History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 160

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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Another incident in which wolves were prominent actors is thus related: During the summer of 1822, a spelling bee was held at a neighboring school-house, which nearly all the young people attended. It was past midnight when the young folks clarted for their respective homes in small parties. One party, when about half-way home, was surrounded by a pack of wolves, and to save their lives the youngsters were forced to take to trees, and rest in the higher branches. Thus protected, the party was compelled to spend the balance of the night, lis- tening to the snarls and howls of the disappointed beasts.

PARK GEOR. N., M. VE on, was born in Franklin wanty, Pennsylvania October 11, 1852, educated at the district schools, but by close application he received a good English .ducation. Followed farming until r869, when he established the seed gardens at Fannettsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he did business until 1875, when he came to Mt. Vernon and estab- lished gardens. He is publisher of a floral magazine, which he started in 1871, at Fannettsburgh, and which has been a finan- cial success. He started a green-house in 1879, where he keeps a rare collection of plants. He has a very extensive collection of flower seeds, also all the leading varieties of garden seeds. Publishes a catalogue annually of flower and vegetable seeds, giving valuable information upon their cultivation.

The Floral Magazine is a sixteen page illustrated pamphlet, devoted to the culture of flowers of all kinds and is the pioneer of the floral magasins devoted entirely to flower culture. He also does book and printing in all its branches, with dispatch. Having all the modern improvements, in the shape of Baxter's engine, new press, and all the latest styles of type, his work is fine.

PARK, D. M., of the firm of Martin & Park, coal and feed dealers, Mt. Vernon .- Mr. D. M. Park was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, August 5, 1854. His father is a firmer, and young Park assisted on the farm and attended chool until he reached his rineteenth year, when he engaged with Mr. Starr in the nursery business, in which he continued one year.

In April, 1877, he became a member of the firm of J. H. Mc- Farland & Co., in which he remained until some time in the Yeal 1879, when Mr. McFarland disposed of liis interest to Mr. J. B. Martin, and the firm of Martin & Park was formed.

May 2, 1878, Mr. Park married Miss Nellie C. Chancey. One son, Clarence W., is the issue of this union, who was born October 18, 1879.

PARKE, JUDGE THOMAS V., Mt. Vernon, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, July 5, 1805, and in 1819 his parents moved into Frederick county, and Thomas engaged in the mill- ing business. In 1832 he came to this county and located at Fredericktown, where he engaged in merchandizing, in which he continued several years, and during which he did business in different towns of the county. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1857 and was appointed deputy sheriff under I. Underwood, and served two terms. During his first year, as deputy, he was elected justice of the peace and served one term. In 1860 he

was elected probate judge, in which he served two terms. In 1869 he was again elected to the office of the justice of the peace, to which he was successively elected for three terms, dis- charging the duties of his office with acceptance, and has now retired from public life. He was married, January 16, 1834, to Miss Mary, daughter of Charles Strong, of Fredericktown, by whom he had a family of eight children, four of whom are liv- ing, viz: Webster, Elnora Hyde, Kate H., and Thomas V.

PARKES, THOMAS, is a native of Gloucester, England, where he was born July 18, 1828. After leaving school he learned the trade of boot and shoe making, which he has made his business in life so far.

He came to America in 1857, stopping at Brooklyn, New York, where he manufactured the "copper nailed shoe" for four years, when he sold out and came to Mt. Vernon in 1862, and started shops, where he does all kinds of work with neat- ness and dispatch.

He was married to Miss Amelia Clara daughter of John L. Shepperd, by whom he has had a family of five children, four of whom are living.

PARKER, MRS. H. C., millinery and notions, South Main street, MIt. Vernon. Mrs. Parker was born in Danville, this county, January 12, 1848. When about ten years of age, her father, Mr. S. W. Hopwood, came to Mt. Vernon with his family. At the age of sixteen Miss Hopwood engaged with Mrs. Andrews to learn the milliner business, with whom she re- mained five years, after which she went into partnership with Miss A. G. Critchfield, of Millwood, this county, and under the name of Hopwood & Critchfield, opened out an establishment for themselves, which was continued three years, when she bought her partner's interest. She has conducted the business successfully, and carries an average stock of one thousand dol- lars, comprising millinery in all its departments, notions, hair goods, etc. Mrs. Parker does a business of from five thousand to six thousand dollars per year.

