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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 02487 1896
GENEALOGY 977.101 R39BA
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CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF
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RICHLAND COUNTY
OHIO
977. 101 R 39ba
ILLUSTRATED
A. J. BAUGHMAN, EDITOR.
CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO.
1901
PREFACE.
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UT of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote, " History is the essence of innumerable biographies." Believing this to be the fact, there is no necessity of advancing any further reason for the compilation of such a work as this, if reliable history is to be the ultimate object.
The section of Ohio embraced by this volume has sustained within its confines men who have been prominent in the history of the State, and even the nation, for a century. The annals teem with the records of strong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, "the true grand- eur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual." The final causes which shape the fortunes of individuals and the destinies of States are often the same. They are usually remote and obscure, and their influence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared by results. That nation is the greatest which produces the greatest and most manly men and faithful women; and the intrinsic safety of a community depends not so much upon methods as upon that normal development from the deep resources of which proceeds all that is precious and perma- manent in life. But such a result may not consciously be contemplated by the actors in the great social drama. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work out as a logical result.
The elements of success in life consist in both innate capacity and deter- mination to excel. Where either is wanting, failure is almost certain in the outcome. The study of a successful life, therefore, serves both as a source of information and as a stimulus and encouragement to those who have the capacity. As an important lesson in this connection we may appropriately
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quote Longfellow, who said : " We judge ourselves by what we feel capa- ble of doing, while we judge others by what they have already done." A faithful personal history is an illustration of the truth of this observation.
In this biographical history the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the task. In the collection of the ma- terial there has been a constant aim to discriminate carefully in regard to the selection of subjects. Those who have been prominent factors in the public, social and industrial development of the counties have been given due recog- nition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation here, it is true, have in several instances been omitted, either on account of the apathy of those concerned or the inability of the compilers to secure the information necessary for a symmetrical sketch; but even more pains have been taken to secure accuracy than were promised in the prospectus. Works of this nature, therefore, are more reliable and com- plete than are the " standard " histories of a country.
THE PUBLISHERS.
INDEX.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
THE PIONEERS. 9
Captain Thomas Armstrong
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Captain Pipe.
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GREENTOWN AND THE WAR OF 1812. 15
The Killing of Tom Lyons. 17
FIRST SETTLEMENT AGAIN. 19
INDIAN CIVILIZATION
23
EARLY DAY MUSTERS
26
PIONEER GATHERINGS
29
THE HEROES OF '76.
31
OF GREAT PROWESS
34
PLACES OF INTEREST.
36
The Robinson Castle
40
Caves and Caverns.
43 45
Ancient Earth-Works
45
Hemlock Falls ..
48
Uncle Jonas' Lake.
48
Spooks' Hollow.
50
Facts versus Fiction.
55
Miscellaneous
53
UNDERGROUND RAILROADS.
55
RICHLAND COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR.
57
MURDER MYSTERIES.
59
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
62
Helltown and Greentown
66
POTATO REGION
67
RICHLAND COUNTY'S PLACE IN THE GALAXY OF OHIO POETS.
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A HUNDRED YEARS.
72
OUR ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD
74
ASHLAND COUNTY
77
GREENTOWN
78
THE ZIMMER MASSACRE
84
The Fatal Return 88
THE COPUS MASSACRE. 89
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THE BLACK FORK SETTLEMENT 96
PIONEER INCIDENTS. 97
TWO BATTLE OF COWPENS. 97
LYONS' FALLS .. 100
ANCIENT MOUNDS. 102
CONCLUSION.
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Moody's Hill.
THE MANSFIELD LYCEUM.
