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F. M. Townsend, proprietor and owner of Gant serves great credit for his perseverance. He be- Park, is a native of Morgan county, Ohio, born gan life for himself at the age fourteen of without a September 21, 1854, and the son of William and dollar, and since then was compelled to earn his Harriet (Burgess) Townsend, both of whom were own living. He can now enjoy the fruits of his originally from England. They emigrated from industry and perseverance. He is a director in their native country at an early day, and after the T. B. Townsend Brick company. Mr. Town- reaching the United States located first at Pitts- send was married in 1883 to Miss Birdie F. Lee,
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of Kent, Portage county, Ohio, and is the father and useful citizens and are considered acquisitions of one son, William L.
to the community in which they reside.
Charles F. Urban, retired shoemaker, was born George Varner, one of the wide awake, at Clotra, Germany, in November, 1821, the thoroughgoing farmers of Muskingum county, youngest of seven children born to Gotleib and Ohio, was born in 1854, and comes of old pioneer Wilhelmina (Phenn) Urban, the former of whom stock. His grandfather, Martin Varner, was of was an officer in the German army, and died in his German descent and came to Ohio from Mononga- seventieth year, his wife dying in 1827 at the age of hela county, Va., in 1812. He brought his wife forty years. Charles F. Urban commenced learning and twelve children: John, Isaac, Alexander, the shoemaker's trade at the age of fifteen years, Joseph, Jacob, Samuel, Polly, Susan, Lydia, Mar- working for three years as an apprentice, after garet, Betsy and Sally. Martin Varner settled on which he commenced business on his own account land in Muskingum county and here passed the and in 1846 opened a shop in the town of his remainder of his days, dying when abont seventy birth. In 1854 he came to America to seek his years of age. He was one of the old-time pioneers fortune, and landed at Baltimore on the 20th of and a man possessed of many sterling traits of May of that year with only $5 as a cash capital character. He was an Old School Baptist in relig- to go to work upon. He went to Wheeling by ious belief, and assisted in building the old rail, which was the terminus of the road, and then Baptist church at Cottage Hill. His son, Alexan - by wagon to Cambridge, Ohio, and in Perry town- der Varner, and the father of our subject, was born ship, Muskingum county, he opened a shoe shop. in Monongahela county, Va., June 15, 1810, and After two years of hard work, and by practicing was but two years of age when brought to Mus- the economy which is so characteristic of the Ger- kingum county. He grew to manhood in the man people, he had saved enough money to pur- wilderness, received but a limited education, and chase a house and lot, and to this property lie on the 19th of May, 1842, he married Miss Cather- continued to add for sixteen years and then came ine Clapper, daughter of George and Snsan (Baker) to Springfield township, Muskingum county. Clapper, of German descent. George Clapper where he purchased an excellent little farm of was born in Fayette county, Penn. In 1807 he forty-eight acres near Zanesville, Ohio, which he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled in cleared and otherwise improved to the value of Salt creek township, where he followed agricultural $1,500. When the war opened he joined Com- pursuits, becoming the owner of a large tract of pany G, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, land and giving his sons all good farms. He is Ohio Volunteers, and was mustered into the service the father of fourteen children, two of whom died on the 6th of May, 1864, at Zanesville. After in Pennsylvania. The others were Peter, Betsy, participating in a number of battles and numerous Susan, George, Katie, Mary, Sarah, Anna, Jacob, skirmishes, he was taken sick and sent to his home William, Martin and Eliza, all born in Muskingum from the hospital. He soon regained his health, county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Clapper were men- but was not ordered ont again, being discharged bers of the Lutheran church, and were highly the following November. In 1846 he was united respected in the community in which they lived. in marriage to Miss Hannah S. Dittmar, by whom He died in Salt Creek township in 1864, when he became the father of nine children: Ernestine, eighty-two years of age. His father was in the wife of John Young, a carpenter of Columbus, Revolutionary war. Mrs. Varner was born June Ohio; August was accidentally killed at Cam- 26, 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Varner's marriage re- bridge while assisting in the construction of the tun- sulted in the birth of seven children: David W. nel of that city, at which time he was twenty-one (who enlisted in the Union army in August, 1862, years of age; Henrietta is the wife of Charles Griffin and was in Company C, the famous Ninety-seventh of Zanesville; Charles married Miss Birdie Swagert regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry. He was shot and resides in Zanesville; Benjamin F. married through the hand, and died at Cumberland hospi- Miss Mary Tanner and was accidentally killed in tal, Nashville, Tenn., on the 3d of September, 1864, Griffith & Wedges' foundry