History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 122

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

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NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

HARRIS, ISAAC, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1803, came with his father to Clear Fork valley in 1805, where, within a mile of Chatham, he lived, and where he died August 6, 1879, aged seventy-six years, having, at the date of his death, the longest residence (seventy-three years) of any person within the borders of Newton township.

HARRIS, PERRY A., merchant, St. Louisville, was born in Clay township, Knox county, November 17, 1827. He moved with his parents to Eden township, Licking county, in 1828; lived with his parents on the farm until 1847, when he went to Newark, and, during the summer of 1847, clerked in the grocery store of H. W. R. Brunner, and for John Lott during the winter. In the spring of 1848 he went to Martinsburgh, Knox county, and commenced to learn harness-making; worked two years and gave it up on account of weakness of the eyes. In August, 1850, he worked for L. Rambo in woollen factory two miles north of Newark. In the spring of 1851 he went to work for Colville & Giffin, of Newark. Stayed there until July 29, 1852, when he started the grocery business in Van- natasburgh. He stayed there until the spring of 1853, when he moved to St. Louisville, where he started business, and has since resided. His stock consisted of a general stock of goods that he pur- chased of William McDaniel for one hundred and fifteen dollars. The next day he went to New- ark and bought one hundred and thirty-five dollars worth of fresh goods, making the total amount of stock at commencing two hundred and fifty dol- lars, and at present has increased his stock, does an ample yearly business, and carries about five thousand dollars worth of goods. Besides his

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mercantile business he is engaged in the grain bus- iness with G. M. Benear, and has been postmaster of the place for twelve years. He was married to Elizabeth E. Myers October 16, 1854. She was born March 5, 1833, in Richland county. They had five children-Laura E., born September 19, 1855, married F. M. Smith October 1, 1873, and resides in Newark. Mr. Smith is a carpenter and joiner. Charles F., born August 5, 1857, and died October 31, 1859; Harry E., born August 22, 1859, is a printer by trade, and works in Bangor, Michigan; Mary A., born March 23, 1862; Har- riet E., born January 5, 1866. Miss Mary assists her father in the store. Mr. Harris' father died on the old homestead November 8, 1874. His mother is still living, is seventy-seven years of age, and lives with her daughter. Mrs. Harris' parents are both dead. Her father died February 4, 1854, fifty-two years old. Her mother died February 20, 1870, seventy years of age.

PERRY TOWNSHIP.

HARRAH, JAMES, farmer, post office, Cooksey, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 5, 1836. He left Belmont county when fifteen years of age and came to Knox county. After living in several counties in this State he finally located in this township, where he owns seventy-seven acres of land. He was married to Miss Catharine Nethers. They have had six children-Leander J., Lloyd Wil- lis, Mary Almeda, Sammy, Zona Arilla, and Sarah. Mr. Harrah took an active part in the late war, going out in the Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry. From the effects of falling in the water when sick he has very poor eyesight.

HARSCH, JOHN, farmer, post office, Hanover, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1833, and came to this country in 1854 In 1860 he was married to Miss Koppert, who was born in Baden, Germany, in 1839. They are the parents of seven children: George, aged nineteen; Lizzie, aged seventeen; Mary, aged fifteen; Katie, aged twelve; Johnnie, (deceased); Nellie, aged seven; Emma, aged three. Mr. Harsch's parents were born in Baden, Ger- many, and came to this country in 1854, and are living near Dresden, Musking im county, at present, the father aged seventy, and the mother in her seventieth year. Mrs. Harsch's parents came to this country in 1859. In 1870, while a resident of Muskingum county, her father died, and her mother passed away in 1867. Mr. Harsch owns one hun- dred and nineteen acres of fine farming land in this township, and is raising up a bright family of children. He was track foreman on several rail- roads, previous to farming, for some fifteen years, and has a large acquaintance among railroad men.

HARTUPEE, DANIEL, blacksmith, post office,

Cooksey .- The subject of this sketch has been en- gaged in his present vocation for a number of years, and takes pride in doing better work than can gen- erally be found in this part of the country. He is practical and industrious, and is respected as an honest man by his many patrons.

