History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 111

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096

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Mrs. E. B. Banning died in 1878 in the seventy-ninth year of her age. She was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania in 1804, and was married in 1822. She lived in Mt. Vernon fifty-six years, and was identified more or less with every interest in the growth of this city. She was a woman of fine culture and more than ordinary attainments. Her home was for many years the popular resort of the literary and musi- cal people of the place. She was of a modest and retiring dis- position; always ready to assist in every good work. She was specially devoted to her family, yet endeared herself to her neigh- bors, and was characterized by true Christian deportment. She was one of the early, if not one of the original members

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of St. Paul's church, but afterwards hearing and learning the gospel presented by the Disciples, she severed her connection with the Episcopal church and united with the Disciple church, and continued faithfully until her death. She was the mother of ten children, all of whom are now living except Anna, who died in infancy. The others are as follows: Sarah, who resides at the old home; Blackstone, of Clinton; Anthony, of Pennsylvania; Priscilla, wife of J. D. Thompson, of Mt. Vernon; William D., a farmer north of town; Hon. Henry B., of Cincinnati; Eliza, wife of William Brown; ex- Mayor Thomas D., who resides on the old place; Mary, wife of Frank Watkins-all of whom are good and respected citizens, and owe much of their success in life to their excellent parental training.

BARBER, C. C., Pike township, merchant, post office De- mocracy, born in Monroe township, this county. in 1853, and was married in 1876 to Jennie C. Patten, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1854. He has been engaged in the mercantile business from boyhood. Since the death of his father he has taken charge of the store, which compares favorably with those of larger towns. He keeps constantly in stock a complete line of goods, consisting of dry goods, grocer- ies, boots and shoes, etc. Mr. Barber was appointed post- master of the Democracy post office in 1873. He is a popular man in this vicinity, and is transacting the business of the post office very satisfactorily. He is a young man, enterprising and ambitious, and is meeting with success in business.

His father, Thomas Barber, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and was married in 1848 to Mary A. O'Bryan, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1828. They had five children: Frances L., deceased, born in 1850; Arminta B., deceased, born in 1851; Cornelius C., born in 1853; Eva E., deceased, born in 1860; and John T., born in I864.

Thomas S. Barber died in 1872. He came to Ohio in 1830, was engaged in farming till 1861, then moved to Amity and en- gaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued until his death.

BARKER, HENRY, Monroe township, farmer and stock- grower, born in Monroe county, New York, February 19, 1815. In 1837 he emigrated to Ohio with Asa Patterson and family, and located on the farm in Monroe township where is now living. In 1839 he married Lovina Pealer, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1820, and came to this county with her parents, Jacob and Eleanor Pealer, in 1824, who located in Pike township, near Amity.

Mr. and Mrs. Barker settled on the farm where Mr. Barker had located when he came to this county, where they have since re- sided. In 1861 they erected their present frame residence. They reared a family of six children, five sons and one daughter. Their son, Patterson Barker, died during the late war at Mem- phis, Tennessee, July 31, 1863. He had served one year in company B, of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.

BARKER, JOHNSON A., Fredericktown, grocer, was born in Morris township in 1836, and was married in Mt. Vernon in 1857, to Sarah A. Little, who was born in Stark county in 1831. They had five children, all of whom have deceased.

Mr. Barker learned the carriage trade and worked at that business for twenty-three years. He was for a time a member of the firm of White, Stephens & Co. His health became im- paired and he was compelled to abandon the carriage business.

He then engaged in the grocery trade, continued for seven years, and then went to New York and attended the Eastern Business college. In 1880 he returned to Fredericktown and resumed the grocery trade. He occupies a room in King's block, and has an entire new stock of every variety of goods in his line. His past experience and ability qualify him to make a success of business, and he is known in this community as an honest and upright man.

