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 74

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Mrs. Mary M. Buker, Otsego, Ohio, is the Politically he was an old line whig. He reached widow of John Buker, who was a soldier in the the advanced age of ninety-two years and six great civil war. He was the son of Caleb Buker months, and was an active man to the last, walk- [See sketch of Decatur Buker], born on his father's ing from Coshocton to Otsego, a distance of farm in Monroe township, reared a farmer, received twelve miles, after he was ninety years old. He a limited common-school education and married was a man of character, honest, faithful and Mary M. Riney, daughter of Thomas and Catherine punctual, and held the respect of the people. He (Chaney) Riney. Thomas Riney was from Loudoun was a fine example of an old colonial patriot and county, Va., and a miller by trade. He married in his old age, delighted to relate his life as a in Virginia and became the father of ten children: soldier in the cause of freedom in Washington's Sarah A., Louisa, Rachel, John, Samuel, Oscar, army. Decatur Buker, his youngest son, was Thomas, Ellen, Mary and Amanda, all of whom born September 11, 1825, on his father's farm in are deceased except Thomas and Mary. His wife, Coshocton county, Ohio. His early education Catherine Chaney, was of Scotch descent. Mrs. was limited to the common schools, but he began Mary Buker was born April 16, 1842, in Loudoun teaching at the early age of seventeen and con- county, Va., received a limited common-school edu- tinued eighteen years. He gained an excellent cation and was twelve years old when she came, education and became an accurate scholar. He in 1854, with her parents to Ohio. They settled taught in Coshocton county and Monroe township, on a farm three miles north of Otsego, where the Muskingum county, and gained an enviable rep- father lived the remainder of his life. He had utation. January 3, 1849, he married Lucy M. been a soldier in the War of 1812, during which Barnard, daughter of Jason Barnard and Jane his constitution was shattered, and for thirty years (Holcomb) Barnard. The father was from Con- he was unable to work. John Buker and Mary necticut, near Hartford, and came to Ohio about Riney were married September 20, 1861, and one 1824, immediately after his marriage. All his year later when his eldest child, Frank, was an children were born in Monroe township and were infant, Mr. Buker enlisted in the service of his here married. There were eleven in all, named country as a private in Company F, Seventy eighth as follows: Julia R., Edwin P., Oliver, Lucy M., regiment Ohio Infantry, and served eleven months, Mary L., Jason A., Harriett A., Louisa M., when he was disabled by sickness. He was in sev- Electa L., Celia A., and Fidelia J. Mr. Barnard eral battles. He owned a farm of 160 acres, given was a farmer and lived to the age of seventy- him by his father, Caleb Buker, who was the eight years. He was a member of the Methodist wealthiest man in this township, and here Mr.

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Buker lived until his death, July 20, 1887. He proper. He removed to the city of Zanesville in was a good citizen, kind husband and father. To August, 1885, and now resides in the seventh Mr. and Mrs. Buker were born ten children-all ward. As a business man he is shrewd and far- living: Oscar, William A., Sarah O., George C., seeing; as an official, trustworthy and capable, and Alice L., Amanda M., Richard J., David J., Rachel as a citizen, enterprising, law-abiding and upright. M. and Annie R. Mrs. Buker is a woman of fine Miss Delia Flesher, who was born in Falls town- business ability, has managed her farm well, ship, this county, February 13, 1853, became his brought up her children creditably and given them wife in 1875, and January 8, 1883, bore him a all good common-school educations. Oscar F. daughter, whom they named Bessie B. married Ruth Lane. He is a carpenter at Otsego William H. Bush is a member of the firm of and has three children. William A. married Dora Prettyman & Bush, proprietors of the Caldwell Cornelius and lives in Zanesville. They have five woolen mills and manufacturers of fine skirts, children. Sarah C. married William Waters, a skirting and blankets, at Dresden, Ohio. So much farmer in this township, and has three children. advance has been made of late in the production Alice L. married Logan Smith, a farmer of Co- of domestic woolens, that the country is daily be- shocton county. Amanda M. married Thomas Nor- coming more and more independent of the foreign man, a carpenter, and resides in Indianapolis, Ind., manufacturer, and style, quality, durability, even- they have one child. The rest of the children are ness of texture, in fact all the qualities once sup- at home.

