History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 111

Author: N. N. Hill, Jr.
Publication date: 1881
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means of qualification, the Latin, German and Greek languages, with other essential helps under private tutors. For several years he served Sugar Creek, Magnolia, New Jefferson and White-eye- plains churches. In the fall of 1847, he removed to Licking county, Ohio, under a call from the Newark Baptist church, with whom he labored about sixteen months. Following this pastoral he supplied, and was the pastor of the following churches, viz: Alexandria, Union, Homer, Liberty, Johnstown, Fredonia and Welsh Hills, aggregating a period of ministerial labors equal to and over thirty-six years. The close of this record leaves him in possession of much vigor of life and good prospects of future usefulness in the ministerial function for many years to come.

HANOVER TOWNSHIP.

CHEEK, ADALINE, daughter of William and Eliz- abeth Priest, was married October 20, 1836, to George Cheek. She was born August 15, 1812, in Culpepper county, Virginia. At a very early day she, with her parents, moved to Muskingum county, settling in Hopewell township, where she lived until 1875, when she removed to Licking county and settled in Hanover township. Mr. Cheek died September 1, 1854, leaving her with nine children -William Elsie, born July 3, 1838; Sarah Eliza- beth, born December 11, 1839; George Andrew, born July 18, 1841; James Henry, born March 29, 1844; John Robert, born November 10, 1845; Thomas Jefferson, born September 14, 1847; Frank- lin Howard, born February 11, 1851; Perry Stree- per, born November 25, 1852; Harvey Allen, born January 3, 1855. Of these, John Robert and Thomas J. are dead, having died while in the late war. William married Martha Skinner, November 15, 1860. She died January 10, 1863, leaving Mr. Cheek with one child-Joseph, born October 27, 1861. About five years after Mrs. Cheek's death Mr. Cheek married his second wife-Elizabeth Loughman. By this marriage they are the parents of five children-William Henry, Jacob Franklin, John Robert, Sarah Adaline and Harvey Allen. John McFarland, of Muskingum county, married Sarah October 9, 1866. They have four children -Adaline, born July 7, 1867; James Henry, born January 30, 1869; Amanda, born September 18, 1870; Perry Milton, born January 9, 1873. Aman- da died February 25, 1871. Howard was married August 1, 1877, to Julia A. Drum. She died January, 1880, leaving him with one child-Cecil Celista. James Henry married Sarah A. Vansikle, August 8, 1878. They have one child-Mary Etta. Perry S. and Harvey Allen are not married. They are living in Hanover township.

CLAGGETT, WILLIAM E., farmer, was born in

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Perry county, Ohio, in 1837. In 1859 he was married to Miss Cynthia H. Hillier, of Muskingum county. They have had ten children-Ed- mund R., John W., Myvard B., Charles A., Anna E., Louie Bell, Frank P., Emma J., Ora and Samuel M. (deceased). His father and mother were born in Virginia in 1810, and came to this State in 1834. His mother's maiden name was Rector. The sub- ject of this sketch lives about a quarter of a mile south of Hanover, on the Woodbridge farm.

HARRISON TOWNSHIP.

CONDIT, ISAAC, deceased, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, November, 1798. He was a carpenter by trade, and followed that business for a number of years. He then turned his attention to farming, which he made his principal vocation, after his settlement in this county. In 1822, he married Miss Jane R. Dobbin, of Essex county, New Jersey, born in 1802. They settled in Essex county, remained until 1835, when he, with wife and five children migrated to this county and lo- cated in Harrison township, on the farm now owned by their son, Joseph B. Condit, where they passed the remainder of their days. His compan- ion died January 3, 1878. He died May 10, 1878. They reared a family of nine children: Mary, George, Matthias, William D., Joseph B., Sarah, Frances, Pheba, and Theodore. Two of the above named children are deceased, Pheba and Theo- dore.

CONDIT, WILLIAM D., son of the aforesaid Isaac Condit, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, February 7, 1831, and came with his parents to this county in 1835. He is a carpenter by trade, and followed that as his vocation a few years, when he turned his attention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged. December 28, 1854, he married Miss Martha Charles, daugh- ter of Jesse and Nancy Charles. Miss Charles was born in Harrison township, this county, March 10, 1834. They moved on the farm in Harrison township, where they now reside, in April, 1856. They have a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters.

HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.

