White Eyes Township (part 9 of 20)

SHEPLER A. J., Coshocton, photographer, west Locust street; was born in Coshocton county, August 22, 1842; son of Peter Shepler, of German and French extraction; was brought up on the farm until the age of seventeen, when he began to learn photography at Millersburg, Ohio. He has traveled extensively, working in most of the principal cities of the West. By special request, in Anthony's Phctographio Bidletin, he describes the process bj' which he produced pictures-exhibited at the Chicago exposition in 1874. Also, in the Philadelphia Phctcgrapher, Mr. Shepler's improved method of vvorldngatank for washing prints, is given. He is very successful in his art. Mr. Shepler was married September, 1860, to Miss Nancy, daughter of James and Mary A. Gray, of Holmes county. Their children are named Laura E., Eddie L., James P. and Henry V.

SHIELDS JOHN, Bedford township; blacksmith; postoffice. West Bedford ; born in 1819, in Harrison county; came to this county in 1844, and was married in 1844, to Miss Jane Harrisoii, of this county, who was born in 1820, and died in 1860. They were the parents of six children, viz : Thomas H., Wilham J., Margret J., Minerva A., S. P. and Mary E. He, in 1867, married Miss Mary Hillary, of this county, who was, born in 1834, in Licking county. Mr. Shields, besides being a blacksmith, also makes hayrakes and wagong.

SCHOTT M. J., foreman in the Empire mills, Roscoe, Ohio; was born November 5, 1848, in Eoscoe'; son of Nicholas and Caroline (Rosenberger) Schott. Young Schott began life a poor boy; but by careful economy and industry, he has been quite successful. Mr. Schott was married to Miss Mary, daughter of John and Margaret Clark. They are the parents of one child, viz: Caroline Estella. Mrs. Schott was born October 9, 1850, in Sandusky, Erie county, Ohio. When two years of age she was abducted from her parents, by Clarinda Montgomery (maiden name Mathews), an aunt of the child. She was taken first to Utica, New York ; then to Newark, Ohio ; thence to Mt. Vernon, Ohio,and finally to Roscoe, where she was rescued by the neighbors of the party holding the child, then about ten years of age. She was taken by Mrs. Smith, one of the knid deliverers, with whom she found a comfortable and happy home until her marriage, as stated before.

SHAW WILLIAM, proprietor Central Hotel, corner Main and Second streets, Coshocton, Ohio, Sir. Shaw was born ]March 5, 18:34, in Leesburg, Ohio ; son of Uriah and Sarah (True) Shaw. Mr.

S. was brought up on the farm, where he remained until he was about twenty-eight years of age, when he began merchandising in Eogersville, Ohio, where he remained about twelve years, when he sold out his stock and moved to Avondale and took charge of the Avondale House, which he kept three years and established a wide reputation as a good landlord. In the spring of 1881 he took charge of his present house, which in his care has become very-popular. Mr. S. was married first August 20, 1857, to Sarah Garver, who died without children, in li>72. He was married the second time February 26, 1874, to Mrs. Martha, daughter of George and Sarah (Torton) Wilson. Mrs. Shaw was married first, August 26, 1866, to Hugh Leonard. They became the parents of two children, viz : Mary Grace and Josie Bell. Mr. Leonard died July 12, 1872.

SHEOYER 0. A , Frankhn township; born in Franklin township, August 21, 1842; son of Andrew J. Shroyer; enlisted August 22, 1862, in company D, One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry; participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, etc. At Winchester, while in the Hospital, was captured and imprisoned in Libby, and afterward on Belle Island, but was exchanged about six weeks afterward; married October 24, 1867, to Mary Craig, of Lafayette township, and has two children, viz : Jennie L. and Rose Estella.

SHULTZ ALEXANDER, Adams township ; farmer ; postoffice, Evansburgh ; born in Jefferson county, September 24, 1841; son of Jacob and Eliza J. (Cook) Shultz, and - grandson of Henry Shultz and Jesse Cook. He enlisted January 1, 1862, in Company G, Eightieth O. V. I , under Capt. Marshall, went into camp at camp Meigs, thence to camp Chase at Columbus, Ohio, thence to camp Joe Holt, thence to Paducah, Kentucky, and from there to Hamburg, Tennessee, thence to camp Clear Creek, Mississippi, and from there was sent to Evansville hospital, Indiana, where he remained seven months, and from there came home, having received Ms discharge on the 8th of February, 1863, on account of disability. He has devoted most of his time since then to farming; was also proprietor of Shultz House in Chili for eight years. He lived one and a half years in Tuscarawas county. From there he moved to Adams township, this county, where he is at present living, in very prosperous condition He was married January 20, 1867, to Miss Catharine E Geese, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Killian) Geese, and granddaughter of Catharine Geese, and John and Elizabeth (Long) Killian. Mrs. Shultz was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1848, and came to Ohio in May of the same year. They

SHULTZ JACOB, farmer; White Eyes township ; a native of Belmont county, and was born February, 1819. In 1840 he married Miss Eliza J. Cook, of JeffeTson county. They have four children living : Alex., born 1841, is married and lives in Adams township; Elizabeth, born January 1848, is married and lives in Davis county, Indiana; Laura B., born August 28, 1863, and Agnes C, born January 21, 1866, are unmarried and live in Chili. Mr. Shultz enlisted in 1861 in Co. C, Seventy-seventh Pennsylvan'a Regiment. He was in the battles of Liberty, Hoovers' Gap, Pittsburg Landing, Chickamauga, and a number of skirmishes.- He was in the service over three years. He is now living on a farm of eighty acres south of Chili.

SHRIGLEY GEORGE J., carpenter and contractor, of the firm of Shrigley and Hughes, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Shrigley was born August 4, 1844, in Adamsville, Salem township, Muskingum county, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Werts) Shrigley. They were natives of Loudon county, Maryland. Young Shrigley was brought up on a farm; in 1869, went to his trade; came to this city in 1868. He enlisted in company E, One Hundred and Sixtieth O. K G., and served four months. Mr. Shrigley was married, October 11, 1866, to Miss Lyde, daughter of Rev. J! H. and Rebecca (Sample) Rogers. They are the parents of two children, viz : Clara Belle and Hamilton H.

SICKER JOHN H., Linton township; farmer; born August 25, 1819, in Albany county. New York ; son of John and Charlotte (Kirker) Sicker; grandson of Lewis and Margaret (Fratt) Sicker, and of Henry and Margaret] (Campbell) Kirker. His grandmother Kirker was from Holland ; his other grandparents, from Germany. His grandfather Sicker, born in Wittemburg, Germany, crossed the ocean at seventeen years of age, about 1755, as a German soldier in the English service, and served in the -'Canadian war. By permission of. his general he remained here, working on a farm in Schenectady county. New York; while there his employer sent him with two slaves to a Mr. Fratt, in Albany county. Fratt invited him to remain over Sunday; he stayed, loved and married his daughter. In 1835 Mr. Sicker moved with his parents to Linton township, and has lived here since. In 1839 he married Jane Rodruck, daughter of Lewis Rodruck. Children living are - Charlotte, Margaret J., Rebecca, John L., Anna, Elmira and Alice.

married in 1859, to Miss Rebecca J., daughter of S. Day, of Coshocton county, who was born May 3, 1840, in Knox county, and died December 4, 1863. They were the parents of two children, A-iz : Edwin E., born December 22, 1859 ; William E., born September 29, 1863. He .was married December 18, 1866, to Miss Eda H. Bailey, daughter of John Bailey, of this township, who was born August 27, 1840. They are the parents of two children : Carlos H., born April 10, 1868, and Benjamin B., born December 6, 1869.

SIMMONS ABRAHAM; farmer and Justice of the Peace; Tiverton township; P. O. Gann, Knox county; born in 1832, in this township. His grandfather, Abraham Simmons was born in 1764, in Massachusetts, and was married in 1794, to Miss Polly Borden, of Massachusetts, who was born in 1778. They came to this county in 1817. He died in 1846. She died in 1855. They were the parents of six children, the oldest child, Benjamin, being the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in 1796, in Massachusetts, and was married September 19th, 1820, to Miss Lovey GifBn, of Knox county, who was born in 1861 in Indian "Wheeling. He died December 4, 1874. They were the parents or five children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in November 1854 to Miss Margaret Winslow, of this township, who was born in 1838. They are the parents of five children - John, died August 9th, 1880; Hetty, Benjamin, died September 6th, 1863 ; Mary L., died May 6th, 1879, and Sarah E. Abraham Simmons' grandfather Robert Giffin, was born in 1776, in Virginia. He was married in 1800 to Miss Hetty Harris, of Virginia. She was born in 1779. They came to St. Clairsville Ohio in 1800, and to this county in 1807 They moved to Knox county in 1812, and moved back to New Castle, this county, in 1847. He died in 1847. She died in 1851. They were the parents of twelve children, Lovey, the mother of Abraham Simmons, the subject of this sketch, being the oldest.

SINDEN WILLIAM, Lafayette township; farmer; was born in Sussex county. Parish Penhurst, England, in 1849; came to America and to this county in 1855. He was married in 1874 to Miss Margaret Shirer, of Muskingum county. They have had two children, Harriet, aged three years,, and Clare, one year. Mr. Sinden has lived on what is known as the Miller farm for the past eight years, and is honest and industrious. He visited his native country during the war.

SISLEY PERRY, Bedford township ; farmer ; postoffice. Tunnel Hill ; born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1859, with his mother, his father, Jacob, having died in 1827. in Pennsylvania. His mother died in 1865. They were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the sixth. He was married in 1870, to Miss Eliza A. Ogle, of this county, who was born in 1853, in this county. They are the parents of four children : Lora J., William K., Silas T., and Charlie N.

SKINNER WILLIAM T., Keene township; farmer; born February 6, 1800, in Hartford, Connecticut; son of Nathaniel Skinner, a revolutionary soldier, born July 28, 1745, and Margaret (Hunt) Skinner, born September 14, 1757. By a previous marriage to Rebecca Bigelow,born Janunary 10, 1750, his father had two children - Rhoda and Mary. His two grand fathers were John Skinner and Alexander Hunt. He was married May, 1831, to Mary, daughter of Timothy and Polly (Trowbridge) Emerson, born in 1806. Their children are: Julia, born March 22, 1832; Adeline P., October 28, 1836; Timothy, deceased, born in 1843, and Mary E., in the fall of 1854. Mrs. Skinner died in February, 1860.

