Biographies

* Source:
1803
History of Knox County, Ohio
It's Past and Present,
containing
A Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the North-
west; A complete History of Knox County; It's Townships, City, Towns, Villages,
Schools, Churches, Societies, Industries, Statistics, etc.; A Record of Its
Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of its early settlers and
Prominent men;  Views of Its Finest Buildings;
Miscellaneous Matter; Map of the
County; Biographies and Histories
of Pioneer Families, etc.
Compiled by N. N. Hill, Jr.
- Illustrated -
Mt. Vernon, Ohio:
A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers
1881
 

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	JOHN S. ABBOTT, farmer, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1826.  In 1855 he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, locating in Mt. Vernon.  In the fall of the same year he purchased the farm on which he is now livign, in Clinton township, located on the Granville road, two miles from Mt. Vernon, and has sine made farming his occupation.  February 15, 1865, he married Miss Mary E. Johnston, born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, March 11, 1842, daughter of James and Mary J. Johnson.  They moved on his farm, where they are now living.  Their union resulted in one child, a daughter. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 583.././
	L. B. ACKERMAN, insurance agent, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county, Ohio, August 17, 1839, and was married September 20, 1871, to Ella Cook, who was born in Wayne county, June 12, 1848.  They have four children, viz:  Ida C., born July 8, 1872; William A., December 26, 1873; Ernest Lee, March 13, 1875, and Edith E., March 31, 1879.  Mr. Ackerman received a liberal education and has been engaged in teaching, having taught school twenty-three years.  He was principal of the Fredericktown union schools during the years 1877 and 1878, and has the reputation of being one of the ablest instructors of Knox county.  He is at present engaged in the insurance and collecting business.  He has been a citizen of Fredericktown for three years, and is one of the intelligent and enterprising men of this township, and has done much to promote the standard of education in Knox county.  He has also taken quite an active part in political matters. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 583
	L. B. ACKERMAN, insurance and notary public, was born in Middlebury township; reared on a farm, attended district school until fifteen years of age, then attended a select school at Chesterville, Ohio, taught by Professor J. B. Selby, after which he was a student at the Fredericktown high school for one year; he then engaged in teaching, his first term was in Berlin township; he continued teaching for a series of terms; he taught in Johnsville, Waterford, and Fredericktown; in the latter town he was superintendent for one year.  In 1879 he engaged in insurance, notary public, and collecting; in these he has been very successful.  Mr. Ackerman has taken quite an active part in local politics; he has always been identified with the Democratic party; he is not a selfish party man, but promulgates the true principles of the party.  He was married in 1871 to Miss Ella Cook, of Dalton, Wayne county, Ohio.  They have four children, viz: Ida C., William A., Ernest Virgil, and Edith E.  Mr. Ackerman moved to Fredericktown in 1877.  He purchased property here in 1879, located on Sandusky street.      His grandfather, John Ackerman, sr., was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1756; he came to Knox county, Middlebury township, in 1811.  He was married to Amy Barton; they had four children - John, Abraham, Catharine, and Mary.  He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  His son, John was married in 1829, to Ida Cook.  They had nine children - Stephen C., Morgan, Rachel, Louis B., Amy Ann, Leander, James Harvey, and two deceased.  The Ackerman family were among the early settlers of this county. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 847
	HARVEY ACKERMAN, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Middlebury township, July 14, 1850; married in 1872 to Ara Smith who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1852.  They have two children - Blanche, born Jan. 10, 1874, and Carle, born July 2, 1877.  Mrs. Ara Ackerman died April 2, 1878.  Mr. Ackerman has been engaged in teaching school about ten years. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 583
	ARTHUR ADAMS, blacksmith and horseshoer, Mulberry street, between High and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  Arthur Adams is a native of Mt. Vernon, and was born Nov. 6, 1858, and received his education in the public schools of the city.  He learned his trade, blacksmithing, with his father, Mr. Adam Adams.  Serving three years as a apprentice, he worked one year after instructions in his father's establishment.  He then opened a shop in Fredericktown and worked two years.  He then returned to Mt. Vernon and entered into partnership with his father for some two years, and then took charge of the shop for himself, which he still conducts.  The business amounts to about two thousand dollars per year.  Horseshoeing is a specialty, he having a thorough knowledge of the theory of shoeing truck and draft horses, and of all departments of shoeing.  He took the first premium at the Knox County Agricultural society's fair in 1873.  His father, with whom he learned his trade, also took a first premium from the State Board of Agriculture at the fair held at Cleveland some years ago.  He does all kinds of repairing on short notice, and for reasonable terms.  All his work is warranted to be first class.  Mr. Adams in 1863 enlisted in warranted to be first class.  Mr. Adams in 1863 enlisted in company R, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war.  Mr. Adams has represented his ward in the city council. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	GEORGE ADAMS, deceased, was born in Redgrave, a village in Suffolk county, England, March 16, 1797.  He came to America in 1853, first settling in Gambier, where he lived one year, and then removed to Mt. Vernon, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred about noon on Thursday, December 4, 1879, in the eighty-third year of his age.  Mr. Adams was twice married.  By his first wife he had thirteen children, seven of whom are still living 0 five sons and two daughters - Mr. Adam Adams, of the firm of Adams & Rogers, hardware merchants, being the eldest.  Besides these, he leaves twenty-four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.  Mr. Adams' death was sudden.  He had been engaged in wheeling tanbark from the street in to his lot, and at diner time his wife found him in the front yard, lying on his back, dead.  Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of his death. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 583