BARKER, JOSEPH N., city barber; shop, cigar and news department, Peterman block, first floor, Main street, two doors north from Gambier street, Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Barker is a native of Delaware county, Ohio, born on the ninth day of October, 1841, and when eight years old his parents removed to Fredericktown, in this county. Joseph re- mained with his parents until 1861. When sixteen years of age he engaged in learning the blacksmith trade, which he followed until the commencement of the great Rebellion. On the nine- teenth of October, 1861, he enlisted in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Lorin Andrews, in which he served for three years. At the close of his term of service he returned home and remained a short time, and then went to Nashville, Tennessee, and engaged in blacksmithing for the Government, but in consequence of his health failing, he quit the business and engaged in barbering for a short time, and then in cooking for the Planter's hotel for a while, and then went to Atchison, Kansas, where he stopped about eight weeks, and then engaged with Howe & Byram, of Atchison, in hauling Government freight to Fort Union, New Mexico. He then engaged with the Government at blacksmithing for one year, when he re- turned home in 1867. In consequence of his mother's poor health, he started a barber shop in Fredericktown; and contin- ued the business there a short time when he came to Mt. Ver- non and bought out the business of Otto Martin, and contin- ued it until 1872, when he went to Mansfield and engaged in the same business for one year. He then opened shop at Newark, ane continued there two years and a half. In 1876 he returned to Mt. Vernon and established his present business. He runs four chairs, and makes hair cutting a speciality. He is also a dealer in fine tobacco, cigars, etc. He has lately added to his business a news department, in which he keeps all the leading daily papers as well as the city papers. His shop does an av- erage business of forty dollars per week in barbering and hair dressing, and about ten dollars per week in tobacco and cigars, thus making his establishment the most extensive and complete in the city. All his appointments are first-class, and his busi- ness is rapidly increasing.

BARNES, HENRY, Mt. Vernon, retired, son of Henry Barnes, deceased, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1807, and was brought to Ohio by his father in 1817, who located in Coshocton county. He was reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation through life. In 1833 he came to Martinsburgh, this county, and made his home with an older brother for a few years. In October, 1837, he married Miss Grace A., daughter of Simon and Ann Sitzen .- berg, then of Morgan township, this county. Miss Sitzenberg was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1813, and came to this county with her parents in 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes settled on a farm in Morgan township, this county, and remained on the same farm until 1873, when they sold it and moved to Mt. Vernon, where they are now living a retired life. .Three children were born to them-Melissa A., Hiram P., and

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Charles E. Melissa A. deceased July 23, 1872. Hiram P. mar- ried Miss Julia Huntington, of Cleveland, Ohio, and now resides in Portage county, Ohio. Charles E. married Miss Rose Rob- inson, of Akron, Ohio, and is now living in Plymouth, Ohio. He served about four months in the Ohio National Guard during the late war.

BARRINGTON, JOSEPH, Middlebury township, (deceased) was born in Ireland in 1804, married to Elizabeth Sharp, who was born in York county, Pennsylvania. He died in July, 1878, in Middlebury township.

George A. Palmer (born in 1844) from a child eighteen months old made his home with and was raised by Joseph Barrington. He was married to Mary Farquhar, and they had one child, Joseph, born in in October, 1867. Mrs. Mary Palmer died in in 1873. Mr. Palmer's second marriage was to Lavina Painter. They had three children-Rosa (deceased), George, born Febru- ary, 1877, Louis, born February, 1879. Mr. Palmer was en- gaged in the late war in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National Guard.

BARRON, JAMES, Brown township, son of William and Elizabeth Barron, was born near Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, March II, 1820. His father, a farmer, was born in Washington county, Pensylvania, 1784, and was of Scotch de- scent. His mother was born in Ireland in 1784, and emigrated to New York with her parents when she was fifteen years old. The parents of the subject of this sketch being of the pioneers of Ohio, and his youthful years passing at a time when the school-houses were built of round, unhewed logs, seated with puncheons or slabs, his education was comprised of a fair knowledge of the three R's, "readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic." In 1836 lie removed with his parents from Muskingum to Knox county, where they located on the farm on which he still resides -known as Willow Spring farm. In 1850 he married Louisa Jane, daughter of William and Nancy Hall, the fruit of their married life being two daughters, Ella-now Mrs. R. S. Shipley, M. D., of Lindsey, Ohio, and Dora, and one son, John M. White, yet a young man. Mr. Barron spent several years as salesman in the mercantile houses of G. B. Potwin, and others, of Mt. Vernon, but has for the last thirty years engaged in farm- ing, stock-raising, and shipping stock, at which he has been em_ inently successful. Mr. Barron has always taken an active part in politics. He identified himself with the Liberty party in 1841, and represented his county in the first Liberty State con- vention, held at Columbus in 1842. This party becoming the Freesoil party, Mr. Barron became an untiring worker in that party, and since received the nomination for State treasurer at the convention held at Cincinnati. He continued in the party, frequently stumping his county when it took a man of nerve to be an Abolitionist, until the Freesoil party was merged into the Republican party in 1856, since which time he has been identi- fied with that party. Mr. Barron's connection with the church dates from the organization of the True Wesleyan connection- now the American Wesleyan-in 1843, since which time he has been an earnest worker in the church. Mr. Barron has always been an avowed temperance worker, and has identified himself with all the important reforms of the day. He has filled the office of treasurer of the Farmers' Insurance company, now of Howard, Ohio, and of the Farmers' Home Insurance company of Jelloway, Ohio, with credit to himself and profit to the com- panies.