SMAILES S. H., Virginia township ; born June 7, 1839, in Washington township, Coshocton county, Ohio ; son of Thomas and Sarah (McCoy) Smailes. Mr. Smailes was brought up on a farm, and was educated in district schools. At the age of twenty-one years he began life for himself. When the rebellion broke out he enlisted in Company I, Ninety-seventh Regiment, O. V. I., and was in the army of the Curnberland, serving from August 13, 1862. Mr. Smailes was engaged in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Resaca, Dalton and Kingston, and was mustered out of the service July 27, 1865. In the month of ]\Iarch, 1869, he opened a store in Moscow, where he still continues to do business. He married Miss Elizabeth A. Spayde, January 2, 1869, daughter of John and Margaret Spayde. They were blessed with four children.

SMART J. S., superintendent of paper-mills, Coshocton ; born May 16, 1843, in Queen's county. Long Island, New York; son of Robert T. Smart, a native of New York City, of English ancestry. At eighteen years of age, young Smart took charge of his father's paper-mills, at Troy, New Yorif. In 1869 he went to Great Bend, New York, and superintended a paper-mill. In 1873 he built and was part owner of a paper-mill atBlossville, Oneida county. New York, firm name of Holisead, Parry & Smart ; sold his interest in 1875 and moved , to Michigan, and superintended a paper-mill until 1878, when he settled on a farm m Nebraska, and remained one year, when he sold a part of the farm at a good profit and came to. this city and entered upon his present duties. Married September 29, 1864, to Miss Margaret Martin, daughter of James G. Martin. They have had three children, one of whom, Grace, died in infancy. Frank Everet and Harry are the two living children.

SMITH MISS EMILY, Adams township; teacher; postoffice, Avondale; was bc*n in Adams township; daughter of Daniel and Mary (Funk) Smith, and granddaughter of Edward and Hannah (Mo]-ris) Smith, and of Michael and Savina (Slusher) Punk; also great granddaughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Davison) Smith, and of Bazel and Margaret Morris, Peter Punk, and Frederick and Margaret (Huntsiker) Slusher. Her father was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1808, anji came to Clark township in 1836. Her mother was also Jaorn in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1803. They were married June 16, 1833. Emily has one brother, Edward, and one sister, Melinda. She is a teacher of common schools, and, as such has always met with success.

SMITH CHRISTIAN, Adams township; tinner; postoffice, Bakersville; born near Berne, in Switzerland, May 3, 1844; son of Peter and Mary (Cower) Smith. He came to America with his parents when he was but four years of age, landing in New York after a voyage of eight weeks. From there he went to Stark county, Ohio, where he remained about fourteen years. He enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Fourth O. V. I., under Captain Sterl, and served three years. After coming home he worked at his trade, which he had learned with his father before the war. He spent several years in Missouri, and, in 1872, came to Bakersville, where he established himself in business. He was married in May, 1874, to Miss Mary Shannon, daughter of Isaac Shannon, and granddaughter of William Shannon. They have one child, Peter, born May 3, 1875.

SMITH JOSEPH, Coshocton; barber; born June 7, 1857, in Zanesville ; son of Joseph Smith, born in Germany. When eight years old he came to this city with his father, and attended the public schools here until he was thirteen years old, when he went into the Coshocton iron and steel factory to work, and continued there until June, 1876, when he began his trade, and finished it in two years, since which time he has been employed in the same shop, on a salary.

Smith, business manager and salesman. This firm was established July 1, 1879, and occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in J. Gundisheimer's building, twenty-two by forty feet, where they carry a good stock of staple and fancy family groceries, confectioneries, stoneware, woodenware, sugar-cured and pickled meats, river and Dover salt, flour, salt fish, oysters in season, tobaccos and cigars ; also, pays cash for all kinds of country produce.

SMITH GEORGE, Coshocton; blacksmith; born November 8, 1861, in Lafayette township ; son of John Smith, born in Pennsylvania, of English ancestry. Young Smith was raised on the farm. At the age of twenty he went into his father's shop to learn his trade. In 1868, he, with his father, moved to Illinois, but only remained eight months, when all came back to the old homestead in Lafayette. On returning, George worked at Jacobsport, from which place he came to this city and established a shop on Second street, where he is doing a fair business in smithing and shoeing. Mr. Smith was married in April, 1878, to Miss Mary Duffey, of Lafayette. The result of this marriage is a son, named Charley.

SMITH WILLIAM, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; son of George Smith, deceased; was born in England, in 1834. His father was born in England in 1810, and came to this country in 1844, and died in 1873. His mother was born in 1806, and died in 1880. He was married to Miss Ann Taylor, of this county, daughter of Joseph Taylor, in 1859. The children are as follows: John Wesley, born in 1860; George Clifford, born in 1862; Joseph Sherman, born in 1864; William, born in 1867; Emma, born in 1868 ; Sarah Catherine, born in 1870 ; Franklin, born in 1872; Burt, born in 1875, and Richard, born in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are both members of the M- E. church, and are respected citizens of this township. He was supervisor one year in this township; owns some 336 acres of land, in a high state of cultivation, etc.

SMITH THOMAS P., Oxford township ; farmer ; postoffice, Newcomerstown ; was born in England, and was married in . 1857, to Miss Everall, daughter of John Everall, of this township, who came from England in 1830. Their children are as follows : Lawrence Wellington, Laura V.; Mary A., deceased ; Harriet E., John T., M. E. . A., George W. W. and Lotta. He has been trustee for two years in this township, and school director. He owns a farm of 230 acres in this county, and is a representative citizen. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church.

SMITH MRS. ISABELLA E., Keene township ; widow of James P. Smith ; born in Rhode Island, September 25, 1811; son of William C. and Hannah (Richmond) Smith. She was born March 5, 1816, near Adams, New York. The daughter of Samuel and Lucinda Crowell, and granddaughter of Solomon Crowell, and Phineas and Sybil Leonard. When a year old she moved to Sackett's Harbor and there lived till about twenty-two years of age, when she came to New Haven, Holmes county, Ohio, where she married Mr. Smith, a dry goods merchant of this place, November 14, 1838. In 1842 they moved to St.

Louis, where Mr. Smith died of throat disease, April 3, 1863. In 1868 she returned to this county. Their children were : Alice (Sertrude, born October 1, 1840, and married January 24, 1860, to Francis C. Sprague, and resides in St. Louis ; Charles F., born October 20, 1842 ; Frances R., born August 12, 1848; Carrie B., born July 8, 1855, and married to H. Bell, of St. Louis ; and WilUam C, born July 24, 1852. Mrs. Smith has one graijdchild, Lulu B. Sprague, born September 10, 1866.

SMITH JOSEPH, Jackson township; post- office, Tj'rone ; born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1803 ; son of James and Mary Smith, and grandson of Thomas and Mary Smith ; married, in 1827, to Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of James and Martha Hastings; settled in Jackson township in 1834. Mr. Smith is an old and much respected citizen of Jackson township, and is widely known as " Uncle Jo Smith." He is the father of twelve children, seven of whom are dead and five living. He had one son, George W., who gave up his life for his country. He was a member of Company H, Ninety-seventh 0. V. I.

SMITH MRS. NANCY, Bedford township; postoffice, New Bedford ; born in 1802, in Jefferson county, Ohio; was married, in 1822, to Mr. William Smith, of the same county. He was born in 1801, in Virginia; came to this county in 1834, and died in 1864. They were the parents of eight children, viz : Mary A.; Ruth, deceased; Matilda, James L.; Richard M., deceased; Nathaniel, deceased; Susan, deceased; and Alfred L. Richard and Nathaniel were in the Fifty-first 0. V. I. Immediately upen the death of Mr. Smith, she purchased the property where she now lives.

SMITH THOMAS, Bedford county, farmer; P. O. Warsaw ; born in 1846 in this county. His father, George W. Smith, was born in 1810, in Virginia, and was married in 1838 to Miss Lucinda Bricker, of this county, who was born in 1814 in Pennsylvania He died in 1850. They were the parents of six children, Thomas being the fifth. He was married in 1868 to Miss Elizabeth J. Carrell, of this county, who was born in 1.84S. They are the parents of six children, viz : David C, infant, deceased; Perry F., Charley G.; John N., deceased, and Nelly. Mr. Smith enlisted in February, 1864, in Company F, Fiftyfirst Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col. Wood commanding. He was mustered out in November, 1865.

SMITH HENRY M., Bethlehem township, farmer; was born May 20, 1838, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He was married January 10, 1861, to Miss Isabella Golden, of Washington county. They had one child, J. Alva, born in 1S62. Mr. Smith's wife died April 10, 1864. Mr, Smith enlisted as a private in the Eighty-first 0. V. I., of Washington county, and served eighteen months. He came to Coshocton county in 1862, He was married October 22, 1866 to Miss Martha J. Milligan, of Coshocton county, who was born December 4, 1842. They are the parents of seven children, viz : Jesse P., Sarah E., Celia J., Mary L., James H., John H. and an infant. Mr. Smith has always followed the occupation of a farmer, and has accumulated some property.

SMITH T. J., M. D., Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Canal Lewisville; was born November 30, 1846, in Washington township ; son of James M. Smith, a native of Ohio. James M. Smith wa^. raised on the farm until about 17 years of age, when he began teaching school, and taught two terms, and in the meantime attended school until he was nineteen years old, when he began the reading of medicine with Dr. Edwards, of West Carlisle, and attended lectures at the Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery, and was graduated February 16, 1879, with the title of M. D.. Dr. Smith first practiced his profession at Plainfield, where he remained five years, then located in Coshocton ahd practiced there a short time, and then went to his present location, where hehas an extensive practice. Dr. Smith was married April 14, 1870, to Miss Olivia Ingraliam, daughter of Dr. Ingraham, of Coshocton. Thisunion has beeru blessed with one child, Stella J. In connection with his general practice. Dr.. Smith has been physician to the county infirmary two years.

SMITH WILLIAM, M. D., Pike township; born in 1825, in this county. His father, Edward, was born in Ireland, in 1792. He came to this countf'y in 1812, and to this county in 1815. Hemarried Jliss Jane Richardson, of this county,, who was born in Virginia. He died in 1872.. She died in 1876. They were the parents of seven children. William Smith began to read medicine in 1848, under Dr. Simmons, of Bedford, this county. He practiced under an act of the State Legislature, it granting a diploma after ten years reputable practice. He was married in 1855, to Miss Mary J. ]McKee, of this county, who was born in 1836, in this county. They are the parents of one child, JIaria A., deceased.

