Historical collections of Ohio in two volumes, an encyclopedia of the state, Volume II, Part 49

Author: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Cincinnati : Published by the state of Ohio
Number of Pages: 916

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There are in Zanesville upwards of thirty stores for the wholesaling and retail- ing of dry goods, besides hardware stores, wholesale and retail groceries, drug stores, confectionery establishments, shoe stores, hat stores, etc.

The court-house, with a western wing for public offices and a similar one on the east for an athenæum, has a handsome enclosure, with shade trees and fountain in front, making altogether an object of interest to the passing traveller and a place

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of pleasant resort for citizens. The athenaeum was commenced as a library com- pany by a few individuals nearly twenty years ago and, soon becoming incorpo- rated, put up a handsome two-story brick building as a wing to the court-house. The lower rooms are rented for offices, while the upper are occupied by the com- pany for their reading-room, library, etc. Strangers have, by the charter, a right of admission, and during their stay in Zanesville can always find there access to many of the leading journals of the United States and to a library of between three and four thousand volumes, embracing very many choice and rare books in literature and science ; while additions are annually made with the funds arising from rents and $5 per annum paid by each stockholder. There is a commence- ment for a cabinet of minerals and curiosities, but that department has never flourished as its importance demands.

The water-works of Zanesville are very great. The water is thrown by a powerful forcing pump from the river to a reservoir npon a hill, half a mile dis- tant, one hundred and sixty feet above the level of the pump, and thence let down and distributed by larger and smaller pipes into every part of the town, furnishing an ample supply for public and private purposes, as well as providing a valuable safeguard against fire. By attaching hose at once to the fire-plugs the

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Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846.

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water may be thrown without the intervention of an engine by the pressure of the head, far above the roofs of the houses. The public pipes are all of iron, and at present there are between six and seven miles of pipe owned by the town, besides that owned by individuals and used in conveying water from the streets and alleys to their own hydrants. Much of this, however, is of lead. The cost to the town has been about $42,000. The reservoir is calculated to con- tain about 750,000 gallons. The present population of Zanesville is prob- ably something under 8,000, excluding Putnam, West Zanesville and South Zanesville. [These villages are now (1890) included in Zanesville.]

Putnam is less dense in its construction than Zanesville and contains many beautiful gardens. It being principally settled by New Englanders, is in appear- ance a New England village. The town plat was owned and the town laid out by Increase Matthews, Levi Whipple and Edwin Putnam. The latter two are dead ; Dr. Matthews still resides in Putnam.

The town was originally called Springfield, but there being a Springfield in Clarke county the name of the former was changed to Putnam. The view represents Putnam as it appears from the east bank of the Muskingum, about a mile below the steamboat landing at Zanesville. The bridge connecting Putnam

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with Zanesville is seen on the right. On the left is shown a church and the top of the seminary a little to the right of it.

The Putnam Female Seminary is an incorporated institution and has been in operation about ten years. The principal edifice stands in an area of three acres and cost, with its furniture, about $20,000. Pupils under fourteen years of age are received into the preparatory departnient. Those over fourteen enter the upper department, in which the regular course of study requires three years and,

Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846.

THE PUTNAM FEMALE SEMINARY.

excepting the languages, is essentially like a college course. It is proposed soon to extend the time to four years and make the course the same as in colleges, substituting the German for Greek. The average number of pupils has been about one hundred. "By reason of the endowments the term bills are very much less than any similar school in the country. Exclusive of extra studies the cost per year will not exceed $100 per scholar." There are five teachers in this flourishing institution, of which Miss Mary Cone is the principal. It is under the general direction of a board of trustees .- Old Edition.

ZANESVILLE, county-seat of Muskingum, at the junction of the Muskingum and Licking rivers, is about fifty-five miles east of Columbus, on the M. V. Division of the P. C. & St. L. and B. & O., and B. Z. & C. and C. & E. Rail- roads. Is a manufacturing and commercial centre, noted for its clay and tile manufactures.

