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Isaac Hazlett also engaged in the mercantile business. At one time there were three Robert Hazletts-Hugh's son, Robert the elder, who was known as Captain "Bob," being Captain of "The Warren Green's,"' and his son Robert. Hugh's son was locally called "Black Bob," be- cause he had such black hair. Captain Hazlett died in 1860.
Hugh and Isaac Hazlett were in partnership in the mercantile business on the southwest corner of Fountain alley.and Fifth street, and continued
there until 1808. They did the largest business of any of the merchants of that day.
: William Montgomery came in 1806. Daniel and Allen McLain built a house for him, the first frame house built in Zanesville, but where located we cannot tell.
In the summer of this year came Samuel Chap- man-from Marietta-induced by Benjamin Tup- per, for whom he built a frame dwelling and store on Front street-the property now owned by Dr. Nye. This was the second frame house completed in Zanestown.
chair-maker, wheelwright and painter, and just the man to find a welcome in a new settlement ;) whereupon a number of prominent citizens agreed to furnish him a comfortable house, with fuel and provisions free for one year, as an in- ducement to settle here. The offer was accepted, and he moved into a log house about where Main and First streets intersect on the north. In ad- dition to chair-making, he also made spinning wheels : this latter branch soon became so im- portant that William Calhoun opened up on Sev- enth street in the same line. In 1812 he joined the army. He left his business in charge of Pe- ter Bowermaster, who afterwards took his place in the army and Mr. Alter returned to Zansville cured of his desire for military glory. He died in Zanesville, September 20, 1879.
During this year also came Thomas Wickham, carpenter, from Wheeling, with a sick wife and several children. He built in West Zanesville. from stone taken from the bed of the river, just below the present railroad bridge. He subse- quently kept hotel on the site now the northwest corner of Main and Second streets. In 1817 he rebuilt a portion of the upper bridge that had fallen into the river. He subsequently purchased a farm near Irville and there built a distillery and made peach brandy for a living.
In 1806 came also Peter Roberts, wife, six sons and a daughter, all grown. They lived on the hill, near the old grave yard, and then re- moved to the corner of Eighth and Main. His son Nathan "followed the river."
During this year John L. Cochran, Jacob Houck and Frederick Houck came. Cochran, being a carpenter and a young man, easily found a footing : and when he was found to be upright he was made Market Master, Collector of Taxes and a Councilman.
Jacob Houck was a stonemason and a brick- layer, and superintended the building of the "old 1809" court house, He was a portly man, and old citizens remember with pleasure "his philo- sophic look, as he lighted his pipe by means of a sun glass." His family consisted of two daugh- ters and three sons. Jacob Houck died in 1816. X-Frederick Houck. his brother, was also a stonemason. In winter he turned his attention to the manufacture of gloves, breeches and vests of buckskin, and employed quite a number of his neighbor's daughters in making them.
In 1807 came Dr. Robert Mitchell and built his cabin on the site of now No. 48 South Fitth street.
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In 1808 came William Launder, Samuel Goff, William Burnham and James Taylor. Launder built a two-story log house on the site now occu- pied by Mr. E. S. Keene's handsome brick resi- dence. Mr. Goff built a hewed log house, where we are not informed by Mr. Church ; he gave much attention to flower culture and gardening, and had the first hive of bees in Zanesville. Burnham settled in that part of this new settle- ment known as Springfield, and kept "Burn- ham's Tavern" until 1811, when he removed to a frame building on the northwest corner of Main and Second streets, owned by General Isaac Van Horne, and opened tavern with the sign of "The Golden Ram" ; remained there until 1813, when he removed to the southeast corner of Main and Fourth streets into "the old Harvey Tav- ern." He died in the autumn of 1820, leaving a large family, and was buried with Masonic hon- ors from the residence of Seth Adams, on Second street.
During 1808 also John Alter, Sr., erected a two-story log house upon a lot purchased from Dr. Robert Mitchell for one dozen cane-seated chairs, valued at seventy-five dollars. An old settler remarked that "chairs were chairs in those days." John Alter, Jr., was born in this house before the doors and windows were put in.