SNEDIKEB G. P., Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice ; born in Ohio county. West Virginia, in 1823, settled in this county in 1846; son of Jacob and Eleanor Snediker, and grandson of Garrett and Elizabeth Snediker, and of Joshua and Margaret Porter. He was married in 1856, to Rutha McCoy. His second wife was Edith Ingraham. Mr. Snediker is the father of eleven children. The names of those living, are i Will-

SNIDER J. T., Keene township; physician; born in Knox county, Ohio, December 2, 1851 ; son of J. F. and Mary (Dean) Snider, both born in Germany, and grandson of J. T. Snider and Carl Dean, of Lichten, Germany. His father enlisted November, 1861, in Company K, Fortythird 0. V. I., and re-enlisted in the same company in 1863 ; served to the close of the war, but, broken down in health, he died soon after his return. Dr. Snider attended school a.t New Castle from twelve to seventeen, then taught school five years in Ohio, and two, in Illinois. He then began the study of medicine under Dr. McElwee, and graduated at the medical department of the Wooster university, in 1877, and began practicing at Mohawk in March, 1877, and in October, 1878, came to Keene.

SNOW DARIUS, Monroe township; was born in May, 1840, in Monroe township, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of Alonzo and Catharine (Mc- Bride) Snow, and grandson of Darius Snow. He was brought up on a farm and educated in the district school. His father digd while he was quite young, and the responsibility of taking care of his mother and sister was a duty which he performed faithfully. He married Miss EHzabeth Blubaugh, in January, 1860, who was born in March, 1842, daughter of Benjamin S. and Charlotte (Heckle) Blubaugh, and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Sapp) Blubaugh. i Their children were: Mary F, born April 23, 1861; Eliza B.,born December 23, 1862; Alonzo B., born December i% 1864; Nancy Jane, born June 31, 1869; Martha, born July 13, 1873; John, born July 2, 1875, and one not yet named, born July 20, 1877.

SNYDER DANIEL, Coshocton ; miller, of the firm of Sayer, Balch k Co.; was born October 26, 1843, in Tucarawas county ; son of Peter Snyder, a native of Switzerland. Young Snyder was brought up on the farm, where he remained until twenty-one years of age, when he went West and stopped in Indiana, where he remained about two vears, then removed, suffering from a bad case of fever and ague. On recovering his health he went to Starke county and remained one year. At twenty-four years of age he began the carpenter trade. After working at the trade two years, he again visited the West, stopping in Indiana one year, then going to Kansas City, where he did the carpenter work of several buildings in that city. In January, 1871, he returned to the city and stopped at Chili a short time, then came to this city and followed his trade until August 1880, when the above firm was formed. Mr. Snyder was married March 28, 1875, to Miss

SNYDER S. W., Coshocton; dealer in pelts, hides, furs, tallow, dried fruits, etc. , Mr. Snyder is a native of this county, and was born June 23,. 1840. He received his education in the district schools, and learned the harnessmaking business. After serving his time he embarked in business for himself at Roscoe, in 1866. He also commenced at the same time to deal in hides, pelts, furs, etc., in connection with the harness business, which he continued for twelve years, when, in 1873, he relinquished the harness business and has since given his entire attention to the present, department, in which he does a business of about $36,000 per year. He also has a half interest in the firm of Snyder & Andrews, in the livery business, and in which they have a stock of eleven head of horses and eleven vehicles, consisting of single, and double carriages, buggies and barouches, all of which are in good condition, and afford first-class accommodations for the traveling public. Mr. Snyder is a self-made man in the strictest sense of the word, having been alwaysdependent on his own efforts, and in commencing, life his only capital was his energy, perseverence and integrity, and at present he owns valuable real estate, besides doing a successful business.

SNYDER NOAH, Crawford township; jeweler ; postoffice. New Bedford, Ohio ; born April 16, 1855, in German township, Holmes county. He was brought up on the farm. At the age of twenty he began teaching school and taught three terms, after which he farmed three years. In the spring of 1880, he took a prospecting trip to the West, visiting the States of Illinois, Michigan . and Indiana, and returned in the same year, satisfied to " let well enough alone " for the present. In December, 1880, he established his present business, m which he is having good success.

SNYDER B. M., Crawford township ; farmer ;. postofBce, New Bedford ; born October -31, 1844, in German township. Holmes county; was brought up on the farm, where he remained until 1865, when he engaged in oil producing in Noble county one year, and was subsequently engaged one year each in the mill business and ware-house at Millersburg, Holmes county, then with a portable saw-mill, until 1878, since which time he-has given his entire attention to farming, Mr. Snyder was elected justice of the peace of Crawford township in 1877, and re-elected in 1880. 'Squire Snyder was married June 14, 1872, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Ferdinand and Elizabeth Smith. Mrs. Snyder was born on the farm where they now reside. They are the parents of two children - Edwin F. and Mary Ehzabeth.

SP ANGLER E. T., Coshocton ; attorney of the firm of Spangler & Pomerene ; was born January 26, 1832, in Zanesville, Ohio; son of *Hon. David Spangler, who was American born, of German ancestry. When E. T. was but one year old, he was brought to this place by his parents. Young Spangler spent his childhood and early youth attending school. At the age of .sixteen years, he entered Kenyon college, at and was graduated in 1852. On his return home he entered, as a student, the law office his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. He first practiced with his father, until 'his decease, in October, 1856. He then formed a partnership with his brother, A. H., the firm name being E. T. & A. H. Spangler, which firm continued about two years. From its close, E. T. continued his practice alone, until 1868, when the -present firm was formed. Attorney Spear was married, in May, 1868, to Miss Helen King, of Attorney Samuel D. King, of New- Ohio. They are the parents of one child, Charles E., born in June, 1869.

SPECK JOSEPH, Jeflferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Baden, Germany, Novem- 'ber 7, 1808; son of Starnus and Avon Speck. At the age of seventeen he began the blacksmith trade with Ignatius Storts, and served three years, then worked as a journeyman one year. He then served six years in the German army; then sold clocks two years ; then embarked for America, and after a voyage of eight months 'landed in New York, and from there he came to -Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he has remained a resident ever since. After coming to this country he sold clocks one year, and then has been farming. He was married in May, 1837, to Miss Caroline Gamertsfelder, who died January 6, 1844. They had two children, viz : Christian and John. He married, in June, 1844, Miss Margaret Straum. They had seven children, viz: Gotlieb, Joseph; Caroline, deceased; David, WilHam, Daniel and George.

SPECKM AN JOHN, Jefierson township ; shoemaker ; postoffice, Warsaw ; was born in Jefier- township, Coshocton county. May 15, 1846; son of John and Rose A. (Frederick) Speckman, and grandson of George and Christina E-rederick, natives of Canstadt, Wurtemberg, Germany. He lived on the farm until the age of seventeen, at which time he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first O. V. I., and served twenty months. He was engaged in the battles of the Atlanta campaign, imder Gen. Sherman ; then, under Gen. Thomas, was in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee; was afterwards sent to Texas, -and was among the last troops discharged at the of the war. He was married July 1, 1869, .to Miss Matilda McPeek, daughter of James and

Margaret (Boyd) McPeek, of Harrison county. They have three children, viz : J. M., born November 17, 1871; George W., born July 19, 1874; and Dora A., born October 31, 1875. Mr. Speckman began the shoemaker's trade in 1867 with F. Seal, and served seven months apprenticeship. He then began business for himself in Princeton, and worked there about eight years. Then came to Warsaw and opened a shop, where he is doing a good business in shoemaking.

SPENCER W. K., Bedford township ; teacher ; postoffice, West Bedford ; born in 1843, in Muskingum county, Ohio; came to this county in 1852, with his mother, his father having died in 1846 in Muskingum county. W. K. Spencer was married in 1873, to Miss Ada Thompson, of this county, who was born in 1865. They are the parents of four children, viz : Maud, Amos P., Charlie C. and Blanche D. Mr. Spencer began teaching in 1867 and has made it a business, always teaching in this county, and principally in town. He entered the army November 15, 1861, as a member of General McLaughlin's Independent Cavalry, and was in the service for four years, being honorably discharged November 16, 1865. He participated in forty-five battles and skirmishes.

SKINNER C, Coshocton ; soap manufacturer, junction of Second and Water streets ; born April 25, 1832, in Madison county; son of Madison Skinner, deceased, a native of Virginia, of German descent. Young Skinner was raised on a farm, which he left, in 1864, and followed sawing, wiih a portable mill, when he established h'is present business, and has continued till the present time. He was married, October 4, 1855, to Miss Mary A. Robison, daughter of W. H. Robison, of this city. They have had four children, viz: William M., deceased; Sarah Ella, Callie, Frances and Alfred Luther. Starting business with a very limited capital, he has, by honest industry, accumulated some of this world's goods, represented by three valuable residences in this city.

SPBAGG HENRY, Linton township; farmer; born in Green county, Pennsylvania, in 1814; son of Benajah and Nancy (Barkheimer) Spragg. His grandfather, David Spragg, a sailor, was a native of England; his grandfather, Barkheimer, a native of Germany. Then he was twelve years old, he came with his father to Muskingum county, and remained there till 1868, when he moved to Linton township. He was married, in 1839, to Maria C. Johnson, daughter of Richard Johnson, of Muskingum county. Their children are: Harriet (Miller), Nancy J. (Morris), Eliza A. (Hagan), Richard, Rachel, Hiram and Harrison.

Farm And Residence Op Francis Wolfe

SPURR ABRAHAM, Virginia township ; born in Coshocton county, in 1840; son of John and Jane Spurr. He was married, in 1839, to Mary A. Ervine. Mr. Spurr has had fourteen children, seven living and seven dead. One son died while in the United States service at Nashville. Postoffice, Adams' Mills.

STAFFORD ISAAC, Bethlehem township; farmer; was born in England in 1810. He was a blacksmith by trade. He came to this county in 1840, and was married to Miss Susannah Laycock, of England. They became the parents of three children, viz: Reuben, born in 1828, John and Isaac, Jr., born in 1837. Mr. Stafford enlisted in 1862, in Company H, One Hundred and Twentysecond Regiment, 0. V. I., and served three years. He was honorably discharged July 25, 1865. He was wounded at the battle of Winchester. Reuben Stafford was employed by the United States marshal to arrest deserters. He was shot while attempting to make an arrest. Isaac Stafford, Jr., enlisted, in the One Hundred and Fortythird Regiment 0. V. I., for 100 days. He was married September 19, 1869, to Miss Sophia Lown, of this county. They became the parents of five children, viz: John L., William E., Myra P., Cora E. and Ida M.

