History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 120

Author: N. N. Hill, Jr.
Publication date: 1881
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ripe corn and boiled pumpkins. Mrs. Hisey has in her possession a valuable relict in the shape of a snuff box of peculiar pattern, once belonging to her mother's grandfather. Their only child, Louisa Vilora, was married March 4, 1877, to William Alfred Smith, who died of bilious fever April 24, 1880. She now lives with her parents.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.

HERVEY, REV. DWIGHT B., the oldest son of Rev. Henry Hervey, D. D., was born in Martins- burgh, Knox county, Ohio, June 4, 1834; was educated at Martinsburgh academy, Hanover col- lege, Indiana, and Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, graduating at the latter place August, 1858. He studied theology one year at Princeton Theological seminary, and two years at Allegheny seminary, from which he graduated April, 1861. He was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of Richland, June 13, 1860, and immediately took charge, as stated supply, of the Presbyterian church of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, for three months. October 9, 1861, he received a call to become pastor of the Presbyterian church of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, which he accepted, and was ordained and installed pastor of that church January 16, 1862. He continued to serve that church until January, 1874, when he resigned and accepted a call to become pastor of the Presbyterian church of Jersey, in this county. In July, 1875, receiving a call from the Presbyte- rian church of Granville, which he felt it to be his duty to accept, he resigned .his charge in Jersey, removed to Granville, and was installed pastor of that church September 29, 1875. He was married September 16, 1861, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Eells Reeder, of Newark. Their family consists of four sons and one daughter.

HOBART, GILES, was born in Essex, Vermont, September 28, 1809. He came with his parents, Noah and Abigail Hobart, to Licking county, Ohio, in 1817, who settled on land now owned by Wesley Hobart, on Burg street, Granville township, where they passed the remainder of their days. He deceased in April, 1853. His wife survived him until February 26, 1867. Our subject married Miss Mary A. Warden, September, 1833, daughter of Captain Gabriel Warden, born September 25, 1810. They settled on Burg street, Granville town- ship, remaining until in 1849, then he purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son, Wesley J. Hobart, on North street, where they deceased; he, February 1, 1872, his wife surviving him until August 5, 1874. Their union resulted in six children: Martha, Henry, Heman L., Lewis (deceased), George, and Wesley J. All grew to be men and women. He was reared a farmer, and followed farming as his vocation during life. With the exception of about eighteen or twenty

years, he was engaged in the manufacture of tomb-stones, from free-stone and marble, which he made a success, commencing the business in about 1831, and retiring from it in 1849 or 1850. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church.

HOBART, GUY C., son of Noah and Abigail Hobart, was born in Essex, Vermont, January 27, 1817. He was brought to Licking county, Ohio, by his parents, in September, 1817, who settled in Granville township, on Burg street. He was reared a farmer, and followed farming as his principal vocation. He married Emeline Tyler, November 26, 1840, daughter of Colonel George Tyler. Their marriage resulted in five children-two sons and three daughters; all are living. He migrated to Kansas in 1856, his family remaining in Granville township. In 1863 he enlisted in a Kansas regi- ment, and served about one year in the war. His wife deceased October 20, 1865. He died April 25, 1869.

HOLLER, MRS. JULIA . A., was born in Bed- ford county, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1809; she is the daughter of John Cutchall, an early settler of Newark. She was married to Samuel Holler, February 22, 1833; they are the parents of eight children: Mary A., wife of Charles Hen- dricks; N. C., Sarah E., wife of William Boner; S. J., James E., Jacob N., David S., Isaac W. Mr. Holler by occupation was a farmer. He died July 18, 1871, aged sixty-four years.

FAMILY OF AMASA HOWE .- Howe, Amasa, son of Ephraim and Damaris Howe, was born in Granville, Massachusetts, July 28, 1765.

