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 35

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Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Chicago, Goodspeed Pub. Co.
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"Our bar has grown old enough to permit ability will do well); legal knowledge (knowl- fathers to see their sons practicing by their edge of principles, of the frame work of the sides. Let me read you a list of the names of law) ; judgment (that most reliable of all sons of Muskingum lawyers, who have also called 'common sense'), caution, alias pru- been members of this bar: George Wyllis Sil- dence ; application (this includes preservance, liman, A. S. B. Culbertson, Charles A. Harper, diligence, persistence) ; and last of all, best of James R. Harper, Daniel Convers Goddard, all, under all, around all, above all, permeating Charles C. Goddard, George Abbott James, W. all, integrity. These qualities, characteristics, C. Blocksom, Charles H. Blair, Orlando C. habits, combined, will ensure success. Their Marsh. In addition to those named as worthy cntire absence will ensure failure. Between of special note, I add here the following: these extremes more or less of success or fail- Elijah Hayward, who practiced in this county ure will be the lot of one and another as he in 1836, and subsequent years, was onc of the approaches or recedes from this so seldom un- judges of the supreme court of Ohio, in 1830. derstood, yet so casy to-be-understood, stand- Royal T. Sprague, a member of our bar about ard. 1838, became chief justice of the supreme

"And now but a word or two more. Enter- court of California. His wife was a daughter ing this new and beautiful temple of justice, of Judge William Blocksom, one of our asso- we have thus recalled the lives of our predeces- ciate judges. Coopcr K. Watson, of 1842, was sors ; let us profit by these recollections ; let afterward a congressman from the Tiffin dis- us in our future ever try to so demean our- trict, a judge of common pleas in the Huron selves as lawyers and as men, as to improve district, and member of the constitutional con- upon our own past, and to cqual, if possible to vention in 1873-74. Cydnor B. Tompkins excel, our predecessors in all that is right."

(1836) and Edward Ball ( 1860,) were con- The following list contains the names of gressmen from Muskingum district, each serv- those lawyers who have resided in Muskingum ing four ycars. James M. Love, who practiced county as members of its bar. For that por- here about 1843, has been for many years tion of it embracing the years 1804-77 the com- United States district judge for Iowa. Such piler acknowledges indebtedncss to Judge an examination as I have made amongst thesc Granger: 1804, Lewis Cass, Wyllis Silliman; records of the work of your predecessors, both 1805, Samuel Herrick; 1809, Samuel W. Cul- saddens and encourages. Onc after another -- bertson; 1810, Ebenezer Granger; 1812, Alex- sometimes several together- they came upon ander Harper; 1814, E. B. Mervin; 1817, Ap- the stage of professional life, each full of hope pleton Downer, Charles B. Goddard, John C.

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Stockton; 1819, John Doland, Richard Stillwell; 1865, Fenton Bagley, John W. King, James E. 1820, William A. Adams, Charles C. Gilbert; Palmer; 1866, Edgar W. Allen, - -Barclay, 1822, David Spangler; 1823, Benj. Reeve; 1825, Charles W. Chandler, G. L. Phillips, Frank H. Leonidas L. Hamline, George James, Joshua Southard, Milton I. Southard; 1867, Albion J. Mathiot, Noah H. Swayne, Henry Stanbery; Andrews, Charles A. Beard, William H. Hall, 1827, Alexander S. B. Culbertson; 1828, John Gilbert D. Munson; 1868, W. L. Bane, Allen H. Keith; 1829, George W. Silliman; 1830, Miller, W. A. E, Rhodes; 1869, B. M. Dilley, John T. Arthur, George W. Jackson, William John Mason, Charles E. Randall; 1870, Charles P. Moorehead, William R. Putnam; 1831, H. Durban, Reuben H. Morgan, Andrew L. George H. Flood, Charles Stetson; 1832, Peairs; 1871, William C. Blocksom, John R, Charles C. Convers; 1833, G. Nelson Cuming, Stonesipher; 1872, Orlando C. Marsh, George Virtulon Rich, Washington Van Hamm; 1834, Porter, Benjamin F. Power, Tileston F. Spangler, Joseph Moorehead, John R. Mulvaney, Isaac A. H. Stilwell, Charles M. Vandenbark; 1873, Parish; 1835, Wyllis Buell, Edmund C. Cusack, Henry A. Axline, Eugene J. Brown, Henry L. John Evans, C. R. Hendee, Josiah Lovell; Korte, William A. Taylor; 1874, Charles H. 1836, James Boyle, Napoleon A. Guille, Elijah Blair, J. W. Garside, Henry C. Van Voorhis; Hayward, Cornelius Moore, Cydnor B. Tomp- 1875, Herman F. Anchauer, H. S. Crozier, Frank kins; 1837, John Dillon, Mathew Gaston, Welles B. Williamson, Robert N. C. Wilson; 1876, J. Hawes, William T. McKibbin, W. D. Wilson; T. Crew, Frederick S. Gates; 1877, William V. 1838, W. W. Backus, Samuel Chapman, Cau- Cox, John W. Martin, Robert H. McFarland, tious C. Covey, John W. Foster, I. B. B. Hale, Henry R. Stanbery.

