White Eyes Township (part 5 of 20)

HILL GEORGE ROSCOE ; teacher; born January 23, 1840, in Roscoe, Coshocton county, Ohio ; son of James and Catharine (Dunlap) Hill, natives of Ireland, who came to America in 1832 and located at Lockport, New York. In 1837 they came to Roscoe, where the father died, November 16, 186ft Young Hill obtained a good elementary education at the public schools of his native village. At the proper age he began brick laying, at which he worked about ten years, during the summer seasons. When about twentyfive he began his present profession, in which he has been very successful.

HIMEBAUGH WILLIAM, White Eyes township; farmer; born in Harrison county, February, 1818. His father, Peter Himebaugh, was a native of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and was of German ancestry. William remained at home until he was eighteen, when he apprenticed himself to a cabinetmaker at Cadiz. In 1840 he came to this county, and he and his brother, Peter, started a shop at Chili, where they continued in the furniture business for eight years, William teaching school during the winter. In 1843 he married Miss Sarah Alexander, daughter of John Alexander. Mrs. Himebaugh is a native of the- county Tyrone, Ireland, and was born April, 1825. Her father, John Alexander, was educated at Dublin. He studied medicine at the same place, but never practiced his profession. He came to Buffalo, New York, in 1825; hved there a short time, then moved to Pittsburgh, where he staid a couple of years; then came on to White Eyes township and purchased the farm on -which he resided till his death, in 18.54, at the age of eighty-four. He was the second justice of the peace in the township, and held that office until he was too old to serve. He was a ready writer,, and an occasional contributor to the newspapers.

Mr. and Mrs. Himebaugh became the parents of two children - Milton, born July, 1845, enlisted December, 1861, at camp Meigs in Company G, Eightieth 0. V. I. He was killed at the battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863, at the age of seventeen years and ten months. He was clerk of the brigade commissary department, but at the battle of Jackson he took a musket and went into the battle, and received a ball near his heart while fighting. He was patriotic and brave, and a young man of great promise. William A. was born May 28, 1857, is reading law, and is the only child living. Mr. Himebaugh moved to Washington county in 1848, and returned to Chili in 1852. He was elected county auditor in 1854, was installed in March, 1855, and was re-elected in 1856. H e is the only Republican in the county who has held a county office two terms in succession, and the only one who has ever held the office of county auditor. In 1861 he bought and moved on to the old Alexander place in White Eyes, remained there uiitil 1875, when he went to Avondale, and in 1877 located on the farm where he now resides.

Mr. Himebaugh was a strong and influential union man. June, 1863, was appointed by the provost marshal enrolling officer of a district including Crawford township. The mostinteresting event that occurred while discharging his duty in Crawford, took- place on Madison's run, in the vicinity of where a lodge of the " Golden Circle " was in the habit of holding its meetings. He called on a young man who was working Jh the cornfield for the purpose of enrolling him. When asked for his name and age he replie^, " I don't go mit dis abolition war. I fights nix for de nigger. I gives no name and I gives no how old." Mr. Himebaugh replied, "All right, sir, there is another way of getting your name and age," and turned to go to his horse. While passing from the field to the road he saw two other persons cross the fence, with clubs in their hands, and join the Dutchman in the field.

When about 200 yards away he heard some loud swearing from the Dutchmen, but could not understand what they were saying. He had to go by the Dutchman's house in order to get to his horse, and the three followed him, keeping at a distance, and pretty quiet until Mr. Himebaugh was past the house, then they hastened their pace, and as soon as they saw they could reach the house, the Dutchman interviewed in the field, began swearing, " Now you're as far as you gets, for I shoots you." He then went into the house and came out with a gun on his arm, still swearing that he would shoot. Mr. Himebaugh stood on the opposite side of the fence with his hand on his revolver waiting for a motion from the Dutchman, and telling him at the same time that he was ready to open the ball at any time. The other two were afraid to show themselves after they got into the house.

However, the Dutchman did not shoot, but continued his murderous threats, while Mr. Himebaugh walked deliberately to his horse that was hitche'd'a few rods distant, when he found the saddle girth was cut. One of the trio was then immediately dispatched post haste to a magician in the neighborhood, and got him to use all his power in the black art to put a stop to " dis enrolling bizness." But, regardless of the shot-gun and the conjurations of the charmer, the enrollment of Crawford was completed^

The Dutchman was indicted by the United States grand jury at Cleveland, was arrested and lay in jail and the dungeon for a long while at that place. The other two ran oflf and have not made their appearance since.

From 1862 to 1869 Mr. Himebaugh was United States revenue assessor. He has been justice of the peace in White Eyes township for twelve years, and holds that office at present.

HINDS ELISHA, deceased, Adams township ; farmer; son of Ezra and Elizabeth Hinds; was born August 28, 1801, near Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He came to Steubenville, Ohio, and remained thirteen years ; he then removed to Carroll county, Ohio, and remained until April, 1836, when he came to Coshocton county, and settled in Adams township, where he remained until his death. Mr. Hinds was married February 10, 1822, to Miss Nancy Berry, of Steubenville, Ohio. They became the parents of nine children, viz : Elias, Westley ; David, deceased ; May J.; Elisha, deceased; Johrf; Hannah, deceased; an infant not named, and Lewis. His wife died February 6, 1864. He was married August 8, 1854, to Miss Margaret Huff, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania They became the parents of one child, James, who was born December 4, 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Hinds united with the M. JE. church, December, 1840, and remained members until death. They were descendants of the "Pilgrim Fathers." Mr. Hinds' father served in the revolutionary war.

HOGAN DANIEL, Coshocton ; restaurant, grocery and liquor dealer, 446 Main street; was born May 1, 1850, in Waynesburgh, Virginia; son of Patrick Hogan, a native of Ireland. Mr. Hogan came to this county in 1860, and clerked for J. G. Stewart three and one-half years, and for L. E. Miller four years. From Eoscoe he went to Warsaw and established a grocery ; in a few years he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and established a restaurant, from whence he came to this city and established his present business, in 1873, after having shipped horses a short time. Mr. Hogan was married July 12, 1873, to Miss Nancy Painter, daughter of John W. Painter, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with three children. Wellington, Pearl and Belle. Mr. Hogan commenced life for himself a poor boy, but has succeeded well in his business.

HOGLE JOHN, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of Michael and Polly (Langdon) Hogle; was born November 7, 1816, in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county, Ohio; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio. Mr. Hogle's father came to Bethlehem ' township in 1814, and found it a wilderness, inhabited by Indians and wild animals ; he was of Holland Dutch descent. John Hogle was married April 12, 1842, to Miss Lydia A. Skillman, of this county, who was born February 22, 1822, in New Jersey. They are the parents of seven children, viz : Wflhelmina S., Leander, Charlotte L., Harriet, Mary, Lizzie, Annie W. Mr. and Mrs. Hogle have been influential members of the M. E. church forty years. Mr. Hogle has been justice of the peace in his township twelve years, and is esteemed by all who know him. He owns one of the finest farms in this county.

HOHENSHELL JACOB, farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1810, in Wesmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1832, to Miss Sarah Keister, of the same county, who was born in 1813. They came to this county in 1854. They are the parents of fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls; three boys and five girls are still living.

HOLL EICHAED S., Newcastle township; postoffice, Newcastle; was born in Lancaster, county, Pennsylvania, in December 25, 1829; son of Jacob and Lydia (Potts) Holl, grandson _ of Peter and Christina (Miller) Holl, and Ephriam and Esther Potts. He attended school during his youth, and at the age of sixteen began to learn the carpentry and pumpmaking 'trade, serving the proper time. He has been engaged in carpentry ever since. He came to Newcastle in 1855, and on August 5, 1862, he enlisted in the U. S. service under Captain Nichols, Company H., Ninety-seventh regiment, 0. V. I. He went with his company to Camp Lew Wallace, Covington, Kentucky, and while there received an injury while assisting in unloading of medical stores, and was taken to West- End Hospital, Cincinnati, until he became convalescent and was then removed to Camp Dennison, where he remained until he received his discharge on December 25, 1862, and came home. He has never recovered from his injury. After coming home he was unable to do anything for a year, and since then he is able to perform only light work about half his time. He was appointed postmaster in Newcastle, in October, 1869, and has filled that office since. He was married to Miss Mary E. Spindler, on the 31st of January, 1850, daughter of Frederick and Sarah (Campbell) Spindler. Mrs. Holl was born August 18, 1828, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. They have had seven children, viz: Lydia, born November 20, 1850; Sarah, born November 6, 1852, died August 23, 1878; Thomas J., born September 9, 1854; Mary E., born July 16, 1856; Hortense, born January 26, 1859, died July 12, 1859; Ei chard A., born March 8,1861; Lovd N., born March 12, 1865, died October 16, 1870.

HOOD OLIVER T., White Eyes township; born in Ireland, in 1832; came to America in 1842, and to this county in 1852, and located in White Eyes' township. He commenced the mechanical trade as a machinist in his eleventh year, entering a large machine shop in Glasgow, Scotland, but afterward turned his attention to engineering. He came to Montreal, Canada, and took charge of the steamer Rollin Hill, on the St. Lawrence river. In the spring of 184?, he came to Oswego, New York, and had charge of the steamer Victoria, running on the Bay of Fundy in the summer of 1847. In the fall of 1847, he went into a machine shop at ISTiagara Palls. ,In the spring of 1848, his parents moved upon a farm in Canada, where he remained with them until 1850, when he came to Erie, Pennsylvania, and took charge of a steamer on Lake Erie, where he remained until 1852, when he came to this county.- He was married, September 16, 1852, to Mary J. Graham, whojvas born in Steubenville, the daughter of Benjamin Graham, a resident of this county. They are the parents of six children, five living. S. W. was born in 1854, in this county. He was married, July, 1880, to Miss Sadie Marshall, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She was born in 1856. 8. W. is a saddler by trade, and is carrying on business at Avondale. The names of the other children are as follows, viz: Maggie, Rebecca, Jane and Sarah K., and are all at home. Mr. Hood has followed carpentering since 1866. He has been elected justice of the peace of White Eyes township, and is holding that office at present. He and his family are members of the U. P. church at Avondale.

