's battles of luka and Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, battle of Mission Ridge, and Sherman's engagements in Georgia. In 1873 he moved to Linton township, and has lived here since.

CHALFANT H. M., farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Dresden; born in 1840, in this county. His father was born in 1807, in what is now Perry county, and came to this county with his father in 1808. He was married in 1830 to Miss Delilah Hayes, of this county, who was born in 1813. They are the parents of eight children, five of whom are living. H. M. Chalfant, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1861 to Miss Elizabeth Mossman, of this county, who was born in 1840. They are the parents of seven children, viz : D. A., Lena L., Sybil J., John C.,Mary L., George W. and Ina M.

CHANEY JONATHAN, Pike township; postoffice, Frazeysburgh, Muskingum county ; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1850; son of Emanuel and Margret (Ashcraft)) Chaney, and gradson of Joseph and Elizabeth Chaney. He was married in 1876, to Miss Mary E. Moran, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Moran. They are the parents of two children, viz: . Flaura B. and Charles E. '

CHANEY S. F., Pike township; merchant; born in 1864, in Muskingum county, Ohio; came to this county in 1860. He was married in 1879 to Nancy E. Forrest, of this county. She was born in 1842, in this county. They are the parents of one child - Otto Clay. He bought an interest in the store of L. V. Cox, in 1878, who died in March, 1879. In the same year he purchased his interest of the heirs, and now continues the business alone, dealing in dry goods, groceries, hats and caps, boots and shoes, queensware and notions. Sole agent for Bambo's woolen goods.

CHAPMAN DB. BABZILLAI W., Adams township, Bakersvilie, Ohio; was born October 2, 1835, near Washington, Pennsylvania; son of Bichard and Catharine (Updegraff) Chapman, who were the parents of thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters. The father was of Irish and the mother of German descent. Dr. Chapman was brought up in Washington county, Pennsylvania. At twenty years of age, he began reading medicine with Dr. Solomon Beers, of Newcomerstown, Ohio. He began the practice of his profession at New Albany, Ohio, in May, 1858. In - 1862, he went to Morristown, where he remained until 1864, when he came to his present residence, He was first married, December 20, 1855, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Isabella (Major) Spencer. By this union he became the father of three children, viz: Alexander L., who died March 30, 1859, Isabel C. and Lucinda B. Their mother died January 6, 18 - . The doctor was married, April 10, 1873, to his present wife. Miss Catharine, daughter of John and EHzabeth (Winger) Zimmerman, natives of Bern, Switzerland. They are the parents of one child, viz : Edwin B., born August 16, 1874. The doctor's grandfathers, to the fifth generation, have all borne the name of " Bichard." He has a relict of his grandfather which is here given, verbatin: "That Richard Coppmann and his wife, Sarah Coppman, alias Patterson, are Protestants, regular members of this congregation; honest and sober and free from scandal or ground of church censure known to us, is, by order of session, certified at Castleblaney, county Monaghan, Ireland, September 12, 1783, by James M. Attley, District Minister."

CHASE LESLIE, Clark township; hardware merchant; postoffice, Clark's ; born in Bloomfield, Coshocton county, June 22, 1857 ; son of John and Bebecca (Lewis) Chase. He learned the tinner's trade with Mr. D. St. John, of Cardington, Monroe county, Ohio, and worked in his employ for three years; then came to Bloomfield and engaged in the hardware business in the fall of 1876, in which he has been engaged since. In connection with his store he has a tin-shop, in which he carries on his trade, paying particular attention to roofing and spouting. He does a fair business, both in hardware and at his trade, and is an accommodating, practical business man. He was married October 18, 1878, to Miss Emma Duncan, daughter of William and Fannie (Elliott) Duncan. They have one child, Fannie, born May 30, 1880.

CHURCH JOHN R., Monroe township; was born November, 1850, in Tiverton township; son of Benjamin S.andMargret E. (Cox) Church; grandson of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Simmons) Church, who are natives of Fall River, Massachusetts. Mr. Church lived in Tiverton Center till the age of twelve years, when he went to farming and attended country school. His education was completed in the Spring Mountain academy. At the age of twenty-one he began teaching, which he has followed in the winter seasons ever since. Mr. Church is a thriving young farmer and resides at present in Monroe township, Coshocton county. He was married to Miss Rachel A. Bantum, October 25, 1876, who was born in 1851, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Easter) Bantum, and granddaughter of John and Anna Bantum, and of George and Elizabeth Easter. She was educated at Warsaw and Spring Mountain, is a member of the Evangelical church. They have two children, Robert v., born December 10, 1877, and Nelly, born October 6, 1880.

CLARK JOHN, Tuscarawas township ; farmer ; postoflB.ce, Coshocton ; was born April 28, 1814, in Fawn towhship, York county, Pennsylvania. He came to his present farm residence about the year 1863. Mr. Clark was married January 1, 1866, to Miss Mary Ellen, daughter of John and Lucy (Swaringum) Morgan, of Lafayette township. This union was blessed with one child, John James, born October 29, 1868. Mr. Clark has by honest- industry possessed himself of a good farm, from which he realizes a comfortable living for himself and family. '

CLARK JOHN, Bethlehem township ; farmer ; postoflSce, Warsaw, Ohio ; son of Samuel Clark : was born in this county, in 1813. His father came to this county in 1810 or 1811, and was of Irish descent. He was one of the oldest citizens of Coshocton county. When he came to the county, he found it a wilderness, with here and there a cabin, surrounded by a small lot of cleared land. He was county commissioner two terms, and served as justice of the peace in his township for a number of years. John Clark was married February 3, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth N. Skillman, who was born in New Jersey, in 1819. They became the parents of eleven children, viz : James A., Mary W., Margaret J. (deceased), Thomas, Isaac M., John A., Anna C, Emma, Lizzie and Edward E. Lizzie 'follows the profession of teaching. Mr. Clark owns a fine farm in Bethlehem township, and is esteemed by all his neighbors. He and his wife are prominent members of the M. E. Church.

CLARK JAM:I:S W., Franklin township; farmer; born in Linton township, November 17, 1829; son of James Clark, born in 1811, and grandson of William Clark, a pioneer of this county. He has always lived in Linton and Franklin townships, except a year spent just across the Muskingum. Taught school nine years, beginning in 1850; then opened a store in Maysville, which he conducted for six years, then engaged in farming; married in 1853, to Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Piper, of Muskingum county. Of his eleven children, only four survive, viz: William ifflbert, Elizabeth Olive, Richard Oliver and Stella Ann. Walter, in 1877, at sixteen years of age, was drowned while bathing in the Muskingum river. Nancy Jane, di^d in 1878, of consumption, aged eighteen years. The other children died yoimg.

