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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	ELIAS CAIN, deceased - He was born in Harrison county, Virginia, in 1798.  He came to Ohio in 1802, and located in Muskingum County.  He remained there until 1810.  He then came to Knox county; he was married to Ann Britten, who was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1802.  They had five children, namely, John, James, Nancy Ann, Sarah E., and R. W.  Mrs. Cain died in 1859. Mr. Cain afterward married Margaret Latta, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1822. Mr. Cain was a pioneer of this county.  He left his farm and moved to Amity in 1823.  He died at his residence Nov. 16, 1880. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
	JOHN CAIN, Pike township, shoemaker, post office, Democracy, was born in Amity in 1823, and married in 1858 to Sarah E. Kesler, who was born in Columbus in 1833.  They had four children, viz: Elias (deceased) Francis S., Elias H., and Allen.  Mr. Cain has been engaged in manufacturing of boots and shoes for many years in Amity. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
	JAMES CAMPBELL, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Butler township Mar. 14, 1818.  His parents, David and Mariah Campbell, nee Vance, were natives of Virginia, and came to Ohio prior to 1817, but at what time is not definitely known.  Mr. Campbell came to Butler township some time before he was married, and entered a tract of land, and returned to Virginia where  he married Miss Vance, and then returned to his land.  He lived for some time in a wagon until he roofed his log house.  He resided there until in a wagon until he roofed his log house.  He resided there until the spring of 1824, when he moved to Morgan township, where he purchased the farm on which John Campbell yet resides, and where he died in 1825.  His widow married Samuel Coe, and has deceased.  They had a Mrs. Buckingham, and Margaret, wife of Rev. Benjamin Tulloss.      The subject of this notice was raised on a farm and received a common school education.  He has always followed farming as his chief occupation, and has been successful in acquiring considerable of this world's goods.  He is an upright man, a lose observer, and well informed, and a leading member of the Baptist church.  Jan. 29, 1844, he married Miss Eliza A. Sperry, daughter of Jacob and Mary Sperry.  They have a family of seven children, viz:  David P., of Utica, Ohio; Mary A., wife of E. W. Bell; Mattie M., wife of Rev. W. E. Stevens, of Dayton, Ohio; Elizabeth J., wife of W. H. Sellers; H. S., E. J., and Clyde E. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
	JOHN CAMPBELL, Miller township, farmer, was born in Washington township, Licking county, Feb. 28, 1815.  His father was a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he married Mary McDonald.  Shortly after their marriage they came to Ohio and settled in Washington township, Licking county, Ohio, where they lived and died.      The subject of this notice was born on the farm and continued to reside on it until he moved to Miller township, where he has since resided on the farm situated on the southeast corner of the township.  He is an estimable citizen, and a consistent member of the Reformed Presbyterian church.  He is one of the leading farmers of Miller township.  Honest and conscientious in his dealings, and ever ready to lend a helping hand to the poor.  In 1844 he married Margaret Magill, a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania.  They had a family of eight children; three of whom are living, viz:  William G. and Joseph O. R., druggists in Kansas city, Missouri; William Boyd, at home.  James R., served three years in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifty regiment Ohio volunteer infantry.  He died at home. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
	JOHN CAMPBELL, farmer, was born in Butler township in Nov. 1817, and was married to Phebe Babcock January, 1841.  Mr. and Mrs. Campbel have had no children, but their niece, Miss Marietta Campbell, resides with them.  Although quite young, Miss Campbell is an accomplished artist, and has painted many very fine pictures.  Politically, Mr. Campbell is a Republican, and a much esteemed citizen. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
	RICHARD CAMPBELL, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in Virginia, Sept. 10, 1814; emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Butler township.  He lived there until 1838, when he bought a farm.  In 1841 he was married to Sarah A. Huddle, and settled on his farm in Union township, where he still remains.      He had four children, viz?  John, who was born Nov. 3, 1855, and manages the farm for his father.  The other three children have deceased.  John married Miss Siza Lyle, in 1877, and located on the farm.  Richard Campbell's father died in 1870, and his mother three months previous.  They had ten children, all living except Abner and Elizabeth G. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
	THOMAS CARPENTER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 621
	JAMES CARSON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 622
	ROBERT CARSON, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, came to Ohio with his parents in infancy, and was married in 1856 to Sarah A. Masteller, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1825.  They have one son, William Carson, who was born Nov. 25, 1862.  Mr. Carson resided in Coshocton till he was twenty-three years old, then came to Liberty township, and in 1869 moved to Wayne township.  He owns a well improved farm with good buildings. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 622
	CARY FAMILY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 622
	JOSEPH CAREY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 622
	E. D. CASH Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 623
	HENRY CASSEL Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 623
	CASSELL & LEWIS Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 623
	OTHO CASTEEL Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 623
	JAMES CHALFANT Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 623
	JAMES B. CHANCEY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 624
	DAVID J. CHANDLER, shoemaker, was born in Clay township, Aug. 30, 1841, was married Dec. 5, 1865, to Margaret Finney.  They have five children, viz.:  Susan M., Charles H., Edward F., William M., and James B.  He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, being a private in company C, Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and the only Knox county man in the regiment. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 624
	HENRY CHANDLER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 624
	L. H. CHAPIN Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 624
	DAVID CHAPMAN Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 624
	STEPHEN CHAPMAN Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 624
	PHILANDER CHASE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 625
	CORYDON CHAUNCEY, Fredericktown, barber, was born in Berlin township, Knox county, in 1837.  He was married in 1865 to Mary Roberts, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1838.  They have three sons, viz.: Frederick E., born in 1866; Charles N., born in 1870; Burr Roberts, born in 1874.  Mr. Chauncey is the leading barber of Fredericktown.  He keeps everything very neat, and is a type of the perfect gentleman. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 626
	HARVEY CHRISMAN Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 626
	ABEL CLARK, deceased, Jefferson township, born in Green county, Pennsylvania, Nov. 18, 1792, where he lived until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when, in company with his brother, came to Ohio, locating in Carroll county about 1810.  During the time he remained there, he married Mary E. Burtnett, which event occured in 1815, who was born in Green county Pennsylvania, July 21, 1792.  In 1822 he moved with his family to Knox county, locating in Harrison township, where he remained until 1836, when he moved to Jefferson township and there entered a farm of one hundred acres, upon which he erected a hewed log house.  He carried on farming for many years.  Mr. and Mrs. Clark became the parents of nine children, four of whom died in infancy.  The other five children were: Michael Clark, born June 17, 1818, killed at Fort Donelson; Priscilla, born Dec. 3, 1821, died Aug. 24, 1880; Josiah, June 14, 1823, died in 1868; Nancy, Jan. 2, 1825; Amos, Jan. 31, 1834, all of whom have died except Nancy and Amos.  Mrs. Abel Clark died Aug. 27, 1851, aged fifty-nine years.  He married again in 1853, and his second wife died in 1872.  Mr. Clark became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jefferson township and died in January, 1870, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 626
	AMOS CLARK, Jefferson township; farmer and stockraiser; son of Abel and Mary E. Clark, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, Jan. 31, 1834.  In 1836 his father moved to Jefferson township, locating on Military Land lot No. 2, four miles east of Jelloway, where the subject of this sketch was reared and received a common school education.  He remained with his father, farming until 1858, when he bought sixty acres of the home place, and continued to farm the balance of his father's farm in connection with his own.  This he continued until 1860, and then purchased the balance of the home farm, making in all one hundred and sixty acres.  In 1866 he bought one hundred and nine acres of land in Jefferson township, adjoining Ashland county, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, which he owned for three years, and then sold it to Conrad Snider for the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars.      Oct. 5, 1856, he married Sarah C. Heyet, a daughter of Jacob H. and Mary E. Heyet, born in Ashland county, Dec. 3, 1839.  After his marriage he located on the old farm, which he had purchased of his father, where he remained until 1871, and then moved on a farm of one hundred and forty acres adjoining him, on the southwest, which he purchased in the same year, where he at present resides.  May 13, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, in company F, under Captain Cummings, and served until the second day of September of the same year, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out at Columbus, Ohio.  He then returned home, where he remained until the twelfth day of October of the same year, when he enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cavalry under the command of Killpatrick, where he served until June 7, 1865, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at the United States hospital near Columbus, Ohio.  He then returned home, and proceeded to business as usual.  Mr. Clark is at present engaged in the insurance business in connection with farming, being a stockholder in the Jelloway Insurance company, and president of the same.  Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of six children, viz:  Mary E., born Sept. 30, 1857, married J. W. Rice September, 1877, and resides one mile west of Greersville; Jesse E., Septe. 12, 1859, and died Aug. 31, 1864; Emma F., June 10, 1862, and died Sept. 6, 1864; William W., Aug. 16, 1866, and died Sept. 26, 1867; Henry W., Aug. 16, 1868; John B., Feb. 21, 1870.  Only three children are living.      Mr. and Mrs. Clark are members of Wesley chapel of Jefferson township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 626