HOOK ISAAC, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of John Hook; was born December 16, 1826, in this township, and has always remained a resident. His father came to this county in 1812, and located in Bethlehem township. He was one of the old pioneers, the township being generally a dense forest when he came here. Isaac Hook was married, in 1850, to Miss Kezia Burrell, of this county, who was born in 1829. They are the parents of nine ohildred, viz : S, M., born in 1»61 ; E. Annie, born in 1853; Howard M., born in 1855; Susan, born in 1857; Jennie, born in 1859; Harvey, born in 1862; William, born in 1868; Mildred, born in 1870, and George, born in 1872. All the children are residents of this county. Mr. Hook has always been a resident of this county, and has followed agricultural pursuits.

HOOTMAN HENRY JACOB, Linton township; farmer; born December 9, 1824; son of Henry and Eleanor (Parmer) Hootman. (Por ancfstry see Isaac Hootman). When three years old his father moved to Oxford township, where Henry remained till he was twenty-one; he then lived in Lafayette township until 1869, when he moved to Linton township ; married November 27, 1850, Miss Mary, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Rodruck) Ferguson, of Lafayette township. Their children are Henry B., Emma D., Andrew H., and William Tecumseh Sherman. Mr. Hootman enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth 0. V. I., February 15, 1865, and served eight months.

HOOTMAN ISAAC; farmer; born in Lafayette township October 27, 1818; son of Henry and Eleanor (Farmer) H*ootman. His maternal grandfather, Frederick Parmer, was Irish born; his paternal grandfather, Christopher Hootman, was a Hessian, and was drafted into service when only fourteen years old ; belonged to a regiment as drum-major employed by the English in the American war, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Trenton. When released at the close of the war he adopted America as his home, and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he died. His son Henry, father of Isaac, came to Lafayette township in 1815, and about 1828 moved to Oxford township ; he afterwards sold out here and moved to Lawrence county, Illinois, where he died. Except a few months spejit in Indiana, Isaac has always lived in this county. He was married in 1841 to Sophronia Hammersly, bqrn October 22, 1822, daughter of Peter Hammersly, of Linton township.. Their children are Henry, Ruhama, Thomas ; Eliza Ellen, deceased ; Seth ; Jacob, deceased ; George, Lydia, Manda, Dora ; Eber, deceased.

HOOVER CHRISTIAN, Crawford township; farmer ; postoffice. New Bedf6rd ; born October 18, 1841, in German township. Holmes county, in the house in which he now resides ; son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Snyder) Hoover. He has spent his entire time on the farm where he was born. He was married March 16, 1863, to Miss Mary, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth (Varnse) Gouser. Five children were born to them, viz; Francis M., Rebecca Elizabeth, Martha, Albert A. and Mary Margaret. Mr. Hoover has a comfortable home for himself and family.

HOSELTON WILLIAM, Coshocton; saloon and resturant, Third street, between Main and Chestnut; was born April 22, 1832, in Circleville, Pickaway county; son of Joseph Hoselton, Sr., a native of Pennsylvania; served as major in the war of 1812, and was present at the surrender of General Hull. Young Hoselton was raised in his native village. At fifteen he began canal boating, which he followed about fifteen years. He spent the years 1856-7 in the West. In 1861 he learned the carpenter trade, and followed it and butchering until 1877, when he estabhshed his present business. Mr. Hoselton was married May 9, 1859, to Miss Eveline Prescott, of Circleville. This union was blessed with five children,

HOSTETTER A. J., Keene township; born January 12, 1840, in Keene township ; son of Jacob and Harriet (Martin) Hostetter, of German birth. At the age of five years he moved to Holmes county, where he spent about twenty years, and then three in Ashland county. He next moved to Indiana, where he remained until 1876, when he returned* to Coshocton county. He has followed cabinetmaking for thirteen years. Mr. Hostetter enlisted in 1862 in Company B, Sixteenth regiment O. V. I., and was discharged in 1864. He re-enlisted in Company B, First regiment 0. V. I., and remained in service until the close of the war, having been engaged at Mill Springs, Cumberland Gap, and in the numerous battles which were fought in Sherman's Georgia campaign. He was married February 20, 1867, to Susan E. Beaird, born in 1850, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Miller) Beaird.

HOUSER CHARLES, farmer; Washington township: postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1814, in Hampshire county, Virginia. He came to this county in 1819 with his father C. D. Houser. He was born in 1769, in Germany, and came to Virginia in 1785. He married Marion Thompson, of the same county, who was born in 1773. He died in 1853; she died in 1851. They were the parents of nine children. The subject of this is the sixth. He was married in 1832 to Miss Rebecca Garee, of Licking county, who was born in 1818. »

HOWE A. D., Coshocton ; foreman in axle department of steel works; was born March 16, 1860, in Lodi, Otsego county. New York; son of George H. Howe. At the age of thirteen he went on a farm, where he remained two years. In April, 1865, he commenced his present business, at Springfield Center, Otsego county, New York, and remained two years, then worked two years in Herkimer county. New York. He came to this city in 1871, and was one of the first who worked in the present works, becoming foreman in September, 1878, which position he has held to the present time. Mr. Howe was married July 19, 1863, to Miss Mary, daughter of Isaac Sparts, of Menden, Herkimer county. New York. They have two children, Clarence D. and Mildred M.

HOWE GEORGE H., Coshocton ; boxmaker, in spring and axle works ; was born in Otsego county. New York, in 1827 ; commenced work in cotton factory at the age of fourteen, and continued four years; then learned the carpenters' trade, and followed it until he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-second N. Y. V. I. He was honorably discharged in July, 1864, and returned to New York and engaged in buggy axle manufacturing, where he continued until 1876, when he engaged in his present position. Mr. Howe chose Harriett, daughter of Leonard Perkins, of Oneida county. New York, for a partner to share the joys . and sorrows of life with him. They were blessed with five children, viz : Albert, Charles, Ida, George, and Eggert, deceased.

HOWELL JOHN, fruit grower; Washington township; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1814, in Belmont county, Ohio. He came to this county in 1827, with his father, who was born in 1767, in Virginia. He was married in 1797, to Miss Elizabeth Bonham, of Virginia, who was born in 1777. They came to Belmont county in 1814. He was in the war of 1812. John was married in 1837, to Miss Phoebe A. Seward, of this county, who was born in 1813, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. She died in 1879. They are the parests of eight children. Mr. Howell has thirty acres of orchard. His gross sales for 1879 were $2,000.

HOWLETT JOHN, Sr., Bedford township; carpenter; postoffice. West Bedford; born in 1819, in Ohio county, West Virginia. He was married in 1848 to Miss Elizabeth J. Steele, of the same county, who was born in 1829. They came to this county in 1861. They are the parents of nine children, viz: Franklin, Albert; Gabriel, deceased; John, James; Charles, de-. ceased; Sarah E., Harry and Ida May. Mr. flowlett is a carpenter, having worked on many fine buildings.

HOWSER A. B., Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born in this county in 1851; son of Jacob and Elizabeth Howser, an'd grandson of Andrew and Mary (Carson) Loekard; married in 1875 to Mary A. Norris, daughter of William and Rebecca J. Norris. They have one child - Curtis S.

HUGHES JAMES, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1809 in Belmont county, Ohio, and came to this county in 1821, with his father, who was born in 1767 in New Jersey. He married Miss Francis Launney, of Winchester, Virginia, and died in 1824. She died in 1867. They were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He was married in 1860 to Miss Rebecca Hardman, of this county, who was born in 1822. She died in 1863. He was married in 1872 to Miss Lottie Robinson, of this county, who was born in 1839, in Harrison county. They are the parent? of three children, viz : Luella J., James A. and Francis U.

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«ylvania; son of John and Eliza J. Hughes, and grandson of Kobert and Mary A. (Robinson) Hughes, and of John and Nancy (Hasson) Duncan. He remained in Pittsburgh, till 1878, when he came to Keene, and' married Miss Rebecca FuUerton, of Irish extraction, who was born June 20,1844; daughter of Robert and Anna (Aiken) FuUerton, and granddaughter of Robert FuUerton. Three children have been born unto them: William, February 2,1868; Eliza J., October 15, 1871, and Mary E., October 12, 1874. Mr. Hughes enlisted in the Thirteenth Pa. V. I., Company F, and was discharged August 28, 1861 ; re-enhsted September 6, 1861, in the One Hundred and Second Pa. V. I., Company L, and mustered out September 9, 1864. He was engaged .at Williamsburg, Antietam and Fredericksburg. At Wiljiamsburg he was severly wounded. He was a member of the militia that helped to suppress the great Pittsburgh riot, in 1878.

HUGHES WILLIAM H., Coshocton ; carpenter and contractor ; was born April 9, 1840, in Muskingum county. Me is a son of Henry C. R. Hughes, American born, of Irish ancestry. Young Hughes was raised on the farm until .about fifteen years of age, when he began to learn the cabinet trade, which he followed until 1861, when he enlisted in Company A, Ninth O. V. C, and served until the close of the war. On returning from the war he resumed his trade at Roscoe, where he followed it until 1869, when he -changed to his present trade. In 1871 he came to this city, and has successfully followed the carpenter and contracting business to the present. Mr. Hughes was married August 8, 1866, toMiss Jennie Mirise, daughter of John Mirise, deceased, formerly of Roscoe. This union has been blessed with five children, viz : Frank G., Alice Blanche, Edie Belle, Charles H. and William Longdon.

HURLBUTT L. H., Coshocton; manager for D. M Moore, custom clothier, 422 Main street; was born in 1832, in the State of Connecticut; commenced his trade when fourteen years of age; at twenty he established a shop at Norfolk, Connecticut, and continued business six years. His health failing, he went south and remained two years, then returned and located at Stanford, Connecticut, and remained twelve years. He was employed as cutter in Dunkirk, Newark and Dayton. In 1878 he took his present position. He was married in 1853, to Miss E. Holcomb, of Waterbury, Connecticut. Their children are William L., J. A. and Perry. This establishment employs twenty-five hands, and turns ofT from twenty -five to thirty suits per week. Mr. Moore buys direct from the mills. This is a branch of the Newark store, which employs from fifty to sixty hands.

HUTCHINSON W. S., Coshocton; grocer, corner of Walnut and Sixth streets. Mr. Hutchinson is a native of this city, born December 31, 1848 ; was educated in the public schools of Coshocton, and made his first business engagement as salesman with William Ward, in general merchandising. He afterward served the firms of Hay & Wilson, D. Brelsford & Co., and J. H. Klosser, when in February, 1878, he purchased the stock of Williams Bros., since which he has been engaged in the grocery business. He carries an extensive and first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, stove and wooden ware, sugar-cured and pickled meats, fish, flour and salt, also deals in all kinds of country produce.