Sarah Harrington, wife of Amasa, was born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, May 18, 1768. They were married in March, 1788, and settled in Frank- lin county, Vermont. Two of their eleven chil- dren died in infancy: six sons and three daughters lived to mature age, and had families. Their names and order were: Daniel, Orpha, Adah, Norval D., Hiram R., Ephraim G., Samantha, Timothy W., and Amasa E. He left Vermont in 1813, and came to Ohio, stopping in Muskingum until April 4, 1814, when he arrived in Granville, this county. He purchased and settled on the farm south of town, where his grandson, Howard W. Howe, now resides. Three of his sons became ministers of the gospel, namely: Norval D., Hiram R., and Timothy W. The last two settled in Ohio, the other in Virginia. Amasa E. taught school many years in Zanesville, Ohio, and in Danville, Illinois He was highly esteemed by his pupils and patrons as an excellent governor and successful teacher Amasa Howe, at the age of fifteen, enlisted in the American army during the war of the Revolutie

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He saw its close in 1783. In after life he was a farmer and carpenter mechanic. Possessing a good physical constitution and a willing mind, he was ever ready for work. By his industry and regular habits, he set an example worthy of imitation by his sons. By his manly, upright deportment in civil and social life, he secured and sustained an unblemished reputation to the close of his life. He spent a few of the last years of life in Gallia county, near the town of Vinton. His wife died in that county, April, 1840, aged seventy-two years. Mr. Howe married for his second wife, a Mrs. Blagg, who still survives. He lived until January 18, 1853, aged eighty-seven years and six months. His soul was sustained in peace at the approach of death, as it had been during his long life, by an unfaltering faith in the merits of Jesus Christ as his Savior. Three of the family are still living: Hıram R., eighty-two, Timothy H. and Amasa E., seven- ty-four years of age.

FAMILY OF CURTIS HOWE .- Curtis Howe, younger brother to Amasa, born in Granville, Massachusetts, May 10, 1772.

Sybel Phelps who became his wife, was born in Agawam, now Springfield, Massachusetts. Soon after marriage he settled in St. Albans, Franklin county, Vermont. . His children were Lucy D., Bathsheba P., John M., Marianne C. and Samuel L. In 1818 he came to Licking county, Ohio, with his family, travelling, as others in those days did, in wagons, drawn by oxen and horses. He purchased a farm near his brother, one and a half miles south of Granville. All his children became famous as school teachers-the daughters until they married. The sons, after they left the Ohio university at Athens, followed teaching as a profes- sion.

John M., for many years, was principal of the McIntire academy in Zanesville. Leaving Zanes- ville in 1851, he went to California, and there fol- lowed his vocation until his health failed. He died in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1878, at the age of seventy-six. His fame as a teacher was excellent.

Samuel L. taught in Lancaster, Ohio, for a time, and for pupils had some of the Shermans, who are a "tower of strength" at present in our govern- ment. He went from Lancaster to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and established an academy in 1840, which continues under the superintendence of one of his sons. He was called to his eternal home a few years ago, aged about seventy years.

Marianne C. married a minister, who was a foreign missionary in Turkey for twenty years, under the auspices of the A. B. C. F. M.

Curtis Howe sailed for California at the age of ninety-two, and remained there four years. He returned by the way of New York and Granville,

and immediately went with his son-in-law, Justin Hillyer, to what was then called Grasshopper Falls, now Valley Falls, Kansas. About January 15, 1871, he was attacked with an acute disease which terminated in death on the eighteenth, exactly to a day eighteen years after his brother, Amasa's death, and within four months of being ninety-nine years old. Thus passed away a man, than whom, no one sustained a better name for industry, honesty, sterling integrity and scriptural morality · through his long life, than Curtis Howe. His wife died many years ago in Granville. All the daugh- ters are still living. One in California; one in Topeka, Kansas, and one in New Haven, Con- necticut.

