History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 129

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

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Charles Dana Miller received a good academic education, which he greatly improved in after life by much reading and travel. He moved to New- ark in 1857 and engaged in business with Luke K. Warner, doing a large and successful trade in the grain products of the county. When the war broke out in 1861 he enlisted as a private in Cap- tain Coman's company C, Seventy sixth Ohio regi- ment, and was successively promoted for merito- rious services to first sergeant, sergeant major, first lieutenant and adjutant, captain and major by brevet. The latter rank was conferred by the Pres- ident of the United States. He was of light frame and delicate and nervous temperament, seemingly ill adapted to endure the privations of a soldier's life, but in his case, as well as in many others, actu- al service proved that physical proportions and strength were fully counterbalanced by spirit and energy. During his whole term of service of three years and a month he never permitted himself to be excused from duty, although suffering physical disability, contracted by his devotion to the ser- vice. He was twice slightly wounded, at Vicks- burgh and Resaca, but continued on duty without reporting his wounds. He was engaged in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh with credit, and during the Siege of Corinth, when the adju- tant of the regiment and adjutant general of the brigade succumbed to disease, he was detailed to perform their duties, at the same time he per- tormed the arduous work as orderly of his compa- ny. It was here that his qualifications pointed the road to promotion, and his commanding officer, without solicitation, obtained a commission for him as adjutant of the regiment, to fill the vacancy of the late adjutant who had resigned. He con- tinued to perform the duties of adjutant for nearly two years, never missing a dress parade while with the regiment. In 1864, when the regiment re-en-

listed as veterans he was promoted to a captaincy, and placed in command of his old company C. He commanded this company through the active and glorious Atlanta campaign, and in August, 1864, was appointed acting assistant inspector gen- eral, performing the laborious service pertaining to that office in a large brigade of nine regiments.

Major Miller commanded the highest esteem and confidence of the colonel of his regiment. He was conspicuous for his devotion to the cause of the Union arms in battle and in camp. At Arkansas Post he was mentioned in special orders for his gallantry. At Atlanta, on the twenty- second of July, 1864, he led his company in ad- vance of the regiment, bearing the colors, and in the face of a scorching fire, drove the enemy from earthworks and re-captured a fine battery of parrot guns.

He presented a conspicuous target in this en- gagement, but escaped the missiles aimed at him. His first lieutenant (Arnold) was shot three times by his side. At Ships Gap, while on the staff of Colonel Milo Smith, he directed the flank move- ment which resulted in the capture of two South Carolina companies.

On the twenty-eighth of July, near Atlanta, he stood for four hours encouraging his men while breasting a fearful storm of musketry to which the regiment was subjected. The list of engagements he participated in numbers forty or fifty, but the principle battles and sieges which will be promi- nent in history, may be mentioned: Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Siege of Vicksburgh, Jackson, Dallas, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, July 22d and 28th, and Jonesborough.

After the expiration of his term of service he re- ceived an honorable discharge, November 18, 1864. The war had practically ended in the west at that time. He returned to Newark and again engaged in his former business.

In May, 1865, he married Lucy Gilman Jewett, daughter of David D. and Lucy Jewett, of New- ark. She was a noble woman, a devoted Christian, a fond wife and mother. This union, so promis- ing of long happiness, terminated in her early death, which occurred Januarv 2, 1869, leaving two infant children-daughter and son-Lucy Jewett, born March 4, 1866, and Charles Dion, born November 17, 1867.

In 1875-76 he engaged in the commission busi- ness in Chicago, retaining, however, a branch busi- ness at Newark. In 1877 he returned to Newark and continued in the grain trade, under the firm name of Miller & Root, and is at the present time transacting a large business in the products of the county. Major Miller has always been an out- spoken adherent to the principles he fought for dur-

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ing the war, and although he has never aspired to civil office, he has been somewhat conspicuous in his advocacy of "stalwart Republicanism." He has taken a lively interest in the organizations and re-unions of ex-soldiers, being one of the first pro- jectors of the Soldier's society of Licking county, through whose instrumentality the great re-union was held in 1878.

Major Miller has been continuously elected secretary of the society. He prepared, and had published, the admirable report of the great re-union which gives a very complete record of Licking county's participation in the war for the Union.