INGRAHAM J. B., Coshocton, Ohio; physician and surgeon; born November 9, 1821, in Harrison county, Virginia; son of Jacob and Maria (Modisett) Ingraham. His paternal ancestors are English, and his maternal, Welch and French. He was brought up a farmer-boy until eighteen, when he began teaching school, and taught three schools. In 1844, he located at Athens, Athens county, Ohio, and at once began reading medicine with Dr. Carpenter, and began practice at Savannah, Athens county, Ohio, in 1847 ; his next location was at Logan, Hocking county, Ohio, where he was married, March 7, 1847, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fielding) Guthrie. They are the parents of nine'children, viz : Maria, Olivia, now Mrs.Dr. T. J. Smith ; Sarah E., Charles M., Prances Ellen, now Mrs. Dr. H. L Mann; Emma G.; John G., deceased; Rose E., Edgar, Floyd and Robert Jay. June 4, 1848, Dr. Ingraham located at Plainfied, Coshocton county, Ohio, where he practiced unttl April 1, 1864, when he came to Coshocton. He has been eminently successful in his professional practice, especially as a surgeon.

IRVINE J., Coshocton; attorney at law; was born December 24, 1822, at Wooster, Ohio, where he remained until he was ten years old, when with his parents he went to Fredericksburgh, where on finishing his education he began teaching school. He taught in Ashland county, and also in the schools at Fredericksburgh At the age of twenty-four he entered as a student the law office of Sapp & Wilker, and was admitted to practice about the time war was declared between the United States and Mexica In May, 1847, he enlistel in Company G, ff'tS 0. V. I. as second lieutenant, and in September of the same year ' he was elected captain of the company at Matamoras, Mexico, and was honorably discharged in 1848 at Cincinnati, Ohio. On receiving his discharge he came to his present location, and taught school one year ; then resumed his present law profession. In April, 1861, he enlisted as colonel of the Sixteenth 0. V. L and served three months. In 1863 he recruited company M, Ninth O. V. C., and was commissioned its captain, and subsequently major, and served until August 2, 1865. In June, 1853, Col. Irvine was married to Miss Annie Hum«igkhquae. They became the of two children,' Samuel and Mary.

JACQUET JOHN M., Coshocton; pastor of St. George congregation ; born August 20, 1817, in Prance; son of Claude Jacquet; educated at Lyons, . Prance, and ordained there -in 1844; came to America in 1846, and was employed in the diocese of Nashville, Tennessee, until 1855, in which year he became pastor of St. Mary's church, at Batesville, Noble county, Ohio, where he remained till 1869 ; he then removed to Coshocton, and has remained here since, officiating as pastor of the St. George church, in the city ; and, in addition, having charge of five small missions, viz: One in Pranklin, one in Linton, and one in Monroe townshij), this county; one in Dresden, and one in Muskingum township, Muskingum county.

JAMES E. W., Coshocton ; attorney ; born February 11, 1887, in East Union, this county ; son of Thomas James, who was American born, of English ancestry. Young James spent his early life on a farm and going to public schools. In 1854, he commenced a more thorough course of education, during the summers attending successively West Bedford academy, Oberlin college, Spring Mountain academy and Meadville college, JPennsylvania, and teaching in the winters. August 15, 1861, he enlisted as a private in company K, Thirty-second O. V. I. During the first year he rose successively to second and first lieutenants. In February, 1863, he was commissioned captain. He resigned soon after the fall of Atlanta, Georgia. Captain James was appointed judge advocate on General Legget's staff and received several honorable mentions during his military services. In the spring of 1865, he entered, as a student, the law office of Messrs. Nicholas & Williams. During his reading, he took the law course at Michigan university, and was graduated in March, 1867, soon after which he commenced the practice of law, forming the firm of Nicholas & James. Captain James was married. May 16, 1871, to Miss Cornelia A. Denver, daughter of Patrick Denver, of Clinton county, Ohio. The result of this union is one chikl, a daughter, Mary.

JAMES THOMAS, Bedford township; postoflBce West Bedford : born in 1812, in this county. His father Elias James was born in 1785 in Loudon county, Virginia, and was married in 1806, to Miss Nancy Pry, of the same county, who was born in 1786. They came to this county in 1809_ He died in 1860, she died in 1863. They were the parents of six children, the subject of this, sketch being the third. He was married in 1833,. to Miss Sarah 0. Cochran* of this county, who was born in 1815. They are the parents of eight children, only one of whorn is living. E. W. was a member of the Thirty-second, 0. V. I. He went in as a private and rose to the rank of captain. The names of the deceased children are James P., Melvina, Rebecca J., Rachel V., Rutb v., Nancy E., and Sarah K.

JEFFRIES V. 0., Coshocton; carriage and wagon manufacturer, north Second street; born. November 22, 1841, in White Eyes township; son of William Jeffries. Young Jeffries was raised on the farm, where he remained until he was. twenty-one years of age, when he went to his trade with E. McDonald, after which he worked with Conrod & Shepler, of Marysville, Union county; and four years under instructions at Columbus; also for A. D. Manners, of this city.. In the spring of 1876 he established his present, shop, where he is receiving a full share of the patronage in his line of business. Mr. J. keeps eight or ten hands employed at his shop. Mr; Jeffries was married December 21, 1880, to Miss Ada L., daughter of George Morgan, of this city.

JELLEY ROBERT D., Keene township ; farmer ; born December 1, 1841, in Mill Creek township; son of Samuel and Lydia Jelley,and grandson of James and Mary (Hazlett) Jelle;^, and of Robert and Elizabeth Davidson, natives of Ireland. He was married October 22, 1867, to Christina, daughter of Jacob and Susannah Best,, and granddaughter of John and Christina (Revenaugh) Best, and of Peter and Susannah Miller, of German lineage. They have one child, Ehzabeth M., born September 1)^1869.

JENNINGS JOSEPH, Franklin township; farmer; born in Coshocton county, September 23, 1845; son of Joseph Jennings, Sr., an early settler of this county; enlisted in Company M, Ninth 0. V. C, October 22, 1863, and remained in service until mustered out in 1865. Among theengagements he participated in were Decatur,, Alabama, those about Atlanta, Aiken, Chappel Hill, Nashville, Tennessee, etc. Since his return, he has engaged in farming. He was married September 8, 1870, to Rebecca Simon, born April' 27, 1847, daughter of WiUiam Simon, who was. born in Fairfield county, and whose parents emigrated from Germany. His children were, Arminta, Viola, William Marshall, John Harley, Sara Bell and Olvy Pearl.

county, who was born in November, 1824. He died March 12, 1876. They were the parents of four children, only one o£ whom, Polantes, is living. Mr. John followed the business of salesman, selling goods in Walhonding and Warsaw.

JONES SAMUEL, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette, Ohio; son of David P. and Margaret (Hunt) Jones; was born April 20, 1842, in England. He came to this country in 1845, and located in Linton township, this county. He was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupatien. Mr. Jones was married June 29, 1865, to Miss Debby J. Wiggins, of this county. They are the parents of six children, viz: Rosella, born June 29, 1866; Ida M , born August 23, 1867; Charles B., born August 26, 1869; Samuel H., born January 19, 1872; David P , born December 9, 1877, died March 8, 1878, and Debby P., born January 21, 1876. Mr. Jones served four months as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second 0. V. I., under General Butler.

JONES SMITH, Oxford township; farmer; White Eyes Plains postoffice ; son of Wesley and Mille A. (Medley) Tones, both natives of Ohio. The subject of this sketch was born in Belmont county, in 1841, and came »to this county when about three years of age. He was married to Miss Margaret Ann Wolf, daughter of Samuel Wolf, deceased. They have not been blessed with any children. He is at present township trustee, being elected on the Republican ticket, although the towhship is Democratic, which shows his popularity. He took part in the late war, going out in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth 0. V. I., and serving twenty months, going out as a private and discharged as a sergeant. Mr. Jones and wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church of this township, and are both highly esteemed by their neighbors. He owns fifty-three acres of good land in this township.

JONES REV. A. P., Virginia towiihip. The subject of this sketch was born at Westfield, Medina county, Ohio; son of Sylvanus and Alvira Jones. Mr. Johns was brought up on a farm till the age of eighteen years. He then went to school at Baldwin university, at Berea, Ohio, he also spent two years at the Wesleyan university, at Delaware, where he graduated. H e then entered the North Ohio Conference, of which he remained a member until 1863, when he enlisted in the Thirty-fourth Regiment 0. V. I., Army of the Cumberland, served about eighteen months as a private. He afterward served in various capacities : first as clerk, then in the executive department of the hospital, then as chaplain till he was mustered out of the service. On his return he again entered the conference, and is still a

JOHNSTON J. H., Jefferson township; was born September .iO, 1884, in Scotland, and while yet an infant, he was brought by his parents to Canada, where he was brought up on a farm, and educated in a Canadian free school. At the age of twenty, he came to the United States, and settled in Hancock county. West Virginia, where he learned the blacksmith trade, under John Dixon, and followed it, in Virginia, about seven years ; then went to California, workedathis trade about sixteen months; then returned to Coshocton county, Ohio, worked at his trade until 1875,, when he went to Texas, to look for a location;, remained there about fifteen months, and followed farming; then returned to Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he is now pursuing his old occupation of blaoksmithing. He was married to Miss Rebecca J. Neptune, September, 1857, who was born June 3, 1834; daughter of Davis and Elizabeth (Hull) Neptune, and granddaughter of Benjamin and Sarah Hull, Their children were, Elizabeth, deceased ; John T., born January 2,1862; George D., August 2,. 1863; Ahoe M., September 28, 1865; James H., September 2, 1868; Charles G., February 2, 1871; Samuel A., September 7, 1862, and Sarah J., May 20, 1876, born in Texas. Mr. Johnston enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second 0. N. G., and served his country 100 days.

