JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.

    WAMSLEYVILLE LODGE I. O. O. F. - This Lodge of I. O. O. F., No. 653, was instituted Aug. 3, 1876, under a charter from the Grand Lodge of Ohio.  The ceremonies were conducted by W. S. Cappeller, Grand Master, of Cincinnati, O.
     The following named Brothers are the charter members: A. J. Jones, J. Freeman, Robert Newman, Jas. Jones, W. T. Wamsley, Geo. Wamsley and F. R. Turtle.
     On the night of their first meeting, there were seven members initiated, making fourteen.
     W. T. Wamsley was made first  N. G.
     The Lodge has steadily increased since the installation, and has at this time forty members in good standing.  There has been no deaths in the Lodge, and but little sickness.  The meetings are held in the building formerly known as the A. J. Jones & Co. property, but now owned by the Odd Fellows.

MEIGS TOWNSHIP.

     I. O. O. F. LODGE OF JACKSONVILLE - Jacksonville Lodge, No. 537, I. O. O. F., located at Jacksonville, was instituted June 7th, 18873, by J. H. Kinend, D. G. M.
     The charter members were, Geo. W. Nixon, S. J. McAdow, M. I. Foster, C. F. Halt, John Bunn, Geo. A. Thomas, R. H. Wilson, J. S. Young and J. W. Reid.  On the night of the institution there were seven initiates.  The first elective officers of the Lodge were Geo. W. Nixon, Noble Grand; S. J. McAdow, Vice Grand; M. I. Foster, Rec. Sec.; Geo. A. Thomas Per. Sec.; and Dr. Jno. Bunn, Treas.  The growth of the Lodge has been substantial but not rapid.
     The total membership foots up sixty-nine, eighteen of whom have withdrawn, the greater number withdrawing for the purpose of becoming charter members of West Union and Wamsleyville Lodges.  The lodge has sustained the loss of but one of its members by death since its organization, that of D. J. Bryan, a worthy member of the Scarlet Degree, who was buried according to the rites of the order at Unity Cemetery.
     The present membership of the Lodge is fifty (forty-five active and five dormant).  Financially, the Lodge is in a prosperous condition, having about $1,000 in its treasury.
     The present elective officers are W. F. Kilpatrick, Noble Grand; Isaac W. Thomas, Vice Grand; L. O. Thoroman, Rec. Sec.; Joseph Thurman, Per. Sec., and Dr. J. M. Wittenmyer, Treasurer.

     MINERAL SPRINGS - MEIGS TOWNSHIP. - This is not a regularly __id town, but receives its note and name, from two springs that by their medicinal virtues, have attracted to them large numbers of invalids from different places.
     The springs are situated in the eastern part of the county and flow from the eastern base of the mountains, surrounded by beautiful and picturesque scenery.  From the summit of the mountains that surround them, beautiful views can be had, reatching over hills and valleys as far as the eye can reach.
     They afford a sequestered retreat to the invalid, and a pleasant resort for those who seek respite from the cares of business, or desire the refreshing influence of mountain scenery and climate.

     A HISTORY OF THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF THESE SPRINGS AND THE MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF THEIR WATERS, AND THE FAME THEY HAVE ACQUIRED. - It is said that sometime about 1840, as Charles Matheny and John C. Beasley were hunting in the forests, they came to these springs, and Matheny being very thirsty, drank freely of the water; after resuming his hunt, he presently found it acted strongly on his kidneys.  Being afflicted with a kidney disease he concluded the water would benefit him if used regularly awhile.  He came back and remained in the vicinity, drinking freely of it, and soon found himself completely cured.
     Others having occasionally tested these waters with beneficial effects, the increasing numbers of those resorting here for health, became so great that the proprietor, Elias Matheny, who lived in a log cabin, was unable to accommodate them.  These parties would bring with them beds and provisions of their own, and camp the best they could.  Mr. Matheny in 1857, sold his property to W. W. Matheny who was still unable to make provision to accommodate those desiring to remain awhile to try the benefits of these waters.  He, in 1861, sold out to Hillis Reese who was unable, or did not desire to incur the expense of putting up buildings, suitable to the demands of hte public.  He, in 1867, sold to the present proprietors, Salisbury & McFerson, who immediately set about fitting up an establishment whose accommodations should be commensurate with the requirements made upon them.
     In 1877, A. H. McFerson became sole proprietor.  He has erected a spacious building, with accommodations for 100 guests.  Besides this he has put up neat cottages that will accommodate 100 more.  These are usually all full during the summer months.  the curative properties of these waters are fully attested by hundreds who have tried them, and have been either greatly benefitted or permanently cured.
     An analysis of a specimen of the water, by E. S. Wayne, of Cincinnati, shows it to be highly charged with gas, and contains 210.35 grains of solid matter to the gallon.  The solids are composed of Chloride of Magnesia, Sulphate of Lime, Chloride of Calcium, Chloride of Sodium and Oxide of Iron, and a subsequent test shows it contains Idoine Iodine.