in August, 1890; at the age of twenty-one years four months and Henry married Miss Eva Vankirk and is a pros- thirteen days); the remaining children are: Mary perous farmer of Indiana; Louis is single and A., Felix, Jacob M., George H., John L. and follows the trade of a molder in Zanesville; John Susan L. After marriage Mr. Varner settled on resides at home and is unmarried, and Rosa also the farm now carried on by his children, 207 acres resides at home. Mr. Urban has held the office of of excellent land, and there his death occurred at superintendent of highways a number of years the age of eighty years. He was an industrious, and has been school director and township trustee. hard-working man, and accumulated all his prop- He and his wife are members of the German erty by the sweat of his brow. His son, Felix, Protestant church of Zanesville and are upright married Miss Ella Skinner and resides in Licking
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county, Ohio. The remainder of the family are at 1864; Dallas, May 25 to June 4, 1864; Kenesaw home. George Varner, our subject, received a fair Mountain June 27, 1864; special assault of Kene- common-school education, and early in life became saw Mountain, June 22, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, familiar with agricultural pursuits, which occu- July 20, 1864; siege of Atlanta, Ga., from July 28, pation he expects to make his life's calling. In to September 2, 1864; Jonesboro, August 31, to politics he is a republican. September 1, 1864; Lovejoy Station, September,
George Vickers is an old soldier citizen who, 2-6, 1864; Spring Hill, Tenn., November 29, 1864; after fighting for his country three years in the Nashville, December 15-16, 1864, besides others great Civil war, returned home to follow the peace- of less importance. The Ninety-seventh regiment ful pursuits of agriculture. His grandfather was a was organized at Zanesville, Ohio, September 2, farmer in Loudoun county, Va., and there passed 1862, and was mustered out of service at Nashville, from life. Six of his children came to Muskingum Tenn., June 10, 1865. The companies composing county, Ohio at the time of the building of the the regiment were A and B, from Guernsey Ohio canal and all of them settled in this county county; C and D, from Morgan county; E, F, G with the exception of Tolivar, who located in the and K, from Muskingum county, and I and H, southwestern part of Coshocton county. He was from Coshocton county. The regiment left Zanes- a soldier in the War of 1812. The remaining ville September 7, 1862, for the front and was children of the family were Charles, William, disbanded at Columbus, June 15, 1865. The Samuel, Betsey and Malinda. Samuel Vickers entire loss in killed, wounded and missing was was the father of the subject of this sketch. He 577. June 22, 1864, eight companies numbering was born in Loudoun county, Va., in 1815, but 192 men, lost between 3:30 and 4 o'clock, 103 received limited educational advantages in his men, the greatest loss of any regiment in the army youth and was a young man of twenty-two or in so short a space of time. This is the record of twenty-three years of age when he came to Ohio. the famous Ninety-seventh regiment which, in He first resided on the Ohio canal and was married addition to the above, took part in skirmishes too to Caroline Romine, daughter of Elijah and Loran numerous to mention. Mr. Vickers was in all (Riley) Romine, the former of whom came from these battles with the exception of Stone River, at Loudoun county, Va., at the same time as the that time being sick with fever in Hospital No. 2, Vickers and settled on a farm in the southwest part at Nashville, where he was kept only two months. of Coshocton county, his family at that time being The brigadier-general was George D. Wagner, the nearly all grown. His children were Edward, colonel John Q. Lane, then of Zanesville, now a Stephen, Moses, Caroline and Susan. Mr. Romine lawyer of Philadelphia. The regiment has held died at the age of seventy in Bartholomew county, seven reunions, all of which were well attended, Ind., to which place he removed in 1845, becom- 160 being present at the last, which was held at ing a farmer in good circumstances. Mr. and Coshocton July 3, 1891. The regimental flag was Mrs. Samuel Vickers became the parents of ten captured by the confederates at Franklin, Tenn., children: Mary A., Louisa, George, Stephen, and was returned to the regiment by them in 1884, Elizabeth, Samuel, Huldah, Malinda, Emma and a delegation of the regiment that captured it, Maria. After settling in Muskingum county, Mr. delivering it. Mr. Vickers was a good soldier and Vickers worked for the Ohio Canal company as endured the hardships and privations and dangers lock-tender, and until his death, which occurred at of the soldier's life with courage and fortitude. the age of fifty years, he was a hard-working, His children may well feel proud of his gallant industrious and useful citizen. George Vickers, record, which is untarnished. January 15, 1868, his son, was born February 8, 1839, at Adams he was married to Miss Sarah A. McKee, daughter Mills this county and obtained a limited education of William and Maria (Vickers) McKee, the former in the common schools. He early learned the of whom was of Irish descent. His father, Patrick duties of farm life and his youth was passed in McKee, came from Ireland and