MONUMENTS REARED.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Abbott, Frank A., 655 Aby, Byron J., 585 Aby, Solomon W., 362 Ackerman, John C., 556
Ackerman, William, 609
Albertson, Butler, 116 Albertson, William K., 116
Albach, W. H., 572 Alvord, Harrison M., 616
Andrews, Samuel, 557
Andrews, Thomas B., 551 Appl gate, John, 650
Arehart, Christopher C., 512 Arter, Sarah Jane, 614 Ashbaugh, Ellzy A., 195 Au, Christopher, 424 Avery, Curtis L., 184 Avery, Rufus L., 185
Backensto, Henry, 196 Bailey & Walters, 163 Balliett, James M., 382 Barnes, Ross R., 661 Barr, Samuel, 374 Barton, J. Anderson, 696 Baughman, Abraham J., 528 Portrait, 30 Baughman, Elizabeth C., 536 Beam, Henry, 215 Beaver, Harry H., 162 Bell, David, 135 Bell, Thomas M., 549 Benedict, Abraham, 419 Berno, Edward, 493 Berry, Adam, 550 Berry, Benjamin, 543 Bloom, Samuel S., 203 Boals, Frank L., 325 Boals, James F., 432 Boals, Sarah J., 366 Bonham, William, 452 Bricker, Riley P., 401 Brinkerhoff, Roeliff, 105 Brook, William, 634 Brown, Huntington, 144 Brucker, Lewis, 504 Brumfield, Charles, 547 Burkholder, John H., 376 Burneson, Andrew, 472 Burns, Barnabas, 406 Bushey, Abraham, 384 Bushnell, Martin B., 687
Cahall, John, 383 Calhoon, Alexander, 526 Calhoon, Noble, 525 Cappeller, William S., 136 Chamberlain, James L., 234 Chamberlain, Josiah, 645 Chapman, John (Johnny Apple- seed), 570 Charles, George W., 117 Clark, Samuel C., 497
Cline, Frank M., 663 Close, Erastus S., 284 Clowes, J. Q. A., 222 Cobban, James, 393 Cockley, David L., 319 Cole, John, 327 Colwell, Samuel J., 440
Cook, Carter L., 399 Cook, James H., 520 Corbett, John, 295
Cowan, Mrs. L. R., 464
Cox, George and Hannah, 413 Craig, J. Harvey, 280 Crall, David, 356 Crall, John, 693 Crawford, John, 147
Crum, Michael, 439 Culler, John F., 209 Culler, Martin L., 694
Cummings, Seth G., 206 Cunningham, James, 608
Darling, John, 531
Darling, John M., 672 Darling, Marion M., 353 Darling, Robert, 692
Davidson, Peter, 514
Davis, Mack H., 479 Dawson, John W., 307
De Camp, Moses, 150 De Lancy, Jacob, 363
Dick, George G., 603 Dickerson, Mahlon, 124
Dickerson, Thomas, 431
Dill, John J., 547 Dill, Thomas T., 371 Dittenhoefer, Mortimer A., 515 Ditwiler, John, 524 Doty, Duane M., 477
Douglass, Augustus A., 286 Douglass, Michael E., 529 Douglass, Silas M., 267
Eastman, Newton R., 166 Eckert-Lawrence, Ida, 70 Ellis, Sidney, 637 Elston, William H., 517 Evarts, Solomon, 435 Ewing, George M., 288
Farber, Olin M., 552 Ferguson, James G., 277 Ferguson, Samuel, 276 Ferrell, Austin M., 629 First, James M., 170 Fisher, Joseph, 589 Fitting, Frederick M., 138 France, Enoch H., 227 Francis, David R., 540 Fraser, Alexander, 223 Frederick, P. W., 214 Freer, Harvey, 598 Freeze, John J., 612
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French, Charles W., 664 Fullton, J. H., 475
Gans, Mary C., 332 Garber, Jehu L., 255 Geddes, George W., 263 Portrait, 76 Gerhart, John F., 430 Gilger, John, 574 Goodman, Guy T., 296 Gorham, Samuel R., 5 8 Gorham, William H., 235 Grosscup, Charles G., 278 Guthrie, Amberson W., 179 Guthrie, Nathaniel, 486
Hafer, John W., 318 Hale, John, 385 Hall, Thomas, 247 Hamblin, William B , 618 Hammon, Thomas, 256 Hancock, Robert G., 344 Haverfield, Joseph, 265 Haycox, Arthur J., 692 Hazlett, Robert W., 621 Henry, Joseph P., 224 Herring, James H. 386 Hersh, Newton, 118 Hess, Isaac, 416 Hildebrant, Hiram W., 297 Hill, Jacob G., 269 Hines, Clark B., 438 Hofman, George W., 461 Hogan, Michael, 510 Holtz, Samuel S., 304 Homer, Barnet, 686 Hoover, Gideon E., 339 Hopp, Francis J., 198 Hout, Clayton B., 349 Hout, George, 350 Hout, Peter, 368 Hubbs, Oscar A., 270 Huber, Charles H., 443 Hughes, Robert, 129 Humbert, Albert W., 658 Humbert, Levi H., 639 Hunter, Ainos, 602 Hunter, Joseph M., 470 Hunter, Robert, 306 Huston, Charles H., 322