Andrew R. Jackson, Royal T. Sprague; 1839, Following is the present list of members of Camp, Charles Mathews, Chauncey A. the bar as kept in the office of the clerk of Pardey; 1841, Franklin Gale, P. S. Slevin, common pleas: Herman F. Anchauer, John J. Alexander Van Hamm; 1842, Thomas M. Drake, Adams, Edgar W. Allen, Albion J. Andrews, James Henderson, J. B. Longley, Cooper K. Fenton Bagley, William H. Ball, Charles A. Watson; 1843, Henry Beard, Howard Cope- Beard, George Brown, William E. Blocksom, land, James M. Love, David H. Lyman, John Norwood S. Chandler, Joshua T. Crew, William Percy, Charles R. Rhodes; 1844, W. B. Abbott, H. Cunningham Jr., Frank A. Durban, Ezra E. Augustus P. Blocksom, Ezra B. Eastman, John Evans, William J. Finley, Alfred A. Frazier, O'Neill, Frederick A. Seborn; 1845, Edmund David B. Gary, Fred S. Gates, Charles.C. God- Brush, Theodore Convers, Daniel Convers dard, Moses M. Granger, John S. Hollings- Goddard, James R. Harper, Rowland D. Noble; worth, Isaac Humphrey, William H. Johnson, 1846, T. Cleveland, Samuel Cochran; 1847, Wil- John W. King, Daniel B. Linn, John W. Mar- liam H. Ball, Hugh J. Jewett, George W. Many- tin, W. J. Massey, Henry S. Woody, Gilbert D. penny, Corrington W. Searle; 1848; J. M. Buell, Munson, Thomas J. McDermott, Robert H. Alfred Brown, James H. Munroe; 1849, E. A. McFarland, George H. Miller, J. M. McHenry, Bratton, Samuel S. Cox, Lucius P. Marsh; 1851, John O'Neill, Benjamin F. Power, Frederick A. Thomas J. Taylor,- Buchanan; 1852, Wil- Seborn, Arthur J. Sheppard, Frank H. South- liam W. Johnson; 1853, Moses M. Granger, ard, Tileston T. Spangler, Henry R. Stanbery, John C. Hazlett, Robert W. P. Muse, Hiram John R. Stonesipher, C. E. Swingle, Thomas J. Skinner, Abner Starkey; 1854, Chas. K. Wright; Taylor, Charles M. Vandenbark, Henry C. Van- 1855, R. D. Chalfant, John Haynes, John Q. Voorhis, Simeon M. Winn, C. E. Workman, Lane, Homer Thrall, A. O. Wagstaff; 1856, Harry C. Shepherd, John B. Worley, Clement John H. Ash, Alexander S. Cox, Robert H. A. Maxwell, William S. O'Neill, George K. Gilmore, James A. Parker, Seth Weldy; 1857, Browning. George Porter, admitted in 1872, Mordecai Bartley, Henry C. Brown, J. Del- died a few years ago. Fred B. Hofman, of afield Du Bois, W. C. Gaston, Charles C. Columbus, practiced at this bar for a time until Goddard, Thomas Potts; 1858, John A. Blair, recently. H. L. Korte, a resident practitioner, Daniel B. Gary, William D. Hamilton, W. R. who was probate judge, is now living in Colum- Henderson, George Abbot James, Washington bus. E. Parker Pyle is now practicing his pro- Miller; 1859, Peleg Bunker, Ezra E. Evans; fession in the West. Albert W. Train, who be- 1860, Edward Ball, Daniel B. Linn, Albert W. gan practice here in 1860, died in 1891.