CLARK WILLIAM W., Franklin township; farmer; born in Tuscarawas township, April 18, 1813; son of William and Nancy (Valentine) Clark. His father, born in 1776, came to Tuscarawas township from Virginia before 1809, was a soldier in 1812, and died May 11, 1842. His family consisted of Margaret (McCleeary), Hugh, James, Nancy (Bainter), John, Ehzabeth (Preston)-, William W. (the subject of this sketch), and Samuel. Only the youngest three now survive. Mr. Clark married Dorotha N., daughter of Sylvester and Hannah (Snyder) Preston. Her father emigrated with his family from New York in 1838. She was the youngest of eleven children, viz: Sarah (Bouton), Zerah, Robert W., Zachariah S., Lewis B., Otis A., Joseph W., Harriet ( Wilcox),Mary J. (Wilcox), Julia A. and Dorotha, Mr. Clark has had eight children, four of whom survive, viz: _ James P., Elizabeth P., Hannah, Jane (McCpllough), of Guernsey county, Mary Catharine (Emler).

CLARK WILLIAM M., Franklin township; farmer; born in Linton township, June 27, 1825; son of James, and grandson of William Clark; one of the earliest settlers of the county; emigrated from Maryland, and moved to Franklin township in 1864; was married February 12,1850, to Rebecca A. Bryan, who was born in Franklin township, and is the daughter of Stephen K. Bryan. Their family consists of six children, viz : Martha Jane, Mary, James, Stephen, John and Thomas.

CLARK BENTON, Tackson township; farmer; postoflfice, Roscoe, Ohio; son of Archibald and Sarah (Hogland) Clark; was born September 29, 1837, in this county. His father was of Irish de- scent, but was born and raised in this county. His mother was of Enghsh descent, and was also born and raised in this county. They were among the oldest pioneers of the county. Mr. Clark was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married in 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Thompkins, of this county. They became the parents of four children, viz : Henry, Archibald, James and Adam. Mr. Clark owns a fine farm in the Walhonding valley.

CLARK S. B , Jackson township; born in this county, in 1839; son of William and Hannah Clark, and grandson of Samuel and Rachel Clark; married, in 1863, to Nancy E. Boring, daughter of Kinzy and Margaret Boring. Mr. Clark is the father of five chidren, viz: William C, H. K., Marion, Wealthy and Milton. Postoffice, Rosco.

.CLARK JOSHUA, New Castle township; farmer; postoffice. New Castle; was born February 10, 1808, in Harrison county, where the town of Harrisville now stands, and which was, at that time, in the woods. He is the son of John and Mary (Boothe)' Clark, who were the parents of ten children. His father was Welsh and his mother of English descent. They were Quakers, from the neighborhood of Philadelphia.

He came to New Castle township, with his father, when he was eighteen years old, and settled on the land now occupied by the village of New Castle, and, about three years later, his father laid out the village of Liberty (now New Castle).

At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Mary Given, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Barr) Given. She was raised on Wheeling creek, near Wheeling, West Virginia. They then moved to Morrow county, Ohio, and settled in the woods ; but their stay here was short, on account of the scarcity of food and labor, being three miles from the nearest settlement where they could obtain the necessaries of life. While there they lived in a cabin with a fire-place in one end, the backwall and chimney being but six feet high, and were therefore in danger of attacks from wolves. They lived the first week in this cabin without its being daubed, and the snow fell about ankle deep.

He attended eleven raisings and log-rollings during the first two weeks of his sojourn in that place. At the expiration of about six months they had consumed about all the provisions they had brought with them, and then began to think it time to move, so they returned to New Castle township, Coshocton county, where he is still living.

has been" twice married. His first wife bore him four children, viz : William, Love M., Allen and Elizabeth. William resides near East Union, Coshocton county ; Love married William Warton, of Butler township, Knox county ; Allen is a farmer of Jackson township, Knox county;. Elizabeth is the wife of Jesse Mercer, of Jackson township, Knox county. He was married a second time to Miss Eleanor Wilson, on the twentieth of June, 1841, daughter of WiUiam and Rebecca(Melick) Wilson, granddaughter of James and Rebecca (Jones) Wilson ; also of John and Eleanor Melick. She was born January 28, 1813, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania.

This union resulted in eight children, viz: Thomas (deceased), Rebecca, Joshua, Martha, Charles H., Robert H., Hannah S. and Samuel Mc. Mr. Clark relates that when his father was moving to this county, they came to Coshocton on Sunday, and had to cross the river on a ferry boat, and that the whole town came down to the river to help them across, and that in ferrying the cattle across they had a good deal of trouble, some of them jumping overboard and swimming back. Among those of the village that turned out to assist them, were Mr. Adam Johnson and Colonel Williams. He also relates, that on arriving in New Castle township, after two days heavy driving from Coshocton, they moved in a house with one or two other families, and lived two weeks there, until they could build one of their own, and that there were about twenty persons in all occupying the house during those two weeks. On the farm where he now lives stands the trunk of an apple tree, that measures ten feet, three inches in circumference, that the seed or sproiit had been planted by Johnny Appleseed, who then lived upon the Mohican. . The trunk is about seventy years old, and in one specially favorable season, bore 140 bushels of apples.

CLARK NATHAN, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county in 1839; son of Manley and Mary Clark. He was married in 1860, to Miss Mary E. Magruder, daughter of Hezakiah and Sarah A. (Lake) Magruder. They are the parents of three children, viz ; RoUen, George V. and Iva J. The subject of this sketch died in 1870. His widow still lives on the home farm, together with her daughter and two sons, surrounded by all the necessary comforts of life. Mrs. Clark's father died in 1858, her mother in 1850. She is the oldest of a family of five children.

CLARK WILLIAM, Perry township, New Guilford postoffice; born in this county in 1828; son of Joshua and Mary Clark, and grandson of William and Elizabeth (Barn) Giffln, and of John Clark; was married in 1861 to Miss H. L.

Teatoh, daughter of Ellis and Elizabeth Vefftch. They have nine children, viz : Elmer V., Walter H., Harriet E., Duette, Mary E., WiUiam H., T. E., Sylvia M. and Charles H.

