Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County Ohio, Part 2

Author: E. M. P. Brister
Publication date: 1909
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 913

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ARTHUR CLARENCE HATCH.

Arthur Clarence Hatch, who for twenty-two years has been a resident of Newark and throughout the entire period has been connected with the American Tribune, and the American prior to the merging of the two papers, now occupies the position of business manager. In a position of executive control he has shown himself thoroughly qualified for the work and carefully masters the problems which continually arise in the management of a successful newspaper as well as in the control of industrial or commercial interests. He was born in Milford. New Hampshire, September 27, 1863. His father, Charles G. Hatch, was a native of Milford, Massachusetts, and was of Scotch ancestry. The first of the name in this country came at the time of the Huguenot exodus and settled in the old Bay state. When the colonies attempted to throw off the yoke of British oppression representatives of the Hatch family served in the American army. Charles G. Hatch was a dealer in carriages and a successful merchant who, extending the scope of his business activity, also became well known as a dealer in horses. He died in 1902 at the age of seventy-three years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Blanchard, was born in Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, and was a granddaughter of Jotham Blanchard, who furnished money to equip the troops and furnish them supplies at the time of the Revolutionary war, lending the money

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to the state. It will thus be seen that on both the paternal and maternal sides Arthur C. Hatch comes of a race of people intensely patriotic and loyal in the early days of the country's history. His mother, a consistent Christian woman, holding membership in the Congregational church, now makes her home with her son, George W. Hatch, at Wilton, New Hampshire, at the age of seventy-nine years. By her marriage she became the mother of nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom only one is now deceased. Of these Charles A. and George W. Hatch are physicians, while Fred S. Hatch is an attorney. Ernest G., of Buffalo, New York, is superintendent of the John Hancock Life Insurance Com- pany, and Frank S. is a resident of Pepperill, Massachusetts. Arthur C. Hatch, who was sixth in order of birth, attended the public schools of Milford, New Hampshire, and when his education was completed became bookkeeper in a large general store at that place, occupying the position for about three years. In 1887 he came to Newark, where his brother, Charles A. Hatch, was a well known phy- sician. Entering business circles here, Mr. Hatch became circulation manager for the American, a paper published in Newark, and acted in that capacity until 1896, when he was promoted to the responsible position of business manager and through various changes, including the consolidation of the American with the Tribune, he has continued as business manager to the present time. The success of the paper is largely attributable to his efforts, for in all business affairs he displays keen discrimination and sound judgment, combined with a thorough understanding of the modern business methods that lead to progress and ad- vancement.

In 1884 Mr. Hatch was married to Miss Jessie P. Butterfield, who was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, in 1864, and they have three children: Marion, Ruth and Bernice. The parents and children are members of the First Presby- terian church of this city, in which Mr. Hatch served as a trustee for several years. In the work of the church they are much interested and are active in support of many measures for the general good. Mr. Hatch belongs to the Odd Fellows society, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken high rank, while at the present time he is a member of the Mystic Shrine. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has done not a little to mold its policy in this county. For a time he served as a member of the board of health but resigned the position and was elected secretary of the city board of elections, in which capacity he served for four years. His devotion to the general good has been manifest in many tangible ways. He recognizes the opportunities for municipal progress and is in hearty sympathy with all those measures which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride.

THOMAS G. FLEMING.

Thomas G. Fleming needs no introduction to the readers of this volume, for the Fleming family is most widely and favorably known in Licking county, and the subject of this review occupies a prominent place in business circles, being associated with his father and brother in the breeding of standard bred horses and

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polled Durham cattle. He was born in Perry township on the 4th of July, 1857, and is a son of Nathan Quinn Fleming, of whom extended mention is made on another page of this volume. The home farm was his playground in youth and his training school for the experiences of practical business life. His intellectual train- ing was obtained in the common schools of the neighborhood and in the Ohio Wesleyan University. On attaining his twenty-third year he entered into partner- ship with his father in the breeding of fine cattle and horses and the business connection between them has since been continued. They are today numbered among the most prominent dealers of Ohio, with extensive business interests and large investments in fine stock.

