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GRUBB, SAMUEL, farmer, Pike township, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and was married in 1845 to Mary Zook, who was born in this township in 1824. They had seven children-David, born in 1846; Joseph, in 1848; Sarah Elizabeth, in 1849; Daniel, in 1852; Mary Ellen, in 1860; Ezra, in 1862; and Amanda, in 1864. Mary Ellen died in 1861, and Ezra in 1864. David is married to Mary Jane Silcot; Joseph to Elizabeth Moore -- both families living in Mt. Vernon. Sarah E. is married to Isaac Hess, and lives in Richland county; and Daniel to Maggie Cunau, of this township.
Mrs. Grubb's father, David Zook, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1817 to Nancy Mock, who was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1795. They had the following children: John, born in 1818; Catharine, in 1819; Elizabeth, in 1821; Jacob, in 1822; Joseph, in 1823; Mary, in 1824; Alexander, in 1826; Louisa, in 1828; Hannah, in 1829; Lydia, in 1831; Sally, in 1833; and David, in 1835.
GRUBB, JOSEPH, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in this township May 26, 1847. He is a son of Daniel H. Grubb, and is engaged in farming on the David Leedy farm. He is a young man of good habits.
GRUBB, ISAAC, teacher, post office, North Liberty, was born in this township, and received a liberal English education in the common branches. He engaged in teaching district schools a number of terms, and in the spring of 188r he started in a theological course in the Ashland college. He is a promi- nent member of the German Baptist church, and in some future day will be a minister of that church.
GRUBB, HENRY, farmer and stock raiser; son of Daniet H. and Elizabeth Grubb; was born in Pike township, this county, December 4, 1834. In 1856 he married Miss Mary A. Jeffries, born in Stark county, Ohio, September 15, 1835, and came with her mother in 1841 to this county. Mr. and Mrs. Grubb settled in Pike township, remained two years, then moved to Morris township where they remained until 1874, when they purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe town- ship where they now reside. They have four children, three sons and one daughter.
. GRUBB, DANIEL B., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1838, and was married in 1874 to Catharine Betchel, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1847. They have one son, Lawrence E., who was born in 1876.
GUTHRIE, DAVID, Pike township, deceased; born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and was married in 1820 to Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, who was born in 1802. They had six children: Jane, Ann, Elizabeth, Hugh, Samuel, and Sarah. Mrs. Ann Guthrie died in 1833. Mr. Guthrie was afterwards married to Sarah Parish, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1812. They had ten children: William, David C., Francis M., Rachel, Jane, John, Elza, Nancy, Mary, and Nathan. Mr. Guthrie died in 1870.
GUTHRIE, JOHN N., farmer; post office, Democracy. He was born in Pike township on June 1, 1847. He is a mem- ber of a pioneer family. He is a carpenter.
GUTHRIE, JOHN, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Knox county, in 1845. He was married, in 1873, to Rachel Cole, who was born in Berlin town- ship, in 1851. They had five children: Marilla, born in 1874; James A., born in 1875; infant (deceased) ; Arabella, born in 1878; Maude, in 1880.
Mr. Guthrie is a farmer by occupation, and has always been identified with this county.
GUY, JOHN (deceased), was born in Chester county, Penn- sylvania, on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1792. He emi- grated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Woodburn, in 1819, a native of Ireland, born in 1790, and migrated to America in 1810. They settled in Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, near Alexander, and remained there until in 1853, when he sold his farm and moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio, remained about one year and a half, when, in 1855, he purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son John, in Clinton township, Knox county, where they passed the remainder of their days. His wife deceased March 19, 1863, aged seventy-three years. He deceased April 1, 1876. He served in the War of 1812. They reared a family of five children : Joseph S., John, Martha J., Elizabeth, and Margaret. Only two of the above named are now living, John and Martha.
GUY, JOHN, farmer, second son of John Guy, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1822, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1855. He married Miss Emeline Lafever in 1859, daughter of Thomas P. and Eliza Lafever, who was born in 1836. They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. Their union resulted in two children (daughters). He has fol- lowed farming as his vocation.
