History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 109

Author: N. N. Hill, Jr.
Publication date: 1881
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Number of Pages: 826

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BROWN, MRS. ELLA, was born in Coshocton, Ohio, February 9, 1843; moved to Knox county with her parents, and remained there until she was fourteen years old. She was married to John Brown, and is the mother of one child, Joseph, born April 9. 1860, who is now running on the Hocking Valley railroad. Mrs. Brown is the

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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Shock, of Co- shocton. Her father died when she was six years old; her mother is living in Newark in the Seven- ty-eighth year of her age. Mr. John Brown was a member of company C, Thirty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at Cham- pion Hills.

BROWN, ISAIAH M., engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He has served in this capacity about six years. He is the son of Henry and Caroline M. Brown, and was born January 19, 1850, in Perry county, Ohio. He lived there un- til he was twenty years of age, when he removed to Indiana, remaining there about three years, when he removed to Newark, where he has since resided. He was married to Anna Reams, of Co- lumbus, October 10, 1878. She was born June 6, 1857, in Franklin county. Mr. Brown's mother, a widow, lives with him. His father died November 22, 1862, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a soldier in the late war, in company A, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, from Perry county. Mr. Brown is the old oldest son of H. and Caroline Brown. He had but one brother, George W. He died in Kansas, November 30, 1879, at the age of twenty-seven, having been ab- sent from home four years.

BRUBAKER, MRS. ARABELLA, born in Licking township, January 6, 1818. She was the daugh- ter of William C. Young, who came from Vir- ginia to Licking county in the fall of 1817. The customary way of traveling in those days was on horse back, and in this way Mr. Young brought his wife and all that he had, making two trips tor that purpose. He located on the farm now owned by H. Ronan, purchasing fifty acres of land. By industry and economy he had increased his farm to one hundred acres, at the time of his death, which occurred April 12, 1838, at the age of forty-four years. His wife died in August, 1877, aged eighty-four. The subject of this sketch was married to Abram P. Brubaker, April 7, 1836. They have six children: Elizabeth E., born Feb- ruary, 1837; Dorothea, who died August 22, 1845, aged two years and ten months; Peter W., born March 20, 1846; Rebecca, born March 19, 1851, died August 23, 1877. Abram P. Brubaker was born in Page county, Virginia, August 5, 1811; moved to Licking county in the fall of 1829 with his mother, and located on the farm now owned by William Smith, on the Hebron road in Union township. He now lives in South Newark, where he has a very pleasant home, in addition to which he owns a farm of three hundred acres in Union township.

BROWNE, JAMES M .- Mr. Browne's great-

grandfather, Peter Browne, owned a farm upon which a part of the city of Camden, New Jersey, is now located. He was a shipwright by trade, and latterly lived in Philadelphia. His grand- father, William Browne, was born in Philadelphia, September 10, 1734. The indenture of appren- ticeship, dated May 1, 1748, by which he was bound to a shipwright for seven years, is still in the possession of Mr. Browne. During the Revo- lution he was a member of General Washington's staff, and served his country with distinction Liberty Browne, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia about half past three o'clock in the afternoon of July 4, 1776; probably the first born free American citizen. He was a merchant and manufacturer of gold and silver-ware, and began business with money bor- rowed from the Franklin loan, a fund set apart by Benjamin Franklin to assist worthy and faithful apprentices in starting in business for themselves upon the completion of their apprenticeship. He was paymaster in the War of 1812, was president of the council of Philadelphia for nine years, jus- tice of the peace, and a political orator of note. 'The names of a few of the members of his house- hold indicate a great change during the past cen- tury. His name was Liberty, Patience a nurse, Justice a ward, Comfort a servant, and Peace and Plenty that of two dogs. Mr. Browne was born in Philadelphia November 5, 1809, the sixth of a family of ten children, and is a patternmaker by trade. He came from Philadelphia to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1839, and remained there seven years, then moved to Newark, where he has resided ever since, except two years spent in Louisiana. For twenty-five years he was a member of the volunteer fire department of this city, and was chief engineer for fifteen years. He also served five years in the fire department of Zanesville. In 1859 he was city marshal, in 1869-70 member of the city coun- cil, and in 1878 was elected city weight master and market master which position he has retained since. He was married in 1833 to Harriet Bradley, of Philadelphia, and has six children living; Nesbitt Liberty, Mary Elizabeth, Franklin Henry, James Madison, jr., Albert B. and Lawrence H.