JOHNSON JAMES, Frankhn township; born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 10, 1815; son of John and Rebecca Johnson. In 1818, his father, a weaver, moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and seven years later to Utica, New York James remained here till he was twelve years old, then worked on the Erie canal till he was twenty-five, when he learned the cooper trade, working at it, in Newark, Wayne county, and Phelps, Ontario county. New York, till the fall of 1848. He then moved to Roscoe, this county, and followed his trade till the spring of 1852, when he moved to Franklin township. He built a cooper-shop at Conesville, doing the cooper work for the distillery, and also shipping his barrels. About 1868, he quit coopering and engaged exclusively in farming. He was married, in 1841, to Matilda Cornell, daughter of John Cornell. His two children were named John and Sarah Minerva.

JOHNSON HENRY, deceased; Lafayette township ; was born in Orange county, New York, in 1800, and came to Ohio in 1837 ; previous to coming here, he run a dairy in Orange county, noted the world over for its butter and buttermakers. He was married October 23, 1822, to Miss Clarinda Burt, of Orange county, New York. They had three children, viz : Sarah, Catherine and Clara. Mrs. Johnson passed away in 1873, and Mr. Johnson in 1879, his death resulting from being struck in the breast by a horse which was scared at a steam thresher. Mrs. Johnson was a cripple the best part of her life from rheumatism, caused prinaipally by the hard work incident to an early settler's life. Clara, the youngest daughter, owns the home farm of 200 acres, which is the one first settled upon by her father, and owns 240 acres south of the home farm. The house where she is at present living is the oldest frame house in the valley, atone time a tavern, in the early days of this county, and was the place for holding elections for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were both leading members of the Baptist church here, in fact, Mr. Johnson may truthfully be said to have built the Baptist church in this place, and his home was sometimes called ihe "preacher's home," on account of the hospitality extended to them.

JOHNSON JESSE, White Eyes township; farmer ; born in Jefferson county about 1817, and was the son of Derrick Johnson. Jesse was married in 1841 to Miss M. J. Dennison of Jefferson county ; she was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had nine children, all of whom have deceased except the three youngest, two boys and one girl - Charles, Ernst and Grace. Orace is married to John Adams, a stock dealer of Coshocton, and resides at that place. Charles lives at home with his mother, and farms the place. Ernst has been attending: school at Coshocton for the last three years. Mr. Johnson came to this township in the spring of 1861, and located on the farm where his widow resides. He September 15, 1868, aged 62 years, and was interred at Kimbles. 'They lost four of their children within two weeks.

JOHNSON DR. M.IRO, Roscoe, Ohio. Dr. Johnson was born March 14, 1810, in Cheshire county. New Hampshire; son of Adam and Martha (Breed) Johnson, ivho were of English ancestors. The doctor's grandfather was a soldier in the French and English wars of 1754-55, and ^Iso in the revolutionary war. Young Johnson was brought up on a farm, where he remained until he was twenty years of -age, when he began reading medicine with Dr. Samuel Lee, the first physician in Coshocton, Ohio. After three years' study he attended a course of lectures at the Ohio medical college at Cincinnati. On his return from the lectures he became a partner with his preceptor, with whom he remained six years, and since which time he has practiced medicine at his present place, Roscoe. Dr. Johnson was married November 15, 1838, to Miss Eliza L., daughter of Thomas L. Rue, of Coshocton, but formerly of Pennington, New Jersey. They became the parents of four children, viz: Sarah L.. Jane, married to John M. Adams, of Jackson township; Elizabeth, deceased, aged 19 years; Guy, married to Miss Lone, now residing in Iowa. Mrs. Johnson died in 1854, and is buried in the old cemetery at Roscoe.

JOHNSON William a., clerk; Coshocton; was born June 28, 1823, in this city; son of Adam and Sarah Williams, daughter of Colonel Williams the pioneer settler of this city. Johnson, Sr., was a native of Maryland. At the age of thirteen young Johnson began the printing business in the Coshocton -Demcwai, and in 1845 he became owner of half the office, which he held about one year. In 1846 he became editor and proprietor of the Crawfordsville Review,m Indiana, and conducted it one year, then removed to Iowa and located at Ottumwa, Wapello county. He afterwards purchased the Des Moines Republican, and conducted it nearly two years. Then returned to his native city a wiser if not wealthier man, and became foreman of the Coshocton ^p'e, which position he held under Burt, Hillyer, Dwyer & Harris. He was appointed postmaster by President Lincoln, but was victimized by President Johnson. In 1861 he enlisted as musician of Fifty-first regimental band, but was discharged by act of congress in 1862. He also served under the government as assistant assessor, also as assessor, then again assistant assessos of internal revenue, also deputy provost marshal oE this county, after which he retired to private life. Mr. Johnson was married in April, 1845, to Miss Doratha, daughter of John and Susannah (Jennings) Ostler. This union was blessed with eleven children; three died in infancy, not named; Louisa, Mary v., Luella, William A.. Jr., George W., Charles M. ; Adah, deceased ; Mary A. and Paul B.

JOHNSON C. B., New Castle township; postoffice, New Castle; was born in Tompkins county, New York, April 30, 1840; son of Henry L. and Ocee Ann (Brown) Johnson, and grandson of Robert and Mary (Carney.) Brown. He worked on the farm and attended school until the age of eighteen, aWvhich time he came to West Bedford, this county, and learned the harness-maker trade

New Castle, and worked with William Lyons. In June, 1861, he volunteered in the United States service in Company D, Twenty-fourth 0. V. I., under Captain Givens, and remained in the service until January, 1863. His first encampment was at Camp Chase, four miles west of Columbus, and in July, 1861, was removed from there to Bellaire; thence to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; thence to Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he was taken ill and was sent to the hospital, and was there several days. He then, with three comrades, followed the command to Cheat Mountain, a distance of 104 miles, camping each night among the enemy.

From Cheat Mountain he went to Greenbrier, and there took part in the fight, then came back with his regiment to Cheat Mountain, and from there was ordered to Clarksburg, and thence to Louisville, Kentucky, under General Wilson. Prom Louisville he went into winter quarters at Camp Wickliffe, and, in February^ 1862, was ordered to West Point, Kentucky, and down the Ohio to Paducah, thence up the Cumberland to Port Donelson, expecting to assist in the fight at that place, but didn't reach there until the morning of the surrender. From there he went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was taken sick and sent to the hospital, and afterward detailed to hospital No. 14 as hospital clerk, and remained nine months and twenty-seven days, when he received his discharge and went home. He was never wounded

He then went to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, and worked at his trade with with George Hawk for nine months, and in 1864 moved to Bladensburgh, Knox county, and from there to Roscoe and carried on a shop for two years, and in the fall of 1867 moved to New Castle, where he has resided ever since. In 1874 he patented the diamond trace buckle, for which he received about $1,000. He has served three terms as justice of the peace in New Castle township, and is at present proprietor of Union Hotel, doing a fair business. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Martha Baltzall, to whom he was married March 7, 1863. Slje was the daughter of Joseph and Lydia Baltzall, and died July 12, 1865. He married his second wife. Miss Charity E. Fulkerson, July 7, 1867, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Fulkerson, who is the mother of four children, three of whom are living viz : Blanche, born July 6, 1868; George, born October 10, 1879; Robert, born February 21, 1877.

'JOHNSON ROBERT Is., New Castle township ; postoffice. New Castle ; was born March 15, 1838, in Tompkins county. New York; son of Henry and Ooee Ann (Brown) Johnson, and grandson of Robert and Mary (Carney) Brown. He attended school and assisted his father on the farm until he was twenty years of age, at which time he went to Illinois, remaining there about ten months, working for Mr. Williams, of Crawford county, then came to Virginia township, Coshocton county, and from there went to Bedford township, and worked with Elias James, and attended school during the winter of 1859.

In the spring following, he went to West Bradford, and in the fall, to Simmons' run, near Xenia, Ohio, and worked there until the spring of 1861, when he came to New Castle, and worked with Jesse Nickols, until the first of June, when he enlisted in the United States service, Company K, Twenty-fourth 0. V. I., under Captain Given; went to Camp Chase; from there to

Bellaire, and thence to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; was then ordered to Clarksburg, West Virginia, and thence to Cheat Mountain; from there went to Greenbrier, and took part in the engagement at that place; from there he returned, with his regiment to Cheat Mountain; from thence to Clarksburg; thence to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there to winter quarters, at Camp Wickliffe, and, in February, 1862, went to West Point Kentucky; from there to Paducah; thence up the Cumberland, to Fort Donaldson, to assist in the engagement there, but did not arrive until the morning of the surrender.

From there he went to Nashville, Tennessee, thence to Savannah, Georgia, then to Shiloh, expecting an attack. On the morning of the 8th of February, he marched with his regiment against the enemy, had a battle and routed the enemy. From there he went to Corinth and assisted in the siege, thence to Beech bottoms, thence to luka Springs, thence to Nashville and Murfreesborough, Tennessee, where, on account of sickness, he was taken to convalescent camp, remained there about six weeks; was then detailed as teamster to Bowling Green, then to Louisville, thence to Nashville, when he was taken to hospital on account of injuries received from a mule, where he remained until he was discharged, January 27, 1863, and then came home. He married Miss Mary A. Smith, August 17, 1865. He then learned the harnessmaker trade, in New Castle, with his brother, Charles, with whom he was a partner about four years, when he sold his interest and went into the barbering business at Mount Vernon, Knox county, and, after a time, came back to New Castle, where he is at present engaged at harnessmaking and barbering, doing a fair business.

JOHNSON JOHN, Pike township; postoffloe. West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county in 1846; son of John and Mary Johnson, and grandson of John Johnson, and of Joseph and Mary Hawker. He was married in 1868 to Miss Elizabeth Frampton, daughter of Garrettson and Eliza A. Frampton. I'hey are the parents of two children, viz : Clarence G. and Stephen D. Mr. Johnson enlisted in 1864, in Company F, Nihety-seventh 0. V. I., Capt. Lemmert, Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Johnson participated in the following battles, to- wit : Rocky Face Ridge, May 9, 1864; Resaca, Georgia, May 14 and 15, 1864; Adairsville, May 17, 1864; Burnt Hickory, May 27, 1864 ; Muddy Creek, June 18, 1864 ; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864 ; Peach Tree Creek,' July 20, 1864; Atlanta, Georgia, July 22 and 23, 1864; Jonesborough, September 1,1864; Lovejoy Station, September 2, 1864; Spring Hill, November 29, 1864; Franklin, November 80, 1864; Nashville, December 16 and 16, 1864; Missionary Ridge, Stone River, and Chicamauga. He

JOHNSON WILLIAM, Pike township; postoffice, Fallsburgh ; farmer and stockraiser ; born in England in 1819 ; came to the United States in 1852, and settled in this county in 1870; son of Daniel and Mary (Topps) Johnson, and grandson of William and Mary Johnson, and of Thomas

Miss Levina Lane, daughter of Joshua and Sarah Lane. They are the parents of six children, viz : Mary and Sarah, both deceased ; Margaret, John, Terrissa, George E., Harriett, and Elizabeth. The father of the subject of this sketch died in 1867.

