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and has accumulated all his property by his own 16, 1885; David Warren, born November 16, 1887, exertions. When his country needed his services who died at the age of two years, and Bishop O., he did not hesitate to risk his life in its defense, born August 26, 1889. Both parents are members and his colonel, John McNulty, wrote of him that of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Lovejoy he was a brave and true soldier.
is a member of the I. O. O. F., and succeeded in establishing a lodge in New Concord in 1888.
Z. D. Lovejoy, agent for the B. & O. R. R. at New Concord, and a popular druggist of that town, This now has forty-eight members. He has been owes his nativity to Barnsville, Belmont county, officially connected with the lodge, was the first Ohio, born on February 24, 1859. He comes of a noble grand, and since that time he has held the prominent family of Maryland, and is third in prominent position of permanent secretary. He order of birth of six children born to Perry G. and first connected himself with the lodge at Fort De- Eliza E. (Mount) Lovejoy, both natives of New fiance, in Defiance county, this state, in 1882, and Market, Md., and both born in the year 1832. has been an active member of the lodge ever since. The father was a prominent railroad man, and He is also a member of other organizations. In after his marriage moved to Belmont county. This politics he affiliates with the democratic party. was in about 1857 or 1858, and he resided there Mr. Lovejoy is active in school and church work, until the breaking out of Civil war, when he and is a public spirited young man, assisting in entered the army. He participated in a number every way in all enterprises of a worthy nature. of prominent engagements, in one of which he re- He has been unusually successful as a business ceived a gunshot wound, which resulted in his man, and has done much to advance the interests death in 1865. To his marriage were born the of the town in the last few years. He embarked following children, four sons and two daughters: in the hay business with S. H. Vandivort, under Robert B .. married, is engaged in the coal business the firm name of Lovejoy & Vandivort, and they in Steel, Belmont county, Ohio; John W., mar- are now engaged in buying and baling hay for the ried, is engaged in the same business with his eastern market. They do a rushing business, and brother Robert, but in connection is also engaged are pushing, enterprising men. Mr. Lovejoy owns a in merchandising; Z. D. (subject); David M., good home in New Concord, and they also own the married, is United States express agent at Chicago building in which their hay business is carried on.
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William B. Lowry is a member of one of the business with his brother Walter, which they car- oldest families in Muskingum county, Ohio, and ried on for about six or eight years, when they of Irish descent. He was born on a farm near dissolved, and since that time our subject has Roseville in 1839, and was one of the eleven been in business alone, manufacturing stoneware children born to the union of Jaremiah and Su- since the past fifteen years, and making drain sanna (Richardson) Lowry. The father was also tile and flower pots, making and selling annually born in the county, and was a son of Camdy about $10,000 worth of goods. Mr. Lowry was Lowry and wife. Camdy Lowry came from Ire- married in 1867 to Mildred Caton, a native of this land to the United States at an early day. He county, born in 1841, and the daughter of George reared a family of twelve children, Jaremiah be- W. and Mildred (Buckley) Caton, natives of Vir- ing one of them, all deceased except Camdy, now ginia. Mr. and Mrs. Lowry are members of the living in Iowa. Jaremiah was born and reared Methodist Episcopal church, and have a family of in this county. Here he received his education four children: Silas F., is a man of family, liv- and learned the carpenter's trade, which he fol- ing at Putnam; Annetta, is now Mrs. Samuel lowed most of his life, but the latter part he en- Moore (her husband is a teacher in the public tered the mercantile and stoneware business. He school of Roseville; Edna is at home and Harry commenced the manufacture of stoneware about is still at school. The children are all members of 1852, and was very successful in it. He was the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Lowry is much interested in politics, and always voted the much interested in politics, and is a democrat. democratic ticket. In early life he married Su- He is mayor of the town of Roseville. Socially, he sanna Richardson, and they had a family of is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the G. A. eleven children, all living. The father died in R. post No. 290, of Roseville, which he helped 1877. The mother of this remarkable family was to organize, and is among the leading citizens of born near Roseville, a daughter of one of the the community.
