History of Coshocton County, Ohio, its past and present, 1740-1881, Part 110

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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ELLIOTT WILLIAM B., White Eves town- ship; farmer ; was born in the State of New York, in 1825, and came to this county, with his parents, in 1828. HEis father, John H. Elliott, emigrated to this country from Ireland, about 1823, and located in Keene township. He removed to White Eyes in 1832. William B. began working at the carpenter trade in 1847, and followed his trade for about thirty years. He taught school during the winters for fifteen or sixteen terms. In 1851, Mr Elliott married Miss Mary Boyd, daughter of William M. Boyd, who was born in 1831, in Keene township. They have two chil- dren: Milton, born in 1852, and Almarinda, born in 1855, both of whom are unmarried and live at home. Mr. Elliott bought and located on the farm where he now resides, in the spring of 1852. Mr. Elliott has served in the office of town- ship assessor two terms, land appraiser, one term, and one term each of clerk and treasurer of town- ship. His father is deceased, and his mother, who is a very old lady, lives in the township.

ELLIOTT COLONEL JOHN S., Coshocton, of the firm of Elliott & Marx, 114 and 116 Main street, is a native of Keene township; born May 11, 1817 ; son of Findley and Catharine (Strong) Elliott, of Irish ancestry, He was raised on the farm. At the age of twenty-three he was elected justice of the peace of his native township and served nine consecutive years, Esquire Elliott was appointed by Governor Corwin lieutenant colonel of the State troops, and served until the forces were disbanded by act of the Legislature. He came to this city in 1862, and has served two terms as mayor; also, president of the National Temperance Christian Union of this city three years, and president of the Coshocton Agricul- tural Society for a number of years. He was married first to Miss Margaret, daughter of George MeCaskey, of White Eyes township, and by this union had one son-Alonzo Milton. His second wife was Miss Margaret Morrison, who died some thirteen years since. The above firm is doing a very extensive business in farming implements and heavy machinery. In 1880 they sold three thousand two hundred pounds of wire to bind grain cut by machines sold by them.

ELLIOTT & MARX, General Agency, Nos. 414 and 416 Main street, Coshocton. This house was first established in 1860 by William Elliott. deceased, and was conducted by him until 1862. when, in consequence of his demise his brother, John S. Eliott, succeeded to the business which

he conducted and greatly enlarged during the years of 1878-9, after which J. W. Cullison was associated with him under the firm name of Elliott & Cullison. This firm continued until 1871, when Mr. Cullison was succeeded by H. Marx, changing the firm name to Elliott & Marx. This firm carries a large stock of agricultural implements and does a general agency business in which they furnish repairs for all kinds of machinery promptly on receipt of order. They keep posted in all the improvements of the age, and deal in the best articles in the market. They also furnish on lowest rates and best terms, mow- ers, reapers and binders, grain drills, plows and points, field rollers, sulky cultivators, hay rakes, corn planters, straw cutters, cider mills, corn crushers, farm and church bells, post holo diggers, wood pumps, churns, clothes wringers, washing machines, road scrapers, threshing machines, farm engines, wheelbarrows, sewer pipes, fruit dryersand bakers, ceiling and sheathing paper, etc.

ELLIS GEORGE W., Tusearawas township; farmer: postoffice, Canal Lewisville; born Janu ary 18, 1841, in Keene township; son of Andrew W. Ellis, and grandson of Samuel Ellis. His mother's maiden name was Mary A. Crablet, daughter of William Crablet. George W. was raised on the farm When about eighteen he learned the shoemaking trade and followed it about three years, and has spent his entire life to the present time in this county. He came to his present residence in 1867, and has remained to the present time. He was married March 11, 1869, to Miss Annie E. Reynokls, daughter of Abraham Reynolds, whose father's name was AAbraham. Her mother's maiden name was Eliza Binning. Mary S. is their only child.

ELY JONATHAN, Crawford township; teach- er; postoffice, Chili; born February 19, 1857, in Crawford township; son of Frederick and Mary Magdalena (Yost) Ely. He was educated in the public schools and national normal school at Leb- anon, Ohio. He has successfully taught two terms of school, beginning his first teaching Oc- tober 13, 1879, and is succeeding first rate.

EMERSON ANDREW, Koene township; farm- er; born December 3, 1838, in Keene township; son of George and Olive Emerson, and grandson of Jacob Emerson, a native of Massachusetts, Andrew and Lydia (Fulton) Weatherwax. He was married December 21. 1858, to Phoebe, daughter of John and Phoebe (Stonchocker) Dickey. They had the following children : George, born December. 1859; Ella. died, February 28, 1861, and Angeline, February 1, 1563.