Major Miller's early inclinations were decidedly toward the study of a profession instead of mer- cantile pursuits. He inherited a taste tor drawing and painting, and has followed the natural bent, more or less, in an amateur way, during his leisure moments. His eye is almost perfect in its compre- hension of forms, distances and colors, with rare taste for landscape gardening, and rural adorn- ment. He has been an industrious student of science and history, his mind favoring geological research more than any other. He has written many able articles for the press upon subjects in harmony with his tastes.

In religion he was early brought up in the doc- trines and faith of the Protestant Episcopal church, and became a member of that denomination be- fore entering the army, but his general religious views are of the most liberal character, free from bigotry and disposed to reconcile and harmonize religion with science in its broadest sense.

MILLER, LEWIS E., railroad conductor, was born in Newark, February 2, 1852; was married De- cember 19, 1876, to Miss Mary M. Taylor, daugh- ter of Henry Taylor, of Newark; they have one child, Milton H. L., born August 29, 1877. Mr. Miller is the son of James Miller, of Newark, and has been in the employ of Baltimore & Ohio and Pan Handle railroad companies since January 1, 1877. He was employed by the Newark fire de- partment and worked with them two years and seven months.

MILLER, JAMES, was born in East Newark, De- cember 23, 1818. In his younger days he worked at such work as he could get. He was married to Silvina M. Elwell, of Maine. She was born March I, 1828; came to Zanesville with her father's fami- ly in 1838. By this marriage they had twelve chil- dren : Hannah M., born November 28, 1845, is now the wife of Peter Stief; Byron Leverett, born September 10, 1847, died October 9, 1848; James Leverett, born October 18, 1848, married to Mary E. Foost, of Newark; Morvill Morton, born Au- gust 9, 1850, married to Miss Ella Dale; Lewis

Elwell, born February 2, 1852, married Miss Mary M. Taylor; Nebraska Gertrude, born March 18, 1854, died July 27, 1855; William Edwin, born March 12, 1856, married to Anna Shidler; Joseph Melvill, born February 18, 1858; Nancy Stella, born July 13, 1860, died July 18, 1864; Frank Os- car, born August 23, 1864; Welcome Weldon, born October 17, 1866, died October 8, 1870; Fannie May, born July 12, 1870. About fifteen years ago Mr. Miller learned gas fitting, and for ten years worked for the Newark Gas company; he is now infirmary director. Mrs. Miller's father for many years was a sailor. He died in Muskingum coun- ty, in the forty-fifth year of his age. His widow is yet living, and is with her daughter, Mrs. Miller, having reached the age of eighty three. She can yet read without the use of spectacles.

MILLER, GEORGE .- He has three trades-shoe- maker, butcher, and carpenter. He makes the last his main business in the summer season, and during the winter he follows butchering. He has not worked at the shoemakers' trade for five years. Mr. Miller was born August 18, 1847, in Newark When he was about four years old he removed with his parents to Liverpool, Ohio, and remained with them until he was fourteen years of age, when he left home to make his own way. Mr. Miller has succeeded, by hard work, in obtaining a home. He removed to Newark in 1867, and has lived there since. He was married October 21, 1869, to Anna M. Komman, formerly of Germany. They have four children: Frederick E., George Andrew, Anna S. and Maud May. He resides at present on Western avenue.

MILLER, ABNER T., carpenter and joiner. Was born in Perry township, January 31, 1845; lived there until 1864, when he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer in- fanty ; served eleven months; was taken prisoner at North Mountain, Virginia, and taken to Anderson- ville, Georgia, where he remained seven months of the eleven, when he was sent home on parole. He was never exchanged, as the war closed shortly after. The treatment he received was very bad. His rations were one-half pint of corn meal a day. They were imprisoned in an open field with a stockade around it. The dead-line was about ten feet within the stockade; any prisoner attempting to pass this was liable to be shot by the guard. There was no shelter for the prisoners whatever, and for a bed they used the ground. There were sometimes an average of one hundred dead prison- ers removed every morning. When he was paroled he went to Columbus, remaining in Perry township until the war closed, when he was mustered out of service at Camp Chase. He came to Newark April, 1867, and was married to Mary E. Crom,

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December 17, 1869. She was born June 22, 1845, in Licking township; her parents are both living, are pioneers and residents of Licking township. They have two children: Annie B., born March 26, 1871, and Ella Myrtle, born July 20, 1875. Mr. Miller lives in West Newark.