	JACOB ADAMS, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, came to Ohio when fourteen years of age, and was married in 1850 to Sabra Brown, who was born in the township in 1830.  They have six children, viz:  Annetta, born in 1854; Alice M., in 1856; Sabie C.,  in 1858; Mary E., in 1860; Duddie, in 1863, and John E., in 1866.  Mr. Adams is a prosperous farmer, and a careful, judicious financier. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 583
	JAMES ADAMS, Monroe township, deceased, son of John and Ann Adams, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, Nov. 22, 1792.  He accompanied his parents to this county in 1811, who located near Mt. Vernon, where they deceased - Mrs. Adams in 1827, and Mr. Adams in 1829.  James Adams  was reared on a farm, and followed farming as his vocation through life.  Oct. 10, 1815, he married Miss Eleanor Newell, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Newell, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1798, and came to Knox county with her sister, Mary, wife of Judge McGibeney, in 1820.  Mr. and Mrs. Adams settled on a farm in Monroe township, known as the Hunt farm, and remained until 1836.  They then moved on farm in the same township, located on Schenck's creek, now owned by their son, Allison Adams, where he deceased April 1, 1838.  His companion survives him at the age of eighty-two years, and is living on the home farm with her son Allison.  He served in the War of 1812.  He filled the office of justice of the peace in Monroe township about ten years.  He was the father of three children:  John, born Aug. 5, 1816; Allison, born Nov. 6, 1818; and Mary J., born Nov. 12, 1820.  John and Mary I. have deceased.  Allison Adams married Miss Phebe A. Paige, of Monroe township, who deceased Oct. 10, 1854.  He was then united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth E. Dowds, in Nov. 1855; born Dec. 27, 1834; daughter of Elijah Dowds, deceased.  They settled on the Adams homestead, where they are now living.  They have a family of six children - three sons and three daughters.  He has made farming and stock raising his vocation.  He owns a large farm in Monroe township.  He enlisted in company H, of the Sixty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served about ten months in the war of 1861.  He was in the battle of Stone River Dec. 31, 1862.  He has served the people of Monroe township as justice of the peace since Oct., 1865. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	JOHN ADAMS, common pleas judge, was born on Dec. 11, 1824, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  He was a farmer's son, and the experience of his boyhood and youth were such experiences as befall almost any farmer's boy whose father has only the wealth that comes of hard toil, in every day, in every season.  He "learned to labor and to wait;" for as soon as he was old enough he took part in the labors of the farm, and for the fulfillment of such hopes and aspirations as come to the ambitious and capable boy he had to wait until the opportunity as come to the ambitious and capable boy he had to wait until the opportunity for gratifying them could be made.  He attended school first at Martinsburgh, and afterwards at Kenyon college.  Subsequently entered Jefferson college, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and graduated there in the spring of 1847.      After leaving college he commenced the study of law, reading with Hon. John K. Miller, at Mt. Vernon.  In 1850 he was admitted to the bar in Mt. Vernon, and at once commenced the practice of his profession there.  At first he practiced alone, but at the end of a year he formed a professional partnership with Mr. Dunbar.  Eventually this partnership was dissolved and subsequently he associated himself with his former preceptor, Hon. John K. Miller.  He prospered well in his profession and gained a practice that was large and lucrative.      In politics he is a Democrat, and has acted steadily and consistently with that party.  In 1871 he was a candidate, on the Democratic ticket, for judge of the court of common pleas for the district of Mt. Vernon, and was elected by a large majority.  He took office in 1872 for a term of five years.  His course while on the bench has fully vindicated the wisdom of those who elevated him to the position.  To high abilities and fine attainments he joins the strictest integrity, a judicial impartiality which nothing can swerve, and a regard for principle which all recognize and appreciate. At the expiration of his first term, in 1876, he was again nominated and reelected to the position he so eminently adorns, by a respectable majority.  He is honored and esteemed as the right man in the right place;  and the fact that his high and responsible station was awarded to him because of the sterling characteristics belonging to his nature ,and the high attainments which he acquired through his own almost unaided exertions, is a fact that must be gratifying to himself no less than encouraging to all men who are struggling and aspiring within the circle of his influence.  He was married on the sixteenth of May, 1860, to Julia Huxford, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Three girls and one boy, have blessed the union. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 847
	REV. MORTON D. ADAMS, pastor of the Disciple church, was born at Vincennes, Indiana, May 24, 1856, and received his preparatory education there, and at Butler university, Indianapolis, and completed at Vincennes university, from which he graduated in 1875.  In 1876 he entered upon pastoral duty at Vandalia, Illinois, where he remained one year, and then went to Massillion, Ohio, and served the church there one year.  In 1879 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the Disciple church of this place, in which he has served with acceptance to the present, and during which the church has been greatly revived and built up, having had forty additions during his pastorate. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	CHARLES E. ALER, travelling agent, post office, Fredericktown.  He was born in Virginia in 1850 and came to Ohio in 1877.  He was married in 1875 to Eugenia B. Linfield, who was born in North Carolina in 1855.  They have two children: Margaret V., was born in 1877, and Claudia I., in 1879.  Mr. Aler has been a very successful book agent, and is still engaged at that business. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	ASAHEL ALLEN, farmer, was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Nov. 18, 1803.  In February, 1804, his parents, Asahel and Rhoda Allen nee Filson, moved to Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, where he was reared to manhood.  In September, 1833, he, in company with two sisters, Salome C. and Rhoda A., and his father and mother, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, located in Mt. Vernon for the following winter, and in the spring of 1834 they purchased and moved on the farm now owned by him, one and a half miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road, in Clinton township.  There was a log cabin on the farm, which served them as an abode until 1835, when he erected the brick dwelling, which is now used as a tenant house.  Rhoda Allen deceased June 19, 1848.  His father, Asahel Allen, died Apr. 22, 1850, aged eighty years Rhoda, wife of Asahel Allen, and mother of Mr. Allen, jr., departed this life Dec. 1, 1857, aged eighty-six years and six months.      On the eighteenth day of February, 1841, Asahel Allen, jr. married Miss Content Wing, daughter of John and Phebe Wing.  Miss Wing was born in Queensbury, Warren county, New York, Nov. 10, 1812, and emigrated with her parents to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, in 1817.  After the marriage of Mr. Allen to Miss Wing they settled on the Allen homestead, where they are now living.  In 1843 he erected their present residence, which is a frame structure.      They reared a family of four children, Belinda E., Alice A., Charles R., and Henry A. who are all living.  HE has followed farming and stock-raising as his vocation.  His sister, Salome C., married, and is now living at Mt. Vernon. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	FRANCIS M. ALLEN, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Liberty township, Aug. 26, 1852.  He is the son of William and Joanna Allen nee Coffing.  He was raised on a farm, and attended the public schools of the district.  He was married to Miss Carrie Coleville, daughter of William and Hannah Coleville, September, 1875.  They have one child.      Mrs. Joanna Allen was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, 1810, where she was reared.  Her maiden name was Coffing.  In 1832 she married William Allen, who was born in England, Nov. 10, 1805, and about 1819 came to the United States with his parents, who settled in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.  About 1835 Mr. and Mrs. Allen came to Ohio and settled on the farm on which he died, Feb. 20, 1877.   They settled in the woods, and of course had almost the same experience as pioneers.  Mr. Allen became one of the influential man.  They had a family of seven children, six of whom are living.  Mrs. Allen still occupies the old homestead. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	JAMES ALLEN, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Monroe county in 1832, married in 1855 to Mary E. Devore, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1836.  They have the following family, viz:  Josephine C., born Jan. 17, 1857; Adalaide V., June 10, 1864; Jennie A., Feb. 7, 1867, and Lillie I., Jul. 29, 1870.  Mr. Allen came to Knox county in 1867, and located in Middlebury township,  He owns a well improved farm, and is one of the active and energetic men of the township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	W. P. ALLEN, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 7, 1817, where he remained until twenty-three years old; was reared on a farm and was educated at the district schools.  In 1840 he came to Ohio and settlement in Pleasant township, Knox county, where he followed farming for twelve years, when he traded his farm for another in Clay township, where he remained for five years.  In the spring of 1857 he moved to Martinsburgh and dealt in stock until the fall of 1865.  In the spring he commenced dealing in agricultural implements in which he has since been engaged.  He came from Martinsburgh in the spring of 1871 to Mt. Vernon, where he now lives, and has been engaged in his present business for fifteen years, and has done a business of ten thousand dollars per year.  He at present represents Whitely, Fassler & Kelley, of Springfield, manufacturers of reapers and mowers; J. A. Case & Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, manufacturers of engines and separators, and a number of other prominent manufacturing firms in his line. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
J. T. Alverson	J. T. ALVERSON - See THOMAS ALVERSON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 852
	THOMAS ALVERSON, farmer, deceased, Middlebury township, was born Mar. 19, 1807, in the town of Guilford, Windham county, Vermont.  His early ancestors were from Holland, and later in affinity with the English.  In early childhood he was taken to Moriah, Essex county, New York.  His widowed mother being poor he was obliged to live with other families.  By hard labor and strict economy he secured sixty acres of land, which he improved, and on which he built suitable buildings.  He was baptized by immersion in Lake Champlain.  In his conviction of duty he had a very remarkable dream, in which he saw the Savior, with outstretched arms, standing in the sun.      Mr. Alverson was married to Miss Lucinda Doolittle.  They moved on the farm he had formerly purchased, and remained there until the fall of 1837, and then moved to western New York, near Middleport, and remained there until the fall of 1839, when they moved near Medina, Michigan, to his brother, Oliver Alverson, and in the month of February, 1840, he emigrated to Ohio and settled near the Quaker brick meeting-house, known as the Owl settlement.  In 1845 he purchased one hundred acres of land on the ridge, four and a half miles northwest of Fredericktown, in Middlebury township.  Here his property increased to over six thousand dollars in addition to his real estate, which he loaned out.  He had seven children, all of whom are living except the youngest - James T., born Mar. 1, 1834; Sophia, Nov. 4, 1836, and married to J. N. Talmage, living near Chesterville, Morrow county, Ohio; Emma, Oct. 3, 1838, married to Miller Mendenhall, now lives in Green Vally, Knox county; Sarah, Nov. 14, 1839, married to John Disman, now living in Lima, Allen county, Ohio; Byram, Jan. 19, 1843, now a resident near Lone Star post office, Gentry county, Missouri; Louisa, May 3, 1844, now Mrs. William Schroeder, of Knox county, Ohio; and John P., May 4, 1849, died in infancy.      Thomas Alverson became a strong Abolitionist, voting for the first candidate for the Presidency nominated by the Abolition party - James G. Birney.      