KANE FRANK; was born in Herkimer county. New York, July 18, 1828; lived on a farm, and went to Fairfield academy until the age of fifteen, and then went to learn the currier trade; followed it .three years, then moved to Otsego county. New York, and followed pattern making for twelve years. After this he left New York and went to Schenectady City, and resumed his trade of pattern making for a time, after which he returned to Otsego and followed the same business for two years; then came to Coshocton, Ohio, and has worked at pattern making for the Iron and Steel Co., up to the present time. Mr. Kane married Julia H., daughter of, Philip Baker, of Richfield Springs, Otsego county. New York. This union has been blessed with two children, viz : Charley B. and Cora Kane.

KASER CHRISTIAN, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw ; born in Wurtemberg, Germany, November 23, 1815 ; son of Frederick and Johanna. (Slumf) Kaser. - In his youth he learned the shoemaker trade, and, at the age of eighteen, began doing for himself, worked at promiscuous work for twenty years, then came to America in 1848, landing in New York after a voyage of eighteen days. From New York he went to Dutch Bedford, remained there a short time, then came to Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he has resided since. He was married February 29, 1849, to Miss Sophia Gamertsfelder, daughter of Christian and Johanna (Verner) Gamertsfelder. She was born November 3, 1814, in Stiltzbaugh, Wurtemberg, Germany; Ciime to America in 1833, landing in Baltimore after a voyage of eighty-one days, on the vessel Elizabeth. They are the parents of two children - John and Christian. John was born in Mill Creek township May 25, 1851. He attended district school and assisted his father until the age of twenty-one, since which time he has farmed for himself. He is an energetic young man, respected by all who know him. He was married January 1, 1876, to Miss Anna E. Miller, daughter of John W. and Caroline Miller, who was born June 3, 1852, in Jefferson township, died May 31, 1879. This union was blessed with one child (Samuel), born September 29, 1875.

KASER C, Jefferson township ; was born May 2, 1855, in Jefferson township, Coshocton county. He lived on a, farm until the age of eighteen, when, after attending school for some time at Warsaw, he began teaching and taught one year, then went back to the farm where he remained two years, after which he attended the Ohio Central Normal school, at Worthington, Franklin county. He is now engaged in selling hardware in partnership with R. C. Frederick, at Warsaw, where they are doing a good business. Mr. Kaser was married to Miss Louisa Meyers, May 5, 1880, daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina Myers. C. Kaser is a son of C. and Sophia (Gamertsfelder) Kaser.

KASER JOHN C, Jefferson township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Christian and Sophia F. (Gamertsfelder) Kaser; was born May 25, 1851, in this county. He was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married December 31, 1865, to Miss Annie E. Miller, of this county. They became the parents of one child, viz : Samuel, born September 29, 1866. His wife died May 30, 1879. Mr. Kaser's second marriage .was on February 24, 1881, to Miss Maggie Fisher, of this county. He is farming his father's place at present.

KETCHUM SAMUEL, deceased; the only son of Abner and Clarinda (Belcher) Ketchum ; was born in Moroe, Orange county, New York, November 8, 1827, and came here with his parents in May, 1840; was married February 24, 1851, to Eleanor L. Lowry, of Linton township. They had four children, as follows : Abner, Laura, Robert and Hattie. Mi. Ketchum died June 29, 1871.

KERNS W. P., Adams township; postoffice, Bakersville; wagonmaker; born in Holmes county, Ohio, May 8, 1851; son of John and Sarah (Snider) Kerns, and grandson of Mary Snider. He begjin his trade at the age of fifteen, with his father, and remained seven years,, after vjfhich he took charge of the shop himself and continued it for some time. He then worked at carpentering for about three years, after which he came to Bakersville and resumed his former occupation, where he has a very flattering trade. He is a firstclass mechanic, and manufactures wagons, buggies and everything in his line in the very best style. Mr. Kerns was married in 1875, to Misa Emma Hixon, daughter of Jonathan and Susan Hixon, and granddaughter of Abraham Hixon. She died April 10, 1878. They have two children,

KEISER MICHAEL, Clark township; miller; postoffice, Clarks; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, March 16, 1844; son of John and Louisa {Kerstetter) Keiser, and grandson of Daniel and Mary Keiser and Michael Kerstetter. He learned his trade with Daniel Schaef, of Bakersville, and, in 1874, he became proprietor bi the Bloomfield mills, where he is at present, doing a very fair husiness. .He was married, April 5, 1868, to Miss Sarah Beck, and is father of three children: Benjamin, born February 16, 1869; Sarah, born January 2, 1874, and Almira, born October 6, 1876. Mr. Keiser served three years in the late war, in company E, One Hundred and Twentysixth 0. V. I.

KEIST WILLIAM C, Linton township; farm- born in Linton township, November 5, 1837; .son of Nathan and Elizabeth B. (Clark) Keist, grandson of William K. and Catherine (Williams) Clark, and of Philip and Nancy (Holt) Keist; His grandfather Keist was born in Germany, .and settled in Loudon county, Virginia. His grandfather Clark, during the war of 1812, emigrated from Washington county, Maryland, to Eranklin township, and worked a short time on the Miller section, then enhsted in the army, and participated in the battle of the Thames; returning, he settled in Linton township, where Mr. Keist's mother was born. H is father was born in Loudon county, Virginia, and about 1838 came to Muskingum county, and two years later to Linton township. Mr. Keist, April 14, 1859, married Alcinda Gale Ingraham, born in Harrison county, Virginia, daughter of Jacob and Maria (Modisette) Ingraham. Their children are James B., born February 22, 1860; Clark, deceased, born January 22, 1862; Ella V., July 22, 1864; Benjamin F., December 31, 1866; Arthur -G., deceased, February, 13, 1868 ; Olivia E.., May 24, 1871; Mary L., March 2, 1875, and Louis M., March 13, 1880.

KITCHEN J. T., Coshocton; city marshal; born March 14, 1837, in this city; son of Joel Kitchen, a native of Virginia, of Irish ancestry. When about twelve years of age he was employed in the coal works of Jewitt & Co., and subsequently in another company, making about twenty-one years. He was elected to the office which he now holds April 1, 1878. Mr. Kitchen was married, first, December 27, 1859, to Miss Adeline UfFner, daughter of John Ufifner, of Licking county. This union was blessed with -nine children, one of whom, Joseph, is deceased. eight living children are : Charles T., Clara, Frank, Milton, Herbert, William, Niona and Harry. Mrs. Kitchen died June 24, 1877. Marshal Kitchen's second marriage was on June 19, 1880, to Miss Catharine Eeed, of this city.

KING W. H., Coshocton, Ohio; of the firm of King & Ferrell, foundrymen, North Fifth street. Mr. King was born February 1, 1841, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; son of William King. W. H. enlisted, in 1861, in Company F, Fiftyfirst O. V. I., and re-enlisted as a veteran, in 1864, and served to the close of the war. He was wounded in the hip, at the battle of Chickamauga, which disabled him for a few days. He was in every engagement of his corps (twenty battles), besides many skirmishes. He was discharged at Galveston, Texas, but was not mustered out until he returned as far as Columbus. At the close of the war, he engaged in the foundry business, at Eoscoe, with the following successive partners, viz: Hiram Taylor, James Hay and James Mirise. In the winter of 1881, Mr. King established business, alone, at his present place, and, April 25, of the same year, the present firm was formed. This firm starts under very favorable auspices, both members of the firm being skilled workmen, and having large experience in their business. Mr. King was married, December 25. 1855, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Daniel King, of Crawford township. They are the parents of seven chidren.

KIME JOSEPH, Oxford township; farmer; Evansburgh postoffice ; son of Daniel and Catherine (Canel) Kime; was born in 1830, and came from Knox county to this county in 1851 ; was married in 1854, to Miss Sarah Wolf, of this township, and they have one child, George P., who has been a great sufferer for the past five years. Mr. Kime was county commissioner from 1863 to 1869, aud is one of the leading citiizens of the township. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.

KINSEY J. I., Monroe township; was born December 18, 1839, in Tiverton township, Coshocton county; son of Samuel and Susannah (Beam) Kinsey, and grandson of Jacob Beam. He was brought up on a farm, and at the age of twentyone he began farming for himself, and followed it for ten years. Since that time he has followed huckstering, and has acquired wealth enough to keep him and his family comfortably. He was married to Miss Harriet Lanning, in April, 1865, daughter of Israel and Susannah (McCoy) Lanning, and granddaughter of Jacob and Margret Moore, and of William and Harriet (Walraven) McCoy Their children are Alberta, born February 12, 1866; Blanche, May 7, 1872, and Clare, August 8, 1875.

moner (Welling) Kirker; married September, 1852, to Miss Rhuellen McCoy, daughter of Joseph and Sarah McCoy. Mr. Kirker is the father of nine children, viz: W. H.; Louisa, deceased; Sarah ; Mary E., deceased ; Joseph M., Martin D., Charity, Gilbert S., Emma S.

KLINGLER tMATHIAS, Jefferson township; born June 13, 1837, in Wurtemberg, Germany; son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Spade) Klingler, and grandson of George and Rosannah Klingler, and of Christian (Plowfelder) Spade. Mr. Klingler followed furniture making till the age of twenty-three, when he learned engineering, and run an engine on the Minden railroad for thi;ee years and six months. In 1866, he came to the United States, lived in Philadelphia six months, spent one year in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, then came to Crawford township, Coshocton county, Ohio, where he has followed the carpenter trade with good success. He was married, in June, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Shy, daughter of Frederick and Catharine (Shoemaker) Shy. Frederick, Henry, Willirm, Jacob and Catharine are the names of their children.

