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 105

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Thomas Rose, Frazeysburg, Ohio. Thomas settled in Maryland and then in Licking county, Rose's great grandfather, William Rose, was born Ohio, in 1848. He was noted far and wide as one in County Tyrone, Ireland, and came to America of the first class agriculturists. In 1857 he was at a period antedating the Revolution, serving in elected justice of the peace and served three terms. that war under George Washington. His wife To Mr. and Mrs. Rose were born seven children: had died in the old country and he brought his Charles, Almira (died at the age of fifteen years), two children, a son and daughter, with him to Alvina (died at the age of four months), George America. He landed in Baltimore and traveled W., Mary E. (died at the age of ten years), John on horseback, carrying his children in the saddle W. and Leonard (died in infancy). After mar- bags, to Bedford county, near Bedford springs, riage Mr. Rose settled down at Boston, Licking and there passed the remainder of his days. He county, and in 1866 he went to Illinois, settling in was a Protestant in religion. His son, Thomas, Gillespie, Maconpin county, where he resided nn- was the grandfather of our subject and was small til 1878. In the spring of the following year he enough to ride in one of the saddle bags when he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and has since went with his father to Bedford county, Penn. He been a resident of Frazeysburg. He is well re- was a tanner by trade and also followed farm- spected and liked there, and has held the position

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of mayor of Frazeysburg eight years. In politics postmaster at that place and holds that position at he is a stanch democrat. He is one of the charter the present time. He was elected justice of the members of New Home lodge No. 338, Hanover, peace April, 1891, and was appointed notary pub- Ohio, and is now a member of Frazeysburg lodge No. lic under Gov. Campbell. He was school exam- 490, having been secretary of this lodge since iner for the county from 1884 to 1887, and dis- 1886. Mr. Rose is a substantial business man and charged the duties of that position in a creditable owns considerable real estate in Frazeysburg. He and satisfactory manner. For the last ten years is now sixty-eight years of age, is still hale and he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal hearty, and can do a hard day's work at black- church. In politics he is a stanch republican, and smithing. He does as much work now as he did socially he is a member of the A. F. & A. M. twenty years ago, has never had a severe spell of He was married in 1876 to Miss Bessie, daughter Hood, and two children were born to

* sickness, and has a wonderfully strong constitu- of Dr. tion. Unaided, and by his own exertions, he has this union: Jennie M., born December 25, 1878, made all his property, and stands high in the esti- and Georgiana, born February 24, 1882. Mrs. mation of all as an honest, upright citizen. When Rutledge died May 29, 1886, and Mr. Rutledge's young Mr. Rose was a very powerful man, even second marriage was on January 25, 1889, to Miss among the hardy pioneers, and was considered the Dosie Morgan, who was born June 2, 1868, and strongest man in his locality. He has always been whose parents, Thomas W. and Virginia (Ander- a total abstainer from spirituous liquors, and when son) Morgan, were early settlers of Muskingum young was pointed out as almost the only excep- county. Mr. Morgan was born in 1823. tion among the young men. He attributes his John Sandel, the deceased husband of Mrs. good health to his early pioneer training, princi- Christina Sandel, Otsego, Ohio, was born in Adams pally. His son, Charles, married Miss Henrietta township, Muskingum county, and was the son of English and is settled on a farm in Illinois. John Valentine Sandel, who came from Germany at an W. married Miss Ann Settles, has one child, Mary, early date. He was the father of nine children: and resides at Granville, Ohio. Simon Kenton, Jacob, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Casper, Christian spoken of above, was one of America's most noted (who died a soldier in the Civil war), Martin, Val- entine and George. Valentine Sandel was a mem- ber of the Lutheran church, and lived to be over Indian fighters and hunters, and was a man of great physical strength and endurance.

