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History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co.
1883 BIOGRAPHIES
L. W.
CALVIN, merchant and farmer, was born in
Vinton County, Ohio, Apr. 7, 1856. He was
educated at Wilkesville Academy, and at the age
of eighteen he commenced teaching school,
following teaching during the winter months and
in summers engaged in farming, and when
twenty-three years old he was married to
Almyra Kincade, Apr. 20, 1879. She was
born in Noble County, Ohio, July 6, 1854.
Their children are - John P., born Apr.
13, 1880, and Carl W., Dec. 25, 1882.
Mr. Calvin came to Radcliff in 1880, and
built the first house in the town. He then
commenced merchandising and closed his business
in April, 1883. John P., the son of
Mr. Calvin, was the first child born in
the place.
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History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Page 1368 - Vinton |
M. M.
CHERRY, attorney and Mayor of McArthur,
is a son of Moses R. and Sarah Cherry,
both natives of Washington County, Pa., he of
Scotch-Irish extraction and she of Irish.
They were married in their native county about
1826, and two years later settled near
Claysville, Guernsey, Co., Ohio. In 1838
they settled in Washington Township, Hocking
Co., Ohio, where they now reside. From
1828 to the time of coming to Hocking County he
followed the tanner's trade but since then has
been a farmer and land owner. Of their ten
children our0 subject is the eighth, and was
born in Hocking County, Ohio, Feb. 5, 1846.
He matured to farm life and received a
common-school education. He then attended
the Muskingum College at New Concord three
years. He commenced teaching very young
and followed it for fifteen years. In 1876
he was elected Justice of the Peace in Swan
Township, Vinton County, and soon after
commenced reading law. In 1878 he moved to
McArthur, and in June of the same year was
admitted to the bar, since which he has
practiced his profession. His election to
the Mayor's office dates from April, 1882.
In 1869 he was married to Alice Payne, of
Swan Township. They have two sons and two
daughters.
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Page 1234 |
ABRAM
CLARK, farmer, section 5, located in this
township in 1855, on the place where he now
lives. He was born in Athens (now Vinton)
County, Ohio, in 1842, and is a son of Robert
Clark, an early settler in the above county.
He was reared on the farm and obtained a common
education in the district schools. At the
age of twenty-one years he began life for
himself. He enlisted as a private in 1864
in Company C, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio
National Guards, three-months' service, and
served nearly five months. The exposure of
camp life disabled him physically, he having
never been well since. He was discharged
in 1864. Since his return he has followed
the avocation of a farmer and stock-raiser.
He owns 240 acres of land. He was married
in 1864 to Emma, daughter of John L.
Dillon of this county. Their children
are - Pearley, Martha J. and John R.
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Page 1312 - Elk Twp. |
ROBERT
CLARK was a native of North Carolina, and
settled with his family here about 1812.
He located in what is now this township, where
he lived permanently. His wife's name was
Rachel Graves, who bore him the
following children - William, John, James,
Henry, Daniel, Isaac and Robert, Jane
Margaret, Amy and Hannah. His
children became citizens of the county. He
died in 1836, and his wife died about 1835.
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- 1883 - Page 1343 |
DR.
WILLIAM C. CLINE was born July 20, 1825,
in West Virginia, and when twelve years of age
came with his father to Meigs County, Ohio,
where he remained three years. At the age
of fifteen he went to the college of Albany,
Athens County, which he attended till 1847.
He then commenced his study of medicine, and
graduated at the Medical School, at Columbus,
Ohio, in 1850. In the same year he located
at Wilkesville, where he still follows his
profession with much success, and is now classed
among the wealthiest citizens, of Vinton County.
He at one time owned 1,400 acres of valuable
land, but at present has but 700 acres. In
1879- '80 he represented his district in the
State Senate. The Doctor was married in
1851 to Miss Virginia Althor, who was
born in Greenbrier County, W. Va. They had
one child - George W., born Dec. 12,
1853, who died Apr. 23, 1881, mourned by a large
number of friends. He was married to
May P. Brown in 1873. He was one of
the live business men of this county.
George W. Cline, the father of our subject,
was born in Virginia in 1797, and died in 1850.
His mother, R. V. (McCann) Cline, was
born in Virginia in 1799 and died in 1844.
W. C. was the seventh of their ten
children.
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- 1883 - Page 1300 |
WILLIAM
COTTRILL, ex-Sheriff adn farmer, is a son
of Henry and Mary (McLaughlin) Cottrill,
both natives of Virginia. His father came
to Ohio in 1824 and located in Lee Township,
Athens County, where he married Rebecca Daily.