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HADLEY, ISAAC, of the First ward, Mt. Vernon, is a New Yorker by birth. From the age of fifteen he has been a resi- dent of Mt. Vernon, and has been honored by his fellow citi- zens, not only with their confidence and respect, but he has been placed in offices of profit as well as of honor, and faithfully and honorably has he discharged the duties of his several posts.
Mr. Hadley was born in the town of Willsborough, Essex county, New York, January 14, 1795, within sight of the waters of Lake Champlain, since made famous by Commodore Mc- Donough's victory, September 11, 1814. In 18ro Mr. Hadley's father, with his family, came to Ohio, and settled in the county of Knox. His father, Mr. Smith Hadley, was born August 14, 1765, and died February 4, 1850, aged eighty-five years, five months, and twenty days.
November 9, 1825, Mr. Isaac Hadley was married to Miss Sarah Davidson, of Mt. Vernon. She was born in Knox coun- ty, November 22, 1805, and deceased January 16, 1873, in the sixty-ninth year of her age. To Mr. and Mrs. Hadley were born seven children, six of whom are still living. Four reside in this city, one in Iowa, and one in Bellaire, Ohio.
Mr. Hadley's public life has been a remarkable one, having, for twenty-four years, held commissions, either from the Presi- dent of the United States, or from the Governor of Ohio. Mr. Hadley acted as sheriff and postmaster, at the same time, four years.
April 28, 1830, he received the appointment of deputy United States marshal, and served as such four years. During that time he took the census of Knox county, and in the discharge of that duty he visited every house and every family at that time within the limits of the county.
August 12, 1831, Postmaster General Barry appointed him postmaster at Mt. Vernon. He served in that capacity about nine years. In 1832 he was appointed by General Bevins, dep- uty sheriff. In 1834 he was elected and commissioned sheriff of Knox county, and in October, 1836, he was reelected, without opposition; thus, with his own four years, he was acting as sheriff six years.
Mr. Hadley was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas April 13, 1839, and served seven years, that being the con- stitutional limit. In 1834 Governor Robert Lucas commissioned him as paymaster of the volunteer brigade of Knox county, with the rank of major.
April 30, 1863, he was appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States, commissioner, with the rank of major, for the Thirteenth Ohio Congressional district, composed of the counties of Knox, Licking, Muskingum, and Coshocton, and served as such until the close of the rebellion, and was hon- orably discharged.
Notwithstanding his fourscore years, few men in the prime of their manliood can compete with Mr. Hadley in the discharge of the duties of every-day life.
HAGERTY, MORRIS, Fredericktown, merchant, was born in New Jersey, 1844; came to Ohio in 1869; located in Fred- ericktown, and was married in 1873 to Anna Adams, who was born in Knox county, Ohio. They have one son, Hugh, who was born in 1875.
Mr. Hagerty is a member of the firm of Hill & Hagerty, dealers in hardware, established in 1872. They carry a com- plete stock, and an extensive line of goods in the hardware
business, and are both practical business men, prepared for all competition in price and qualities of goods.
HAGERTY, WILLIAM H., Wayne township, carpenter, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Muskingum county, August 22, 1845, and married August 26, 1871, to Alice King, who was born in Mt. Vernon, July 18, 1850. They had the following children: Bessie F., born June 19, 1872; Nellie, September 27, 1873, and Edna, August 17, 1877, who died June 12, 1878.
Mr. Hagerty had his residence in Nebraska about one year, but is now a resident of Wayne township.
HAIDEN, JOHN K., farmer, was born in Hilliar township, in March, 1838. His father, David Haiden, was born in Penn- sylvania. His mother was a Virginian by birth, and when quite young went to Pennsylvania. His father came to Morgan township about 183e and purchased a tract of land, and then returned to Pennsylvania and married Miss Sarah Bottenfield, and the following year moved to Ohio and remained in Morgan township until March, 1837, when he came to Hilliar township and purchased a farm on the Parker section. He built his cabin and began to clear the land and make for himself and family a home, a future dwelling place. He died on the old homestead August 6, 1859, aged about fifty-five years; his wife survived him until March, 1878, aged near seventy-four years. Thus ended all that was mortal of two of Hilliar township's most esteemed and respected citizens. They have passed away, but left their impress on the minds and hearts of those they left behind.
