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tled on a farm south of Gratiot, this county. He sized boy when he came with his parents to Mus- died in Illinois, in 1869, at the age of seventy- kingum county. He was a farmer by occupation three. He was a comfortable farmer, and a mem- and married Miss Mary Lash, daughter of Peter ber of the Baptist church. Mr. Prior was trustee Lash, who was a native of Germany. To them were in that church for many years, and was also town- born the following children: Sarah, Jane, Cath- ship trustee for one year. He has passed a quiet, erine (wife of subject), Elizabeth, Hilda, Eliza G., uneventful life, and has ever attended strictly to Ruth, John W., Thomas, Martha and Alice. his own business. He is now seventy-one years of Thomas M. Haselop resided for some time in this age, and is an excellent example of the successful county and then moved to Indiana whither his father had gone. Both he and Mrs. Haselop were and enterprising farmer.
James F. Pryor, Frazeysburg, Ohio, is a members of the Missionary Baptist church and he native of the Buckeye state, born in Muskingum was a deacon in the same. He was one of the county, December 6, 1816, and is one of the county's best citizens and was universally respect- county's most respected and esteemed citizens. He ed. James F. Pryor's grandfather, Timothy Pryor, received but a limited education in the pioneer was originally from Pennsylvania, but came to schools, but by his own efforts gained some knowl- Ohio and settled on the Muskingum river, near edge of the arithmetic while teaming and hauling Simms' creek, in what is now Muskingum town- saw logs. On March 16, 1843, he wedded Miss ship, about 1798-99. [See sketch of Alexander Mary E. Dove, daughter of Isaac and Nancy Dove, Prior.] He was married and brought his family the father being a native of Maryland and a pio- with him. The children now remembered by our neer settler of Jackson township. The latter was subject are: Joseph, John, George, Frederick, in comfortable circumstances, was a man of good Barbara, Mary and Catherine. When Mr. Pryor character, and lived to be quite aged. His chil- settled in this township it was a wilderness and dren were named as follows: Caroline, William, swarmed with wild animals and Indians. He had Richard, Isaiah, Benjamin, Isaac, Anna and little trouble to provide food for his family, game Martha. To Mr. and Mrs. James F. Pryor were being so abundant, and by hard work and industry born the following children: Frederick, Isaac, he soon had a comfortable little home in the forest. John, Mary, Tobitha, Sarah, Samuel and Archi- He died before any of his children were married, bald. Mrs. Pryor died March 8, 1863, and Mr. and his widow married again. She was of Ger- Pryor afterward married Miss Catherine Haselop, man descent. Frederick Pryor, son of Timothy, February 25, 1864, and the fruits of this union and father of our subject, was also born in the were these children: Andrew J., George W., Alice Keystone state and was eleven years of age when B., Frank, and Thomas N. After his first mar- he came to the Ohio wilderness. Although he rige Mr. Pryor settled on a small farm, continued received but little education, he succeeded in learn- teaming, and subsequently bought a half interest ing to read newspapers and books by his own ef- in a saw and gristmill near where the bridge crosses forts and was a well-posted man on all the current the Wakatomaka, and he conducted this mill until topics of the day. He was a hunter and pioneer 1889, when he was taken sick. Since that time he and wore his hunting shirt until he was an old has been an invalid. In politics he affiliates with man .. It was formerly made of buckskin but later the democratic party. He has held a number of of woolen goods, fringed around the bottom and local offices, township trustee for twelve years and fitted to the waist with a belt. He killed a great township treasurer two years, and is one of the deal of game and was well known as a splendid county's honorable, upright citizens. Trustworthy marksman. He married Miss Tobitha Wilkins, and reliable in his dealings he won the confidence daughter of Thomas Wilkins, and to them were of the people, and for many years had a flourishing born thirteen children: Thomas, Timothy, Levi, business. Mrs. Pryor's grandfather, Elijah Hase- James, Samuel, William, David, Daniel (died when lop was a Virginian but came to Ohio at an early a young man), Margaret and Mary, are those who
day and settled on what was known as "School lived to be grown. Mr. Pryor settled on a farm in lots," in Muskingum county. He became a pros- Muskingum township, but later moved to Jefferson perous and substantial farmer. His wife, whose township (now Cass), and there resided until his maiden name was Ella E. Lash, was also a native death, in 1862, when seventy-four years of age. of the Old Dominion. Their union resulted in the He was a successful farmer and owned 360 acres birth of twelve children: Thomas M., Washing- of land. In politics he was a democrat. He was ton, William, Mary, Ellen, John, Ann, Turner, well and favorably known among the old settlers Emily, Marshall, Bush, and one who died when a and was an industrious, practical farmer.