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SCOTT TOWNSHIP.

     ROBERT ANDERSON GLASGOW.  The ancestors of the Glasgow family were natives of Scotland.  They lived near the city of Glasgow.  From that country they were driven on account of their religious views, and took refuge in Ireland, in county Down.  Both the great grand-fathers of the subject of this sketch, came to America about the year 1765, and settled in Virginia, Rockbridge county, on the banks of the James river.  Robert Glasgow grand-father of the subject of this sketch, come to Ohio in 1796, and settled in Scott township, this county, on the farm now owned by Wm. McCormick, where he died in1804, he having been a soldier in the Revolution.  His son, Joseph Glasgow, the eldest of five brothers and five sisters, settled at the same time on an adjoining farm, where he died in1820, he having been a soldier in the war of 1812.  In his last illness he was treated by an old Indian doctor.  He left a widow and eight children, who continued to live on the same farm, until her death, which occurred in 1877, she being ninety years old.  Robert A., second son of Joseph and Nancy Glasgow, was born Sept 19, 1813.  In  1834, he was married to Dorcas Finley, by whom he had five children, all of whom died in infancy, except one son, Joseph, who died at Memphis, Tenn., while serving his country in the War of the Rebellion.  He was married again in 1843, to Jane Smiley, who was born Mar. 20, 1818, near Hamilton, Butler county, O.  Her father, John Smiley, was a native of Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Glasgow died Sept. 17, 1879.  There were eleven children, of whom six are now living:  Maggie who married Andrew C. Platter, in 1862.  She now lives near Holden, Johnson county, Mo.; they have five children, John S., Arthur, Stewart G., who married M. M. Brown, in 1877; they now live near North Liberty, and have one child, Daisy Pearl.  James Gilmore and Sadie still remain at home.  Robert A. and Jane Glasgow have seven grand-children living.  Mr. Glasgow's farm is one of the finest stock farms in the county, containing 27 acres.  A view of the residence, surroundings and fine cattle is seen in this work.

GREENE TOWNSHIP.

     JAMES HINER. - The maternal grand-parents of James Hiner, David and Mary Mitchell were natives of Westmoreland county, Penn.  Mr. Mitchell, at an early day, while he was a young man, settled near Brooks' bar, not far from Mayesville, Ky.  He took shelter in or near a block house for protection against the Indians.  After remaining here a year or two, he went to Scioto county, Ohio, and bought considerable quantities of land.  He owned the land where Buena Vista now stands, as well as another large tract of land in Nile township, where he subsequently made his home, and where he lived and died.  Mr. Mitchell became a prominent citizen of Scioto county, was a Judge of the courts many years, represented the county in the Legislature, and was engaged in extensive business operations.  He married Mary Stockham, but whom he raised eleven children, five sons and six daughters.  Mr Hiner's paternal grand-parents were natives of Vanango county, Penn.  His grand-father, Robert Hiner, removed from there to Fleming county, Ky., where he remained a few years, then came to Scioto county, O.  He lived here a year or two, then emigrated to Decatur county, Ind., where he died.  Grandfather Robert Hiner reared a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters.  In 1825, one of the ons, named James, married Sarah Mitchell, a daughter of Judge Mitchell, of Scioto county, mentioned above.  They were the parents of James Hiner, the subject of this sketch, but the father was unfortunately killed a short time before the birth of his son, by the falling of a log from a building he was helping to raise.  The child was named James by its mother in memory of his deceased father.  Some four years after her husband's death, Mrs. Hiner married Zenas Hayward.  They then removed to Adams county and settled on the farm now owned by Elliott H. Collins.  James, who was then about four years old, remained with his mother and step-father until he was eighteen.  Having an inclination for boating, he now engaged on a flat-boat, which business he continued about four years.  He then engaged as a pilot on the steamer "Beauty."  He was a pilot for a number of years, and ultimately owned interests in several boats, among them the "Ironton," the "Domain" and the "Reville."  He was sole owner of the "Reveille," an illnetration illustration of which is shown in the engraving of his home, that appears in the pages of this volume.  In 1855, he married Letitin, daughter of John McKinley, of Irish Bottom.  About a year after his marriage, his wife and  \infant son both died.  He subsequently married Elizabeth McKinley, a younger sister of his former wife.  By this marriage he has had born unto him seven children, six sons and one daughter.  They were Arthur, who died at the age of sixteen years, Flora B., John, Charles and Frank Hiner.  The others died in infancy.  None of the surviving children are married, but all remain at home with their parents.  Shortly before his first wife's death, Mr. Hiner left the river and engaged in farming which business he yet follows.  He eventually became the owner of the old McKinley homestead of 225 acres, which he still retains.  This farm is a part of Survey No. ____ of 1,000 acres, located in Mayo Carrington, in 1791, and known as the Carrington Survey.  It is situated on the banks of the Ohio, in the Irish Bottom, Vanceburg, Ky., lies on the opposite side of the river, a little above it.  This is an excellent farm in every respect, highly cultivated, with beautiful buildings and adornments, as may be soon by reference to the view here given.  Mr. Hiner, who is an original thinker, and a man of good judgment, has been very successful in cultivating and improving the different varieties of grains and other farm products.  In 1874, Mr. Hiner started a mill in Vanceburg, Ky., to grind feed stuff, and in connection with it carries on a feed store.  There is on this farm, near the Sandy springs, a rather remarkable work of the Mound-Builders.  It is a circular depression, or more properly, perhaps, excavation made in the sandy soil, about two or three feet deep, at the present time.  It is 100 feet in diameter at the base, and at this time , about three feet high.  This mound is built of clay, entirely different from the sandy soil around it or beneath it.  The kind of clay of which it is constructed cannot be fund nearer the place than thirty or forty rods.  this must have been built by the Mound-Builders for the performance of some of their religious rites.

