History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 130

Author: N. N. Hill, Jr.
Publication date: 1881
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MONTGOMERY, H. S., farmer; post office, Han- over ; was born in this county in 1830; his father, Henry Montgomery, was born in Ireland, county Tyrone, in 1790, and died in this county in 1870. His mother was born in Virginia of Irish parents, and died in 1866. H. S. Montgomery was mar- ried in 1879 to Miss Leanna Wilson, of this county. H. S. Montgomery owns a farm of over three hundred acres in the south part of this town- ship, and lives in one of the most substantial brick houses in the county. He is one of a family of ten children; six boys and four girls.

MONTGOMERY, MILTON, farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in this township March 30, 1828; was married January 1, 1852, to Miss Matilda Jane Fleming; they have had three chil- dren: Emma I., born in 1853, Quinn Fleming, born in 1855; Anna Rebecca (deceased), born in

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1857. Mr. Montgomery owns three hundred acres of fine land, and lives in a substantial brick house erected in 1870.

ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.

MARANVILLE, C. D., harness, trunk and carriage manufacturer, was born . June 8, 1830, in West Poultney, Rutland county, Vermont. About 1834 his mother moved to Fort Ann, New York, where they remained until 1837, when he was given to Ebenezer Martin, of Benson, Rutland county, Ver- mont, where he remained until April 7, 1848, at which time he began his trade with C. H. Colton, West Granville, Washington county, New York. He emigrated to Alexandria, Ohio, December 1, 1856, where he has since remained. He married Julia A. Twining December 29, 1869. She was born in St. Albans township, in sight of Alexandria. They have two children: Frank W. and Frederick C. He was elected justice of the peace in the spring of 1876, and has held the office to the present time.

MILLER, J. J., undertaker and carriage maker, Alexandria, Ohio, was born July 22, 1838, in Bowl- ing Green township, residing with his parents until he was seventeen years of age. He served his ap- prenticeship with Stephen Harrison in Jersey town- ship. In June, 1858, he located in Alexandria, where he has since remained. He married Jo- sephine E. Hobart May 12, 1859. She was born October 6, 1841, in Granville township. Her par- ents, Guy and Emeline Hobart, are natives of Ver- mont, and emigrated to Granville township in an early day. Aaron and Susan Miller, parents of the subject of this sketch, were born-the former in 1808, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and the latter about 1810, in Pennsylvania. Mr. Miller is one of the energetic mechanics of Alexandria. They had three children: Charles, born February 15, 1860; Frederick F., July 20, 1816-the lat- ter died September 20, 1870-Jessie E., born September 14, 1872.

MOUNT, ALFRED, farmer, was born in New Jer- sey, December 25, 1828. He married Mary E. Sigler, February 14, 1855. She was born in St. Albans township, March 4, 1834. They have three children-Zilla L., born December 31, 1857, married H. Parsons, January 1, 1879, and resides near Appleton, in Bennington township; Will H., born July 22, 1861 ; Frank C., born September 19, 1865. Both sons remain with their parents.

UNION TOWNSHIP.

McMILLEN, W. H., carpenter, post office, Union Station, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1831. His parents are at present living in that county. W. H. was married in 1861 to Miss Hes- ter Ann Crammar, a resident of this county; they

have had five children-Charles C., eighteen William I., fifteen; Ora, thirteen; Ellen, eleven, Daisy, eight. Mr. McMillen has followed the business of carpentering since he was fifteen year of age, serving his apprenticeship with the firm di Young & Co., of Columbus, Ohio, which firm war interested in the building of the State house, and the improvements of the penitentiary. Mr. Mc- Millen is skilful and industrious.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.