young man. Mr. Haselop died in Muskingum Hon. L. Rambo is engaged in the manufacture county when quite aged. His eldest son, Thomas of woolen goods under the firm name of L. Rambo M., was also a native of Virginia, and was a good- & Co., iu the details of which calling he is well
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versed, owing to long experience in the business. received but an ordinary education in the public He is a native of Knox county, Ohio, where he schools, he was ever a great reader, a close student first saw the light of day on August 6, 1821, but and was thoroughly posted on all subjects. At the his parents, William and Grace (Levering) Rambo, age of twenty-one he began farming for himself, were Pennsylvanians who removed to Knox taking a share of the crops in compensation for the county in 1812, the death of the former occurring use of the land, and being economical, soon accu- in 1854 and that of the latter in 1853. Hon. L. mulated considerable means. On November 23, Rambo assisted his father on the home farm until 1842 he was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. he attained his fifteenth year, then engaged in Wahl, who was fourth in a family of six children wool carding and in 1845 in the manufacture of born to Christian and Magdalene (Wentz) Wahl, woolen goods at Rocky fork on Licking river. In the parents natives of Germany. The father was 1848 his establishment was unfortunately burned, born in 1788 and the mother in 1791, both in Wur- but he afterward located near Newark and started temberg. About 1820 Mr. Wahl with his family a woolen mill, but since 1852 has conducted a like emigrated to America and experienced great trouble establishment at Dresden, the product of which is and danger in inaking the voyage. There was a all that could be desired. In addition to success- conspiracy on the part of the captain and crew to fully managing his mill much of his attention is murder the passengers for their money, poison also given to agriculture, in which he is equally being mixed with their food. This was discovered prosperous. He owns 526 acres of land in the by Mr. Wahl and the lives of hundreds of passen- Muskingum valley, the entire tract being exceed- gers saved. The vessel was wrecked and deserted ingly fertile and valuable. He is a shrewd and by the captain. The passengers were picked up practical man of business, is wide awake to his by a passing vessel and landed in America. Mr. own interests, but has never been known to wrong and Mrs. Wahl, made their way to Zanesville, others. He was first a whig in politics, then be- thence to Somerset, and finally settled in Rich- came a republican and still affiliates with that ville where the father died April 3, 1833, at the party, by which he was elected in 1875 to the gen- age of forty-four. He was a soldier in the French eral assembly, by a majority of fifty-one votes army for ten years and served as captain. Mrs. while the county went democratic 400 votes. He Wahl died in her eighty-second year. Mrs. Rees served one term with distinguished ability, during was born October 6, 1828, and is still living and which time he was true to his convictions and to enjoying comparatively good health. At the age the interests of the section which he represented. of nineteen Mr. Rees was united with the Evan- He is one of the foremost men of the county and gelical church and remained with that until its dis- has carved out his own career, his success being solution, when, with his wife, he transferred his due to his own persistence and native tact and connection to the First Presbyterian church on business ability. For six years he was a member October 6, 1860. The following year he was of the Dresden school board. In 1843 Sarah A. elected to the position of ruling elder and contin- Walker became his wife, she being a daughter of ued in the faithful performance of the duties of John Walker who settled in Knox county in 1808. that office up to the time of his death. He To their union three children have been born: E. was a man of excellent judgment and good sound J., of Findlay, Ohio; A. E., of Dresden, and El- sense and his advice was sought by all who knew mira.