     THE PUNTENNEY FAMILY - This family is of French Huguenot stock, but its history is meager.  It appears that the direct ancestor of the Puntenneys of Adams county, was compelled to leave Rochelle, France, on account of his religion.  He embarked at that place in 1690, some two weeks before the elder Marion - father of Gen. Francis Marion, of Revolutionary fame - left there.  The vessel, in which they sailed, landed them on the Island of Eustatia, or more properly, Saint Eustatius, in the West Indies.  They soon became dissatisfied with this barren mountainous island and left it, and went to Ghent of Holland.  Here they remained but a short time.  They next went to Oxford, England.  How long they continued here we don't know, but during their sojourn at that place, a son, named Joseph, married Mary Hollingsworth.  This name, Hollingsworth, is still retained in the family, hence the "H" that is generally one of the initials in the name of some member of it.  The family next emigrated to America, and settled at Little Gunpowder Falls, Harford county, Md., though at what period they came we do not learn.  Joseph Puntenney died during the second year of the Revolutionary War.  We known little of Joseph Puntenney's family, except that he had a son, named George H., who was 15 or 16 years old when his fahter died.  After Mr. Puntenney's death, the administrators sold the assets of the estate, which amounted to $22,000, receiving the pay in continental money, which soon became worthless, and the whole sum was lost.  The family then removed to Braddock's old battle-field, Penn., where they settled, and George H. Puntenney became a scout on the then Western frontier.  He afterwards was a trader with the Delaware Indians and subsequently connected with a party of surveyors on Green river, Ky.  He twice passed where Cincinnati now stands, before the forest had been touched by the hand of man.  He married Peggy Hamilton, an Irish Presbyterian lady, and moved to Kingeton creek, Bourbon county, Ky., whence in March, 1800, he came to Greene (then Iron Ridge) township, in the north-western territory, and settled on what is now known as Puntenney's fork of Stout's run.  On this farm, James Puntenney was born Sept. 1, 1800, the second white child born in the township.  This farm is owned by James Puntenney and A. C. Smith.  George H. Puntenney died in Jan., 1853, at the age of 94 years.  The Puntenney's were all original anti-Slavery from the time their slaves were sold by the Administration.

BRATTON TOWNSHIP.

