History of Coshocton County, Ohio, its past and present, 1740-1881, Part 109

Author: Hill, Norman Newell, jr., [from old catalog] comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A. A., & co., Newark, O., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Newark, Ohio, A. A. Graham & co.
Number of Pages: 854

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DIVAN T. E, Perry township; farmer; post- offiee, West Carlisle ; born in this eounty in 1850; son of Adolphus and Mary (Hardenbrook) Divan, and grandson of Henry and Mary Divan ; married in 1869, to Miss Harriet Cochran, who died in 1872. He married, in the same year, Anna A. Board, daughter of Thomas Il. and Elizabeth A. Board. They are the parents of four children, viz: Ola M., Walter M., Floyd and Arazota.

DOAK POBERT, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, 'hili, Ohio; born March 9, 1826, in Amwell township, Washington county, Pennsyl- vania; son of William Doak, of Crawford town- ship. In 1832 he located with his father about

two miles east of Chili. He was married May 20, 1847, to Miss Mary Anne, daughter of Thomas M. and Sarah (Hughes) MeCollum. She was born August 17, 1826, in Amity, Washington county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with four children, viz: William R., Thomas M., deceased; Adam J. and Sarah E. Mr. Doak has succeeded well, being blessed with a good family and a comfortable home.

DOAK WILLIAM, Crawford township; retired farmer ; postoffiec, Chili, Ohio; born December 5, 1804, in South Strabane township, Washington county, Pennsylvania. His father and he were both born on the farm, patented to William's father. William is son of William and Nancy (Dill) Doak, of Irish ancestry. Mr. Doak came to his present residence in 1832. The entire country was new then, his farm being nearly all timbered land, but has lived to enjoy the fruits of his toil. The cabin has changed to a com- fortable frame, and the forest to fields of pasture,. grain and orchards. Mr. Doak was married about the year 1824, to Miss Evaline, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Mason) Gardner They are the parents of seven children, viz : Robert,. Adam, deceased, Mary Anne, deceased, Nancy Jane, married to David Ewing ; Elizabeth, mar- ried to Thomas Wilson; Andrew, married to Louisa Pocock; and William, married to Sallie E. MeNary. Mr. Doak started to provide for him- self, without wealth, but has now a competeney for himself and wife, who still lives to share the comforts of their united toil in early life.

DOAK A. J., Clark township; dry goods mer- chant: postoffice, Clark's; born in Crawford township, Coshocton county, December 1, 1837; son of William and Evaline (Gardener) Doak. He attended school, and taught until twenty-five years of age, when he began the merchantile busi- ness in New Bedford, in the spring of 1862, where he remained until the fall of 1864, when he came to Bloomfield and engaged in the same business, and has continued here ever since. He has a flourishing trade, and carries a fine assort- ment of dry goods, groceries and ready made clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes, and every- thing usually found in a general merchandising establishment. He was married February 29, 1860, to Miss Louisa M. Pocock, sister of Colonel Pocock, of Coshoeton, and daughter of Joshua and Catharine (Wilson Pocock). She was born in Keene township May 19, 1835. They are blessed with three children-Edgar A., born April 28, 1862; William C., born Angust 13, 1863; Ella C., born December 23, 1870.

DONAGHY CHARLES B., Coshocton; rail- road contractor and plasterer ; born January S, 1849, in Wellsville, Columbiana county; son of William Donaghy, born in Lancaster county,

