History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 141

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. Sophia Houck died May 28, 1861.

There were born unto them nine children: Adolphus, William, Isaiah, Sarah Ann, Alexander, Jerome, Jane, Thomas, and Ma- hala.

Mr. Houck was married to Avaline Bebout September 30, 1862. Three children were the fruit of this union: Anthony E., George W., and Lewis B.

HOWES, M. P., Fredericktown, railroad agent, was born in this county, in 1843, and was married in 1872 to Elizabeth Love, who was born in this county. They have one son, Wheeler E., who was born in Fredericktown, May 26, 1874. Mr. Howes has been with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company as ticket agent at this place about sixteen years, is a live business man, and an obliging agent.

HUBBELL, GEORGE B., Hilliar township, physician, Rich Hill post office, was born in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow county, August 21, 1819. His parents were among the early settlers of that county, having come from Con- necticut in 1816, and located in that section, where Preston Hubbell, father of the subject of this notice, died in 1822. His wife still survives him at the age of eighty-two years. She is bright for one of her age, and remembers much of the early history of the settlement. George spent his youth on the farm. When he was about twenty years of age he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Page, with whom he read for one year, and then went to Bath county, Kentucky, and read two years with his uncle, Dr. Burton Hubbell. After his course of reading he returned to his native place and began the practice, and re- mained about six years, then went to Centreville, Delaware county, Ohio, where he practiced for fourteen years, and then went to Indiana; thence to Kansas, where he remained for some time, and returned to Indiana, and thence to Morrow county, Ohio. While in the west he was mostly engaged in farming. In 1876 he moved to Rich Hill, where he has since followed his profession.

December 16, 1841, he was married to Miss Nancy Fox, and as a result has a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.

Mr. Hubbell has been a consistent member of the Methodist church since he was twenty-one years old. He has been tem- perate in his habits, and never recollects of having taken any spirituous liquors as a beverage, and he has never to his recol- lection been guilty of profanity. He is a man of will power, and can resist the tempter. In 1880 he was elected justice of the peace, and will no doubt fill the position with ability and good judgement.

HUGHES, GEORGE (deceased), Pleasant township, born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, on the ninth day of May

1807. He spent his boyhood on a farm. In March, 1828, he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and lived with his brother- in-law, John Buckingham, in Morgan township, during the summer, and in the fall of the same year he moved to Mt. Ver- non, and remained there three or four years. He made fre- quent visits to his native county in Pennsylvania, during that time. In 1830 he commenced dealing in stock of all kinds, buying and driving it east, which he made a specialty for about twenty years, then retired from the business, and since 1850 gave all his attention to farming and stock-raising.

In 1832, while on one of his visits to his native county, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Ellston, of Jefferson, Greene county, Pennsylvania. He returned to Knox county with his wife, and settled in Martinsburgh, where they lived until in 1858, when he purchased and moved on a farm near Martins- burgh, and remained on the farm ten years. In 1848 he sold his farm and moved his family back to Martinsburgh. On the eighth day of January, 1850, he purchased the farm in Morgan township, now occupied by his son Thomas O., and moved his family on this farm during the same year, where they remained twenty years. January 8, 1870, he purchased the farm in Pleasant township, where he lived until his death, March 24, 1881.

Mr. and Mrs. Hughes became the parents of seven children: One daughter deceased at the age of five years; a son, only twelve years of age, was killed by a horse running away with him while raking hay with a horse-rake ; the other five, Mary, John, Catharine, Thomas O., and Sarah, grew to be men and women. John died in Missouri, in 1869, the others are living. Mrs. Hughes died September 7, 1850.

Mr. Hughes second marriage was with Miss Margaret Weaver. of Licking county, Ohio, born in Virginia, July 23, 1827, and came to Licking county, Ohio, in 1839, who is still living.

HUGHES, ISAAC (deceased), Morris township, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and was married to Catharine Watson, who was born in Montgomery township, - Washington county, Maryland, in 1825. They had one son, Matthew T., who was born in Pleasant township, this county, February 8, 1867.

Isaac Hughes died in the same township, September 6, 1870. He was a farmer and a worthy citizen.

