Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 30

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846-
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 898

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FREE METHODIST.

Tent meetings were held in the Seventh ward, and the number of accesions was so encourag- ing that in 1901 a combined frame church and pastor's residence was erected in Clover street.

HEBREW CONGREGATIONS.

K'neseth Israel. Sunday, September 20, 1868, Wolf Dryfus, Rudolph Shonfield, Michael Stein- feld, Max Cahen, J. L. Dryfus, Meyer Shonfield, Jacob Shonfield, Benjamin S. Dryfus, Herman Weber, Jacob Wollner, Simon Goodman, L. Kraus, A. Kohn, Adolphus Hartman, W. Freed- man and L. Freedman assembled at Nevitt's hall to form a Hebrew congregation. Wolf Dryfus presided, and B. S. Dryfus acted as secretary ; M. Steinfeld and B. S. Dryfus were appointed to draft a constitution and by laws, which were re-

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ported September 27, and adopted, and a perma- nent organization effected with Wolf Dryfus, president ; M. Steinfeld, vice president ; Max Cahen, treasurer ; B. S. Dryfus, secretary ; W. Freedman, J. L. Dryfus and R. Shonficld, trustees.

In March, 1869, a teacher was obtained and in August the society was incorporated, and Octo- ber 5, 1873, became a member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Meet- ings were held in the Nevitt building, northwest corner, and the Stevens build- ing, southwest corner of Main and Sev- enth streets, and at present assemblies are held in the hall in east end of second floor of the Rich- ards' building, corner Market and Fourth streets. The Society is owner of the Hebrew cemetery, three miles west of the city, on the National road.

Beth Abraham, the Hungarian Benevolent Society was organized in 1874, and met at Main and Seventh streets; about 1895-6 it was con- verted into a religious body, and erected a frame tabernacle in north Sixth street, near Howard, which is known as Beth Abraham.

Rodef Sholom is an orthodox Hebrew con- gregation which was organized about 1882, and maintains the strict Mosaic practice, and holds its meeting at Main and Seventh streets.

ST. PAUL'S AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The organization of this congregation is at- tributable to Henry Adkinson and Samuel Gaza- way ; the former was a minister, and lived on the cast side of Seventh street, between Market street and Fountain alley, adjoining the home later oc- cupied by one Fielding, at whose home the so- ciety is alleged to have been formed. Fielding was a runaway slave, not interested in church work and was not a resident of the city when Ad- kinson and Gazaway organized the congregation in 1822-3. Adkinson's name appears prominently and frequently in the carly records of the A. M. E. church, but Fielding's never. Shortly after or- ganization, services were held in a small building in Canal street, and the first church was a small brick, near the river bank, between Sixth and Sev- enth strects ; the congregation then moved to the frame school house, on Putnam Hill, and from there into a frame erected in Ninth street, near South, where a Sunday school was organized : a few years later the small brick church, formerly occupied by the Methodist Protestants, or Rad- icals, at the northeast corner of South street and Potter alley, was purchased and upon this site, in 1876, the present brick building forty-five by sixty-five fect, was erected, at a cost of $7,000.00.

AFRICAN WESLEYAN METHODIST.

Sixteen members of the above mentioned con- gregation withdrew and organized the African Wesleyan Methodist church, July 24, 1875, by au- thority of the Miami conference. The first re- ligious meetings were held in the Seventh ward school house, from which a removal was made to Best's hall, northwest corner of Main street and Potter alley, and later a frame was built, twenty- two by thirty feet, in the Seventh ward, at a cost of $600.00 ; the last pastor was Joseph Bane, who died about 1885.

CHAPTER XVII.

PIONEER INDUSTRIES, COMPRISING THE HANDI- CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES OF THE EARLY PERIOD OF THE CITY OF ZANESVILLE.

INITIAL INDUSTRIES.

It is not contemplated, nor is it possible or practicable, to enumerate the inception and devel- opment of each industrial and commercial enter- prise which has been conducted in the city. Lack of authentic records, space and interest to the reader preclude such statistical compilations, and only a brief summary will be presented of the pioneers of the more essential and important handicrafts and occupations. Muskingum county began its corporate existence March 1, 1804, and the most reliable sources of information at com- mand show that the following industries were practiced in the town during the ensuing fall :

Blacksmiths. Jacob Funk arrived in 1802, and established himself at the northeast corner of Main and Court alley, and in 1804 was succeeded by Solomon Groves : Christian Spangler came in 1803. and located at the northcast corner of Main and Third streets.

