History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 128

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

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McKENNA, JOHN, grocer, No. 129 Second street. -Mr. McKenna was born in Tyrone county, Ire- land, in the year 1835, and he emigrated to Amer- ica in May, 1854, and located in Sandusky city, Ohio, where he resided until 1867, when he came to Newark and embarked in the grocery business, which he has continued with success until the pres- ent. He occupies two commodious rooms, twenty- one by sixty each, with base of the same size, in which he carries a large stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, queensware, glass and stone ware, and willow ware, cutlery, and no-

tions, sugar cured, smoked, and pickled meats, fish, flour, salt, and oysters in season, and all the latest and best brands of tobaccos, etc.

MANSELL, HENRY, was born near Youngstown, Trumbull county, Ohio, November 11, 1834. He was a delegate from the India Mission conference to the general conference of the Methodist Epis- copal church in 1872. He graduated from Alle- gheny college. He joined the Pittsburgh confer- ence in 1859, and went to India as a missionary in 1863. Besides serving as a preacher in the mis- sion, he has given attention to translations and the preparation of works in the language of the country. Among his works of this character are translations of an abridgement of "Watson's Life of Wesley," a geography in Hindoo; an edition of the works of "Joseph Butler's Analogy;" of Wesley on Christian Perfection," and smaller works, all of which have been published from the Methodist Episcopal mission press. He was married October I, 1860, to Anna Elizabeth Banshoff, of Johns- town, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. They have five children : Hattie, now living with her grand- mother in Newark; William Albert, Edwin Parker, who died in infancy; John W., who died quite young; Sarah Jane, also living with her grand- mother. About one year after his marriage he sailed for India; his wife's health failed shortly after landing. She remained there some eight years, and leaving him there came with her three children to Kent, April, 1870, and lived with her mother. Two years after they moved to Newark: she died May 17, 1873. Her husband came home one year after she returned and stayed until after her death ; he ther. returned to India, where he is now living. William A., after finishing his education, expects to go to India with his father. Mr. Man- sell is the son of Joseph Mansell, who emigrated from England in an early day, and located near Braddock's field, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mrs. Esther Banshoff was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1813. She is the daughter of John Hill; of that county. Her father died when she was about twenty years of age; she afterwards moved with her mother to Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and was married to William A. Banshoff, of that county, in January, 1844. They have had five children: Anna, Elis, Gasper H., Jacob, who died in infancy, and Similde, now the wife of Mr. Samuel Hamilton Mrs. Hamilton is the only child now living. Mr. Banshoff died September 26, 1876, aged fifty-three years. He was a farmer by occupation and moved to Newark in 1873.

MARBLE, DR. DANIEL, deceased .- The subject of this sketch was a native of Worcester, Massade setts, and was born March 18, 1798. During

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arly life he enjoyed the usual educational advan- ages, and ultimately became a good scholar. He endered some military services during the War of 812, when a youth of only sixteen years. The nedical profession having been chosen by him as is permanent pursuit, he entered the office of Dr. Anson Coleman, of Rochester, New York, as a nedical student, and graduated at the New York Medical college in 1823. For four years after his graduation he was engaged in the practice of med- cine in Rochester, New York. Dr. Marble, in 1827, in company with Mr. Rufus Henry, settled n Newark, Ohio, and established the Newark Ga- sette, the latter being a practical printer, performing the duties of publisher, and the former doing the editorial work, and, meanwhile, engaging in the practice of his profession. This arrangement was continued nearly ten years, when Dr. Marble's practice became so extensive as to render it im- practicable to longer remain on the tripod, or per- form the duties and labors of editor. For thirty- eight years, and until his death, Dr. Marble was engaged actively, laboriously, extensively in the practice of medicine in Newark and the surround- ing country, the emoluments of which yielded him a handsome competency. Dr. Marble was an ed- itorial writer and essayist of ability, and a well- read, faithful, intelligent, judicious physician, who had the confidence of a large class of our citizens. His reading was not confined to politics and med- icine, but he had enjoyed the advantages of a course of reading of a much wider scope, embrac- ing history, literature, science, philosophy, morals. He was, therefore, a man of intellingence and gen- eral information. He gave his time, labor, and in- fluence, to advance educational interests, secular and religious, temperance and sound morals, and was a liberal and constant contributor to the church and her institutions. Dr. Marble was a man of great energy, of enterprise and industry, of frugality, of strong common sense views of life, and one of Newark's most public spirited citizens. He died October 24, 1865, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.