posed to be monopolized by the foreign manufact-

John F. Burgess, commissioner of Muskingum urer, are here reproduced, and in very many cases county, Ohio, was born in Hopewell township, this the foreign maker is very successfully competed county, August 26, 1852, to Thomas and Martha with in his own market. Such a concern as that (Bonifield) Burgess, the former of whom was also operated by Prettyman & Bush, keeps the public born in this county, near Pleasant Valley, May 1, alive on these essential facts and the trade which 1806, and died April 28, 1877. The Burgess they have established is very extensive. Mr. Bush family came to the "Buckeye State" from Mary- was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, October 19, land. The father was a skillful cabinet-maker, 1848, a son of Joseph and Mary (Gordon) Bush, and was also an undertaker and farmer by occupa- the former of whom was born in Connecticut and tion, and to know him was to honor him, for be- died in McConnelsville, Olio, in 1872, the mother's sides being enterprising and of an energetic, tem- birth occurring near Rockville, Muskingum county perament, he was strictly honorable in all his busi- and her death in Noble county, in 1876. In 1852 ness transactions and was of a generous and kindly the father established a woolen factory in Noble disposition. The mother was also born in this county, which he continued to operate for twenty- county, the year 1813 witnessing her advent into one years, and here young William H. learned the life, her people being early pioneers of this section. details of the business. In 1875 he began operat- John F. Burgess was one of their eight living chil- ing the old McConnell factory at McConnelsville, dren, was brought up to farm life and received Ohio, and in 1880 he purchased the Island mills a common-school education. He followed agricult- at Beverly, Ohio, and successfully conducted them ural pursuits until 1878 with fair success, then for five years. On account of the low water of turned his attention to the manufacture of lumber, that year he went to Caldwell, Ohio, and built the a calling in which he is still interested. He does Caldwell woolen mills in partnership with T. M. quite a heavy contracting business and furnishes McVay, but these mills were burned in 1889, and large quantities of lumber and ties to different Mr. Bush then came to Dresden. He has spent railroads. In the fall of 1887 he purchased a one- his life in the business in which he is now engaged third interest in a planing-mill, the firm being and is its thorough master. In 1873 he was mar- known as Patterson, Burgess & Co., for two years. ried to Miss Ella J. Carroll, of Perry county, by Mr. Burgess is a democrat and a strong supporter whom he has two children: Media and Lester. of the principles of that party, and owing to the Mr. Bush has always given his support to the re- efficient services he has rendered it at various times publican party, and in 1873 showed his approval and from the fact that he is a man of far more of secret organizations by becoming a member of than ordinary intelligence, he was elected a com- the I. O. O. F. He is a consistent member of the missioner of Muskingum county in 1889. He was Methodist Episcopal church.

nominated without solicitation on his part and re- ceived a majority of 300 votes. His term of office who was born in Baltimore county, Md., about will expire in January, 1893. He has proven him- twenty miles from the city of Baltimore. He was self one of the most faithful and capable officials, of Irish descent, and was married in Maryland, be- and in every instance has been true to her interests coming the father of the following family: Henry, and to his own principles of what is just and Joshua (who was killed by an accident in Muskin-