     S. EDWIN GORE. - The Gore family is of Irish origin.  The paternal ancestors of S. Edwin Gore came from Ireland at an early day, but at what date is not now known.  The first certain information we have of the family is that of the great grandfather, Joslina Gore, who died in Va., and who there married Sarah Hoge.  These ancestors lived and died there.  They reared a family of children, of whom we can only gather, that there was a son named Solomon who married Rachel Marte.  These were the grandparents of S. Edwin Gore.  They reared a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters, named Enos, Sarah, Elizabeth, Joshua, William, John G., Nancy, Jona5han L., and Thomas.  They all grew to years of maturity and married, and all the family came to Adams county, though two of them afterwards went to Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio, and two moved to Illinois.  Two, Sarah, Elizabeth and Jonathan L., are dead.  Solomon Gore died in Va.  Rachel Gore died in this county near Louden.  Enos, the eldest son, was born in Louden county, Va., May 2, 1801, where he grew to years of manhood.  He married Miss Sarah Davis who was a native of Louden county, Va.  In 1834 he removed to Adams county and settled in what is now Bratton township, near the village of Louden, on the farm now owned by S. Edwin Gore, the principal subject of this sketch.  Here his wife died, Nov. 12, 1835, and was buried at Sinking springs, Highland county, Ohio.  He married for a second wife, Rachel Fulton, who died May 28, 1863.  For a third wife he married Melinda Williamson, who still survives.  In 1866 Mr. Gore left the old homestead and now lives in the village of Louden, enjoying the esteem and respect of all who know him.  There were no children by his second and third marriages, but by his first marriage four children were born, one son and three daughters, named Jane, Elizabeth Ann, Eliza S., Edwin and Emeline.  Ann Eliza was born Feb. 7, 1830, and Emeline was born in 1834.  They both died in 1840.  Jane Elizabeth Married William M. Reid., Feb. 1, 1849, who died a few yards afterwards.  She next married Samuel C. Allen, who lived near Decatur, Illinois, where she died June 25, 1880.  By his first marriage two sons were born, one of whom died in infancy.  The other, Charles A., grew to manhood, is married, ahs one child and lives in Southern Mo.  By her second marriage she had five sons, one dying in infancy; the other four remain under the paternal roof.  S. Edwin Gore, the subject of our sketch, and only son of Enos and Sarah Gore, was born in Virginia, Mar. 12, 1832, and came with his parents to Adams county where he grew to manhood.  He married Ruth Hannah, daughter of William and Ruth Reed, Dec. 17, 1854, who died Dec. 11, 1860.  He next married Louisa Maria Reid, a younger sister of his first wife.  By his first marriage were born three children, Willard Ottiwell, who died in infancy, Sadie J., born June 20, 1857, and Horton R., born Oct. 29, 1859.  By his second marriage to been born four children.  Minor A., born Sept. 3, 1864; Verda, born Sept. 12, 1866; died Nov. 18, 1869; Enos S., born May 8, 1868; Ora Estelle, born Nov. 2, 1873.  Those children all remain under the paternal roof - unmarried.  Mrs. Louisa Maria Gore - The paternal ancestors of Mrs. Gore were natives of Maryland.  Her paternal grandfather, Jonathan Reid, married Susan Gatten.  They reared a son named William, born Mar. 23, 1793.  William Reid went from Maryland to Louden county, Va., where, in 1818, he married Ruth Potts, daughter of Enos and Lydia Potts of that place.  This daughter was born Apr. 7, 1798.  These were the parents of Mrs. Gore.  bEnos Potts father was Nathan Potts, who married Susan Cluse.  Mr. Reid remained in Va., until 1831, when he come to Adams county and settled at Marble Furnace, where he lived until his decease, Aug. 16, 1865.  After Mr. Reid's death, Mrs. Reid removed to near the village of Louden, Adams county, where she still resides.  Will and Ruth Reid were the parents of ten children: Martha Alcinda, born Dec. 11, 1819; Sarah Eliza, born Mar. 9, 1821; Townsend Enos, born May 11, 1823; William Minor born June 24, 1825; Rebecca Ann, born Jan. 17, 1828; Lyda Jane, born Apr. 23, 1830; Ruth Hannah, born July 1, 1832; Emila Elizabeth, born Aug. 23, 1835; Louisa Maria, born Dec. 11, 1837; Susan Francis, Oct. 24, 1840.  Mrs. Gore's maternal ancestors were also natives of Louden county, Va.  Her maternal grandfather was Enos Potts, who married Lydia Brown, daughter of John and Martha Brown, whose maiden name was Martha Bauld.  They came to Adams county about 1857, where they both lived and died.  They are buried in the Locust Grove cemetery.  S. Edwin Gore now owns and occupies the old homestead of his father.  It is an excellent farm of 167 acres in Calmese survey, No. 1,980, near the village of Louden.  This farm is in a high state of cultivation and everything about it is kept with neatness and in perfect order.  On a beautiful location, Mr. Gore has recently built one of the prettiest houses in Adams county, which has been adorned with good taste and artistic skill.  A view of this residence, together with the old homestead, is seen in the pages of our book.  In this beautiful home, with an abundance of this world's goods about them for their temporal wants,  Mr. and Mrs. Gore, surrounded by their pleasant, happy family, are certainly prepared to enjoy all the happiness that earth affords.