HOLMES, JAMES, farmer, post office, Cookser, was born September 20, 1813, in Fauquier county, Virginia. In 1825 he came to Muskingum county, Ohio. In 1837 he came to this township, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Redmond, a native of Virginia. They have had six children-Willis, Isabell, Susanna, Lucy, infant, and Sarah Elizab th. Isabell was married to E. J. Thumwood. Lucy was married to George W. Gardner. Sarah was married to Minor Romine. Mr. Holmes is possessor of three bun- dred and forty-five acres of land, and is an indus- trious, honest man. His father and mother were natives of Virginia, of English extraction.

HOLMAN, D. H., carriage manufacturer, post o fice, Perryton. Mr. Holman's parents were born in Cornwall, England, and came to Marietta, Ohio, in 1844, and located in Licking county in 1856. T. H. Holman was born in Washington county, Ohio, in 1847; went to Scioto county in 1852; went to Fallsbury township in 1856. After learn- ing his trade in Scioto county in 1864, he worked at journeyman's work in Columbus, Mt. Vernon, and other places until 1869, when he located in this township, and started a little jobbing shop, which he run for five years, and with such success that the little shop has at this time developed into one of the largest and best appointed carriage and wagon works in this part of the State, running some twenty-five or thirty skilled men. His "en- terprise" can be seen on all the roads and farms in Licking county, and his work has taken the first premium lour consecutive years in the county, against many competitors. Mr. Holman was mar- ried to Miss Jane Evans, in 1870, the fruits of this union being four children : William, aged eight years; Charles, six years; Lotta, deceased; and the fourth, an infant, deceased. Mr. Holman is a justice ot the peace, having run on the minor- ity ticket, and recieving a majority twice as large as such minority. "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country." Mr. Holman is accorded the honor due him by his own people.

HOYT, LUCIUS V., merchant, post office, Hano- ver, was born in this county in 1835. He was married to Miss Isabel Denman, a native of this county, in 1863. They have four children: Ada, deceased; Maggie, deceased; Blanche, four years of age; Maude, two years of age. L. V. Hoyt is possessor of sixty-five acres of farming land, and

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carries oa a large business in dry goods and gro- ceries; also engages in other business, such as buying wool, grain and stock. His mother, Mrs. Margaret Hoyt, was born in 1800, and is still living in this township; his father, Sillick Hoyt, passed away thirty-four years ago. L. V. is one of twelve children, five of whom are now living.

HUNT, TOWNSEND, farmer, post office, Hanover. Mr. Hunt was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1826. With his father he came to Muskingum county, and after some years in that county, he finally located in this township. He owns some seventy-five acres of fine land, and gives a great portion of his time to the raising of bees for the market. He is very successful as a bee-man, as he thoroughly understands their habits and peculiari- ties, having devoted a large part of his life to a careful study of them. He is prepared to furnish Italiar. queens of the purest strain to any one who may want to engage in the bee business. Any one in the business, or about to engage in it, could do no better than to consult Mr. Hunt. Owning his farm and a large stock of bees, he is prepared to sell cheaper than parties less fortunate.

UNION TOWNSHIP.

HAYS, E. P., farmer, post office, Union station. -He was born in Essex county, New York, Fel - ruary 8, 1816. He first engaged in business for himself in the manufacture of potash on a quarter section of wild land in the Rathborn tract in Union township. He then, about the year 1844, commenced clearing up this farm for cultivation. He then followed, trom that time, agriculture and dealing in stock. He was married to Miss Ade- lia Paige, March 18, 1832. Thomas E. Hays, the only living child, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 4, 1845. He served in the late Rebellion in company B, One Hundred and Thirty- fifth Ohio national guards, and was captured at North Mountain, Virginia, July 3, 1864. He was marched to Andersonville, where he was held for a period of five months, suffering all the horrors and cruelties of that notorious prison. The subject of this sketch, through his industry and economy, is now the owner of three hundred and fifty acres of valuable land under a fine state of cultivation. He has also a fine dwelling house and four large barns. His son is living on a portion of the farm, and occupies a prominent position in society and in the Methodist Episcopal church.

HOUSE, JEFFERSON, farmer, post office, Hebron. -Mr. House's father, John House, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1794, and is now living in Licking township, this county. His mother was born in West Virginia, in 1796, and died in 1871, in this county. The subject of

this sketch was born in Harrison county in the year 1832, and came with his parents to this county in 1833, at which time his parents located in the edge of a vast woods, and commenced to clear off a farm. In the year 1868 he was mar- ried to Miss Larona Young, a native of this town- ship. They have had five children: Addie Bell, eleven years; Harry Allen, six years; Mamie, three years; Gracie, dead, and an infant. Mr. House owns eighty acres of fine farming land, where he resides.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.

