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LONG, FRANCIS, Brown township, farmer, was born in Portage county, Ohio, April 4, 1828. He was reared on a farm, and made farming his principal vocation. In 1853 he married Miss Rachel Kesleer, born in Delaware county, Ohio, April 6, 1827, and daughter of John and Betsey Kesleer. They settled in Paulding county, Ohio, where he was engaged in farming until 1856, when he was engaged in the mercantile business, and continued in it for three years.
In 1859 they moved to Jelloway, this county, where they have since resided. He was engaged in the mercantile business in Jelloway for a short time, and then turned his attention to farming again, which business he has since been following. They have a family of seven children-three sons and four daughters. He served about nine months in the war of 1861, enlisted in the Eighty-second Ohio volunteer infantry in Novem- ber, 1861, and was discharged from the service August, 1862, on account of a wound received at the battle of Cross Keys, Virginia, June 8, 1862.
LONEY, WILLIAM, Brown township, farmer, post office Democracy, son of John and Nancy Loney, was born in Pike township, Knox county, November 2, 1825, and was reared and educated by his parents. When he arrived at the age of fifteen years his father died-March 8, 1841. William then remained with his mother on the farm until he arrived at the age of twenty-two years. He, in company with his brothers, bought the old homestead, paying their three sisters six hundred dol- lars each. Here he remained until 1855. In the spring of that year he bought a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Brown township, and at present is the owner of three hundred and twenty acres. .
On the eighth of March, 1855, he married Miss Mary Mc- Clurg, daughter of Robert and Nancy McClurg, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1833. He still lives on the farm he bought in 1855.
Mr. Loney has held the offices of trustee and treasurer for a number of years in the township.
Mr. and Mrs. Loney are the parents of ten children, viz: Elseie, Florence, Salina M., Eugene, Festus, Edwin, Judson, Elmore, and Jennie-seven of whom are living, five sons and two daughters.
LORE, PETER, Liberty township, farmer, is a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was born July 17, 18ro. His parents, Henry and Rcsannah Lore nee Glessner, came to Ohio about 1826 and settled in Union township, where they lived until about 1834, when they moved to Liberty township and settled on the farm on which the subject of this notice lives, and
where they both died. They had twelve children, all of whom grew up, and five of whom are yet living.
Mr. Lore remained at home until he was about eighteen years of age. He then learned chair-making at Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, serving four years, and worked some ten years thereafter at his trade. He worked some time in Mt. Vernon, after which he came to where he now resides, and where he has lived ever since. He is a good citizen and a man of comprehensive ideas, and social in his manners.
He married Miss Jane Newell May 15, 1851, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in September 1818. Her parents, James and Mary Newell nec Fleming, came to Ohio in 1819. They both died in Clinton township.
LORE, HARMAN P., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this county in 1851, and was married in 1874 to Kate Allen, who was born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1851. They had three children: Maud, deceased; Willie, born in 1876; Olive Bell, in 1879. Mr. Lore is engaged in farming the Searl farm in this township, and is a good citizen.
LOREE, GEORGE_C., farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Morris township, and inarried Anna Chambers, who was born in Ireland in 1835, and came to America when a child with her parents. They have one daughter, Eliza D., born July 12, 1866. Mr. Loree received a severe injury by the dis- charge of his gun, the shot injuring his right hand, crippling him so that he cannot engage in farming.
LOREE, JOHN, retired, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1797, and was married in 1821 to Sarah Rush who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1803, They had seven children, viz: Clarissa R., born in 1823; John W., in 1826; Hannah, in 1828; Job in 1836; Sarah E., and George C. (twins), in 1840; and William L., in 1844.
Mr. Loree came from Pennsylvania when about fifteen years old and located in Knox county. After marriage he located on the farm where they now residc, which at that time was all in timber. He cleared up and improved most of this farm. Mrs. Loree has been a member of the Baptist church for twenty-eight years.
LOREE, GEORGE N., farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Monroe township in 1851, and mar- ried in r880 Miranda E. Trollinger, who was born in this county in 1861. They have one daughter, Aera Almertie.
LOVE, ALEXANDER, Fredericktown, laborer, was born in Coshocton county in 1817, and married in 1851 to Angelina Carter, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1819. They have two children-La Torrie, born in 1854, and Annie B., in 1856.
