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History of Coshocton
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its past and present, 1740-1881
Newark, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co., 1881
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ALEX.
ADAMS, White Eyes township, farmer, born in 1847,
in this township, the son of John Adams and Jane
(McCullough) Adams, who were both natives of Ireland, and
came to this country in 1832 and settled in Keene township.
They then moved upon eighty acres he entered in White Eyes,
and subsequently bought the Cassady place, where he now
resides. August 9, 1877, Alexander Adams married
Margaret Cutshall, of Crawford township, the daughter
of John Cutshall. They lived on the McBratney
place one year, next moved to George county, Nebraska, where
Mr. Adams entered a quarter-section. After living
on that one year, he sold it and bought eighty acres near the
same place, on which he lived seven months, and then returned
to White Eyes, where he now resides. They have one child,
Jennie Rosalie, born July 22, 1878.
Source:
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C.
E. ADAMS, Virginia township, born in this county
Mar. 15, 1822, son of Beal and Betsey Adams, grandson
of George and Anna Adams. He was married Jan. 12,
1843. Mr. Adams had been blessed with twelve children,
six of whom are living and six are dead. Postoffice
Adams' Mills.
Source:
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E.
W. ADAMS, Roscoe postoffice, farmer and lumber
dealer, born January 24, 1832, in Keene township, son of J.
Q. Adams, a New Englander by birth and of English descent;
married October 3, 1866, to Miss Olivia M., Daughter of
Alanson Gleason, of Ashtabula County. Their
family consists of five children, viz: Lora L., John
Q., Dorothy A., Edward G. and Clifford G. In
1872 the firm, Adams & Gleason, lumber dealers, was
established in North Roscoe. Their stock consists of
both rough and dressed lumber and they manufacture frames and
all kinds of supplies used for building purposes.
Source:
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G.
W. ADAMS, Virginia township, born in Coshocton
county, Ohio, Feb. 23, 1827; married Jan. 2, 1854.
Mr. Adams has been blessed with eight children, two of
whom are married and six are still living with their parents.
Mr. Adams is engaged in farming. Postoffice
Dresden, Muskingum county, Ohio.
Source:
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THOMAS
ADAMS, White Eyes township farmer, is a native of
this county, and was born in 1839. His father, John
Adams, emigrated to this country from Ireland and settled
in White Eyes at an early date. Thomas was
drafted in 1862, and employed John Bowman, of Columbus,
as his substitute. He married November 29, 1866, Miss
Angeline Wilhelm, daughter of Samuel Wilhelm.
She was born in this county in 1844. They have two
children - Ida R., born in 1867; Reo Alva, born
1877.
Source:
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WILLIAM
ADAMS, Bedford township, shoemaker, postoffice West
Bedford, born in 1820, in Jefferson County. He came to
this county in 1834 with his father, John Adams, who
was born in 1792, in Maryland. He came to Jefferson
County in 1806, and was married in 1818 to Miss Margaret
Donley, of that county, who was born in Pennsylvania.
He died in 1875, and she died in 1872. They were the
parents of five children, the subject of this sketch being the
oldest. He was married in 1855 to Miss Ann
McCullough, of this county, who was born in 1827, in
Delaware.
Source:
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SAMUEL
ADDY*, Adams township, farmer, postoffice,
Evansburgh; born June 20, 1843; son of Anthony T. and Sarah
A. (Norris) Addy; grandson of Robert Addy and
Samuel and Lydia (Hartly) Norris. He enlisted Feb.
22, 1864, in Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., under Captain
Samuel Stevens. He took part i the engagements at
Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Cassville, Dalton, Kennesaw Mountain, and
Peachtree Creek. Arriving at Atlanta, they went to
Jonesboro, thence to Atlanta again, thence to Chattanooga,
then to Athens, Alabama, from there to Pulaski, thence to
Franklin and Nashville, then to winter quarters, thence to
Nashville, and from there to Texas, and was discharged Nov. 4,
1865. He was married Oct. 5, 1866, to Miss Sarah J.
Norris, daughter of Matilda (Maple) and Jacob Norris.
