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Phillip Heffefinger was born in Cumberland county, Pa., September 28, 1787. He was first married to Isabella McCormick of the same county, who lived less than a year, having one child that died in 1871. He was remarried January 12, 1818, to Elizabeth Mowrey, and by this union had eight children. In the spring of 1818 he came West, arriving in Wayne county June 5, and for a while lived in a school house near the residence of the late Daniel Silvers. Two years prior to this he had been out and bought the farm for $700, on which he lived and died. His second wife died March 7, 1871, aged 70 years. She was a member of the Presby- terian church, he having, for 25 years before his death, in 1877, been united with the Methodists. He was an honest, pure-minded, sincerely pious man, living to a ripe old age. In his later years he was under the kind care of his daughter Eliza- beth and her husband, Captain Reed.
Robert Rathbun, one of the earliest pioneers, was born in Rhode Island, Sep- tember 17, 1771, and removed to Wayne county in November, 1814, settling on the farm on which his son Samuel now resides, which land he entered. He was mar- ried to Anna Allen, and had the following children: Mary, married to Nathan Warner; Robert, married to Hannah Warner; Samuel, married to Elizabeth Ed- monds; Caleb A., married to Mary Edmonds, and Anna, married to Thomas Mc- Cully. He died April 2, 1822, his wife following him to the grave April 18, 1834. Samuel Rathbun, son of Robert, was born in Cayuga county, New York, March 15, 1800, and came to Wayne county with his father, and by marriage with Eliza- beth Edmonds had the following children : Rosannah, married to Andrew Byers,
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now residing in Indiana ; Manilla, married to Allen Bodine; Robert, Anna, George, Mary ; Samuel, who became a soldier in the 16th Regiment and died in the fall of 1863; Peter ; and William A., who still lives with his father. Mrs. Rathbun died May 29, 1873.
Peter Stair was born in Cumberland county, Pa., November 28, 1819, and came with his father, Jacob Stair, to Wayne county in 1828, and has lived in Chester township twenty-five years. September 1, 1842, he was married to Sarah Houser. In 1875 he was elected County Commissioner, and re-elected to the same office in 1877. He is a solid, popular, active and substantial citizen, devoted to the inter- ests of his county.
John Piper was born in Chester county, Pa., November 6, 1786, and was mar- ried to Mary Wisehaupt March 1, 1810, her death occurring October 2, 1869, at the residence of her son William. His father was a farmer, with whom John remained until be was twenty years of age. Prior to his marriage he learned weaving, pur- chasing a loom when he was twenty-four years old, which he followed for eleven years, when he concluded to go West, emigrating to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1821, and bringing with him his wife and five children. At the end of eight years em- ployed in farming, and weaving in the winter, he removed to Chester township, settling on the farm which his son William owns, and with whom he lives. This farm (leased land) he purchased at Mansfield at a " Congress sale" of lands, there being but a few acres cleared, and upon it no improvements except a small cabin. He has had eleven children, viz : Mary, Elizabeth, Catharine, Jacob, John, Valen- tine, Nancy, David, William, Henry and George. The subject of this notice was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Jacob Piper was married November 15, 1838, to Catharine Thomas, and has had eight children, five of whom are dead. He owns several splendid farms and has recently erected one of the best houses in the township.
William Piper, son of John, was born October 22, 1827, and was married to Elizabeth Thomas, April 21, 1853, and has had five children, two of whom are dead; the names of those living being Mary T., Harvey L. and Ida F. Piper. He is a farmer, devoting himself exclusively to its pursuits, though for four years he was engaged in the dry goods and produce business in Reedsburg with David Thomas. He has held various offices of public trust in his township, and his pop- ularity was tested a few years ago, in a county canvass, when his ticket (Republican) was in a hopeless minority, by his running nearly one hundred ahead of it in his own township. He is a man of marked character, of enlightened and advanced opinions, a member of the Methodist church, and a modest and courteous gentle- man.
John Moyers, a native of Westmoreland county, Pa., immigrated to Wayne county about 1825, soon thereafter purchasing the Chasey farm, near Lattasburg, and which he sold to Christian Berkey, now owned by his son, Jonas Berkey. Here he engaged in farming and the nursery business, all the surrounding orch- ards for miles having been supplied by him. He went into the silk-worm business as early as 1835, and raised the material to feed them. He first planted the white mulberry, but its leaves were too small to feed them. He then planted the Moses Multicollis, a tree which bears no fruit but has a larger leaf. He built a silk-house to feed the worms, but the enterprise proved finan- cially disastrous to him, and he abandoned it. He spun some thread and had some silk handkerchiefs made, that were of the finest character. He was a mem-
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ber of the German Baptist church, and was an enterprising, good and useful man. His wife was known throughont the neighborhood as a pious and noble woman, everybody's friend, and charitable to the poor. Mr. Moyers is said to have first introduced the Mediterranean wheat into Wayne county.
