Chester Twp. –
FREDERICK GABERS, carriage-maker; Chesterville; was born in 1822, in Hiddengen, Germany. He is the son of Frederick, born also in Germany; his mother died when our subject was three years old. He attended school from the age of 6 to 13; he then sought the employment of his father, that of working on the farm and carpentering; the latter he devoted his entire attention to at the age of 16, which he continued until 1844, when he sought the American shores; landing at Baltimore, and subsequently coming to Mt. Liberty, Knox Co., Ohio, and then worked in a wagon shop for one winter. In the spring of 1846, he transferred his services to Mt. Vernon, same county, and there was in the employ of Wm. Sanderson, carriage maker, and continued with him one year, and then worked at the same business for Leverage, in the same town. In 1849 he came to Chesterville, and worked one year at his trade for Stephen Trusdel; he then bought his employer out and continued the business there until 1876, when he bought his present shop, a splendid two-story brick, 50x20 feet, where he now continues the business of making and trimming carriages and buggies, together with wagons and repairs. He entered a matrimonial alliance in 1851, with Maria C., a daughter of Adam and Susan Shaffer. She was born in Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio, with her parents, at an early day. Her younger days were joyfully spent with them in Knox Co., where the parents spent the remainder of their lives and had twelve children. Mr. Gabers was blessed with one child which died unnamed. She had given herself to the duties of the Presbyterian church, in which faith she died, leaving the record of a faithful member. He also belongs to the same denomination, and has been elder in the same. He has always been a temperance man, and has never used tobacco in any way. When he came to Ohio he had $20.00 in gold. He now possesses a good business, of which we have spoken, and also owns 28½  acres of well improved land, adjoining the village of Chesterville. His early work in Ohio was by the piece, which was $5.00 per set of buggy wheels. He would begin work at four in the morning and work late at night, and would construct two sets per week. Mr. Gabers does not confine himself to any political party, but votes for the best man.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 600-601
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SAMUEL P. GAGE, cashier of the People’s Saving Bank Company, of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, October 2, 1850, and is a representative of one of the pioneer families of this locality.  His parents, William F. and Mary J. (Price) Gage, passed the greater part of their lives in Morrow county.  William F. Gage was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, a son of Phillip and Deborah (Flood) Gage, with whom when a boy he came to Ohio and settled near Sparta, in Bennington township, Morrow county, where he grew to manhood and married.  He owned one hundred and forty acres of land in Bennington township, to the cultivation and improvement of which he devoted his energies for many years, up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1898.  Politically he was a Republican, radical and enthusiastic, and for years was active in local politics.  He was a staunch member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is also his widow, now eighty years of age.  Her parents, John Price and wife, were natives of Pennsylvania.  Of the children of William F. and Mary J. Gage we record that J. P., the eldest, is a resident of Kansas; Samuel P., next in order of birth, is the subject of this sketch; Eliza A. is the wife of William Hunt of Morrow county; P. W. is a resident of Delaware, Ohio; and Elsworth is engaged in railroad business at Alexander, Ohio.
     Reared on his father’s farm, Samuel P. Gage attended district school until he was sixteen years of age, after wihch [sic] he was a student at Galena High School and Cardington High School and later spent two years at Lebanon, Ohio, where he took a course in the National Normal University.  In the meantime he taught school, beginning when he was eighteen, and by this means paid his own way while he pursued his higher studies.  All told, he taught school sixty months, a part of this time being principal of a private school.  And his experience as teacher added to the value of his service when he was made a member of the School Board of Mt. Gilead.
       In 1873 Mr. Gage built the Central House at Marengo, Ohio, which he operated for eight years, and at the same time filled the office of township clerk.  In 1881 he was elected clerk of Morrow county.  He was the incumbent of this office two terms, having been re-elected, and served in all six years.  Afterward, for a period of six years, he was secretary and treasurer of the Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company.  Then he engaged in banking.  For eleven years he was cashier of the National Bank of Morrow County, and at the end of that time he was one of the organizers of the People’s Saving Bank Company, which began business April 23, 1904, and of which he has from that date held the position of cashier.  At the present writing, 1911, this bank has a deposit of two hundred thousand dollars, and its officers are as follows: Dr. W. B. Robinson, president; W. M. Carlisle, vice president; Dr. N. Tucker, second vice president; S. P. Gage, cashier; A. C. Duncan, assistant cashier; and Z. A. Powers, teller.
     During his successful business career Mr. Gage has accumulated considerable property, including two valuable farms in Morrow county, one of two hundred and eighty acres in Gilead township and the other, four hundred and forty acres in Bennington township, and residence property at Mt. Gilead and Columbus.  He and his family reside in their pleasant home on Cherry street Mt. Gilead.  Mrs. Gage, formerly, Miss Alice Sherman, born April 18, 1851, is a daughter of Daniel Sherman and previous to her marriage was engaged in teaching.  She and Mr. Gage were married in 1872, and they are the parents of one son, Ralph P., born January 5, 1875, who is a graduate of both the Mt. Gilead High School and Delaware College, he having received the degree of A. B. at the age of twenty-one years.  He is now engaged in the practice of law at Los Angeles, California.
     Like his father before him, Mr. Gage is an active and influential member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He is a member of the official board, and at the time of the building of the Methodist church edifice in Mt. Gilead he served as chairman of the building committee.  Fraternally he is identified with Mt. Gilead Lodge, No. 169, I. O. O. F., and Encampment No. 59, and in the latter was a member of the board of trustees.  Mr. and Mrs. Gage were charter members of the Rebekahs at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, Lodge 352.  They have crossed the continent of America twice, visiting their son.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 482-484
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WILLIAM F. GAGE, a farmer of Bennington township, Morrow county, is a son of Phillip Gage, who was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1791.   His father, Phillip Gage, was a native of New York, and was a prominent physician.  The family in America are descended from General Gage, a native of England, who commanded the British army in Boston.  Phillip Gage, Jr., was married in New Jersey, June 6, 1813, to Deborah Flood, born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1793, of Irish and German descent.  After marriage, Phillip Gage and wife came to Ohio, locating on a farm adjoining the one our subject now owns, the same being then covered with timber.  His death occurred here in 1886, and his wife died in 1884.  They were the parents of the following children: William F., the subject of this sketch; Stephen, of Bennington township; Sarah Ann Goodwin, deceased; Elizabeth Hess, and George, a resident of Marengo, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Gage were members of the Presbyterian Church.  He was a Whig and afterward a Republican.
     William F. Gage was born at Woodbridge, New Jersey, November to, 1822, and was fourteen years of age when he came to Ohio, where he attended the primitive log school house.  He assisted his father to clear 300 acres of land.  The family were very poor, and the father was obliged to make shoes in order to obtain food, which often consisted of only potatoes and salt.  After they had been here for some time the father secured some money, and, learning that an old Quaker residing about ten miles distant, near where the present village of Ashley, Delaware county, is situated, had some flour to sell, he determined to secure at least a small supply, as the family had had no bread for some time.  Accordingly, in company with his son Clarkson, the old gentleman walked over to investigate as to the possibility of securing some flour.  The old Quaker agreed to let them have the flour on the condition that Clarkson should work for him and thus pay the purchase price.  So the boy stayed, and his father walked home, bearing the coveted sack of flour on his shoulder.  On his arrival there was great rejoicing among the children, who were eager to once more have a slice of bread to eat.  After the family began to raise wheat of their own they were compelled to take the same to Zanesville, forty or fifty miles distant, to have it ground.  After his marriage, our subject located on the farm now known as the Robert Taylor estate, and thirty-one years ago came to his present place of 136 acres, all of which is under a fine state of cultivation.  In his political relations Mr. Gage affiliates with the Republican party, and has held the position of Road Supervisor.
     July 3, 1845, he was united in marriage to Mary Jane Price, born in this township in 1830, a daughter of John Price and Barbara (Silkmitter) Price, natives of Pennsylvania.  They located in Bennington township as early as 1820, on the farm now owned by Royal Moore.  Mrs. Gage is the only living representative of the family.  Our subject and wife have five children, namely: James P., who married Angeline Keys, resides in Kansas and has four children; Samuel P., who married Alice Sherman, has one child; P. W., who married Minnie Sleif, resides in Delaware county, Ohio, and has two children; Lida is the wife of Willie Hunt, of Bennington township, and they have two children; and Ellswort E. married Margaretta Hempey, and resides in Granville, Ohio.  The eldest son, James P., was a soldier in the civil war, a member of the Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded in the right arm at the battle of Peach Tree Creek.  The children have all received good educations, three of them having been successful teachers, and Mr. Gage has served as School Director.  Mrs. Gage is a member of the Methodist Church.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 308-309
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Franklin Twp. –
FREDRICK GALE, carpenter; Pulaskiville; among the representative men of this township Mr. Gale deserves more than a passing notice; he is the son of James and Matilda (Mann) Gale, and was born in this township June 15, 1836; his parents were natives of Bedford Co., Penn., and came and settled in Congress Tp., on the Daken place. They next settled in this township on the place known as the “Wheat Farm,” where they lived and raised a family of eleven clildren [sic] -- Melinda, Benjamin, Fredrick, William, Elizabeth, Mary, Abner, Amy A., John, Sarah E. and Eliza C.  Eliza C. died Sept. 14, 1859; Melinda, Feb. 8, 1855; Benjamin, Jan. 25, 1870; William, Nov. 2, 1860; James Gale, the father, Sept. 7, 1868; Matilda Gale, the mother, Aug. 1, 1878; James Gale was one of those men who believed that it required the exercise of intelligence to make a successful farmer, and all his operations displayed a knowledge and forethought of one who studied his calling. When he settled on the above mentioned farm there was only a small clearing and a cabin, built probably by Jonathan Lavering and now there are fine buildings, and about 140 acres cleared in such a way as to leave a girt of timber encircling the farm for the protection of crops. He has for many years been known as a most successful wheat grower, raising an average of 300 bushels annually, and has raised 600 bushels per year; during life he filled several township offices -- as Assessor, Treasurer and Trustee.  Frederick Gale received a common school education, and worked at home until he was 21; then he began working at the carpenter trade, having such skill in the use of tools that he received wages from the first; he has taken and completed many contracts in this township -- as Township Hall and the Grange Hall -- until he is known as a skilled and competent workman; Oct. 20, 1856, he united his fortunes with Lucy A. Hyler.  She was a daughter of James and Ann (Jackson) Hyler.  She was born Nov. 9, 1838, in this township. Two children, a son and a daughter, have been born to them. Reece was born Jan. 22, 1858; Nett, May 2, 1864. The first five years of their married life was spent in Congress Tp., where he erected buildings. He now owns ninety acres of land, fifty of which he has earned by his own labor and forethought; here we find one fine spring and twenty-five acres of bottom land. He has held the office of Assessor, to perform the duties of which he was thoroughly competent. Mr. Gale has two dens containing two species of ferrets -- a little animal very destructive to rats; he has also a fine collection of pigeons, consisting of eight varieties, some of them very rare and numbering fifty birds.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 781
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Gilead Twp. –
J. W. GALLEHER, of Bowen & Galleher, grocers; Mt. Gilead; was born on his father’s farm, in Congress Tp., Richland, now Morrow Co., Ohio, Oct. 21, 1843, and lived there eight years, when they moved to Franklin Tp., and engaged in farming.  He attended school until he was 15 years of age, and then began working at carpentering by the month, following the same principally until 1872, when he began farming on his own account in Canaan Tp.; he lived there until 1875, when he engaged in the grocery business at Denmark, the firm being Harris & Galleher; they continued about eighteen months; he then sold out and came to Mt. Gilead, and engaged in his present business.  March 1, 1866, he married Miss Mary J. Smith; she is also a native of this county.  They have four children -- Frank, Ardella, Clyde and Alice.  In 1861, he enlisted in the 136th O. N. G., and served until the command was discharged.  While in Denmark, he served as Postmaster, during the last year’s residence there.  His parents, William and Frances Itson Galleher, were natives of Loudoun Co., Va.; they were married there, and came here at an early day.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 534
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Gilead Twp. –
ROSCOE S. GALLEHER, carpenter; Mt. Gilead; was born Dec. 8, 1856, in Franklin Tp., Morrow Co., Ohio, he was a son of Joseph H. and America C. (Hepsley) Galleher; his father was a native of Loudoun Co., Va.; the mother was born in Maryland, near Baltimore.  Joseph H. was a farmer, and removed to Morrow Co. in 1830; Roscoe was the eldest of a family of six children, viz. -- Caleb R., George F., William J., Dora M. and Ernest E., who died in infancy.  Roscoe remained at home until 15 years of age, and then commenced learning his trade with Ezra Woodward, of Morrow Co.; he continued working at his trade until about 1875, when he went to Frederickstown [sic], working on the grist mill, being at that time in business for himself; he stayed there until November, 1875, and then returned to his father’s in Morrow Co.; he afterwards worked on the Town Hall building, for Miller & Smith, at Mt. Gilead. In 1877 Mr. G. purchased 75 acres of land, and for two years his time was partly occupied in farming. In 1879 he returned to Mt. Gilead, and was married to Arrilla M. Caywood, in 1877; they have one child -- Ellis A., born Feb. 16, 1878.  Mr. G. has finished for himself an elegant residence on West High street, and is beginning to reap some of the results of an industrious and well-spent life.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 536
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Congress Twp. –
S. T. GALLEHER; farmer; P. O. Mt. Gilead; is an enterprising farmer of the township, and a native of Loudoun Co., Va., where he was born Dec. 15, 1822; is the tenth of a family of twelve children born to Samuel N. and Phebe (Owsley) Galleher; the latter was born April 14, 1787, in the same county and state as the son -- S. T. Gallaher. The father was born Dec. 1, 1783, and came West with his parents, about the year 1834, stopping in Knox Co. the first winter. The following spring he came to Franklin Tp., now of this county, where he settled and remained until his death, Nov. 6 1860; Mrs. Galleher died March 19, 1863. The father was of Irish and the mother of Welsh descent.  S. T. Galleher began in life for himself at the age of 23; about which time -- April 17, 1845 -- he was married to Dinah Cook, who was born in Franklin Tp., Oct. 2, 1828; a daughter of Wm. P. and Louisa (Mann) Cook. The Cook family were from Maryland, and the Manns from Bedford Co., Pa. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Galleher they lived twelve years on the Cook farm, and in the spring of 1858, moved to this township, and located on the farm where he now lives -- then a tract of unbroken land consisting of eighty acres, which he has brought under a good state of improvement. Two children have been born to them -- Melville P., now a minister of the Church of Christ, with his home at Three Locusts, Marion Co.; he was born Oct. 12, 1846; and Howard Leroy, who was born June 13, 1849, now residing in Gilead Tp.  Mr. Galleher and family are members of the Disciple, or what is better known as the Church of Christ.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 686-687
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MAHLON GANO, who is one of the venerable and honored citizens of Cardington, Morrow county, and who has devoted the major portion of his days to the noble art of husbandry, is now living in that peaceful retirement which is his due after the long years of toil and endeavor.