Mr. Alverson was powerful in his reasonings and arguments in favor of freedom and equal rights to all.  He afterwards acted with the Republican party.      In September, 1866, during the season of tent-meetings at Fredericktown, Ohio, held by Elders Vanhorn and Lawrence, he embraced the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists, and became an ardent advotate of its faith, giving liberally to its institutions and missionary work.  The subjects "Man's Nature and Destiny,"  "The Bible,"  "Seventh-day Sabbath," and the "Soon Coming of Christ," were his happy themes of conversation and work.      The last year of his life was the happiest, during which time he visited relatives and friends in the east - Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts, and the Round Lake camp meeting in Maine, and then  to his brother, Samuel H. Russell, of Crownpoint, Essex county, New York, where he died Sept. 11, 1878, at the age of seventy-one years, five months and twenty-two days.  He leaves nineteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.  Mrs. Lucinda Alverson died Dec. 28, 1864, and was buried in the Salem cemetery.      JAMES T. ALVERSON, post office, Fredericktown, Ohio, born in Essex county, New York, came to Knox county, with his parents in childhood.  Through industry, in teaching and laboring, he accumulated means to purchase one hundred and sixty acres of western land.  He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for a time a faithful worker.  He was married Aug. 1, 1861, to Miss Rebecca Price, daughter of John and Barbara Price of Morrow county, Ohio.  She was an amiable and Christian lady.  After their marriage they purchased nearly seventy acres of land in Morrow county, still retaining the one hundred and sixty acres of western land.  Her useful life ended Nov. 25, 1864, and her remains were interred in Bloomfield cemetery, near Sparta, Morrow county, Ohio.  J. T. Alverson is left with one daughter, Luella J., now Mrs. Olmstead, and one son, James T., jr.     In early life Mr. Alverson was a Methodist in faith, but by reading and investigating the Bible he changed his religious views June 23, 1877.  He kept the Bible Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, endorsing fully the Bible doctrines of man's nature and destiny, the seventh day Sabbath as in the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ and his soon coming at the completion of his work as priest of the heavenly sanctuary; then the gathering home of all the saints, both dead and living, in the first resurrection; and finally, after the resurrection and destruction of all the wicked, enjoying the Sabbath with the redeemed in Christ in the earth made new.  So Aug. 27, 1877, he took a letter from the Methodist Episcopal church, being in good standing. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 852
	F. A. AMOS, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Hartford county, Maryland, in 1809, came to Richland county, Ohio, in 1836, and removed to Knox county in 1867.  He was married twice and had a family of six children, viz.: Joshua, John F., Freddie P., Amanda, Mary Elizabeth, and Albert (deceased).  Mr. Amos owns one of the finest farms (with excellent buildings) in Middlebury township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 585
	JOHN F. AMOS, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Perry township, Richland county, in 1850, and was married in 1874 to Mary E. McNutt, who was born in Stark county in 1856.  He came to Middlebury township in 1867.  Mr. Amos owns an improved farm, with good buildings thereon, and is one of the prominent citizens here. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 584
	CHRISTOPHER C. AMSBAUGH, farmer, Berlin Township, post office, Shaler's Mills; born in Richland county, Madison township, Ohio, in11835, and was married in 1867 to Sarah Adams, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1840.  They have the following children: Sheridan M., born Mar. 22, 1868; John F. Mar. 5, 1869; Wilson C., born Apr. 9, 1870; Nathan M., Jun. 23, 1872; Mary A., Feb. 18, 1874; Alice L., Nov. 5, 1877; and Sadie E., Apr. 6, 1880.  Mr. Amsburgh was a soldier in the late war, a member of company E, Sixty-fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the following engagements: Stone River, Chickamauga, Peech Tree Creek, Jonesborough, Kennesaw Mountain, and Franklin.  He was wounded in Chickamauga Sept. 20, 1863, and was detained from service eight months and sixteen days.  He was engaged in the service for three years and was honorably discharged.  Mr. Amsburgh was elected justice of the peace in 1873, was reelected in 1876, and also in 1879, and has filled the position with credit to himself and satisfactorily to the people.  He is identified with the Republican party and is always ready to promote every cause that is calculated to promote the welfare of the public.  He came from Richland county to Knox county Feb. 29, 1868. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 585
	WILLIAM P. ANDERS, Morris Township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Ohio, and married to Martha M. (daughter of Joseph Ebersole), who was born in Knox county.  They have one son- Webster J.  Mr. Anders with a farmer, owns a beautiful farm on the Vernon road, with good buildings and under a good state of circulation. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 585
	W. B. ANDERSON, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, Aug. 3, 1852; married June 2, 1877 to Mary F. Cory.  They had one child born Mar. 19, 1878.  He built a fine little cottage on his farm in  1879, in which he now resides.  His father was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 12, 1811; and became a widower Mar. 24, 1875. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 585