CASTNER, EDWIN S., farmer and sheep breeder, born in Jefferson county Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1870. He was married in 1868, to Miss Mary J. Stone of the same county. She was born in 1850. They are the parents of three children, two are dead, and one, Earnest, living. Mr. Castner lived in this county from 1870 to 1874, when he removed to Knox county, where he re- sided six years. He again came to this county in the spring of 1880. He has been engaged in the breeding and shipping of registered merino sheep

for the last five years; he has on hand sixty-five thoroughbred sheep. Mr. Castner is a member of the board of directors of the Hartford Agricultural society.

COLEMAN, JOSEPH, hotel-keeper, born in Cosho- ton county, Ohio, in 1825; removed to Knox county while a child, and at the age of eighteen he came to this county, living at Johnstown two or three years, when he removed to Hartford, where he has since lived. He was married, in 1847, 10 Miss Sarah E. Williams, of this county ; she was born in 1826 in this county; she died in 1875 They were the parents of three children, one of whom, Charley, is living. He again married, in 1879, Miss Sarah A. Warner, of Essex Junction, Vermont. She was born in 1842 in Paw Paw, Michigan. Mr. Coleman has held several posi- tions of trust and profit, having been township treasurer ten or twelve years, and trustee two terms. He is at present a member of the town council and a member of the Hartford Agricultural society.

CUNNINGHAM, J. Ross, farmer, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 16, 1835; married Emily M. Ross of the same county. Mrs. Ross was born in 1839. Mr. Ross came to this county in 1870, pur- chased a fine farm of two hundred acres in the northwest part of the township, and now has one of the finest farms in the township. He is essentially a self-made man, and is one of the substantial cis- zens of the county.

CURRY, GEORGE, farmer and breeder of thorough- bred sheep. He is a breeder and shipper of Spar- ish merino sheep, which are registered in the Vermont and United States registeries. He has a fine flock of eighty head on hand at present

JERSEY TOWNSHIP.

CARTER, FREDERICK C., born in Franklin coun- ty, September 30, 1830; his father, Havilah, settled near Newark, on Jasper Sutton's place, about 1819 emigrating from Loudoun county, Virginia ; two years after he moved to Franklin county ; his mother, Ma- hala Starkey, was a native of Hampshire county, Virginia. In 1847 his father's family came to St Albuns township, where he remained till the spring of 1880, when he removed to his present farm home. His grandfather was a Quaker, and his father, though not a member of this society, pos- sessed its virtues, and was noted for his scrupulos honesty in his dealings with men. Mr. Carter mar- ried Amanda, daughter of Martin and Lucy (John- son) Brooks, June, 1863. Her parents were early settlers in this county; her father hailing from Maine, her mother from Vermont. Frank B. i their only child.

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LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.

COOPER, ELI, farmer, New Way, was born Sep- tember 7, 1830. August, 1847, he came to Ben- nington township, this county. In the spring of 1877 he moved into this township, locating in the village of New Way, where he now lives. He mar- ried Elizabeth Fulk, March, 1858. They have two children: Sarah M., born November 29, 1859; Le- roy, born October 27, 1861. He owns one hundred and twenty-five acres in one body, and thirty acres in another. He is a successful farmer.

LICKING TOWNSHIP.

COFFMAN, REUBEN, was born July 6, 1824, in Page county, Virginia. He was the son of Peter and Rebecca Coffman. Peter came to this county in 1809; remained here till 1818; then returned to Virginia again, and was married to Rebecca Lanum, of Page county, Virginia. Returned to this county in 1828, and located in Newton town- ship. He was the father of eight children-four living at present: Wesley, Reuben, Mary and Philip are married, and living in this county. Reuben, the subject of this sketch, was married March, 1846, to Susanna Bullock, of this county, the daughter of Samuel and Nancy Bullock. They have had seven children-six are living. Mary Jane was born January 1, 1847. She was married to John Grove, of this county, a farmer. Julia Ann was born March, 1848; died April, 1848. Lewis was born February 2, 1849; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. William was born June, 1851; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. P. A. was born February, 1853; is single, and, at present, is a law student in John D. Jones' office at Newark. Isaac was born August, 1855; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. Rebecca V. was born November, 1857; married George Swartz, of this county, a farmer, and lives south of Jacksontown. Peter Coffman died January, 1867, aged sixty-eight years. He was a farmer and car- penter. Rebecca Coffman died June, 1873, in Newton township. She was a member of the Old School Baptist church of Lost run. Reuben Coff- man located in Licking township in 1853, on the farm where he now lives, having some five hun- dred and forty-five acres of land in Licking town- ship, and ninety-two in Newark township. He is an extensive farmer and wool grower; is a very influential and highly respected man in Licking township. He is a natural mechanic, which is characteristic of the family.

