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On the 15th of April, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Fanny Lake, a daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (English) Lake, who came to Ohio from the state of Virginia at an early date and settled near Zanesville. Six children were born unto them: Catherine, now the wife of Harmon Baker; James M .; Rovenna P .; Lucinda M., now deceased; Julia A., the wife of Horton Green; and one who died in infancy. James M. Van Fossen resides on what was formerly his father's farm, two miles north of Johnstown. In 1874 he wedded Miss Anna Tippy, a daughter of James and Levina (Green) Tippy, of Monroe township. Her father, who had attained the venerable age of eighty-two years at the time of his demise, was born, reared and died on the same farm. Mr. and Mrs. James Van Fossen have three children: Clyde, who is on the home farm; Delmon, a resident of Detroit, Michigan ; and Stella, the wife of Frank Needles.
Mr. Van Fossen has spent his entire life in one locality. As the years passed he became a successful farmer and stock-raiser and was among the most active and influential men of the neighborhood, always progressive, while his influence has been of great good. In the evening of life he can look back over the past without regret and forward to the future without fear. He has the respect, con- fidence and good will of the people who have long known him. He has been straightforward in his dealings with his fellowmen, energetic and active in his business life and thoroughly loyal in all matters of citizenship. He has always
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given his political allegiance to the democracy and still votes with that party. His memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present, for he has lived to see notable and remarkable changes here. In his youthful days there were no railroads, no mowing machines, harvesters, binders or threshing machines. The greater part of the farm work was done by hand, but invention has wrought a change in all this and in his farm work Mr. Van Fossen kept in touch with the trend of general progress and delighted in what was accomplished for the county's benefit and improvement.
JOHN WESLEY INNIS.
John Wesley Innis, a prosperous agriculturist of Etna township, now retired, who is the proprietor of what is known as the Summer Lee farm, on which he had for many years engaged in producing general crops and in stock-raising, was born near New Athens, Harrison county, Ohio, April 5, 1831, a son of Robert J. and Mary ( Webb) Innis, natives of that county. His paternal grandparents, Robert and Mary (Lloyd ) Innis, were natives of Pennsylvania and were stanch Quakers. In their family were eight children: James, Henry, Robert, John, deceased ; Mary, Hannah, Katherine and Betsy. In the family of Robert Innis, Jr., were also eight children, namely: John Wesley; Hannah, who departed this life in childhood; Mary; Robert, of Columbus, Ohio: William, who met death from injuries received by falling from a tree; Jacob, who resides in California : Elizabeth ; and my.
John Wesley Innis was but two years of age when his parents removed to Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio, where they settled upon a farm contain- ing one hundred acres, and there in the neighboring schools he acquired his educa- tion. He remained upon the home farm actively engaged in the pursuit of agri- culture until he was twenty-four years old, but in the meantime taught school during the winter seasons and at intervals also traveled throughout several states, selling The History of Slavery and The American Encyclopedia. Subsequently he purchased a sixty-acre farm on the Westerville road, where he tilled his fields until the year 1867, when he established his residence at Wagram in Etna town- ship. Upon his arrival here he purchased a farm of four hundred and fifty acres from Henry Miller, of Columbus, Ohio. At the time he negotiated for the land his sole capital was one thousand dollars while the price asked was twenty thou- sand dollars. However, he determined to take the risk and paid Mr. Miller all the money he had. In a short time after taking possession of the property he had cleared a portion which he disposed of at double the price he paid for it and there being on the remainder large forests of valuable timber, he manufactured it into flooring which he hauled fourteen miles to Columbus. To a Mr. Carlisle, who was at that time one of the most prominent contractors of Columbus, he disposal of one hundred thousand feet of white ash, the sale of this timber greatly decreas- ing his indebtedness and making the way clear to a full deed to the property. His farm now contains two hundred and six acres, all of which he has highly improved and upon which, together with other substantial buildings, he has an ele-
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gant residence of modern architecture which is supplied with every modern con- venience. He engages in general farming and stock-raising, paying particular attention to breeding cattle and sheep, having two hundred head of registered Merino stock and ten head of the finest specimens of milch cows. He also pays some attention to feeding cattle for the market. During the Civil war Mr. Innis, although he did not participate in any of the engagements of that strife, found time to aid his country and was called upon to serve for several weeks as a guard over the prisoners confined at Camp Chase.