They were the parents of five children.
His wife died in 1834 and he then married
Mary McLaughlin, daughter of Hugh
McLaughlin. They had four children,
William being the eldest. Mr. Henry
Cottrill died in Meigs County in 1867.
William was born in Lee Township, Athens
County, Mar. 7, 1836. When he was a year
old his parents moved to Meigs County, where he
was reared and educated. He was married
Aug. 16, 1856, to Caroline, daughter of
Caleb Wood, who died in 1865, leaving
four children. Mr. Cottrill
afterward married Martha J. Gregory, a
native of Vinton but reared in Meigs County.
They have three children. In 1872 Mr.
Cottrill moved to Vinton County and settled
on his farm in Vinton Township, section 12,
where he owns 312 acres, yielding both ore and
coal. He was elected Assessor of the
township in 1873, and in August of the same year
was elected Justice of the Pace, to which office
he was re-elected in 1876 serving until 1878.
In 1875 he was elected County Commissioner, and
at the expiration of his three years' term was
honored with the office of County Sheriff in the
fall of 1878, and the first of 1879 he moved to
McArthur to fulfill his official duty. In
1880 Mr. Cottrill was honorably
re-elected to the same office, which he filled
with honor and integrity.
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Page 1235 - Elk Twp. |
JOHN
COULTER, farmer, residing on section 11,
was born in 1800 in Bedford County, Penn.
He is a son of John Coulter, a native of
Pennsylvania, who removed to Guernsey County,
where he remained till death. Our subject
lived on the farm with his parents till he
reached his majority. He resided in
Guernsey County till 1848 when he bought his
present farm containing 100 acres to which he
has since added twenty acres. He has been
very successful in his farming pursuits at which
he has been engaged most of his life.
Formerly he was also engaged in stock raising.
He was blessed with a family of twelve children,
eight of whom are living - George W.,
Margaret A., John T., Rebecca E., Joseph C.,
Jane, Catherine and Benjamin.
Elizabeth, Sarah and two died in
childhood are deceased. Mrs. Coulter
died in 1875 or '76. Two of his sons
enlisted in the late war as privates.
They served till the close of the war and
received an honorable discharge.
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HENRY
W. COULTRAP, attorney, came to McArthur,
Ohio, in 1871; read law under H. C. Jones.
He was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1874
and has since been practicing law in McArthur.
He from early life lived in Vinton County, Ohio,
where he received the common-school education
and subsequently graduated from Ohio University
at Athens, Ohio.
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Page 1235 - Elk Twp. |
JOSEPH
COX was born in Cumberland, Md., Jan. 24,
1815, a son of Jonathan and Susanna (Bailey)
Cox, natives of Maryland and Winchester,
Va., respectively. Jonathan Cox was
born in 1748. He was the first hotel
keeper, the first Postmaster and the first
Justice of the Peace in Cumberland, Md. He
was appointed to fill the last office by the
Governor and Council of the State of Maryland,
and served in that capacity for fifty
consecutive years, till his death, in 1843.
There were six sons and six daughters in his
family, Joseph, our subject, being the
youngest child, and the only one living at the
present time. After the death of
Jonathan Cox his widow and family moved to
Ohio in the fall of 1835, and located on the
farm now owned by James and Theodore Stone.
Mrs. Cox died in 1842 and the family became
separated. Joseph was married in
1838 to Sarah L., daughter of David
Johnson, and sister of George W. Johnson
a prominent citizen of Swan Township. They
have a family of three sons and four daughters.
One son - George - was a volunteer
soldier in the Union army. He enlisted in
the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and died at Lexington,
Ky., in August, 1864, with typhoid fever,
resulting from exposure on the battle-fields.
Two years after his marriage Mr. Cox
bought a farm in Swan Township, on which
he resided thirty-three years. In 1873 he
purchased his present farm, containing 130
acres, on sections 9 and 10. In politics
he was a Whig till the Republican party became
established, since which he has affiliated with
that party. At present his sympathies are
with the Prohibitionists.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Page 1313 |
ABRAHAM
N. COZAD, a son of Henry and Margaret
(Clark) Cozad, was born in 1827 in Richland
Township. His early life was spent on a
farm and attending the subscription schools.
In 1847 he was married to Anna Graves.