The ancestors were: William and Anna Smyth
Norris, William and Sarah (Johnson) Maple, great great
grand-daughter of Catharine (Bridgewater) Johnson.
She was born in Adams township, Dec. 20, 1848. This
union has been blessed with five children, viz: Mary
A., born Oct. 14, 1867; Martha E., born Sept. 26,
1869; Amanda E., born May 16, 1872; Matilda,
born Nov. 24, 1874; Orla, born Feb. 20, 1878.
* Since the above was written,
Mr. Addy has since moved to Iowa.
Source:
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Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 ~ Page
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JOAB
M. AGNEW, miller in Empire mills, Roscoe, Ohio.
Mr. Agnew was born June 21, 1816, in Princeton, New
Jersey, of Irish ancestry. He was brought up in a
hotel, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of
age, when he came to Roscoe. In 1842 he commenced
milling, which occupation he has followed to the present
writing. Mr. Agnew has assisted to build two
large flouring mills, one of which was burned, and has been
miller in the finest mill in the county for twenty-five
years. Mr. Agnew has in his possession an ivory
cane weighing one and a half pounds, which was presented to
his grandfather, Joab Mershon, by Richard Stogdon,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; also
a seven-bladed razor, with shifting handle, making a razor
for every day of the week. These razors are from 150
to 200 years old, having been an heirloom for six
generations. He also has a seven-dollar continental
bill, which his grandfather received as pay for services in
the revolutionary war.
Source:
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Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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D.
E. ALMACK, Jefferson township, was born Oct. 15,
1843, in Perry township, Coshocton county, postoffice, Mohawk
Village; son of K. L. and Caroline (Johns) Almack; was
brought up on a farm and educated in district schools. At the
age of eighteen he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-seventh O.V.I.;
served three years under captain C. C. Nichols, in the
Army of the Cumberland, Second Division Fourth Army Corps.
He was in the battles of Stone River, Chattanooga,
Chickamauga, Resaca, Dalton, Adairsville, New Hope Church,
Kenesaw Mountain, Columbia, Tennessee, Springhill, Franklin
and Nashville. He was severely wounded at Kenesaw
Mountain, and was taken to hospital No. 1, Nashville,
Tennessee, where he remained three months, when he again
joined his regiment at Chattanooga. In 1865, He was
honorably discharged at Nashville, and mustered out at
Columbus. He was married to Miss Delila
Meredith, Nov. 4, 1867, who died Sep. 12, 1868.
Mr. Almack was married to his second wife, Miss
Rebecca Richards, Jan. 4, 1870, daughter
of Joseph and Rebecca (Meredith)
Richards. Their children are Francis M., Jay
Quincy, and Kinsey D., Mr. Almack has
been engaged in merchandising since 1868, in Mohawk Village,
where he is doing a good business.
Source:
History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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J.
W. ALMACK, merchant, Pike
township. He was born in 1846, in Perry township.
His father, J. C. Almack, was born in 1800, in
Baltimore county, Maryland, and came to this county in 1827.
He was married in 1826 to Mary Richards, who was
born in 1806, in Belmont county, Ohio. They were the
parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch,
the seventh, was married in 1876 to Sarah Preston,
who was born in this county in 1856. Mr.
Almack was in the mercantile business in Mohawk Village
and Coshocton prior to locating in West Carlisle, to which
place he came in 1878, and where he now has an excellent stock
of goods.
Source:
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Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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L.
F. ALMACK, Jefferson township, was born Jan. 15,
1846, in Perry township, Coshocton county; son of K. L. and
Caroline (Johns) Almack, and grandson of Thomas
and Dorcas (Cullison) Almack, and
David Johns. He was brought up on a farm, and
educated in district schools, and followed farming till 1872,
when he began the grocery business in Mohawk Village and
continued three years, since when he has been engaged as clerk
in his brother's store. He was married to Miss Hester
Mikesell, Feb. 7, 1869, daughter of Philip and Orpha (gerrard)
Mikesell, James R., born Nov. 6, 1869, is their only
child.