CLEMMENS W., Coshocton; carriage black- .smith, West Main street; was born July 11, 1841, in Mt. Vernon, Knox county. He is son of .William Clemmens, a native of Virginia. Young was apprenticed to his trade, at about the age of fifteen, to William Sanderson. When about twenty-one, he came to this city and worked AS a journeyman with E. McDonald. In 1875, he established his present shop, and is doing a good business in all kinds of carriage-smithing. Mr. Clemmens was married, April 5, 1861, to Miss .Mary Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, of this city. They have had five children, two of whom, John William and AUie May, have died, and three, Cora Belle, Clarance Carl and Edith Luvane, are living.

COCHRAN JAMES, Jefferson township; born in East Union, Coshocton county, Ohio, December 4, 1838; son of Caleb and Anna (Duncan) Cochran, and grandson of William Cochran and Matthew Duncan. H^ grandfather, Duncan, to America, at twf Ive years of age, and settled in Maryland. His father was born February 6, 1806; died September 28, 1877. His mother was born, February 29, 1812, in New -Castle township.

He enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth 0. V. I., April 15,1861, under Captain McClain,and served three months; then enlisted December 1, 1861, in Company F, Eightieth 0. V. I., under Captain Metham; went into camp at Camp Meigs, then to Camp Jackson, at Columbus, Ohio ; from there he went to Cincinnati; thence to Fort Holt, Ky.; thence to Paduca, thence to the rear of Corinth, and assisted in the siege; thence to luka, Mississippi, and took part in the engagement there; thence back to Corinth, and assisted in the two fight between Rosecrans and Price; thence to Holly Springs, and to Memphis, Tennessee, where they took charge of the division trai?! and guarded it to Forest Hill; thence to Helena, Arkansas, via Memphis; thence four miles below, and went into camp on a sand bar to arrange for -the Yazoo Pass expedition, and after taking part in the expedition came back to the sand bar, and from there to Young's Point, Louisiana; thence to Hardtimes landing, on the Mississippi; thence via J'ort Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River, to a position in the rear of Vicksburg. He remained here forty-eight days; thence via Memphis and Chattanoogato the battle of Mission Ridge ; thence to camp near Chattanooga; thence to Bridgeport, Tennessee.

Alabama, thence to Resaoa, and thence to Atlanta, and to the sea with Sherman ; to Richmond, Virginia, and from thence to Washington, and attended the grand review ; thence to Louisville, Kentucky, and to Columbus, Ohio, where he received his discharge, August 28, 1865. He filled all the stations from private to captain, was chosen aid-de-camp for General Rice, also acting assistant inspector general for General James. Ht,- engaged in farming in the spring of 1866, and in 1867, went to Illinois, and engaged in teaming, and in the spring of 1869, came to Warsaw and began hotel-keeping, where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he took a trip to California, and visited many places along the Pacific coast and the Pacific railroad, being gone about fifteen months. On his return he again engaged in hotel-keeping, and remained in business until November, 1880. He was married July 1, 1866, to Miss Ada Hayes, daughter of John J. and Susan (Lochary) Hayes, and granddaughter of William and Agnes (Sheridan) Hayes, and Patrick and Sarah (Martin) Lochary, and great-granddaughter of Joseph and Nancy (Moore) Hay^s, and John Lochary, and finally, great-great-granddaughter of Anne (Nixon) Hayes. Lulu Gracia, born February 15, 1872, is their only child.

COCHRAN JOSEPH A., farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette ; was born in this county in 1839, and married in 1864 to Mary Ann Miller, who was born in this -township in 1843. They have seven children - Hattie E., Jeremiah A., Samuel M., Charles E., Perry O., William M. and Jesse. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of Company D, Sixteenth regiment 0. V. I., and served out the time of his enlistment.

COCHRAN JOHN M., Lafayette township; carpenter. West Lafayette ; born August 9, 1830, in Ellallsville, Jefferson county; son of Jacob Cochran, a native of Pennsylvania, of Irish decent; lived on a farm until about twenty-six years of age, when he commenced his present trade, after which he spent two years prospecting in the west. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth 0. V. I., (three months' men) and re-enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first 0. V. I., and served two years and nine months, and re-enlisted as a veteran in same company and regimerit, and served until the close of the war, geting his discharge late in the fall of 1865, having served nearly five years; was captured twice but soon re-captured by his own comrades. At the close of the war, Mr. Cochran located in West Lafayette and resumed his trade, and has followed it to the present time. Mr. Cochran was married in 1865 to Miss Eliza Cutter, daughter of Benjamin Cutter, of Lafayette township. They have had four children, Casader, Clesson, Loney and Berdell.

COCHEAN ALEXANDEE, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; farmer and speculator; born in this county in 1845; son of Joseph and Mary A. (Underwood) Cochran, and grandson of Wilham and Ehzabeth (Huffman) Cochran, and of Joshua and Sarah Underwood; married in 1868 to Miss Mary S. Board, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth A. Board. They are the parents *)f four children, viz : Charles J., Foy, Maud and Claud Carl.

COE WILLIAM H, painter and printer, Coshocton, Ohio; was born December 14, 1834, in Coshocton, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Euth A. (Decker) Coe. Young Coe was brought up and educated in his native city. At eighteen he "went into the Coshocton Eepublican Printing office, where he remained about three years. From the Eepublican office he went to the Demorat office, where he remained until he enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth O. V. I., for four months. On his return home he went into the Coshocton Paper Mills, where he remained about three years; Then he followed painting until the Coshocton steel works opened, when he went into these works, where he has continued to the present time. Mr. Coe was elected city clerk in 1862, and re-elected in 1863, 4 and 5, and also elected to the same office in 1872 and 3. In 1879 he was elected township clerk and served two years. Mr. Coe was married October 7, 1862, to Miss Susan, daughter of Gabriel Clark. They are the parents of seven children, viz: Emma, Mary, Nora, Glen W. (deceased), infants, twin , boys, died, not named, and Edna.

