Biographical and historical memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio. Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the county and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy families and individuals, Part 100

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scent, and probably came to this country at an ness, being classed as a practical and successful early date. John Jr. was one of three children: nurseryman. He has been secretary of the Mus- John Jr., Sarah (who married a Mr. Moore) and kingum County Horticultural society for a number James. He grew to maturity and married in his of years, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, native state, when he emigrated to Ohio, entered a Lafayette lodge No. 79, and has been secretary of farm here and became very well-to-do. His wife the same for five years. He is also a member of was the daughter of William Ferguson, and died the Hazlet post No. 81, G. A. R. and past officer. in this county in 1864, he having died in 1820, at He was junior and senior vice-commander of the the age of fifty years. Mrs. Moore was the third post and served one term in each. Mr. Moore was of eight children : William, John (deceased), Nancy, married on June 8, 1871, to Miss Clara McCarty, Thomas, Margaret, Mary, James and Sarah. Mr. a native of Zanesville, by whom he has two children: and Mrs. Moore were married in 1834, and lived Lida E. and Daniel D. The family belong to the . on a farm in Guernsey county for thirty-six years. church. Mrs. Moore attends the United Presbyterian church,

William H. Moore, a prominent business man of which she has been a member for the past forty of Norwich, Ohio, and an esteemed resident of the or fifty years. She is a cultured and refined lady, same, was born September 19, 1851. He is a son

and an active worker for the church.

S. R. Moore is a native of Champaign county grandson of John and Hannah (Paxton) Moore. Ohio, born January 8, 1840, and the son of David The grandfather was twice married, first to Sarah W. and Hannah (Heckman) Moore, natives of the Minteer, who died in Virginia aud who bore him Keystone state. The Moore and Heckman families one child, William Moore (deceased), and then to were of Scotch and German origin respectively and our subject's grandmother, the latter union result- were early emigrants to America. The paternal ing in the birth of these children: Mary Ann, grandfather, Elijah Moore, was a native of Penn- Paxton, Sarah, Elizabeth, John, Cynthia and Robert sylvania also, and one of the defenders of Balti- M. In 1816 Mr. and Mrs. Moore emigrated to Mus- more. He was a successful farmer and followed kingum county and settled in Union township, near that occupation in his native state until his death. Norwich, on a farm now owned by Vincent Flegal. His marriage resulted in the birth of a large family There they passed the closing scenes of their lives. of children of whom there were seven sons, David John Moore was a prominent man in the whig W. (father of subject) being the eldest. The lat- party and took a deep interest in all political mat- ter attained his growth in Pennsylvania, assisted ters. He and family were members of the United on the farm and came to Ohio in the spring of Presbyterian church. His son, Robert M. Moore, 1839, locating in Champaign county. He made was born in Augusta county, Va., April 2, the journey in a one-horse wagon and brought his 1808, and when but eight years of age, came with wife and her mother. There he resided until his his parents to Muskingum county. His early life death which occurred in the summer of 1851. He was spent on the farm opened up in Union town- was the father of five children-four sons and a ship, by his father, and he attended the district daughter, three sons and a daughter yet surviving: schools of the neighborhood. After reaching ma- Samuel R., E. Hunter, James H., William J. (de- ture years he began farming for himself (for he and ceased) and Mrs. John Duncan. S. R. Moore was his brother had conducted his father's farm, the reared and educated in the common schools of his latter following his trade, that of stone mason), native county and early became familiar with the and subsequently bought the estate from the other routine of farm life. On April 18, 1861, he enlisted heirs. On February 11, 1835, he married Miss Anna in Company K, Thirteenth regiment, Ohio Volun- Cherry, a native of Cherry Valley, Mount Pleas- teer infantry and served four months. On August ant township, Washington county, Penn., and the 8, 1862 he re-enlisted in Company G, Ninety-fifth daughter of Moses and Jane (Atchinson) Cherry, regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served faith- the former a native of Virginia and the latter of fully for three years. He was in the battle of Phildelphia, Penn. Mrs. Cherry was the daughter Richmond, Ky., and was captured August 30, 1862, of Matthew and Jane (Reed) Atchinson. To Mr. but was paroled shortly afterward; at the siege and Mrs. Moore were born seven children: John, of Vicksburg, Jackson, Spanish Fort, battle of residing in Bloomfield, Muskingum county, is a Nashville and a number of smart skirmishes. He traveling salesman; Moses (deceased); Mary Jane returned to his old home at the close of the war, (deceased); Adaline (died when about thirty years but in October, 1865, came to Zanesville, where he of age); Martha J., at home; Anna E., at home and commenced gardening and growing small fruit, William H. Robert M. Moore is now a resident subsequently branching out into a large nursery. of Norwich and has retired from the active duties He deals principally in fruit and shade trees, and of life, having reached his eighty-fourth year. He has had the experience of many years in this busi- has ever been prominently identified with the prog-

