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Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
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Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
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CAPTAIN FRANKLIN W.
McCAULEY, M. D. This gentleman is the oldest
physician in the village of Uhrichsville. He was born
in Washington County, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1822.
The first fifteen years of his life were spent upon a farm.
He then spent two yeas in Frankfort Springs Academy, and in
1839 entered Washington College, where he graduated in 1841.
At once began the study of medicine with Drs. Robertson
and Carey, of Hanovertown, Columbiana County, Ohio.
Spent the session of 1842-43 in Transylvania Medical School
at Lexington, Kentucky, and there graduated in the spring of
1844. He then repaired to Uhrichsville, and began the
practice of his profession, in which he has been engaged for
nearly thirty years.
The doctor has been married twice; first in June, 1851, to
Miss Louisa, daughter of Isaiah and Mary Welch,
of Uhrichsville. This union was soon dissolved by the
death of Mrs. McCauley, which occurred in December,
1852.
In April, 1860, he took a second companion in the
person of Miss Anna E. Lister, daughter of Alfred
and Sarah Lister, of Uhrichsville. He has two
children, a son and a daughter.
He has repeatedly declined offices of public trust,
though he served one year as a member of the Town Council,
and for some ten years past has been connected with the
Board of Education. In the latter capacity he has been
especially zealous and efficient. To his indefatigable
efforts, in connection with those of Mayor Parrish,
is largely due the erection of the beautiful and commodious
Union School edifice of Uhrichsville, as also the present
prosperity of the cause of education in the place. In
July, 1862, he was mustered in as First Lieutenant and
Quartermaster of the 98th O. V. I., having been elected
without his consent or even knowledge. In the
discharge of his duty he was scrupulously conscientious and
faithful, and won and held the reputation of being one of
the best Quartermasters in the army. In 1864 he was
promoted to the rank of Captain, but declined to accept. In
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Tuscarawas County
Medical Society claim him as a member. His connection
with the latter has existed for nearly twenty-five years.
The doctor is a staunch Republican, a skillful physician,
and is highly esteemed by the community that have known him
so long.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 19 |
REV. J. K. McKALLIP.
This gentleman is the present pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Uhrichsville. He is the son of H. K. and
Mary McKallip, and was born in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, Sept. 19, 1847. He prepared for college
at Leechburgh, Pennsylvania, Academy, and in the autumn of
1868 graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He took his theological
course in the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny
City, where he graduated in Apr. 1871. In May, 1872,
he settled in the ministry in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and
while there served his people not only as pastor, but also
in agency work for the liquidation of a heavy church debt.
In July, 1874, he entered upon his present pastorate in
Uhrichsville.
Mr. McKallip is a gentleman of refined, genial
manners, a pleasant speaker, an earnest worker, and a
practical, faithful preacher. His ministrations are
well attended, and he is supported by an appreciative and
affectionate people. Within the past year their house
of worship has been remodeled and repaired, and the
prospects for both pastor and people are full of promise.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 22 |
MAJOR CHARLES H. MATHEWS
was born in Bristol, England, Nov. 3, 1819. Emigrated
to the United States in June, 1833. Having received a
common education, he learned the art of printing at Canton,
Ohio, in 1837, '38, and '39, in the office of the Stark
County Democrat. He came to New Philadelphia in
May, 1841. He is a lineal descendant of Theobald
Mathews, known in both hemispheres as the Apostle of
Temperance. His genealogy can be traced back to
Admiral Mathews of the British navy, in 1600. His
father, Joseph Mathews, was also born in Bristol,
England, and was the publisher of the first Bristol
Directory, and his son Charles gained his first
insight into the printing business in his father's office in
Bristol when only ten years old. He has been connected
with the Ohio Democrat since its foundation, in 1841.
He entertains progressive ideas on religion, is a Democrat
in politics, and has voted for Van Buren, Polk, Cass,
Pierce, Buchanan, Douglas, McClellan, Seymour, and Horace
Greeley as Presidential candidates. In 1853 he was
elected Sheriff of Tuscarawas County. In November,
1861, he volunteered in the army, was commissioned Captain
in the 80th O. V. I., and was engaged in the battles of Iuka
and Corinth, Mississippi; was commissioned Major by
Governor Tod, in December, 1862, and after a year and a
half's service resigned his commission in January, 1863.
The Major has paid considerable attention to the drama,
especially in amateur theatricals, and is a fine
elocutionist.
In August, 1849, he married Miss Priscilla Casebeer,
by whom he had three children, - Sarah, Edwin, and
Priscilla. Mrs. Mathews died Feb. 16, 1857, in her
twenty-ninth year. In July, 1866, the Major married
Miss Lizzie Grim, by whom he has had two children,
William and Adelia.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 19 |
CHARLES H. MITCHENER.
