Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 95

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

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George W. Rankin, born in Virginia and brought to Muskingum county in his infancy, pursued his education in one of the old-time log schoolhouses of Newton township. He was reared to the occupation of farming which he fol- lowed to a greater or less extent throughout his entire life. He also engaged in merchandizing at Lexington, Perry county, and at White Cottage, Muskingum county, and in both business pur- sttits was quite successful. He married Miss Eliza L. Nye, who was born in Newton town- ship, in 1817, and died in 1883. She was the daughter of Louis and Margaret (Stewart) Nye. Her father was a native of Massachusetts and became a pioneer settler of Ohio, where he fol- lowed surveying, running the first survey line in Muskingum county. He was a personal friend of General Putnam. When a young man he was erecting a house in this county and cut his leg with an ax. Friends then took him to Marietta in a canoe, where Dr. Hildreth wanted to ampui- tate the limb, but Mr. Nve objected to the meas- ure and ultimately recovered from the injury. The follownig spring, however, while in the sugar camp he took a chill and the illness termi- nated his life. George W. Rankin, following his marriage, located with his wife upon a farm and throughout the remainder of his life carried on general agricultural pursuits and merchandising. He had at one time fourten hundred acres of land in one body in Newton township and was very successful in his business affairs. He held membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and gave his political al- legiance to the democracy. His death oc- curred when he was fifty-nine years of age. In his family were seven children : Mrs. Maxie Du- vall : Martha : Ester ; Lillie and Helen, deceased : William L., of this review ; and Fred, who died in infancy.

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William L. Rankin has spent his entire life in Newton township, following the occupation of farming and stock-raising. to which he was reared. In youth he learned the best methods of caring for the fields and he has since conducted his farm along practical and progressive lines, the well tilled fields annually yielding him golden harvests in the shape of large crops. He now has a valuable tract of land of three hundred acres in Newton township devoted to general ag- ricultural interests and the place is well improved, there being a good residence upon it together with substantial outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. It is conveniently and pleas- antly located about five miles west of the court- house.

Mr. Rankin was first married to Miss Carrie E. Brigham, of Marietta, Ohio, by whom he had one son-Edward Kingsbury Rankin, now mar- ried and living in Zanesville. The wife and mother died in 1886 and in 1894 Mr. Rankin was united in marriage to Miss Mary F. Brown, of Newton township.

He is a democrat in his political views but without aspiration for office, concentrating his attention upon his busi- ness affairs which have always been character- ized by a definite plan of action that has found consummation in a handsome competence. He is well known as one of the highly respected men and worthy representatives of an honored pioneer family.

CHARLES E. JAMES.

Charles E. James is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this section of the state. His paternal grandfather, Joseph James, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylva- nia, and of that family there are two surviving sons, one living near Gaysport, Ohio, and the other near Malta. He married Hetty Green and they became the parents of nine children: Ve- linda, Roah, Elizabeth, Alford, Isaiah, Andrew, Cyrus, Joseph and John.

Alford James, the father of Charles E. James, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylania, near Redstone, August 26, 1818, and after reaching mature years, was married to Kate McLucas, by whom he had one son. Francis M. James, who married Mattie Roland and had two children : Glenetta and Juanetta. After losing his first wife Alford James was married to Miss Anna Thorns- burg, who was born May 5, 1826, and is still liv- ing in Meigs township, Muskingum county, near Museville, her father being Thomas Thornburg, a native of Ireland, who at the age of fifteen years crossed the Atlantic to New York City. He thence made his way to Pennsylvania and was

one of the early surveyors and school teachers of that state, the

records of Pennsylvania containing many accounts of his surveys. On coming to Ohio he settled in Meigs township, Muskingum county, where he en- tered a tract of land of one hundred acres from the government. It was all wild and unim- proved but with characteristic energy he began its development and on the farm he there cleared and cultivated he made his home until his death. Unto Alford and Anna (Thornsburg) James were born six children: Nancy C., the wife of William McLainey, of Rokeby Lock, by whom he has six children, Nellie F., Velma, Helen, Erma, Howard C. and Richard; Thomas M. ; Hester ; Albert G. and Alford E., twins; and Charles E. The father died November 25, 1893, at the age of seventy-five years.