Benjamin Norton was born in Franklin county, Pa., March 5, 1813, and re- moved to Wayne county, Ohio, on his arrival at the age of manhood. In 1850 he removed to Chester township, and purchased what was known as the Adam Shinneman farm, on which he lived until his death, September 8, 1867. He was married to Catharine Emrich, September 6, 1836, and had ten children. His son- Martin H., enlisted as a private in Captain Botsford's company soon after the break- ing ont of the war, but was soon appointed Sergeant, then Wagon-master, then Second Lieutenant, and then Quartermaster of the Regiment. He died at Vicks- burg, August 13, 1863.
Benjamin Norton was a noble-hearted, generous and chivalric man, public spir- ited, and identified with the material interests of the county. He served through the different grades of township offices, and was elected County Commissioner, act- ing from 1856 to 1859, his period of service characterizing an era in the management and disposition of the finances of the county. He was an upright, liberal and hon- orable man, of decided principles and consistent life.
David Thomas was born in Perry township, Ashland county, November 27, 1827. He has been a successful school teacher, speculator and merchant. He was married June 30, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Norton, and has three children. He now owns the Norton homestead of over 200 acres, and has so im- proved and beautified it as to make it one of the most attractive homes of the county. He has served in various official capacities in his township, but has steadily declined invitation to wider fields of politics. He is a member of the Lutheran church, an honorable, influential man, and no township in the county can boast a better citizen.
Jacob Garver was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, June 16, 1800. His father was a farmer, and removed from Maryland to Fayette county, Pa., in 1802, and died there in 1829. Jacob followed farming, and married Mary Lucas, August 4, 1822. In 1827 he immigrated to Wayne county, and settled on the place where he now lives, in Chester township. An earnest Christian all his life, he became a German Baptist (Dunkard) minister, beginning to preach when forty-four years of age. He had the following children : Eliza, Anna, Samuel, Mary, David, George, Margaret, Lydia, Sarah, Amos, Catharine, Jesse, Melvina, Samantha, Elmina and John. His son Amos Garver married Elizabeth Walkie, of Ashland county, and became a merchant in New Pittsburg, afterwards removing to Wooster. He is now a commission merchant in Philadelphia, dealing largely in butter, eggs, etc., his brother-in-law, Captain G. P. Emrich, of Wooster, being a partner. He is a ยท thorough business man and a very clever gentleman.
W. C. Baker, a native of Stark county, was born February 1, 1826, and re- moved to Wayne county with his father, John Baker, in 1838, settling a mile east of New Pittsburg, where his father now lives. He was married May 6, 1847, to Harriet Zigler, of Bucyrus, Ohio, and has two living children, David N. and Chas. W., the former married to Delilah Biddle, in 1870.
Mr. Baker conducts a large dry goods business, giving attention to the purchase of butter and eggs, and is one of the heaviest wool buyers in the county. He is a member of the Church of God, and a man of business honor, and excellent name and character.
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Henry Allspaugh, M. D., was born in Franklin county, Pa., Jannary 3, 1817 and, with his father, settled one mile north-east of New Pittsburg, where he re mained until he was 24 years of age. He then entered the Academy at Ashland attending a number of sessions, after which he read medicine with Dr. Pixley, o New Pittsburg, where he began practice, and after two years removed to Lattas burg. He was married in November, 1866, to Miss Sidney Bringman, of Rockland county, Ohio.
James Robison, brother of Thomas and David, of Wooster, was born February 17, 1787, in Franklin county, Pa., and in 1813 immigrated to Wayne county, tem- porarily stopping in Wooster, the same year building the saw-mill on Little Kill buck, in the south-east corner of Chester township.
In 1815 he married Margaret Wilson, of Newark, Licking county, Ohio, im. mediately thereafter removing with his new wife on horseback, a distance of sixty. five miles, to his forest farm in Chester township. The finger-boards at the forks of the roads stand at the south-east corner of where his first cabin was situated. Here in the woods, peopled by savage, untutored men and wild beasts, with but scarcely a neighbor nearer than Wooster, they staked their destiny, and here Mr. Robison for over forty years, and his wife for over fifty years, remained and unrav- eled the skein of the rapid years.
