Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 91

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

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WILSON W. SHORE.

Wilson W. Shore, one of the owners of the Dresden Woolen Mills, is classed with the val- ued citizens of Muskingum county that England has furnished to this locality. His birth occurred in Yorkshire, September 13, 1857, his parents he- ing Jonathan and Sarah (Broadhead) Shore, who were likewise natives of Yorkshire. Bid-

ding adieu to friends and native land they sailed to the United States with their family in 1868, reaching the American port on the 25th of Au- gust of that year. After residing in Rushville, Indiana, for about two years they removed to Dresden on the 24th of September, 1870, and here the father secured a position in the woolen mills, then owned by L. Rambo. He remained an employe in the factory until 1883, when he purchased an interest in the business and in 1890. associated with his two sons, Wilson W. and Harry J., he purchased the mill which has since been conducted under the firm style of J. Shore & Sons. The father was connected therewith and was active in its management until his death. which occurred in August, 1900, when he was sixty-eight years of age. He had made for him- self a creditable position in manufacturing cir- cles in Muskingum county and had become well known as a reliable, enterprising business man. He is still survived by his wife.

Wilson W. Shore spent the first eleven years of his life in the county of his nativity and then accompanied his parents on their emigration to America, where he continued his education. studying in the public schools of Rushville, Indi- ana, and later of Dresden. Throughout his en- tire business career he has been connected with woolen manufacturing, save for a brief period between the ages of twenty and twenty-three years, when he was employed as a saleman in a dry-goods store in Zanesville. His early-connec- tion with business life, however, was in the line of woolen manufacturing, for on putting aside his text-books he secured employment in the mill in which his father was interested. Following his sojourn in Zanesville he returned to Dresden and again worked in the mill, becoming a part- ner in the enterprise when in 1890 it passed into possession of his father, his brother and him- self. It is now owned by the two brothers and the business has long since become a profitable concern. The Dresden Woolen Mills manufac- ture a general line of woolen goods and employ- ment is furnished to about thirty operatives, the product of whose labor finds a ready sale on the market. The main building, a frame structure. is fifty by sixty-five feet and five stories in height, while the brick building is forty by fifty feet and three stories in height with basement. The plant is well equipped with good modern machinery and under careful and painstaking management a quality of goods is turned out that is creditable to the house and secures a good market.

Mr. Shore was married in Dresden to Miss Minnie A. Edwards, a native of this city and a daughter of Oscar F. and Jemima (Osborne) Edwards. Her father was born October 3. 1818. in the state of New York, and was a son of Peter

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Edwards, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and a wealthy merchant. He had a brother who served with the American Army in the Revolu- tionary war. Oscar F. Osborne came to Ohio when a young man and located in Muskingum county. In early manhood he engaged in teach- ing in Dresden and for twenty-five years was a member of the board of education. He also gave his attention to merchandis- ing. His death occurred in Dresden when he was fifty-nine years of age. His wife, a native of Dresden, was the daughter of Thomas Osborne, who was born in Pennsyl- vania and at an early day became a farmer of Muskingum county, where his well-managed business affairs eventually made him a large landowner. Mr. and Mrs. Shore have become the parents of one son, Ben Edwards, who was born in Dresden in 1886 and is now a student in Denison University at Granville, Ohio. They reside in the old Edwards home, which is a large two-story frame residence that has been remod- eled and is in excellent repair. Mr. Shore has also erected buildings which he rents.

In his political views he is a republican but without aspiration for office. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church, in which he has served as elder and they take an active and helpful part in the church work. Mr. Shore is a man who has always regarded his own self-respect as infinitely more valuable than wealth or fame and in his career has ever fol- lowed the admonition of the English bard "To thine own self be true." In all his business rela- tions he has been straightforward and honorable and his success has had its beginning in his mod- ern ideas, laudable ambition and progressive spirit.