Train: 1861, John W. Beall, John G. Chandler, President Judges -- Common Pleas .- Levin William Ewing, Stephen A. Guthrie, George Betts, 1804-05; Calvin Pease, 1805-08; William Randall; 1862, Joshua G. Madden, Thomas J. Wilson, 1808-22; Alexander Harper, 1822-36; Maginnis; 1863, Solon Fisk; 1864, Alfred E. Corrington W. Searle, 1836-47; Richard Still- Fillmore, Lyman J. Jackson, William Okey; well, 1847-51; Corrington W. Searle, 1851-52.

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Judges of Common Pleas .- Richard Still- Wyllis Buell, 1837, to April, 1839; Cautious C. well, February 19, 1852, September 16, 1854; Covey, April, 1839, to November, 1839; Napo- John E. Hanna, September 16, 1854, October leon A. Guille, 1839 to 1851; William H. Ball, 20, 1854; Charles C. Convers, October 20, 1854, 1851, to April, 1853; John O'Neill, April, 1853, October 19, 1855; Corrington W. Searle, Octo- to January, 1856; John C. Hazlett, January, ber 19, 1855, October 25, 1856; Lucius P. Marsh, 1856, to October, 1861; John Haynes, October, October 25, 1856, February 9, 1862; Ezra E. 1861 to October, 1864; Lyman J. Jackson, Evans, Feb. 9, 1862, December 10, 1866; Moses October, 1864, to January, 1866; Moses M. M. Granger, December 10, 1866, October 9, 1871; Granger, January, 1866, to December, 1866; Frederick W. Wood, August 3, 1869, August 3, Albert W. Train, December, 1866, to January, 1874; William H. Frazier, October 9, 1871 (re- 1868; Milton I. Southard, January, 1868, to elected October 1876); Lucius P. Marsh, November, 1872; Daniel B. Gary, November, August 3, 1874; W. H. Ball, August 3, 1879; 1872, to January, 1874; Albion J. Andrews, George L. Phillips, August 3, 1884 (re-elected January, 1874; John R. Stonesipher, 1878; in 1889); James W. Campbell, 1884; W. B. Fenton Bagley, 1880; Benj. F. Powers, 1882; Crew, 1891; William Chambers, 1892. Simeon M. Winn, 1888.

Probate Judges-Mahlon Sims, February 9,

Associate Judges of Common Pleas .- In February, 1804, David Harvey, William Wells 1852-58; William T. Mason, February 9, 1858- and John Campbell, were commissioned as the 64; Robert W. P. Muse, February 9, 1864-70; first three associate judges for Muskingum Henry L. Korte, February 9, 1870-73; Reuben county. William Wells resigned before taking H. Morgan, February 9, 1873-75; Henry L. his seat, and on March 15, 1804, Jesse Fulton Korte,-1875. was appointed to fill the vacancy. David Har- Judge Korte was appointed on the 24th vey resigned June 19, 1804, and on June 29, day of March, 1875, to fill the vacancy occa- 1804, Richard McBride was appointed in his sioned by the resignation of Judge Morgan. place. John Campbell resigned December 4, In October, 1876, he was elected for the full 1804, and on December 13, 1804, Giles Hemp- term which expired February 9, 1879. George stead was appointed. On February 7, 1805, L. Foley, 1879, (now filling third term). the legislature elected Jesse Fulton, Richard McBride, and Seth Carhart.

Supreme Court-The first regular term of supreme court held in Muskingum county, be- David Harvey, February 17, June 19, 1804; gan September 9, 1805. Present Samuel Hunt- William Wells, February 18, February 25, 1804; John Campbell, February 20, December 4, 1804; ington and William Sprigg, judges. The fol- lowing list shows the clerks of the supreme Jesse Fulton, March 15, 1804-15; Richard court for Muskingum county: Abel Lewis, McBride, June 29, 1804-13; Giles Hempstead, 1805-12; John C. Stockton, 1812-17; Daniel December 13, 1804, February 7, 1805; Seth Chambers, 1817-21; John Peters (protem.), 1821; Carhart, February 7, 1805, did not accept; Ezekiel T. Cox, 1821-28; John Willson Jr., William Mitchell, February 27, 1805-15; David 1828-34; Ezekiel T. Cox, 1834-52.