The grandparents of Samuel L. Rutledge, seventy years of age, a respected and honored cit- postmaster, Hopewell, Ohio, James and Mary izen and farmer. John Sandel, his son, and the Rutledge were natives of Fermanagh county, Ire- husband of our subject, was born March 13, 1832, land, but at an early date came to America, first received a common-school education and learned locating at New York, but subsequently in Guernsey the carpenter's trade as well as farming. He mar- county, Ohio, where both received their final sum- ried October 26, 1865, at the age of twenty-eight mons. Their son, George, was born in the year years, Christina Klein, daughter of Jacob and 1815, on the ocean, while his parents were on the Catherine (Moser) Klein. Jacob Klein was born voyage to America. Early in life he was appren- in Wurtemberg, Germany, and was the son of ticed to the tanner's trade, and when eighteen Christian Klein, a farmer and the father of four years of age he was married to Miss Susannah children: Christian, William, Jacob and Chris- Shutt. In 1831 he and his family moved to tina. Christian Klein was a man of property in Mount Sterling, Hopewell township, Muskingum "the Fatherland." Jacob Klein came to America county, and there Mr. Rutledge purchased a tan- about 1826, at the age of twenty-one, and to Zanes nery plant which he carried on until his death in ville, where he worked at his trade of a shoemaker, 1865. To his marriage were born the following which he had learned in Germany. He had a children: Mary A., Margaret J., John W., Samuel common-school education in Germany, and in L. (subject), George W., Sarah E. and Thomas C. Zanesville married Catherine Moser, daughter of Samuel L. Rutledge remained at home, assisting in Daniel Moser. To them were born ten children, the tannery and attending the district school until nine of whom lived to maturity: Louise, Christina, 1869, when he entered the academy at Pleasant- Jacob, William, Matilda, George, Christian, Al- ville, Fairfield county, Ohio, graduating from the bert and Alice. In 1852 Mr. Klein moved to same in 1872. He took a post academic course, Adams township and settled on a farm where he which gave him the privilege of graduating in any still resides at the age of seventy-eight years. The college in the state in one year. Returning home, farm where he settled belonged to his wife's father, he went from there to Jacksonburg, Ind., where Daniel Moser, who also came from Germany about he taught school for ten years. Returning to 1835, and owned a farm of 120 acres. Daniel Mount Sterling, he has since been engaged in teach- Moser was the father of four children: Philip, ing school. January, 1890, he was appointed Catherine, Adam and Louisa, and lived to be

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seventy years of age. He was an industrious Anthony and Elizabeth Saup five sons and three farmer, a member of the Lutheran church, and daughters were born: Robert M., the subject of was a potter by trade in the old country. Jacob this sketch, being the seventh in order of birth. Klein was also a member of the Lutheran church, He grew to maturity and received a thorough edu- had always been a good citizen and an honorable cation in parochial schools, but about the age of and industrious man. After his marriage Mr. fourteen years he went to Cairo, Ill., where he had John Sandel settled on the farm now occupied by a brother engaged in the mercantile business, and his widow. He worked at his trade of a carpenter remained with him for some time. He afterward for about fifteen years, renting his farm. Before started out for himself, accepting a position as his marriage he was a soldier in the Civil war, in cabin boy on a Mississippi river steamer, plying Company A, One Hundred and Second regiment, between St. Louis and New Orleans, in which capac- Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was enrolled August ity he served for about three years. He then re- 12, 1862, for three years. He was honorably dis- turned to Zanesville and for a short time there- charged May 28, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., by rea- after worked in the rolling mills, but in 1864 son of injury received while in the line of duty in enlisted in the Union army as a member of the United States service, having been wounded in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regi- the foot at the battle of Athens. Mr. Sandel be- ment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, at which time he came a prosperous farmer and respected citizen. was only seventeen years of age, and had a hard His farm consisted of 160 acres. Both he and his time to pass muster, owing to his youthful appear- wife were prominent members of the Lutheran ance. He was sent with his regiment to Maryland church, and Mr. Sandel held the office of elder Heights and from there to Baltimore, thence to and church trustee. He was always connected Bush river and was there placed on garrison duty. with the church in some office. In politics he was At the close of the war he was mustered out of the a democrat, and died at the age of fifty-one years, service and returned to Zanesville, where he November 16, 1887. When the war broke out he engaged in cabinet making, to which business he did not hesitate to offer his services and life to his gave his time and attention until 1885, when he country, and was true to his duty. His name was appointed superintendent of the city water always stood on the roll of honor. His widow has works, which position he has since filled. Some ably managed the farm since his death, having important improvements have been made in the kept it free from debt, and besides has made some system under his supervision, and he is a gentle- money, which success speaks well for her business man of the highest standing in social and business ability and management. She is a sincere Chris- circles. In 1868 he married Miss Alevia Carlow, tian and a woman of high character, well regarded a native of Zanesville, and by her he is the father by her neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Sandel kindly of three sons and three daughters. The family took to rear a little three-year-old girl, Floretta are members of the Catholic church, and he be- M. Stiner, whose mother had died, and have cared longs to the G. A. R. and is a democrat, politi- for her as though she were their own. Since Mr. cally. Sandle's death she has grown still more into the R. D. Schultz, one of the popular and most affections of Mrs. Sandel, who gives her all a successful business men of Zanesville, was born in mother's love and care, and is giving her a good that city, January 7, 1839. He is a son of William education and bringing her up to be a capable and and Evaline (Darlinton) Schultz, natives of Win- Christian woman. She is a very bright and chester, Va. In 1853 the father established the attractive child.