pioneers of this county, who was a farmer and
In endeavoring to trace the genealogy of Ben- school-teacher. She was a member of the Chris- son Loyd, Dresden, Ohio, we find that his paternal tian church, and died in 1877 at the age of sev- grandfather, Joseph Loyd, was a native of Penn- enty years. The children were: Albert, Austin, sylvania and of Welsh descent; that he served in the Lyman, Milton, Ellen, William (subject), Cather- Revolutionary war, lived to the great age of ninety- ine, Sarah, Walter, Adolph and Harriet. Of these, eight years, and died in Jefferson county, Ohio. only five live in this county, the rest having The latter's son, and the father of our subject, Eli moved West, three as far as California. The Loyd, was born in Lancaster county, Penn., pottery business was started by the father about and served under Gen. William Henry Harrison 1852, and he educated his boys to the business. in the War of 1812. He was married in his native William B. Lowry, in 1861, enlisted in Company state to Miss Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of A, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, under John Campbell, of Ohio county, W. Va., and nine Capt. Edwards and Col. F. B. Pond. He enlisted children were the fruits of this union: Joseph, as a private, and later became captain. Some of John C., Margaret, Sarah (died young), William the battles in which he took part were Winches- W., Benson, Eli, Anna and Jesse, all of whom ter, Port Republic, Black Water, Petersburg, Fort were born in Ohio county, W. Va. In December, Wagner, and a number of skirmishes. He was 1828, Mr. Loyd came to Muskingum county, Ohio, captured, after being wounded, at Deep Bottom, settled in what is now Cass township, and there Va., August 16, 1864, and first confined to Libby passed the remainder of his days. He owned 160 prison, and later at Saulsborough and Danville; acres of land and was a substantial farmer, follow- he was a prisoner about six months, and was ing that occupation until his death in June, 1857, discharged February 22, 1865. Upon returning when eighty-one years of age. He was of a quiet, to Richmond, after it was held by the Union sol- retiring disposition and made no attempt to hold diers, he was given charge of a company to guard office. In politics he was a democrat. His son, Libby prison, and held as prisoner the officer who Benson Loyd, was born in Ohio county, W. Va., had hield him prisoner only a short time before, on January 19, 1818, and was but a little over probably the only circumstance of the kind on ten years of age when he came with his parents to record. He recovered from his wound, and was the Ohio wilderness. He grew up in the rough discharged at - Point, Va., when he returned school of pioneer days, and, although he had but home. He settled at Roseville, and has since re- limited educational advantages, he made the best sided here. He had four brothers in the war; of his opportunities, and became well posted on all served through the entire struggle and came all subjects. In 1848 he married Miss Jemimah home. They were Walter, Lyman, Milton and Cole, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Welsh) Adolph. William B. started in the stoneware Cole, the father a native of Pennsylvania and one 29
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of the first settlers of Muskingum township. Mr. man's good intention, for he prides himself on his Cole was the father of nineteen children, seventeen honesty, and his good name is above reproach. of whom lived to marry, and Mrs. Loyd was the He was born in Perry township, Muskingum youngest of this large family. Mr. Cole was a county, Ohio, September 16, 1855, to Henry and well-to do farmer and was the owner of 400 acres Caroline Hyatt, being the eldest of their eight of land. He was one of the first members of the children, two died when infants. The father is a Presbyterian church in this county, and died in native of England, and in 1841 came to America, full communion with the same when seventy-eight settling on a farm in Union township, of this years of age. After marriage Benson Loyd settled county, but for the past thirty years has been a with his wife in Cass township, and three years resident of Rich Hill township. The initiatory later moved to the home place in that township training of John Wesley Ludman was obtained in where they resided until 1873, having bought the the common schools, and from 1874 to 1879, he place in 1857. In 1868 Mr. Loyd was elected followed the occupation of farming as a hired hand, sheriff and served in that capacity for four years, thus following in the footsteps of his father. In filling the position in such a capable and efficient 1880 he turned his attention to his present busi- manner that he was reelected. He has also been ness at Moscow Mills, Morgan county, Ohio, where township trustee for eleven years and township he remained one year, after which he came to his commissioner for two years. In politics he is a present location. In 1880 he was married to Miss stanch democrat. Mr. Loyd has ever been inter- Sybil Ann Phillis, daughter of Thomas W. Phillis, ested in educational matters and was school di- of Ohio, and to them a family of three children rector for nine years. Mrs. Loyd died March 19, has been born: Pearl Henry, Alenza Blanche and 1872. She was a devout Presbyterian in her Cora Maud. Mr. Ludman and his family are religious views, and Mr. Loyd is of the same members of the Methodist Episcopal church, to belief. He assisted with his means in building which he is a liberal contributor. He is charitable the Presbyterian church in Dresden and has also and influential, and is in every respect a self made been liberally disposed toward other churches, man. He has been the postmaster at Chandler- assisting in building the Presbyterian church in ville since 1889, and is regarded as a capable man Muskingum township, the Baptist church in for the office.