MCCLELLAND, DAVID A., carriage and wagon maker, and dealer in paints and oil, merchant and bar iron, horse shoes, nails, and carriage and wagos hardware, was born in Northfield, Portage county, Ohio, February 19, 1824. His parents were from Pennsylvania, who came to that county in 1822 His father was a shoemaker. In 1839, his parents moved to Newville, Richland county, where he began to learn his trade with Jacob Cable, He worked here seven months and then moved to Utica, and worked for Robert Ardry ; worked for him a short time and then worked for William King, where he finished his trade. After com- pleting his trade he went to Mt. Vernon and re- mained until 1850, when he returned to Utica working there a short time, and then went to Columbus where he resided until 1859. He was married to Abbie E. Rhodes in 1855. She died September 28, 1858. They had one child, born June 18, 1858, and died August 11, 1859. Dur- ing this time was employed by the Central Ohio Railroad Co., which is now called the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. While in the employ of the Railroad Co., worked in various places, viz : Bel- laire, Zanesville, Columbus, etc.

In 1860 he quit the employ of the railroad company and went to Colorado. He started for the gold regions of Colorado in July, 1860; he worked at mining until September, 1861, when the United States Government opened a recruiting office at Central City, when he enlisted in the First regi- ment Colorado cavalry, company M, Captain D. Hardy. He enlisted on the eighth day of Sep- tember, for three years, or during the war. Was discharged from service the fifth day of April. 1864, at Fort Lyons. Though he had re-enlisted in the First veteran battery Colorado cavalry January I, 1864, on the thirtieth of October, 1865, was mustered out of service on a general order owing to the close of the war. His regiment was en- gaged, during the war, on the frontiers of New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas, escorting mail trains and suppressing any Indian trouble He crossed the Rattoon mountains eight times, going into New Mexico.

At an early stage of the war he was run over by an army wagon, which crushed his leg pretty

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badly; this occurred October, 1861, from which he never has recovered, and is in consequence of this injury, receiving a pension from the Govern- ment. At the close of the war he returned to Utica and bought the shop of Cyrus Hays, and went into the carriage business, and dealing in all kinds of carriage and wagon hardware, and fur- nishing goods. His place of business is the same that he finished learning his trade in. Mr. Mc- Clelland has remained unmarried, and resides on property belonging to him and his sister; carries on his business, and is a good citizen of the town; fair in his dealings and liked by most of his ac- quaintances.

MOORE, G. W., farmer, post office, Utica. Mr. Moore's parents came from Adams county, Penn- sylvania, to Newark in 1807. Not long after they removed to a farm, and from there to Utica, where Mr. Moore engaged in the mercantile trade. This he followed several years; from there he moved to the farm on which he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are the parents of ten children, two of whom died in infancy; of the others, Eliza D. married I. D. Johnston ; Sarah, J. Kirkpatrick; Charlotte P., T. Rogers ; J. Q., Mary Steveson; and Jennie, C. Hember .. Maggie died in 1877. There are still two sons on the home farm, one of whom owns seventy-three acres, the other, the other half of the old homestead.

BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.

NEWBERRY, W. R., wagon-maker, born in Hart- ford, Connecticut in 1846; came to Granville, in this county, in 1855. At the age of sixteen he en- listed in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, company D, Colonel James A. Wilcox. He was at the battle of Chickamauga, and with Sherman on his famous march to the sea; re- ceived a wound in the right knee at Kenesaw Mountain; was at the battle of Goldsborough, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war in July, 1865. He receives a pension on account of the wound; was married, in 1870, to Miss Cilia Milligan, of Newark. Mrs. Newberry died in the spring of 1877, and, in the fall of 1878, Mr. New- berry again married, uniting with Miss Martha Mil- ligan, sister of his first wife. He is the father of two children by his first wife, and of two by the second; all living.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.

NICHOLL, WILLIAM H., farmer, was born in Chittenden county, Vermont, October 10, 1812. His father. deceased in 1813. He migrated to Granville, Licking county, Ohio, in 1816, with his mother, where they lived several years. He was brought up a farmer, and has made farming and stock raising his vocation. His education

consists of what could be obtained in the schools of Granville in early days. In 1838 he went back to Vermont, married Miss Mary Partridge and then returned with his bride to his home in Granville township, Licking county, Ohio, making the jour- ney there and back in six weeks. They settled on the farm where they are now living, on Burg street, Granville township. They reared a family of four children: Alfred M., Sidney H., Edward A., and Albert P. They have a looking-glass in their house that has been among their ancestors about one hundred and seventy-five years. It was brought from Scotland to Massachusetts, from there to Ver- mont, and from Vermont to Licking county in a six-horse wagon with a load of goods in 1816. His grandfather, Robert Nicholl, was a paymaster, and also served as a captain in the War of 1776.

