History of Coshocton County, Ohio, its past and present, 1740-1881, Part 118

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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LAURIE J. H., Coshocton; proprietor saloon and restaurant, corner Main and Third streets; was born January 11, 1889, in Bavaria. Germany; son of Christopher Lauric. Young Laurie attended school until fourteen years of age, when he en-


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tered Kaiserslantern seminary, and remained two years, then returned home and remained one year. In 1856 he came to America, landing at Baltimore, Maryland. Soon after his arrival he became a steamboatman on the Adriatic, ply- ing beween Pittsburgh and New Orleans, and remained on this boat three years. He was suc- cessively a bridge buikler on the Pan Handle railroad, coal miner, near Steubenville, Ohio, and oil operator, near Marietta, Ohio, from thenee he came to this city in 1861, and mined four years. Then engaged in merchandising, which he fol- lowed until 1872, when he purchased and fitted up the Central House, and was proprietor for two year, when he sold out his hotel and estab- lished his present business. Mr. Laurie was married in August, 1861, to Miss Catharine Stone, of Washington county, Ohio. This marriage was blessed with four children, two deceased, Willie Edward and Clara; and two living, Tillie and Haddie Lauric. Mr. Laurie is now doing a good business.


LAUDENSCHLAGER THOMAS, Crawford township; farmer; postoffiec, New Bedford, Ohio; born October 10, 1857, in Crawford township; son of John and Elizabeth (Sheets) Laudenschla- ger, natives of Germany, but came to America in 1846. His father died in 1859, leaving his mother a widow, with three children, David, Elizabeth and Thomas. Afterward, his mother married Michael Link, with whom Thomas, the subject of this sketch, now resides in Crawford township.


LAWRENCE G. W., Clark township; postof- fice, Clark's; farmer; born in Cheshire county, New Hampshire, November 15, 1823; son of Jesse and Susannah (Farwell) Lawrence, and grandson of Martin Lawrence and Richard Far- well, all of Scotch descent. He came to Keene township, Coshocton county, with his parents in 1826, remained there about one year, then came to Mill Creek township, and lived there about thirty-three years, after which he moved to Clark township, where he has remained since on a farm of 113 acres, adjoining the village of Bloom- field. He has been twice married, the date of his first marriage being May 28, 1818, to Miss Lydia Ross, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Ross; born December 11, 1824, and died March 12, 1862. They were the parents of two children; J. Ross, born March 1, 1850, and Harry, born January 20, 1853. His second marriage was on March 5, 1863, to Miss Rachel Cox, daughter of Elijah and Christina Shopler. She was born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 8, 1832. They are parents of three children; Don Carlos, born February, 12, 1864; Willie G., born April 26, 1868, and Jesse B., born September 1, 1875.


LAWRENCE L. H., New Castle township;


farmer; postoffice, New Castle ; was born in New Castle, Coshocton county, Ohio, March 11, 1531; son of George P. and Phoebe (Butler) Lawrence, and grandson of Jonathan and Mary ( Horten) Lawrence, and Thomas Butler, one of the first settlers of the county. He attended district school and worked on the farm until the age of eighteen, then attended college at the Ohio uni- versity at Delaware one year. His father was one of the first occupants of the village of New Castle, then called Liberty. Ile is now one of the oldest residents of New Castle township. He was a partner in a store at the age of nineteen. with A. S. Lawrence and J. K. Leighow, and re- mained about two years; then engaged in mer- cantile business with Jonathan Coggins, and con- tinued a partner with that gentleman three years, when he sold his interest and turned his atten- tion to farming and stock raising, and has con- tinued in that business up to this time. He has been successful through his entire career: is kind, genial, and highly esteemed by all his ac- quaintances and neighbors. He resides on a farm one and a half miles southwest of New Cas- tle. His paternal ancestors were Pennsylvanians, and his mother was of Irish descent. He was married August 9, 1855, to Miss Eliza Nichols, daughter of Eli and Hachel (Lloyd) Nichols, of Belmont county, who was born August 9, 1833, in Loydville, Belmont county. They have but one child, Eugene, born April 18, 1857, who is now farming and dealing in stock in Kansas.