BROWN MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

Among the great productive industries which have been important factors in the upbuilding of Zanesville and which have contributed in large measure to its prosperity and progress, the Brown Maufacturing Company deserves special men- tion. For nearly thirty years it has given employ- ment to hundreds of men and has sent hundreds of thousands of wagons and agricultural imple- ments into every state and territory. The works are located in the block between North Seventh and Eighth streets, along the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railways. As the business has increased additions have been made to the plant until there are now twenty-eight brick buildings, with an aggregate floor space of more than six acres, in which are employed more than four hun- dred and twenty men, many of whom have been

with the firm since its foundation. Here are made one and two-horse wagons, harrows, single and double shovel plows, one and two-horse cultiva- tors, and in fact every implement for taking care of corn after it has been planted. From the time when the first wagon left the shop no pains have been spared and no detail neglected which would add to the durability or effectiveness of the product of the works. The choicest materials have been used, and as a result their vehicles and implements have gained a reputation as broad as the land for a combination of strength with a minimum of weight and an ease in operation which can not be equaled anywhere. This is the great consideration from the buyer's point of view and it is, and has always been, the aim of the management to make an article which will meet all the requirements of the user, with the fewest, if any, objectionable features.

The capital stock of this company, together with the surplus foots up half a million dollars. Their output at present is about five thousand wagons and fifty thousand implements per vear. The weekly pay-roll amounts to from one hun- dred and fifty thousand to one hundred and eighty thousand dollars annually, which goes directly into the pockets of citizens of Zanesville. Every department of the works is running full at present, and the demand for their products was never better from the south and west and particu- larly from Texas, owing largely to the rapid set- tlement of all the available agricultural territory and immense crops that are being raised by the farmers.

The Brown Manufacturing Company was es- tablished in 1873 by W. P. Brown, O. C. Ong, James Herdman and others. Both Mr. Brown and Mr. Ong died in the '8os and Mr. Herdman in 1901. Each have maintained a continuous re- lation to the business from its inception. Since the death of Mr. Herdman the affairs of the com- pany have been conducted by the following named officers: John Hoge, president; U. H. Brown, treasurer and general manager ; N. H. Moore, secretary ; and J. B. Ford, assistant man- ager and superintendent. U. H. Brown is a nephew of the founder of this enterprise, W. P. Brown, whose name was given to the industry. From his youth he has been familiar with the business in all its details and has been largely in- strumental in making it what it is to-day-one of the best known wagon and cultivator manufacto- ries in the United States.

CHARLES U. SHRYOCK.

Charles U. Shryock, a republican leader of central Ohio and a prominent citizen of Zanes-

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ville, was here born in 1863. Having attended the public schools he learned the printer's trade and in 1888 he established a job printing plant, which he has since conducted with gratifying success.

Mr. Shryock is married and has five children. His political support has ever been given to the republican party and he has taken a very active interest in its work. He is now one of the city trustees and represented his district in the state senate during the seventy-second general assem- bly, where he was connectd with considrable con- structive legislation.

EDGAR C. JORDAN.

Among the newspaper publishers of Muskin- gum county is Edgar C. Jordan, of Adamsville. He was born in Jasper county, Iowa, November 6, 1862. His great-grandfather was John Jordan, who is said to have been kidnapped in England thirty or forty years prior to the Revolutionary war and brought to America when a boy of eleven years of age. Here he was bound to a man in New York to work a number of years. When his time of servitude had expired he moved to Maryland, sccured a home, married and raised a family. He lived to see this country freed from England and to start upon its trium- phant march of progress among the great na- tions of the world. He died at the remarkable age of one hundred and five years. Deacon Ca- leb Jordan, the grandfather, came from Mary- land to Ohio in the year 1817. His first settle- ment was in Belmont county, but he remained there only a short time and then moved to Ad- ams township. He was one of the pioneer set- tlers of this county and to him is given the credit of naming Adams township when it was formed from a part of Madison and Monroe townships in the year 1824. The township was named in honor of John Quincy Adams, who was then a candidate for president of the United States. Deacon Caleb Jordan was elected justice of the peace of Adams township when it was formed and continued to hold that office for a number of years. He was deacon of the Adamsville Bap- tist church and held other positions of trust and honor in this part of the county. He died July 18, 1845, at the age of seventy-two years. Ra- chel Jordan, wife of Deacon Caleb Jordan, died in the year 1856, in the seventy-eighth year of her age.