KLINE CHARLES, Crawford township; shoemaker ; postoffice. Chili ; born in 1848, in Bavaria, Germany; son of George and Christifia (Shaw) Kline, both natives of Bavaria. Charles Kline emigrated to America in 1860, located in Phillipsburgh, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and apprenticed himself to a shoemaker there. He worked in shops in several places in the State until 1868, when he came to Chili and opened a shop for himself, where he has worked at his trade up to the present time. In 1868 he married EUzabeth Miller. Their children are : Mary, George, Amelia, Elizabeth, Lilly, Christina Margaret and Charles Frederick. Mr. Kline and family are members of the Reform church.

KLEINKNECHT CHRISTIAN, Crawford township ; farmer and carpenter ; postoffice. New Bedford; was born February 27, 1852, in Holmes county; son of Jacob and Catherine (Baad) Kleinknecht. Wlien a child he came to Crawford township, in which he has resided to the present time. At the age of nineteen, he went to the carpenter's trade, which he has principally ^ followed to the present. Mr. Kleinknecht was married December 25, 1873, to Miss Mary Margaret Price. They are the parents of two children viz : Jonathan and Mary Alice.

KNIGHT GEORGE, New Castle township; farmer and tanner; was born in Harrison county, Ohio, April 6, 1810; son of Peter and Elizalaeth (Fivecoat) Knight, who both lived to a great age. His father was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia; was a blacksmith by trade, and a member of the Enghsh Prostestant church; and his grandfather was a German Reformed minister. Mr. Knight is one of six children, three sons and three daughters. ' His brothers are both living, one in the city of Baltimore, the other in Iowa. One sister is also living. His father died the year that he was born. He has an English education, such as could be gathered in his time. He began the tanner trade at the age of sixteen with William Frost, of St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, and worked with him about four years, then went to New Athens, Harrison county, Ohio, and engaged with Mr. Hawthorn, from thence to Wooster, Wayne county, and worked with Mr. David Robison, and from there he went to Millersburg, Holmes county, and formed ' a partnership with Lyman Shafer, which lasted four years.

In the fall of 1833 he received a new partner, Andrew McMonagh, and remained partner with him eighteen months, when he sold his interest and came to New Castle, and formed a partnership with his old partner, Lyman Shafer, in a tannery, saddler shop and store, the partnership lasting about twelve years. He then sold his interest in these, returned to Millersburg, bought a tannery, and for eight years did the most successful business of his life. He then returned to New Castle, bought a farm, and opened another tannery, and has been tanning and farming for the past twenty-five years, in New Castle township. He has been successful throught life, has never drank any intoxicating liquors from his boyhood. He and his wife united themselves with the Presbyterian church when they were about twenty years of age, and are still faithful, and highly respected by all. Mr. Knight had an uncle who was a soldier in the war of the revolution, and another a soldier in the war of 1812,

He was married March 6, 1835, to Miss Keziah Boggs, daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Tipton) Boggs, granddaughter of Alexander and Sarah Boggs, and Absolam and Keziah (Boran) Tipton. Mrs. Knight was born in Belmont county, June 26, 1815. They have, had nine children, viz : Margaret A., born Sej)tember 18, 1837, the wife of a Presbyterian minister (Rev. Mr. Beldenj of Centreville, Iowa), she is a graduate of Washingington, Pennsylvania, Female seminary ; ' William S., born August 17, 1839, graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, and at the Western Theological seminary at Alleghany, and is a minister of the Presbyterian church, at Carthage, in Jasper county, Missouri ; Hervey B., born July 20, 1841, also a graduate of Washington college and Western Theological seminary, at Allegheny, and is a Presbyterian minister ; Lymon S., born November 7, 1843, is a professor of music and teacher of the higher branches in Congress, Wayne county, Ohio; Mary E., born November 19, 1845, graduated at Steubenville Female seminary and is teacher in the Coshocton schools;

Peter B., born March 17, 1848, graduated in Pittsburgh IBusiness college and is clerking in a wholesale establishment in Atchison, Kansas; Maria J., born December 3, 1850, wife of Dr. Richardson, of Monravia, Iowa; George L., born July 25, 1853, attended school at Wooster university, and is at present reading law with Campbell & Vorhees, Coshocton, Ohio. They are all members of the Presbyterian church. Two of Mr. Knight's sons volunteered in the U. S. service during the rebellion.

KE.AUSS JOHN D., FrankKn township ; farmer ; postofBce, Wills Creek ; born April 16, 1850, in Licking county; son of Christian and Henrietta (Keller) Krauss, natives of Germany, who came to America about the year 1842. Mr. John D. Krauss was married January 10, 1875, to Miss Eliza Anne, daughter of John G. and Catherine ( Hackney) Kaufman, natives of Germany. They are the parents of one child, named Clara Ulalah. They located at their present residence March 8, 1878.

KEAUSS THOMAS C, Franklin township; farmer ; postoffice. Wills Creek ; son of Christian and Henrietta (Keller) Krauss. Mr, Thomas C. Krauss was married September 25, 1876, to Miss Mazie Jane, daughter of Moses and Martha A. (Sticl^les) Wilkins, natives of Ohio. Mrs. Krauss was born on the farm on which she now resides. They became the parents of three children, viz : Henrietta, Clemence W. and Lillie Frances. Mr. Christian Krauss, mentioned above, was born November 3, 1819, in Wurteraberg, Germany. On completing his education, he learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked in Switzerland and France. His widowed mother needing his assistance, he returned to her, with whom he remained the two years previous to his coming to America, where he landed July 6, 1842, and lo- (3ated at Newark, Licking county. Here he met his betrothed, with whom an engagement had been made in Germany, several years previous, on condition that she would come to America, which she did in 1841, landing in New Orleans. But both being true to their plighted troth, they were rnarried when they met at Newark. They became the parents of the following children: Annie C. W., decased; Elisha, Catherine; Henrietta 0., deceased. Mr. Krauss lived at several places in Coshocton and Licking counties. In 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-seventh 0. V. I., and served about six months, receiving an honorable discharge on account of sickness. Some years ago, by the imprudence of a railroad -conductor, he was seriously injured, for_ which the company, after a long and tedious litigation, was compelled to pay him |2,200.

LACEY GEORGE, Franklin township; farmer; born in Fauquier county, Virginia, August 20, 1823; son of William Lacey. In the spring o{ 1832 his father moved his family to Muskingum; county, and three years later to Virginia township, where Mr Lacey, December 16, 1843, married Phoebe Tilton, who was born in Virginia township, and is the daughter of Joseph and Phoebe Tilton. About the year 1848 they moved to Lafayette township, and lived successively in Lafayette township; Richland county, Illinois; Lafayette township; Tuscarawas township; Franklin township; Muskingum county, and back again to Franklin township two years ago. Mr. Lacey has seven children living, viz: George W., Nancy Elizabeth (Donaker); Jesse Sanford, Susie Ann, Lawrence L., Ida B. and May Eleanor. He has lost two boys, Joseph T. and James R. The former enlisted in the Ninety-seventy O. V. I., Company I, in 1862, and was killed in the battle of Mission Ridge ; James died in early childhood. Mr. Lacey was married a second in February, 1880, to Marinda Frost, of Licking county.

LAHM JOHN A., of the firm of J. A. Rimer & Co., merchants; postoflice. New Bedford, Ohio;, born January 10, 1853, in Germany; son of Simon and Catharine (Miller) Lahm. Young Lahpi was raised on the farm until seventeen, when he began working in a woolen factory and attended, school. His first experience in merchandising was clerking at Beck's mills. Holmes county, where he remained four years. He next clerked at Millersburgh a short time. Also clerked at Helmick about three years, after which he attended the commercial college at Zanesville, and obtained a diploma. He subsequently clerked at Barnesville and Helmick, and at New Bedford for feieorge A. Rimer, where he was employed when the above firm was formed, January 21, 1879. This firm is doing an extensive business, having a full stock for a combination village store.

LAHNA JACOB, Linton township; farmer; postoffice. Bacon Run, Ohio; born June 6, 1843, in' Adams township, Muskingum cotmty; son of Jacob and Rosanna (Sandel) Lahna, a native of Alsace, France. He came to America with three children, and located in Adams township, Muskingum county; and came to Linton township, Coshocton county, about 1847, and located on the farm now owned by his heirs. Jacob Lahna enlisted in February, 1865, in Company I, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth 0. V. I., and served until December of same year. Mr. Lahna was married June 10, 1867, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Michael and Anne (Lash) Wagner, who is of

<Jerman ancestry. They became the parents of eight children : Mary A.,Eosanna; Ehzabeth, deceased ; Matilda, deceased ; Agatha, John M. and Sarah Adaline.

LAKE JOHN, Pike township; postofflce, Fra- -zeysburg, Muskingum county ; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1854; son of Joseph and Jane (Riley) Lake, and grandson of Spencer and Martha Lake. He was married in 1876, to Miss Laura McConnell, daughter of Daniel and Mahalay McConnell. They have one child, viz : Ura.

LAMBEESON SAMUEL, Coshocton; of the firm of Barney, DeMoss & Co., Empire Mills, Eoscoe, and proprietor Washington Mills, Tuscarawas township ; born March 14, 1814:, in Virginia; son of Samuel Lamberson, deceased. When young Lamberson was only four years of age he was sadly bereft of the kind care and influence of a loving mother, she being suddenly killed by the falling of a chimney. When yet a child he came to New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county. When -about twelve years of age he went to the hatter's trade with Samuel Burns, and served about seven years, after which he went into the store of Smeltzer & Eansom, of Eoscoe, where he remained about seven years. He then became partner with Arnold Medbery in a store at Canal Lewis- -ville. This firm continued about four years, when Mr. Lamberson became sole proprietor, and conducted the store about twenty years. In 1872 he came to this city and bought his present residence, 671 Main street. Mr. Lamberson served one term as county commissioner, and declined to be a candidate for a second term after having been nominated. He also served as treasurer, the unexpired term of Samuel Ketchana, one year, and was elected and served the succeeding term in the same office.

Mr. Lamberson is the father of four children, viz : Caroline, married to John Cassingham, Esq., of this city ; Louisa, Charles and Samuel Lam- Tserson, Jr.

LAMBEESON CHAS. A., Coshocton; packer in Empire Mills, Eoscoe, 0.; was born September 11, 1861, in Canal Lewisville ; son of Samuel Lamberson, a native of Virginia. Young Lam- Taerson attended public schools until May, 1880, when he came into the above mills, where he is now employed.