	BOYD CLARK, farmer, Wayne township, post office Mt. Vernon, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1825, and was married Feb. 15, 1855, to Ann McKee, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, Apr. 11, 1837.  They had the following children: Sarah M., born Dec. 29, 1855; John C. Fremont, May 15, 1857; Eliza J. and Mary Eva, (twins), Oct. 26, 1858; Nancy M., June 22, 1860; Wilmetta, Febr. 22, 1862; Thomas H., Aug. 11, 1864; James W., June 10, 1866; Ida May, May 10, 1868; Steward E., May 17, 1870; Samuel P., Aug. 8, 1872, and Nellie Myrtle, Apr. 16, 1875. Sarah M. died July 16, 1875, and Nancy June 26, 1875.  Mr. Clark settled in Wayne township in 1854, and has resided here since that time. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 627
	JOSIAH CLARK, farmer, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown, was born in Connecticut, and came to Ohio in 1850, and was married in 1871 to Mary A. Wagoman, who was born in Morrow county.  They have two children, Sarah May, and Charlie Russell.      His sister, Betsy Clark, was born in Fairfield county, Connecticut, came to Knox county in 1852, and now resides with her brother, Josiah Clark.      Salina Clark, the mother of Josiah and Betsy, was born in Connecticut in 1778, and came to Ohio in 1852.  She remained here till her death, Dec. 29, 1875. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 627
	SAMUEL CLARK, harness and saddle manufacturer, West Vine street, near Main, Mt. Vernon, a native of Chautauqua county, New York, born September 5, 1821, where he resided until 1838, during which time he received his education, and learned the harness and saddler trade.  His first trip was to Michigan, where he travelled, working as a journeyman, in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois.  He opened a shop at Coldwater, Michigan, and continued in it for one year. In consequence of inflammation of the eyes, he was compelled to retire from business for about two years; after which, in 1842, he went to Mansfield, Ohio, and worked for the firm of Smith & Robinson about eighteen months.  He then went to Wooster and engaged with a Mr. Dyerman, and worked about two years.  He then travelled for about one year with Mr. Dyerman, after which he enlisted in the United States service for twelve months, joining company A, Third Ohio volunteer infantry.  Captain McLaughlin.  The regiment was commanded by Colonel Samuel R. Curtis.      With this regiment Mr. Clark went to Mexico, serving some eighteen months.  After quitting the service he went to Newark and engaged with Captain Owens.  Here he remained only a short time, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and commenced working for the late George W. Hauk.  He continued with Mr. Hauk until 1852.  He then went to Warrentown, Mississippi, and engaged with his brother, where he worked one year.  In consequence of the prevalence of the yellow fever, Mr. Clark came back to Mt. Vernon and was engaged again by Mr. Hauk, with whom he remained till 1858, when his health gave way.  From Mt. Vernon he went to McDonough county, Illinois, and engaged in farming.  In 1862 he returned to Mt. Vernon, and for a third time was employed by Mr. Hauk, and in 1863 he bought out his employer and commenced business on his own account, and has continued it up to the present time.  During part of this time his business has been quite extensive, requiring from three to five hands.  At this time he does all the work himself, and has the gratification of warranting all work manufactured in his shop.  His work embraces heavy and light single and double harness.  Repairing is done on short notice, and on reasonable terms. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 627
	T. L. CLARK, Mount Vernon, a native of Stuben now Yates county, New York, where he received his education in the district schools, was born June 11, 1811, and when fourteen years old engaged with his brother to learn the millwright trade with whom he served seven years, after which he served four years as a machinist, and was one of the partners of the firm under the firm name of Clark & Huston, manufacturers of engines and mill machinery, in which he continued until 1836.  After this he engaged at the millwright business, which he followed until 1841.  He then came to Mt. Vernon where he engaged with the firm of C. & E. Cooper as draftsman and machinist.  He remained in this capacity until 1848 when he became a partner under the firm name of Coopers & Clark, in which he remained until 1858, when he took charge of the Kokosing Iron Works for C. P. Buckingham for one year, when he went to Detroit and engaged in building grain elevators for Dr. Clark and continued with him until the summer of 1864, when he returned to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the mechanical department of Coopers' establishment in which he remained until 1868.  He then went to Kansas City to superintend the State Line machine shops, but not finding things as he expected and as was represented, he returned after a stay of three months.  He then engaged with H. & F. Blandy, of Zanesville, as superintendent of their works in Newark where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he leased the Kokosing Iron Works and conducted them two years, since which he has operated in patent grain shovels for unloading cars of bulk grain in elevators.  This invention relates to machinery for unloading grain in bulk from cars, and consists of a shaft which extends parallel with the line of cars to be unloaded, and is automatically reversed in its revolutions and to which scoops are attached by means of ropes for drawing the grain from the cars as the shaft revolves in one direction and allowing the scoops to be returned as it revolves in the opposite direction.  This is a great labor-saving invention, and does its work more expiditiously and successfully than any former invention.      Mr. Clark was married July 20, 1836, to Miss Amanda Blair, daughter of Luther and Emblem Blair, of Massachusetts, by whom he had a family of five children, viz: T. Eugene, infant son, died; Jerome, Alonzo, and John, two of whom, T. Eugene and John, survive, and both are married and reside in Mt. Vernon.  T. Eugene received his preparatory education at Kenyon college and Otterbein university and read medicine with Dr. E. M. Clark, of Detroit, and graduated at the medical university at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Middletown, Ohio.  In 1863 he entered the United States naval service as surgeon, in which he served two years, after which he engaged in practice in this city in which he continued until recently when in consequence of ill health he retired.  John is engaged with his father and is a practical draftsman, proficient in his profession and a successful business man. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 627
	JACOB CLAYTON, deceased, died at his late residence in Mt. Vernon, Feb. 1, 1881, aged sixty years.  The deceased was a native of Maryland, was born at Rising Sun, in that State on the twenty-ninth of December, 1821.  He came to Ohio in 18151, and settled in this city, where he has resided ever sine.  Mr. Clayton was at his work as usual Monday, in the carpenter shop of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. B. Bounds.  He went home after work, and complained some of the pain about the heart, and at fifteen minutes of twelve o’clock died, it is suppose, of heart disease.  He was a kind neighbor, a good citizen, and an industrious man.  He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and held a certificate of membership in the Knights Templar and Masonic Mutual Aid association of Cincinnati, Ohio. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628
	HENRY CLEMENTS, (deceased), a native of Virginia, was born Feb. 17, 1807.  His father died when he was but a small child.  In 1821 he came with his mother, Anna Clements, to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township.  On the sixth day of March, 1836, he married Miss Eliza A. Hammond, born in Maryland, Sept. 17, 1816, and daughter of Francis S. and Mary Hammond.  They settled in Gambier, remained there three years, and in 1839 he purchased and moved on the farm in Clinton township, now owned and occupied by his heirs, located three miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road.  He deceased Jan. 5, 1867.  They reared a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters.  Four of the children are dead, two sons and two daughters.  Their son James died in the war of 1861, from a wound received at the battle at the mouth of White river. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628
	WILLIAM H. CLEMENTS, Monroe township, travelling salesman and collector for C. C. Cooper & Co., of Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Clements was born in Howard township, this county, Jan. 25, 1829.  He is a machinist by trade, having commenced with C. C. Cooper & Co. as an apprentice, in 1852, and remained in the shop as a mechanic about eight years, then in 1860 became their travelling agent, which position he has since filled, travelling over, and doing business for them, in more than half the States in the Union.      In 1847 he married Miss Elizabeth French, a native of Cornwall, England, born in 1826; and emigrated to America in 1845, and located in Mt. Vernon.  After Mr. Clements marriage to Miss French they settled in Mt. Vernon, remained until 1874, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living.  They reared two children, viz: John W. and Ada Blanche.  John W. Clements was born in Mt. Vernon in 1848, married Miss Didama R. Fresh, of Wayne county, Ohio, in 1870. They settled in Mt. Vernon, where he operated a door, sash, and blind factory about seven years.  In 1878 he sold his establishment and moved on the farm with his father, in Monroe township, and is now engaged in the saw-mill business.  They have one child, Ada B. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628