Source:
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Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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J.
J. ALPETER, Crawford township, farmer, postoffice,
Buena Vista, Ohio; son of John Alpeter,
deceased, who was a farmer and stone mason. He was born
Jan. 12, 1814, in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany; came to America in
1848, and located first near Rogersville, Tuscarawas county,
where he remained nearly two years; thence to near Carlisle,
Holmes county, where he remained five years; after which he
came to the homestead, where he died April 3, 1876.
Mr. Alpeter was married in the fall of 1840 to
Miss Catharine, daughter of Henry and
Charlotte (Miller) Hooprich. They
became the parents of seven children, viz: Adam,
John (deceased), Frederick, Elizabeth,
Caroline, John J. and Henry. Mr.
Alpeter began business in America with but $200 but, by
industry and good management, he left a good farm for his
children and aged widow, who shared the toils and hardships of
his early life.
Source:
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Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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B.
F. ALTMAN, Jeffeson township, miller, postoffice,
Warsaw; born Sept. 6, 1847, in Holmes county, Ohio; son of
Elijah and Mary and Michael Beck.
Until the age of twenty-three he attended school and assisted
his father on the farm, saw-mill and flouring-mill. He
then went to Indiana, then back to Ohio and then to Missouri,
and remained there about six months, after which he came home
and has been engaged at milling in the following named mills,
viz: Becks' Helmeck's, Princeton and Warsaw mills, where he is
at present doing a good business. He was married Oct.
17, 1875, to Miss Lydia Cross, daughter
of John and Roda (Swan) Cross.
They have two children - Flora N., born June 30, 1877,
and Rosa N., born Nov. 5, 1879.
Source:
History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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BENJAMIN
AMANS, Oxford township, farmer, postoffice,
Evansburg, Ohio; son of Isaac and Jane (Robinson)
Amans; was born in 1843, in this county. He was
raised on the farm and has always followed that occupation.
Mr. Amans enlisted in 1862, in company C,
Fifty-second regiment O. V. A., and served three years.
He fought under Sherman and McCook, and was
engaged in the battles of Chicamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Stone
River and numerous others of less importance. He was
married Sep. 3, 1868, to Miss Anna M. Loos,
of this county. They are the parents of five children,
viz: Isaac (deceased), John W. (deceased),
Ananias, Eliza E., and Rosa A. (deceased)
Source:
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DR.
J. ANDERSON & SON, druggists, No. 218 Main street,
Coshocton. Dr. Anderson is a native of Guernsey county,
Ohio, where he was born Sept. 8, 1820. He received his
education in the district and select schools of that county,
after which he attended the Cincinnati college of medicine and
surgery, from which he graduated in 1862. He
entered upon the practice of his profession at Port
Washington, Tuscarawas county, where he remained one year.
He then came to Keene, this county, where he practiced with
success and acceptance some years. In 1868 he came to
Coshocton and engaged in the drug business in which he still
continues. He occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in
Central hall block, where he keeps a very large and complete
stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, trusses,
toilet articles, fancy goods, paints, oils, varnishes, dye
stuffs, miscellaneous and school books, wall paper, etc.,
etc., etc.
Source:
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Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
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GEORGE
H. ANDERSON, Bedford township, farmer, postoffice,
Tunnel Hill, born in 1827, in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was
married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth Story,
of Zanesville, who was born in 1835 in Perry county, Ohio.
They came to this county in 1862, and are the parents of three
children, viz: J. A., Clara E., and Isaac G.
Source:
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WILLIAM
ANDERSON, Pike township, postoffice, Fraysburgh,
Muskingum county, farmer and stock raiser, born in Maryland,
in 1807, settled in the county in 1817; son of Joshua
and Sarah (Fairall) Anderson.
Mr. Anderson's father died in 1809, and his
mother in 1880. The subject of this sketch was married
in 1831, to Miss Maria Riley, daughter of
William and Hannah (Long) Riley.