During this year James Linn built his cabin on the site now known as No. 41 South Sixth street.
In 1809 came Alexander McLaughlin, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and built a brick house on the northeast corner of Sixth and Market streets, at the time the finest residence in all this region. In 1812 he sold this property to General Isaac Van Horne, hence its name. In 1819 he removed to Chillicothe, and after a few years re- turned and had much to do with getting the Cap- ital removed from Zanesville to its present loca- tion. He once owned the land on which it is situated. His family consisted of two sons and two daughters.
James Hampson, of Berkeley county, Virginia, being awarded the contract for building the "old 1809" court house, brought a small force with him, arriving the 10th of April, 1809, his family following in June, and they became permanent citizens. Mr. Hampson was subsequently Col- lector of United States Revenue for the Zanes- ville District. In 1818 he was elected to the Legislature, in 1819 was Sheriff, and in 1825 again a member of the Legislature. His family consisted of his wife Sarah, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, and six children. He died in Zanesville, March 26, 1843.
John S. Parkinson came in 1810, and moved his family into a log house on the northeast corner of Fountain alley and Third street. Dur- ing the war of 1812 he began transporting com- missary stores, and finally entered the army. At the close of the war Captain Parkinson bought a farm about two miles southeast of the city. In 1820 he made brick for the Northup warehouse ; in 1828 he was one of the Ohio Canal contractors, and, subsequently, for many years a Justice of the Peace in Wayne township. He died in 1871.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF ZANES- VILLE.
SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General As- sembly of the State of Ohio, that all that part of the town of Zanesville, in the county of Mus- kingum, included in the original plat thereor, now on record in the county of Washington, to- gether with all the additional lots since added thereto on the east side of the river Muskingum, and now on record in the county of Muskingum, be, and the same is hereby erected into a town corporate, and shall henceforth be known and distinguished by the name of the "Borough of Zanesville," subject, however, to such alterations and regulations as the Legislature may from time to time think proper to make."
The remaining twelve sections of this act pro- vide for the election of officers ; the judges of election to be elected viva vocc ; the oath and manner of conducting the election ; the corpora- tion may sue and be sued ; may have a common seal ; the trustees may fill vacancies and make by-Laws. ; provided, no laws shall ever be made by them subjecting cattle or hogs not be- longing to the inhabitants of said Borough to be taken up and sold for coming within the bounds of said corporation. The Trustees were author- ized to lay a tax, provided the "tax so laid in any one year shall not exceed one half per cent. on the value thereof," and provides that the Town Marshall shall be the collector, and pay over to the Treasurer all sums of money levied for the use of said Borough, within three months from the time of receiving the duplicate thereof, and the Treasurer's receipt shall be his voucher upon settlement with the Mayor, Recorder and Trustees ; the manner of collecting tax; the Marshall and Treasurer's bond ; appeal allowed to court ; the regulation of imprisonment. This act was signed by John Pollock, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Othniel Looker, Speaker of the Senate, and bears date January 21, 1814. January 26, 1818, an act was passed defining the limits of Zanesville. This descrip- tion will be found in the record entitled "the Town Plat of Zanesville and the subsequent ad- ditions thereto and subdivisions of lots."
At the earnest solicitation of some old settlers, we give the. following list of the boys and girls of 1820 and 1821, revised by L. P. Bailey :
THE BOYS .- Isaac Dillon, James and Henry Granger, Robert Hazlett, James V. Cushing, Jno. and William Latimore, Thomas Flanner, Caleb Johnson, Nathaniel and Charles Wilson, Gordius, Pascal and Samuel Hall, David Spang- ler, Charles Hill, Jno. Bliss, Charles Cleveland, Benjamin Reeve, C. B. Goddard, Chas. Gilbert, Richard Stilwell, Bernard Van Horne, Wm. Carhart, Franklin Van Horne, Jefferson Van Horne, Henry Orndorff, Ezekiel T. Cox, Horatio Cox, James Ragnet, Dillon Brooks, Gilbert McFadden, Samuel Richmond, Leonard P. Bailey, Erasmus Downer, Thomas, William, George and Charles Adams, John, Jacob, Adam and Martin Peters,- -Dickinson, Thos.