settled in Coshoc- the monotonous duties of life on a farm. When ton county, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. McKee one twenty-three years of age he responded to the call child was born, Sarah, who became the wife of of President Lincoln for 300,000 men and enlisted Mr. Vickers. Her mother died when she was an in Company F, Ninety-seventh regiment, Ohio infant of eighteen months and her father took for Volunteer infantry as a private and took part in his second wife Margaret Gault, which union - the battles of Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862; resulted in the birth of seven children: Maria, Stone River, Tenn., December 31, 1862; Chatta- Elsie, Milton, Kate, William, Belle and Amy. nooga, November 23-5, 1863; Missionary Ridge Mr. McKee was a farmer of Coshocton county, but on November 25, 1863; Rocky Face Ridge, Ga., sold out and moved to Missouri, where he died in May 5-9, 1864; Dalton, August 14-16, 1864; 1872 at the age of forty-five years. He was a Resaca, May 13-16, 1864; Adairville, May 17-18, member of the Baptist church and was honorable
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and upright. Eight children have been born to was an old line whig in politics. They were the Mr. and Mrs. Vickers: Elmer G .; Alva W., who parents of three children: Peter F. (died in in- died at the age of ten years; Lena M .; Melvin Z .; fancy), Mary C and Elizabeth R. Mr. Wenner Huldah B .; Eura M., died in infancy; Mabel F .; lived to be fifty years of age and died in 1851. George B., and H. Virgil. After his marriage After his marriage George H. Vinsel settled on the Mr. Vickers resided for one year in Washington farm upon which he now resides. He was always township, Coshocton county, but in 1870 came to very industrious, and when he came to this township Jackson township of this county and since 1874 had saved up $500. He continued to save until has been a resident of his present farm, which he bought the old Wenner homestead and has consists of 151 acres. Mr. Vickers is a republican added to it until he now owns 240 acres of as good politically and is a charter member of Griffe post, land as there is in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Vin- of the G. A. R. of Frazeysburg. He is a mem- sel are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. ber of the Regular Baptist church and his wife is Vinsel is a democrat politically, has held the of- a Methodist. He has always been a patron of fices of township trustee, and treasurer, and has education, and for twelve years has been a school been a member of the school board. He is in favor director of Frazeysburg. By industry and hard of good roads and has been road supervisor for work he has made a good home for his family and some time. To himself and wife were born eleven has given his children good advantages. He stands children: Solomon F. was born July 23, 1851, high as a citizen, being honest and conscientious married Mary M. Bainter (they have five children; in all his acts. As a soldier he was not afraid to he is a farmer in Adams township); John W. was face rebel bullets on many a hard-fought battle- born August . 28, 1853, married Maggie Stewart field, and by his name should be written the words, (he is a carpenter of Adams township and they "well done."
have two children); Mary M. was born October 22,
Among the successful farmers of Adams town- 1855, and is the wife of Samuel Hanks, a farmer ship, Ohio, whose merits are such as to entitle him of Adams township; William Kirk was born May to representation in the present work, is George H. 17, 1858, and died February 10, 1868; Martha A. Vinsel, Adamsville, Muskingum county. John was born April 17, 1860, is the wife of Henry Vinsel, his grandfather, was a prosperous farmer Buker of Monroe township and has three children; of Loudoun county, Va., and of German descent. Albert R. was born August 24, 1862, married Etta He married Miss Huff, also of German descent, Davis (he is a carpenter and they have one child); and the following children were born to them: Curtis O. was born June 14, 1865, married Lillie John, Adam, Philip, George, Solomon, Kate, Polly, M. Jackson, daughter of Dr. Jackson, of Zanes- Eva and Susan. He lived to the age of sixty-five ville (he is a carpenter of Zanesville); Valley years, was a soldier inthe War of 1812 and a mem- A. was born October 18, 1867, and married ber of the Lutheran church. John Vinsel Jr., his Spencer Jordan, a farmer of Adams township son and the father of George H., was born in Lou- . (they have one child); George T. was born De- doun county, Va., and was a blacksmith by trade. cember 4, 1870; Alvy A. was born August 23, He married Mary Foley, and this union was blessed 1873; and Bertha V. was born July 26, 1876. Mr. with six children : Harriett, Eliza, Matilda, John H., Vinsel gave all his children good educations, and Thomas W. and George H. The father died at George is now attending school at Lebanon. He the age of fifty years both himself and wife being has taught four terms of school and is a young man members of the Lutheran church. George H. of ability. Mr. Vinsel can justly be termed one of Vinsel was born in Loudoun county, Va., August the leading citizens of this county, as he has done 24, 1824, was reared as a farmer and received a all in his power for the advancement and good of common-school education. He came to Ohio at of the community.