LAWSON WILLIAM, Coshocton; photo- grapher; was born in Monongalia county, West Virginia, February 29, 1842; son of Alexander Lawson, American born, of Scotch ancestry. Young Lawson spent his childhood on the farm, and, when twelve years of age, he entered a store as clerk, and, at twenty, began to learn the art of photography, with Snedeker, of Mattoon, Illinois. He was also employed at Gallion, Ohio, and in London Ohio, before he came to this city, and took charge of his brother's gallery. Mr. Law- son was married, March 15, 1877, to Miss Mary, daughter of Dr. De Long, of Hardin county, Ohio. One child, Georgie E., was born to thom. January 16, 1878, in Gallion, Ohio. Mr. Lawson's rooms, located in the Hays building, on Second street, are well fitted up, with all the modern in- struments and accessories, making it a first class photograph gallery.


LAWSON ELISHA, Coshocton; liveryman : was born February 7, 1812, in Virginia; son of Alexander and Susannah (Gould) Lawson, of Scotchancestors. Elisha left home when about nine years of age. He has traveled extensively in the South and West. June 11, 1561, he enlisted in Company I, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves or Thirty-seventh Pa. V. f., at Waynesburg, Penn-


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sylvania, and served three years At the battle of the Wilderness he received two wounds in the right arm; he was once captured, but soon re- captured, at the second Bull Run battle. At the close of the war, Mr. Lawson engaged in photo- graphy, and followed it about twelve years; he then determined to go to South America, but when he reached Matamoras, Mexico, he was taken sick with fever ; and, advised by his physi- cian to return north, which he did, stopping in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, where he re- mained until he regained his health. Then he came to Ohio and resumed the photographic art, and followed it for five years or until the fall of 1880, when he engaged in his present business. Mr. Lawson is a special admirer of fine horses, which would be readily inferred by any one vis- iting his stables and seeing his stock; especially two blooded mares, Hazards, his favorites. Though the Hazards, by many, are considered very wild, vicious and unmanageable; Mr. Law- son believes them to be pretty as a gold dollar, generally as sound as a silver dollar, fleet as the wind, harmless as a dove and kind as a kitten. Mr. Lawson was married October 4, 1873, to Miss Hersey daughter of James Alfred and Mary (Borlan) Mackey. They are the parents of two daughters, viz : Edna and Frankie.


LAWSON DR. DAVID, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in April, 1824; son of David Lawson. Mr. Law- son went to school until the age of twenty; then went to Muskingum county in 1835, engaged at weaving for some time. He began the study of medeine, at the age of nineteen, with Dr. David Barnes, of Coshocton county, and read three years and attended lecturesat the Western Reserve med- ieal college at Cleveland, O. He began the practice of medicine in 1849 at Elizabethtown, Licking county, and continued there one year; then came to Warsaw, and has been practicing here since. In 1872 he opened a dry goods store in Warsaw, since which time he has partially withdrawn from practice. He is doing a very fair business and is highly esteemed by all his numerous acquaint- anees. Dr. Lawson was married in 1852 to Miss Mary J. Magaw, daughter of James and Matikla Elder. They have had three children-David J., Edgar J. and Willard J.


LAYMAN D. A., Lafayette township; post- office, West Lafayette, O. Mr. Layman was born December 24, 1854, in Keene, O., and has re- mained a resident of this county all his life. His parents were of German descent. Mr. Layman was ra sed on the farm until sixteen years okl. when he learned the blacksmith trade, which he hassince followed. Mr. L. was married August 23, 1877, to Miss Isabella Frederick, of this county. They became the parents of two children, viz :


Irvin, born April 11, 1878, and Nora C., born Oc- tober 15, 1880. Mr. Layman has followed his oc- cupation in Millersburgh, Warsaw, Spring Moun- tain and Manchester. He came to West Lafay- ette in the fall of 1879 and has since remained, controlling the wagon and blacksmith shops, do- ing a good business and giving satisfaction in all his work.