COE E. v., Coshocton, Ohio; photographer, 226 Main street. Mr. Coe was born December 9, 1837, in Coshocton, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Euthanna (Decker) Coe, of Orange county, New York. They came to Coshocton about 1833 and were married in the house now occupied by John Burt, Sr. They became the parents of eight children, viz: William H., Elias V., Henrietta (deceased), Benjamin, Annie, Eeuben, (deceased), and Almeda. All are married and live in this county, excepting Annie, who resides atDennison, Ohio. Elias V. began the practice of his art September 15, 1862, with G. A. McDonald, with whom he was associated thirteen years and one month.. Then he bought out Mr McDonald and became sole proprietor of his present gallery, which is supplied with all the modern improvements and facilities for doing all kinds of photographic work in first class order. Mr. Coe was married June 7, 1868, to Miss Eliza E., daughter of Gabriel and Catharine E. (Eogers) Clark. They are the parents of four children, viz : George B., Agnes M., Stella and Samuel E.

stoves and manufacturer of tin, copper and sheet, iron ware; also tin roofing and spouting. Mr. Coe was born December 6, 1847, in Coshocton, Ohio, where he has spent almost his entire life. When about fifteen, he began working in the Coshocton paper mills and continued there twO' years. In 1864, he began his present trade and worked three years, then went to Oden, Illinois,, and remained there but a short time, then returned and engaged with Shaw & Sandswith, of whom he learned his trade. He next engaged with Harbaugh & Smith, with whom he continued until April, 1869, when he became partnerin the firm of Eobertson & Coe. In 1871, thispartnership was dissolved and Mr. Coe successively became foreman in the shops of Palmer & Eobinson, Slayton & Palmer, Palmer & Kobinson and G. W. Eickets & Co. Mr. Coe bought thetools of the last named firm and formed a partnership with E. M. Elliott, which firm continued until February, 1877, since which time Mr. Coe has conducted his business alone with marked success. Mr. Coe was married, March 80, 1871, to Miss Katie L., daughtei; of Urial Mills, of Salem, Marion county, Illinois. They are the parents of two children, viz: Laura A.j and Harry W. -

COFPMAM ADAM, Jefferson township; harnessmaker; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, June 2, 1850; son of Frederick and Mary (Swift) Coffman, and grandson of Adam and Elizabeth (Darner) Swift. Mr. Coffman labored on the farm, in his boyhood, until about the age of 17, when he began clerking ina grocery store, for William Baad, in Warsaw;, and remained with him about two years. He then engaged as clerk with Shaffner Brothers,, and remained one year. He then returned to harnessmaking, which he had learned with his uncle). Charles Senft, between school hours. In December, 1872, he nurchased an interest in S. Hook's harness shop, and continued about two years at it; then became the sole proprietor, and is, at this writing, doing a very fair business.. He was married October 1, 1874, to Miss Siisan' Bumgardner, daughter of John and Mary (Linebaiigh) Bumgardner. They are the parents of two children : Wilbert O., born April 10, 1876, and Evert D., born October 11, 1877, died im December, 1877.

COFFMAN WILLIAM, Jefferson township,-: harnessmaker; postoflBce, Warsaw; born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, October 23,. 1864, brother of Adam Coffman; son of Frederick and Mary (Senft) Coffman. He attended sthool and worked on "the farm until the age of twenty-one, when he began learning the harnessmaking business, with his brother, in Warsaw, with whom he is still engaged. Mr. Coffman is a

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COGNION" STEPHEN, Linton township ; farmer; postoffice. Wills Creek; born June 6, 1852, in Franklin township ; son of Stephen and Eosella Cognion, natives of France; came to America about the year 1848, and located in Franklin township, from Avhich he came to his present residence in Linton township, in 1868. They are the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters. When Mr. Cognion came to America he was poor, but by the united labor and economy of himself and family, they have obtained a good home and farm. Of the children, Mary is married to William Krominaker ; John is married to Cathariene Doll ; Magdaline is married to John Switzer, Stephen and Nicholas are unmarried.

COLLIEE THOMAS W., Coshocton; born April 22, 1844, in CarroUton, Ohio ; son of Thomas W., a native of Virginia, of English ancestry. At seven years of age he began to set type, and remained six years, then attended school one year, and then resumed his place in the printing office. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Sixteenth 0. V. I., and served three months. In November following, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Eightieth O. V. I., and served to the close of the war. He was successively promoted to first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and appointed adjutant and commissioned Captajn of Company A, in October, 1864. He was provost marshal from June 1, 1865, until mustered out. Captain Collier was married April 14, 1864, to Miss Kate Pinehart, of New Philadelphia. This union was blessed with one child, a daughter, Minnie Wylly. Captain Collier was appointed postmaster of Coshocton, in May, 1869, and held the office until 1881. He was editor and proprietor of the Coshocton Age from September 1, 1866, to April 1, 1878.

CAGLE GEORGE T., Coshocton; boot and shoe m^aker, Clerry street, between Sixth and Seventh streets ; born August 9, 1842, in Frederick county, Maryland; son of John C, a native of He worked on a farm until he was fifteen, when he went to his trade and served three years ; then established a shop in the spring of 1862, in Uniontown, Maryland. In Novenj,ber, 1865, he came to this city and estab-' lished a shop, but soon sold out, and was a transient journeyman until 1879, when he established his present shop, in which he is doing a good business, employing several workmen, and working himself, also. Mr. Cagle enlisted in Battery F, Third P. V. H. A., and served until the close of the war. Mr. Cagle was married February 18, 1880, to Miss Mattie Brister, of this city.

1826, they emigrated to America, remaining in Albany county. New York, till the fall of 1835,. when they came to their present home in Linton township. Their children, ten in number, are as follows : Catherine, Hannah, John, Richard,, Mary J., Margaret, Lizzie, Anna, Michael and . Thomas.

COMPTON ELISHA, Jackson township; re^ tired farmer ; postoffice, Roscoe ; born in Culpepper county, Virginia, September 9, 1816; son of George and Sarah (Duke) Compton, of Irish ancestry. Elisha was raised on the farm, whichbusiness he successfully followed during his long life. Mr. Compton was married December 9^ 1841, to*Huda Anne, daughter of Jeremiah Hays, of Virginia township. This union was blessed with nine children, John, Mary Ann, R. T., Jeremiah, George, deceased, Harvey, Eliza Jane, deceased, Alice and Camilla.

COMPTON A. N., Coshocton, saddle and harness manufacturer and dealer in saddlery hardware; was born November 5, 1846, in Rappahannock county, Virginia; son of A. P. Y. Compton,, who was American born, of English ancestry. Young Compton was raised on a farm untif fourteen years old, when he was apprenticed to thesaddlery and harness trade for three years. Hethen went to Loudon county, Virginia, and served under instructions three years. In 1868 he opened a shop at Flint Hill, in his nativecounty, and conducted it about four years. In 1872 he came to this county and settled at Roscoe, where he continued his business until April, 1880, when he occupied his present room, which is sixt}'--five feet long by twenty-two and a half feet wide, being the largest in the county used for like business This large room is well filled with goods manufactured in the establishment, together with a fine stock of saddlery hardware. Mr. Compton was married November 22, 1874, to Miss Mary F. Carroll, daughter of Michael Carroll, deceased, of Roscoe. This union was blessed with two children, a daughter, Annie L., and a son, Edward M.

