History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 125

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

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LAMP, DAVID J., born in the village of Amster- dam, Licking county, June 30, 1847, the ninth of a family of ten children. His father, Jacob Lamp, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1794- and emigrated to Belmont county, Ohio, and from there to Licking county in 1835. His mother, Catharine Stacher, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He married Julia Wiley, a nitive of Jacksontown, March 22, 1866, and has five children : Lily V., Jacob A., Marion J., Margery A., and Thomas E. Mrs. Lamp's father, Al.red

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Wiley, a tailor by trade, was born in Virginia, and her mother, Mary J. Mossman, born in Ireland, came to this country with her parents when three months old. Mr. Lamp has always lived in Am- sterdam, except four years, 1866 to 1870, in Franklin county, one in Jersey township, and one in Jacksontown. He is a farmer, and has also owned a portable saw-mill, from 1870 to 1880. He and his wife are members of the Christian Union church.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.

LINNELL, KNOWLES, Granville, was born in Tol- land, Hampden county, Massachusetts, May 30, 1788, and was the fi.th of seven children born to Zeuriah and Joseph Linnell. He was one of the original Granville colony, and died in that place July 16, 1875, in his eighty-eighth year. Mr. Lin- nell, with his parents and most of his brothers and sisters, left their home in Massachusetts, October 19, 1805, arriving in Granville December 10th. They came with a wagon, two yoke of oxen, and a horse. He remained, during his life, one of the most influential and highly respected citizens of Granville.

LINNELL, JOSEPH, Granville, was born in Barn- stable county, Massachusetts, October 5, 1782; he came to Granville in 1808, and resided there until his death, which occurred about the middle of February, 1871, in the eighty-ninth year of his age; he was among the best of that fine class of pioneers that settled in Granville, and was highly esteemed by the community in which he lived so many years.

LITTLE, THOMAS, Granville, deceased, of Scotch descent, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1775; he married Miss Lydia Jackson in 1793; born in New Jersey in 1768. They settled in Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, where they remained un- til 1805; they migrated to Lycoming county, Penn- sylvania ; lived there ten years, and, in 1815, they came to Licking county ; arrived in Granville township December 13, 1815. They moved into a house on the Canfield's farm. He pur- chased the farm now owned by T. J. Robin- son, on Centerville street, at a cost of eleven dollars per acre. The only improvement on the land was a small clearing and a few acres of wheat sowed. Mr. Little at once went to work to erect a cabin, which he completed and moved his family into it some time in May, 1816. This served them for a dwelling house until, in 1820, he burned brick and erected a two-story brick residence on the farm, and abandoned the log cabin ; he followed farming as his vocation. His companion deceased in 1847, aged seventy-nine years; he survived her until 1863, aged eighty-eight years and six hmonts. They reared a family of four children,

viz .: Jane, born in New Jersey in 1797, married Gerrard P. Bancroft, in 1814, and is now living in Granville ; Theophilus Little, born in New Jersey, in 1797, migrated to Licking county, Ohio, with his parents in 1815; married Eunice Weeks, March 29, 1825; born September 11, 1801, who migrated with her parents, Joseph H. and Mary Weeks, to Licking county in 1815. They settled on the Lit- tle homestead; remained until 1855; he sold the home farm, purchased a farm in Harrison town- ship, same county; lived there until 1864; be sold his farm, purchased property, and moved to Granville, where he deceased, July 2, 1876; his companion is still surviving him; he followed farm- ing as his vocation. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1875; they reared a family of six children: Lydia M., Henry J., Eunice and The- ophilus (twins), Jane E. and Caroline. All are liv- ing except Eunice, who deceased November 3, 1860. Mary A., second daughter of Thomas and Lydia Little, was born in New Jersey, in 1801; married Holmes Mead in 1825, who deceased in Kansas, August 10, 1874; she is now living in Granville. Hannah W., third daughter, was born in New Jer- sey in 1807; married Joseph Linnell in 1856, who deceased February 14, 1871; she is now residing in Granville.

HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.

LAKE, JESSE, farmer and stockdealer, born in this county in 1842, was married in 1862 to Miss Flora L. Wright, daughter of James N. Wright, of this county. She was born in 1845. They are the parents of three children: J. W., deceased, and H. E., and L. V. Mr. Lake owns a good farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres, and is a di- rector of the Hartford Central Agricultural society.