MARTIN, GEORGE E., painter, was born in New- ark May 6, 1847. He learned the printing trade at the age of eleven years; on account of ill health, was compelled to give up this trade. He then learned painting, and worked at it until the war began, when he enlisted August 22, 1863, in com- pany I, Second Ohio heavy artillery, and was dis- charged August 23, 1865. He was married to Mary Anderson August 20, 1867. She was born February 5, 1847. They have five children: Minnie, born December 4, 1868; Glendora, Sep- tember 12, 1870; George E., December 4, 1873; Stella May, August 27, 1877; Mary E., July 27,

1879. Since the war Mr. Martin followed painting for three years, since which time he has been with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company.

MARVIN, ELLEN, was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1810. She moved to New- ark with her father, John McCaddon, in 1826; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; when he came to Newark, he bought three acres of land on which stands the house where Mrs. Marvin now lives. He died in 1846, aged eighty-eight years. She was married to Henry H. Marvin August 28, 1838. Mr. Marvin was born May 28, 1801. They have one son: William, born May 15, 1850. Mr. Marvin moved to Shelby, Ohio, in an early day of his life, and came to Newark several years before his marriage, to the subject of this sketch. He had lost his former wife some three years previous. He worked at the hatter's trade in former life, and later worked at carpentering. Mrs. Marvin is one of eight surviving members of her father's family. James McCadden, of Beverly, aged eighty-six; Mrs. Nancy Baker, of Canton, eighty-five; Eliza- beth Cocke, of Canton, Ohio, and Mary Evans, of Zanesville, Ohio, seventy-seven ; Mrs. Louisa Van Horn, Zanesville, seventy-five; J. W. McCaddon, Dexter, Iowa, seventy-three; Margaret McCad- don, of Zanesville, seventy-two; the eight surviv- ing members of this family reaching the high av- erage of seventy-seven years of age, and are all active and of sound mind and body.

MAYLONE, JAMES M., ticket agent at Newark, Pan Handle railroad. He has served in this ca- pacity four years at Newark, and for over two years previous at Denison, Ohio. He is the son of B. F. and Rachel Maylone, of Wellsville, Ohio. He was born near that place, March 5, 1848. He married Emma Jane Davidson, May 16, 1872; she was born March 31, 1851, in Hancock county, West Virginia, on what is known as the "Old Eagle farm." She is one of a family of six children. They have two children: Kate Coffey, born in Denison, August 20, 1874; Paul Clark, born in Newark, July 14, 1877. They have living with them Mrs. Maylone's mother, Mrs. Jane Davidson.

MERRILL, THOMAS B., brick and stone mason, was born in New Haven, Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, April 16, 1845. . His parents moved to Columbus, Ohio, and died when he was fifteen years old. He learned his trade in Columbus. He enlisted in the Guthrie Greys, of Cincinnati, in the three months service, and was the first per- son that put his name to the roll in that company from Columbus. He served his time, and then enlisted in the Seventh Ohio volunteer infantry for three years. He served his time in this regi- ment, and was mustered out of service ar Lookout

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mountain, when he was seventeen years of age. He came to Newark in 1872, and was married to Jennie Oliver, September 14, 1874; she was born in Newark, March 9, 1856. They have three children: Sadie M., born May 21, 1876; Thomas B., jr., born July 9, 1878; and Claude W., born March 29, 1880. Mrs. Merrill's mother is still living, and has been a resident of Newark for thirty years: She was born April 2, 1818.

MERRILL, JOHN, brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad .- He has been in the employ of the company since 1867. He is the son of Jona- than and Jane Merrill, and was born June 26, 1840, in Belmont county. In 1869 he came to this county and settled in Newark, where he has since resided. December 27, 1865, he was married to Jennie King, of Belmont county. She was born May 2, 1847, and is the daughter of Simeon and Sarah King. They have four children: Lillie A., born February 8, 1867; Sarah E., born April 23, 1871; Blanche F., born February 22, 1876; Rittie B., born June 17, 1878. Lillie died October 9, 1868. Blanche died January 8, 1877. Mr. Mer- rill resides in East Newark.

MEISTER, MRS. MARY, was born in Germany June 30, 1835; came with her father's family to High- land county in April, 1853: lived there three years, then moved to Newark to her pleasant little home where she now lives. She was married to Joseph Meister in December, 1866. They have two chil- dren: Anna, born October 20, 1867; ' Joseph, February 3, 1870. Mr. Meister died November 18, 1878, at the age of fifty-five years. Her father, Barnhard Binder, is living with her, aged sixty-four years.

