Biographies

Source: 
History of Morgan County, Ohio
with
Portraits and Biographical Sketches
of some of its
Pioneers and Prominent Men.
By Charles Robertson, M. D.
 - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co.
1886

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Justus Chadwick JUSTUS CHADWICK.    Justus Chadwick, a prominent farmer and a leading citizen of Windsor township, was born near Amesville, Athens County, Ohio, Mar. 28, 1815.  His parents, Levi and Mary (McKee) Chadwick, originally from the state of Delaware, were among the pioneer settlers of Athens County.  They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and very worthy people.  In the early days their home was the resort for all the Methodists for miles around.  Justus was reared on his father’s farm until sixteen years of age.  He was then apprenticed to Samuel Mellor, of Malta Township, to learn the cooper’s trade.  He lived with Mr. Mellor until twenty-two years of age, then, starting for himself, followed his vocation several years.  As a result he bought with his savings 100 acres of land in Watertown Township, Washington County.  In 1846 he disposed of this farm and bought 100 acres—a part of his present farm of 490 acres.  The land was to a great extent unimproved; but diligent labor and careful economy brought success, and he is now ranked among the largest and most successful farmers in Morgan County.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has held some official position for thirty-two years, serving as class-leader, steward, etc.  He is an earnest supporter of the church and every other good cause.  He has been connected with all the prominent temperance work in the county.  He was a strong anti-slavery man, and has been a member of the republican party since its organization.      In 1841 Mr. Chadwick was married to Sarah E. Cook, who was born in Barlow Township (now Palmer Township), Washington County.  Her father was Salmon N. Cook, who settled in Washington County in 1814.  He was an officer in a Vermont regiment of infantry during the war of 1812, and was one of the early justices of the peace in Washington County.  He died in 1823 at the age of thirty-eight. To Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick seven children have been born,—Augusta A. (Browning), Martha M. (Wetherell), Earl C., Laura B. (Wetherell), Willard L., Alice R. (Athey), and Horace G. Source:  Chapter XXI - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page  428   DANIEL CHANDLER.   Among the notable characters in the early history of Morgan County was Daniel Chandler.  He was born in Rutland County, Vermont, in 1781; emigrated to Ohio in 1797; settled in Athens County, where he lived a short time, then came to the locality of Putnam, Muskingum County.      In 1802 he sailed on the brig "Marietta," built at Marietta, Ohio, for Liverpool, England the custom house officers were going to have the captain arrested for sailing under false papers, as they knew no seaport by the name of Marietta.  The captain took a map, showed them the mouth of the Mississippi River, followed the river to the mouth of the Ohio, then up the Ohio to the town of Marietta, where the vessel had been built and loaded for Liverpool.      The crew of the Marietta were arrested by the press-gang and held in custody for forty-eight hours.  Mr. Chandler was confined in a room ten by twelve feet with twenty-four other men.  He got an opportunity of sending a note, written on a piece of his garment, to his captain, who came to the prison, then called on the United States consul, and by the aid and description furnished by the consul he exculpated him from being an Irish subject. After his release he declared that if ever a war should break out between England and America, he would have reparation for this insult and arrest.      After his return to his native country the opportunity was soon presented, and be entered the army under General Harrison.  He was at Fort Stephenson daring the siege, and did good service as a scout.  He served through the war, and in 1817 settled in Morgan Townhip and engaged in farming.  He took an active part in the affairs of the county, and in 1874 was elected to the legislature.  He was much interested in the “Northwest Boundary” question, and made an able speech in defense of his position.  The Chandlers were pioneers in many parts of the West.  Zachariah Chandler, of Detroit, was a distant relative of the family of Daniel Chandler.  Four of his children are now living— two sons and two daughters— Mrs. Permelia Christy, Mary A. Moore, William and Daniel. Source:  Chapter __ - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 323 G. J. Chappelear   GEORGE J. CHAPPELEAR were among the early settlers of the township and have been prominent in its affairs from the time of their settlement until the present.  James Chappelear and wife (neé Margaret Cook) came from Loudoun County, Va., to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1819, and in October, 1820, settled in Union Township, where the family has since resided.  Their children were William A., John, Charles, George, Elliott and Ann (Dorris), all deceased except Elliott, who lives in Licking County.      William A. Chappelear was born in Leonard County, Maryland, Jan. 28, 1790, and married in Loudoun, Va., a Miss Bradford in 1815.  They settled in Morgan County in 1820.  George J. Chappelear married Elizabeth Dawson in 1843, and is the father of nine children, all living except one, who died when three years of age.  The names of the children are William A., George W., John B., Moses D., Josiah B., Mary J., Henderson H. and U. S. Grant and Elizabeth E.  The family belong to the Christian Church.  