LAYMAN JAMES N., Keene township; born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1829. Both his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Swagerd) Layman, were Pennsylvanians by birth Since he was fifteen years okl he has followed black- smithing. He came to Ohio, locating in Keene when twenty-three years of age; married Sep- tember 1, 1850, to Catharine Spigler, born No- vember, 1831, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Witseman) Spigler. Their children were Syl- vester, born July 25, 1851; James A., May 16, 1853; David A., December 25, 1854; William C., deceased, June 30, 1856; Margaret M., deceased, June 10, 1858; Catharine M., February 22, 1860; Mary K., August 5, 1861; George W., October, 1863; Charles E., August 4, 1868; Grant N., An- gust 31, 1872; Minnie Reerisca, August 3, 1874, and Martha B., August, 1876. In 1860 Mr. Lay- man united with the Methodist Episcopal church.


LEAR THOMAS, Coshocton ; dealer in boots and shoes, hats and caps, Main street; born De- cember 25, 1846, in Gloucestershire, England ; son of Stephen Lear, deceased. When fourteen years of age, he came to America with his parents, landing at New York City in 1860, and immedi- ately went to Frostburgh, Allegheny county. Maryland, and from there came to this city, in November, 1862. Mr. Lear followed mining un- til 1876, when he established a grocery, which he continued until August, 1879, when he estab- lished his present business. Mr. Lear was mar- ried September 3, 1871, to Miss Mary Higgs, daughter of John Higgs, of this city. They have had five children, one (Thomas) deceased; the four living are Annie Laurie, John S., Mary Annie and Thomas Lear, Jr. Mr. Lear is doing a moderate business.


LEAR HENRY, Coshocton, Tuscarawas town- ship; miner; was born December 29, 1840, in Gloucester county, England ; son of Stephen and Mary (Nat) Lear. Landing at New York in 1860, he afterward located in Allegheny county, Mary- land, and remained there until 1867, when he came to his present residence. Mr. Lear was married in September, 1862, to Miss Sarah Louis, of Maryland. They have been blessed with eight children, viz: Rosanna; James Henry and Ste- phen Marshal, twins; Clara Jane, Thomas Mil- ford, Mary Elizabeth, Charles Emery and Minnie. Mr. Lear has succeeded well in the land of his adoption.


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LEAVENGOOD I. N., Monroc township; teach- er: postoffice, Spring Mountain, Ohio; son of Daniel and Mary E, (Lower) Leavengood; was born May 14,1862, in Monroe township, Coshocton county. Mr. Leavengood was raised on the farm until fourteen years of age. He then attended school two years, at Princeton and Spring Moun- tain. In 1878, Mr. Leavengood removed to łowa, and remained two years, engaged as book- keeper with the St. Louis and Council Bluff's railroad. In 1879, he made a trip through Kansas and Nebraska, returning to Ohio January, 1880. In April, 1880, he removed to Manstickl, Ohio, and is at present engaged in teaching. He has also been engaged as elerk in the Manstield savings bank. He taught his first school near Mansfield, Ohio.


LEE DR. S. H., druggist, No. 132 Second street, Coshocton. Dr. Lee is a native of this city, and was born January 16, 1820. He received his pre- paratory education from a lady instructor whom his father, with three other families, had em- ployed to teach their children, after which he en- tered the freshman class of 1838, at Kenyon col- lege. where he was a elass-mate of R. B. Hayes. He then entered the sophomore class at Marietta college, and was graduated in 1842; after which he returned home and read medieine with his father and attended lectures at New York City, and was graduated by the New York medical college in 1845. He then entered upon the prac- tice of his profession at Canal Dover, where he practiced about four years, after which he went to Peru, Indiana, where he served the people with success and acceptance for seven years. He then returned to Coshocton, where he has re- mained ever since with the exception of two years that he was surgeon in the United States army. He was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Eightieth O. V. I., after which he served as contract surgeon, and in 1864 he was commis- sioned surgeon of the One Hundred and Forty- third O. N. G. He returned home in 1865 and established the drug business, in which he is very pleasantly located, and keeps a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, notions, school books, paints, oils, dye stuffs, varnishes, etc.