LATHROP, MRS. ETTIE-She was born in Bran- don, Iowa, in 1859. Her father (Dr. Stimson) came from Vermont at the age of eight years. He married a lady in Athens county, Ohio, in 1853. and in 1857 he removed to Brandon, Iowa. In 1861 he again removed to this State, and has resided here ever since. He is a physician by pro- fession and now practices at Pataskala, this county. Mrs. Lathrop has one sister, living at home with her parents, and a sister and brother are dead. Mrs. Lathrop was married to Mr. J. H. Lathrop, in August, 1879. Mr. Lathrop's father (Mr. Horace Lathrop) was born in Edgar county, New York, in 1812; came with his father's family in 1815 to Granville; resided in Granville eighteen years, and in 1833 removed to the farm where he now lives. Mrs. Catharine Lathrop, wife of Horace, was born in the city of New York in 1816. She removed to Delaware county, Ohio, in 1836. She was mar- ried to Mr. H. Lathrop, in 1844. They had two children, one son died at the age of seventeen,

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and the other is the husband of the subject of this sketch. Mr. J. H. Lathrop was born in 1847, and has followed farming since attaining his majority. JERSEY TOWNSHIP.

LEHEW, JOHN (deceased), was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 4, 1825. When about ten years old his father's family moved to Mckean township, and about six years later he came to this township. Learning the carpenter trade with his brother in Muskingum county, he stayed there several years, then returned to this township. He was married February 1, 1855, to Eliza Cramer, a native of Union county, Pennsylvania, who came to this county with her father, Joseph Cramer, when she was eight years old. By this marriage he had five children: Emma, Joseph, Sarah Ida, Ellen L., and John Sperry. Mrs. Lehew has been deeply be- reaved by the loss of her husband and two chil- dren within a year-all dying of consumption. Mr. Lehew died February 17, 1880, Sarah Ida, July 23, 1879, aged eighteen years, seven months, and seventeen days; Joseph, February 22, 1880, aged twenty-one years, nine months, and twenty- nine days. All were prepared to pass through the dark portals of death, having assurance in the Christian's reward beyond. Mr. Lehew had been an exemplary member of the Christian Union church for thirty-eight years, and the children had united with the same church.

LICKING TOWNSHIP.

LAYTON, FRANCIS M., was born April 26, 1822, in Madison county, Virginia, the son of Richard and Amelia (Liland) Layton, who came to Licking county December 27, 1827. He was married, January 19, 1844, to Hannah Meredith, of Licking county, Ohio.' Result of this marriage five chil- dren: Angeline, James K., Eliza, Amelia, and Susan P., all living and married; three in Licking county, Ohio, and two in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mrs. Layton died December 20, 1853, in her twenty-eighth year, and Mr. Layton married again January 17, 1865, to Lucinda P. Gray, of Licking county. Result of this marriage, one child, Sam- uel Herrick, born October 16, 1866. James is a lumber dealer. Angeline's husband was treasurer of Vigo county, Indiana, for a number of years, and is now a candidate for State senator on the Greenback ticket. Mr. Layton has been a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church of Jack- sontown, for over twenty-nine years, has been a trustee of the same church over twenty years; was one of the organizers of George's chapel in 1878; was one of the charter members of the Sons of Temperance, of Linnville, of some one hundred and twenty-five members, and superin- tendent and class leader of Sabbath-school at George's chapel.

LIMA TOWNSHIP.

LAYTON, JAMES, post office, Summit Station, born in that historical valley, the Shenandoah, June 29, 1818. The subject of this sketch has had an eventful life. His occupation to the age of sixteen was that of a farmer, but on leaving home at this time he came to Burlington township, and soon settled in Fairfield; where he adopted the trade of miller and followed it for thirty-five years. There was but one mill in the township at this time, lo- cated at Homer. He moved to Utica, and again to McConnelville, where he resided ten years. In 1850 he married Miss Maria E. Patterson, daughter of James Patterson, one of the pioneers, he having settled here in 1819. Mr. Layton is one of the most esteemed of the many settlers of the county.

MCKEAN TOWNSHIP.

LAKE, MARTIN, was born January 4, 1839, in this county ;. is the son of Elias and Charlotte Lake, who came to this county in 1808. He was married in 1865, to Parmelia A. Boyer, of this county, who was born in 1844. They have three children: Amanda A., born October, 1866; John W., born February, 1870; Ada Estella, born September, 1873. Martin Lake located in McKean township in 1858, where he has since resided, and is now living west of Fredonia; is a general farmer, stock raiser and wool grower.