Caleb Jordan, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born June 20, 1810. His early life was spent on his father's farm in Adams town- ship, where he acquired a good education in the local schools. He taught in the public schools

of his home township and at various times filled responsible offices in the same place. In 1848 he married Jane Clossen, eldest daughter of Isaac and Mary ( Hugara ) Clossen, of Adams town- ship, and in the year 1857 they moved to Iowa, where he was engaged at various times in mer- cantile business, farming and teaching. He was the father of six children, two of whom died in infancy. One son, Spencer C. Jordan, who was founder and editor of the West Lafayette Press. died November 20, 1900, at the age of thirty- four years. The three children living are: Mrs. Mary J. Clossen, of Adamsville ; Mrs. Martha E. Nash, of Coshocton; and the one named in the beginning of this brief history.

Edgar C. Jordan is one of the number termed as self-made men. His father having died before he reached his eleventh year he was placed at many disadvantages, both in fitting himself for some useful avocation and in securing an educa- tion. Shortly after the death of his father his mother moved from Iowa to Ohio, taking with her all of her four children then living. She lo- cated in a humble dwelling on one of her father's farms in Adams township, and there it was amid the picturesque hills, narrow valleys, rippling streams and inviting forests that young Jordan grew to manhood. As the years passed away he worked on the farm for his grandfather during the warm weather and went to the public schools in the winter. When twenty years of age he was granted a certificate to teach school and his first term was taught in his home district. After this he attended school in the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity, at Delaware, Ohio, and subsequently resumed teaching. He continued teaching until the spring of 1891, when he moved to Adamsville to take charge of the Adamsville Register, a local paper founded by E. Spencer about two years previous to that time.

March 23, 1890, he was married to Anna E. Sauer, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth ( Kop- pert) Sauer. She was next to the oldest of a family of six daughters and was born July 31. 1864. She received a good education in the com- mon schools and taught a number of terms. Her parents were Germans, and her father, Michael Sauer, was born in Germany, August 4. 1839. His father, Martin Sauer, cmigrated to America in the year 1840, and was one of the early Ger- man settlers of Adams township. In the year 1862 Michael Sauer married Elizabeth Koppert. Both are still living although the latter has been an invalid for more than two years. All of their six children are still living.

Since moving to Adamsville in the spring of 1801. Edgar C. Jordan has been in active busi- ness life. He has continuously published the Register, a weekly newspaper, which now circu- lates in nearly every home in and around the

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village. Besides publishing the newspaper he has held a number of positions of trust, being justice of the peace of Salem township for three years. mayor of the village of Adamsville for ten years and is now postmaster at the village, having been appointed to that position in the fall of 1902.

In the year 1899 Mr. Jordan secured the nomi- nation for representative at, the Muskingum county republican convention and although the entire ticket named at that convention was de- feated he had the satisfaction of receiving the highest number of votes of any candidate on the county ticket and was defeated by the least ma- jority of that number.

Mr. and Mrs. Jordan have an interesting fam- ily of two children, Edna Gertrude Jordan and Herman Sauer Jordan. Both are now attending the Adamsville schools and have good opportuni- ties to become useful and respected citizens.

STEWART C. OSLER.

Stewart C. Osler, a prominent and successful young farmer of Highland township, owning and operating two hundred and eighty acres of well improved land, was born March 2, 1855, and is the second child of Eli and Nancy (Caughey) Osler. His father, born in 1821, on the farm owned by Mrs. Sarah Osler, widow of James Osler, never lived anywhere but in Highland township, till about fifteen years before he died, when he moved to Union township where he remained till his death. Since his second year Stewart C. Osler has lived on the old homestead farm and was edu- cated in the Jamison school district. When twen- ty-five years of age he started out upon an inde- pendent business career, living on the old home- stead farm with his father till twenty-five years of age. In 1884 he went to Kansas, locating at Valley Center, Sedgwick county, where he spent one year, after which he returned home and again resumed farming and stock-raising in Highland township, having bought the Robert Smith farm of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which he now lives.

