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The city is protected fairly well from fires by a volunteer fire company and a hand apparatus consisting of wagon, hand-cart, three pumps, etc. Natural gas is used here, the same being pumped in from Noble county from the Dudley field. The surrounding country is devoted largely to sheep raising. The schools of the place are a high and grammar school, mentioned in the educational chapter of this volume.
The only newspaper at Quaker City is the Independent, established in 1875 by J. D. Olmstead & Sons. The present proprietors are J. W. and A. B. Hill, who took charge in 1882 and have never missed an issue since that
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year. Job work, advertising calendars and novelties are special features of this office.
The lodges of the town are the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. The churches here worshiping are the Christian, Methodist Episco- pal and Friends.
The mayors who have served here are inclusive of the following: 1871- 72, J. C. Steele; 1872-74, George W. Arnold; 1874-1885, J. B. Lydick; 1885-86, L. J. Heskett; 1886-88, D. S. Scott; 1888-94, L. M. Hartley; 1894-98, F. B. Doudna; 1898-1900, J. B. Hartley ; 1900-02, Isaac E. Stubb; 1902-03, John S. Moore; 1903-05, J. B. Lydick; 1905-07, William Wesley : 1907-10, J. B. Hartley; 1910, to present time, Frank Reed.
It will be observed that Mr. Lydick served longer as mayor than any other man, M. L. Hartley and J. B. Hartley coming next in point of length of service. Among those serving as clerks during the period from 1871 to 1911 were T. M. Johnson, J. A. McEwen, I. P. Steele, M. C. Hartley, Robert Boyd, J. G. Moore, A. H. Hamilton, C. A. Bowles and Ross Hay.
The length of service as corporation clerk and also as township clerk, is perhaps unprecedented in the case of Robert Boyd, who has served twenty- one years as clerk of the corporation in Quaker City, and his term ending December 31, 19II, as township clerk, gives him twenty-five years in that office. The village officers in 1910 are: Frank Reed, mayor; Ross Hay, clerk, and H. B. Garber, treasurer.
1910 DIRECTORY.
Agricultural Implements-W. H. Hartley & Sons, W. A. Lingo & Company.
Bank-Quaker City National Bank.
Confectionery-Charles Sharrock, employing thirty-five men touring in season of fairs, with his goods.
Furniture-C. W. Eberle.
General Dealers-O. W. Hunt, E. B. Galloway, Oscar Finley, Mrs. M. A. Lochary, Moore Bros. & Company.
Grocers-Miss Verna Boyd. Hotel-Quaker City House.
Hardware-W. A. Lingo Company, W. H. Hartley & Sons. Livery-Cline & Eberle. Millinery-Ella M. Watson. Shoes-T. M. Johnson.
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Drugs-W. H, Tope.
Meat Market-Emmet Wright, Clyde Eagon.
Physicians-S. G. Bay, O. S. Bay, E. W. Jones, J. B. Hollingsworth. Opera House-D. M. Lingo, manager.
Grist Mill-John R. Hall. Planing Mill-A. Cochran Company. Mines (Coal)-E. B. Galloway, John Montgomery, Waldo Webster. Produce-Quaker City Produce Company.
CHAPTER XXIX.
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
Monroe township was cut from Jefferson township in April, 1818. It is on the north line of the county, and bounded on the east by Washington township, on the south by Jefferson, on the west by Wheeling. It is five miles square and hence contains about twenty-five sections of land. It is a well watered and drained portion of the county, devoted mostly to farming and stock raising. New Birmingham is the only village platted within the borders of the township. This was an early-day platting, but was re-platted in 1860, for assessment purposes. It is located on section II, township 4, range 2. Here a postoffice and a few business houses were erected and maintained for years. It is now an inland place of little, if any, business importance.
As one passes through this portion of the county, today, in search of historic facts concerning the early settlement of this particular township, he cannot fail to be impressed with the fact that time changes all things earthly, and that none are now living who witnessed the first efforts at making a home within this part of Guernsey county; the pioneer has completed his mission and rests from the cares of life. However, as late as 1876, when a census was taken of the oldest persons in this township, the following were found still residents, and none were then less than seventy-six years of age : Thomas, Sarah and Thomas I. Moore, Jane Moore, Hezekiah Moore, Mary Engle, Benjamin Culbertson, Solomon Colley, Lydia Colley, Aneas Ran- dall, Annie McDonald, Archibald Little, Delphi Grimsley, Sarah White, William Wornick, Jane Wornick, Sidney Little, William Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Sarah Anderson, Daniel Clark, James Neil, John Neil, Sarah Richards, Amos Richards, Sarah Gray, Elizabeth Clark, Isaac Beal, Andrew Thompson, Margaret Willis, George Willis, Nancy Virtue, Martha Aiken, Lydia Lanning, Sarah Edwards, James Crossgrove, J. Hollings- worth, Margaret Shaw, John Smith, Eleanor Campbell, Rebecca Burnworth, Matthew Johnson, and Pleasant Tedrick.