County officers, 1888 : Auditor, Julius A. Knight ; Clerk, Vincent Cockins ; Commissioners, Robert Lee, Charles W. MeCutcheon, Francis M. Rider ; Cor- oner, William Ruth ; Infirmary Directors, John W. Marshall, Charles T. Willey, David M. Evans ; Probate Judge, George L. Foley ; Prosecuting Attor- ney, Simeon M. Winn ; Recorder, Ernest Scott ; Sheriff, Wm. H. Bolin; Sur- veyor, Thomas C. Connar ; Treasurer, Daniel G. Willey. City officers, 1888 : W. H. Holden, Mayor ; R. H. McFarland, Solicitor ; Jesse Atwell, Treasurer ; John H. Best, Clerk; N. T. Miller, Commissioner ; A. E. Howell, Engineer ; A. D. Launder, Marshal ; L. F: Langly, Chief Fire Department ; J. H. Whike- hart, Market Master. Newspapers : Courier, Republican, Newman, Dodd & Brown, publishers ; Signal, Democratic, D. H. Gaumer, editor and publisher ; Times Recorder, Republican, Guy Comly, editor ; Post, German Independent, Adolph Schneider, editor and publisher ; Saturday Night, Independent, John T. Shryock, editor and publisher; Sunday Morning Star, Independent, Star Pub- lishing Company, editors and publishers ; Sunday News, Independent, Charles W. Shryock, editor and publisher ; Mutual Helper, Independent, J. M. Bain,

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editor and publisher ; Ohio Farmers' Journal, Agriculturalist, J. H. Abbott, editor and publisher ; Shepherds' National Journal and Rural Era, Agricultur- alist, Rural Era Publishing Company, editors and publishers. Churches : one Evangelical, five Methodist Episcopal, one Congregational, one Lutheran, two Presbyterian, two Catholic, one Baptist, one Episcopal, one Evangelical Lutheran. Banks : Citizens' National, H. C. Van Voorhis, president, A. V. Smith, cashier ; First National, W. A. Graham, president, Geo. H. Stewart, cashier ; Union, James Herdman, president, John J. Ingalls, cashier ; Zanesville, John W. King, president, A. H. Stern, cashier.

Manufactures and Employees (when numbering 25 and over) .- Excelsior Planing Mill, doors, sash, etc., 30 hands ; Kearns & Co., flint glass, etc., 98; Patterson, Burgess & Co., doors, sash, etc., 25; Zanesville Stoneware Company, 27; The Hatton Stove Company, 35; Muskingum Coffin Company, coffins and caskets, 43; Kearns-Gorsuch Glass Company, window glass, etc., 300; Sturte- vant & Martin, hosiery, 120; Gray Brothers & Silvey, furniture, 45 ; Griffith & Wedge Company, engines, saw-mills, etc., 100; Jones & Abbott, stoves, etc., 50; Schultz & Company, soap, 75; Hoover & Allison, ropes, twine, etc., 120; Zanes- ville Woollen Manufacturing Company, blankets, flannels, etc., 72; W. B. Harris & Brothers, pressed brick, etc., 145; American Encaustic Tiling Company, decorative tile, etc., 172; T. B. Townsend & Co., pressed brick, etc., 118; A. Worstall, cigars, 25 ; B., Z. & C. R. R. Shops, railroad repairs, 25; Ohio Iron Company, pig-iron, etc., 400 ; Brown Manufacturing Company, agricultural implements, 230; Novelty Paper Mill, manilla and newspaper, 29; F. J. L. Blandy, engines, etc., 50; Petit & Strait, bread, cakes, etc., 28 ; Shennick, Wood- side & Gibbons Manufacturing Company, stoves, 63; John W. Pinkerton & Co., cigars, tobacco, etc., 35; Herdman, Harris & Co., doors, sash, etc., 35; The Duval Engine Company, engines, boilers, etc., 28; R. A. Worstall, cigars, 28 ; C. Stalzenbach & Son, bread, crackers, etc., 89; Zane Tobacco Company, plug tobacco, 49 ; J. B. Owens, decorated flower-pots, 68 .- State Report, 1888.

Population, 1880, 18,113. School census, 1888, 6,159 ; W. D. Lash, school superintendent. Capital invested in industrial establishments, $2,211,770. Value of annual product, $4,295,231 .- Ohio Labor Statistics, 1888. Census, 1890, 21,009.

The superior clays in the vicinity have made Zanesville an important point in the manufacture of clay prod- ucts, and in one branch of this manu- facture, that of ENCAUSTIC TILE, she is the pioneer and leader of the only three places in the United States where these goods are made. The industry was in- augurated by the American Encaustic Tiling Company, George Stanberry, superintendent. The stock of this com- pany is principally owned in New York, and nearly all the products of the works are sold there in the face of foreign competition, the American goods being fully equal to the English or French.

The tiles are stamped out of clay by MEMORIAL BUILDING, ZANESVILLE. ingeniously devised machinery, the in- vention of Mr. Stanberry. They are made plain and vari-colored, the most complex having six or seven different colored clays in their composition. Biscuit, glazed, majolica and some enamelled and hand-carved tiles are made. The latter are expensive, but some very artistic work .is done. This industry gives employ- ment to a large force of men, and promises in the future large developments.

