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NICHOLAS J. CHRISTMAN.
Nicholas J. Christman, deceased, who was a representative of Zanesville business interests for a number of years, was born in Bavaria, Germanv. in 1850. He spent the first fifteen vears of his life in his native country, during which time he ac- quired his education, and then came alone to Amer- ica, believing that he would find better business opportunities in the new world. He had an uncle living here in Zanesville by the name of Nicho- las Christman. Joining him in this city, he learned the tailor's trade under his direction and made it his life work. He met with a fair measure of success and for many years conducted a good tailoring establishment, securing a large patronage from the public here. His work was always of the best and his earnest desire to please his customers, combined with fair principles, led to his prosperity.
On the 29th of July, 1886. Mr. Christman was united in marriage to Miss Pauline Hofman, who was born in Springfield, Ohio, and is a daughter of Peter and Mary (Rehl) Hofman, the former a native of Prussia, Germany, while the latter was born in Zanesville, and was of German lineage. In early life Mr. Hofman conducted a farm but later engaged in the conduct of a saloon and grocery store on Linden avenue, in Zanesville, which street was then called the River road. His wife was the daughter of Peter Rehl, who came from Prussia, Germany, to Ohio when a young man and here married Mrs. Sly, a widow, while for his second wife he chose Miss Bottles. They were early settlers of Zanesville. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Christman were born four children, all na- tives of Zanesville, namely : Ralph H., J. Nicholas, Clarence C. and May M.
Mr. and Mrs. Christman were a very congenial couple and had a pleasant home in which hos- pitality reigned supreme. He died in 1898, at the age of forty-eight years. He was a worthy repre- sentative of the German-American element in the
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citizenship of Zanesville and the hope that led him to seek a home in the new world was more than realized for he found in its business opportuni- ties scope for his ambition and energy, which were his most salient characteristics and by the exer- cise of his diligence and perseverance he won a fair measure of success.
KARL KAPPES.
Karl Kappes, who as an artist has gained a rep- utation that makes him known far beyond the borders of his native city of Zanesville, was born in 1861. His father, John J. Kappes, was born in Germany, in 1826, and in 1842 was brought to the United States by his parents, Louis and Eliz- abeth Kappes, who located in this city. Hi father was proprietor of a hotel at the corner of Seventh and Main streets for many years and his hostelry was a great rendezvous for soldiers dur- ing the period of the Civil war and in his business he was very successful. He possessed a genial nature and genuine worth that made him popular . with the partons of the hotel and his fellow citi- zens. He held membership with the Presbyter- ian church and also with the Order of Druids, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the German Benevolent Society. He voted with the republican party but had no aspiration for office. His death occurred in 1886. In early manhood he had married Elizabeth Foerester, who was born in Germany, and is now living in Zanesville at the age of seventy years. She came to this city with her parents, Abraham and Elizabeth Foers- ter in 1845. Her father was a school-master in Germany, but after coming to the United States conducted a confectionery establishment in Zanes- ville. In this city Mrs. Kappes was reared, and for many years she has been a devoted member of the Presbyterian church. By her marriage she became the mother of twelve children of whom six sons and four daughters reached adult age, as follows : David A., who was one of the success- ful physicians of Philadelphia and died in 1904, at the age of forty-five years; Edward P., a molder at Newark, Ohio; Karl; Fred, a druggist, who died in Sistersville, West Virginia, in 1896; Jacob J., a physician of Philadelphia ; William J., who is superintendent for the northeastern district of Ohio of the Barbour Asphalt Company, at Sandusky ; Clara E., the wife of E. M. Ayers, of Zanesville ; Elizabeth, the wife of J. Randall Berk- shire, of this city; Julia A., and Lillia, the wife of David Foerster, of Denver, Colorado.
Karl Kappes began his education in the pub- lic schools of Zanesville, where he passed through consecutive grades until ne was graduated from the high school. He attended the Cincinnati
School of Design, where he recived the first de- gree of merit and he was also a student under William M. Chase at the Art Students League in New York city. Later he attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, at Munich, Germany, where he received honorable mention, and he at- tended Julian School at Paris, under Benjamin Constant. He has exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy of Design in Philadelphia and the Art Club at Philadelphia, and is regarded as one of the most talented artists of Ohio. He organized an art school in 1892 and at present a majority of the decorators in Zanesville's many potteries are among his students.