Oakley Lanning moved to this township from Monroe in 1834 and became a prominent, permanent citizen of the precinct.
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Isaac M. Lanning was born in New Jersey in . 1788 and bought land in this county, but had the misfortune to lose it by reason of a defective title. He married Lidie Fuller and moved to the farm he had selected here. He died in 1867. He had held the office of justice of the peace for more than twenty years in this township, hence was well known and highly popular.
Frederick Braninger, a native of Maryland, was born in 1788 and after his removal to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, he married Susannah Hayes, and fifteen years later located in this township. He was a devoted member of the Protestant Methodist church.
Samuel Virtue was born in Ireland in 1775, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He married in 1799 and in 1816 made the long sea voyage to this country. He settled in Ohio county, West Virginia, where he lived for fifteen years, then located in Monroe township, this county, and spent the balance of his days here on a farm. He raised a large and highly interesting family, who have gone forth to different callings in life.
Isaac Beal, a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, born in 1796, lived there until he married Martha Todd, and then removed to this town- ship, where the remainder of his days were spent. Eight children were born of this union, who survived to manhood and womanhood. Osborn, the sixth child, was born in 1828 and married Amanda M. Randall and they then set up another household within the township. He was a trustee of Monroe township a number of years and held other offices. When he set- tled here Beymerstown had only one house.
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CHAPTER XXX.
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
Second from the north and second from the eastern line of Guernsey county is situated Madison township, which sub-division of this county is five miles square, having twenty-five sections of excellent land within its borders. This township was organized and its first township election held July 18, 1810. It contains the usual amount of good, as well as much rough, untillable land. About one-third of a century ago the residents here. who had reached or passed their seventy-sixth mile-post were as follows: Benjamin Berry, James Copeland. Mrs. F. Parker, Samuel Tannehill, James Weyer, Mrs. C. Lanfesty, Elias Burdett, Mrs. S. Anderson, Mrs. E. Cramer, Mrs. Mary Johnson, Mrs. Stanley Shaw, Mrs. E. Teitrick, Mrs. E. Shoe- man, Mrs. Anne Farrell. Mrs. E. Pritchard. Mrs. R. Harris. F. L. Hafford, Samuel Lindsey, Mrs. M. Lindsey. William Scott. John Smith, Mrs. Mary Smith, William M. Jenkins, John Sheridan, John Jones, Wesley Gill, Mrs. S. Nichols, Henry Nichols, Isaac Ricker, Mrs. Amy Ricker, Mrs. Weirick. Andrew F. Linn, Mrs. Grizelle, George McCormick. J. W. Mills, Mrs. M. Stockdale, John Stockdale. James Stockdale. John Saviers, Bennett Harding, Elias Burdett, and James Weyer.
Of others who made settlement, or were born here and performed well their parts as good citizens in the up-building of the township, it may be narrated in this connection that George W. Yeo, a native of Maryland, was born in 1813, and when of age he came to this township, having first re- sided near Barnesville until about 1845.
Daniel Tettrick was born in New Jersey in 1783 and came to Guernsey county when seventeen years of age. In 1810 he married Jenny Scaddon, by whom he had seven children. His second wife was Mary Passmore, by whom seven more children were born to him. He became one of the stanch men of his township and lived to a ripe old age.
Samuel Cunningham, a native of Ireland, was born in 1759 and in 1832 the family moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, having first remained in Wash- ington county nine years. Their son James was born in Ireland and survived all other members of the family. He married Elizabeth Cunningham in 1838 and they were the parents of twelve children.