	JOSEPH CLINE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628
	ANDREW J. CLOW, Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty, born in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1828, and was married in 1854 to Mary Rhodes, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1831.  They have three children, Ellen, S., born in 1858; Joseph C., in 1865; Gertrude M., in 1869.  Mr. Clow came to this county in 1867, located in Brown township, and remained there for eighteen months, then removed to Pike township.  In 1862, Mr. Clow, fell from a load of hay, and after falling was kicked by a horse in the team, and has not been able to do any labor since.  He has suffered a great deal, but is enduring it patiently; is a good citizen, and highly respected.  Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628
	JAMES CLUTTER, Milford township, farmer, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 29, 1806.  In 1818 he came to Morgan township, with his parents, Samuel and Rachel, nee Denman.  His paternal grandfather, William Clutter, was a native of Germany, and some time during the eighteenth century emigrated to New Jersey with his parents, and served in the war of the Revolution.  He married in New Jersey and died there.  They had three children, two of whom grew up: Samuel and Jane, the last of whom married Mr. Karl, and remained in New Jersey.  Samuel married Rachel Denman, and about the year 1800 moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1818, when he emigrated to Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, with the family, and both died there.  They had ten children, viz: Mary, widow of Moses McCollum, who resides in Washington county, Pennsylvania; William, a resident of Marion county, Ohio; Joseph, deceased; Jane (deceased), married Thomas Harris; John, a resident of Morgan township; James, the subject of this sketch; Electa (deceased), married Joseph Green; David (deceased); Cornelia (deceased), married to John Miller, of Morgan township; and Samuel J., living in Kansas.      The subject of this notice remained in Morgan township until he was about twenty-eight years of age.  He then went to Bennington township, Licking county, thence to Clay township, Knox county, and thence to Hartford township, Licking county, and in 1865 he removed to his present farm in Milford township.  His first wife was Elizabeth Larason, daughter of Sylvester Larason, to whom he was married Nov. 12, 1831.  They had six children.  Orlando, two infants, Sylvester W., and Elizabeth have deceased.  Amanda, wife of William Reynolds, resides in Jasper county, Iowa.  His wife died July 21, 1841.  He was married to Rhoda Myers Aug. 18, 1842, who was born Aug. 3, 1816, in Licking county.  They had nine children, eight of whom are living:  Troubadour, born July 12, 1845, in Iowa; Emanuel, Dec. 3, 1846, in Iowa; William O. and James A., twins, born Aug. 9, 1848; Orilla Z., Dec. 7, 1850; Mary E., July 23, 1852, died June 22, 1855; Phila, Oct. 4, 1856; Mancelecta, Nov. 17, 1857; Art, Sept. 10, 1859.      Mr. Clutter’s first purchase of land was a tract of one hundred and four acres in Bennington township, on which he paid two hundred and seventy-five dollars, all he had.  He now owns a comfortable home and has gained a competency.  Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628
	JOHN CLUTTER, Morgan township, farmer, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 13, 1804.  The name Clutter is German, but at what time the ancestors emigrated to America is not known.  The father of the subject of this sketch was born in New Jersey; his parents dying a few years after his birth, he was raised by his uncle.  Samuel Clutter, the father of the subject of this notice, married Rachel Denman in New Jersey, and a few years after emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained, being engaged in farming, until April, 1818, when he came to Knox county, and located near the centre of Morgan township.  He lived here until 1853, when he died, aged eighty-eight years and seven months.  His wife died in 1855, aged about eighty years.  They had a family of ten children.  The living are Mary McCollum, living in Washington county, Pennsylvania; William, a farmer of Marion county, Ohio; John James, of Milford township, and Samuel Jackson of Kansas.  The deceased are Joseph, Jane, Eclecta, David B., and Cornelia.      Mr. Clutter was reared on a farm, and has continued farming all his life.  He was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Sellers, to whom he was married in 1831.  They had two children, viz: Elvira, now the wife of Daniel Newton, of Wood county; Sarah Jane married David Noffsinger, and died in Iowa.  His first wife dying, he in 1835 married Miss Rachel Marlin, a native of Morgan township.  They had twelve children, viz: Elesta, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Zebina Ann, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Van Buren, deceased; Waldon D.; Lucy, married to John Euart, of Morgan township; Samuel Judson, deceased; John A.; Hugh, of Clay township; Nancy Alice; Nora Belle, married to David Bell, and William O.  Mr. Clutter  is a member of the Baptist church, and has the respect and esteem of the community.  Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628
	SAMUEL CLUTTER, Morgan township, farmer, was born in Knox county, Jan. 3, 1827.  His father, William Clutter, was born in New Jersey in 1798, moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and in 1817 to Ohio.  He married Miss Eda McKeown.  They had ten children, seven of whom are yet living.      Samuel was reared on a farm.  He married Miss Ann Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Brown, in March, 1853, a pioneer of whom mention is made.  She was born in March, 1833, in Morgan township.  They had six children, viz: Mary A., wife of Lewis C. Rose, Davis county, Kansas; Anis and Alice (twins); Alice died when four years old; Anis married Abram Mason, and resides in Marion county, Ohio; William J., and David.       Mr. and Mrs. Clutter reside on the old homestead, where Jonathan Brown, father of Mrs. Clutter, first settled.  Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 629
	SAMUEL COCANOWER, Fredericktown, foreman in planning mills, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, emigrated with his parents to this county when a boy and was married in 1868, to Rachel Pinkley, who was born in this county in 1842.  They have one daughter, Mary Ellen, born in 1869.  He is foreman in the planning mills of S. S. Tuttle & Co., in Fredericktown. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 629
PORTRAIT 629a	JOHN COCHRAN Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 629
	MATTHEW COCHRAN, residence West High street, Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Cochran was born Apr. 8, 1794, in Straven, Scotland, and in 1798 his parents emigrated to America and located in Philadelphia, where they resided until 1810,and during which Mr. Cochran received his education, and learned the baking business.  In the year 1814 he went to Baltimore, where he worked at his trade about one and a half years, when he emigrated to Ohio and located in Liberty township, five miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, in the year 1816.  He here took a squatter’s claim in the woods, and erected himself a cabin and commenced to fell the forest.  He resided here about seven years, during which he cleared up about twenty acres, and after which he moved about one mile and erected another cabin and commenced a second time in the woods; and by indomitable energy and perseverance he succeeded in changing the gigantic and unbroken forest into beautiful and productive fields, which yielded him an abundant recompense for his labors, and he was thereby enabled to change his cabin for better improvements.  HE has an excellent farm house and barn and all the necessary out buildings, a good orchard, and one hundred and and fifty acres of finely improved fields, and fifty acres of excellent timber.  The timber of this farm was unusually good.  He resided on the farm place until 1869, when he felt that he had fought the good fight as a pioneer and farmer, and that declining years would compel him to resign his place to younger hands.  He then came to Mt. Vernon, and located on West Vine street, where he resided until Apr., 1876.  He then came to his present location on West High street, where, in his eighty-s8ixth year, he is enjoying the fruits of his labors and the comforts of a pleasant home.  Mr. Cochran has been twice married.  He was first married to Nancy Slemmons, by whom he had had three children, one of whom is living – Alexander (deceased), John S., who resides on and manages the home farm, and James (deceased).  His second wife was Mary E. Brown, daughter of Matthias Brown, of New York city, who is now his companion in his declining years.  Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 629
	CHARLES HENRY COE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 629
	THOMAS D. COE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 630
	W. J. D. F. COE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 630
	JONATHAN COGGINS Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 630
Isaac Cole PORTRAIT 634a	ISAAC COLE EDWIN J. CAMPBELL Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 634
	RACHEL COLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
	SILAS COLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
	THOMAS COLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 631
	WHEELER W. COLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
	WILBERT E. COLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
	WILLIAM M. COLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
	MRS. HULDA COLOPY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
Jacob Colopy (Portrait) 630a	JACOB COLOPY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
	JONATHAN COLOPY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 633
	JOSEPH COLOPY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 632
	JOSEPH H. COLOPY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 633
	TIMOTHY COLOPY Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 633
	JAMES COLVILLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 633
	JAMES COLVILLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 633
	JAMES COLVILLE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 633
	SIMON COLWILL Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 634
	WILLIAM COLWILL Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 634