     His father, David Gano, was a native of Hampshire county, Virginia (now West Virginia), where he was born August 24, 1775, living there until he had attained man’s estate, devoting himself to work on the farm of his father, who was of Irish extraction.  David Gano was called out for service in the war of 1812.  He married Elizabeth Schanck, who was born in Virginia, April 15, 1782, a daughter of Steven Schanck, of Holland-Dutch descent.  The marriage of our subject’s parents was consummated in their native State, and they emigrated to Ohio prior to 1806, settling in Palmyra township, Portage county, at a time when it was still a forest wild, with Indians, wolves, bears, etc., much in evidence.  Here they developed a fine farm, remaining there for the residue of their days.  The father died in 1861 or ’62, and the mother survived until August 6, 1875.  They became the parents of fourteen children, of which number twelve grew to maturity, but all of whom are now deceased except our subject and his sister Elizabeth, who lives in Michigan.  One brother, Elisha, was an officer in an Illinois regiment during the late war of the Rebellion.  The mother of our subject was a devoted member of the Disciple Church.
     Mahlon Gano, to whom this review is dedicated, was born on the old parental homestead, in Portage county, this State, December 16, 1817, and there remained until he had attained mature years.  He had been enabled to attend the subscription schools for a few weeks, but his educational discipline was cut very short, inasmuch as while he was still a mere boy his services were called into demand in the work of grubbing out brush on the farm and in other duties incidental to the reclaiming and improvement of the pioneer farm.
     He remained at home until the time of his marriage, which event was celebrated December 30, 1841, when he was united to Miss Mary Ann Case, who was a native of Hampshire county, Virginia, and a daughter of Jacob and Penelope (West) Case, both of whom were born in the Old Dominion State, ––the former October 25, 1794, and the latter March 2, 1802.  Their marriage was one of romantic order, since they compassed an elopement and were wedded in Maryland.  They settled in their native State, and there remained until 1836, when they came to Ohio and took up their residence in Portage county, where they remained until the death of the husband and father, October 20, 1869.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812.  His widow survived until April 11, 1880, passing away at a venerable age.  They were the parents of twelve children, of whom ten grew to maturity and six still survive.  The date of Mrs. Gano’s birth was May 7, 1822.
     In 1842 our subject and his wife came to Morrow (then Delaware) county, and took up their abode on a heavily timbered farm of 100 acres, in Lincoln township, there being no roads cut through at that time, and settlers being few and far between.  Mr. Gano’s worldly possessions at that time were summed up in his farm and $300 in cash.  He built a log cabin, 18 x 20 feet in dimensions and one story in height, the roof being covered with rough, split clapboards, and here he and his wife lived during the first summer, without the conveniences of doors, windows or chimney.  In the broad, fertile acres of his present farm one can see but slight resemblance to what it must have been in those early days.  He effected the clearing of the entire place, with the exception of five acres, and all the improvements on the farm were made by him.  They lived on the old place about thirty years, and then, in 1871, came to Cardington.  In Cardington township he owned a piece of land, and on this he erected a large dwelling-house, but his present fine brick residence he purchased, the same being one of the most attractive homes in the locality.
     Mr. and Mrs. Gano became the parents of twelve children, of whom only four are living at the present time, namely: Minerva A., born October 14, 1842, is the widow of Spencer Wheeler, resides in Cardington and has two children, Annie Richardson and Elba Ernest; Betsey, born December 12, 1845; Martha Ellen, born March 8, 1856, is the wife of Smith Yant, of Richland county, and has two children, Alfred Mahlon and Clyde S.; and Lois Belle, born July 31, 1861, is the wife of James Slicer, of Cardington, and has one child, Blanche.
     Our subject and his wife have been prominently identified with the Christian Church for forty years, and the former was a Deacon in the same for a number of years.  He has served as School Director, has been ever interested in educational matters and gave his children the advantages of those opportunities which he had been denied in his youth.  Politically Mr. Gano was originally a Democrat, but he soon severed his allegiance to that party and has ever since supported the Republican party.  He has invariably refused to accept anything in the line of political office.
     He was bereaved in the loss of his wife October 7, 1894, they having lived together contentedly and happily for a period of nearly fifty-three years.  She always performed her share in the struggle of their pioneer days and together they enjoyed their prosperity.  She was a kind and indulgent mother and a devoted and economical wife.
     A man of marked intelligence and one whose days have ever left the impress of his honorable and upright character, he is held in the highest esteem in the community where he has lived for so many years, being unlike the prophet, and not without honor in his own country. 
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 201-203
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JOHN W. GARBERICH. ––Holding a place of prominence among the more intelligent and progressive agriculturists of Morrow county stands John W. Garberich, who is known throughout this section of the Buckeye state as a successful horse breeder and trainer, a subject to which he has given much thought and attention and on which he is considered an authority.  His fine farm is beautifully located in Washington township, about six miles southwest of Galion, and is well equipped and well kept, everything about the premises indicating the thrift, industry and keen judgment of the proprietor.  He was born April 24, 1868, in Polk township, Crawford county, Ohio, a son of Isaac Garberich.
     His grandfather, John Garberich, was born and reared in Germany.  Immigrating to the United States, he lived for a while in Pennsylvania.  In 1829 he came with his family to Ohio, locating in Crawford county when it was still in its virgin wildness, two small log cabins being the only buildings standing on the present site of the beautiful city of Galion.  He had the distinction of being among the first white man to settle west of Galion, and it took him and his helpers two days to cut a way through the trackless woods to the homestead two miles distant, which he secured from the government.  Taking up one hundred and sixty acres of dense woodland, he made .an opening in which to erect a log cabin and began the improvement of a farm from the forest.  He succeeded well, and about 1831 or 1832 he erected a brick house, which is still standing, manufacturing the bricks on his farm.  Endowed with true German thrift, he succeeded in his agricultural labors, and was known as one of the best and most progressive farmers of his times.  He married Elizabeth Ruhl, also a native of the Fatherland, and to them were born seven children, Isaac having been one of the younger members of the parental household.
     As soon as old enought [sic] to wield an axe or hoe, Isaac Garberich began to assist his father in the pioneer task of hewing a farm from the wilderness, remaining at home until ready to establish a household of his own.  He then bought land adjoining his father’s estate, and was there engaged in general farming during his remaining days.  To him and his good wife, whose maiden name was Susan Smith, nine children were born, namely: Martha, wife of Henry Hagerman, of Tiro, Ohio; Sarah, wife of Amos Dice, of Galion; Ella, wife of George Hesser, of Crestline; W. O., of Stillwater, Oklahoma; B. F., engaged in farming on the old homestead; Eva, wife of Cal McClure, of Crawford county; Bertha, wife of Frank Kieffer, of Crawford county; Minnie, wife of John Albright, of Pennsylvania; and John W., the subject of this brief personal record.
     Brought up on the home farm, John W. Garberich in common with the boys of his neighborhood attended the district school throughout the days of his youth, in the meantime becoming familiar with the different branches of agriculture.  Choosing the occupation of his ancestors, he saved his money and at the age of twenty-five years bought a farm in Whetstone township, Crawford county, where he carried on general farming and stock-raising with excellent pecuniary results until the spring of 1907.  Disposing then of that property, Mr. Garberich purchased two hundred and twelve and one-half acres of land in Washington township, Morrow county, six miles southwest of Galion, where he has since resided.  His improvements and appointments are among the best in the vicinity, his stables and barns being models of convenience and comfort, and his buildings especially adapted to his needs as a stock raiser and farmer.  Mr. Garberich is a lover of animals, and in the breeding and raising of horses has had excellent success.  He has in his stables some of the finest Percheron and Belgium horses to be found in the country, and is justly proud of his stud.  He also breeds cattle and hogs, keeping the Jersey-Duroc hogs and Hereford cattle.
     Mr. Garberich has been twice married.  He married first Elizabeth Kieffer, a bright and charming woman who at her death in 1899 left five children, namely: Walter, Irving, Mildred, Clyde and Frankie, all of whom are at home.  Mr. Garberich married second Laura B. Shoemaker, and to them one child, Robert, has been born.  Politically Mr. Garberich is a Republican, but has never been an aspirant for public honors.  Socially he belongs to the Galion Grange.  Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Garberich are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Iberia.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 755-757
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*The War Record of the Gardner Family of Peru Township. [Footnote at the bottom of p. 891: *Contributed by Hon. Washington Gardner of Albion Michigan.]
 ––John Gardner, founder of one of the well known families in Morrow county, was born near Paisley, Scotland, August 4, 1756.  He came to America as a soldier in the army of King George III during the latter part of the Revolution.  It is a tradition in the family that he was impressed, or forced, into his Majesty’s army; but of which regiment he was a member, how long he served, or in what campaigns he took part there is no knowledge except that he was in the army of Cornwallis at the surrender of Yorkstown [sic].
     He never returned to his native land.  At the close of his military servivce [sic] he settled in Virginia and soon after married Miss Nancy Musgrove of that state.  Of this union there were born two sons, viz: James and Benjamin.  Mr. Gardner’s first wife died shortly after the birth of her second son and in due time he married Miss Rebecca Marquis, also of Virginia.  To these two were born four children, viz: Robert, Sarah, Marquis and William.  About the time the present seat of government was established Mr. Gardner moved to what is now the City of Washington where, in 1798, his son William was born and where his second wife died.
     For the third time Mr. Gardner sought and found a wife; the last one being Mrs. Elizabeth (Grove) Thomas.  The Groves were Marylanders, Elizabeth having been born at Hagerstown, that state, where her parents are buried.  Mrs. Grove Thomas was a widow with two children living in Loudoun county, Virginia, when she was married to John Gardner in 1801 at Leesburg, the county seat.  They began their married life in Washington, D. C.  It was in that city that two daughters, Rebecca and Nancy, were born.  About the year 1805 Mr. Gardner removed with his family to Ohio and settled within what are now the corporate limits of Zanesville.  Here two sons and two daughters, John Lewis, Elizabeth, Mary and Washington, were born.  In 1814 Mr. Gardner removed from Zanesville to a farm one-half mile east of the village of South Woodbury, then in Delaware, but now Morrow county, Ohio.  Here Fanny, the youngest child, was born in 1818, and here Mr. Gardner lived in the house which he built and in which he died on the 6th of March, 1836, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years, seven months, and two days.  He departed this life respected by all who knew him.  He was a man of the strictest financial integrity, of unblemished moral reputation and of devout Christian character.  His wife, Elizabeth, survived him eleven years, dying May 3, 1847, aged seventy-five years.  These two pioneers lie side by side in the Ebenezer, “Here We Rest,” burying-ground in Bennington township, this county.  Mr. Gardner gave the lot for this purpose and there now representatives of many of the earlier families find a last resting place.
     The Gardner homestead, east of South Woodbury, has been held by the family now for nearly one hundred years.  Five successive generations have lived in the house which he built and four of the five were Gardner in name; the place being occupied until the year 1910 by direct descendants.
     Of the thirteen children, of whom Mr. Gardner was the father, all but two, Sarah and Mary, the latter dying at twenty, lived to a good age.  Nearly or quite all lived for a longer or shorter time in Morrow county, where many of their descendants still reside, and constitute some of our most respected and substantial present day families, while others have removed to different states where they and their descendants have made records that reflect credit upon a worthy ancestry.  Ministers, judges, lawyers, bankers, business men, and farmers are found among them.  In so far as is known, not one of the descendants of John Gardner has ever been convicted of crime or ever accused of a serious offence against the law.  It is, however, in the patriotic war record of the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the sturdy old Scotsman that the family take most pride.  In this respect it is doubtful if there is another family in the county and indeed but few anywhere that can surpass or even equal it in the number of soldiers furnished or in the quality or length of service rendered the government in its time of stress.  So exceptional is the well authenticated family record in this respect and of such historic interest that we give it in detail.
