History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 127

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

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MERRILL, O. P., born near Hartford, this coun- ty, in 1836, son of Nicholas and Rebecca (Swisher) Merrill. His father emigrated to this county at an early day from Virginia, and his mother was a daughter of Philip Swisher. His father died in 1845; and the family then resided a short time in Franklin county. In 1849 he came to Jersey town- ship, where he lived on his farm until August , 1879, when he moved to Jersey village and opened a bus- iness house, keeping on hand a general stock of dry goods, groceries, hats, caps, boots, shoes, queens- ware, etc. In the spring of 1877 he was elected jus- tice of the peace, and re-elected this year; married in 1859 to Jerusha H. Beem, daughter of Daniel Beem, one of the oldest settlers in the township. By this marriage he has four children-Rosa A., Elizabeth M., Mary E., and Daniel B.

METCALF, J. B., was born in Eaton, Madison county, New York, April 20, 1820. His father, John Metcalf, was a native of Barre, Massachu- setts, and his mother, Betsey Barber, a lady of Puritan descent. His father sought and found a western home in this county in June, 1837, settling in Cherry valley, near Newark. Mr. Metcalf re- mained with his father some years, teaching school and farming. He began teaching when sixteen years old and followed it continuously, in con- nection with farming, until 1877, when he had, probably, taught more terms than any other teacher in the county. His services were called into requisition repeatedly by the directors of schools which were notoriously "rough." He spent one year, 1845-46, in Missouri, and came to this township about 1848. For twenty-four years, from 1853 to 1877, he served his township as justice of the peace, usually holding at the same time some other official position of trust. In May, 1844, he married Lucinda A. Capell, whose native place was Newstead, New York. By this marriage he has eight children -- Celia (Slough), Clarendon B., Frank, Elial, John C., Seneca, Oliver A., and Willis Edgar.

MILLS, J. T., M. D., born in Hebron, October 9, 1838, son of Warner W. and Elizabeth Mills. When thirteen years old, he moved with his father to the Sperry Mills, three miles south of Newark, where he worked for his father at milling and farming. When twenty, they returned to Hebron. Here J. T., in connection with his farm labors, began the study of medicine, but, April 21, 1861, enlisted in company H., Third Ohio volunteer infantry, and afterwards re-enlisted ; served at Stone River, Perry-

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ville, the taking of Nashville, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, etc .; was captured with the regiment, near Rome, Georgia; imprisoned in Libby and Belle Island, and afterwards ex- changed. Shortly after his enlistment, he was ap- pointed hospital steward for the Third regiment, and served in that capacity until the close of his service; mustered out June 21, 1864, when he re- sumed his professional studies, at the same time assisting his father in excavating the feeder of the reservoir, farming, etc .; attended lectures at Sterling Medical college, Columbus, Ohio, gradu- ating in 1872. The same year he located in Jer- sey, and has been in active practice since ; married, December 25, 1867, to Carrie, daughter of H. R. Green, of Greenville.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.

MORRISON, L. F., plasterer and farmer, born Janu- ary 25, 1835, in Thornville, Perry county, Ohio. His mother dying when he was about one year old, his grandparents, Louis F. and Martha Miller, brought him to Licking county, where he has re- mained ever since. He married Mary A. Phil- brook, January 14, 1858; she was born July 8, 1836 in Liberty township, where she has always lived. They have three children: Ora Mary, born June 22, 1859; Anna L., born February 12, 1862; Mary Frances, born April 4, 1868. Mrs. Morrison is a daughter of Joel and Lydia Phil- brook, the former a native of Maine, the latter of Virginia. Mr. J. L. Morrison is a son of William F. and Rachel Morrison. The former was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, November 1, 1805, died January 24, 1875; the latter was born in Maryland in 1807.

MOUNT, EMELINE C., post office, Johnstown, was born February 27, 1820, in Topsham, Orange county, Vermont, where she resided with her par- ents until 1837, when they emigrated to Liberty township, her father purchasing sixty acres, on which his daughter, Mrs. Mount, now resides. The subject of this sketch first married John C. Johnson January 5, 1848. Mr. Johnson was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey; he was a son of John and Sarah Johnson, of Perth Amboy. They came to Newark, Ohio, about 1812. John, jr., died July 7, 1874. Mrs. Johnson then married Peter D. Mount January 30, 1876; he was born October 8, 1819, in Monmouth county, New Jersey. They had one child which died in infancy. Mrs. Mount had three brothers who enlisted in the late war: John A. Brown enlisted in the Fifth Ohio cavalry, and remained more than three years; Rodney S. Brown enlisted in a regiment to con- struct bridges, remaining over one year, until the close of the war; George Washington Brown en- listed in the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry,

and in a few months, returned home sick, and was killed by a stroke of lightning about July 30, 1863 Mrs. Mount is an active, energetic and thrifty woman.