HELPHREY, DANIEL JR., farmer, post office Utica. He was born in October, 1831. His father, Daniel, sr., came to this county from Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1808, with his parents and set- tled in Burlington township, on the farm owned at present by James Watson. Daniel, sr., married Elizabeth Harrison in 1816. She was born in 1798. Her parents came to Licking county from Rockingham county, Virginia. Her mother was ninety-three years of age when she died in 1871. Mr. Helphrey's parents commenced life in the woods, purchasing forty acres in Mckean town- ship; lived there five years, sold, and, in 1822, bought ninety acres in Bennington township, in the woods. They made the necessary improve- ments ; set out an orchard, built a hewed log cabin, and staid there ten years. Daniel's grandfather died in 1834, when his father bought the heir's in- terest and moved on the home farm, where they lived about twenty years. He sold to one of his boys, with the intention of going west, but changed. his mind and moved to Delaware, Delaware county, Ohio, and lived there twelve years, when he returned to Licking county, where he remained till his death, in 1871. Mr. Helphrey had ten brothers and sisters: Rhoda, Rachel, Burgess, Lewis, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Catharine, Christianna, Molencia, and Hezekiah. Rhoda died at three years of age, Rachel married Nathaniel English; she died September 13, 1854; Burgess married and lives in Burlington township ; Lewis married Maria Koontz and lives in Jasper county, lowa; Rebecca marrie | Anderson Weir and lives in Logan county, Ohio; Elizabeth married John Miller and lives in Utica; Catharine married J. L. Boyd; Christianna marrie i Benjamin Boyd, and owns the adjoining farm of his brother, in Washington township. His mother mikes her home with her daughter Catha- rine; his sister Molencia, died August 2, 1862, aged twenty-four years; his brother enlisted during the war, in the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Olio volunte.r infantry, and died of chronic diarrhea April 11, 1863. His mother has thirty- six grandchildren ; the oldest is thirty-one years of age; she has fifteen great-grandchildren, the oldest

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of whom is seven years old. Mr. Helphrey re- mained at home until he was twenty-three years old when he went west, made a couple of trips to Iowa, then in 1859, with a party of ten, started for Pike's Peak, but did not go through; returned to Ohio in the spring of 1860, he went to Nemeha county, Kansas, and was married to M. J. Law- rence. She was born in 1832, in Vermont. They have five children. When Mr. Helphrey went to Kansas he settled on a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, and went to raising sheep and gen- eral farming. He was a member of the State legislature in 1868-69. He lost one child and his wife by death in 1872. After his wife died he re- turned to Ohio with the remaining children, and makes his home with his brother-in-law, J. L. Boyd, and assists in farming. He also works at the carpenter trade.

HUGHES, JONATHAN, retired farmer, post office, Utica, was born January 14, 1796, Thursday evening, eleven o'clock, in Harrison county, Vir- ginia, and is one of the sons of Captain Elias Hughes, the great Indian hunter, scout and spy. His father removed with his family, in 1797, to Muskingum county, in a vessel made of a large pop- lar tree, called a pirogue. It was large enough to lay a barrel across the boat lengthwise; part of their goods were sent on horseback. His mother rode a horse and carried him, and those of the family who were able to walk did so. He was the eleventh child and the baby. Captain Hughes re- mained in Zanesville until April 6, 1798, when he started for Licking county with his family. During their stay in Zanesville, Mrs. Hughes gave birth to a daughter, consequently there were three young children in the family; the subject of this sketch being about two years old, a brother eighteen months older. The subject of this sketch and his brother, older, were placed each one in a salt sack, were hung over the pommel of the saddle and were carried to Bowling Green in that manner. They made the trip as fast as their geese would travel, as they drove them and had to cut a path through the woods. The Hughes and Ratliff families were the first white settlers that settled within the boundary of Licking county, and he is the only surviving member of either family. His father was ninety- seven years old when he died; he was a soldier in the battle at Point Pleasant in 1774, and was not married until he was past twenty-five. They lived in Bowling Green ten years, when they moved upon North Fork, on a farm owned by Samuel Davis. In 1809 his father bought a farm, now owned by William Weiss, and, in the fall of 1813, gave it up. During the winter of 1808 and 1809, he attended school taught by his brother-in-law, James Maxwell, east of St. Louisville, a distance of