     Washington Gardner, youngest son of the founder of this branch of the Gardner family in the United States, was born in 1814 at Zanesville, and was enrolled as a volunteer July 25, 1861, at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered into service as a member of Company G, Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was discharged from the army June 17, 1862, at Camp Chase on surgeon’s certificate of disability.  He was the oldest of the connection in the service, being at the time of enlistment forty-seven years of age.  His service was of ten months and twenty-two days duration.
     George C. Gardner was a grandson of John and Nancy (Musgrove) Gardner and a son of Benjamin and Esther (Williams) Gardner.  The records show that he was enrolled November 8, 1861, at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and was mustered into service the same day as a private of Company D, 65th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was appointed corporal, November 26, 1861, and was discharged as of that grade on August 30, 1862, in the field near Hillsboro, Tennessee, on surgeon’s certificate of disability.  September 30, 1864, he enlisted the second time and was enrolled on date named as a private in Company I, 184th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and as such was mustered into the United States service on the first day of October, 1864.  He was appointed sergeant October 5, 1864, and was mustered out with his company at Charlotte, North Carolina, July 26, 1865.  His total length of service was one year, seven months, and eighteen days.
     Nelson James Gardner, a great-grandson of John and Nancy (Musgrove) Gardner, a grandson of James and Sarah (Grove) Gardner, and a son of John and Rachel (Moccobee) Gardner, was enrolled September 21, 1861, and mustered into service on the same day as a private, Company B, 8th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He reenlisted January 1, 1864, as a veteran volunteer in the same company and regiment; was promoted first lieutenant, November 27, 1864 and brevet captain March 26, 1865.  He was mustered out April 20, 1866, having served four years, six months and twenty-nine days.
     Charles H. Gardner, a younger brother of the last above named, was enrolled August 11, 1862, and mustered into service to date from same day as a private, Company D, 20th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was mustered out of service with the company as a private July 8, 1865.  His service covered a period of two years, ten months, and twenty-seven days.
     Melville Gardner, a brother of the two last above named, was born April 6, 1848, and was enrolled March 28, 1865, and mustered into service on the same day as a private, Provisional Company, 9th Illinois Volunteers, to serve one year.  He was transferred to Company B of the regiment, September 25, 1865, and was mustered out with the company as a private October 31, 1865.  His service covered a period of seven months and three days.  The three brothers served an aggregate of eight years, one month and nine days.
     Wilbur C. Scott, great-grandson of John and Nancy (Musgrove) Gardner, grandson of James and Sarah (Grove) Gardner and a son of Thomas L. and Phoebe (Gardner) Scott, was enrolled February 25, 1864, at Davenport, Iowa, and was mustered into service February 26, 1864, as a private in Company D, 3rd Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, to serve three years and was mustered out of service with the company at Atlanta, Georgia, August 9, 1865, having served one year, five months, and fourteen days.
     William Percival Gardner, grandson of John and Rebecca (Marquis) Gardner and son of William and Ruth (Wickham) Gardner, was mustered into service September 2, 1862, as second lieutenant, Company K, 97th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He died at Scottsville, Kentucky, November 30, 1862, of typhoid fever, after a service of three months and twenty-eight days.
     Lemuel Gardner, a brother of William Percival, was enrolled September 15, 1862, and mustered into service, October 8, 1862, as a private of Company I, 122d Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was mustered out as a corporal with the company, June 26, 1865.  The period of his service was two years, nine months, and eleven days.
     Robert J. Gardner, a younger brother of the two last above named, was enrolled August 4, 1862, and mustered into service, September 2, 1862, as a private in Company K, 97th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years, and was mustered out of service as a corporal, May 9, 1865, at Camp Dennison, Ohio.  Robert was wounded in the battle at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864.  He served two years, nine months and seventeen days and the three brothers a total of five years, ten months, and twenty-six days.
     Calvin Nutt, grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner, and a son of Ashley and Rebecca (Gardner) Nutt, was enrolled May 25, 1861, at Peoria, Illinois, and was mustered into service on the same day as a private in Company K, 17th Illinois Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was detailed within the period of his service as artilleryman in Battery D, First Illinois Light Artillery.  He was admitted to Artillery Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps Hospital, July 16, 1863, with typhoid fever and died of that disease at Clinton, Illinois, September 15, 1863, having served two years, two months, and six days.
     John Doty, grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner and a son of Steven Doty and Nancy (Gardner) Doty, was enrolled June 2, 1862, at South Woodbury, this county, and was mustered into service to take effect the same day as a private of Company C, 85th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three months.  He was appointed sergeant, September 23d, 1862, at Camp Chase, Ohio.  He enlisted the second time, August 5, 1864, at Colunbus [sic], Ohio, and was mustered into service the same day as a private of Company I, 88th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve one year.  He was mustered out with the company as a private, June 3, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio, having served an aggregate of one year, one month, and nineteen days.
     Isaiah Doty, brother of the last above named, volunteered March 31, 1864, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and was mustered into service April 13, 1864, as a private of Company B, 37th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  July 27, 1865, he was mustered out with his regiment as a private having served one years [sic], three months, and twenty-six days.
     George Washington Doty, brother of the last two above named, enlisted June 2, 1862, at Ashley, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect the same day as a private of Company C, 85th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three months.  He was appointed sergeant June 11, 1862, and was mustered out with the company as sergeant, September 23, 1862.  He again enlisted October 16, 1862, at Camp Chase, Ohio, and October 28, 1862, was mustered into service as a corporal of Company C, 88th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was appointed sergeant in August, 1863, and was mustered out as a sergeant February 4, 1864, at Columbus, Ohio, by reason of appointment as second lieutenant, 27th United States Colored Troops.  June 5, 1864, he was promoted to first lieutenant of Company G of that regiment.  He was discharged from the service as first lieutenant on tender of resignation accompanied with a surgeon’s certificate of disability, in orders from the War Department dated April 20, 1865.  His aggregate term of service was two years, nine months and thirteen days.
     Harrison Doty, a younger brother of John, Isaiah and Washington, volunteered August 2, 1862, at Cardington, Ohio, and was mustered into service August 19, 1862, as a corporal of Company C, 96th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was appointed sergeant March 1, 1863, taken prisoner at the battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana, November 3, 1863, was paroled at Stage Station near New Iberia, Louisiana, December 25, 1863, and exchanged at Algiers, Louisiana, December 31, 1863, and was mustered out as sergeant July 7, 1865, at Mobile, Alabama.  His term of service covered a period of two years, eleven months, and five days.
     Josephus F. Doty, a younger brother of the four last above named, volunteered May 1, 1861, at Ashley, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect June 15, 1861, as a corporal of Company C, 26th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was appointed a sergeant May 25, 1863, and was mustered out of service as of that rank July 25, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee.  He was twice wounded at the battle of Chickamauga.  April 11, 1865, at Mansfield, Ohio, he again volunteered and was mustered into service on the same day as a private of Company B, 9th United States Veteran Volunteer Infantry, to serve one year; was appointed first sergeant, May 13, 1865, and sergeant major July 2, 1865.  July 17, of the same year he was mustered as second lieutenant, Company B, of said regiment and as first lieutenant, November 8, 1865.  He was mustered out of service as first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, May 2, 1866, at Indianapolis. Indiana.  His service in the two regiments covered a period of four years, three months and fifteen days.
     James M. Gardner, a grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner and the oldest son of John Lewis and Sarah (Goodin) Gardner, was enrolled August 12, 1862, at Marengo, Iowa, and was mustered into service to take effect from the date of his enrollment as a private of Company E, 24th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was promoted to sergeant September 3, 1863, and to second lieutenant, but not mustered, January 1, 1865; was wounded at the battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi; was mustered out of service with his company July 17, 1865, at Savannah, Georgia.  His service covered a period of two years, eleven months and five days.
     Craven V. Gardner, brother of the last above named was enrolled August 7, 1862, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was mustered in to take effect from the date of his enrollment as first sergeant, Company A, 29th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was promoted to be captain of the same organization February 21, 1863, and was honorably discharged from the service August 10, 1865, at New Orleans, Louisiana, by reason of the muster out of his company on the date named.  His term of service covered three years and three days.
     Asa A. Gardner, brother of the last two above named, was enrolled October 21, 1861, at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect from the date of his enrollment, as a private of Company D, 65th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was appointed second sergeant November 26th and first sergeant, November 30, 1861; was mustered as second lieutenant of the same organization to take effect February 8, 1862, and as first lieutenant to date from December 1, 1862.  He was badly wounded in action at the battle of Stone river, Tennessee, December 31, 1862, and again in the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19, 1863.  He was mustered as captain, company C, of the same regiment to take effect February 3, 1864, and was honorably discharged from the service in orders from the War Department dated May 30, 1865, on account of his services being no longer required and physical disability from wounds received in action.  His service covered a period of three years, seven months, and nine days.
     Isaac N. Gardner, brother of the last three above named, was enrolled August 22, 1862, at Camp Chase, Ohio, and was mustered into service August 28, 1862, as corporal, Company C, 88th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was mustered out as a corporal January 20, 1864, at Columbus, Ohio, to accept an appointment as first lieutenant in the 27th United States Colored Troops and was mustered in as captain of the same company June 9, 1864.  He was mustered out with his company September 21, 1865, at Smithville, North Carolina, his service having covered a period of three years and twenty-nine days.
     Washington Gardner, 2d, youngest brother of the four last above named, was enrolled October 26, 1861, at Westfield, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect from the same date, as a private Company D, 65th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years.  He was appointed sergeant November 1, 1863; was badly wounded in action at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 14, 1864, and was mustered out with his company at Nashville, Tennessee, December 14, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of service.  He was in the army three years, one month and seventeen days.
     Carleton F. Gardner, great-grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner; grandson of John Lewis and Sarah (Goodin) Gardner and son of Washington, 2d, and Anna (Powers) Gardner served in the Spanish-American War as a private in Company E, 31st Michigan Infantry Volunteers.  He was enrolled April 26, 1898, at Lansing, Michigan, and was mustered into service May 8, 1898, at Island Lake, Michigan, and after a service of five months and ten days was honorably discharged October 6, 1898, at Camp Poland, Tennessee, pursuant to orders from the War Department.
     Elton G. Gardner, a younger brother of the last above named, served as a private in Company A, 32d Michigan Infantry Volunteers.  He was enrolled May 12, 1898, at Island Lake, Michigan, and was mustered into service May 14, 1898, at the same place and was honorably discharged November 5, 1898, at Coldwater, Michigan, having served five months and twenty days.
     Roy Mulvane, great-grandson of James and Laura (Mozier) Gardner and grandson of Joseph and ––––– Gardner, and son of William P. and Emily (Gardner) Mulvane, was enrolled as the record shows July 9, 1898, at St. Charles, Missouri, and was mustered into service July 20, 1898, as a sergeant in Company G, 6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, to serve two years, and was honorably discharged from the service, as a sergeant, April 6, 1899.  His term of service covered eight months and twenty-seven days.

Summary.