LICKING TOWNSHIP.

MUSSELMAN, SAMUEL, son of John and Mary Musselman, was born in Page county, Virginia. November 8, 1785; remained with his parents until he was nearly twenty-nine years old; married Miss Catharine Gochenhour in April, 1814 In October of the same year they removed to Frank- lin township, arriving there on the thirty-first day of that month; remained there one year and a half, then came into this township. He bought eighty-four acres of land where he still lives, having added more acres to it. He has lived here sixty- four years. His occupation has been that of farm- ing all his life. He says he saw Mansfield when there was but one little frame house and one log cabin in the place, and in one of these he ate some venison. He says that Newark at that time was also very small, and ponds of water stood where the court house now stands. Mr. Musssiman in- herited habits of industry, which are still manifest in his old age, moving about quite actively now in his ninety-fifth year. Mr. Musselman and wife have been married sixty-six years; she was eighty- five years old May 28, 1880. They have had eight children, four boys and four girls-Noah married Elizabeth Richardson, and had one child (dead); John married Rachel Johnston, and has six chil- dren; Lewis died when eleven years old; Elizabeth was married to Robert Stickley, and has five chil- dren; Rachel was married to Thomas J. Bowlby, and has four living children (Lilly M., Clarrie A, Custis M., and Amsie Irene); Lilly is married to Frank H. Bradley, of Virginia, who is a farmer, and they have four children (Otie Lee, Freddie Scott, Etta E., and Claude C.); Clarrie is married to Milton L. Eagle, a farmer and minister in the Tunker church, and they have one child, Fern D. Mr. and Mrs. Musselman have twenty-five grand- children, and about the same number of great- grandchildren. They both belong to the Baptist church. In politics Mr. Musselman has been a life-long Democrat.

MUSSELMAN, JOSEPH, was born December 2, 1820, in Licking township, and is the son of Sam- uel and Catharine Musselman. Joseph was mar- ried to Lucinda Wilkin, of Newark, who was born October 11, 1825. She was the daughter of Dan- iel and Barbara Wilkin, who came to this county is 1819. Results of this marriage, four children- Robert was born November 26, 1846, married to Anna Yocum, of Newark, and now lives in Nor- ark township; Samuel, born April 28, 1859, ; married to Lora Dorsey, of this county, in my

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died September 25, 1874, and left a wife and two children; Anna B. was born February 14, 1853, was married September 9, 1875, to Henry Dorsey, of this county, and now lives in Newark township; Ola M. was born February 13, 1857, is single, and lives at home. Mrs. Musselman is a member of the Old School Baptist church. Mr. Musselman lives near the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and is a practical farmer and fruit grower.

LIMA TOWNSHIP.

MCQUEEN, GIDEON, blacksmith, post office, Pataskala. He was born in this county, October 31, 1821. He is a son of Minor and Sarah Mc- Queen, who came from east Virginia about 1812, and settled in Fallsbury township, where they died at the age of eighty-three years. They were among. the first settlers in this section. Mr. McQueen entered his tract of land, and in 1837 he erected a church, of the Baptist pursuasion, on his farm, in which he officiated as minister over forty years, and was an earnest worker for Christ. The subject of this sketch is the eighth of a family of twelve children. He was raised on the farm, and can recall many incidents of pioneer life, and grew up on the frontier, and received a limited education, but a good one for the times. At the age of eighteen he was entered as an apprentice at the blacksmith trade in Fallsburgh, a town that his father had laid out on his farm, where he worked about twenty years. He was married April, 1844, to Lucinda Athey (who died Christmas, 1861). Her parents came from Virginia. After his wife's death he went to Pontiac, Illinois, where he stayed one year, and then came back to the old place, and in November, 1864, he was married to Isabella Miles, of Knox county, and in 1868 he gave up his business to his son and moved to Newton township, and in the spring of the year 1878 he moved to Pataskala, where he still follows his trade. Mr. McQueen has raised eight children, his eldest, George, served as a volunteer in the late war, in company A, Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years.

MILLS, W. R., post office, Pataskala, was born in Franklin county in 1845, came to Licking county in the same year, and remained until he was seventeen years of age, with his uncle, Samuel Mills, of this county. He then travelled, following his trade of carpentering, for about nine years. He married in 1871, Miss Mary F. Ritchie, of Licking county. He now owns forty acres, with a fine two-story house, and the necessary barns, stables, and appliances for a farm of this size.