	D. W. CONDON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 634
	DAVID W. CONDON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 851
	J. T. CONDON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 637
	DANIEL CONGER, deceased, Wayne township born in New Jersey, Dec. 24, 1787, and was married to Mary Burch, who was born in Brooke county, Virginia, in May 1802.  They had the following children:  Elizabeth, born Oct. 28, 1826; Catharine, Jan. 8, 1828; Jane, Oct. 31, 1829; Mary D., Jan. 31, 1832; Daniel L., Sep. 27, 1833; Hannah, Dec. 27, 1835; Martha E., ____, Mr. Daniel Conger died Nov. 4, 1845, and Catharine, Sept. 28, 1835.  They came to Knox county in 1825.  Mrs. Conger is still residing in this township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 634
	JOHN CONKEL, farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard.  He was born June 6, 1844 in Union township.  In 1866 he was married to Miss Charlotte Hammon and settled on the farm where he now resides.  They had three children, Laura, Charles and Birchfield.      His father was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio at an early day.  His mother came from the old country.  His father has been dead twenty-five years.  His mother is still living on 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 634
	SAMUEL N. COOK, painter, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne county, Ohio in 1846 and was married in 1872, to Mary E. Johnston, who was born in 1849.  He was a soldier in the late war, in the Ninth Ohio volunteer cavalry, and served three years.  Mr. Cook received a liberal education.  He has been correspondent for several popular daily newspapers, such as the Cincinnati Times-Star,  New York Democratic News, and Mt. Vernon Republican.  He has written and produced a number of dramatic pieces.  The Mayor's Daughter, has been rendered publicly in this city, and highly commented and applauded.  Two other of his productions, entitled The Wanderers Return, and Paul Black, (a war drama), are popular.  Mr. Cook is engaged in the carriage factory of Stephens & Scott, as painter. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 634
	STEVEN COOK Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 634
	AARON COOPER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 636
C. C. Cooper (Portrait) 638a	C. C. COOPER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 638a
	CHARLES COOPER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 635
	MRS. REBECCA COOPER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 635
	WILLIAM C. COOPER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 635
	DENNIS CORCORAN, wholesale and retail dealer in malt liquors, cigars and tobacco, Corcoran block, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Corcoran was born in Kings county, Ireland, Aug. 4, 1822.  When nine years of age his parents emigrated to America and located at Columbus, Ohio, where they resided until 1848.  Young Corcoran, during his residence, obtained his education and learnt the carriage business.  In 1848 he settled in Mt. Vernon, and commenced the carriage business, in which he continued until 1870.  He then engaged in the liquor business, which he still continues, as a wholesale and retail dealer in malt liquors, cigars and tobacco.  He is also sole agent for Wainwright's ale, and Born & Company's lager beer, and proprietor of the Excelsior bottling works, stone front, West Vine street.  This is the only first-class house in this line in the city. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 -  Page 636
	JOHN T. CORNELL Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 636
	DAVID COSFORD Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 636
	EMMETT COTTON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 636
	EMMETT S. COTTON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 637
	J. BENT COTTON Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 637
	JACOB COUTER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 637
	W. H. COVER Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 637
	DAVID JAMES COX, farmer, Pike township, past office Democracy; was born in Richland county, in 1854, and was married Aug. 2, 1875, to Elizabeth Shultz, who was born in this county.      When Mr. Cox was one year old his parents moved to Fayette county, Illinois, where they remained six years, then returned to Knox county, Brown township.  In 1879 David Cox located in Amity.  He owns a pleasant home, and is a good citizen. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 639
	HARVEY COX Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 638
W. B. Cox (Portrait) 722a	W. B. COX Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 722a
	WILLIAM COX Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 637
	WILLIAM D. COX Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 638
	ALBERT L. CRAFT, millwright, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown; born in Morris township, February 1, 1844, and was married December 30, 1785, to Susannah Zolman, who was born in Morris township, December 14, 1845.  They have two children - Levi, born Oct. 12, 1876; and Carrie born June 14, 1878.      Mr. Craft is one of the members of the firm in the Craft mill, and is an energetic man. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 639
	HEADLY MILLER CRAFT, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown; was born in Morris township in 1841, and was married in 1868 to Ellen Baxter, who was born in Middlebury township, in 1846.  They have two sons - Gaylord, born July 22, 1872; and William, April 11, 1877.      Mr. Craft engaged in the milling business in 1867 with John Boggs, and is still engaged in that business. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 639
	CRAIG & BLACK Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 39
	JONATHAN CRAIG Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 639
	JOSEPH CRANE Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 639
	HIGHLEN CRAVEN Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 639
	LEANDER CRAVEN, Wayne township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown; born in Virginia in 1818, came to Ohio at the age of fifteen years, and married in 1842, Leonora Ewers, who was born in Virginia in 1824.  They have three daughters: Marcilla, now Mrs. Elias Cooper, who resides in this county; Lililias, now Mrs. Milton Grove, who resides in Morrow county, and Linna Craven resides with her parents.  Mr. Craven has lived in this township about twenty-four years, and is a good and respected citizen. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 640
	MARTIN CREVELING Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 640
	WILLIAM CRIDER, SR., farmer, Miller township, was born in Virginia Jan. 19, 1810.  He came of patriotic and heroic stock, his grandfather having been a soldier in the War of Independence, and his father, Martin Crider, a soldier in the War of 1812.  Mr. Crider has yet in his possession the old powder horn his grandfather carried in the war.  Martin Crider married Mary Nieswanger, a native of Virginia.  In 1820 they came to Ohio and settled in Harrison county, where they remained three years, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and lived for some time in Pleasant township, and thence to Miller township, and from thence to Union county, where they died.  They had ten children.  The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, or rather was reared to clearing up the land for farming.  He attended school but little but acquired sufficient knowledge of the rudiments to be able to transact business.  He is a man who reads considerable, and has always been industrious.  He married Miss Sarah Crottinger, a native of Pennsylvania, and in 1838 moved on the farm on which he now resides.  They had a family of fifteen children, five of whom are yet living, viz.: Madison, Christina (married to Henry Rine), Phidelia (married to Fletcher Frost), Abigail (married to Charles Hooker), and William.  Mr. Crider is a good farmer as is seen in his improvements, and the taste generally displayed on his farm. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 640 NOTE:  Martin Crider can be found at Find A Grave Memorial No. 67719117
	ALEXANDER CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born September 11, 1845. His father came from Pennsylvania in 1806, and commenced life on the old farm. He died September 16, 1854. His mother still remains on the old farm. She is seventy-four years of age. Alexander Critchfield was married to Matilda Humbert January 12, 1867. They have one child - Emma born August 22, 1868. Alexander Critchfield enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in 1863. He went from Mt. Vernon to Chattanooga and remained at this point until the army started on the Atlanta campaign. After this he went to Florence, Alabama, as a scout, then to Gailesville and to Rome, Georgia, then to Kingston, and remained there until the army went with Sherman to the sea. From there they went through North and South Carolina, then to Richmond, Virginia, then to Alexandria, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky, and were there mustered out of the United States service. They then went to Camp Denison and were mustered out of the State service, and then went home. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 640
Benjamin Critchfield Mrs. Mary Critchfield 642a	BENJAMIN CRITCHFIELD, deceased, Howard township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1797.  He came to Knox county in about 187, settling in this township, near where the village of Howard is now located.  He was married September 11, 1820, to Miss Mary Welker.  Their children were:  Sabry, born May 3, 1822; Horace, January 9, 1824; Calvin, August 2, 1827; Marvin, January 20, 1829; Christie Ann, April 28, 1833; Nathaniel, February 25, 1835; Mary, April 27, 1838, and Roland, March 24, 1840.  Mary died Marcy 9, 1847.  Benjamin Critchfield died February 16, 1878. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 640