COMPTON J. A., Coshocton, dealer in musical instruments and sewing machines; was born January 10, 1850, in Jackson township; son of Elisha Compton, born in Virginia, of English ancestry. Young Compton was raised on the farm, and left it when about twenty-one years of age and entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and remained three years, with the exception of teaching school one term. In the year 1873, Mr.

Oompton established his present business, in which he is doing well, having handled during the past year from 300 to 400 sewing machines, about fifty organs and a number of pianos.

COMPTON R. T., Coshocton; piano, organ und sewing machine dealer; born January 19, 1848, in Jackson township ; son of Eiisha Oompton, a native of Virginia, of English extraction; was raised on a farm. At the age of nineteen he the Ohio "Wesleyan University, and remained one year, after which he taught school -eight years in Illinois and six years in Ohio, -teaching in the towns of Chili, the Valley school, Adams' Mill school, in Muskingum county, and one year in this citv. He then traveled two years tor George H Grant & Co., of Richmond, Indiana, school furniture dealers. He then engaged with his brother in the present business, and established it for himself in 1880 Mr. deals in three popular makes of organs, three of pianos, and the Eldridge sewing rSachine. Mr. Compton was married March 11, 1879, to Miss Mary Ellen Dickey, daughter of Hiram Dickey, of Mill Creek township. He was organist in the Roscoe Methodist church for about eight years. In the spring of 1880, Mr. Compton bought a residence on the east end of Chestnut street, which he now occupies.

COMPTON JOHN M., Coshocton; attorney; born February 3, 1848, in Jackson township, this county, worked on the farm and attended public school until he was nineteen years of age, when he enlisted in Company K, Ninety-seventh 0. V. I., and served to the close of the war. On his return he completed his education by going to fichool and teaching. In 1867 he entered as a .student in the law office of Lee and Pomerene and was admitted to practice in 1869, and since that time he has given his entire attention to his profession. Attorney Compton was elected Mayor of the city in 1872 and re-elected in 1874, serving two consecutive terms. Mayor Compton was married June 2, 1870, to Miss- Camilla Burns, of Jackson township. The result of this union is four children, viz : Charles B., William M., Jessie iind Edward C. Mr. C. takes an active interest in educational affairs.

COMPTON J. F., druggist, 402 Main street, Ohio. Mr. Compton is a native of this county; was born in Jackson township, December 16, 1847, and received his preparatory in the district of that vicinity, and also took a course at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, and afterward taught school for several years. In 1870 he engaged in the drug business in Roscoe and was burned out in 1874. He then engaged in the insurance business and continued in the same until 1877, after which he engaged with the firm of Barker, Moore &

Co., wholesale druggists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as traveling salesman. In 1880 he established business for himself at his present location. He occupies a pleasant, commodious room, 26x40, where he keeps a large stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, oils, paints, dye stuffs, glass, toilet articles, fancy goods, trusses, surgical instruments, etc.

CONE EDMUND, farmer ; Washington county ; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in South Wilbraham, Hamden county, Connecticut, in 1810. He came to this county in 1828, and immediately engaged as teacher of the school that was about a quarter of a mile south of the present village of Carlisle. The building was a round-log one, the fireplace extending across one entire end. There was a spelling-book for about every five or six scholars, the cost of a speller being a bushel of wheat delivered in Zanesville. He had an attendance of seventy scholars. He commenced the study of medicine with his brother, J. Cone, Jr., who was practicing at this time, and was admitted to practice by the board of censors at Zanesville. He was first married to Miss Seward, who died, and he married Miss Hawthorne. Both were of this county.

CONNER ISAAC, Monroe township ; born June 29, 1837, in Monroe township, Coshocton county, Ohio; postoiBoe, Spring Mountain; son of James and Margaret (Holt) Conner, and grandson of Daniel and Pheobe (Penrose) Conner, and of John and Ehzabeth (Conner) Holt; also great-grandson of James and Mary Conner, and of Jesse Penrose. Mr. Conner is a farmer and was educated in the common schools. He was married to Mary J. Bingler, May 12, 1861, who was born November 10, 1843, daughter of Michael and Mary J. (Hogbin) Bingler, and granddaughter of Jessie and Catharine Bingler, and of William and Charity Hogbin. Their children are Joseph E., born January 1, 1863; Emily N. and Susie G., September 6. 1866 ; James 8 , July 10, 1873, and Mary E., January 28, 1879.

CONRAD JOHN, Mill Creek township, farmer; postoffice, Clark, Ohio; was born September 25, 1817, in West Moreland county, Pennsylvania; son of Jacob and Mary Conrad; married November 5, 1840, to Rebecca King, daughter of William and Mary M. King, who was born December 26, 1822, in York county, Pennsylvajjia. The children born to them are as follows: Mary Anne, born November 1,1841; Margaret, born November 9, 1842 ; Jacob William Henry, born December 24, 1845 ; John Weslev, born February 10, 1858; Rebecca Jane, born July 29, 1851; Maria Catharine, born August 22, 1854; Henry Washington, born June 22, 1856, and Elizabeth Barbara, born April 18, 1861.

COOK D. E , Linton township, farmer; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1803; the son of George and Mary (Kobb) Cook. His father was born in Ireland, and emigrated to America when a young man. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1811 he came with his father to Guernsey county ; there remained till 1831, when he moved to Logan, and carried on farming and milling for sixteen years. In 1847 he took up his residence in Linton township, and has been here since. He was married April 8, 1831, to Catharine, daughter of Thomas Johnson. Ten children resulted from thismarriag: Thomas, George, "William C, deceased, Nancy J., John, Sarah, Amanda, deceased, Melona, deceased, ^ames H., deceased, and David Y. His wife having died, he was united in marriage with Lydia, daughter of Henry and Sarah Snyder, of Logan county. Their children are, Joseph Snyder, deceased, Mary Isabel, deceased, Catharine J. and Charles T.

COOK D. Y., grocer and confectioner, Sixth street, between Main and Chestnut, Coshocton. Mr. Cook is a native of Logan county, 0., where he was born February 8, 1847. His parents came to Coshocton county when he was (Juite young, and he has been a resident of the county ever since. He received his education in the district schools of Linton township, and he followed joining as a business until the fall of 1879, when he came to Coshocton and engaged in the grocery and huckster business. He carries a good stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, and deals in all kinds of country produce, and makes a specialty of butter and eggs, in which department he runs a wagon and visits different parts of the surrounding country, in order to supply his custom with fresh supplies in this line. He was married to M. E. Hawthorne, by whom he has four children - three daughters and one son.