Robert M. Saup, the superintendent of the fully until 1866, when his son, R. D., and John Zanesville city water works, has proven himself Hoge purchased and have since operated it. The the right man on the right place, and has the con- father died, in 1870, at the age of seventy, but the fidence and respect of all right-minded citizens. He was born in Zanesville in 1847 to Anthony Saup, and makes her home in Zanesville with our subject. a native of France, who came to America when a young man, first locating in New York and about vantages, never having attended school a day after 1830 in Zanesville. He was a cabinet maker by he was fifteen years of age, and on October 5, 1864, trade, and at once began following this business, he was married to Miss Sarah Van Horne, a native which he continued until his death in 1856. He of Zanesville, and daughter of Bernard Van Horne. was married in the city of New York to Miss Eliza- Mr. and Mrs. Schultz' union resulted in the birth betli Smith, a native of that state, whose parents of two children: Bernard V. H. and William D. lived to a very advanced age, dying at the ages of Mr. Schultz died in 1869. The opera house in one hundred and four and one hundred and Zanesville, one of the finest buildings in the city, three years, father and mother respectively. To was built by Mr. Schultz, and was opened January

mother is still living, is seventy-three years of age, soap factory at Zanesville and operated it success- The latter received rather limited educational ad-

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22, 18SO. Mr. Schultz is an enthusiastic Mason, estate business, in which business he was engaged and has taken all the degrees in the Ancient York when elected to his present office, in 1888, and re- rite, also all the Consistory degrees up to and in- elected in 1891. He is an able and efficient officer, cluding the 32d. He also has taken the Shrine de- and discharges the duties of his present position gree. He is treasurer of his commandery, and in a very efficient manner. He has been twice holds the same position in the Masonic Hall asso- married, the second time, in 1879, to Miss Louisa ciation. He is a director in the First National bank, Sandle, daughter of Jacob Sandle, of Perry town- and president of the Economy Building associa- ship. The fruits of this union are two interesting tion. He owns 400 acres of land in Wayne town- children: Viola G. and Nellie B. Mr. Scott is a ship, Muskingum county, and is one of the repre- member of the Hazlett post No. 81, G. A. R., and sentative citizens of this county. In politics he is senior vice-commander. He is also a member of Muskingum lodge, of I. O. O. F. and the society of advocates the principles of the democrats. .

Ernest Scott, county recorder, Zanesville, Ohio. B. P. O. E., No. 114.