	CHARLES CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, moved to Knox county in 1806, and settled on what is now known as the Upper Prairie Indian lands, in Union township, near Owl creek.  He remained with his father at this place until he was twenty-three years of age.  He was married in 1829 and moved to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he remained seventeen years, and then removed to Knox county, and settled on the old homestead until his death, March 23, 1865.  The day of his burial was his eighty-fifth birthday.      Charles Critchfield buried his first wife in Union township in 1848 and married again in 1850.  He had three children by his first wife.  Amanda, who died in 1848 in her seventeenth year; George, who moved to California, and Charles Edward, for some time a probate judge.  He had three children by his second marriage - Albert Judson ( who died September 15, 1851, in his sixth year) and Ellen, who still remains at home.    Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	CHARLES EDWARDS CRITCHFIELD, lawyer and probate judge, Mt. Vernon, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, November 25, 1836.  He spent his youthful days on a farm and teaching school.  When seventeen years of age he went to California via Nicaraugua, and remained there seven years.  He was engaged in mining about two years, and two years teaching, and three years on a ranch near San Jose.  He returned to Ohio and settled in Mt. Vernon in March, 1862, and commenced reading law with Major W. R. Sapp, and read law two years.  He was admitted to the bar in 1864.  He was in practice about four years.  In 1869 he was elected probate judge on the Democratic ticket by a majority of one hundred and seventy-four, although the county was Republican.  He was reelected in 1872.  His majority was four hundred and twenty-five.  He served to February, 1876.  He then went to the practice of the law, and was thus engaged until the fall of 1878,  when he was again elected probate judge by a majority of nine hundred, and which office he now holds.  He was married to Miss Amanda Vincent, October, 2, 1862, by whom he had two children - a son and a daughter. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 640
	HARRIS CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Howard township, Knox county, January 9, 1820.  He married in 1851, and commenced business on his farm in Harrison township, where he lived fourteen years.  On the fourth of April, 1868, he moved to the farm which he now owns.  They have four children - Dora, Emma, Ellen, and Rosa.  Dora was married to Clark Stow, December 19, 1872;  Ellen to Legrand Britton, August 24, 1876; Emma to O. C. Farmer, January 1, 1879; Rosa to W. T. Horn, January 1, 1880. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	LEWIS CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard.  He was born August 17, 1812, in Howard township.  In 1827 he moved to Brown township, remained there five years and then removed to Howard township.  In 1838 he was married to Mary Jane Dawson and immediately settled on his present home, where he has lived forty-two years.  They had the following children:  Joseph, John Eleanor, and Mary Jane.      Joseph enlisted in the Sixty-fifth regiment, O. V. I., in 1861, for three years; served his time, then reenlisted and was known as one of the old veterans.  At the close of the late war he went to Texas with a number of other members of the Sixty-fifth regiment, remained there until the following January when he received an honorable discharge.      John married Mary E. Hammond in March, 1864, and settled in Union township on a farm only a short distance from the old home.  They have two children, Lulu and Keturah.      Eleanor married M. Welch in 1868 and moved to a farm near Howard township.  They had two children, Lewis and Charles.      Mary Jane married Thornton Whitworth in 1869, and settled in Howard township.  They have two children, Abraham and Sarah E.      Mr. Lewis Critchfield has lived in Howard township sixty-three years. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	MARTIN CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Howard township, March 10, 1840.  He remained at home until 1868, when he went to Union township and worked on a farm.  He was married to Mary Bradish July 4, 1870, and came to Howard township, where he has remained.  His business has been farming, the greater part of the time. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	JOHNSON CROUCH, Pleasant township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1819.  He moved to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1836, with his parents, Robert and Mary Crouch.  In 1842 he married Miss Hannah Gault, born in Coshocton county, in 1826, daughter of Adam and Margaret Gault.  They settled on a farm in Coshocton county, remained there until 1867, when they moved to Knox county, purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, on which they are now living.  He has followed farming and stock raising as his vocation.  Their union resulted in six children, only one of the number is now living, viz: Margaret, who married John Warman, and is living in Pleasant township. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	FRED S. CROWELL, photographer, Ward's block, corner Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Crowell was born April 26, 1844, in Huron county, Ohio, where he resided until 1856, when his parents came with their family to Mt. Vernon.  His first Business engagement was with Moses White, bookseller, and stationer, as salesman, with whom he continued two years.  He then engaged with Hyde & Young, jewelers, where he remained two years, when he engaged in the photograph business in Payne's gallery, where he worked one year.  He then went to Norwalk and engaged with Mr. Benham, with whom he remained only a short time.  He went into Week's gallery at Sandusky city and operated there some eighteen months.  In the galleries at Cleveland, and at Erie, Pennsylvania, where he operated a short time in each city.  In 1866 Mr. Crowell went to Fredericktown and bought a gallery there, and run it for three years.  In 1869 he sold out and came to Mt. Vernon and opened out an establishment, which he still continues.  He carries a stock of about five thousand dollars, consisting of a general supply of photo material, picture frames, art goods and cards.  His establishment is the largest in the city, and the past productions of this gallery establishes the abilities of Mr. Crowell as an artist, and assures all patrons of obtaining first-class work. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	M. L. CRUNKELTON, Pike township, retired, post office, North Liberty, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1816, and came to Ohio when seven years of age.  He was married in 1845 to Caroline Roch, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1819.  They had three children:  Daniel (deceased), born in 1846, Sophia, in 1849, and James in 1851.      Mrs. Caroline Crunkelton died in Knox county, Ohio, in September, 1879.      Mr. Crunkelton came to Knox in 1854.  He is a farmer by occupation, has always been in that business until his recent retirement. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	JAMES CRUNKELTON, Pike township; farmer; post office, North Liberty; born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1851, was married in 1870, to Catharine L. Allen, who was born in Richland county in 1851.  They have four children:  Curtis O., born in 1873; Harry L., in 1876; Lucinda E., in 1878, and Daniel, in 1880.  They came to this county in 1854, and have lived here since that time. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	WILLIAM CRAIG CULBERTSON, Mt. Vernon, attorney, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1847.  He spent his youth on the farm, and attending the schools of the district during the winter.  He is the second son of Franklin and Narcissa Culbertson nee Craig.  In 1865 he attended the academy at Elder's ridge for two years and then in 1867 he entered the junior class in Washington and Jefferson college at Cannonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, from which college he graduated in the fall of 1869.  He came to Wooster, Ohio, and entered the law office of General Aquilla Wiley.  He read law until 1871, when he was admitted to the bar in the fall of that year.  In January, 1872, Mr. Culbertson came to Mt. Vernon, and formed a partnership with Mr. McClellan under the firm name of McClellan & Culbertson, which firm still exists. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 641
	ROWLAND D. CULP, farmer, is a native of Clay, was born September 9, 1848, and has lived on the farm of his birth ever since.  He was married to Miss Mollie F. Harrington, of Martinsburgh, February 8, 1872.  Mr. Culp engaged in farming for several years, but owning to ill health he procured a printing press and material, and is engaged in the job and card printing business at present. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 642
	ANSON D. CUMINGS, Brown township (deceased), only son of Gilbert and Betsey Cumings, was born in Oneida county.  New York, Aug. 25, 1828.  His father was a farmer, and emigrated to Summit county, Ohio, near Akron, in 1838.  His parents being unable to send their son to college, he received his education in the country schools of his day; attended the union schools of the city of Akron for a short time, and finished his education at the Haskell academy in Loudonville.  He early developed a disposition to take care of himself, and engaged in teaching and other enterprises, among which the insurance agency seemed to afford a field for which he was peculiarly adapted.      Nov. 10, 1852, while a clerk in the American house — then the principal hotel of Cleveland—he married Clara R. daughter of Erastus and Julia Eldridge.  After his marriage he engaged for some time in furnishing large contracts of timber for ship-building on the lake shore, and also in taking and filling contracts for timber for railroad purposes.  In 1853 he moved upon a farm three miles south of Loudonville, in Ashland county, where he remained with his family six years, engaged in teaching, farming, and lumbering, filling the office justice of the peace and other township offices, and acting as an insurance agent.      In 1859 he removed to Jelloway, in Knox county, where he remained until his death.  After removing to Jelloway he engaged more earnestly in the insurance work, and in 1864 organized the Farmers' Insurance company, of Jelloway, a mutual company, of which he was for several years the secretary and general manager.  In 1868 he reorganized the company, changing it from a mutual to a joint stock company, with a paid up capital of one hundred thousand dollars.      In 1863—during the Rebellion—he organized a company of the Ohio National guards, of which he was elected captain.  In the spring of 1864 his company was called into the hundred days' service, and on the Knox county companies reporting at Columbus it was discovered that there were not positions for all the commissioned officers, and it being known that Captain Cumings was interested in the new insurance company just organized, and from which he could illy be spared, he was offered three hundred dollars to resign in favor of some other officer.  