LIMA TOWNSHIP.

CROMPTON, FRANCIS, post office, Pataskala, was born in King's county, Ireland, January 14, 1821. In 1848 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Licking county. In 1876 he went west,

settling in Putnam county, but remained only one year, returning to Licking, where he has since re- sided. Mr. Crompton has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Wickliff, who lived but a ,few years, he afterwards marrying Mrs. Roberts, the widow of Samuel Roberts, who died while in the army.

CONINE, RICHARD, farmer, post office, Pataskala, was born in this county, October 28, 1852, a son of Richard and Hester Conine, the former of whom came from New Jersey with his parents and settled on the farm on which the subject of this sketch now lives. He was born near Newark. He remained at home until he was twenty-two years old, when he went to Fairfield county, and from thence to Franklin county; and in 1876 he came to this county and settled on his present farm. He was married in the winter of 1873 to M. E. Valen- tine, of this county. His father, Richard Conine, was among the first that ever came in the county and took an active part in the settlement of the same.

MCKEAN TOWNSHIP.

CADA, MOWRY, was born in 1802 ir. Rhode Island; was the son of Sylvester and Sadie Cada. He was married in 1833 to Abigal Barber, of Ver- mont, who was born in 1815 in Vermont. They had four children. A. J. Cada was born in 1834, in Massachusetts, and with his parents came to this county in 1836; located in Mckean township on the farm where he now lives. He was married September 25, 1860, to Mary A. Conard, of this county, who was born November 19, 1840, in this county. The result of this marriage was three boys; Joel M., born June 15, 1861 ; Edwin J., born November 29, 1864; Charles G., born January 19, 1872. Phoebe C. Cada was born April 7, 1837; was married, in 1863, to Frederick Smith, of this county, who is a farmer and lives in Mckean township. Sabra C. Cada was born January 30, 1845; was married November 8, 1874, to Andrew Morgan, of this county, a farmer. Mr. Morgan died and his widow is living in Indiana. They had one child, Mary F., born September 20, 1849; died January 20, 1851. Mr. Cada's grandfathers were both soldiers of the Revolutionary war; were under General Green.

CLARK, ABSALOM, was born December 10, 1819, in Mckean township; was the son of Fleetwood and Sarah Clark, who came to this county in 1814, from Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. The journey being made by wagon. They located in Newton township, and came to Mckean in 1815, where they remained until death. They were the parents of eight boys and one girl. Absalom, John, William, and Jesse are yet living. Fleetwood

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Clark died in 1851, aged sixty-one; Sarah, his wife, died in 1835, aged forty-five years. Absalom, the subject of this sketch, went to California in 1853, by way of the isthmus; was there about twenty months. He married Matilda Walker, of Delaware county, who was born in 1835. The result of this marriage was nine children. Those living are George W., Caroline L., Absalom, Mary, Sarah, Charles, Eunice, John B., and Emma. George was married to Christenia Stevens, of this county, in 1879, and lives in this township. Caroline was married to Samuel S. Fry, of Newark, and is now living in Westerville. The others are single and live at home. Mr. Clark has always had his home in Mckean township, on the old homestead where his father first located, when the country was all woods. Mr. Clark has always been a well-to-do farmer, and is esteemed by all his acquaintances.

MONROE TOWNSHIP.

CLOUSE, SUSAN, farmer, postoffice, Johnstown, Ohio, was born in the extreme northern part of Fairfield county, October 18, 1828 ; is a daughter of William and Sarah Hendrickson. Mr. W. Hen- drickson was born August 30, 1791, in New Jersey, and died August 30, 1859, in Monroe township, Licking county, Ohio. He married Sarah McClain, about 1820, and had eight children: John, born about 1821, and died when about two years of age; Catharine, born April 13, 1823, and died August 20, 1855; William, born October 15, 1826, and served in the Mexican war about two years. When civil war was declared in the United States, he en- listed in an Illinois regiment, served out his time went home only to veteran. During one of the sieges was shot through the lungs, from the effects of which he is a constant sufferer at the present time. The next in order is the subject of this sketch, Susan. Elizabeth, born August 4, 1830; Elenor, born March 21, 1832; Jacob, born June 21, 1834. Mrs. Clouse came to this county with her parents about 1832, where they have remained. She married Jacob Clouse, December 8, 1849, and moved to where she now lives March, 1850. She had six children : Leuzerne, born September 29, 1850, died May 3, 1869 ; Ellen, born August 7, 1852; John, born October 16, 1855; Amanda, born February 18, 1858, Lincoln, born February 25, 1861; Frederick, born August 6, 1864. Jacob Clouse was born April 13, 1828, within a quarter mile of where they now live, and where he died February 19, 1879. Mrs. Clouse says he never was further from home than Brownsville, Bowl- ing Green township, this county, not to exceed thirty miles, and she has been to Gibsonville, Hock- ing county, Ohio, a distance not to exceed sixty miles, and made the trip on horseback, to attend the funeral of a relative; that neither of them rode