MEYERS, M. V., was born December 22, 1845, in Wayne county, New York, and came to Ohio in 1873, settling in the city of Newark, where he en- gaged his time in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops for three years, after which he kept hotel. April 29, 1874, he was married to Lizzie Tomlin- son, of Lancaster, Ohio. She was born January 7, 1847, and came to Newark after living in Wiscon- sin fifteen years. They have two children: Bertha, born February 11, 1875; Charles W., born June 24, 1878.

MILLIGAN, ROBERT, retired, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the eighth day of June, 1800. In 1816 he accompanied his father's family to Ohio. They reached Zanesvile, Muskingum county, on the first day of January, 1817. In 1819 Mr. Milligan commenced working at the cooper trade, and served two years as an apprentice; then, in 1821 or 1822, he began business for himself at his trade. In February, 1826,. he was united in marriage with Miss Catharine Hunt, a native of

New Jersey, born March 3, 1802, and migrated to Muskingnm county, Ohio, about 1820. In No vember, 1826, Mr. and Mrs. Milligan moved to Newark, Licking county, where he continued at his trade until in 1849, when he was appointed super- intendent of the Newark cemetery, which position he filled, faithfully discharging all duties devolving upon him until June, 1878, when he retired from business, and is now living a retired life, esteemed and respected by all that know him. In 1829 his companion was taken from him by death, leaving one daughter, viz. : Albina, who deceased, in 1834. of cholera. In October, 1831, he married Miss Mary Wilson, born March 7, 1810, daughter of Jacob Wilson. By this union he had four children: John W., Amanda Melvina, Sarah E., and Annie E. Amanda Melvina, born March 28, 1835; mar- ried Isaac W. Biglow and died February 24, 1869: Sarah E., born November 12, 1836, died Septem- ber 17, 1849.

MILLER, MAJOR CHARLES DANA, was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, September 3, 1836, and moved to Newark in the spring of 1857. His family has an ancient and honorable lineage, dating back over two hundred years in America, and ante- dating from its emigration to America into tradi- tional genealogy another century in Scotland.

The Millers, of Scotland, were of Saxon origin, and followed the leadership of Edwin, who con- quered the Picts and founded Edinburgh, A. D. 449. The history of the family is rather obscure, until about the year 1600, when the country was distracted by civil war, assuming a religious char- acter between Catholicism and Protestantism. The Millers took sides with the Protestants, and later with the Presbyterians or Covenanters, when persecuted by James the First, in his efforts to es- tablish Episcopacy. The laws against Presbyter- ianism were so abitrary that it led to great disor- der and opposition by the inhabitants, and many personal encounters passed between the liberty- loving Scots and the minions of the king, in the enforcement of obnoxious laws. The name of James Miller is found twice recorded in a list of those who paid fines for transgressing the laws in the city of Edinburgh, and is recorded in this quaint style :

"The compt of mony resauit in fra sick persones as bes transgrest aganest the statutis and ordenances of the gud toun; the namis of the persones that pay it, and the soum that evrie man pay it, and the occatione whair foir they pay it, be- gining at Mychelmas, 1608 yiers, till Mychelmas the yier of God. 1609 yiers, the time of thair offices of baill yiers, as follows: James Miller, for being found be the gaird, at twelve bouts st even, with one sword drawin at James Harvie, 6+ Jana Miller, for the bluid wyte of Patryk Chalmers, {9 18 d.

The oppression of the Covenanters led many.lo seek the shores of America, where they cont worship God without restraint, and one Soir;

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Miller and his son James (who are the direct pro- genitors of this family in America), emigrated from Edinburgh about the year 1660. They set- tled in Charlestown, near Boston, and joined the established Presbyterian church at that place. We find recorded in the Genealogical dictionary of the the first settlers of New England. "James Miller, the Scotsman, Charlestown, admitted to First church, December 17, 1676, and made freeman May 23, 1677, and died July 14, 1690. His wife, Mary, joined church August 5, 1677, being baptized that day with her eight children-James, Mary, Robert, Job, Abraham, Isaac, Mercy and Jane. The record of his father's death, August 1, 1688, calls him 'Sen,' an aged Scotsman above seventy."