The James family has for many years been a prominent one in Meigs township and through fifteen years Charles E. James has been one of the most popular and successful educators in this part of the state. There are many teachers in the family and they have always stood for progress along educational lines and for general intellec- tual development. £ The family own three hun- dred acres of fine farm land, on which stands a good residence. The farm is about eighteen miles from Zanesville and is devoted to general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising. In his political views Charles E. James is a democrat and like the other members of the family attends to the Oakland Methodist Protestant church. From pioneer times the family has been repre- sented in this part of the state and the work of progress and improvement instituted by the grandfather and carried forward still further by the father is still promulgated by the sons.

GILBERT L. KENNEDY, M. D.

Dr. Gilbert L. Kennedy, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Roseville, was born near Fultonham in 1848. His father, Phillip Kennedy, was a native of Ireland and was brought by his parents to the United States in in- fancy, the family taking up their abode in Somer- set, Perry county, Ohio. The grandfather was a sea captain in early life but for many years prior to his death was numbered among the landown- ers in Illinois and there extensively carried on general agricultural pursuits.

Phillip Kennedy reared to manhood under the parental roof, chose a professional career and studied medicine. He practiced for thirty years at Deavertown, Morgan county, Ohio, en- joying a large patronage which was indicative of the confidence reposed in his professional skill by

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his fellow citizens. He held membership with various medical socities and thus kept in touch with the advanced thought of the profession that is evolved through research and experience. He held membership in the Lutheran church and in his political views was an ardent and active re- publican. He was recognized as a leader in the party ranks in his section of Ohio and did much to mold public thought and action. He served as a member of the state legislature from 1859 un- til 1861 and his political, as well as professional, prominence came in public recognition of his ability and worth. He died in 1882, at the age of sixty-four years. The mother of Dr. Kennedy bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Fulton and was born in Fultonham, Ohio, in 1822, while her death occurred in 1886. She was a daughter of Lisle Fulton in whose honor her native town was named, her father having for some years con- ducted a hotel there. Mrs. Kennedy also be- longed to the Lutheran church and possessed many excellent traits of heart and mind.

In the family were ten children, nine of whom reached manhood and womanhood : William H., who was a member of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and is now deceased ; John S., who served as first lientenant in Company K of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and afterward practiced medicine in Zanesville until his death ; Edwin M., who was a member of the First Ohio Heavy Artillery and is now prac- ticing law in McConnelsville, while at this time he is judge of the court of common pleas for this district : Gilbert L .; Elizabeth, the wife of Edgar W. Gray, a harness maker of Deavertown, Ohio ; Mary, deceased ; Tillie, living at Deavertown : Charles W., who is county recorder and living at McConnellsville ; and Howard P., who died in California in 1893.

Gilbert S. Kennedy was a public-school student in this county and entered upon the study of med- icine under the direction of his father. In 1871 he became a student in the Ohio Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1876, and he en- tered upon the practice of his chosen profession in Deavertown, where he remained for twenty- two years. In February, 1899, he removed to Roseville, where he has since been practicing with success. He is an ardent and devoted student of modern medical and surgical methods, ever de- siring of improving with the years his knowledge of his profession, thus rendering his labors of greater benefit to his fellowmen. He belongs to the Muskingum, Perry and Morgan Counties Medical Societies and also to the State Medical Association.

In 1876 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Kennedy and Miss Ella Shipton, who was born in Morgan county in 1855 and is a daughter of John and Dorcas Shipton, the former a farmer

by occupation. Dr. and Mrs. Kennedy have two children : Ina M. ; and John S., who is a traveling salesman for the Roseville Pottery Company. Mrs. Kennedy belongs to the Presbyterian church and he is identified with the Knights of Pythias fraternity, while in politics he is a re- publican.

CHARLES HENRY SNYDER.