Miss Hopwood, on the twenty-fifth of July, 1875, married Mr. H. C. Parker. They have a family of two children. Mr. Parker is engaged in the boot and shoe establishment of Mr. R. M. Bowland.

PARMENTER, S. A., farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Boston in 1829, came to Ohio in 1838, and in 1851 married Grace Penhorwood, who was born in England in 1832, and came with her parents to America at the age of nine years. They have the following children: Edward. born in 1853; Charles, in 1855; Dora, in 1858; Elmer, in 1861; Jolın, in 1867; Minnie Grace, in 1868; Arthur, in 1871; Myrta, in 1876.

The following have deceased : Charles F. died in 1857; Elmer, in 1863; John, in 1867; Myrta, in 1877.

Mr. Parmenter purchased a farm in Morris township in 1866, and has since been engaged in farming. He came to Knox county in 1838, and located in Monroe township, and remained there until 1846. He learned the blacksmith trade in Mt. Ver- non with Joseph Murphy. After learning the trade he worked at different places. He was married in Morris township, and remained there about four years, then went to Hilliar township, then to Mt. Vernon, where he worked at his trade.

PARR, SILAS, Mt. Vernon, a native of Devonshire, Eng- land, was born September 1, 1848. He came to America in the year 1866, and settled in Mt. Vernon October 9, 1867.

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He was engaged with Thomas Trick to learn the boot and shoe trade, with whom he worked four years, and then with Mr. Weaver three years, at the expiration of which time he com- menced business for himself at his present location on West High street, where he does all kinds of work, and repairing, and guarantees satisfaction.

He was married April 29, 1872, to Miss Mary E., daughter ot George Fisher, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he has two daughters.

PARRISH, JARRETT, was born January 27, 1836, in Co- shocton county, Ohio, and came with his father to Knox county when about two years old. He is the ninth child of a family of eleven children, viz: Mary Ann, Rachel, Ureth, Mordecai, English, Samuel, James, Benjamin, Jarrett, Salathel, and Telitha Jane, of whom two are dead-Mary Ann and Samuel.

Mr. Parr attended school at the district schools, also at Fredericktown, after which he followed farming until 1864, when he engaged in merchandizing in the village of Amity, where he continued until 1877, when he sold out and went into the insurance business for one year, since which he has been travelling for E. Shedd & Co., wholesale grocers, Columbus, Ohio. He, at present, is a candidate for sheriff.

He was married August 14, 1859, to Miss Amanda M. Lewis, of Knox county, and has a family of six children: Lydia Ellen, born November 3, 1860; Emma, May 1, 1862; Albert, October 3, 1865; Della May, May 7, 1867; Mary Etta, February 7, 1872; Burly E., February 27, 1875. All are living, hut Albert, who died March 1, 1870.

PARROTT, DAVID, farmer, son of John and Rachel Par- rott, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1817. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, in 1827, by his parents, who settled in Clinton township. He received a com- mon school education, was reared a farmer, and has made farming his business through life.

April 4, 1844, he married Miss Mary Davidson, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1823, daughter of John and Effie Davidson. They settled on a farm in Clinton township, remained two years, then moved on the Rogers farm, in same township, lived there five years, and in the spring of 1851 moved on the farm where they are now living, he having purchased the farm in 1850. There was a small brick dwelling on the farm, which served them as an abode until 1858, when he erected their pres- ent brick residence.

They reared a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.

PARSONS, NATHAN, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, December 19, 1823, and lived at home until 1844, when he followed agricul- ture in summer and teaching school in winter. In 1845 he mar- ried Miss M. Workman and settled in Holmes county, where he lived eight years. He then went to Illinois, and returned in 1856 to Knox county and settled on his present farm. He has seven children: Abraham, born in 1849; Jacob, 1851; Isaac, 1849; Edith Jane, 1854; Grace, 1857; Della Ann, 1860; Ida J., 1863.

Abraham commenced his medical education in 1863 with Dr. Putnam, of Mt. Holly, now deceased, and finished it in 1869. He graduated in the Wooster university and settled in Gann. He takes the field of his preceptor, who was well known throughout the country. Mr. Parsons has filled the office of justice of the peace for a number of years. He has tried to fill the office with zeal and energy and judge for the right in all cases.