Brick. In 1802 James Herron, at the head of Main street, and Brazilla Rice, at the head of Marietta street, were engaged in manufacturing brick, and the latter followed the trade of brick- layer.

Butcher. In 1803 Paul Hahn and Martin Lu- ther Loud Slagor killed a beef weekly until 1806. and peddled the meat around the town.

Carpenters. Lewis and Smith were employed by MeIntire in May, 1801, but they do not ap- pear to have remained, and Allen MeLain, in 1804, was the first settler.

Chair-makers. Samuel Parker and William Launder. Englishmen, reached Zanesville No- vember 27, 1804, and purchased a lot at Main and

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Seventh streets, where they built a log house and manufactured split and rush bottomed chairs.

Clerk of the court. Abel Lewis.

Coal. Frederick Betz arrived during 1804, and brought the first coal to Zanesville, with two horses and two oxen hitched together, wood hav- ing previously been the only fuel.

Ferrymen. William McCulloch, at the foot of Main street.

Gunsmith. Elijah Ross came during 1804, and located at Second street and Locust alley ; he was drafted in 1812, but detailed to remain at home and repaired arms for the troops ; in 1816 he re- moved to West Zanesville, but returned in 1823. and resided in South Sixth street, and later in Main street, near Seventh.

Hatters. In 1803 David and James Herron built a large log cabin in Mud Hollow, and made the first felt hats in the town ; they quarreled, and the legal controversy which ensued was main- tained for several years, rivaling, in local annals, the celebrated case of Jarndice vs. Jarndice, and terminated in David wasting all his property.

Hotels, or Taverns. In 1799 John McIntire erected a large log cabin at Second and Market streets, and in the same year John Green built a story and a half double log cabin at the head of Main and opposite Silliman street ; other hotels were ; William Raynolds, at the southwest corner of Main and Seventh streets : John Cordery, at the northwest corner of Main and Sixth streets; in 1803 Robert Taylor opened a hotel in a large, hewed log house, at the southwest corner of Main and Sixth streets, which was known as the Ris- ing Sun, and in 1808 was changed to the Red Lion, by Pratt, and in 1816 to the General Wash- ington, by Flood; in 1800 David Harvey built a two-story log hotel at the southwest corner of Main and Third streets, and bought a right of way for a road to the lower ferry ; this diagonal lane was known as Harvey's Bridle Path, and its course may still be seen in the private alley open- ing upon the north side of South street, immedi- ately west of Third; in 1804 Paul Hahn built a double cabin of one and one-half stories, at Fourth and Canal streets.

Lawyers. Wyllys Silliman, at southwest cor- ner of Main and First streets, and Lewis Cass.

Masons. In 1799 McIntire had a mason, named David Beam, to erect a chimney at his cabin, but he does not appear to have become a resident, and in 1800 Ebenezer Buckingham ar- rived.

Merchants. The first store was opened in 1801, at the northwest corner of Main and Third streets. by John and Increase Mathews; their account book, still extant, was opened March 31, and the prices of numerous articles are stated. Flannel, 57c : pins, per paper, 37c ; imported sugar, 25c ; muslin 79c to 85c ; gingham, $1.58; loaf sugar,

79c ; green tea, $1.21 ; calico, $1.21 : fine muslin, $1.93; nails, 25c; stockings, $1.66; this firm moved to Putnam, and the first resident merchant was Jeffrey Price, who arrived in 1802, and opened a store at southwest corner of First street and Fountain alley, and in 1803 Monroe and Con- vers were at Main and First streets.

Surveyor. William Wells, northeast corner of First street and Fountain alley.

A practical illustration of the difference be- tween individual and corporate industry is fur- nished in the upbuilding of every pioneer settle- ment ; each settler came with the expectation of improving his condition by personal effort ; there were no corporations, and the largest aggrega- tion of capital was the combined small savings of two or three men in partnership, each of whom worked for the common good. There could have been no settlement of the country without such personal incentive and effort ; each man was mas- ter of his own little enterprise, and while some were stronger in resources and credit than others, the opportunity for success was vastly superior than under combination conditions. The business enterprises of the early settlement succeeding those numerated when the county began were :

Bakery. In 1807 Mrs. Samuel Parker, Mrs. Christian Spangler and Mrs. Dr. Hillier baked bread and cakes, in dutch ovens, for home con- sumption and sale to travelers passing through ; bread was a fip (614 cents) per loaf, and cakes ranged as high as a bit (25 cents). In the fol- lowing year, L. Hatman opened a bake shop at the southwest corner of Seventh and Center streets.