STANFORD J. W., Jackson township ; Rosc9e postof&ce ; grocery and provision store. Main street; born in Jackson township, October 27, 1843 ; son of John Stanford, American born, of English ancestry. Young Stanford was raised on a. farm until seventeen years of age, when he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-first 0. V. I., and served two years. He was wounded at the battle of Stone River ; was discharged on account of disability. On his return home he attended Spring IVIountain academy, one 'year ;.then read medicine with Dr. Sapp, and attended one course of lectures at the medical college, Columbus, and practiced in the southern part of this county two years. In 1872 he established his present business. Dr. Stanford was married first, September 13, 1866, to Miss Mary E., daughter of John Chalfant, of Lafayette township, and they have one child - Nettie May. Mrs. Stanford died in June, 1871. He was married June 13, 1872, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of George Edwards, of Roscoe. Their children are - Guy Y., Eddie and Susan Lettitia. Dr. Sanford is doing a good, steady business, and owns the property in which it is conducted.

STANFORD J. A., Jackson township ; born in Coshocton county, Jackson township; son of J. M. Stanford, and grandson of Joshua and Nancy Stanford ; marriefl, in 1873, to Nancy J. Donley, daughter of William.and Margaret Donley. Mr. Stanford is the father of one child, Rosette. Post office, Tyrone.

STANTON JOHN W., Clark township ; postoffice, Helmick; farmer and stock raiser; born in West Bedford, Coshocton' county, October 19, 1840; son of William and Elizabeth (Pepper) Stanton, and grandson of John Pepper. His father came from Connecticut, attended school, and assisted on the farm, until he was twenty years of age, when he entered the army, volunteering in Company K, Thirty-second 0. V. I., and served as a private about two years, when he was promoted to the office of adjutant, and served one year in that capacity, after which he came home, remained about two weeks, when he ag^in entered for three months, in the One Hundred and Forty-second 0. N. G. Aftei; serving his time, he again came home, and engaged as a merchant, in Warsaw, Coshocton county, continuing in the business about a year, when he traded his stock for his present farm of 320 acres, in Clark township, on which he now resides, and which is in a fair state of cultivation. Mr. Stanton is largely engaged in grain and stock raising. He was married, February 22, 1865, to Miss Anna Wilson, daughter of Thomas and Mary A. (Sykes) Wilson, who was born in Martinsburg, Virginia, June 18, 1843. Her father is proprietor of the woollen mills in Roscoe. They are parents of six children : Mary, deceased ; William T., born October 14, 1867 ; George N., October 10, 1869; Perry C, deceased; Lillie M., December 15, 1874 ; Frank S.j August 18, 1877.

STARKER JACOB, Oxford township ; farmer ; postoffice, Newcomerstown; son of George and Hannah (Tingler) Starker; was born in the, State of Ohio. His father was born in Essex county. New York, and his mother near Elizabethtown, same State. The subject of this sketch was born in this township, near his present home, July 4, 1824, and has since resided in this county. His father came to this State June, 1814, and his mother in January, 1815. Mr. Starker was married in 1856, to Miss Hannah E. Read, of Tuscarawas county, daughter of John 'B. and Rebecca (Hammel) Read. The fruits of this union- has been eight children, as follows : Laura D., Isadora L., DoUie F., Charley R., Willie M., Thomas D., Jerry C. and Caraminta.

Isadore is in Denver, Colorado, and the other children are at home attending school, Mr. Starker believing in giving his children a good education. Mr. Starker has an account book kept by his father, dating back close to 1800, and kept in pounds, shillings and pence. Mr. Jacob Starker owns 128 acres of good land, and is- surrounded by a bright family and all the comforts of a pleasant home. He has lived on the home farm fifty-one years, the other six years having been spent on his father-in-law's farm in Tuscarawas county - from the spring of 1856 until the spring of 1861. His grandfather, Aaron Starker, spent seven years in the revolutionary war. His forefathers were Germans. His father was a carpenter, and was expert in the use of tools, making coffins in the early times. He is honest and outspoken in his views, and what he says he means, and is one of Oxford's solid men. Mrs. Starker is a niece of the late poet and artist, Thomas Buchanan Read. After the battle of Pittsburgh Landing he presented her with a horse which was captured at that battle and presented by Gen. Eosecrans to Mr. Read. Laura has been married three years ; is the wife of Arthur Mc- Clane, (living in Coshocton), who is the son of the late Col. Richard McClane of Lafayette township.

STEIN CHARLES, Crawford township ; merchant; postoffice, Chili; born, in 1853, in Bavaria; son of Charles Stein and Phoebe (Daum) Stein, both natives of Bavaria. Charles emigrated to America in 1867, and settled in Tuscarawas county with his parents. He came to this county in. 1875; clerked in a store until 1878, when he and Jacob Lenhart went into the mercantile business at Chili, where they still have a dry goods store. Married, in 1879, Elizabeth Ott; They have one cjiild, Wilbert.

STEVENSON PETER, Je., Coshocton, saddle and harness manufacturer, 199 Second street. At the above number Mr. Stevenson is doing a very fair business in his line, carrying in stock everything that can be found in a first-class harness and saddlery shop. Mr. Stevenson was born March 1, 1828, in Harrison county; son of Peter Stevenson, deceased, who, died at the advanced age of ninety-six; American born, of English descent. Young Stevenson lived on the farm until about twelve years of age, and in 1841 commenced his trade with John Woods, of Zanesville, and remained five years at |3 per month, and one year at iC per month; came to Keene and worked as foreman for Nathan Bassett one year, then bought out his shop and carried on for himself at Warsaw two years ; thence returned to Keene, from which place he came to this city ; was married May 31, 1852, to Miss Sarah Jane Duncan, of Millersburg, Holmes county. They have had seven children: Alonzo L., John D., William P., Ella E., Edward B., Prancis J., and Gillie May.

STEWART JAMES R., Coshocton; carriages and wagons, corner Water and Mulberry streets; was born July 29, 1853, in New York City. At five years of age he came to this city with his parents; at nineteen years of age entered as an apprentice to learn carriage wood-work with E. McDonald, and served three years, and one year as a journeyman, arid then established a shop, where he is doing an active business, necessitating an enlargement of his shops. Mr. Stewart

STEWART WILLIAM A., Bethlehem township; farmer; was born in Ireland, and came to this county in 1858. He enlisted, in October, 1861, in company H, Eightieth 0. V. I., and was engaged in the battles of Corinth, Vicksburg, Jackson, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and others of less importance. He was wounded at Vicksburg, and returned home in the spring of 1868. He remained at home only thirty days, re-enlisting in the same company, and was honorably discharged in 1865. He was married, in 1876, to Miss Martha Moore, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who was born August 11, 1841. She was the daughter of Aaron Moore, who was born in the' county of Donegal, Ireland, in 1813. He came to this county in 1835, and located in Philadelphia, where he carried on the boot and shoe business until 1877, when he came to Hve with his daughter, Mrs. Stewart.

STICKLE ELI J., Coshocton, attorney; was born August 14, 1854, in Licking county ; son of Thompson Stickle, of German ancestors, his mother being of English extraction. Young Stickle is the fifth of a family of ten children. He was raised on the farm. At about twenty years he began going to school and teaching school, which he continued until May, 1878, when he entered as a student the law office of Campbell & Voorhes, and was admitted to the bar in May 1880. He was married September 8, 1880, to Miss Emma A., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Helfrey) Miller, of Utioa, Ohio.

STILL JAMES, born in August, 1828, in Coshocton county, Bedford township ; son of Jacob and Elspey (Lockard) Still, and grandson of Gabrial and Cloa Still, and of James and Margaret (Wilson) Lockard. He is a farmer by occupation; had three brothers in the Union army; was inarried to Miss Sarah J. Conner, of ancestry same as Isaac Conner, named elsewhere in this book. James L. was born December 24, 1861; is now going to school, and is their only child.

STILGENBAUER JACOB, Adams township ; farmer; postoflSce, Bakersville; born in Bucks township, Tuscarawas county, July 12, 1836; son of Jacob and Catharine (Groce) Stilgenbauer, and grandson of Philip and Elizabeth Stilgenbauer, who came from Prussia. He resided about thirty-six years in his native county, and from there moved to Adams township, Coshocton county, where he has a farm of 130 acres, well improved. He was married Blebruary 26, 1857, to Miss Catharine Schar, daughter oi Nicholas and Elizabeth Schar. She vJas born September 23, 1836. They are the parents of nine children.

STILLINGER J. P., Tiverton township; postoflBce, Yankee Ridge, Ohio; farmer; born August 8, 1829, in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany; came to Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and to Knox county in 1833. He was married in 1853, to Rebecca Conner, of this county, who was born May 27, 1828. They came to this county in 1856, and are the parents of twelve children, viz : Jennie, born July 5, 1854; Mary E , born October 13, 1855, died June 13, 1859 ; infant, deceased, born December 7, 1856; John A., born December 12, 1857, died October 31, 1860 ; Hattie A., born March 7, 1859, married July 4, 1879, to William H. Cooper, of this county; Lucinda E., born April 25, 1860, died November 9, 1861; Susannah, born January 30, 1862; William P., born October 7, 1863, died January 12, 1876; George M., born October 8, 1865; Emily E., born June 5, 1867 ; Benjamin P., born April 5, 1869; and an infant daughter, deceased, born December 18, 1872.

STILWELL A. H., Coshocton; attorney at law, office and rooms over commercial bank; was born April 30, 1850, in Holmes county; son of Asher and Helen (Boyd) Stilwell; his paternal ancestry is English, his maternal, Irish. Young Stilwell was brought up on the farm, and educated in the public schools of his native county and the high school at Millersburg, also Spring Mountain academy, and at Fredericksburg, Wayne county. At eighteen he began teaching and taught four terms. Studied law in 1870 and 71, with Judge Follett, of Newark, Ohio, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme court in 1872. He began the practice of law at Dresden Muskingum county, where he remained nearly two years. In December, 1874, he came to this city and continued in the practice of his profession. In October, 1876, attorney Stilwell was elected prosecuting attorney of Coshocton county, and re-elected in October, 1880, which office he now efficiently fills.