MYERS, JESSE, post office, Summit Station. Jesse Myers was born in 1814, the fourteenth day of July, in Harrison township. He is the son

of Henry Myers and Rebecca Stone, who were married in Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1810, settling in Harrison township, where they lived some five years ; they then removed to Union town- ship, there being but few families there at the time. Jesse Myers married Miss Catharine Tag- gart, the daughter of James and Sarah Taggart, in 1846, July 26th.

MADISON TOWNSHIP.

MCKINNEY, JOHN, a pioneer of 1814, in Madi- son township, was born in 1763, in western Penn- sylvania. He lived on Bowling Green run, and died in 1855, at the advanced age of ninty-two years.

MCGINNIS, H. K., was born in Jackson town- ship, Muskingum county, January, 14, 1856; he lived there with his father until he was twenty years of age. October 5, 1876, he was married to Miss A. A. Robinson of Hanover township, Licking county. She is the daughter of Nelson C. Robin- son, whose wife died September 14, 1868. Mr. Robinson in his early life followed the trade of a cooper, before his death he followed farming some twelve years .. He died September 23, 1874. Mr. McGinnis is a farmer by occupation, and now lives five miles east of Newark. He is the father of Belden M., born September 15, 1878. Mr. Mc- Ginnis is one of a family of thirteen children, eleven of whom are yet living in Muskingum coun- ty. His grandfather, Samuel McGinnis, was a pioneer of Muskingum county; he died August 26, 1874, aged seventy-six years.

MARY ANN TOWNSHIP.

MOORE, FRANK M., farmer, post office, Newark, Ohio. He was born in Licking township, January 3, 1837; he is the fourth of the family of ten chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. John Moore. His father died April 28, 1856, aged fifty-two years, one month and twenty-eight days. Mr. Moore, in an early day, followed farming. In 1858 he moved to Union county, Ohio. August 17, 1861, he enlisted in company E, Thirtieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served four years; he was in the battles of Car- nifex Ferry, Princeton, Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Jackson, The Hills, Black River, Vicks- burgh, Mission Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca, Dallas, Atlanta, Kenasaw Mountain, Jonesboro, Benton- ville, and at the storming of Fort McAllister; he was wounded in the shoulder by a musket ball at Jonesboro; he had four brothers also that were soldiers in the late war. He is the grandson of the late John Larabee, of Clay Lick, who was a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Moore was married May 3, 1864, to Harriet Bradley, of Mary Ann township, daughter of Augustine and Mary Bradley; they are the parents of six children; the oldest died

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in infancy, June 5, 1866; Mary A. was born March 6, 1868; John A., February 22, 1870; Jacob B., October 2, 1873; Elizabeth J., March 26, 1876; Lucy May, May 31, 1879. Mr. Moore now lives with his father-in-law, where he has been for thir- teen years. .

MCKEAN TOWNSHIP.

MILBURN, A. J., was born January 22, 1792, in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and was mar- ried May 13, 1818, to Elizabeth Bowers, of Green county, Pennsylvania, who was born August 12, 1799, in the same county. He enlisted in the War of 1812, but was never called into active service. He and his family came to this county Octo- ber, 1831, making the journey from Pennsylvania by wagon. They had ten children: Uriah, Mary Ann, Lucinda, John, Rachel, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Isaac N., Andrew J., and Sarah Ellen. Three are deceased-Uriah, Lucinda and John. Uriah was married to Elizabeth Galer, of this county. She died March 13, 1880. Mary Ann married A. J. Critchet, of this county, and is now living in Putnam county. Lucinda died March 26, 1880, in Kansas. John was married to Harriet Gray, of Franklin county; Rachel married Anthony Cum- mings, and is now living in Pike county. Eliza- beth married David Martin, of this county, and is now living in Pike county. Rebecca married Abraham Gosnell, of this county, and is now living in Mckean township. I. N., born Novem- ber 13, 1834, was married to Jennie Rush, of this county, who was born December 3, 1847. The results of this marriage were four children. Ulyses S., Florence C., Edwin R., and John F. I. N. enlisted in company H, Thirty first Ohio volunteer infantry, at Newark, September 10, 1861, under John H. Putnam; was in General Sherman's division; was in the battles of Mill Springs, Ken- tucky, Perryville, Stone River, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. He returned home October 12, 1864. Sarah Ellen married John M. Harris, of this county, and is now living in Crawford county, Illinois. Andrew Milburn died . August 5, 1858, aged sixty-six years. Mrs. Milburn is at present living in Mckean township, and is very highly respected by all her acquaint- ances. She is now in her eighty-second year.

