JOHN S. PECK, who figures as one of the progressive and representative business men of the attractive city of Cardington, Morrow county, and who stands at the head of one of the important industrial enterprises of the place, first saw the light of day in Clarksburg, Virginia, where he was born on the last day of January, 1832.  His father was John Peck, who was born in Connecticut and there reared.  He learned the trade of shoemaking and followed the same for a great many years.  He married Amy Maxwell, a native of Virginia, and in 1832 the parents emigrated to Ohio and settled in the woods of Morgan township, Marion county (now Cardington township, Morrow county), and upon his forest farm the father erected a log cabin.  The earliest event in his life which our subject can recall is that he went half a mile through the woods to witness the raising of that log house.  The father cleared and improved the place, and after a number of years had passed, removed to Cardington and here engaged in the harness business.  He later on retired from active business, and his death occurred November 19, 1873, his wife having been summoned into eternal life May 23, 1847.  They were zealous members of the Protestant Methodist Church, and politically the father was a stanch Republican.  He was a strong and uncompromising Union man during the late war of the Rebellion, and did much to mould public sentiment in favor of the cause which he so warmly and so ably advocated.
     John and Amy (Maxwell) Peck became the parents of the following named children: Leman and a twin brother, the latter of whom died in infancy, the former’s death occurring June 6, 1853; Clinton, died April 27, 1876: David B. is a resident of Cardington, and is engaged in the furniture business; John S. is the subject of this sketch; Tarleton is living a retired live in this village; Minerva J., born April 20, 1837, became the wife of G. R. Cunningham, of Cardington, July 30, 1856, and died August 12, 1864.
     John S. Peck was an infant when his parents removed to Ohio, and he remained on the old homestead until he was about fourteen years of age, when he went to Delaware, this State, and there served an apprenticeship at the cabinet-maker’s trade.  After his term of apprenticeship he went to Mount Gilead, where he was in the employ of C. O. Van Horn for several months, working at his trade.  He then betook himself to Westfield, Morrow county, and for one year was an artisan in a fanning-mill factory conducted by Adam Wolf.  He next went to Newville, DeKalb county, Indiana, and there conducted a furniture business for a period of five years.  His health had become seriously impaired and he accordingly disposed of his business and returned home, where he remained for one year and then removed to La Rue, Marion county, and engaged in the ashery and furniture business, continuing the same about five years, and then, in 1863, coining to Cardington, where he bought out a little furniture store and conducted a cabinet shop in a back room, continuing the enterprise on this modest scale for some two years, when he purchased an old building which was located at a point across the railroad track, nearly opposite his present factory.  Into this building he put his machinery and operated the same by horse power, utilizing a docile and venerable gray mare for the propelling of the machinery.  While manufacturing furniture in these quarters he made use of the little store building on Main street as a wareroom.  In 1872 he erected a substantial brick building on the site of the little frame structure, the former being the first brick business block erected on Main street.
     About 1873 he relegated the old gray mare to obscurity and supplied her place with a small upright engine, and in 1876 he built the south part of his present factory, later on adding to it.  In the meanwhile the little engine had proved inadequate and it was replaced by one of greater power, while in the mechanical equipment many improvements and additions have been made from time to time.  The business at the factory increased to such an extent as to demand the entire attention of our subject, and for this reason he sold the business on Main street to his nephew, J. F. Peck, who is now deceased.  Later he added a lumber yard to his business enterprise here, and continued both until 1891, when he sold the lumber yard to his nephew, afore-mentioned, and one year later sold to him the balance of the business, thereupon retiring from active business.  He went to Colorado and there remained for a time, but in the fall of 1892 J. F. Peck contracted a serious illness and our subject was induced to take charge of the former’s business interests until his recovery.  The proprietor’s illness reached a fatal termination, however, in the December following, and thereupon our subject was appointed administrator of the estate, continuing in that capacity one year, when the factory and other interests were sold to the widow of J. F. Peck, and later on our subject purchased of her a half interest in the manufactory and the lumber business.  The factory manufactures furniture for the wholesale trade, and in the lumber yards are kept on hand all kinds of material for building purposes, the enterprise being one of the most important in the city.