John H. Lynn, of Nashport, Ohio, belongs to
Dresden, and the Old School Baptist church in Shannon. To Mr. and Mrs. Loyd were born nine an old Virginia family, his father, George Lynn, children: Hannab, Elmos J., Martha M., James C., having been born August 14, 1792, near Winches- Wilson, Willis H., Alphis, Phoebe A., and Lemert ter, of that state. The paternal grandfather was B. In August, 1873, Mr. Loyd settled on his a native Scotchman, and had three sons: George, present farm, consisting of 160 acres pleasantly Daniel and Henry. Daniel was an innkeeper of situated near Dresden, and here he expects to pass Winchester in early times. George was married the remainder of his days in ease and comfort. at Reading, Penn., to Catherine Elizabeth Spotz, He is a representative citizen, has the confidence and after his marriage lived in Winchester, where and respect of all, and has ever discharged the he followed the calling of a baker. He afterward duties of the different official positions he has went to Wardensville, W. Va., and kept a tavern for held, in a creditable and satisfactory manner. many years. Here his wife died, and in 1845 he His daughter, Hannah, married Charles Gurrin, came to Nashport, Ohio, and began working for a farmer of Perry county, Ohio. Elmos J., is con- his son William, who had been engaged in the nected with the First National bank of St. Paul, mercantile business with Levi Claypool for a num- Minn. James C., married Miss Ada Lewis, and ber of years. Upon first coming to Ohio, William is in the cattle business in Boise county, Idaho. Lynn clerked for I. W. Baker, of Newark, but Willis H. married Miss Anna Franks, and is train after becoming associated with Mr. Claypool he inspector at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Wilson is a remained with him until he was elected treasurer resident and farmer of Illinois. The remainder of of Muskingum county, when he removed to Zanes- the family are at home. ville about the opening of the Civil war. George
John Wesley Ludman is the proprietor of a gen- Lynn was the father of eight children: William, eral mercantile establishment at Chandlersville, and Edward, Maria A., Daniel, John H., Julia, Susan keeps a select stock of goods valued at about $6,000. and Isaac. The father of these children was He keeps dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, elected constable of Hardy county, W. Va., when the gents' and ladies' furnishing goods, queensware, duties of a constable were of far more importance wall paper, groceries, etc., and it is a pleasure to than they are now, and his collections extended know that in dealing at this store there is no prob- over the entire county. He was a man of integ- ability of getting anything except as it is repre- rity, and lived to the age of fifty-four years. John sented, and this is undoubtedly due to Mr. Lnd- H. Lynn, his son, and whose name heads this
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sketch, was born in Hardy county, now West Vir- the same doctrine. Politically, he is a republican. ginia, April 20, 1827, but his early educational He is a practical farmer, a successful fruit grower, advantages were very meager. He managed, how- and an upright man. He is giving his children ever, to learn to read and write during the three all the advantages his means will afford, and is a months' attendance at a district school. He early believer in educational progress. Although he has learned to rely upon his own resources, and when a met with some business misfortunes, he now bids young man of nineteen, in 1846, came to Licking fair to become a wealthy citizen.