They are the parents of the following children, viz: George
W., Isaac C., Mary J., John H., who enlisted
in 1862 in Lamert; Phoebe A., Eunice
T., Truman B., Joshua B. and Sarah M. All
are married.
Source:
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JOHN
ANDREWS, Keene township, farmer, born June 14,
1815, in Philadelphia; came to Ohio in 1817, and settled in
Steubenville, lived there four years, then came to Coshocton
county, Keene township. Mr. Anderson says he
remembers distinctly of sending about three miles to get
William Boyd and the only ax in the neighborhood,
to cut the brush from between the George Beaver
farm and Mr. Andrews' present home. He is
a son of Gabriel and Catharine (Bechtol)
Andrews, and grand-son of John Andrews.
He was married to Miss Pricilla Snyder
April 9, 1840, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, daughter of
George and Mary (Kersy) Snyder;
grand-daughter of Noah and Hetty (Bechtol)
Kersy; and great grand-daughter of John and
Catharine (Ritter) Kersy. The
children born to them were Secillia, born Jan. 1, 1843;
G. G., born Mar. 29, 1845; and John L., July 20,
1855.
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G.
G. ANDREWS, Coshocton; liveryman, of the firm of
Snyder & Andrews; was born Mar. 27, 1845, in
Keene township, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of John
Andrews, American born, of Irish ancestry. Young
Andrews was raised on the farm where he remained until he was
about twenty-three years old, when he took a contract from the
government to carry United States mail from this city to
Millersburgh, Holmes county. He held this route for
eight years. In July, 1874, he engaged in his present
business, at the corner of Main and Second streets. This
firm keep an average of ten horses and suitable rigs, such as
barouches, carriages, buggies, sample wagons, sleighs, etc.,
also keeps a sale and feeding stable. Mr.
Andrews was married Jan. 12, 1871, to Miss Sarah L.
Munn, daughter of Samuel Munn, of Keene township.
Source:
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DANIEL
ANGLE, Adams township; farmer; postoffice,
Evansburgh; born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 18,
1811; son of Jacob and Rebecca (Smith)
Angle, and grandson of John Angle and
Adam Smith. He went to Cambria county,
Pennsylvania, in 1844, and in 1850 came to Jefferson county,
Ohio, and after remaining there about thirteen years, he moved
to Adams township, Coshocton county, and has remained there
since. He was married Mar. 11, 1830, to Nancy
Gossaid, daughter of John and Mariah
(Keifer) Gossaid, who died Oct. 15, 1853.
They were the parents of three children - Daniel, born
Jan. 12, 1835, Jacob, born Apr. 6, 1833, and Malachi,
born Nov. 5, 1839. He was married in Feb. 1855, to
Sarah Gilly, who died Dec. 2, 1879. They had
one child, William, born Oct. 31, 1855.
Malachi was married Apr. 12, 1868, to Alice
Crawshaw, daughter of Joseph and Sarah
(Ellis) Crawshaw, born in Chester, England, July
4, 1842. They have three children - Joseph C.,
born Dec. 12, 1868, George, born May 22, 1873 and
Lucy J., born Jan. 12, 1878.
Source:
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GIDEON
ARMSPAUGH, Monroe township; was born May 25, 1803,
in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, son of George and
Catharine (Lookenbill) Armspaugh and
grandson of George Armspaugh, who is of German
descent. In 1811 he came with his parents, to Oxford
township, Coshocton county, where he lived until 1863, when he
removed to Monroe township, and resides there at present on
his farm. By honest industry and economy he has acquired
and saved enough to keep him in comfort during the remainder
of his days. He says he remembers distinctly the first
Indian he ever saw, was Chief Doughty, who came down
the Walhonding river, crossed the Muskingum to Colonel
William's saloon and got a coffee pot full of whisky and
returned the way he came. Mr. Armspaugh was
married to Miss Mary Groom, daughter of George and
Nancy A. (Fletcher) Groom, who were English. Lewis
T., born November 21, 1837, is their only child.
Mr. Armspaugh is a farmer in Monroe township. He was
married to Miss Margret McPeek.