Iler, John, 511
Jesson, William, 502
Kallmerten, Arnold, 392 Kaylor, Henry H., 653 Keating, Charles H., 360 Kingsboro, Hiram E., 491 Knox, John, 291 Kohler, Perry B., 462 Kooken, Henry C., 176 Kuebler, Louis S., 243 Kuhn Family, The, 508 Kyner, Philip, 623
Lafferty, Uriah, 182
Lanehart, Peter, 630 Lautermilch, John H., 680 Leiter, David S., 685 Leiter, George W., 477 Leiter, Samuel B., 478 Lemley, John, 402 Leppo, James W., 342 Leppo, William, 415 Lewis, John D., 242 Lindsey, Arthur N., 147 Livingston, James, 456 Loiselle, L. N., 194 Long, Benjamin F., 149 Loose, Nathaniel H., 484 Lybarger, Andrew, 605 Lyon, Ed. D., 675
Manner, Harry T., 311 Mansfield, Edwin, 437 Mansfield Schools, 566 Maring, Jesse, 210 Marriott, Samuel, 460 Marvin, Daniel S., 389
Marvin, Hiram, 451 Marvin, T. S., 625
May, John M., 632 May, Manuel, 648
McBride, Alexander, 123
McBride, Calvin, 300
McBride, Curtis E., 200
McBride, Washington, 313
McConkie, John W., 258
McConkie, William, 606 McCormic, David, 274 McCray, T. Y., 216 McCully, Samuel S., 671
McCurdy, Joseph, 679 McDermut, Wesley R., 559
Mclaughlin, William, 120 Memorial Library Association, 453 Mengert, Lewis C., 656 Metcalfe, H. H., 312 Metz, Henry P., 422 Miller, David P., 683
Milligan, Albert, 555 Mitchell, George, 186 Moore, Charles S., 503 Morrow, Alexander, 127
Moser, Henry S., 527 Mowry, George H., 587 Myers, John D., 367
Needham, Jerry, 423
Nelson, David, 293 Nelson, Elmore D., 643 Nichols, John H., 396 Noble, John, 379 Noble, John A., 580 Norris, Amos D., 611
Oberlin, Benjamin F., 192 Ohio State Reformatory, 110 Ohler, John C., 678 Ott, Fritz A., 370 Ozier, David, 208 Ozier, Nelson, 272
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Palmer, Joseph W., 659 Parker, Silas C., 408 Parsons, Le Roy, 358 Patterson, James N., 240 Pearce, James M., 482 Peterson, Aaron E., 642 Peterson, William, 649 Pittenger, Henry O., 337 Plank, Elam A., 544 Poland, Simon, 395 Porch, J. W., 321
Post, J. Harvey, 346 Post, James M., 183
Post, Martin Van Buren, 172
Potter, Ezra J., 458 Price, James A., 381 Pugh, Samuel, 330 Pulver, Alfred B., 584
Quinn, Mary, 494
Rabold, James F., 199 Ramsey, Andrew, 691 Ramsey, Thomas B., 160
Reed, George W., 217 Remy, John, 595
Reynolds, James, 244 Ricketts, George W., 173 Roasberry, William H., 352
Robinson, Calvin, 418 Robison, Thomas R., 506
Ropp, William E., 398 Rose, Hiram S., 236 Rummel, James H., 229 Rummel, Silas, 190 ·
Samsel, David D., 631 Schauck, Aaron, 351 Scott, William, 627 Sefton, W. E., 248 Sewell, W. L., 134
Shafer, Samuel, 442 Sharp, Joseph W., 427 Shatzer, Jeremiah W., 582 Shaw, William A., 220 Sheets, Elza, 652 Sheets, Henry E., 484
Sheets, Samuel, 541 Shepard, N. Marvin, 673 Sherman, John, 564 Portrait, 56 Shocker, Thomas J., 364 Simpson, John, 446 Simpson, Joseph, 579 Skiles, George M., 434 Skiles, John C., 397 Skiles, William W., 152 Sloane, Jonathan W., 299 Smart, Harlen F., 676 Smith, Aaron, 473 Smith, Daniel, 597 Smith, Hiram R., 600 Smith, Joseph E., 347 Smith, Peter, 668 Snavely, Joseph, 372 Snyder, Lewis L., 573 Spayde, Daniel, 158
Stake, George W., 444 Stambaugh, David N., 219 Starr, Mitchell, 499 Statler, George W., 403 Stevenson, Andrew, 534 Stober, John P., 401 Stratford, Earl F., 213 Strimple, William, 249 Sutter, Sarah A., 114 Switzer, Edward B., 591
Taylor, Joseph, 670
Taylor, Noble, 450 Thompson, Isaac N., 560
Thompson, James V., 168