He was, we are nearly justified in affirming, the first white settler in Chester township, having become a citizen of it three years before it was organized, and before local civil government was established within its borders. A saw-mill in those days was next in importance to the grist-mill, and hence the name of Robi- son's Mill became generally and popularly known throughout the western part of the county, and to this day, though the builder of it has been in his grave for nearly a quarter of a century, and the mill itself has sunk to decay, it carries its old name well, and is latitude and longitude in the neighborhood yet. Mr. Robi- son, aided by a single individual, spent three months in digging the race for the old saw-mill. The woollen factory, though not so primitive an institution as the mill, ranked amongst the best of its kind in the county, and was built at a very early period. During his presence at Columbus, in the discharge of his duties as member of the Ohio Legislature, it was destroyed by fire, the result of a defective flue-Thomas and Benjamin Neal having the management of it in his absence. The saw-mill was also swept away by the flames. On his return, without in- dulging any accusations or censure, he quietly went to work and rebuilt both the factory and the mill, putting therein new and improved machinery. Prior to the fire he simply carded, spun and pulled, but after the rebuilding he made other ad- ditions, and introduced the manufacture of yarns, blankets, cloths, etc.
Here was the water-power and Mr. Robison had the enterprise and intelligence to utilize it, and it became not only a benefit but a benefaction to the whole com- munity. He was not a visionary man, nor inclined to build air-castles; he was practical, and devoted himself to material enterprises. The interest he manifested in the substantial advancement of the county, and his efforts to introduce the bet- ter things of the coming time were perceived and appreciated and won him many friends and widened the sphere of his popularity.
Disinclined as he usually was to actively participate in politics, he was never- theless highly and honorably promoted. He served his township as Justice of the Peace, and from December 6, 1824, to December 5, 1825, he was a member of the Ohio Legislature, having been re-elected in 1830, and serving to 1831, December 5. He was Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1831, and performed
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his duties in this position, as well as in the various others to which he has been ele- vated by his fellow citizens, with ability, and with credit to himself and those who honored him in the promotion. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, in the faith of which he died. He was an agreeable, sociable and intelligent man, characterized by great benevolence, whose hospitality was conspicuous, and whose charities were ever extended to the poor and friendless. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and aided in supplying provisions to the army of General Harrison at Fort Meigs, his wagon on one occasion standing in the woods, loaded with flour, on what is now known as the Robison Hill, on the south of the Little Killbuck.
Mr. Robison had the following children: William, Mary, David, Ann, Mar- garet, James, Margery, John and William Robison. Margaret, James, John and William are the only survivors. James Robison married Catharine Weaver, was a Captain in the late war, and is now residing in Bellefontaine, Ohio. John Robison was married to M. C. Silvers, of Plain township, February 1, 1857; is a farmer, a man of means, solid and reliable, a first-class citizen, a kind, clever and accom- modating neighbor.
Frederick Rice, his grandfather bearing the same name, was born in Pennsylva- nia, 1760, and served under General Washington, at Valley Forge, Trenton, etc., having been in the army five years. He was married to a Miss Lauffer, of West- moreland county, and had ten children, all of whom are dead. He removed to Wayne county in 1812, and settled upon the farm where David Firestone lives, near the old Robison farm, south of Wooster, where he lived until his death, in 1850. Christian Rice, his son, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1793, and immigrated to Wayne county about a year after his father, and was married to Charlotte Hine, of his native county. On his arrival he settled near Tylertown, on a farm which had been entered by his father, subsequently, and in 1819, buying the farm on which his son Frederick lives, for $600. His death occurred January 17, 1852, his wife dying February 16, 1859. He had ten children, was a good citizen, and long a member of the Lutheran church. His son Frederick, and grandson of Fred- erick, whose name he bears, was born March 14, 1815, and removed to this county with his father. He is now the owner of several of the most beautiful farms in Wayne county, and is an industrious, worthy, influential and valuable citizen. He was married March 5, 1840, to Diantha Firestone, and has had twelve children.
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CHAPTER XXXV.
SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP
WAS organized April 11, 1812. Its population, by the census of 1870, was 2,006. The following is the list of officers of the township, as appears upon the official records :
Justices of the Peace- Benjamin Griffith, April 27, 1832; Richard Cahill, April 19, 1832 ; Benjamin Griffith, April 18, 1835; Richard Cahill, April 16, 1836; Benja- min Griffith, April 30, 1838; Richard Cahill, April 13, 1839; Samuel Brice, April 16, 1841 ; Richard Cahill, April 13, 1842; Samuel Fickes, April 25, 1844; John Rotz, April 16, 1845; Peter Group, October 24, 1846; John Gallatin, April 14, 1847 ; Charles C. Parsons, April 12, 1848; Fred Fluke, April 12, 1849; John Galla- tin, April 11, 1850; Fred Fluke, April 21, 1852; Joseph McClelland, April 21, 1852; Simon P. Snyder, April 17, 1855; Joseph McClelland, April 14, 1855; Fred Fluke, April 14, 1858; Joseph McClelland, April 14, 1858; Samuel Zook, April 19, 1859; Jacob Dague, April 17, 1860; John W. Baughmati, April 17, 1860; Isaac Goudy, April 17, 1863; John W. Baughman, April 17, 1863; John W. Baughman, April 13, 1866; Isaac Goudy, April 13, 1866; E. D. Otis, April 13, 1869; John Brownfield, April 13, 1869; Jacob Fritz, April 13, 1869; Jesse Cook, April 12, 1870; E. D. Otis, April 9, 1872; Jesse Cook, October 22, 1873; E. D. Otis, April 12, 1875 ; Anthony Arnold, October 18, 1876; J. B. Douglass, 1877.
1838. Trustees-Eli Brown, William McCully, James Keeley; Clerk-James Cunningham ; Treasurer-Solomon Baughman.
1839. Trustees-H. A. Smurr, S. Fickes, P. Remiald; Clerk-I. Adams; Treasurer-S. Baughman.
1840. Trustees-William Filson, James Byall, Thomas Sturgis; Clerk-C. H. Vanniman ; Treasurer-S. Baughman.
1841. Trustees-John Goudy, David Myers, James Byall; Clerk-C. C. Par- sons ; Treasurer- Henry Foltz.
1842. Trustees-David Myers, Samuel Fickes, Zack Greenfield; Clerk-C. C. Parsons; Treasurer-Henry Foltz.
1843 Trustees-David Myers, Zack Greenfield, James Byall; Clerk-C. C. Parsons; Treasurer-John B. Hall.
1844. Trustees-S. Baughman, James McClellan, Zack Greenfield; Clerk- James Adams; Treasurer-Jesse Weirick.
1845. Trustees-Robert McElhinney, Samuel Cook, Sr,, Joseph McClelland ; Clerk-James Adams; Treasurer-Jesse Weirick.
1846 Trustees-James Byall, John Goudy, Joseph McClelland; Clerk-C. C. Parsons; Treasurer-Jesse Weirick.
1847. Trustees-Samuel Cook, Sr., Robert McElhinney, David Fletcher; Clerk-John W. Laird; Treasurer-Jesse Weirick.
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1848. Trustees-James Byall, Robert McElhinney, Asa Cook, Sr .; Clerk-J. I. Albright; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1849 Trustees-Asa Cook, Thomas Sturgis, John Murry; Clerk-C. N. Dam- ison; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1850. Trustees-Asa Cook, Thomas Sturgis, John Murry; Clerk-Samuel Fluke; Treasurer-Nathan Greenfield.
1851. Trustees-Asa Cook, Thomas Sturgis, John Murry; Clerk-Samuel Fluke; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1852. Trustees-Asa Cook, John Goudy, John Braden; Clerk-Samuel Fluke ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1853. Trustees-Asa Cook, Richard Cahill, James Byall; Clerk-Samuel Fluke; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1854. Trustees-Asa Cook, James Byall, Fred Leininger; Clerk-N. Greenfield ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1855. Trustees-William Yergin, John Murry, Jesse Otis ; Clerk-John Davi- son ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1856. Trustees-William Yergin, John Murry, Josiah Cook; Clerk-John Davison ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1857. Trustees-Henry Zartman, Ed. Otis, Fred Leininger ; Clerk-J. Bailey ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1858. Trustees-D. G. Horst, S. Cook, S. Baughman ; Clerk-F. Fluke ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1859. Trustees-Asa Cook, Ed. Otis, D. G. Horst; Clerk-E. D. Otis; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1860. Trustees-Henry Zartman, Ed. Otis, Asa Cook; Clerk -- E. D. Otis ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1861. Trustees-Samuel C. Noltz, Isaac Goudy, J. W. Baughman ; Clerk-E. D. Otis; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1862. Trustees-Samuel C. Nult, Robert Bashford, Anthony Arnold ; Clerk- E. D. Otis; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1863. Trustees-Anthony Arnold, R. C. Bashford, W. H. McFadden ; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1864. Trustees-John Neiswanger, John Cully, W. H. McFadden; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1865. Trustees-John Neiswanger, John Culley, E. D. Otis; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis ; Treasurer-B. L. McCarty.
1866. Trustees-John Cully, William Bevard, George Goudy; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis; Treasurer-E. D. Otis.
1867. Trustees-John Braden, William Bevard, George Goudy; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis ; Treasurer-Fred Dysle.