In 1889 Mr. Osler was united in marriage to Miss Anna Cornell, a daughter of John W. and Margery (McBride) Cornell. The father was a son of William and Permelia (Inks) Cornell, who came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, settling in Franklin county, near Columbus, when the country was new and the city contained only one log cabin. The farm which he there cleared and owned is still in possession of some of his descendants. William Cornell, however, died a number of years ago and his wife passed away in 1882. when nearly ninety years of age.

They reared a large family, having nine chil- dren : Sarah, Lucinda, Mary, Jacob, William, Jane, Levi, John and Anna. Of this number Levi and Jane are now deceased. All resided in Ohio with the exception of Mary, who made her home in Iowa.

John W. Cornell, father of Mrs. Osler, was born in 1827, and died in August, 1901. He had always devoted his time and attention to agricul- tural pursuits and his political support was given to the republican party from its organization. He married Margery McBride, who was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1837, her parents being William and Margery McBride. She was eleven years of age when she accompanied her parents to Muskingum county, the family home being established in Highland township about 1849. Her father and mother spent their remaining days in this county, the father being killed in 1862, while his wife survived him until 1886. They were the parents of eight children: Jane, Sarah, Mary, Eliza, Alexander, Margery, Rachel and Nancy. Mr. and Mrs. Cornell were married in Highland township and afterward went to live in Franklin county, Ohio. They have become the parents of the following: Ola, the wife of Charles Evans, of Franklin county : Jennie Anna, the wife of S. C. Osler; William; Frank; and Charles. The mother is a member of the Presby- terian church.

Mrs. Osler was born in Franklin county, Ohio, July 8, 1865, and in her girlhood days was a stu- dent in the public schools. She remained at home until 1889, when she gave her hand in mar- riage to Mr. Osler. There have been two chil- dren born of this union : Charles C., born Janu- ary 7, 1890, working on the farm with his fa- ther; and Margie, born January 30, 1896, at home. The parents hold membership in the Union Presbyterian church, attending religious services at Bloomfield. Mr. Osler is an advocate of republican principles, interested in the growth and success of his party. At the same time he is interested in progressive measures for the in- tellectual and moral development of his com- munity and finds time to further school and church work, aside from his business interests which are now extensive and make heavy de- mands upon his attention.

J. LINCOLN SMITH.

J. Lincoln Smith, a photographer of Zanes- ville, whose ability places him in the front rank with the formost representatives of art in this city, was here born November 17, 1860. His father, John K. Smith, was born in Prussia, Ger- many, and was brought to the United States by

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his parents when nine years of age, the family home being established in Baltimore, Maryland. When a young man he accompanied his parents to Falls township, Muskingum county, Ohio, where the father purchased property. He had been a weaver in Germany but after taking up his abode in the state devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. John K. Smith assisted in the farm work and drove cattle over the moun- tains to eastern markets, dealing largely in stock. Following his marriage he took up his abode in Zanesvillle and was associated with his brother Jacob in a factory for making lasts, remaining in that business for some time. The brothers were afterward associated in business with W. R. Hazlett and as their enterprise grew and de- manded increased space they removed to Sand Bank between Second and Third streets. There they began the manufacture of boxes and spokes in conection with that of lasts and Mr. Smith continued in the manufacturing business along that line until his death, which occurred in the fall of 1886, when he was sixty-nine years of age. He started out in life empty-handed and owed his prosperity entirely to close application, to his persistency of purpose and to his straightfor- ward business methods. He was a faithful and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, took an active interest in its work and served as trustee and deacon for a number of years. In politics he was a republican and while he had firm faith in the principles of the party he was never an aspirant for political office. His fraternal relations were with Amity lodge, A. F. & A. M. and Cypress Commandery, K. T. He married Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in Mor- gan county, Ohio, and whose death occurred in February, 1903, at the age of seventy-four years. She, too, was a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church. In their family were eight chil- dren but three of the number died in infancy, the others being : George W., a lumberman of Idaho ; Margaret, who died at the age of twenty-one years ; Sarah L., the wife of Dr. J. T. Davis, of Zanesville; J. Lincoln; and Robert H., who is traveling salesman for the S. A. Weller Pottery Company.