	JAMES M. ANDREWS, grocer, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  Mr. Andrews is a native of New Jersey, was born in Franklin, Warren county, on the thirteenth day of December, 1823, and there resided until the year 1846.  His education, although derived from the common schools of that day, was thorough and complete.  At the age of twenty the subject of this sketch was apprenticed to the blacksmithing and machine work, and as such served fro three years, and for two years thereafter worked as a journeyman with his old employer.  In the year 1846 his father and family, of which James  was one, emigrated to Ohio, and located in Clinton township, Knox county, and continued thee up to the time of his death, which occurred on the thirtieth day of October, 1867, aged seventy-eight years.  The first year of his residence to Ohio, young Andrews spent in travelling, with the exception of a few months in which he worked at his trade with his old employer.  From 1847 to 1853 Mr. Andrews was principally engaged in farming, working upon his father's farm.  In 1853 he came to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the grocery and provision business, in which he has continued up to the present day, making his the oldest continuous grocery house in the city.  He is doing a successful business, and it is increasing daily.  His present store room is one of the neatest in the place, and was erected by himself in 1876.  His stock is always of the first class, consisting of family groceries, confectioneries, flour, feed, and choice liquors of the best brands.      On the tenth day of June, 1852, Mr. Andrews was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Wing, a daughter of Mr. John Wing, Mrs. Andrews being a native born of this county.  From this marriage four children have been born - three fair daughters and one intelligent son - all of whom start out with a fair prospect of living useful lives. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 586
	LORIN ANDREWS, deceased.  The subject of this sketch was not an early settler, nor a long resident of Knox county, but holding the position of president of Kenyon college from 1854 until 1861, he naturally became prominent, and ranked as a man of commanding influence.      President Andrews was born in Uniontown, then a small village of Richland county, but its name was afterwards changed to Ashland, in compliment to Henry Clay, the great statesman of the West (whose country seat, near Lexington, Kentucky, bears that name), and is now the county seat of Ashland county, Ohio.  The date of President Andrews' birth was Apr. 1, 1819.  Lorin attended the district schools of the village, says Dr. Hill's History of Ashland county, and made rapid progress in the branches taught at that period, giving evidence of that mental force and talent for which, in after years, he became so noted.  He was much beloved by his schoolmates because of his amiable disposition, sprightliness of manner, and acuteness.  His first public literary or oratorical effort, of which we have authentic information, was a fourth of July oration, delivered near Ashland in 1836.  Dr. Hill says it was delivered with a coolness and self-possession that astonished the assemblage.  It had been carefully prepared, well studied, and delivered with an ease of manner and grace of gesticulation that was pronounced admirable, and its young and promising author was complimented with the publication of his highly creditable and rhetorical oration.      A bright future was predicted for the youthful orator, and his father was induced to send him where his ambition, as a student, could have a better field and be more fully gratified.  He at once entered the grammar school of Kenyon college, where he commenced a thorough course of instruction.  He remained in the grammar school about two years, and entered college, but during the junior year, in 1840, owing to financial embarrassments, was withdrawn form college.  In a few months after his return to Ashland, he, by invitation of the trustees, took charge of the Ashland academy, as principal, aided by several able assistants, in the male and female departments.  Under his superintendence, says Dr. Hill, the school was in a most flourishing condition; students from every part of this State, and from distant States, came in by the hundred and enrolled their names.  Not having completed his collegiate course, Professor Andrews was compelled to continue his studies in advance of his students.  Having applied himself with great industry he was enabled to keep well in advance of his most advanced classes, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the branches taught, and a readiness in recitation that was really surprising.  His manner, as an instructor, was agreeable and well calculated to win the esteem of his students.  He had a peculiar faculty of enlisting the sympathy, respect and confidence of all with whom he was brought to contact.  He was frank and pleasing in his address, and his scholars honored and loved him.  When compelled to enforce, with apparent severity, the rules governing the academy, it was done in such a way that the student respected him for his impartiality and evident intention to do justice.  As an instructor Professor Andrews evinced his deep insight into human nature, and often succeeded in taming the ferocity of the worst students, and changed the whole current of their lives.  With him "kind words can never die."      Professor Andrews was a fluent conversationalist, unselfish, and very kind and gentlemanly in his manners.  It is therefore not at all surprising that he had a flourishing school, and was always popular among the students and the people.  If he found a student struggling to obtain an education, teaching in the winter and attending the academy in the summer, he would not exact tuition, but insist that his pupil should go ahead, and pay him when he could.      As a speaker, Professor Andrews was not an orator, unless we define oratory to be the ability to please and hold an audience.  His addresses at school institutes, and lectures before his classes, were all delivered, continues Dr. Hill, in a conversational style.  He talked remarkably well, and could hold an audience or an institute for hours.  There was a fascination about his manner that invariably made his audience feel friendly towards him, while the lucidness of his ideas enlisted their whole attention.  As a lecturer before institutes, county and State school conventions and associations, societies and meetings convened to promote educational interests, Professor Andrews was widely known throughout the State, and probably exercised as much or more influence than any other teacher or educator in the west.  Professor Andrews' preeminent success as a teacher secured the honorary degree of A. M. from Kenyon college, in 1846.      Before the years 1848 and 1852, many of the towns and cities of Ohio adopted the union school system, and established graded and high schools.  Professor Andrews was largely instrumental in accomplishing that result.  His lectures and addresses in many of the county seats of Ohio, in favor of the now popular union school system, were influential and effective, and well entitle their author of honorable mention.      Professor Andrews, in 1850 accepted the position of superintendent of the union schools of Massillon, tendered him by the board of education of that place.  He remained at the head of the Massillon schools for about three years, during which time they were very efficient and popular.  Professor Andrews was the agent and  missionary of the Ohio Teachers' association in 1851 - 52.  