Findlay, 1813-20; Stephen C. Smith, 1815-18; Clerks of Common Pleas-Abel Lewis, Daniel Stillwell, 1815-22; Robert Mitchell, 1804-12; John C. Stockton, 1812-17; David 1818-33; John Reynolds, June 27, 1822, to 1830; Chambers, 1817-21; John Peters (pro tem.), Robert McConnell, January, 1822, August 6, 1821; Ezekiel T Cox, 1821-28; John Willson, 1827; David Young, January, 1823, to June 27, Jr., 1828-34; Ezekiel T. Cox, 1834-41; George 1832; Thomas Ijams, January 1823, 1830; Ed- W. Manypenny, 1841-46; Anthony Wilkins, win Putnam, August 6, 1827-42; Mathew Mc- 1846-52; Charles C. Russell, 1852-64. Russell, Elhinney, 1830-37; William Blocksom, 1833- in October, 1863, was elected for a fifth term 40; James Jeffries, 1837-44; William Cooper, to expire February 9, 1867, but resigned in 1840-47; Jacob P. Springer, 1842-52; Horatio April, 1864. John Hoopes, 1864-67; Gemmill J. Cox, 1844-52; Wilkin Reed, 1847-52. Arthur, 1867-70; George W. Blocksom (pro Prosecuting Attorneys-Lewis Cass, 1804- tem.), 1870; Edgar Allen, 1870-73; Frederick 12; Samuel Herrick, 1812-18; John C. Stock- W. Geiger, 1873-79; Howard Aston, 1879; ton, 1818-20; Richard Stillwell, 1820-37; Vincent Cockins, 1885; John A. Green, 1891.

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Chapter XIII.

AGRICULTURAL AND KINDRED SOCIETIES, STATISTICS, ETC.

W HAT is denominated mixed husbandry, thus engaged realizes a good profit on his labor describes the farming operations of and investment. Orchards are abundant. Muskingum county. The farms are Grape culture is most successful. Numerous generally small, there being few extensive land- vineyards have been planted. At the State owners in the county. Tenantry exists only horticultural fair of 1872, was seen the finest to a very limited extent. The consequence is collection of fruits ever exhibited in Ohio, and the largest product of the field in stock, cere- of those fruits those of Muskingum county re- als, vegetables and fruits is secured. The ceived the first premium. The Ohio state fair valleys of the Muskingum and Licking rivers was held at Zanesville, in the fall of 1859.

are equal to any in fertility in the state. In

Fifty-seven years ago 300 acres of bottom the production of corn in 1873, according to land on the north side of the Muskingum, the report of the commissioner of statistics of opposite Zanesville, extending a long distance Ohio the general average of the Muskingum up the river was one vast wheat field. This valley is greater than that of any other valley large area was seeded in wheat by a then in Ohio, except one. All the vegetables, grains prominent man named Taylor. All this then and fruits of the climate are here produced. immense crop was harvested with the old fash- In the vicinity of Zanesville, the lands are ioned cradle and sickle. Twenty-five stalwart chiefly devoted to gardening and farming on a cradlers, one behind the other, each followed small scale. More remotely from the center, by a raker and binder, were seen in that field in stock-raising and farming in the usual accept- July, 1835. In the West it is no unusual thing ation of the term are followed, and considerable to sow a thousand acre field in wheat, but it is portions of the land are given up to timothy a "picnic" to cut, bind, thrash, clean and sack and red clover. Muskingum is one of the the entire crop ready for market by horse or largest sheep-growing counties in the state-in steam power applied to modern agricultural fact among the most extensive in the Union. machinery. To harvest such a crop by the best Cattle of the Devon and Durham breeds here methods known at the time of which mention raised have taken numerous first premiums at has been made would have required a small the Ohio state fairs and at various county army of laborers.