The subject of this biographical notice has been a resident
of Tuscarawas was County for nearly forty years. He is
a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was born
August 28, 1817. He never attended school after he was
fourteen years old, preferring a printing-office education.
When about seventeen years of age he entered a printing
establishment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he
learned the printer's trade. About this time his
father, who had been engaged in the mercantile business,
died and young Mitchener was left to work his way in
the world as an orphan.
In the spring of 1839 he left the Quaker City with one
hundred and twenty dollars and a chest of books, being all
his wealth, for a home in the West, and found his way to
Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and here, in
connection with another party, started the Ohio Democrat.
In 1841 he removed it to New Philadelphia, where it has
since been issued. In 1846, Mr. Mitchener sold
the paper to Messrs. Elliot & Mathews, who are
its present conductors.
Mr. Mitchener has served the people of
Tuscarawas County in numerous positions of public trust.
In 1843 he was appointed Clerk of the Common Pleas and
Supreme Courts of the County, and filled the office till
1850. In September, 1851, he was admitted to the bar.
In 1852 he was Presidential Elector on the Pierce electoral
ticket. In 1873-74 he was a member of the
Constitutional Convention that met first at Columbus and
afterwards at Cincinnati.
In March, 1842, Mr. Mitchener was united in
marriage with Miss Martha Elliot, sister of Jesse
D. Elliot (Editor of the Ohio Democrat).
Miss Elliot, is a native of Mansfield, Ohio, and
was born in the year 1818. This union has been blessed
with a family of nine children, - five sons and four
daughters; two of the latter are deceased.
The eldest son, Major Charles E. Mitchener,
learned the printer's trade of his uncle, J. D. Elliot,
and for a time after his father's disposal of the
Ohio Democrat remained on that paper as its editor.
During the late civil war he rendered his country
patriotic service; first in the 16th O. V. I., as
Sergeant-Major, in answer to the three months' call; then in
the 51st O. V. I., as Second Lieutenant Company A, where he
remained only eight months, being at the expiration of that
time promoted to the position of Adjutant in the 80th O. V.
I. Sickness soon compelled his resignation. He
subsequently recruited Company K for the 87th O. V. I.,
which he led through the Potomac campaign, till he engaged
in the recruiting service, and formed Company B for the
129th O. V. I., and upon the organization of the regiment
was made Major of the same, and in that capacity served with
it in Southern Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee, under General
Burnside, until mustered out of service in March, 1864.
In 1866, Major Mitchener became editor of the
Guernsey County Jeffersonian, which position he
occupied till 1873. He subsequently spent a year in
Baltimore, Maryland, as one of the proprietors of the
National Bond and Collecting Agency. He is at present
engaged in the People's Deposit Bank of New Philadelphia.
The second son, William A. Mitchener, is engaged
in the legal profession in Baltimore, Maryland. The
third son, James P., resides upon a farm in Pike
County, Ohio. The fourth son, Edmond P., is a
machinist in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. The
youngest, Robert W., is telegraph operator in the
office of the C. T. V. R. R. at Uhrichsville. The
oldest and only married daughter is Mrs. William R. Pugh,
of Fairfield County, Ohio. The youngest daughter,
Fannie, resides with her parents in New Philadelphia.
Mr. Mitchener has been practicing law in New
Philadelphia for nearly a quarter of a century, and has for
many years stood at the head of the bar in Tuscarawas
County. His clearness of thought, soundness of
judgment, and cautiousness in action give his opinions great
weight. For many years he has stood forth as the
leader of the Democratic party in this County. Upon
several occasions he has been before the people for
prominent political positions, but at times when his party
was in the minority. With the present complexion of
the County, however, he would "pass up" without an effort.
He has in preparation a history of Tuscarawas County, -
a few chapters of which have been published in the Ohio
Democrat, - which promises to be a most valuable
and popular contribution to the community, and no man in the
County is more competent to perform such a service.
Of late years, Mr. Mitchener
has been gradually withdrawing from the active practice of
the law and devoting his time to farming, and more especial
to landscape gardening. He possesses a highly
developed aesthetic nature, and feels that time and money
are well expended in the gratification of his love of the
beautiful.
His home is a charming spot in the western part of
the village, and, with its trees, shrubs, flowers, and
walks, forms one of the most delightful summer retreats in
the County. Here in the quiet of his family this
highly-esteemed citizen is spending the evening of his life.
THE PEOPLE'S DEPOSIT BANK.
of New Philadelphia, Ohio, began business
April 1, 1875; Thomas Moore and Charles H.
