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Their union resulted in eight children-William, Mary, Zeph- aniah B., Reasin, Rebecca, Lucretia, Joseph, and Sarah J .- two of whom are deceased, Mary and Joseph. Mary died at the age of four years.
Joseph enlisted in company B, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Colonel Vance, in March, 1864, and died in the service on the steamer J. H. Groesbeck, on his way home from New Orleans, September 22, 1864.
All of Mr. Welsh's sons served in the war of 1861. His son William was the first to enlist and go into service from Knox county.
Mr. Welsh taught several terms of school in Clinton and ad- joining townships, making that his vocation during the winter montlis, for a few years after his arrival in this county. He taught his first term in the county in the winter of 1836-7. He understood surveying, and did a great amount of that work in different parts of the county. He also followed contracting and building to some extent, having made some fine improve- ments in Mt. Vernon for himself and others.
WELSH, J. W., Union township, mechanic, post office, Ross- town .- He was born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, August 31, 1858. His father and mother both died in Freder- icktown when he was eight years old. He returned to Mt. Ver- non, remained five years, then moved to Rossville, where he now lives and works at his trade.
His father, Peter Welsh, was a weaver and worked a long time in Mt. Vernon.
In 1833 he was married, and had four children. Two are liv- ing and two are dead. In 1848 his wife died. He was married
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again in 1851, and had five children -- Bridget, Agnes, J. W., Edward, and Anna.
WERTZ, GEORGE, deceased, Morris township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1809; was married to Amanda Myers October 1, 1835, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1817. They had the following chil- dren: Jacob, born June 9, 1837; Anderson, May 8, 1851; Azariah, September 5, 1843; Theophilus, June 16, 1845; George H., July 3, 1852; Sarah Ann, December 25, 1838; and Mary E., September 19, 1847.
Jacob married Maria L. Koch, June 25, 1858; they reside in Crestline, Ohio. Sarah married J. Madison Rood, December 16, 1858. Azariah married Leppe Greenland January 28, 1868. Mary married Frank Foster. Theophilus married Lucinda Baughman; they reside in Scott county, Iowa. George Henry married Anna Mullen January 10, 1875. Andrew married Mar- tha Vernon in 1874; they have two children: George, born March 6, 1875; Louis, August 15, 1878.
Mr. George Wertz died April 27, 1877, in Morris township, aged sixty-seven years, eleven months and two days. He camne to Ohio in 1819.
Mrs. Amanda Wertz lives on the home place in Morris township.
Jacob Wertz was engaged during the late war as surgeon. He rendered efficient service, and distinguished himself as a man of ability.
WERTZ, ALBERT, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Licking county, in 1851, and was mar- ried in 1875 to Deliah Fidler, who was born in Morrow county. They have three children: Emery E., born November 27, 1875; John H., November 16, 1877; and an infant born in 1880. Mr. Wertz has resided in this township three years, and owns a farm with all the modern improvements.
WESTON, HIRAM, Fredericktown, mason, was born in Rutland, Vermont, in 1816, and came to Ohio in 1836. He was married in 1843 to Eliza Hodges, who was born in New York in 1823. They have the following family: Livonia, born in 1845; Harriet, in 1848; Eleanor, in 1851; Anice and Alice, in 1855; Amasa and Amy, in 1859; Ada, born in 1861, and died in 1869.
WHITE, THOMAS, College township, deceased, a native of Maryland, was born in 1779. About the year 1802 he mar- ried Miss Winnie Logsdon, of Maryland. They migrated to Ohio and located in the county near the Indian fields about 1804 or 1805, remained a few years, then moved on a farm in College township, near Gambier, where they deceased.
They reared a family of seven children -- Anthony, Nancy, Lewis, Joseph, David, James, and Lydia. Only four of the number are now living, namely: Lewis, James, David and Lydia.
WHITE, LEWIS, College township, farmer, son of the aforesaid Thomas and Winnie White, was born in College town- ship, this county, on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1811.
He was reared on a farm and has made farming his principal vocation during life.
In 1831 he married Miss Rebecca Welshhammer, born in 1809. They settled in College township, a short distance south of Gambier. They have six children-Amanda, Matilda, Nor- man H., William H., Ellen, and Charles J.
In 1849 his companion deceased. In February, 1851, he was
united in marriage with Miss Sarah Dial, of Holines county, Ohio. By this marriage he has three children, two sons and one daughter.
