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Mr. Sarbaugh was born in Salem township, Muskingum county, September 8, 1837, his parents being Jacob and Elizabeth ( Prince) Sarbaugh, both of whom were natives of Loudoun county. where
Virginia, they were reared and married. After the birth of their eldest child they came to Ohio, about 1836, and the father, a farmer by occupation, became the owner of a small tract of land. Here six more children were added to the family and five of the number are still living, but the parents have departed this life.
John W. Sarbaugh acquired his education in the common schools of Salem and Highland townships and in his youth began earning his living as a farm hand, being employed in that ca- pacity until twenty-four years of age when he offered his services to the government, enlisting in the Union Army at Zanesville, November 25, 1861, as a member of Company A, Seventy- eighth Ohio Infantry, under Captain Munson and Colonel Leggett. The regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division of the Sev- enteenth Army Corps, and with his command Mr. Sarbaugh participated in the battle of Shi- loh on the 7th of April, 1862, and in the raid from Shiloh to Purdy on which he captured a
prisoner. A few days after the evacuation of Corinth he became ill and was sent to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was granted a twenty-days fur- lough. On the expiration of that period he re- joined his regiment at Bolivar, Tennessee, but was left at Corinth, ill, and was sent to St. Louis, where he was honorably discharged December 4, 1862, on a surgeon's certificate of disability. Fol- lowing his return from the war Mr. Sarbaugh was in ill health for almost a year, after which he engaged in the manufacture of shingles and in building fences. He then rented a farm in Perry township, where he lived for seven years, after which he purchased his present farm.
In February, 1864, Mr. Sarbaugh was united in marriage to Miss Nancy B. Holland, who was born June 4, 1837, a daughter of Nimrod and Mary Ann (Banford) Holland. Her parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and came to Mus- kingum county about 1818, settling on the farm where James Davis now resides. Here the fa- ther owned eighty acres of land and in connec- tion with its cultivation he engaged in school teaching, taking great interest in the educational department of this part of the state. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist church and were also active in its work and upbuilding. His death occurred in March, 1848, and his widow, long surviving him, was called to her final rest in November, 1899, at the age of eighty- nine years. They were the parents of eight chil- dren, of whom three are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Sarbaugh had a family of three daughters and a son : Ida, who was born . March 7, 1865. is the wife of Amon Osler, living on the old homestead ; Jennie E., born August 24, 1867, is the wife of Charles Roberts, a gardener in Indi- ana : Wilbur H., born August 18, 1870, and edu- cated in the Columbus Medical College from which he was graduated in 1897. is now practic- ing medicine in Gilboa, Ohio, where he and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Gertrude Landfear, now reside; and Dora E., born No- vember 6, 1876, is the wife of Will Dunkle, of Centerville, Indiana.
Mr. Sarbaugh's farm comprises one hundred and three acres of land about three and a half miles west of Bloomfield, and there he has en- gaged in the tilling of the soil and in the raising of stock, having some fine farm animals upon his place. The land is richly cultivated and the fields annually return golden harvests. All that he possesses has been acquired through his own labors and his farm is the visible evidence of his life of thrift and activity. He is thoroughly reli- able in every business transaction and at all times his life history has been in keeping with his pro- fessions as a member of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church, to which his wife also belongs. He has served as class leader for forty years and
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is very prominent in church work. He holds membership with Concord Hanson Post, No. 468, G. A. R., and is also connected with the Patrons of Industry. His political views endorse republican principles and he has acted as school director. His entire life has been passed in Mus- kingum county and his history proves what may be accomplished when one has the will to dare and to do. He realizes that there is no excel- lence without labor and with industry as the basis of his success he has steadily advanced from a humble position to one of affluence.
GEORGE G. HOWARD.