STOCKMAN J. S., Coshocton, boot and shoe manufacturer and dealer; was born December 29, 1827, in Harrison county; son of Philip Stockman, American born of German descent. Young Stockman worked with his father in a flouring-mill until he was seventeen years old, and worked for a time at carpentering, but found it too hard for him, as he had been seriously disabled by a fall from a cherry tree when a boy. He then entered as an apprentice to his uncle James Means, of Cadia, Ohio, to learn shoemaking, but owing to ill health he was induced to work on a farm for one year. When about twenty-one years old he came to this county and opened a shop for himself at Chili, from which place he removed to Auburn, DeKalb county, Iowa, and remained about ten years, working at his trade. From there he went to Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, and stayed three years. In the year 1871 Mr. Stockman came to this city and established his business, which he has followed to the present time. Mr. Stockman was married first to Miss Little, daughter of James Little, of Chili. The result of this union was four children,' three of whom died in infancy and one survives, viz: William A. Mr. Stockman afterward married Miss Martha Reed, daughter of Daniel Reed of this county. The result of this union was two children, both living, viz : Mary Bell and Jennie May. Mr. Stockman is doing a good business in custom work.

STOKUM ADAM, Tuscarawas township; farmer ; postoffice, Coshocton, Ohio ; born July 4, 1844, in Linton township ; son of Christopher and Mary Anne (Lutz) Stokum. Adam enlisted, in 1865, in ' company K, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth 0. V. I., and served nearly one year. Mr. Stokum was married, March 22, 1877, to Miss Nancy, daughter of Charles and Susan (Rogers) Wells, natives of Washington county, Pennsylvania. This union has been blessed with two children, Lubertie and Daisy Odessa. Mr. Stokum's father died November 12, 1878.

STCfNEBROOK HIRAM, Adams township; teacher and proprietor of woolen mills ; postoffice, Bakersville ; born August 31, 1840, in Salem township, Tuscarawas county. His parents came to that county in 1835 and settled in the woods on a small tract of land, with only means sufficient to pay for their land when first bought from the government, and by industry and rigid economy they secured means to carry them through life, leaving their estate to their children unincumbered. They raised a family of three children - one son and two daughters. His father died November 19, 1870, at the age of sixty years, four months, twenty-one days ; and his mother, March 18, 1880, aged sixty-nine years, four months, twenty-nine days, having lived over forty years on the same old homestead. He was sent to common school until fifteen years of age, after which he was sent to the Ohio Wesleyan university, at Delaware, Ohio, during the years 1857-58; and after returning home he commenced teaching, at the age of nineteen, and continued in that profession until August, 1862, when he enlisted as sergeant of Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 0. V. I.; and after remaining in that capacity over two years, was promoted to lieutenant, and was soon after assigned to the command of Company C. of the same regiment, and remained in command until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of the AVilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Locust Grove, Virginia, Monocacy, Maryland, siege of Petersburgh, capture of Richmond and surrender of General Lee, and many other engagements. He was mustered out of the service in June, 1865, and returned home to begin a quiet life. He was married September 28, 1865, to Miss Emaline Thompson, daughter of James and Jane A. Thompson, who are both deceased. She was born November 19, 1843, and became the mother of seven children, viz : Ardella J., born November 14, 1866, died November 24, 1868; Alonzo 0., born November 7, 1867; Halley B., born February 17, 1869; Harrv G., born April 19, 1870 ; James O., born November 12, 1871, died March 2, 1876; Florence B., born December 28, 1872; Emma 0., born May 129,1874; Wilham born May 11, 1877, and Marion, born September 16, 1880. He is proprietor of the Bakersville woolen mills, and also teacher of the Bakersville school.

STONEHOCKER DANIEL, White Eyes township ; farmer ; born in White Eyes, in 1820 ; sonof Jacob Stonehocker, who was a native of Virginia, and emigrated to this State in 1812, and settled in Tuscarawas county ; moved to White Eyes about 1816, and located on the farm where his son Daniel now resides. His father married Elizabeth Winklepleck, of Pennsylvania. They had eight children, Daniel being the only one now living. The subject of this sketch married Miss 'Mary Sherid, of Tuscarawas county, who was born in 1828, in the same county. 'They have three children, George, Jacob and Elizabeth, all of whom are living at home. Mr. Stonehock- . er has always lived on the place where his father first settled. His father died at the age of seventy-one years, and his mother, at the age of fiftyfive years.

STONEHOCKER WILLABD W., White Eyes township ; physician ; a native of the township, and born in 1855. His father, Jacob J., was born in White Eyes in 1816, and married Sarah Winklepleck, May 18, 1851. They became the parents of the following children : Jessie M.; Jacob, deceased ; Michael ; John E., died October 1871 ; Ellen, Hester and Harriet. Willard's grandfather, Jacob Stonehocker, was married to Elizabeth Winklepleck. They were both natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stonehocker came to this county in 1816, and was one of the earliest settlers. Willard W. attended the Columbus medical college two years, graduated March 8, 1881, and expects to practice medicine as his profession, but has not, as yet, selected a location.

STORM NICHOLAS, Mill Creek township; farmer ; postofEce ,New Bedford ; born in 1828 in. this township." His father, John Storm, was born in 1777 in Kentucky. He was married in 1803- to ]\Iiss Elizabeth Slonaker of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. She was born in 1784. They came to this county in 1819. He died in 1863 ; she died in 1854. They were the parents of thirteen children. The subject of this sketchi was married in 1846 to Miss Judah Stull of this county, who was born in 1828 in this township. They are the parents of nine children, six of whom are living.

STOVER ARCHIBALD, Monroe township;: was born September 24, 1829, in Monroe township,. Coshocton county, Ohio; son of Michael and Phoebe (Dickey) Stover, grandson of Michael Stover, and grandson of John Dickey. He was brought up on a farm, educated in district schools and Spring Mountain high school. At the age of twenty-one he began the tinner's trade under Charles Harmany of Holmes county, and served three years. Ever since the completion of his apprenticeship, he has worked at his trade in Spring Mountain. July 1, 1880, he was appointed mail carrier between Spring Mountain and Helmick for four years. He was married to Miss Kittie Pettit m November 1864, daughter of" Joshua and Mary (Brillhart) Pettit, and granddaughter of Samuel and. Susannah (Whiteshell) Brillhart. Their children are Emily, Logan,. Winfred, and Harry Glide.

STOVER A. J., Monroe township ; was born in November, 1835, on the farm where he now lives, in Monroe township. He is a son of Michael and Phoebe (Dickey) Stover, who are natives of Rockingham county, Virginia, and grandson of Christopher and Catharine Stover,, and of John Dickey. The Stovers are of German descent, and the Dickeys Irish. Mr. Stover enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first 0. V. I., in September, 1861, and served under Captain J. Crooks, Colonel Stanley Mathews and General Nelson. He was first lieutenant during the 100- days' service. He was married, in May, 1870,. to Sarah J. McNeil, daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Bucklew) McNeil, and granddaughter of Archibald and Mary McNeil, and of Samuel and Hannah Bucklew. Their children were Lizzie L., born June 2, 1871 ; Oraz, born October 27, 1872 ; Marion C. and Jane Z , twins, born October 5, 1880.

STROUSE JOHN, farmer ; Tiverton township ;: postofflce, Walhonding, Ohio; born December 13, 1829, in Berks county, Pennsylvania; He came to this county in 1834, witli his parents. His father died in January, 18'72. His mother alsodied in 1872. They "were the parents of nine child-

Ten, the subject of this sketch being the seventh. He was married in 1848 to Miss Uretta Brown, of Holmes county, who was born in 1827, in ColumiDiana county, Ohio. They were the parents ofsix children, three of whom are living, viz : Northana C, Sarah E. and Lydia. He was married in June, 1862, to Miss Barbara Brown, sister -of fiis first wife, who was bom in 1835. They are the parents of eight children, six of whom are living, viz : Aaron, William L., Edward, Uriah W., Lola M. and Arrilla.

STROUSE GEORGE, Sb., farmer; Tiverton township; postofiice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1819, in Pennsylvania. He came to this with his father in 1834, who died in 1872 His mother also died in 1872. They were the parents of ten children, the subject of this sketch being the oldest. He was married in 1844 to Miss Lavina Camp, of Holmes county, who was born in 1821, in Columbiana county. They are the parents of nine children, viz: Uretta M., Anna Mary J., Elmira, James K., Charles A., George L., Johnson and Taurus E., deceased.

STUART MRS. EDY,, Bethlehem township ; -Wfs born in May, 1802, in Belmont county, Ohio. Her father, Robert Giffen, was of Scotch descent, and came to this country in 1807, and located in 'New Castle township. His daughter Edy was married in 1824, to Mr. Matthew Stuart, who was laorn in 1802, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a blacksmith ; came to this county in 1825, iind was engaged to superintend the construction of the Ohio can&,l. He also assisted in the con- .struction of the Milan and Huron canal, and /built several divisions of the Walhonding canal. He was engaged extensively in the United States -Government improvements of the Ohio river. He constructed the levee at Cairo, Illinois, now an important military post. He also aided in the construction of several railroads. Mr. Stuart 'emigrated overland to California in 1849, leaving his family in Coshocton. After spending a few years in that State, he returned home, and located near Columbus, Ohio. He died October 5, 1862, aged sixty years.

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart became the parents of five children, viz: Robert, born May 12, 1825; Oaroline, born May 6, 1826 ; Carmelia, born July 1832; Ewing, born in 1838, died January 3, 1841, and Columa E., born January 5, 1844. Rob- -ert Stuart was employed as a receiver of public moneys in the general land office at Olympia, Washington Territory. He was married to Miss Abby H. Hunt, of Boston, Massachusetts. She was of Puritan ancestry and a graduate of Tremont college. After graduation, she. accepted a position as bookkeeper in a large manufacturing «stabhshment. The firm failed and she went to Springfield, Massachusetts, and engaged in business. In 1866, shp sailed to San Francisco, California, to take charge of the office business of a relative, which position she held for five years, when, on account of failing health, she was compelled to go north. She went to Washington Territory, and became acquainted with Hon. Robert G. Stuart, and was married to him.

After marriage, she volunteered to reply to all letters of inquiry received in regard to the territory and its advantages. During the summer of 1875, she wrote a pamphlet of sixty pages, describing the territory. The Legislature published 6000, copies of the pamphlet for gratuitous distribution. Caroline Stuart was married, April 8, 1851, to Samuel Denman, who was bofti in New Jersey, and came to this county in 1832. They became the parents of two children, viz: Mary Stuart Denman,.born May 17, 1852; and Charles Lyon Denman, born in 1854. Carmelia Stuart was married July 28, 1832, to Mr. Francis Wolf, of this county.