HUMPHREY, LUCIUS, was born in Connecticut in 1813, and is the gentleman mentioned in another part of this work as having conveyed a valuable property in Columbus to Judge Buckingham and others for the purpose of establishing, in this county, a "Home for the Friendless." He stood in the front rank of Licking county's philanthro- pists. He died in Etna in this county November 2, 1876, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.

HUGHES, ELIAS, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1830. He was reared a farmer. In 1849 he commenced working at the plastering trade in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he migrated to Columbus, Ohio, where he formed a partnership with Evan Jones, to work at the trade of plastering, and contracting for the erection of buildings. They continued as partners, making the business a success un- til, in 1862, they dissolved partneship. In 1863 our subject purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, located on the Cherry Val- ley road, Granville township, Licking county, Ohio. For his first wife he married Mary Jones, of Colum- bus, Ohio, in 1853. Their marriage resulted in five children-one son and four daughters. Sep- tember 20, 1869, his wife deceased. For his sec- ond wife he married Leah B. Arthur, December, 1870, born in Wales in 1844, migrated to America with her parents in 1846. They have two children -sons. He is now following farming and stock raising.

GOODRICH, STEPHEN G., was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, December, 1790. He was brought up a farmer, and followed farming as his vocation. In 1812 he migrated to Licking county, Ohio, and located in Granville township. His first purchase was a piece of land containing one hundred acres, now owned by his son, Moses Goodrich. He mar- ried Sarah Powell in 1832, daughter of Rev. Thomas Powell. They settled on his land, which he had purchased some time prior to his marriage.

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They reared a family of six children-Stephen, George, Lydia J., Moses, Hannah, and Susan L. Stephen is deceased. Lydia J. married Rev. D. D. Green, who was a minister to China, where they spent ten years. Our subject served seven months in the War of 1812 He deceased August, 1865. HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.

HIGGINS, WILLIAM, farmer and thresher, Croton, Ohio, born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1828. He was married in 1852 to Miss Elizabeth Coffield, of Licking county. She was born in 1825, in this county. They are the parents of five children, four living: Aaron, Sarah, Minerva, John (de- ceased), and Jacob. After getting married he lived in Knox county, close to the line of Licking county, for nine years, when he removed to Lick- ing county, where he has lived ever since.

HOOVER, GILES W., carriage maker. He is a fine workman and enjoys a large custom.

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP.

LEVINGSTON, ANDREW, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1781. In 1801 he trav- elled up the Licking valley, but did not perma- nently settle in this county until 1808, when he settled in Hopewell township, where he ever after- ward lived, and where he died February 14, 1879, at the ripe age of ninety-eight years.

JERSEY TOWNSHIP.

HANDLEY, JESSE T., farmer, born August 8, 1845, in this county, the seventh of ten children. His father, David Handley, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1805, moved to Bowling Green township with his mother and her family about 1827; married Harriet, daughter of Peter Parkhurst, and has the following children: David F., born November 11, 1867; William H., born March 6, 1870; Ella May, born April 9, 1873; Lil- lie Estelle, born April 10, 1876, and Mary Jane, born June 25, 1879.

LICKING TOWNSHIP.

HARTER, HENDERSON, post office, Hebron, was born March 12, 1833, in Licking county; was the son of John and Elizabeth Harter. He was mar- ried to Ann C. Sibert, of this county, December 2, 1858. They have five children : Eva Jane was born October 4, 1859 ; Mary Alice, September 2, 1861; Ida Bell, February 10, 1863; Charles Elmore, February 21, 1873; La Fayette, February 5, 1880. Eva Jane was married to Alva L. Smith, of this county, a farmer. The remainder of the children are single and at home. Mr. and Mrs. Harter are members of the new school Baptist church. They have always lived in this county, and are Virginian descent.