In 1851 he purchased and moved on the farm in College town- ship, where he is now living.
WHITE, GEORGE BERKELEY, postmaster, Mt. Ver_ non. Mr. George B. White, the present postmaster of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born on the seventh day of July, 1814, in Derby, New Haven county, Connecticut. Mr. White is a de- scendant in a direct line from Elder John White, one of the first settlers of Cambridge, in Massachusetts; of Hartford, in Connecticut, and of Hadley, in Massachusetts. The elder was born in England, about the year 1795. He sailed from London, England, on the twenty-second day of June, 1632, and arrived at Boston, in Massachusetts, on Sunday, the sixteenth day of September following, after a tedious voyage of eight weeks. He died in the winter of 1683-4. He had six children, four sons and two daughters. From the second child, Nathaniel, the subject of this sketch descended. Elder White was a man of great prominence in his day, and held many important pub- lic trusts.
When about twelve years of age George B. White went to New York city, and engaged as a salesman with Folgar, Lamb & Co., where he remained about five years. In 1835 he came to Gambier, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business with his brother Mardenbrough, now a resident of Gambier, under the firm name of M. & G. B. White, and continued in business there until 1838, when they closed up their business in Gam- bier and came to Mt. Vernon and entered into the same line of business, and under the old firm, which they conducted until 1841. His brother returned to Gambier, and George engaged in mercantile pursuits of various kinds from 1841 to 1872; the most important branches were the boot, shoe and leather busi- ness, with his brother-in-law, T. Ewing Miller, for twelve years; and the queensware, crockery, and house furnishing goods for some three years. In 1872 he was appointed inspector in the internal revenue department and stationed at Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained eighteen months. He then went to Wash- ington city, where he had been appointed to the special service division in the pension office. This position he held for six months, when, in consequence of ill health, he resigned and returned to his home.
He was appointed postmaster at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and entered upon the duties of said office on the first of May, 1874. He was reappointed to the same position in 1878, in which he still continues.
For some fifteen or more years Mr. White represented his ward in the city council, and was its continued president from the time he took the oath of office until he voluntarily retired from the service of the city.
On the tenth day of October, 1839, he was married to Miss Clara Miller, daughter of the late Judge Eli Miller, of Mt. Vernon. Eleven children were the issue of this marriage, five sons and six daughters, all living but two of the sons.
Mrs. White passed away from earth a few years since, loved by her immediate family, and esteemed and respected by her numerous friends and acquaintances.
WHITE, DAVID, Gambier, retired; son of Thomas and Winnie White, was born in what is now College township, this county, December 21. 1816 He was rearcd a farmer, and has followed farming as his Vocation. In 1838 he married Miss
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Elizabeth Majors; they have had one son, Emanuel, who was killed near Lagrange, Mississippi in the war of 1861 His companion deceased January 16, 1851. He was united in marriage with Margaret Howard, who deceased in 1877. His last marriage was with Catharine Gorsuch, who is now living with him in Gambier.
WHITE, JOHN A., farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1820. He remained in Pennsylvania until 1840, when he came to Liberty township and remained a year, then went to Noble county, Ohio, and engaged in cultivating tobacco. While in Noble county he made several trips to Lib- erty township. In 1866 he removed to the farm on which he now resides and which he had purchased the fall previous. Mr. White, although not having an education, has been successful in making for himself and family considerable property. He began poor in life, but by his industry and good management overcame all obstacles, and is now one of the leading farmers of the vicinity, and is esteemed by his neighbors for his upright- ness of character. He married Elizabeth Craft, of Guernsey county, Ohio. They had eleven children, ten of whom are living. They are an industrious family.
WHITE, WILLIAM J., wagon-maker, Fredericktown. Lieutenant White was a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, and was engaged in the service about three years, attaining to the position of lieutenant. He was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1829, and located in Knox county. He was married in 1845, to Amnnda Lambert, daughter of Rev. Daniel Lambert. She was born in 1826. They have one daugliter, Sarah C., married to W. L. Merrin. They reside in Newark, Licking county.