     The following brief summary of the above military service shows that twenty-four descendants of John Gardner, founder of this branch of the American family of that name served in war under the flag of the Union; that of these, one was a son, sixteen were grandsons, and seven great-grandsons.  The official record shows that they served an aggregate of fifty-one years, four months, and twenty-nine days; of this forty-eight years, eight months, and one day was in the Civil war.  Two of the twenty-three served over four years each, six over three years, while the average for all was two years and two months.  Two died while in the service, five were wounded in battle, two, twice; one was taken prisoner; four were captains, four lieutenants and six were non-commissioned officers.  Thirteen served in Ohio regiments, five in Iowa, two in Illinois, two in Michigan, one in Wisconsin, and one in Missouri.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 891-897
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Lincoln Twp. –
JAMES GARDNER, farmer; P. O., Cardington; was born in Ireland, Dec. 18, 1821. He came to America with his parents, Andrew and Margaret (Emmerson) Gardner, in 1823; they landed at New York, and from there went to Clinton Co., in the same state, where they resided until 1833, when they came to Licking Co., Ohio, and in 1840 came to Morrow Co., where our subject has since resided, and where his parents died. His father was a weaver by trade, a business he did not follow after coming to America; his father was born in 1811, and mother in 1818; the father died April 25, 1862, and the mother May 18, 1867; James was raised on a farm, and has always followed farming for a business; his early life was spent at home on the farm; he received limited education, and at the age of 21 began business for himself. He was married twice; the first marriage was Nov. 24, 1842, to Frances Coffman. She was born May 9, 1823; her parents were natives of Va., and came to Morrow Co. in a very early day. From this marriage there were five children -- Peter P., born Sept. 7, 1843; William E., Oct. 10, 1815; Albert G., Oct. 22, 1847; James F., July 30, 1851; Margaret E., June 15, 1858. The mother of these children died March 30, 1869. Mr. Gardner remained a widower until April 10, 1870, when he married Mrs. Jane (West) Biggs. Her parents were natives of Pa. and came to Morrow Co. in a very early day. Her father was born June 3, 1809, and mother March 11, 1808, and she was born June 18, 1838; she had one child by her first marriage, Dennis E. Biggs; he was born Jan. 1, 1860. She also has one child by her last marriage, Charles W., born April 22, 1874. Mr. Gardner began business for himself in the woods, and almost entirely upon his own resources; but by bard work and perseverance, he has accumulated enough to keep him comfortably through the balance of his days. He and wife are members of the Baptist Church; his first children are all married, and doing for themselves.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 764
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Gilead Twp. –
JOHN GARDNER, farmer; P. O. Mt. Gilead; was born in Franklin Tp., Knox, now Morrow Co., May 1, 1819. In 1825, his parents moved to Richland Co., and located about four and one-half miles northeast of Mt. Gilead; he lived at home 22 years, then, in company with his brother-in-law he farmed a place belonging to his father, and located near West Point.  Dec. 29, 1842, he married Miss Harriet Carr; she was born in Richland Co., Ohio, April 17, 1821; they occupied a house on the farm, and with his brother-in-law, continued farming the place, until 1850, in the fall of which year his father died, and the following year he bought the old homestead farm, which was entered by his father about 1822, and occupied in 1825; he farmed the place for three years, and then sold the same and bought his present place, and has lived here since. By his marriage there are four children -- Quincy T., born Feb. 16, 1844, and married Miss Lydia Truax, of Elkhart Co., Ind.; he is farming his father’s place; of their three children two are living Eliza and George; Eunice, now Mrs. Bargar, born May 22, 1846, and lives in this vicinity; they had three children, two living -- Melville and Zoa; Mary E., now Mrs. Iden, born Nov. 4, 1848, and lives in Denmark Co.; Albert C., born March 30, 1856, and lives near Denmark. Mr. Gardner resides on his farm, which contains seventy-five acres, and is located three and one-half miles northeast of Mt. Gilead. He has served in the offices connected with the school and road, also as Township Trustee. His parents, Timothy and Sarah (Hawkins) Gardner, were natives of New Jersey and Vermont; they were married in Knox Co., Ohio, where she came with her parents, and he when a young man; they settled here in Morrow Co. in 1825, and lived here until his death, in 1850; she lived on the old homestead until the sale of the same; she then moved to Minnesota, and later she went to the State of Maine, and lived with her son William until her death, March 17, 1873. They had eight children, six of whom are living.  Her parents, Thomas and Sarah (Crosby) Hawkins, were natives of Conn. and New Jersey; Mrs. Harriet (Carr) Gardner’s parents, David and Sarah (Fisher) Carr, were natives of New Jersey; they came to Richland Co., Ohio, he in 1816, and she in 1820; they married there in 1820. He died there Feb. 2, 1875; she is living on the old place where she has made her home for the past sixty years; of their eleven children, eight are living, all but one of whom are married.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 535
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REUBEN B. GARDNER, a farmer of Peru township, is a son of Robert Gardner, who was born in the District of Columbia in 1792.  His father, John Gardner, was a native of Scotland, and came to America as a soldier in Cornwallis’ army during the Revolutionary war, and served under that General until the surrender at Yorktown.  He then settled near Washington, District of Columbia, where he followed the tailor’s trade.  In a very early day he came to Ohio, purchasing and locating on a farm where Zanesville is now situated, but in 1810 located on the farm now owned by our subject in Morrow county.  At that time there was only one house in this locality.  He was the father of two sons by his first marriage, three by the second, and seven children by the third.
     Robert Gardner, father of our subject, was married in this county, in 1817, to Polly Benedict, born in Peru, New York, in 1798, a daughter of Reuben Benedict, who came to Morrow county, Ohio, in 1812.  After his marriage, Mr. Gardner located on fifty acres of land just east of our subject’s present residence, which he cleared and improved, and died there April 6, 1860.  His wife departed this life June 1, 1873.  They were the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters, seven of whom grew to years of maturity, ––Nelson, deceased; Sarah, wife of Samuel Ullery, who resides near New Albany, Ohio, and they have five children; Annie, deceased, was the wife of Anson Place, and they had two children; Rebecca, deceased; Phoebe, widow of Daniel Osborn, and has one child; Hannah, wife of Morgan Doty, and Reuben B., the subject of this sketch.  The parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which the father was Trustee and Class Leader for many years.  He was am active worker in the Whig party, afterward becoming identified with the Republican party, and served as Trustee of Peru township for many years.
     Reuben B. Gardner was born on the farm where he now resides, June 18, 1820.  He has been a life-long farmer, and now owns 320 acres of the best agricultural land in this locality, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.  He was married in 1853 to Hannah Wilson, born in Bennington township. Morrow county, September 3, 1831, a daughter of Elias and Wealthy (Wells) Wilson, the former born in New York, July 8, 1791, and the latter born in Pennsylvania, March 20, 1806.  They located in Ohio in a very early day, and were among the early and leading pioneers of Bennington township.  The father was a soldier in the war of 1812.  He was first married to Charity Demuth, and they had five children, four now living, ––Mary Ann Dubois, Julia Harvey, Maria Wells and Sally Tinkham.  By his second marriage he had eleven children, seven now living, viz: Abigail Beard, Charity Duty, Thomas, Mrs. Gardner, James, Polly Rogers and Rosalind Westbrook.  Mr. Wilson died November 5, 1885, and his wife survived until October 27, 1887.  Our subject and wife have two children, ––Robert Nelson, born February 4, 1859, married Margaret Ella Gardner, and resides on the home farm; and Nevada, born October 4, 1869, is the wife of C. Flavius Brown, of Lincoln township, Morrow county.  They have one child, Francis G.  Mr. Gardner has one daughter deceased, Alice, and her child, Cora A., born May 8, 1875, has been reared by our subject.
     Reuben Gardner and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which the former has served as Steward and Trustee.  In his social relations he has passed all the chairs in the I. O. O. F.  He affiliates with the Republican party, and has served as Trustee of Peru township for many years, as Road Supervisor, and is the present School Director, having held that position for over thirty years.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 260-261
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WASHINGTON GARDNER, who resides on a farm in Lincoln township, Morrow county, Ohio, is one of the octogenarians of the county.
     His father, John Gardner, was born in Edinburg, Scotland, and came to America with the British soldiers during the Revolutionary war; was in Cornwallis’ army and surrendered at Yorktown.  After the close of the war he settled in Loudoun county, Virginia, where he was subsequently married to Miss Elizabeth Groves, a native of Maryland, and of Dutch descent.  As early as 1795 they removed to the Western Reserve and settled at what has since been known as Zanesville, Ohio, where they lived until 1816.  John Gardner was the second man to build a cabin at that place.  In 1816 he moved to Delaware county, now Morrow county, and located in Peru township, this part of the country then being almost an unbroken wilderness.  Here he and his good wife spent the residue of their lives and died, honored and esteemed by all who knew them.  Both were members of the Baptist Church, in which he was a Deacon.  During the whisky rebellion in Pennsylvania he was one who helped to put a stop to the troubles there.  He and his wife were the parents of seven children, namely: Rebecca, Nancy, John L., Elizabeth, Mary, Washington and Fannie.
     Washington Gardner is the only survivor of this family.  He was born November 2, 1814, at Zanesville, Ohio, and was a child when he came with his parents to Peru township, where he was reared and educated, remaining with his parents until their death.  He was married September 5, 1847, to Miss Mary Wiseman, a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of John and Hannah (Culver) Wiseman, both natives of Pennsylvania, the father being a farmer.  The Wiseman family moved to Ohio in 1829 and settled on a farm in Columbiana county.  In 1835 they located at Bucyrus, and some years later moved to Lincoln township, this county, where the father and mother both passed away.  They were the parents of thirteen children, of whom five are living, viz.: Mrs. M. W. Caris, Mrs. Gardner, John, Isaiah, and Mrs. Sarah Martin.  Mrs. Gardner was educated at Bucyrus and at Kenton Seminary, and was for some years engaged in teaching, beginning in Morrow county when she was sixteen.  She received $1.50 per week and “boarded around.”
     After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gardner settled at Westfield, Morrow county, and in 1865 removed from there to their present farm in Lincoln township.  He was for seventeen years engaged in the milling business, and for some years also worked at the carpenter’s trade.
     In politics Mr. Gardner is a Republican, and has all his life taken an active interest in public affairs.  He has been a delegate to both county and State conventions, has served as Trustee of Westfield, Peru and Lincoln townships, and now, at the age of eighty years, is serving as School Director.  When the civil war came on he was among the first to tender his services for the protection of his country.  He enlisted July 25, 1861, in Company G, Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as teamster, and was in the service for eleven months, participating in the battle of Booneville, West Virginia.  He is a member of the G. A. R.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are members of the United Brethren Church.
     Of their nine children, only four are living, and of these we make record as follows: W. S. is married and has two children and lives in Denver, Colorado; Maggie, wife of John W. Howard, lives in Lincoln township, this county, their family consisting of three children; John, married, is the father of one child, and lives in Delaware, Ohio; and Lola, wife of Conrad Hoffmire, of Fulton, this county.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 329-330
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Congress Twp. –
JOHN R. GARVERICK, merchant; Whetstone; has been identified with this county since its erection, being the third of a family of nine children, and was born here Feb. 26, 1838. His parents, John F. and Rachel (Ruhl) Garverick were born and raised in York Co., Pennsylvania.  John R. began for himself, when 23 years of age, and farmed for three years, with good success; he then relinquished this and went into mercantile business at West Point, where he has since remained, doing business under the firm name of J. R. Garverick & Co.  His first partner was his father, who died in 1872; the vacancy was filled by his youngest brother, and the business has been continued under the same name. Their trade has always been of a satisfactory nature, and so continues; they keep a general stock of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, queensware, notions, etc.; in connection with their store, they have the Post Office, Mr. Garverick having officiated as Post Master since 1874. The success of the firm is due to their business tact.  Mr. Garverick was married Jan. 13, 1861, to Catharine, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Snyder, who was born June 7, 1838, in what is now Morrow Co. By this union eleven children have been born, seven of whom are living -- Mary E., Alla, Webster, Chester, Emma M., Ira W. and John W.  Himself and wife are members of the German Reformed Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 687
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Congress Twp. –
JOSHUA GARVERICK, farmer; P. O. Whetstone; is the eldest of the children born to John and Rachel (Ruhl) Garverick; the former was born in York Co., Pa., March 24, 1805, and was married Dec. 20, 1832.  Mrs. Garverick was born April 11, 1812. They emigrated to the West in 1833, and lived in Johnsville one year, when they located in the north part of Congress Tp., where he had previously entered 160 acres of land, which he cleared, it being covered with timber; he then had only one horse to work with, but exchanged with a neighbor, who had an ox team, and thus they managed to get along. Their cows died, and they had many difficulties to encounter, such as are only experienced by pioneers. Although having but little to begin with, yet he succeeded in obtaining 400 acres of land; he died Jan. 27, 1872, having raised a family of six children, who are among the substantial citizens of this county.  Joshua was 22 years of age when he began upon his own responsibility; Jan. 20, 1856, he was married to Margaret Bordner, who was born in Perry Tp., and a daughter of Henry and Margaret (Haws) Bordner, of York Co., Pa.  After Mr. Garverick was married he lived several years in Bloomfield Tp., renting land; in 1866 he purchased eighty acres of the homestead farm, to which he has since added by purchase, until he now has 120 acres. They have eight children -- Ellen, Mary A., Jason, Milton, Melrow, Bertha, Homer and Loyd.  Mr. Garverick is a member of the Reformed Church, and was born Nov. 4, 1833.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 687
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Gilead Twp. –
JOHN B. GATCHELL, County Recorder; Mt. Gilead; was born in Harrison Co., Ohio, June 18, 1843, and is the son of Amos P. and Barbara E. (Barger) Gatchell; his mother was born in Pennsylvania, and his father in Harrison Co., Ohio, and was a farmer; here our subject remained until he was 15 years of age, when he began to learn the trade of carpenter and cabinet-maker, which he followed some years, and at the breaking out of the late civil war, he enlisted in Co. I, 15th O. V. I., three months’ regiment, from Wyandotte Co., having moved there in 1850, participating in the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill, etc., and was honorably mustered out at the expiration of his time, when he re-enlisted as private for three years in Co. F, 55th O. V. I., serving full time, and re-enlisted for the third time, and served until the dawn of peace; he participated in some of the most severe marches and battles of the war, took an active part in twenty-four prominent engagements, Cedar Mountain, Springville, Cross Keys, second battle of Bull Run, and Gettysburg, where in the second day’s fight, at dark, he was painfully wounded in the right hand and leg with a Minie ball and the bursting of a shell; he remained in the hospital from July 2 to Sept. 15, when he reported for duty to his regiment in Virginia; when the regiment was ordered west, in company with Gen. Joe Hooker, he participated in the memorable battle of Lookout Mountain, known as the “battle above the clouds”; Mission Ridge, at Chattanooga. Mr. Gatchell took sick with the typhoid fever, remaining indisposed for a number of days; with this exception, his health was good; at the close of the war, being discharged Aug. 15, 1865, he returned to Ohio and engaged in farming in Wyandotte Co. some two years, when in 1868 he moved to Morrow Co. and located in Mt. Gilead, where he was engaged in clerking and the sewing machine business; in 1870 he was appointed Assistant U. S. Marshal, taking the census; he filled the office as Deputy Clerk over two years; in 1875 he was nominated by the Republican party as Recorder of Morrow Co., being elected to that office by a majority of 15, and in 1878 was re-elected to the same office by a rousing majority of 590 votes. He is a Republican, and a hard worker in its ranks. He married Oct. 12, 1865, Miss Julia E. Bartlett, who was born in Mt. Gilead, Dec. 8, 1845, and is the daughter of A. M. Bartlett, who settled in Mt. Gilead at an early day; they have two children.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 533-534
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Franklin Twp. –
GEORGE GATES, farmer; P. O., Pulaskiville. The subject of these lines is the son of Martin and Mary (Poole) Gates, born in Washington Co., Pennsylvania, in April, 1827. His father was a native of New Jersey, and his mother of Maryland. They were married in Pennsylvania, and their union was blessed by eleven children -- John, William, Elizabeth, Ann, Mariah, Esther, Martin, George, Ruth, Isaac, and Sarah. They arrived here April 6, 1839, and purchased 100 acres, where John Gates lives, which had few improvements then; on his arrival, George, then a lad of twelve years, began clearing and farming, which he followed until his twentieth year; from that time he worked by the month and day until he was thirty-two. In 1859 he united his fortunes with Elizabeth A. Shoemaker, a daughter of Samuel Shoemaker, of Chesterville, Ohio. They rented a lot at first, for one year, and afterwards lived in different places in this township until 1871, when he bought his present home of 65 acres, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising. Mr. Gates has dealt in horses quite extensively for the last thirty years. In April, 1880, he purchased the celebrated Norman Horse, raised by Jenk Williams, of this county, and one of the few representatives of the famous “Old Bob.’  He is a noble and spirited animal, whose stock and well-known merits commend him to all. Mr. Gates is a Republican in politics, and has a family of one son and two daughters -- Ida, born Feb. 5, 1861; Minnie, April 24, 1866; Budd, June 14, 1876.  Clyde, a son, died at the age of two years. Mr. Gates takes a deep interest in education, whose advantages he was denied in youth. He is well informed, and his home is a center of intelligence, where the stranger will find a generous and hearty welcome.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 782
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LAFAYETTE GATES. ––The present able and popular incumbent of the office of county commissioner of Morrow county, Ohio, to which position he was chosen for a second term in 1910, is Lafeyette [sic] Gates, who is a farmer and merchant of prominence and influence in this section of the fine old Buckeye state.  He was born on the 13th of November, 1846, the place of his nativity being a farm located about one mile and a half south of Pulaskiville, in Franklin township, Morrow county.  He is a son of John and Polly (Truax) Gates, both of whom are deceased, the former having been summoned to the life eternal on the 19th of January, 1891, at the age of eighty-two years and seven months, and the latter having passed away on the 7th of June, 1886, at the age of sixty-eight years and four months.  Mrs. Gates was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, whence she came to Ohio in 1838, at which time she was a child of but five years of age.  Her parents located on a farm in Morrow county and continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits during the residue of their lives.  Mr. and Mrs. Gates were devout members of the Baptist church, with which he was affiliated for a period of thirty-three years.
