History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 117

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

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FORD, WILLIAM H., physician, was born in Mon- roe township, August 6, 1846; was educated in the public schools of Johnstown. After reading medi- cine for two years with Dr. Charles Stimson, of Newark, he entered the college of Physicians and Surgeons, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the winter of 1864, graduating in the class of 1865. After graduating he returned to Johnstown and en- tered upon the practice of his profession. March 33, 1878, he was married to Miss Mina Conklin, of Hartford, Licking county.

FRENCH, TRUMAN B. (deceased), was born in Otsego county, New York, August 13, 1804. He came to Ohio in 1813, and settled in Springfield; was married in Granville, December 28, 1828, to Miss Rosetta M. Paige, who was born in Ticonder- oga, New York, June 14, 1810. He came to Johnstown, April, 1849, and engaged in the hotel business two years, the balance of his life being spent in buying and shipping stock. Mr. and Mrs. French had nine children, as follows: Abbie M., born October 28, 1829; Lucinda J., August 16, 1832; William P., July 28, 1834, died May 31, 1836; Sarah O., born September 28, 1836; Ira Paige, March 5, 1839; Henry C., January 28, 1842; Frank D., May 21, 1844; Harriet E., April 19, 1849; Homer Howe, November 4, 1850. Ira P. and Frank D. French enlisted; the former at the first call for three months, was placed in commis- sary department. At the expiration of the three months he returned home and assisted in recruit- ing company B, of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volun- teer infantry, of which he was commissioned first lieutenant November 12, 1861, promoted captain September 30, 1862, Frank D. enlisting as pri- vate in the same company, they participating in the following memorable engagements: Fort Don- elson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Pea Ridge, Milli- ken's Bend, Haines' Bluff, Greenville, Bolivia, Chickasaw, Arkansas Fost, Deer Creek, Mile Creek,

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Jackson, Mississippi; Siege of Vicksburgh, Canton, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and Ringgold, where Captain French fell mortally wounded by a rifle ball piercing his breast, November 27, 1863, while leading his men; Frank D. afterward taking part in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, and Atlanta, where he was wounded in the thigh, July 22, 1865, never being off duty a day until he was wounded. Mr. French, subject of this sketch, died October 8, 1863.

NEWARK TOWNSHIP.

FRENIER, JANE MRS .- She was born one mile south of Newark, November 29, 1810. She is one of the family of eleven children of Andrew and Ruth Galer, early settlers of Licking county; they came in 1806. Mrs. Frenier was married October 19, 1834, to Samuel Miller, of Granville. They had two children-Robert A. and Uretta, the latter of whom died at the age of eight years. Mr. Miller by occupation was a farmer, and died October 20, 1838, aged thirty-one years. She was again married to Lewis Frenier, August 24, 1839. Lewis Frenier was born in Canada, March 25, 1791. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. By this marriage they have four children-Sylva Etta, Lysander J., Ella C., and Sarah J. who died August 26, 1879, aged twenty-nine years. Mr. Frenier by occupation was a blacksmith. He died September 27, 1875. Mrs. Frenier is now living with her son Lysander. She draws a pension from the Government.

FULTON, JOHN M., deceased, a son of Robert Fulton, was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, De- cember 27, 1814. He passed his boyhood days on a farm, and after growing to manhood he turned his attention to farming, which he made his principal vocation through life. He commenced in life a poor man, but by hard work and good management, he accumulated an estate valued at eighty thousand dollars at the time of his death. In 1824 he came to this county with his parents, and located in Newark township. In 1838 he married Miss Rebecca, daughter of William S. Young, of this county. Miss Young was born in Licking township, this county, December 27, 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton settled on a farm in Newark township, remaining until 1840, when he pur- chased and moved on the farm, in same township, now owned by his son, John Willis Fulton, where he deceased December 20, 1874. His companion is still surviving him, and is now living in Newark. They reared a family of five children-Robert S., Mary E., John Willis, Sarah Louisa, and Nettie M., all of whom are now living in this county, ex- cept Robert S., who is practicing law in Cincin- nati. Mr. Fulton served as an officer in the Lick- ing County Agricultural society about fifteen years.

He was a gentleman of exceedingly popular turn, always in excellent spirits. He possessed good judgment, great energy and enterprise, was very kind hearted and full of sympathy for the suffer- ing and unfortunate.

CITY OF NEWARK.