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Edward Bratton was without doubt the first white man to locate in this township. He was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, in 1784, and in 1799 removed with his father to the new territory northwest of the Ohio river, then just opening up for settlement. It was late in the month of December when they reached Wheeling, then comprising but a few illy-built huts and houses built around the public square. Crossing the Ohio river, the Brattons made their way westward to the forks of McMahon's creek, three miles below where the town of Belmont now stands. From this place, in 1802, they moved up to the Zane Trace, near what later became known as the Milner property. In the spring of 1803, or 1804, Joseph Wright, father of Nehemiah Wright, emigrated from Ireland and located near the Brattons. He employed Edward Bratton, then a stout, young man, nineteen years of age, to make him some rails with which to fence or pen up his stock, in order to protect them from the wolves and bears, which were then very trouble- some. His work suited so well that he was hired to make more rails to fence in a patch of ground. These young Bratton made at the rate of fifty cents a hundred and boarded himself. In 1805 he married, and taking the trail used by General Broadhead in 1780, when that officer marched from Wheeling on the Coshocton campaign against the Indians, he followed it as far as the present town of Antrim, then diverged and went to the present site of Winchester, where he pitched his tent. The nearest settlement was where Cambridge stands today, but there were five Indian families, including two brothers named Jim and Bill ( for short) and whose last name was Lyons ; Joseph Sky, at the mouth of Brushy Fork; one Douty, who had a hut be- tween Mrs. Culbertson's and Newman's Lake, and who had two squaws; and one Indian named Hunter, who was squawless.
The first grist mill in the county was built on Salt fork, then in Madison, now in Jefferson township. The first store was kept by George Wines at Winchester, and there was also the Methodist church building.
CHAPTER XXXI.
SPENCER TOWNSHIP.
Spencer is the extreme southwestern township in Guernsey county. It was organized in 1819, having been taken from the west end of what was then Buffalo township. Its first election for township officers was held in March, that year. It is bounded by Noble and Muskingum counties and by Westland and Jackson, with a portion of Valley townships. It contains about twenty-nine sections of land. It is exceptionally well watered by nu- merous small streams and many pure springs are found gushing out here and there along the rugged hillsides. Its chief commercial point is Cumberland City, on the Cumberland branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The county is very largely devoted to mining and stock raising. Its citizens are, for the most part, enterprising, thrifty people, who have descended from old families who settled there at a very early day and have grown up and as- sisted in developing the county to its present state of perfection. Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania all sent forth many of their sons and daughters to effect this settlement in the wilds of Guernsey county. They came ahead of railroads, pikes, mails or milling facilities, and really "they builded better than they knew." With none too rich a soil, and far from markets, they set to work, with the true spirit of frontiersmen, to hew and to dig out their own fortunes. Money has not been made easily here, but the present gen- eration are the better for having been reared in a country where money was not plentiful, as they now know the real value of a dollar and make the best possible use of it. Good homes, of refinement and culture, are to be seen throughout this goodly township-the one extending the farthest to the south of any within the county.
PIONEER NAMES.
Perhaps no better account of the first settlement of this part of Guern- sey county can be had than to give a list of citizens who in 1876 had reached the good old age of seventy-six years and upwards and were still residing in the township. These facts appeared in a centennial history in 1876 during the Philadelphia exposition : John Hawes, Reuben Stevens, Mary Shively, Juni-
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etta Stone, Rebecca Blackstone, Jane Forsythe, Vincent Cockins, Jacob Den- nis, Nancy Connor, Elizabeth Young, Jacob Conkle, Annie Inlay, Hiram Ingle, Amelia Ingle, Thomas Henry, Samuel Finley, Catherine Finley, E. Daniel, Robert Barton, Nancy McClelland, Thomas N. Muzzy, Larinda Muzzy, Thomas Crawford, Michael Cusick, William Stuart, Michael Joice, Mary C. Connor, Jane Bay, Elijah Blackstone, Henry Cosgrove, William Rabe, William McKelvy, Nancy Harper, William Shaw, Sarah Rabe, Martha Bemis and Mary Johnson.
From these persons have grown up many of the present day families who now carry on the affairs of Spencer township, with honor and credit to themselves and their ancestors.
Vincent Cockins was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1802 and married in 1835 and settled in Spencer township, where they reared ten children. Some of these children bore arms in the Union cause during the Civil war.
Jacob Hulin was also a native of Pennsylvania, born in Fayette county in 1780. He moved to Wills township, this county, and five years later removed to a farm tract-the present site of Cumberland-and raised corn where now stands the city. He died in 1847 on his farm, three miles to the north of Cumberland, to which he had moved.
John M. Frazier was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1817 and accompanied his parents to Muskingum county, Ohio, where he married and resided many years. One of his sons, Martin L., was born in 1844 and when seventeen years old came to Guernsey county and married Mary L. St. Clair. After living two years in Muskingum county they moved to Spencer township, this county, and became permanent and useful citizens.
Hugh Moore, father of James A. Moore, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania. In 1836, he moved to Opossum creek, three miles from Sene- caville. Two years later he moved to Center township; still later he lived in Belmont county, where he and his wife died. The son, James A., moved to Spencer township in 1842.