On the 11th of October, 1883, Mr. Fleming was married to Miss Bertha Stump, a daughter of William and Catherine (Fleming) Stump, of Licking township, Muskingum county, Ohio. Following their marriage the young couple removed to their present home farm, which Mr. Fleming had purchased in the previous September. The place comprises two hundred and thirty-four acres of rich and productive land and is as fine a farm as can be found in Licking county. He has erected thereon a handsome modern residence, of attractive style of archi- tecture, has a substantial barn and all of the modern equipments and accessories of the model farm of the twentieth century.

Mr. Fleming is one of the stalwart advocates of the republican party where important national issues are involved, but at local elections, where the only con- sideration is the capability of the candidate, he frequently casts an independent ballot, for his is never a blind following of party leadership. For three years he served as a director of the Licking County Agricultural Society and is one of the leading representative men in this part of the state, standing as an active factor in farming and stock-raising interests. In partnership with his father he is one of the best known representatives of this business in Licking county and central Ohio and the years are registering for him an honorable and gratifying success.

WILLIAM H. SMITH.

William H. Smith is the president of the P. Smith Sons Lumber Company and is connected with various other business enterprises of benefit to the city. He belongs to that class of representative American men who in promoting indi- vidual success have also contributed in large measure to the general prosperity. One of Newark's native sons, he was born October 9, 1858, his parents being Patrick and Rose Ann (McDonald) Smith, both of whom were natives of Ireland. The father came to the United States about 1844 when a young man and about 1846 took up his abode in Newark, coming down the old Ohio canal from Cleveland. He was married in this city, his wife having previously come from Ireland when sixteen years of age, locating first in Newark, New Jersey, after which she removed to Newark, Ohio. Patrick Smith worked on the railroad between Newark and Sandusky and during the period of its construction was made foreman. Later he became road master and so served until after the outbreak of the Civil war. In 1865 or 1866 he established himself in the lumber business, organizing the present

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lumber interests now conducted under the name of the P. Smith Sons Lumber Company. This is today one of the oldest business enterprises of the city and from the beginning success has attended the efforts of those in charge. In 1878 the firm name was changed to P. Smith & Son on the admission of William H. Smith to a partnership and in 1896, following the father's death, the business was incor- porated as the P. Smith Sons Lumber Company. As the years passed by the trade gradually increased and Patrick Smith became one of the prosperous residents of his adopted city. He was moreover recognized as a man of sterling worth and marked force of character and was frequently called to positions of public honor and trust. He held the office of city councilman for several years and was township trustee for a number of years. He likewise acted as a director of the Children's Home for some years and at all times was interested in everything pertaining to the welfare and progress of the community. He gave his political support to the democracy until the year of the Blaine campaign-1884-when he allied himself with the republican party and was afterward a stanch advocate of its prin- ciples. He held membership in the Catholic church and was a man of high moral worth, who never hesitated to express his convictions and stood fearlessly in support of what he believed to be right. He died in 1894 and the community mourned the loss of one whom it had come to know and respect as a man and citizen of genuine worth. His widow still survives and resides with her daughters, Fannie and Ollie, in this city.

William H. Smith spent the days of his boyhood and youth in his parents' home and obtained his early education in the public and parochial schools of Newark, while later he attended the De La Sala at Toronto, Canada. Following his return to Newark he entered his father's office and soon afterward was admitted to the business as a partner. This is today one of the oldest lumber yards of the city and an extensive patronage is enjoyed, owing to the straightforward business policy which has ever been followed and the enterprising methods which have characterized the conduct of the undertaking. Mr. Smith is moreover a stockholder and director in the Newark Trust Company and a stockholder and director of the Hanover Pressed Brick Company, of which he is also the vice president. He is also president of a retail lumber yard in Columbus, and is interested in several tracts of timber land and two sawmills in Tennessee. He has been president of the Board of Trade of Newark for a number of years and is justly accounted one of the leading business men of the city. During his administration as president of the Board of Trade he infused new life into Newark, doing most effective work in securing the establishment of industries here and in promoting the growth and development of the city along various lines.