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Hughes, Peter Mills, Jr., Thomas Shepherd, Thomas Goff, Isaiah Miller, John Huntington, Michael Dulty, Robert Campbell, Samuel Campbell, Wm. Thompson, James Doster Paul Hahn, Jesse Roberts, Jno. K. Barret, Geo. W. O'Harra, Jonas, Henry and Edward Stanbery, Wm. Harris, Isaac and Jno. Sockman, Jno. Harrison, Geo. Menely, Geo. Hahn, Lucius Dubois, R. S. Bostwick, Joseph Springer,
Thomas Miller, - --- Bradley, Zerieth Fulton, George and Septimus Parker, Noah Z. Mercer, Joseph Thrap, Thomas Mart, (Dr. ) Burnham, Joseph Chambers, John Rogers, Benjamin Wheeler, Franklin Putnam, George L. Clapp, Joseph R. Thomas, Geo. Worts, Jesse and Jno. Dare, Harvey, Robert and Jonas Safford, George White, Wm. Snashall, Solomon Sturges, Wm. Hadley, Milton B. and Zattoo Custing, Cyrus Meriam, Austin Guthire, Brainard Spencer, Ira Belknap, Washington Haver, Peter Miser, Samuel Glass, James Goshen, James Mathews, Samuel Russell, John Harrison and George Warner.
THE GIRLS .-- Harriet, Sophia and Augusta Convers, Amelia McIntire, Caroline Calhoun, Lizzie and Marian Mart, Ann and Susan Sulli- van, Harriet Hampson,- -Wilson, Elizabeth and Ann Shepherd, Harriet and Ann Walpole, Harriet Wesley, Rosanna Perry, Mary Pelham, Matilda Strayer, Sarah Ann Waglum, Ellen Worden, Theresa Carhart, Kesiah Dillon, Eliza Price, Betsy Doster, Lavinia Hahn, Mary Hahn, Sarah, Eliza and Charlotte Spangler, "Kitty" Helton, Eliza Peters, Margaret and Mary Ann Thompson, Catharine and Elizabeth Harkins, Eliza Culbertson, Frances Strickland, Sarah and Patience Van Horn, Maria and Ann Chambers, Jane and Mary Flood, Caroline Reeve, Mary and Minerva Herrick, Melvina Mitchell, Louisa and Matilda Moorehead, Lucinda Molsberry, Louisa and Deborah Silliman, Emily Cum- mings, Jane Putnam, Lucy Reed, Lucy Bell, Eliza Dare, Melissa, Abigail and Sarah Mathews, Amanda and Eliza Buckingham, Abigail and Catharine Tupper, - -Glass, --- Marvin, Sarah Fairlamb, Nancy Stick- ney, Jerusha Hale, Mary Pardy, Mary Gould and Mary A. Sloan.
The foregoing recitals concerning the early settlers of Zanesville have been gleaned from notes resulting from repeated interviews with them or their descendants, by Mr. E. H. Church, and however barren they may seem to those who have no memories awakened by them, it is but simple justice to say that they are a noble monu- ment to the painstaking and adherence to truth that characterized Mr. Church. And as the years go by, and history again repeats itself, whoever will undertake a similar task will at least feel constrained to join in this tribute to his memory. There are those now living, possibly. who will take these texts and from them utter sermons of instruction, but it was not the good fortune of Mr. Church or the writer of these pages to discover them. We hear them say- ing :
" We are gathered here together in the light of happy years, To relume our lives with the memories of the hardy pioneers ; We, the children they have nurtured ; we, the children they have blest,
In the valley, by the river, where their holy ashes rest ; In the valley their afflictions and their blood have sanctified; By the river, golden-storied with their worth and virtues tried."