STUDOR JOHN, Franklin township. Mr. Studor's parents, Jacob and Catharine (Erhart), emigrated from Alsace, France, near Strausburg, to this township, in 1835. His father, born in 1806, had served in the French army seven years. John is the sixth child of a family of seven, as follows ; Magdalene (Trottman), of Linton township; EUzabeth (Beck), deceased ; Jacob, of Muskingum county; Catherine B. (Mayer), of Coshocton; Caroline, John and Mary Ann (Hohn), of Muskingum county. He is a farmer, and was married April 9, 1869, to Elizabeth Hershman, by which marriage he has four children, viz : Jacob Edward, Milton Elmer, Plenna Allen and Estella Vern.

STURGEON C. L., Coshocton, Ohio; of the firm of Sturgeon & Selby, merchants, 424 Main street. Mr. Sturgeon was born October 21, 1855, in Mount Holly, Knox county, Ohio; son of William Sturgeqn, who was born in Washington ^ county, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1824, and Mary - (Baker) Sturgeon, born near Danville, Knox county, Ohio, November 23, 1829. She died November 2, 1868. Her grandmother was a Talbot, and was in the direct line from the Earl of Shrewsbury. Her immediate parents were Pennsylvania Germans. William Sturgeon's parents were natives of Pennsylvania, of English and Scotch ancestry. His father died at the age of eighty-, two years, and his mother at sixty-six. William Sturgeon and Mary Baker were married October 17, 1854, and became the parents of seven children, viz: Cliff rd L., Melville S., Clara Victoria, Ada E., Elmer E., Lizzie I. and Charles W. Clifford L. attended the public schools until nineteen, when he entered, as a student, in 1876, the Ohio Wesleyan university, and remained^ne year. In 1877 he formed a partnership with his brother.

Melville S., and his present partner, firm name, Sturgeon Brothers & Co. In the spring of ISSl the above firm was formed, Melville S., withdrawing.

E. O. Selby, of the above firm, was born in Knox county, Ohio, May 30, 1857; son of Professor J. B. and Isabel (Sturgeon) Selby, who were the parents of eight children, viz : Milton Clifford and Charles, deceased, and Walter L., E. 0., Mina B., Lillie M. and Oscar E., living. The five were born in Knox county, and the others at Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, where their father was principal of the Spring Mountain academy for a number of years prior to his going West, wlfere he died in 1871. His widow and children, excepting E. O., are now on the farm which he purchased there. E. O. was clerk in a store and bank in the West prior to his locating in Coshocton.

SQUIEE J. S., Jackson township; farmer; postoflS.ce, Roscoe ; born October 24, 1846, on the farm on which he now resides. When about eighteen he went into a drug store as clerk, at Worthington, Indiana, where he remained two years. In May, 1864, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fortieth O. N. G., and served four months. He was elected justice of the peace of Jackson township in the spring of 1880, which oflBce he now holds. In 1876 he was elected a member of the board of education for his township, and held the office three years. He was married January 19, 1869, to Miss Sarah Anne, daughter of Garret Snedecker, of Jackson township, but a native of Knox county. They became the parents of four children, viz: Emma E., Nora, James William, and Lucretia.

SUMERS JOHN, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice. West Lafayette, Ohio; son of John and Margaret (Mitchel) Sumers; was t)orn April 8, 1862, in Zanesville, Ohio. His parents are of German descent. He came from Zanesville when four years old and located in Coshocton, remaining two years. He then removed to Linton township with his parents, and remained eight years ; then removed to Oxford township, remaining five years. Plis parents then returned to Zanesville, and he has since remained in Lafayette township. Mr. Summers was married, September 13, 1872, to Miss Melissa Loos, of this county. They are the parents of three children, viz : William, deceased; Asa, deceased, and Leona.

SWIGAET JAMES H., farmer; White Eyes township; born in Harrison county in 1824; son of Joseph Swigart, who was the father of three children ; James is the only one living, and he was left fatherless at the age of three years. In 1846 he married Miss Eozena Hamilton, of Tuscarawas county. She was a native of that county, and was born in 1829. They have five children Mary E , born 1848, and is married to Henry Swigart; Elisha A., born in 1850, is married to Althea Ewing, the daughter of Daniel Ewing, of this township ; INIargaret, born in 1854, and Wesley born in 1861, are both single and live at home. Mr. Swigart lived in Harrison county .until he was twenty years ef age. In 1844 he moved to Tuscarawas county, and came to White Eyes in 1862, and he is now the largest land holder in the township.

TAPE LEWIS, Coshocton; proprietor barber shop, opera house block, Main street ; born October 19, 1850, in Germany ; son of Philip Jacob Tafe. Lewis remained at home until seventeen, working with his father, in a jewelry store, and going to school. In 1867, he came to America, landing in New York City, and immediately went to St. Charles, Missouri, and learned his trade; remained two years; then' went to St. Louis, and remained six years; then came to Dennison, Ohio, four years, working at his trade all the vshile. In January, 1879, he came to this city, and established his present shop. Mr. Tafe was married, June 2, 1879, to Miss Ida Eliza Rolley, daughter of Daniel Roily, of Trentpn^ Tuscarawas county, Ohio. This union was blessed with three children, one, Elvira, dead, and twoliving, Oscar L. and Victoria C. Mrt Tafe i& doing a good moderate business.

TALLMADGE HENRY, Jackson township; Roscoe postoflSce ; born in this county, in 1832 y son of Joseph and Frances Tallmadge, and grandson of Moses and Rebecca Tallmadge ; married,^ in 1854, to Mary WiUiams, daughter of Lewis and Rebecca Williams. Mr. Tallmadge is the father of ten children, viz : Sarah A , Rachel, Benjamin, Rebecca F., L. E., Rosa J., Mary S., William H., James H. and Hannah C.

TAYLOR LYMAN, farmer; postoffice .Warsaw; born in 1855, in this county. His father, John Taylor, was born in 1818, in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was married to Miss Sabina Dennis, of Knox county, who was born in 1821. They are the parents of six children, the subject of thissketch being the fourth. He was married in 1878, to JMiss Sylvia Frederick, of this county, who was born in 1859, in this county.

TAYLOR JOHN, Jefierson township; born October, 1818, in Jefferson township, Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Samuel Taylor, who was elected captain in the war of 1812, and seryed under General Miller and Colonel Heath. He enlisted in Allegheny county, Maryland, and served his country with distinction. Hismother was Mary Taylor, born in Hartford county, Maryland. His parents came to Muskingum county in 1814. He is a grandson of John and Hannah 'Eaylor, and Ezra and Elizabeth (Brown) Taylor. He was educated in the old log school-house, yet standing on his farm. Mr. Taylor filled the office of county commissioner six years, justice of the peace, fifteen years, and land appraiser, one. In 1824 he came with his father to Coshocton county, being his father's only child, he lived with hini till his father's death. He was married May 12, 1842, to Miss Sabina Dennis, of Knox county, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Horn) Dennis, natives of Pennsylvania. Their children were Samuel, deceased ; Dennis, Mary ;' Elizabeth, deceased ; Arminda, Lyraan, Norman and Clara. Mary married David Walker, deceased, and resides with her parents ; Arminda married Joseph Haines, a farmer of Bedford township; Lyman is a farmer in Bedford township, and Mar:cied Sylvia Frederick; Clara is at home, single. Both of Mr. Taylor's grandfathers were patriots in the revolutionary war, and served under Washington. His grandfather Taylor served seven years, was taken prisoner five times and wounded once, in the breast, where he carried an ounce ball for a number of years, the extraction of which finally caused his death.

TAYLOR DENNIS, Jefferson township; was born in December, 1845, in Jefferson townspip, Coshocton county; postoffice, Warsaw; son of John Taylor, who was a native of Muskingum county, and Sabina (Dennis) Taylor, who was a native of Knox county. For further ancestry, see his father's (John Taylor's), biography. Mr. Taylor was brought up on a farm, and educated in district schools. He lived at home with his parents until the age of twenty-two, when he married Miss E. A. Porter, in December 1867, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Dean) Porter, who was born in January, 1856." The following children were born to them: Emma, born October 30, 1868; John P., Februarv 29, 1872; J. W., June 8, 1875; Iva M., September 1, 1877, and Mary M., October 30, 1879. Mrs. Taylor is a grancjdaughter of Samuel and Mary (McCurdy) ,Dean, and of Elizabeth Wilky.

TAYLOR E. T., Virginia township; born September 17, 1819, son of Ebenezer and Margaret Taylor ; married in 1841 to Louisa Walraven. Mr. Taylor has eleven children, viz ; William, May, Mary Jane, John P., Caroline, Louisa, Samuel B., James H., Margaret L., Clare I , and John P. Postoffice, Dresden, Muskingum county.

TAYLOR HIRAM A., engineer in Coshocton iron and steel works ; was born September 20, 1838 in HoUingsworth, Lancashire county, England ; son of John and Maria (Dainkrey) Taylor. In 1814 he accompanied his parents to America, locate^ in Coshocton. Mr. Taylor was married September 20, 1860, to Miss Ellen, daughter of Washington and Georgiana (Fisk) Burt. They are the parents of five children, viz : Elmer B., died in infancy ; Annie M., Amy B. ; Ada K., died in infancy, and Nellie. September 20, 1861, Mr. Taylor enlisted in Company E, Fifty-first O. V. I. He was appointed fourth sergeant, and became first sergeant and followed the fortunes of the Army of the Cumberland until after the battle of Lookout Mountain, when his regiment veteranized. On application Sergeant Taylor was appointed third assistant engineer in ^ the navy, but before being mustered in he declined the position, and was assigned to duty under Provost Marshal Wisewell, where he remained until October 3, 1864, when he was honorably discharged.

TEALE WILLIAM, Jackson township; born on Santa Cruz Isle, in 1828; son of Martin and Mary A. Teale; settled in Coshocton county, in 1837 ; married in September, 1863, to Catherine Loder, daughter of Aaron and Rebecca Loder. Mr. Loder is the father of five children, viz : Ida J., William, Franklin, Etha, Alberta. Mr. Teale is engaged in farming and stock raising. Postoffice, Roscoe.

