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its past and present, 1740-1881
Newark, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co., 1881
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LEWIS
TAFE, Coshocton; proprietor barber shop, opera house
block, Main street; born Oct. 19, 1850, in Germany; son of
Philip Jacob Tafe. Lewis remained at
home until seventeen, working with his father, in a jewelry
store, and going to school. In 1867, he came to
America, landing in New York City, and immediately went to
St. Charles, Missouri, and learned his trade; remained two
years; then went to St. Louis, and remained six years; then
came to Dennison, Ohio, four years, working at his trade all
the while. In January, 1879, he came to this city, and
established his present shop. Mr. Tafe was
married, June 2, 1879, to Miss Ida Eliza Rolley,
daughter of Daniel Rolly, of Trenton, Tuscarawas
county, Ohio. This union was blessed with three
children, one, Elvira, dead, and town living,
Oscar L. and Victoria Co. Mr. Tafe is doing
a good moderate business.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 |
HENRY
TALMADGE, Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born
in this county, in 1832; son of Joseph and Frances
Tallmadge, and grandson of Moses and Rebecca
Tallmadge; married, in 1854, to Mary Williams,
daughter of Lewis and Rebecca Williams. Mr.
Tallmadge is the father of ten children, viz: Sarah
A., Rachel, Benjamin, Rebecca F., L. E., Rossa J., Mary S.,
William H., James H. and Hannah C.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 |
DENNIS TAYLOR,
Jefferson township; was born in December, 1845, in Jefferson
township, Coshocton county; postoffice, Warsaw; son of
John Taylor, who was a native of Muskingum
county, and Sabina (Dennis) Taylor, who was a native
of Knox county. For further ancestry, see his father's
(John Taylor's) biography. Mr. Taylor
was brought up on a farm, and educated in district schools.
He lived at home with his parents until the age of
twenty-two, when he married Miss E. A. Porter in
December, 1867, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Dean) Porter,
who was born in January, 1856. he following children
were born to them; Emma, born Oct. 30, 1868; John
P., Feb. 29, 1872; J. W., June 8 1875; Iva M.,
Sept. 1, 1877, and Mary M., Oct. 30, 1879. Mrs.
Taylor is a granddaughter of Samuel and Mary
(McCurdy) Dean, and of Elizabeth Wilky.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
803 |
E. T.
TAYLOR, Virginia township; born September 17, 1819,
son of Ebenezer and Margaret Taylor; married in 1841
to Louisa Walraven. Mr. Taylor has eleven
children, viz: William, May, Mary Jane, John P.,
Caroline, Louisa, Samuel B., James H., Margaret L., Clare
I., and John P. Postoffice, Dresden,
Muskingum county.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 |
HIRAM
A. TAYLOR, engineer in Coshocton iron and steel
works; was born Sept. 20, 1838 in Hollingsworth, Lancashire
county, England; son of John and Maria (Dainkrey) Taylor.
In 1814 he accompanied his parents to America, who located
in Coshocton. Mr. Taylor was married Sept. 20,
1860, to Miss Ellen, daughter of Washington
and Georgiana (Fisk) Burt. They are and parents
of five children, viz.: Elmer B., died in infancy;
Annie M., Amy B.; Ada K., died in infancy, and Nellie.
Sept. 20, 1861, Mr. Taylor enlisted in Company E,
Fifty-first O. V. I. He was appointed fourth sergeant,
and became first sergeant and followed the fortunes of the
Army of the Cumberland until after the battle of Lookout
Mountain, when his regiment veteranized. On
application Sergeant Taylor was appointed
third assistant engineer in the navy, but before being
mustered in he declined the position, and was assigned in he
declined the position, and was assigned to duty under
Provost Marshal Wisewell, where he
remained until Oct. 3, 1864, when he was honorably
discharged.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
803 |
JOHN
TAYLOR, Jefferson township; born October, 1818, in
Jefferson township, Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Samuel
Taylor, who was elected captain in the war of 1812, and
served under General Miller and Colonel Heath
He enlisted in Allegheny county, Maryland, and served his
country with distinction. His mother was Mary
Taylor, born in Hartford county, Maryland. His
parents came to Muskingum county in 1814. He is a
grandson of John and Hannah Taylor, and Ezra
and Elizabeth (Brown) Taylor. He was educated
in the old log school-house, yet standing on his farm.