BARTLETT, TIMOTHY M., proprietor of livery, feed, and

sale stables, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bartlett was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1810, and when about eight years old his parents emigrated to Ohio, stop- ped awhile in Zanesville, and then located on a farm in Delaware county, where they resided ten years, and then came to Knox county and settled on a farm on Granny's creek, three miles from Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Bartlett came to this city in 1838. In his early life he followed farming, and then engaged in the carpenter and joiner trade, in which he continued for twenty-five years. He then took up peddling drugs, medicines, dry goods, and notions, which he followed with great success for seven years. In 1853 he engaged in the livery business in which he still continues. He carries an average stock of three thousand dollars, comprising twelve head of horses, and ten vehicles, consisting of single and double carriages, buggies, sleighs, etc.

BARTLETT, JOHN D., Fredericktown, carpenter; was born in Pennsylvania in 1813; came to Ohio with his parents in infancy, and to Knox county in 1831, locating in Mt. Vernon. In 1855 he removed to Fredericktown. He was married to Anna Conger, who was born in Knox county. They had three chil- dren, all of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Anna Bartlett died in 1854, in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bartlett afterwards married Sophro- nia Page, who was born in Knox county.

Mr. Bartlett has been identified with this county for sixty- seven years. When he was a young man he learned the car- penter business, and has been engaged at that several years; he was also engaged in the drug business in Fredericktown seven years. He has always taken a great interest in hunting and shooting, and makes an annual visit to the hunting grounds in northwestern Ohio. He is still a resident of Fredericktown, and is engaged in selling farming implements.

BARTLETT, E. H., Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in this township in 1833, and married in 1860, to Anna Eliza Randolph, who was born In Mt. Vernon in 1836. They have two children, namely, Jennie E, born in . 1863, and Willie R., in 1868.

BARTLETT, WILLIAM, Monroe township; farmer; a native of Knox county, and son of David Bartlett, was born in Morris township on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1816. He has worked at several trades, viz : carp:enter and joiner, and cabinetmaker, but the most of his mechanical work has been on threshing machines and plows. In 1848 he married Miss Evaline Evans, daughter of Thomas Evans, of Mt. Ver- non. They settled in Mt. Vernon, and remained several years. In 1871 they purchased and moved upon the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. He then turned his at- tention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged.

BARTON, CHARLES P., Berlin township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1841; came to Ohio in 1850, locating in Richland couhty, and remained there till 1857, when he came to Knox county, and located in Morris township. He afterwards moved to Iowa, and remained four years. He then returned to Ohio, and car- ried on farming in Wayne township. In 1877 he purchased eleven acres of land in Morris township, and remained there three years; then sold it, and purchased twelve acres in the same township. He lived on that land two years.

In the spring of 1880 he purchased twenty-five acres of land in Berlin township, on which he now resides.

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Mr. Barton was married in 1868, to Jane Silliman, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1841. They have two children: Allie Belle, born January 4, 1877, and Ann Luella, January 24, 1880. He has also an adopted son-Samuel R. born June 15, 1870, and is a studious boy.

BAUGH, JACOB, farmer, Brown township. Among the early pioneers of Brown township, though not the earliest, was Jacob Baugh, yet living, and in his eighty-sixth year. He is a native of the Old Dominion, born in Fauquier county in the year 1795, and removed to eastern Ohio, and settled fifteen miles west of Wheeling, in the year 18ro, and from thence to Knox county in 1834.