EMERSON W. H., Oxford township; deceased; was born in this county, in 1893; is a son of Timothy Emerson, and was married to Miss Ann

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Norris, in 1855. The result of this union was seven children, as follows: William F., Mary Anara, Timothy C., Henry Siegel, Sherman El- mer, U. S. Grant, Sheridan and Alverton. She is a member of the M. E. church, at Wesley chapel; her father's name was William Norris. Mr. Em- erson owned, at the time of his death, 253 acres of good land in this township, and was respected as an honest, upright man. by a large circle of friends. He died on the 17th of April, 1874.

ENGLISH J. M., Bedford township; farmer; ! postoffice, Tyrone ; born. in 1830, in this county. His father, Patrick English, was born, in 1800, in Pennsylvania. He removed to Harrison county, and was married. in that county, to Miss Susan- nah Dickerson, of the same county, who was born in 1796, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They came to this county in 1827. He died in 1857. She died in 1870. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the sixth. He was married, in 1852, to Miss Isa- bella Stephens, of this county, who was born in 1837. They are the parents of twelve children. eleven of whom are living, and two are married.

EVERHART DAVID, White Eyes township; Chili, postoffice; farmer; born March 8, 1834, in White Eyes township; son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Miser) Everhart, formerly of Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania. David was mar- ried, January 16, 1862, to Miss Sophia, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stilgenbower) Gonter, a native of Pennsylvania, This union has been blessed with six children, five living, Calvin, Mary, Elizabeth, Saloma, Walter, Maggie, Ellie, and one died in infancy, not named. Mr. Everhart has obtained a comfortable farm home, and exerts a good moral influence in his community.

EVERHART SAMUEL, White Eyes town- ship; farmer ; born in this county in 1832. His father, Henry Everhart, came to this county from Tuscarawas county. Samuel remained at home until he was twenty-five years old, and married Miss Florinda Hoobler, of Tuscarawas county, in

1857. Mrs. Everhart was born in 1839. They have had a family of six children. one of whom is deceased. Those living are Eliza J., born in 1858, is married to Peter Farney, and lives in Tus- carawas county; Isaac B., born 1859; Catharine, born 1864; John A., born 1872; Della M., born 1879. Mr. Everhart has always resided in this county.

EVERHART CHARLES, West Water street, Coshocton ; livery man ; born September 1, 1856, in Franklin township; son of Michael Everhart, native of Virginia, and of English ancestry, Young Everhart was raised on the farm, where he remained until he established his present business at this place, in August, 1880. IIe keeps

on an average seven good horses and rigs to suit, such as carriages, buggies, etc.

EXLINE H. A., Washington township; farm- er ; postoffice, West Carlisle ; born in 1822. in this county. His father was born in 1777, in Loudon county, Virginia, and was married in 1805, to Miss Elizabeth Betz, of the same county, who was born in 1789. They came to this county in ISIS. He died in 1850 and she died in 1860. They were the parents of three children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1844, to Miss Mary Gault, of this county, who was born in 1827. She died in 1856. They were the parents of three children, viz : Elizabeth E., Elsie A. and Flora B. He afterward married, in 1861, Miss Elizabeth A. Yunker, of this county, who was born in 1833. They are the parents of three children living, viz: Nora M .. John H. and Charlie B

FAIR DANIEL, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1831; son of Charles and Catharine (Keefer) Fair, and grandson of Christopher and Elizabeth (Hofman) Fair. He moved to Holmes county, Ohio, with his parents in 1836, when he was but five years of age; and at the age of eighteen he began to learn the blacksmith trade with Shrock & Miller, in New Carlisle, Holmes county, remaining about nine months. From there he went to South Bend, Indiana, where he finished his trade with Pres. Whitten, remaining about eighteen months. He then went to Mishawauka and engaged with Graham & Japen, and remained about six months. From there he came to Farmerstown, Holmes county, and began business for himself, where he remained nine years: then sold his shop and be- gan the mercantile business, and continued at that six years, when he sold his store and pur- chased his present farm of 237 aeres, in Clark township, and has engaged in farming since, and is a successful and energetic farmer. He was married April 4, 1854, to Lucinda Snider, daugh- ter of Abram and Mary (Fox) Snider, and grand- daughter of Abram Snider and Jacob and Mary Fox. She was born October 14, 1829, in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county. They have six children : Phineas F., born January 21, 1855; William H., born August 5, 1857; Charles B., born February 11, 1860; Lorenzo D .. born March 24, 1863; Lyman S., born December 24, 1866; Bellmina, born January 15, 1870. Mr. Fair is a member of Millersburg Lodge No. 126, F. A. M., of which he was made a member in 1864.