Mr. Love came to Knox county in 1825; located in Berlin township, where he engaged in farming till 1848, when he moved to Fredericktown, and engaged in the hardware trade for some time, after which he went into the provision and pro- duce business. He was postmaster in Fredericktown over two years; also coroner of this county four years, and was one of the charter members of the Odd Fellows' society in Frederick- town.
LOVE, THOMAS, Fredericktown, deceased. was born in Ireland, and came to America with his parents in infancy. He settled in Berlin township, Knox county, where he was married in 1839 to Sophia A. Kett, who was born in Knox county in
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1816. They had three sons and two daughters-Mary Jane, Andrew A .. Alexander S., Le Grand B., and Elizabeth.
Thomas Love died in December, 1852, in Berlin township, in this county.
Mrs. Love is at present residing in Fredericktown with her family.
LOVE, JOSEPH, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1821, and was brought to Knox county in 1824. He was married in 1851 to Ann Jane Thompson, who was born in Ireland in 1827, and came to America in 1831. They have four children- Sheriden, Matthew, Mattie, and John. Georgia Anna is de- ceased.
Mr. Love has been identified with Berlin township since 1824. He owns the old homestead, one of the beautiful farms of Knox county, with buildings of the modern style, and one of the best farm residences in the county.
Joseph Love had not the advantages of a good education, but being endowed with more than ordinary ability, he im- proved every opportunity, and has become one of the leading men of the county. He has filled different positions of public trust. He has always been identified with and is one of the leading Democrats of Knox county.
LOVERIDGE, PHILIP W., Morris township, farmer, post office Mt. Vernon, was born in Morris township in 1820; mar- ried in 1856 to Adelaide E. Frost, who was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, in 1835; came with her parents to Ohio in 1840. They have two children: Ida, born in 1837; John, born in 1864.
Mr. Loveridge has always been identified with this county, and is a member of a pioneer family. He is a farmer by occu- pation, and owns a well improved farm with good buildings. He is a son of Richard and Ann Loveridge, who were born in New Jersey, emigrated to Knox county in 1814, and located on the farm where Philip Loveridge now resides.
LYAL, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, post office Centre- burgh, one of the successful men of Hilliar township, was born in the parish of Thornbury, county of Devonshire, England, April 15, 1814. His father was a farmer, and it was on a farm that Mr. Lyal spent his youth.
His father was what is termed a "renter," and could not give him the advantages of an education. He, however, in af- ter years acquired a knowledge of the common branches, so that he could transact his business.
He is tall and well built, and was required to serve in the English army; but rather than spend his best days in the service of the Queen's guard, he concluded to leave England. Accord- ingly, in March, 1835, he was furnished with thirty dollars to pay his passage to New York. After his arrival in America he proceeded as far west as Buffalo, New York, where his money run out. He worked at Buffalo for some time, and again started for the west, and arrived at Mt. Vernon in the same year, 1835, where he commenced work and remained for some three years, saving his money with a view of purchasing land. In 1839 he moved to Hilliar township, where he had purchased a tract of ninety-two acres of heavily timbered land. He had the usual experience of the early settler-first to build a cabin, and then proceed to clearing the land. He worked hard, and in due course of time he was rewarded for his labors, and was enabled to purchase more land, until lie now is one of the largest land- owners of the township. From a poor boy he attained a com-
petence, and has the esteem of his neighbors. He has been twice honored by the voters of Knox county. He was elected county commissioner in 1870, and again in 1873, during which time many of the improvements of the county were started. He has always been an advocate of iron bridges, of which this county can justly boast.
Mr. Lyal, in fact, was the first to advocate iron bridges. He also was in the board when the county infirmary was built. He has been president of the Hartford central fair, of Licking county, Ohio, several years, and one of the board of directors of the Mt. Vernon fair, and one of the main men in keeping it up. He has been engaged for a number of years in raising short horned Durham cattle, and much of the best stock of central Ohio came from his herd. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Jackson, November, 1842; she was born in Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. They have six children, two sons and four daughters: William B., Theodore J., far- mer, in Milford township; Mary Ann, wife of John Gearhart; Louisa H., wife of John B. Campbell, Millwood, Knox county, Ohio; Emma S., wife of Ogden M. Thatcher, of Milford township; Margaret E., wife of George M. Shaffer, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio.
LYBARGER, GEORGE, deceased, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1791, son of Louis Lybarger. At about the age of thirty years he, in company with Andrew Henry and Adam Lybarger, came to Ohio, locating in Knox county.