These were the foundation stones of which "the City of Natural Advantages" may well be proud. That they each bore an important part in the fabrication of the present high state of prosperity, and the social ties, termed good society, will more fully appear as we trace their evolutions. For covenience in this exhibit, we have arranged the industries in alphabetic order.
BAKERIES .- The first to meet the demand for bread in this region were Mrs. Samuel Parker, Mrs. Christian Spangler, and Mrs. Hillier, in 1807. They baked bread and cakes in "dutch ovens," and sold the bread at a "fip" (6} cts. ) per pound, and cakes at a "bit" (12} cts. ) per dozen. The following year one L. Hatman opened a "bake shop" on the site now occupied by Blocksom's drug store. Lewis Verden bought Hatman out and added the manufacture of candy, and after some years sold out to Smith & Nefley, who in turn sold to Henry Willey. Such were the beginnings of this business in Zanesville.
BOOK-BINDERS .- In 1816 J. Skinner & Co. started the first book-bindery. In 1817 they sold the establishment to A. S. Pennington & Co .. who sold it back to J. Skinner & Co. in 1819.
Previous to 1822, the proprietors of the "Mus- kingum Messenger" inaugurated a bindery. May 22d, 1822, the business passed into the hands of Ezekiel T. Cox & Co.
SULLIVAN & PARSONS' BOOK-BINDERY was established in 1865, by Captain Hugh Dunn, a practical book-binder, who began in a small, brick building that occupied a part of the ground now the sight of the Court House, fronting near- ly opposite the Atheneum as now situated. This building was afterwards enlarged to two stories, and known as "14 North Fourth street." He subsequently added a "job office," and soon gained a liberal patronage, printing letter-heads, bill-heads, and statements, chiefly. In 1869 Mr. E. R. Sullivan was admitted to partnership. and the establishment was conducted by Dunn & Sullivan. In 1870 Mr. Dunn retired and was succeeded by Henry Brown, and the business was done by Sullivan & Brown. The establish- ment had to vacate their old stand in 1873, to make room for the new Court House, and they then occupied No. 87 Star Block. The working department was divided and under special man- agement from 1869 to 1874-the book-bindery under management of Mr. H. H. Barker and the job printing under Mr. Hiram Mercer, both skilled workmen.
In 1875 the final change was effected, when Henry Brown retired and was succeeded by Henry Parsons, a practical printer, formerly of
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the "Courier" office. In October they moved into Maginnis Block, and purchased the frame build- in the rear formerly occupied by F. Abel, which is occupied with engine, presses, etc.
In 1876 the bindery passed under the control of Robert Campbell, a skilled workman, and the job printing under the management of Henry Parsons, with Mr. Sullivan as manager of the general business, including the "Times" printing establishment, with which it is connected.
SANDEL'S BINDERY, AND BOOK AND JOB PRINT- ING ESTABLISHMENT .- L. D. Sandel started his job printing office at No. 101 Main street in 1870, and moved to his present location, No. 173 North Fourth street, in June, 1876, having purchased the property ; and soon after he purchased the machinery and tools for a first-class bindery-a Hickock ruling machine, pageing machine, table shears, two presses, and improved tools.
The printing press is run by a Baxter engine, and the job office is supplied with full fonts of modern type, borders, cuts, and fancy orna- ments. The force employed averages six per -. sons, including the proprietor. His work has been for parties in adjoining counties and out of the State, as well as for generous patrons at home.
THE COURIER BOOK-BINDERY was established April Ist, 1880. It is fitted up with the latest improved machinery for manufacturing all kinds of blank books, binding magazines, journals, etc., and is superintended by J. D. Rea, former- ly of Dayton, Ohio, one of the most competent book-binders in the State. This establishment is located in a part of the "Courier" office, No. 32 Opera Block, and was inaugurated by the enter- prising managers of the "Courier" Newspaper and Job Printing House, now too well known to need commendation.