FETZER, MRS. MARY, was born in Bedford coun- ty, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1827, and is the daughter of Robert Ogle. She was married to Jacob Fetzer September 1, 1861. Mr. Fetzer en- listed in company G, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, in December, 1861, and was discharged in July, 1865. He died January 20, 1870, from a disease which he contracted in the army. Previous to the war he followed farming at which he worked since the war closed. They were the parents of one daughter, Anna, born April 7, 1867.

FLEEK, ADAM .- Mr. Fleek was one of the ear- lier business men of Newark. He was born in Hampshire county, Virginia (now West Virginia), March 11, 1803, and was one of eighteen children, who all reached maturity. Mr. Fleek came to Newark in April, 1826, and died August 22, 1877, after a residence here of more than fifty-one years. His career was one characterized by industry, ener gy, enterprise, and great tact and shrewdness as a business man, hence his success, aided by his tem- perate, frugal habits, in the acquisition of wealth. Few, if any, of the citizens of Licking county have had greater success in the accumulation of proper- ty, and it was fairly attributed to his characteristic habits of industry and frugality, his common sense and integrity. Though very decided in his theo- logical views, as he was on all questions that claim- ed public consideration, he yet held them in a spirit of toleration, and not in narrow contracted- riess or bigotry. He held a membership in the Second Presbyterian church of Newark, and was a large contributor to the erection of the fine church edifice in which that congregation worships. Mr. Fleek was in the seventy-fifth year of his age at the time of his death.

FLEUELLING, MARY, was born in North Ireland February 14, 1826; came to Newark, when four- teen years of age, with her parents. Joseph Evans, her father, died in Newark in 1849, at the age of fifty-three years, and his wife in February, 1875, aged seventy-seven years. The subject of this sketch was married in September, 1845, to Joseph Fleuelling. He came to Newark in 1840; foi- lowed carpentering, and died in 1870, at the age of fifty-three years. They have had eleven children: Mary, Annie, Linnie and Wallace died when quite young; Leonard, Nellie, Mattie, Emma, Eri, Jennie and Hattie are yet living. Nellie is the wife of Samuel W. Stephens, news agent in Not

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ark. Mrs. Fleuelling has a fine home on Mt. Vernon street. Her son, Leonard, is in the regular army at Fort Lincoln, Dakota.

FLORY, JESSE A., attorney at law, Flory & Havens' block, was born September 4, 1853, in this city. After completing his education in the high school of this city, at the age of seventeen, he be- came bookkeeper in the store of Flory (his father) & Havens, and remained two years; at nineteen, entered, as a student, the law office of Hon. Gib- son Atherton, and was admitted to practice June 16, 1874; remained with his preceptor two years, since which time he has conducted his profession alone. Mr. Flory was married September 16, 1875, to Miss Phebe Smith, daughter of James Smith, of this city; they have two children-Charles L. and Walter Leroy.

FLOWER, HENRY, stone mason .- He has made this line of work a business for life. He was born November 17, 1835, in Pennsylvania. He went to Somerset, Ohio, where he was mar- ried to Rachel Hynus April 13, 1857. She was born in Pennsylvania November 11, 1836. They had one child; Mary C., born September 30, 1859, and died October 29, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Flower have living with them a neice, Mary Hynus. Her parents are dead. Her father was a soldier in the late war, and died from the effects of a wound.

Foos & BROTHER, livery, feed and sale stable, rear of American house, Newark, Ohio .- Wilson Foos of this firm is a native of Columbus, Ohio, where he was born January 13, 1845, and was ed- ucated in the public schools of that city, and in early life he learned body making in the carriage business, in which he continued until 1869, when he came to Newark and entered the employ of the firm of Ball & Ward, whom he served three years, when in 1872 he, in company with his brother, es- tablished the carriage business on Fifth street, which they have conducted with success ever since; and in 1879 they added to their business that of the livery busines, in which they occupy the large and commodious brick stable in rear of American house, and in which they keep a stock of eleven head of good horses and ten vehicles, consisting of single and double carriages, phætons, barouches and hacks, all of which are in good condition and afford first class accommodation for the travelling public.

Foos & BROTHER's carriage shops are located on Fifth, between Canal and Main streets. They were established in 1873 by S. G. and Nelson Foos, who have since been successfully carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of light buggies, carriages and spring wagons. They also give prompt attention to repairing.