HULL, JOHN, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1806. He moved to Wheeling, Virginia, and remained there six years; he then re- moved to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he lived sixteen years. From thence he went to Howard, where he has remained until the present time.

In 18to the Indians broke into one of his neighbors' houses and killed the whole family. Colonel Williams raised a body of men to fight the Indians, John Hull's father being among them. It was his first skirmish with the savages.

HULL, JACOB, physician, post office, Howard, was born June 22, 1841. In 1858 he went to Illinois and worked on a farm in summer and taught school in winter for about five years. The last year he commenced the study of medicine. He has been a citizen of Howard since 1874, and has quite an extensive practice.

HULL, WILLIAM, farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Knox county February 28, 1826. In 1852 he removed to the farm where he now resides. The same vear

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he was married to Elizabeth Jane Wallace. They had three children: Mary Adeline; Elizabeth born August 9, 1859; Wil- liam T., born November 26, 1861; died September 10, 1862. Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Hull died March 10, 1865.

Mr. Hull was again married August 22, 1865, to Elizabeth Jane Gilmore. They have three children: John, Laura, and Perry. John died in 1875.

HUNT, JOHN E., son of David Hunt, is a native of Jeffer- son county, Ohio, where he was born February 1, 1825, is the fifth of a family of eleven children, of whom five are living. The family came to Knox county and located in Monroe town- ship in 1838, upon a farm. David Hunt died August 24, 1867, since which time the family has been widely scattered. Mr. Hunt was married May 9, 1847, to Miss Rebecca Glaze, daugh- ter of Adam Glaze, an early settler of Knox county, now dead. He had a family of four children, three of whom are living, viz: Eldon B, Helen, and Anna. Eldon married Josephine Osborn, and has two children. Helen married S. P. Fogwill. Anna re- sides with her parents.

Mr. Hunt's early life was spent on the farm; he has been en- gaged in various kinds of business, quite a number of years be- ing spent in the mercantile trade; at present is engaged in deal- ing in fresh fish, oysters, etc.

HUNTER, GEORGE, Union township, farmer, post office Danville, born in Union township, Knox county, January 20, 1821. His father came from Pennsylvania, and was captain of a boat on the Ohio river, remaining in this business for a num- ber of years, but finally came to this county and settled on a farm.

Mr. Hunter was married to Marion Bell in 1845. They have seven children, viz: Frances, Matica, Matilda, Mary Ellen, Leander, Lyman, and Milond. Two daughters and one son are married, and the others are living with their father.

HUNTER, DAVID, Pike township, farmer, post offie North Liberty, born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1817, and was married in 1842 to Mary Waits, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. They had seven children, viz: Aquila, born in 1844; Cyrus, in 1845; Ellen Jane, in 1848; Da- vid B., in 1849; James S., in 1851; Esther O., in 1854; and Mary E., in 1862.

Aquila Hunter was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Ohio National guards, and died at Bermuda Hundred, Vir- ginia, in 1865. David B. died in 1850. Mr. Hunter came to Knox county in 1843. He has been treasurer of Pike town- ship about thirty-two years, and still holds that office, which speaks well for his integrity.

* HURD, HON. ROLLIN C. Mr. Hurd was born at West Arlington, Bennington county, Vermont, on the twelfth day of September, 1815. Asahel Hurd, his father, was a well-doing farmer; prominent as an influential citizen, who at one period of his life represented his town in the legislature, and to whom was also committed other public trusts.

In the days of his early boyhood, young Rollin's time was divided between the common school and giving assistance to his father, in the usual routine of farm employment. At the age of twelve years, he was sent to a boy's boarding school, at Norwich, Connecticut, where he received the first rudiments of an academic education.

In 1831, Professor Herman Dyer, of Kenyon college, formerly of the same county in Vermont, being on a visit to his native town, his attention was called to his neighbor's son, then at home; and through his (the professor's) advice, it was arranged that the youth should accompany the former to Gambier, the seat of Kenyon college, with the view to his education in that institution.

Under the guardianship of Professor Dyer, young Hurd ac- companied him to Ohio, and at the opening of the classes in 1831, was regularly entered at the "grammar school" attached to Kenyon college, and of which the late Judge Finch was then tutor. He subsequently entered the college proper, in the leg- ular course for the class of 1836, but for reasons that hastened him to enter upon the active duties of life, and solely from these private considerations, he withdrew from his college course of studies at the end of his second year, to enter the office of the late Benjamin S. Brown, in Mt. Vernon, as a student at law.