James White was born in Pennsylvania in 1825 and moved to Spencer township in 1848. He reared eleven children: In his early days he taught school.
Thomas Bay, Jr., came here with his father, Thomas Bay, Sr., from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and entered a large tract of land in the vicinity of present Cumberland. He was born in 1782 and died in 1859.
William M. Dolman was born in 1802, in Washington county, Penn-
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sylvania, and came to Ohio with his father, when ten years of age. He mar- ried and settled in Cumberland until 1838, when he removed to Washington county, Ohio. Ile was an overseer at the building of the lock in the Muskingum river.
FIRST PIONEERS.
The first man to hold land title in this township was a Mr. May, who entered eighty acres on the Covert farm about 1806, made small improve- ments, and died soon thereafter. This was long known as the "May's dead- ening." In 1808 Esquire Lattey claimed land later owned by McCleary, but he sold to Mr. Lewis in 1813. He was the first justice of the peace in this part of Guernsey county. Mr. Wolfe was a squatter and cleared a field at the east end of Cumberland in 1809. Finley Collins entered an eighty-acre tract just east from Cumberland at the same date and sold to Thomas Bay in 1812. The first permanent settler was Thomas Bay, of Pennsylvania, who settled on the present site of Cumberland in 1812, purchasing a large tract of land near there. He and his sons entered the wild, dense forests and soon erected a commodious cabin home and, with ax and mattock in hand, began to clear up their lands. Then Wheeling and Pittsburg were but small villages. However, these places and Zanesville afforded a ready mar- ket for the maple syrup made by these Guernsey county settlers, who in some instances made enough in this way to enter their lands.
The second permanent settler was Eli Bingham, of Vermont, who located adjoining Mr. Bay's land in 1813. He was full of Yankee thrift and inge- nuity and erected the first brick residence in his part of the country ; the same was standing in 1890 and may be now.
In 1814 came Thomas N. Muzzy, who also claimed land next to Mr. Bay's. He came from Boston and not only improved his lands, but soon set about constructing a mill for grinding grain and sawing lumber. He it was who taught the first school and the first Sunday school class in his neigh- borhood. He also laid the foundation for the first church and organized the first temperance society in his beautiful little valley. He was in the war of 1812, and in 1848, the date of the first survey of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, volunteered to make a survey from Wheeling to Zanesville through Cumberland, and came near locating that road up his valley. He came from Spencer, Massachusetts, and hence named the township after his old home. In 1882 Mr. Bingham was the oldest resident in his township.
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THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND.
Cumberland, the third town in point of commercial importance in Guern- sey county, was platted April 24, 1828, on section 32, township 9, range 10, by James Bay. It is an incorporated place and full of the best business en- terprise. Its railroads are the Baltimore & Ohio (Eastern Ohio division) and the Ohio River and Western line from Zanesville to Bellaire. The ex- cellent high school building now in use was erected in 1892; it is a two-story, six-room brick building.
The town is an incorporated one, and its present population is not far from seven hundred and fifty. Its municipal officers in 1910 were: William H. Young, mayor; Dr. S. M. Moorehead, treasurer; Fred S. White, clerk ; Frank Waller, marshal. The following have served the incorporation as mayors : William H. Young, B. S. Lukens, William H. Young, B. S. Lukens, Phil Johnson, Dr. C. M. St. Clair, W. H. McCloy. T. G. McCortle, Dr. C. Draper, William H. Young. Possibly others may have served a term.
The churches of the town are the Buffalo Presbyterian, Cumberland Pres- byterian, Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist. At one time a Bap- tist church was sustained here, but has now been abandoned. The civic so- cieties of Cumberland are the Masons, Odd Fellows, Maccabees, United Me- chanics and Grand Army of the Republic. The Eastern Star and Rebekah degrees of the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders are also represented.
The Cumberland Echo was established in the autumn of 1885, by W. A. Reedle ; its present proprietor is W. G. Nichols. (See press chapter.)
Of the Cumberland postoffice it may be stated that the date of its institu- tion is not certain, but probably this office was established about 1830. The following have served as postmasters, with others whose names have been lost sight of with the passing years: D. W. Forsythe, William Howe, Sam- uel Connor, J. C. McClashen, T. G. McCortle, W. M. Crozier, present in- cumbent.
There are now seven rural routes diverging out from Cumberland, of about twenty-four miles each. The first was established September 2, 1901. The Cumberland office was made a third class office in 1908. It has remained in its present quarters since 1902. There are five mails received daily. The first mail was brought here by an old Cambridge pioneer, George Green, who ran a stage line. The present annual receipts of the Cumberland postoffice is $2,500.