LEE GEORGE C., Coshocton ; residence on Chestnut street; was born in New Castle, this county, May 12, 1855; son of Benjamin S. Lee, a native of New York State, and Elizabeth (Shafer) of Lancaster county. Pennsylvania. He came with his parents to this city when about seven years of age, and received a good education in the public schools of the city. In 1876 he was appointed deputy sheriff of the county, and served two years. During his term he assisted at the hanging of Ept, September 29, 1876. He


was elected city clerk in April, 1878, and served two years. Mr. Lee's father died August 2, 1874. Since his death, George C. has had charge of his father's estate.


LEE HI. W., Perry township; New Guilford postoffice: born in this county, in 1826; son of William and Isabelle (Richard) Lee, grandson of Ezekiel and Mary Lee, and of Henry and Mary Richard, and married in 1861, to Miss S. E. Bon- nett, daughter of Lewis and Mahaley Bonnett. Mr. Lee is the father of eight children, viz: Wil- liam G., Lewis H., M. B., J. W .. Katharine J., Laura L., and Henry Harrison. Mr. Lee's grand- father was a revolutionary soldier.


LEE J. W., Perry township; New Guilford postoffice: born in this county, in 1828; son of William and Isabella (Richard) Lee, grandson of Henry and Elizabeth Richard. He was married November 7, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Wolf, daugh- ter of Absalom and Mary Wolf. They have three children, viz: M. F., C. A .. and M. B. One of his sons is a practicing physician and surgeon of Columbus, Ohio.


LYBARGER E. L., Monroe township; born September 27, 1841, in Wayne county, Ohio; son of James T. and Amelia (Crum) Lybarger, and grandson of Andrew Lybarger, who came to Coshocton county from Pennsylvania in 1808, and settled in the town of Coshocton. He was a sol- (hier under Captains Harris and Williams, and was under Hull at the time of his surrender. His great-grandfather, James Thompson, was a revolutionary soldier, and also a pioneer settler of Coshoeton county. Mr. Lybarger was born in Blatchlysville, Wayne county, and lived there till the age of four years, when his parents moved to Millford, Knox county, where he lived till 1861, excepting two years he lived at Danville. He en- listed in Company K, Forty-third Regiment, O.V. 1., under Captain Walker and Colonel J. L. Kirby Smith. The battles he participated in are as follows: Capture of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Ft. Pillow, first battle of Corinth, Inka, second battle of Corinth. Vieksburg, Dalton. Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, the capture of Atlanta, Pokataligo. Salkehatchie, Bentonville, Columbia, and the surrender of Joe Johnson at Raleigh. He was mustered out July 18, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Lybarger enlisted as a private, and gradually rose in rank till he became captain. After the close of the war he returned home and pursued the study of law two years; then engaged in the mercantile business at Spring Mountain, where he has continued ever since. Ho was married to Miss S. W. Rodgers, in January, 1566, daughter of Dr. and Catharine (Hawn) Rodgers. of Millwood, and granddaughter of John Hawn, who was a settler of Knox county, and also a


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wealthy man. Mr. and Mrs. Lybarger are of Irish and German descent.


LEIGHNINGER ASA, Lafayette township ; farmer; was born in this county in 1836; son of George Leighninger ; was married in 1860 to Miss Sarah Foster, a native of England, who came to this country when quite young. They have had six children. viz : Norah, U. Grant, Ern- est, Ida ; George, and an infant, both deceased. He and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church. Mr. Leighninger owns 130 acres of land in this township, and twenty-four acres in Oxford township, and is an enterprising farmer.