MILLER, JOSEPH, tanner, son of Abram and Margaret Miller, who came to Newark from Hardy county, Virginia, in 1802. Mr. Miller's grand- father purchased six hundred and forty acres of land, all timber, on the site of East Newark. This land was divided between four children, Abram receiving one hundred and sixty acres. The sub- ject of this sketch is one of twelve children, and was born August 18, 1804. He is at present one of the oldest citizens in Licking county who was born here. He remained with his father until he was twenty-one. During this time he was em- ployed on his father's farm, and also worked for his neighbors. At one time he received his pay, amounting to fourteen bushels of wheat, which he exchanged for a calf skin that made for himself a pair of boots and a pair of shoes for his sister. His father was born November 20, 1780, and died December 18, 1858. At the age of twenty-one he went to Virginia and learned the tanner's trade with an uncle; was gone six years, and returned in 1831. He bought a tannery of Franklin Fuller- ton, situated in East Newark, near the aqueduct. At this time the residents could shoot ducks in what is now known as court house square, as the place was mostly ponds. He was married to Phebe Michael in January, 1837. She died April 20, 1838, leaving one child, Harriet, who was born November 18, 1837. Harriet was mar- ried to Daniel Smith June 11, 1867, and has two children-George Eugene M., born July 26, 1871, and Joseph Franklin, August 25, 1873. Mr. Mil- ler carried on the tanning business until 1865, when he sold to C. D. Myers. The land owned by his father was sold in a suit in partition, and the proceeds divided among the heirs. The shops of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company are erected on part of this land. Mr. Miller is living with his son-in-law, Mr. Smith, in West Newark, and owns thirty-five acres of land in Newark town- ship, near the fair grounds. The second school he ever attended was in a log cabin on his father's farm, built in the woods, and was kept by a farmer. The windows in this cabin were sheets of greased paper. The expense of attending school was two dollars for three months. The tannery where he exchanged his wheat for the calf skin, was situated where the Birkey house now stands. At this time the farmers would not raise more than five or ten acres of wheat, and for a market they had to go to Zanesville, where they got their salt. Mr. Smith

was born in Franklin county, December 16, 1834, and at five years of age moved to Mary Ann town- ship with his parents, where he lived until 1869, when he moved to Newark. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade.

MILLER, M. M., son of James Miller, was born in Newark, on the ninth day of August, 1850. He engaged with S. R. Klotts, in 1861, as stripper in his cigar factory, and worked about two years at stripping. In 1863 he commenced at the cigar making trade with Mr. Klotts, and served three years, as an apprentice at the business. In 1866 he commenced at his trade as journeyman, and worked about three years in Delaware, and eigh- teen months in Marietta, Ohio. . He then returned to Newark. In October, 1871, he, in company with Martin L. Tyrer, established a cigar factory in Newark, which business he has since followed. On June 3, 1873, he married Miss Ellen Dale, of Delaware, Ohio. She was born August 9, 1852. She is a daughter of John Dale, of English de- scent. Mr. and Mrs. Miller settled in Newark, where they have since resided. They have two children : Blanche C. and Claude D. In 1878 he was elected vice-president of the Licking Coun- ty Agricultural society. In 1879 he was elected president of the society, which position he held a year. In 1879-80 he represented the Licking county society in the board of the State Agri- cultural society. To Mr. Miller's efforts is largely due the efficient reports now annually made in this county.

MITCHELL, JAMES, son of Duncan and Mary Mitchell, was born November 30, 1814, in Johns- town, Montgomery county, New York. He came to Ohio in 1832, and settled in Newburgh, remain- ing about two years, when he removed to Orange township, Cuyahoga county, making that his home, although he worked away the greater part of the time. He learned the carpenter and joiner trade with Launder & Drawin, in Cleveland. After finishing his trade he worked at it for a livelihood. He has always followed this avocation. He was married to Louisa Wells, November 4, 1839. She is the daughter of John B. and Charity Wells, and was born in June, 1817. By this marriage they have six children, John, Donnell, Charity A., James H., Mary A., and Francis E. Mr. Mitchell removed to Zanesville in 1847, and remained there until 1874, when he removed to Newark, while his family remained in Zanesville until 1875, when they too removed to Newark. In 1851 he went into the Cincinnatti & Ohio Railroad shops, as a build- er of bridges, etc. He served in this capacity un- til 1870, when he entered the shops of the Balti- more & Ohio railroad company, at Zanesville, working in the repairing department. He has