FORRY, DANIEL, farmer, was born in Newark, November 20, 1808. His father came to Newark from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and lived six months in the village of Newark, then settled on the farm now occupied by the subject of this sketch. The farm was originally two hun- dred acres; but the father sold several acres, which were laid off in town lots, and is part of Lockport. His father subsequently purchased twenty-five acres adjoining his farm on the north, fifty acres on the south, and fifteen acres on the east line of the two hundred acre tract. His father died in 1840; and at his death the property above described was divided between Henry and Daniel. There were six sisters, but Henry and Daniel purchased their interests in the estate. The subject of this sketch sold to Wilson & Buckingham forty-three acres, north of the railroad, which was platted in town lots, and was the site of the Newark rolling mills. January 8, 1835, he was married to Maria Sperry. She was born March 14, 1814, in Virginia, and moved with her parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1816. They have six children: Jacob W., born December 18, 1836; Eliza A., born June 15, 1839; Orin, born January 16, 1842; Mary O., born May 8, 1845; Martha A., born January 14, 1848; and Laura S., born April 23, 1851. The children are all living in Newark, except Jacob, who is in Knox county. His wife died January 3, 1863.

FRANKLIN, EDWARD, deceased, was born in Eng- land, February 11, 1791. March 28, 1816, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Hooper, born in England, January 10, 1795. By this union they reared eight children, viz .: Honor G., Edward A., Mary H., John H., Elizabeth A., George F., Oliver H. M., and Benjamin. In 1832, he with wife and family migrated to America and located in York State, remained about five years; then, in 1837, he removed to Circleville, Ohio, remained one year, and in 1838 he came and settled in Newark, this county, where he passed the remainder of his days. October 6, 1859, he deceased, highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him. His compan- ion deceased December 21, 1876. In 1845 he es- tablished the Franklin bank, of Newark, which he operated until the time of his death.

FRANKLIN, GEORGE F., third son of the afore- said Edward Franklin, deceased, was born in Eng- land, November 19, 1832. He was brought to America by his parents in 1834, and located in Newark, this county, in 1838. He received his education in the common schools of Newark, and Central college, Franklin county, Ohio. His first business engagement was in his father's bank as clerk and teller, where he remained several years. Since 1874 he has been engaged in the insurance business as agent, with office on north side of

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public square, No. 338. At present he represents the following companies:

For fire .- The Phoenix, of Hartford; Hartford, of Hartford; Star, Watertown, Westchester, Penn- sylvania, Manhattan, Mechanics and Traders', of New York; Underwriters Insurance company, of North America; Miami Valley, of Dayton; Cooper, of Dayton; Amazon, of Cincinnati; Farmers' In- surance company; Home Insurance company; Franklin Insurance company; Newark Fire, of New Jersey; London (England) Assurance corporation; Western Assurance, of Toronto; and the AEtna, of Hartford.

Life and Accident-The Northwestern, of Wis- consin; the Travelers, of Hartford; Fidelity and Casualty company, of New York; and the Railway Passengers' Insurance company, of Hartford. The aggregate assets of this selection of companies- including the two oldest in England and Am- erica, respectively-may be fairly estimated at seventy-five million dollars, and increasing daily. Mr. Franklin is not only carrying all kinds of insurance-life, fire, accident, and marine-for the simple advantage of this city or county, but has extensive business relations in a number of adja- cent counties, carrying over twenty thousand poli- cies, and having promptly met some twenty thou- sand dollars to thirty thousand dollars losses since his accession to the business, a few years ago. In his home office he is assisted by his son, Hooper Franklin, besides having some dozen or fifteen sub- agents scattered through the district, The business having increased at least ten fold since under his management.

FULTON, W. N., county treasurer, born January 23, 1841, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, son of Robert Fulton, also a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and son of Henry Fulton, the builder of the Fulton house, Washington, which was the first temperance house in the State. W. N. was raised on a farm in Burlington township, this county, having come to this county with his parents in 1844. Mr. Fulton has been engaged in various businesses. Came to this city in 1872 and engaged in contracting and building, and was elected to his present office in October 1877, and was re-elected in 1879. Mr. Fulton was married November, 1864 to Miss Belle Selby, daughter of Milton and Emily Selby, of Homer, of this county. They have five children : Harvey S., Maud, Mary, Jessie H., Myrtle N.

FULTON, JOHN M .- Deceased was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, December 27, 1813. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage, being the second son of Robert Fulton, sr. He was married to Rebecca A. Young, January 9, 1840. She was born in Licking township, December 5, 1819.