     PHILLIP M. AND TOBIAS P. HUGHES - Among the earliest settlers of Adams county, was Sushanna Keller, who came from New Jersey in 1801, while Ohio was yet a territory, and settled near where Mr. Hughes now lives.  About 1815, she was married to Andrew Carrigan, a native of Ireland.  They continued to reside at the place above mentioned.  Andrew and Sushanna Keller had two children, Hannah and Mary.  In Nov. 1835, Mary was married to Perry L. Hughes, the father of the subject of this sketch.  Peter L. Hughes was a native of Ireland; he was born May 4, 1809, and came to America about 1821.  The children of Peter L., and Mary Hughes, are Hannah S., Frank O., Phillip M., Mary R., Tobias P., and John W.  Hannah S., attended the Ursuline Convent, in Brown county, Ohio, Frank O. was educated at Mt. St. Marys near Cincinnati.  Phillip and Tobias both have a good education, Phillip having attended school at Cincinnati and Tobias at Dayton.  John W., graduated at St. Louis University in 1879, was post graduate in 1880, and is now in the study of law.  Phillip Hughes was married in the year 1871 to Mary L. Weaver, a native of Highland county, Ohio, daughter of Jonathan Weaver, of Va.  Jonathan Weaver married Levina Whitler, in the year 1826, in Highland county, Ohio, where they both lived and died.  There were ten children, of whom Mrs. Hughes is the youngest.  At their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hughes located on the farm shown in the engraving as their present home.  Their children are Hannah Lou and John Jacob Tobias P. Hughes was married in the year 1875 to Louisa F. Cannon, who was born Feb. 9, 1858, a native of Franklin township this county.  Her mother's maiden name was Lydia Jane Cockerill, a sister of the late Maj. Gen. Cockerill, and a native of Va.  In Sept. of 1843, she was married to Levin M. Cannon,

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whose nativity was Locust Grove, date of birth Aug. 28, 1811.  There were five children, two boys and three girls, of whom Mrs. Hughes is the youngest.  Tobias P., and Louisa F. Hughes have two children, Mary Virla? and Clement Birch.  The farm of Phillip and Tobias Hughes is one of the most beautiful in Adams county, comprising eight hundred acres of beautiful slopes, verdant valleys and fertile plains.  Stock-raising is made a specialty as will be seen by the view of excellent stock shown in the engraving.  The site of T. P. Hughes is the same as that of the old homestead, while that of P. M. is about one half mile east, being near Brush creek.

     GEO. G. FULTON. - David Fulton, of Louden county, Va., the father of Geo. G., married Phebe Gipson, at an early date and settled on Ohio Brush Creek in 1834.  They removed to Louden, this county, about 1850, where Mrs. Fulton died, Dec. 2, 1853, and Mr. Fulton Oct. 23, 1875.  Their children were John Henry and Charles C., who died in 1860.  Thomas D., George G., Alfred R., Sarah F., who died in 1873, having married U. A. Silcott, and Rebecca J., who died in 1870, having married John M. Gore, Jr.  Geo. G., was born in Louden county, Va., Jan. 5, 1833; he married Deborah Zile in 1856.  Jacob Zile, her father, came from Md., in 1824; her mother's name was Sarah Manahan, who was married to Jacob Zile, a short time previous to 1824, in which year they settled on a farm in Franklin township where they resided until their deaths.  Mr. Zile died in 1860, and Mrs. Zile in 1872.  Mrs. Deborah Fulton was born Apr. 17, 1834.  Soon after marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton located on Maple Grove Farm, where they still reside, and the croquet lawn shown in the foreground of the engraving, the pretty cottage in the rear the splendid orchard of luscious fruit, and the shouts of merry laughter, all attest to the passer-by how much they have done to render life pleasant for themselves, their children and their friends.  Their children are Alma L., Sarah Edith, Geo. Wesley, and Leslie B.  Mr. Fulton was educated at the North Liberty Academy, and Alma L., his oldest daughter, displays an energy and perseverance which has already placed her among the first in education in the county.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.