HENDREN, CHARLES L. E., was born November

12, 1844, in this county; was the son of Daniel C. and Frances Hendren, who had ten children; six are living at present who are in Franklin and this county. Charles L. E., the subject of this sketch, was married August 4, 1869, to Mary Lones, of Franklin county, who was born June 20, 1847, in Franklin county. Results of this marriage-five children; the first lived but seven days; Emma Grace, was born September 13, 1872; Willis Edwin, born March 9, 1874; John Robert, February 23, 1876; Samuel Orlando, April 1, 1878. Mr. Hen- dren has always been a farmer, and now lives west of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; has about one hundred and two acres of land.

HOUSE, JOHN, post office, Jacktown, was born De- cember 27, 1794, in Chester county, Pennsylvania; was the son of F. and Mary House. He farmed in the summer and worked at shoemaking in winter ; was married to Mary Rolens, of Harrison county, in 1820. He came to this county in 1832; located in Licking township on the farm where he now lives. He is the father of ten children: Angeline, born May 13, 1821; Sarah, May 18, 1822; Nathan, February 28, 1824; William, February 15, 1826; John Q., July 16, 1829; Mary, July 7, 1835; David. July 1, 1838; Elizabeth, April 19, 1841 ; Jefferson, March 15, 1842, and one child born dead ; Mary House, died in 1871. John House was married again to Mary Switzer, of this county, in 1872. Mr. House has lived on the one farm for forty- eight years.

HUPP, ADELINE, post office, Jacktown, was born March 31, 1820, in Ohio county, West Virginia ; was the daughter of Joseph B. and Margaret Steward, of the same county, who moved to this county in 1834, making the journey in wagons They located in Licking township, where they lived and died. Joseph B. Steward died February 26, 1879, aged eighty-eight years; Margaret Steward died August 4, 1878, aged eighty-one years. Adeline was married to Samuel Hupp, of this coun- ty, January 31, 1839. Results of this marriage- four children: Joseph M., Margaret S., J. W., and George N. Joseph M. married Lucy White, cf this county; Margaret S. married James Richeson, of this county, who died September 7, 1870, aged thirty years; J. W. married Amelia Jane Etnier, of Licking county; George M. is single and lives at home with his mother on the old homestead where his father was born and reared. Samuel Hupp's parents came to this county in an early day, when there were but a few log cabins where Newark now stands. Their old homestead was all in woods when they located upon it, they themselves cottin away the trees to build a cabin. Mrs. Sand Hupp is a member of the Presbyterian church Fair Mount.

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HUPP, BALSER, was born October 4, 1779, in enandoah county, Virginia. He was the son Balser and Barbara Hupp; married Mary M. anaup, of Rockingham county, Virginia. The sults of this marriage were eleven children; oved to Licking county in 1825, and worked at use carpentering and farming. Mrs. Hupp died :ptember 28, 1852, in her fifty-fifth year. Harry .upp was born July 4, 1816, in Shenandoah unty, Virginia; came to this county with his irents; was married to Helen Stevens, of Licking unty; they have no children of their own, but ave adopted and raised seven children, all of hom are married and living, but one. Balser jupp is now in his one hundred and first year, id lives in Bowling Green township, and is in good ealth.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.

HOOVER, ELAM C., farmer, New Way, was born october 27, 1838. He married Mary A. Overturf anuary 30, 1862. She was born August 23, 1835. 'hey had six children: Perry M., born June 21, 863; Newton G., born October 6, 1864; Emma ., born March 18, 1866; Cora, born April 25, 869; Harvey, born February 10, 1874; Seth, born .pril 9, 1876. Mother died January 10, 1879. fr. Hoover is a genial, whole-souled man who has Il of his children around him, and endeavors to bake home pleasant. He is the third child of Johlan and Mary C. Hoover, of Monroe township.

MADISON TOWNSHIP.