six miles; he boarded with his sister; he attended school during the winter of 1810 and 1811, and then was apprenticed to a carpenter and joiner in Mount Vernon, Knox county, in 1815. During his ap- prenticeship he received two months schooling in a school situate in the public square at Mount Ver- non; he remained there till the fall of 1816; was married to Lovina Davis, June 9, 1817. He car- ried on the carpenter business in Utica thirty years When his father-in-law died, he purchased the in- terest of the heirs and moved to this farm, where he has since resided, farming and working at his trade until fifteen years ago, when he gave up his trade altogether. Mrs. Hughes was born June 14 1800, and became the mother of five children; she died October 28, 1876. Her children are: Clarenda, born December 7, 1818; Louisa, born November 17, 1820; James M., born July 15, 1823; Vincent S., born March 31, 1827, and Ada- line N., born December 7, 1829. They are all married and are living in various parts of the coun- try. After his wife's death, two of his granddaugh- ters kept house for him; they are the children of his son James, who lives in Indiana. He is an un- usually smart and intelligent man for one of his age, and has remarkable good health, and is able at this time of life to split his one hundred rails a day. On his eightieth birthday he cut and split one hundred and thirty rails in five hours and forty minutes, and walked fifty rods to his work, and came to his din- ner and returned within the time. He has five grandchildren married, and has ten great-grand- children ; his oldest great-grandchild is about twelve years of age, and his oldest grandchild is past forty. His father before him was a remarkably smart man in old age. When he was eighty years old he started from Utica after sunrise, and arrived at his daughter's, in Muskingum county, before sunset the same day, a distance of about forty miles; he re- mained with Jonathan from the spring of 1828 until the fall of 1844, when he died; he had been blind in one eye before he made the walk spoken of, but when he reached his daughter's, he found he was totally blind; outside of that was in perfect health till the day of his death. He always had a deadly hatred of the Indian race. Although a great many Indian murders were laid to his door, there are but few of which any proof is known. At one time General Putnam was going to have him arrested, but through the agency of Colonel Ben Wilson and Colonel Elias Louths, General Putnam withdrew the order, as the Virginians thought everything of Captain Hughes, and they were afraid that if anything was done to him they would raise up and destroy the town of Marietta. At one time the Indians stole some horses belonging to him, Ratliff, Bland and Mr. Weedman. He, Ratliff, and Bland, started in pursuit. They overtook them, shot them, and re

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turned with the horses. About a year after, some Indians, friends of those that were shot, came to Ratliff's and demanded indemnity for those that were killed. Ratliff sent to Hughes a number of times, but he did not go, but finally he told his daughter Mary to go home and tell her father he would be over in the morning, and tell him, "damn him, I will pay him." On his return, he told his wife that the Indians had gone, and he did not see him. Jonathan's mother was the mother of sixteen children; of whom fourteen lived to be men and women; she died in 1827. The subject of this sketch never drank whiskey, as a beverage, in his life, never tasted tobacco but once, and that was to cure a sore mouth, and never smoked a cigar, never voted the Democratic ticket, only at the time of the Jackson and Clay ticket, when he voted for Jackson. He is now a strong Prohibitionist.

BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.

ILES, A. M., farmer .- His great grandfather, Henry Iles, was born in England in 1749; came to America during the Revolution. His wife, Mary M. Stine, was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1764. Henry lles died in 1814, and his wife in 1832. They were the parents of several children, but only two lived in this county, viz. : George and Frederick. George was born in 1803, and in 1826 married Miss Elizabeth Weiant, of this county. She was born in Orange county, New York, in 1809. George Iles died in 1871; his wife died in 1866. They had no children, and at his death he, among other munificent bequests, donated a fund of one thousand five hundred dollars to the Bethel Meth- odist Episcopal Bennington chapel, to be adminis- tered by three trustees-the fund to be perpetual and the trustees to serve for life. Frederick Iles, brother of George, married Miss Hannah Conard, of this county. They were the parents of one child, a son, Alexander, who was born in this coun- ty in 1818; married Miss Martha Milligan, of Monroe township, in 1844. Mrs. Iles is living in this township. They were the parents of four children: Alonzo M., the subject of this sketch, married Miss Rice, daughter of E. G. Rice, of this county; Delano, married Miss Sarah E. Harris, daughter of Jesse Harris, of this county; Emma, married Noah Dumbauld, of this county; Alice B., married William Moore, of this county. Alonzo, the subject of this sketch, has a fine farm north of Appleton, and will, in a few years, have as pretty a place as can be found in the township. He has a son named Marion I.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.