BRICE, DR. JOHN J., was one of the early settlers of Newark, and for many years was one of the best known citizens of our county and of central Ohio. . His father (William Brice) was a native of Maryland, who, however, removed to Aexandria, Virginia, where he was engaged in the milling busi- ness and in merchandizing at the time of his death, which occurred about the year 1786. He left a widow and five children, of which the subject of this sketch (born in 1781) was the youngest. Some years after the death of William Brice, his widow,

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with her five children, removed to western Penn- sylvania, where her three daughters were married, and where she died in 1817. Her oldest son, Ben- jamin J. Brice removed to Harrison county, western Virginia, where he married Sarah, daughter of Col- onel Benjamin Wilson, reared a large family, and closed an unusually long, active and useful life.

John J. Brice, by the judicious use of his patri- mony, was enabled to acquire a good education, professional and otherwise. He studied medicine with Dr. Mowry of Pittsburgh, and it is said was a medical student, for a time in Uniontown, Penn- sylvania. He also attended a course of medical lectures in Philadelphia, and was afterward associ- ated in the practice of his profession with Dr. Mowry, his preceptor, who was a physician of much repute.

Dr. Brice, however, soon decided to make a per- manent location in the west, and with that view, travelled in that direction as far as Lawrenceburg, a small town on the banks of the Ohio river, below the mouth of the Big Miami, in the then Indiana territory. On his way back he travelled on horse- back through Ohio, and took Newark in his route, where, tarrying for a short time, a great demand ex- isted for his professional services, and he did not leave until the sickness which then prevailed both in town and country had, in a great measure, sub- sided. This was in the autumn of 1805 (although it is elsewhere stated on the authority of Dr. J. N. Wilson, that it was probably in 1803), and about the beginning of winter he returned to Harrison coun- ty, Virginia, where he, in January, 1806, consum- mated a previously existing matrimonial engage- ment with Anne, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, of said locality. He still intended to lo- cate at Lawrenceburg, and came here shortly after his marriage, to close up his business, by collecting his accounts, and getting ready for the removal. But not being very successful in making collections, he, while thus engaged, was again drawn into prac- tice, and it is quite likely that the longer he re- mained the less probable it became that he would ever become a citizen of Indiana territory. .

Thus the summer of 1806 wore away, also the autumn and a portion of the winter succeeding, when in February, 1807, he brought his wife to Newark, she having until this time remained at her father's, where, on the thirtieth of November, she had given birth to her only son, Benjamin W. Brice, now a resident of Baltimore. The first house, or rather cabin, they occupied stood on the west side of First street, between Main and Church. Dr. Brice practiced his profession in Newark for nearly half a century, and his methods and merits as a physician are presented much at length in liberal quotations from the essay of the late Dr. J. N. Wilson on the diseases and mode of treatment, in

early times in Newark and the Licking valley. It may be well to say in addition, that he was a faith- ful, careful, judicious and successful practitioner- that in the vigor of life he possessed and exercised remarkable skill, care and judgment in his pro- fession, backed by the accumulating and constantly increasing acquirements of a careful student, as well as rigid analysis and judicious deductions from all the notable cases coming under his treat- ment. His talents, attainments and skill were recognized in high quarters, professional and non- professional. Dr. Brice was an eminently practical man in the management of business matters, and it is not surprising that one so energetic, industrious, and frugal, and of such sound judgment should have accumulated a large estate, so that at his death he was one of the wealthiest men in Licking county. During the last twenty years of his life he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and died in December, 1853, aged seventy-two years.