NEWARK TOWNSHIP.

NEIBARGER, P. J., farmer, was born in Madison township, April 11, 1825; has lived in Licking county all his life. He is the son of the late John Neibarger. April 15, 1859, he was married to Catharine Benner. They are the parents of seven children-Matilda E., the wife of Alihu Warner, John, Hulda, who died in 1873, January 5th, aged eighteen years, Mary R., Martha A., Melceina and Albert. Mrs. Neibarger is the youngest child of the family of the nine children of David Benner, deceased.

CITY OF NEWARK.

NEHLS, FREDERICK, carpenter and joiner, learned his trade in Germany, after which he came to America, landing April 20, 1854, and settled in Buffalo, where he remained until 1859; then he re- moved to Newark, where he has resided ever since. .He was born November 6, 1830, in Germany; was married before he came to America, to Paul Dor- the. They have four children, two of whom are dead.

NEWKIRK, MATTHEW, dealer in staple and fancy dry goods, millinery goods, ladies' cloaks, etc., cor- ner of Third and Main streets. His salesroom is twenty by one hundred feet, with an addition of an L of seventeen feet, with a basement used for the storage of goods, and a room up-stairs, a part of which is used for storage, the remainder as a work shop, in which they do millinery work, dress and cloak making. His salesroom is well filled with the best quality of goods. Mr. Newkirk is a native of New Jersey, where he was born on the eighth day of March, 1814. In 1828 he went to Phila- delphia, where he engaged as clerk in a dry goods house, remaining one year. Then, in 1829, he re- moved to Cincinnati, where he remained nine years as clerk in a drug and grocery store. In the fall of 1838 he came to Newark and engaged as

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salesman in the store of Seymour & Baldwin, with whom he remained ten years. In 1848 he entered the store of N. H. Seymore & Co. as salesman, where he remained four years. In 1852 he, in company with N. B. Hogg, purchased the entire . stock of dry goods and groceries of Hammill & Co., of Newark, and engaged in the business. The firm name being known as M. Newkirk & Co., and remained as such about four years, when Mr. Hogg sold his interest in the goods to B. J. Wil- son, who remained a partner of Mr. Newkirk un- til in 1857, then.Mr. Newkirk purchased his part- ner's interest, and conducted the business alone, until in 1869, when his son, Charles H., became his partner, and remained as such until in 1875, when he withdrew from the firm, leaving Mr. New- kirk again alone in the business, who is now con- ducting one of the largest dry goods establish- ments in the county. He has in his employ eight gentlemen and five lady salesmen, and three lady workmen. He was united in marriage to Miss Nancy M. St. Clair, of Cincinnati in 1837. They be- came the parents of six children-three of whom are now living-Edward T., Charles H. and William. His companion died November 3, 1874. He married Miss Mary E. Fleek, April 3, 1878, of Newark, daughter of Adam Fleek.

NICHOLS, VOLNEY, son of Jonah and Nancy Nichols, was born December 25, 1835, in Belmont county, Ohio. He came to this county with his parents, April 11, 1850, and located on a farm in Madison township, remaining there about eight years, working for his father. He was married to Mary Albaugh, June 19, 1859; she was born in Newton township, in 1830. After their marriage, Mr. Nichols followed farming about nine years, when he turned his attention to the carpenter trade, and has been working at it ever since. They reside on East Main street.