     JOHN A. CLUXTON. - The subject of this sketch is of Irish descent.  His paternal grandfather was a native of Ireland and grew to years of manhood, married and raised a family there.  About 1798, he, with his wife and two children, emigrated to America, three of their children remaining in Ireland.  He settled in New Jersey, where he died shortly afterwards, being suddenly stricken down with apoplexy or something of that nature, while working in the field.  After Mr. Cluxton's death, the widowed mother with her two children, John and Betsy, removed to Penn., and settled near Connelstown, where she lived until they grew up and married.  The daughter, Betsey, married William Phillips, and the son, John, married Nancy Page.  These  last were the parents of John A. Cluxton, whose name stands at the head of this article.  Early in 1813, all these families consisting of mother Cluxton, her son John and wife, his wife's parents, Rev. William Page and family, and William Phillips, who had married Betsy, left Penn., in company and came to Adams county.  Mr. Phillips settled near Brush creek, where he and his wife both lived and died.  They are buried in Stone chapel grave yard.  With them also lived the grandmother Cluxton, (Mrs. Phillip's mother), until her decease.  This old farm is now owned by a son, John Phillips.  Rev. William Page, the maternal grandfather of John A. Cluxton, settled on the farm now owned by Samuel McFeeters, near Killiustown.  Here Mrs. Page died. __ Page afterwards married a second wife, moved to Clermont county, where he died of a cancer.  John Cluxton settled in West Union, built a house near the M. E. church, and worked some years at shoemaking, then bought a farm near Killingstown to which he moved.  He finally removed to Bentonville, where he died in 1855, and was buried in the West Union grave yard.  Mrs. Cluxton, after her husband's death, lived a widow twenty years.  Her latter days were spent at her daughter's near Ripley, Brown county, Ohio, where she died.  She was buried in the West Union grave yard, where she now sleeps, beside her husband and three daughters.  She was a faithful and devoted christian, and in early years united with the Methodist church in West Union, and when the family removed near Brush creek, she transferred her membership to the Stone Chapel church in the neighborhood of her home.  But no matter where her lot was cast, she was ever the same, unassuming but faithful follower of the meek and holy Savior.  Mrs. Cluxton was a devoted laborer in the Sabbath School, and no doubt many in this community yet remember her pious teachings.  Truly a good mother in Israel is gone - but her work goes on, and many remain to bless her memory.  John and Nancy Cluxton were the parents of thirteen children:  William, George, Rebecca, Greenberry J., Angeline, John A., Davis D., James R., Nancy Jane, Susan Thomas, Samuel P., Henry B.  Two of these, Angeline and Susan died in early years.  The others are all living but Rebecca Greenbury and William.  Rebecca married Rev. Jediah Foster.  She died in West Union, with colora in 1835.  John H. the subject of our sketch was born in West Union, May 14, 1825, and married Miss Catherine M. Mosier, Nov. 18, 1847.  He started in life under disadvantageous circumstances.  He remained with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, then commenced life on his own account, working from spring until fall the first two years at $9 a month, with no etra pay for harvest work.  After his marriage Mr. Cluxton rented land and farmed, but diligence and perseverance will overcome difficulties" as is proved in this case.  He slowly and steadily gained in the world until he has now a good farm and pleasant and beautiful home of his own, surrounded with all the comforts of life.  A view of his pretty house is shown in the pages of our book.  He is also fortunate in being shown in the pages of our book.  He is also fortunate in being blessed with a good wife, to whose aid and good counsels he attributes much of his success in life.  Mr. Cluxton seems to be a natura genius in all mechanical implements and is a skillful workman in almost every mechanic art.  He is the inventor of a posthole digger that will excavate post-holes with an ease and facility never attained before.  His most recent and the greatest invention of his life and one that seems destined to surpass all previous efforts of the kind, is his pendulum drag-saw, by which logs of any kind or size, from the saw or shingle trees of the forest to the fire or stove wood at the door can be cut.  In short, it can do any work that the cross-cut saw will do, and with a speed and ease that has heretofore never been equaled.  This invention is secured by patent.  Mrs. Catherine M. Cluxton, daughter of Jacob Mosier, and wife of John A. Cluxton, was born Oct. 21, 1828, near Masontown, Fayette county Pa., Her ancestors were German.  Her grandfather, Abraham Mosier, was probably born in Germany.  His children were John, Abraham, George, and Julia Ann, Catherine Betsy, Mary and Nancy.  Her father was born in Penn., in 1796.  He married Elizabeth Newcomer.  They came to Adams county at an early day and settled on the farm now owned by John A. Cluxton, in Liberty township, where they both died.  Mr. Mosier died in 1844, Mrs. Mosier in 1864.  They both lie buried in the Kirker grave yard.   They were the parents of nine children, Abraham, Jacob, Mary, John, Samuel, Catharine, Nancy, George and Elizabeth.  The last two died in infancy, the other seven grew to years of maturity, are married and all still living.  Mrs. Cluxton's maternal grandparents were Jacob and Mary Newcomer.  They raised a family of seven children, Elizabeth, Jacob, Uriah, Mary, John, Nancy and Martha, but two of these, John and Martha, now survive, the others are dead.  One of these children, Elizabeth, married Jacob Mosier.  They are the parents of Mrs. Cluxton.