MILBURN, ANDREW, was born February, 1840, in Mckean township. He was the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Milburn, who came to this county at an early date. He was married November, 1867, to Mary E. Barrick, of Fredonia, who was born in 1844, in Virginia. They have one child, Alonzo Howard, born December 16, 1868. Mr. Milburn was born and reared on the farm where he now lives.

MILBURN, ANDREW V., was born February 14,

1845, in this county. He was the son of U and Elizabeth Milburn, who came to this cou in 1831. Uriah was born in 1820, and was m ried January 12, 1844, to Elizabeth Galer, of th county, who was born on October 19, 1825. T: had five children: Andrew V., Perry J., Lovi R., Clayton C., and Elnora N. Andrew V. married February 22, 1866, to Anna M. Gosne of this county, who was born September 22, 1843 They have no children, but have taken one raise-Martha F. Gosnell. Uriah Milburn dic March 13, 1880, aged sixty years. Mrs. Milben is now living in Kansas.

MONROE TOWNSHIP.

McINTURF, JAMES, farmer, Johnstown, was bon in Hopewell township, July 6, 1819; he remained at home until he was twenty-four years of age; March 5, 1845, he married Alsanna Gregg; she was born in western Virginia, September 6, 1825 They had two children: Frederick, born March 4 1844; Susannah, born December 19, 1845; married B. G. Hoover, dry goods merchant at Appleton Alsanna McInturf died October 10, 1867. August 1, 1871, Mr. McInturf married Annie Harris, who was born in Bowling Green township, January 1, 1835. As the result of their union, they have had two children: Infant, born and died June 17, 18 ;: Milly, born September 8, 1873. Frederick Mclt turf, father of James, was born in Pennsylvania September 8, 1786, and migrated to Perry county. Ohio, and from there came to Licking about 1810. He married Anna Myers, on the eighteenth of An- gust, 1814, in Perry county, and moved to Hope- well township, Licking county. Mrs. McIntur., sr., was born February 4, 1795, is still living and making her home in Johnstown. When the family first came to Ohio, they had to go to the fort a: Marietta.

MORGAN, DIODATE, was born January 23, 1785. at New London, Connecticut; his parents were of Welsh descent. Possessed of good physical con- stitution and mental ability, he obtained what at that time was considered a fair education. In 1809 he was married to Miss Lucy Church. To their care was given a family of ten children, two sons and eight daughters, who, with one exception, lived to years of maturity. In the government of his children he was stern, at times, even to severity. Yet in the education of so numerous a flock, at a period when school privileges were not, as now, available to the masses, though compelled at times to be clad in the plainest raiment, not one was allowed to miss the advantage of the best schools within the limits of his means, and his last dime was freely given for books and tuition. Hs first tax was paid under the old Priest tax law, and his first vote cast for the election of James Madia

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, the Presidency. Unswerving in his attachment › party as to friends, he has never since cast any ut a Democratic vote, and he hopes yet to live ntil his party gets control of the Govern- hent. Going from Connecticut to New York, he ved there a number of years, and from there, in eptember, 1825, he came to Licking county, Ohio, here he has resided the greater part of the time ince. His reminiscences to children and grand- hildren of the appearance and condition of Lick- ng county at that time, are very interesting. . The imbered lands were still the home of the wolf and ear; the rude cabin was the abode of nearly every ettler. Semi-annual trips to Sandusky, with an x team, were made for fish; and little less wonder- ul to us, for the grinding of wheat and corn he nust travel to Zanesville. He is now living at the home of his youngest daughter, Mrs. Adams, at Johnstown. Although in his ninety-sixth year, he walks one mile every day, and his carriage and bearing might rival those of persons who beat the mpress of fewer years.

NEWARK TOWNSHIP.

MCKINNEY, PATRICK, was born in Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, April 8, 1835. When quite small he moved with his father, Patrick Mc- Kinney, to Newark, Ohio, who purchased the Mansion house; he owned this until his death. The subject of this sketch is the second son of the family; his only brother, William Mckinney, now lives in Livingston, Illinois. Mr. Mckinney was married to Sarah J. Redman, daughter of William R. Redman. She was born December 16, 1836, in Hebron. They are the parents of four chil- dren: William Oren and Mary Ellen; Sarah E. died in infancy ; Abram P. is now living at home; he was born February 13, 1860. William McKin- ney has followed farming all his lifetime; he is in- dustrious; he lives west of the Old Fort, near New- ark. Himself and wife have been members of the Christian Union church for seventeen years. Will- iam R. Redman was a member of company A, Seventy-six Ohio volunteer infantry; he served about a year and lost his health, came home and died at Mr. Mckinney's, June 15, 1862, aged forty-sixth years. His son was a member of the Eighteenth regulars; he died at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Sylvester was a member of company A, Seventy-sixth regiment; he served near four years and was a faithful soldier ; he was killed at Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Mckinney has travelled through many of the western States and territories.