In 1880 occurred the marriage of Mr. Smith and Miss Margaret Radigan, of Newark. They became the parents of two children, of whom one is now living, Emmett, who is in the office with his father. The wife and mother died about 1888 and ten years later Mr. Smith wedded Miss Estella Brennan, of Newark. Unto this marriage have been born four children : Gerald A., Mary E., Norvert W. and Martha Grace.

Mr. Smith belongs to Newark Lodge, No. 391, B. P. O. E., and is also con- nected with the Catholic Order of Foresters and with the Catholic church. He is independent in politics but is never remiss in the duties of citizenship, giving hearty and helpful cooperation to every movement that is calculated to benefit the

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city along lines of substantial and material improvement. He today occupies a prominent place in commercial and financial circles and is honored and respected by all, not alone because of the prosperity which he has achieved but also owing to the straightforward methods he has ever followed in all of his business connections.

CHARLES T. CHAPIN.

Among the most honored and respected of the venerable citizens of Licking county is Charles T. Chapin, who was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, December 20, 1823. His father, Curtis S. Chapin, traced his ancestry back to Samuel Chapin, who was the founder of the family in America, coming to the new world from England in 1640. Charles T. Chapin is a representative in the seventh generation of the descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, one of the founders of Springfield, Massachusetts, where has been erected a celebrated statue to his memory. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary Bursiel and was a native of Massachusetts, representing in the maternal line the old Colby family of that state. Throughout his entire life Curtis S. Chapin was identified with the United States armory and he and his wife always remained residents of Springfield, Massachusetts. In the family were six sons and two daughters, of whom Charles T. was the seventh in order of birth and the only one that came to Ohio. His brother, Luther Chapin, spent most of his life in Philadelphia and was the first president of the state organization known as the American Mechanics' Association and was the first president of the national organization.

Charles T. Chapin spent the first sixteen years of his life as a pupil in the schools of Springfield, Massachusetts, and through the periods of vacation, from the age of ten years, was employed on a farm. His father was well-to-do, but the son preferred financial independence and thus provided for his own support after he had passed his first decade of life, during a portion of which time he worked in a cotton factory, there continuing for a year and a half. In 1840 he removed to Ohio, making his way to the Western Reserve. The trip was a business one for his father, who had shipped five thousand dollars' worth of mulberry trees to that district. Owing to the suspension of specie payment in 1839, however, the trees were left on Mr. Chapin's hands, as the purchasers could not make the required payments. Being pleased with the western district, Mr. Chapin deter- mined to remain and in the spring of 1841 went to Akron, Ohio, where for four years he served an apprenticeship in a carriage shop. On the canal he made his way to Granville, where he arrived on the 1st of September, 1815. He had landed at Newark at midnight and had journeyed on foot to his destination, reaching the village by daylight. Hugh Sinnett was waiting for Mr. Chapin and invited him to join his Sunday school and there Mr. Chapin taught a class for six years. His work in the church at once established his place in the community, showing him to be a man of high and honorable purposes and upright life. Starting in business, he opened a carriage shop on the college grounds, doing general repair work for a year and a half. He also engaged in teaching school, for three months at thirteen dollars per month, and "boarded 'round" among the pupils. He also attended college and met the expenses of his college course through

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his own labors. After a year and a half spent in the preparatory department he devoted four years to the completion of a college course, earning his own way through teaching and by work in the shop. He was graduated in 1851, having completed the classical course, at which time the Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred upon him. He then left for the west with a good span of horses and three buggies which he had made. He stopped first at Bellefontaine and at Delphos, teaching school in both places. In 1856 he continued his westward way to Iowa, where he engaged in teaching for four years and then went to Kansas, where he also taught for a number of years. After farming for a time he started an apple nursery, being among the first to engage in that line of business in the locality. In other lines of activity he also became well known. He was elected and served as county superintendent of schools in Anderson county, Kansas, for four years, and for a time was engaged in merchandising, conducting a dry-goods and grocery store for three years.