     Lafayette Gates, or “Lafe” as he is generally known, was reared to the invigorating influence of the home farm and he was the elder of his parents’ two children, both still living.  His educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools of the locality and period and he continued to be identified with farming operations en the old homestead until the time of his marriage, in 1871, at which time he located on his mother’s old home farm, where he erected a small frame house.  In 1873 he purchased an additional tract of nineteen acres and in 1882 he added to the original estate another tract of sixty acres.  He has since bought and sold many parcels of land and his present estate consists of some one hundred and sixty acres of most arable land.  All the buildings on the place are of the most modern type and his residence is one of the most beautiful in this township.  Residing with him is his son Clay, who is his assistant in the work and management of the farm.  In February Mr. Gates and his son, C. Clay, purchased a general store in Pulaskiville, which they operated until 1901, at which time on account of the death of his daughter and the subsequent illness of his wife, Mr. Gates returned to the home farm, where he remained until March, 1903.  He then purchased a store at Shauck Post Office, which he conducted until the 11th of November, 1905.  In 1906 he located on a farm of one hundred acres in Gilead township, which he disposed of in 1908, when he again became the owner of a store in Shauck’s Post Office.  In 1909 he disposed of his interests in town and returned to the old home farm, where he has since resided.  On the 12th of October, 1909, he bought an additional tract of forty acres of land.
     In his religious faith Mr. Gates has ever been aligned with the Baptist church, in whose faith he was reared.  In politics he is a stalwart Democrat and he is now serving his second term as county commissioner of Morrow county, to which he was elected in 1908.  Just after he had attained to his legal majority he was elected to the office of assessor of Franklin township, of which he continued in tenure for one year.  For nine years he was township clerk and for four years was township treasurer.  All his public service has been characterized by ardent devotion to duty and as a loyal and public spirited citizen he has no superior.
     On the 1st of January, 1871, Mr. Gates was united in marriage to Miss Jane E. Mann, and concerning her life and death the following lines from a local paper may be appropriately inserted here:
     “Jane E. Gates, daughter of John and Christena Mann, was born August 7, 1847, and died September 3, 1901, aged fifty-four years and twenty-seven days.  She was married to Lafayette Gates January 1, 1871.  To them was born two children, one son who remains to mourn the loss of a kind and loving mother, and one daughter who preceded her to the eternal life just five months ago.  On the 21st day of February, 1871, she was baptized by Rev. B. M. Marrison and united with the Franklin Baptist church, and ever afterward remained a faithful and consistent member.  Many times during her sickness she expressed a willingness to be taken home to heaven.  For about two years she was a constant sufferer from that dread disease, consumption, and during the last seven weeks of her life she was confined to her bed, being constantly attended by her friends and neighbors, who rendered to her every kindness in their power, for which the relatives offer their heartfelt thanks.  On the fifth day of September, 1901, her body was taken to Bryn Zion, where the funeral was preached to a very large congregation by Rev. W. H. Bedell, whom she had chosen before her death for that purpose, after which she was laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery beside her daughter, with whom she has been reunited on the shores of eternal bliss.”  She was ever a potent influence for good in the home and was a devoted wife and mother.  Cassius C. Gates, the son, was born on the 13th of October, 1872, was educated in the public schools of Morrow county and on the 23rd of December, 1897, was united in wedlock to Miss Augusta McCracken, a daughter of Wayne and Frances McCracken, of Harmony township, this county.  They have two children, John M., whose birth occurred on the 26th of August, 1898; and Dale W., born October 14, 1903.  Cassius Gates is a Baptist in his religious faith and fraternally he is a member of Johnsville Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  Cora Anita, the deceased daughter of Lafayette Gates, was born on the 3rd of May, 1877, and she married Clay Snyder, of Denmark, on the 31st of October, 1900.  She died April 5, 1901.  She was educated in the common schools and was a faithful member of the Baptist church, a worker in both the Sunday School and church.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 717-719
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Gilead Twp. –
SAMUEL GELLER, retired; . Mt. Gilead; was born on his father’s farm Knox Co., Ohio, Sept. 3, 1820, and lived there about 12 years; when with his parents he moved to Marion (now Morrow) Co., and settled on a farm near the present Levering Station, where he lived until he was 27 years of age, assisting his father on the farm; he then began farming on his own account, on a piece of land in the neighborhood, given him by his father, upon which he continued until the year 1866; he then sold his land and moved to Mt. Gilead, where has since lived a retired life.  Jan. 9, 1848, he married Miss N. A. Beaty; she was born in Pennsylvania, and came to this county with her parents when a child. His parents, Solomon and Mary (Walker) Geller were natives of Pennsylvania; they were married in Knox Co. O., whither they had moved at an early day; they came to Mt. Gilead as stated, where they died -- he in March, 1861, and she in August, 1863.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 535-536
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ERNEST P. GEORGE. ––Proprietor of one of the leading restaurants in Mount Gilead and this section of Morrow county, Ernest P. George is also a fine representative of the young men who have succeeded in business as the result of unvarying industry, sheer determination, straightforward methods and natural ability, trained from early boyhood.  Moreover, he comes of a splendid family which for generations has “made good” both on the battlefields of war and in the strenuous conflicts of commerce and trade.     Mr. George is a native of Mount Gilead, born on the 12th of April, 1885, to Davies P. and M. Belle (House) George, the parents both being children of the Buckeye state––the father born in 1856 and the mother, in 1855.  Davies P. George is a retired miller, having been for many years an owner in the extensive business of the House Milling Company.  In order to revert to the origin of the company it is necessary to mention the maternal great-grandfather of Ernest P. George, Richard House, who was the founder of the business in the early pioneer days of the city and county.  He came to Mount Gilead from Knox county, Kentucky, and became one of the first business men of that place, both in point of time and character.  Richard House married Miss Mary Clemons, a native of England, and when their son, John C., was sixteen years of age he was apprenticed in his father’s mill.  Of this he finally assumed control and conducted it, with the family characteristics of a well trained mind and skillful hands, for a period of sixty-two years, during which the business had grown to firmly established importance among the industries of the region.
     Davies P. George became a partner of John C. House and in due time his son, Ernest P., of this sketch, was apprenticed to learn the trade and business in the old mill which had been founded by his maternal great-grandfather.  Besides this son, who was the second child to be born into the family, Mr. and Mrs. George became the parents of Herbert, who is a farmer in Congress township, this county; Anna, who married Willard Hatton, a resident of Mount Gilead; John H., deceased; and Miriam.
     Ernest P. George, of this review, obtained his early education in the public schools of Mount Gilead, and commenced his apprenticeship in the old House mill when twelve years of age.  When he had attained his majority he moved to Cresline [sic], and for three years remained in the employ of Weaver Brothers, millers of that place.  In April, 1908, he returned to Mount Gilead and became associated with his father in the operation of a bakery, on the 1st of January, 1909, moving to Caledonia, where he conducted an independent venture in the same line until April 10, 1910.  Upon the latter date Mr. George purchased what was originally known as the Candy Kitchen of Mount Gilead, which he has since transformed into a first-class restaurant, where healthful and appetizing food is neatly served and the pleasant surroundings are such as to further account for its wide popularity.  Mr. George is a stalwart and progressive Republican in his private opinions, but has never sought to bring himself into public notice, although he is deeply interested in what is of real moment to the general good and advancement.  As to his affiliations with organized social and religious movements it should be added that he is an esteemed member of the Knights of Pythias (Charles H. Hull Lodge, No. 195), and is active in the work of the Methodist church.  Mrs. George is also earnest in the manifold activities of the latter organization.
     On the 19th of November, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. George to Miss Blanche Irwin, a daughter of William A. and Jeannette (Richardson) Irwin.  Her parents reside on their fine farm and country estate four miles north of Mount Gilead.  Mrs. George’s paternal grandfather was a native of Pennsylvania, whence he came to Ohio in the days of the primitive pioneers and settled upon a wooded tract of six hundred and forty acres, or a square mile of forest land.  His first dwelling place in this dense wilderness was a tent, which he occupied until he could throw together a rude log hut; from these rude beginnings he advanced to prosperity along the rugged paths laid out for the pioneer of his day, and eventually became wealthy and prominent.  William A., his son and the father of Mrs. George, inherited considerable of the paternal property, and now owns and operates a valuable farm on one hundred and fifty acres in Washington county.  Mrs. George has a brother, Clarke Irwin, who lives on an adjoining homestead, as well as three sisters––Cora, Eva and Ina.  By her marriage she has become the mother of Richard Irwin George, whose birth occurred on the 19th of September, 1904.