BRICE, MRS. ANNE, wife of Dr. Brice, was a daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, a gentleman of wealth and distinction of Harrison county, Vir- ginia, and was born there January 17, 1786. She was married to Dr. John J. Brice in January, 1806, and became a resident of Newark, Ohio, in Febru- ary, 1807. The beginning of her career here was specially marked by the cheerful resignation and almost heroic fortitude with which she embraced the new life in the west. Reared at her father's home in Virginia, in the midst of abundance, sur- rounded with every necessary comfort, including a superfluity of house and other servants, never sub- jected to cares or drudgery of any kind, she was transplanted from that comfortable home in mid- winter, with an infant child in arms, a distance of one hundred and seventy miles, for the most part on horseback, through an almost utter wilderness country, to Newark, which was then but the mere beginning of a frontier village. Here she was dom- iciled in the crudest of log cabins, where the ac- customed comforts to which she was used were an impossibility, the means to supply the commonest wants and necessities, not always available. She had to assume the duties and cares of housekeep- ing under all their embarrassments without the help of a single servant, and with little else to make her situation tolerable. Still, though sorely exer- cised and grieved in mind by the prospect before her, she never thought of yielding to discourage- ment, never indulged in repinings, but nerved her- self to a cheerful acceptance of the situation, sus- tained by an unfaltering confidence that the ability, energy and industry of her young husband would command success, and that their many privations and hardships would be but short lived. That hope was not disappointed. Throughout her life she de-

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voted herself religiously to all her duties as wife, mother and friend, abounding always in sympa- thetic interest for her neighbors, and ever benefi- cently open-handed to help those about her who needed help. Mrs. Brice became a member of the Presbyterian church in 1833, and died in July, 1849, in the sixty-fourth year of her age.

BRICE, GENERAL BENJAMIN W .- General Brice was born in Harrison county, Virginia, November 30, 1806; and is the son of Dr. John J. Brice and Mrs. Anne Brice, who brought him to Newark in February, 1807. He attended the common schools of Newark, also the classical school taught by Rev. Thomas D. Baird, where he had for his as- sociate pupils, Dr. J. N. Wilson, 'John Cunning- ham, Elijah Stadden, James R. Stanbery and others. He and the last named were also fellow-students at Bishop Chase's school at Worthington, Ohio, as well as that of Philander Chase, jr., at Zanesville. Both entered the Ohio university, at Athens, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was a sophomore, when, July 1, 1825, he was appointed a cadet at the United States military school at West Point, and where he was graduated July 1, 1829, and pro- moted in the army brevet second lieutenant Third infantry. Cadet Brice, as appears from "Cullom's Biographical Register of the officers and graduates of the United States military academy," (to which we are indebted for the military history of General Brice), served on frontier duty at Jefferson barracks in 1829-30, at Fort Armstrong, upper Mississippi, 1830-31, and on an expedition against the Sac and Fox Indians in 1831-this being the first Black Hawk campaign under General Gaines. He re- signed in 1832 and engaged in merchandizing in Newark. He served as brigade major of Ohio militia from 1835 to 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and elected associate judge of the com- mon pleas court of Licking county in the same year, serving two years; at the begining of the Mexican war in 1846 he was appointed adjutant general. On the third of March, 1847, General Brice was re-appointed in the United States army major of staff paymaster, and placed on duty in pay depart- ment at Cincinnati the same year; and in service in the Mexican war at Carmago in 1847, and at Mon- terey, Saltillo and Brazos Island in 1848, also at Fort Brown, Texas, in 1848-49; disbanded March 4, 1849, by limititation of law. General Brice was re-appointed in the United States army with rank of major staff paymaster February 9, 1852, and served in the pay department in the southern dis- trict of New Mexico, with headquarters at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, from 1852 to 1854. Dur- ing 1854, '55 '56 his headquarters were at New Orleans, Louisiana, and from 1856 to 1859 at Fort Bliss (El Paso), in the southern district of

New Mexico. He was also on special duty a por- tion of 1859 in Florida. From 1859 to 1861 he served in the district of "Kansas and the territo- ries," his headquarters being Fort Leavenworth General Brice remained in the service during the first year of the great Rebellion, serving as chief of the pay district of Kansas and the territories, and in 1862 was transferred to the district of Pennsylvania, embracing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, with head- quarters at Baltimore, Maryland, where he served as chiet until 1864. On the fourth of October, 1864, he was placed at the head of the pay depart- ment of the army at Washington city, District Columbia remaining in that position until January I, 1872, when he was retired from active service at his own request, under the law of July, 17, 1862, hav- ing passed the age of sixty-two years. General Brice was promoted paymaster-general, with rank of colonel, November 29, 1864; brevetted brigadier general United States army, December 2, 1864; also brigadier general staff paymaster general July 28, 1866. General B. W. Brice was brevetted March 13, 1865, major general of United States army for "faithful, meritorious and distinguished services in the pay department during the Rebel- lion." General B. W. Brice has entered his seven- ty-fifth year, and with his accomplished and kindly remembered wife, is living leisurely in dignified retirement (otium cum dignitate), in Baltimore, Mary- land, not forgetting, however, to make occasional visits to Newark, Ohio, which he now regards, and has ever regarded, as his home, and where he is always certain of a cordial greeting by his many old-time congenial friends, and to which his urban- ity, geniality, intelligence and fine conversational powers justly entitle him.