WHITFORD, JAMES. W., travelling salesman, Frederick- town, was born in Maryland in 1826, came to Ohio in 1844, and located in Richland county. He was married in 1855, to Mar- garet Rankins, who was born in Licking county in 1823. They have the following family: Rankin born in 1856; James, in 1858; Hattie, in 1860; Jefferson, in 1862; Ralph, in 1870; William H., in 1873. Mr. Whitford settled in Fredericktown in 1845. He has good business qualifications, and is one of the enterprising men of Fredericktown. He has been engaged with the firm of H. M. Weaver & Co., of Mansfield, since 1871, and has the reputation of a successful salesman.
WHITNEY, DUDLEY C., Brown township, farmer, post office, Danville, son of Ebnezer and Sarah A. Whitney, born in Brown township, Knox county, August 16, 1846. He re- mained with his parents until February 13, 1873, when he was united in marriage with Miss Maria F. Tremble, daughter of Samuel and Susan Tremble, born in Union township, Knox county, on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1849. After his mar- riage he built a house on the old home place, where he then moved, and where he has since remained, farming for his father. He is at present a justice of the peace in Brown township.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church of Danville.
WHITNEY, E. J., farmer, post office, Danville, son of Thomas Whitney, born in Orleans county, Vermont, Decem- ber 6, 1806, where he was reared by his parents until he arrived at the years of manhood. In the year 1830 he was united in marriage with Sarah A. Boardman, born in Norwich township, Windsor county, Vermont, July 13, 1806. After his marriage
he located in Hartford, Vermont, where he engaged to work in a foundry, and did so until October, 1837. when he moved with his family to Ohio, locating in Brown township, Knox county. where he made a purchase of a farm of one hundred and nine and a half acres of land in the Jelloway valley, where he erected a rude log cabin, and moved his family into it. He cleared his land and at present has a very pleasant home.
Mr. Whitney has filled a number of offices of trust while living in said township. In 1850 he erected a saw-mill on his farm, which he operated a number of years. His marrige re- sulted in eight children, as follows: Edward E., born Novem- ber 5, 1833, and dicd January 26, 1879; Virginia C., August 4, 1835, and died February 25, 1849; Victoria P., November 29, 1839; Girdon B., November 29, 1839, and died in Portsmouth, Virginia, August 4, 1864; Lucy E., June 5, 1844; Dudley C., Angust 16, 1846; Luella M., November 21, 1850; Helena, April 19, 1853.
Mrs. Whitney died December 4, 1876, in her sixtv-eighth year.
Mr. Whitney survives his companion in his seventy-third year, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Danville.
WHITTINGTON, NEHEMIAH, grocer and confectioner, North Sandusky street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio .- Mr. Whittington is a native of Caroline county, Maryland, where he was born September 29, 1808, and where he resided until 1834, when he came to Ohio and located in Licking county, where he resided one year. He then came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in dray- ing, in which he continued several years, and after which he en- gaged in the manufacture and sale of tinware, which he con- ducted about two years. He then engaged with the firm of C. and E. Cooper, to do stove mounting, which he followed sev- eral years, when he was given the position of shipping clerk, and in consideration of his faithfulness and abilities he was re- tained with this firm in all twenty-eight years. In the year 1872 he established himself in the grocery business, in which he has since been engaged. He carries a good stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, flour and feed.
He has been twice married. His first wife was Sarah Grad- less, by whom he had two children, one of whom, a daughter, is living. His second wife was Lovica Hindens, by whom he has a family of six children-three sons and three daughters -- all of whom are living, and all but one of whom are married and reside within the limits of this county. His daughter by his first wife is married and resides at Cardington, Ohio.
WHITWORTH, A. T., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Maryland, July 27, 1818. His father died when he was five years of age; he lived with his mother and took care of their little farm. In 1831 they sold their farm and moved to Jefferson township, Knox county, re- maining there five or six years, and then removed to Howard. In July, 1839, he was married to Rosa Clute, of Mt. Vernon. His mother died in 1856 at sixty-lour years of age. He had three children: Joseph, born September 10, 1841, and died in 1850; Sarah, September 12, 1845, and died in 1850; Susanna, September 15, 1849, and is now living in Michigan.
WIER JOHN, Monroe township, farmer, son of Noble and Ann Wier, was born in Ireland in 1818. In 1833 he accom- panied his parents to America, who located in Monroe town- ship, Knox county, on a farm now owned by Robert Marshall's heirs. They remained a few years in Monroe township, then in
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1838 they moved to Liberty township, this county, where they died. Noble Wier, father of John, died in 1874; his companion survived him until 1876.