fairs of this and adjoining counties. During

An interesting paper written by Mr. Z. M. the last few years increased attention has been Chandler of the Ninth ward, Zanesville, gives given to the breeding of the best strains of figures of value here. He says: "In 1829 I horses, and at the present time, both for the saw good merchantable side pork sold on the turf and the road, Muskingum county boasts a levee at New Orleans at $12 per thousand class of horses among the best blooded in the pounds, to be used as fuel on a steamboat. United States. In this particular, no expense Corn to justify shipment next to wheat was the has been spared, and wherever, throughout the most important article of trade. As there was Union, a horse possessing superior qualities has no other means of disposing of the surplus corn, become known, his stock is here found. In whisky was manufactured, up to about 1840, in horse-raising, Muskingum county, at this time, large quantities, and shipped South. Prices of in the quality of stock raised, does not rank in- farm products up to about the year 1839, when ferior to any county in the state, and the inter- important changes took place in this market, est taken in it is constantly increasing. There owing to the completion of the Ohio canal, cannot be a doubt that all the conditions of ranged about as follows: Wheat from twenty- soil, water and climate are here abundantly five to sixty cents per bushel. Flour sold at supplied for stock-raising, and every farmer the mills at $2 per barrel, and corn sold as low

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as twelve and one-half cents per bushel. Ohio were in the garden of Maj. John Heavy pork for packing sold at $1.50 to $2.50 Doughty, in the stockade at Fort Harmer, at per hundred. Beef sold at from one to three the mouth of the Muskingum river, in 1786, and cents per pound. Good milch cows were sold they bore fruit about 1790. One variety was at $6 to $12. The latter price was seldom ob- cultivated in the county many years after. tained before 1840. Good butter was from five Israel Putnam and Captain Jonathan Devol to 10 cents a pound. Horses at that time were planted nurseries on the Muskingum, above in price about equal in proportion to other Marietta, from 1790 to 1800, from which trees articles of trade. Whisky was sold at from were planted in all the new settlements and twelve and one-half to sixteen and two-thirds from which came the fine fruit, Rhode Island cents per gallon. Chickens sold at seventy-five greenings, Newtown pippins, Putnam russets cents to $I a dozen, eggs at from three to five and Seek-no-furthers. The Burlingame pear cents a dozen."

originated from a seed found in a trunk brought

Early in 1840 prices were as follows: Wheat from Massachusetts by Christopher Burlingame, fifty cents, flour $3 a barrel, corn twenty cents, one of the pioneers, and is still cultivated. It oats twelve cents, ryc thirty cents, eggs four is a constant, hardy bearer, and much valued cents per dozen and chickens fifty cents to by the cultivators. The Rome Beauty origin- seventy-five cents per dozen. Produce was ated in Belpre. A man from Rome township, plentiful, but wheat was the only article that Lawrence county, in buying trees from a nur- brought ready cash and the farmers were care- sery in Belpre, found a shoot from the stalk ful to save it to pay taxes and interest on their below the bud or graft and separated it with mortgages. In November, 1843, wheat sold root, planted, nursed and trimmed it till it bore for fifty cents a bushel; produce was low, but such fine fruit that he named it Rome Beauty. the crops were good. Flour was $3.25, corn Mr. Corpse, of Beverly, originated a fine trce eighteen and three-fourths to twenty-five cents, and called the fruit Corpse Seedling. It is pork one and one-half to two cents.

These prices ruled in 1846: Wheat, fifty flesh, medium sized early winter and a good cents; flour, $3.25; pork, $2.50; beef, one and keeper. 'Johnny Appleseed,' properly John Chapman, was born in Massachusetts. As

quite a good apple, dark crimson color, white

a half to two cents; corn, twenty cents; eggs five to eight cents per dozen; chickens, seven- early as 1780 he was seen along the banks of ty-five cents a dozen; turkeys, thirty-one to the Potomac in Eastern Virginia. He was a thirty-seven and a half cents each; wood, $1 very eccentric man. Esteem, benevolence and per cord; coal, three and a half cents per bushel. kindness of heart were his characteristics. Hc At prices paid for labor in the workshop, the lived on bread and milk when he could get workmen earned two bushel of wheat per day them, traveled about a great portion of his and other produce in proportion - say five time, would not kill any animal or insect, never bushels of corn or fifty pounds of beef or pork used a gun; was Swedenborgian in religion; per day. In the harvest field, one bushel of thought himself a messenger sent into the wil- wheat was paid for a day's work, which was a derness to prepare the way of the people, and universal custom.