LOWN, JOHN, farmer and carpenter, was born in 1817 in Virginia; is the son of Henry and Esther Lown, who came to this county in 1830, and locat- ed in Mckean township. They were the parents of ten children that grew to manhood and woman- hood. Henry Lown died in 1856. He was a cooper by trade but gave most of his attention to farming. John was married in 1841 to Kittie Blackbee, of this county, who was born in 1819, in Virginia, and came to this county with her parents in 1825. They have two children, one of whom is deceased. Mary was born in 1851, received her education at the Ladies' Baptist seminary, at Gran- ville, and was married to Edwin Glinn, of this county, a farmer, and is now living on the old homestead. They have two children. Mr. Lown has always been an energetic man and is highly es- teemed by all his acquaintances. Mr. Henry Lown died in 1875, aged eighty-two years.

MONROE TOWNSHIP.

LEWIS, GEORGE W., proprietor Lewis house, Johnstown, Ohio, was born March 28, 1830, in Berkshire township, Delaware county, Ohio; re- moved to Johnstown, March 29, 1839, where he has since lived. He received his education at the district schools in Licking county. He followed farming about fifteen years. He commenced

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butchering in the spring of 1873, which he has fol- lowed ever since. He married Justa A. Shafer, December 6, 1849. She was born August 4, 1831, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. She is the fifth child of Christopher S. and Catharine Shafer. David Lewis, father of the subject of this sketch, was born February 9, 1783, in Connecticut, and emigrated to Ohio in 1826, locating in Delaware county, March 29, 1839; he with his wife and chil- dren came to Licking county, where he remained until his death, August 1, 1867. His wife died December 24, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, propri- etors of the Lewis house, are among the most hos- pitable hotel keepers of Licking county.

CITY_OF NEWARK.

LATIMER, JAMES P., physician, office, west side square, Newark. Dr. Latimer is a native of Stark county, Ohio, but was raised principally in Rich- land county. He attended school at the Wooster university, the Western Reserve Medical college, Cleveland, and at Baltimore. He graduated in medicine in the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Baltimore. He located in Newark in the spring of 1880. He makes a specialty of diseases of the ear, throat, and nasal passages.

LLOYD, GEORGE R., was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1848; was married Janu- ary 20, 1878, to Rebecca Geary, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; she was born June 9, 1854. They have one son, Arthur, born February 27, 1879. Mr. Lloyd is the son of George Lloyd, by occupa- tion formerly was roll-turner in rolling mill. He now is in the employ of Oren Ingman, in the grocery business. His wife is the daughter of Edw. and Ann Geary, who live in Kansas.

LOTT, MRS. LYDIA, widow of Harrison Lott. Her maiden name was Lydia Nichols; she was born at St. Albans, this county, March 21, 1829; was married to Harrison Lott March 10, 1864. After her marriage she moved to Newark, on the place owned by her husband, on the outskirts of the city. Her husband was born in the year 1815, and was one of the old settlers of Licking county. He carried on the nursery business until his death, April 9, 1870. After his death Mrs. Lott contin- ued the business until lately. She is now living on the homestead, and is farming her place.

LYON, U., grocer, No. 157, North Third street, Newark. Mr. Lyon is a native of Tompkins coun- ty, New York, where he was born February II, 1834, and when quite young, his parents moved into Chautauqua county, where he received his edu- cation in the district and select schools. In the year 1865 he came to Newark and bought out the firm of Rankin & Smucker, dealers in boots, shoes, hats, caps, etc., and after closing out this stock he

engaged in general notions, toys, wood and willow ware, and musical instruments, which he conducted until 1867, when he engaged in the bottling busi- ness, in which he continued until 1877, when he moved out on his farm and engaged in agriculture, in which he continued three years, when in April 1880, he returned to Newark and purchased the stock of L. O. Granger, and engaged in the gro- cery business, in which he still continues. He occupies commodious rooms, twenty by one bun- dred feet, with cellarage, twenty by seventy-five feet, in which he keeps a large stock of first-class staple and fancy groceries, confectioneries, stone ware, wood and willow ware, smoked and sugar- cured hams, pickled pork, salt, flour, fish, and all the latest and best brands of cigars and tobacco

PERRY TOWNSHIP.