Charles Henry Snyder, who, following the oc- cupation of farming in Falls township, has be- come well known as a representative agricultur- ist because of practical and progressive meth- ods, was born upon the farm which is still his home, his natal day being April 7. 1861. His parents, Daniel and Charlotte (Deibel) Snyder, were both natives of Germany and when a young man the father crossed the Atlantic to the new world, settling in Zanesville in 1847. Here he worked for his brother Charles, who was en- gaged in the milk business. Later he turned his attention to farming on his own account and purchased fifty-six acres of land in Falls town- ship, to the further development and improve- ment of which he devoted his time and energies until his death. He was married in Zanesville to Miss Charlotte Deibel, a daughter of Henry and Margaret Deibel, natives of Bavaria, Ger- many, who came to America in 1833, and after spending five years near Albany, New York, re- moved to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder became the parents of nine children, of whom three died in infancy. The others are Kate, John, Charles H., Mary Butler, Adeline and Daniel. The father never regretted his determination to make his home in the new world for, taking advantage of its business op- portunities he steadily worked his way upward and gained a well-merited financial reward for his labors. He died November 18, 1876, and his wife passed away June 5, 1895. With the ex- ception of three years spent in Kansas, Charles Henry Snyder has always lived in Muskingum county. His childhood and youth were passed in a manner similar to that of most farmer lads and he has always carried on agricultural pur- suits. He has seventy acres of land in Falls township, which is located three miles northwest of the courthouse on the north side of Licking river. This is devoted to the raising of wheat. corn and garden products, and the crops which he produces annually return him a good income. He has made a close and thorough study of the best methods of raising the cereals best adapted to the soil and climate and the products of field and garden find a ready sale upon the market. His sisters Kate and Adeline reside with him on

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DANIEL SNYDER.

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the home farm. Mr. Snyder gives his political in- fluence and aid to the republican party, but has never sought or desired office, his attention being concentrated upon his business affairs, which, capably managed, make him a substantial resident of his native county.

DANIEL B. GARY.

Daniel B. Gary, whose business career is an indication of what can be accomplished through the utilization of opportunities that surround the entire race, its advancement coming through ap- plication, strong and determined purpose and the utilization of such advantages as come to all, is now extensively and successfully engaged in the manufacture of furniture in Zanesvile. His father, Daniel B. Gary, was born in Keene, New Hampshire, in 1823, and came to Ohio about 1850. He had learned the trade of cabinet-mak- ing in his native state and settled in Zanesville, where he entered the employ of Douglas & Smith, with whom he remained for several years. He then took up the study of law in the office of Judge Ball and later was admitted to the bar, praticing in this city up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1899. He was appointed pros- ecuting attorney to fill out the unexpired term and in his law practice he had a good clientage connecting him with much important litigation tried in the courts of this district. At the time of the Civil war he espoused the Union cause and became a member of Company I. One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment of Ohio Volun- teers, of which he was made captain, while the colonel of the regiment was his former law pre- ceptor. He served for two years with the Army of the Potomac, was then taken sick and finally resigned. He married Miss Mary A. Little, who was born in Zanesville, and is a daughter of James and Sarah Little. Her father came from Pennsylvania to Ohio and cast in his lot with the carly settlers of this portion of the state. For a number of years he followed farming in Mus- kingum county and his last years were spent in Zanesville. Mrs. Gary was killed in 1863, when thirty years of age, by the fall of the Market House. There were two children by that mar- riage: Albert E., now deceased, who married Capitola Wisewell and had two children, Law- rence and Lester ; and Daniel B. Mrs. Mary A. Gary was the second wife of Daniel B. Gary, Sr .. his first union having been with Miss Sophronia Thatcher, by whom she had three children, but none are now living. His third wife was Rox- anna Helmich, who died, leaving one child, Sum- lier, now a resident of Akron, Ohio.