NORMAN, JOHN H., barber, was born in the District of Columbia, July 4, 1829. He was mar- ried to Margaret A. Berry, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, August 11, 1848. They have seven children: Mary, born August 29, 1849; Maria, February 22, 1851; Eva, December 19, 1853; Frank B., February 28, 1856; Oliver W., May 26, 1858; John F., October 13, 1862 ; Lizzie, Decem- ber 15, 1864. Mrs. Norman was born January 13, 1832. Mary was married to Charles P. Henry, of Coshocton, Ohio; she died August 31, 1878; Ma- ria is the wife of Lawyer N. R. Harper, and now lives in Louisville, Kentucky; Eva is the wife of Charles P. Henry, of Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Norman came to Newark in 1860, and the next year moved his family. His occupation is barber.

NUGENT, MRS. R. M., was born in Berks county,

Pennsylvania, March 23, 1838. She was married to Samuel McNolty, February 16, 1853; he was born in 1835. They had one son, Charles S. born May 18. 1854. Mr. McNolty died in Octo- ber, 1854, and Mrs. McNolty married her second husband, George H. Huber, March 9, 1856. He was born September 1, 1835. They have nine children-Sarah A., born April 2, 1857 ; Anna E. and Agnes O., born July 30, 1858 (Anna E. died August 9, 1859, and Agnes O. died August 15. 1859) ; Alice L. died May 11, 1861, aged four months; Mary J., born May 30, 1861; James C., May 5, 1863; George A., May 18, 1865; William Sherman, October 28, 1866; Rachel Catharine, April 30, 1868. Mr. Huber died May 5, 1868, and the widow married a third time, A. Nugent. January 25, 1870. By this marriage they have three children-George H. was born November 29, 1870; Walter H., November 3, 1872; Mary E., May 6, 1876. Mr. Huber was a member of com- pany B, Fortieth Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. enlisted July 23, 1863, and was discharged July 16, 1865. In 1868 Mrs. Nugent lived in Mechanics- burgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, until 1875. when she moved to Uhrichsville, Ohio, then to In- dianapolis and again to Uhrichsville, and, two years after, to Newark. Her father, Jacob Ehr- good, was a colonel in the Mexican war. He died in October, 1854, aged eighty-seven years.

PERRY TOWNSHIP.

NETHERS, NATHAN (deceased), was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1807; he came to Ohio after he was married to Miss Jemima Berry. in the year 1831, October 6th; they had ten chil- dren; John W. was born November 12, 1832: Catharine E., February 15, 1834; George W., April 15, 1835; Henry Willis, December 17, 1836; Andrew Jackson, September 17, 1838; Lloyd Arnold, August 31, 1840, Sarah Ann, February 14, 1844; Calhoun, May 3, 1845; Mary Jane, January 25, 1849; Joseph Emmet, August 7, 1853: Mrs. Nethers was born in Virginia in 1814. When Mr. and Mrs. Nethers came to Ohio she walked the entire distance with the exception of one day, when she was sick. At the time of Mr. Nethers' death he was in good circumstances, owning three hundred and twenty acres of land, and was a pro- gressive and respected citizen.

ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.

NICHOLS, THOMAS, miller, Alexandria, was bom September 19, 1831, in St. Albans township. He remained with his parents until about 186g, attended the district schools in his native towndy He married Esther P. Brown October 5, 1899 She was born in Jersey township December 1838. They have three children : Frank, body

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October 8, 1860; Fannie B., Jennie M., twins, born October 27, 1861. Dr. Enos Nichols, father of the subject of this sketch, was born May 12, 1799, in Windsor county, Vermont, and emigrated to Granville, Licking county, about 1817. He married Percepta Ingham, of York State; she was born about 1804. To them were given nine chil- dren, only three of whom are living. Thomas Nichols, the subject of this sketch, ranks high as a miller, and is considered honorable and straight- forward with his fellow man.

BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.