     MAHLON WIKOFF. - The Wikoff family is of German origin.  The oldest ancestors who came to America was Peter Claeson Wikoff, who emiggated from Holland to this country in 1636, but we have no certain account when he settled.  Neither do we know anything about his family, other than that he has a son named Jacob.  This Jacob Wikoff was the great grandfather of Mahlon Wikoff, who is the principal subject of our sketch, but all we know of his family is that he had a son Peter, grandfather of Mahlon.  This Peter Wikoff, at an early day, emigrated from Va., and settled near where Washington, Ky., now stands.  He there bought 1,000 acres of land, which he lost by a defective title.  He then came to Adams county and settled on Scioto Brush creek, Jefferson township.  Here he again bought land and cleared up a farm on which he lived and died.  James Wikoff, the son of Peter Wikoff, and father of Mahlon Wikoff, was born Feb. 11, 1782.  He remained with his father until he reached his 28th year, when he married Rachel Ellis, a sister of Col. Nathan Ellis.  After his marriage, Mr. Wikoff lived on Brush creek until his decease, Sept. 18, 1818.  He left four children, three sons and a daughter one of these sons was Mahlon.  The widow afterwards married again, and this son was left st the age of eleven, to work his way through the world as best he could.  Fortunately, however, he found a good home at the house of his maternal uncle, John Ellis, who kept him until he was twenty-one, when he gave him an out-fit of a horse, saddle and bridle, and a suit of new clothes.  With this start in life he commenced the world.  Three years after this he married Jemima Melvin.  This lady's grandfather was an Englishman, who emigrated to this country and settled in Delaware, where he lived and died.  He left seven children, four of whom were boys.  George Andrew Melvin, the oldest son, emigrated at the age of twenty-eight to Kentucky, and at thirty he married Sarah A. Huffman, who was a native of Va.  After thirty-five years of married life, Mr. Melvin died, leaving a family of eleven children, of which Mrs. Wikoff was the tenth.  Mrs. Melvin, the mother of Mrs. Wikoff, died in 1823, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years and six months.  Jemima Melvin, (now Mrs. Wikoff,) at her marriage was the owner of the Spinning-wheel and loom, which she knew how ot use and had the will to do it - thus they started in life.  Their industry and frugality, soon began to show their results in the rapid accumulation of property.  Eight children have blessed their union.  Their oldest son, William J., died from disease contracted while attending the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware.  George M., the second son, is now farming in Mo.   Cyrus F., still remains at home with his parents.  Of the daughters, Sarah A., is married, while Lon R., Mary E., Lucinda M., and Laura L., still remain at home with their parents.

     COL. JOSEPH R. COCKERILL. -  The parents of the subject of this sketch, Daniel and Esther Cockerill, were native of Va.  They emigrated to Ohio in 1837, and settled in Scott township, ona farm about a mile east of Youngsville, on a farm that now belongs to William Allison, of Penn.  They reared a family of six children, four sons and two daughters.  Daniel Cockerill soon became a prominent and influential citizen.  He represented Adams county in the Legislature in 1846-47, and also in 1849-50. . These parents are long since deceased, and both lie interred in Mount Leigh cemetery.  Col. Cockerill, who is more particularly the subject of this article, was the oldest in this family of children, and was born in Louden county, Va., Jan. 1, 1819.  He came with his parents to Adams county in 1837.  He became one of the most conspicuous and popular citizens Adams county ever had, and made a name that stands honorably recorded in the pages of his county's history.  From the age of twenty-one until he was twenty-five, he taught school.  In 1840, he was elected County Surveyor, and in 1846, was appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he held until the adoption of the present constitution in 1851.  He was elected a member of the first Legislature that met under the new constitution.   In 1853, he commenced the practice of law, which was soon found to be extensive, though his other public duties finally engaged so much of his attention and occupied so much of his time that the law business was necessarily greatly neglected.  In 1856, he was elected to represent his district in Congress, in which body he served one term.  At the breaking out of the rebellion he was among the first to enlist in the service of his country.  He was appointed, in 1861, Col. of the 70th Regt., O. V. I.  This regiment participated in the battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862, and it, and its commander, Col. Cockerill, are honorably mentioned in history, and by the commanding Generals for good conduct in the terrific fight.  Whitelaw Reid, in his "Ohio in the War," says of this regiment which Col. Cockerill commanded:  "After the entire line to the left of the Shiloh church had been completely turned, and not a soldier of any other regiment was to be seen on the original line of battle, the regiment fell slowly back, fighting every inch o the ground during the entire day, and lay in front of the enemy at night over half the way from Shiloh church to the landing.  On Monday the regiment took part in the action during the whole day, and established an enduring an enduring name for bravery and endurance."  General Sherman, under whose eye they fought, in his report of the battle said:  "Col. Cockerill behaved with great gallantry, and held together the largest regiment of any Col. in my division, and stood by me from first to last."  In Nov. of the next year he was appointed by Gen. Sherman, commander of a brigade in the first Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps, where he remained until 1864, when he resigned and came home.  In 1867, he was chosen to represent Adams county in the Ohio Legislature, and re--elected in 1864.  At the meeting of this Legislature, he was chosen speaker pro-tem.  He was ranked as the leader of his party (the Democratic) in both of the Legislatures of 1867 and 1869.  Col. Cockerill was a man of generous impulses.  Ever ready to relieve the wants of the needy and minister to the comforts of the afflicted, he was never appealed to in vain to aid in charitable enterprises.  He was generous to a fault.  Added to his noble, frank and manly nature, he possessed a fine personal appearance, and was a fluent, earnest and forcible speaker.  These qualities rendered him one of the most prominent men of his time.  He died of heat disease, Oct. 23, 1875, leaving a wife (since deceased) and two children - a son and a daughter.  Of this once prominent family, not a member now remains in the county.