CITY OF NEWARK.

MARKLEY, GEORGE, furniture .- Mr. Markley was born in Pennsylvania in 1825, and came to Newark about 1859; he immediately embarked in the furniture business on the south side of the

square. At this time he had a capital of five hundred dollars. In 1867 the building occupied by him was burned, but he had it rebuilt; he is now owner of one of the finest buildings in the city, measuring twenty by eighty feet, and three stories high. In addition to these, he has two other rooms each twenty by eighty feet; he has accumulated a handsome property by his own exertions. He has one of the finest residences on Hudson street, which he has erected His building is used solely for a furniture depot, and is packed from roof to

cellar with every kind and style of furniture. His father, John Markley, was born in Penna., in 1786, and also came to Newark in 1859, where he died in 1874, at the age of eighty-eight years. George Markley has proved himself a successful business man, and has continually added to, and increased his business. Recently he added the business of undertaking which has very materially increased the volume of his business, and added to its profits.

MCCADDON, MR. JOHN .- The venerable Mc- Caddon was many years, and until his death, a res- ident of Newark. He settled here in 1826, and lived to be nearly ninety years old. Under date of May 16, 1842, he wrote a communication which was published in the "American Pioneer," giving some account of an early adventure in connection with the Great West. He enlisted in July, 1780, at the falls of the Ohio, in the army of Col. George Rogers Clarke, raised for the purpose of chastising the Ohio Indians. The force marched up the Ohio to the mouth of the Licking; then crossed it, and where Cincinnati is now situated, he assisted in the erection of a block-house, the first building ever built there. The army then marched to the Indian towns of the Little Miami, and from thence to the Indian towns on the Mad river, where a battle was fought, and a victory won. The cen- tennial anniversary of this battle was recently cele- brated (August 9, 1880), on the battle ground, hive miles west of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. McCaddon wrote at the age of eighty-five years, giving the foregoing facts. He was a man of intelligence and character, and of extensive information. In his religious views he was decidedly Swedenborgian. He had a large family, most of whom, like their father and mother, attained to more than the aver- age age of man. A number of children, all in advanced life, are still living.

MCCONAUGHEY, ANDREW, switchman in the yards of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He has been engaged in this business about one year. Previous to this engagement he was employed as a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio six years. He is the oldest son of William and Sarah McCon- aughey, and was born April 19, 1851, in Harri- son township. He remained with his parents until

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he was twenty-two years of age, when he was mar- ried to Amanda Price, January 20, 1873. She was born August 8, 1850, in this county. They have two children-Charles H., born May 5, 1874; Peter, born January 2, 1875. Mr. McConaughey resides in East Newark.

McDONALD, WILLIAM, was born in Morris coun- ty, New Jersey, August 18, 1850; he moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1873, and came to Newark in 1876; he was married to Samantha Walters, June 22, 1878. She was born in Hopewell township in 1857. She is the daughter of Lewis Walters. Mr. McDonald is the father of one child-Adda, born February 8, 1878. He has been a farmer many years, but now lives in Newark.

MCDOUGAL, STEPHEN .- The subject of this sketch was a well known and prominent man in Licking county. He was a native of Kentucky, but in early life became a citizen of Chillicothe. Upon the organization of Licking county he was invited to take charge of the office of clerk of our courts, which he did in 1808, as a clerk, and in 1809 he was appointed clerk of the courts, and served as such until 1816. He was county audi- tor from 1820 to 1825, and recorder of the county from 1820 to 1842. Mr. McDougal was a mer- chant for a number of years, and one of Newark's early-time enterprising citizens.

McKANNA, OWEN, section hand. He was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1843; he came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in 1864; he stayed there about eighteen months, then moved to San- dusky, Ohio, and worked on the high school build- ing at that place, two years afterwards moved to Newark, where he now lives. He was married to Mary A. Boyd, daughter of William Boyd. She was born December 12, 1853; they have three chil- dren: Edward, born December 17, 1871; Frank- lin, August 20, 1874; John, March 15, 1876. Mr. McKanna has been in the employ of the Pan Handle railroad company for the past three years; before this time he was with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. He owns a neat home on Pine street, where he lives.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 127

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