OLDHAM, JOHN, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1814, son of Robert and Martha (Morrison) Oldham. In 1821 he came with his parents to North Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, and completed an apprenticeship of four years in the saddle and harness making trade there in 1832, then worked at his trade two years in Zanesville. In 1834 Mr. Oldham came to Browns- ville, where he has resided ever since, engaged in saddle and harness making. He has twice been postmaster at Brownsville-during the administra- tions of Presidents Taylor and Johnson, and has been township treasurer for fifteen years. He was married to Miss Phoebe Dumm, November 4, 1836. Her father, Jacob Dumm, moved to Zanes- ville, Ohio, in 1806, from Bedford county, Penn- sylvania. In 1832 she came to Brownsville with her mother. They taught a very popular and suc- cessful industrial school here in a church, having as many as fifty pupils in attendance at one time, some of them from quite a distance, Mrs. Oldham giving instruction in sewing, working samples, etc., and her mother teaching the common branches. Mr. Oldham has seven children living-Ellen T., wife of Thomas Tippet, of Delaware; Lide M., wife of Albert Robinson, of Albany, Ohio; C. A. Oldham, a druggist in Enfield, Illinois; B. T. Old- ham, a tobacconist in Delaware, Ohio; Lizzie, Min- nie, and Allion.

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.

ORR, JOHN B .- Mr. Orr was born March 30, 1828, in Bowling Green township. His grand- father and family came to this county from Fay- ette county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, when his father, James Orr, was a small boy. They first lived on the place near Newark, where Thomas Taylor now resides. In a short time, however, they removed :O the farm in Bowling Green township, upon which [ames Orr has ever since lived. Mr. Orr's mother, Elizabeth Dusthimer, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia. His parents were married in 1824. Mr. Orr is the second of nine children, three of whom have died. He was married September 18, 1851, O Eliza Ann Cooperider. By this marriage he had

six children: Martha, Leroy, Harvey, Austin, Ste- phen and Millie Alice. Martha and Stephen are dead. Mr. and Mrs. Orr are members of the Lutheran church. He moved to his present resi- dence in 1856, and has, during his whole life, pur- sued the quiet avocation of a farmer.

MADISON TOWNSHIP.

O'BANNON, P. N .- Mr. O'Bannon was born upon the farm on which he died, two miles below Newark, November 6, 1806, and was seventy-three years and ten months old. He was a man of con- siderable prominence and ability, and more than ordinary activity in affairs of public interest. He was a member of the State legislature in 1844 -- 5, and had also been elected to the position of a member of the board of equalization, once or oftener, and was also president of the Licking County Agricultural society in 1852, and since 1872 had been the president of the Licking County Pioneer Historical and Antiquarian society. Mr. O'Bannon had long been associated with the Masonic fraternity, and also with the various tem- perance organizations, and could always be counted to give the weight of his precept and example to the side of good order, sound morality and virtu- ous principles. His life was chiefly devoted to agricultural pursuits and general husbandry, al- though for perhaps thirty of the later years of his life he exercised his gifts in the ministry of the Lutheran church, as opportunity offered. Hon. P. N. O'Bannon was the eldest son of the late Judge William O'Bannon, a prominent pioneer of Licking valley, who settled there on the banks of the Shawnee run in 1803.

NEWARK TOWNSHIP.

O'BRIEN, MICHAEL, son of Clark and Ellen O'Brien, was born February 7, 1841, in Clare county, Ireland. He came with his parents to America in 1849, and first settled in Hillsboro, Ohio, remaining about one year, when they re- moved to Lancaster for another year, after which they located in Newark, where they have resided, principally, ever since. Mr. O'Brien lives about one mile north of the public square of Newark, on the Mt. Vernon road, where he is engaged in the gardening business. He was married to Mar- tha McCarthy, November 5, 1861; she is the daughter of Edward and Ann McCarthy, and was born March 4, 1846, in Ireland. Her parents emigrated to America when she was quite young, and settled in York State. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien have six children: Ella, born August 26, 1865: Elizabeth, born February 11, 1869; Anna, born November 9, 1871; Maggie, born June 28, 1874; Mary, born February 14, 1877; Edward, born June 17, 1879.

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O'DELL, JAMES B., a farmer, located on the Sharon valley road, about four miles west of New- ark. He is the son of Stanton B. and Syndica O'Dell, and was born March 27, 1844, in Gran- ville township. He was married to Anna L. Gray, October 28, 1875; she is the daughter of William T. and Temperance Gray, and was born July 25, 1851, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. O'Dell have two children: Lura Belle, born October 28, 1876; Blanche R., born December 2, 1878. Mr. O'Dell enlisted in the service during the late war February 16, 1865, in company E, One Hundred and Ninety-first Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain George E. Richards. He received his discharge August 27, 1865.