the age of twenty-five years and married in Adams Thomas Waddle, a prosperous farmer residing township, August 22, 1850, Elizabeth R. Wenner, on eighty-five acres of excellent land in section 11, born March 9, 1832, and the daughter of Solomon Union township, Muskingum county, Ohio, is a and Malinda (Wertz) Wenner. Her father was native of the Emerald Isle, born in County Ar- born in Loudoun county, Va., came to Muskingum maugh, Ireland, on May 29, 1836. His parents, county and married in Salem township, settling at Jolin and Mary (Best) Waddle, were natives also Fultonham, ten miles from Zanesville. Here he of that country and there their nuptials were cele- worked at his trade of carpenter and cabinet maker, brated. Their children, eight in number, were and came to Adams township in 1836, bought the born there and named as follows: Robert, Sarah, farm now occupied by our subject and here passed John, Thomas and Martha (twins), Mary A., Mar- the remainder of his days. Himself and wife were garet and William. John Waddle, father of these meinbers of the Lutheran church, in which he was children, came to the United States in 1850, settled Sunday school superintendent for many years. He on a farm in Union township, and the following
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year sent to the land of his birth for his family. He was educated in the common schools of his He made his home in Muskingum county for about native county. On the 5th day of May, 1872, he eleven years and then moved to Illinois, where he landed in New York city, but went from there to followed farming until his death in 1864. He was the Pine Tree state where he spent the summer. a good farmer and accumulated considerable In September of that year he came to Zanesville, property. Mrs. Waddle died in the same state in Ohio, where he has since resided. He worked as a the same year. Of their children only one besides common laborer for a short time and in February our subject is now living, Mary A., who is now 1874 he commenced working for the Cincinnati & Mrs. Malone, of New Concord. Thomas Waddle Muskingum Valley railroad, handling freight on the attended school in Ireland until coming to the platform. He was subsequently promoted to check United States and was then in the district schools clerk and bill clerk and was with that company up of Union township for some time. When about to September, 1888. He then went to work for sixteen years of age he began his life's work as a Thomas Drake & Company, lumber merchants, as tiller of the soil and has followed that occupation their collector, and after remaining with them for up to the present time. He was married in 1857, one year, accepted a position as traveling salesman to Miss Mary E. Stewart, a native of Union town- forthe Dillon Soap company, at Zanesville, being on ship, Muskingum county, born May 12, 1838, and the road for this company about a year. Going
the daughter of John and Jane (Chambers) Stew- back to Thomas Drake & Co., he remained with art, being one of six children who are named in the them until January 27, 1890, at which time he order of their births as follows: Robert, Thomas, accepted a position as contracting freight and Margaret J., William, James C. and Mary E. Mr. passenger agent for the C. S. & H. R. R. and June Stewart was born in Baltimore, Md., and moved to 1 he was promoted to his present position, Muskingum county at an early day, about 1830. which he fills in a very satisfactory manner. Mr. The mother died about 1841, when Mrs. Waddle Wade was married on the 30th of November, was about three years old, and the latter was reared 1870, to Miss Martha Ann Drake, and their union by James Wilson, with whom she remained until has been blessed by the birth of four living her marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Waddle were born children: Emma J., John H., Sarah E. and ten children: Robert S., who died at the age of Samuel J. Mr. Wade is a member of Amity fourteen days; Maggie J., died at the age of twen- lodge No. 5, A. F. & A. M., and in politics he is ty three years; Martha A., died at the age of a stanch republican.
twenty-one years; John, Samuel C., James W.,
Among those of German birth now residing in Joseph E., Lemuel A., the last five all at home; Muskingum county stands the name of Philip Mary L., died at the age of three years and Emily Wahl, Adamsville, Ohio, who is prominently B. died at the age of six months. After marriage identified with the farming and stockraising Mr. Waddle settled in Union township, and in 1864 interests of the county. He was born in Alsace he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fif- county, Germany, June 20, 1829, and was left ty-ninth regiment, in the 100 days' service. In fatherless when but four years of age. His mother, 1865 he and family settled on the farm where they with her family, came to America and settled in now live and here they have made their home Madison township, Muskingum county, Ohio, in since. Mr. Waddle engaged in general farming. 1840. She had three sons: Fredrick, now in All are members of the U. P. church and are inter- Iowa; Laurance also in Iowa, and Philip who is ested in all good work. Mr. Waddle is a repub- the only one now in this county. She bought lican in politics and his sons also advocate the eighty acres of land, for which she paid $700, and principles of that party. He has held a number there resided for some time. She subsequently of local offices and is held in high esteem in the went to live with one of her sons, near Boone, county. Mrs. Waddle's brothers and sisters are Iowa, and there her death occurred in 1868. scattered. The father died in Muskingum county. Philip Wahl received his primary education in his Her mother, who was a native of Washington native country and finished his education in this county, Penn., was of German descent. Of the county. He started out when eighteen years of children Robert resides in Perry township, this age to learn the harness maker's trade and this he county; James resides in Union township; Mar- followed for about ten years. In 1851 he married garet J., now Mrs. Stewart, resides in Benton Miss Margaret Lapp, daughter of Henry and county, Iowa; Thomas died in New York state and Magdaline (Zimmer) Lapp. Mr. and Mrs. Lapp William is mining in Idaho.