Isaac Miller, the son of James, removed to Concord, Massachusetts, and afterwards to Wor- cester about the year 1718. His son Isaac, born in Concord May 7, 1708, married in Worcester one Sarah Crosby, and reared a large family. In 1770, the year of the Boston massacre, he re- moved to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. John, the son of Isaac, jr., was born in Worcester, December 20, 1756, and lived and died a farmer in Dummerston. His son, James, who was born in Dummerston, De- cember 16, 1783, emigrated to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Knox county, what is now Miller township, named in his honor. His son, James Warner, born in Dummerston, Vermont, July 8, 1807, settled first in Newark, about the year 1826, afterwards in Mt. Vernon, where he married in 1833, and raised a large family, the second son of which, Charles D. Miller, is the subject of this sketch.

The genealogical order of the eight generations as far as authenticated, will then stand as follows: First, Sen Miller, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1613; second, James Miller, born in Edin- burgh, Scotland, about 1640; third, Isaac Miller, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1670; fourth, Isaac Miller, jr., born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, in 1708; fifth, John Miller, born in Wor- cester, Massachusetts, in 1756; sixth, James Miller, born in Dummerston, Vermont, in 1783; seventh, James Warner Miller, born in Dummerston, Ver- mont, in 1807; eighth, Charles Dana Miller, born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in 1836.

In order to present the history of this family more in detail we must return to the Scotish an- cestors.

Many of the Scotch Millers attained eminence in literature and science. The ancestors of Hugh Miller, the great geologist, were a seafaring race. Among the great writers were John Miller, of Lan- arkshire, professor of law in the university of Glasgow; James Miller, of Ayr, physician and chemist, and editor of the fourth edition of the

Encyclopedia Britanica; James Miller, professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh; Thomas Miller, of Glenlee, baron and lord justice clerk of court of sessions.

The ancient coat of arms of this family, adopt- ed by the various Scotch branches, bears a similar-" ity in the chief points of the field ; the only varia- tions appearing in minor objects in the divisions according to the fancy of the bearer, or as conferred by heraldic law. The chief points, as borne by all the Scotch families, are: first, the color of the shield (white); second, the Moline cross, which represents the figure of the iron that supports the upper mill stone; third, the wavy bar in the base, and last, the mullet, or rowel of a spur. A de- scription of the arms borne by the American branch of the family, as near as can be authenti- cated, and as expressed in heraldic terms, is as follows: Argent, a cross moline, azure. In chief, second, bordure of three cinquefoils, gules, lozenge between two mullets; sinister chief lozenge be- tween two mullets. In fessee, hand with first and second fingers extended, two arms with hands clasped, moline cross, sable, between four hearts; in base, wavy band of vert; crest, lion rampant with moline cross, sable, between paws; motto, Optima Cælo, Unione Augetur.

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A very complete record has been preserved of the family of Isaac Miller, jr., the grandson and great-grandson of the Scotish emigrants. He was a staunch Republican in the troublesome times preceding the outbreak of the Revolution. Being a surveyor by profession, he became useful in the settlement of the then new country north of Mass- achusetts, but his enterprises met with disaster through the machinations of the tools of the king, who had set a mark upon all Republicans. In 1763, he, with others, were granted a township of land in New Hampshire, which they settled and paid for, but by a subterfuge the British court, then in session in Worcester, re-granted it to General

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Bellows, a Tory. He moved his family in 1770 to Dummerston, Vermont, which town he surveyed and settled. Isaac Miller, jr., had twelve children. Vespatian was a soldier in the old French war, and afterwards followed the sea. Hosea was a farmer. Rosanna married Major Joseph Negus, of Peter- sham. Among her descendants are Mrs. General R. B. Marcy, Mrs. General George B. McClellan, and Mrs. Major W. B. Rossell, of the United States army. Sarah married Silas Wheeler, of Petersham. Tillotson emigrated to New York State. Pa- tience married Dr. Thomas Amsden, of Petersham. Joseph was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, and served seven years with distinction, being pro- moted to the rank of major, and merited the friend- ship and confidence of General Washington. Isaac was a captain in the Revolution, and was badly wounded early in the war near Boston. Marshall was a farmer and left many descendants.

John, the great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a Revolutionary soldier, and sub- sequently became very prominent as a citizen of Vermont. Catharine married a Mr. Knapp and reared a large family. William, the youngest, was a soldier in the latter part of the Revolution and rose to the rank of major.

John Miller, who was born in Worcester, Massa- chusetts, December 20, 1756, had eight children- Lewis, James, Levi, Sally, Polly, Rosanna, Susan, and John B. Rosanna and Susan are still living- the former eighty-six and the latter eighty-four years of age.