INGHAM, THOMAS H., a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ingham, was born in Pittsfield, New York, October 22, 1798. He migrated to Licking

county, Ohio, with his parents in 1814, who set- tled in Granville township. Their first purchase was a fifty acre tract of land on Loudoun street, now owned by B. Jones, on which they built a cabin, made improvements and lived for several years, then he exchanged the fifty acres of land with the improvements, for a piece of land on the same street, near the line between Mckean and Granville townships. On this he made im- provements, and moved his family, where he passed the balance of his days. His companion deceased July 6, 1850, aged eighty years. He died June 15, 1863, aged ninety-one years. Thomas H. Ingham, married Clarrissa Baker in the year 1821, born November 24, 1801. They settled on the land first purchased by his father, and re- mained until that farm was exchanged for the land further north, on the same street; then, as soon as some improvements could be made and a resi- dence erected, they moved to their new home, where he is now living. They reared a family of five children: Lyman E., born January 17, 1822; George H., born May 18, 1824; Volney V., born June 30, 1828, Marion, born April 10, 1832; Syl- vester A., born October 30, 1837; all are deceased except George H. and Marvin. His companion deceased May 20, 1865. He is still living at the age of eighty-two years.

LICKING TOWNSHIP.

IVORY, THOMAS .- The subject of this sketch was born in Westmeath, in the parish of Street, Ireland, January 2, 1774. He emigrated to the United States in 1818, and moved to Licking county in 1829, and died in Licking township De- cember 27, 1870, in the ninety-seventh year of his age. He was, when in the full maturity of his powers, a man of enterprise, energy, industry and many excellent qualities, reaching his great age without a stain upon his character.

CITY OF NEWARK.

IDEN, GEORGE, county recorder, pro. tem., was born July 9, 1845, in Hanover township. After finishing his common school education, he took the commercial course at the Vermillion institute, Ashland, and a course at the Capital City college at Columbus, after which he engaged in teaching, and followed his profession exclusively until his ap- pointment to complete the unexpired term of Re- corder Lingafelter. He was president of the Teachers' institute for the year 1879. He enlisted in September, 1864, in company F, Ninety ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served to the close of the war.

INGMAN, O. L., grocer, corner of Main and Fifth streets, Newark .- Mr. Ingman is a native of Newark, and was born February 14, 1842; he re-

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ceived his education in the public schools of this city, and made his first start in life by selling papers as newsboy, and was the first one that sold Cin- cinnati and Columbus papers in this city. When about fourteen years old, he engaged with T. H. Sites as salesman, with whom he remained three years; he then went west, and located in Madison, Wisconsin, where, in 1863, he enlisted in company D, Twenty-third Wisconsin volunteer infantry, in which he served as a corporal until 1864, when he was promoted to second lieutenant, and transferred to company I, Forty-third Wisconsin volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war, after which he returned to Wisconsin, and en- gaged as salesman in the hardware business, in which he remained a short time, and then went to Vicksburgh, Mississippi, where ho served the firm of Myers & Co. about a year. He then came to Memphis, and engaged in the plastering business which he also followed in St. Louis and in Newark until 1873, when he engaged in the grocery busi- ness in company with L. O. Granger, under the firm name of Granger & Ingman, which continued until 1876, when he purchased his partner's interest, and has since been sole proprietor. He occupies an excellent location and commodious rooms at No. 101, on the corner of Main and Fifth streets, where he has a salesroom, twenty by ninety, four warerooms, fourteen by fifteen each, and a ce'lar, twenty by twenty-five. He carries a large, first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectioneries, fancy goods, toilet articles, tobacco and cigars of the latest and best brands, stoneware, wooden and willow ware, sugar-cured and smoked hams, pickled pork, fish, salt, flour, ham sausage, dried and fresh meats of all kinds, bologna, etc.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 122

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