Solomon Rees (deceased) Zanesville, Ohio, whose father and the mother a kind and devoted husband. death occurred on October 8, 1887, was one of the His death left a void that can not be filled, fore- prominent citizens of the county and a man uni- most in all good enterprises and was ever ready to versally respected. He was a native-born resident assist the poor and needy. Mrs. Rees still resides of Muskingum county, his birth occurring August on the old homestead which consists of 200 acres
him. In his death the children lost a loving
6, 1825, and was the youngest of ten children born of well improved farming land. On this farm to the marriage of Jacob and Elizabeth (Baumgard- there has been found several good veins of bitu- ner) Rees, both of whom were of German descent. minous coal. To Mr. and Mrs. Rees were born the The father was a native of Maryland and emigrated following children, six now living: Amanda (de- to Perry county, Ohio, in 1800. There he resided ceased), L. A., Henry C., W. T., Ellen R., A. M., for a few years and then moved to Muskingum Edwin A. (died in infancy), Charles C. (died in in- county, near Zanesville, where he purchased 600 or fancy), Fred. W. and Fannie. Mr. Rees was a 700 acres of land. There his death occurred on republican in every sense of the term. He was a September 22, 1863, when eighty-six years of age. member of the S. of T. and was judge of election. His wife had died on October 16, 1853, at the age
A. C. Richards, freight agent for the B. &. O. of seventy-four. Their son, Solomon, began assist- R. R. at Zanesville, Ohio, is a native of New Jer- ing on the farm at an early age and although he sey, born in Waterford, January 27, 1861. His 32
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parents, T. J. and N. J. (Gould) Richards, were county, Md. He belonged to one of the oldest natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania respect. families of that commonwealth and was fifteen ively. The father was a graduate of Duff's col- years of age when the War of 1812 broke out. He lege of book-keeping and for several years after- enlisted as a private in the company of Captain ward he acted as book-keeper and school teacher. Metzgar, and was one of the defenders of the city He was by trade, however, a window-glass blower, of Baltimore when the British forces attempted its and as that was much more remunerative than book- capture. He was married to Miss Mary Morning- keeping or teaching school, he followed it the prin- star, or Morgenstern, on November 2, 1820. She cipal part of his life. He died on the 20th of Jan- belonged to a family of the early settlers of York uary, 1880, in Zanesville, Ohio. His widow who county, Penn., who had come from the Palatinate. now resides in Zanesville and is sixty years of age, After marriage they resided in the southern part was the daughter of John B. Gould, a native of of York county, not far from the line dividing the New Hampshire. The paternal grandfather of our state of Pennsylvania and Maryland. About the subject, William Richards, died in Van Wert coun- year 1835, with a family of six children they re- ty, Ohio, when seventy-seven years of age. A. C. moved to what was then the wilderness of the West. Richards was the eldest of three living children, They determined to settle in Ohio and their desti- the others being, Frank, who resides in Washing- nation was Starke county. They journeyed in ton county, Penn., and William, who resides wagons, and it took from six weeks to two months, in Quincy, Mass. A. C. Richards graduated camping by the way at times. When they reached from the high shocol of Zanesville in the New Middleton they were induced to stop and class of 1880, having come to that city with his settle there by numerous friends who had preceded parents when five years of age, and after graduat- them to the West. Shortly after the birth of Frank- ing went to Washington county, Penn., where lin Richards, the family removed to the town of he taught school two years. Returning to Zanes- New Lisbon, the county seat. At that time this
ville with the intention of entering the medi- town was the most important one in eastern Ohio, cal profession, he began reading medicine with the facilities for travel according to the customs of Dr. T. J. Barton, with whom he remained about the day were good and New Lisbon was quite a six months. Then, on account of sickness in his center of influence. From this place went forth family, Mr. Richards was compelled to discontinue many who have added luster to their native town reading medicine. Shortly afterward he com- and state, and here the childhood and early youth menced working for the B. & O. R. R. at Zanes- of the subject of this sketch was spent. The ville. He commenced as a common laborer on the schools were unusually good, and when the com- platform, handling freight, in 1884, and he was mon-school law went into effect the graded system subsequently promoted to the position of bill clerk, of New Lisbon took a high rank. Here the foun- assistant cashier, chief clerk of the office and then dations of his education were laid. He applied to his present position. He began at the bottom himself to study and before he was fifteen years of round of the ladder and has worked his way up to age had passed through all the grades then taught, his present lucrative position. On July 3, 1890, and in addition to this he took up privately the he was united in marriage to Miss Kate Wilkins, study of Latin and Greek. On July 6, 1849, the a native of Zanesville, and a daughter of C. A. father died of Asiatic cholera. The disease had Wilkins. Mrs. Richards is a cultured, refined lady, been epidemic that year and accompanied with and is a graduate of the same class with her hus- great mortality. Mr. Richards had paid a visit to band. After finishing her education she taught Pittsburg for the purpose of purchasing goods, school for two years at Fultonham, Muskingum county, and five years in Zanesville. Mr. Rich- being engaged in the saddlery and harness business. Either in going or coming he contracted the disease ards is an enthusiastic Mason, a member of Amity which ran its course in three days, with fatal effect. lodge No. 5, and has taken all the degrees in the His death caused the most intense excitement in the Ancient York rite up to and including that of town, but with the exception of the wife and one Knight Templar, Zanesville chapter No. 9, R. A. other member of the family, the disease did not M., and Cyren commandery No. 10, K. T. He spread. At the tender age of nine years Franklin is also a member of Phoenix lodge No. 388, K. of was left fatherless. The other members of the P. Politically he is a republican. family with the exception of two sisters scattered