BREWERS .- The first brewery in Zanesville was by a Philadelphian, whose name has not found a record or lodgment in anybody's mem- ory, but was purchased by one George Painter in 1807. It was located on the site now the northwest corner of South and Fifth streets. Painter continued to brew there until 1811, when he sold to Jacob Young, who continued the busi- ness until 1815, when he abandoned the business. In 1813, about the 17th of November, William Marshall opened a brewery in a frame building on the site occupied by Power House, No. 3. James Boyd was his brewer, and made about thirty barrels per week. In 1815 Barton & Mc- Gowan bought the concern and turned it into a distillery. In 1816 Joseph Lattimore built a brewery on the site occupied now by Miller & Company, pork packers. Caleb Johnson was the brewer. In 1829 Ballentine & Son bought the property and continued the business until 1835, when the concern was converted into a flour mill. In 1835 C. F. Hass built what was known as the American House Brewery, and operated it until 1841. At the death of Mr. Hass, about 1850, John Classman bought the property and continued the business three years ; it was then sold to William Fox. In 1843 Christian F.
Achauer built, near the head of Main street. This brewery had a capacity of three thousand barrels per annum.
In 1854 Rev. George F. Goebel and Conrad Fischer built a small brewery on the northeast corner of Spring and High streets. They brewed about two hundred and fifty barrels an- nually. In 1856 Mr. Fischer withdrew and Goebel sold the property to Kirsner & Horn, who continued it until 1865, when the property was sold to John A. Bremer & Co.
In 1855 Edward Didas began to brew in a small way. In 1856 Conrad Fischer went into the business again. In 1874 the firm of Fischer Brothers made 2,373 barrels of beer. In 1860 Sebastian Bohn began brewing ; in 1879 he sold II7 barrels of beer. In 1865 the partnership of Horn & Co .- consisting of Adolph Horn, Frank Kirsner, Adolph and Edward Merkle-was formed, and in 1869 the Merkle brothers bought out their partners and have since done business under the name of Merkle Brothers, and in 1876 they brewed 3,407 barrels of beer.
BRIDGES .- An act of the Legislature, session of 1812, authorized Levi Whipple and others to erect a toll bridge over the Muskingum river, and provided for the location, which was about the same as the present Putnam bridge. The charter was for ninety-nine years. Mr. Whip- ple associated with him Ebenezer Buckingham, Benjamin Tupper and Dr. Increase Mathews, and at once began to construct the bridge, which was completed in 1813. This was not a covered bridge, and the piers, though the same that now support the Putnam bridge, were not carried up to their present height by eight feet. In the lapse of four or five years the superstructure fell down, and it was rebuilt about 1818 or 1819 by "Father Goshen," on his own plan. May 27th, 1845, at night, this bridge was burned. The loss was estimated at about fifteen thousand dol- lars. The work of rebuilding was commenced immediately. Mr. C. P. Buckingham (now of Chicago) informs us that he had the piers fin- ished as they now are, and the superstructure built on the same general plan as the upper bridge. The Main street bridge was built soon after the Putnam bridge. Jacob Houck built the stone pier under the forks, which was com- pleted in 1813. The woodwork was finished in 1814. Samuel Parker was toll-keeper until a portion of the east end of the bridge fell into the river in 1818. Mr. C. P. Buckingham informs us that it was the crumbling of one of the piers on which the new superstructure rested tempo- rarily until the "new pier close to it could be built up and take the load," that caused the bridge to fall. Mr. E. H. Church furnished the following on this subject : "August 21, 1832, a great freshet had drawn a large number of people to the bridge, apprehending danger of its being carried away ; and, strange to relate, with this danger staring them in the face, many were on the bridge, when suddenly about three hun- dred feet of the east end of the bridge fell into the swollen torrent; among those who went
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down into the angry tide were Ebenezer Buck- ingham and Jacob Boyd. Mr. Buckingham's body was recovered a few days after, about four miles below the city, by a Mr. Bliss, who received the reward of five hundred dollars offered by the family. It is not known whether Mr. Boyd's body was recovered or not. The bridge was repaired soon after, and the bridges were subse- quently made free bridges through the agency of Edward Ball and others. .