Mr. Kappes is a Royal Arch Mason and an Elk, and in his political views he is a republican. He served as a member of the board of education from the ninth ward. His influence has ever been exercised in behalf of the good, the true and the beautiful. He gives undivided attention to his art work, and his talent, and his interest in his school, rank him with the prominent modern American artists.
WILLIAM A. WELLER.
For many years William A. Weller has been actively identified with the business interests of Zanesville and is to-day a prominent resident of South Zanesville, where he is engaged in the man- ufacture of Cary's Family Medicines. One of his leading characteristics in business affairs is his fine sense of order and complete system and the habit of giving careful attention to details-with- out which success in any undertaking is never an assured fact.
A native of Muskingum county, Mr. Weller was born in Newton township. January 19, 1849, and is the son of Henry Weller, whose birth oc- curred in the same township on the 3d of January, 1819. His grandfather, Daniel Weller, located here at an early day. The father was a well-to-do farmer, owning three hundred acres of land in this county, and was a man highly respected and esteemed by all who knew him. He died No- vember 10, 1867, and his wife passed away on the Ioth of February, 1868. She bore the maiden name of Mary E. Hammond, and was born in Perry county, Ohio, August 31, 1825, being a daughter of Greenberry Hammond. In the fam- ily of Mr. and Mrs. Weller were the following children : Samuel F .; William A., of this review ; George M., deceased ; Joseph A. ; Charles E. ; John W .; Sarah A., the wife of Seward W. Jones. of Boston, Massachusetts; Alcinda A., wife of W. F. Lenhart, of Axline, Ohio; and Mary E .. wife of Edward P. Grimsley, of White Cottage. Ohio.
William A. Weller acquired his early education in the district schools of this county and after
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leaving home at the age of nineteen years he attended college at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. In 1869 he became connected with the drug business in Zanesville, carrying on a store at the corner of Second and Main streets with H. G. O. Cary, for ten years. At the end of that time he became sole proprietor and continued in business there until 1891, when he sold out the retail department to Fluke & Henry, and has since made his home in South Zanesville. It was in 1885 that he pur- chased the Cary Family Medicine business and since that time has manufactured Cary's Cough Cure Troches, Cary's Sugar Coated Liver Pills, Cary's Toothache Remedy, Cary's Indian Eye Salve, Cary's Buckeye Condition Powder, Bar- rell's Indian Liniment and Barrell's Worm Con- fections, all of which medicines have been before the public for sixty-one years and are well and favorably known. From their manufacture and sale Mr. Weller derives a good income, his trade extending throughout all parts of the country. His factory is a good two-story brick building, seventy by twenty-eight feet, and besides this he has other property in South Zanesville.
Mr. Weller has been twice married, his first wife being Elizabeth A. Johnson, who died leav- ing one child, Edward S. On December 23, 1897, he was united in marriage to Rose Burton, who was born in Licking county, Ohio, February 21, 1858. Her father, Robert Burton, now deceased, was born near Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and was a son of Charles Burton, a native of England. The former married Elizabeth Leonard, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of Henry Leonard, a native of Mary- land. Her grandfather, John Leonard, was born in Wales.
Mr. Weller is an earnest and consistent mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and being a strong temperance man he supports the probibi- tion party by his ballot. He is an honorary mem- ber of the Zanesville Medical Society, and stands deservedly high in business, professional and so- cial circles as a man of recognized worth and ability.
ALFRED ASHWELL FRAZIER.
Born of good Scotch-American stock Alfred Ashwell Frazier was naturally endowed with a hardy earnestness and a large-souled common sense which have made him popular as a citizen and have gained him success at the bar. David Frazier, the progenitor of the American branch of the family, came to the new world in the early part of the eighteenth century, settling in Vir- ginia when the Old Dominion was numbered among the colonial possessions of New England.