To them have been born six children -
Elizabeth J., John J., Margaret A., Charles A.,
Mary L., and Charity A. After
his marriage he engaged in the mercantile
business in Allensville, which he followed till
1860, when he abandoned it till 1865, and since
then has been engaged in merchandising at
intervals. He took a regular course of
study of law and was admitted to the bar of Ohio
in 1874. He has served as Justice of the
Peace eighteen years and was County Auditor from
1863 to 1865, Township Treasurer three terms and
Clerk one term. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, McArthur Lodge.
Politically the 'Squire is a Democrat.
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Page 1343 |
HENRY
COZAD was born in New Jersey, and was a
son of Job and Catherine (Fink) Cozad.
He was married four times, first to Jane Law,
by whom he had four children - William,
Elizabeth, Daniel and Catherine.
His second wife was Margaret Clark, and
the children by this marriage were - Abraham
N., Job W. and John J. For his
third wife he married Mary Gregg, and his
fourth and last wife was Scytha (Darby) Fry.
He served in the war of 1812, and was with
Hull at the surrender of the Michigan
frontier. He died in 1860, aged
sixty-eight years. His parents were
natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, who
settled in Ross County about 1800. They
were the parents of eight children, six of whom
were sons. He was a Methodist Episcopal
minister, and one of the first preachers in this
section of Ohio. He died in 1823, while
filling an appointment near McArthur.
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Page 1343 |
A. A.
COZZENS, proprietor Hamden Fleming Mill.
This mill was built in 1859 by E.W. Royer.
It contains two run of burrs and is fitted up
with modern machinery throughout, and has a
manufacturing capacity of twenty-five barrels
per day. In 1874 Mr. Cozzens bought
out the former proprietors and immediately
afterward put in the new machinery, and at
present is sole proprietor. He was born in
Buffalo, N. Y., in 1830. He was reared in
the mill, and in 1855 came to Vinton County and
took control of a mill at McArthur. He is
a thorough and intelligent miller in every
respect. He is one of the Infirmary
Directors of the county, having been elected
first in 1877 and re0elected in 1881. In
1858 he was married to Mandana W. Pierce,
by whom he had four children - Allie, Mary,
William and Maggie. Mrs. C.
died in 1879. He is an acceptable and
worthy member of the order of Masonry, and holds
membership in the McArthur Lodge.
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Page 1372 - Clinton Twp. |
JOHN
T. CRAIG was born Aug. 5, 1835, in
Muskingum County, Ohio, and is a son of
Thomas and Mary Craig. In 1869 he was
united in marriage to Mrs. Nancy McArthur,
who was then a widow. They are the parents
of three children - John, Frederick and
Estella. Mr. Craig received his
education in the common schools of Ohio in the
old log "cabins." He has been a member of
the Masonic order for ten years. Mr.
and Mrs. Craig are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He owns eighty acres of
fine farming land that has a heavy vein of coal
and iron. His occupation at present is
farming and stock-raising.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Page 1293 - found in chapter for Madison & Knox
Twps. |
DANIEL
CRAM, farmer, was born Aug. 1, 1815, in
Hillsboro County, N. H., a son of Azel and
Lydia (Lewis) Cram, natives of New
Hampshire, who lived and died in their native
State. The former died in 1834 and the
latter in 1832. Our subject was reared on
the farm in New Hampshire where he lived till
after his father's death. In 1837 he came
to his present place, where, in spite of
disadvantages and hardships, he has succeeded in
life, and from a wilderness of forty acres he
has made a good home, and at present owns a
well-cultivated farm of 139 acres, where he is
engaged in farming and stock-raising, making a
specialty of the latter. He was married in
1838 to Mary A., daughter of Moses
Blackman, who settled here at the same time
as Mr. Cram. They have had a family
of ten children of whom six are living -
James M., Axie J., George A., Frank,
Elizabeth and Stephen S. Those
deceased are - Charles, Lydia, and two
who died in infancy. James M.
enlisted in an Iowa regiment in the late war.
SOURCE:
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Page 1236 - Elk Twp. |
S. F. CRAMER, harness-maker, was born in
Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1832, and is a son of
William and Drusilla (Clarey) Cramer.
His father was born in Germany and came to
America in 1806. His mother was a native
of Maryland. They were married in
Muskingum County, and settled one and a half
mile west of McArthur in 1840, on a farm of
eighty acres. Here they lived ten yeas,
losing their farm on account of a defective
title They were the parents of ten
children, three of whom are living in Vinton
County - Margaret, wife of Voss
Hoffhines; Drusilla, wife of Richard
Craig, Surveyor, of Vinton County, and S.