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been in this employ ever since, save one year. He was initiated into the Columbian Lodge, No. 134, Free and Accepted Masons, at Cumberland, Guern- sey county, in July, 1846. He remained a mem- ber there until 1847, when he withdrew, and joined the La Fayette Lodge, No. 79, at Zanesville, Ohio, and remained a member there until 1875, when he withdrew, and joined the Ahimman Lodge, No. 492, at Newark, where he has since had his member- ship. He has held all the offices of any impor- tance both in the La Fayette and Ahimman lodges. He has always been held in high esteem by the fra- ternity. He became a member of the Zanesville R. A. C., No. 10, in 1850. He carried his mem- bership there until 1875, when he withdrew, and joined the Warren Chapter, No. 6, at Newark.

MOORE, JOHN G., railroad engineer, was born in Stark county, Ohio, April 17, 1843. March 3, 1870, he was married to Sarah Williams. She was born in Coshocton, Ohio, March 30, 1851. Her father died when she was two years of age. At this time, her mother being poor, she was com- pelled to put her children out. Mrs. Moore, with her sister and brother, were put under the charge of Father Bender, Catholic priest of Newark. When about seven years of age she was bound to John DeLong, then living south of Newark, Ohio. On account of bad usage she left this place and came on her own accord to Newark, and stopped with Mrs. Lawler. After finding out where she was her old master came and took her back. She only stayed about three months, when she left as before. This time, by influence of friends, she got back to Zanesville with her mother. She is now the mother of five children: Jessie, born December 13, 1870; George Wendel, born May 6, 1873; John David, born July 23, 1875; Alice Jonetta, born July 10, 1877; Charles William, born August 11, 1879. At an early day of his life Mr. Moore followed farm- ing. He has been in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company for the past sixteen years -three as fireman and the balance as engineer. He is known among railroad men as "The Big 58," or "Boss Moore. Mr. Moore is a member of the order of Masons in good standing, and a good, so- cial fellow.

MOORE, C. C., No. 421 West Main street, New- ark, Ohio, dealer in stoves and pumps, bird cages, table cutlery, and house furnishing goods, fruit cans, tin roofing and spouting ; tin and sheet iron work done on short notice. He makes a specialty of the Sensation cook stove, the best stove in the world. Mr. Moore was born in Newark, July 7, 1852. In 1870 he commenced at the tinner trade as an ap- prentice, and, after serving his term of apprentice- ship, he continued at the business as journeyman until in 1877, when he engaged in the business of

dealing in tinware, stoves, and house furnishing goods, in Jones' block, on Church street, where he conducted the business successfully until in Septem- ber, 1880, he moved to his present location on West Main street, where he is now carrying on the business. November 14, 1872, he married Miss Maggie Woleaver, daughter of George Woleaver, now living near Granville, this county. They settled in Newark, where they are now living. They have one child : Ralph C., born June 19, 1878.

MOORE, DAVID A. B., deceased, a son of Moses Moore, deceased, was born in Newark, October 8, 1821. He received his education in the Newart schools ; he was a cabinet-maker by trade, and fol- lowed that business as his vocation in Newark for many years; he served as captain of the home guards several years. In 1846 he married Miss Elizabeth Cross, daughter of James Cross, of Vir- ginia, who came to Newark in 1843. Mr. and Mrs. Moore settled in Newark, where his widow is now living. In 1847 he enlisted in an independent cavalry regiment under General Taylor, and served about fifteen months in the Mexican war, and then returned home. He served two terms as justice of the peace in Newark. In 1861 he raised a company for the First Ohio volunteer cavalry regiment, and went into the service of his country as captain of the company; served as such until, in the fall of 1862, he was commissioned major, and served in that capacity until he fell at the battle of Stone River, in December, 1862. He was a good soldier and highly esteemed by all of his men. He left a wife and three children-one son and two daugh- ters.