PATTERSON, ASA, Monroe township, retired farmer. A native of the State of New York, born in Pittsford, Monroe county, January 21, 1806. In March, 1832, he married Miss Jane Barker, of Monroe county, New York, born January 22, 1813, daughter of Lyman and Mary Barker, nee Munson. They remained in Monroe county until February, 1837. They migrated to Ohio and located in Monroe township, this county, on a farm now owned by Henry Barker, on which they resided about two years. Mr. Patterson purchased the land on which he now resides in a short time after his arrival in the county. It was then an unbroken forest, no woodman's axe had been there. He at once began making improvements on his land by clearing away the forest, cultivating the soil and erecting a cabin in which he moved his family in August, 1839, which served them as an abode until 1853, when he erected his pres- ent frame residence. They reared a family of ten children, viz: Henry, Isabella, Mary, Eleanor, Hutchison, Emily, Aaron, Frances and Agnes (twins), and Ida R. Hutchison deceased in the war of 1861, at Romney, Virginia, December 25, 1861. .

PAUL, JAMES, was born March 12, 1803, in Washington . county, Pennsylvania, and removed some years afterwards to Knox county, is now residing in Morrow county; was married to Sarah Bane January 15, 1854. They had the following children: Elizabeth, William, David, Daniel, Mary, Sarah, and James B., all living except David and James.

PAUL, DANIEL, one of Knox county's well known public citizens, is a native of Clay township, his birth occurring Janu- ary 19, 1833. Mr. Paul is one of the wealthiest farmers of Clay township; has been a prominent Democratic politician; was senator from Knox-Wayne senatorial district in the Sixty-first general assembly; came very near receiving the nomination for Congress at the hands of the Democratic Congressional con- vention. Mr. Paul never married.

PEALER, SAMUEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1818; parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child and located in this county. He was married in 1842 to Sarah C. Corbus, . who was born in Ohio in 1824. They had seven children: George, born in 1843; Henry, in 1844; Hannah, in 1846; Daniel, in 1848; John, in 1850; Sarah E., in 1854; and Charles S., in 1860.

Mrs. Sarah C. Pealcr died November 25, 1862. She was a worthy member of the Disciple church. Henry died in 1845; Hannah in 1863, and George died in 1875.

Mr. Pealer was a member of the Ohio National guards dur- ing the war, being in the service a short time only. He was very prominent in this township during the war, raising men and contributing means to sustain the Union. The Pealer family was loyal in every emergency.

PEALER, IRA, Pike township, deceased, born in this town- ship in 1828, and was married in 1852 to Susan Minteer, who was born in this county in 1829. They had six children-Mi- randa E., born in 1853; Sarah J., in 1855; Ida A., in 1857; Sa- lena I., in 1859; Clara F., in 1861; and Ira O. E., in 1863.

Mr. Pealer enlisted in the late war and was a lieutenant of company F, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards.

He was faithful in the discharge of his duties as a soldier and an officer. At Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, he became a victim of disease, and was conveyed to the Chesapeake hospital, at

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Fortress Monroe, where he died August 11, 1864, after a short, but severe illness. His body was sent home and buried on the farm where he was born.

It is but just to say of Lieutenant Pealer that in many re- spects he was a model man, such a man as any parent could be proud of. He was a man of industry and economy, strict habits, and an honest, upright man. He was sociable, amiable, quiet, and inoffensive, and thought no evil of his neighbor, and a man of many friends and few enemies.

He was the friend of education, temperance, and good order. While he loved his family, friends and home, with life and all its comforts, he also loved his country that gave him birth. Of this love he gave abundant evidence, in that he forsook father, mother, and his own wife and children and home, to defend, protect, and maintain his country's honor; yea more, he laid his life on the altar of his country, and with other patriots died that his country might live and her free institutions be perpet- uated. He thus transmitted a reputation to his posterity that was untainted and u sullied.

. PEALER, F., Howard township, farmer, post office, How- ard, was born January 13, 1835, in Union township. He came to Howard township in 1860, and worked on a farm three years. He then went to Danville and engaged in the mercantile trade, and followed it two years. He then followed undertaking and carriage making for a time, and then removed to the farm, which he now owns.

In 1863 he was married to Eleanor Rolstead. They have four children-Angeline, Mary, Garry. and Humphrey. Garry died at the age of six months.