FAMILTON JOHN, Linton township; mer- chant at Plainfield ; born in Tuscarawas county, July 3, 1854; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Mid-

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dleton) Familton. His father moved from Port Washington, Tuscarawas county, to Lafayette, in 1869. John remained with him there till 1875, when he purchased Osborn's store, at Bacon post- office, this township. He remained there till the fall of 1877, at which time he moved his stock of goods to Plainfield and opened a store there. The following year a partnership was formed with Lewis Carhart, which was dissolved in 1879, and Nicholas Familton, his brother, was then ad- mitted as a partner. Nicholas died February, 1880, and since then Mr. Familton has conducted the business alone. He was married June 4, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of William Gorseline, of Lafayette township.

FAMILTON T. II., Lafayette township; mer- chant; born in Harrison county, in 1829, and eame to West Lafayette in 1869; was married to Miss Elizabeth Middleton, of Tuscarawas county, in 1852; they have had six children : Nicolas, deceased; Dora, deceased; John, Frank, George and Will. Before he started business here, a pound of coffee or a yard of cloth could not be purchased in the plaèe, but in his store to-day, you can find any- thing usually kept in a first-class dry goods and grocery house. His numerous patrons have found him an honest and obliging gentleman, and his prices compare favorably with any house in the county.

FARQUHAR FRANKLIN, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born in this township in 1835; son of Caleb and Katharine Farquhar, and grandson of Samuel and Phebe (Yarnall) Farquhar, and of John and Ellen (Murray) Yar- nall. Mr. Farquhar is one of a family of ten chil- dren, six of whom are still living.

FARQUHAR SAMUEL, Perry township; post- office, New Guilford; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1838; son of Samuel Y. and Mary (Trimble) Farquhar, who came here from Maryland ; grandson of Samuel and Phobe Farquhar, and of John and Ellen (Murray) Trim- ble. He was married in 1869 to Miss Harriet Blue, daughter of Daniel and Clara Blue. They have five children, viz: Rollie M., Mary L., Lyman L., Minnie P. and Carrie. He enlisted in 1861 in Company K, Twenty-fourth regiment O. V. 1., Captain Ginnis, and participated in the following battles: Greenbriar, Nashville, Pittsburgh Land- ing, Stone River and Chickamauga. He was dis- charged in 1864.

FELLER GOTTLIEB, Crawford township; proprietor of a tannery at Chili ; born in Naflen, Kirchdorp, Amt Belb, State of Switzerland, July, 1835; son of John Feller and Barbary (Krebs) Feller, natives of the same place. Mr. Feller · emigrated to America in 1854, and settled on Stone creek, Tuscarawas county, and started a

tannery at Chili in 1863, where he has followed the business successfully ever since. In 1863, he married Catharine Lebold, of Tuscarawas county. They are the parents of the following named children : John, born November 3, 1863; Mary Ann Senora, August 31, 1865; Jacob Edward, August 10, 1868; Catharine Amelia, October 28, 1870; Frederick Albert, September 11. 1872; Clara Matilda, March 21, 1876, and Lissette Caro- line, August 4, 1878. One died in infancy, Jacob Henry. Mr. Feller ownes quite an extensive tannery, the largest in that section of the county. He also carries on the saddlery and harness mak- ing business in connection with the tannery. Mr. Feller and family belong to the B. M. church at Chili.

FELVER PIZARRE, Oxford township; car- penter ; Orange postoffice, Evansburgh; was born in 1840, in the town of Coshocton; son of John Felver, a cooper by trade, who died in 1842. The subject of this sketch was married in 1861 to Miss Josephine Richmond, of this township. They have three children, as follows: Alice, de- ceased, aged eight months and six days; Harriet, aged seventeen, and Edward, fifteen years of age. Mr. Felver has been working at his present trade about five years, having worked first at coopering uuder James Butler. He is a natural mechanic, and is honest and well spoken of. He has fol- lowed several vocations, starting out at boating, then coopering, then railroading, and was in Terre Haute, Indiana, for some four years, where he was, for some time, on the police force of the city. He has also worked for the Massillon and Canton bridge companies.

FERGUSON VINCENT, Lafayette township; farmer; son of Andrew Ferguson, who came from Ireland in 1806 and located in Jefferson county, and was married in this county to Mary Roader- ick, January 6, 1825, whose parents were natives of Maryland. He was born in this township in 1843. His father, Andrew F., was born April 2, 1795, and died in 1879. His mother was born October 4, 1810, and died in 1866. The subject of this sketch was married in 1866, to Miss Rachel Bates, of Tuscarawas county, who became the mother of three children: Harry, Halston, de- ceased, and Homer, deceased. Mr. Ferguson keeps good stock on his farm of 438 aeres, which his father bought in 1835. He has been township treasurer in his township for the past seven years, and he and his wife are members of the Protest- ant Methodist church. Of the fourteen brothers and sisters, one brother and five sisters are living.