MOORE, D. M., proprietor of the extensive cloth- ing house, southwest corner of public square, in Lansing house block. This house may be looked upon as among the earliest of its kind in this sec- tion. Since Mr. Moore succeeded to the premises originally conducted by Mr. P. F. Rhodes, over eighteen months ago, thus consolidating the two businesses, the house has assumed proportions un- equalled in the county. The double building having a frontage of forty feet, and running back one hundred and twenty feet, one-half being de- voted to ready-made clothing, and the other half to merchant tailoring. They carry the highest grades of goods. Among the many grades of cloths in the latter department are superb English and French worsteds, basket suitings, diagonals, London (England) cassimeres, west of England meltons, particularly fine crepe coatings, etc. In fancy patterns, plaids, air-lines, and striped, they have everything to gratify the most fastidious taste, while the uniform excellence of the entire stock is unexcelled in the State. Three profes- sional cutters-for coats, suits, pants, and vests,

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preside in a special department in the rear of the room. The firm employ in all near forty persons to execute its engagements. Mr. Moore takes gen- eral supervision of the business, and is very atten- tive in having every detail carried out efficiently and promptly. In the gents' furnishing goods de- partment this firm may fairly be credited with the richest, finest, and most elegant line in this or ad- joining counties. Whether it is stylish scarfs, ties, gloves, half hose, silk or cotton kerchiefs, novel- ties in sleeve links, solitaires, pins or cuff buttons, they have everything new, novel, and beautiful, while their matchless line of Wilson & Brother's and Keep's fine shirts are sought after with avidity by all classes as having no equal in the market. The ready-made clothing department lacks noth- ing for men, youths, or boys' fine suits, or working clothes, while this house buying so extensively are enabled to sell to an advantage unobtainable else- where. Mr. Moore also operates the leading mer- chant tailoring and gents' furnishing house at Co- shocton and one in Mount Vernon.

MONTGOMERY, CHARLES, an attorney and city clerk, born May 9, 1854, in Madison township, son of Charles W. Montgomery, and grandson of William Montgomery, a native of the county Ty- rone, Ireland. Young Montgomery was raised on the farm until about seventeen years of age, when he entered Dartmouth college, New Hampshire, and was graduated in 1875. The next year he read law with Judge Buckingham, of this city, then he attended the law school of Michigan university one year, and soon thereafter was admitted to practice at the bar at Cambridge, Guernsey county, and immediately entered the Boston university school of law, and in June, 1878, received there- from the degree of LL. B., since which time he has continued the practice of his profession in this city.

MURPHY, CHRISTIANNA AND MARY, were born in Ireland, Christianna was born August 27, 1828, Mary August 28, 1829. In 1829 they came to Granville, New York, with their parents, moved to Caledonia, New York, in 1836. In 1838, moved to Dresden, Ohio, then in 1842 to Zanesville. In 1865 they moved to Newark. They are the daugh- ters of John and Anna Murphy. Mrs. Murphy died April 19, 1870, aged seventy years. Mr. Murphy died August 11, 1876, aged ' seventy-six years. They were members of the Catholic church.

MULLINIX, RANDOLPH, engineer on Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He has been in the employ of this road since 1872, and has served in the capacity of engineer since 1876. He is the son of Charles and Ann Mullinix, and was born June 11, 1851, in Howard county, Maryland. He removed to New-

ark about 1873, where he has since lived. He was married August 2, 1876, to Emma Davis; she is the daughter of John and Elizabeth Davis, and was born in Jacobsburgh, Belmont county, May 22, 1849.

NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

MAHOLM, JAMES .- Mr. Maholm was for many years a prominent business man of Licking county. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1792, and settled in this county in 1821. Mr. Maholm was married to Mary Taylor, daughter of Judge James Taylor, one of the prominent pioneers of this county. The subject of this sketch was a man of energy, industry, and integrity, and given to hospitality. He was a highly esteemed citizen, who, by his enterprise, frugality, and skilful busi- ness management, had acquired more than a competency. The death of Mr. Maholm occurred at his residence, near Chatham, in the seventy- eighth year of his age.

PERRY TOWNSHIP.

McCANN, SIBBETT, M. D., physician and farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1828, and came to this county in 1851 ; he is the second child of a family of seven, four of whom are now living. He was married in 1853 to Miss Elizabeth A. Lemmert, who was born in this township in 1831. Eight children have been born to them: Clara B., Charles Lee, Ada M., Wirt L., Robert P., Louis S., and two now in infancy. Mr. S. McCann owns one hundred and fifty-six acres of land in this county, and two hundred and ten acres in Muskingum county; has practiced medicine in this county since 1851, the date of his graduating at Starling Medical college, Columbus, Ohio. His parents were born in Ire- land; his father coming to this country in 1794, when two years of age, and his mother in 1820.

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 129

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