county, Ohio, and worked on a farm for his broth- Andrew Lyons, farmer, High Hill, Ohio, is a na- er-in-law, Jesse O. Switzer, who had married his tive of the Buckeye state, born on December 24.1824, oldest sister, Ann. In 1848 he returned to Vir- and the reputation which heenjoys is not only that of ginia, where he worked as a farm laborer for three a substantial and progressive farmer, but of an intel- years, and in February, 1851, he returned to Ohio, ligent and thoroughly posted man on all public af- walking the entire distance of 300 miles in com- fairs. His parents, Thomas and Esther Lyons, pany with another man, carrying his effects in a were natives of the Emerald isle, but emigrated to handkerchief over his shoulder. He remained in the United States at an early period. The father Licking county until 1855, and on March 25, 1856, came to Meigs township, Muskingum county, Ohio, he took up his abode at Nashport, where he ran in 1822; was among the early settlers, and there the still at Claypool's distillery for three years. his death occurred thirteen years later. Andrew Following this he farmed for one season, and in Lyons received a very limited education in the com- 1860, in company with Norton F. Claypool, he mon schools, never attending school more than eight planted the first successful peach orchard in the months altogether, but being a close observer and county, and first established the fact, which is now a great reader, is thus better posted than a great so successfully carried out, that the southwest hill- many who have had much better opportunities. He side is the best place for a peach orchard, as the began for himself, at the age of twenty-two, as an buds do not so easily winter-kill. These ideas he agriculturist, and this has continued to be his chosen obtained from an old West Virginian by the name occupation through life. In 1848 he bought 158 of Wilson, who had a famous peach orchard on acres of land in section 8, Meigs township, and Sugar Knob, in Hardy county. Mr. Lynn and to this he added, from time to time, until he owned Mr. Claypool made a contract to plant the Clay- 282 acres of excellent land. He was married, on pool peach orchard, and in this enterprise they May 30, 1849, to Miss Margaret, daughter of continued joint partners until 1880. The orchard Henry and Mary White, of Irish descent. Mrs. contained 7,000 trees and was famous all the coun- White died in 1870, and two years later, Mr. Lyons try round. Many thousand bushels were shipped wedded Miss Mary McKonkey. He has held the from it, and was the means of establishing the office of trustee, and socially is a member of the present flourishing peach business in this section Odd Fellows fraternity. In politics he is strictly of the country. Mr. Lynn is the owner of 116 democratic. He holds a membership in the Pres- acres of land, on which is a fine peach orchard, byterian church at High Hill.
and is making rapid progress in this business. He
John Hunt McCann, is one of the old settlers was married November 23, 1870, to Miss Malinda of Muskingum county, Ohio, and belongs to the Victor, daughter of Philip and Rachel (Claypool) oldest branch of the McCann family. [For early Victor, the former of whom was a son of Philip history of this family see sketch of Orville Mc- Victor, an old pioneer of the county and a soldier Cann. ] Samuel McCann, the father of the sub- of the War of 1812. Philip Victor, the father of ject of this sketch, was born April 2, 1780, on a Mrs. Lynn, became the father of thirteen children: farm within twelve miles of Belfast, Ireland, and James, Marchal (or Marsh), Sarah, Melinda, Mari- was one of a family of five children. Archibald, etta, Zara, William H., John, Fred, Jane, Emma, Samuel, George, James and Sallie. He was the first Harriet and Julia. Of this large family all are of the family to come to America, but his three living with the exception of Marietta. Mr. Victor brothers afterward came at different times. His died at the age of fifty-six years. He was a cooper sister, Sallie, married in Ireland and there spent and farmer and a hard-working and honest man. her days. George never married. He came to To Mr. and Mrs. Lynn the following children have Ohio and died in Erie county at the age of seventy. been born: John H. November 26, 1871; Levi W., Archibald settled on a farm in Muskingum county May 19, 1873; George, January 5, 1875; Annie and was married to Mary Matthews, of Ireland by R., March 18, 1877; Jesse V., January 4, 1880; whom he became the father of nine children: Eddie E. and Ettie (twins), July 7, 1884. Ettie David, Samuel, James, Jane, Sarah, Robert, died at the age of three months. Mrs. Lynn is a George, Thomas and Archibald. Archibald Mc- member of the New School Baptist church, and Cann was well educated for that day and was one although not a member, Mr. Lynn is a believer in of the early and successful school teachers of the