of Robert M. and Anna (Cherry) Moore, and the

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ress and development of the county, and is one succeeded in clearing of heavy timber after many of its honest, whole-souled citizens. In politics years of hard labor. Here he resided until his he has advocated the principles of the republican death in February, 1883, at the age of seventy- party for many years, although formerly a whig, three years, at which time he was an earnest mem- and he takes much interest still in the political is- ber of the Baptist church. He was very hard- sues of the day. He has been engaged in a num- working, industrious and conscientious, and all who ber of business enterprises, but has made farming knew him spoke a good word in his praise. Will- his life's occupation. A worthy member of the iam Morgan, his son, whose name heads this sketch, United Presbyterian church, he gives liberally of was born August 28, 1828, and in early life re- his means to further all laudable enterprises, and ceived a common-school education. His early life is particularly interested in church affairs. Mrs. was spent in attending the common schools near Moore is also an active member of the United his home and in assisting his father on the home Presbyterian church. Of the seven children born place, and after reaching manhood he married to this worthy couple only four are now living. Miss Ann Lloyd, a daughter of Eli Lloyd an old Their son, William H. Moore, remained on the resident of Wheeling, W. Va., who settled near home farm until thirteen years of age; he then Dresden in an early day. He was the father of moved to the village of Norwich, there attending these children: Joseph, John, Margaret, William, school until he was twenty years of age, when he Benson, Eli, Ann and Jesse. went. on the railroad and continued on the same Mr. Morgan remained on the home place for five

After his marriage for about fifteen years. He started as brakeman years and then moved to near Dresden, where he and reached the position of conductor on the B. & purchased eighty acres of land and remained O. and on the P. & L. E. He left the road about eleven years. In 1868 he came to his present 1886 and settled in Norwich, since which time he farm, which is an admirably kept and valuable one. has been salesman in the store of Caldwell & Wil- He is well known for industry and integrity and son of that town. Socially he is a member of the stands high as a citizen. He is a Baptist in his K. of P. lodge and a member of the B. of L. F. religious views but his wife is a member of the Like his father, Mr. Moore is a stanch republican Christian church. He has always been interested and takes an active interest in politics. He is in the public schools of his section and in the wel- treasurer of the Eastern Muskingum Fair associa- fare of his county, and for seven years ably filled tion, and is clerk of the Norwich Union School the position of county supervisor. Mr. and Mrs. board. At present he is clerk of the city council, Morgan are the parents of three children: Thomas and clerk of Union township. He is a public (who is married to Clara Kidd of this county), spirited young man and is interested in all move- Wilson (who married Lizzie Paxton and is now farming in Illinois), and Rezin L. Morgan is still ments of a worthy nature.

William Morgan, of Frazeysburg, Ohio, is home on the place with his father.