BONAR, FREDERICK A., cigar maker, was born in Newark February 9, 1851, learning the cigar- making trade with Fred Burrel. He learned telegraphing at Newark and was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio company, at Lexington, Richland county ; taught school at Johnstown, Licking county, in 1872, and in 1873, taught school in Liberty township, Mercer county, Ohio. He returned to Newark and started the cigar making business for himself in 1876. He was married to Osena Monroe, May 24, 1877, who was born November 1, 1860; his father is one of the old settlers of Licking county, coming to this county in 1825, and is now seventy-three years old. He has forty acres of land inside the cor- poration of South Newark. The subject of this sketch carries on his business and is living on his father's place.

BUCKINGHAM, REV. EBENEZER, D. D .- Rev. Dr. Buckingham was a son of Hon. Bradley Buck

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ingham (an early pioneer settler in Newark, and once a leading merchant), and was born in Newark in 1816, and died at his residence, in Zanesville, March 29, 1876, at the age of 60 years. He was a well educated gentleman and entered the Presby- terian ministry in early life, and remained in it until his death. Dr. Buckingham was a man of amiable temper and disposition, of many admirable qualities of head and heart, of vigorous intellectual powers, of a logical mind, of excellent pulpit talents, and always manifested a kind, catholic spirit. Many friends deplored his death.

BUCKINGHAM, JEROME, attorney, office southeast corner of Public square, Newark. Mr. Bucking- ham was born in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, on the tenth day of June, 1820. He received a common school education, and in the year 1837 he entered Kenyon college, at Gambier, Knox county, Ohio, remaining two years. Then in 1839 he went to Hudson, Ohio, where he graduated in the Western Reserve college, in 1841. In the fall of the same year he engaged in the study of law in Zanes- ville, Ohio, under the instructions of Goddard & Converse, with whom he remained about two years. In 1843, he went to Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, where he attended the Harvard law school one year. In 1844, he applied to the supreme court, at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar. In the fall of the same year he came to Newark, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law. At this writing there are but three members of the Licking county bar who have been longer in the profession than Mr. Buckingham. In 1869, he was appointed by Governor Hayes, as judge of the common please courts of Licking county. In this capacity he served one year. He has had the honor of being president of the First National bank of Newark since its establishment, in 1865.

BUEHLER, TINNEL, grocery and provision dealer, and manufacturer of carriages, wagons, etc. He was born at Norristown, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania, September 11, 1833. At theage of fifteen he went to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to learn the blacksmith trade. After learning his trade he left Pennsylvania and came to Ohio. He visited Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and generally without any means. Finally, he landed in Newark, in 1854, penniless. He went to work for a man by the name of Tom Owens. He worked a short time for Mr. 'Owens and left. He was away one sum- mer, and in the fall returned and formed a partner- ship with Mr. Owens in the blacksmith business. He has remained in Newark ever since, carrying on the carriage and wagon making business with the exception of two years, when he left his family and went to California. He was married to Sarah Britton, September 17, 1856. They have three

children: Johanna, born February 15, 1858; Wil- liam, June 7, 1859, and Franklin, July 19, 1861. On the 28th of October, 1873, while out hunting, he was deprived of the use of his right hand by the accidental discharge of his gun. After suffer- ing for more than a year, unable to do anything at his trade, through the kindness of Mr. William Davis, was employed as night watchman at the rolling mill. He held that position six months, and then started in the grocery and provision bus- iness on the corner of West Main and Union streets, in West Newark, where he is still engaged.