TIDBALL N. B., Coshocton; butcher; of the firm of Shaw & Tidball, 440 Main street; born in Belmont county, in 1836; son of attorney John C. Tidball, who came to this city in 1848, and died in 1863. N: R. was married first in 1865, to Miss Amanda, daughter of Jefferson Brelsf erd, a farmer of this county. Their children are : Annie M., Frank B., Elizabeth, Stella A., and Addash. Mr. Tidball enlisted first in Company A., Sixteenth. 0. V. I. (three months men) and re-enlisted in Company H., Eightieth' 0. V. I., December 2, 1861, and resighed in July, 1863, on account of ill health. Hp enlisted as a private, but was commissioned second lieutenant in each company named above and captain of Company D., One Hundred and Forty-third 0. N. G. Mrs. Tidball died in February 1863, and is buried at Coshocton. Captain Tidball's second marriage was in August, .1880, to. Miss Sarah F., daughter of R. F. Baker, of this city. Captain 'Tidball was superintendent of -the yards of the penitentiary two years, under Governor Hayes.

TIMMONS JOHN, Coshocton; carpenter and contractor ; was born December 25, 1843, in Linton township. He is son of William Tinpmons, American born, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Young Timmons was raised on ihe farm until about fifteen years old, when he began the wagon making trade and worked two years, then returned to farming for two or three years, after which he went to his present trade with James Williams. On completing it, he worked for some time in

Franklin township. In the fall of 1862, he enlisted in companjr C, Ninth O V. I., and served to the close of the war, being in one engagement three or four days after Lee's surrender. On his return home from the war, he resumed his trade in this city, which he has successfully followed to the present. Mr- Timmons was married, in January, 1862, to Miss Resilva Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams, of Linton township. This union was blessed with three children, two deceased and one living - Simon W. Timmons.

TINGLE JOE E., Franklin township ; born in Franklin township, April 29, 1855; son of Eldred D. and Elizabeth Tingle, and grandson of John Tingle and of James Eice. His father, a carpenter by trade, was born in Guernsey county, and moved here about 1845. His mother was born in Franklin township. He is the youngest of three children, viz : Anna, John and Joseph. When about nine years old he moved to Tuscarawas township, on what is now the Moore farm, two miles south of Coshocton. There he remained till some time after his mother's death, which occurred December 14, 1867; then spent two years at Kenyon college, Gambler, Ohio. At fifteen he began railroading, as brakeman on the Pan Handle road, and after three years spent here he went on the I., B. and W. railroad, between Indianapolis and Peoria, for a year. Eeturning to Coshocton, he worked in the steel works about eighteen months at an iron lathe, and then was employed as fireman on the Pan Handle road till December, 1876, when he turned his attention to farming and stock raising. He was married February 29, 1876, to Sadie Tingle, daughter of John Tingle, a physician of Cambridge, Guernsey county, and has two little children, viz : Edna, and Atta Eice.

THOMPKINS JAMES M., Tuscarawas township; Canal Lewisville postoffice; carpenter; born September 22, 1832, in Eappahannock county, Virginia; son of James and Mary, and grandson of Jonathan Thompkins and William Bailey. James M. was raised on the farm. He came to this county in 1847, and first located in Jackson township, from which he removed to Jefferson township. In 1870 he was appointed superintendent of county infirmary, which position he held for two years. On leaving the infirmary, he moved to Warsaw, and came to his present residence in 1876. In 1872 he learned the carpenter trade, which he has followed to the present time. Mr. Thompkins was married August 1', 1857, to Miss Mary Chambers, daughter of John Chambers, of Bedford township. Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Maston. Their children are : Isaac E., Charles E., Sarah M., W. Frank, Ahce Lutilla and William Allen.

THOMPSON JOHN, Bedford township; merchant; postoffice. Tunnel Hill ; born in 1817, in Muskingum county, Ohio; came to this county in 1819, with his father, William E., who was born in 1774, in Hampshire county, Virginia. He was married in 1795 or 69 to Miss Sarah Taylor, of the same place, who was born in 1781. They came to Muskingum county in 1809. He died in 1850. She died in 1860 They are the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the fifth. He was married in 1845 to Miss Elizabeth Sheppard, of Zanesville Ohio, who was born in 1826. They are the parents of five children, three of whom only are living, viz : Thomas W.,. George E. and Willard S. Mr. Thompsoix was a member of the Thirty-second O. V. I. He entered the army August, 1861, and was discharged in 1864. He was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry, and remained in prison five months. He was in the Seventeenth Corps, under General McPherson, and was in the battles at Vicksburgh and Atlanta, and in several lighter engagements.

THOMPSON GEOEGE, Jefi'erson township; born in Washington township, Coshocton county, May 21, 1828; son of Joshua and Emily (Williams) Thompson. His father died when he was but twelve years of age, leaving a widow and large family for him to care for, he being the eldest child. The labor of bringing up the younger brothers and sisters devolved principally upon George, as did also the care of the farm. At the age of eighteen he weijt to West Carlisle to learn blacksmithing with A. H. Lyons, and served one year ; then went to Eosooe and worked two years with William Thomas; then went to West Bedford and worked at machine making seventeen years ; then to Midberry, and on account 'bf ill health his time was divided between the farm and shop for seven years. He married March 28, 1859, Miss Mary Haynes, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Martin) Haynes, and soon after moved to Illinois, and remained three years, working at his trade. He then came back to Coshocton county, where he has successfully applied his time to his trade to this time. Mrs. Thompson died in 1869, and three years afterward he married Miss Mary Severns, daughter of William and Hannah (Treadway) Severns. Flora B.; Endora M., deceased ; Mary M. and Louvina I. were the children of the first marriage, Millie B. and Mina A. of the second marriage.

THOMPSON SAMUEL G., Keene township; farmer ; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, January 5, 1809 ; son of Moses and Catharine (MoGuire) Thompson, and grandson of Thomas 'Thompson. His father was a soldier of the war of 1812 ; his maternal grand parents were John and Mary (Tipton) McGuire, he having been a revolution- ary soldier. They came to Mill Creek township, Coshocton county, in 1815, with his father, who built his first cabin March 26, 1816, his being the third family in the township. He was married April 4, 1844, to Esther, daughter of John and Ann (Sweeney) Carson, and granddaughter of James Carson, who was one of two children of a large family, who survived an attack of yellow fever in Philadelphia. Mr. T's family is as follows: Robert William, born January 26, 1845; Mary E., July 3, 1847; Sarah C, September 26, 1849, died December 25, 1868 ; John C, December 15, 1851, and A. Jennie, October 26, 1856.

THOMPSON T. M., Coshocton; of Thompson Brothers, manufacturers of foreign and domestic marbles; was born February 14, 1830, in Granville, Licking county, Ohio. BLe is son of R. M. Thompson, American born, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Young Thompson was educated in the schools of his native village. In 1850, he came to this place and engaged in farming, which he followed for five years. In 1855, the present firm was formed, which has continued to the present time.

Thompson, James M., of the above firm, and brother of T. M., was born September 8, 1833, in Granville, Licking county, Ohio. These brothers were associates in childhood and youth, and partners in business to the present time. James M. Thompson was married, June, 1861, to Miss Hilpha B. Lamb, daughter of R. M. Lamb, of Coshocton. This union was blessed with five children, one deceased, Annie, and four living, viz : Jessie, Mattie, Nora and Nellie. This firm deals extensively in foreign and domestic marble and Scotch, red and American granite, doing general cemetery work.

TREAD WAY G. S., Coshocton; wool merchant. Chestnut street ; was bornOctober 8, 1843, in Jefferson township; son of Thomas Treadway, a native of Hartford county, Maryland, of English ancestry. Young Treadway was raised on the farm, where he remained imtil nineteen years of age, when he entered Spring Mountain academy, where he remained one year; after which, he entered the dry goods store of William Sturgeon, as clerk, where he remained six months In May, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second 0. N. G, in which he served six months, participating in the seige of Petersburg and other engagements of the Potomac army. On his return, he enlisted for one year; then entered Iron City commercial college, remaining six months, and was graduated. He then remained three years aa clerls: in the store of John G. Stewart, at Rosco. In 1870, he formed a partnership with John Orr, firm name, Treadway & Orr, dry goods merchants, Warsaw. This firm continued imtil February, 1873, when the entire stock, books and buildings were destroyed by fire. In the following summer, he bought wool extensively, for William Shields, ' Newark, Ohio. Early in the year 1874, he went into the wholesale house of Hains, Stranathan & Co., Zanesvile, and remained one year In the spring of 1876, he became partner in the firm of Thomas Lee & Co., wool commission merchants, Philadelphia, and remained in the city two years. In the spring of 1878, he engaged with H. C. Judd & Root, commission wool merchants, of Hartford, Connecticut, with whom he yet remains. Mr. Treadway was married to Miss Catherine Lynch, of Roscoe, arid was blessed with one child, Karnia D. Mrs. Treadway died, and Mr, Treadway was married, December 31, 1876, to Miss Mary E. Linebaugh, daughter of Noah Linebaugh, of Warsaw.

TREADWAY T. F., Perry township; postoffice. West Bedford ; farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Treadway keeps some very fine thoroughbred sheep. He was born in this county in 1848 ; son of Thomas and Mary (Dennis) Treadway, and grandson of Crispin Treadway and of Isaac Dennis ; married in 1870, to Miss Elvina Dickison, daughter of Joseph and Mary Dickison. They have one child, viz : Thurz Maud.

TREADWAY REASON, Jackson township; postoffice, Roscoe ; born in this county in September, 1832; son of Thomas and Olive Treadway, and grandson of Crispin and Elizabeth Treadway ; married September 19, 1866, to Mary Welling, daughter of Wiiyam and Rebecca Welling. Mr. Treadway is the father of three children, viz : Ohve R., Effie V., Thomas A. Mr. Treadway enlisted in 1862, Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-third regiment Illinois volunteers, army of the Tennessee. Mr. Treadway was engaged in the following battles, viz : Perrysville, Chickamauga, Kenesaw, Milton Heights, Rock Springs, and others.

TREDWAY CRISPEN, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice. Tunnel Hill; born in 1834, in lihis County. . His father, Thomas, was born in 1799, in Hartford county, Maryland. He came to this county in 1817, and was married in 1825, to Miss Olive Severns, of this county, who was born in 1802. She died in 1838. They were the parents of eight children, Crispen being the seventh. He was married in 1856, to Miss Lavina James, of this county, who was born in 1840. She died in 1876. They were the parents of six children. His second marriage was in 1878, to Miss Susan Leas, of this county. They have one child. Mr. Tredway has lived on the same farm twenty-four years.

born April 3, 1858 ; son of George and Magdalena (Studer) Trottman. His father is a native of Baden, Germany; his mother of Metz, France. They were the parents of fourteen children, two deceased. Seven daughters and five sons are now living. John, first named above, began his first teaching in the summer of 1880.