Thomson, John C., 455
Todd, John H., 421 Torrence, Jonathan C., 466
Tracy, Frederick E., 328 Tracy, Lathrop J., 488
Tracy, Rufus A., 490
Trauger Family, The, 251
Tucker, D. F., 690
Tucker, John A., 590
Tucker, Norman W., 279
Uhlich, George, 577 Uhlich, Jonathan, 303
Vanscoy, George W., 283
Voegele, William F., 130
Voegele, William F., Jr., 127
Wagner, John W., 568
Walters, Ed B., 481
Walters, George W., 390
Walters, Hiram, 593
Weaver, William H., 316
Weaver, Wilson Shannon, 309
Webber, Frank D., 292 Weiser, Adam H., 230
Welty, Christian, 156
Wentz, Henry, 232
Wentz, Peter, 620 Wharton, Benjamin F., 336
Wharton, John, 133
White, Henry N., 377
White, John F., 596
Wiles, Herman L., 140
Williams, Benjamin J., 355 Williams, James W., 348 Wilson, Daniel W., 682
Wilson, John W., 467
Wilson, Samuel. 562 Winters, Ross C., 516 Wirth, John L., 375 Wise, Christian, 624 Wise, Frederick H., 501 Wise, John, 495 Witt, August F., 331
Wolfe, John R., 238
Wolff, Barnard, 126 Wolford, David, 277
Zehner, James, 636 Zehner, Joseph B., 476 Zook, Mary M., 246
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES
Concerning that Portion of Ohio Embraced within the Present Limits of
RICHLAND AND ASHLAND COUNTIES
THE PIONEERS.
"The pioneer was a rugged seer As he crossed the western river Where the red man called the Indian Lay hid with his bow and quiver."
MERICA is the only country of the earth that has pro- duced pioneers. European countries were peopled by men moving in large bodies from one place to another. Whole tribes would move en masse and overrun, absorb or extinguish the original inhabitants of a country, dis- possess them and occupy their territory. But in Amer- ica we had the gradual approach of civilization and the. gradual recession of barbarism. The white man did not come in columns and platoons, but came singly as pioneers.
When civilization crossed the crest of the Alleghanies, Ohio was looked upon as the garden of the west, and soon various settlements were made in the territory now known as the state of Ohio. Casuists claim that the deer was made for the thicket, the thicket was made for the deer, and that both were made for the hunter; and in further correlations state that the soil was not only intended for those who would cultivate it, but that, if the valley produces corn and the hillside grapes, people suited to the cultivation of such products take possession of these localities on the theory of the eternal fitness of things.
The first white man "to set his foot" on the land now embraced in Rich- land county, Ohio, was James Smith, a young man who was captured by the Indians near Bedford, Pennsylvania, a short time before the defeat of General
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Braddock. He was adopted by the Indians into one of their tribes and finally accompanied his adopted brother, Tontileango, to the shore of Lake Erie, passing through a part of what is now Richland county.
Next came Major Rogers, who, with his rangers, passed through here in November, 1760, en route to Detroit.
The next white people to see this county were Moravian missionaries, who, with their converts, passed this way when they were being removed from the Muskingum country to that of the Sandusky.
In June, 1782, Colonel Crawford with his army made a halt "by a fine spring near where the city of Mansfield now stands," while on their ill fated expedition to the Sandusky country.
Following Crawford's campaign, the next white man in this part of the state was Thomas Green, a renegade, who was the founder of Greentown, in 1782.