George G. Howard was born on the 27th of November, 1840, in the house in which he now resides and which is one of the old historical landmarks of this locality. His paternal grand- father, Samuel Howard, was a native of Mary- land and was married in 1810 to Miss Arieanna Cole. He came with his family to Ohio in 1828. settling in Zanesville when it was but a small town giving little promise of future develop- ment and progress. He carried on merchandis- ing on Main street and on Fourth and Fifth streets, being thus interested in and identified with the commercial development of the city from 1828 until 1835. In the latter year he pur- chased the farm upon which George G. Howard now resides and which comprises three hundred and eleven acres of rich and valuable land. Samuel Howard then began farming and he died upon the old homestead April 27, 1876, at the very venerable age of ninety-one years.
His son, Abraham C. Howard, father of our subject, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, May 22. 18II, and was therefore a youth of seventeen years when he accompanied his par- ents on their removal to Ohio. He continued to reside upon the old home farm and as the years passed he prospered in his undertakings. He married Miss Elizabeth Gist, of Brooke county. West Virginia, their wedding being celebrated in the Old Dominion, and both died upon the farm where George G. Howard now resides. the father passing away January 31, 1877, while the mother's death occurred in July. 1895. He was a whig in his political allegiance until the formation of the new republican party when he joined its ranks, continuing one of its supporters until he passed from this life. Unto him and his wife were born nine children, namely: George G .; Samuel, deceased ; Lewis R. C., a resident of Morgan county ; Joseph, of Indiana ; Clara and Caroline, both deceased : Charles R., a resident of Zanesville : Julia, who is living at home with
her brother George; and William R., who is superintendent of Greenwood cemetery.
George G. Howard and his sister Julia occupy the old farm homestead, about five miles from Zanesville. She is a member of the Second Street Methodist church. She owns the old homestead of two hundred and thirty-one acres, while George G. Howard superintends the old farm for her. He was reared to the occupation of farming and has made that work his life vocation. His time is devoted to general agri- cultural pursuits and to stock-raising and the products of the farm each year bring him a good income. The old part of the house that stands upon this place was built in 1801 on the old Wheeling road. Few districts of the county have been longer developea than the Howard homestead and Mr. Howard cultivates it in keep- ing with modern, progressive ideas, making it a valuable property. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He is well known in the county where his entire life has been passed and he enjoys the esteem of many friends with whom he has been acquainted from his boyhood days.
WILBERT C. BATEMAN, M. D.
Dr. Wilbert C. Bateman, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Zanes- ville, is a native son of Ohio, born in Taylorsville, this state, in 1867. He represents one of the pioneer families of Muskingum county. His pa- ternal grandfather, John Bateman. was born at The Blades, in Washington county, Pennsylva- nia, and was one of a large family of children born unto John and Mary Bateman. His educa- tional privileges were extremely limited but he became a man of wide, general information, gain- ing his knowledge from reading and observation. When he was only eight vears of age he removed with his parents to Muskingum county and by the death of the father the mother was afterward left to care for her family alone in the midst of the forest. For two years John remained at home and although but a boy assisted materially in the support of the family. When he was only ten years of age he was bound out to a tanner by the name of Snode and while serving his appren- ticeship his hardships were many. He found Mr. Snode a severe taskmaster and when sixteen years of age left him and went to boating on the Mus- kingum river, following cargo after cargo to New Orleans, during which time he also engaged in different trades. On one trip when he arrived in New Orleans he had no money and he and his comrades were forced to walk the entire distance back to Ohio. He afterward engaged in the canal boat business on Ohio's first canal and for
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a time was the owner of a boat. He was on the first steamer that went down the river to New Or- leans but it did not have the power to make the return trip. Later Mr. Bateman became a rail- road contractor and laid many of the first ties of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. His next ven- ture was in the manufacture of salt and at differ- ent times was the owner of several lumber camps. He was a man of resourceful business ability, quick to recognize and utilize an opportunity and as the years went by he prospered. At an early day, however, he was in very limited financial circumstances and worked for many weeks for twelve and a half cents per day. At the time of his marriage he began housekeeping with the proceeds of the sale of a single hog, which he had fattened. In 1854 he bought a farm and was identified with agricultural interests in Mus- kingum county until 1865. He continued a resi- dent of Ohio up to that time and then removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, while later he lived for a time in Carroll county, that state, and in 1874 went to Kokomo, Indiana, where his last days were passed.