They are the parents of Robert, born January & 1842 ; Mary E., February 12, 1846 ; J. Willis, March 18, 1851 ; Sarah L., February 2, 1854; Nettie, October 25, 1860. The subject of this sketch, when about thirteen years of age, came with his father's family to the vicinity of Newark. He began his married life in slender circumstances. His first house was about two miles west of Newark, on the Granville road. In the spring of 1847 he purchased a small farm on Ramp creek. Sub- sequent purchases were added to it from time to time as his means enlarged until it grew to a fine estate. Several years since it received the award of the agricultural society of the county as being the best cultivated farm in the county. He took an active and enthusiastic interest in the Licking County Agricultural society from the time of its formation, and prior to his death had been a mem- ber of its board of directors over thirteen years. Whatever was for the good of the community received his warmest support. Many will remem- ber him as being one of the most efficient citizens in securing the success of the sanitary fair held in Newark in 1864. Mr. Fulton died at his home on Ramp creck, December 29, 1873. His wife is now living on West Main street, Newark.

FURGUSON, MARGARET, was born in Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, May 12, 1812; moved to Lan- caster, when five years old, with her parents. In 1828, she came to Newark on horseback to visit her sister, Mrs. R. Harrison. She was married in 1833 to James Furguson, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He died at Newark, February 17, 1875, at the age of sixty-four years. In his early life he learned tailoring at which he worked until about twenty years before his death, on account of his health failing he was compelled to quit his former trade. He then went into the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. He remained with them until his death, caused by an accident on the road, He was a man respected by everybody, was a great friend of children and took a special interest in his little grandchildren, Maggie and John McGinnes. He was the father of ten children : Mary J., Frederick, Margaret J., Edward S., Edward Spencer, Hannah Josephine, William Fletcher, Mary Frances (now the wife of John McGinnes), and Cara. Mrs. Furguson now lives on Third street, Newark, at quite an advanced age. Her grandfather, Peter Blosier, was in the Revolutionary war.

NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

FOWLER, HIRAM O., miller and farmer, owner of Fowler's mills, post office, St. Louisvan He was born December 15, 1826, in Columbia cons ty, Pennsylvania. He came to Newton towed in 1857, and bought a half interest in Fodt.

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ills in 1858, and carried on the business of mill- g about fourteen years. His wife's father, Ste- ien O. Robinson and John Dunlap built the ills. In 1864 he purchased the other half inter- t, and has since owned them. He was married Sarah A. Robinson, May 1, 1858. She was orn March 12, 1836, and is an only child. Her other is re-married to John Lee, and lives in rown county. Part of the house Mr. Fowler ves in was built sixty-six years ago. Mrs. Fow- r's grandfather was one of the first settlers. He cated on twelve hundred acres of land, part of hich is the farm Mr. Fowler now occupies, and e west part, what is the west side of St. Louis- lle. At that time he kept tavern. Mr. Fowler, i his boyhood and young manhood, followed farm- g, carpenter work, and boat building. From 1853 , 1857 he followed boating on the Susquehanna inal, and owned from one to four canal boats. [is business was shipping grain, lumber, and pro- ice from Pittston, Wilkesbarre, etc., to Philadel- nia and Baltimore. He was in Philadelphia in 344, at the time of the Roman Catholic riots, and om there to Baltimore city, to Henry Clay's nom- ation. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler have six children. [oore C., born January 11, 1860; Fidelia F., born uly 12, 1862; Charles A., born February 20, 1864; eorge W., born February 18, 1866; Avaretta, orn July 15, 1871. Mr. Fowler is a man of vig- rous health, and for one of his experience retains is age very well. His mill is leased to Mr. Sher- ian, and has three run of stone and a saw-mill onnected with it. Their business is principally ustom work. They have the reputation of mak- ig first-class flour.

PERRY TOWNSHIP.

FLEMING, THOMAS D., farmer, post office, Perry- on, was born in this township June 11, 1807; harried Miss Rebecca Hall in 1830. Miss Hall 'as born in 1814; they had four children, Nathan Quinn, Matilda Jane, Hugh Alexander, and Cyn- hia Martha; Hugh A. Fleming was born in this ownship in 1837, and was married to Miss Kate Vintermute in 1858; they have had one child. Ar. Hugh Fleming owns two lots and a residence n Elizabethtown, and carries on the business of indertaker; was a member of company F, Ohio national guards, and was actively engaged seven nonths, besides spending five months in Ander- onville and Millen prisons.