ULMAN' JACOB, Monroe township ; was born December 13, 1816, in Berne, Switzerland ; son of Jacob and Mary (Sagaser) Ulman. At the age of two and a half years became with his parents to America, and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and lived there three years ; then moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, and remained there about six years ; from there he went to Carroll county, Ohio, and lived there twenty years; thence to Holmes county, where he spent eight years ; from there to Monroe township, Coshocton county, where he follows farming and blacksmithing. Mr. Ulmap is a blacksmith by trade. The names of his brothers and sisters that came to this country are Mary, Peter, Elizabeth, Barbara, Ann, Rosannah, John, Samuel, Louisa, and Issaac. He was married first to Frances Houze in 1839, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Nezbet) Houze. Their children were Orlando, deceased ; Albert, Franklin, Eliza, and William. After the death of Mrs. Ulman in 1864, Mr. Ulman married Mrs. Marissa (Yorker) Harris, February 25, 1870, daughter of Peter and Lucinda (Tilden) Yorker. Mr. Ulman 's present wife is the mother of one child, Franklin L , who resides with his mother. Albert married Miss Letta Dunman, and resides in Nodaway, Missouri ; Franklin married Lydia Weatherwax, and resides in Coshocton; Eliza married Thomas Johnson. William is teaching school in Holmes county.

UNDERWOOD LEWIS," Jackson township; P.O. Roscoe; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1823; married to Lucy A. Stiffee, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Stiffee ; settled in this county in 1867 ; son of Obed and Mary Underwood, and grandson of Obed and Nancy Underwood, and of George and Francis Myers. They have eleven children, seven living, viz: Jacob, Mary L., Nancy E., Leroy, Dora B., Rebecca J. and Lewis.

VALENTINE WILLIAM, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of Andrew Valentine; was born in 1806, in Bedford county, Pennslvania. He was raised on the farm and has always followed that occupation. He was married to Miss Polly Baker, of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1808. They came to this county in 1830, and have since resided here. They became the parents of six children, viz : Jacob, Elizabeth, Martha, Margaret, Rachel and Hiram, all of whom are married except Rachel. Mrs. Valentine died in 1846, aged thirty-eight years. Mr. Valentine afterward married Miss Abigail Griffen, of Coshocton count)', who was born in 1816. They are the parents of six children, viz: Daniel, Benjamin, Rebecca J., Steward, Margaret and Samuel, all of whom are married and living in this county.

VANCE ISAAC, Lafayette township; was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, the 16th of January, 1845, and came to this county in 1852 ; was married to Sarah Angeline Shoyer, April 2, 1872. They have had three children : Luella, age seven years; Thurman Allen, deceased, and Nancy Elizabeth, aged two yeara. He lives two miles west of West Lafayette ; owns fifty acres of land; believes in education, and gives his children all the advantages offered in that direction ; is honest and well spoken of by his neighbors.

V ANDUSEN SYLVESTER R., butcher ; postoffice. West Lafayette ; was born in this county. He was a soldier in the late war, enlisted in November, 1861, a member of Company G, Eightieth O. V. I., and was in the following engagements : Corinth, Jackson, seige of Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, and in Sherman's march to the sea ; and was honorably discharged.

VAN SICKLE GEORGE, Lafayette township ; farmer ; postoffice. West Lafayette ; was born m Harrison county, in 1840 ; and was married to IVfiss Anna Wiggins, in 1871. Their children were Harry, Thomas, Magnolia, Ella and George E. . Mr. Van Sickle took an active part in the late war, going out in Company H, Fifty-first 0. V. I. and served two years and over. Mr. Van Sickle lives on a farm of his father-in-law, T. M. Wiggins Mrs. Van Sickle belongs to the Baptist church.

VICKERS L., farmer ; Washington township ; P. 0. Dresden ; born in 1819 in Fauquier county, Virginia, and came to this county in 1827 with his father, who was born in 1790 in Prince William county, Virginia. He married Miss Henrietta Romine, of the same countv, who was born in 1792. He died in 1863. She died in 1873. They were the parents of six children, the subject of this sketch being the second. He was married in 1844 to Miss Mahala McKee, of this county, who was born in 1821. They are the parents of six children.

VOORHES ABRAHAM C, Coshocton; law student ; born in Scio, Harrison county, April 9, 1856; son of George Voorhes, a native of this State. Abraham C. was raised on a farm until fourteen years of age, when he came to this city; in 1877 and 1878 he attended Hopedale college, Harrison county, then entered the law office of Campbell & Voorhes, of this city, as law student, with whom he is still reading.

Voorhes Captain Richard Marion

attorney at law, Coshocton, Ohio; was born in Harrison county, Ohio, October 6, 1838; youngest son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Goshill) Voorhes; educated at Hopedale, Harrison county, Ohio; studied law with his brother, Hon. C. F. Voorhes, then of the law firm of Barcroft & Voorhes, Millersburgh, Holmes county, Ohio; admitted to the bar July 6, 1860, locating immediately thereafter at Coshocton, Ohio, where he is still actively engaged in the practice of the law. He was one of the first men to volunteer from Coshocton county in the three months' service, in the war of 1861 ; " perhaps was the first signer of the volunteer roll from Coshocton county, his company (Company A) going out with the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving through the term of enlistment in the campaign of West Virginia. After the nluster out of the three months' men. Captain Voorhes re-enlisj;ed in the service as a private m Company P, Sixty-fifth O. V. I., on the 28th of October, 1861, joining the company at Millersburgh. -He was promoted to captain of said company on the 30th day of November, A. D. 1861. He, with his company and regiment, participated in the battles of Pittsburgh Landing, seige of Corinth, Perrysville and Stone River. He was severely wounded in the latter engagement, on the 31st day of December, 1862, while engaged in the thickest of the fight. Being disabled from active service by reason of his wound, he was afterward transferred to the veteran reserve corps, and commissioned, by the president of the United States, a captain in said corps, which position he held until November 18, 1865, when he resigned and returned to his home at Coshocton, Ohio, where he has resided ever since, engaged in the practice of the law. He was married on the 27th day of November, 1862, to Miss Georgianna, daughter of Washington and Georgia (Fisk) Burt. They have three children, two boys and one girl, viz: Marion Campbell, ]3urt Fisk and Georgianna.

WABLE WILLIAM, Bedford township; farmer ; postofiice, Tunnel Hill ; bqrn in 1815, in Harrison county, Ohio. He came to this county in 1830, with his mother, his father having died in 1816, in Harrison county. She died in 1862. They were the parents of six children, the subject of this sketch iDcing the youngest. He was married in 1832, to Miss Ella Welling, of this county, who was born in 1813, in Harrison county. They were the parents of eight children, four of whom are living.

WAGNER JOHN, Coshocton. His father, Philip Wagner, deceased, was a native of Bavaria, Germany ; his mother's maiden name was Barbara Fox. The family came to America in 1837, and settled at Roscoe, where he remained but a short time, then to a place near Warsaw, from thence he moved to Tiverton township and engaged in farming, which business he followed until his death, October 8, 1874. When Philip Wagner came to Roscoe he had but $8.50 in money, but he had that which was better than gold, an honest heart, determined will, and a strong hand, which he used untiringly until he had earned and saved enough to secure forty acres of land. To this beginning he added until he had a good farm of 270 acres. John Wagner, the subject of this sketch, was born December 8, 1835, in Bavaria, Germany, and shared the fortunes of his father's laborious and trying life until November 27, 1859, when he was married to. Miss Elizabeth Kaiser, of Holmes county, Ohio. This union was blessed with three children, one deceased, and two living, viz: John P. and Margaret Emma. Mr. Wagner visited Dallas county,, Iowa, with a view to settle there, in , 1868. But owing to the extreme severity of the winter and * the ill health of Mrs. Wagner, returned to the old neighborhood in Ohio, where he remained until 1876, when he came to the city to attend to the duties of the office of treasurer to which he had been elected the previous year.

WAGNER M. C, Virginia township ; born in 1819; son of Joseph and Rebecca Wagner, and grandson of Peter and Rachel Wagner. He was married November 18, 1841, to Mary Marquand. Mr. Wagner's family consists of the following,, viz: John, Martha M., Joseph, Mary, James D., William G., Lydia, Jane G., Elizabeth M., Louisa T., and Margaret C. Postofiice, Moscow. He isa farmer.

WAGONER ELIJAH, Franklin township; farmer ; born in Muskingum county; son of John and Barbara Wagoner. His father was born July 18, 1793, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and emigrated from that State to Muskingum county shortly after the close of the war of 1812; married in December, 1850, to Elizabeth Sturtz^ whose parents brought her from Pennsylvania to Muskingum county when six years old. Mr. Wagoner moved to Franklin township in March, 1855 ; his three children, viz : Lavinia (Wirtz), Mary Ann (Aronhalt) and Melinda Catharine, are all living in this township.

WAGONER JOHN, Franklin township; farmer; P. 0. Coshocton, Ohio; born June 21, 1834, in Adams township, Muskingum county ; son of John and Barbara (Shurtz) Wagoner, natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent. John re- mained with his father on the farm until he be- twenty one years of age, when he began teaching school in the winter ai.d working on the farm in the summer seasons, In 1859 he located on the Robinson farm in Tuscarawas township, and remained four years. He came to Franklin township in 1863, and to his present residence in 1859. Mr. Wagoner was married August 18, 1858, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Valentine and Elizabeth (Buchanan) Zimmer, natives of Alsace, France. They became the parents of six children : Ada Alice, married to Andrew Brannon ; Henry H.; Elizabeth F., deceased ; Judson E.,William A . and Alta Theodosia. Mr. Wagoner was elected Justice of the Peace of Franklin township, in April 1870, and was reelected three times, now serving his fourth terni

WAGONER HARRISON, Coshocton ; carpenter and contractor; born Septenaber 2, 1.S21, in Muskingum county; son of John and Barbara (Shurtz) Wagoner, and cai^ie to Tuscarawas township in 1854, and to this city in 1870. Mr. Wagoner was raised on the farm until nineteen years of age, when he went to his trade, which lie followed three years; then rented a farm and it four years, when he bought a farna, which he worked in connection with his trade for about seven years prior to coming to this -county. Since coming to this city he has given his entire attention to contracting and building. Mr. Wagoner served about four months in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third 0. N. G. He was married March 19, 1843, to Miss Malinda. daughter of John Shroyer, of Mviskingum county, Her mother's name was Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and Susannah Wertz. Their children are - Mary Elizabeth; Barbara Jane, deceased; Eliza Annie, Margaret, John Oliver and George Bartholomew.