In 1839 Mr. Wier married Miss Mary A. McClelland, daughter of John and Sarah MeClelland. They settled in Monroe township and have lived in the same township since their marriage, except about two years that they spent in Mor- row county, Ohio. They moved on the farm on which they now reside in 1860, and have a family of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. He has made farming his vocation through life.
WILKINSON, C., Mt. Vernon, was born near St. Clairs- ville, Belmont county, Ohio, November 27, 1842. He par-il his early life on a farm. In 1862 he entered the army as a vol- unteer in the Ninety-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry. In the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky, he was wounded by a rifle ball passing through his left leg, rendering him unfit for s-rvice. In 1863 he was discharged from duty. After returning home he entered the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio, and graduated from that institution in 1866. After graduating he spent three years teaching in the public schools of Lancaster and elsewhere.
In 1870 he purchased the Belmont Chronicle, published at St. Clairsville. The Chronicle was the Republican party paper of Belmont county, which he edited for two years. He then re- moved to Fostoria, Ohio, where he published the Fostoria Press for a time. In the fall of 1876 he purchased, in partner- ship with Mr. S. S. Knabenshue, the Mt. Vernon Republican. In September, 1878, he purchased Mr. Knabenshue's interest on the Republican, and continued the publication of the same until May 6, 1880, when he sold the Republican to Armstrong & Co. At present Mr. Wilkinson is engaged in farming near Mt. Vernon.
. WILLIAMS, MILTON B., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1827, was married in 1851 to Elizabeth Roberts, who was born in Berlin township in 1831. They have two children -- Bryant and Jesse. Mr. Williams has resided in Berlin town- ship for forty-three years. He owns a well improved farm with all the modern improvements, and is a model farmer.
Mr. Williams resided in Richland county one year, and was engaged in a saw-mill before he removed to Knox county. His father, Daniel Williams, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1792, and emigrated to Ohio at the age of twenty- two years, with his parents, and first located in Fredericktown. He bought the first mill property of Mr. Carr, also a large quantity of land. He died in Knox county in 1876.
WILLIAMS, ADAM, Miller township, blacksmith, at Bran- don; was born in Miller township, December 14, 1834. He is the fourth child and the third son of a family of five chil- dren. His parents, Jacob and Sarah Williams, nee Litzenberg, were natives of Pennsylvania, and were married there and came to Ohio about the year 1828. They both died in Miller town- ship, this county.
The mother of the subject of this notice died when he was about four years old, and was therefore in early life deprived of her fostering care. He remained with his father on the farm until about the age of twelve years, when his father discontinued housekeeping, when Mr. Williams was placed with his aunt, Mrs. Susan Jackson, where he remained about a year, and then resided with his uncle, David W. Litzenberg, with whom he re-
mained about a year. His father again going to housekeeping he returned to the place of his birth, and remained with his father until his death. Some few months after this, and when about seventeen years of age, he was bound to Boyles & Cole- man, of Brandon, to learn the trade of blacksmithing. He re- mained about two years in Brandon, then went to Mt. Vernon with William Sanderson to finish his trade. He remained about two years and then went to Mechanicsburgh, Pennsylvania, where 1~ remained -x months and again returned to Mt, Ver- non, where he r-main !! abot . vo years working at his trade. In the fall of 18;8 he came to Brindon and entered into part- nrep with Aaron Boyle- waan continued for some two years, w -n he perch . di. pa hers interest, and for the first time commented business . .. hin ....
He work i et his tr. e un. November, 1861, when he en- lived in compar C. Forward regiment, Ohio volunteer in- 1. ry comni u. I by Colon -! Smi :... He participated in the engagements of New Madrid, Missouri, and Island Number 'Ien. At Corinth he was appointed sergeant, and at Decatur, Alabama, he was appointed color-bearer. He was at Resaca, Georgia; Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, thence on the Sherman campaign to Savannah, and thence to Washington, District of Columbia. He received a second lieutenant's commission about two months before he was discharged. He thus served his country three years and eight months, participating in all the battles and marches in which his regiment was engaged. He was slightly wounded at Resaca, Georgia, in the shoulder. He veteranized at Prospect, Tennessee in January, 1864.
Mr. Williams was discharged w. . h h' regiment at Columbus, Ohio. After his return from the army he resumed his trade, at which he has since been engaged. He has been successful in h.s business, and has the esteem and confidence of the com- munity in which he lives. He takes an active interest in public affairs. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church in the fall of 1861, and has been a consistent member.