Rev. Franklin Richards was born in the little to different points of the country and the little village of New Middleton, then in Columbiana circle of the former large family was broken and county, Ohio, but now in Mahoning county, on Franklin was the only son left at the old home- April 21, 1840. He was the eighth child and sixth stead. The affection of the widowed mother was son of Edward and Mary Richards. Edward so centered upon her children that he owes every- Richards, the father, was a native of Baltimore thing he has attained in this life to her pious,
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godly counsel and kind maternal care. At the age the dangers of further invasion had passed, the of fifteen Franklin left his childhood's home and regiment was discharged and in the fall of that went to Pittsburg, Penn., for the purpose of learn- year Franklin Richards resumed his college duties. ing the printing business. He entered the office In March, 1864, he entered the service of the of a weekly paper called the "Missionary" as an United States Christian commission and was sent apprentice and began his new life with zeal and to Nashville, Tenn. From there he was sent to earnestness and became a reasonably rapid com- Knoxville, where the first diet kitchens were positor. Later he worked for the "Daily Post" opened. He was also at Chattanooga, and Hunts- and "Daily Gazette." It was while engaged in ville, Ala. In May he returned to college to com- this employment that he was catechised and con- plete his course and as soon as the final examina- firmed as a member of the First English Evan- tions were passed he was again commissioned by gelical Lutheran church of that city under the the United States Christian commission and sent pastoral care of Rev. C. P. Krauth. In the fall of to the Army of the Potomac then in front of Peters- 1858 the eager desire to obtain a higher education burg, Va. For six weeks he was in the general was gratified, and he was enabled to enter the hospital near the headquarters of Gen. Grant, and Connoquenessing academy, located in the little returned to Gettysburg in time to take part in village of Zelienople, Butler county, Penn., about the commencement exercises and receive his twenty-eight miles from Pittsburg. In two years diploma. Chambersburg, Penn., had been burned he completed the prescribed course of study and and fears were entertained that Gettysburg would was prepared to enter the freshman class at college. again be raided. This interfered somewhat with In the fall of 1860 he entered Pennsylvania college the commencement though it was regularly held. at Gettysburg,. Adams county, Penn., then an He received the degree of A. B., and in 1867 the obscure town but little known, but now celebrated degree of A. M. was confirmed. After completing as one of the most noted battle fields in the late his college course he entered the first class of the Civil war, and as the turning point of that new theological seminary of the Evangelical great struggle. Here while engaged in study the Lutheran church just opened at Philadelphia, war broke out and April 19, 1861, Adams county, Penn., and in the second year of his theological Penn., was the scene of the most intense excite- course he was called to take charge of the business ment. The rumor was that a lieutenant from the management of the "Lutheran and Missionary" United States barracks, at Carlisle, had deserted the chief and only English paper of the general and that he had been captured a short distance council. He at the same time continued his theo- from Gettysburg and that a body of men from logical studies and graduated with the first class in Baltimore was coming to his rescne. The people June, 1867. In the same month of that year he expected an assault upon the town. Guards were was ordained to the Gospel ministry by the minis- hastily armed and all the roads leading to the town teriumof Pennsylvania of the Evangelical Lutheran were picketed. Here at that time the first ex- church at Lebanon, Penn. He resigned his position perience of standing guard was realized, as upon on the paper desiring to give his whole time and that night Franklin Richards and a small number attention to the profession for which he had quali- of students stood sentry on the Fairfield road. fied himself.
All through his college course Gettysburg and In July, 1867, as he was on his way to visit Wis- the vicinity was subject to alarms of the warring consin, an appointment was made to preach to a elements. It was not however until the spring of little handful of Lutherans in the city of Chicago. 1863 that the college was materially affected, and It resulted in his being called as pastor. This when the invasion of Pennsylvania was threatened was the first and only English Lutheran organiza- the students enlisted and were mustered into the tion in that city. The work of ingathering was United States service for the emergency, Frank- commenced. Without a settled membership, with- lin Richards enlisted as a member of Company A, out a church building, with no means at hand for Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania regiment which was the great undertaking, the active ministry of the mustered into service in the latter part of May, young pastor was begun. By the kindness of 1863, and was returned to Gettysburg with orders Rev. W. A. Passavant, of Pittsburg, Penn., the to march to Cashtown and hold the mountain pass parlors of the little hospital near the corner of on the pike between Chambersburg and Gettys- Dearborn avenue and Ontariostreet, were opened for burg. This regiment, on June 26. 1863, marched services. Permission was granted to put up a out to obey orders and had not gone more than building for church purposes, on the corner of four miles when the advance guard of Gen. Early's Dearborn avenue and Ontario street, as it was corps was met. This regiment was the first to of primary importance to have a church building, meet and contend with the rebels upon northern and it was begun in the fall of 1867. By slow de- soil. After Gen. Lee had crossed the Potomac and grees, as the money could be raised, the work pro-