BURNER, JACOB V .- NO. 425 West Main street, Newark, wholesale and retail dealer in general hardware. Mr. Burner was born in 1838, in Newark, and is a son of Henry Burner, de- ceased. He received his education in the Newark schools. In 1865 he engaged in the dry goods and general merchandise business in Newark, and continued in the business until 1875; he then · sold his stock of goods and retired. In Novem- ber, 1877, he purchased the entire stock of hard- ware owned by the Wells Hardware company, and became their successor, and has since been con- ducting it successfully. In 1878 he removed to his present location, where he occupies for sales and general business, a room twenty-five feet wide by one hundred and one feet deep, including base- ment and room overhead of some size, which are used as depositories; also a room just back of the main building, used for depositing steel and iron bars, doors, sash, etc. His rooms are all well stocked with everything in the line of general hardware, such as nails, iron, steel, carriage goods, window-glass, sash, doors, oils, paints, varnishes, mechanics' tools, Fairbanks' scales, Weir's culti- vators, Lancaster double shovel plows, shovels, hoes, forks, and all kinds of steel goods, also barbed fence wire, guns, pistols, and a general line of tripple plated and table cutlery-ware. He has, as employes in his store, five competent young men as salesmen, also one traveling salesman, who sells goods in seven different counties in the State.

· BURRELL, FRED, SR., cigar manufacturer, Birk- ey's block, West Main street, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Burrell was born in Broome county, New York, in 1824. At the age of twelve years he engaged in a cigar factory, worked one year at stripping, then commenced at the trade and remained three years as an apprentice. He continued at his trade as journeyman about eighteen years. He traveled over and worked in nearly every State in the Union. In 1858 he established a cigar factory in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, which he con- ducted successfully about eight years. In 1866 he came to Newark, where he has since been carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of

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cigars except stogies. He moved to his present location on West Main street, in 1874, where he occupies a room forty by twenty feet on the second floor in the Birkey block. His goods are all manufactured from the best material, such as the Connecticut, Havana, and Yara tobacco. He em- ploys eight efficient workmen, manufactures about four hundred thousand cigars yearly, and pays the government from two hundred to three hundred dollars per month as revenue tax.

BUXTON, EARL, was born at Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont, February 7, 1806. He came from Vermont and located in Johnstown in 1832. He was married to Mary Ann Shoemaker, daugh- ter of Christopher Shoemaker, of Johnstown. She was born in that place in 1820. They have two children: Murvin, now living at Homer; Roswitha, now the wife of S. G. Larimore, of New ark. Mrs. Buxton died in 1865. Mr. Buxton followed farming until he was about eighteen years of age; he then commenced travelling as a musi-, cian, continuing. twenty years. He has travelled through the west and has lived in Missouri and Arkansas. Some twenty years ago he located per- manently in this county.

PERRY TOWNSHIP.

BLAND, SILAS, farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Ohio, near Zanesville, in 1798; came to this county in 1844; was married to Miss Ida Cook- sey, who was born in 1807. They have had one child, Joel Hamline, born in 1845. Hamline was married, in 1867, to Miss Marietta Spencer; they had three children: Celestia, Hattie, and Silas Herbert. Silas Bland owns eight hundred acres of land in this township, and is one of its most re- spected citizens. He was born in a tent on the banks of the Muskingum river, his father not hav- ing a house finished at the time of his birth.

BROWN, WILLIAM S., farmer, post office, Perry- ton, was born in Virginia in 1814, and came to this county in 1834; he was married to Miss Minerva Lemmert in 1837. The result of this marriage was three children. In 1863 his wife died, and, in 1865, he was married to Miss Ellen Thumwood, who was born in London, England, in 1831. One child was the result of this union: Greeley H. Brown. Mr. Brown owns about four hundred and twelve acres of land, one hundred and fifty-four acres of which is located in Licking county ; the bal- ance in Muskingum county. His father was born in Scotland, and came to the United States many years ago. Mr. William S. Brown is one of this township's prominent men, attends to his own busi- ness, and has plenty of friends among his neighbors.

ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.

BARBOUR, JOHN, deceased, was born July 12,

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 109

Author: N. N. Hill, Jr. Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Number of Pages: 826

Author: N. N. Hill, Jr.
Publication date: 1881
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 826