Mr. Chappelear was a member of Company E., 78th Regiment O. V. I., in which he served one year, and was then discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disability.  His son, William A., married Eliza A. Hanesworth in 1866.  There were born to them seven children.  The two eldest sons, John B. and George J. were born in Loudoun County.  He reared a family of ten children, six boys and four girls, John B., George J., Henderson A., James W., Charles A., Andrew J., Sarah A., Margaret, Jane C., and Rachel B.  He was a member of Company I, 53d Regiment, O. V. I., served, served eighteen months and was discharged at the expiration of this term of service.  He was in several severe engagements, including the battles of Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro', etc.  Charles Chappelear, brother of George J., was in the army and died in hospital at Lebanon, Tenn.  U. S. Grant Chappelear married Ida J. Gladden.  They have one child.  Mary J. married S. C. Pierce.  They have four children.  George W. married Hannah J. Wade.  They have six children.  John B. married Jane Wagoner.  Three children.  Moses D. married Nancy Kimball.  Two children.  Josiah B. married Lucy Rogers, one child; she died in 1878.  Henderson H., married Amy Martin.  One child.      Hedgeman B. Chappelear, born in Culpeper County, Va., in 1804, came to Morgan County, Ohio, in 1827.  He was married in 1826 to Miss Mary A. Clayton.  They located in Union Township, and had two children born to them.  The eldest, J. H., lives in Homer Township, the youngest, Thomas J., Chappelear lives on the old home place, and is to-day one of the largest landed proprietors in the county.  He was elected county commissioner in 1885. Source:  Chapter XV - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 496   MELVIN CLARKE, for ten years a practicing attorney of McConnelsville, was descended from Puritan ancestors, and was born in Ashfield, Mass., Nov. 15, 1818.  He was educated in the schools of his native state, and in 1838 came west.  For several years he was engaged in teaching in Kentucky, West Virginia and Washington County, Ohio.  Devoting himself to the study of law in his spare time he gained admission to the bar in 1843, and began the practice of his profession in Morgan County.  He had a clear analytical mind, and was a cogent reasoner and an able lawyer.  In 1853 he removed to Marietta, where he practiced law until the outbreak of the rebellion.  He was one of the organizers of the 36th Regiment O. V. I., and served as lieutenant-colonel of that organization until killed by a shot from a ten-pound shell at the battle of Antietam Sept. 17, 1862.  He was buried at Marietta with military honors, and a monument was erected to his memory by his comrades in arms and by his associates at the bar.  Col. Clarke was twice married, first to Miss Dorcas Dana of Newport, and second to Miss Sophia Browning of Belpre, Ohio.  By his first marriage he had one son, Joseph D. Clarke, who was killed in the war at City Point, Va., in 1864. Source:  Chapter XV - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 257 George L. Corner GEORGE L. CORNER.  Among the prominent pioneer citizens who have lived and died in Morgan County, one of the most deserving of a place in these biographical sketches is George Lowe Corner, a man of unobtrusive disposition yet of generally recognized worth and influence.      The succession of events which determined his settlement in the county is ancestral history, interesting to quite a large family connection living in this region of Ohio, while having an appropriate place in this memoir.      George Corner and Martha (Dumbill,) Corner, his grandparents, were well-to-do people of the middle class of Cheshire, England, where they acquired by purchase a tract of some eleven hundred acres of land in the wilds of Kentucky, with a view to emigration and settlement there.  Accordingly, soon after, in the early part of the year 1795, they sailed for America, bringing with them all their immediate descendants, embracing a number of grandchildren.      A tedious voyage brought them to Baltimore, Md., and though here some of their party were smitten with yellow fever, they pressed toward their intended home, crossed the mountains, descended the Ohio River, and in August of the same year arrived at Marietta, O., leaving, however, one of their number, a victim of the fever, buried in the woods of Pennsylvania, near the “Big Springs” of the Juniata.      At Marietta, learning that their lands were far beyond and distant inland from the river, they concluded to remain for a time under the protection of the stockade there, and the elder Corner entrusted the title papers to their lands to Herman Blannerhassett, then a noted lawyer of the vicinity, for the purpose of perfecting their claim by such further measures as might be required.  Before this was accomplished, Blannerhassett’s house was burned and with it the title to their Kentucky purchase.      This occurrence determined the settlement of most of this family of immigrants within the then extended limits of Washington County, O.      George, the grandfather and George, his son, (whose wife was Ann (Clark) Corner) settled on Wolf Creek, within the bounds of what is _ now "Windsor Township, Morgan County, where to George and Ann was born, Oct. 23, 1797, their fourth child, George L., believed to be the second white child born within the present limits of the county.      In 1802, the father being an invalid, removed to New York City to avail himself of medical skill, but in the winter 1804-5 the family returned to their Wolf Creek home, leaving the husband and father buried on the banks of the Monongahela in a cemetery near Cookstown, Pa.  On their return they found the grandfather had also deceased.  The widowed mother, with her young family, had then and there to buffet with the hardships and privations of pioneer life.  