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C. H. Hanks was a student in the Salem school and afterward in the schools of Adamsville and when his education was completed he joined his father in his milling enterprise. J. D. Hanks had purchased his mill from Charles Beck in 1873 and in 1884 he sold out to his son, C. H. Hanks, who continued its operation until 1887. In that year he became a merchant and for three years carried on his store, at the same time re- taining the ownership of the mill until 1889. He then went to Zanesville where he was employed as a salesman in the dry goods store of Thomas Colton for a year. These changes were made on account of poor health. On the expiration of that period he returned to Adamsville and has since been engaged in milling, having here a well de- veloped plant with an average output of fifty barrels per day. All of the local trade is ac- corded him and he conducts a big business with the .farmers of the surrounding country, the mill being operated throughout the year.
On the 17th of September, 1879, Mr. Hanks was married to Miss Carrie I. Ross, who was born September 8, 1861, in Adamsville, and is a daugh- ter of L. R. and Mary A. (Smoot) Ross. Her father was a native of Muskingum county but his parents came to the west from Rhode Island. He carried on farming near Adamsville and for many years was accounted one of the leading agriculturists of his community. He died in 1900 and his wife passed away in 1888, the county thus losing two of its native citizens who though many years had been identified with the interests that have contributed to its upbuilding. Mrs.
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Hanks now has two brothers and one sister de- ceased : Newton Ross, who was born in 1850 and died in 1875; Holmes, who was born in 1849 and died in October, 1903; and Eva, who died in infancy. Holmes Ross left a widow, two daugh- ters and two sons.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hanks has been born a son-Ralph, whose birth occurred December 2, 1880. He married Verna G. Allen and is now engaged in a commission business with his uncle, Wilber Hanks, in Zanesville.
C. H. Hanks is independent in his political views, supporting men and measures rather than party nor has he had any aspiration for public office. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees at Adams- ville. He is a charter member of both and has never been out of office since they were organized. His wife is connected with the Methodist Epis- copal church. They are widely and favorably known in the community where they reside and the circle of their friends is constantly growing. Mr. Hanks stands as one of the leading repre- sentatives of agricultural life here and in the cap- able control of his business affairs is meeting with gratifying success.
IRWIN G. JENNINGS.
Irwin G. Jennings, who is filling the position of probate judge in Muskingum county, was born in Zanesville, in 1875, a son of Dr. E. A. and Margaret C. (Chapman) Jennings. The father was born in Noble county, Ohio, and died in 1887. at the age of thirty-six years. He held member- ship in the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife, whose birth occurred in Zanesville, in 1853. is now living in this city. She is a daughter of Charles L. Chapman, a cabinet-maker, and by her marriage she became the mother of two sons but the brother, Charles C., is now deceased.
Judge Jennings was a student in the public and high schools of Zanesville, being graduated with the class of 1893. In the fall of the same vear he entered upon a classical course in Oberlin College and after a year spent in that institution he continued his studies in Marietta College. where he completed a classical course. Having determined to enter upon the practice of law as a life work, he then began reading in the office and under the direction of Frank H. Southard, an at- torney of Zanesville, and subsequently matricu- lated in the State University at Columbus, in 1898, being graduated' the following year with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the fall of 1899 he was admitted to the bar at Columbus and entered at once upon the practice of his profes- sion in Zanesville, continuing an active member
of the legal fraternity here until elected to the office of probate judge.
On the 23d of November, 1904, Judge Jen- nings was married to Miss Charlotte C. Lynn, a daughter of John T. and Cornelia ( Rector ) Lynn, and a native of Zanesville, born in 1880. Mr. Jennings is identified with the Masonic fraternity and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He was elected to the office of probate judge in 1902 and is a member of the Muskingum County Bar Association. He is yet a young man but has already attained a creditable position as a representative of the Muskingum county bar and his friends predict for him still greater honors and success.
WILLIAM COBB.
William Cobb, manager of the Kapner Broth- ers & Duga knitting mill in Frazeysburg, has been well trained for his present important posi- tion by years of experience in the line of manu- facturing knit goods, for when a young lad he entered upon his business career in a similar fac- tory and throughout the greater part of his busi- ness career he has directed his labors into chan- nels of a like nature. He was born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1857, his par- ents being Isaac and Phoeba ( Hunter ) Cobb. both representatives of old families of that state. The father was a carpenter by trade.