On September 18, 1861, Mr. Innis wedded Caroline G. Allen, whose birth occurred January 18, 1838, and who departed this life December 8, 1871. They were parents of five children : Hattie, deceased; Annie May, who became the wife of Frank Brown, of Columbus, Ohio; William A., who died in infancy; James H., who met with an accident with a runaway team, which caused his death at the age of ten years; and Carrie O., who passed away in her twenty-third year. On April 16, 1872, Mr. Innis married Mary Etta Scofield, who was born in Etna township July 29, 1842, a daughter of Grant and Mary Ann (Parker) Scofield, her father having been a native of Washington county, New York, where he was born October 20, 1814, and his wife of Granville, this county, where her birth occurred May 20, 1821. They passed away here in their seventy-seventh and seventy-third years, respectively. In their family were five children: Henrietta, Mary Etta, Louis L., Horace G. and Caroline Belle. Mr. and Mrs. Innis have the following children : Nettie Belle; Mary, who became the wife of D. Willard Evans, residents of Jefferson township, Franklin county; and Byron S., who married Stella Richey, of Harrison township. He owns a fine residence in Wagram and operates his father's farm. Two sons, Charles and Lewis, departed this life in infancy.
Mr. Innis is a republican in politics and has taken considerable interest in local affairs, having been postmaster at Wagram for thirteen years, handling the mail at his residence for about ten years. He has also served as road supervisor and as a member of the school board. His long active career has been of great usefulness to the community, and he is known as one of the township's most prosperous and worthy characters.
LORA L. MARRIOTT, M. D.
Dr. Lora L. Marriott, a successful and well known medical practitioner of St. Louisville, was born in Eden township, Licking county, Ohio, September 18, 1870, his parents being George W. and Elizabeth (Larason) Marriott, the former a native of Licking county, and the latter of Knox county, this state. The mother was called to her final rest in 1874, but the father still survives and is numbered among the worthy residents of his native county. Unto this worthy couple were born two children : Amzi A., living in Columbus: and Lora L., of this review.
The last-named supplemented his preliminary education by three years' attend- ance at the high school and in 1892 he entered the medical college at Indianapolis, Indiana, from which institution he was graduated in 1896. Locating as a practi-
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tioner at Hebron, he there remained six months and on the expiration of that period came to St. Louisville, where he has since been numbered among the pros- perous and able representatives of his chosen calling. Moreover, he keeps in close touch with the progress made by the profession through his membership in the Licking County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is likewise surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Newark and Mount Vernon.
On July 22, 1897, Dr. Marriott was joined in wedlock to Miss F. Indus Madden, whose birth occurred at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, in 1877, her parents being Rev. T. N. and Virginia Madden. The father was born in Ohio in 1828 and the mother first opened her eyes to the light of day in Virginia in 1833. They are both still living and make their home in Hebron, where the Rev. Madden is still engaged in preaching the gospel. They became the parents of twelve children, of whom ten yet survive. Mrs. Marriott, who is a graduate of the Hebron high school, taught school for six years with gratifying success.
Dr. Marriott gives stalwart allegiance to the men and measures of the democ- racy and is at present serving as county coroner, which position he has filled for three years. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias lodge, No. 555, at Utica, has filled all the chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and likewise belongs to Maccabee Tent, No. 240, and the Modern Woodmen of America at Newark. Both he and his wife are devoted mem- bers of the Disciple church, and make their home in a commodious and attractive residence which the Doctor owns in St. Louisville. A man of genial nature and courteous disposition, he enjoys the kindly regard and esteem of all with whom he has been associated in professional or social relations.
EDSON POUND.