Bookbinding was inaugurated by J. S. Skinner and Company, in 1816, but in the following year the business was sold to A. S. Pennington and Company, and by them reconveyed to the original proprietors in the succeeding year. The Muskin- gum Messenger established a bindery, which was sold to E. T. Cox and Company, May 22, 1822.

Brewery. The name of the first brewer has been lost, but he began business at northwest cor- ner of Fifth and South streets, and in 1807 sold to George Painter, who sold to Jacob Young in 18II, and the business was discontinued in 1815. In 1808 Spencer Lahew opened a brewery, but the site is unknown; November, 1813, William Marshall started in the business on the site of the present power house, which was sold in 1815 to Barton and McGowan, and changed into a dis- tillery. In 1816 Joseph Lattimore erected a brew- ery, which passed to Ballentine and Company in 1829, who conducted it six years and converted it into a grist mill. Several similar ventures were made, but each proved unremunerative, possibly because the stronger beverage was so cheap and more adapted to the frontier palate. The first brewery that flourished was established by Chris-

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tian F. Achauer, in 1843, at the head of Main street, and now operated by the Linser Brewing Company.

Brick. Those used in the construction of the court house of 1809, were burned by John Lee, near Underwood street, and 1810 James S. Par- kinson was extensively engaged in this industry on a farm two miles southeast of the city, in the Marietta road.

Butchers. When Michael Sockman arrived, in 1805, he opened a meat shop at the northeast corner of Fifth and South streets, his slaughter house being in the rear upon Mud Hollow, whose waters carried away the offal ; later he had a shop in Court alley, where the Stolzenbach bakery is now erected.

Carpenters. During 1805 John Van Horne, William Craig, and Thomas Moorehead arrived ; in 1806, Daniel McLain, John A. Cochran and Samuel Chapman, and in 1808, Gilbert Blue and Joseph Hockney.

Carpet weavers. In 1812 carpet weaving was done in a room on Fourth street, and in 1818 James Covington engaged in the business west of town.

Chairs. John Arter arrived in 1806 and manu- factured hard bottom chairs and spinning wheels ; the latter were of the greatest value, as each housewife was obliged to spin, and female educa- tion was incomplete without such knowledge. Flax was sown and sheep were reared for the raw material ; ready made clothing was unknown, and swains wagered upon the skill of their sweet- hearts. Arter's skill was, therefore, in great de- mand and his orders multiplied rapidly : people came from long distances and waited their turn for spinning wheels as they did at grist mills. In 1807-8 he erected a dwelling on the west side of Third street, north of Fountain alley, which was removed within a few years, in which was preached the first Lutheran sermon delivered in Zanesville.

Coal. James McGuire came in 1805 and moved to a farm in the Marietta road, one mile from town, where he opened the second coal bank.

Distillery. In addition to the converted brew- ery of Barton and McGowan, in 1815 Valentine Best, Joseph Sheets and John Sidell paid taxes as distillers, but the location of the plant is not given.

Edged tools. In 1818 John Mackey opened a shop for the manufacture of augurs, etc., near Market and Third streets, and in the ensuing year William McCurdy manufactured hoes, augers and similar tools at Fifth street and Fountain alley.

Engines. In 1830 John D. Dare and Elias Ebert built the first steam engine at Zanesville : in 1832 Dare, Whitaker and Company were in the business and continued until 1837, when Ebert and Whitaker withdrew and erected new shops

at Main and Sixth streets, which were operated until 1840, when Ebert and Mark Lowdan built on south Fifth street. They went into bankruptcy with others in 1857, and the plant passed to Grif- fith and Wedge in 1858.

Express. A pony express was inaugurated by the postoffice department, in 1836, for important mail and light parcels, the time between Columbus and Zanesville being five hours; in 1846 an ex- press business was established by stage lines be- tween Zanesville and Wheeling and July, 1854, the Adams Express Company acquired the busi- ness. The first exclusive express company was the American, which opened an office April I, 1852, with A. C. Ross, as agent ; for many years the Adams had no competitor but the B. & O. contended for a share after 1880.

Files. Henry Rockwell established a file cut- ting in 1854, and continued the business, on the north side of Main street, near Eighth, until his decease some thirty years later.

Foundry. In 1819 Thomas L. Pierce estab- lished a foundry at Locust and Beach alleys, which was purchased in 1827 by Richmond and Bostwick ; in 1832 John A. Adams and Benjamin Wheeler succeeded to the business and moved it, in 1839, to the site of the present Third street foundry ; in 1848 the firm became Gilbert and Wheeler, and in 1863 Sullivan and Herdman be- came owners; in 1866 Charles H. Jones joined the firm, and in 1871 Charles H. Abbott came in and the business was conducted by Jones and Ab- bott until 1903. when Jones became sole proprie- tor.