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The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Building, which was thrown open to the publie July 4, 1889, is a fine example of this class of buildings, which are vastly more honorable to the memory of our dead heroes than mere shafts of stone.

It is a handsome stone structure devoted to the uses of the Grand Army of the Republie veterans and the militia.

The third floor contains one of the largest and finest public halls in the State. The building is an honor to Muskingum county.

BIOGRAPHY.

THOMAS ANDREW HENDRICKS was born on a farm in Newton township, near Zanesville, September 7, 1819. The sketch given of his birthplace was drawn by Charles A. Kappes, who visited the spot and drew it from a description from memory by the venerable George M. Crooks, who has lived near the spot ever since the infancy of Mr. Hendricks. His parents removed to Indiana when he was six months old. He graduated at South Hanover College, Madison, Indiana, was educated for the law at Chambersburg, Pa., and entered upon its practice at Shelbyville, Indiana. At 27 years of age he was elected to the State Legislature. In 1851, at the age of 30, he was elected to Congress from the central district of Indiana. In 1855 he was appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office by President Pierce, and was continued in office by Buchanan, but resigned in 1859. In 1860 he removed to Indianapolis. From 1863 to 1869 he was United States Senator, and in 1872 was elected Governor of Indiana.

On July 11, 1884, he was nominated for the Vice-Presidency by the Democratic party, and elected the following November. He was also the vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic party in 1876. He died sud- denly at his home in Indianapolis, Nov. 25, 1885. He was affable and refined in social life, and in public life strongly partisan, but honest and incorruptible. President Harrison said of him at the time of his death :

" I have known Mr. Hendricks ever since I came to this city to live. I have practised law with him, tried many cases with him and against him, and our professional relations have always been pleasant. He was a very forceful and persuasive advocate. His public career has been a very conspicuous one. He had succeeded in acquiring and retaining the confidence of his party friends in a very high degree. His personal character was always regarded as exalted and blameless."

HUGH J. JEWETT was born in Deer Creek, Harford county, Md. He.studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1838. Two years later he began the practice of his profession at St. Clairsville, Ohio, and in 1848 removed to Zanesville, where his skill in cases involv- ing financial questions was soon recognized. He was elected president of the Muskingum branch of the Ohio State Bank in 1852. In 1853 he was State senator. presidential elec- tor, and appointed United States district at- torney.

His experience in railroad financiering be- gan in 1855 with the Central Ohio Railroad, of which he became president in 1857. He was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1861, and for United States senator in 1863, but was defeated in both contests. He was elected to the State senate in 1867, and to Congress in 1872.

His success as a railroad manager led to his election as president of the Little Miami, the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley, and

HUGH J. JEWETT.

vice-president of the P. C. & St. L. Rail- roads.

In 1874 be accepted the receivership of the New York & Erie, and the ten years of ar- duous labor, during which he extricated this discredited and bankrupted corporation from

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the embarrassments of its corrupt manage- ment, are alike creditable to his firm courage, sterling honesty and marked ability.

In 1880 Mr. Jewett's name was mentioned as a candidate for the presidential nomination by the Democratic party.

In 1884 he resigned the presidency of the Erie road, and retired from active business life with impaired health.

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SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX was born in Zanes- ville, O., September 30, 1824. He was named for his grandfather, Judge Samuel Sullivan, a man of strong moral character and fine presence, who served as State treasurer from 1820 to 1823.

After graduation from Brown's University in 1846, S. S. Cox studied law and began practice in Zanesville, but later turned his attention to literature and politics, and in 1853 became editor of the Ohio Statesman. It was while editing this paper that he pub- lished a gorgeous description of a sunset that gave him the sobriquet of "Sunset " Cox.

In 1855 he accepted an appointment as secretary of legation at Lima, Peru. In 1857, having returned to Ohio, he was elected to Congress, and re-elected three times, serving continuously until 1865. In 1866 he removed to New York city, and in 1868 was again elected to Congress, and re-elected three times. Mr. Cox was in 1877 a candidate for the speakership, and although defeated, fre- quently served as speaker pro tem. He was for many years one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institute. In his long congres- sional service he was a practical worker for many of the most important branches of the public service, such as the census and the life-saving service. He was the especial champion of the letter-carriers, securing for

them increased pay and vacations without loss of salary. After 1882 Mr. Cox travelled extensively in Europe and northern Africa. In 1886 he was appointed minister to Turkey, but returned after a year and was re-elected to Congress.