Among the industrious and enterprising agriculturists who have come from New York state to Newton township, Licking county, and have won prosperity in tilling the soil is Edson Pound, whose birth occurred in Orange county, New York, January 24, 1842, a son of Isaac and Sarah J. (Carr) Pound, who were also natives of the Empire state. In 1848 Isaac Pound took up his abode in Licking county, Ohio, purchased land and continued to make his home here until he passed away in 1894, at the venerable age of eighty-five years. His widow, surviving him for a number of years, was called to her final rest in 1903, when she had attained the age of eighty-nine years. Their family numbered ten children, namely : Joseph, of this county ; Nelson, deceased ; Henry S., living in New York ; Isaac and Samuel. who have also passed away ; Edson, of this review ; Mary E., the wife of O. J. Green, of Licking county ; Sarah E., who is deceased ; Ellen, the wife of P. Atherlon, of Delaware; and Isabelle, deceased.
After acquiring his education in the common schools, Edson Pound was ap- prenticed to a carpenter with whom he learned his trade and, having become a jour- neyman, he pursued the occupation for a period of six years, when he went to Mon- tana on a gold-seeking expedition and, after remaining there for about one year,
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he came back home. Six weeks later he returned to his native state and secured a position as fireman on the Erie railroad, which position he held for about a year. Subsequently he came again to this county, locating in Newton township, where he has since engaged in general farming and stock-raising with the exception of four years spent in the general merchandise business in Newark. His farm con- sists of seventy-five acres of the finest valley land and from time to time he has put such improvements upon it in the way of buildings, machinery and drainage system as to make it one of the most productive farms in the county. Here he raises the cereals best adapted to soil and climate and at the same time gives some attention to stock-raising.
In 1866 Mr. Pound was united in marriage to Miss Dollie M. Stone, a native of Orange county, New York, and a daughter of Uriah and Mary (Dodge) Stone, a record of her father appearing in another portion of this volume. To this union was born a daughter, Clara G., who is deceased. Mrs. Pound having departed this life in 1872, Mr. Pound was united in marriage to Catherine J. Magill, a native of Newton township, where she was born October 2, 1852, and a daughter of John and Matilda Magill, her father having been a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of old Virginia. They came to this county at an early date and lived here until they entered into eternity, leaving a family of four children, one of which is now Mrs. Edson Pound.
Mr. Pound is a stanch democrat and one of the most pronounced in the county in the defense of its principles, to which he has given a profound and minute study which has long since brought him to the conclusion that they contain those policies best suited to establish the finances of the country upon a firm and immovable foundation and to insure the nation's permanent prosperity. He is one of the most active workers during election times and does all in his power by his vote and influence to put the candidates of his party in the offices they seek. He is an ardent church worker and, with his wife, attends divine services at the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a liberal supporter. Mr. Pound is an honorable man, highly respected throughout the community and one whose industry and example have done much toward preserving the welfare and interests of the township.
ISAAC NEWTON MILBURN.
Isaac Newton Milburn, a substantial farmer of Lima township and a veteran of the Civil war, is a representative of a pioneer family of this part of the state who trace their ancestry beyond colonial days. He was born in Mckean town- ship, November 13, 1834. He comes of English ancestry, his great-grandfather being a native of Londonbridge, England. The grandfather was John Milburn, a native of the Keystone state, who served five years in the Revolutionary war, in which he took part in seventeen battles and was wounded in the engagement at Brandywine. The parents of I. N. Milburn were Andrew and Elizabeth (Bowers) Milburn, who were natives of Greene county, Pennsylvania, where they were born on January 22, 1792, and August 12, 1799, respectively. There they were united in marriage in the year 1819 and in October, 1831, repaired to this county, locat- ing in Mckean township. Mr. Milburn purchased one hundred acres of timber
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land for the sum of three hundred dollars and, having cleared off the tract, kept it under cultivation until he departed this life, August 5, 1858, his wife surviving him twenty-five years. He enlisted for military service during the war of 1812, but did not experience active service. Isaac Newton Milburn is one of ten children, the others being Uriah, Mrs. Mary Ann Critchet, Lucinda. John, Mrs. Rachel Commings, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Mrs. Rebecca Gosnell, all of whom are de- ceased ; A. J., of St. Albans township ; and Mrs. Sarah Ellen Harris, of Alexandria, St. Albans township.