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Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestors. Young Dona- Miss Elizabeth Smith, of this county, who was ghy was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, attending public school until seventeen, when he entered Fairfield academy, and remained two and a half

born in November, 1818, in Pennsylvania. She died in 1844. They were the parents of three children. He was married in 1845, to Miss Cath- years, then attended Reynoldsville academy. , arine Ilorton, of this county, who was born in under instruction of D. J. Snyder, two years. 1×23 and died in 1852. They were the parents of three children. He was married in 1832, to Miss Elizabeth Huey, of this county, who was born in 1828 and died in 1871. Ile married, in 1871, Miss Isabella Lockard, of this county, who was born in 1825. Messrs Donaghy, Sr. and Jr., have been remark- able railroad builders, having completed large contracts on the Pan Handle, New Salom, Cin- cinnati and Louisville Short Line, Chesapeak and Ohio, Atlantic and Lake Erie ; Springfield, Day ton and Cincinnati Short Line; Cleveland, Mit. Vernon and Columbus; Pittsburgh, Merietta and Cleveland, and Seiota railroads; also built eight miles of Lancaster and New Salem turn- pike. Charles B. first came to this city in Novem- ber, 1873, and remained two years, and after an absence of a few years, building railroads, re- turned, and is now a contractor for plastering, doing a first-class business.

DORSEY CLEMENT, Coshocton; proprietor barber shop, corner Main and Fourth streets; born December 25, 1839, in Washington county, Maryland; worked on a farm and canal boating until 24 years of age, when he came to Parkers- burg, West Virginia, with I. Cuthberson, a gov- ernment agent. In June, 1867, he went to Stuben- ville, Ohio, and followed steamboating; was on the C. E. Hillman when she collided with the Nannie Byers, which sunk at Madison, Indiana, and forty-five lives lost. In September, 1867, he went to Newark and worked in a barber shop and attended school until December 1, 1868, when he came to this eity and established a shop, and continued his business to the present. Mr. Dorsey was the first colored juror of this county, also the first colored citizen to be nominated for a county office. Mr. Dorsey was married, October 14, 1869, to Mrs. Martha Lucas, of Janesville, Wisconsin. This union was blessed with five children, viz: Mildred Effie, Isham C., Jesse C., Gertrude Hays and Clement G. Mr. Dorsey came to this city with but $48, but now owns real estate and a good houle.

DORSEY ELMOS, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Muskingum county, in 1842; settled in this coun- ty in 1880; son of Jolm and Prudence Dorsey. Ilis father settled in Muskingum county in 1812, and died in 1877. His mother died in 1875. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of a family of three children, one living in Missouri and one in Licking county, Ohio. He was married in November, 1870, to Miss Lizzie Magruder, daugh- ter of George and Margera Magruder.

DRAPER SAMUEL H., Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Yankee Ridge, Ohio; born September 8, 1808, in Knox county. He came to this county in 1830, and was married in 1837, to

DRESHER JACOB, Crawford township; post- offie, New Bedford; blacksmith; born May 24. 1842, in Hesse-Homburg, Germany; son of Fred- erick and Margaret (Kline) Dresher; came to America in 1855 and first located in Adams county, next in Crawford township, went to his trade in 1858, and has followed it to the present time. He came to his present residence in 1876. Was married June 22. 1866, to Miss Louisa, daughter of John and Catharine (Lyman) Kesler. They have five children: John Frederick, de- ceased, Emily M., Caroline R., Karl H. and Au- gustus Jacob.

DUGAN WILLIAM, Linton township; far- mer: born in January, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : son of Francis and Ann (Smith) Dugan, who emigrated from county Down, Ire- land, in 1833, remained in Philadelphia a few years, then came out to Harrison county, lived there about ten years, and moved to Guernsey county. There Mr Dugan remained till he came to Linton township, in 1875. He enlisted in Jan- nary, 1862, in Company I, Eightieth O. V. I., and served three years in the army. He was under fire at the siege of Corinth, battle of Corinth. Iuka, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson. Champion Hill, etc. He was married in 1855, to Hannah Walgamot, daughter of David and Sophia Walgamot, of Guernsey county. Their children are Jemima Ellen, Jane. Mary, Lincoln, William, David, So- phia, AAlva and Samuel.