He was in Kansas during the period of the Civil war and was in the Price raid. Afterward he engaged in merchandising in the Indian territory for two years. In 1881 he returned to Licking county and established his home on his present farm, which now comprises fifty-four acres, although at one time it was one hundred acres. It was formerly the property of his father-in-law and of his wife's grandfather, having been in possession of the family since 1812. It is pleasantly located a half mile north of Granville on the Mount Vernon road. For seven years Mr. Chapin engaged in the milk business in connection with general farming, but now rents his land, while he is living retired. He also spent one year in Colorado for his health.

In 1851 Mr. Chapin was married to Miss Emeline Rose, who was born April 24. 1830, and is a daughter of William Rose, who was the first male child born in the Granville colony, the date of his birth being October 23, 1806. He spent his entire life on the home farm and was a son of Levi Rose, one of the colony who came to Licking county from Granville, Massachusetts, arriving in the year 1805. Levi Rose was a captain in General Hull's army at the time Hull surrendered to the British at Detroit, Michigan. From that time forward until his death he was closely identified with farming interests in this part of the state. William Rose was reared amid the wild scenes and environments of pioneer life and after arriving at years of maturity he wedded Alexandria Atwood, a daughter of Squire Atwood. Unto them were born seven children, of whom two died in infancy, while Albert died as a soldier of the Civil war, Mrs. Chapin being one of the three surviving members of the family. Mrs. Chapin's parents and both grand- mothers were members of the Baptist church. Her grandfather Rose was an Episcopalian, and though her grandfather Atwood was a professor of religion he did not belong to any church.

Fraternally Mr. Chapin is connected with the Masons. His life has ever been actuated by high and honorable principles and he has long been a prohibi- tionist who has done active campaign work for his party. He has ever been a believer in temperance principles and by precept and example has done much to further the cause. Since 1843 he has been a faithful and devoted member of the Baptist church, and Mrs. Chapin has been a member for sixty years. Mr. Chapin has acted as a teacher in the Sunday school for sixty years and for the past

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quarter of a century has been a deacon in the Granville church. His life has at all times been honorable and upright, in consistent harmony with his religious professions. He has endeavored closely to follow the teachings of the Bible and now in the evening of his days he can look back over the past without regret and forward to the future without fear. All who know him appreciate the honesty of his motives and the sterling integrity of his conduct and he enjoys in the fullest degree the good will and trust of those with whom he has been associated through a long life of activity and usefulness.

THEODORE TAYLOR.

The Taylor family have for many years been identified with the agricultural interests of this part of the state, and upwards of a century ago some of its members were among the early pioneers of Licking county, locating here long before the marks of progress were to be seen, and when vast stretches of forest land greeted the sight in whatever direction one might look. Here they settled with practically nothing save health and vigor and a strong determination to get along in life, and by clearing away the forests in order to put the land in condition for cultivation and by contenting themselves with the meager comforts offered by log-cabin life, they were among those who helped to develop the natural resources of the county and who were instrumental, by their brain and muscle, in laying the foundation for the present high state of prosperity now enjoyed by the later generations who are tilling the soil made ready for the plow by their honest and unremitting labors. William Taylor, his grandfather, came to this county at a very early date, settling in Newark township, and among his children was Thomas, who followed farming here until he went to California in 1852 on a gold-seeking expedition. There he remained for five years, meeting with success in mining. He subsequently returned to Newark township, and now resides in the city of Newark. His wife, Victoria (Van Vorhees) Taylor, is a native of Muskingum county, where they were united in marriage. They reared a family of eight children, namely: Gene- vieve, widow of Charles W. Stewart: Arthur E., who resides in Newark township; Theodore; Emma D., who became the wife of Edwin G. Stewart; Louanna, wife of Edwin Randolph, an attorney of Newark, Ohio; Fulton Z., an official of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; Lilian, who became the wife of George Chism, an agriculturist of Granville township; and Stanley, deceased.