a mile in the cars. They began life with but a very few dollars, and by frugality and hard work have made for themselves a comfortable home.

CITY OF NEWARK.

CARROLL, CHARLES, druggist and pharmaceu- tist, three doors south of American house, west .. side of the public square. Mr. Carroll was born in Cincinnati, April 11, 1852, and when about one year old his parents came to Newark. He re- ceived his education at Granville, Ohio, after which he engaged with W. P. Kirkpatrick, drug- gist at Utica, Ohio, as salesman, whom he served four years. He then went to Philadelphia and en- tered the Pharmaceutical college, from which he received his diploma in the spring of 1875, after which he entered the employ of French, Richards & Co., wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists, with whom he remained about five years. On May 1, 1880, he returned to Newark and bought out the firm of Seymour & Co., at the old Fullerton stand, which was established in 1844, three doors south of the American house, on the west side of the public square, where he occupies very pleasant and commodious rooms, eighteen by eighty, as salesroom with prescription. case and laboratory, and a ware-room up-stairs eighteen by eighty, and cellar eighteen by forty, in which he carries a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles. fancy goods, trusses, shoulder braces, supporters. Whitman's confectionery. Also special attention given to the compounding of physicians' prescrip- tions, and the wholesale and retail manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations This is a special de. partment, and a leading feature of the busines -; and this is the only drug establishment in the cay that employs a night clerk, and is under the imme- diate direction of a graduate in pharmacy.

CAUL, JOHN .- He was born at Dillmon's Falls, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 25, 1836. Hc came to Newark in 1854. He was married to Melvina Walker October 16, 1862; had two chi .- dren, one of whom died in infancy. Joseph Ben- jamin died in March, 1870, in the sixth year of his age. Mr. Caul moved with his father to the blast furnace, in Mary Ann township, in 1844. He worked some five years at this furnace. In 1854 he came to Newark, working at anything he could by the day until in the fall of 1861, when he went on the canal; remained in that business until 18 ;; He then engaged in teaming, which is his present occupation; has a comfortable little home on Ser- enth street in Newark. He has a sister, Valsory Eastman, living in Hocking county; Clara A, in Hocking county; a brother Henry, living in Il- nois. His father died in the seventy second yer of his age.

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CHAMBERS, DR. W. B., surgeon-dentist, Clinton reet, two doors from Locust. Dr. Chambers was orn in Marshall county, western Virginia. He ceived his preparatory education in the district hools of Marshall and Ohio counties, after which : attended an academy at Alexandria, Washing- n county, Pennsylvania, and took a course at the ennsylvania college, Philadelphia. In 1858 he ommenced reading with Alexander Reed, M. D., ysician and surgeon, also a practitioner of dental irgery, of West Virginia. In 1865 he came to ewark and entered upon the practice of the den- I profession, to which he devoted his entire atten- on until 1872, when he returned to Philadelphia id completed his dental studies at the Pennsyl- inia college of dental surgery, from which he aduated in 1873. On his return he purchased a it at his present location, on which he has erected handsome brick residence, which he has furnish- 1 and fitted up with heating, gas and water fixtures f the most modern design and is unexcelled in the ty. His office is also of brick, one story high nd neat design, in which he has an elegant suite f rooms consisting of a reception room eighteen y twelve and a half feet, which is fitted up with. pod taste and has everything necessary for the omfort and entertainment of waiting patients, an perating room fourteen by ten feet which he has irnished with all the modern facilities and appli- nces for the successful operation of his profession, y means of which the usual excruciating opera- ons of dentistry are made comparatively pleasant;

private office and consulting room twelve by welve feet, a laboratory eighteen by twelve feet which is furnished with everything necessary for the perating of mechanical dentistry, also a commo- ious room eighteen by ten feet for the chemical nd metalurgical department. Dr. Chambers has pared no expense to secure everything adopted in he profession. In the operating department he ises only the safest and purest and most effective sthetics, and administers almost painless treat- nent. He was married March 31, 1870, to Miss Augusta Smucker, youngest daughter of Honorable saac Smucker of this city.