Col. H. D. Munson was born in Litchfield

one of the pioneer settlers of Muskingum county. His grandfather, Morgan Morgan, was born in county, Conn., January 8, 1816, a son of Horace Maryland and was married to Amanda Cailer, by and Harriet (Gilbert) Munson, also natives of the whom he became the father of six children: Nutmeg state, and of English descent. The grand- Thomas, James, Levi, Richard, Amanda and Sallie. parents on both sides, Medad Munson and Asa Mr. Morgan came with his family to Ohio and set- Gilbert, were Revolutionary soldiers, and by occu- tled near Shannon, spending the remainder of his pation were farmers. They died in Connecticut days on a farm, although he was a weaver by trade. when quite advanced in years. The father of the He lived to be an old man, and for many years was subject of this sketch was also a farmer by occupa- an earnest member of the Baptist church. Thomas tion, and lived and died in Connecticut. He was J. Morgan, his son, was born in Maryland in 1801, the father of one son and three daughters, only two received the advantages of the common schools, of which family are now living-Col. H. D., and and when a boy came with his parents to Ohio, Mrs. Nancy Mariams, a resident of New Haven where he was brought up to farm life. Upon county, Conn. Col. H. D. Munson was reared in reaching manhood he was married to Miss Kezialı Litchfield county, Conn., and was educated princi- Wilson, daughter of Samuel Wilson, an old settler pally in that county. In 1836 he came West and of Muskingum county, who came from England located at Alton. At an early age he manifested a and lived near Shannon. To Thomas J. Morgan decided taste for music, and while at Alton he was and his wife the following children were born: a teacher of music, and also taught in Monticello William, Isaac, Sarah, Harriet and Lavina. Af- Female seminary. He remained in that vicinity ter his marriage Mr. Morgan settled in the woods for several years, and in Jacksonville and Spring- near Frazeysburg where he bought and entered field, Ill., and in 1846 came to Zanesville, Ohio, as about 160 acres of land in 1828, which land he a teacher in the Putnam Female seminary, where

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he remained for four years. Succeeding this he the Baptist church, in which he is a deacon, and taught music in the neighboring cities for one sea- he is in every respect a worthy citizen and an up- son, and in 1851 opened a music store on a small right man. scale, which he conducted in connection with his

Washington Neff. Among the countless indus- teaching, and business increased so rapidly that in tries and enterprises of the United States there is a short time he was enabled to largely increase his none more important than the milling business, stock, and conducted it successfully until the open- the occupation to which Mr. Neff gives his atten- ing of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Com- tion with such desirable results. He was born in pany A, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, Muskingum county, Ohio, October 1, 1845, near which company he assisted in raising. He left Duncan's Falls, to Samuel B. and Eunice (Reese) home on February 11, 1862, as captain of his com- Neff, the father a native of Virginia, and a Ger- pany, and served in this capacity until his resigna- man by descent, and the mother a native of Put- tion, February 22, 1863, on account of sickness. man, Ohio. Samuel B. Neff followed the occupa- He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson tion of farming throughout life, and is now a resi- and Shiloh, and after convalescing was made dent of Salt Creek township. Of four children lieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred and Fifty- born to himself and wife, Washington was next to ninth regiment, and served on detached service in the oldest, and during his attendance in the com- Baltimore, Md. By virtue of rank he was made mon schools he made the most of his opportunities president of military commission, and remained at and was better fitted than the ordinary to take Baltimore until the expiration of the 100 days' upon himself the duties of life. At the age of service, and was mustered out at Zanesville in twenty-five years he left his home to engage in the 1864. During his absence his business was con- milling business, and this occupation has received his attention ever since. In 1889 he began work- ing in the milling business at Chandlerville, and

ducted by a man with whom he had made arrange- ments before leaving for the front, and after being mustered out he again took charge of his store and owing to the superior article which he manufact- gradually increased his business to its present ad- ures his connection has become wide and is con- mirable proportions. He carries the largest stock tinually increasing. In addition to this business of musical instruments in the city, and the firm is he also operates a sawmill, which is proving a now known as H. D. Munson & Sons, his sons- profitable source of revenue. In 1878 he was Charles E. and H. D. Jr., being admitted as mem- married to Miss Maria Miller, daughter of John. bers of the firm in 1875. They are now doing an Miller, a native of Ohio, and from this union immense business, and give constant employment sprang four children, three of whom are living: to several men. Too much can not be said in Mr. Carrie M., Elvin Roland and Henry Millard. Munson's praise, for he came to the city a perfect Mabel Swift died in early childhood. Mr. and stranger and without capital, save an abundant Mrs. Neff worship in the Baptist church, and in amount of pluck and perseverance, and although politics Mr. Neff is a republican. He is a man the people ridiculed the idea of his making money whose career has been a most honorable and useful - out of such an enterprise, he knew no such word one, and in the esteem of all he holds a prominent as fail, and time has proven the wisdom of his place. judgment. He had no credit, and was forced to