William Cobb was educated in the public schools of Beverly, New Jersey, and as a boy was employed in the knitting mills. He began by "piecing on a mule" and through his perseverance and capability he won promotion from time to time. Going to Philadelphia he was employed by the Pilling & Madley Stocking Company and at
the age of nineteen was made foreman in the mill. which position he acceptably filled until 1883. In that year he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he acted as superintendent of the mill owned by S. H. Hallsted & Company until 1890, when he went to Indiana to install a mill at Kokomo. When that task was completed he went to Piqua, Ohio, where he was foreman in the underwear mills until 1893, when he returned to the east and was connected with the underwear mills at Perry, New York, until 1897. In that year he accepted a position as foreman in the hosiery mill at Fred- erick, Maryland, where he continued for six years. On the 15th of February, 1903. he came to Fra- zevsburg to act as superintendent and manager of the hosiery mill just established by Kapner Brothers & Duga. The mill is thirty-four by seventy feet, two stories in height and furnishes employment to thirty-eight operatives, turning out one hundred and fifty dozen pairs of hose per
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day. Mr. Cobb has thorough understanding of the business in principle and detail, because of his practical experience in various departments, and is well qualified to assume the management of this enterprise, which under his capable direction is proving a profitable concern.
Mr. Cobb was married in Wilmington, Dela- ware, to Miss Louisa Weigend, of Philadelphia, and eight children have been born to them: Robert, Martha, Lilly, and Otto and Mary, twins, all born in Kentucky, opposite Cincinnati; Ollie, born in Piqua, Ohio; Laura, a native of Phila- delphia ; and Ida, born in Perry, New York.
Mr. Cobb is identified with the Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Golden Eagles. Politically he is a republican and is now serving as president of the school board in Frazeysburg, the cause of education finding in him a stalwart friend, who exercises his official prerogatives for the better- ment of the schools. His life record shows as his dominant qualities perseverance and the mastery of every task which has fallen to his lot. It is these which won him ready recognition in manu- facturing circles and gained him promotion until the position which he now occupies is a respon- sible one, bringing good financial remuneration.
JAMES BUCKINGHAM.
One of the best known and most prominent citizens of Zanesville is James Buckingham, who was born in this city on the 22d of October, 1831. and is a worthy representative of an nonored pioneer family, being the third son of Alvah and Anna (Hale) Buckingham. His father was born in Ballston Spa, New York, March 20, 1791, and was a son of Ebenezer and Esther ( Bradley) Buckingham, both natives of Greenfield. Connec- ticut, the former born November 1, 1748, and the latter on the 28th of February, 1754.
In 1794, when only three years of age, Alvah Buckingham accompanied his parents on their removal to Cooperstown, New York. Two years later his elder brother, Ebenezer, left home to ex- plore the country west of the Alleghany moun- tains and Ohio river, and in the spring of 1799 was followed by his brother Stephen. In the fall of the latter year they returned home with such glowing accounts of the new land that their parents decided to move hither, taking with them their numerous children, except three married daughters. They first located at the mouth of Killbuck creek, some miles above the present town of Coshocton, theirs being almost the first settlement in that region, and their nearest white neighbors were at Zanesville, some thirty miles south on the Muskingum river. There were many Indians, however, in the locality at that time, with whom the oldest sons often traded foi
furs, robes, etc., while the younger members of the family played with the Indian children, their principal sports being "throwing the tomahawk," "shooting the bow and arrow," and "tossing up wood chips for the old Indians to fire at ' They were very expert at these and other athletic sports. Alvah Buckingham early learned the Indian language and after half a century had passed was still able to count in their tongue to the great amusement of his grandchildren.