Mitchener, proprietors. It is a partnership
between the proprietors under the laws of Ohio, which make
the private property of each partner liable for the payment
of partnership debts.
It is proposed by this bank to receive deposits as low
as one dollar at a time, thus giving the youth of both
sexes, as well as adult males and females, an opportunity to
privately and confidentially lay up small sums at interest,
instead of spending all they earn in supposed articles of
necessity, but which - at least money- are found to have
been of no use or necessity whatever. |
MAJOR THOMAS MOORE.
This gentleman was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania,
Apr. 21, 1812. His parents were Burris Moore
and Mary White, both naives of Northampton County,
Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio in the fall of 1825,
and, after some two years' residence in Guernsey County,
located near Port Washington, Tuscarawas County, where
Mrs. Moore died in 1831.
Mr. Moore subsequently went West and died in
Iowa, at the age of ninety-three.
When a boy, the subject of this sketch was for a number
of years employed as clerk, and subsequently worked upon the
Ohio Canal for ten dollars per month. For nine years
during his residence at Port Washington he was Justice of
the Peace. He also taught school there for a while,
and gave better satisfaction than any teacher that had
preceded him.
In the spring of 1847 he removed to New Philadelphia,
and in the following winter bought the Exchange Hotel, and
conducted it for four years. He had also previously
kept hotel in Fort Washington for seven years Mr. Moore
was engaged in the mercantile business, and has also dealt
considerably in live stock. For one year he served as
Postmaster at Johnsville, Montgomery County, Ohio, and for a
period of fourteen years has been one of the lessees of the
Public Works of the State. At an early day he was a
Major in the Ohio State Militia. He was also a
Director of the C. T. V. & W. R. R., from its incipiency to
its completion. Mr. Moore's latest business
enterprise was the establishment, in connection with
Charles H. Mitchener, Esq., of the "People's Deposit
Bank" of New Philadelphia, in which his son, Charles S.
Moore, is now engaged as clerk. Major Moore
is a thorough business man and a superior financier.
He possesses great activity of mind and body, and has led a
very industrious life. He has always been esteemed for
his quiet, modest manners, and his benevolent disposition.
On Oct. 29, 1835, Mr. Moore married Miss
Nancy Dixon, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Dixon.
He has had a family of four sons and five daughters, of whom
only two daughters and one son survive.
His daughters, Flora A. and Florence A. (twins),
are highly accomplished musicians. The former is
Mrs. William A. Hardesty, of Canal Dover. Mrs.
Hardesty has one daughter; Florence.
Mr. Moore's eldest daughter, Helen M.,
married William H. Smith, a merchant of Bolivar.
She died leaving three sons: Thomas, Edson, and
James; the two latter of whom are now with their
grandfather, in New Philadelphia.
The following history and obituary of Mr. Moore's
oldest son we cut from the Illustrated (N. Y.)
Weekly of July 3, 1875:
"THOMAS EDSON MOORE.
"It is our
painful duty this week to make the announcement that
Thomas Edson Moore, late publisher and proprietor of
this journal, is dead. He passed away Friday, June 25,
after a short illness, in the twenty-ninth year of his age.
"The deceased gentleman was born at Port Washington,
Ohio, Jan. 2, 1847, of parents belonging to most estimable
families in that section of the country. After a
preparatory training in New Philadelphia, Ohio, to which
place his parents had removed in his early infancy, he was
placed to school at Poughkeepsie, New York. As a child
and youth he manifested considerable precocity and great
ardor in the pursuit of his studies, with a manly
thoughtfulness which won him general respect; and before he
was twenty, received the appointment of Secretary of the
Board of Lessees of Public Work, Ohio, and discharged his
onerous and honorable duties with remarkable diligence and
success. A laudable ambition led him, however, to
relinquish this appointment, when he entered upon the
publishing business at Columbus, Ohio. Believing he
should find a wider and more remunerative field for his
abilities in this city, he removed hither some years later,
and continued publishing, with singular industry, tact, and
success, until the panic of 1873, which swept away the bulk
of his accumulation. He then bravely set about the
repair of his broken of his accumulation. He then
bravely set about the repair of his broken fortunes by
engaging in the picture trade, to which he brought an
acquaintance with art and artists rarely to be seen in so
young a man. By diligent reading and observation in
the various galleries of art in this country and in Europe,
he had become thoroughly familiar with the leading pictures
and the various styles of the greatest artists. A
picture was like a signature to him; he read the artist's
name in it.
