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Source:
Centennial History of Coshocton  County, Ohio
By Wm Bahmer
Vols. I & II
Illustrated

- Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
1909

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  ARNOLD BABCOCK

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 117

  D. W. BABCOCK

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 119

  LEWIS E. BAHMER

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 346

  V. E. BAHMER

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 447


W. J. Bahmer
WILLIAM J. BAHMER.    When the Centennial History of Coshocton County was contemplated the publishes set forth those reasons governing their selection of the man for the work:  To tell the story of Coshocton county in the spirit of its swiftly-moving events, to bring before the readers the vivid picture of the scenes and actors in the drama enacted here, and to do it in smoothly-flowing, consecutive narrative, it was deemed fitting to enlist one trained by long experience and especially qualified by wide personal acquaintance with the field.  In selecting William J. Bahmer as the writer of the historical chapters the publishers brought to the work a pronounced believer in literature of intense action, alive to the charm of the beautiful and to the humor of situations, and quick to discern the incidents of dramatic and picturesque interest.
     He is a Coshocton county product, born in Bakersville, Aug. 1, thirty-seven years ago.  The name in its German form is Böhmer pronounced as though spelled Baymer.  His father, John Bahmer, was a son of Valentine Bahmer, a pioneer in this region.  John Bahmer was a storekeeper in Bakersville and well liked.  Later he established produce commission houses in Pittsburg, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
     From the Walnut street school in Coshocton the son went to school in New York four years and Boston four years. Early symptoms of writing had already become manifest in a story of his published in Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly of New York.  His father looked forward to giving him a college education, but the boy had only started in the English high school in Boston when his father died of pneumonia and was brought from Boston to the churchyard near Fiat, where his little daughters, Clara and Carrie, rested.
     Young Bahmer was the sole support of  his widowed mother.  He began teaching school at Bakersville, Fiat and Pleasant Hill.  At eighteen he was in newspaper work in Pittsburg, reporting the Johnstown flood, and later writing headlines for the Pittsburg Dispatch.  He went to New York where newspaper and magazine work engaged him.  From the World he went to the Tribune and afterward  to the American.
     His work ran the newspaper gamut; writing editorials, reporting Wall street, politics, yacht races, prize fights, titled weddings, Sing Sing's death chair, reviewing books and plays, and interviewing presidents, statesmen and people of note from all over the world.  While Harvard had been denied him he found a schooling in the world.
     For four years his editorial work on the Coshocton Bulletin was know to the county.  Following the sale of the paper he went to Pittsburg and was advertising writer for the Pennsylvania lines when he lost his wife, who died in Allegheny, Mar. 22, 1904, from typhoid fever and pneumonia.  She was his life.  Hosts of friends cherished the memory of her pure, sympathetic nature.  No daughter of Coshocton was held dearer in hearts than Marguerite Voorhees.  Mrs. Elizabeth V. Voorhees is her mother.  The father, Major George Voorhees who served in the Civil war, rests at his daughter's side in South Lawn.
     A little son, William V. born in Brooklyn, New York, Mar. 13, 1897, and baby Marguerite, born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Jan. 6, 1904, were cared for by Mother Bahmer, the dear heart broken by years of sorrow over the graves in the country churchyard, now striving to help her son bear his cross.
     He went from Coshocton to his worrk in the railroad office in Pittsburg each week, returning home Sundays.  After four years with the railroad he left the service to live at home, and since the summer of 1907 has been in Coshocton.
     At the last republican county convention his name came up for the nomination for state representative to oppose the reelection of J. B. Foraker to the United States senate.  With an unprecedented demonstration of enthusiasm the convention nominated him on the first ballot over E. L. Lybarger, candidate for renomination.  Hundreds of democratic friends supported Bahmer, but the Foraker knife was out,  The Foraker postoffice henchmen stabbed as only those political assassins could stab, and their knifing defeated the republican nominee for the legislature.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 114
  M. Q. BAKER

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 54

  GEORGE BALCH

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 307

  C. W. BALL

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 231

  JACOB C. BALO

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 328

  STEPHEN F. BALO

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 472

  C. J. BANTHAM

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 266

  B. F. BANTUM

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 69

  R. L .BARCROFT

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 482

  LEWIS BARRICK

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 322

  NICHOLAS BARRICK

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 333

  H. D. BEACH

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 64

  H. L. BEACH

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 103

  L. K. BEACH

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 144

  C. H. BEAL

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 439

  J. L. BECK

 

Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 110


Mr. & Mrs.
P. T. Bluck
PROSSER T. BLUCK



Source: History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 336
  JACOB J. BOWEN a well known and successful agriculturist residing in White Eyes township, was born in Crawford township, Coshocton county, Ohio, July 27, 1865.  His parents, John and Catharine (Limbacher) Bowen, natives of Switzerland and Germany respectively, came to America at an early day.  The father passed away in August, 1905, having for a number of years survived his wife, who was called to her final rest in 1892.  Their family numbered eleven children, namely:  Chris J., of Coshocton; Samuel; a resident of Brown county, Kansas; Benjamin, living in Coshocton county; Lizzie, the wife of Lewis Baab, of Tuscarawas county; Jacob J., of this review; H. E., of Coshocton; Emma R., who makes her home in Cleveland; and four who are deceased.
     Jacob J. Bowen acquired a common-school education and remained at home until he had attained the age of twenty-three years.  Subsequently he was engaged in the operation of a rented farm for seven years and on the expiration of that period purchased the place of one hundred and sixty acres in White Eyes township, where he has since resided.  In addition to the work of general farming he makes a specialty of raising and breeding stock and owing to his untiring industry and capable business management, both branches of his business return to him a gratifying annual income.
     In 1889 Mr. Bowen was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Croft, a native of Coshocton county and the only child of Conrad and Catharine (Fisher) Croft, who are now deceased, the father having passed away Jan. 1, 1906, and the mother on the 15th of August, 1894.  Unto our subject and his wife were born two children:  Iva E., both birth occurred Aug. 7, 1890; and John C., born Feb. 5, 1893.
     Mr. Bowen gives his political allegiance to the democracy and is at present serving as township trustee and school director, being recognized by his fellow townsmen as a faithful incumbent in these positions.  He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, No. 11688, at Fresno, and the Grange at Oak Grove, while both he and his wife are identified with White Eyes Camp of the Royal Neighbors.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Bowen worship with the Methodist Episcopal church and are highly esteemed throughout the county in which they have spent their entire lives, having won the kindly regard and friendship of all with whom they have been associated.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 485
  FRANCIS W. BOWER.     A well improved and highly developed farm of one hundred acres, situated in Jefferson township, is the home of Francis W. Bower.  He was born in Wittenburg, Germany, Dec. 9, 1851, and is the eldest in a family of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, born of the marriage of John G. and Catherine B. (Roth) Bower, who were likewise natives of the fatherland.  The father was a blacksmith by trade and followed that occupation in his native land until 1853, when with his family he emigrated to the United States.  He at once made his way to Coshocton county, where for fourteen years he followed his trade of a blacksmith.  He then purchased land in Monroe township, to which he removed and here in connection with blacksmithing he carried on general farming until his death, which occurred in 1887, his remains being interred in the Lutheran Beaver Run cemetery of Jefferson township.  The mother, however, still survives and makes her home in Monroe township.  Their family consisting of nine children is as follows:  Francis W. of this review; John, a farmer of Defiance, Ohio; Frederick, who follows farming in Monroe township; George, who is also a farmer, making his home in Henry county, Ohio; Minnie, the wife of William Baesler, a motorman on a street car line in Cleveland, Ohio; Jacob, who is on the home place with his mother; William, a farmer of Monroe township; Mary the wife of William Fox, who follows farming in Clark township, this county; and David, a resident farmer of Henry county, this state.
     Francis W. Bower acquired his education in the district schools of Crawford township, but his advantages in this direction were somewhat limited, for from an early age it was necessary that he provide for his own support.  when but nine years old he began work as a farm hand, being thus employed during the summer months and when he attained his majority he left the parental home and was employed at farm labor for two years.  He then rented land and engaged in farming on his own account.  At the end of one year he purchased forty acres in Monroe township, which he cleared and developed and on which he erected a home.  He then disposed of that property and once more rented land, operating one hundred acres in Monroe township for three years, at the end of which time he purchased his present place in Jefferson township, on which he has made his home to the present time.  On this place stands a fine country home, surrounded by a well kept lawn, while in the rear are found substantial barns and outbuildings, all of which have been place here by Mr. Bower.  He is engaged in general agricultural pursuits and the success which he today enjoys is well deserved, for it has come to him through his own honorable effort, careful management and well directed labor.
     Mr. Bower established a home of his own by his marriage in 1874 to Miss Pricilla Gamertsfelder, a resident of Jefferson township and a representative of one of the old and prominent families of this section of the state.  Their marriage has been blessed with six children, namely: Harley William now deceased; Bertha, the wife of Nicholas Fisher, a resident farmer of Jefferson township; Jacob W., of Clark township; and Emma, Roy and Albert, all at home.
     Mr. Bower gives his political support to the democratic party and has been called by his fellow townsmen to fill some local offices, having for the past six years served as trustee of Jefferson township, while he is also a member of the school board.  He is a member of the Evangelical church, in the work of which he takes a deep and active interest, having served as superintendent of the Sunday school and as class leader of the church.  In the analyzation of his character and life work we note many characteristics which have marked the German race for many centuries - the perseverance, reliability and determination to pursue a course that has been marked out.  It is these sterling qualities which have given to Francis W. Bower success in life and made him one of the substantial and valued citizens of Coshocton county.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 183
 