In the "old cabin " the subject of this notice was born. He was an only child, and was reared with solicitude. His home training, by Christian parents, was kind but firm; his youth was thus spent. He assisted on the farm during the summer and attended school during the winter. He attended a select school at Centreburgh, and made fine progress in his studies. He never availed himself of a collegiate course. He is self educated to a great degree; studied at home, searched for the "fountain of knowledge" by himself; he delved deep and re- vealed the hidden treasure; is a ready and impressive speaker; dleals in facts rather than rhetoric; is a good debater, a close observer, and a deep thinker; a well informed man. He is . unassuming, affable and pleasant in his manners, and social in his habits, and a leading member of the Cumberland Presby- terian church.
Mr. Haiden was married to Miss Emma, daughter of Squire Halsey, of Clinton township, October, 1876. They have one child.
HAIR, OSCAR, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Utica, Licking county, September 15, 1842, and was married in 1865 to Emily Rapp, who was born in Knox county in 1844. They have four children, viz .: William L., born August 30, 1867; Charles W., born December 7, 1870; Wiley E., born July 22, 1872; Clara B., born January 14, 1874; Mr. Hair has been a citizen of this township about fifteen years, and owns a good farm.
HALL, JOSEPH W., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. In 1815 his parents emigrated to Holmes county, Ohio, and lived for some time in a block- house the first year during the trouble with the Indians. Mr. Hall came to Berlin township, this county, in 1852. His first purchase was the Jackson farm, then the Cole and Handley
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farms. The Hall family owns seven hundred and seventy acres of land in this township. He is one of the most extensive farmers in Knox county. On the farm where he now resides is one of the best springs in Ohio, the main one being about a half mile from his house. He has the water conducted through stone pipes to his house and barn, and has a beautiful fountain in the front yard. The water is cool, pure and inexhaustible. Mr. Hall has been a very extensive dealer in stock, and in ship- ping horses and cattle to the eastern States. In Ohio and other States he is widely known as a man of superior judgment in business affairs. Mr. Hall was married in 1838 to Rachel Wad- dell, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1816. Their children are James M., born in 1838; David F., in 1841; Phillip C., in 1842; William A. B., in 1844; George W. S., in 1846; Susan S., in 1849; John W., in 1850; and Rigdon P., in 1855. The deceased members are James W., who died September 22, 1847; David F., August 3, 1855; Susan (Mrs. Phillips), died in Berlin township.
HALL, JOHN M., farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shaler's Mills. He was born in Holmes county, Ohio, and was married to Amanda Durben, who was born in Knox county. They have one daughter, Nellie. Mr. Hall devotes most of his time to buying, selling and shipping horses and cattle. In this he is very successful.
HALL, J. N., Hilliar township, carpenter, Rich Hill post office, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1829. Ten years later his parents, George and Jane Hall, nee Cherry, came to Ohio, and remained one year in Guernsey county, and then moved to Delaware county, purchasing a tract of one hundred and forty acres of land. The parents both died on the land on which they settled in 1840. The father died in 1858. The mother survived her husband until 1876.
The subject of this brief notice remained on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he went to learn the carpen- ter trade. He built a number of the buildings in Knox and Delaware counties. He is a good workman, and aims to do justice to those who employ him, and is held in high esteem by the community, who know him to be an honest man. He was married to Miss Nancy Hupp, of Knox county, April 5, 1855. His wife died in 1871. They had a family of five children, all of whom are living, viz .: Sarah Jane, married to George Pat- ton; Julia A., Mary Lutetia, Laura, and Robert M., living at home.
HALL, THOMAS J., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Francis and Harriet Hall, born in England, November 7, 1833, was brought to America by his parents in 1836, who located in Connecticut, and remained there until 1849, when they emi- grated to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. He remained in Mt. Vernon working in the woollen factory two years, and clerked in a grocery store until 1853, when he moved to Califor- nia, where he remained seven years, then, in 1860, he returned to Knox county, remained a while, then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and commenced working with H. & F. Blandy, in their machine shop, doing the wood work for machinery.
In 1862 he married Miss Emily Hillier, born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 3, 1836, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hil- lier. They settled in Zanesville, remained until 1873, then pur- chased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Pleasant township, two and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Gambier road.