OWENS, JOHN R., farmer, a native of North Wales, was born March 31, 1811. He was brought up on a farm. After he reached his majority, in 1832, he migrated to America, and located in New York State, where he engaged as engineer in a distillery, and remained with the same firm about nine years. In 1841 he emigrated to Ohio, and located in Granville township, this county. He then turned his attention to farming, which busi- ness he has since been engaged in, and is counted one among the leading farmers in the county. His first purchase of land was fifty acres on Burg street, Granville township, on which he moved and lived for many years. He continued buying land until he had in his possession about two hundred and eighty acres of good land in Granville town- ship. In 1842 he was united in marriage to Miss Ann Jones, born in Wales, in 1817, and came to this county with her parents in 1841. They settled on his farm in Granville township, where they resided until in 1872, when they purchased and moved on the farm in Newark township where they now reside; farm containing one hundred and sixty-three acresr. Their union resulted in four children: Robert J., David R., Thomas D., and John J.

CITY OF NEWARK.

OWENS, JAMES W., a lawyer by profession, ac- tively engaged in the practice, with office on west side of public square, over Franklin's bank, New- ark, Ohio. Mr. Owens was born October 24, 1837, in Franklin county, Indiana. He entered Miami university at Oxford, Ohio, in 1859, and graduated in 1862. He entered the army as a private in the Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served during the three months' service. He re-enlisted and was made first lieutenant of company A, Eighty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and, on its re-organization, was made captain of company K. He attended law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1864-65, and in March of the latter year he lo- cated at Newark, Ohio, and was admitted to the

bar the same year. July 23, 1867, he married Miss Martha, daughter of Elias Kumler, of Oxford, Ohio. By this union he has one child, Eva G. In 1867 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Licking county, and was re-elected in 1869. In 1875 he was elected to the senate by a majority of eight hundred and forty-four, and he was re-elected in 1877 by a majority of two thousand and sixty. five. When the senate was organized, there being no lieutenant governor, Mr. Owens was elected president of the senate, and as such appointed the committees. When Lieutenant Governor Fitch was inaugurated he became president pro tem. He is a fluent and forcible speaker, and a good parlia- mentarian.

NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

OSBURN, THOMPSON E., contractor and builder, post office, Vanatta, was born in Franklin township, this county, July 27, 1842. About 1835 his father. Richard Osburn, came from Virginia, settling oc Clay lick, in Franklin township. Mary (Humphrey, Osburn, his mother, was also a native of Virginia, and came to Muskingum county when a child, and when that county was a wilderness. Thompson E Osburn enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, Au- gust 22, 1862, and was honorably discharged, July 7; 1865. He took part in the following battles: Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Re- saca, Rome, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain (where one- half of the company was killed or wounded) Peach Tree Creek, New Hope Church, Front of Atlanta, Jonesborough, and many skirmishes. He was also with Sherman on his famous "march to the sea" During this march he was connected with the for- agers, who fought a small battle by themselves, whipping the rebels at Sandersville, Georgia, dris- ing them out of that place and capturing a good dinner that had been prepared by the ladies of that village for the gray-coats. He was also with Sher- man in his march through the Carolinas, and was engaged m the severe battle of Bentonville, and also that of Black River. He remained with Sher- man until after the surrender of Johnson's army, and fired one of the last shots of the war on the tenth of April, 1865, the day following the surren- der of Lee, he being at the time on the skirmish line near Smithfield, North Carolina. Sergeant Osburn also fired one of the first and one of the last shots at the battle of Chickamauga In this battle his company lost twenty-one off of thirty-five men in killed and wounded the battle of Kenesaw Mountain Sergeant burn rescued Andrew J. Shaw who fell, der ately wounded near the enemy's works Su had been his friend at home; and afterward in the hospital. Mr. Osburn rescued him bych

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History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Part 130

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