The Fifth street bridge was built by the Smith Bridge Co., Toledo, O., in 1878 ; the stone work was done by Thomas B. Townsend. The total cost was twenty-one thousand dollars.
BURYING CASES .- As late as 1802 these were made of bark, peeled from trees of the proper size to inclose the body ; were lined with leaves and dry grass and bound together with withes or sometimes with cords.
In 1802 the first coffin was made of boards ; it was for Dr. Increase Mathews' first wife; the second was made soon after for "Gracy," daugh- ter of Andrew Crooks. They were made by Richard McBride. The first hearse seen here was owned by John P. Stevens and Henry Mus- sellman-it was without trimming or lining.
In 1837 the first regular undertaker, Louis Brenholtz, offered his services. He had a fine hearse built by William Shultz. The first ready- made coffins were kept by James Cherry, of Putnam.
The "King of Terrors" has since made his havoc more general, and mankind, becoming more familiar with the inevitable, have demanded that the habiliments for the dead be kept in read- iness. To say that this demand has been met in all its requirements is to repeat a familiar story ; and to attempt a description of these things would be as futile as to detail the minu- tiæ of the fashions-for fashion has entered this arena with its inexorable laws.
In 1867 Edmund N. Hatcher commenced un- dertaking, and in 1873 took his son into partner- ship, and soon after joined John H. Crooks in the manufacture of coffins ; they were also deal- ers in undertakers' supplies. This partnership was dissolved January Ist, 1877, and the parties severally went into business for themselves. In 1878 Mr. E. N. Hatcher became the author and publisher of the "Funeral Guide," a very useful work, "giving the minutest detail of the whole funeral obsequies."
In 1869 Jonathan Hatcher, I. G. Hatcher and Jesse F. Hather, under the firm name of Jonathan Hatcher & Sons, erected the frame building now occupied by them. [A part of this building was built by S. S. Mann & Jacob Smith about 1854. ] Here they commenced the first coffin manufac- tory in Zanesville. The material, chiefly poplar and black walnut, was purchased in W. Virginia. and the pine from the pineries of the North. This firm continued until 1872, when it was changed to J. Hatcher & Co., and in 1879 was changed and incorporated as a stock company, called the Zanesville Coffin Company, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, and the following officers :
President, Jonathan Hatcher ; Secretary and Treasurer, Jesse F. Hatcher. Board of Direc- tors : Jonathan Hatcher, I. G. Hatcher, and Jesse F. Hatcher. They use water power furnished by the Improved Muskingum Water Power System. They require one traveling agent, and the amount of goods sold annually has reached fifty thousand dollars. Seven thousand coffins, besides robes, are manufactured yearly. Their office is at 108 Main street.
In 1871 Henry Sneerer began undertaking in the Maginnis Block (North Fifth street), and in 1873 sold out to John H. Crooks, who continued the business at that place until April, 1879, when he removed to 38 North Fifth street and con- tinues the business, supplying and manufactur- ing.
CARPENTERS .- A Mr. Lewis and a Mr. Smith arrived in Zanestown May 10, 1801, and were employed by John McIntire at carpentering. In the spring of 1805 John Van Horne, in company with his uncle, Isaac VanHorne (the General), arrived, and soon after John began working at his trade. He built a hewed log house on Pine street, in the Seventh Ward, which was subse- quently weather-boarded and painted white, a new occurrence for those days, as it was . there- after known as "the White House." During this year also Wm. Craig was engaged at carpen- tering. In 1806 he was elected Justice of the Peace. He built a hewed log house for himself on the northwest corner of Market and Fourth streets. He was associated with Thomas More- head in building the first M. E. Church in 1813. During 1805 J. Marpole, of Bucks county, Pa., came to Zanestown, but abandoned his trade for politics. Noyce Stone came soon after, and he, too, "went into politics."
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