LEIGHNINGER HIRAM, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in this county in 1822; son of George and Mary Leighninger; was married to Miss Susannah Loos, daughter of Daniel Loos, October 30, 1847, and had the following children, viz: an infant, deceased ; Seldan ; Emma J., deceased; Clara, an infant son, Maria ; Olive and an infant son, both decased; Elmer and Alta Carvetta. Mr. Leigh- ninger is a prosperous farmer, and owns eighty- eight acres of fine land ; has hehl offices of trust in his township, and he and his wife are mem- bers of the Protestant Methodist church, Mr. Leighninger having been a member for the past thirty years.


LEIGHNINGER B. F., Lafayette township; postoffice, West Lafayette ; was born in this town- ship, in 1838; son of George and Mary (Wolfe) Leighninger. His father died in 1841; his mother is still living, aged eighty-four years. He was married, in 1870, to Nelia Conaway, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Lovelace) Conaway, both Virginians. They have three children : Ella M .; Charley C., deceased, and Clyde H. Mr. Leighninger was a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., holding the commission of Second Lieutenant ; was in general hospital, at Fortress Monroe, three weeks, with the typhoid fever, and had charge of forty of the sick and disabled, in their transportation home. In 1866, Mr. Leighninger, in company with B. F. Fleming, was engaged very extensively in the lumber business, in Southern Indiana; running their own mill, buying and selling, and carrying on quite a successful business, when he was stricken with the lung fever, and remained siek four months ; and, seeing he could not endure the ex- posure and hardships incident thereto, he soll his entire .interest to Mr. John Grove, of Har- rison county.


In early life, Mr. Leighninger, with his broth- ers Levi, Asa and Lewis, formed a partnership, with the home farm of ISO acres, after they had


bought out the heirs, as their capital, and worked together until 1856, when Levi withdrew and lo- cated on a hill-farm in Oxford township, known as the Mushrush farm. In 1859 Lewis withdrew, the possessor of a fine farm of 100 acres near West Lafayette ; the partnership between Isa and B. F., continued until last spring, when the stock was divided between them, giving to each a fine farm, well stocked and improved. The farm owned by B. F. was bought April 1, 1867, and known as the Ralph Phillips farm, Mr. Phillips having entered it and owning it until the pur- chase by the Leighningers. The farm is one of the best improved in the county, and is set off by one of the prettiest houses on the plains, sup- plied with all the modern improvements, and everything in fact, tending to make a pleasant home. There never was a more prosperous and happy combination, all things considered, than this, inasmuch as there never was a jar during the years that their interests were a common one,. and was the means of giving them all comforta- ble homes.


LENNON ANTHONY, farmer; Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Canal Lewisville ; born May 27, 1836, and brought up on the farm which he now owns. His father, James, was a native of Kildare county, Ireland; his mother, Keziah Thompson, was daughter of Samuel, and grand- daughter of James Thompson, who was a revolu- tionary soldier. She was born April 13, 1809, in Ashtabula county, the same year. Anthony was married January 28, 1860, to Miss Emily, daugh- ter of William and Lydia (Butler) MeGiffin, of Keene township. This union has been blessed with one child, Carrie Rose.


LENNON JOHN, White Eyes township; farmer; a native of Tuserawas township; born in 1833. His father, James Lennon, was a native of county Kildare, Ireland; emigrated to Canada, and landed at Quebec in 1818; remained there about two years, and then removed to Lockport, New York, where he worked on the Erie canal two years. He next came to Ohio, worked on the Miami canal, and came to this county after the letting of the Ohio canal, about 1826, on which he was a contractor. After the canal was finished. he bought a farm in Tuscarawas town- ship, on which his widow now resides, and lived there until his death, which occurred in 1854. His widow was born in this county, in 1807. Her ancestors were New Englanders, and were from Trenton, New Jersey.