HANDLEY, HOMER C., farmer, son of Henry and Mary Handley, was born in Franklin township, his county, September 16, 1848. On the thir- eenth day of February, 1876, he married Miss Mary E., daughter of Zadock Flemming, Miss Flemming was born in Fairmount, Virginia, March 8, 1853, and was brought to this county in 855. Mr. and Mrs. Handley settled on the arm in Madison township, where they are now liv- ng. He owns a good farm in the northeast part of the township, and is following farming as his vo- :ation.

HOLTZ, JOHN, a farmer, residing in the north- west corner of Madison township. He is the son of George and Susan Holtz, and was born Novem- Der 14, 1830, in Jackson township, Knox county. He remained with his parents until he was twenty- three years of age, when he commenced farming for himself. He removed from Knox county to Madison township, in the spring of 1874, where he has lived ever since. He was married September 15, 1853, to Mary Henry. She was born in Davis county, Indiana, September 15, 1836, and is the daughter of John and Sarah Henry. They have six children: Theodosia, born August 9, 1855 ;

Isadora, born December 19, 1858; Le-Grand V., born October 7, 1860; Orpha, born September 6, 1862; Vallandigham, October 30, 1864.

MARY ANN TOWNSHIP.

HICKEY, WILLIAM, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, near the town of Winchester, August 4, 1797, he being the fifth child of Edward and Diannah Hickey. The sub- ject of this sketch enlisted in the War of 1812 at the age of seventeen years, under Captain David Vanmeter and Colonel Henry E. Coleman, and served about three months; was discharged in De- cember, 1814. He then returned home to Vir- ginia, and there remained until August, 1815, when he made a trip to Ohio with his knapsack on his back, landing in Zanesville. From there he went up into Coshocton county, where he married Sarah Shambaugh, March, 1818, she being a daughter of Philip and Margaret Shambaugh, and was born in July, 1805. After his marriage he moved to Mad- ison township, this county, where he worked out by the day, farming. In two and a half years he leased a farm in Mary Ann township for twelve years, the conditions of the lease requiring him to clear forty acres of the land and set out fifty apple trees. This was about 1821. After a few years he purchased three hundred and three acres of land. They had five children-four sons and one daugh- ter. Their son Henry died in April, 1871. Mr. Hickey is at present the owner of eight hundred and seventy-nine acres of land, besides having given to his children three hundred and eighty-three acres. September 15, 1848, his wife died, and in July, 1853, he married Harriet Moore, daughter of Thomas and Catharine Moore. She was born March 18, 1831. They have three children, one son and two daughters, all living. Mr. Hickey has been justice of the peace three terms. He and his wife are members of the Disciple church of Rocky fork.

MCKEAN TOWNSHIP.

HORTON, THOMAS, SR., was born February 14, 1795' in Rutland county, Vermont. Was the son of Jesse and Nancy Horton. He was married November, 1814, to Miss Carter, of Vermont, who was born August, 1795. They had twelve children; nine are living at present. He came to this county in 1833, locating in Granville township; came to Mc- Kean township in 1837. The names of his chil- dren are Edwin, Orson, Thomas, Paschal I., Char- lotte, Sophia, Emily, Edgar and Helen M. Mrs. Horton died in 1865, aged sixty-eight years. Thomas, sr., was married again in 1872, to Alice Green, of Delaware county, who was born in 1819 in New York.

HORTON, THOMAS, JR., was born in 1822, in Rutland county, Vermont. Was married to Matil-

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da Wright, of this county, in 1846. They had four children, all of whom died in infancy. They adopt- ed two children, Clara and Frank C. Wright. Clara was married October 12, 1878, to Rev. R. I. De Selm, a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, at that time of the Johnstown circuit. Clara died October 9, 1879, just one year after her marriage, leaving a daugh- ter three weeks old which has been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Horton, jr. Frank C., is a stu- dent at present in the university of Delaware, Ohio. Thomas, jr., has been engaged in the mercantile business at Fredonia, was appointed local minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1861; was ordained by the Methodist Episcopal conference October 6, 1867, at Ironton, Ohio; has served in this capacity ever since; is at present living on the farm where his father located in 1837.