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county. He was a weaver by trade and lived to age of twelve years. The others were: John H., be seventy-five years of age, at which time he was Mary A., Eleanor, Sophia, and Samuel A. Mr. drowned in the Muskingum river at Zanesville. McCann gradually cleared up a farm and built a His children were well educated and all became log cabin in which he lived for many years. He school teachers. David and Archibald became then erected a hewed-log house (over seventyfive physicians in later years and the latter is the only years ago), which is still standing and is the one of the family now known to be living and is a residence of his grandson, Samuel McCann, medical practitioner of Antwerp, Ohio, Robert who married Ada Lane and has one son named graduated at Kenyon college, Ohio, then left home Glen. In this house John Hunt McCann was and has never been heard from since. James, the born. The family reunion of 1892 will be brother of Samuel, and uncle of John Hunt Mc- held there. Samuel McCann was a good hunter, Cann, came to America and settled near his brother, and kept his family well supplied with wild Samuel. He had married, in Ireland, Eliza Ham- meat. He was a noted marksman and killed ilton and by her became the father of seven chil- as many as twenty-four squirrel without missing dren: James, Jane, Eleanor, Robert, John, Sam- a shot, and often carried off the palm at the old- uel, and Mary. James McCann Sr. finally moved time shooting matches. The Indians were plenti- to Illinois and settled on a farm in Macon county, ful, but were peaceful and friendly. Mr. McCann where he died at the age of seventy-six years. wove the clothing for his family from flax and His family were also well educated, and nearly all wool, and his wife and children made them into of them became school teachers. His sons, John garments. He depended upon himself for every- and Robert, are business men of Zanesville. Sam- thing and the meal which they used at first was uel McCann Sr., father of our subject, was a pounded in mortars. Later they went to Zanes- weaver by trade and at the age of twenty years, in ville to mill and was often compelled to wait all 1800, he came to America and directly to Ohio, night for his turn. By hard work and economy entering a tract of 110 acres of land in Mus- he became possessed of a competency and gave kingum county. At this time Zanesville consisted his two eldest sons 160 acres of land a piece, John of two or three log cabins and there was not a H. 110 acres and Samuel 150 acres-the home cabin or stick cut, so far as he knew, 100 miles place. To his daughters he gave money. He north. His land was one mile southeast of where lived to the age of seventy-five years, dying Sep- Shannon now stands and on it is now an old burying tember 12, 1855. Although not a member he sup- ground where about thirty of the old settlers ported the Presbyterian church of which his wife
sleep. John H. McCann is the only person now was a member. He was a democrat, politically,
living who can locate and name their graves, which and was one of the county commissioners when are kept up by the family. Samuel McCann was the land was purchased where the county infirm- the first man to settle in Muskingum township, but ary now stands. He held the position of justice in 1805 Levi Cooper came with his wife and five of the peace and other township offices in early children, and in 1802 or 1803 Samuel Cole settled times. John Hunt McCann, his son, was born on here and became the father of nineteen children. the old homestead, February 6, 1825, and in the Settlers poured in rapidly after this and dense pioneer subscription schools he obtained his edu- forests soon gave place to well-cultivated fields of cation. His teachers were Archibald McCann, his grain. Samuel McCann, at the age of twenty, uncle, Robert McCormick (who was a fine penman was alone in a dense wilderness of heavy timber in and from whom John H. learned to write a clear which black bear, wolves and panthers abounded, and beautiful hand) and others. He also learned and game of all kinds native to the country roamed the details of farming and the use of tools in his at will. Deer and wild turkey, were plentiful and youth