COOKSEY JAMES, Perry township; postoffice, West Carlisle ; born in Muskingum county, in 1833 ; settled in this county in 1857 ; son of William and Elizabeth (Oden) Cooksey ; married in 1857 to Sarah Lagg, daughter of Harrison and Nancy B. Cooksey. They are the parents of three children, viz : Celestia J., Izadora B., and Leora M. ; two are married. Mr. Cooksey was raised on a farm, and has continued farming ever since. He also deals pretty extensively in thorough-bred sheep.

COOPER JOSEPH, Keene township; son of Ludlow H. and Mary E. Cooper, both of whom were born in Orange county, New York ; grandson of Joseph and Susan (Halsey) Cooper, and of John and Mary (Howell) Seward, who was the daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth (Poppen)

Howell. His father enlisted in Captain Freegift's company, in 1814, and served three months. He came to Ohio, in 1834. Joseph learned the blacksmith trade, at eighteen, under C. C. Ramer ; enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth 0. V. I., April 18, 1861; was discharged in July following, and re-enlisted. His war record, copied from a memorial, is given below: "Joseph Cooper was mustered as sergeant of Company I, Ninety seventh 0. V. I., August 5, 1862, at Zanesville, Ohio; captain, Martin Wiser; colonel, John Lane; wounded at Murphreesboro', Tennessee, January 2, 1863; wounded again, at Mission Ridge, November 24, 1863, and wounded, at Franklin, Tennessee, December 8, 1864. The battles he was engaged in, were Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862; Stone River, Tennessee, January 2, 1863; Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 8, 1863; Chiekamauga, Tennessee, September 20, 1863; Lookout Mountain, November 22, 1863; Mission- Ridge, November 26,1863; Buzzard Roost, May 14,1864; Altoona, Georgia, May 25, 1864; Dallas, Georgia, May 25, 1864; Marietta, Georgia, May 31, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, June 22, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; Atlanta, July 21, 1864; Spring Hill, Tennessee, December 6,1864; Franklin, Tennessee, December 8, 1864, and Nashville, January 24, 1865. He was discharged June 10,

1865, at Nashville, Tennessee." January 6, 1866, he married Lucy C. Cowee, daughter of James and Augusta (Adams) Cowee, who was the daughter of John Q. and Dorothea (Elliott) Adams. Their children are Charlie, born December 18,

CORBIT GEORGE, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh, Ohio; son of Robert and Susannah (Puller) Corbit; was born December 6, 1835, in Coshocton county, Ohio, and has remaind a resident of the county all his life. Mr. Corbit was raised on the farm, and has always followed the occupation of a farmer. His father was of Irish and his mother of German descent, and were old pioneers of this county. Mr. Corbit was married November 29, 1857, to Miss Margaret A. Morris, of this county. They become the parents of twelve children, viz: Amanda, William R., Albert, Aaron, Melinda, an infant not named, Robert H.,- Mary, Charles, John M., Elmer and an infant not named.

CORBIT LEWIS, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Bakersville ; born in Adams township, June 1, 1821 ; son of Robert and Susan (Fuller) Corbit, and grandson of Jesse Corbit and James and Catharine Fuller. His father came to this country about the year 1804, with James Miskimmins, born in May, 1790. He was married August 27, 1842, to Miss Eliza Carp, daughter of Adam and Mary (Cocharn) Carp, born July 21, 1822, in Guernsey countyj Ohio. They are par- ents of thirteen children, as follows : John, Robert and William, deceased ; James, Wilson; Sarah A. deceased ; Edward, George W., Adam ; Susan, Mary E., Laura A. and Almeda, deceased.

COULTER J. M., Perry township, postoffice, New Guilford ; born in Bedford county, Pennsyl- Yania; settled in this county in 1814. He was born in 1813, and is a son of William and Susan (McCoy) Coulter. Mr. Coulter's father held the office of county surveyor for twelve years, surveying being his calling the greater portion of his life. J. M. Coulter was a grandson of Thomas and Lydia (Connor) Coulter, and of William and Lydia Connor. Mr. Coulter has been twice married, first to Miss Nancy Pigmaai, who died in 1847. In 1857, Mr. Coulter married Miss Sarah A. Robinson, daughter of John and Bewly Robinson. Three children, viz : Mary J., J. R. and Joseph, were born of the first marriage ; and four, viz : Bewly, Susan V., Benjamin and Wallace, of the second. Mr. Coulter's son, J. R., enlisted in Company A, Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteers, in 1861, Captain Lemert,. participating in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Vicksburg, and others.

COX HAMILTON, Virginia township; born in East Virginia, in 1805; settled in this county in 1830, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Cox. He was married in 1831, to Rachael Hardesty, daughther of Edmund and Ruta Hardesty. Mr. Cox has ten children living, and one dead. They are all married and living in this county. Postoffice, New Moscow.

COX J. E., Keene township; postoffice, Keene, Ohio; was born, in 1830, on Mill creek, Keene township, Coshocton county, Ohio. He attended the common schools of the township until twelve years old, walking three and one-half miles, morning and evening. When twelve years old, he attended a select school in the village of Keene, taught by Rev. J. D. Whitham, and received instruction in the higher English branches. He attended this school three years, having to walk over three miles, morning and evening. Mr. Cox began teaching in 1846, and is, perhaps, the oldest teacher in the county. He taught his first school in district No. 4, Clark township, in an old log house, formerly used as a dwelling. There was no blackboard, no desks, no furniture of any kind. The seats were made of slabs and fence-rails, with wooden pins for legs. The balance of the furniture consisted of hickory withes, used to encourage refractory pupils up the hill of science. Wood was used then instead of coal. Many times the teacher found no wood in the morning, and was either compelled to dismiss for the day, or send and borrow an ax and, by the aid of the pupils, furnish his own wood. After he had finished his first school, Mr. Cox began the study of medicine with Dr. W. F. DeL'aMater, working part of the time to pay his board and tuition. During the winter of 1846-7, he taught school in White Eyes township.

He then continued the study of medicine under Dr. J. Anderson, teaching in the winter and studying in the summer until he had completed the course required. He then went West to earn money to attend a course of lectures. While in the West he met with an accident which rendered him a permanent cripple, thereby changing his intentions in life. He returned home and concluded to follow the profession of . teaching, which he has successfully done ever since. His first certificate is dated March 2, 1862, and signed by Thomas Campbell, Esq., who was then acting as county examiner. The only school that he began and did not finish was in Bethlehem township ; and the failure was caused by a tree falling on the house and rendering it unfit for further use. Mr. Cox has taught in many of the country and village schools in this county. He has always been successful, and has never been compelled to ask the directors to aid bim in governing a school, which is something remarkable considering the long time he has been teaching. 'His last school was taught in district No. 8, White Eyes township, during the winter of 1880-'81.