     As an indication of the intimate connection of the two families with each other and their long identification with the history of Morrow county, it is suggestive to know that nine of Mr. George’s great-great-grandfathers, great-grandfathers and grandfathers rest in its mellow and kindly soil; that his grandfather, E. P. George, and his wife’s father, William A. Irwin, both served in the Civil war as members of Company G, One Hundred and Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and that the paternal great-grandfather, Henry George, was a soldier in the war of 1812, in whose naval fortunes the state of Ohio had so vital an interest.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 747-749
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Harmony Twp. -
R. E. GEORGE, farmer; P. O., Mt. Gilead; was born Aug. 13, 1835, in Chester Tp. Feb. 2, 1837, came with his parents to Harmony, and was married March 12, 1857, to Delilah Burnes; she was born June 14, 1839; they settled after marriage, on his present farm of 105 acres, a portion of which was obtained by his own labors, and the rest by inheritance; his union with Miss Burnes blessed them with five children -- Hezekiah, Enoch A., Emma, Charles and one unnamed, deceased; he has been Township Trustee, and is a member of the Old School Baptists, and votes the Democratic ticket; he was also Constable; his father, Edward, was born Jan. 1, 1799, in Bricknockshire, Wales, and came to Penn. in 1804; his mother, Jane (Evans) was born in 1796, and came to the same county in Penn. in 1797. They were married in 1826, in Chester Tp., and had nine children -- all died but R. E.  Edward has been a church member since his 17th year, and the mother since 1838. The parents started life in the wilderness and did their part for the improvement of the country to what it is. The mother is dead; the father is still living, and is hale and hearty at 81 years of age; during the spring of 1880, he built over 400 rods of fence. Mr. George paid out $110 to clear the township draft.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 707-708
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Harmony Twp. -
WILLIAM T. GEORGE, farmer; P. O., Cardington; was born Nov. 1, 1823, in Chester Tp., then Knox Co.; he is a brother of the wife of James Meredith, whose sketch appears elsewhere; his youth was occupied with such duties as he was capable of performing upon the farm, beside attending the district school. He enlisted in the Mexican war, and was in the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepee, and helped to take Mexico. He was married June 3, 1849, to Elizabeth Mettler. They settled for awhile in Chester Tp., and in 1859 came to the present finely-improved farm of 175 acres, where he has since remained; he erected a dwelling at a cost of $2,800, and has other improvements to correspond. They have had five children -- Rachel, deceased; Miles M., deceased; Mary E., deceased; Armenia married George, a son of Peter and Permelia (Kimball) Hammond; Eva, deceased. Mr. George has been chosen Township Treasurer for twelve years in succession, and has been Township Trustee. He and his wife are members of the Old School Baptist Church, having united in 1854. He votes the Democratic ticket, and has represented that body in county and congressional conventions; was once a member of the central committee. He assisted in clearing this township of the draft in the civil rebellion.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 707
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Westfield Twp. –
ALBERT GOODHUE, farmer and stock-dealer; P. O. Westfield, was born in Westfield Tp., June 13, 1831.  His father, Josiah Goodhue, was born in New Hampshire, March 19, 1792.  His ancestors served in the Revolutionary war, two of whom gave up their lives in that struggle.  He was married to Elizabeth Peak, March 23, 1825, about eight years after he came to Ohio.  They settled on the west bank of the Whetstone, nearly opposite the site of the present town of Westfield; here he early engaged in the ashery business, in which he laid the foundation of his fortune; carrying the products to Zanesville and Cincinnati, and exchanging them for such goods as the settlers needed, which he in turn sold at a profit.  This business he carried on for about fifty years, during which time he was in partnership with Henry Lamb, of Delaware, and others; he was the father of ten children, six of whom are now living.  One of his sons, John Goodhue, of the 26th O V. I., was killed in the battle of Murfreesboro.  He lived to the advanced age of eighty-four years, vigorous in mind and body.  Albert lived with his father until he was thirty years of age, when he was married.  He has two children, whom he is giving the very best advantages for securing a good education.  He has a good farm, of 104 acres, and his residence commands a fine view.  Besides this, he has town property, and an interest in other lands.  In stock-dealing, he invests in whatever the market indicates as the most prudent to handle.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 639-640
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BENTON E. GOODRICH. ––On his fine farm of two hundred and thirty-five acres of most arable land in Washington township, Morrow county, Ohio, Mr. Benton E. Goodrich is turning his energy to good account and since engaging as an agriculturist his success has been on a parity with his well directed endeavors.  In Harmony township, Morrow county, on the 11th of June, 1858, occurred the birth of Mr. Goodrich, whose parents were Abner J. and Drucilla (Graham) Goodrich.  He was the second in order of birth in a family of three children, the others of whom are Marion and William, both of this county.  Abner J. Goodrich was engaged in farming during the major portion of his active career and he was summoned to eternal rest in 1869, his wife having passed away October 12, 1909, aged eighty-five years and six months.  Mr. Goodrich was a soldier in the Civil war for about a year, and he received an honorable discharge.  He was a Republican and a member of the Methodist church.  Mrs. Goodrich was a member of the Baptist church.  Both are interred in Beulah cemetery in Congress township.
     When eighteen months old Benton E. Goodrich accompanied his parents on their removal to Congress township, this county, in whose public schools he was educated.  He remained at home until thirty-one years of age, at which time he was married and after that event he rented a farm in North Bloomfield township, on which he resided for the ensuing four years.  In 1893 he purchased a tract of forty acres in Washington township and subsequently he purchased more land, so that he now owns and operates a fine estate of two hundred and thirty-five acres of highly cultivated land.  In politics he endorses the cause of the Democratic party and he has been honored by his fellow citizens with various local offices of trust and responsibility, among them being those of land appraiser, school director for the past four years, constable and justice of the peace.  On the 8th of November, 1910, he was elected as a member of the board of infirmary directors.  Fraternally he is a member of the Washington Grange, No. 1728.
     On September 26, 1890, Mr. Goodrich was united in marriage to Miss Rosina Parks, who was born in North Bloomfield township, July 31, 1873, and who was reared and educated in Wood and Sandusky counties, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich became the parents of three children one of whom is deceased, namely: Calvin, born in 1892 and who died in infancy; Elmer A., born September 9, 1890, remains at home, as does also Drucilla J., whose birth occurred September 6, 1898.
     Mr. Goodrich has been a hard worker all his life and he is a good manager and a good financier.  He is a man of broad information and much kindliness of spirit and he and his wife are numbered among the best known and most influential citizens of this county.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 749-750
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Gilead Twp. –
E. A. GOORLEY, farmer; P. O., Gilead Sta.; was born in. Brooke Co., Va., Nov. 8, 1825, and lived there eighteen years, receiving but a limited education in the subscription schools of that period. In 1843, they came West, to Ohio, and settled on a farm two and a half miles south of Mt. Gilead; they came by wagons, one a four and one a two-horse team; on the route, near Rockford, the larger team became frightened and ran away, going a mile and a half; the wagon contained household goods, on top of which sat the two daughters; it was upset, but, save a sprained wrist and some delay, no damage was done, and they finished the trip, and settled on the farm.  E. A. lived at home until 1852; May 13, of that year, he married Miss Matilda Coe, who was born in this county; they have no children; they raised Mr. Geo. O. Coe, and their niece, Sarah E. Blaney.  Mr. Goorley now resides on his farm, located about two miles from Gilead Station; he has held offices connected with the school and roads, also that of Township Trustee and Assessor; his parents, Wm. and Nancy (Archer) Goorley were natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia; they have ten children, seven of them boys; all are living and except one, away in Missouri; all were with their father during the last days of his life.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 535
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ANDREW J. GORDON, one of the leading farmers of Franklin township, Morrow county, was born in Perry county, this State, November 26, 1843, the eldest son of Israel Gordon.  August 3, 1861, Andrew J. enlisted for service in the late war, entering Company A, Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years.  He spent two months in guarding boats at Gallipolis, was then at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, until February, 1862, and next went to Somerset, that State, where he was assigned to General Thomas’ command and took part in the battles of Mill Spring.  Returning to Louisville and on to Nashville, he participated in several skirmishes.  Next, under General Bull, Mr. Gordon took part in the second day’s fight at Shiloh, and served through the siege of Corinth.  Returning to Huntsville and Louisville, he took part in the battle of Perrysville, thence on to Nashville, to guard Cage’s Ford, and repelled General John Morgan’s forces.  Mr. Gordon, who was then on picket duty, saw the army coming, and notified the regiment.  He fired at a horseman, knocking him from his saddle, after which the fight began in earnest, with the result that Morgan was repulsed.  Returning to Nashville, he participated in a small fight at Triunt, Tennessee, also in the battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga.  At the latter engagement he was shot in the left side of his head by a musket ball, about 3 P. M., on September 19, 1863, and remained senseless for a long time.  He was taken to Hospital No. 3, at Nashville, where an operation was performed, and was afterward removed to Zollicoffer’s barracks.  In the meantime his regiment was discharged on a furlough.  After his recovery he rejoined them at Nashville, where they were on veteran furlough, and the regiment marched from that city to Chattanooga.  Mr. Gordon was a participant in the memorable “March to the Sea,” took part in the engagement at Dalton, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, and in all the battles in which the regiment participated, including the siege of Atlanta.  During all that time he suffered greatly from his wound, which did not heal for two years after his return home.
     After leaving the army, Mr. Gordon remained on his father’s farm for a time, and then followed the carpenter’s trade for several years.  He subsequently settled on a farm in this township, and nineteen years ago came to his present farm of 318 acres, all of which is under a fine state of cultivation.  In 1881 he built his residence, at a cost of $1,700.  In addition to general farming, Mr. Gordon is extensively engaged in raising Shorthorn cattle (owning at one time forty head) and Shropshire sheep.
     November 13, 1869, our subject was united in marriage with Rachel La Rue, a native of Perry county, Ohio, and a daughter of John B. La Rue, deceased.  To this union have been born four children, ––John B., Dora, William, and Susan.  The eldest son graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University in the class of 1894.  Mr. Gordon is a life-long Republican, and has served as School Director for sixteen years.  In his social relations he is a member of the Independent Order Odd of Fellows, at Mount Gilead, also the Encampment, and is a member of the U. V. L.  Mr. Gordon still suffers greatly from the wound received in the war.|Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 334-335
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Harmony Twp. -
ISRAEL GORDON, farmer; P. O., Chesterville; this well-to-do farmer was born Sept. 10, 1818, in Greene Co., Pa.; his father, George, was born in Maryland, and his mother Nellie (White) Gordon, born in the same state; the father died Aug. 10, 1830, and the mother in 1850; they had eleven children that grew up -- William, John, James, Israel, George, Basil, Isaac B., Mary, Rachel, Sarah and Ellen; Israel attended school in the old pioneer school house until the age of 14, at which time he came to Ohio, settling in Perry Co., and engaged in farming at $6.25 per month, for eight months, amounting to $50; this he invested in forty acres of land in Saltlick Tp., in said county; in one year this industrious boy had increased his means, and added ten acres more; he soon afterward sold this and bought eighty acres; Feb. 13, 1843, he celebrated a happy wedding with Susan, a daughter of Andrew and Margaret (McCollum) Irvin; her father was a native of Rockingham Co., and her mother of Washington Co., this State, and she had fourteen children, nine of whom survive -- William, Alexander, Harriet, Susan, Jackson, Robert, Frank, Thomas, and John; her father died in 1853, and her mother in 1846; the former was a Baptist and the latter a Methodist. Mr. Gordon and his bride settled in Perry Co., in a log cabin, and had for a bedstead, poles fastened to the walls; they journeyed along and every moment was used to the best advantage, and they began at once to increase their little means, and within four years he sold his eighty acres, and bought 400 acres in Saltlick Tp., on which they labored for twenty-six years, and then sold the same to William Maholm, and bought 246 acres, where he now lives -- of Jeremiah Smith -- who was the first settler; on this farm stand two large willows, which sprang from two walking canes stuck there by Smith about 1820; Mr. Gordon has still continued to increase his means, and has now 516 acres of finely improved land, on which he deals in fine hogs, sheep, cattle, and horses; he and his wife inherited together $248.38; their children were --Andrew J. married Rachel A. Lerow; George W. married Minerva McDonnell; Margaret married James Turner; Thomas; Samuel married May Evans; Charles W.; he is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and also of the Methodist Church, to which his wife also belongs; he votes the Republican ticket, and has represented that party in county conventions; encourages all modern improvements.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 706-707
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MAHALA D. GORDON. ––Among the many families of Chester township whose individual histories are pleasantly interwoven are eminent the families of Gordon and Gardner, of the former Mrs. Mahala Gordon, a venerable and much honored lady being a widely known and admirable representative.  Her husband, the late Sidney Gordon, was born near Fredericktown, Ohio, June 24, 1831.  He was the son of William and Mary (Hedden) Gordon, the former of whom was a native of Manchester, England, and the latter of New York.  Sidney’s brothers and sisters were Nelson, Elmer, Emeline, Marvin, William, Melissa and Hannah.
     Sidney Gordon’s father ran away from home in England at the age of seven years, because of a whipping administered to him by his father, joining his uncle on a whaling expedition and remaining for some time upon the “bounding main.”  A number of years later he enlisted in the English army as a private, this step at first greatly incensing his father, who was a rich silk manufacturer and who desired to have him go into business.  One day when his company was lined up for roll call, an officer rode up in front of the ranks and called out the name of William Gordon, summoning him to headquarters.  He went in fear and trembling, anticipating trouble, but he was agreeably surprised to learn that he had been promoted to a lieutenancy, the rank having been purchased for him by his father.  He was a good soldier, doing service for over seven years and being finally promoted to the rank of captain.  The English government offered a large reward to the man who would kill their enemy, Napolean [sic] Bonaparte, and upon one occasion upon the battlefield young Gordon was near “The Little Corsican” and had an excellent opportunity to do his country the great service.  As he was raising his musket, Bonaparte saw him and gave him the sign of the Orangemen.  This had the desired restraining effect as Gordon was of that order.  Fearing the English government would learn of his failure of duty, he left the army after peace was declared and sailed for America, his mother previously packing a Bible among his effects, which is one of the chiefest treasures of the Gordon home at the present day and which bears upon the fly-leaf, “Published in Cambridge, England, 1760.”  William Gordon was a man of fiery temper and unbending will, but he was possessed of sterling principles.  His experiences with the Catholics in the Irish insurrection made him ever after on his guard against them, and he sometimes referred to them as a foe which never slept.  One feautre [sic] of a remarkable life was the fact that he lived to amazing length of years, being one hundred and nine years of age at the time he was summoned to the Great Beyond.  He engaged in agriculture and resided during his life in America in New York, New Jersey and Ohio.