DULING DAVID, Linton township; saddler: postoffice, Plainfield; born October 18, 1845, in Lafayette township; son of William and Rebecca P. Duling. His grandfather, Edmund Duling, came to this county in 1815. His maternal grandparents, David and Lucy Richardson were carly settlers in the county. coming from Ver- mont. His father, a Protestant Methodist minis- ter. died at Steubenville, in 1854. He lived in Linton township from that time until October, 1861. when he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I., and remained in the army four years, see- ing active service at Stone river, Chickamauga. the numerous battles in the Atlanta campaign, Frank- lin, Nashville, etc. After his return he kept a grocery in Plainfield one year, then, in 1567, en- listed in the regular army for three years, and

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was stationed at Atlanta, Georgia, Huntsville, Alabama, Jacksonville, Alabama, Columbia, South Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Wilming- ton, North Carolina. After his discharge he owned a saddler shop in Coshocton till 1875, then moved to Plainfield, and has been running a shop here since. He was married in 1872, to Christina Weisser, daughter of Jacob Weisser, of Coshocton. His children are Lizzie, deceased, and Maud.

DULING HIRAM W., Linton township; far- mer : born April 4, 1829, at his present home in Linton township; son of Edmund and Mary (Dean) Duling, and grandson of William Duling and of Thomas and Jane (Gilmore) Dean. His father emigrated from Hampshire county, Vir- ginia, to Linton township, in 1815. Mr. Duling has always lived in this township. He was mar- ried February 18, 1869, to Sarah Catharine Law- rey, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Platt) Lowrey. Their children are, Uriella, Joseph L .. James Ed- mund, and Lowel Mason. He was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., and was in service about four months in Virginia

DUNCAN JONAS, Keene township; farmer; born June 27, 1843. in Mill Creek township; son of John and Elizabeth (Long) Dunean. He was married April 30, 1868, to Amanda Shannon, whose ancestry is as follows: Parents, Nathan and Mary (Endsley) Shannon; grandparents, Isaac and Jane (Porter) Shannon, and John and Jane (Blane) Endsley; great-grandfathers, Robert Shannon, born in Ireland, Thomas Porter and Thomas Blane. Mr. Dunean's family consists of five children: Mary E., born August 4, 1869; Joseph A., January 9, 1871; Sophia L , October 18, 1872; Cynthia Grace, September, 1874, and Martha, January 11, 1878.

DUNCAN T. D., Keene township; born July. 9, 1846, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; son of Rob- ert C. and Nancy (Patterson) Duncan, of Scotch and English descent. His childhood and early youth was spent on a farm in Beaver county, Pennsylvania; from seventeen to nineteen he at- tended the academy at Beaver, then took a course at Washington and Jefferson college, Washing- ton, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1869. The fol- lowing two years he spent at the Western Theo- logical Seminary, Allegheny City, and, after a year spent as principal of Callensburg academy, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, he returned and completed his theological studies, graduating in the spring of 1874. The next year he was en- gaged as principal of the Verona academy, Alle- gheny county, Pennsylvania, then in the spring of 1875, he received a call from Clark Presbyterian church, Bloomfield, which he accepted and was ordained in May. He remained there as pastor

until April, 1879. After traveling for some time he accepted a position in August, 1880, as prin- cipal of the public schools and academy at Keene. He was married in June, 1876, to Miss Ella, daughter of George and Jane (Douglas) Craig. They have one child-Robert C., born July 5, 1877.

DUNLAP JOHN, Bedford township; farmer; postotlice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1839 in this county. His father, James Dunlap, was born in 1796, in Pennsylvania, and came to this county while yet unmarried, and was married to Miss Hannah Baker, of this county. He died in 1879. She died in 1839. They were the parents of eight children ; the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1861 to Miss Rachel H. Philips, of this eounty, who was born in 1844. They are the parents of four children, viz : Samuel L., deceased, Charlie, Sarah E., and John.