     Politically, Mr. Peck has been an active worker in the Republican party, and has held several offices of public trust.  While in Indiana he held preferment as Justice of the Peace, and was Secretary and Treasurer of the School Board.  He has been a member of the Republican Executive Committee of Morrow county, and has served as a member of the Cardington Common Council and the local Board of Education.  He was one of the trustees of the committee which had in hand the erection, at Cardington, of the fine memorial monument to the soldiers who forfeited their lives in the service of the late war.
     In 1852 Mr. Peck was united in marriage to Miss Lorinda Bartlett, a native of Westfield township, and the daughter of Esquire Lester Bartlett.  The date of her birth was August 18, 1835, and her education was received in the schools of Westfield township.  Mr. and Mrs. Peck have had no children, but they have an adopted son, Virgil W., a son of D. B. Peck, and a young man of great promise.  For the past two years he has been a student in the Colorado University, at Denver.  Mrs. Peck is a most devoted member and zealous worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Fraternally, our subject is identified with the Masonic order, retaining a membership in the Chapter at Mount Gilead.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 191-193
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SQUIRE MARCUS PHILLIPS, one of the representative citizens of Morrow county, was born in Windham county, Vermont, January 16, 1806.  His father, Asa Phillips, was born in the town of Bellingham, Massachusetts, March 12, 1771, but when a young man located in Windham county, Vermont.  He was there married to Rhoda Hazelton, who was born in Bellingham, Massachusetts, January 26, 1771.  From 1814 to 1817 they resided on a farm near New Salem, Franklin county, Massachusetts, and in the latter year removed to Niagara, now Erie, county, New York, where Mr. Phillips died November 13, 1842.  He was a Whig in his political views, and both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church.  Asa Phillips and wife had ten children, namely: Mrs. Rhoda Herrick, Mrs. Mary Chase, Arba and Mrs. Susanna Chase, deceased; Marcus, the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Hannah Twitchell, deceased; Asa, a resident of California; Amos, deceased; and Mrs. Sarah Stevens, a widow lady.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was a native of Massachusetts, and of Welsh descent.
     Marcus Phillips remained with his father until twenty-two years of age.  In 1828 he same to Ohio, and next, via the Alleghany river, rafted to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he worked for $1 per day.  From there he come [sic], via Zanesville, to Marion county, Ohio, where he worked on a farm for $8.33 per month.  From 1830 to 1834 he resided in New York, but in the latter year returned to this State and located on a farm of sixty acres near Norton, Medina county, for which he paid $800.  Three years afterward Mr. Phillips sold that place for $1,300 and bought 100 acres of unimproved land in the woods of Peru township, Delaware, now Morrow, county, where he built a log cabin 12 x 24 feet, the roof being of boards and all slanted the same way.  He improved and added 100 acres to his original purchase, and remained there until 1880.  From that year until 1891 he owned and resided on forty acres in Bennington township, and since that time has resided in the town of Marengo, Morrow county.
     In 1832, in Erie county, New York, Mr. Phillips was united in marriage with Asenath Herrick, a native of that State.  She died September 26, 1846, leaving four children, — Alvin C., who married Sarah J. Lott, deceased, and they had four children; Joseph H., deceased, as is also his wife, and they had one child; Mary Emma and Marietta, twins; the former married Ira Benedict and has three children; and the latter married Henry Osborn, and they are the parents of four children.  December 29, 1847, Mr. Phillips married Fidelia Potter, who was born in Harrison township, Franklin county, Ohio, May 12, 1818, a daughter of Asahel Potter, an early pioneer of Delaware county.  Her mother, formerly Anna Benton, was a native of Connecticut.  Mrs. Phillips was the seventh of their eight children.  Our subject and wife have two sons.  The eldest, Francis P., married Ollie Long, deceased, and they had one child.  For his second wife he married Ada Long, deceased, and they also had one child.  Charles S. married Alice McDonald and has one child.  The family are members of the Methodist Church, in which Mr. Phillips has served as an official for many years.  In political matters he is a stanch Republican, and has served as Justice of the Peace for twelve years, County Commissioner nine years, has been delegate to many Republican conventions, and held the office of Notary Public sixteen years, receiving the appointment from many different Governors of the State.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 230-231
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G. F. POLLOCK, Postmaster of Cardington, Ohio, was born in this city August 9, 1868, and is one of the most enterprising and progressive young business men of the place.