His descendants took part in the struggle for in- dependence and representatives of the name have ever been active in the development and upbuild- ing of the various sections of the country in which they have lived. Samuel Frazier, the grandfather of our subject, removed from Ohio county, Vir- ginia, to Belmont county, Ohio, about 1825, and ten years afterward came to Muskingum county, taking up his abode on a large tract of land in Licking township. Stockton Frazier, father of Alfred A. Frazier, was reared upon the old home farm, and is still numbered among the agriculturists of Muskingum town- ship. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth McCann, was of Scotch-Irish lineage, and her ancestors also came to America in colon- ial times, settling in Pennsylvania, whence they removed to Ohio early in the nineteenth century.
Alfred Ashwell Frazier was born October 19, 1854, and spent the days of his boyhood and youth on the old homestead. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Muskingum township and supplemented by a course in the Dresden high school. In 1872 he entered Deni- son University, where he remained for three years, and he completed his college course at Wooster University, entering the sophomore class of 1876. He was graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1879, and also won second honors of the class. In the fall of that same year he entered the law department of Cincin- nati College from which he was graduated in 1881, again winning second honors and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law. In 1882 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts.
Mr. Frazier began practice in 1881, at Zanes- ville, in partnership with H. C. Van Voorhis, long a representative in congress for the fifteenth district. This association continued until 1885. when Mr. Van Voorhis withdrew in order to ac- cept the presidency of the Citizens' National Bank and Mr. Frazier has since been alone in practice. During the nineteen years in which he has devoted his attention to the law he has confined his ener- gies strictly to the profession and has secured a large and important clientage. Referring to his standing and ability as a lawyer one of the well known attorneys of the Muskingum county bar said : "A. A. Frazier must be classed with the suc- cessful practitioners at this bar. He entered the profession well equipped for the practice of law and has ever since been a conscientious worker and consequently is well grounded in the princi- ples of law. He has always attended strictly to business, has had no political ambitions, has not dabbled in outside speculation, but has, in short, been purely a lawyer and has met with success. His standing as a member of the bar is irreproach- able. He is of strict integrity, has been fair in
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his practice and upright in his dealings with all men. He is respected by the community and es- teemed by the profession."
Mr. Frazier is a republican and has taken an active part in the advancement of his party's wel- fare and success. He served as chairman of the executive committee and aside from office has done effective service in behalf of the local or- ganization. He was appointed a member of the examining board for admission to the bar in 1889 and in 1898 he received the nomination and was elected to the common pleas bench to succeed Judge Munson, having been chosen to the of- fice without opposition. In August, 1899, he took his seat on the bench and in 1903 he was again nominated and elected without opposition, a fact which stands in incontrovertible evidence of his popularity and his high position in the public re- gard. The consensus of opinion of the lawyers of Muskingum county bar is equally favorable and his record as a jurist is in harmony with his record as a man and lawyer, having been charac- terized by unswerving fidelity to duty and a mas- terful grasp of every problem which has come up for solution in his court.
In 1881 Judge Frazier was married to Miss Emma L. Clark, a daughter of James and Anna (Wilson) Clark, of Van Wert, Ohio, and a descendant of Revolutionary ancestry. They have a son and daughter, Florein and Florence. Judge and Mrs. Frazier are members of the Putnam Presbyterian church and are prominent socially, while the judge is equally well known in local political circles. He has not feared that laborious application that his profession requires of all its successful members, and, combined with indus- trious habits, he possesses a mind which constant application has stored with a knowledge of the law and its adaptation. His career should serve as an inspiration to the young law student and should induce him to exert himself to his fullest capacity and endeavor to emulate the example furnished.
FENTON BAGLEY.
Fenton Bagley, postmaster of Zanesville, was born in Muskingum county, October 10, 1838. His paternal grandparents were Reuben and Christina Bagley, the former born February 14, 1769, and the latter September 25, 1792. Ben- jamin Bagley, son of Reuben Bagley, was born January 22, 1810, in Loudoun county, Virginia, and was there reared and educated. He was mar- ried on the 15th of August, 1833, to Miss Jane W. Moore, who was born in Clark county, Vir- ginia, July 17, 1815, and was a daughter of Jantes G. and Dorinda Moore, the former born March 25,
1792, and the latter May 18, 1794. In the family of Benjamin Bagley are twelve children: Mary Elizabeth, born September 7, 1834; Chloe, born March 20, 1836; Fenton, born October 10, 1838; Sarah Jane, born November 3. 1840; John, born June 4, 1843 ; Dorinda, born September 1, 1845; Matilda, born August 12, 1847 ; William, who was born July 2, 1849, and died January 24, 1905; Martha, born November 15, 1851 ; Angeline, born October 22, 1853; Clara A., born October 16, 1855; and Joseph Trimble, born February 15, 1858.