FORD, R. J., plasterer, post office, Hanover, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, 1839; came to his county and located in 1867; was married to Miss Emeline Elliott in 1868; she was born in Ohio in 1846, her parents being Virginians. They have four children-Minnie Catharine, aged ten; Samuel James, seven; Rawleigh Edwards, four;

Millie Alice, one. Mr. Ford's father was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and his mother in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; both are living. Mr. Ford owns his home and four acres of land; is a first-class plasterer.

ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.

FALLEY, L. A., farmer, Alexandria, Ohio, was born in Granville, this county, December 3, 1822. He married Miss Elizabeth Houpt, April 15, 1858. Since his marriage he has resided in St. Albans township. They have three children-Charles E., born Dec. 5, 1862; Mary B., January 15, 1865; Walter L., February 28, 1870. Samuel Falley, fa- ther of the subject of this sketch, was born in West- field, Massachusetts, October 9, 1780. From the age of seventeen to twenty-two he followed the sea, crossing the Atlantic ocean several times, visiting different parts of Europe, Africa, and the West In- dia islands. He rose from the position' of cabin boy to second mate of the vessel. He returned home in 1801, came to Ohio in 1803. After three or four years he returned to Massachusetts. He married Ruth Root, July 19, 1810, and came to Granville, this county, about 1814, and purchased a farm on which he resided until his death.

He was among the early advocates of the tem- perance reform, and was a pioneer in the anti- slavery cause. For forty years he was a consistent member of the Congregational church. Blessed with a robust constitution, he enjoyed excellent health until within a few years of his death. He retained his mental faculties unimpaired until the last. He was very much interested in all social, political, and religious news of the day. He reared a family of eleven children, six sons and five daughters. He was a son of Richard and Margaret Falley, and grandson of Richard Falley, who came from France to Canada at the age of twelve years. His wife, "Ruth Root, was born . June 1, 1784, in Montgomery, Massachusetts. She died November 29, 1862. Samuel Falley died February 2, 1871.

BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.

GRIFFITH, JACOB S., born February 14, 1814, in Washington county, Maryland. When a year old he came with his father's family to this township. His mother, Sarah Swope, was a native of Mary- land. His father, Daniel, born in Virginia, and subsequently moving to Maryland, was a mill- wright, and upon his arrival here in 1815, bought the northwest quarter of section fourteen, this township, which he farmed and carried on his trade at the same time. He was a man of positive char- acter, well known and popular, which is attested by the fact that he, being a Whig in politics, was frequently elected to office in a strong Democratic

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township. A hater of strife and contention, he was never a party to a suit in court. In his youth he worked in his father's grist- and saw-mill, the first erected in the township; was married September 14, 1841, to Sarah Smith of Belmont county, Ohio, and has subsequently engaged in farming. He has fonr children, William, Josephine, wife of Daniel Mohler, Frank, and Charles.

GOLDSMITH, JOHN V., born in Saxony, Germany, in the village of Kaltensundhime, September 13, 1830. His father, John, was a shoemaker by trade, but by occupation a tax collector and farmer. De- termined to seek his fortune in the new country, he embarked alone on a vessel and landed at New York, where he was robbed of seventy-five dollars in gold, almost all that remained of his patrimon- ial estate, so that he was compelled to borrow from a friend a part of his fare to Newark, Ohio. Arriving here without a cent, and in debt, unable to speak the English language, he worked for a month on the railroad, then went to Lancaster, Ohio, where he learned the tanner's trade with Louis Philippi & Co .; he then worked at his trade awhile in Chillicothe, and afterwards moved to Portsmouth, where he took the chills and fever and was obliged to quit work; he successively vis- ited Steubenville, Canton and Massillon, remaining a short time in each place, then located at Canal Dover, where he clerked for a few months in a gro- cery, then resumed his trade, working at it for three years, during which time he saved three hundred and twenty-five dollars. Returning to Lancaster, Mr. Goldsmith there married Caroline Walter, daughter of Jacob Walter. He purchased the tannery he now owns in Linnville, and moved here in 1853. He has several times invested in real estate and to-day owns property to the value of fifteen thousand dollars, including the Parr farm near Linnville. He has five children, Jacob, Ellen, . Jane, Edward, and Andrew J.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 117

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