The subject of this sketch located with his family a short distance south of Mt. Vernon, where he remained but a short time when he purchased a farm in Harrison township, two miles east of Gambier, where he then moved and reared a family of twelve children, and remained until his death, which occurred October 18, 1877, in his eighty-fifth year. Magdalena Lybarger, his companion, was born in Pennsylvania, August 6, 1793; died December 25, 1848, in her fifty-fifth year.
Nine of the family are living, four sons and five daughters.
LYBARGER, HIRAM, farmer, Union township, post office, Danville. He was born in Clinton township, Knox county, February 3, 1818, moved to Danville in 1826, and lived there a few years, and in 1849 moved to Pike county, Ohio, lived there two years, and in 1852 moved back to Danville. He purchased his father's tannery in 1863, made extensive improvements on the old property, and conducted the business on a larger scale, continuing until 1878, when he left this trade and commenced farming.
He was married October 5, 1843, to Miss L. J. Roland, who died in 1851, and left one child, J. R. Lybarger. He was mar- ried in 1856 to Mary Williams, who died in 1858. His third marriage was to Lydia M. Wolf. They had one child, who died in infancy. His son, J. R. Lybarger, was married in 1868, to Mary Baker, and settled in Rossville.
Hiram Lybarger always lived an honest and worthy life; has been one of the most liberal supporters of the gospel, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
LYBARGER ASA, farmer, Union township, post office, Millwood, born February 18, 1826, in Howard township, and lived at home until his tenth year, when he went to Brown township and remained three years. He then came to Millwood and worked as a mechanic thirty-two years. He was married to Miss Margaret Conkle in 1848, and settled on a rented farm for a few years, and then bought a farm, which he now owns
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and occupies. He has three children : Clinton, Victoria, and Hattie, all living at home.
LYDICK, WILLIAM, deceased, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1781. He married Miss Catharine Welker in 1807 or 1808, daughter of Paul Welker. Miss Welker was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 20, 1787. They emigrated to Union township, Knox county, in 1809, and located on the farm now owned by their son, Reuben Lydick. His first improvement on the land was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as a residence for several years, when he built another log cabin, and in a short time he built an addition to it of hewed logs. The dwell- ing stood on the ground where the present brick residence is being erected by Mr. Reuben Lydick. They lived in the hewed log and the log cabin until 1835, when he erected a brick residence near their cabin, which served them as an abode the remainder of their days. His wife deceased September 12, 1859. He died May 8, 1861.
They reared a family of three children-Reuben, Druzilla, and Lydia-all of whom are married and have families. Farm- ing was his vocation.
LYDICK, REUBEN, farmer, Union township, son of Wil- liam Lydick, was born January 27, 1820. He was reared on a farm, and has made farming his vocation. On the fifteenth day of January, 1843, he married Catharine Hardin, born April 17, 1824, daughter of John and Catharine Hardin. They settled on the Lydick homestead, where he is now living. By this union he reared five children, two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Lydick died March 31, 1857.
He married Calista Severns October 28, 1858, daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Severns. By this marriage he had two sons and one daughter.
LYONS, BENJAMIN, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Sussex county, New Jersey, Feb- ruary 4, 1802, came with his parents to Wayne township in 1806, and was married in 1828 to Margaret M. Jackson, who was born in New Jersey. They had two children, viz: Isaac J., born in 1830; Eliza Jane, in 1836.
Mrs. Margaret M. Lyons died about 1867. Mr. B. Lyons' second marriage was to Amy Conger, who was born in Knox county in 1818.
Mr. Lyons was among the earliest settlers of this county. He located on the farm where he now resides, about fifty years ago, when it was all heavily timbered. He cleared up and improved this farm, has erected excellent buildings, and it is now one of the most beautiful farms of Knox county. Mr. Lyon has done much for general improvement, and has always been a quiet and unassuming man, but is one of the reliable men of this county. Eliza J. Lyon married James P. Killin, and they live in Waterford. Isaac J. Lyon, now resides in Michigan.