Among Muskingum county's self-made, enterpris- William Senior (deceased) was engaged in the ing and successful citizens, none deserves more fa- manufacture of woolen, and was a member of the vorable mention than the subject of this sketch, firm of L. Rambo & Co., of Dresden, Ohio. He Ernest Scott, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, was born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., February 17, December 11, 1846. He is a son of Bernard and 1831, a son of George and Mary (Wadsworth) Josephine A. (Guille) Scott, the mother a daughter Senior, natives of England, the former dying in of Dr. Augusta Guille, and a native of France. 1866 and the latter in 1854 at Mount Vernon, Ohio. The father was born in Baltimore, Md., and is of The maternal grandfather, Jonathan Wadsworth, Irish origin. He was a mechanic by trade, and was born in England and came to the United States, died on board a steamboat on the Ohio river, becoming one of the early woolen manufacturers of in 1850, of cholera. The mother survived until the "Empire state." He died in Richmond, Va., 1886. They were the parents of one child besides when over eighty years of age. In the state of our subject-Caroline E., wife of John C. Dixon. New York, William Senior spent his earliest days, Ernest Scott came to Muskingum county in 1854, but later became a resident of Pennsylvania and in and attended the public schools, but subsequently 1853 first located in the town of Dresden, which entered the university at Ann Arbor, Mich., and has been his permanent place of abode since 1858. Lebanon (Ohio) university. He then followed He became a member of the firm of L. Rambo & teaching school for several years, but this was Co. in 1871, and their large and growing business after he returned from the army. In Febru- testifies to their standing in the community and to ary, 1863, when but seventeen years of age, he en- the excellence of their product. The reliability of listed in Company C, Thirteenth Ohio cavalry, and their goods and the exceedingly reasonable price was in a number of engagements. He was at at which they sell them has made their establish- White House Landing, battle of the Wilderness, ment well known and popular. Mr. Senior was siege of Petersburg and the explosion of the mine married in 1855 to Miss Bell Nye, who died Sep- at the last-named place. He was wounded, thir- tember 27, 1888, and August 1 of the following teen days after this battle, while on picket duty, by year he took for his second wife Miss Amelia a gunshot through the breast and right arm, and Cresap, who died December 8, 1891. Mr. Senior was in the hospital for five months. He was then was a republican politically, was a member of the put on hospital duty on board the steamer "J. K. Presbyterian church, in which he was an elder, and Barnes," which plied on the Atlantic between belonged to the I. O. O. F. His only son by his northern and southern ports, carrying sick and first marriage was born in Circleville, Ohio, Octo- wounded soldiers. He remained in this position ber 17, 1856, and died in Dresden, January 16, for six months, and then, on July 20, 1865, was 1880. He graduated in June, 1878, from Wooster discharged. He returned to Zanesville, as stated university and in September, 1878, entered Prince- before, attended the schools, and taught the young ton Theological seminary at Princeton, N. J. He idea how to shoot. After leaving the schoolroom was one of the brightest students in the institution, he traveled for three or four years, going as far and his death was a sad blow to all who knew him west as the Rocky mountains. and visiting many as well as to his parents. Mr. Senior has a daugh- points in the South. After returning he engaged ter, now Mrs. J. L. Adams of Sheffield, Ala. Mr. in agricultural pursuits for a short time, then re- Senior was a model man of business for besides moving to Zanesville, soon after which he received being enterprising, shrewd and practical, he was an appointment in the postoffice as letter carrier, in strictly honorable. He died December 31, 1891. which capacity he served about five years, being John D. Shaw, Frazeysburg, Ohio, is one of the under two presidential administrations. Then was large farmers and land owners of Cass township, in the employ of T. F. Spangler & Co., in the real Muskingum county. The family in America first

