BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of
COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876
by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876

Unless otherwise noted

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ROBERT HAY was born in County Derry, Ireland, in February, 1801.  He came to America in 1817, and was employed in stores in Pittsburg for two years, and then came to Coshocton in the employ of James Renfrew.  After a clerkship of a few years, he became a partner with Mr. Renfrew, and subsequently with William Renfrew.  For fifty years he was in business.  He was in his store when taken with his last illness.  No man ever stood higher in the community for truthfulness, honesty, promptitude, and careful application to business.  Trained in the old school of merchants, he was a strict disciplinarian, and despised all trifling and trickery.  He always was himself to be found at his business in business hours, and expected a conscientious devotion to his interest on the part, of his employes, whom he always regarded with kindly interest.  For the worthy poor he had always much sympathy, and was especially ready to help them to help themselves.  He served the county for several years as county treasurer, but was never inclined to public station.  In the regular prosecution of his business as a merchant and distiller, he steadily increased his worldly estate, and by the vast accretions in connection with the excise tax in the earlier part of the war, left at his death the largest estate ever administered upon in Coshocton county.      He married Miss Mary Corbin, of Granville, O., in 1858.  She and one child preceded him to the grave, and two children survived him.  He died, after a few days' illness, May 3, 1869, at the house of his brother James, which for some time he had made his home. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 244

WILLIAM HENDERSON died at his residence, in New Castle township, in 1866, having been many years a farmer and stock-man in Coshocton county.  He was in his seventy-first year; came from Pennsylvania; was married in1837; connected by the marriage of his children with several of the prominent families in the west part of the county. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 261

PETER HUMRICKHOUSE was only a few years a resident of Coshocton county, but as the paternal ancestor of one of the most prominent families of the county, may well find brief mention here.  He was born in Germantown, Pa., Aug. 26, 1783.  His father soon after moved to Hagerstown, Md.  After the manner of his time, he learned a trade, that of carriage-maker.  In 1814, he removed to Brownsville, Pa.  He came to Coshocton in 1834, and here died, Aug. 23, 1839.  He was the father of Thomas, and John, and William Humrickhouse, and also of the wives of John Joseph K. and Wm. K. Johnson of Johnson G. Stewart, and James Irvine, all being resident in Coshocton.  Mrs. Kincaid of Greenfield, Ohio, in also his daughter. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 252

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