COX W. W., Virginia township ; born in this township in 1833 ; son of Hamilton and Rachel Cox; married in 1856 to Margaret>P. Marquand, daughter of John and Martha Marquand. They have had eleven children, ten of whom are living. Mr. Cox has been twice elected justice of the peace of Virginia township!. Postoffice address, Dresden.

CRAWFORD J M., Coshocton, county recorder ; born May 30, 1852, in Roscoe, this county ; was educated in the public schools of his native village, and at McNeely normal school. Mr. C. commenced teaching in 1869, and taught until he entered upon the duties of his present office, in 1877. He was re-elected to the office of recorder in 1879. Mr. Crawford was married October 29, 1875, to Miss Pauhna Biggs, of Jackson township, this county. The result of this marriage is one son, Frank L.

CRAWFORD J. R., clerk in the firm of Hay & Morley ; born September 27, 1849, in Crawford township; son of Scott R. Crawford, a native of the County Tyrone, Ireland. He was raised on the farm until seventeen years of age, when he began clerking for John J. Stewart and continued a clerk to the' present time. He was married in March 1872, to Miss Mary Le Retilley, daughter of George Le Retilly of Roscoe. To them have been born two children, George R. and another.

CEAWFOED WILLIAM, miller in Empire mills, Eoscoe ; was born June 18, 1857, in Eosooe ; son of Eobert Crawford, born in 1825, in Steubenville, Ohio, of Irish descent. William entered the above mills in 1875, where he has remained to the present time.

CEAWFOED WILLIAM H., Mill Creek; farmer; postoffi.ee, New Bedford; born in 1839, in this township. His father, Andrew Crawford, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came to this county in 1820. He was married in 1837, to Miss Margaret Irwin of this county, who was born in 1813, in Ireland. She came to this country in 1824, and died in 1867. _ Thejr were the parents of four children He 'married in the same year Miss Mary Eamsey of Pittsburgh. The subject of tliis sketch is the oldest child. He was married in 1866, to Miss Mary CoUoredo, of Holmes county, who was born in 1844. They are the parents of three children, viz: Sarah, Angle and Augusta.

CEAWFOED JAMES, Mill Creek township; iarmer; postofBce, Mound; born in 1836, in this -county. Bis father, Oliver Crawford, was born in 1808, in Ireland. He came to this county in 1819, and was married in 1831, to Miss Jane Irwin, of this county. She was born in 1813, in Ireland, and died in 1855. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He was married in 1862, to Miss Jane McCormick, of this county, who died in 1864. They were the parents of two children. He, in 1874, married Miss Lucinda Babcock, of this county. They have one child.

CEAWFOED J. W., Pike township; farmer and stock raiser ; postoffioe, Frazeysburgh, Muskingum county ; born in this county, in 1847 ; son of John and Rebecca (McCann) Crawford. He was married in 1874, to Miss Sarah M. Anderson, daughter of William and Mariah Anderson. They are the parents of three children, viz : William J. and Clide. Youngest is not named.

CEAWFOED O., Pike township ; farmer ; born in 1841, in this township. His father, John, was born in 1806, in Ireland. He came to this country and county in 1818, and was married in 1832, to Miss Eebecca McCann, of Muskingum county. She was born in 1807, in Strasburg, Virginia He died in 1851. They were the parents of six children. The subject of this sketch Was married in 1862, to Miss Margaret Moore, *f this county. She was born in 1839, in this county. They are the parents of four childrn, viz : Edmund, Loretta, Mary B., Eebecca E.

CEAWFOED ANDEEW, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Crawford town- .ship, June 3, 1830; son of James and Mary (Eothwell) Crawford, and grandson of Thomas Crawford, who came from Ireland. He was married February 14, 1860, to Miss Marian Shilling, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Howenstine) Shilling, and granddaughter of George Howenstine and Josfeph Shilling ; she was born in Medina county, Ohio, July 13, 1838. Plis father was one of the first settlers of Crawford township. Their children are as follows : Walter W , born December 15,1862; Cora, born September 28,1864; Frank H., born January 19, 1868 ; Charles, born May 22, 1870; James P., born February 11,1872; Jesse L., born March 10, 1874 ; Frederick, born September 4, 1876; Stella, born September 5, 1878, and Richard, born March 20, 1880.

CRIDEE JAMES, laborer; Tiverton township; postoffice. Union, Knox county ; born June 15, 1854, in Holmes county. He came to this county in 1868, and was married May 18, 1876, to Miss Alvira Strieker, of Holmes county, who was born in 1860, in this county. They are the parents of two children, viz : Anna O., born April 9, 1877, and Joseph A., born March 7, 1879.

CEILE MICHAEL, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice. Chili; born March 21, 1883, in Holmes county; son of Conrad and Elizabeth (Holderbum) Crile. Mr. Crile was married, January 24, 1856, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Eider) Deeds, of Pennsylvania. They have had eight children - Mary E., married to George W. Everhart, Jacob C, Margaret M., married to Byron Johnston, Michael A., George W.,^ Austin D., Cora C. and Caroline F. Mr. Crile ' has a comfortable home for himself and family.

CEISWELL JOHN, Linton township; wagonmaker at Plainfield ; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1833, son of James and Margaret (Miller) Criswell. His mother's parents emigrated from Ireland. His father came to Guernsey county about 1636, and to Oxford township about 1847. John remained on his father's farm there Jwo years, then learned his trade -with his brother Robert, at Adamsville, and, after working in Coshocton six months, he, in 1854, opened a wagon shop in Plainfield. During the greater part of the year 1864, he was employed by the government, in the wagon department, at Nashville and Chattanooga. In March, 1865, he enlisted in the service and was discharged the following November. Since that time he has followed his trade in Plainfield. He was married, October 4, 1855, to Mary, daughter of John Bonce, born in Loudon county, Virginia, and emigrated with her mother to Muskingum county when a young girl. His children are Sarah Jane, deceased, James H., deceased, Mary Alice, Nar. 0., David Martin and Delora May, twins, and Susan.

ship; farmer; postoffioe, Yankee Ridge; born in 1834, April 22, in Knox county. He was married October 7, 1868, to Miss Mary S. Block, of the same county, who was born October 24, 1841. They came to this county, in 1867, and are the parents of one child, Clinton A., born July 8, 1858.