PEALER, E. A., of the firm of Pealer & Son, dealers in farming implements, No. 1 Kremlin building, southeast corner High street and public square, Mt. Vernon. Mr. E. A. Pealer was born in Pike township, Knox county, December 20, 1830, and has continued a resident of the county up to the present day. His education was such as could be obtained from the district schools of forty years ago. Up to January, 1880, his occupation was that of a farmer. He commenced life for himself when about twenty-one years old. At the age of twenty-three he purchased a farm. In 1868 he engaged in the insurance business, and in 1871 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the company in whose employ he was. In that capacity he served four years. In 1875 he engaged in the grain, produce and stock business, in which, together with farming, he continued until January, 1880, when he removed to Mt. Vernon. In company with Mr. J. H. Norrick, he rented the corner room in the Kremlin block, formerly occupied by the late George B. Potwin, and opened out an agricultural supply wareroom, and has met with good success in the under- taking. The firm carries a full line of all kinds of agricultural implements, together with wagons, carriages and buggies. They represent goods of C. Aultman & Co., of Canton, Ohio; Buckeye mowers and reapers, and self binders, Canton Monitor engine, Bucher & Gibbs' Imperial plows, First and Bradley's and Hughes' sulky plows, Brown's corn cultivators, Champion corn planters, Studebaker and Moline farm wagons and spring wagons, carriages and buggies, of five different manufactures, from Moline, Illinois, Courtland, and Syracuse, New York, Toledo, and Troy, Ohio.

Mr. Pealer was married August 10, 1853, to Miss Selina E. Vincent, and had a family of three sons and one daughter. The daughter died February 22, 1877, aged seventeen years.

PEARDON, GEORGE, justice of the peace, Hilliar town- ship, post office, Centreburgh, was born in Devonshire, Eng- land, in 1823. His young days were spent on a farm, and at- tending school until about fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the trade of shoemaking. He served until his master gave up the business, thus giving George his free- dom. Some time after this one of liis neighbors, a Mr. Cald- well, was coming to America, and Mr. Peardon came with him to Ohio, and stopped for a short time near Danville, and then came to Gambier, where he worked at his trade, for several months. He then came to Mt. Vernon and worked at his trade with Samuel Smail for six years, and then set up for himself, where he remained until July, 1855, when he came to Centre- burgh, where he has since remained.

He is a man of sound judgment, and exerts a quiet influence in the vicinity, and has the esteem of his neighbors. He was elected justice of the peace in 1872, and served for three years to the satisfaction of the public. He was again elected in the fall of 1878. He is prompt in his decisions and accurate in his judgment.

He was married to Miss Mary Hicks, of Mt. Vernon, March 21, 1845, by Rev. Leonard Gurley. They had seven children, six of whom are living.

PENICK & RANSOM, leather manufacturers, succes- sors of G. E. Raymond, West Gambier street, Mt. Vernon. - Mr. William Penick, of this firm, was born in Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh May, 1822, where he resided until he was ten years of age, when his parents came to Ohio, and located near Martinsburgh, this county. In 1841 he came to Mt. Vernon and entered the tannery of Hugh Oglevee to learn the trade, where he served three years. He then went to Millersburgh and worked for S. Weirick for two years and seven months. From Millersburgh he returned to Martins- burgh and purchased the tannery of O. Lord, and conducted the business for nineteen years, when he sold out. In 1865 Mr. Penick bought a half interest in the yard of George E. Ray- mond, and for three years the firm of Raymond & Penick con- ducted a successful business. He then sold his interest, and was engaged in various ways until the fall of 1878, when he, in company with J. H. Ransom, bought the Raymond tannery, which the new firm still carries on.

PENN, WILLIAM, Middlebury, farmer, was born in Vir- ginia, near Harper's Ferry, in 1826; came to Ohio in 1834 with his father, John Penn, and located in Richland county. He was married in 1851 to Ruth Clark, who was born in this town- ship and county. They have two children: William, born in 1867, and Chloe, born in 1854.

Mr. Penn came to Knox county in 1853, and has remained here ever since. He is one of the useful and intelligent men of this county. His father, John Penn, was born in 1800, in Bal- timore, Maryland, and died in 1879. Mrs. John Penn has moved to Indiana. Mrs. Ruth Penn's father, William Clark, was born in Vermont in 1777. He came to Ohio in 1818, and was married to Abigail Owen, who was born in 1797 in Ver- mont. They are among the old pioneers of the county. They had two children: Rachel, born in 1829, and Ruth, born in 1833. William Clark died in 1862, aged eighty-four years five months and eight days. Mrs. Abigail Clark died in 1871.