It was during his college course that he became acquainted with Miss Mary B. Norton, daughter of the late Daniel S. Norton, a prominent citizen of Mt. Vernon, which resulted in a mutual attachment. On the fourteenth of August, 1836, they were married, and shortly afterwards commenced housekeeping in the old Kratzer house, so called, then situated where the Judges' office now stands, and on the same lots on which he subsequently erected his beautiful residence, which he continued to own and occupy down to the time of his death. .

Judge Hurd was admitted to the bar about the first of April, 1837, and applied himself with great zeal to the study and duties of his profession. The death of his preceptor the year following created a vacancy in the few offices that then chiefly controlled the legal business of the county, and the industry, application, and legal ability of Mr. Hurd made him prominent to the public eye, as the fitting and proper successor to fill that vacancy. He therefore immediately took position by the side of the older members of the profession then in full practice, and by faithful study and strict attention to his cases, he rapidly rose in reputation and public confidence, and soon placed him- self, deservedly, in the foremost ranks of the profession.

Judge Hurd was eminent at the bar, not only for profound legal learning, but also for a quick perception of the strong points of his case, for a clear consecutive mode of thought, and a logical, comprehensive grasp of his subject, that enabled him with clear analysis to present his premises and conclusions with great effect. When to these qualities were added zeal and earnestness of manner, and a remarkable candor and fairness in the statement of facts, his power with the court and jury was always very sure to win for him all the success to which his case was entitled-sometimes, perhaps, more than its merits de- served.

With these distinguished abilities, his practice had become wide and extended, embracing as well cases in the United States courts of the northern district, as in the State courts of many of the counties of which it is composed. He was also admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States, at Wash- ington, on the ninth of January, 1863.

In 1852 he accepted the nomination of the Whig party as its candidate for judge of the court of common pleas for the judi- cial district, and was elected. He filled this position with great credit to himself, and with satisfaction to the bar and the peo- ple of the district, for five years.

On retiring from the bench he resumed the practice of law. It was during the latter part of his judicial term, and the first

* From the Mt. Vernon Banner, February 27, 1874.

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year of his resumption of practice, that he found leisure to pre- pare and write his work on Habeas Corpus, now a standard work in the profession, and found in every good law library.

For the last three or four years of his life Judge Hurd ap- plied the great energies of his mind chiefly to the organization of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad company, and to the success of the object of this enterprise. In this great and useful public work he became so absorbed that for the last few years he was compelled to relinguish, in a considerable de- gree, the duties of his legal profession. In his new role he proved himself equally successful. And by the application of the natural forces of his mind-his energy, good judgment, personal influence and administrative ability-as president of the company, he carried the road through to its completion, successfully and triumphantly, and it now stands as an impor- tant link in one of the greatest thoroughfares of our country, and a monument of his latest success. It is well said that for this act alone the citizens of Mt. Vernon, and of the entire region through which the road passes, will ever cherish his memory, and feel that his loss is a public calamity.

Judge Hurd, by his marriage with Miss Norton, who survives him, has had seven children, three of whom died in infancy, and one, the late Rollin Hurd, jr., about two years prior to his father's decease. Those who survive are Hon. Frank H. Hurd, of Toledo; Mrs. John S. Delano, now of Colorado, and Mrs. Robert Clarke, of Washington City; all of whom, with the be- loved wife of his youth, as well as of his mature years, were permitted, through a kind Providence, to minister to his wants in his protracted sickness, and to be present at his bedside in his last moments.

He died at one o'clock on Thursday morning, the twelfth of February, 1874. Disease that baffled the most skilful efforts to arrest its progress, had given its warning for some months; but hope remained with its delusions. When the final sum- mons came he sank to rest so calmly, so quietly, it was as if but gentle sleep had wrapped him in her arms.

HURFORD, CRAWFORD, Pleasant township, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Fayette county, June 4, 1822, was reared a farmer, and followed that as his vocation until 1846. He emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in 1844, and located in Pleasant township, on a farm now known as the Hurford mill farm, where he is now living.