He was largely known as a wit and humor- ist, a very valuable public servant, and a writer and lecturer of great ability. He died in New York, September 10, 1889. His principal published works are " The Buckeye Abroad,"""Eight Years in Congress," "Free Land and Free Trade," 11 "Three Decades of Federal Legislation," and "Why We Laugh."

LEWIS CASS commenced his public career as the first prosecuting attorney of Zanesville. He first attracted the attention of President Jefferson when, as a member of the Ohio Leg- islature, he drew up an able official docu- ment on Ohio's position in the Burr con- spiracy.

Gen. ISAAC VAN HORN, one of the heroes of the Revolution, removed to Zanesville in 1805 as receiver of public money for the Land Office. He was adjutant-general of Ohio during the war of 1812. He died in 1837. Many of his descendants are now prominent people of Zanesville.

Gen. CHARLES BACKUS GODDARD, who died in Zanesville in 1864, was an able lawyer of the old-school, an associate of Corwin, Chase, Stanberry. Vinton and the elder Ewing. Mr. F. B. Loomis relates in the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette an interesting anecdote of a case to be tried in Marietta, in which Ewing and Goddard were opposing counsel. As was common in these days, they agreed to meet at a certain place and travel together to Marietta. Ewing arrived first at the meeting place, and when Goddard ap- proached unperceived by Ewing, he found the latter rehearsing his argument before a large tree, which he addressed as "Your Honor." Taking a position behind another tree Goddard listened until Ewing had gone through the entire case to be tried the next day, and not seeing anything of his friend, had mounted his horse and proceeded on his journey.

After a while Goddard followed him, but did not arrive at Marietta until some hours after Ewing.

The next day the trial came on. Ewing was badly defeated by Goddard, who knew just what his argument would be, and there- fore took all the wind from his sails by jo- cosely repeating it. The next day, when they had arrived at the place for rest and refreshment, and the inner man was supplied, Goddard arose from the log upon which they were seated, and, taking some books and pa- pers from the saddle-bags, proceeded in a similar address to the big tree. This was too much for Ewing. He at once saw the error he had made, and, congratulating Goddard upon his good fortune in the case, he asked him never to tell the circumstance to any one.

It was not always that Goddard came off

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triumphant. He had a keen sense of the proprieties, and had rather lose a case than "stoop to conquer." Judge M. M. Granger states this instance in point :

" A client of Culbertson had sued a client of Gen. Goddard for rendering impure the water of a well by changing a drain. Witnes- ses differed as to the effect of the drain upon the water in the well, and Gen. Goddard ex- "hibited to the jury some of the water in a glass, and descanted upon its clearness and purity, and seemed about to carry the jury with him. Culbertson, in reply, boldly picked up the glass, reminded the jury of the gen- eral's argument, and then, placing the glass upon the table, took a dollar from his pocket, and, clapping it down by the side of the glass, cried out. 'Gentlemen of the jury, I'll give Gen. Goddard that dollar if he will drink that glass of water.' He knew that his opponent was too dignified to accept such a banter, and he won a verdict."

Calvin C. Gibson, the humorous landlord of the Clifton House, relates another and an amusing incident of Goddard, showing also where his sense of the proprieties interfered somewhat with the convenience of himself and another. When I was a young man, said Gibson, I was acting as county sheriff, and having an execution to serve down in the country, about fifteen miles, I met Goddard, who was the prosecuting lawyer, on the street, and inquired, "What shall I do if some one else claims the property ?" "I can't answer you," he replied. "I don't do business on the street-you'll have to see me in my of- fice." I called and a day or two later met Goddard at the post-office, and he asked me the result of my business. "I can't talk to you," I replied, "I don't do business on the street-you'll have to see me at my office." He accordingly called, and I replied, " Why, I went down, levied the execution, and took the property."

Mr. Goddard, from 1817 to 1864 (when he

died), practised at the Zanesville bar. His father was Calvin Goddard, Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and the son was born at Plainfield, in that State. The latter was a man of unusual dignity and pride of character, and one of the first men of Ohio in his time.

EBENEZER BUCKINGHAM, his brother, AL- VAII, and SOLOMON STURGES, established, in 1816, the firm of E. Buckingham & Co., for a quarter of a century one of the most widely known firms in the West. They were men of great enterprise. The Buckinghams were from the State of New York, and Sturges was a native of Fairfield, Conn, where he was born in 1796, and early in life was asso- ciated with W. W. Corcoran, the Washing- ton banker.