MONROE TOWNSHIP.

HARDING, WINFIELD SCOTT, miller, Johnstown, was born September 26, 1847, in Mckean town- ship, Licking county. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Ohio volunteer in- fantry, September, 1863, and served till the close of the war, being mustered out at Charlotte, North Carolina. He was married September 22, 1869, to Melvina Keckly, of Homer, Licking county. He has two children living-Burton C., born June 22, 1870, and Harvey Edward, born September 28, 1871. Blanche Ella, born February 11, 1876, died August 12, 1877. Mr. Harding is a Repub- lican in politics, and is at present in charge of Pratt's mills, at Johnstown.

HODGES, JOHN B., miller, Johnstown, was born in Miller township, Knox county, Ohio, Septem- ber 30, 1850. He was married December 25, 1874, to Mary E. Keckley, of Homer, this county. He has one child, Holland L., born October 17, 1875. Mr. Hodges has an interest in the Pratt mills at Johnstown, and is a Republican in politics.

NEWARK TOWNSHIP.

HOLLAR, A. ABSOLOM, son of Henry and Catha- rine Hollar, was born in Newark township, Novem- ber 18, 1818. His father was born in Virginia, in 1770, came to this county in 1814 and settled in Newton township, near what is known as the Bunker hill school-house. A short time after this he and his brother John purchased a tract of land containing two hundred and eighty-two acres, in the northern part of Newark township, where they erected a log cabin. Here Mr. Henry Hollar reared a family of eight children : Absolom, Moses, Polly, Joseph, Peter, Henry, Elizabeth and Ellis. Absolom and Polly are still living upon the old homestead ; Joseph, Moses, and Peter are dead ; Henry lives in Newark ; Elizabeth lives in the west- ern part of Newark township and is the wife of

John King; Elias lives in Vanattasburgh, Newton township. Mary Ward, an old lady, lives with the Hollar family. She came from Virginia at an early day, and has always made Mr. Hollar's her home.

HARPER, ELIAS .- He was born in Defiance, February 22, 1851 ; he is one of the family of seven children of John Harper, of Mount Vernon. In early life he learned blacksmithing, and latterly has been in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio rail- road company. He was married May 16, 1878, to Miss Fannie Stinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jones Stinger, of Newark. They have one child, born April 22, 1880.

HENDERSON, R. B., farmer, post office, Newark. His ancestry is Scottish. The originator of the American family, James Henderson, emigrated to America in 1740. He settled. near Chambers- burgh, Pennsylvania, and raised a family of three sons and two daughters. The sons served in the revolution. After its close two of them settled in the south, where they passed their days. James, the oldest, with his wife, Sarah (Hindman), and family of eight children, came to Perry county, Ohio, in 1800. His first son, James (the third of that name) was born in Pennsylvania, November 17, 1775. He was married to Nancy Day, of Perry county, in 1809, and was in the War of 1812. They raised four sons and two daughters. Their second son, James Henderson the (fourth), was born in Perry county, Ohio, March 2, 1812. His second marriage occurred in 1844, when he married Rebecca S. Myers, of Hebron, Licking county, Ohio (the Myers family trace their ances- try to George Washington). They raised two sons and three daughters. R. B. Henderson, their old- est son, was born in Hebron, Licking county, March 24, 1847. He lived with his parents in Perry county for twenty years. In 1867 his pa- rents moved near Granville, where his mother died January 28, 1880, leaving his father an aged in- valid. His father-in-law, W. H. Montgomery, died June 1, 1880. Mr. Henderson now enjoys a comfortable home near the city of Newark in the society of his happy family. His wife was born in Brookfield, Trumbull county, and is now, December, 1880, twenty-eight years of age. At her birth, she says, she had eight grand-parents, all American born, tracing their ancestry to Ire- land. Three are now living.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 120

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