LANNING SILAS, Monroe township; born August 30, 1846, in Monroe township, Coshocton county, 0.; son of Israel and Susannah (McCoy) Lanning, and grandson of Jacob and Margaret (Moore) Lanning, and of William and Harriet (Walraven) McCoy, and great grandson of John and Eebecca McCoy. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in district schools and Spring

Mountain academy. At the age of 23 he began the blacksmith trade under George Osburn, of Marion county, Iowa; served an apprenticeship of two and a half years, then returned to Spring Mountain, where he is now working ^tt his trade. Mr. Lanning was married, November, 1866, to Miss Phoebe Wing, a native of New York, daughter of Charles and Phoebe (Titus) Wing, granddaughter of William E. and Phoebe (Cuthburt) Wing, and granddaughter of Stephen and Phoebe (Marsh) Titus. Their children are : Darvin, born October 20, 1867; Mond, February 14, 1869; Alva, March 25, 1871, and Harold, December 16, 1874. At the age of 17 he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-second 0. N. G., and served 100 days.

LAPP MICHAEL, Franldin 'township ; born in Alsace, France, September 28, 1829; son of Henry and Magdalena(Zimmer^ Lapp. In June, 1830, he arrived, with his parents, at Zanesville ; was raised in Muskingum county; is a carpenter by trade, and worked at it many years, when a young man. In 1854, he moved to Linton township, and, three years later, to Franklin township. In connection with farming, he does a general saw-mill business, sawing more lumber than perhaps any man in the county. He is also a contractor for bridges, school-houses, etc., and has constructed and prepared lumber for many buildings. Mr. Lapp has been twice married ; first, to Dorotha M. Snite, born in Tuscarawas county, daughter of John T. Snite. By this marriage, he had ten children, viz: Henry, John F,, Louisa, Mary D., William, Solomon C, Alice E., Caroline, Albert and Frank. His second wife was Lucinda Miller, who was born in Virginia, and came to Ohio about 1864; daughter of Stephen Miller. Harvey, David, George and Anise are the issue of this marriage.

LA SEEEE J. J., grocer and provisions, No. 146 Second street, Coshocton. Mr. La Seere is a native of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1839, and Icoated at Putnam, Muskingum county, where he remained until 1848, when he come to Eoscoe, where he followed coopering, and, in June, 1880, he established the grocery business at his present location, where he carries a good, fresh stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectioneries, provisions, fruits and vegetables, sugar-cured and pickled meats, sliced hams, fish, flour, Jjread, and all kinds of canned goods ; also deals in all kinds of country produce.

LAUEIE J. H., Coshocton; proprietor saloon and restaurant, corner Main and Third streets; wab born January 11, 1839, in Bavaria, Germany; son of Christopher Laurie. Young Laurie attended school until fourteen years of age, when he en- tered Kaiserslantern seminary, and remained two years, then returned home and remained one year. In 1856 he came to America, landing at Baltimore, Maryland. Soon after his arrival he became a steamboatman on the Adriatic, plying beween Pittsburgh and New Orleans, and remained on this boat three years. He was successively a bridge builder on the Pan Handle railroad, coal miner, near Steubenvilie, Ohio, and oil operator, near Marietta, Ohio, from thence he came to this city in 1861, and mined four years. Then engaged in merchandising, which he followed until 1872, when he purchased and fitted up the Central House, and was proprietor for two year, when he sold out his hotel and established his present business. Mr. Laurie was married in August, 1861, to Miss Catharine Stone, of Washington county, Ohio. This marriage was blessed with four children, two deceased, Willie Edward and Clara; and two living, Tillie and Haddie Laurie. Mr. Laurie is now doing a good business.

LAUDENSCHLAGER THOMAS, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio; born October 10, 1857, in Crawford township; son of John and Elizabeth (Sheets) Laudenschlager, natives of Germany, but came to America in 1846. His father died in 1859, leaving his mother a widow, with three children, David, Elizab&th and Thomas. Afterward, his mother married Michael Link, with whom Thomas, the subject of this sketch, now resides in Crawford township.

LAWRENCE G. W., Clark township; postoffice, Clark's; farmer; born in Cheshire county. New Hampshire, November 15, 1823; son of Jesse and Susannah (Farwell) Lawrence, and grandson of Martin Lawrence and Richard Earwell, all of Scotch descent. He came to Keene township, Coshocton county, with his parents in 1826, remained there about one year, then, came to Mill Creek township, and lived there about thirty-three years, after which he moved to Clark township, where he has remained since on a farm of 113 acres, adjoining the village of Bloomfield. He has been twice married, the date of his first marriage being May 28, 1848, to Miss Lydia Ross, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Ross ; born December 11, 1824, and died March 12, 1862. They were the parents of two children; J. Ross, born March 1, 1850, and Harry, born January 20, 1853. His second marriage was on March 5, 1863, to Miss Rachel Cox, daughter of Elijah and Christina Shepler. She was born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 8, 1832. They are parents of three children; Don Carlos, born February, 12, 1864; Willie G., born April 26,1868, and Jesse B., born September 1, 1875.

farmer ; postoffice, New Castle ; was born in New Castle, Coshocton county, Ohio, March 11, 1831 ; son of George P. and Phcebe (Butler) Lawrence, and grandson of Jonathan and Mary (Horten) Lawrence, and Thomas Butler, one of the first settlers of the county. He attended district school and worked on the farm until the age of eighteen, then attended college at the Ohio-university at Delaware one year. His father, was one of the first occupants of the village of New Castle, then called Liberty. He is now one of the oldest residents of New Castle township. He was a partner in a store at the age of nineteen, with A. S. Lawrence and J. K. Leighow, and remained about two years ; then engq,ged in mercantile business with Jonathan Coggins, and continued a partner with that gentleman three years, when he sold his interest and turned his attention to farming and stock raising, and has continued in that business up to this time. He has been successful through his entire career; is kind, genial, and highly esteemed by all his acquaintances and neighbors. He resides on a farm one and a half miles southwest of New Castle. His paternal ancestors were Pennsylvanians, and his mother was of Irish descent. He was married August 9, 1855, to Miss Eliza Nichols, daughter of Eli and Hachel (Lloyd) Nichols, of Belmont county, who was born August 9, 1833, in Loydville, Belmont county. They have but one child, Eugene, born April 18, 1857, who is now farnaing and dealing in stock in Kansas.

LAWSON WILLIAM, Coshocton; photographer ; was botn in Monongalia county, West Virginia, February 29, 1842; son of Alexander Lawson, American born, of Scotch ancestry. Young Lawson spent his childhood on the farm, and, when twelve years of age, he entered a store as clerk, and, at twenty, began to learn the art of photography, with Snedeker, of Mattoon, Illinois. He was also employed at Gallion, Ohio, and in London Ohio, before he came to this city, and took charge of his brother's gallery. Mr. Lawspn was married, March 15, 1877, to Miss Maij, daughter of Dr. De Long, of Hardin county, Ohio. One child, Georgie E., was born to them, January 16, 1878, in Gallion, Ohio. Mr. Lawson 's rooms, located in the Hays building, on Second street, are well fitted up, with all the modern instruments and accessories, making it a first class photograph gallery.

LAWSON ELISHA, Coshocton; liveryman; was born February 7, 1842, in Virginia; son of Alexander and Susannah (Gould) Lawson, of Scotch ancestors. Elishaleft home whenaboirt nine years of age. He has traveled extensively in the South and West. June 11,1861, he enlisted in Company I, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves or Thirty-seventh Pa. V. I., at Wajmesburg, Penn- sylvania, and served three years At the battle of the Wilderness he received two wounds in the right arm; he was once captured, but soon recaptured, at the second Bull Run battle. At the close of the war, ilr. Lawson engaged in photography, and followed it about twelve years; he then determined to go to South America, but when he reached Matamoras, Mexico, he was taken sick with fever ; and, advised by his physician to return north, which he did, stopping in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, where he remained until he regained his health. Then he came to Ohio and resumed the photographic art, and followed it for five years or until the fall of 1880, when he engaged in his present business. Mr. Lawson is a special admirer of fine horses, which would be readily inferred by any one \-isiting his stables and seeing his stock ; especially two blooded mares, Hazards, his favorites. Though the Hazards, by man}', are considered very wild, vicious and unmanageable; Mr. Lawson believes them to be pretty as a gold dollar, generally as sound as a silver dollar, fleet as the wind, harmless as a dove and kind as a kitten. Mr. Lawson was married October 4, 1873, to Miss Hersey daughter of James Alfred and Mary (Borlan) Maekey. They are the parents of two daughters, viz : Edna and Frankie.

LAWSON DR. DAVID, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in April, 1824; son of David Lawson. Mr. Lawson went to school until the age of twenty ; then went to Muskingum county in 1835, engaged at weaving for some time. He began the study of medcine, at the age of nineteen, with Dr. David Barnes, of Coshocton county, and read three years and attended lectures at the Western Reserve medical college at Cleveland, O. He began the practice of medicine in 1849 at Elizabethtown, Licking county, and continued there one year; then came to Warsaw, and has been practicing here since. In 1872 he opened a dry goods store in Warsaw, since which time he has partially withdrawn from practice. He is doing a very fair business and is highly esteemed by all his numerous acquaintances. Dr. Lawson was married in 1852 to Miss Mary J. Magaw, daughter of James and Matilda Elder. They have had three children - David J., Edgar J. and Willard J.

LA"VMAN D. A., Lafayette township; postoffice, ^^'est Lafayette, 0. Mr. Layman was born December 24, 1854, in Keene, O., and has remained a resident of this county all his life. His parents were of German descent. Mr. Layman was raised on the farna until sixteen years old, when he learned the blacksmith trade, which he has since followed. Mr. L. was married August 23, 1877, to Miss Isabella Frederick, of this county. They became the parents of two children, viz :

Irvin, born April 11, 1878, and Nora C, born October 15, 1880. Mr. Layman has followed his occupation in Millersburgh, ^^'arsaw. Spring Mountain and Manchester. He came to West Lafayette in the fall of 1879 and has since remained, controlling the wagon and blacksmith shops, doing a good business and giving satisfaction in all his work.