F. Mr. Cramer died in December, 1868,
aged eighty-four years. Mrs. Cramer
died in 1873, aged sixty-three years. Our
subject was eight years old when his parents
located in this county. He began learning
the harness-making trade at McArthur in 1848,
and in 1851 located at Hamden Junction, where he
carried on his trade till 1857, when he moved
away, and returned in 1863. He was elected
Justice of the Peace in 1878 and was re-elected
in 1881; was elected Mayor of the town of Hamden
Junction in 1868, and is now serving his third
term. He is a member of Mineral Lodge, A.
F. & A. M. He was married in 1854 to
Theresa Grimes. They have six children
- Hattie (wife of Charles Denig),
Edgar, Allie (wife of Gus Gossman),
Frank, Anna and Grace. Mrs.
Cramer died in September, 1875, aged
thirty-eight years.
SOURCE:
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Page 1372 - Clinton Twp. |
GEORGE
CROW, farmer and stock-raiser, was born
in 1832, in Morgan County, Ohio, a son of
Philip Crow, a native of West Virginia.
He was one of the pioneers of Morgan County, in
which he became a permanent settler. Our
subject was reared on the farm and resided in
Morgan County till 1854, when he removed to
Monroe County, Iowa. Three years later he
removed to Decatur County, Iowa, living there
till 1860. He then returned to his native
county, remaining there till 1865, when he
removed to his native county, remaining there
till 1860. He then returned to his native
county , remaining there till 1865, when he
removed to his present farm, when he purchased
218½ acres, being
mostly under a state of cultivation. He
has a large number of sheep of the Spanish
merino breed. He has on his farm a
comfortable dwelling and other substantial
out-buildings. He was married to Julia
Ann Bone, daughter of Samuel Bone,
one of the early settlers of Morgan County.
Twelve children have been born to them, nine at
whom are living - Alice A., Ellen E., Samuel
W., Elizabeth H., Ida B., Catherine, William H.,
Frank W. and Adda B. Hiram W., Ione
and Bruce
E. are deceased. Himself and wife have
been members of the Methodist Episcopal church a
number of years.
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Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 1236 |
MARTIN
B. CROW is a native of Vinton County,
born Oct. 17, 1848. His father, Jacob
Crow, was born in Lower Sandusky, Ohio,
where he was reared. He moved from there
to this county and located in Jackson Township
where he bought eighty acres of land. He
married Mary Chamberlin, a native of that
township, daughter of William Chamberlin,
an early settler of that locality. Mr.
Crow afterward sold his farm in Jackson and
bought in Swan Township, where he was a resident
for at least thirty years. He is now
living in Elk Township, having sold his place in
Swan to a mineral company. They had seven
children, three sons and four daughters -
William, deceased; Jane, deceased;
Margaret, wife of Joseph Forman;
Martin B.; Emily; Andrew, married
Samantha Vest; Lucinda, wife of S. V.
Karns - all living in Vinton County.
Martin B. Crow was born in Swan Township
where he has always lived. He remained at
home till he was twenty-six years old. He
was married Oct. 22, 1868, to Sarah Ann Steel,
who was born in Swan Township, Dec. 15, 1850, a
daughter of James W. Steel. Mr. Crow
has had considerable experience in the working
of ore mines and has hauled many a ton of it
from the mines to the point of shipment.
For eighteen months he ran a portable saw-mill.
In January, 1876, he purchased his present farm
containing sixty acres, where he has since
resided. Mr. and Mrs. Crow have
three children - Jacob W., born June 19,
1870; George W., born Sept. 13, 1876;
Charles F., born Nov. 17, 1879. They
have lost one daughter - Nancy Jane, who
died Nov. 13, 1882, aged eight years and seven
months.
SOURCE: History of
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Co. - 1883 - Page 1313 |
JENNIE
CURRY is a native of Vinton County, Ohio,
where she was reared and educated. Her
father, John Curry, was born in
Greenbrier County, Va., May 1, 1803, and came to
Ohio when quite young. He owned the mill,
now known as the Wells Mill, in
Wilkesville Township. It was first built
by Mathias Croy, the grandfather of our
subject. Her father sold the mill in 1858,
and moved to the farm, where he died Apr. 6,
1882. The farm contains 320 acres of good
land and a residence on fraction 36, Wilkesville
Township. John Curry was married
about 1824, to Mary Croy, born in
Wheeling, W. Va., in February, 1805. They
were the parents of nine children, seven of whom
are still living - Mathias, Cynthia, Mary,
Susan, George, Nannie and Jennie, our
subject. Mrs. Currry, Nannie and
Jennie are members of the United Brethren
church.
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