CHARLES DILLON BROOKE.     The success which Charles Dillon Brooke has achieved in the jewelry business is proof that his choice of a life work was a wise man.  In this field of labor he has made consecutive progress, nothing and improving his opportunities and utilizing the modern business methods which are revolutionizing trade interests and relations.  One of Ohio's native sons, he was born in Chatham, Licking county, on the 25th of June 1862, his parents being Dr. J. H. and Rebecca E. (Robison) Brooke.
     His father was born in Gratiot, Ohio, in 1831, and was a son of Dr. William H. Brooke, one of the successful physicians of this state.  Various representatives of the name have gained distinction as members of the medical profession, the son taking up his father's practice, and thus from generation to generation the work has been carried forward, each representative thereof displaying marked ability in the following.  Mr. Brooke, of this review, was the first to enter another field of activity.  His father is a graduate of the Miami Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and of the Starling Medical College at Columbus.  He has been a very successful physician, practicing continuously for forty-six years.  His wife is a daughter of the Rev. William Robison, a Christian minister, who for several years was pastor of a church of that denomination at Mount Vernon.  The daughter, Mrs. Brooke, was born in Danville, Ohio, July 27, 1834, and as both Dr. and Mrs. Brooke are still living their married life has been of long duration and has been one of mutual interest and happiness.
     Charles Dillon Brooke is indebted to the public school system of Newark, Ohio, for the early educational privileges which he enjoyed.  He mastered the branches taught in the various grades until he became a high-school student and when about seventeen years of age began the study of medicine and surgery in his father's office.  His heart, however, was not in this work and after a year Dr. Brooke was persuaded by Henry C. Bostwick, who conducted a jewelry establishment under the Doctor's office, to allow his son to take up the jewelry trade.  The boy was not interested in the medical science, and felt that he could obtain a higher degree of success in other lines if he could be permitted to utilize his energies in other fields.  He there readily availed himself of his father's consent to abandon his medical studies and in September, 1880, he came to Coshocton to serve an apprenticeship under John A. Bostwick, a brother of the Newark jeweler.  Mr. Brooke continued in this position for two years, or until the removal of his employer to Cambridge, Ohio, when he entered the employ of a third brother, W. W. Bostwick, who was also a jeweler of Coshocton, and with whom he remained for three years.  In 1885 he availed himself of the opportunity to engage in business on his own account by forming a partnership with L. K. Anderson, under the firm name of Brooke & Anderson.  The new enterprise proved a profitable venture and was continued under the original ownership and management until 1891,when Mr. Brooke purchased his partner's interest and has since been alone.  He has today one of the well appointed jewelry establishments of Coshocton, carrying a large and well selected line of goods, which in its neat and tasteful arrangement is proving most attractive to the public.
     While laboring earnestly and effectively for the upbuilding of his individual interests Mr. Brooke has also been a factor in the general progress of Coshocton along commercial lines, doing much to further the interests of the city in this regard as president of the Business Men's Association in 1906-07.  He is a member of the board of Sinking Fund Trustees of the city and has served as a member of the city council. In all of these connections he has done for Coshocton whatever his hand has found to do and has introduced many movements which have resulted beneficially in promoting the city's welfare.  He was practically the founder of the Business Men's Association, being untiring in his efforts during ten or twelve years to organize this and place it upon a substantial basis, realizing how much can be done through the united effort of business men in promoting general commercial and industrial activity.  At length, with the assistance of George M. Gray, he succeeded in organizing the association, and all Coshocton acknowledges the city's indebtedness to them because of what has been accomplished through the society.
     On the 17th of September, 1884, Mr. Brooke was married to Miss Anna M. Taylor of Coshocton county, and a graduate of the Coshocton high school, class of 1882.  They have become the parents of five children: Harold, now deceased; Helen, who completed the course in the Coshocton high school with the class of 1907; Rodney, Lorna and Charles.
     In his fraternal relations Mr. Brooke is connected with Coshocton Lodge No. 96 F. & A. M.; Samaritan Chapter, No. 50, R. A. M.; Coshocton Commandery, No. 63, K. T.; Coshocton Lodge, No. 376, B. P. O. E.; and Fidelity Lodge, No. 135, K. P.  His political support is given to the republican party, but he prefers that his public service shall be done in the capacity of a private citizen rather than as an office holder.  He is an enterprising citizen, his work being of a character that has largely promoted public progress. He upholds all of those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride, while through his work in connection with the Business Men's Association he has greatly enhanced the material development of this city.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 108