To this proposition he answered: "Not a cent of your money, but if my company is willing I will resign."  The mailer was laid before the company and a vote taken, resulting in an unanimous vote to retain Captain Cumings.  That he went to the front and won the respect and confidence of the entire regiment for bravery on the field and kindness to his men, will be attested by many of the old One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard.      In 1869 a cancer developed itself in his lower jaw and necessitated an appeal to the surgeon, and at Good Samaritan hospital, Cincinnati, he had the entire bone of the lower jaw removed.  The operation, however, was not successful, the disease causing his death June 26, 1870, after months of the greatest misery, but of which he was never heard to complain.      During his residence in Jelloway he was for a time deputy revenue assessor, and held a recruiting officer's commission under Governor Brough.  He also held the office of postmaster for a number of years, and at his death his wife succeeded him to the office, which she still retains.      After his death the insurance company of which he was the founder was removed to Howard, Ohio.      Cut down by disease in the prime of vigorous manhood many of his cherished aims for the future were frustrated.      The fruit of his marriage was seven children, viz: Three sons — Frank A., Edgar L., and Anson B.; and four daughters — Julia D., M. Ella, Emma J., and Ansonette A.      The following, written by a friend at the time of his death, deserves a place in this sketch:      "Died at his residence at Jelloway, Knox county, Ohio, on Sunday, the twenty-sixth inst., of cancer.  A. B. Cummings, aged forty-two years.  Anson B. Cummings was born in Oneida county, New York, and has resided at Jelloway for twelve years.  He leaves a wife, seven children, and many friends to mourn his loss.  No one in this community enjoyed a more extensive acquaintance.  Possessed of an honest, moral, genial, and pleasant character, with him to form acquaintance was to enlist a friend.      "The Farmers' Insurance company, of Jelloway, owes its existence to the vigorous and fertile mind of Mr. Cummings, as he conceived the idea of its organization, and held an important office in the company from its beginning, until disease compelled him to resign.      "In 1864, when Governor Brough called on the National Guard of Ohio, Mr. Cummings took command of company F, of the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, and spent the summer in the service.  That he was an acceptable officer, kind, pleasant, and agreeable to his command, every member of the regiment will attest.  During his early life a cancer developed itself on his lower lip ; this was treated with the knife by a surgeon in Cleveland, with apparent success, as no signs appeared of its return until some four years since it began to develop itself on his chin. In November, 1868, he went to Cincinnati, where Professor Blackman removed his entire lower jaw, back to the angle, or behind the teeth, but without success, as the dread disease remained, and gradually grew and increased in effect.  To undertake to describe his sufferings would be vain.  A faint idea of his sufferings could only be conveyed by having been with him.  But through all he was not known to murmur or complain.  That he died the death of a Christian, we think we have abundant evidence.  Thus passed away one dear to his family, beloved by his friends, and respected by all.      "At a meeting of the directors of the Farmers' Insurance company, at Jelloway, Ohio, on the second inst., E. L. Waltz. E. A. Pealer, and James Barron, were appointed a committee on resolutions expressive of the feelings of the company, on the decease of one of its members. The following was read and adopted:       " 'Whereas, In the events of His providence, it has seemed well for the Great Dispenser of all good to remove from our midst our friend and brother, A. B. Cummings, and      " 'Whereas, The deceased was one to whom we were wont to look for counsel, as a corporate body, whose instructions were wise, and one whose society was always pleasant, therefore      '' 'Rezolved, That in his death we feel deeply humiliated, and recognize in his decease the divine workings of the Ruler of nations and of men, and that in his death we greatly sympathize with his bereaved family.      '"Resolved, That these resolutions be recorded on the company's journal, and that a copy thereof be presented to the family of the deceased as a token of our appreciation of his loss to the community, this company, and his family, and that a copy be furnished each of the county papers for publication.                                                                E. L. WALTZ, Secretary. JAMES BARRON, Treasurer." Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 642
	JOSEPH CUMMINS, Milford township, farmer, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, Mar. 19, 1833, son of Thomas and Christina Cummins, nee Fogle, of whom mention is made in the biography of William Cummins.  The subject of this notice spent his youth on a farm.  In 1854 he went to Licking county, Ohio, and remained there until about 1862, when he came to Knox county and located in Mt. Liberty, where he remained for some time.  He was married to Miss Ann Eliza Vankirk in September, 1864.  They have three children: Carrie Virginia, born July 12, 1865; Thomas, June 17, 1867; William, May 11, 1871.  Mr. Cummins is a good citizen, quiet in his manners and hospitable to those who call on him.      Mrs. Cummins' father, Asher Vankirk, was a native of Pennsylvania.  He married Elizabeth Stephenson. They came to Ohio in 1862, and have had six children, four of whom are living.  The parents are both dead.  The living are Thomas, a physician in Delaware county, Ohio; Rachel, Adie, and Mrs. Cummins. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 643
	WILLIAM CUMMINS, farmer, Milford township, was born in Reckingham county, Virginia, Dec. 1, 1823, and is the son of Thomas and Christian Cummins nee Fogle, both born, reared, married, and died in Virginia.  They had a family of ten children, seven of whom are living: Catharine, Nancy M., Amanda, Elizabeth, Edmund, Joseph, and the subject of this notice, who spent his youth on the farm until 1852, when he went to Texas, but remained only a short time.  While in Galveston he had an attack of cholera.  He shortly after went to Licking county, Ohio, and in 1855 married Miss L. Butcher.  He remained in Licking county until 1858, when he came to Knox county, where he has since lived.      Mr. Cummins is a self-made man.  While a resident of Licking county he borrowed five dollars out, of which he has made a competency.  He is one of the leading men of the township and county, and is a zealous advocate of the doctrines of the Democratic party, which honored him in 1871, by electing him infirmary director, which office he filled with credit.  At the expiration of his term he refused a second nomination.  He has held many of the different township offices.  He is social and affable in his manners. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 643
	ELI S. CUNNINGHAM, Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty; born in Wayne county, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1833, and was married May 17, 1855, to Sarah A. Oberholtzer, who was born in Holmes county, Ohio, June 12, 1837.  They have six children: Marrietta, born July 9, 1857; Milton J., Feb. 22, 1860; Alvin H., Mar. 16, 1862; Dillman F., Jan. 25, 1866; Matthew E., Aug. 2, 1868 and William, Mar. 27, 1872.  Mr. Cunningham came to this county about 1862, and owns a well improved farm with all the modern improvements.  He is engaged in farming, all owns a threshing machine, threshing all kinds of grain, and is an active and enterprising citizen. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 643
	JAMES J. CUNNINGHAM Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 643
	JOHN CUNNINGHAM, ESQ. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 643
	MILTON M. CUNNINGHAM, Pike township, farmer, post office Democracy; born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1835, and was married in 1862 to Jane Armstrong, who was born in Canada in 1837.  They have one daughter, Arminta, born July 18, 1863.  Mrs. Cunningham came to Knox county in 1838.  They own a well improved farm with good buildings. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 643
	HENRY B. CURTIS, Mt. Vernon, retired.  His father, Zarah Curtis, was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1762.  At an early age he entered the Continental army, in which he served five years, to the end of the war of the Revolution; first under his father, Jotham Curtis, of Watertown, Connecticut; subsequently joining Captain Webbs company, in which command he remained till the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge with the rank of a sergeant.      In 1785 Zarah Curtis married Phally Yale, eldest daughter of Aaron and Anna (Hosmer) Yale.  She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1762.  Her family was quite prominent in its day in New England, and descended from a distinguished family in the Old World.      The first remove of the parents of the subject of this sketch was from Connecticut to Charlotte, Vermont, where some of his oldest sisters were born.  His oldest brother, the late Hon. Hosmer Curtis, whose death occurred at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1874, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut The family subsequently removed to and settled upon a farm on the west side of Lake Champlain, near the village of that name, where they resided until 1809, when they removed to Newark, Licking county, Ohio.      His father, a few years later, purchased a small farm on the South fork of Licking river, where the family resided at the time Henry B. left home.  This farm was subsequently sold and another purchased on the North fork, in Washington township, in the same county, where the father died, beloved and respected as a Christian minister, in 1849, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.      Henry B. was born near the village of Champlain, New York, Nov. 28, 1799, and was nine years old when his father removed to Ohio.  Many of the events of that long journey are still vivid in his memory.      At that time (1809), Newark was but a small hamlet of about fifty or sixty rude homes, mostly log houses.  He can recall but two frame houses in the place, both very small tenements.      The opportunities of a thorough education were somewhat limited at this time.  Henry was sent to the private school of Roswell Mills, and at a later period to that of Amos H. Caffee.  