In 1826 William Blocksom and John T. Fracker erected a foundry in Fountain alley, between Sev- enth and Underwood streets, from which Fracker withdrew in 1833, and George Wand, A. P. Blocksom and Henry Blandy came in, and the firm became Blocksom, Blandy and Company. The furnace and forge at Dillon's Falls, were leased until 1835, and in 1838 a new partnership was formed under the old name and operations continued until 1840, when Blandy withdrew. For a number of years the plant was idle. and January 1, 1866, William H. Shinnick, Daniel Hatton, George D. Gibbons and W. J. Woodside as Shinnick, Hatton and Company, took posses- sion and enlarged the works ; in 1870 the name was changed to Shinnick, Woodside and Gibbons, and later incorporated as The Shinnick, Woodside and Gibbons Company, and as the Union foundry the business was continued until 1902, when the plant was closed.

In 1839 John T. Fracker and Son opened a small foundry at the southwest corner of Sixth street and Locust alley, for small castings, which was conducted under several names until 1870.

Furnace. In 1848 Newell. Davis, James and Company, with a capital of $20,000.00, erected a

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furnace, and the enterprise passed through various stages of financial difficulty until July 3, 1857, when The Ohio Iron Company was incorporated, with a capital of $75,000.00, with Henry Blandy. president ; C. W. Potwin, secretary ; Samuel Baird, treasurer ; E. B. Greene and E. E. Fillmore, directors, took over the property. In 1859 The Zanesville Furnace Company was organized to manufacture pig iron and in 1862 was absorbed by the Ohio Iron Company. This enterprise was very prosperous for many years, but changes in management and lack of changes in operation to keep pace with improvements in the methods of production, caused retrogression, and it was fre- quently closed in recent years ; a portion of the plant was sold at commissioners' sale in 1904, and the remainder is not in operation.

Glass. The White Glass Works were incorpor- ated, by the General Assembly, May 13, 1815, with a capital stock of $50,000.00, and a plant was erected at the southwest corner of Market and Third streets, with Samuel Sullivan, president, and John Hamm, secretary, the blow pipes being made by Elijah Ross. The plant was successively operated by Thomas Mark, Rev. Joseph Shep- herd, Charles Bostwick and James Crosby until 1839, when it was closed. In 1842 six practical glass men purchased the plant, but each withdrew as he could until, in 1848, only one remained and he abandoned the business.

In 1816 James Taylor, Peter Mills, James Hampson and Alexander Culbertson built a green window glass and bottle works on a hill a short distance south of Slago run, which was operated until 1823, when Culbertson, who had managed the plant, died.

In 1852 W. C. Cassel and William Galigher built a flint glass house at the foot of Main street, and in 1860 George W. Kearns, Noah Kearns, and Joseph Burns, leased and later pur- chased the works. In 1863 a new plant was built adjacent to the old, at the mouth of the canal, and the old one was used as a warehouse, and upon the death of Burns his heirs withdrew. In 1864 the Kearns built a window glass works at the southwest corner of Main and First streets, and both plants were operated until 1868, when James Herdman and Joseph T. Gorsuch came in and in 1874 W. T. Gray became a member of the firm ; in 1877 G. W. Kearns withdrew and erected the bottle works in the "Seventh ward." In 1872 a plant was built in First street which was de- stroyed by fire March 2, 1902, and when the Mc- Intire homestead was purchased, in January, 1887, the original plant in First street, which had been a pot furnace, was enlarged and changed to a tank.

In 1891-2 the window glass plant passed to a syndicate and after periods of intermittent opera- tion for a couple of years, the plant was abandoned and the site improved, the wholesale grocery

house of Baker Brothers occupying a portion of the ground. In 1904 a warehouse was built north of the plant in First street, which is regarded as fire proof.

Hats. James Culbertson, in 1805, made wool hats and fur caps at the southwest corner of Mar- ket and Fifth streets, and produced the first silk hat in the town. In 1811 Richard Galigher had a shop at the southwest corner of Fifth street and Locust alley, and opend a store on the site of the present Galigher's hat store ; he was succeeded by his sons, as Galigher Brothers, and later by John Galigher, and the present firm is John Gali- gher's Sons. The original building was razed when the Central Block was built, and this sterling house is the oldest in continuous business in the city, having existed ninety-four years and occu- pied the same site, and with but one change of building.