In 1853 he received the endorsement of said association as a candidate for State school commissioner, and in 1854 he was its president.      At the height of his reputation and influence in the cause of general education, near the close of 1854, Professor Andrews was chosen to the presidency of Kenyon college.  He was the first lay member of the Episcopal church, who had been invited to fill that position.  To be selected to preside over such an institution was indeed a flattering compliment.  His high educational-attainments added to his purity as a man, made him the worthy recipient of such an honor.  The condition of the college, said Bishop McIlvaine, demanded just the qualities for which he was so distinguished - the talent for administration, a very sound judgment, a prompt and firm decision, united with a special drawing of heart toward young men in the course of their education.  All the highest expectations of his administration were more than fulfilled.  "His presence in the college," says Dr. Hill, "acted like magic - his friends from every part of the State began to look toward Kenyon as a appropriate place to educate the young men of the country; the college received new life, and energy and prosperity were diffused through every department.  Students began to fill the classes, and everything betokened a prosperous future for the institution."      Some months after Professor Andrews had been inaugurated president of Kenyon college, the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Princeton college, New Jersey.  This was a high distinction and well deserved, because of his remarkable success as an educator.  President Andrews, A. M., LL. D., served Kenyon college as president, from 1854 to 1861, which embraced the period of its greatest prosperity - the intermediate years were those of its success, its achievements, its triumphs - and Lorin Andrews was entitled to the honor of securing those successes and triumphs.      In Whitelaw Reid's Ohio in the War, it is said of Lorin Andrews that he "was one of the earliest and costliest offerings of  Ohio to the war.  He was not permitted to develop fully his military ability, but there was no reason to doubt, from his known character, and his zeal in the distinguished positions he had filled, that as a soldier he would have reached as high a rank as he had already won in civil life."  Of his entrance into the military service Bishop McIlvaine says: "When the first call of the President of the United States for quotas of volunteer troops from the several States was made, he was the first man in Ohio whose name Governor Dennison received.  He did it for an example.  He sought no military distinction.  He led to the camp a company of his neighbors, expecting only to be allowed to lead them in the war.  But his talents and character were appreciated and he was placed in command of the regiment - the order and discipline of which soon became conspicuous, as also did his devotion to the interests and comfort of his men."      He was commissioned colonel of the three months' organization of the Fourth Ohio infantry.  When, in June, the organization was changed to a three years' regiment, he was retained in the same command.  His faithfulness n whatever position he was placed, united with his ability to master whatever he chose to learn, made him very soon an able and efficient commander and disciplinarian.  He went with his command to western Virginia,,, where he soon fell a victim to the exposure incident to camp life.  In the beginning of his sickness he could not be prevailed on to leave the camp, saying, "my place is with my men;" but as he grew worse he was at last removed to Gambier, Ohio, where, amid the scenes of his labors, in the best years of his life, and among his weeping friends, he breathed his last, Sept. 18, 1861. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 585
	ROBERT M. ARMENTROUT, Pike township, farmer, (post office Democracy), was born in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in 1878 to Eluetta Marshall who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1859.  They have one daughter, Julia Cleona, born Nov. 18, 1879.  Mr. Armentrout has always been identified with this township.  He is a member of a pioneer family, and is a farmer by occupation. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 587
Simon & Rachel Armentrout	SIMON ARMENTROUT, Pike township, retired, post office Mt. Vernon; born in Rockingham county, Virginia, Dec. 16, 1810, and was married in 1833 to Rachel Phillips, who was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, June 5, 1816.  They had the following children - Rebecca P., born Nov. 18, 1834; Sarah E., Sept. 23, 1836; Lucinda W. Sept. 14, 1844; Smantha J., Apr. 14, 1840; Mary O., May 29, 1852; William P., Dec. 9, 1854; and Simon F.  July 2, 1857.  The deceased members are Martha J., James O., Rachel, and Rebecca.  The married members are Rebecca P., married Feb. 17, 1853. to Lawrence Arnold, who resides in Shelbyville, Shelby county, Missouri.  Sarah E. was married Sept. 23, 1860, to Stephen Chapman, now resident of Mt. Vernon.  Lucinda was married Feb. 20, 1857, to John McGinley, who resides in Porter county, Indiana.  George W. Married to Sarah E. Smith, Feb. 20, 1868, now residents of Jasper county, Iowa.  Lyman W. was married Nov. 3, 1871, to Maria Tullis, now residents of Bellville, Ohio.  Smantha J. was married in September, 1867 to George Mahaffy, now residing in Shelbyville, Missouri.  Mary O. was married in August, 1870, to Cyrus Hunter, and resides in the township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 586
	ARMSTRONG & MILLER, grocers, southeast corner of Main and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon.  Mr. J. M. Armstrong, senior member of the above firm, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, in 1839, where he resided until he had reached his thirteenth year.  After that period this time was occupied in attending school and acting as salesman for different mercantile establishments in this city.  His first engagement as salesman was with George M. Fay, grocer, and then with Messrs. Swetland & Bryant, dry goods house.  In this employment he remained until the party with which he affiliated placed him in nomination for and elected him to the honorable position of sheriff of his native county.  This was in the year 1873.  After the expiration of his first term he was elected for the second, thus serving four years.      In 1877 Mr. Armstrong purchased the stock of Mr. John Ponting, and formed a partnership with Mr. J. M. Tompkins.  In 1878 Mr. Tompkins sold his interest to Mr. Miller, since which time the name of the firm has been Armstrong & Miller. They commenced with a capital of about eighteen hundred dollars, and their stock was increased so that at present they carry a stock of goods to the value of about four thousand dollars, consisting of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries.  Their stock is rapidly increasing in value.  Their house is located on the southeast corner of Main and Gambier streets. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 587