To their faithful teaching, and that of some private instructors in a partial classical course, and his own hard study, he is indebted for an education, liberal under the circumstances, though falling far short of the plane to which his ambition inclined.  During the whole course of his school studies he also assisted his father in his farm work, and after he left his boyhood's home, though contrary to his indulgent parents' wishes, he continued to pay to them all his wages and earnings, except his necessary expenses, until he was twenty years of age, when his father remarked to him that he had nothing to give him as an outset in life but his education, and he therefore peremptorily insisted that he should retain all his earnings of the ensuing year.  This constituted all the advancement young Curtis ever received from his parents, except a small patrimony at the sale of the homestead after his father's death.      At the age of seventeen young Curtis left his father's farm to make a home for himself.  On the invitation of his brother, Hosmer, then a practicing lawyer in Mt. Vernon, he came to this place.      On the twenty-eighth day of April. 1817, young Curtis crossed the Kokosing, and paying the boy who ferried him across the river a silver sixpence, he found himself in Mt. Vernon, walking up Main street with, the sum of twenty-five cents.      With the recommendation and assistance of his brother Hosmer, he obtained a situation in the clerk's office, where his assiduity to business and ready skill soon secured him the appointment of deputy clerk.  As he progressed in knowledge, nearly all the duties of that responsible position fell upon him.  Elder James Smith was then clerk of the court, but being somewhat advanced in years, he removed to a farm, leaving the office and its duties almost wholly to Mr. Curtis.      This official connection with the business and records of the court brought him into immediate contact and personal acquaintance with the principal lawyers of that period, who were then regular and constant practitioners at the court.  Among them were Charles P. Sherman, Thomas Ewing, William Stanberry, Wyllys Silliman, William W. Irwin, Charles B. Goddard, Samuel W. Culbertson, Alexander Harper, and several others, all of whom resided in other counties, but, as was the custom then, travelled on the circuit.  These distinguished men of the bar, nearly all of whom then or subsequently held high political stations in the State, and who are identified with its history, constituted the bar of Knox county, for the foreign lawyers were as much a part of the court as the resident judges and lawyers.      As an evidence of the kindly estimation in which the judges of the court held young Curtis, after he had retired from the clerk's office and while studying for the bar, the court, then composed of four judges, unanimously appointed him to the responsible office of recorder for the county, a situation which he held seven years.  This appointment, in the outset of life was a material aid, and its fruits enabled him to supply himself with a good law library, which soon became one of the best in the country.      He entered the office of his brother, Hosmer, early in the fall of 1820, and Dec. 9, 1822, he presented himself with his credentials before Judges Hitchcock and Pease of the supreme court, for examination and admission to the bar.  The examination took place at the Franklin house, in Newark, in presence of several resident lawyers.  The oath was administered to him by Judge Peter Hitchcock.      When Mr. Curtis entered upon the practice of the law there were but two other resident lawyers in the county, his senior brother, Hosmer, and an older man, Samuel Mott, esq., who soon after withdrew from the profession, to engage in other pursuits.  But the field was soon further occupied by the advent of others who were fellow students, but who came in a little later.  Among these were John W. Waiden, Benjamin S. Brown, Columbus Delano, Rollin C. Hurd, and John K. Miller.  All of them were able and successful lawyers.  Mr. Warden and Mr. Brown died early, and Mr. Miller and Mr. Hurd some time later.  To the foreign members of the bar still practising at the court, were added Henry Stanberry and the late H. H. Hunter, who entered practice about the same date as Mr. Curtis.      In the earlier years of his practice Mr. Curtis' professional "circuit" embraced the counties of Licking, Richland, Delaware and Coshocton; with freqent extensions, in special cases, to the courts in Lancaster, Zanesville, Wooster, Canton, Norwalk, and Sandusky.  In addition to these regular terms of the supreme court, and the United States circuit and district courts at Columbus, were embraced in his practice.      Mr. Curtis was admitted to the bar of the United States supreme court, Washington city, Jan. 9, 1863.  After a successful practice before the courts of his country for half a century, in December, 1872, Mr. Curtis concluded to withdraw from the legal field, and devote his remaining life to the care and protection of his large and increasing possessions, which had been somewhat neglected.  This anniversary was held at his beautiful homestead, "Round Hill" (a cut of which appears elsewhere), and was in the form of a supper given to the resident members of the bar, with invitations to, and attended by many, old time friends, from adjacent counties and more distant parts of the State.  It was a cheerful and happy occasion, bringing up pleasant reminiscences of the past, and the mutual interchange of kind greetings.  On that occasion Mr. Curtis announced to his brethren that he declined all new retainers hereafter, and left the field for his younger brethren.      On the subject of politics Mr. Curtis wrote:      "In politics I am a Republican, and was present and took part in the convention in which that party was organized.  I was of the Whig school, and united in the recommendation for the reorganization of the party under the new name of Republican.  Although I have ever preserved my identity with my party and acted with them in all their political movements, yet I never, except in one instance, allowed myself to become a candidate for a political office.  I do not, of course, include city offices, of mayor and councilman, whose duties I have been called to fulfil, nor the candidacy for the Constitutional convention in the spring of 1873, to which I was pressingly urged by many of both parties, and which election I lost by reason of the Prohibition party having a third candidate in the field.  The exception to which I refer was in 1840, when the Whig party selected me as their candidate for Congress from this district, then composed of Knox, Coshocton, Holmes, and Tuscarawas counties.  My district was one hundred miles long and terribly Democratic.  I stumped the district considerably during the campaign, as I did also other counties in the State the same season.  I made a good run, cutting down my opponent's majority about one thousand votes but not quite enough to defeat him.  It was pleasant enough to go out and make political speeches for the principles of the party with which I acted, but I had no taste to run for office, or to make public speeches in my own interest.  Twice after this I was designated by our county conventions as Knox county's choice as candidate for governor, but in both instances I prevented my name going before the general convention.  My name has also, on several occasions, been presented by my friends and members of the bar for the judgeship."      In the winter of 1840-41 Mr. Curtis represented Knox county in the State board of equalization.  For twelve years he held the office of trustee of the Central Ohio Lunatic asylum, and was the acting president of the board.  Mr. Curtis was influential in leading Bishop Chase to establish Kenyon college in its present location, as will be seen by reference to the chapter devoted to that institution.  Mr. Curtis was for many years one of the trustees of the college, and while on the board, inaugurated the policy of the survey and sale of the college lands, thus substituting for an irresponsible tenantry a class of proprietary farmers in the immediate neighborhood of the college.      When Mr. Curtis came to the bar the court docket was full of cases against the "Owl Creek bank, of Mt. Vernon," or rather against its members, for it had no corporate existence.  The subject was finally referred to a special commissioner and receiver, to which honorable position Mr. Curtis was appointed by the supreme court.  After years of investigation and arduous labor, the intricate affairs of the bank were brought to a satisfactory conclusion.  Every dollar of an outstanding liability was paid, and the losses adjusted and equalized among the several members of the unfortunate association on acknowledged principles of equity and justice.  Mr. Curtis' proceedings, and their results, were fully approved and confirmed by the court, with flattering commendation.      In 1848 Mr. Curtis organized the Knox County bank, and has been connected with that institution as its president ever since:      When aid and action were called for to obtain railroads, Mr. Curtis' services were required and freely given.  He was the director of the first railroad that entered Mt. Vernon, and also of several embryo schemes that failed after large expenditures.  He is now a director of the Lake Erie division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.  He was also a large contributor and advocate of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad.      In the spring of 1873 Mr. Curtis received from. President Grant the appointment and commission of a member of the board of visitors at West Point, to attend and report upon the examination of the graduating class, and to examine into the condition and administration of the affairs of the institution generally.      While in this service he learned that some eighty youths, children of professors, officers and employes of West Point, were destitute of the usual means of common school education, except as to a few that had the advantages of private instruction.  Being on a military reserve, the jurisdiction of which was in the Government, it was held that the residents were not included within the provisions for the benefits of he common school system of the State of New York.  He therefore introduced a resolution recommending that Congress make provision by a suitable appropriation for maintaining, at West Point, a common school for the benefit of the children of that station. The resolution was also supported by Senator Sherman and Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, and finally unanimously adopted, and its recommendations incorporated in the report of the board.      