DUSENBERRY JOHN, Bedford township; farmer : postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1850 in this county. His father was born in 1799 in eastern Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1832. He was married in 1835 to Miss Rebecca Stevens, of this county, who was born in 1810. He died in 1879, and she died in 1880. They were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He is un- married, and lives on the old farm.

DWYER JOSEPH W., Tuscarawas township; was born in Coshocton, Ohio, October 6, 1832; married Emma A., daughter of John G and Emma (Denman) Titus, October 21, 1858. Has one child living, named David G. Commenced life as a merchant. Owned and published the Coshocton Age from 1856 to 1866. Appointed postmaster of Coshocton, Ohio, by President Lincoln in March 1861, declined, and was appointed clerk in treasury department at Washington City in same month, and for a while was assistant private secretary to Secretary Chase, subsequently, being promoted through the various grades to be chief in charge of commissary accounts in the treasury depart- ment. Resigned this office to accept the office of pension agent for the Columbus, Ohio, pension distriet. It being a new district, he entered upon the new duties and organized the office in September, 1864, which office he continued to hold until June, 1869, with the exception of an interim of six months, during President Johnson's swing around the cirele. His successor failing of confirmation by the Senate, Dwyer was reap- pointed by President Johnson.

At the elose of his second and last term as pension agent at Columbus, he received notice from the chief accounting officer of the treasury department at Washington, that his accounts were closed on the books of the department, and that

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"during his last term of office, he disbursed nearly two millions of dollars to pensioners, with promptness and efficiency that meets the entire approbation of this department."

Allen Rutherford, third auditory of treasury department, on closing up his accounts and turn- ing over the office to his successor, was appointed; by President Grant, chief of supervisors and de- teetives in the internal revenue service, head- quarters at Washington. Holding this office until December. 1869, when a vacancy occurred by the death of Charles Hedges, of Mansfield, Dwyer was appointed supervisor of internal reve- nuo for Ohio and Indiana, with headquarters at Coshocton, Ohio, holding this office until July 1, 1872, when his resignation was accepted by Hon. John W. Douglass, commissioner of internal revenue, in the following words: "I regret that you feel compelled to take this step, not only on account of the pleasant personal relations which do now and ever have existed between us, but chiefly because the Government is about to lose the services of an intelligent, courageous and in- corruptible officer."

On retiring from the foregoing office he was appointed one of the three United States com- missioners to visit, inspect and accept, if com- pleted in accordance with the law, the Central Pacific railroad. He met Messrs. Sullivan and Brown. his fellow commissioners, at San Fran- cisco, California, from whence they made a minute inspection of the whole road and all its branches, culverts, bridges, grades, etc., and upon their re- port the government accepted the road ax fin- ished, and gave to its company the subsidy of bonds and lands voted by congress.

This ended his services in official position. He accepted employment with the Atlantic and Pa- cific railroad company and was their agent at Washington, and among other duties, endeavored to induce congress to organize the Territory of Oklahoma out of the present Indian Territory and open it up to white settlement, and to this end invited both houses of congress to visit the Territory. Over two hundred members accepted the invitation and made a trip to that country, extending their visit to Galveston, Texas and to New Orleans. Nothing rame of the organization of the Territory, but the buikling of the Eads' jetties below New Orleans at the mouth of the gulf was the outcome and result of this excursion.

During his official career he found time to de- vote to farming and stock raising, and for a time, when pension agent at Columbus, published the Farmer's Chronicle. He engaged actively in what- ever would improve and interest the farming community, and to this end was one of the pro- moters of the ",Patrons of Husbandry "in its in- faney, and has now in his possession the third charter, issued by the originators of the institu-

tion, authorizing the late secretary Klippart, of the State Board of Agriculture, Dugan and others, to organize a grange at Coshocton. He is now a farmer and stock raiser near Coshocton and a ranchman in New Mexico. He, with his partner, Mr. John S. Delano, of Denver, have upon their New Mexico ranch over 1,400 cattle, 6,000 sheep, and 200 horses.