     H. H. Pollock, his father, is a native of Martinsburg, Ohio, born April 1, 1836, and was left an orphan at the age of fifteen years.  A portion of his boyhood days were spent in Champaign county, Illinois, and in early life he learned the trade of blacksmith.  During the war his home was in Mount Vernon, Ohio, from which place he came to Cardington in 1867 and engaged in the lumber business.  In 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Corporal.  He served three years, two months and two days, at the end of which time he was honorably discharged.  At the battle of Cold Harbor he was wounded in the left arm by a musket ball, which disabled him from afterward following his trade.  Some time after the war he went to Lawrence county, Illinois, where he spent five years, and upon his return to Ohio he again settled at Cardington, where he has since resided.  At one time he served as Corporation Clerk of Cardington.  He is a charter member of James St. John Post, G. A. R., of this place, is connected with the Masonic order, and is a member of the Episcopal Church.  The grandfather of our subject was Samuel Pollock.  He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and beyond this fact little is known of his history.
     H. H. Pollock married Caroline Rose, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1846.  Her father, George Rose, a native of Orange county, New York, was married in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and from there came direct to Guernsey county, Ohio, where he resided until 1857.  That year he came to Cardington.  He was of German descent.  Mr. and Mrs. Pollock had three children, two daughters and a son, the daughters both dying in infancy.
     G. F. Pollock graduated in the Cardington high school in 1887, and, after his graduation, accepted a clerkship in the store of Hon. G. Kreis, of Cardington, where he remained until 1890.  In January, 1890, he was elected Engrossing Clerk of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly of Ohio, and served as such two years.  In the spring of 1892 he was elected Mayor of Cardington, which office he filled until July, 1893, when he resigned.  He received his appointment as Postmaster, the position he now fills so acceptably, April 2, 1894.  He is Democratic in his political affiliations, and has served as Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee.  Fraternally he is identified with both the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias at Cardington, being the first Chancellor Commander of the latter order.
     Mr. Pollock was married July 6, 1894, to Miss Daisy Bartlett, an amiable and accomplished young lady, a graduate of the Cardington high school with the class of 1890.  She is a daughter of Elroy and Harriet (Fisk) Bartlett.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 414-415
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JAMES M. PRINGLE, a farmer of Cardington township, Morrow county, was born in Delaware county, one and a half miles from Sunbury, August 6, 1820, a son of Daniel Pringle, a native of Pennsylvania.  The latter’s father, James Pringle, was a native of Connecticut, where his father located in an early day.  The mother of our subject, née Deliverance Rogers, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Joel Rogers, a native of Connecticut, who was taken a prisoner in the war of 1812.  Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pringle were married in Pennsylvania, and remained on a farm in that State until coming to Delaware county, Ohio, in 1820.  They purchased a farm near Sunbury, paying $1.25 per acre, and remained there until 1829, then moved to Westfield township, the father dying in his eighty-second year, and the mother in her fifty-fifth year.
     James M. Pringle, one of twelve children, and the only one surviving, was reared in Delaware county.  He now owns 106 acres of fine farming land in Cardington township, Morrow county, where he is engaged in general farming.  He has been a life-long Republican, his first Presidential vote having been cast for William Henry Harrison.  He has served many years as School Director.  In his religious views Mr. Pringle has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since fifteen years of age, in which he has served as class leader and steward for thirty-five years, has always been a liberal contributor to the cause, and has helped build many of the present church buildings.