James Miller, who was born in Dummerston, Vermont, December 16, 1783, was educated at Williams college. In the War of 1812 he was a member of the company of Captain Hayes-the father of President Hayes. He emigrated to Ohio in 1814, and was six weeks making the jour- ney in wagons. He bought of the government a section of land in what is now Miller township, Knox county, which was then a howling wilderness. James Miller was a gentleman of culture and high- ly esteemed by his neighbors for his sterling worth, industry, and enterprise. He married Sarah War- ner, the eldest sister of Luke K. Warner, of New- ark. They were married in 1806, near Wards- borough, Vermont, eight years before their de- parture for the west. She was an accomplished and educated young lady, of rare personal beauty, and seemingly too tender for the hardships of pio- neer life, but she lived to see the primeval forest on her husband's land replaced by smiling and fruitful fields. They reared a family of eleven children-James Warner, Madison, Volney, Henry H., Mary M., Rosanna W., John F., Harriet M., Sarah Warner, Dana, and Lucinda A. Of this family now residing in Newark may be mentioned James Warner, his sons Charles D. and Philip D .;

two daughters, Elizabeth V. and Susan R .; Jobn F. Miller and one son, Edwin S .; also Mrs. H. C. Bostwick, daughter of Madison Miller.

James Warner, the eldest, was born in Vermont, July 8, 1807, and emigrated to Ohio with his father. In 1826 he came to Newark and engaged with his uncle, Willard Warner, who kept the old "Green House," on the present site of the Park hotel. In 1830 he moved to Mt. Vernon and en- gaged in business. In 1833 he married Mary G. Bryant, daughter of Gilman Bryant, esq., one of the pioneers of Knox county. He reared a family of ten children-James Bryant, Charles Dana, Elizabeth V., Edward Stanley, Sarah Warner, Philip Dennis, Mary Gilman, Francis Warner, Jennie Ella, and Susan R. James Warner Miller engaged in business in Mt. Vernon for over forty years, and was widely known as one of the most industrious and enterprising merchants. He re- moved to Newark in the spring of 1879, where he now resides.

This closes the succession of the paternal ances- tors of Charles Dana Miller.

His maternal ancestors were also of old revolu- tionary stock. His mother, Mary Gilman Bryant, was the daughter of Gilman Bryant, a pioneer of Knox county, whose father, David Bryant, was an officer in the Revolution, and a cousin of William Cullen Bryant, the poet. David Bryant married Mary Gilman, the daughter of Colonel Jeremiah Gilman, in whose regiment (the New Hampshire line) he served. The genealogy of the New Hampshire Gilman's is thus narrated:

In May, 1638, Edward Gilman, with his wife, three sons, two daughters and three servants, came from Norfolk county, England, in the ship called the "Delight," of Ipswich, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. Moses, the third son of Edward Gilman, lived in New Market, New Hampshire, and had six sons, Captain Jeremiah, born in 1660, had Thomas, Andrew, Joseph and others The last two sons were captured by the Indians, in 1709, and taken to Canada. At a war dance, Joseph was burnt. Andrew was sold to the French, and imprisoned, but obtained favor of the governor and was permitted to work for.wages until he earned a sum sufficient to purchase his freedom. He re- turned to his old home, married, and had one son -Jeremiah-and three daughters. Jeremiah was born about the year 1721. When the Revolution- ary war broke out, he was commissioned a colonel and commanded a regiment in the New Hampshire line. His daughter, Mary Gilman, married Lieu- tenant David Bryant, who served in his father-in- law's regiment during the war. Lieutenant Bryant was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch.

The genealogical successions of the nine geben-

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tions in this line, therefore, stand as follows: First, Edward Gilman, born in Norfolk, England, about 1600; second, Moses Gilman, born in Nor- folk, England, about 1630; third, Jeremiah Gil- man, born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1660; fourth, Andrew Gilman, born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1690; fifth, Jeremiah Gilman (second), born in New Market, New Hampshire, about 1720; sixth, Mary Gilman, born in Vermont, about 1760; seventh, Gilman Bryant, born in Vermont, 1784; eighth, Mary Gilman Bryant, born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 1814; ninth, Charles D. Miller, born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 1836.

Nicholas Gilman, who was a delegate to the con- vention in 1787, and signed the constitution of the United States, and the Hon. John Taylor Gilman, governor of New Hampshire, were descendants of Edward Gilman. Governor Lewis Cass was a de- scendant of Moses Gilman.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 128

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