In the fall of 1803, finding their first location unhealthy the family removed to Carthage town- ship in the southeastern part of Athens county, Ohio, on the Hockhocking river. Here Alvah Buckingham had the inestimable privilege of at- tending school, although the schoolhouse was four miles distant from his home and he had to walk thereto daily. When out of school he assisted in the labors of the farm or indulged in hunting, the latter being his favorite pastime as there was plenty of game at that early day. The woods were infested with bear, deer, panth- er, raccoon, opossum and wild turkey, and near the farm was quite a celebrated deer lick, where on moonlight nights he was accustomed to sta- tion his watch and many a victim rewarded his unerring rifle. It was on one of the lonely watches that his quickness of thought and rapidity of action saved his life and brought down a huge panther poised just above him ready for a spring. At the age of seventeen he met with a severe ac- cident. While hunting in the woods one day his horse became frightened, reared and fell back on his rider. Stunned by the fall, Mr. Bucking- ham yet recovered to find that his right leg was broken both above and below the knee and over three miles from home where no aid could pos- sibly reach him. Mustering all his strength and courage he managed to crawl on his two hands and one knee. On reaching the river, he found that it was low enough for him to cross by hold- ing his mouth just above the water and in this way he reached home just before his sinking strength gave way. The limb was splintered as well as it could possibly be done in a country home with no skilled physician at hand, but a long weary year's confinement was the result and ever afterward a slight, though not perceptible, lameness.
In 1804 the older brother, Ebenezer Bucking- ham, removed to Putnam, now the ninth ward of Zanesville, where he established business, and Alvah became his assistant in 1810, leaving the parents still at the Hocking farm. Three years later another brother, Stephen, died and Alvah was called upon to take charge of his business, which he did for two years. In April, 1816, he formed a partnership with his brother Ebenezer and Solomon Sturgis, who afterward became his brother, as they married sisters. They engaged
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in merchandising under the firm name of E. Buck- ingham & Company and built up an excellent trade for that early day.
Ebenezer Buckingham, the brother of Alvah, married Eunice Hale, of Glastonbury, Connecti- cut, and on his return to the west brought with him his sister-in-law, Miss Anna Hale, the whole party crossing the Alleghany mountains on horse- back as there were no roads for carriages or wagons at that time. In 1818 Miss Hale re- turned to her eastern home but did not remain long, however. In her accustomed place as leader of the choir in the old church at Glastonbury, one Sunday in October, 1819, she glanced below and recognized the well known figure of her western friend, Alvah Buckingham. Later there followed an interview, a proposal and a hurried marriage on the following Sabbath evening, October 3, 1819. The young couple then started on horse- back for their home in the west.
Mrs. Alvah Buckingham was born in Glaston- bury, Connecticut, March 9. 1795, and was the sixth in order of birth in a family of eight chil- dren, her parents being Benjamin and Martha (Welles) Hale, who were married December 23, 1783. Her father was born October 30, 1759, and died December 24, 1831, while her mother was born August 12, 1759, and died April 20, 1837. The former traced his ancestry back to Samuel Hale, who came from England and set- tled in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1634. His wife bore the name of Mary and among their children was Thomas Hale, who married Naomi Kilbourne, who was a daughter of John and Naomi Kilbourne and a granddaughter of Thomas and Frances Kilbourne. Timothy Hale, a son of Thomas and Naomi ( Kilbourne ) Hale, married Sarah Frary, and their son, Captain Timothy Hale was the father of Benjamin Hale and the grandfather of Mrs. Buckingham. He married Hannah Hale, a daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Talcott) Hale, and a grandfather of Lieutenant Samuel and Mary ( Welles ) Hale. Lieutenant Samuel Hale was also a son of Samuel Hale, the progenitor of the family in America. His wife was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Hollister) Welles and grand- daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hunt) Welles, Thomas Welles having come from Eng- land to Salem, Massachusetts, June 24. 1629. Elizabeth ( Hollister) Welles was a daughter of John Hollister, Sr., one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and his wife who bore the maiden name of Joanna Treat and was a daughter of Richard and Joanna Treat. Mrs. Hannah (Talcott ) Hale, previously mentioned, was a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah ( Hollis- ter) Talcott, and a granddaughter of Samuel and Hannah ( Holyoke) Talcott. Samnel Talcott was a son of John and Dorothy (Smith) Talcott, and