Fenton Bagley represents one of the pioneer families of Muskingum county, his parents having come to central Ohio in 1825. His early educa- tion was acquired in the common schools and he continued his studies in the high school at Zanes- ville. He afterward engaged in teaching for one year. At the time of the Civil war, however, he put aside all business and personal considerations and with patriotic spirit responded to the country's call for aid, enlisting in 1861 as a private of Com- pany B, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infan- try. He was appointed corporal and served until the following August, when he was discharged on account of ill health. He re-enlisted, however, in 1864 and became first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, which regiment was raised for one hundred days' service. Following the close of the war Mr. Bagley returned to White Cottage, his former home, and was engaged in the manufacture of stoneware for twelve years, being thus connected with the productive industries of the county. His desire, however, was for a professional career and reading law he was admitted to the bar in 1865. He did not engage in practice, however, until 1872, when he became an active member of the profession and continued in practice until 1898, when he was appointed postmaster. Hc served as prosecuting attorney of Muskingum county from 1879 until 1882 and was not again in office until appointed to his present position by William McKinley in 1898 and reappointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. He is giving to the Zanesville postoffice a business-like administra- tion, his work in the office being characterized by system and promptness and as an official he has won high encomiums. He was for five years one of the directors of the Zanesville workhouse.
On the 15th of March, 1861, the opening of the Civil war-Mr. Bagley was united in marriage to Miss Eliza C. McClane, of Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of three children : Mrs. Cora E. Taylor, of Zanesville, Ohio; Mrs. A. W. Richards, of Pomona, California : and Mrs. An- nette P. Barker, of Columbus, Ohio. In 1877 Mr. Bagley was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died on the 2d of November of that year. By a second marriage he has three chil-
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dren : Arthur T., Fenton, Jr., and Myron Ever- hart.
He has been a member of the Masonic fratern- ity since 1866 and also belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. He enjoys in large measure the good will and friendship of his fellow members of these organizations. He has made for him- self a creditable record in the government ser- vice and in the military service of his country and the bar Muskingum county has reason to num- ber him with its representative men for he has ever upheld the legal and moral status of the commun- ity and labored for the promotion of good of his native county.
ALMON S. LELAND.
Almon S. Leland, a prominent stock man of Muskingum county, now serving as county com- missioner, resides on section 7, Brush Creek township. He was born in Morgan county, Ohio, December 22, 1851. His father, John A. Le- land, was a native of Northumberland county, Virginia, and the grandfather, John Leiand, was also a native of that state. After reaching years of maturity John A. Leland married Huldah Stevens, a native of Meigs township, Muskin- gum county, Ohio, and a daughter of David Stevens, who was a native of Connecticut and became a pioneer settler of Ohio, entering land from the government in Morgan county. He
had one of the first taverns between Meigs town- ship and Marietta and it was in that pioneer hostelry that Mrs. Leland was born. John A. Leland made the journey to Ohio in 1836 with his two sisters, locating in Cumberland, Guern- sey county, where he attended school. He after- ward engaged in clerking and subsequently con- ducted a store for an uncle in Bristol, Morgan county. Later he turned his attention to agri- cultural pursuits and drove stock to the New Jersey market. He afterward settled in McLean county, Illinois, where he followed merchandising for six years and then returned to Morgan county, Ohio, where he dealt in live stock until a year prior to his death. He then lived retired in Marietta. He was a self-made man and as the architect of his own fortunes he builded wisely and well, so directing his efforts that he accumulated a very desirable competence. He was a public-spirited citizen, recognized as one of the liberal and progressive men of his state, and in his political views he was a staunch re- publican. He died in the year 1894, being at the time seventy years of age, his birth having oc- curred in 1824. Of his family of six children five are yet living: Mrs. Frances Baker, of Clin- ton, Illinois ; Almon; Mrs. Nina M. Porter, of
this county ; Mrs. Jennie Porter, of Omaha, Ne- braska; and H. W., who is a stock man and farmer of Morgan county.