 

BENJAMIN F. BURKLEW, who owns and operates a well improved farm of eighty acres situated in Monroe township is numbered among the substantial farmers of this section of the state.  He was born on the farm on which he now resides, Oct. 15, 1848, a son of William H. and Martha J. (McBride) Burklew.   The father was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, and accompanied his parents to Ohio when a youth of seventeen years.  Following his marriage, he settled on a farm in Monroe township and here spent his remaining days.  His family numbered the following children: Ann Jane, the widow of John Foster; Louis E., the widow of Rev. James Williams, of Medina county, Ohio; F. M., who is a postmaster at Killbuck; Sarah E., the wife of W. H. Sparr, of Oklahoma; William M., a teacher in the Millersburg high school; Benjamin F., of this review; Catherine, the widow of Thomas E. Wollam, of Sebring, this state; and Hannah, who died when sixteen months old.
     Benjamin F. Burklew acquired his education in the district schools of Monroe township and was reared on a farm to the age of fifteen years, when he enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company I, Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years' service.  He participated in the battles of Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga, and in May, 1864, went with the company on the Georgia campaign, the opening battle being at Tunnel Hill, after which he took part in the battles of Rocky Face and Buzzards Roost.  He was in every battle on the campaign and went back to Nashville with General Thomas, where he was struck with a cannon ball, the left arm being entirely torn away at the elbow joint.  After the accident he walked a quarter of a mile to the hospital, where the arm was amputated.  He spent two months in the hospital and then went home on a furlough, and later reported for service at Columbus.  Prior to this he was, on the 27th of June, 1864, overcome with the heat and lay on the open field without food or shelter until the 3rd of July, when he was found and he did not recover consciousness until the following morning.  He received his discharge at Columbus, having made a most creditable military record.
     After his return from the war Mr. Burklew returned to his home in Coshocton county and entered the schools of Spring Mountain, subsequent to which time he pursued a course in the Danville schools in Knox county.  After completing his education he engaged in teaching in the district schools, following that vocation for about four years, but on account of his health he had to do work that would take him in the open air and it was then he took up general agricultural pursuits.  He now owns and operates eighty acres of land in Monroe township, on which he has placed many improvements and has made it a valuable property.  He has ever followed the most honorable and straightforward business methods and therefore commands the high regard of his fellow men.
     Mr. Berklew chose as companion and helpmate for the journey of life Miss Sophronia Thomas, a resident of Columbiana county, Ohio, their marriage being celebrated in the year 1871.  Their union has been blessed with six children, as follows:  Roy T., a railroad man of Portland, Oregon; Howard L., who owns a tinder claim near Portland and makes his home at Butler, Oregon; William H., who is a designer, cutter and manufacturer of ladies' wearing apparel in Montréal, Canada; Clyde M., who is associated with our subject in farming; Adella, the wife of B. C. Brillhart, a resident farmer of Monroe township; and Dena who has passed away.  Mr. Burklew has given to his children good educational advantages and for five years resided in Millersburg that they might enjoy the privileges of the schools at that place, and all the sons have attended college, Clyde M. having been admitted to the bar.
     Mr. Barklew gives his political support to the republican party and takes a deep and active interest in political affairs.  He is a member of the Royal Arcanum at Millersburg and of Grand Army Post at that place, while his wife is a member of the Disciples church.  In everything Mr. Burklew is eminently practical and this has been manifest not only in his business undertakings, but also in social and private life.
Source: History of Coshocton County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 201

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