LEATHERMAN, JOSEPH, post office, Perryton. Mr. Leatherman was born in Pennsylvania in 1797. and is of German extraction; came to this county 1 1 the sixth of April, 1827, when there were but few settlers here, among whom were Allen Hall, Sam- uel Hickison, William Beckman, and a few others Mr. Leatherman was married April 6, 1820, to Miss Sarah Smith, a resident of Washington county, Pennsylvania. They have had six children: George fifty-nine years of age; Jonathan, seven months and twenty-five days; Cyrus, fifty-six; Joseph, fifty-four; Henry, fifty-one, and Jackson, forty- eight. Of these, Jackson took up arms in the cause of the Union, serving his full time, three years, at the close of which he was so disabled by the loss of sight (from which he has never fully re- covered) that he was obliged to quit the service He is now a prosperous merchant and farmer of Kansas. The wife of Mr. Joseph Leatherman died on the fourteenth day of July, 1867. On the eighth day of February, 1869, Mr. Leatherman was again married, to Miss Catharine Bishop, a lady of German extraction. After years of toil and industry he disposed of his farm property, and now resides in Elizabethtown.

LIPPINCOTT, WILLIAM, carriage painter, post office, Perryton, was born in this county in 1844, was married in 1864 to Miss Rachel R. Nichols, and they have had two children-Charley O., born in 1866, and Harry U., born in 1868. Both boys attend school in Wheeling, where their grandparents reside, and are smart, attractive boys. Mr. Lip- pincott has been in the employ of T. H. Holman, as painter, for seven years, and has been engaged in his present vocation twenty-five years.

ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.

LADD, JAMES R., Alexandria, Ohio, was born in Niagara county, New York, June 21, 1835, and resided with his parents until the sixteenth year of

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his age, at which time he began to serve an ap- prenticeship with George W. Meader, of Union village, Washington county, New York, serving three years in that capacity. The remaining time, until he came to Ohio (in the fall of 1856), was spent in following his trade in different parts of the State. He enlisted as private in the United States service August 20, 1862, for three years, with M. M. Munson, of Granville, Ohio, and upon the completion of the company, it was assigned to the One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteers, organizing at Camp Chase, Ohio, and ranked as letter D. The regiment was assigned to General Rosecrans' command, and accompanied him to Nashville, from thence to Chattanooga. At that point the regiment was assigned to Gen- eral Granger's reserve corps. At the battle of Chickamauga he was in command of his company, whose loss was twenty-three out of forty-six, who participated in the fight. Under an order from Governor Tod, of Ohio, to send home one man from each company in every regiment of Ohio troops for the purpose of recruiting their decima- ated ranks, and those so selected were to be sol- diers, who by meritorious conduct, would be en- titled to a leave of absence, he was detailed for that duty and left camp near Chattanooga, October 20, 1863, and arrived in Ohio November 2d, and remained until the following April, and rejoined his regiment at Rossville, Georgia. During Sher- man's campaign against Atlanta, he participated in the following battles: Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Rome, Kenesaw Mountain, Buzzard's Roost, and Jonesborough, besides several other minor engagements. He accompanied Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, participated in the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, besides several skirmishes en route. He was promoted, second lieutenant August 25, 1863; promoted first lieu- tenant June 14, 1864; promoted adjutant Septem- ber 1, 1864, and promoted to captain May 8, 1865, and assigned to duty as captain and inspec- tor general upon the staff of General John G. Mitchell, commanding second brigade, second di- vision of the Fourteenth army corps, in which po- sition he served until mustered out of service at Columbus, Ohio, July 10, 1865. May 17, 1866, he married Mary E. Van Buskirk, daughter of John Van Buskirk, sr. He has filled several township offices since the war, including that of justice of the peace, and clerk. At present is acting as notary public, and conducting the business of carriage trimming, also largely engaged in horticul- ture. He is second to none in energy and benevolence.

LEWIS, D. W., farmer and stock grower, was born March 17, 1831, in Newport, Pembrokshire,

Wales. John and Sarah Lewis, parents of the above, emigrated to Ohio in May, 1835, and pur- chased eighty acres of land where the subject of this sketch now resides. He has added more than three hundred acres to it. December 15, 1859, he married Margaret Williams, who was born in Dela- ware county, Ohio, December 24, 1857. They have two children-Lizzie A., born November 10, 1860; Margaret M., born November 21, 1866. John Lewis, the father of this subject, reared six children-D. W., Samuel, Mary, Eliza, David, and Jane; D. W. and Mary live in St. Albans township, Samuel and Eliza in Delaware county, Ohio; David and Jane in Hancock county, Ohio.