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     ROBERT MORRISON - Among the early settlers of Adams county who acted a conspicuous part in its early development, was Gen. Robert Morrison.  He was born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, Nov. 27, 1782.  When he was an infant his father died, leaving the sole care of the son of the widowed mother.  She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and was a good woman.  It was a member of the Presbyterian church, and was a good woman.  It was probably to her influence that he owed much of his future usefulness in life.  He also was much benefitted by the kindly instructions of Mr. Brown the family pastor.  When near the age of manhood he joined the association of "United Irishman," a combination formed in opposition to the British Government.  This association was crushed out by the Government, and many of the members were compelled to flee from their native country.  Though the connivance of Lord Fitzgerald, who was in sympathy with this organization, young Morrison managed to escape.  He, together with his mother and uncle, landed in New York in 1810.  He was now in his 19th year.  This party did not stay long in New York, but proceeded to South Carolina, where two of his father's brothers with their families were living, with one of whom they stopped.  They remained but a short time in South Carolina.  From there they made their way to Ky., and stopped a while near Flemingburg.  When he arrived at that place ail_ his worldly possessions amounted to his clothes and two dollars in money.  Here he worked on a farm a while.  During his sojourn at Ky., he made a profession of religion, and united with the Associated Reformed church, under the pastoral care of Rev. John Steele.  Here he married Miss Mary Mitchell, sister of the late Judge Mitchell, of

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Preble county, Ohio.  The day after their marriage, they set out for Ohio, the bride's father and family and Mr. Morrison's mother and uncle accompanying them.  This was the fall of 180_.  They came to Adams county and settled on Cherry fork.  Mr. Morrison had now got money enough to buy a piece of land.  This land was at that time an unbroken forest, and had to be cleared out before he could raise crops.  With good health, he soon had a portion of it under cultivation, and lived a quiet, happy life, until he suffered the saddest bereavement of his life, in the sudden and unexpected death of his wife.  Now, with the dearest object of his affection, snatched away from him and the light of his home departed, all his earthly hopes seemed crushed.  Life to him had lost all its charms.  Though six young children, one of them only seven days old at the time of his mother's death, were left to his sole care, for a time overcome with grief and a sense of his sudden loss, he seemed indifferent to all worldly objects.  He was roused from his lethargy by his country's call for defenders to repel a threatened invasion.  Fort Wayne was in danger of falling into the hands of the British and Indians.  Leaving his children in the care of his mother and uncle, who had accompanied him from Ky., and were living with him at the time, he hastened to its relief.  In this expedition he commanded a cavalry company, and served under Col. Trimble, afterwards Governor of the State.  There was some skirmishing but no general engagement.  For Wayne was saved from falling into the hands of the enemy.  When  the "general call" was made for men in 1814, Mr. Morrison was drafted.  He served as Capt. of Infantry.  Being the oldest Capt. in the regiment he acted for a while as Col. and commanded the regiment.  There was, however, but little fighting, On the 28th of June, 1814, he was married to his second wife Miss Phebe McGown.  In 1816, he was ordained a ruling elder in the Associated Reformed Presbyterian, now United Presbyterian Congregation of Cherry Fork, of which he had been a member since 1805.  In 1817, Mr. Morrison was elected a representative in the Ohio Legislature.  He was re-elected for three successive terms, serving in all four terms in that body.  He declined any further re-election.  While in the Legislature he had for his associates Gen. Harrison, Charles Hammond, Duncan McArthur, and may others who became prominent men.  About this time, he was appointed Brigadier General of Militia, and was generally afterwards designated as Gen. Morrison.  His education and ability as a speaker did not qualify him to be a leader among such men. On declining a re-election he was appointed Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.  With his exception of a part of one term, he served from 1821 to 1850.  He was about twenty-five years on the bench.  He was not the mere cipher on the bench that associate judges were supposed to be.  He was possessed of sound judgment, good sense, and understood the principles of law, and often held court himself in place of the President Judge.  His advice uniformly was, "keep out of law, if you can."  After the year 1850, when the office of Associate Judge was abolished, Gen. Morrison held no office of State.  He was solicited to become a candidate and was assured of success but declined.  In the meantime, he lived on his farm, engaged in manual labor, enjoying the esteem of all who knew him.  In the latter years of his life, the infirmities of age began to creep upon him, which gradually increased until his strength gave way, and he departed this life Feb. 11, 1873, in the 81st year of his age.  Few of our pioneers have lived a more unobstrusive and yet useful life than did Gen. Morrison.

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