EARLEY WILLIAM M., Oxford township ; farmer; Evansburgh; was born in this township in 1854, and was married September 21, 1873, to Miss Emma MeIntire, in Pennsylvania. Their children are, Rebecca Jane, deceased, Desmond, deceased, and Seburtis Mack. They are mem- bers of the M. E Church in West Lafayette.

EASTER DAVID, Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1820 in Fayette county. Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1830. His father was born in 1783 in Bedford connty, Pennsylvania, and died in 1839, his wife in 1871. They were the parents of ten children ; David being the eighth child.

ECKELS RICHARD, Jackson township; post- office, Roscoe; born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1816, settled in this county, in 1822; son of Thomas and Margaret (Porterfield) Eckels, and grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Eckels, and of Gabriel and Jane Porterfield; married in 1842 to Martha Porterfield (first wife), and in 1849, to Mary E. Nichols, daughter of John and Rachel Nichols. Mr. Eckels is the father of ten children, seven living and three dead. Three are married, two living in this county, one in Columbus, Ohio.

ECKERT C. C., Coshocton ; proprietor of C. O. D. store, grocer, baker and dealer in produce, No. 430 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Eck- ert was born in Ragersville, Tuscarawas county, August 22, 1850. His first business engagement was with his father under the firm name of C. A. Eckert & Son, in general merchandising, in which lie continued about six years. He then went west and engaged in dealing in groceries and miner's supplies at Central City, Dakota, where he re- mained one year, after which he returned to Coshocton in 1877, and established his present business. He occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in the Eckert block, where he carries a large, first-class stock of staple and fancy grocer- ies and confectioneries. He also deals in all kinds of country produce, and has a large bakery at- tached, where he does an extensive business in baking bread, plain and fancy cakes and pies of all kinds. He also roasts all grades of cotlces, which are of a very superior quality.

EDWARDS J. T., M. D., Pike township ; born in 1830, in this county. His father was born in

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1799, in Baltimore county, Maryland, and came to this county about 1825. He was married in 1828, to Miss Catharine Lee, of this county, who was born in 1804, in Pennsylvania. He died in 1875, she died in 1874. They were the parents of two children, Dr. Edwards being the oldest. IIe began reading medicine in 1853, under Dr. Rus- sell, of Mt. Vernon, and attended his first course of lectures in 1855-6, and graduated in 1857. Ile has been here ever since. He was married in ! 1847, to Miss Sarah S. Marquand, of this county. She was born in 1833. in this county. They are the parents of five children, viz: Belle B., Russell C .: Birdie, deceased, Edwin S. and Gracie.

EHRICH HENRY, Crawford township; shoe- maker; born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1850. Son of Nicholas Ehrich and Margaret (Nye) Ehrich, both natives of the State of Bavaria. Mr. Ehrich emigrated to America, February 23, 1869, and located in Massillon. He worked as a hand in the shop, until 1873, when he opened a shop of his own in Chili, and still continues to work at his trade there. In August, 1873, he married Catharine Shoemaker, of Crawford township. Her parents, William Shoemaker and Margaret (Wentz) Shoemaker, are both of German ances- try. Mr. Ehrich has a family of three children : Charles Jacob, born June 12, 1874; Margaret. August 23, 1877; Eliza J., January 23, 1879.

ELDER CYRUS. Jefferson township; born January 25, 1834, in Jefferson township, Coshoc- ton county, Ohio, on the farm where he now lives; son of John, a native of Antrim county, Ireland, and Esther (McConnell) Eller, and grandson of John Elder and John McConnell, natives of Ire- land. Mr. Elder came to Virginia in 1804, and remained there till 1806, when he came to Co- shocton county, where he lived till his death, in 1852. At that time his sons, Cyrus and William, became possessors of the home farm. They have since divided it, Cyrus getting the homestead, 310 acres. He was married to Miss Mary A. Waite, October 4, 1866, daughter of John and Mary (Boyd) Waite, and granddaughter of Wil- liam and Sarah (Maines) Boyd, and of William and Margaret (Milligan) Waite. Their children were Elwood, William J . Honorah M , John F .. and James II. Mr. Elder was in the 100-day's service, a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-third regiment, O. N. G.