He is a genuine Virginian with western education, proud of his birthplace, jealous of her honor, and full of admiration " of her great name." At the time of his settlement here there were few better scholars (outside of Kenyon college) in the county, and perhaps with one exception, no person in it, who was his superior. Tall, active, muscular, and sinewy, he was equal to the requirements of western pioneer life, being a fear- less hunter, a good woodsman and a crack shot.

For many winters he taught school in the rude log shanties with puncheon floors above and below, huge fireplace, with mud and stick chimney at one end, and oiled or greased writing paper for window glass.

In these primitive academies he soon raised the standard of acquirement in common schools from a very meagre acquaint- ance with spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, as far as the rule of three to a thorough acquaintance with Jess. Walsh, Daboll, Bonnycastle, Playfair, Morse, and Lindley Murray, and other authors of that day, in their respective fields, and soon no more was heard the school-boy's favorite and oft repeated doggerel:

The Rule of three, it puzzles me And Practice makes me sad, At Tare and Fret I swear and sweat, And Fractions drives me mad."

Soon the counties and townships were districted under a new school law, and more commodious school-houses began to be built. Under the law every township had a board of school examiners, and a certificate of qualification from that board gave license to teach any school within the township. Mr. Baugh was a member of the board. In that capacity he accomplished much in building school-houses in the township, raising the qualifications of teachers, and awakening a healthy interest in schools among the people of the township.

Next to schools the opening of roads and bridging of streams were objects of his solicitude and concern, and to a certain extent continues still to be, though nearly four score and ten years have abated his ardor and tempered his zeal, but have not extinguished his desire for the success of the objects he so ably and earnestly championed in the vigor of his manhood.

BAUGHMAN, CHRISTIAN, farmer, Miller township, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1807. His parents, Christian and Elizabeth Baughman nee Bair, emigrated from Pennsylvania about 1811, and came to Muskingum county, Ohio, settling about seven milea south of Zanesville, where they lived and died. They came to this county in a one- horse wagon. They had thirteen children, eight of whom are living, one died in infancy. The children were named John (de- ceased), Jacob (murdered August 28, 1863, in Muskingum county), Christian, Joseph (deceased), Adam (deceased), Samuel,

Elizabeth (married to Isaac Logan), Solomon, and Jesse. Mr. Baughman, the subject of this notice, was reared on a farm and commenced to assist his father when quite young to clear land. His schooling was limited as his parents needed his services and there was but three months' school taught in each year.

Mr. Baughman remained in Muskingum county and followed the occupation of farming until February, 1850, when he re- moved to Miller township, Knox county, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy-six acres, and has resided on this farm to the present time. Previous to his coming to Knox county he had earned the money to pay for this farm. Since he has lived here he has purchased considerable more land, and is now one of the largest land-owners in the township. He is a good farmer, and his farm shows the work of care and experi- ence.

He was married three times. His first wife being Sarah Willis, his second was Mary France, and his third wife was Susan Groves. His family consisted of fourteen children, six by his first wife, namely: Lucinda (married Thomas Osborn), Elizabeth (married Thomas Tarman), David (died in infancy), Jane (married Clem Barber), William (died in infancy), and Caroline (married Adam Williams). By the second marriage there was one child, Mary C., who died in infancy. By the third marriage there were seven children, viz: Christy, Clara (married Henry Hildreth), Eunice I., Emma (died in infancy), Willie (died in youth), Melissa (married Frank Miller), Louisa (married Decatur Daily).

Mr. Baughman has always been a man of temperate and laborious habits, and now, at the age of seventy-four, he enjoys good health for a man of his years.