In 1846 he erected the Hurford grist-mill, a frame structure, thirty-six by forty, three stories high, containing two run of buhrs, which has the capacity for manufacturing from ten to fifteen barrels of flour per day. He operated the mill success- fully until 1866, when he sold it, and again turned his attention to farming, which business he has since been engaged at. In June, 1848, he married Miss Mahala Lee, of Utica, Licking county, Ohio, daughter of John Lee, born in June in 1817. They settled on the Hurford mill farm, where he is now residing. They have two children: Amelia and Thomas D. Mrs. Hur- ford died March 4, 1880. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1839. Mrs. Hurford was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from 1835 until the time of her death.

In 1863 he connected himself with an independent company. In the spring of 1864 his company was ordered out, and re- mained about four months in the service in the war of 1861. He is a man well known in the neighborhood, and esteemed by all of his acquaintances.

HURST, CHARLES H., Fredericktown, butcher; was born in Germany in 1842, came to America at the age of thir- teen years, and first located in Plymouth, Richland county, Ohio. He came to Fredericktown in 1875. In 1863 he married Catharine Swope, who was born in Crawford county in 1842. They have four children, viz: Edward, born in 1863; George, in 1869; William, in 1870, and Artie in 1874.

Mr. Hurst enlisted in the late war in company I, First regi- ment, Ohio artillery, and remained till the close of the war. He is a member of the firm of Braddock & Hurst, butchers. They have established a good business in Fredericktown and vicinity.

HUTCHISON, LEANDER, son of John and Elizabeth Hutchison, was born in Licking county, Ohio, one mile south of Homer, April 28, 1828. He is a carpenter by trade, and fol- lowed carpentering as his vocation until a few years since when he turned his attention to farming, which he is engaged in at present. In 1852 he married Miss Nancy J. Vernon, born in 1829, daughter of Joseph Vernon. Their union resulted in two children, one son and one daughter. He served three years in the war of 1861, enlisting in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment.

HYATT, PHILIP, was a native of Montgomery county, Maryland, born October II, 1795. He was married to Miss Rizpah, daughter of Joseph Watkins, of the same county, July 18, 1822. She was born October 31, 1802. They resided in Montgomery county, Maryland, until 1833, during which time they had a family of six children, viz: Luther L., born May 21, 1823; Ann Riggs, October 30, 1824; Susan Matilda, January 21, 1826; Philip H., March 18, 1828; Joseph H., February 19, 1830; Elizabeth S., March 1, 1832.

In 1833 Mr. Hyatt came to Knox county, and settled on a farm in Liberty township, where he remained until 1868, during which time six more children were born to them, as follows : John Thomas, born April 14, 1834; Columbia Ann, April 19, 1836; Caroline, April 25, 1838; Oliver, November 30, 1840; Maria, August 4, 1842, and Columbus D., June 8, 1845, making a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity. Three are now dead and two remain single, the rest being married and have families. In 1868 Mr. Hyatt came to Mt. Vernon, where he lived until his death. May 16, 1873. Mrs. Hyatt is still liv- ing, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years.

HYATT, LUTHER L., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Montgomery county, Maryland, in 1823; emigrated to Ohio in 1832, and was married in 1851, to Fanny Smith, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1829. They had four children: Charlie, born in 1854; Louella, 1856; Carrie, 1859, and John, 1865. Mrs. Fanny Hyatt died in 1867, in Lib- erty township. She was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Hyatt was subsequently married to Matilda Walker, who was born in Knox county, in 1823, and died in 1877. She was a member of the United Presbyterian church. Mr. Hyatt's third marriage was to Kate D.' Wolfe, who was born in 1835. Mr. Hyatt located in Wayne township in 1870, and owns a well improved farm.