Dr. O. M. Norman, a prominent practicing begin on a very small capital, but by judicious man- physician of Roseville, Muskingum county, Ohio, agement has now one of the finest establishments was born in Rappahannock county, Va., a short in his line in the state. He has been a member of distance from the battlefield of Bull Run, in 1831. the board of education for six years, and has been He was the eldest child of Joseph and Mary A. for four years a member of the city council. He (Hackley) Norman. The father was a native of is president of the Muskingum County Historical the same county where he was raised, and followed society, and is a trustee of the same. He is a mem- farming until 1836, when he settled on a farm in ber of the Masonic fraternity and the G. A. R., Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio. The Hazlett post No. 81, in both of which he has been Norman family was very prominent in Virginia, an active member. He was married in 1836 to and were of English and German descent. Joseph Miss Mary Griggs, a native of Brimfield, Mass., by married a few years before he came to Ohio. He whom he became the father of eight children, seven followed farming in Newton township for some of whom are living: Julia, Col. Gilbert D., Will- time, sold out and moved to Perry township, where iam O. (who was in the Third Ohio regiment during his wife died. He married again and moved to « the war), Arthur F. (also in the army, in the Sev- Park county, Indiana, in 1850, and here his death enty-eighth Ohio), George (deceased), H. D. Jr., occurred in 1860. By his second wife he had four Charles E. and Mary (wife of N. H. Moore, of this children. He had been a lifelong member of the city). Col. Munson and his wife are members of Baptist church. His wife, Mary A. Hackley, was

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the daughter of Joseph Hackley, a prominent he had married Charity Conley, of Maryland, who planter of Rappahannock county, Va., and a large bore him eight children: James D., John, Thomas, slave owner. He owned at one time seventy-five Elias, Mary A., Benjamin Z., Isaac and Charity, slaves and was a very wealthy man. The family all of whom are natives of Ohio, Mr. Norris hav- are of English descent, and direct descendants of ing come to the wilderness here directly after his Lord Baltimore, the first governor of Virginia, marriage. He first settled two miles north of whose name was Calvert, and Joseph Hackley's Zanesville, on Joe's run, and after some years grandmother was a Calvert. Mary A., the mother removed to the Gen. Van Horn farm below the of the Doctor, was a native of Rappahannock Putnam hill. There his youngest daughter died, county, Va., born in 1811 or 1812, her death occur- and not long afterward his wife died also. She ring in Perry county, this state, in 1845. She was a Christian woman of the most noble charac- was the mother of six children: Dr. Oswald M., ter, and was a strict member of the Presbyterian Joseph a farmer of Indiana, Oscar H. in the furni- church. Mr. Norris lived to the advanced age of ture business in Augusta, Ga., Amanda, now Mrs. eighty-three years, and died a member of the Achre, living at Fultonham, Perry county, Rufus Methodist Episcopal church. In his early days he (deceased), and one died when young. The Doc- was a school teacher, and in that capacity he be- tor was but five years of age when his parents came one of the pioneer educators of Muskingum moved to this county. He attended the district county. For his time he was liberally educated, school and later the Columbia college, and gradu- and possessed an exceedingly wide range of gen- ated from Cincinnati Medical college in 1858. He eral and practical information. In his political commenced his practice at Fultonham and about opinions he was democratic, and at that compara- fifteen years ago located at Roseville, and since tively early day, when to be constable meant more that time has been the most prominent medical than it does at this time, he filled the office of con- man in this part of the county. He has always stable for his township, in the performance of the been a democrat in politics, and was a candidate duties of which he was brought in almost daily for representative of the county. He takes a great contact with the leading men of the county. A interest in public matters, and was mayor of Rose- good and upright citizen, of great liberality and ville, and has held several other offices. He is a generosity, he always espoused the cause of right, member of the County Medical association, and as he understood it, and lent a helping hand to his also of the State Medical society. Socially, he is neighbor in trouble, and he was one of that historic a member of the Masonic order and Odd Fellows, few who as pioneers cleared away the wilderness and has been for at least thirty years.