George L. remained with her on her little farm, acting his part as a good and dutiful son, till, at the age of sixteen years, he was apprenticed to a Mr. Currier, of Athens, O., to learn the tanning and currying trade.      Upon completion of his indentures he found work, near Wheeling, Pa., upon the National Pike, then being built.  By rigid economy and industry he saved money enough to make the first payment on a quarter-section of land, which he located in Union Township and upon which he built a cabin and made a little clearing, and again started out in quest of work to secure, what was then so scarce and yet so necessary to hold, the purchase-money for his deferred payments.  After long and diligent search he found employment at his trade at Georgetown, Brown County, O., where he remained and wrought till his savings were sufficient to meet the payments on his lands and then returned to devote his energies, quite successfully, to establishing a tanning business and the improvement of his property.      As a citizen of Union Township he took a prominent position in its affairs for several years prior to his removal to Malta, in 1833, serving as justice of the peace to general acceptance.  He was especially useful in harmonizing and adjusting suits and disputes amongst his neighbors.  By reason of his sound sense, good judgment and strict integrity his advice was sought in many affairs in the circles of his business and social acquaintance.      The business career of Mr. Corner has been so thoroughly outlined in the chapters of this history devoted to Union and Malta Townships, that it is not deemed necessary to reproduce it here.  From 1833 until his decease he was successfully engaged in merchandising.  For his first store building, at Malta, he went into the woods, felled the trees, and hewed the timbers.      He was held in high and general esteem for his solid, manly character, distinguishing traits of which were benevolence, candor, and a high sense of justice.  Envy or malice had no place in his heart, and he preferred always to speak good rather than ill of others.  In manner he was considerate, kind and engaging; calm, prudent and self-possessed under adverse circumstances.  His public spirit was attested by the liberal aid he gave to every enterprise that tended to promote the welfare of the county.      His educational opportunities, were of course, very limited, but he possessed good natural ability, and by attention to such opportunities as he had, he attained intelligence above the average.  An earnest Christian, he practiced in his daily life the tenets of his belief.  He was one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Malta, and for many years its main stay and support.      His useful life closed Aug. 11, 1857.  His departure was widely lamented and the inquiry was frequently made, “who is there to take his place?”      Mr. Corner was married Nov. 28, 1822, to Miss Sarah W. Hart, then of Athens County, an estimable Christian lady of New England parentage, who survived him about three years.  There were born to them nine children, May, Emily, Lucy, Eliza A., Sarah, Martha, Marcus L., George S., and Newell. Source:  Chapter XIX - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 366   NEWELL CORNER, probate judge, is a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Morgan County, within the present limits of which his father, George L. Corner, was born in1797.  The subject of this notice was born in Malta, Mar. 2, 1841.  He was educated in the schools of this county, and after attending Delaware College for a short time began the study of law in the office of Wood & Pond.  He was admitted to the bar in September, 1867, and began practice of Malta; afterward he was a partner in the firm of Pond, Corner & Foulke, and next of the firm of Pond & Corner until 1876.  He was then elected probate judge, and is now serving his fourth term in that position.  No other evidence is necessary to show the popularity and esteem in which Judge Corner is held by the citizens of the county.  But few men of his age have been more closely identified with the affairs of the county or have watched its development with greater interest.  Every enterprise devoted to its advancement finds in Judge Corner a warm friend and an able advocate.  In his religious and political affiliations he is a Methodist and a republican. Source:  Chapter XV - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 264   DR. E. G. COULSON, of Pennsviile, was born in the village of Georgetown, Harrison County, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1821, and came to Morgan County in 1841.  He received a thorough academical education, and at the age of seventeen commenced teaching, which avocation he followed for some years. He pursued a thorough course of study in medicine under several preceptors, more for the love of the science than with any view of future practice.  In 1853 this part of the country was visited with a very malignant type of dysentery, which prevailed as an epidemic, and at the urgent solicitation of his friends he was induced to enter upon the active practice of his profession.  His success was such that he obtained an extensive and lucrative practice at the outset; in fact, it was only limited by his powers of endurance.  He is now rapidly approaching the sunset of life, and is still devotedly following the calling in which he has been engaged for more than one-third of a century.  No one has enjoyed to a greater extent than he the confidence of his patrons; no one has had a larger share of the public esteem or the courtesies of the profession.  He is one of the pioneer members of the Morgan County Medical Society.  