HYATT, L., Washington, Liberty township, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1830, and came to Ohio with his parents. He spent his youth on a farm and was a farmer by occupation. He enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Forty-second reg-

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iment Ohio National guard. While in the service he was on picket duty where he was taken with congestive chills of which he died in August, 1864, and was buried near Point of Rocks, in Virginia. He was a good citizen and was esteeemed by his neighbors. He married Miss Sarah A. Hurd May 27, 1853, who was born in July, 1835, in Cornwall county, England. She is a daughter of John and Griselda Hurd, natives of England. John Hurd was born July 25, 1801. In 1834 he married Griselda Gilbert, who was born in 1810. They were both farmers' chil- dren. They remained in England until 1842, when they emi- grated to Gambier, but subsequently lived in Mt. Vernon, and in 1849 moved on the farm in Liberty township, which he had previously purchased. They had a family of five children. The subject of this notice, Mrs. Hyatt, had three children, viz .: Martha E., deceased; George W., born March 12, 1856; Sildia, December 17, 1862.

HYATT, A. J., M. D., Brown township, was born in Coshoc- ton county, September 25, 1835. His parents were early settlers there, emigrating from Maryland, where they were born. The subject of this memoir remained at home until about eighteen years of age, when, being the youngest of the family and al- lowed his time, he determined to obtain an education. Im- pressed with this idea, he entered the Martinsburgh academy, then under the charge of Rev. John Burns. After his limited means were exhausted he began teaching. By doing this dur- ing the winter, and by attending school during the summer, he was enabled to complete a thorough course in study. He ac- quired an excellent reputation as teacher, and was enabled to educate himself entirely by his own efforts.

In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Isaac Put- nam, of Mt. Holly. He attended medical lectures at Ohio Medical college, at Cincinnati, during the term of 1857-58. In March, 1859, he began the practice of medicine in Greersville.

In 1861 Dr. Hyatt was married to Miss Catharine Smith, of this county. Soon after the doctor sold his practice in Greers- ville to Dr. Welker, and in 1862 removed to Nashville, Holmes county, where, in September, his wife died. December 3d, of the same year, he removed to Jelloway, where, for eighteen years, he has resided and and enjoyed a good practice.

In 1867 Dr. Hyatt received the honorary decree of M. D., from the Charity Hospital college of Cleveland. In Decem- ber, 1871, the doctor was again married to Miss Emma J. Gains. They are the parents of three children : John J., Dwight, and Roby, who died at the age of eighteen months.

HYATT, ISAAC, Union township, mechanic, post office, Gann .- He was born September 22, 1822, in Coshocton county, Ohio. In 1845 he was married to Miss R. Stoonee, and lived in Coshocton county for a few years, and then moved to Jeffer- son township, where they still remain. He has two children living-Martin and Rosannah. They have lost three. Nathan died in the late war. Lewis died in Illinois, and Peter died at home. Isaac Hyatt's business has been farming, wagon making, and carpentering; but he has paid strict attention to carriage and wagon making for the last twenty-two years. Martin is now engaged in the business with his father, and they are running at present a large wagon and buggy manufacturing establishment, which is quite successful. Their business is large and still im- proving.

HYLER, COLUMBUS D. (deceased), born in Morrow county in 1830, and was married in 1852 to Ann Lefever, who was born in this county.' They had one daughter-Alice, born

in 1853. Mr. Hyler died in 1877. Alice died in 1875. Mr. Hyler was postmaster of Fredericktown for about five years. He was elected justice of the peace for two terms; also mayor of Fredericktown. He was one of the leading and enterprising citizens of his day. He was engaged in the late war as second lieutenant; served out his· time of enlistment, and received an honorable discharge.

IRVINE, JAMES C., deceased .- Mr. Irvine was born in Tomika, western Pennsylvania, July 12, 1807, and died in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1810, where he has since resided. He began life as a printer in the office of the Ohio Register, published here. In the year 1835 he commenced business on Main street, continuing therein until 1861, when he responded to the first call for troops to sup- press the late Rebellion, and to Mr. Irvine belongs the honor of organizing the first company of soldiers in Knox county. As captain of company A, he went out with Colonel Lorin An- drews, in the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. On account of his then somewhat advanced age, Mr. Irvine did not reenlist. After the expiration of three months- the term designated in the first call-he resumed his business, in which occupation he continued until quite recently.

At the date of his death, Mr. Irvine represented his ward in the common council of this city, to which position he was elected in the spring of 1880, and which body took fitting cog- nizance of his demise. An evidence of the high esteem in which deceased's sound judgment, integrity and thorough business ca- pacity were held, may be found in the fact that he had been appointed almost innumerable times as a member of the city board of equalization.

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History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 141

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