Theodore Taylor was born in Licking township, May 8, 1865, and acquired his preliminary education in the district schools, subsequently completing an edu- cational course in the city of Newark. He then retired to his farm which is situated in Licking township, and has since been engaged in general agriculture. He owns two hundred nineteen and one-half acres of land in Licking township,-part of the old Taylor estate,-and has the entire tract under cultivation, his premises being as highly improved as any in the vicinity, and aside from producing general crops he also takes an interest in stock-raising. In the pursuit of agriculture he has been quite successful, his returns having been such as to enable him to launch out farther in the business world, and he is a stockholder in the Licking County Bank & Trust Company, and as well in the Newark Trust Company.

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The democratic party has always received the allegiance of Mr. Taylor, who is an advocate of all its policies and who after a thorough study of the merits of its platform in comparison with the principles of other political cults is firmly convinced of the wisdom of its policies. He is well spoken of throughout the town- ship as a man of enterprise and one who is straightforward and honest in all his dealings, and merits a high place among the township's representative citizens.

DAVID H. BARRICK.

Through the avenue of agricultural activity David H. Barrick won substantial success and is now living retired in Newark. IIe was, however, for many years connected with general farming and his industry and capable management brought him gratifying success. He was born in Madison township, Licking county, November 25, 1842, and is a son of William N. and Elizabeth (McCrum) Barrick, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, where they were reared and married. About 1835 they became residents of Licking county, removing thither with their one child, who had been born in Pennsylvania. They located in Madison township, Mr. Barrick purchasing a farm of one hundred acres in Madison township, to which he afterward added another tract of one hundred acres adjoining his first purchase. There he tilled the soil and made his home until his death, which occurred October 30, 1891. His first wife had died about 1846 and later Mr. Barrick wedded Miss Sarah Oliver, who passed away in 1905. By his first marriage there were seven children but only two are now living, the sister of our subject being Mrs. Amanda Glaze, a resident of California.

David H. Barrick was reared on the home farm, the work of the fields early becoming familiar to him. His education was obtained in the common schools and on the 8th of September, 1861, when not yet nineteen years of age, he responded to the call to arms, enlisting as a member of Company H, Thirty-first Ohio Volun- teer Infantry. Following the expiration of his three years' term of enlistment he veteranized and served until the close of the war, being mustered out on the 27th of July, 1865. The history of the Thirty-first Regiment is his war record, for he was always on duty, was never wounded nor never in a hospital for a day. This command was with Sherman on the memorable march to the sea and partici- pated in many of the sanguinary conflicts which in the course of time led to the suppression of the rebellion in the south and the establishment of the Union upon a firmer basis than ever before.

Following his return home Mr. Barrick assisted in the further development and improvement of the farm up to the time of his marriage, which was celebrated on the 20th of January, 1870, Miss Catherine S. O'Bannon, of Madison township becoming his wife. They took up their abode upon the Davis farm of two hundred and fifty acres, a half mile east of Newark, for which he paid a cash rental of one thousand dollars per annum, agreeing also to keep up the fences and pay the taxes. Notwithstanding this high rental he made money and remained upon the farm for fifteen years. As time passed on his labors brought him a handsome competence and he then retired, purchasing property adjoining the city of Newark, whereon he erected a residence and has since made his home, enjoying now a well earned rest.

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Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County Ohio, Part 2

Author: E. M. P. Brister Publication date: 1909 Publisher: Number of Pages: 913

Author: E. M. P. Brister
Publication date: 1909
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 913