The successful campaign of "Mad Anthony" Wayne in 1794 and the peace treaty of Greenville in 1795 secured comparative safety on the frontiers, and immigration began. The surveys of the public lands, which had been practically stopped, were resumed and extended to the northwest. Surveyors tried to keep in advance of the settlers, and land offices were established for the sale of land in several places. There was not a settler here when the survey of Richland was begun by General Hedges in 1806.
On the 16th of January, 1808, a bill passed the Ohio legislature creating the counties of Knox, Licking and Richland, with a provision placing Rich- land under the jurisdiction of Knox county, as it had been before under Fair- field, "until the legislature may think proper to organize the same;" and on June 9, 1809, the commissioners of Knox county declared "the entire county of Richland a separate township, which shall be called and known by the name of Madison."
At an election in 1809 but seventeen votes were cast in the entire town- ship (county), showing that but few settlers were here at that time. Rich- land remained under the jurisdiction of Knox until 1813.
Thomas Green lived at the Indian town of Greentown several years, but he was not a settler. Other renegade white men may also have lived there temporarily. But the first bona-fide settler in Richland county was Jacob Newman, who came here in the spring of 1807. General James Hedges, a Virginian by birth, was here prior to that date, but he was in the employ of the government as a surveyor and did not become a resident until some years afterward.
Jacob Newman was originally from Pennsylvania, but had been living
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at Canton prior to coming to Richland. He was a kinsman of General Hedges and came here evidently with the view of locating and laying out the county-seat for the new county.
The site first selected was about two and a half miles southeast of Mans- field, at what is known in history as Beam's Mills, where Newman had pre- empted three quarter-sections of land. The site of the first cabin is south- west of the mill, east of the Rocky Fork, and about three hundred feet west of the Mansfield-Lucas road. A few rods west of where the cabin stood is the spring frequently referred to in the history of the county, whose waters came forth from beneath a beech tree, at the foot of the little bluff. The spring is now filled up, a little marsh having formed below. The land belongs to the mill property now owned by Mr. Amsbaugh.
The first cabin was made of round logs, was "chinked and daubed," and had a fire-place that occupied nearly all of one end, with a chimney out- side made of sticks and mortar. There was but one room, with a "loft" above. Greased paper was used in the window instead of glass and the door was made of puncheons. After two years a new cabin was built, larger than the old one and about eight feet from it, the space between being roofed like a porch. While the first cabin had only an earth floor, a sawmill had been put up in the meantime and the new building had a floor of sawed boards. Then, too, it was a hewed-log house, with glass in the windows and an iron crane took the place of the old lug-pole, all of which was considered quite aristocratic in those days.
Michael Newman, a brother of Jacob Newman, came with his family and was the first addition to the new settlement. A Mr. Fountain came next, and the third was Captain James Cunningham.
Captain Cunningham, who was an Irishman by descent and a Mary- lander by birth, came to Richland from Licking county, but lived only at the Newman settlement a comparatively short time until he moved into the first cabin built in Mansfield (commonly called the Martin cabin) to board General Mansfield and party while the survey of the prospective county-seat was being made. After "keeping tavern" here for some time he moved to the Black Fork, near Greentown. After the close of the war he removed to the Clear Fork valley, near St. John's, where he taught school several years, and then bought a farm, part of section 8, in Worthington township, where he lived the remainder of his life. He died in 1870, aged nearly ninety years.
Captain Cunningham commanded a company in Colonel Kratzer's regi- ment in the war of 1812, and the command was encamped on Alum creek in Delaware county when the news of Hull's surrender was received, which
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threw the army into a frenzy of excitement. Colonel Kratzer wanted to communicate with Colonel Root, who was farther west, and to reach him the messenger would have to ford the river, then swollen beyond its banks, with drift floating upon its swift current. The colonel considered the mis- sion too perilous to make a detail and asked for a volunteer to carry the dispatch. Captain Cunningham responded, and taking the message plunged his horse into the raging torrent, which the noble steed swam bravely through and landed the gallant captain safely upon the opposite bank; and the cheers he then heard from his comrades-in-arms must have been gratifying to his military pride. After a ride of nine miles through the wilderness, the captain delivered the dispatch to Colonel Root and then returned to his own command. For his gallant service upon this occasion, Captain Cunningham was com- mended in general orders. The late Dr. Bushnell informed the writer that at county musters the head of the battalion was given to Captain Cunning- ham on account of his fine military bearing and the excellent discipline of his troops.