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BUSINESS FACTORS OF 1910.
Banks-The Cumberland Savings Bank.
Buggies, Harness and Monuments-L. R. Harper.
Blacksmith-Harry Luke.
Brick and Tile Factory-J. C. Bay & Company.
Clothing-Connor & White, V. J. Shott.
Drugs-Moore Brothers, O. Garlington.
Dentist-S. F. Moorehead.
Doctors-F. P. Bird. H. W. Holmes, W. K. Bolan.
Furniture-S. W. McClelland.
Grain Dealer-M. Young & Company.
Groceries-Allison & Young. E. E. Prouty.
Hardware-Petty & White, J. B. Beckett.
Hotels-Mrs. Mary Fulton. Fulton House; Globe. Miss Ella Kennedy. Harness Dealer-J. R. Stewart.
Jewelry-H. M. McKee, H. B. Zoller.
Livery-S. P. McClelland. Frank Blackburn, A. G. McClelland.
Produce-Lyne & Given.
Millinery-Mrs. A. E. Walters, Mrs. Ida Roberts.
Meat Markets-V. L. Glass, W. L. McCracken.
Mills-M. Young Milling Company, flouring mill. J. C. Bays, W. H. Stevens, planing mills.
Newspaper-The Echo, W. G. Nichols.
Photograph Gallery-J. C. Crumbaker.
Stock Dealer-Spooner & McCracken.
Shoemaker-Elza Johnson.
Wool Buyers-The St. Clair Company.
CHAPTER XXXII.
WHEELING TOWNSHIP.
Wheeling township, organized in September, 1810, is in the extreme northwestern corner of Guernsey county, and is seven and a half miles long, from east to west, and four miles wide in the narrowest place; it contains about thirty-three sections of land. Coshocton county is to its west, Tus- carawas to its north, Monroe township, east, Liberty and Knox south of it.
Wills creek is its principal stream. The line of the railroad now known as the Pennsylvania follows the creek valley down through this township and on into Liberty township, en route to Cambridge. The villages of this sub-division of the county are Bird's Run and Guernsey, both station points on the railroad.
The history of the schools and churches will be found in the general chapters, while the village history, plattings, etc., will be found farther on within this chapter.
The first settler was Robert Atkinson, who settled on section 21, but some one from Belmont county entered the section before Atkinson, where- upon he removed across Wills creek and located on a part of the same sec- tion. At this time his only neighbor was a man named Bird, who had lo- cated at the big spring where John Booth later resided, and where he had built a shanty and cleared up a small piece of timber land. This was eight miles distant and over in Tuscarawas county. The man Bird had neither family nor principle. Atkinson's wife died, and Bird and some of the In- dians helped him bury her, after which Atkinson went back to Virginia to get another wife, leaving Bird there to take care of the property he had. Dur- ing his absence, Bird loaded the household effects into a boat and went down the stream into the Muskingum river and forever disappeared. Hence the creek was named "Bird's Run."
In 1806 William Gibson settled on Wills creek, three miles above, and 1807 found Philip Shoff a resident. In 1810 came three Virginia families- Paul Dewitt, John Hodge and Abraham Furney. All was a wild wilderness and Indians lived in rude huts and fished and hunted along the streams. These tribes left about 1812. Until 1815 land could not be taken up here in less than quarter sections.
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The first school in the township was near present Bridgewater. The first church was the Baptist in 1820, near Bridgeville.
Among the pioneer band who settled in Wheeling township, and their sons and daughters, may be named the following list of persons who, in 1876, were recorded as being at that date seventy-six or more years of age: George Shroyock, Alexander Mitchell, Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, Jacob Banker, George Gibson, Mrs. Jane Gibson, David Walgamott, Mrs. S. Wal- gamott, Elizabeth Carr, James Mercer, Amanda Hamilton, N. Chamberlain, Zachariah Black, E. Johnson, William Leech, Joel Brown, Fred Bristol, W. Anderson, John Lytle, Sr., Richard Leverson, Henry Wilson, Mrs. C. Wil- son, James Miskimmin.
William Vansickle, Jr., born in this county in 1840, married Elizabeth Redd and settled on a farm in Wheeling township, becoming a permanent settler there.
John Marlatt was born in Virginia in 1794, and lived in Columbiana county, Ohio, until 1809, when he married and resided in Coshocton six years. From that time to 1869 he lived in Wheeling township. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, six of whom survived until 1882. Mr. Marlatt owned four hundred and thirty acres of land and held numerous local offices in his township and county.
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