Mr. Taylor filled the office of county commissioner
six years, justice of the peace, fifteen years, and land
appraiser, one. In 1835 he came with his father to
Coshocton county, being his father's only child, he lived
with him till his father's death. He was married May
12, 1842, to Miss Sabina Dennis, of Knox county,
daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Horn) Dennis,
natives of Pennsylvania. Their children were
Samuel, deceased; Dennis, Mary; Elizabeth,
deceased; Arminda, Lyman, Norman and Clara.
Mary married David Walker, deceased, and
resides with her parents; Arminda married Joseph
Haines, a farmer of Bedford township; Lyman is a
farmer in Bedford township, and Married Sylvia Frederick;
Clara is at home, single. Both of Mr.
Taylor's grandfathers were patriots in the revolutionary
war, and served under Washington. His grandfather
Taylor served seven years, was taken prisoner five ties
and wounded once. in the breast, where he carried an
ounce ball for a number of years, the extraction of which
finally caused his death.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 |
LYMAN
TAYLOR, farmer; postoffice, Warsaw; born in
1855, in this county. His father, John Taylor,
was born in 1818, in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was married
to Miss Sabina Dennis, of Knox county, who was born
in 1821. They are the parents of six children, the
subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was
married in 1878, to Miss Sylvia Frederick of this
county, who was born in 1859, in this county.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 |
WILLIAM
TEALE, Jackson township; born on Santa Cruz Isle, in
1828; son of Martin and Mary A. Teale; settled in
Coshocton county, in 1837; married in September 1863, to
Catherine Loder, daughter of Aaron and
Rebecca Loder. Mr. Loder
is the father of five children, viz.: Ida J., William,
Franklin, Etha, Alberta. Mr. Teale is engaged in
farming and stock raising. Post-office, Roscoe.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
803 |
N. R.
TIDBALL, Coshocton; butcher; of the firm of Shaw &
Tidball, 440 Main street; born in Belmont county, in
1836; son of attorney John C. Tidball who came to
this city in 1848, and died in 1863. N. R. was
married first in 1865, to Miss Amanda, daughter of
Jefferson Bresferd, a farmer of this county. Their
children are: Annie M., Frank B., Elizabeth,
Stella A., and Addash. Mr. Tidball enlisted
first in Company A., Sixteenth O. V. I. (three months men)
and reenlisted in Company H., Eightieth O. V. I., Dec. 2,
1861, and resigned in July 1863, on account of ill health.
He enlisted as a private, but was commissioned second
lieutenant in each company named above and captain of
Company D., One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G.
Mrs. Tidball died in February, 1863, and is buried at
Coshocton. Captain Tidall's second marriage was
in August, 1880, to Miss Sarah F., daughter of R.
F. Baker, of this city. Captain Tidball was
superintendent of the yards of the penitentiary two years,
under Governor Hayes.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
803 |
JOHN
TIMMONS, Coshocton; carpenter and contractor; was
born Dec. 25, 1843, in Linton township. He is son of
William Timmons, American born, of Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Young Timmons was raised on the farm
until about fifteen years old, when he began the wagon
making trade and worked two years, then returned to farming
for two or three years, after which he went to his present
trade with James Williams. On completing it, he
worked for some time in Franklin township. In the fall
of 1862, he enlisted in company C, Ninth O. V. I., and
served to the close of the war, being in one engagement
three of four days after Lee's surrender. On
his return home from the war, he resumed his trade in this
city, which he was successfully followed to the present.
Mr. Timmons was married, in January, 1862, to Miss
Resilva Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams, of
Linton township. This union was blessed with three
children, two deceased and one living - Simon W. Timmons.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
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JOE
R. TINGLE, Franklin township; born in Franklin
township, Apr. 29, 1855; son of Eldred D. and Elizabeth
Tingle, and grandson of John Tingle and of
James Rice. His father, a carpenter by trade, was
born in Guernsey county, and moved here about 1845.
His mother was born in Franklin township. He is the
youngest of three children, viz.: Anna, John and
Joseph. When about nine years old he moved to
Tuscarawas township, on which is now the Moore farm,
two miles south of Coshocton. There he remained till
some time after his mother's death, which occurred Dec. 14,
1867; then spent two years at Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio.