Mr. Williams was married to M. >> Caroline Baughman, July 14, 1858. She was born March 14. 1840, and a daughter of Christian Baughman, sr .. of whom mention is made in this volume. They had a family of five children-Leonora L., born April 23, 1859 who married Henry Bunnell; Albert W., de- ceased when six i, onths old; Stanley A., born June 14, 1862; Eimer ( April 8 1867; and Rosa May , July 30, 1872.
WILLIAMS, GRAFTON, farmer, post office. Levering .- He was born in Maryland in 1841; he came to Ohio with his parents. He was married to Armina Fiddler (widow), who was born in Licking county.
Mr. Williams was a soldier in the late war, a member of com- pany A. He was wounded at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; the ball entered in the centre of his breast, came out under the right shoulder blade. He made a very narrow escape. He is drawing a pension.
His wife, Mrs. Fiddler, had two children with her first hus- band. Lawrence Edward was born in 1867; Emirella J., born in 1869.
WILLIAMS, BRYANT B., farmer, post office, Frederick- town. He was born in this township in 1854. He was married September 31, 1880, to Sadie E. Steele, who was born in Wayne county in 1858.
WILLIAMS, A. H., Newark, Ohio. Mr. Williams is pro- prietor of the Licking county blank book manufactory., His establishment is located on West Main street, in Felt's block.
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He has had twenty-two years' experience and is doing a large and successful business.
WILSON, DEXTER, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in this county in 1826, and married in 1850 to Sarah Love, who was born in this county in 1830 They have four children, viz: Oscar W., born in 1852; Philittia J .. in 1853; Frank M., in 1864; and Minnie Bell, in 1870.
WILSON, HODGSON, school teacher and farmer, was born in the county of Durham, England, March 10, 1847. He re- moved to America in 1852, residing for a short time in Cleve- land, Ohio, and removed the same year to Butler township. He received the first rudiments of his education in the district schools of this township. He afterwards attended select school at Millwood, taught by Professor Jones, a graduate of Kenyon college, and also the Northwestern Normal school at Fostoria, Ohio. Mr. Wilson, although a strong Republican, is one of the justices of the peace of the Democratic township of Butler.
WILSON, JOHN, farmer, Wayne township. post office. Fredericktown, born in Wayne county, January 15, 1831, and was married December 12, 1858, to Harriet McFelow, who was born in Wayne county, October 27, 1841. They had the fol- lowing children-Arabel, born July 7, 1859; William Elmer, September 28, 1864; Laura Etta, June 4, 1877, and Agnes May, April 17, 1879. They were all born in Knox county except the first, who was born in Wayne county. Mr. Wilson came from Wayne to Knox county in 1859, located on a farm and is one of the leading men of this township.
WILSON, JOHN B., was born in Belmont county, Ohio, on the twenty-ninth day of July, 1835. He removed to Washing- ton county, Ohio, at an early age. From there he emigrated to Butler township, Knox county, in 1856, remaining there a short time when he came to Clay township, where he has since resided. He was married October 27, 1861, to Miss Rhoda MI. Rice, who bore him one child-a son, named Marion, who was born June 1, 1862. Mrs. Rhoda M. Wilson died March 29, 1871. He subsequently married, September 26, 1872, Miss Elanor Mckee, by whom he has had one son, Harry Leslie, born July 31, 1878.
John MI. Wilson, father of John B., was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1800. He removed to Ohio, settling in Belmont county when a young man. He was mar- ried to Anna Mason, of that county, April 12, 1830. They had five children, viz: John B., William B., Joseph M., Sarah A., Samuel H. John M. Wilson died December 28, 1869.
WILSON, E. J., M. D., Mt. Vernon, office over Eagle drug store, Main street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Dr. Wilson was born near Granville, Licking county, Ohio, on the ninth day of August, 1853, and was educated at Dennison university in Gran- ville. On the nineteenth of April, 1875, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Larimore, of Mt. Vernon, During the winter of 1877-8, he attended his first term of lectures at the Columbus Medical college, and graduated on the twenty-third day of June, 1879, at the Long Island college hospital, at Brook- lyn, New York. He was appointed resident surgeon of the hospital after a competitive examination, which position he filled with much honor to himself, until July 1, 1880, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and accepted a partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. F. C. Larimore, with whom he is now actively engaged in the practice of his profession.
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