	ELIPHLET ARMSTRONG, was born May 6, 1810, in Frederick county, Maryland, but when quite young his parents moved to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where they remained two years; then coming to Oho they settled in Richland county, where they spent the remainder of their days.  Mrs. Armstrong died in 1825; Mr. Armstrong died in 1850.      Our subject came to Mt. Vernon Jan. 11, 1830, being twenty years old, and went to work with Richard House to complete learning his trade (carpenter).  Mr. House had a contract to build the court house, on which Mr. Armstrong worked.  He has been engaged at his trade ever since, mostly in Mt. Vernon, and built most of the best buildings in that city, many of which will be monuments of his mechanical skill for years to come.  He was married Mar. 10, 1836, to Miss Tacy Irwin, by whom he had three children, one daughter and two sons, all living, and have families living in Knox county. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 587
	WILLIAM A. ARMSTRONG, Fredericktown, was born in Brown township, Knox county, in 1840.  He was married to Nancy Ross, who was born in Knox county in 1842.  She died Oct. 1, 1860.  Mr. Armstrong afterwards married Sophronia M. Hardgrove, who was born in Ohio in 1842.  They had two children, viz; Herna E. and Adelia, both now dead.  Mr. Armstrong has resided in Fredericktown since 1870, and is one of the leading men of the county. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 587
	ADAM ARNHOLD, Jefferson township, farmer; son of Michael Arnhold, born in France Dec. 19, 1822; brought to America by his parents in 1840, landing in New York.  From there they came to Loudonville, Ohio, where they remained a short time, when his father purchased a farm in Brown township, Knox county, about one mile northeast of Jelloway, where he then moved his family, and where Adam, the subject of this sketch was raised and educated.      On the twenty-fifth of January, 1847, at the age of twenty-five years, he married Mary A. Heyd, daughter of Jacob H. Heyd, who was born in Wayne county Nov. 17, 1828.  After his marriage he located on a farm of eighty acres, east of Jelloway, which he had purchased previous to his marriage, and where he now resides.  In 1851 he purchased a tract of fifty acres more, known as the Messmore farm.  In 1856 he bought seventy acres more; in 1859, fifty acres; in 1868, eighty acres, making in all three hundred and thirty acres.      During that time he erected for himself a fine frame house and barn, making a very pleasant home.  Mr. and Mrs. Arnhold are the parents of twelve children, viz:  Michael H., born Apr. 27, 1848, (died Dec. 3, 1851); Frederick, Dec. 8, 1849; Mary E., June 17, 1852; Sarah C., Apr. 12, 1854 (died Sept. 1, 1856); Rosena, Apr. 12, 1856; Sarah Catharine, Mar. 4, 1858 (died Aug. 30, 1860); Sarinda, Mar. 31, 1860; John W., Mar. 1, 1862; Henry J., Jan. 20, 1864; William, Apr. 12, 1866 (died Dec. 21, 1879); Wallace, Jan. 20, 1868; Charles A., July 31, 1871.      Mr. and Mrs. Arnhold are members of the German Lutheran church of Brown township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 587
	JAMES ASH, Clinton, a native of Donegal county, Ireland, was born in January, 1877, and emigrated to America in 1784, and located first in Washington county, Maryland.  About the year 1812 he moved to Jefferson county, Virginia, where he resided until the year 1833.  During his stay here he went back to Ireland and was married to Jane Chambers, after which he returned to Maryland and resided there some time, when he brought his family to Ohio and located in Clinton township, where he followed agricultural pursuits the rest of his life.  He died Sept. 9, 1878, being at the extreme age of one hundred years seven months and eleven days.  Mrs. Ash died in 1878 in the seventy-fifth year of her age.  They reared a family of six children, viz:  Robert, Elizabeth, Maria, Chambers, Margaret, and James, all of whom lived to maturity, and at present all the deceased except Chambers, who resides in Clinton township, and is the fourth member of the family.  He was married Mar. 27, 1838, to Miss Louisa Resley, daughter of Jacob Resley, one of the early pioneers of this county, by whom he has a family of eight children, seven of whom are living, viz: Jacob, Robert, Elizabeth, Margaret, Anna, Maria, and Russell. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 587
	MRS. ELIZABETH ASHTON, deceased.  At the time of the death of Mrs. Elizaeth Ashton, she was supposed to have been the oldest person within the bounds of Knox county.  Though of small stature and frail, she was, up to the time of her great affliction, blindness, remarkably lithe and active in all her motions, and with a voice like Cordelia's, "ever soft, gentle and low," she made life pleasant to all within the sphere of her influence.      Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, nee Miss Elizabeth Palmer, was born in Devonshire, England, on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1870.  She married Mr. John Ashton in 1801.  In 1847 she, with a part of her family, emigrated to the United States and took up her residence in the Fifth ward, Mt. Vernon, where she resided with her eldest son, Philip, up to the time of her death, which occurred on the twentieth of April, 1880, making her age one hundred years lacking one month and seven days, making her the oldest person in Mt. Vernon, and probably in Knox county.      Mrs. Ashton was the mother of ten children, four sons and six daughters.  One of her daughters, the wife of William Tathwell, died a few yeas since in this city.  Two of the four sons are dead.  Two of her children reside in London, England; one in another part of England; one in the city of New York; one in Gambier, Ohio; one in Georgia, and Philip her oldest son, in Mt. Vernon.  The last named was born in England in the year 1802, and is now past his seventy-eighth year, and with his daughter, Mrs. Eliza Cooper and her husband, have been interested in caring for their recently deceased relative during the last eight years of the closing part of her history, which to her was a memorable one, for those eight years were spent in darkness, her sight having failed her.  She was reconciled to the loss, and waited patiently for the great and final change to come.  She was baptized and confirmed in the Church of England in early life, and lived the life of an earnest Christian woman. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page  588