Prior to the war, Captain Cunningham was the constable of "Madison township," when Richland was yet under the jurisdiction of Knox, which was equivalent to being the first sheriff of Richland county. Captain Cun- ningham took in situations intuitively and was prompt and intrepid in action. He was the son of an Irishman who served in the Revolutionary war and helped to consecrate the battle-field of Brandywine with his blood.
While our German citizens are no less brave and might more tenaciously hold a fort or endure a siege, the Irish have that dash and daring which wins applause, and their bravery is equaled only by their chivalry. Moore, the great Irish poet, paid a deserved tribute to the honor of Erin's sons in his ballad, which is as immortal as it is beautiful :
"Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore; But Oh! her beauty was far beyond Her sparkling gems or snow-white wand.
" 'Lady, dost thou not fear to stray, So lone and lovely through this bleak way? Are Erin's sons so good or so cold As not to be tempted by women or gold?'
" 'Sir Knight, I feel not the least alarm, No son of Erin will offer me harm ; For though they love woman and golden store, Sir Knight, they love honor and virtue more!'
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"On she went, and her maiden smile, In safety lighted her 'round the isle; And blest forever is she who relied Upon Erin's honor and Erin's pride."
The first settlement on the Black Fork was made by Abraham Baugh- man near Greentown, but the date is not definitely known. Dr. Hill, in his history of Ashland county, says it was possibly as early as 1807. In a paper written by the late Hon. John Coulter in 1858 and published some years since in the Loudonville Advocate, Mr. Coulter said: "I came to Green township in 1810, in company with my father, Thomas Coulter, and Jonathan Palmer, Joseph Gladden, Otho Simmons, Melzar Tannahill and George Crawford. We landed at Abraham Baughman's about the 25th of August. He had settled there the year before and was the only white man on the Black Fork 'from one end to the other.' We were all from Pennsylvania. Mr. Baugh- man and myself felled the first tree on my quarter-section, for bees, in August, 1810." Therefore, according to this statement, Abraham Baughman was the only white man living on the Black Fork "from one end to the other" when the Coulter party arrived in 1810. The settlement was in Green township, Ashland county, then a part of Richland.
Abraham Baughman married Mary Katherine Deeds, and removed from Cumberland to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and then to Richland county, this state. His brother, George, also came to Ohio and located at what is now Gahanna, in Franklin county. Abraham Baughman and wife were the parents of eight children,-five sons and three daughters. When they came to the Black Fork their two younger children-Jacob and George- were single and lived with their parents.
Jacob Baughman was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1792. While the family resided in western Pennsylvania Jacob, then in his early 'teens, had worked with an apple-mill maker. After the Baughman family had lived two or three years on the Black Fork and had their farm well cleared and improved, Jacob received an offer to return to Pennsylvania and · finish his trade. Their postoffice was then at Wooster, fifteen miles east of which Jacob's brother John had settled and for whom a township was named.
Money was then very scarce, and while they could grow what was needed for their sustenance, prices were so low that but little cash could be realized on the sale of farm products, and in fact there was but little, if any, market for them. A family council was held and it was decided that Jacob should "buy his time,"-the two years he lacked of his majority,-accept the offer
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and remit quarterly installments to his father, which would furnish him money with which to pay taxes, and so forth.
With his clothing tied up in a bandana handkerchief, Jacob set off alone on foot on his long journey. His pathetic parting with his mother he often feelingly described. The war coming on, he returned to Ohio before his two years were completed. I give this narrative to show that Abraham Baughman must have located on the Black Fork at least as early as 1809. Mrs. Baughman died in August, 1820, and her husband the January follow- ing. On their gravestone in the Perrysville cemetery is the inscription, "Pioneers of 1810," as the exact date or year is not known.
Mr. Coulter, in the paper referred to, also speaks of the cordial reception they received "at the hospitable home of Mr. Baughman." Hospitality was a prominent characteristic of the pioneers. The latch-string was always out in a literal as well as in a figurative sense. To fasten a door would have been considered an insult to society-a reflection on the honesty of the neighbors.
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