were natives of Germany and after coming to this
Samuel Wade, freight and passenger agent for country they bought land in Adams township, the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking railroad, at Muskingum county, Ohio, where the father suc- Zanesville, Ohio, is a native of England, born in cessfully tilled the soil. They were the parents of Halifax, Yorkshire county, November 10, 1843. the following children: Michael, Elizabeth, Mar-
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garet, Catherine, Louisa, Soloman, Henry, Abner Here he attended the district schools and later the and Mary. Three died when young. Mr. Lapp Cincinnati Medical college, from which he gradu- died in 1882, but his wife previous to this, in 1876. ated in 1875. He located at Fairfield county for To Mr. and Mrs. Wahl have been born ten chil- one year and in 1878 established his practice in dren: Louisa A., now Mrs. Strohecker; Martha L .; Roseville and has won for himself an enviable Dorothy J. (Mrs. Hanks) died July, 1880; Mary E., reputation as a physician. In 1876 he married now Mrs. T. J. Keyes; Martin L .; Emma S., now Zillah Stoneham, a native of Beavertown, Morgan Mrs. Samuel Keys; Carrie M. ; Harvey N .; Charles; county, Ohio, and the daughter of Michell and and Alice, now Mrs. Trittipo. Mr. Wahl and Magdaline (Wilson) Stoneham. Mrs. Walker was
family hold membership in the Lutheran church, born in 1855 and is the mother of one child, and in politics Mr. Wahl is a democrat. He has Dwight M. The Doctor is a member of the held a number of township offices, takes a deep National Medical association and the County interest in all public enterprises, and is a public- Medical association, and an Odd Fellow of long spirited citizen. He has been unusually successful standing, since 1868. He is also a member of the in tilling the soil, owns 300 acres of good land, Royal Arcanum and F. & A. M. Himself and wife and is one of the substantial men of the county. are members of the Christian church.
He resides about four and a half miles from The father of Robert Waters, Otsego, Ohio, Adamsville, and is the only one of the Wahl family William Waters, was born in Wales, coming to this
residing in the county.
country when a lad. He was a farmer and married
Dr. G. W. W. Walker is an eminent medical Nancy Ashwell, of Virginia. He settled in the practitioner, who has practiced his profession in Shenandoah valley, four miles above Harper's the town of Roseville, Muskingum county, Ohio, ferry, on what is now known as the Shieler farm, for the past fourteen years. He was reared and where he lived until his death at the age of fifty- educated in this neighborhood and was the only two years. He was the father of ten children: son of a family of seven children born to the union Richard A., William, James, Polly and Robert are of G. W. Walker and wife. G. W. Walker was those who lived to be grown and all reared families born in Maryland in 1808, a son of Elisha Walker. except James, who died in Virginia. Mr. Waters The Walkers are an old family of New York. was a substantial farmer and a member of the Elisha came to this county at an early day and Methodist church and was respected by all who settled near Zanesville on a good farm about 1822. knew him. Robert Waters, his youngest child, He resided in the county until his death. He was was born February 12, 1813, received a limited born about 1763, and lived to be about eighty-five common-school education and was left an orphan or ninety years of age. He reared a large family by the death of his father at the age of eleven and G. W. was one of the younger children. years. He lived in Virginia with his eldest brother, Elisha had married twice and G. W. wasone of the Richard A., until he was fourteen years of age and second marriage. Of his twelve children only one then came to Ohio with this brother in 1827. is now living., Mrs. Eliza Thrush, of Missouri. G. Richard A. was a married man with three children, W. Walker, the father of our subject, came with his studied medicine and became a physician and parents to Muskingum county, where he grew to settled in Monroe township on a farm in 1828. maturity, married and settled on a farm. Herehe Young Robert worked at farm work until he be- lived until his death in January, 1892. In 1832 came a man, and April 28, 1834, married So-
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