After acquiring his education in the district schools of his native township, Mr. Milburn remained at home engaging in the duties of the farm until he enlisted. September 10, 1861, in Company H, Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain John H. Putnam, and served in the Army of the Cumberland, taking part in the battles at Stone river, Hoovers Gap, Dalton, Buzzards Roost, Missionary Ridge and in many during the Atlanta campaign. During his military career he was taken ill and was compelled to spend two months in the hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. Upon receiving his honorable discharge at Atlanta, Georgia, on Sep- tember 19, 1864, he returned to Lima township, where he resumed farming, and after his marriage in 1865 he bought a dwelling at New Way, Liberty township, where he resided for several years and then returned to MeKean township, where he remained until 1883, when he bought his present farm, consisting of seventeen acres located on Broadway, one mile east of Summit Station, Lima township. In addition to raising general crops he has paid considerable attention to fruit grow- ing, making a specialty of strawberries, for the excellence of which product he is known throughout the county.
On February 9. 1865. Mr. Milburn wedded Jennie Rush, a native. of Kirkers- ville, this county, where her birth occurred December 3, 1843, and a daughter of Benjamin and Katharine (Amspaugh) Rush, natives of Licking and Fairfield counties respectively. Mr. Rush departed this life before the birth of his dangh- ter, Jennie, while his wife, who later was united in marriage to Serephus Martin, lived to the age of eighty-four years. By her first husband she had seven children. five of whom lived to maturity: Mary Elizabeth and Francis, both of whom are deceased ; Benjamin, who served in the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, de- ceased ; George (' .. of Company B, One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who lost his life in a battle at Shelbyville, Tennessee. July 1, 1863; and Jennie. Mr. and Mrs. Milburn are the parents of three sons and a daughter: Rev. Ulysses Sumner Milburn, who was educated at St. Lawrence University. Canton. New York, and is pastor of the Universalist church at Onconta, that state: Flor- ence, the wife of J. L. Converse, of Union county; Edwin Roy, clerk and freight agent for the railroad at Chicago Junction. Ohio, who wedded Laura Van Blarcom and has three children, Florence H., Leona M. and Ray ; and John F., freight agent at the same place, who is united in marriage with Iva D. Snyder.
Mr. Milburn is a representative citizen of the county and throughout his life has been a stanch supporter of the democratic party, being a firm believer in the fundamental nature of its principles to which he has given thoughtful study and which he is convinced contain the secret of the nation's financial power and per- manent prosperity. Being a deep student of economics and general political issues in relation to the welfare of the country, he has become profoundly conversant along these lines and has won considerable distinction as a writer of political
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articles. He is a man of broad sympathy who looks upon the world with kindness, always labored for and desiring the best. He is actively affiliated with the Uni- versalist church at Summit Station, which he assisted in organizing and of which he is clerk and a member of the board of deacons. He is a charter member of Baird Post, No. 653, G. A. R., of Pataskala, and was one of those who were in- strumental in banding the comrades together in this organization. Mr. Milburn is a man of strong character who has not only labored industriously to increase his pecuniary interests but has, as well, marked out a way of uprightness in life and, as a consequence, is not only in prosperous circumstances but also enjoys the respect of the entire community.
DAVID McINTOSH.
David McIntosh, a prosperous farmer and representative citizen of Lima town- ship, was born two miles and a half west of Newark on the Newark and Columbus road, March 20, 1833, a son of William and Jane (Wright) MeIntosh. His grand- father, a native of Scotland and a weaver by occupation, went to Ireland in his early days and there spent the remainder of his life. In that country he married and reared a family of seven children, three sons and two daughters having de- parted this life there, while one daughter and one son settled in the new world. William McIntosh was born in Londonderry, Ireland, and died in this county in 1815, in his seventy-eighth year. With his first wife he came to the new world when twenty-four years of age, first settling in Virginia and later in Newark town- ship, this county. He was a cooper by trade, and followed this occupation through- out his life. In Newark township his first wife passed away, leaving the following children : John, Robert, William, Mary, Mattie, Sarah, Emily, Evelyn and Eliza. His second marriage was to the widow of James Berry and a daughter of William Wright who, with his wife, came to this country from Ireland and settled in Penn- sylvania, where Mrs. McIntosh was born. To this union was born the following children : Josiah ; Caroline, deceased ; Melissa, deceased; and David. Their mother departed this life in the year 185S.