On the 22d of January, 1835, John Bateman was married to Mrs. Anna M. Grosh, a native of Maryland, and for forty-seven years they trav- eled life's journey together. She died in 1882, at the age of seventy years, and in 1884 he mar- ried Margaret Marcus, of Indianapolis, who died two years later. There are four children living of the first marriage: Mrs. Sarah Bowers, Sam- uel, John G. and Mrs. Ann Maria White. John Bateman was a remarkable example of manhood. Up to his seventieth year he never weighed less than two hundred and twenty-five pounds, of sturdy build, hard muscle and with nerves like steel. He was peculiarly adapted to meet the hardships of pioneer life. He met with many difficulties and obstacles which would utterly (liscourage a young man of the present age but he persevered and at length overcame these by determined and earnest purpose. He was a man who held friendship as a sacred trust and was most true and loyal to all to whom he once gave his friendship. He was a typical pioneer settler who aided in reclaiming wild land for the purposes of civilization and in laying a broad and deep foundation for the building of the great commonwealth of Ohio. He died in Kokomo, Indiana, in 1900.
Samuel Bateman, father of Dr. Bateman, was born at Gilbert Station, Muskingum county, in 1838, and was reared in the vicinity of Zanes- ville, where he continued to live until after the outbreak of the Civil war, when he joined the boys in blue, becoming a private of Company C. Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry. After two years service he was honorably discharged with the rank of first sergeant and in 1864 he again went
to the front as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Infantry, with which he was connected for one hundred days. He was first lieutenant in this command and par- ticipated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Fort Donelson and a number of skirmishes. Fol- lowing the close of hostilities he was engaged in farming and in the operation of a sawmill un- til 1871, when he began working for the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad Company as lumber in- spector. He continued with that corporation until September, 1903, and since that time has been on the retired list. In politics he is a repub- lican and he holds membership with the Grand Army post at Zanesville and with the Odd Fel- lows fraternity, belonging both to the lodge and the encampment. In 1860 he was married to Miss Harriet L. Wright, who was reared in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in 1901, at the age of sixty-five years. They are the parents of four children : Ida M., the wife of Robert Atch- ison, a resident of Putnam by whom she has one child, Robert ; John Walter, who is living in Co- lumbus and is a machinist by trade and married Nellie Russell, by whom he has one daughter. Mabel ; Wilbert Charles ; and Mary M., the wife of Edwin Lawson, a brakesman on the Pan- handle Railroad, by whom she has one daughter, Catherine.
Wilbert C. Bateman pursued his education in the schools of Zanesville until ten years of age, when he became cash boy in the department store of H. H. Sturtevant & Company, where he was promoted from time to time. Later he became connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in the machine shops, enter- ing upon an apprenticeship when sixteen years of age and served for four years in the machine shops at Newark, Ohio. He afterward returned to Zanesville, where he worked for the Bland- ing Machine Company as a machinist for some time, and during all these years while busily employed during the day time at hard labor he gave his evening hours to the study of medicine. it being his ambition to become a member of the medical fraternity. Subsequently he pursued a course of study in Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and following his graduation from that institution with the class of 1897. he entered upon the practice of his profession in Zanesville. He has been county jail physician for three years and for two years was connected with the Infirmary Hospital, while for five years he acted upon the charity staff of the City Hos- pital. His standing in his profession is an envi- able one because he has closely applied himself to the mastery of the principles of the medical and surgical science, is careful in the diagnosis of a case and in his practice closely conforms to a high standard of professional ethics.