ELLIOTT MISS KATE. Tuscarawas town- ship; teacher ; postoffice, Coshocton, Ohio. Miss Elliott received a good comnion-school education. also attended the national normal school, at Leb- anon, Ohio She taught the first school in the Barnes district, Keene township, in 1869, and has been constantly employed ever since, often teach- ing as much as nine and ten months in the year.

She has been a successful teacher. having taught two years in the Coshocton schools. She has taught many schools in different parts of the country, always giving satisfaction. She is at present engaged in the Lafayette schools.

ELLIOTT SIMON, Jefferson township; moubl- er; postoffice, Warsaw: was born in Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, December 15, 1832; son of Thomas and Lucy (Sanders) Elliott, and grand- son of John Elliott, and Nathan and Mary San- ders. Mr. Elliott is of Irish descent. Until about the age of sixteen he attended school and worked with his father in the wagon shop. He then be- gan the mouldler's trade in the foundry at Ros- coe, and remained there about two years. He went to Walhonding in 1848, and remained until the year 1864, and the next spring went to Kan- sas, where he followed farming fourteen years, and on account of his wife's ill health he returned to Coshocton county and resumed his trade. He has a small foundry in Warsaw, and has a very fair line of custom. He married. October 3, 1857, Miss Electa Butler, daughter of Allen and Mar- garet (Smith) Butler. Edward L., born August 25, 1866, in the Osage Indian Reserve, in Kansas, is their only chikt. Mr. Elliott is a nephew of Charles Elliott, the founder and editor of the Western Christian Advocate, of Cincinnati, who never went to school, but was master of five dif- ferent languages, and was at one time elected a college president.

ELLIOTT R. M., Lafayette township; tinner ; postoffice, West Lafayette ; learned his trade in Coshocton, and has worked at the business about seven years, and at the present time is working for F. M. Familton; was married, in 1877, to Miss Miller, of this township. They have had two children : William, two years of age, and Agnes, an infant. Mr. Elliott has lived in this township about two years, and is steady and industrious.

ELLIOTT ANDREW, Perry township; post- office. New Guilford ; born in West Virginia, in 1798; son of John and Charity Elliott ; married in 1825. to Miss Margaret MeLewee, daughter of George and Katherine MeLewee. Mr. Elliott died in 1858. They had eleven children, viz: Charlotte, deceased ; Simon. Katherine, deceased ; George, Isabelle, John. James, deceased ; Jane, deceased: Andrew, M. E. and Francis A., de- ceased. Mrs. Elliott still lives upon the okl homestead.

ELLIOTT GEORGE. Perry township: postof- fice, New Guilford; born in this county. in 1831; son of Andrew and Margaret (MeLewee) Elliott, and grandson of John and Charity Elliott. and of George and Katherine MeLewee. He was mar- ried in 1861, to Miss Margaret Dengan, daughtr of Thomas and Margaret Dengan. Mr. Elliott

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spent some six years of his life in the gold regions of California. He sailed from New York on the ship northern light. in October, 1853, and return- ed in 1869. Mr. Elliott at one time came near being buried alive, while engaged in mining ope- rations in California.

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History of Coshocton County, Ohio, its past and present, 1740-1881, Part 109

Author: Hill, Norman Newell, jr., [from old catalog] comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A. A., & co., Newark, O., pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Newark, Ohio, A. A. Graham & co. Number of Pages: 854

Author: Hill, Norman Newell, jr., [from old catalog] comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A. A., & co., Newark, O., pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Newark, Ohio, A. A. Graham & co.
Number of Pages: 854