FERRELL J. M., White Eyes township; mer- chant and postmaster at Avondale; born in Me- Connellsville, Morgan county, April, 1833; son of Joseph Ferrell, who was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1801, and emigrated

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to Morgan county in 1826. He married Hannah Daugherty, in 1827; returned to Pennsylvania, in 1836; lived there two years; moved to White Eyes, and settled on a farm purchased of Elisha Swigart. Ilis wife died in 18644. He married Mrs. Mary Johnson, in 1867, and died in 1879 J. M. Ferrell married Nancy M. Maxtiekl, of Orange, and lived in Orange until 1856, when he moved to Kansas. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he left Kansas, and returned to White Eyes. He enlisted in the Fifty-first O. V. I., in Company I, under Captain Heskett, and served three years. After the close of the war, he located in Avondale, and sold goods. His wife died in 1873, Their children are, Hattie, born in 1856, married David Tipton, in 1877, and now resides in Johnson county, Kansas; J. E., born in 1866, clerks in the store, with his father; Emzy, born in 1869, and Walter, born in 1872. Mr. Ferrell married Miss Mary Funk, in 1875. Mr. Ferril has been longer in business, in Avon- dale, than any other person doing business there now.

FERRELL JOHN, Coshocton ; street commis- sioner; born July 18, 1819, in County Donegal, Ireland ; son of William and Nancy ( Lane) Fer- rell. He came to America in 1849, landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained two years and fired an engine. He came to this county in 1851 and located in Keene township, where he mined coal about five years, then came to this city, in 18GI, and remained several years, then returned to Keene township and farmed until 1872, when he again came to this city and has remained to the present time. Mr. Ferrell was appointed street commissioner in April, 1874, and has been reappointed until he is now serving his fourth term. Mr. Ferrell was married in the fall of 1842, to Miss Jane, daughter of John Mc- Gee, of Scotland. This union was blessed with four children, Matilda, married to Henry Ondian, now residing in Porter county, Indiana, Agnes, William, married to Miss Ella Mateer, of this city, and John.

FILLMAN PETER, New Castle township; postoffice, New Castle ; was born in Oldenburgh, Germany, on the 3d of May, 1832. He is a son of John and Catharine Fillman, and grandson of David Fillman. He attended school from the age of five until he was fourteen, after which he began to learn the tailoring trade with Bartholo- mew Ludwick, in Fishback, Germany, finishing his apprenticeship at the end of three years. He then traveled for four years on the Continent, seeing the sights, of which he gives many inter- esting narratives. After he finished his rambles, he entered the German army to serve his time there, but at the end of eighteen months he made good his escape, and embarked for America,

landing in June, 1855, in the city of New York, remained there until the following September, when he came to Port Washington, Ohio, and engaged with Charles Detman to work at his trade remaining there until the summer of 1857, when he went to Dresden, Muskingum county, and worked for Alexander Marten, and in the fall of the same year came to New Castle, Co- shocton county, where he has remained ever since, following his occupation. He is also pro- prietor of the Buckeye hotel, and is doing well, both at tailoring and hotel keeping. Ile mar- ried Miss Mary Fulks, daughter of John and Jane Fulks, who was born in Coshocton county. Their union has been blessed with four children, viz : John, Dorca, Sophia, and Mary. John was born September 22, 1861; Dorca, July 28, 1864; So- phia, December 19, 1868; and Mary, March 6, 1870. Mr. Fillman was made a member of the Masonic fraternity in the year 1868, and in the year 1872 he joined the I. O. O. F. He is a kind, genial man, and welcomes rich and poor alike to his hospitalities.

FUNK DAVID, White Eyes township; Chili postoffice ; farmer; was born September 20, 1842, on the farm on which he now resides. IFe is the son of Jacoband Anne-daughter of Abraham and Margaret (Peck) Miller-Funk, who were the parents of eleven children, six living : Abraham, Morgan, Margaret, Ellen, Sarah and David. The latter was married May 14, 1872, to Miss Harriett A., daughter of Simon and Sophia (Grimm) Stough; born January 18, 1850. This union has been blessed with two children, John Grant and Ellma Dottie. Jacob Funk, referred to before, is a native of West Virginia, but when about four years of age was taken to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until about 1845, when he came to his present residence with only about $700, but now has an ample compe- tence for his old age, raising and assisting to start in the world his family of sons and daughters.