LYON, WILLIAM, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born August 14, 1811, in Wayne township, and was married in 1838 to Louisa Keyes, who was born March 2, 1814, in Vermont. They had the following children-Asher Newton, born August 30, 1839; Francis Marion, March 29, 1842; Mary Elizabeth, February 6, 1844; Sarah Clotilda, De- cember 4, 1846; Arminta Pernina, July 17, 1850; Mertrice Jane, December 31, 1853; Hattie R., November 28, 1856. Mr. W. Lyons' father, Simeon Lyons, was born in Marsh county, New Jersey, August 22, 1767, and was married to Hannah Serring,
who was born in 1772, in New Jersey. They had the following children-Mehitable, born December 29, 1792; Abigail, April 10, 1795; Perninah, January 10, 1797; Benjamin, February 4, 1802; Eliza, June 3, 1804; Jane, March 30, 1807; Asher, July 5, 1806; William, August 14, 1811; Caroline, April 17, 1814; Mary, January 17. 1817; and Phoebe A., September 4, 1820. Simeon . Lyon died January 22, 1844; Mrs. Hannah Lyon died June, 1858. They were among the early settlers of this county.
Robert Keyes, father of Mrs. William Lyon, was born in Vermont, September 6, 1783, and was married to Sally Scribner, who was born in New Hampshire, November 26, 1781. Their children were named Harriet, Elvina, Louisa, Betsey, and Robert. Mr. Robert Keyes died in this township, December 22, 1870; Mrs. Sally Keyes died February 28, 1864.
LYON, REV. EPHRAIM, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, this county, in 1853. He studied and prepared himself to engage in the min- istry, and received a license from the Methodist Episcopal church. He is now engaged as a supply, filling the pulpit at Newville, Ohio. Although Mr. Lyon had not the facilities and privileges to receive a liberal education, he is successful, and his labors are very acceptable, and he is destined to make his mark.
LYON, S. W., Hilliar township, proprietor of Lyon's house, Centreburgh. He is the son of Newton and Hannah Lyon, nee Lonesberry. He was born in 1853. He was reared on a farm. He kept store about a year, and then moved to Centre- burgh and kept livery for four years, and then purchased what is known as the Scott property and repaired it, and opened a hotel where he is now located. He keeps a good house, is ac- commodating, and takes especial pride in making his guests feel at home. He was married to Miss Emma A. Herron in 1872. She is the daughter of Abraham Herron, of Sparta, Morrow county. They had two children, one of whom is living.
LYNCH, REV. SAMUEL, Mt. Vernon, was born near Londonderry, Tyrone county, Ireland, February 2, 1807, where he received his education, after which he studied theology un- der the direction of the Rev. James Lynch. He was licensed to preach in 1831, and in 1832 he emigrated to America, locating in Holmes county, Ohio, where he engaged in teaching and preaching. In March, 1833, he received an appointment from the presiding elder, Rev. William B. Christie, for the Roscoe circuit, Wooster district, Ohio conference, which at that time included the western part of Virginia, Ohio, and Michigan.
He remained in the Roscoe circuit six months, which ended the conference year. He was then recommended to the Ohio conference held at Cincinnati, and was appointed to the Mans- field circuit, where he remained one year, after which he served the following churches, viz: Martinsburgh, one year; Ashland, one year; Millersburgh, one year; Mt. Gilead, two years; Lima, one year; Sidney, two years; Bellefontaine, two years; West Liberty, two years; Olivesburgh, two years; Mt. Vernon, as presiding elder, four years; Delaware, as elder, nine years, and pastor three years; also agent for the Female college of Dela- ware three years; Huntsville circuit, two years; Bellefontaine station, one year; Toledo, as presiding elder, four years; Mourne station, one year, and Elmore circuit two years,
He came to Mt. Vernon in 1877, where he has since resided, and has devoted his time in aiding in the work as a supply, and as agent for the Superannuated Ministers Aid society of the cen- tral Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which he has served for the past four years.
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He was married September 3, 1835, to Sarah R., daughter of the late Samuel G. and Mariana Berryhill, of Martinsburgh, Ohio. They have had a family of ten children, seven of whom are living.
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MCARTOR, JAMES O., farmer, post office, Gambier, was born in Knox county, Harrison township, June 20, 1848; is a son of Jonathan and Minerva McArtor, by whom he was edu- cated. When he arrived at the age of twenty-one. years he rented the home place of his father, farming it on the shares, and has continued to do so until the present time. On the twelfth of November, 1868, he married Elizabeth Gaumer, daughter of Peter and Susannah Gaumer, born in Union town- ship, Knox county, September 5, 1848. Their marriage re- sulted in three children: Lulu B., born December 17, 1869; Robert F., June 5, 1873; Russell B., August 8, 1874; all of whom are living. In 1878 Mr. McArtor was elected justice of the peace of Harrison township, and is performing his official duties acceptably.