     June 12, 1842, Mr. Pringle was united in marriage with Mary Ann White, a native of Morrow, then Marion county, Ohio, a daughter of Noah and Fanny (Newton) White, natives of New York.  They came to this county at an early day.  Mrs. Pringle died May 17, 1881.  In 1883 our subject married Margaret J. Carter, a native of Belmont county, this State, and a daughter of Joel and Harriet Carter, natives respectively of Harford county, Maryland, and Virginia.  They were among the early settlers of Belmont county, but in 1865 removed to Morrow county. 
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, p. 203
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J. W. S. PUGH, Deputy United States Marshal, resides on a farm in Gilead township, Morrow county, Ohio.  He is one of the representative men of this county, is well known and highly respected, and it is appropriate that some personal mention be made of him in this work.  A sketch of his life is as follows:
       J. W. S. Pugh was born in Canaan township, Morrow county, Ohio, December 15, 1858.  His grandfather, Jesse Pugh, a native of Wales, emigrated to America when a young man and located in Pennsylvania, where he took claim to a tract of Government land.  Subsequently he came to Ohio and entered land in Fairfield county, being among the earliest settlers of that place, and from there he afterward removed to Morrow county.  In Walnut township, Fairfield county, December 17, 1818, his son James, the father of our subject, was born, and there he spent his boyhood days, coming with his father to Morrow county.  He married Elizabeth W. Stinchcomb, who was born in Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio, May 16, 1825.  Her grandfather, George Stinchcomb, came from England to this country at an early day and settled at Baltimore, Maryland, from whence he afterward removed to Pennsylvania, where he passed his last days and died.  His son George, Mrs. Pugh’s father, was born in Pennsylvania, and came from there to Perry county, Ohio.  James Pugh and his wife were married in Perry county and soon afterward located on a farm in Canaan township, Morrow county, where he was engaged in general farming until 1867, when he moved to Gilead township.  He died in the sixty-sixth year of his age, after an active and useful life.  Politically he was a Republican.  During the war he served for two terms, six years, as Commissioner of Morrow county.  He was Township Trustee and Land Appraiser of Gilead township in 1870.  In religion he was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as also is his wife, who is still living, now a resident of Edison, Ohio, and in the seventieth year of her age.  They had ten children, six sons and four daughters, the eldest dying in infancy.  Of the others, we record that Henrietta L. is the wife of H. C. Bennett, of Cardington township, this county; George H., a prominent physician, is a resident of Thornville, Perry county, Ohio; Margaret A. is the wife of Alvin Essing, of Canton, Ohio; J. W. S. is the subject of this article; Jesse H. is a resident of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Elmer is deceased; John C. resides in Columbus, Ohio; Sarah E. is deceased; and Benjamin F. lives at Columbus.
     J. W. S. Pugh was eight years of age at the time his parents moved to Gilead township.  He had good educational advantages, attending the district schools and later the Union School at Mount Gilead, where he graduated in 1881, in a class of thirteen.  Soon after his graduation he became an employe [sic] of the O. C. R. R., with which company he remained four months.  Then he settled down to farming and has been engaged in agricultural pursuits on his present farm ever since.
     He was married September 23. 1886, to Carrie Belle McCracken, who was born in Chesterville, Morrow county, May 6, 1862, daughter of William W. and Mary (Green) McCracken.  She, too, was educated at Union School and was a member of the same class in which her husband graduated.  They have one child, Mary Caroline, born in 1890.
     Politically Mr. Pugh is a Republican.  He was appointed United States Deputy Marshal under Harrison’s administration, in 1889. and still fills the office most efficiently.  He has also served as Township Trustee and Township Collector.  Fraternally Mr. Pugh is identified with the Masonic Lodge, No. 206, of Mount Gilead, and Gilead Chapter, No. 59, R. A. M.  He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 369-370
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