and until he was twenty-seven years of age a few buffaloes were to be found. After entering he remained at home. He then received 110 his land and locating his claim Mr. McCann went acres of land from his father, and April 10, 1851, to Hagerstown, Md., and remained about two married Elizabeth McGlade, who was born Feb- years, after which he returned to his land. He ruary 14, 1828, a daughter of William and Jane married Rebecca Cooper, daughter of Levi Coop- (McCann) McGlade, the former of whom was born er, the pioneer, and four children were born of in Virginia, September 14, 1800. His father was this union: Archibald, Rebecca, James and a Scotch-Irishman who came to this country from Sarah. The mother of these children died May 6, Ireland and settled in Virginia, where he married 1824, after which Mr. McCann married Mary and remained until he was the father of four chil- Hunt, daughter of Rev. Stephen Hunt, a pioneer dren, then came to Ohio and located at the salt Presbyterian minister, who lived many years at Ir- works near Zanesville. He was a substantial ville. To his second union eight children were farmer and his six youngest children were born born, two dying in infancy and Elizabeth at the here. He settled on land inherited from his
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father, who had seven sons and gave them each were Alexander, Robert, George, and a sister who eighty acres of land. William McGlade moved to married Gilbert Hamilton, an ancestor of the Iowa in 1858 and settled on a farm in Delaware Hamiltons, of Frazeysburg. There was also a county, where he died in his eighty-sixth year and half brother of this old Belfast family from whom his wife in 1869 at the age of sixty-seven years. the McCann's of Dresden descended. Thomas They were Covenanters in religious belief and dur- McCann was the father of six children: John, who ing the war a strong abolitionist. For several remained in Ireland; George settled near New years prior to his death he was blind. His chil- York city; Alexander settled at Newberg, N. Y .; eren who grew to maturity were Elizabeth, Anna, James, the grandfather of Orville A. and Robert Sarah, Jane, Mary, Maxwell, Martha, John H., E .; Nancy Greenfield, of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. and Eleanor. To John H. McCann and wife were Alexander who remained in Ireland. She had one born four children: Mary J., Emma E., Clara M. son who came to America. James McCann, son of and John Arthur. Mr. McCann lived on his farm Thomas, was born in Ireland in 1763, and was near the Muskingum river dam for four years, but there married in 1789 to Miss Elizabeth Sibbet, a in the fall of 1855 he came to Cass towhship. The daughter of Robert Sibbet, of Scotland. Mr. and winter of 1855-56 was the hardest ever known Mrs. McCann emigrated to America in 1794, bring- in the county. The weather was open and the ing with them two sons, Thomas and Robert. Mr. ground unfrozen until New Year's day when it be- McCann was a weaver by trade but first settled in came suddenly cold and the thermometer regis- Westmoreland county, Penn., on a farm. In 1815 tered twenty degrees below zero for about six the two sons, Thomas and Robert, then young weeks during which time the snow fell almost men, came on foot through the wilderness to Ohio every day. The sleighing was excellent and lasted and with their axes began clearing a claim. They until the first week in April. During this winter built a cabin and entered the land where Orville Mr. McCann was engaged in getting out timber and Emmet McCann now live. They found a man for his barn and other outbuildings. By hard by the name of John McCann settled on what is work and good management he has added to his now the farm of Jacob Nethers, and although he property until he now owns 400 acres of good land. was not related to them in any way, he gave up his He has held a number of minor offices in his town- farm to Thomas McCann and went away. The ship and proven himself a useful and progressive brothers returned to their home in Pennsylvania in citizen. He and his wife are members of the the fall, reaching home on Christmas. The next Presbyterian church, their children being mem- spring James McCann and his entire family came bers of that church also. Their daughter Emma to Ohio, by the Ohio river to Marietta, and settled E. married Sylvester Mears, a farmer of the on the land where the boys had built the cabin. county residing near Zanesville, by whom she has James was the father of ten children: Thomas,
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