McBRIDE, ROBERT D., carpenter, Liberty township, post office, Bangs, was born in Adamsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 22, 1841. About 1848 his parents moved to Gilead, Ohio. His father was a carpenter, and Robert learned the trade with him. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in company C, Fifteenth regiment of three months men, served his time, and again enlisted in company C, Fifteenth regiment, for three years. He participated in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River. He was taken prisoner at the latter place, and was confined for four months in Castle Thunder and Libby prison. He was exchanged, and a few months afterwards joined his regiment, and participated in the battles of Chicka- mauga, Mission Ridge, and siege of Knoxville. He veteranized January, 1864, and was on the Atlanta campaign. He was under Thomas, at Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, besides numerous skirmishes. He was also in Texas with his regiment. He was discharged December 24, 1865.
After his return home he engaged in farming and working at his trade. He was elected constable of Liberty in the spring of 1880. He was married to Miss Ann L. Roby December 19, 1867. They have four children.
McCAMMENT, JOHN S., farmer, was born in Brooke county, Virginia, October 14, 1818, and with his father removed to Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio, April, 1819, and has resided there ever since. He was married to Sarah Hammell, January 2, 1840; who was born in Butler township, February 8, 1821. They have had five children: Andrew Jackson, born July 10, 1842; Margaret Jane, July 27, 1844; Caroline Mc- Nulty, October 4, 1846; John H., May 13, 1849; Emily Re- becca, November 21, 1857; Emily R. died March 4, 1859. Mr. McCamment has been justice of the peace ever since 1855. He has served three years as commissioner of Knox county, and three years as infirmary director.
McCAMMENT, SAMUEL, farmer, is a native of Jackson township, and was born November 1, 1822. He was married October 17, 1844, to Mary E. Blount, who was born in Dres- den, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 29, 1825. They have had eleven children, viz: Maria, born August 6, 1845; James A., March 29, 1847, Benjamin F., November 27, 1848; Martha A., July 23, 1851; Thomas J., October 13, 1852; Alonzo C., August
14, 1855; William A., March 13, 1857; Mary L., October 2, 1858; Sylva J., November 3, 1860; Samuel R., June 1, 1863; Nancy Ellen, June 23, 1866. Thomas Jefferson died February 8, 1857; Alonzo C., September 2, 1858; Maria, March 1, 1863.
James A. was married to Miss Angeline Bell, October 17, 1868; Martha A. was married to Samuel Davidson, August 17, 1872; Benjamin F. was married to Accious Hall, September, 1873; Sylva Jane was married to Jacob Holbrook, November 9, 1880. Mrs. McCammet died July 21, 1879.
Mr. McCammet enlisted as a private in the Sixth company Ohio volunteer sharpshooters, on the fith day of October, 1862; at the organization of the company was appointed first cor- poral, was afterwards promoted to third sergeant, then orderly. sergeant, first lieutenant, and subsequently became captain of the company.
McCAMMENT, JAMES M., was born April 22, 1832, in Jackson township, this county, and was married to Miss Almira Giffen, March 26, 1854. Mrs. McCamment was born February 19, 1836. They have had two children; Leonora, born January 26. 1855; and Rebecca, born October 3, 1854.
Mr. McCamment removed to Butler township in 1864. He has served eight years as justice of the peace for Butler town- ship. During the late civil war he was a member of company K, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry.
McCAMMENT, BENJAMIN F., Jackson township, farmer, is a native of Jackson township, and was born November 27, 1848. September 12, 1874, he was married to Accious Hall. They have had three children-Olla Bell, born June 28, 1875; Adda Jane, September 3, 1878; Edmund Garfield, November 2, 1880.
McCAY, DAVID, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. February 22, 1824. He was reared to work on a farm. In 1843 he went to Indiana, but not liking the country he returned to Ohio the following year, and settled near where he now resides, where he had been engaged in farming.
Mr. McCay is social in his habits, and has the respect of the community. He is industrious and honest. He was married to Miss Mary Rinehart, who died in 1872 ..
Mrs. Sarah Rinehart, nee Ewart, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1809. Her mother died in Penn- sylvania. Her father came to Ohio some years after with two of his daughters, and settled in Delaware county, where he died at a ripe old age. Sarah was married to Lewis Rinehart, Feb- ruary 22, 1852. They moved on the farm now owned by the heirs of Henry B. Wright, where Mr. Rinehart died September 4, 1855. Shortly after his death Mrs. Rinehart moved to Rich Hill, where she still resides, respected by all who know her.
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