Daniel B. Gary, whose name introduces this

review, was born in Zanesville, in 1853, and pur- sued his education in the public schools. After attaining his majority he learned the cabinet- maker's trade with W. H. Bailey, in whose em- ploy he remained for a number of years. In 1874 he formed a partnership with Mr. Bailey under the firm style of W. H. Bailey & Company and this relation was maintained for three or four years. They were located at Potter Alley, north of Main street and later Albert E. Gary joined his brother Daniel B. in business in 1879 under the firm name of Gary Brothers, manufacturers of furniture. They manufactured furniture here for a year and then established a retail store on Main street. In 1881 Robert Silvey entered the firm under the firm style of Gary Brothers & Sil- vey and the store was then removed to Third and Main streets and there continued until 1891. when they removed to No. 67 Main street. In 1882 the firm had purchased the land and plant where the business is now conducted on the canal bank in Zanesville. Daniel B. Cary continued in the retail trade until 1891, when he withdrew and formed a partnership with W. A. McLaugh- lin under the name of Daniel B. Gary & Com- pany. Thus he continued in the manufacture of chamber furniture, which he sold to the whole- sale trade, the business being thus conducted until 1899. when it was incorporated under the name of the Zanesville Furniture Company, with Daniel B. Gary as president and general man- ager : Dr. Gever, vice president ; H. E. Barnes. secretary and treasurer ; and H. D. Gary, assist- ant manager. The plant is well equipped with the latest improved machinery for carrying on the work and as its output is a marketable com- modity, it finds a ready sale, making a good re- turn for the capital invested.

In 1877 Mr. Gary was united in marriage to Miss Kate E. Gurley, who was born in Zanesville and is a daughter of John B. and Elizabeth (Webb) Gurley, the former a native of Fairfield county. Ohio, while the latter was born in Lon- don, England, in 1832. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gary have been born two children : Harry Daniel. now twenty-six years of age, who married Ger- trude A. Hollingsworth, of Zanesville : and Mary Elizabeth.

In politics Mr. Gary is a republican and so- cially is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Roval Arcanum. He has served as trustee in the former and as regent in the council of the latter organization. He has been somewhat prominent in community affairs. having in 1903 been elected a member of the city council, while in 1904 he was re-elected. Here he exercises his official prerogative in support of every measure which he deems will prove of benefit to the community. In 1892 he was elected a member of the board of education and served four years. He belongs to the First Presbyterian

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church. He has thus put forth earnest and ef- fective effort for the advancement of the city along material, social, intellectual, moral and political lines. In political thought and action he has always been independent, carrying out his honest views without fear or favor. In busi- ness he has achieved success through honorable effort, untiring industry and capable manage- ment, and in private life he has gained that warm personal regard which arises from true nobility of character, deference for the opinion of others, kindness and geniality.

C. C. HIVNOR.

C. C. Hivnor, one of the young and prosperous farmers of Hopewell township, was born in Mor- gan county, Ohio, July 8, 1872. His father, Joseph Hivnor, was a native of West Virginia, born in October, 1817, and in early life he came to Ohio, settling in Perry county. After a year, however, he removed to Morgan county, taking up his abode there about 1835. He married Lu- cinda Hopper, a daughter of Thomas Hopper, who was born in Virginia and came to this state prior to 1835 and settled in Morgan county. Mr. Hopper followed farming in order to provide for his family and was known as a man of genu- ine personal worth-an active and devoted mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. Joseph Hivnor carried on agricultural pursuits for many years. In politics he was an active republican and both he and his wife were members of the United Brethren church. The cause of education found in him a warm and stalwart friend and for many years he served as school trustee and a member of the school board in Morgan county. He was never found remiss in the duties of citizenship and his labors proved no unim- portant element in the work of public progress. Unto him and his wife were born nine children : Josiah, born in 1847, married Sarah Johnson, by whom he had three children, and he lost his wife in a steamboat explosion in 1879; Mary, born in 1840, died in 1882 ; John H. was married in 1873 to Sarah Neff, by whom he had seven children and he is now living in Zanesville with three of his children, but his wife died in January, 1894; Martha is the wife of Monroe Cook and has four children ; Nancy is the wife of Thomas Moore and has two children : Frank, now deceased, mar- ried Lucy Warren and had four children ; George W. married Bessie Moore and has one child ; Anne is the wife of William Gobel and has five children ; and C. C. Hivnor completes the family.