At fifteen he began railroading, as brakeman on the Pan
Handle road, and after three years spent here he went on the
I., B. and W. railroad, between Indianapolis and Peoria, for
a year. Returning to Coshocton, he worked in the steel
works about eighteen months at an iron lathe, and then was
employed as fireman on the Pan Handle road till December,
1876, when he turned his attention to farming and stock
raising. He was married Feb. 29, 1876, to Sadie
Tingle, daughter of John Tingle, a physician of
Cambridge, Guernsey county, and has two little children,
viz.: Edna and Atta Rice.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
804 |
JAMES M. THOMPKINS,
Tuscarawas township; Canal Lewisville postoffice; carpenter;
born Sept. 22, 1832, in Rappahannock county, Virginia; son
of James and Mary, and grandson of Jonathan
Thompkins and William Bailey. James M.
was raised on the farm. He came to this county in
1847, and first located in Jackson township, from which he
removed to Jefferson township. In 1870 he was
appointed superintendent of county infirmary, which position
he held for two years. On leaving the infirmary, he
moved to Warsaw, and came to his present residence in 1876.
In 1872 he learned the carpenter trade, which he has
followed to the present time. Mr. Thompkins was
married Aug. 1, 1857, to Miss Mary Chambers, daughter
of John Chambers, of Bedford township. Her
mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Maston.
Their children are Isaac E., Charles E., Sarah M., W.
Frank, Alice Lutilla and William Allen.
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GEORGE
THOMPSON, Jefferson township; born in Washington
township, Coshocton county, May 21, 1828; son of Joshua
and Emily (Williams) Thompson. His father died
when he was but twelve years of age, leaving a widow and
large family for him to care for, he being the eldest child.
The labor of bringing up the younger brother and sisters
devolved principally upon George, as did also the
care of the farm. At the age of eighteen he went to
Wet Carlisle to learn blacksmithing with a. H. Lyons,
and served one year; then went to Roscoe and worked two
years with William Thomas; then went to West Bedford
and worked at machine making seventeen years; then to
Midberry, and on account of ill health his time was divided
between the farm, and shop for seven years. He married
Mar. 28, 1859, Miss Mary Haynes, daughter of Henry
and MArgaret (Martin) Haynes, and soon after moved to
Illinois, and remained three years, working at his trade.
He then came back to Coshocton county, where he has
successfully applied his time to his trade to this time.
Mrs. Thompson died in 1869, and three years afterward
he married Miss Mary Severns, daughter of William
and Hannah (Treadway) Severns. Flora B.;
Endora M., were the children of the first marriage,
Millie B. and Mina A. of the second marriage.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
804 |
JOHN
THOMPSON, Bedford township; merchant; postoffice,
Tunnel Hill; born in 1817, in Muskingum county, Ohio; came
to this county in1819, with his father, William R.,
who was born in 18774, in Hampshire county, Virginia.
He was married in 1795 or 69 to Miss Sarah Taylor, of
the same place, who were born in 1781. They came to
Muskingum county in 1809. He died in 1850. She
died in 1860. They are the parents of seven children,
the subject of this sketch being the fifth. He was
married in 1845 to Miss Elizabeth Sheppard, of
Zanesville, Ohio, who was born in 1825. They are the
parents of five children, three of whom only are living,
viz.: Thomas W., George E., and Willard S.
Mr. Thompson was a member of the Thirty-second O. V. I.
He entered the army August, 1861, and was
discharged in 1864. He was taken prisoner at Harper's
Ferry, and remained in prison five months. He was in
the Seventeenth Corps, under General McPherson, and was in
the battles at Vicksburgh and Atlanta, and in several
lighter engagements.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
804 |
SAMUEL
G. THOMPSON, Keene township; farmer; born in
Jefferson county, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1809; son of Moses and
Catharine (McGuire) Thompson, and grandson of Thomas
Thompson. His father was a soldier of the war of
1812; his maternal grand parents were John and Mary
(Tipton) McGuire, he having been a revolutionary
soldier. They came to Mill Creek township, Coshocton
county, in 185, with his father, who built his first cabin
Mar. 26, 1816, his being the third family in the township.
He was married Apr. 4, 1844, to Esther, daughter of
John and Ann (Sweeney) Carson, and granddaughter of
James Carson, who was one of two children of a large
family, who survived an attack of yellow fever in
Philadelphia. Mr. T's family is as follows:
Robert William, born Jan. 26, 1845; Mary E.,
July 3, 1847; Sarah C., Sept. 26, 1849, died Dec. 25,
1868; John C., Dec. 15, 1851, and A. Jennie,
Oct. 26, 1856.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
804 |
T. M.
THOMPSON, Coshocton; of Thompson Brothers,
manufacturers of foreign and domestic marbles; was born Feb.
14, 1830, in Granville, Licking county, Ohio. He is a
son of R. M. Thompson, American born, of Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Young Thompson was educated in the
schools of his native village. In 1850, he came to
this place and engaged in farming, which he followed for
five years. IN 1855 the present firm was formed, which
has continued to the present time.