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gressed and at the beginning of 1871, the church, 26th day of that month entered upon the duties of neat and tidy, well finished and furnished was com- pastor. After the long vacancy on account of pleted and almost entirely paid for, with a mnem- the death of their former pastor, and the uncer- bership which has increased from 10 to about 150. tainties of the future, the field was anything but On October 9, 1871, occurred the great Chicago fire, encouraging and inspiring. The church edifice the church edifice and all the members, with the was dilapidated and unsightly; however the work exception of two families were entirely burned out, of upbuilding was commenced. In the spring of the pastor sharing the same fate, losing all his li- 1878, after appropriate services, the old building brary, manuscripts and household furniture. De- was dismantled and torn away and a new building spair rested upon every heart. It seemed almost im- at once begun. The new gothic brick structure possible to make a second attempt to build an En- was commenced and on the first Sunday in Advent glish Lutheran church. Undaunted by the great was solemnly dedicated. The sermon was preached calamity the pastor appealed for aid for his suffer- by Rev. S. Laird, of Pittsburg, Penn. The same ing people, and then sought the means to build up season in the congregation in Bush Creek town- the congregation. He visited the different por- ship, a part of the Zanesville charge, and which tions of the Lutheran church, spent the winter of Rev. Richards also served, a new building was 1871 and 1872, and the summer of the latter year in erected and consecrated. Both of these church soliciting subscriptions and collected between $10,- buildings were finished without incurring any in- 000 and $12,000. The lot on the southwest corner debtedness, the one in Zanesville costing about of Dearborn avenue and Erie street was purchased, $8,000, and the one in Brush Creek, about $5, 000. a temporary frame building bought and moved on In 1881 Rev. Richards was appointed on the the lot. This building was neatly fitted up for board of county visitors, by Judge W. H. Ball, of worship and the congregation, so scattered, began the common pleas court. He was elected presi- to be drawn together. The work of ingathering dent of the board, and such efficient service was was far more difficult now than it had been in the done that a workhouse for the city and county Mr. was determined upon by the city council and coun-
beginning. Conditions were all changed. Richards continued as pastor until September 1, ty commissioners. When the board of directors 1873, when he resigned to the great regret of his was appointed for the organization and erection of many friends. The congregation is now known as a workhouse, Rev. Richards was appointed a the Trinity Lutheran church, and has since been member by the mayor of the city, held the office of removed to the corner of La Salle avenue and Elm president of the board of directors, and entered street, where a beautiful Gothic stone structure with zeal upon these duties. At his own expense is now owned by the congregation. On he visited the work houses of Cleveland and Pitts- February 10, 1869, Rev. F. Richards mar- burg and other reformatory institutions and gath- ried Miss Carrie L. Super, of Mansfield, Ohio. ered the ideas which are wrought out in the build- The ceremony was performed in the First Presby- ing and equipments of the Zanesville workhouse. terian church of that city, by Rev. H. W. Roth, D. He served for six years upon that board, and was D., of Pittsburg, Penn., an intimate college friend. for three years its president and for three years its This union was blessed with six children five sons secretary. He was also one of the founders of the and one daughter. The first dying in Chicago, Zanesville Ministerial association, and served as March, 12, 1873, was buried in Mansfield, Ohio. its president for several terms. He has been very After resigning the congregation in Chicago, Rev. active in the organization of the Pioneer and His- Richards, accepted the position of assistant editor torical society of Muskingum county, Ohio, and and business manager of the " Lutheran and Mis- was appointed as one of the committee to revise sionary," published in Philadelphia, Penn. He en- this history as prepared by the Goodspeed Pub- tered upon those duties in October, 1873, and then lishing Company. He has also been an active removed to that city, continuing in this position member of the Muskingum County Horticultural until November, 1876. In 1872, while yet pastor society and has delivered a number of addresses, at Chicago, Ill., he received a call to become pastor some of which have been published in pamphlet of the Zanesville charge, but being engaged in the form. He has also been president of the Muskin- work of collecting the scattered people together and gum County Bible society for a number of years. in soliciting funds for a church building, he could He has taken an active interest in the establish- not leave, and declined the call. ' In May, 1876, ment of the Zanesville City hospital, delivering Rev. W. P. Ruthrauff, pastor of the Zanesville the address upon the dedication and formal open- charge, died, and in September of that year anoth- ing of the institution. He is a member of the ad- er call without a visit, was extended to the Rev. visory committee of the board of managers. He F. Richards which he accepted. In November of was also appointed by the board of elections, a that year he moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and on the registrar of election for the Third ward of the city,
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