a grandson of John and Annie (Skinner) Tal- cott, the former a son of John Talcott, of Col- chester, Connecticut, and the latter a daughter of William Skinner. Dorothy (Smith) Talcott was a daughter of Benjamin Smith. On the paternal side Hannah (Holyoke) Talcott was a grand- daughter of Edward and Prudence (Stockton) Holyoke, their son Elizur Holyoke being her father. He married Mary Pynchon, a daughter of Hon. William Pynchon, who was a son of John and (Orchard) Pynchon, and a grandson of John and Jane (Empson) Pynchon. Sarah (Hollister) Talcott was a daughter of John and Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister, and a granddaughter of John and Joanna ( Treat) Hollister, mentioned above as being among the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister was a daughter of William Goodrich, Jr., and his wife Sarah Marvin, a daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin. In the maternal line Mrs. Alvah Buckingham traced her ancestry back to Thomas Welles previously mentioned as coming from England to Salem, Massachusetts, June 24, 1629. He married Elizabeth Hunt and their son Samuel Welles married Elizabeth Hol- lister, a daughter of John and Joanna (Treat) Hollister, among the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Captain Samuel Welles, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Hollister) Welles, mar- ried Ruth Rice and their son Thomas Welles was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Buckingham. He married Martha Pitkins, a daughter of William and Elizabeth ( Stanley) Pitkins. William Pit- kins was a son of Hon. William and Hannah (Goodwin) Pitkins, and a grandson of Roger Pitkins, of Norwich, England, and of Osias Good- win, while his wife, Elizabeth ( Stanley) Pitkins. was a daughter of Caleb and Hannah ( Cowles) Stanley and a granddaughter of Timothy Stanley and John Cowles. William Welles, the grand- father of Mrs. Buckingham married Ann Shel- ton, a daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Hollister) Shelton. Her grandfather, Daniel Shelton, mar- ried Elizabeth Welles, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Hollister ) Welles. Samuel Welles was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Hunt) Welles, previously mentioned, and his wife was a daughter of John and Joanna ( Treat) Hollister, also mentioned before. Mary ( Hollister) Shelton, the maternal great-grandmother of Mrs. Buck- ingham, was a daughter of Jo. and Ann Hol- lister, and a granddaughter of John and Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister. John Hollister was also a son of John and Joanna (Treat) Hollister, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and his wife. Sarah (Goodrich ) Hollister, was a daughter of William and Sarah ( Marvin) Goodrich and a grand- daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin.
On the return of Alvah Buckingham and his bride to Putnam, Ohio, he purchased a very
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modest little house of one room on the banks of the Muskingum river and there they began house- keeping in 1820, but the following year he built a two-story brick house, to which he added a com- modious addition in 1834. Here all of their chil- dren were born and it is still the homestead of the family being now occupied by their youngest son, James Buckingham, whose name introduces this sketch. The latter's grandfather, Ebenezer Buckingham, Sr., died in October, 1824, on the old farm near Carthage, Athens county, Ohio, and his widow subsequently lived with her son, Ebenezer, Jr., in Putnam until she, too, passed away on the 25th of June, 1827.
In August, 1832, the firm of E. Buckingham & Company was dissolved by the sudden and painful death of Ebenezer Buckingham, Jr., but the business was continued under the new name of A. Buckingham & Company. The following year another brother, Milton, was induced to leave the farm at Carthage and join the firm, tak- ing a half of Alvah's share, while at the same time the latter's partner, Solomon Sturges, sold a half of his interest to his brother Hezekiah, who removed from Fairfield, Connecticut. On the removal of Milton Buckingham to Spring- field, Ohio, in 1843, Benjamin, the eldest son of Alvah, became a member of the firm and in 1845 the old name was then changed to Buck- ingham & Sturges, the new company being composed of Benjamin H. Buckingham and William Sturges, the oldest sons of the two former partners.
In 1850 Alvah Buckingham furnished the money with which his friend R. P. Burlingame opened up a lumberyard in Chicago and the fol- lowing year the two built the first grain elevator in that city, it being a frame structure with a capacity of seventy-five thousand bushels and a great wonder at that time. It was called the Ful- ton elevator. In 1851 Mr. Buckingham estab- lished branch houses in New York and Toledo, Ohio, for his sons Benjamin and Philo, buying the Pendleton elevator, which was the first one built in Toledo. They soon erected another but in carrying on their extensive business Philo Buckingham lost his health and died quite sud- denly April 6, 1853, at the old homestead in Put- nam. In 1854 Alvah Buckingham sold a third interest in the Fulton elevator at Chicago to his old partner, Solomon Sturges, and shortly after- ward concluded a contract with the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad Company to do all of their grain warehouse business for ten years. In 1856 he built and opened the two large warehouses in Chi- cago called A and B, each having a capacity of seven hundred thousand bushels of grain. After that he spent most of his time in that city, whither he removed his family three years later. In April. 1865, however, he took up his residence in New
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York city, where he purchased a home, living there until his death.