J. Lincoln Smith was educated in the public schools of Zanesville and afterward took up the study of photography in a gallery which had been purchased by his father for his brother, George W., who at that time was the leading photographer of Zanesville. There he mastered the practical work of the profession and became so proficient that he is now the leading represen- tative of the art in this city. He is not only fa- miliar with all the technical work but also pos- sesses an artistic sense that enables him to pro- duce the best possible results in pose and like- ness. When Mr. Smith first took up photogra-

phy the modren equipments now in use were not to be had and photographers were obliged to learn how to make their own chemicals and neg- atives, as well as how to pose the subject and make the picture. No other art has advanced with such rapid strides as has the art of photog- raphy, but Mr. Smith being constantly watchful and studious has kept pace with the advancement made and to-day has one of the most modernly equipped studios in this part of Ohio. The fol- lowing is a list of a few of those represented in this history whose engravings were made from photographs taken by Mr. Smith and are speci- mens of his artistic skill and ability: W. A. Gra- ham, Colonel T. F. Spangler, H. H. Sturtevant, George H. Stewart, James K. Geddes, N. T. Gant, A. S. Leland, R. H. Evans and many others.

In 1879 was celebrated the marriage of J. Lin- coln Smith and Miss Gertrude E. Watson, who was born in Calhoun, Missouri, and in infancy was taken to Poughkeepsie, New York, by her parents. Her father, William K. Watson, was in the tailoring business there. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have four chidren living, while their first born, Roy W., died when in his thirteenth year. The others are Gertrude L., Don D., Sydney M. and Miriam G. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Smith is connected with a number of fraternities, being a valued representative of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Red Men, Woodmen, Maccabees and the Royal Arcanum, while at one time he was also an Elk. His political views ac- cord with republcan principles and at one time he was a trustee of the city cemeteries. He has a wide and favorable acquaintance in Zanesville, where his entire life has been passed and where he has so directed his ability and efforts as to gain recognition as one of the representative men of the city.

WILLIAM THOMPSON, JR.

William Thompson, Jr., who follows the dual pursuit of farming and undertaking, conducting the latter business at White Cottage, was born on the old Thompson homestead farm in Newton township. His father, William Thompson, Sr., also a native of the same township, is a prominent agriculturist here. 1 His grandfather, Robert Thompson, who was likewise a leading farmer of Newton township, died in Muskingum county at the age of eighty-six years. The great-grand- father of our subject was a native of Ireland and on emigrating from that country to the new world made his way to Ohio and cast in his lot

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with the pioneer settlers of Muskingum county, entering land from the government in Newton township. It was entirely wild and unimproved, but possessing marked industry and perseverance he soon cleared and cultivated his land, making it a good farm. William Thompson, Sr., having arrived at years of maturity, was married to Miss Elizabeth Gladstone, a native of Pike county, Ohio. They own a splendid farm property, im- proved with good buildings and all modern ac- cessories and conveniences. The land is culti- vated in keeping with modern ideas and progres- sive methods and in his chosen life work Mr. Thompson has gained a very satisfactory and creditable degree of success.

William Thompson, Jr., spent his boyhood days in the manner of most farm lads of the period. He, with his five brothers and three sisters, was reared on the home farm about two miles from White Cottage, and in his youth he mastered the branches of learning taught in the public schools. Thinking that he would find other pursuits more congenial than following the plow he came to White Cottage when twenty-two years of age and entered the employ of a miller, with whom he remained for three years. Since 1896 he has been engaged in the undertaking business and he is also the owner of a farm of one hundred and thirty-seven acres near the village. His land is productive and the work of cultivation is car- ried steadily forward so that each year his crops add a good fund to his financial income. Persist- ency of purpose is one of the strongest elements of success and this is a salient feature in the business record of Mr. Thompson.

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Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 91

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