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On the 5th of November, 1895, Dr. Bateman was married to Miss Della E. Flowers, a native of Muskingum county and a daughter of Thomas and Cynthia (Roerick) Flowers. They have four children, all natives of Zanesville, namely : Elvin, Rolland, Fern and Vesta. Dr. Bateman is a republican in his political views. He served as president of the board of education in Zanes- ville for two years and since the Ist of June, 1904, has been a health officer here. He is a worthy representative of an honored pioneer family, and, moreover, his personal traits of character have gained for him the good will and esteem which are uniformly accorded to him. He is now meeting with creditable success in his profession and possesses that laudable ambition which is the keynote of all progress.
ROBERT H. EVANS.
Robert H. Evans, of Zanesville, is president of the Security Trust & Savings Bank, was one of the founders and was president of the Cham- ber of Commerce and has also conducted an ex- tensive business as a general contractor. In busi- ness his efforts have been so discerningly directed along well defined lines of labor that successful accomplishment was assured and while he has promoted his individual success he has also contributed in large degree to the improvement and progress of his native city, the consensus of public opinion classing him with the leading men of Zanesville.
Mr. Evans was born in this city. October 15, 1856, and is a son of Robert J. Evans, a native of . Richmond, Virginia, who, at the age of six- teen years, came to Zanesville, where he has since resided, having now reached the venerable age of eighty-seven years. Through a long period he was engaged in contracting business and it was under his direction that Robert H. Evans of this review was trained for the exten- sive and important work that he has done as a general contractor. The father married Miss Lorinda Stone, a native of New York, and they have become the parents of seven children, six of whom are yet living, four being residents of Zanesville. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have now traveled life's journey together as man and wife for sixty-two years and on the occasion of their golden wedding a celebration was held by their relatives and many friends, at which were gathered all of their descendants. At the ages of eighty-seven and eighty years respectively they are still enjoying good health.
Robert H. Evans attended successively the public schools of Zanesville, the district schools of Wayne township, Muskingum county, a busi-
ness college in Zanesville and Scio College at Scio, Ohio, being graduated from the last men- tioned institution with the class of 1871. He was elected to a professorship in the Scio College and served for one year as assistant in Latin and mathematics. He was a youth of eight years when his parents removed from the county seat to a farm in Wayne township. Mr. Evans en- tered upon the study of law in Zanesville under the direction of the late John W. King, who was his preceptor for two years, when he entered the Boston University, there pursuing a two years' course in law. In June, 1883, he returned to Ohio and in the fall of the same year located in Columbus, where he entered the office of Byrne & Peters, prominent attorneys of that city, dur- ing which time he was also interested in the general contracting business with his father and brothers. Early in 1886 Mr. Evans was ad- mitted to the bar and soon afterward removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was then ad- mitted to practice in the courts of that state and spent four years in Minnesota and Wisconsin. In 1890 he returned to Ohio and once more tak- ing up his abode in Zanesville has since given his attention almost exclusively to a general contracting business, which he now conducts under the name of R. H. Evans & Company. The firm has offices both in Columbus and Zanesville and its attention is confined largely to the con- struction of public works for the state of Ohio and in the execution of its contracts is surpassed by no firm in the state. In this connection Mr. Evans has erected many notable buildings and for a number of years his business has been of mammoth proportions.
On the 5th of June, 1905, he opened the doors of the new Security Trust and Savings Bank of Zanesville as its president. The institution is capitalized at two hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars and has entered upon a prosperous exist- ence. Mr. Evans had already become so widely and favorably known in business circles through- out the state as to warrant a successful career for the new institution.
On the 4th of November, 1884, Robert H. Evans was married to Miss Mattie J. Crawford, of Connonton, Harrison county, Ohio, and unto them have been born four children : Mary, Ruth, Marguerite and John Crawford, all at home.
Prominent in Masonic circles, Mr. Evans be- longs to blue lodge, chapter and commandery of Zanesville and the Mystic Shrine at Columbus. He has always been identified with the democ- racy. He is president of the Chamber of Com- merce and his wife holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church on Second street. A man of broad mind and genuine public spirit with ready appreciation of needs and possibilities in public life as well as in the business world,
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Mr. Evans has done much to promote the wel- fare and progress of his native city, lending his active aid and co-operation to many movements for the general good. The magnitude and im- portance of his business interests are indicative of his unfaltering enterprise, laudable ambition and keen discernment, while his support of pro- gressive public measures is an indication of his deep interest in the development of Zanesville.