Joshua Butler is a grandson of Nicholas Butler,

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gum county, Ohio, in 1822), Nicholas, Jesse, Ach- was spread that the Indians were coming to mas- sah (who married Jacob Lane), Deborah (who died sacre the settlers, at which time Mr. Butler was single), and two other daughters, one of whom mar- away from home, having gone back to Virginia to ried Caleb Butler, and the other James Van make some collections. Mrs. Butler becoming Winkle. Nicholas Butler was a farmer, and first alarmed, took her children and went on horseback moved from his native state to Brooke county, W. alone through the dense wood to her old home in Va., and finally to Muskingum county, Ohio, with his Virginia, a distance of about 115 miles. She son Henry in 1810, at which time he was quite reached there safely, but missed her husband on aged. After the death of his first wife he took for the road while he was on his way home. She his second wife a Virginia widow, and by her be rested one day, then returned home, carrying one came the father of two children: Absolom and child in her arms and the other on the horse be- James. He died in this township. Henry Butler, hind her. Mr. Butler was one of the early justices his son, was born on July 18, 1781, in Baltimore of the peace, tried many cases and married many county, Md., and received the limited educa- of the early pioneers. His wife was a member of tion usually given the youth of his day. He the Old School Baptist church from her seventeenth learned the details of farming, and when a young year, and this church Mr. Butler joined late in man, in 1802, went to Brooke county, W. Va., where life. He traded his original farm in 1816 to a he purchased a small farm and was married on man by the name of Linton. The trade was September 3, 1807, to Charity Baxter, who was made offhand, Linton having come to him and born January 25, 1787, daughter of Samuel and proposing to make the trade, which was promptly Sarah (Chinneth) Baxter, the former of whom was accepted and the families moved the same day. born in Baltimore county, Md., and afterward setted On this farm, on which the subject of this sketch Brooke county, W. Va. He came to this county in now lives, has resided some member of the family 1810 with Henry Butler, and family and settled for the past seventy-five years, and it is now a fine in Muskingum township on 160 acres of land which place. He was a substantial pioneer farmer, and he entered. He was the father of the following was one of those hardy characters well fitted to en- children: Greenberry, William, Samuel, Sarah, dure life in the wilderness. He was very upright Annie, Polly, Charity and Rachel. Samuel Bax- in all his business transactions, and was highly re- ter was a man of limited education but industrious spected by all. He was well versed in law matters, and honest. He and his wife are members of the and being very just he filled the position of justice Old School Baptist church, and he gave the land in of the peace for thirty years. He was an old line 1816, for the first Baptist church and burying whig in politics, and lived to be about seventy-five ground in this township, both of which are still years old, dying December 10, 1855. Joshua But- kept in excellent condition. His son William, and ler his son was born September 16, 1823, in a hewed- Charity Chinneth were the first two persons to be log-house on the old homestead where he now buried in this cemetery. Samuel Baxter lived to lives. He received a common school education the age of eighty two, and throughout his long and attempted to gain a better education at Gran- life never violated his word. Henry Butler and ville, Ohio, but his health would not permit. He his wife became the parents of ten children: remained with his father until 1851, when he Amon, born August 13, 1808; William, born July married Alice J. Gist, a daughter of George and 20, 1810; Nicholas, born April 9, 1813: Sarah, Rachel (Jones) Gist, the former a farmer of Brooke born August 16, 1815; Samuel B., born June 5, county, W. Va., where he lived all his life except three 1818; Greenberry, born November 25, 1820; last years which were spent with his son-in-law, Joshua, born September 16, 1823; Jesse, born Mr. Butler. He and his wife were members of April 13, 1826: Helen, born February 1, 1829; the Old School Baptist church, and he was a and Rachel, born October 1, 1831. All these sons prominent man, a substantial farmer and was were over six feet one inch in hight except Jesse, very liberal with his children, giving each of them who was five feet eleven inches. Joshua, the sub- $2,000 on starting out in life for themselves. He ject of this sketch, was the tallest, reaching the lived to be about seventy-four years old. He was towering hight of six feet four inches. Henry the father of the following children: Elizabeth, Butler came to this state and county with his family who died in infancy; Annie, Elizabeth, Cecil, Alice in the fall of 1810, making the trip by wagon, and J., Thomas, Joseph, William and George. After with the exception of Amon and William, all his his marriage he remained on the old homestead, children were born in this township. He settled and has resided here all his life, with the exceptoin on 160 acres five miles northwest of where Joshua of three years which he spent in Perry township now lives, at which time there were only two on a farm which he bought of John Spry, and one wagons and one road in the township, the latter year when he was superintendent of the county in- leading to Zanesville. In the fall of 1811 a report firmary, and five and one-half years spent on the old

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Boggs place, which is now within the corporation of dren: Nelson, William, John, James, Elizabeth, Zanesville. He is a practical farmer, and is univer- Margaret, Susan, Jesse, Dorothy and Sampson. sally known as an honorable business man. Besides Mr. Redman was an honorable, straightforward his farm he owns real estate in Zanesville. He is man. * Directly after marriage Mr. Cartnal settled a republican politically, and he and his wife are on land adjoining the old homestead, and resided liberal in the use of their means in the support of here seventeen years. After the death of his worthy enterpises. She is a member of the Old father he moved to the old homestead, where he School Baptist church. Their union resulted in has since resided. His marriage was blessed by the birth of two children: George G., and Millard the birth of seven children: Almeda, born Septem- F., who died March 29, 1891, leaving a wife, Mary ber 16, 1852; Lucy E., born September 7, 1856; E. (Snyder) Butler, and three children: Bessie, William J., born June 2, 1859; Jacob H., born Charlotte and Charles H., to whom Mr. and Mrs. July 4, 1861, and died on the 4th of April, 1890, Butler have given a home. George G., married when twenty-eight years of age; Susanna, born Nettie Lane, a daughter of John M. Lane, and by September 16, 1863; Melissa C., born October 24, her has two children: Pearl and Lane. Joshua 1867, and Lewis M., born September 3, 1869. Mr. Butler is an excellent example of the substantial Cartnal is a man highly esteemed by the people of Ohio farmer, and is a man of numerous worthy the township, and has held many local positions. traits of character.