	JOHN ATHERTON, Pike township; farmer; post office, Democracy; born in Pike township in 1836, and was married in 1858, to Mary Ann Spry, who was born in Monroe township in 1834.  They had seven children: William W., born in 1857; Sarah, in 1859; Mary Ellen deceased; Julia, born in 1863; Margaret Alice, in 1866; Merinda Jane deceased, and Hallie May, born in 1873.  Mr. Atherton has always resided in this township.  He has been engaged in running a threshing machine for about thirty years.  He is also a farmer.  His father, Andrew Atherton, deceased, was born in Vermont.  He was married to Sarah Sargeant, who was born in Pennsylvania. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 588
	HARRISON ATWOOD, Mt. Vernon, was born Dec. 22, 1815, in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, where he remained until twenty years of age, when he went with William Wright of New York, to Mobile, Alabama, to clerk in the Starr hotel owned by Mr. Wright.  He remained there about four yeas, and witnessed the great fire and yellow fever scourges of 1839.  After leaving Mobile, he located in Orleans county, Vermont, on a farm where he remained about twelve years, then moving to Trumbull county, Ohio, and settled in Bristol, in the mercantile trade, in which he remained but a short time, and then engaged in real estate business, speculating in western lands for twelve years.  He came to Mt. Vernon in 1865, and went into the office of B. Grant, internal revenue assessor, where he remained a short time; then going to Cleveland, he entered the employ of N. O. Fauster, a queensware merchant, for whom he was general manager for over two years, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the boot and shoe trade with B. Grant under the firm name of B. Grant & Co.  In1867 Mr. Grant sold his interest in the business to Mr. Bowland, and the firm name was changed to Atwood & Rowland, which association continued for about four years, when he sold his interest to his partner.  He then established his son in the boot and shoe business at Canton, Ohio, under the firm name of H. W. Atwood & Co., who are now doing a good business.  Mr. Atwood employes his time in the real estate business.  He was married in October, 1838, to Miss Washburn, and has reared a family of four children, all of whom are living.  Mrs. Atwood died in May, 1862. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 588
	AUSTIN, B. D., Fredericktown, ticket agent, was born in Knox county in 1857.  He is now engaged at the Baltimore & Ohio railroad office at Fredericktown. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 589
	HENRY M. AUTEN, Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1816, came to Ohio in the Spring of 1836, and was married in Knox county in 1863, to Matilda Fink, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio.  They have the following children: Sarah Ann married to John C. Williams, living in Crawford county, Ohio, Thomas B., Louisa Jane, and Rebecca.  Mrs. Auten died in Knox county Jan. 23, 1854.  Mr. Auten subsequently married mary Ann Wood, who was born in Knox county, Ohio.  They had one son, Charlie H., who still remains at home.  Mrs. Mary Ann Auten died in Knox county in 1862.  Mr. Auten's third marriage was to Sarah Jane Masteller who was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1825.  Mr. Henry Auten has been a resident of Knox county, most of the time in Berlin township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 588
	HENRY AUTEN, deceased.  He was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 5, 1837.  His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child.  He was married in 1864 to Mary J. Hasbin, who was born in Guernsey county, Aug. 17, 1842.  They had one son, Bryant E., born Dec. 4, 1867.  Mr. Auten died Apr. 6, 1870.  He was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 589
	J. W. AUTEN, Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, was born in Berlin township in 1844, and was married to Mary Pealer, who was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1849.  They had three children, viz., Myrtle Belle, Anna E. and George W.  Mrs. Auten died in 1875, and he was married to Caroline Love.  They had one child, Robert.  Mrs. Caroline Auten died in March, 1880. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 589
	THOMAS B. AUTEN, Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Liberty township, this county, Sept. 12, 1847, and was married Oct. 11, 1877, to Lucretia L. Foote, who was born in this township Sept. 12, 1858.  They have one daughter, Eva Dell, who was born April 4, 1879.  Mr. Auten came to this township and with his parents at the age of four years, and has since lived here. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 589
	WILLIAM A. AUTEN, Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Pike township, this county, in 1846, and was married in1874 to Ida M. Steele, who was born in Wayne county in 1855.  They have two children - Gracie R., born in 1876, and Emery C., in 1879.      His father, Jacob C. Auten, was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, and was married in 1837 to Rebecca Colley who was born in the same county in 1817.  They had eleven children - Henry C., Alexander C., Mary E., Sarah L., Jacob W., William A., John S., Elmina M., Rebecca R., Emma L.,  and James F.  The deceased members are Henry C., Sarah L., and James F.  Mr. Auten emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1838, located in this township, and has since been a resident.  He learned the carpenter trade when a young man, and that has been his principal occupation.  He owns a good farm in this township, and is one of its enterprising citizens. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - page 588
	J. M. AXTELL, Fredericktown, dealer in groceries and county produce of all kind, was born in this county Sept. 12, 1832, and was married in 1857, to Almira J. Hellis who was born in this county Aug. 20, 1835, and died Feb. 6, 1880.  They had one daughter, Eliza Bell, who was born May 9, 1859, and died  Aug. 12, 1859.  Mr. Axtell established his business in 1879.  He is a practical business man, having been identified with his business interests for many years in this county.  Combined with experience he has superior qualifications, and is fully prepared to meet all competition.  All who wish anything in his life will be well to give him a call. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881

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