In 1858 John Lennon married Miss Lydia Sowers, a native of Jacksou township. He lo- cated on a farm in Tuscarawas township, and was elected sheriff of Coshocton county, in 1873, and was installed in January, 1874. He was re- elected in 1875. Ept, the murderer of young


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Wertheimer, was the only criminal ever hung in the county, and Mr. Lennon officiated at his hanging. After serving two terms he moved upon his farm, in White Eyes township, in 1880, where he now resides. He now hokls the office of assessor of White Eyes township. He has a family of three children, James, born December 4, 1860, William born July, 1863, and Howard, born April, 1868.


LENNON JAMES, farmer; Tuscarawas town- ship; was born March 7. 1832. September 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company II, Fifty-one O. V. I, and served three years. Mr. Lennon was mar- ried October 10, 1867, to Miss Emeline, daughter of Amos and Mary (Coyle) Markley. They are the parents of seven chillien, viz: Samuel, An- thony, Mary E., Ualosia B .; two infants, de- ceased. and Amy M.


LENHART JACOB, Crawford township ; mer- chant; Chili: born in Shanesville, Tuscarawas county, in 1836; son of Peter Lenhart and Mag- dalena (Deeds) Lenhart, both natives of Pennsyl- vania. He left home in 1857, clerked in dry goods stores in Bedford and Illinois for a number of years. Enlisted March, 1865, and was dis- charged at the close of the war same year. Mr. Lenhart married Miss Emma Winklepeek, of Chili, May 18, 1879. They have one child, Edward Stewart, born April 29, 1880. Mr. Lenhart has been owner of a dry goods store at Chili for a number of years, and he and Charles Stein are in partnership now.


LE RETILLEY JAMES, retired merchant, Main street, Roseoe; was born April 26, 1821, in Muskingum county ; son of James Le Retilley, a native of the Isle of Guernsey, came to Amer- ica in an early period, and located in Guernsey · county, and engaged in the manufacture of salt. In 1826 James Le Retilley, Sr., with his family, came to Roscoe and engaged in merchandising, which he continued until his death in 1851. Young Le Retilley's mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of William Taylor, a native of Virginia. Young Lo Retilley was train- ed to the mercantile business from boyhood, having assisted his father in the store at a very early age. He has had an active, varied and suc- cessful business experience, having been an active partner in the firms of Burns & Le Retilley, Burns & Co .. and Le Retilley & Burns. He also conducted the mercantile business alone for sex- oral years; contracted for and built four miles of the C. C. & I. C. R. R., which he completed in two years. Mr. Lo Retilley was married Orto- ber 27, 1845, to Miss Eliza Ferguson, daughter of Matthew and Mary Ferguson, of Roscoe. They became the parents of four children. viz : Bertha ind George, deceased ; Edward and Elsworth.


LEVENGOOD JOHN, Crawford township; postoffice, New Bedford: teamster; was born May 10, 1842. in New Bedford. In 1858, he went to the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked until enlisting, in September, 1861, in Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., in which he served during the way, having re-enlisted as a veteran, January 1, 1863. He was actively engaged in all the bat- tex in which his regiment participated, and was wounded in the leg, by a gun-ball, near Kingston. Mr. Levengood was married, February 25, 1863, to Miss Magdalena, daughter of Josiah and Eliza- beth (Bowman) Rinchart. Mr. Levengood has adopted a child of Emmanuel Rinehart, named Louisa Alice.


LEVITT SYLVESTER, Keene township : was born August 6, 1831, at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio : son of Gideon and Mary (Stickler) Levitt, and was a farmer. He enlisted in Com- pany H, One Hundred and Forty-third O. V, I., May 1, 1864; died, in West Chester county, New York, July, 1864. He had married Miss Mary A. Whittemore, November 26, 1856; daugh- ter of Daniel B. and Lavina (Goodhne) Whitte- more. Their children were Julius M. and Syl- vester G. Julius is married to Florence Bald- win, and lives in Hopedale, Ohio, engaged at school teaching. Sylvester is going to school.




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