"For a long period Mr. Moore had cherished the
purpose of establishing a family paper, which should be the
'pure, instructive, and amusing' inmate of many
thousands of American homes, and in the fall of last year,
with his accustomed ability, laid those plans for the
conduct and advertisement of The Illustrated Weekly
which have led to its extraordinary and increasing
popularity. Commencing with a sale of the first
number, published only little more than six months ago, one
of thousand copies, we print this week over forty-five
thousand. These facts indicate, more strongly than
could any words of ours, his consummate management, energy
and enterprise.
"Alas that his associates must add, with heavy heart,
that his greatest accomplishment was worked out at the
expense of his life. Never a robust man, his
constitution gave way under the severity of his labors.
A rapid consumption carried him off in the full promise of
his hopeful young life, and his loving wife and infant son
are now widowed and fatherless.
"Mr. Moore was a kindly, amiable man. He
conducted his business affairs with the highest regard to
integrity, straightforwardness, and honor. The
character of his undertakings brought him into association
with a numerous circle of businessmen, who, without
exception, regarded him with the respect and kindly feeling,
in many instances maturing into friendship, to which the
sweetness and justice of his character naturally led.
He died bravely, as he had lived. No word of complaint
ever dropped from his lips. He bowed with resignation
to the dreadful summons, and smilingly to cheer his weeping
friends. To spare their feelings, he never alluded to
his approaching dissolution in conversation; and only a few
minutes before his death, as his young wife bent over him in
indescribable tenderness and sorrow of heart, he took a fan
from an attendant and playfully fanned her face with it.
"Thomas Edson Moore is gone, but the gentleness
and exemplary assiduity of his life are sweetly remembered,
in relief of the bitter grief which his loved ones feel for
his irreparable loss."
Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 16 |
J. L. MORRIS was born
in South Wales, January 9, 1839. His boyhood and youth
were spent in mining coal in the vicinity of his nativity.
He emigrated to America in 1860 and located in Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania, where for some years he was engaged in
working mines. In 1867 he came to Ohio, and in 1868
settled at what is now called Morristown, near Dennison.
In 1860 he married Miss Jane Powell, by whom he has had a
family of five daughters and one son. A fine view of
this gentleman's residence appears among the illustrations
in this work.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 24 |
CAPTAIN THOMAS H.
MOZENA. This old gentleman has been a resident
of Tuscarawas County since 1837. He was born in
Marshall County, West Virginia, Jan. 6, 1823. His
father, Hiram Mozena, was a native of Danbury,
Connecticut, and was raised in Virginia. His mother,
Mary McLain, was born in Hancock County, Virginia.
Her ancestors were Scotch, and emigrated to America about
the year 1760. They have had a family of six sons and
four daughters, of whom Mr. Mozena is the eldest
child. In the fall of 1837 the family came to
Uhrichsville.
When a young man, the subject of this sketch learned
the stone and brick mason's trade, and followed it for about
eight years. Oct. 14, 1845, he married Miss
Susannah McCullough, of Harrison County, Ohio, by whom
he has had five children, three daughters and two sons.
The sons are dead. The oldest daughter Ina M.,
is now Mrs. Thomas J. Cresap, of Uhrichsville.
The second daughter, Ella M., is Mrs. Edwin W.
Whitcomb, of Braidwood, Will County, Illinois.
Mr. Mozena has been engaged in a variety of
businesses, among which may be mentioned the grocery trade,
marble-cutting, and captain of a boat on the Ohio Canal.
He was also for a number of years employed in the railroad
shops in Dennison. He has likewise dealt very largely
in real estate, not only in Ohio, but in other States.
In 1859 he spent nearly a year in the gold mines of Nevada.
In the spring of 1869he was elected Justice of the
Peace, and held the office till the spring of 1875. In
this position he performed much hard labor, and served the
people with the scrupulous integrity of an honest man.
When the war for the Union came on in1861, he enlisted __
company E, 51st O. V. I., and was made Lieutenant. In
consequence of injuries received in the service he was
compelled to return home in June, 1863. He is
Super-excellent or Tenth Degree Mason, also a member of the
Scarlet or Fifth Degree of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. For nearly forty years he and his wife have
been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which
body he has for a long period held the positions of steward
and class-leader.
Though he early educational facilities were very
meagre, he has been a great reader, and has accumulated a
surprising fund of general information. His aesthetic
nature predominates, and his love of the truly beautiful is,
next to piety, the most striking trait in his character.
He can quote poetry almost ad infinitum. His
grandfather, John Mozena, was born in France, and
came to America with Lafayette; settled in Connecticut, and
married into a family by the name of Foot. It is a
peculiar fact that Mr. Mozena's paternal and maternal
grandfathers served in the Revolutionary war, and his father
and six sons, including the subject of this notice, in the
war of the Rebellion, and three sons lost their lives in the
same.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 19 |
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