In 1817 Walter Mckinney had a hat store at old No. 171 Main street ; in 1820 James Dutro sold hats and furs in an old frame at No. 202 Main street, and in the same year Mathew Fer- guson was in business, and in 1827 J. B. Allen also sold hats.

Hotels. In 1806 Isaac Van Horne erected a two-story frame at the northeast corner of Fifth and Main streets, which was opened by Benoni Peirce : shortly after it was kept by James Reeve and called the Western Star, and afterwards the Wickham, and further reference is made under the caption, "Zane House."

In 1808 a frame hotel was erected on the Clar- endon site, and kept by Robert Taylor, as the Orange Tree, and later was called the Green Tree : in 1817 it was operated by J. S. Dugan, and called Dugan's Hotel : in 1842-3 Dr. Hamm built a three- story brick hotel, on the site which was kept by Joseph Stacy, as Stacy's Hotel, and the name was successively changed to Winslow, McIntire and Mills houses, and in 1878 was rebuilt as the pres- ent four-story, brick Clarendon, which has been maintained as the peer of any hostelry in the state.

A hotel was opened at the southwest corner of Main and Fourth street, by Wickham, and so called, and in 1823 Samuel Frazey built what is now known as the Kirk House, in Fourth street, north of Market.

Jeweler. In 1809 Richard and George Reeve sold jewelry and made grandfather's clocks on the site of Third street foundry, and about 1815 moved to Main street ; in the same year Francis Cleveland and John Bliss were in the business in Main street, opposite the court house; Charles, or "Master" Hill, as he was called, was in their employ, and he was afterwards in business with A. C. Ross, and they engraved many of the cop- per plates from which the "shinplasters" were printed, an art in which they were superior work- men.

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Livery. In 1818 James M. Prescott and Com- pany kept a livery barn and sales stable in the rear of the Zanesville Coffee House.

Machinists. In 1829-30 Jeremiah Dare en- gaged in the manufacture of castings and ma- chinery, at the northeast corner of Market and Third streets, which in later years developed into the once prominent shop of Duval and Com- pany ; a machine shop was opened in the third story of the woolen factory and mechanics were brought from the east who constructed machinery for a cotton factory, on the same site. Dare and Company operated the mill until 1832, when the lower story was turned into a machine shop for cotton and wool mill machinery, and the manu- factured cotton yarn and batting were sold at the wareroom at the northwest corner of Main and Third streets.

Marble Works. In 1812 and prior thereto, Rev. Joseph Shepherd made tomb-stones, during the week, in Fifth street, near Market, and preached on Sundays. There was no marble in the mar- ket, and the sandstone and sometimes limestone was used. In 1847 S. G. McBride bought the business and introduced marble, and continued the business at the north end of Third street bridge, for many years.

Masons. In 1805 Samuel Goff and Jacob Houck arrived and were at once actively em- ployed.

Matches. In the early days fires were started with a flint and steel, and when the sun was shin- ing, with a sun glass ; the first matches were a piece of tape about six inches in length, with one end coated with combustible material, which ig- nited by drawing it through sand paper ; these were put up in boxes, and later wood was substi- tuted for tape, and being more convenient, the tape disappeared. Matches were not only scarce but very expensive, as the article was an importa- tion. In 1833 Dr. W. G. Thompson, a graduate of Jefferson College, Philadelphia, and Israel Hoge, father of John Hoge, arrived at Zanesville with a new stock of drugs and medicines ; among the goods were a few boxes of Blackwell's matches, of London, the composition of which Dr. Thompson enthusiastically declared he would discover. John D. Caldwell, the veteran Cincin- natian, was then a clerk in the store and for a couple of weeks was employed in experimenting, under the doctor's direction, until an explosion was secured in the mortar. The manufacture of friction matches was then begun by hand, in Mar- ket street, about a score of girls being engaged in dipping ; the process was extremely crude, and a few simple mechanical devices were contrived to facilitate the work ; the matches were put up in boxes of 100, which retailed for twenty-five cents, and almost from the beginning the product was sent to New York, which appears to sustain the

claim that the first friction matches made in the United States were of Zanesville manufacture. The engraved plate from which the label was printed is extant and reads :

Improved Lucifer Matches, which instantly ignite on being briskly drawn through sand paper, and warranted to keep perfect.

Manufactured and sold, wholesale and retail at Thompson & Hoge's Drug and Chemical Warehouse, Zanesville, Ohio.

Matches were manufactured at Zanesville, at the corner of Market and Third streets, as late as about 1876.

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Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 30

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846- Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 898

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846-
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 898