In 1875 he was a delegate to the State Medical Society, and by it appointed a delegate to the American Medical Association in Philadelphia in 1876.  In the antebellum days the Doctor was a pronounced anti-slavery man and one of the projectors of the Underground Railroad in Morgan County.  At the breakout of the war he threw his whole soul into the cause, and entered the army in 1861, and served as private, nurse, hospital steward, surgeon by detail, and came out as captain of ' volunteers in 1861.  He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing, Siegel’s retreat from Martinsburg, and other minor engagements.      In 1854 the Doctor was married to Miss L. M. White, of Maryland, a very estimable lady.  She was the mother of thirteen children.  Her decease occurred Sept. 26, 1884.  In his religion the Doctor is liberal.  His creed is embraced in one word—Charity.      It is not necessary to say that he affiliates with the republican party. Source:  Chapter __ - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 287   CAUTIUS C. COVEY was another lawyer who came to McConnelsville in 1840, and was prosecuting attorney in 1844-47.  He removed to Marietta, and while living there was a candidate for State senator for the district composed of Washington and Morgan Counties.  His opponent, Edwin Corner, of Morgan County, was declared elected, but on the election being contested by Covey, the seat was given to the latter.  In November, 1852, wile on his way to Columbus, he was killed by a boiler explosion on the steamer "Buckeye Belle," near Beverly.  Mr. Covey was an able man. Source:  Chapter XV - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 262   JOSHUA T. CREW, son of Thomas and Ann (Andrews) Crew, was born at Chester Hill, Morgan County, Oct. 5, 1844.  He read law in the office of Hon. M. D. Follett, at Marietta, was admitted to the bar in 1868, and commenced practice at Marietta in partnership with Mr. Follett.  In 1869 he removed to McConnelsville, and in 1876 to Zanesville. Source:  Chapter XV - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 267   WILLIAM B. CREW, a prominent lawyer of the Morgan County bar, is a son of Fleming Crew, of Chester Hill, Morgan County, and was born at that village Apr. 1, 1852.  He received his collegiate education at the Friends' boarding school at Westtown, near Philadelphia.  He read law in the office of Hon. M. M. Granger, of Zanesville, and in 1873 was admitted to the bar of the supreme court at Columbus, and in the following year was admitted to practice in the United States courts.  He then went to Cleveland, where for two years he filled the chair of elementary law in the Cleveland Law College.  He then returned to Morgan County and began practice in McConnelsville.  Soon after he was elected prosecuting attorney, and held the office one term.  From July, 1879, to January, 1885, he was associated in his practice with J. A. Ivers.  Mr. Crew is a republican and takes an active part in political campaigns.  In 1876 he married Lizzie P. Worrall, of Morgan County. They have two children.  As a lawyer Mr. Crew is thoroughly posted and though young his talents have already secured for him a leading place at the bar. Source:  Chapter XV - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page 267   DR. LUCIUS P. CULVER was born in Watertown, Washington County, Aug. 17th, 1837.  He received an academical education and began the study of medicine in 1858 in the office of P. H. Kelley, M. D., of Waterford, Ohio.  He graduated with honor from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, Mar. 9, 1861, and after a year spent in a reviewing course under the direction of his preceptor, began the practice of his profession at Reinersville, Morgan County, Ohio, in the spring of 1862, where, by his eminent skill as a physician, his honorable character and genial qualities as a man, his energy and strict attention to business, he has built up a large and lucrative practice.  He holds a foremost position among the medical profession of the county.  Nov. 10, 1863, Dr. Culver entered tin 1 army as assistant surgeon of the 61st Regiment, O. V. I.; by the consolidation of the regiment with the sod O. V. I. he became assistant surgeon of the 82d. June 13, 1865, lie was promoted to surgeon of the 82d. which position he filled with credit until the discharge of the regiment.  July 24, 1865.  He participated in the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn., the campaign for the relief of Knoxville, Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, and the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and siege of Atlanta, the Savannah campaign and siege of Savannah, campaign of the Carolinas, the battles of Averysboro and Bentonville, with many other engagements of less importance.  After his return from the army he resumed his practice at Reinersville, where he now resides.      The first physicians in Stockport were Drs. William and David H. Berry, who came from Belmont County about 1840.  The former remained here but a few months, but Dr. D. H. Berry remained and practiced several years.  His health failing he returned to Belmont County, where he died.  Sickness was quite prevalent for several years after the slackwater improvement, and Dr. Berry’s practice was quite extensive, he was moderately successful.      After Dr. Berry, Dr. George Moneton was the principal physician for several years.  He studied medicine in Waterford, under Dr. Bowman, and practiced in Stockport from 1843 to 1850, when he went to California. Source:  Chapter XVI - History of Morgan County, Ohio with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. By Charles Robertson, M. D.  - Published Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co. 1886 - Page281

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