FINLEY R. E., D. D. S., of the firm of Finley & Wernett, Coshocton ; was born August 28, 1840, in New Salem, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Eli H. Finley, and grandson of Ebenezer Finley, one of the first settlers at Red Stone "Old Fort," near the Monongahela, in Wes- tern Pennsylvania. He there shared the perils, hardships and privations of pioneer life in the wild forest, infested with savage Indian warriors. Young Finley spent his childhood and youth on the farm with his father. At twenty-three years of age, he entered Dunlap's creek academy, and on completing his studies there, in 1865, com- menced the study of dentistry with Dr. R. J. Cunningham, of Wooster, Ohio; next read with Dr. William Mitchell, a graduate of Philadelphia dental college. He next formed a partnership

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with Dr. C. M. Kelsey, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, stone mason; born August 20, 1850, in Mus- and remained with him, studying and practicing in the adjoining country and villages, until Octo- ber, 1870, when he entered the Ohio dental col- lege. at Cincinnati, and was graduated with the usual honors of the class of 1870-71. On receiv- ing his diploma, he located at Dresden, and en- tered into partnership with Dr. F. A. Wernett, a student of the Ohio dental college. Soon after forming the new firm. they came to this city and succeeded Dr. Moffitt, corner Main and Fifth streets, their present location. Drs. Finley & Wernett have greatly improved and furnished their parlors in a most elegant and tasteful man- ner.

FINLEY JOHN A., Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Holmes county. Ohio, October 18, 1851; son of George and Priscilla (Vanbuskirk) Finley. and grandson of AAaron and Alice Finly, and Joseph Vanbuskirk. His father was born in Jefferson county; Ohio, his mother in Carroll county, Ohio. His grandfather came from Ireland. He spent his youth attending school and assisting his father on the farni. At the age of nineteen he began a two-years' courso at Vermilion institute, in Haysville, Ashland county. After that he engaged in farming, and has continued successfully to the present. He was married August 6, 1874, to Miss Martha Frizell, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth (Sowash) Frizell, and granddaughter of John and Ellen (Kelly) Frizel and Daniel and Catharine (Spring) Sowash, also great great granddaughter of Jacob Spring and Absolom Frizell. She was born December 12, 1851, in Holmes county, and became the mother of three children, viz: Emma, born May 18, 1875; George C., born October 3, 1578, and William W., born August 10, 1880.

FISHER HON. J. C., Coshocton ; editor of the Democrat; was born December 15, 1840, in Mus- kingum county, Ohio. At thirteen years of age he moved. with his father, to a farm in Licking county, where he remained until 1866, when he took charge of the above named paper, which he has conducted until the present time. His edu- eation was obtained in the public schools and teaching schools, also a four years course at the Denison university. He was elected to the State senate from the eighteenth district in 1873, and re-elected in 1877. He was also, by Governor Allen. appointed, in 1875, member of the Ohio State Fish Commission, for three years, and by Governor Bishop re-appointed. in 1878, for a like term. Ile was married December 15, 1869, to Miss S. A. Hawthorne, of Coshocton. The re- sult of this union is two daughters, viz: Annie and Shirly. Mr. Fisher has succeeded well as an editor and legislator.

kingum county; son of Clark and Mary (Myers) Fisher, Ilis great-grandfather, Daniel Fisher, was born in Milford, Massachusetts, in 1752, and died in 1820, was the owner of a large estate, ex- ceeding 1,000 acres, at Newfane, Vermont. Dan- iel Fisher, son of the above, was born February 16, 1776, and died August 17, 1862. He married for his first wife, Millicent Durren, of Newfane, Vermont. in 1797. Clark, the oldest child by this marriage, born Aprll 23. 1798, died July 1, 1874, engaged in farming in Vermont, and in 1833 moved to Canada East, in the spring of 1835 he removed to New York, and in 1838 eame to Co- shoeton county ; remained till 1849-except one year, 1846-47, spent in Mercer county-then went to Muskingum county, having engaged in teach- ing school since he quit Vermont. He kept a boarding house in Zanesville a white, then on the pike near Sonora. The subject of this sketch was reared in Muskingum county, and about 1872 came to this township. He was married, April 11, 1875, to Martha E. Adams, born May S, 1852, daughter of Charles and Susan Adams, of this county. They have two children-Charlie Clark, born June 10, 1876, and Bertha Elsie, born October 6, 1879.

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History of Coshocton County, Ohio, its past and present, 1740-1881, Part 110

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