CEOFT CONRAD, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, Chili; born March 3, 1843, in Mill Creek township; son of John and Catherine (Conrad) Croft; came to Crawford township in the spring of 1868, and to his present residence in 1872. He married December 5, 1867, Catherine, daughter of Christian and Rebecca (Lower) Fisher. Sarah Ellen is their only child. Mr. Croft has succeeded well, having a comfortable home for himself and family.

CROFT JOHN J., Crawford township; postoffice, New Bedford; of the firm of Brown & Croft, hardware dealers ; was born April 20, 1841, dn Mill Creek township; son of John and Catherine (Conrad) Croft. He followed farming until 1876, when the present firm was formed. Mr. Croft was married April 16, 1872, to Miss Mary

CROFT SOLOMON, Mill creek township; farmer; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio; born in Mill Creek township, October, 30, 1847; son of , John and Catharine Croft; was married November 11, 1875, to Amanda dinger, daughter of Isaac and Sarah dinger, who was born May 18, 1867. The children born to them were as follows : John F., born October 28, 1876, and Catharine, born March 25, 1881.

CROFT FREDERICK, Mill Creek township ; farmer; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio; was born August 2t), 1837, in Mill Creek township ; son of John and Catharine Croft; was married in 1868 to Lucinda Keehn, who was born jn Holmes county, February 1, 1849, daughter of Frederick and Mary Keehn.

CROFT JOHN, Mill Creek township; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford; born in 1809, in Wurtemberg, Germany. He came to this country in 1817, landing at Philadelphia, and came to this county in 1821. He was married in 1828, to Miss Catharine Conrad, of Holmes county, Ohio, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1810.

CROSKEY JOHN, dark township ; postoffice, Helmick ; farmer; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 8, 1831; son of Michael and Rachel V. (Lewis) Croskey, and grandson of Joseph Lewis. jlis father was one of the first blacksmiths in Clark township, and came from Ireland when he was 16 years of age. He was married October 4, 1854, to Emma M. Simpkinson, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Keeling) Simpkinson, who was born in Carroll county July 11, 1836. They are the parents of the following children: Sarah L. J., born July 6, 1855; Michael C, June 13, 1867 ; Hannah, January 9, 1859 ; Emma M., March 5, 1861 ; Floretta S. P., December 16, 1866, and Elsworth R., born March 13, 1877, an adopted son. Mr. Croskey owns a farm of forty acres on the KiUbuck.

CROUCH R. B., Jackson township, postoffice, Tyrone ; born in this county in 1846, son of Daniel and Elizabeth.Crouch, and grandson of Robert and Mary Crouch ; married in 3874 to Rebecca E. Gott, daughter of John and Mary Gott, of Jefferson county, Ohio. Their union has been blessed with one child, viz : Mary G.

CROUCH DANIEL, Pike township; postoffice. West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser; born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1815; settled in this county in 1836 ; son of Robert and Mary (Merrit) Crouch, and grandson of Daniel and Nancy (Johnson) Crouch. He was married in 1836 to- Miss Elizabeth Brown, daughter of John and Elizabeth Brown. Mr. Crouch is the father of eleven children, viz : Nancy J., John M., Plessey Elizabeth, deceased, Mary, deceased, Robert B., William S., James J., Roda A., Martha and Sarah E. Mrs. Couch died in 1879.

CROUL WILLIAM, Monroe township; postoffice, Warsaw ; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, November 28, 1843; son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Miller) Crdtil, and grandson of William and. Dorotha E. Miller. Hisfather was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1802; was one of the first settlers of Jefferson township, and helped build the Walhonding canal. Mr. Croul has always been a farmer, and is a highly respected man. He was married April 3, 1864, to Miss Mary Frederick, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brillhart) Frederick, and granddaughter of George and Christina (Leaner) Frederick, and of Samuel and Susan (Whitezel) Brillhart. She was born December 9, 184'3. They have two children, viz : William F., born January 1, 1865, and Elizabeth S., born May 3, 1868.

CROWELL W. S., Coshocton; attorney ; born March 28, 1843, in Morgan, Ashtabula county, Ohio; son of S. B. Crowell,.born in the United States, of Engliih ancestry. The son obtained a good rudimentary education in the public schools of his native county, and at the age of fourteen years obtained a certificate for teaching school. From the age of sixteen he taught during the winter, and labored during the summer, until the beginning of the late civil war, when he enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth 0. V. I., (the i5rst company accepted from his county), and participated in the battle at Bich Mountain, West Virginia, one of the first of the war. On his return home, in August, 1861, he re-enUsted, and was elected second lieutenant of Company A, Twenty-ninth O. V. I. (Giddings' regiment). In February, 1862, he was promoted to first lieutenant, being only eighteen years old. In the spring of the same year he resigned and raised Company G, One Hundred and Fifth O. V. I., and was- commissioned its captain. He remained with the company through the campaigns of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, until after the fall of Atlanta, in the summer of 1864, when, for the first time, he was taken sick, and soon after discharged as unfit for mihtary duty, having served about forty months. He received honorable mention in the reports of the battles of Perryville, ^entucky, and Milton, Tennessee. On his return home, he entered, as a student, the law office of W. P. Howland, and was admitted to practice in 1866, but his health not being good, he did not enter upon his profession until 1870, at Coshocton. He was married May 4, 1869, to Miss Emily H. Wood, of Keene, Coshocton county, Ohio. Captain Crowell was elected prosecuting attorney, in 1872, and re-elected, with an increased majority, in 1874. Since the expiration of his second term, he has given his entire time to his profession.

CROWTHEB GEORGE, Perry township ; farmer ; postoffice, New Guilford ; born in Marylahd, in 1818 ; son of James and Delilah Crowther, and grandson of Jesse Cullison ; married in 1839, to Miss Elizabeth CuUison, daughter of Carlton and Hanna Cullison. They are the parents of three children, viz: Caroline, William and Alonzo. All are married. One lives in Knox county, Ohio, the others live in this county. Mr. Crowther has taken into his family a little girl, named Nerva Bush.

CBOWTHEB JESSE E., Perry township ; farmer and stock raiser; postoffice, New Guilford; born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1825; settled in this county about the year 1829; son of James and Dehlah (Cullison) Crowther, and grandson of Jesse and Nettie Crowther. He was married in 1857, to Miss Mary A. Mills. Mr. Crowther is the father of three children, viz : Lina L., Frank and WiUiam L.