LYMAN, ABNER, farmer, post office, Alexandria, was born in Ontario county, New York, near Can- andaigua, November 1, 1811, where he remained with his parents, Abner and Tabitha Lyman, until 1817, when he with the family went to Hardin county, Kentucky, and remained until 1820, when they removed to Louisville, Kentucky, making it their home for six years. About the year 1825 Mrs. Lyman, mother of the subject of this sketch, moved with her family of seven children-Abner, Horace, Lovicia, Arga, Dorcas, John, and Hannah, to Ohio. Abner, the subject of this notice, being fifteen or sixteen years old, drove a yoke of oxen with a cart from Louisville to the southern part of this township, arriving about the twenty-seventh of October, 1825. The family stopped with an uncle, Laman Smith. Mr. Lyman's mother was a widow a number of years, and the care of their affairs prin- cipally devolved upon him. His mother died when about sixty-two years of age, his father dying in the prime of manhood. Miss Betsey Hubbard, wife of Abner Lyman, was born September 30, 1815, in Vermont, and was married to Mr. Lyman July 10, 1836, and had four children, two boys and two girls; Elizabeth, the eldest, married Mr. Rufus Wright; Horace married, first, Miss Levonia Der- man, by whom he has two children; she dying May, 1871, he married Miss Dora Gardner. Sarah is still at home. Joseph A., the youngest son, en- listed October 9, 1861, in company B, Seventy- sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and partic- ipated in the following engagements: Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing, Island No. 10, Pea. Ridge, Murfreesboro, New Madrid, Siege of Vicksburgh, after which engagements he was ordered to the front and participated in the battles of Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and Ringgold. The twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twen- ty-seventh of November, 1863, he led the regiment up the mountain, though a private, and was the first man shot out of the regiment, being shot once through the hand and twice through the left lung. He was born March 7, 1846.

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UNION TOWNSHIP.

LEE, JAMES A., farmer, post office, Granville, Ohio .-- He was born in Carroll county, Ohio, July 4, 1839, and was married to S. J. Moorehead March 29, 1866, and moved to Union township in 1878; he has six children-two girls and four boys. His father is still living, but his mother is dead; his father had ten children-six boys and four girls.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.

LAMSON, HARRISON A., was born April 6, 1818, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. His parents moved to Washington township, Licking county, Ohio, in 1822. His parents were farmers, and owned a farm in what is known and called Dog Hollow. (The name originated by a man by the name of Rogers, in consequence of a family by the name of Archer, living in that neighborhood, keep- ing so many dogs, he being a great hunter.) Mr. Lamson's father was born June 22, 1769, and died in 1847. His mother was born in 1789, and died in 1873. Her maiden name was Rosanna Rogers. Mr. Lamson remained at home with his parents, working on the farm, and attending school in the winter, kept in a log cabin by Archey Wilson. The cabin was made, as all others were made at that time, large fire place and chimney of sticks, and window panes made of paper greased. Here he remained until the spring of 1839, when he went to Granville to learn his trade. He remained here one year with Sennett & Connett, when he came to Utica and worked for Amos Mckinley, and, after this, for Mr. King. He was married to Laura Benedict in 1840. By this marriage they had seven children, all living-Elizabeth was born in 1842, Rosanna in 1844, Thadeaus in 1846, Franklin ia 1847, Eliza in 1849, Josephine in 1851, and John F. in 1856. In 1850 he moved with his family to Fredonia, Licking county, and carried on the wagon business until 1856, when he returned to Utica, where he has since resided. His wife died in the spring of 1856. John F. was but eight days old when his mother died. On his return to Utica he worked for Mr. Ball, and married Nancy Still, a widow with two children-Newton and Amanda. Was married January 8, 1857. By this marriage they had one child, born in October, 1857. His father's farm was school lands, and cost at that time one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. There were but ten acres cleared of sixty-six pur- chased. His brother purchased the farm at his father's death, of the heirs, subject to the widow's dower. Mr. Lamson's children are all living, and, at this time, he has twenty-six grandchildren.

BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.

McCOMBER, ALBERT, blacksmith, was born in Troy, New York, in 1852; he lived at home until

the age of fourteen, when he went to Detroit, Mich- igan, where he learned his trade. After working in various places and States, he moved to Apple- ton. In 1879 he married Miss Kate Rush, of Coshocton. Miss Rush was born in 1853, in Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. McComber is a finished workman.

MCCLINTOCK, W. W., farmer, was born in this county in 1833. His father, John McClintock, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. His wife, Mary Fulton, was born in the same county in 1793. They came to the county when the country was covered with timber. Mr. McClintock died in 1858, and his wife died in 1868. The subject of this sketch married Miss Lucy Taft, of Knox county, in 1858. She died in 1864. They had two children, John and Mary. He again married in 1866, Miss Larien, daughter of John Larien, of this county. They have four children: Winnie, Jessie, Willie, and Hallie. Mr. McClintock has sixty head of registered sheep, some fine cattle, and some fine grade sheep. His brother Joseph, was in the United States service five years.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 125

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