Thompson, James M., of the above firm, and
brother of T. M., was born Sept. 8, 1833, in
Granville, Licking county, Ohio. These brothers were
associates in childhood and youth, and partners in business
to the present time. James M. Thompson, was
married June, 1861, to Miss Hilpha B. Lamb, daughter
of R. M. Lamb, of Coshocton. This union was
blessed with five children, one deceased, Annie, and
four living, viz.: Jessie, Mattie, Nora and Nellie.
This firm deals extensively in foreign and domestic marble
and Scotch, red and American granite, doing general cemetery
work.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
805 |
CRISPEN
TREADWAY, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice,
Tunnel Hill; born in 1834, in this county. His father,
Thomas, was born in 1799, in Hartford county,
Maryland. He came to this county in 1817, and was
married in 1825, to Miss Olive Severns, of this
county, who was born in 1802. She died in 838.
They were the parents of eight children, Crispen
being the seventh. He was married in 1856, to Miss
Lavina James, of this county, who was born in 1840.
She died in 1876. They were the parents of six
children. His second marriage was in 1878, to Miss
Susan Leas, of this county. They have one child.
Mr. Treadway has lived on the same farm twenty-four
years.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
805 |
G. S.
TREADWAY, Coshocton; wool merchant, Chestnut street;
was born Oct. 8, 1843, in Jefferson township; son of
Thomas Treadway, a native of Hartford county,
Maryland, of English ancestry. Young Treadway
was raised on the farm, where he remained until nineteen
years of age, when he entered Spring Mountain academy, where
he remained one year; after which, he entered the dry goods
store of William Sturgeon, as clerk, where he
remained six months. In May, 1864, he enlisted in the
One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., in which he served
six months, participating in the siege of Petersburg and
other engagements of the Potomac army. On his return,
he enlisted for one year; then entered Iron City commercial
college, remaining six months, and was graduated. He
then remained three years as clerk in the store of John
G. Stewart, at Rosco. In 1870, he formed a
partnership with John Orr, firm name, Treadway &
Orr, dry goods merchants, Warsaw. This firm
continued until February, 1873, when stock, books and
buildings were destroyed by fire. In the following
summer, he bought wool extensively, for William
Shields, Newark, Ohio. Early in the year 1874, he
went into the wholesale house of Hams, Stranahan &
Co., Zanesvile, and remained one year. In the
spring of 1876, he became partner in the firm of Thomas
Lee & Co., wool commission merchants, Philadelphia, and
remained in the city two years. In the spring of 1878,
he engaged with H. C. Judd & Root, commission
wool merchants, of Hartford, Connecticut, with whom he yet
remains. Mr. Treadway was married to Miss
Catherine Lynch, of Roscoe, and was blessed with one
child, Karnia D. Mrs. Treadway died, and Mr.
Treadway was married, Dec. 31, 1876, to Miss Mary E.
Linebaugh, daughter of Noah Linebaugh, of Warsaw.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
805 |
REASON
TREADWAY, Jackson township; postoffice, Roscoe; born
in this county in September, 1832; son of Thomas and
Olive Treadway, married Sept. 19, 1866, to Mary
Welling, daughter of William and Rebecca Welling.
Mr. Treadway is the father of three children, viz:
Olive R., Effie V., Thomas A. Mr. Treadway
enlisted in 1862, Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-third
regiment Illinois volunteers army of the Tennessee.
Mr. Treadway was engaged in the following battles, viz.:
Perrysville, Chickamauga, Kenesaw, Milton Heights, Rock
Springs and others.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
805 |
T. F.
TREADWAY, Perry township; postoffice, West Bedford;
farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Treadway keeps
some very fine thoroughbred sheep. He was born in this
county in 1848; son of Thomas and Mary (Dennis) Treadway,
and grandson of Crispen Treadway and of Isaac
Dennis; married in 1870, to Miss Elvina Dickison,
daughter of Joseph and Mary Dickison. They have
one child, viz.: Thurz Maud.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
805 |
JOHN
TROTTMAN, Franklin township; school teacher;
postoffice, Wills Creek, Ohio born Apr. 3, 1858; son of
George and Magdalena (Studer) Trottman. His
father is a native of Baden, Germany; his mother of Metz,
France. They were the parents of fourteen children,
two deceased. Seven daughters and five sons are now
living. John, first named above, began his
first teaching in the summer of 1880.
Source: History of
Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881 -
Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page
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