CHAMBERLAIN, MRS. MARY A., was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, August 16, 1816. About the age of nine years she moved, with her ather, to Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Samuel Murdock, was a farmer by occupation, and died in Licking county, Iowa, at the age of ninety years. She was married to Mr. Austin Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1838, and was the mother of three children, all dead. Mr. Chamberlain, in :arly life, followed boating ; after moving to Newark, n 1838, he followed carpentering until he died in 1870, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Chamberlain

lives on the corner of Elm and Locust streets, Newark, and has three of her grandchildren living with her.

CHASE, GEO. W., photographer. Mr. Chase was born in Oswego, New York, March 15, 1839, and was educated at Nunda, New-York. He came to Ohio in the fall of 1858, locating at Zanesville, where he took charge of the omnibus and stage lines which he remained in charge of until 1861, when he was the second man in Muskingum county to respond to the first call for troops. He enlisted in company H, First Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served several months when he was put on recruiting service and the organizing of regiments and staff duty, during which he was promoted to first lieutenant and was honorably discharged as brevet captain, in 1863, in consequence of expiration of his term of service. He came to Newark in 1864 and engaged in the photo art in which he has been engaged with good success ever since. He occupies a large and excellent suit of rooms in the Franklin block, consisting of parlor eighteen by eighteen ; two operating rooms sixteen by forty and seventeen by forty-five ; printing room, eleven by twenty ; toilet, six by twelve ; frame and moulding room, eight by sixteen, where all kinds of photos are pro- duced in a high degree of perfection, also enlarging of photos, etc. He also keeps a large first class stock of albums, velvet goods, frames mouldings, etc., etc.

CHERRY, HARRIET, daughter of Jesse and Isa- bella Taylor, was born April 4, 1812, in Frederick county, Virginia. When she was seventeen years old she removed, with her parents, to Lancaster, Ohio, where they remained two years. Then they removed to Fairfield county, Ohio, and lived there seven years, during which time she was married to James Cherry, of Fairfield. Two years after their marriage they removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and remained there for thirty years. Mr. Cherry was a farmer, and followed this occupation during their stay in Indiana. In 1865 they returned to Fairfield county, and located in Millersport, Mr. Cherry engaging in the dry goods business until his death, February 7, 1873. The family remained in Millersport three years after the death of Mr. Cherry, when they removed to Pataskala for a short time, when they removed to Newark, where they have lived ever since. The family consists of five children-all girls-Belle, born May 1, 1837; Mary E., born June 12, 1840; Hattie, born April 30, 1842; Katy, born November 3, 1846; Emma, born November 26, 1852. They are all married but Katy, who lives with her mother.

CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM, was born November 20, 1857. He was married to Elizabeth Wharton, of

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Hebron, Licking county, November 17, 1877, who had one child, which died November 17, 1879.

CLARK, MR. ANSON .- The subject of this sketch was a native of Granville, Massachusetts, where he was born December 29, 1796, and came with his father's family to Granville (then in Fairfield county), Ohio, November 18, 1807, after a weary journey of forty-seven days, performed with ox- teams, that being one of the methods of crossing the Alleghanies in "the days of the pioneers." Mr. Clark acted well his part as a pioneer, as a citizen of the Commonwealth, as a Christian. He was a friend of freedom, of emancipation, of human liberty. Mr. Clark was theoretically and practically an ardent, zealous, consistent advocate of temperance, all his life, having joined the first temperance society organized west of the moun- tains, more than fifty years ago, and was always faithful to the pledge then taken. His church membership dates back to 1828, and he ever after- wards to the close of his life, sustained honorable church relations. Mr. Clark was an upright, intel- ligent, industrious, honest man, and had endeared to him many sympathizing friends. He was dis- tinguished for integrity of purpose, and for devo- tion to the interests of the poor, the oppressed, and especially to the down-trodden, the crushed slaves. His influence was always exerted in behalf of what he esteemed to be truth, justice, right and good morals. The aim of his life was to make his conduct harmonize with the golden rule. The venerable pioneer died July 19, 1877, and was gathered to his fathers at the ripe age of eighty years, six months and twenty-two days.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 111

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