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settled in Maryland in old colonial times. William Mr. Shaw as secretary and manager. The com- Shaw, the grandfather, came from Maryland, was pany annually manufactures over $100,000 worth one of the pioneer hunters and made his head- of burial goods and gives employment to about quarters near Dresden on the Muskingum river, sixty hands. Mr. Shaw was born in Newburg, N. making a business of hunting and trapping game Y., May 27, 1840, and the same year his parents, and fur-bearing animals, with which this county Joseph and Mary (Williams) Shaw, came to Mus- then abounded. His children remembered were kingum county and settled upon a farm in Harri- Elias, John, Lydia and Sarah and one whose name son township. This farm was unimproved and is forgotten married into the Burch family. Elias they immediately set to work to clear and make a Shaw, one of the sons and the father of our subject, home. Joseph Shaw, Sr., was an Englishman by was born in Maryland and came to Muskingum birth and after emigrating to America located in county when a young man. He was a soldier in New York where he followed his trade, that of a the War of 1812 and served under Gen. Cass. He weaver. There he married Miss Mary Williams, married Harriet Deakin of Maryland, and to them a native of the Empire state, and they afterward were born four children: Letitia, John D., Philenia came to Ohio, where the father followed his trade and William Francis. Mr. Shaw settled in Cass in connection with farming, often weaving flax and township above Dresden where Trinway now stands. wool for the early pioneers' home-made clothing. He was a member of the Baptist church and in He died in Harrison township in 1851, when fifty- politics an old line whig, later a republican and a one years of age. His widow afterward removed union man during the war. He lived to be seventy- to Zanesville and died there in 1884 in her seventy- two years of age. One son, Frank, was in the First ninth year. Two children were the fruits of this Illinois Cavalry regiment and served five years union: Joseph (our subject), and George W. Shaw, during the war, taking part in many battles. John a hardware merchant of Zanesville, Ohio. Joseph D. Shaw another son was born November 28, 1828, Shaw, Jr., spent his early boyhood upon the farm where the town of Trinway now stands. He can attending the district schools, and had for one of remember a great many things pertaining to the old his teachers the late President James A. Garfield. pioneer life. He received a common-school educa- The schoolhouse was a primitive log building tion in the old log schoolhouse, of those days and with slab seats, and a single desk, extending early learned to work on the farm. When but around the room and resting on pegs driven into seven years of age he went to live with Squire James the logs, furnished a writing desk for the pupils. Morgan, a prominent farmer of the township, and At the age of twelve years young Shaw removed remained with him until he was eighteen years of with his mother to Zanesville and began attending age. He continued to do farm work until twenty- the public schools of that city. Later he entered four years of age, when he married Mary E. Morgan, the old Putnam academy, graduated, and then ap- December 2, 1852, a widow of Washington Morgan, prenticed himself to Dr. Ezra Dillon, an early and the daughter of Spencer Lake of Coshocton physician and druggist of Zanesville, and began county. By this marriage Mr. Shaw became the fitting himself for an apothecary. About two years father of three children: George (died when twenty- later he accepted a clerkship at Dresden, Ohio, three years of age) and Perry L. (died when sixteen where he remained until the outbreak of the Civil years of age). This wife died, and November 27, war. Immediately after the fall of Fort Sumter, 1888, Mr. Shaw married Cecil Dorsey, daughter of when the whole North began to realize the peril of Joseph Dorsey. [See sketch of A. C. Dorsey and our country, Mr. Shaw, on April 24, 1861, enlisted Benjamin Dorsey for early history of Dorsey fam- in Company E, Third Ohio Volunteer infantry, and ily. ] Both Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are members of the served until he was discharged at Columbus, Ohio, Old School Baptist church, and in politics he is a July 24 of the same year, by reason of expiration stanch republican. Mr. Shaw and son by industry of term of enlistment. On October 16, 1861, he and hard labor have succeeded in accumulating con- re-enlisted in Company F, Sixty-second Ohio Vol- siderable property and now own 800 acres and have unteer infantry; was promoted to sergeant in No- excellent buildings. His son, Joseph Francis, has vember of that year, to first or orderly sergeant in an elegant and substantial farm residence near his January, 1862, quartermaster-sergeant in June, father.

1863; re-enlisted as a veteran in January, 1864;

Capt. Joseph Shaw, president of the board of was commissioned first lientenant and regimental trade of Zanesville, and secretary and manager of quartermaster in November of the same year, and the Muskingum Coffin company, is a keen, intel- as such was attached to the First brigade, First ligent business man, thoroughly conversant with division of the Twenty-fourth Army corps. In all the requirements of the trade. The Muskingum December of the year 1864 Mr. Shaw was further Coffin company was established in Zanesville in honored by a captain's commission. During his 1881, and incorporated August 24 of that year with military career, Capt. Shaw was in active service,

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participating in the numerous battles and marches which he is now living, on the 30th of July, 1839, of his regiment, and was honorably discharged, a son of Christian and Catharine (Werts) Shroyer, August 23, 1865. Returning to Zanesville he em- who were born in Pennsylvania in 1801 and Lou- barked in mercantile pursuits, having purchased a doun county, Va., respectively. The father was drug store in which he had previously served as one of eleven children born to Philip and Mariah an apprentice, continuing the same until 1881. In (Stotts) Shroyer. He was about the seventh child, 1861 Capt. Shaw wedded Miss Amanda A. Mar- and after reaching manhood he settled on the shall, by whom he is the father of seven children. farm where his son, the subject of this sketch, In politics he is a republican, a member of the Odd now resides, in 1808. Christian Shroyer and his Fellows and G. A. R. fraternities, and he and wife were both earnest members of the Lutheran family are attendants of the Putnam Presbyterian church. Philip Shroyer was the first to settle on church, of Zanesville.

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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 105

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