The GRANGER family was early identified with Zanesville. There were three brothers, sons of Oliver Granger, born in Suffield, Conn., in the latter part of the last century, viz., Ebenezer, James and IIenry. Ebenezer came to Zanesville about the beginning of the war of 1812, and entered upon the prac- tice of the law. A few years later James and Henry came here and established the "Granger Milling Company," which had for years the principal mill of the county; it was on the east side of the Muskingum, just above the present dam at Zanesville. James was the father of Hon. M. M. Granger. Ebenezer was the father of General Robert S. Granger, born in 1816, educated at West Point and now living on the retired list.

This county supplied ten general officers to the Union army. They were-major-general officers by brevet, Robert S. Granger, Chas. C. Gilbert, Mortimer D. Leggett, Catherinus P. Buckingham, Willard Warner ; brigadier- generals by brevet, M. M. Granger, Green- bury F. Wiles, John Q. Lane and William D. Hamilton, the latter in Scotland born, in Ohio bred, and in war commander of the Ninth O. V. cavalry.

TRAVELLING NOTES.

The most peculiar structure in the way of a bridge in Ohio is the Y bridge, at the foot of Main street, in Zanesville. The Licking river enters the Muskingum opposite that point. The bridge in the middle of the stream parts in two divi- sions, the one striking the west bank of the Muskingum, just above the mouth of the Licking, at the locality called West Zanesville; and the other just below that month, at the locality called Natchez. Still farther down the Muskingum begins Putnam. All of these places are now included in Zanesville. On each of these streams, Muskingum and Licking, just before their junction, are falls of eight or ten feet, and long noted as mill sites. One always here hears the roar of the waters.

The bridge is on the line of the old Na- tional Road. It seemed like an old bridge forty-four years since, when I first knew it, and it looks not a day older now. It was built very early in the century by the Buck- inghams and Sturges, and long used as a toll- bridge. With a solitary exception it is said

to be the only Y bridge in the country. It is a huge, covered affair, very broad and brown, with a few small windows for out- looks. It has in it enough material to make two or three modern bridges. A distant view of it is shown in the view of Putnam in 1846. It was over this bridge that, in

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June, 1865, at the close of the war, Sher- man's army wagons passed on their way from Washington for distribution to the frontier posts. They occupied several weeks in going through Zanesville.

They tell this anecdote of a young man of the town who had taken a stranger friend through Putnam, and on coming to the Y bridge said, "We'll now cross this bridge,

and when we get over, we will be on the same side of the river as we are now." When they had crossed he reminded his stranger friend of what he had said. The latter looked around a moment, and then with an astonished face exclaimed, "Golly !- so we are; how did we do it ?" He had crossed below the mouth of the Licking and came ashore above.

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The valley of the Muskingum a mile or more above the business part of the town is very broad. On the west side lies what is called the McIntyre Terrace, a beautiful region of level ground. There are the new residences of the more wealthy, in the midst of spacious grounds and broad prospects. There, too, is situated the famed McIntyre Children's Home, an imposing structure on a commanding eminence. The farm attached has over one hundred acres and produces all that is needed for the Home.

McIntyre, who died in 1815, was originally buried in the old graveyard at the head of Main street. Over his remains was a small tablet bearing this inscription, by his friend and counsel. Ebenezer Granger, which ran as follows :

"As o'er this stone you throw a careless eye, (When drawn perchance to this sad, solemn place),

Reader, remember-'tis your lot to die,

You, too, the gloomy realms of death must trace.

When yonder winding stream shall cease to flow,

Old Ocean's waves no longer lash the shore,

When warring tempests shall forget to blow, And these surrounding hills exist no more,

This sleeping dust, reanimate, shall rise,

Bursting to life at the last trumpet's sound, Shall bear a part in Nature's grand Assize, When sun, and stars, and time no more are found."

On December 24, 1889, his remains were removed and placed in a vault at the McIntyre Children's Home.

The noble hills of the Muskingum are the great charm of Zanesville. From these one has fine views of the river and its many bridges. The river here is as broad as at its " Sacred to the memory of John McIntyre, who departed this life July 29, 1815, aged 56 years. Ile was born at Alexandria, Virginia ; laid out the town of Zanesville in 1800-of which he was the Patron and Father. He . entrance into the Ohio. say some eight hun- was a member of the Convention which dred feet. It drains about one-third of the State. Sojourners from the prairie States farther west are delighted with the beautiful scenery. formed the Constitution of Ohio. A kind husband, an obliging neighbor, punctual to his engagements, of liberal mind and benevo- lent disposition, his death was sincerely lamented."

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Historical collections of Ohio in two volumes, an encyclopedia of the state, Volume II, Part 49

Author: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893 Publication date: 1907 Publisher: Cincinnati : Published by the state of Ohio Number of Pages: 916

Author: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Cincinnati : Published by the state of Ohio
Number of Pages: 916