David McIntosh was a year old when his parents removed to the farm in Lima township. Almost the entire district at this time was thickly covered with forest trees, there being but small clearings surrounding the log cabins, which were scat- tered throughout the region. Here in the district school he acquired his education and then continued to live and work on his father's farm until the year 1893, also following the carpenter trade at intervals. He then purchased his present farm on the Broadway or Columbus and Newark road, midway between Summit and Patas- kala. The farm contains about one hundred acres of highly improved land and in addition to a comfortable home, which was erected in 1869 by George W. Gilbert, there are also numerous outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock, and every convenience with which to successfully follow agriculture. Besides general farm- ing, he has for the past ten years made a special feature of dairying and for this purpose keeps on hand a number of head of fine cows. He expects soon, however, to remove to Summit Station and turn his farm over to his son.
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In the year 1857 Mr. McIntosh wedded Catherine E. Salts, who was born in Adams county, July 17, 1837, and came to this country in childhood with her parents, Andrew and Eliza (Neff) Salts. Her paternal grandparents were Hughey and Elizabeth (Hively) Salts, the former having been a soldier in the war of 1812. The mother of Mrs. McIntosh was a native of Fairfield county, Ohio, and a daugh- ter of Christian and Betsy (Boos) Neff, natives of Germany, who became pioneer settlers of Fairfield county. Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Lottie, wife of Henry Looker, of Kansas; Belle, who wedded Richard St. Clair, of Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio; William A., of Taylor- town, Franklin county; Xenophan, of Newark; Laura, wife of J. T. Shawen, of Summit Station; Emma, deceased; Burt, of Taylortown, whose twin brother, Miltor, died in his fourth year, in December, 1876; Charles, who passed away when six years of age in December, 1876; Herbert, who resides in Columbus, Ohio; Ernest J., of this township; Emerson Gail, of Summit Station; Reason Rexford, now married and on the home farm; and Elnora, now the wife of Jesse Dysart. Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh have twenty grandchildren and one great-grandchild. On June 11, 1907, they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary and on that occasion there were four hundred and fifty guests.
Mr. McIntosh has been a life-long democrat and since April, 1878, he has officiated in the office of justice of the peace, as candidate for which he has never had opposition, and in addition to having served the township as trustee he has for the past twenty years been a notary public. Since the year 1869 he has been a popular member of Lodge No. 404, A. F. & A. M., at Pataskala. He is a man whose enterprise and straightforward dealings have won him the respect of his fel- low citizens, and the rest from business which he expects now to enjoy has been worthily gained.
J. MILTON WRIGHT.
J. Milton Wright well deserves mention in a history of Johnstown and Lick- ing county. He was for a long period closely associated with the agricultural interests of this part of the state and his careful management of affairs brought him the success which he is now enjoying and which enables him to live retired. He was born April 11, 1838, in Liberty township, and is a son of Wade F. and Mary (Hultz) Wright. The father came from Vermont with his parents in 1816 and was a direct descendant of a distinguished English family, tracing the ancestry to Samuel Wright, whose family had a coat of arms. He came from England to Connecticut, where he arrived on the 16th of May, 1675, after having bravely faced the dangers incident to a trip across the ocean at that day. His grandson, Simeon Wright, valiantly espoused the cause of the colonies and fought for the independ- ence of the nation in the Revolutionary army, while his son, Simeon Wright, Jr., was a captain in the Thirtieth United States Infantry in the war of 1812. The last named was the grandfather of J. Milton Wright. He married Miss Susanna Abbott, a member of a prominent English family, and removed westward to Lick- ing county, Ohio, in 1816, where he located on a farm three miles from Johnstown.
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