HALL, E. M., physician and surgeon, Fredericktown, was born near Delaware, Ohio, October 31, 1845, removed with his parents to Morrow county, Ohio, when a child, and in August, 1862, left school to join the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, remained with it until 1864, when he was severely wounded in one of the battles before At- lanta, Georgia, and was mustered out in 1865. For the next six years he was engaged in preparing himself for the practice of medicine.
Immediately after graduation, in the spring of 1871, he lo- cated in Fredericktown, where he has been engaged in the prac- tice of medicine. He was married in 1874 to Laura B. Nevius, daughter of Aaron and Susan Nevius, who were among the earlier settlers of this county. They have two daughters, Mary and Aletheia.
HALL, JOSEPH K., farmer and dealer in stock; post office, Shaler's Mills; was born in this county in 1853, and was mar- ried in 1879 to Mattie W. Knox, who was born in Holmes county in 1859. Mr. Hall is one of the enterprising farmers of this township. He also engaged quite extensively in dealing in stock.
HALL, LANE, Jackson township, farmer, post office, Bla- densburgh, is a native of Jackson township, and was born on the ninth of August, 1855. He is a son of Obadiah Hall, one of the pioneers of Jackson township. July 2, 1879, he was mar- ried to Mary B. McCamment, who was born in Clay township on the twenty-first day of January, 1861. Politically Mr. Hall is a Republican.
HALL, WILLIAM B., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1855, and was married in 1868, to Margaret Knight, who was born in Holmes county in 1845. They had two daughters, Leila, born in March, 1874, and Jennie R., in June, 1875. Mr. Hall is engaged in farming, buying and selling stock.
HALL, GEORGE S., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, was born in 1846, and married in 1872, to Mira M. Auten, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1852. They have two children: Alice, born in 1873, and Joseph, born in 1875.
Mr. Hall came to Knox county in 1852, and located in Berlin township. He is a farmer and also a dealer in stock. The Hall family are of Irish descent. The grandparents came from Ireland.
HALSEY, D. F., farmer, son of Henry and Elizabeth Hal- sey, was born in Flanders, Morris county, New Jersey, July 18, 1808. In 1830 he married Miss Lucinda Wolfe, born in New Jersey, in 1807. They settled on a farm in their native county, and remained nine years, then, in 1839, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Hilliar township, near Rich Hills. He purchased and moved on a farm, where they lived until 1853, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Clinton township. They reared a family of five children: Henry, Jacob, Lydia A., Mahlon K., and Emeline E. Henry and Lydia A. have died.
Mr. Halsey has made farming his principal business through life. He filled the office of township clerk for three years in Hilliar township, and acted as justice of the peace in the same township one term, being elected in 1849. He also filled the office of county commissioner, from 1869 to 1875.
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HAMILTON, REV. J. H., pastor of the Methodist Protes- tant church; is a son of the Rev. William Hamilton, a native of Virginia, who located in Muskingum county in 1805. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 23, 1826, and is one of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity, and ten of whom were sons who averaged six feet in height and were all men of fine mental and physical development. He received his preparatory education in the district schools, and com- menced to preach when but seventeen years of age and has been a faithful aud. zealous minister of the cross ever since. He united with the Muskingum conference when eighteen years old and was ordained when twenty-one years, which was in 1847, since which he has had the pastoral care of the following churches, viz: Coshocton, Muskingum and Licking, four years; the church at Louets two years, Circleville two years, Steuben- ville, five years, Newcomerstown one year, McConnellsville two years; after which he served as president of the conference one year. He came to Knox county in 1857, and took charge of the church at Fredericktown, in which he remained seven years and during which he took an active part in everything that was conducive to the moral and religious development of the com- munity. In r860 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the church on Mulberry street, where he has labored zealously ever since with great success. He commenced a series of meetings December Ist and continued until March Ist, which resulted in one hundred and fifty-four conversions, and the fol- lowing spring he administered the ordinance of baptism to thirty-six persons. During his association with the people here he has attended over three hundred funerals, and solemnized more than that many marriages. He was married August 30, 1848, to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Joseph and Mary Rodman, near Zanesville, by whom he has a family of children, all of whom are married and have families.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, November 26, 1822. His par- ents, Joshua Hamilton and Jane Craig, were natives of Penn- sylvania, and by their marriage had nine children, all of whom are living. Joshua Hamilton died in 1870; his wife still survives him.