Their children are Marshall and Ida
Bell. Mrs. Armspaugh died Mar. 30,
1864. After her death he married Mrs. Pardy, a
widow whose maiden name was Mary Conner, daughter of
James and Ann (Douglas) Conner, granddaughter of
Cornelius and Anna (Powelson) Douglas. The children
by his first marriage are Calvin C., Isaiah, Francis,
James, Isaac and Martha I.
Source:
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THOMAS
ARTHURS, city of Coshocton; forman paper ills; born
in 1828 in Ireland; son of Edward Arthurs.
Young Arthurs was raised on the farm until 17 years of
age, when he came to America and went into a paper mill in
Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained until 1863, when he took
charge of the mill where he is at present engage. Mr.
A. was married Apr. 27, 1852, to Miss Anne
Kalley, daughter of Gilbert Kalley, of
County Down, Ireland. They have had ten children, three
of whom - John, Elizabeth and Thomas -
have deceased. Their living children are William K.,
Ellie, Mary Anne, Josephine, Annie, James and Edward.
Source:
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JOSEPH
ASCHBAKER, Linton township farmer, postoffice,
Plainfield; born June 28, 1853, in Linton township; son of
John and Mary Anne (Bordenkircher) Aschbaker, natives of
Germany, came to America about 1839 and located on the farm
now owned by their son Joseph, who was married Sept.
14, 1875 to Miss Magdalena, daughter of George
and Elizabeth (Lash) Shue, a native of Alsace,
France. They became the parents of two children -
Henry Edward, and Mary Elizabeth.
He also had two brothers, David and Jacob, in
the late war, in which David contracted the disease
which caused his death. Joseph's father died
Sept. 22, 1857.
Source:
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JACOB
ASHCRAFT, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle;
farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1832, son of
Jacob and Martha Ashcraft. He was married in 1857
to Miss Liddie Russell, daughter of William
and Harriott Russell. They are the parents of twelve
children - William S., George W., Thomas
(deceased), Norah, Mary N., Harriott K., Russell E., Arthur
and Jacob L. Two are married.
Source:
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JOHN
AXLINE, Jefferson township; farmer; postoffice,
Warsaw; was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, Apr. 6, 1845; son
of Philip and Eleanor (Lyle) Axline, and grandson of
Jacob Axline, and Robert and Ellen M.,
Lyle, and is of German, Scotch and Irish descent. He
attended school and farm until the age of nineteen; he then
worked in Wise's woolen mills, in Holmes county, for
over two years, then in Beck's mills the greater part
of three years. After that he worked on a sawmill and
farmed for about six years in Holmes county, then moved to
Jefferson township, this past six years. He was married
De. 12, 1866, to Miss Parmelia Wise, daughter of
Peter and Esther (Baum) Wise, and granddaughter of
Daniel and Elizabeth (Tombaugh) Wise, also of Peter and
Rachel (Bryfogle) Baum, of Pennsylvania (of German
descent), and great grand-daughter of George Tombaugh.
She was born May 2, 1845. They have three children, viz:
Jesse F., born April 1, 1868; Laura E., born
August 10, 1871, and William S., born Oct. 29, 1877.
Source:
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S.
H. AYRES, born Mar. 18, 1841, in Coshocton county,
Jefferson township son of James and Mary (Killpatrick)
Ayers, and grandson of William and Susan (Hall) Ayres,
and of Hugh and Sarah (Quick) Killpatrick. He was
born on a farm and lived with his parents till the death of
his father, when at the age of eight years he went to live
with his brother-in-law where he remained till the age of
twenty-one. Being a natural genius he began the
shoemaker trade without an instructor, at which he made rapid
progress, and soon he engaged as a journeyman for White, of
Coshocton, where he worked for some time. He then took
up the carpenter trade in like manner. On the 20th of
Dec., 1878, he was appointed postmaster at Spring Mountain.
He was married to Miss Mary E. Conner, Dec. 18, 1868,
daughter of James and Mary (Holt) Conner, and
granddaughter of James Conner.
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