     Sidney Gordon, a son of the foregoing, married Miss Mahala Gardner, who was born September 12, 1833.  She was the daughter of John and Rachel (Mockabee) Gardner, natives of Ohio, and besides a sister, Martha, she had three brothers, Nelson, Charlie and Melville, who were soldiers in the Civil war, their service extending over nearly the entire period.  Sidney Gordon, like his father, was a valient [sic] soldier, enlisting at the time of the war between the states as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  His wife was left with six small children bravely to face the problems of existence during his absence.
     After the marriage of Sidney and Mahala they resided for ten years with the parents of the former.  They then removed to Iowa, where they purchased three hundred and sixty acres of land, but they remained in the new state only about a year.  They returned at the desire of Father and Mother Gordon, who wished to feel that they were near them in their old age, and the younger people cared for the older for thirty years, for they lived to an advanced age.  William Gordon’s wife was a venerable lady of wonderfully sweet and kind disposition and during the thirty years in which her children lived with her they never knew her to be angry.
     Sidney and Mahala Gordon became the parents of seven children: Rosa, the eldest who died at the age of thirty-six years; Helen; John, Herbert, Charlie, Sidney and Mary.  Helen married Robert Zolman and resides at Pulaskiville, their offspring being Walter, Eddie, Freeman, Lloyd, Maud and Grace.  John, who makes his home near Chesterville, married Lucy Selover and their children are May, Maud, Ada and Harry.  Herbert married Gustavia McLaughlin and their residence is in Butler, Ohio.  Charlie married Elizabeth Ackerman and is the proprietor of a furniture store at Mansfield.  They have one son, Fred.  Sidney resides on the old home place.  He married Lola Squires, who, dying, left one daughter, Bertha.  He was married a second time, Maggie Hartman becoming his wife.  Mary became the wife of L. B. Shurr, proprietor of Rogers Lake, a popular summer resort.  The demise of the elder Mr. Gordon occurred on August 28, 1905, and his widow occupies their home in Chesterville, surrounded by hosts of friends.  She and her family have ever been held in high esteem and are regarded as of the finest type of citizenship.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 754-755
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T. F. GORDON, who occupies distinctive preferment as Sheriff of Morrow county, and who is one of the well-known and popular citizens of the thriving little city of Mount Gilead, which represents the county’s official center, is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born in Perry county, June 8, 1852.
     His father, Israel Gordon, is a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania, where he was born September 10, 1818, his father having been a farmer.  At the age of fourteen years he started forth to carve out a career for himself, courageously assuming the responsibility of his own maintenance.  He left his native State then in 1832, and made his way to Ohio, being entirely alone in thus sallying forth into the world.  Reaching McCuneville, Perry county, he there secured a position in the salt works, remaining in that place a couple of years; the rest of the time until his marriage was spent working as a farm hand in the neighborhood.  Soon after marriage he bought a farm (and moved on) where the town of Shawnee, Perry county, now stands.  He lived there until 1871, when he removed to Morrow county, and located on a farm in Harmony township, where he has ever since continued to abide, being one of the successful and honored farmers of that locality.  In politics he has given his influence and support to the Republican party for many years, having identified himself with that organization in ante-bellum days.  Religiously he is a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church.
     The Gordon family is of Scotch extraction, and the American originators of the line were three brothers, who came here from Holland in an early day.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was George Gordon, who was born in Maryland, and whose death occurred in 1830.
     Israel Gordon married Susan Irvin, who was born in Fairfield county, this State, but who accompanied her parents to Perry county while she was still a child.  Her father, Andrew Irvin, was a native of the Old Dominion State, having been born in Rockingham county.  He was one of the prominent early settlers in Ohio, and his marriage was consummated in Washington county, this State.  His father was of Irish descent.
     Israel and Susan (Irvin) Gordon became the parents of seven children, namely: Andrew J.; George W.; Margaret; Harriet, who died in 1862; Thomas F.; Robert S., and Charles W.
     Thomas F. Gordon, the immediate subject of this review, was reared in Perry county, attending the district schools and supplementing this instruction by a course in the public schools of Chesterville, Morrow county.  He accompanied his parents to this county in 1871, and was engaged in general farming and stock raising until 1893, when he was elected to the responsible office of Sheriff of the county, on the Republican ticket.  He is still the incumbent in this office, having been renominated and reelected in 1894, ––a fact that offers sufficient voucher for his ability as an executive, and evidence that his dispensation is one that has given satisfaction to the public, in whose gift the preferment has been retained.
     Politically, Mr. Gordon has lent an active support to his party, and has wielded a marked influence in the directing of local affairs.  Fraternally, he is identified with Chester Lodge, No. 204, I. O. O. F., and with Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 195, Knights of Pythias.
     Our subject is unmarried.  He is a man of genial nature and sympathetic and generous impulses, and enjoys not only the respect of the people, but a distinctive popularity, his friends being in number as his acquaintances.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 163-164
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THOMAS F. GORDON, ex-sheriff of Morrow county, Ohio, and one of the progressive and up-to-date farmers and stock men of the county, was born in Perry county, this state, June 8, 1852 a son of one of the pioneer settlers of the Western Reserve.
     Israel Gordon, his father, was a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1818.  For a time he worked in the salt mills at McCuneville, Ohio.  He subsequently owned four hundred acres of rich coal land, at the place where Shawnee, Ohio, now stands.  When he was fifty-three years of age he sold the tract at a good price and moved to Morrow county, where he purchased eight hundred acres of farming land.  His wife, Susan, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, but was reared at Bristol in Perry county.  They were the parents of eight children, six sons and two daughters, namely: Margaret, Turner, Harriet, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas F., Robert Samuel, and C. W.  C. W. Gordon left home twelve years ago, and his whereabouts are unknown.
     Thomas F. Gordon is the owner of four hundred and thirty-one acres of productive lead, one hundred acres in Chester and two hundred and forty-six acres in Harmony township, well improved with good fences and buildings, and his home is a commodious and attractive one.  Mr. Gordon has for years taken a special interest in stock raising.  He has the largest and best herd of Short Horn cattle in Morrow county, and it is a well known fact that wherever he has exhibited his stock at fairs he has never failed to capture premiums.  Among his horses are two prize-winning stallions, and he is a large stockholder in the Chesterville Percheron Horse Company.
     Politically Mr. Gordon has always been a prominent Republican, active and influential in party affairs, and has twice been elected and served as county sheriff, his first election being in 1892, the second in 1896.
     Mr. Gordon married, November 4, 1896, Miss Anna M. Winters, daughter of Major Gilbert E. Winters, both a Mexican and Civil war veteran and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln.  During the Civil war Major Winters held important commands, at one time being in command of Camp Denison, Cincinnati.  He was one of the first law practioners [sic] in Morrow county, and at Sycamore, Illinois, where he made his home for some years, he filled the office of prosecuting attorney.  He was born in 1823 and died in 1867.  Recently, in the summer of 1910, his son-in-law, Mr. Gordon, erected a monument to his memory.  Mr. Gordon has no children, and his wife died Septemebr [sic] 1, 1907, and is buried in River Cliff cemetery, Mt. Gilead.  She was a member of the Episcopal church and a most estimable woman, loved by all who knew her.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 597-598
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Franklin Twp. –
DENTON GRAHAM, farmer; P. O. Pulaskiville. He is the youngest child in a family of ten, and was born March 30, 1844, in Congress Tp., of this county. His father, Samuel Graham, a native of Bedford Co., Penn., in early life united his fortunes with Sarah Brewer, of the same State. In 1819 the family drove through from Pennsylvania in a one-horse wagon to the little log cabin built by the father, who had preceded the family and entered a quarter section of land in the woods of Congress Tp. He died Aug. 18, 1855; and Sarah Graham, the wife, died July 30, 1870. He cleared up a farm, and leaves a family of ten children, eight of whom are living -- Oliver, Mary, Drusilla, Morgan, Levi, Benton, James and Denton; Charlotte and Rachel are dead. Denton lived in his father’s family, and attended the rude school houses of the early days, during a short term in winter, where little was taught, and that, poorly. At 18 he began working by the month, which he continued for seven years.  Aug. 19, 1869, he married Amy A. Gale (See sketch of Frederick Gale), by whom he has been blessed with two children – Judd was born Oct. 31, 1870; Stella was born Dec. 8, 1878.  Mr. Graham has been a successful farmer and stock-raiser, acquiring a handsome property of eighty acres by his own labor and management, with the exception of $800 from his father's estate. He early identified himself with the Grange interest in Franklin, Grange, No. 466, where he with others are laboring to exalt the calling of the farmer to a position that its importance demands.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 782
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Franklin Twp. –
RICHARD HOLLY GRAHAM, merchant; Pulaskiville; the youngest son of Joseph and Margaret (Mann) Graham; was born Nov. 7, 1840, in this township. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and drove from Bedford Co. of that State in a one-horse wagon to the wilderness of Ohio, in about 1822. His father entered the quarter section where Valentine Mann lives -- all in woods then. He put up a cabin in which a quilt served as a door for some time to keep out the wolves, then so thick in the woods that they made night hideous. The family was poor, and in place of the elegant furniture of to-day, they thankfully ate their corn bread and venison on rough boards laid on pins driven in the walls. The family remained on the place first settled some time, and moved to the place where William Van Buskirk lives, where they lived until 1864, emigrating to Franklin Co., Ind. They lived there only two years, when Richard’s mother died, and he and his father returned to Ohio, and together purchased ninety-three acres of land in Perry Tp., of this county. This they farmed in partnership until 1873, when they sold out, and the father found a home with his daughter, Elizabeth Mettler, where he died Oct. 8, 1877. He was a self-made, self-educated man. They had ten children, two of whom died in youth -- Abner, and infant, John, Elizabeth, Rachel, Isaac, Martin, Wesley, Mary, and Richard H.; R. H. Graham, or “Holl,” as he is usually called, lived at home until the death of his mother. He then engaged in farming here until 1873. Then he traveled during the winter and spring, and followed threshing during the summer and fall for the next three years. In 1876 he purchased a stock of goods of Milton Hart, and has since been merchant and postmaster at Pulaskiville. In April, 1880, he removed to the present commodious room beneath the Grange Hall, where he keeps constantly on hand a full stock of dry goods, hats and caps, boots and shoes, glassware, and in short everything needed by a farming community, at prices as favorable as can be found elsewhere. He was married April 11, 1880, to Cecelia Pittman, a daughter of Abednego and Affa (Slaugh) Pittman.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 781-782
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DR. GEORGE GRANGER deceased. ––It is eminently fitting that in this connection we incorporate a memoir of the life of one who held a position of distinctive prominence in Morrow county, Ohio, and one who contributed much to the social and substantial advancement of Westfield township.
     George Granger was born in the State of Vermont, July 10, 1814, and when a young man he came to Ohio, entering the Medical Institute at Worthington, where he remained until he had secured the coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine, graduating at the institution named in 1837.  In the same year he located in Westfield township, Delaware (now Morrow) county, taking up his abode on the same place where his widow now retains her home.
     Here he engaged in the practice of his profession, receiving a representative support, and gaining the confidence and affection of the people of the community.  He was a man of much force of character, and was alert and progressive in his methods.  Thus it came about that, in addition to his professional work, he became connected with other business enterprises.  He carried on his farming industry, and was also engaged in the mercantile business at Westfield, being associated in the latter with Adam Wolf.  Professionally he was in partnership for some time with Dr. E. Luellen, to whom he acted as preceptor.
     Dr. Granger was a man whom the people delighted to honor, and such was the confidence reposed in him that he was frequently urged to accept official preferment.  He was elected County Treasurer in 1859, and was the incumbent in the office at the time of his death, which occurred June 15, 1860.  Fraternally he was prominently identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and had passed several of the chairs in the same.  He also held office in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a devoted adherent.
     January 16, 1840, Dr. Granger was united in marriage to Miss Mary Bishop, who was born in Oxford township, Delaware county, Ohio.  She died in 1846, leaving one son, Wilbert, who is now a resident of the city of Delaware, this State.  Our subject consummated a second marriage March 17, 1847, when he wedded Miss Adah Carpenter, who survives him.  She was born at Galena, Delaware county, this State, January 15, 1824, the daughter of Lyman Carpenter, a native of Pennsylvania.  He came to Ohio with his parents when a small boy, his father having been Gilbert Carpenter, who was likewise a native of the old Keystone State, and who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution.  Gilbert Carpenter was one of the earliest pioneer settlers in Delaware county, locating near the present hamlet of Berkshire, where he took up Government land, clearing and improving the same, and there remaining for the residue of his days.  The maiden name of Mrs. Granger’s mother was Nancy Lewis, and she was a native of Pennsylvania, whence she came to Ohio with her parents when a child.  Her father, Robert Lewis, was a native of Wales, and when a young man he emigrated to America and located in Delaware county, Ohio.  Mrs. Granger’s parents were reared in Delaware county, and after their marriage they continued their residence in the same, locating in Westfield township, which now comprises a portion of Morrow county.  The mother died at the age of sixty-four years, and the father at the age of eighty-seven, both having lived to see the forest wilds displaced by cultivated fields and modern improvements.