really did do that in many ways. He gathered

The pioneers brought with them fruit and apple seeds little by little from the cider presses garden seed. So soon as a clearing was made of Western Pennsylvania, putting them care- the seeds were planted, that food might be fully in leathern bags, and transporting them, raised for the families. The apple, quince, sometimes on horseback or muleback, to the peach, plum and cherry seeds were soon grown Ohio, and by boat to the mouth of the Musk- in nursery and thence taken to every new elcar- ingum, and up the river, planting seed in wild, ing. From these nurseries came the finest secluded spots along its numerous branches. fruit, such as the Putnam russet, Rhode Island Later in life he continued his operations further greening, Newtown pipin, Seek-no-further, west, even to Indiana. When his trees were Summer sweet, Early Chandler, Burlingame ready for sale he left them in charge of some pears, with a few other varieties, black and red pioneers to sell for him at a 'fippenny bit' apiece Murello, Mayduke and other cherries. Seed- or to give to applicants who were too poor to ling peaches and grapes soon followed.

buy them. Some of his nurseries were in the Valuable information concerning the first Walhonding valley. Many of his orchards fruit orchards in the Muskingum valley is to were scattered over Knox, Richland, Ashland, be found in the following interesting sketch of and other counties further east. One nursery the eccentric " Johnny Appleseed," by Dr. H. was located in Indianfield, or Owl Creek, Knox S. Nye: "The first peach seeds planted in county. Some of his trees are still growing

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( 1881). His residence was near Coshocton 1890, 22,600 pounds of broom corn were raised prior to and during the war of 1812. His ope- The hay output was 49,099, the hay average rations in the Muskingum valley were quite having been 42,496; 5,434 acres were devoted extensive. It was his highway of travel to and to clover and 5,897 tons were grown; the from the Pennsylvania cider presses. While bushels of seed aggregated 3,173; 202,066 gal- he continually extended his nurseries further lons of milk were sold for family use; of butter, west, he kept up those he had established in 832,817 pounds were made in home dairies the valley, and frequently visited them on his and 200 pounds in factories and cream- journeys back and forth. One nursery was in eries. In 1889, 1,710 acres were planted Newcastle township, Coshocton county. The to potatoes and 143,403 bushels were produced. spot is now pointed out, and an immense apple In 1890, 1,520 acres were planted. In 1890 the tree of his planting is referred to in a published number of eggs produced was 656,270 dozen. history of that township. He was a regular About 2,000 gallons of wine were produced in minister of the church of New Jerusalem and 1890. Of sweet potatoes, 3,617 acres were pro-

carried books and tracts relating to his religion duced. Fruit statistics: Acres occupied, and read them and gave them away to people 7,022; bushels of apples produced, 200,440 where he stopped. He owned and donated bushels; peaches, 32,173 bushels; pears, 2,720 lots to persons in Mount Vernon, in 1828. bushels; cherries, 2,396 bushels; plums, 181 Besides apple trees, he extensively scattered bushels. In 1889 the county produced 664,906 vegetable seed, dogfennel, pennyroyal, may- pounds of wool. Then were owned within its apple, horehound, catnip and wintergreen to be limits 8,651 milch cows and 63 stallions. In the used as medicines. In 1836, he began opera- following figures are exhibited the number of tions in Indiana, having a sister living there. horses, cattle, mules, etc., returned to the audi- In the spring of 1847, being fifteen miles from tor of state's office by the Muskingum county one of his nurseries on the St. Joseph river, auditor, for the years 1889 and 1890: Horses, word came to him that cattle had broken in 1889, 11,503; 1890, 11,880. Cattle, 1889, 25,862; and destroyed his treees. He started imme- 1890, 25,792. Mules, 1889, 350; 1890, 338. Sheep, ately for the place. When he arrived he was 1889, 129,469; 1890, 120,823. Hogs, 1889, much exhausted in strength, for by this time 15,155; 1890, 18,378.

he was old and feeble. He lay down that

The Muskingum County Agricultural so- night never to rise. A fever set in and in a few ciety was organized January 21, 1848, under an days he died and was buried in David Archer's act of the Ohio legislature for the encourage- graveyard, two miles north of Fort Wayne. ment of agriculture passed about two years Thus ended a most wonderful life, devoted to earlier. The following named were the first raising and disseminating apple trees from Penn- officers: Cornelius Springer, of Springfield sylvania through Ohio to Indiana, as well as township, president; George W. Gibbons, of other plants, and preaching and practicing Wayne township, vice-president; James L. Cox, his benevolent Christianity throughout a large of Zanesville, treasurer; Uriah Park, of Zanes- portion of our western country."

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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 35

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