The subject of our notice was reared on a farm, receiving a common school education. He remained in Harrison county until 1846, when he came to Morgan township and with his brother purchased land. He sold his interest in the property and purchased the farm on which he now resides, he is one of the leading farmers of Morgan township, an estimable citizen and takes an active interest in the affairs of the county. Janu- ary 20, 1848, he married Miss Elizabeth Sellers, daughter of John Sellers, of Morgan township. They had a family of five children, three of whom are living.
HAMMETT, JOHN F., harnessmaker, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in 1845, in Ashland county, Ohio, and was married in 1869 to Emily Mix, who was born in Inde- pendence, Richland county, in 1848. They had one son, Jud- son J., who was born in 1870, and one daughter, Emma, born in 1871. Mrs. Emily Hammett died in Independence in 1872. Mr. Hammett's second marriage, in 1873, was to Mary C. Hammond, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, in 1856.
Mr. Hammett, when a young man, learned the harness trade with L. Ridgeley, in Jeromeville, Ashland county, Ohio. After his marriage he engaged in business in Independence, and re-
mained there until after the death of Mrs. Hammett-then went to Mansfield, worked with F. Johnson for one year-then came to Fredericktown, remained there till 1876, when he removed to North Liberty. He is engaged in the harness business, he is an excellent mechanic, having an extensive custom business. He is also keeping hotel, the only one in North Liberty, and it is first-class.
The father of Mrs. Hammett, George A. Hammond, was born in Frederick county, Maryland; his parents emigrated to Ohio in 1819; he was married in 1837 to Elizabeth Anderson, who was born in Virginia. They had seven children: Sarah P., Ellen l'., Thomas J., Francis E., Louis F., Harriet, and Mary C. Mr. Hammond learned the shoe trade when a young man; he is still engaged in working at his trade; he is now among the oldest business men of Fredericktown.
HAMMOND, JACOB, farmer, Union township, post office, Milwood, born October 31, 1802, in Maryland, and remained there until 1821, then moved to Pennsylvania, remained there three years, then in 1824 came to Knox county and settled in Union township. He married in 1821, and his wife lived with him until April 13, 1869. Six of his ten children are living and four are dead : Eliza, Jonathan, Mary, and an infant have de- ceased. Those living are: Charles, Henry, Jacob, John, Lydia, and Syltia.
In 1848 he labored to bring about the building of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. He commenced by trying to raise a subscription, but not succeeding, he became discouraged witl. that plan and concluded to have a church at all hazards. He made a contract with John Musser to build a church for eight hundred and fifty dollars. He went to work with him and hewed all the timber for it, and assisted in other matters, but finally he fell sick and was unable to do anything for a year, A building committee and trustees were organized to assist him in this work. But not long after they became discouraged and concluded to sell the building to pay the carpenter. Jacob Hammond would not give his consent and they refused to do anything more. He, not feeling satisfied, concluded to borrow the money. He did so, and paid the debt without any assist- ance. In 1851 he managed to complete the building. He has been an ordained local preacher for forty years. He has preached one hundred and twenty funeral sermons, and con- ducted over fifty marriages. He is seventy-nine years of age.
HAMMOND, WILLIAM P., Howard township; farmer, was born June 17, 1850, in Belmont county, Ohio. His father died when he was eighteen months old, and in April, 1855, his mother was married, and removed to Howard township. His step-father died July 26, 1878.
Mr. Hammond was married February 15, 1876, to Mary R. Sapp, and lived on the old farm for two years, with his mother, and then moved to his present farm. He has two children; Lucy, born March 12, 1877, and Rosa, January 30, 1880. Mr. Hammond contributed largely to the building of St. Luke's church, and gave his services as well. He has taught thirty-four terms of writing school in Missouri, Knox county, Ohio; Al- bion, Ohio; Hardin county, Ohio, and Muskingnm, Ohio.
December 12, 1869, he went to Missouri, and remained there three years engaged as a teacher. From there he went to Texas by the overland route, doing his own cooking along the trail. He remained there three months, and then returned home.
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