WILLIAM PLETCHER.
William Pletcher, now deceased, belonged to a family of German lineage that through many years was prominent in agricultural circles in this section of the state and William Pletcher deserves mention among the men of the past and the present who have contributed to the public welfare or are now aiding in the work of general improvement. He was born October 13, 1829, in Morgan county. His father, Henry Pletcher. Jr., was a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, born in 1804, and his grandfather was Henry Pletcher, Sr., who was the first representative of the name in Ohio. His birth probably oc- curred in Loudoun county, where he remained until after his marriage and then came to this state, settling in York township, Morgan count". He was in very comfortable circumstances at that time, bringing with him a cash capital of fifteen thousand dollars, which was then considered a fortune. He purchased here one hundred and sixty acres of land for each of his children and all settled upon the tract given them and con- tinued in connection with farming pursuits throughout their remaining days. Mr. Pletcher was a man widely known for his kindly spirit and benevolent deeds, the poor and needy finding in him a warm friend.
Henry Pletcher, Jr., was a youth of fourteen years when with his parents he came to Ohio. He had previously learned to read and write the German language and after his removal to this state he acquired a knowledge of the Eng- lish tongue. He led a life of intense and well directed activity in his farming operations and lie always found time to aid in the work of the Lutheran church, of which he was a devoted member, and in promoting measures for the gen- eral good. He married Jane Deitrick, a daughter of Nicholas Deitrick, and their children were as follows: Sarah, the widow of Isaac Cohagan : Susan, deceased ; William ; Henry ; Nicholas ; Noah ; Mary J., the widow of Harrison Turner : Hiram ; and George. For many years Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pletcher, Jr., resided upon their farm in Morgan county and there the father died February 4. 1884, after surviving his wife for
more than thirteen years, her death having oc- curred August 17, 1870. She too was a devoted member of the Lutheran church and was es- teemed throughout the county because of her many good qualities of heart and mind. She was often found in the sick room where assist- ance was needed and it was through exposure from such labors that she injured her health so that her death eventually occurred.
William Pletcher, whose name introduces this record, spent his boyhood days upon the home farm in Morgan county and mastered the ele- mentary branches of learning in one of the pio- neer schools conducted on the subscription plan. He gave his father the benefit of his services un- til after his marriage, when he took up his abode in Morgan county, but after two years returned to Muskingum county, settling in Brush Creek township in 1854. His farm was the one upon which his widow still resides and which remained his place of residence until his death, covering a period of about forty-four years. He was one of the successful farmers and stock-raisers of his locality and aided in making Brush Creek town- ship what it is to-day. When the land came into his possession it was heavily covered with tim- ber, but he cleared away the trees and planted his crops, which in due course of time brought forth rich harvests.
Mr. Pletcher was married in Muskingum county to Miss Sarah Ann Stambrook, a daugh- ter of Henry Stambrook, who entered land in Muskingum county when the greater part of this district was still in possession of the government. He was born in Pennsylvania, where his grand- father settled on coming to America and in which state he was afterwards killed by Indians. Henry Stambrook was married twice and became the parent of sixteen children. Those born of the first marriage were: Abraham, Jacob. Peter, Susie, Henry, Betsy and Polly. After losing his first wife Mr. Stambrook was united in marriage. in Pennsylvania, to Eva Catherine Leffler, a daughter of Adam Leffler, and before their re- moval to Ohio they had three sons, Adam, Fred- erick and Jolin. Here other children were added to the family, namely : Martha, Margaret, Solo- mon, Philip, Sarah A. and James. Upon com- ing to Muskingum county Mr. Stamibrook en- tered two hundred acres of land in Brush Creek township and to the cultivation and improve- ment of that farm devoted his remaining days. He also engaged in stock-raising. He held mein- bership in the Lutheran church and his political faitli was that of the democratic party.
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