He has been school director, and is not only inter- An honorable and successful career of many ested in educational matters, but takes a decided years has served to place Lewis Cartnal, Cot- interest in all enterprises for the good of the tage Hill, among the substantial farmers of Mus- county. He has given his children all good com- kingum county, Ohio. He was born in Maryland mon-school educations, and two sons, W. J. and on the 24th of March, 1827, and was about three Jacob H., are school teachers. In politics Mr. and a half years of age when he was brought by Cartnal is a democrat. He has always been a his parents, Jacob and Eleanor (Brookover) Cart- hard-working, industrious man, and assisted by nal, to Ohio. Jacob Cartnal was also a native of his cheerful wife, he has accumulated a good prop- Maryland, born in 1775, and was of English de- erty, consisting of 178 acres of land. His word is scent. He was of old colonial stock, and was a as good as his bond, and every one has the utmost soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Cartnal's father, confidence in him. He is an excellent representa- Thomas Brookover, was a farmer of Maryland. tive of the sterling stock from which he sprang, and The seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cartnal his children rank well as honorable and upright were named in the order of their births as follows: people. All are married, except Melissa C. and Raphael, Elizabeth, Mary A., Thomas, Catherine, Lewis M. Almeda married Carlton L. Butler, a William and Lewis, all born on a farm in Mary- resident of this township, and has three children land. In 1831 Jacob Cartnal and family came to living:

Keturah E., Carrie R. and Lewis G. Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled on the farm Lucy E. married William H. Weakley, a farmer of in Muskingum county, where his son Lewis now Licking county, and they have six children: Ber- resides. He cleared and improved this farm, and tram V., Milam M., Jennie B., Flossie D., Eliza- there passed the remainder of his life, his death beth M. and Iva G. Jesse married Rosa Siler, a occurring April 3, 1866, when ninety-one years of farmer's daughter of Licking county, and they have age. His wife died February 6, 1874, when eighty- six children: Jefferson R., Eddie E., Grover C., eight years of age. In politics he was at one time Dollie C., Jacob F. and Leota V. Susanna mar- a whig, but later a democrat. He was a member ried Jacob M. Farmer, clerk and teacher of New- of the Methodist Episcopal, and his wife a mem- ark, Ohio, and they have one child, Kenneth V. ber of the Old School Baptist church. He was in- Mr. Cartnal is a Baptist in his religious belief, dustrious and lionorable, and was well thought of and his wife has been a member of that church by all acquainted with him. Lewis Cartnal re- for twenty-five years. The daughters, Melissa C. ceived but a limited education in the pioneer schools and Almeda. are members of the same church.

of Muskingum county, and his youthful days were . The humanizing influences of Christianity are passed in assisting his father to clear and cultivate shown in thousands of directions, but in none to a the farm. He selected as his companion in life more marked degree than that of medical and sur- Miss Dorothy Redman, who was born in Muskin- gical science, and Edward Cass, M. D., of Dresden, gum county, Ohio, January 28, 1828, and who was Ohio, is recognized throughout the state as a friend the daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Hill) Red- of and laborer in the cause and advancement of the man. Her father came from Virginia to Ohio a medical fraternity. He is the only living repre- number of years before the Cartnals, and settled sentative of the Cass family of Ohio, the members on a farm in Hopewell township. He lived to be of which have held so conspicuous a place in the seventy years old. He was the father of ten chil- historical annals of the country. The progenitor