In the spring of 1866, having occasion to locate some western lands, Alvah Buckingham, ac- companied by his son James, traveled through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, much of the journey being acomplished in a spring wagon over rough roads, but he did not seem fatigued although at that time seventy-five years of age. In the spring of 1867 he made a second pilgrim- age to the west, this time passing through Iowa and Nebraska and traveling over the line of the Pacific Railroad as far as it had been finished. It was his ambition to be a passenger on the first train that went through to the Pacific coast, but in this he was disappointed. The summer of 1867 was spent with his wife and two daughters, Mrs. S. S. Cox and Mrs. Hardenbergh, at Sara- toga, ending in a most pleasurable trip to the White mountains, but soon after their return to New York his wife was taken ill with pneumonia and died on the 23d of September, 1867, her re- mains being taken back to the old home at Put- nam, Ohio, for interment. Two weeks later Mr. Buckingham was stricken down, dying at Put- nam, October 4, 1867, and he was laid to rest by the side of his wife in Woodlawn cemetery. He was a man of unusual strength of character, was a conscientious Christian and of unfailing cour- tesy. He was upright and honorable in all his dealings with his fellowmen and possessed extra- ordinary business ability and keen sagacity which enabled him to overcome all the difficulties found
in the path to prosperity. In his home he was a most affectionate husband and indulgent father, and in this region, where he so long made his home, he was universally respected and honored. He found a true helpmate in his wife, who aided and encouraged him by her kindly sympathy and love, and by her industry and economy relieved him of all anxiety.
In the family of this worthy couple were the following children : Benjamin H., born July 26, 1820, was married November 1I, 1845, to Martha E. Potwin, and died November 6, 1864. Philo, born March 24, 1825, died April 6, 1853. Eliza- beth, born January 24, 1827, died December 12, 1827. Julia Ann, born March 9, 1829, was mar- ried October 1I, 1849, to Hon, Samuel S. Cox, of Ohio: James, born October 22, 1831, is the next of the family ; and Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 13, 1836, was married September 26, 1864, to John A. Hardenbergh, of New York.
James Buckingham was educated at Marietta, Ohio, and at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, but on acount of ill health was forced to leave college before completing the regu- lar course in February, 1852. A part of the winter of 1852-3 was spent in his father's ele- vator at Chicago, and the following April lo-
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cated on his farm at Duncan's Falls, Ohio, where he made his home until his return to Zanesville in September, 1863, when he again took up his abode in the house where he was born. In June, 1854, he invented the cogs placed on the outside of the driving wheels used on mowing and reap- ing machines, but never patented it.
Mr. Buckingham was married at Chillicothe, Ohio, November 5, 1831, to Miss Jane P. Wills, who was born in that city on the 8th of October, 1832, and is the third child in the family of Dr. David and Eliza (Peebles) Wills. Five children blessed this union : Elise Wills, born January 16, 1856, was married October II, 1883, to F. G. Darlington ; Mary Humphreys, born December 6, 1859, was married January 27, 1887, to A. E. Greene; Philo Hale, born December 27, 1861, died August 19, 1869; Ellen Wood, born October 19, 1863, was married October 2, 1889, to Wil- liam Young and died November 12, 1890; and Julia, born July 16, 1867, was married January 28, 1891, to S. M. Pinkerton.
During the Civil war Mr. Buckingham was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty- ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the spring and summer of 1864, and was stationed in Virginia and Maryland. He has always taken an active interest in public affairs and has been promi- nently identified with many enterprises which have had for their object the upbuilding of the city or the community in which he lives. From Janu- ary, 1865, until January, 1873, he was a director of the Ohio State Agricultural Society, serving as its treasurer four years and as its president in 1872. He was also one of the trustees of the Central Lunatic Asylum, to finish, furnish and open it. He was president of the Zanesville & Ohio River Railroad from its beginning to its completion, and as a reliable, energetic business man he has met with success in all his under- takings. He has devoted considerable attention to real estate dealings, being interested in ranches and other farm property and will lands in Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. He is still active in business affairs and is a man whom to know is to honor. During his long residence in Zanesville he has gained a wide acquaintance and stands deservedly high in the esteem of his fel- low citizens.
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