In 1851 and battled against the dangers of life on the fron- the Doctor married Jare M. Wilson, of Fultonham, tier, and, enduring all of its privations and dis- a daughter of John and Harriet Wilson. They comforts, brought about the development of the had two children: Dewitt C. who is the proprietor present day by paving the way for those who should of a drug store in Roseville, and Anna, the widow come after them. Benjamin Z. Norris was reared of James Taylor. She is living at home. The in his father's forest home, and well remembers Doctor lost his wife in 1890, and he married again, the Indians who came and went in that neighbor- Anna L. Baughman, a native of this county, and hood during his early life. The cabin in which the daughter of Samuel and Ruth Baughman. the family lived was built of rough logs, with a The father is a prominent farmer of the county. puncheon floor, split clapboards constituting its Dr. Norman is a member of the Methodist Episco- door, and a stick chimney, daubed with clay, serv- pal church, and his wife of the Lutheran church. ing as the means of escape for the smoke from its The Doctor takes a great interest in educational primitive fireplace. In this humble dwelling most matters, and is president of the school board of of his brothers and sisters were born, and here in Roseville. He has accumulated a good property, a dense and almost limitless forest he passed his and is one of the public-spirited men of the county. boyhood days. He attended school in a small log

Benjamin Zane Norris, of Frazeysburg, Jack- building, and, at the wish of his mother, attached son township, Muskingum county, Ohio, is one of himself to a Sunday school, whose sessions were the oldest settlers and most reliable citizens in this held in Squire Boyd's barn. Later he attended a part of the county. He was born about two miles country school for about a year altogether, and north of Zanesville, Ohio, in this county, April 17, thus his educational advantages may be summed 1817, at a point then called Joe's run, but now up. He grew to manhood amid all of the rough known as Bailey's mill. His father, Isaac Norris, experiences of a life on the frontier, but these were was a well known representative of an old Amer- useful in forming a rugged, upright character. ican family of English descent. He emigrated In 1840, when he was twenty-four years of age, he with his household from Maryland, and was a pio- married Miss Martha J. Wimmer, a daughter of neer farmer in this county. Before this, however, John and Lydia (Mendenhall) Wimmer, and they

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are the parents of four children: Anna J., Lucy C., and married Lydia Mendenhall, of Charlestown, George W. and William J., all of them now liv- W. Va., who was of English descent. They be- ing. After his marriage Mr. Norris settled on his came the parents of eight children: Richard C., brother John's farm, about one mile from his pres- Samuel, Thomas G., Lydia, Esther, Martha, Jane ent residence in Jackson township, but remained and Hannah. Mr. Wimmer came to Muskingum there only a few weeks, when he moved into a county in 1825, and settled on Wakatomaka creek, small house on his present farm, which was then at the point known as Mendenhall's Mill, and after the property of his wife's father. About five six years removed to the farm now occupied by years afterward, Mr. and Mrs. Wimmer having Mr. Norris, upon which, in 1841, fifty years ago, died, Mr. and Mrs. Norris removed to their old he built the old house in which Mr. and Mrs. Nor- home on the same farm, where they have since ris now live. He was a member of the Methodist lived. In his religious views Mr. Norris is a Episcopal church, in which he was both class-leader Methodist, of which church his wife is a devout and steward, and it may well be said of him that member. In politics he is a democrat, and his in- he was a man of industry, and a man of noble char- fluence in local affairs has been by no means slight. acter, whose word was literally as good as his bond. Among the few official positions which he has been Samuel Mendenhall, the grandfather of Mrs. Nor- prevailed upon to accept may be mentioned that of ris, came from Virginia, and bought 1,300 acres of township trustee and that of a member of the board land in this county. He built Mendenhall's mill, of supervisors of Muskingum county. He has and at his death left 160 acres of land to each of taken an active interest in the cause of education, his children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Norris are de- and has done as much as any other one man in his scended from good stock, and their offspring may part of the county to build up and maintain well be honestly proud of the sterling ancestry schools. For eighteen years he has served as from which they sprang. Their daughter, Lucy school director, and officially and otherwise he has C. Norris, married Isaac Franks, of Columbus, done everything in his power toward the better- Ohio, and they have five children: Annie M., Ed- ment of the educational facilities of his township. ward C., Clara B., Myrtie A. and Clark F. Han- All his life long he has been industrious in the ex- nah J. Norris married Clark Bell, a merchant of treme, and he has always been known as a hard- Frazeysburg; John W. Norris married Louisa J. working, persevering man. His life has been hon- Bennett, and has four children: Adelbert B., Zane orable and full of self sacrifice, and has resulted C., Laura T. and Mattie B. William J. Norris in the good of the community in which he has so married Matilda Moore, and has one child, a son, long lived. For a large portion of such success as Benjamin F. Norris.

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Biographical and historical memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio. Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the county and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy families and individuals, Part 100

Author: Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 642

Author:
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642