PENROSE, EVERARD, painter, Pleasant township, son of Benjamin and Rachel Penrose, was born in Bucks county Pennsylvania, on the fifteenth day of April, 1818. He was

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brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents in 1828, who located in Monroe township, remained a few years, then pur- chased and moved on a farm in Clinton township, where he grew to manhood. At the age of sixteen years he commenced teaching vocal musie during the winter season, and has followed that as his vocation nearly every winter since that time. In 1838 he went to Philadelphia, where he learned painting and paper- hanging, which he has made his principle vocation.

He has been married twice; first in 1846 to Elizabeth Arm- strong, of Philadelphia, who died in 1847. In 1849 he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Mills, of Philadelphia. In 1851 he returned to Knox county with his wife and one child, where they have passed most of their time. In 1870 he pur- chased the property in Pleasant township, where they are now living. They have had eight children, four sons and four daughters; one of the latter is dead.

PETERMAN, CHRISTIAN, deceased .- Christian Peter- man was born March 13, 1819, in Maple township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death his age was sixty-one years, eight months and fourteen days. He was a miller by trade. While he was yet a young man he was ap- pointed to the position of warden of the Westchester prison, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, his administration lasting one year. The board of managers of the institutions showed their confidence in his abilities by offering him the position for an- other term, with an increased salary. By kindness he had won the confidence of the prisoners, and labored diligently to teach them Christian principles, and effected many reformations. His sensitive nature led him to believe that the position was one of too much responsibility and the burden too heavy for one of his youthful years, and he tendered his resignation. He left his native State in the year 1854, and settled in Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, in com- pany with his brother-in-law, Mr. . C. W. Page. In 1864 he removed to Mt. Vernon, purchased the stock of dry goods of Peter MeIntire, at the corner of Main and Gambier streets, where he continued the business under his own name until 1870, when his eldest son, Samuel H., was made a partner. In Jan- uary, 1880, he sold his stock and retired from business.

He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church for twenty- one years, during which time he proved to be a steadfast Chris- tian, and was known for his many acts of kindness during sickness and death, among families of his own acquaintance. He was superintendent of St. Paul's Sunday-school, and also junior warden in the church for a number of years. He was also an active member of the Young Men's Christian associa- tion of this eity, and it was while in attendance at one of its meetings, in 1875, that he suffered a slight stroke of paralysis. He was a member of the Masonie fraternity, having associated himself with Antioch lodge at Danville.

Mr. Peterman died Saturday, November 27, 1880.

Samuel H. Peterman was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to this county with his parents in 1854. He received his educa- tion in the union schools in this eity (Mt. Vernon), and his first business engagement was as an employe of the United States Express company. In this employment he remained from 1869 to 1871, after which he went into partnership with his father. In April, 1880, he established a general insurance agency, and opened an office in the Peterman block, room 3, second floor, for conducting both fire and life insurance business. He repre- sents such standard companies as the British American; Frank-

lin, of Columbus; Travelers' Life and Accident; German Fire, of Pittsburgh; the Ohio Insurance company, Dayton; Mutual Fire, of Delaware; Merchants' and Mechanics', of Mansfield; Capitol City, of Columbus; Ohio Mutnal Relief, of Urbana. German, $360,000; British American, $5,000,000; Ohio, of Day- ton, $200,000; Travelers' Life and Aceident, paid up cash capi- tal, $600,000.

PHILLIPS, HENRY, deceased, late of Mt. Vernon, was born in Devonshire, England, March 20, 1803. He eame to Ameriea in 1821 with his parents, who settled at Phillipsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resided until 1824, when he went to Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio. In 1825 he took up his resi- dence in Steubenville, Jefferson county, where he followed his trade (stone-mason and stone-dresser), until 1835, when he went into the tavern business, and kept the Washington house for five years with great credit to himself.

In 1825 he was married to Miss Maria Wise, then of Steu- benville, but formerly of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where she was born March 24, 1806. She had removed to Steubenville in 1816 with her parents. Her mother died in 1845, and her father in 1850.

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History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 160

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