1868. Trustees-Robert Bashford, Jacob Fritz, John Baird; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis; Treasurer-F. Dysle.
1869. Trustees-Jesse Shank, Jacob Dague, John Baird; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis; Treasurer-William Bevard.
1870. Trustees-Peter Eckard, Jacob Dague, Jesse Shank; Clerk-J. R. Stur- gis; Treasurer-William Bevard.
1871. Trustees-Peter Eckard, Asa Cook, Jacob Dague; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis, Treasurer-William Bevard.
1872. Trustees-Asa Cook, Peter Eckard, John Cully; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis ; Treasurer-William Bevard.
1873. Trustees-John Cully, Peter Eckard, Anthony Arnold; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis ; Treasurer-William Bevard.
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1874. Trustees-Anthony Arnold, William Bevard, John Cully ; Clerk-R. J. Sturgis; Treasurer-Jacob Flickinger.
1875. Trustees-Anthony Arnold, William Bevard, John Cully; Clerk -- J. R. Sturgis; Treasurer-William Bevard.
1876. Trustees-John Swisher, John Cully, William Bevard; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis.
1877. Trustees-John Swisher, William Bevard, John Baird; Clerk-J. R. Sturgis ; Treasurer-E. D. Otis.
John Goudy was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1803. His father, James Goudy, came to what is Sugarcreek township as early as 1809, and settled near Dalton, on the quarter of land now owned by John Eckard, the land having been entered by his brother John, from whom James purchased it at about four dollars per acre. His brother John had been in the township prior to this even. William and Thomas came in at a very early date, and built a mill, which they sold to a Mr. Karstetter. James Goudy, the father of John, was in St. Clair's defeat, Novem- ber 4, 1791, where he was wounded in the right groin, which, but for the thickness of his clothes, would have killed him. After being shot he traveled eighteen miles. when he paused by the wayside and ate the flesh of a dead horse, which he after- wards declared was the best meat he had ever eaten. He carried the bullet in his body for a great many years, but finally died from the effects of the wound. He was a member of the Presbyterian church (Dr. Hanna's). The subject of this notice remained with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, and through- out a protracted life has displayed great industry, business foresight, culminating in the acquisition of moneys and lands. He has been twice married. First to Chris- tina Cook, and second to Eliza A. Bailey. He attended the school of Samuel Cook. Mr. Goudy is a member of the Presbyterian church of Dalton.
Reminiscences of Jacob Cox .- John Kenney and John Gondy were the first set- tlers in Sugarcreek township, and John and James Goudy were the next, and after them came my father, Peter Cox, and then Samuel Cook, William Homan, and Rev. James Adams, who was the first preacher in the locality. William Homan was the first Justice of the Peace, elected about 1826. At an early day an election was held where Sugarcreek, East Union, Baughman and Greene, corner, and every man who attended it went home with two offices. The first school-house built was on the farm where I live, and Samuel Cook was the first man to teach school in Sugarcreek township. It was a subscription school, and the rates were fifty cents per capita per month to the pupil, and in the absence of money most anything else received for pay. The first school-house erected in Dalton stood upon the site of the present cemetery, the first teacher heing Peter Vorrhes. The first church (Pres. byterian) was built near the south-west corner of the quarter now owned by S. Snavely, Samuel Arnold owning the land at that time, Rev. James Adams being the first minister. This was the first church built in the town or township. Wil. liam Goudy built the first grist-mill, on lands now owned by John Cully, three miles south-west of Dalton. It was constructed of logs, had one run of burrs, made of niggerheads, the neighbors helping to dig the race. It was built in 1823- 24. William Goudy and Sarah Bates were probably the first couple married in the township-in 1815. John Kenney's wife was the first woman buried in the Presby. terian graveyard west of Dalton.
Jacob Cox was born in Fayette county, Pa., August 29, 1801. His father, Pe. ter Cox, was a farmer, and a native of Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna river, and was born in 1775. His grandfather emigrated at an early date from Hamburg, Ger
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many, and after his arrival, as was the usage, was sold, his period of servitude be- ing seven years, during which time he made three unsuccessful efforts to escape. When he crossed the Allegheny mountains to settle in Fayette county, Pa., he had six children, two of whom, Peter, the father of Jacob, and a sister, were packed in wallets, one in one end and one in the other, and placed on horseback.
Peter and his family, on their removal to Ohio, temporarily located in Stark county in 1814, and in October of the same year they removed to Wayne county, although he bad been to the premises before harvest and erected a cabin on the farm-one hundred and sixty acres which his father had previously entered. Peter died in 1841.
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