LAYMAN JAMES N., Keene towiaship; born' in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1829. Both his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Swagerd) Layman, were Pennsylvanians by birth Since he was fifteen years old he has followed blacksniithing. He came to Ohio, locating in Keene when twenty-three years of age; married September 1, 1850, to Catharine Spigler, born November, 1831, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Witseman) Spigler. Their children were Sylvester, born Julv 25, 1851; James A., Mav 16, 1853; David A., December 25, 1854; WiUiam C, deceased, June 30, 1856; Margaret M., deceased, June 10, 1858; Catharine M., February 22, 1860; Mary K, August 5, 1861; George W., October, 1868; Charles E., August 4, 1868; Grant N., August 31, 1872; Minnie Recrisca, August 3, 1874, and Martha B., August, 1876. In 1860 Mr. Layman united with the Metlrodist Episcopal church.

LEAR THOMAS, Coshocton; dealer in boots and shoes, hats and caps, Main street ; born December 25, 1846, in Gloucestershire, England ; son of Stephen Lear, deceased. AVhen fourteen years of age, he came to America witli his parents, landing at New York City in I860, and immediately went to Frostburgh, Allegheny county, Maryland, and from there came to this city, in November, 1862. Mr. Lear followed mining until 1876, when he established a grocery, which he continued until August, 1879, when he established his present business. Mr. Lear was married September 8, 1871, to Miss Mary Higgs, daughter of John Higgs, of this city. They have had five children, one (Thomas) deceased; the four living are Annie Laurie, John S., Mary Annie and Thomas Lear, Jr. Mr. Lear is doing a moderate business.

LEAR HENRY, Coshocton, Tuscarawas township; miner; was born December 29, 1840, in Gloucester county, England ; son of Stephen and Mary (Nat) Lear. Landing at New York in 1860, he afterward located in Allegheny county, Maryland, and renaained there until 1867, when he came to his present residence. Mr. Lear was married in September, 1862, to Miss Sarah Louis, of Maryland. They have been blessed with eight children, viz: Rosanna; James Henry and Stephen Marshal, twins ; Clara Jane, Thomas Milford, Mary Elizabeth, Charles Emery and Minnie. Mr. Lear has succeeded well in the land of his adoption.

Biogbaphical Sketches

LEAVENGOOD I. N., Monr.oe township ; teacher; postof&ce, Spring Mountain/ Ohio; son of Daniel and Mary E, (Lower) Leavengood; was born May 14,1862, in Monroe township, Coshocton county. Mr. Leavengood was raised on the farm until fourteen years of age. He then attended school two years, at Princeton and Spring Mountain. In 1878, Mr. Leavengood removed to Iowa, and remained two years, engaged as bookkeeper with the St. Louis and Council Bluflfs railroad. In 1879, he made atrip through Kansas and Nebraska, returning to Ohio January, 1880. In April, 1880, he removed to Mansfield, Ohio, and is at present engaged in teaching. He has also been engaged as clerk in the Mansfield savings bank. He taught his first school near Mansfield, Ohio.

iEE DE. S. H., druggist. No. 132 Second street, Coshocton. Dr. Lee is a native of this city, and was born January 16, 1820. He received his preparatory education from a lady instructor whom his father, with three other families, had employed to teach their children, after which he entered the freshman' class of 1888, at Kenyon college, where he was a class-mate of K. B. Hayes. He then entered the sophomore class at Marietta college, and was graduated in 1842 ; after which he returned home and read medicine with his father and attended lectures at New York City, and was graduated by the New York medical college in 1845. He then entered upon the practice of his profession at Canal Dover, where he practiced about four years, after which he went to Peru, Indiana, where he served the people with success and acceptance for seven years. He then returned to Coshocton, where he has remained ever since with the exception of two years that he was surgeon in the United States army. He was commissioned assistant surgeon -of the Eightieth 0. V. I., after which he served as contract surgeon, and in 1864 he was commissioned surgeon of the One Hundred and Fortythird 0. N. G. He returned home in 1865 and the drug business, in which he is very located, and keeps a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, notions, school books, paints, oils, dye stufis, varnishes, etc.

LEE GEORGE C, Coshocton; residence on Chestnut street;' was born in New Castle, this county, May 12, 1855; son of Benjamin S. Lee, a native of New York State, and Elizabeth (Shafer) of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He came with his parents to this city when about seven years of age, and received a good education in the public schools of the city. In 1876 he was appointed deputy sheriff of the county, and served two years. During his term he assisted -at the hanging of Ept, September 29, 1876. He was elected city clerk in April, 1878, and served two years. Mr. Lee's father died August 2, 1874. Since his death, George C. has had charge of his father's estate.

LEE H. W., Perry township; New Guilford postoffice ; born in this county, in 1826 ; son of William and Isabelle (Richard) Lee, grandson of Ezekiel and Mary Lee, and of Henry and Mary Richard, and married in 1861, to Miss S. E. Bon,- nett, daughter of Lewis and Mahaley Bonnett. Mr. Lee is the father of eight children, viz: William G., Lewis H., M. B., J. W., Katharine J., Laura L., and Henry Harrison. Mr. Lee's grandfather was a revolutionary soldier.

LEE J. W., Perry township; New Guilford postoffice; born in this county, in 1828; son of William and Isabella (Richard^ Lee, grandson of Henry and Elizabeth Richard. He was married November 7, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Wolf, daughter of Absalom and Mary Wolf. They have three children, viz: M. P., C. A., and M. B. One of his sons is a practicing physician and surgeon of Columbus, Ohio. ^,

LYBARGER E. L., Monroe township; born September 27, 1841, in Wayne county, Ohio; son of James T. and Amelia (Crum) Lybarger, and grandson of Andrew Lybarger, who came to Coshocton county from Pennsylvania in 1808, and settled in the town of Coshocton. He was a soldier under Captains Harris and Williams, and was under Hull "at the time of his surrender. His great-grandfather, James Thompson, was a revolutionary soldier, and also a pioneer settler of Coshocton county. Mr. Lybarger was born in Blatchlysville, Wayne county, and lived there till the age of four years, when his parents moved to Millford, Knox county, where he lived till 1861, excepting two years he lived at Danville. He enlisted in Company K, Forty-third Regiment, O.V. I., under Captain Walker and Colonel J. L. Kirby Smith. The battles he participated in are as follows : Capture of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Ft. Pillow, first battle of Corinth, luka, second battle of Corinth, Vicksburg, Dalton, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, the capture of Atlanta, Pokataligo, Salkehatchie, Bentonville, Columbia, and the surrender of Joe Johnson at Raleigh. He was mustered out July 18, 1866, at Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Lybarger enlisted as a private, and gradually rose in rank till he became captain. After the close of the war he returned home and . pursued the study of law two years ; then engaged in the mercantile business at Spring Mountain, where he has continued ever since. He was married to Miss S. W. Rodgers, in January, 1866, daughter of Dr. and Catharine (Hawn) Rodgers, of Millwood, and granddaughter of John Hawn, who was a settler of Knox county, and also a

LEIGHNINGER ASA, Lafayette township; farmer; was horn in this county in 1836; son of George Leighninger ; was married in 1860 to Miss Sarah Foster, a native of England, who came to this country when quite young. They have had six children, viz : Norah, IT. Grant, Ernest, Ida; George, and an infant, Isoth deceased. He and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church. Mr. Leighninger owns 130 acres of land in this township; and twenty-four acres in Oxford township, and is an enterprising farmer.

LEIGHNINGER HIRAM, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice. West Lafayette; was horn in this county in 1822; son of George and Mary Leighninger; was married to Miss Susannah Loos, daughter of Daniel Loos, October 30, 1847, and had the following children, viz : an infant, deceased; Seldan ; Ernma J., deceased; Clara, an infant son, Maria ; Olive and an infant son, both decased; Elmer and Alta Carvetta. Mr. Leighninger is a prosperous farmer, and ovras eightyeight acres of fine land ; has held offices of trust in his township, and he and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church, Mr. Leighninger having been a memiber for the past thirty years.

LEIGHNINGER B. F., Lafayette township; postoffice. West Lafayette ; wtis born in this township, in 1838; son of George and Mary (Wolfe) Leighninger. His father died in 1841; his mother is still living, aged eighty-four years. He was married, in 1870, to Nelia Conaway, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Lovelace) Conaway, both Virginians. They have three children : Ella M.; Charley C, deceased, and Clyde H. Mr. Leighninger was a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-second 0. N. G., holding the commission of Second Lieutenant ; was in general hospital, at Fortress Monroe, three weeks, with the typhoid fever, and had charge of forty of the sick and disabled, in their transportation home. In 1866, Mr. Leighninger, in company with B. F. Fleming, was engaged very extensively in the lumber business, in Southern Indiana; running their own mill, buying and selling, and carrying on quite a successfvil business, when he was stricken with the lung fever, and remained sick four months ; and, seeing he could not endure the exposure and hardships incident thereto, he sold his entire interest to Mr. John Grove, of Harrison county.

In early life, Mr. Leighninger, with his brothers Levi, Asa and Lewis, formed a partnership, with the home farm of 180 acres, after they had bought out the heirs, as their capital, and worked together unfil 1856, when Levi withdrew and located on a hill-farm in Oxford township, known as the Mushrush farm. In 1859 Lewis withdrew, the possessor of a fine farm of 100 acres near West Lafayette ; the partnership between Isa and B. F., continued until last spring, when the stock was divided between them, giving to each a fine farm, well stocked and improved. The farm owned by B. F. was bought April 1, 1867, and known as the Ralph Phillips farm, Mr. PhiUips having entered it and owning it until the purchase by the Leighningers. The farm is one of the best improved in the county, and is set off by one of the prettiest houses on the plains, supplied with all the modern improvements, and everything in fact, tending to make a pleasant home. There never was a more prosperous and happy combination, all things considered, than this, inasmuch as there never was a jar during the years that their interests were a common one,, and was the means of giving them all comfortable homes.

LENNON ANTHONY, farmer; Tuscarawas township ; postoffice. Canal Lewisville ; born May, 27, 1836, and brought up on the farm which he now owns. His father, "James, was a native of Kildare county, Ireland; his mother, Keziab Thonipson, was daughter of Samuel, and granddaughter of James Thompson, who was a revolutionary soldier. She was born April 13, 1809, in Ashtabula county, the same year. Anthony wasmarried January 28, 1860, to Miss Emily, daughter of William and Lydia (Butler) McGiffln, of Keene township. This union has been blessed with one child, Carrie Rose.