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of this illustrious family in this country was Maj. was president of the Zanesville Academy of Medi- Jonathan Cass, a native of New Hampshire, who cine, and is now president of the Zanesville Med- became distinguished in the Revolutionary war, ical society, and president of the Muskingum Dis- having taken part in the battles of Bunker Hill, trict Medical society. Dr. Cass is of a robust con- Saratoga, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth and Ger- stitution, is very prepossessing in personal appear- mantown, rising to the rank of major. After this ance, and bears a strong resemblance to the elder war he served in the regular army under Gen. An- members of his family. He is one of the eminent thony Wayne. In 1781 he married Mary Gillman, men of Ohio, and is especially well known to the daughter of Theophilus Gillman, a noted tory. In medical fraternity of the country. He was mar- 1794, after the battle of Maumee, he was stationed ried in 1885 to Miss Clara Shaw, of Columbus, in command at Fort Washington, on the present Ohio, by whom he is the father of two sons: Ed- site of the city of Cincinnati, where he remained ward McDowell and George Abner. until 1797. In 1799 he purchased land warrants Dr. Harvey C. Chappelear, Hopewell, Ohio, amounting to 4,000 acres, and being given his one of the successful physicians of the county, choice of location, he chose Muskingum river land was born on the farm that he now owns, in Hope- in what is now the northern part of Muskingum well township, Muskingum county, Ohio, October county, Ohio. Maj. Cass came to Marietta, Ohio, 15, 1841, and is of French-English descent. His in 1800, bringing with him his wife and five chil- grandfather, William A. Chappelear, was a na- dren. The eldest son, Lewis Cass, remained in tive Virginian, and his wife, who was a Miss Brad- the East to complete his studies in the Exeter field, was also a native of the Old Dominion. academy, and after graduating came to Ohio. and They were the parents of ten children: John, later became a lawyer of Zanesville. He was the Johnson, Henderson, Sarah, Jane, Rachel, James, first prosecuting attorney of the county, served in Charles, Jackson and Nancy. Six of these are the War of 1812, and at its close removed to Michi- still living: John, Johnson, Sarah and Rachel, in gan and was governor of that state for eighteen Ohio, Henderson in Iowa, and Jane in Missouri. years following 1815. He was secretary of war The father of these children removed from Vir- under Jackson; was United States minister to ginia to Morgan county Ohio, in 1825, and there France in 1836; was United States senator from purchased a farm on which he resided for many

Michigan for two terms following 1844; was demo- years. His son, J. B. Chappelear, was born in cratic candidate for president in 1848; was secre- Loudoun county, Va., December 20, 1815, and is a tary of state under Buchanan in 1856, and died in farmer by occupation. He is now a resident of 1865. Deborah, the second child, became the wife Hopewell township. He passed his youthful days of Judge Wyllis Silliman, of Zanesville; George in working on his father's farm and in attending W., who remained on the farm, reared a family, the common school until 1839 when he located on among whom was the subject of this sketch, the the farm he now owns in Hopewell township. He present owner of the old Cass homestead, and died married Miss Mavilla E. Grant, daughter of August 6, 1873; Mary G. became the wife of Jo- George and Sarah (Rakestraed) Grant, both of seph Munro, and Capt. Charles Lee, the youngest whoin were natives of Virginia, and the fruits of of the family, served in some of the early Indian this union were two children: Sarah Delia wars, and died in 1842. George W. Cass was (Rayme), born November 1, 1839 and died in 1866, married to Miss Sophia Lord, daughter of Col. and Harvey C., the subject of this sketch. The Abner Lord, of Lyme, Conn. The children born to latter passed his boyhood days on the home farm this union were: George W. Jr. (who died in 1888), and received his education in the district school. John Jay (who died at the age of twenty-seven He then began studying medicine under Dr. Ramey years), Augusta L. (who died in 1888 also), Abner and subsequently attended Medical college at Cin- L. (died in August, 1887) and Dr. Edward (who cinnati, graduating in the class of 1862, wlien resides at Dresden). In early life he was a stu- twenty years of age. Returning to Hopewell dent in Kenyon college for a time, and later began township he began practicing his profession and the study of medicine, graduating in 1854 from has continued this in Hopewell township ever Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia. He at since, with the exception of six months spent in once located at Dresden, and here has since suc- Zanesville. He has a very lucrative practice. Dr. cessfully continued the practice of his chosen pro- Chappelear owns the old homestead located and fession. He is a prominent republican in politics, settled by his grandfather Grant, and is paying and is a man of extended experience and knowl -. strict attention to stock-raising. His desire is to edge, both professionally and otherwise. He is a better the grade of horses now in the county, and speaker and writer of ability, and has contributed his especial pride is fine double teams and saddle many articles to the literature of his profession horses. Many prizes have been carried away, which have been considered very able. In 1878 he both at his own county fairs and adjoining ones,

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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 74

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