BAXTER, JOHN W., farmer, Miller township, was born in . New York city August 13, 1823. His father, John Baxter, was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied medicine, and subsequently practiced his profession in New York city. In 1834 he came to Miller township where he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land. He continued in the practice of his pro- fession when called upon in the community, and had a supervision of his farm. He was original in his ideas, a man of indepen- dent thought, and weighed all matters thoroughly before arriv- ing at a conclusion. He was firm in his opinions, strictly tem- perate in his habits, not even using coffee or tea; in politics he was an Abolitionist of the most pronounced type. In business he was straightforward and reliable; he was quiet in his deport- ment and manners, and was esteemed for his kindness of heart and his liberality of views; he accorded to others the same right he claimed. He was three times married; his first wife was Miss Lucy Wainwright, by whom he had two children, one of whom, J. W. Baxter, is living; the other died in infancy. Mrs, Baxter died in New York city. Mr. Baxter's second wife was Miss Ruth Hodges, who died without issue. His third wife was Miss Cassandra Hodges, by whom he had three children, viz .: Ruth (deceased), Thomas M. (produce dealer in Chicago), and Harris H., a practicing physician in Cleveland. He died on his farm in Miller township February 3, 1848. The subject of this notice, J. W. Baxter, remained in New York city until 1835, when he came to Miller township, and was with his father on the farm, and attended the schools of the district. He pur- chased the interests of the heirs in his father's farm, and subse- quently purchased other property, until he is now one of the successful men of the township. He is a careful, conservative man, of good judgment, and has the esteem and confidence of

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the community. He was married three times; his first wife was Anna E. Beech, with whom he had four children, viz .: Lucy W. (married to John M. Davis), Mary M., Jolın, and Don Carlos; his second wife was Laura Rowley, daughter of Daniel Rowley, who had one child, which died in infancy; his third wife was Lorancy Gates, who was the mother of three children, viz. : Charles Chase, Harris M., and Anna Laura.

BAXTER, J. B., farmer, Fredericktown ; was born in Mid- dlebury township in 1848. He was married in 1877 to Ollie Gleason, who was born in Morrow county in 1855. They have one daughter, Laura, born in 1878. Mr. Baxter is one of the leading citizens of Fredericktown.

BEACH, BENNETT, deceased, was born in Rutland, Con- necticut, in 1774. He married Miss Sallie Sweet in 1796, of the sameS tate, who was born in Rutland in 1774, and was the daugh- ter of Bennett Sweet. They remained in Connecticut a few years then moved to Vermont, and in 1824 they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, purchased and moved on a farm in Liberty town- ship, now owned by Mr. Flack, where they passed the remainder of their days. He deceased May 25, 1850, aged seventy-six years. His companion survived him until February 3, 1853, when she died, aged seventy-nine years. They were constant members of the Presbyterian church for many years. He fol- lowed farming as his vocation. They reared nine children: Lauren, Abigail, Warren, Allen, Bennett, Esther, Sarah, Martin and Rollin, four of whom are now living, Esther, Bennett, Mar- tin and Rollin.

BEACH, ROLLIN, farmer and gardner, youngest child of the aforesaid Bennett and Sally Beach, was born in Vermont, November 7, 1817, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1824. He married for his first wife Miss Mary Bricker, in 1840, born in Knox county in 1818, and daughter of Solomon Bricker. They settled on his father's home farm in Liberty township, which he purchased at his father's death. In 1861 he sold his farm and purchased the property where he is now living, near Mt. Vernon on the Columbus road. Formerly he followed farming as his vocation, but since living near Mt. Vernon, he makes gardening his principal business. They have had one son, John S. His wife deceased February 5, 1852. In 1853 he married Miss Sarah Graham, born in Liberty township, Knox county, in 1825 .. By this marriage he had six children, four sons and two daughters; one of the sons has deceased. His son John S., served four years in the Eleventh Ohio volunteer cavalry in the war of 1861.

BEACH, THOMAS, farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, February 13, 1815, is a son of Joseph Beach, was brought to Coshocton county when a child, where he was raised, remaining at home farming on the shares, for his mother, until her death, which occurred in 1841. He then be- came the owner of the old homestead farm, where he remained until 1853. when he sold it and purchased a farm in Harrison township, Knox county, where he then moved, and at present resides. During the time he lived in Coshocton county he mar- ried Margaret J. Moar, October 12, 1858. She was a daughter of John Moar, and was born in Cumberland county, Penn- sylvania, December 22, 1822. They have nine children, as follows: Camella, Elmer J., Charles H., Mary E., Milo, Gehiel, Jerusha, Ella and Alla, eight of whom are living. Jerusha died October 12, 1865.

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History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 111

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co. Number of Pages: 1096

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096