July 2, 1823, Mr. Curtis was married to Miss Elizabeth Hogg, daughter of Percival and Elizabeth Hogg, of Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio.  She was a niece of William Hogg, esq., of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, an old and successful merchant.  His family had but recently arrived in this country.  They were from Chester-le-street, Durham county, England, where Miss Hogg was born June 22, 1803.  By this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Curtis became the parents of eight children—six daughters and two sons—three only of whom survive—two daughters and one son.  Their eldest daughter and child, Elizabeth, was married to Mr. John Gershora Plimpton, a merchant of New York city, Feb. 19, 1845.  Mr. Plimpton died in Mt. Vernon Apr. 18, 1869, leaving three children—the eldest is now married to George C. Clark, esq., of New York, and a second daughter recently married to Mr. John B. Beardsley, a prominent druggist of Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Curtis' daughter, Ella, is married to the Hon. Joseph C. Devin, late senator from Knox county in the State legislature, and a practicing lawyer, residing in Mt. Vernon.  They also have three children.  Mr. Curtis' son, Henry Lambton Curtis, is a graduate of Kenyon college, of the class of 1862.  He was married to Miss Lucia Chittenden, of Keokuk, Iowa, Oct. 28, 1868.  He is a lawyer, and a partner with Mr. Devin.  Mr. Curtis has also a grandchild, Emma Bridge, only child of a deceased daughter (Ada), who was married to Mr. Louis K. Bridge, of New York, also since deceased.  Miss Bridge made her home since the death of her parents with her grandparent until the time of her marriage with Mr. Charles D. Seebarger, of Chicago, Oct. 15, 1879.  Mrs. Curtis died on the seventeenth day of July, 1878, aged seventy-five years, honored and respected by all.      Mr. Curtis' pecuniary means have constantly kept growing from his memorable quarter, until to-day he is classed among the county's wealthiest citizens.  Notwithstanding all this rapid accumulation, he has responded in a liberal manner to every benevolent and public enterprise that has been brought to his attention.      His time and money were freely given during the late Rebellion in raising volunteers.      Holding, at the period of the war, as now, the appointment of United Slates commissioner for the northern district of Ohio, his judicial services were often required in disposing of cases connected with the military movements of that time. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 644
	HOSMER CURTIS, lawyer, born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, on the twenty-ninth of July, 1788, was the eldest son ot Zara Curtis, a Revolutionary soldier and officer in Colonel Sheldon's regiment of dragoons of the Connecticut line.  On his mothers side he was allied to the Hosmers and Yales of Connecticut.  In 1809 his father's family removed to Ohio, and settled in Newark; while he himself, then about twenty years old, removed with the family, and after a few years spent in school teaching, during which time he read law under the preceptorship of Edward Herrick and Jeremiah Munson, then eminent lawyers of Newark, was admitted to the bar in 1813, and prepared his first briefs in a little office that stood where the Newark market house now stands.  The next year he served in the campaign for the relief of Fort Meigs, under General Harrison, and in the fall of 1814 married Miss Eleanor Melick, of Turkey Foot, Pennsylvania, a lady of distinguished excellence of character, and the mother of all his children except the youngest, Samuel P. Curtis, late of Washington city, now deceased, who was a son by a second marriage.  In 1815 he removed to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, where he regularly attended the courts from the commencement of his practice.  The first prosecuting attorney for the county, an office that he filled for many years, he became the leading resident lawyer; and as nearly all the younger members of the profession in the county, who were admitted to the bar for the first fifteen or twenty years, were pupils from his office, he became generally known as "the father of the bar."  He continued in full practice in Knox county forty-two years, and for a considerable part of that time, as was then the custom, he also regularly attended the courts of the adjoining counties, and the United States court at Columbus, Ohio.  His great industry and indefatigable labor in the preparation of his cases, more than the power of his oratory or quick perception of his points, established his reputation for a clear knowledge of the principles of the common law; while his probity of character always insured him earnest attention and the highest confidence and respect of both court and jury.  In 1822-3 he represented his county in the Ohio legislature, and held several other important offices and public trusts, in all of which, as also in the large interests of his clients, which, in so long a period of practice, came under his care, his character for honesty and fidelity was ever preeminent.  In 1857 Mr. Curtis removed to Keokuk, where several of his children had previously settled, and there resumed the practice of law in connection with Mr. Gilmore, and which he continued to pursue several years, when finding a nervous infirmity growing upon him, about 1867 he retired from all professional engagements, while continuing to give personal attention to all his own private business.  Naturally of strong mental powers,cultivated by philosophic research and study, he was distinguished in the days of his best vigor for his capacity in obtruse speculation and close analytical investigation of every subject presented to him for consideration. He accepted no conclusion without duly weighing all the facts for or against the proposition or theory.  These traits marked his character throughout all his professional career, and the aspiration inscribed on the fly-leaf of his first law book: "God preserve my mental vigor," seemed to be mercifully and certainly granted him to the close of his life.  He died at Keokuk, Iowa, on the fourteenth of May, 1874, ripe in years, and the honors of a well spent life.  Of his surviving children, Henry H. Curtis resides in St. Louis; J. L. Curtis, banker, at Chicago; Charles Curtis, physician, at Quincy, Illinois, and his daughter, Eleanor, widow of Uzziel Stevens, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 646
	GENERAL SAMUEL R. CURTIS, was born Feb. 3, 1807, spent his childhood years in Newark, Ohio; applied himself diligently to his studies, made a good scholar; sometimes was a clerk in the clerk's office of the courts of Licking county, Amos H. Caffee, esq., being the clerk; and in 1827 entered the West Point aademy as a cadet, and graduated in 1831, with the appointment of brevet secon dlieutenant in the Seventh United States infantry, in which he served until June 30, 1832, when he resigned.  He then studied law in Ohio, and was admitted to the bar, but left that profession to devote himself to engineering, and from April, 1837, to May, 1839, was the chief engineer of the Muskingum river improvement.  At the beginning of the Mexican war he was chosen colonel of the Third Ohio volunteers, serving under Zachary Taylor on the Rio Grande line, and was successively Governor of Matamora, Camargo, Monterey, and Saltillo.  At the epiration, in 1847, of the term of service of his regiment, he remained his acting assistant adjutant general to General Wool.      Sometime after the close of the Mexican war General Curtis moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and was elected in 1856 a representative in Congress, and was reelected in 1858, and again in 1860.  He was also a member of the peace congress in 1861.  In Congress he strongly urged the building of a railroad to the Pacific ocean, and all other Republican measures.      In June, 1861, General Curtis was commissioned colonel of the Second Iowa regiment, and ordered to duty in Northern Missouri, but soon went to Washington to attend the extra session of Congress.  Resigning his seat in Congress in 1861, he entered zealously into the military service to preserve the Union.  He served under General Fremont, and subsequently was appointed to command the army destined to operate against the confederates in southwestern Missouri and Arkansas.  General Curtis fought and won the important battle of Pea Ridge, March 6, 7, and 8, 1862, upon which he received a major general's commission, establishing his headquarters at St. Louis, December, 1862.      General Curtis was in command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, during the Price raid in October, 1864, and cooperated in the pursuit and defeat of General Price's army.  From August to November, 1865, he served as United States Commissioner to treat with the Sioux, Cheyennes, and other Indian tribes.  He was examiner of the Union Pacific railroad from November, 1865, to April, 1866.  His death occurred at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dec. 25, 1866.  General Samuel R. Curtis rendered valuable civil and military services to his country, and was an elegant, high-toned, honorable gentleman, of intelligence and probity.  He was a brother of Hon. Henry B. Curtis, of Mt. Vernon. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 646
	WILLIAM CURTIS, farmer, Milford township, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, Dec. 1, 1823, and is the son of Thomas and Christian Cummins nee Fogle, both born, reared, married, and died in Virginia.  They had a family of ten children, seven of whom are living: Catharine, Nancy M., Amanda, Elizabeth, Edmund, Joseph, and the subject of this notice, who spent his youth on the farm until 1852, when he went to Texas, but remained only a short time.  While in Galveston he had an attack of cholera.  He shortly after went to Licking county, Ohio, and in 1855 married Miss L. Butcher.  He remained in Licking county until 1858, when he came to Knox county, where he has since lived.       Mr. Cummins is a self-made man.  While a resident of Licking county he borrowed five dollars out, of which he has made a competency.  He is one. of the leading men of the township and county, and is a zealous advocate of the doctrines of the Democratic party, which honored him in 1871, by electing him infirmary director, which office he filled with credit.  At the expiration of his term he refused a second nomination.  He has held many of the different township offices.  He is social and affable in his manners. Source:  History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 640

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