Mr. Leland was thirteen years of age when his parents removed to Illinois and there he com- pleted his education. For two years he was em- ployed as a brakesman on the Chicago & Alton Railroad in Illinois and subsequently he became a stock dealer in Baxter Springs, Kansas. He also shipped stock to Texas and later he returned to Ohio, where he again engaged in the stock business. In 1876 he took up his abode in Mus- kingum county and has since made his home in Brush Creek township. He is to-day one of the large land-owners of the locality, having three hundred and forty acres of very rich and arable land which is situated about six miles from Zanesville on the river road and is devoted to the raising of cattle and sheep and to general agricultural pursuits.
Mr. Leland was married in 1876 to Miss Ella Worthington, a native of Virginia and a daugh- ter of the Rev. N. C. Worthington, who was a Methodist minister, representing an old Virgin- ian family, and came to Ohio when a young man. Mr. and Mrs. Leland have four children : Mrs. Blanche D. Westfall, Mrs. Carrie Pletcher, John A. C. and Nicholas W.
Mr. Leland is a republican and upon that ticket was elected county commissioner in 1902. He is the leading representative of his party in this portion of the state and has once been chosen for the office which he is now filling and again is a candidate for re-election. He is public-spir- ited, exercising his official prerogatives in sup- port of every measure for the general good and he has saved to the county much expense through his foresight and business ability. He not only receives the support and endorsement of his party but also of the public in general and he is re- garded to-day as one of the foremost citizens of Muskingum county. His name is on the mem- bership rolls of the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen Camp and in both organiza- tions he is prominent.
WILLIAM H. DUNN.
William H. Dunn, deceased, was born in Wayne township, Muskingum county, Ohio, in January, 1846, his parents being Asa and Caroline (Sedg- wick) Dunn. The father was one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio, coming to this state from New Jersey. He made the journey in a covered wagon after the primitive manner of the times, took up his abode in Muskingum county, and secured a tract of land, devoting his remaining days to ag- ricultural pursuits. Here his death occurred May 25, 1857.
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William H. Dunn at that time was a lad of eleven years. He was educated in the common schools, was reared to manhood by his mother and lived with her until his death. In his youth he became familiar with the work of carrying on the home farm and as his years and strength in- creased he more and more largely assumed the management of the property and the task of im- proving it. Throughout his entire life he carried on general agricultural pursuits and his well tilled fields were an evidence of his energy, thrift and practical methods.
On the 2d of October, 1872, Mr. Dunn secured a companion and helpmate for life's journey by his marriage to Miss Caroline Handschy, who was born December 6, 1851, in Muskingum county, Perry township, Ohio, her parents being Fred and Ruth (Winn) Handschy, who were na- tives of Perry township. Her father followed farming for many years but is now living a retired life at the age of eighty-four years. His wife also survives at the age of seventy-nine years. Mrs. Dunn also has two brothers and four sisters, but is the only one at home. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Dunn was born a son, Clarence O., whose birth occurred July 22, 1873. He married Aurelia Hart and resides near his mother's home. Mr. Dunn departed this life March 10, 1874. He was a man respected by all who knew him because of his reliability in business, his faithfulness to his family and his loyalty in citizenship. His po- litical support was given to the democratic party.
Mrs. Dunn resides with her parents and super- intends the farm. She owns two hundred and forty-seven acres of valuable land and under her direction general farming and stock-raising are carried on and to some extent fruit is raised. She expects soon, however, to leave the farm and re- move to Zanesville, at which time the home prop- erty will be rented.
She is a lady of excellent business ability and executive force, combining these traits of charac- ter with social qualities that render her popular with a large circle of friends. She is a member of the Baptist church and is held in high esteem by all who know here throughout the county in which her entire life has been passed.
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