C. C. Hivnor was only fifteen years of age at the time of his father's death. Up to that time he had remained upon the old home farm, after

which he started out in life for himself. He worked for a number of years in the lumber business in Zanesville, and in 1905 he removed to Hopewell township, where he purchased ninety- four acres of land. He has since made excel- lent improvements upon the farm and now has a good property, devoted to general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising. He is progressive in his methods, methodical in his work and follows a definite plan of action whereby he cannot fail to reach the goal for which all men in the busi- ness world are striving.

Mr. Hivnor was married September 20, 1899, to Miss Lulu Hollinshead, a daughter of Joseph and Mahala Hollinshead, now deceased, who re- sided in Morgan county for many years prior to their death. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hivnor have been born two daughters: Lorena, born July 9, 1900 ; and Esther, born September 12, 1904. Mr. Hivnor votes . with the republican party and though he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, as every true American citizen should do, he has never aspired to office. His wife is a member of the United Brethren church and while he is a member of the Presby- terian church he usually attends the services of the former. Fraternally he is connected with Doric lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Deavertown. Whatever success he has achieved is due entirely to his own efforts and his strong purpose and laudable ambition give promise of further pros- perity.

CHARLES MILTON LENHART, M. D.

Dr. Charles Milton Lenhart, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Zanes- ville, was born in Chandlersville, Muskingum county. September 29, 1863. His father, Leroy S. Lenhart, was also born in this county, June 17. 1832, and was a son of Joseph and Nancy ( Vick- ers) Lenhart, whose children were as follows : James; Elias Milton; William Christy; Leroy Swomstead; Mary Catherine; and Joseph, Jr., who died at the age of five months. Of these Dr. William C. Lenhart was graduated from the Ohio Medical College with the class of 1870 and afterward engaged in practice at Somerset, Ohio, and still later at Fultonham. About 1874 he came to Zanesville, where he soon built up a large and lucrative practice, but about 1895, he removed to Columbus, where he is enjoying a large practice at the present time and is highly respected by every one. Joseph Lenhart, Sr., was born January 24, 1799, of German descent, and died June 8, 1839, leaving his widow with five young children to care for. She was again mar- ried, February 27, 1844. her second husband

DR. C. M. LENHART.

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being Joseph Smith, a prominent farmer of Mor- gan county, Ohio, by whom she had one child, Martha Melvina, who was born February 22, 1845, and married Albert G. Emerson, Decem- ber 13, 1865. Mrs. Smith was born in Putnam, Ohio, September 24, 1806, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emerson, in Peoria, Illinois, January 26, 1890, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. She was a good Christian woman of vigorous intellect and was highly re- spected by all who knew her. She always had a good and kind word for every one and was an active member of the Methodist church in McConnelsville, Ohio, for thirty years.

Her father, James Vickers, was born in Rich- mond, Virginia, January 15, 1784, of Scotch parentage, and was married on the 23d of Oc- tober, 1805, to Mary Hoover, who was born near Harrisburg, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1786, and removed to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1803, with her parents, Henry and Anna Hoover, crossing the mountains in wagons. Mr. and Mrs. Vickers were married in Lancaster and from that place removed to Putnam, Ohio, in March, 1806, theirs being the first frame house crected at the latter place as the other dwellings wore all of logs. Mr. Vickers became a very prominent man in this locality and served as sheriff of Muskingum county for a number of vears. He also held the responsible position of United States marshal with headquarters at Co- lumbus, where he died suddenly in September. 1822, at his post of duty. He was one of the trustees of the first Methodist church in Zanes- ville, and during his early residence in Putnam religious services were held at his home for several years before the erection of a house of worship. There the visiting ministers also stopped when in this locality and it was while Lorenzo Dow, a prominent preacher of early days, was staying at the Vickers home that a son was born August 5, 1813, and given the name of Lorenzo Dow Vickers. Every Sunday the family crossed the Muskingum river in a skiff to attend church at the old courthouse, which was a double log cabin. After her husband's death Mrs. Mary Vickers removed to her country home near Roseville, where she died on the 15th of February, 1877. In their family were seven chil- dren, namely : Nancy, Martha, Mary, Lorenzo, Elias, William and John. The Indians once tried to steal the daughter Martha while the family were living in Putnam, Ohio.

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Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 95

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