     Lyman and Nancy Carpenter became the parents of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, namely: Adah, who is the widow of the subject of this memoir; Chester E., deceased; Robert L., of Delaware, Ohio; Lois Ann, deceased; Catharine, wife of D. D. Smith, of Waldo, Ohio; Gilbert, a resident of Delaware county; Henry, Jerome, and Bennett, all of whom arc deceased; and Lafayette, a resident of Westfield township, Morrow county.
     Mrs. Granger was reared in Westfield township, and here received her educational training.  By her marriage to Dr. Granger she became the mother of three children: Solon, born March 10, 1851, was married November 16, 1873, to Miss Lin Durkee, who was born in this township, February 14, 1855, the daughter of A. J. and M. R. Durkee, the former of whom was a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Pennsylvania; Solon and Lin Granger are the parents of four children: George A., Emma A., Mamie R., and Griffith S.; Mrs. Granger’s second child, Mary, is the wife of Daniel D. Booher, of Mount Gilead, this county, and is the mother of six children: Raymond G., Edna D., Adah A., Emma C., Herbert S., and Helen J.; the third child, Emma N., was the wife of Albert Bishop.  She died August 30, 1879.
     Upon the death of her honored husband, in 1860, Mrs. Granger assumed full charge of the homestead farm of 220 acres, and conducted the business successfully until the coming of age of her children, fortifying herself to meet the emergency, and proving a discerning and capable business woman.  Upon her also devolved the care of her children, all of whom she reared and educated, while performing a similar and equally devoted duty to Wilbert, her husband’s son by the previous marriage.  Mrs. Granger is a woman of the noble type, and her strength has been as her days.  Not alone for her marked ability, but for her sterling attributes of character, has she been honored and cherished by a large circle of devoted friends.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 159-161
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Westfield Twp. –
SOLON GRANGER, farmer and stock dealer; P. O. Westfield.  Among the younger class of citizens, who are rapidly coming to the front, none are more prominent than Mr. Granger.  He is the son of Dr. George and Adah Granger, whose biographies appear more fully elsewhere, and was born March 10, 1851.  At the time of his father’s death, which occurred when Solon was 9 years of age, he was attending school at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, where his father was performing the duties of County Treasurer.  He returned then to Westfield, and after spending a few years in the village school, and nearly a year in college, at Delaware, he went to Lebanon, O., where he completed a business course and received a diploma.  At the age of 20, he took charge of the home farm of 216 acres, forty-seven of which belonged to him; to the latter he has added forty-seven acres additional, thirty five of which he has cleared and improved.  He married Miss Ethlinda Durkee, Nov. 16, 1873., who was a native of this township.  From this union there are two children -- George A., born Jan. 2, 1875; and Emma, born May 14, 1879.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 640
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Westfield Twp. –
WILBERT GRANGER, farmer; P. O., Westfield; was born June 21, 1845, in what is now Westfield Tp., but then a part of Oxford; he is the son of Dr. George and Mary (Bishop) Granger.  His father’s history is noted elsewhere, and his mother’s family were among the first settlers; he received a good common school education, and in 1863 enlisted in the 6th Independent Battalion of Cavalry, serving one year.  Before his time of service expired he again enlisted in the 13th Ohio Cavalry, and served three years.  He took part in the battles of White House Landing, the Explosion of the Mine, at Petersburg, the battles of Weldon Rail Road, Pegram Farm and Dinwiddie, C. H.  During the last named engagement his regiment dismounted; was posted in a wood endeavoring to hold the line, when he was struck in the shoulder by a Minie ball and severely wounded, from the effects of which he still suffers.  In March, 1867, he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Benjamin and Abigail (Washburne) Olds.  Mrs. Granger was born in this township, in 1844, and her people are among the very first settlers of the township.  There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Granger three children -- Viola O., Audrie Jane and Walter O.  Mr. Granger has a nice farm of forty-five acres, in the outskirts of the village, and his residence is one of the old landmarks.  Mr. Granger was a good soldier in the field, and is a good citizen at home.  He is in politics a Republican.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 640
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DR. E. G. GRAY, one of the leading medical practictioners [sic] of South Woodbury, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, March 7, 1867, son of James Gray, a native also of this State, of Irish descent, and a farmer in Porter township, Delaware county.  His father, James Gray, came from Pennsylvania to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in an early day, and thence to Delaware county.  Our subject’s mother, née Ellen Riggle, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of William and Mary Riggle, natives also of that State.  She came with her mother to Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. James Gray were married in Delaware county, and located in Porter township, where they still reside.  They are the parents of six children, ––Minerva, wife of Pat Trimmer, of Logan county, Ohio; Mary, deceased; Alice, wife of Daniel Beard, of Porter township; George E., who married Josie Cooney, and resides in Porter township; Elmer G., our subject; and Ethel, deceased at the age of eighteen months.
     Dr. Gray was reared on his father’s farm, attended the district schools, also the Galion College, and completed his preparatory course in the Lebanon Normal.  At the age of sixteen years he began teaching, following that occupation five years, and during that time also studied medicine with Dr. G. F. Foster, of Olive Green, Delaware county.  In 1892 he completed a course of lectures at Columbus Medical College, and in the same year located at South Woodbury, where he has ever since been actively engaged in the practice of medicine.
     The Doctor was married in 1889, to Addie Huddeston, a native of Knox county, Ohio, and a daughter of Lucius and Marietta Huddeston.  They are the parents of three children, ––Nora, Fred, and Eddie.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, p. 403
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Perry Twp. –
ENOS GREEN, retired farmer and merchant; P. O., Levering, Waterford; is the third son of a well known and highly respected family – the children of Elder Benjamin Green.  He was born on the old homestead where William Addlesperger lives, June 14, 1826.  He went through the woods to the Rinehart district, a mile and three-quarters distant.  Lawrence VanBuskirk, a Pennsylvanian, was his first teacher in the old log school house.  As soon as he grew up he rode the horses to thresh, and cleared with the men in the woods, living at home until twenty-three.  He united in marriage with Rachel Clark May 15, 1849.  She is a daughter of William and Abigail (Owen) Clark, born July 7, 1829, in Knox, Co., O.  Her parents were from Vermont, and the Owen family came very early and settled in Middleburg Tp.  William Clark came some time later, an orphan.  They raised two daughters, Rachel and Ruth, now Mrs. William Penn, of Waterford.  After marriage our subject farmed on William Clark’s place some eighteen months, when he moved on forty acres, where his residence stands, on which at that time two acres were cleared, and a small cabin.  By his energy and toil Mr. Green has been eminently successful in business.  He now owns two hundred acres of fine farming lands, of which he cleared a large portion and erected handsome and substantial buildings.  Rachel Green bore him three sons -- William R., George O. and Levi C., who all died in youth.  His wife Rachel departed this life, Jan. 1, 1855.  He married Margaret Merwin March 22, 1857.  She is a daughter of John and Amelia (Campbell) Merwin, born September, 1835, in Pennsylvania.  The Merwin family came to this county in 1839, where they have since lived, raising a family of eight children, as follows -- Jacob, a farmer in Illinois; Elizabeth, widow of Ira Dewitt, of Gilead Tp.; William, farmer in Congress Tp.; Julia A., now Mrs. James Muncie, of Iowa City; Rebecca, now Mrs. Peter Syphers, of Missouri; Peter, deceased; Norman, of Perry Tp.; Margaret, wife of subject.  Of the last marriage one son and two daughters are living; Norman D., born May 15, 1859; Sarah J., born Oct. 29, 1862, married John Hough of Knox Co., Feb. 26, 1880; Ada, born Oct. 25, 1869.  Two died when young.  Mr. Green formed a partnership with F. V. Gwen, of Waterford, for the transaction of a general merchandise and produce business at that place, under the firm name of Green and Owen.  This partnership was formed in Sept., 1879, and the high social standing of these gentlemen, together with an extended acquaintance, has brought the new firm an extensive trade.  Mr. F. V. Owen is a nephew of Mr. Green, and a graduate of the Ohio Central Normal School.  He was formerly principal of the Schools at Waterford, and is now Postmaster and Justice of the Peace.  The firm carry a large stock of dry goods, groceries, hats, caps, boots and shoes, and everything needed by a farming community, and are doing a prosperous business, on the principle of large sales and small profits.  Mr. Green moved his family to Waterford April, 1880.  He is a Democrat of the old-fashioned type, and was Trustee of his township for six years.  He united with the Harmony Regular Baptist Church some twelve years ago, under the administration of Elder L. B. Sherwood.  He stands as the representative of a worthy family, which may point with pride to its examples of a sturdy, self-reliant Christian manhood.  Elder Benjamin Green, the father of Enos, was born in Baltimore Co., Md., June 15, 1778.  In his youth he learned the tailor’s trade, and worked for some time to the city of Baltimore.  He united with the Regular Baptists, in early life, and began preaching when about thirty years of age.  He traveled among the churches in the East quite extensively.  Some of his preaching tours even extended to the brethren beyond the mountains.  He came, with wife and two children, in the fall of 1817, and settled in Perry Tp.  He entered one hundred and sixty acres of government land, which cost $200, and purchased eighty acres of Henry Sams, which had a cabin and small improvements, which cost him $800.  Here he worked at his trade most of his time, employing men to clear his land.  Custom came from Mt. Vernon and other distant points.  He engaged here in the regular work of the ministry, and during life had the pastoral care of four churches in this State -- Salem, Mohican, Harmony and Wayne churches.  He wedded Charon Caples, of Maryland, and five sons and four daughters were born to them, as follows -- Isabel, widow of Abram Ackerman; Robert, deceased, leaves two children; Susan, now Mrs. Jacob Burkebile (see sketch); Joseph, farmer, of this township; Alice Ann, now deceased, was wife of William Addlesperger (see his biography); Enos, subject of this sketch; Jephtha, now farmer and stock-raiser, at Yamhill Co., Oregon; Elizabeth, was wife of the late Gilbert Owen, and is now wife of Benjamin Spitler, a merchant at Bloomville, O.; Joshua, farmer and blacksmith, at Bourbon Co., Kan.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 808-809
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Cardington Twp. –
HENRY S. GREEN, M. D.; Cardington; is a son of Aaron S. and Nancy (Berry) Green, and was born in the village of Norton, Delaware, Co., O., Feb. 25, 1842. The father when a young man came from Pa., his native State, to Marion Co., O., where he was married to Miss Berry, who was the mother of his two sons, Henry S. and James H. The latter is a resident of Galion, Ohio, and Cashier of The Citizens’ National Bank of that place. The mother’s people -- the Berrys, were among the first settlers of Marion Co. In 1852 the Greens moved to Cardington where they have since resided. Here Henry S. spent his youth attending school and clerking in the stores of the place. He was for some time assistant postmaster of Cardington. When 19 years of age he went to Cleveland, where one year was passed in a drug store, when he enlisted in Co. C. 96th O. V. I.  Soon after his enlistment he was promoted to the position of hospital steward, where he remained until the close of the war; not long after his return home he began the study of medicine. He graduated from the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati in 1869. Ile was united in marriage with Mary, adopted daughter of David Martin, Esq., of Cardington, May 10, 1871. There are two children from this union -- Lonora, born Aug. 24, 1872; and Adna S., Mch. 19, 1879. Dr. Green was the first Junior Warden of Cardington Lodge A. F. &. A. M., and has held the honorable position of Master of the Lodge for about eight years. He has been President and Secretary of the Morrow Co. Medical Association, and is a member of the State Medical Society. Dr. Green possesses those characteristics of industry, perseverance and honesty of purpose which lead to success, and has used well the powers given him, and enjoys the respect and confidence of the entire community.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 571-572
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Harmony Twp. -
HUGH GREEN, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; is a son of William and Elizabeth (Morris) Green. His father was born Jan. 15, 1789, and died Sept. 8, 1855, and his mother was born Oct. 11, 1792, and died Nov. 7, 1861. The father came to Licking Co. when 15 years old, and the mother came the same year. They had John, Sarah, Wesley, Daniel, Hugh, Mary, Nancy and Morris. His parents were Methodists. The subject was born April 24, 1820, in Knox Co.; he early engaged in clearing, and has during life cleared about 200 acres; he was married Nov. 12, 1840, to Lucinda, a daughter of Stephen and Jane Ulery; by her he has Mary A., Norman H., Elizabeth, Nancy E., Joseph A., Harriet, Franklin E. and Lafayette. They remained in Knox Co. until 1844, when they came to the present farm of 100 acres, buying the same of Baldwin Johnson; he has in all 130 acres of well-improved land -- the fruit of their own labors; he takes great interest in any enterprise belonging to the township; he paid a portion of the township draft. His son, Norman, was in Co. F, 136th O. N. G. He has always been a temperance man, is an active Republican, is active and hearty, and 60 years of age; he is dealing in fine sheep, in which he is successful.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 707
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Chester Twp. –
WILLIAM GREEN, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; was born August 20, 1824, in Washington Co., Pa.; his father, Isaac, was born November 20, 1793, in New Jersey, and afterward moved to Washington Co., Pa.; he was married in 1822 to Letice Miller. They moved to Ohio in 1829, and settled where they now live, and made their home by the side of an old log until they could erect a log cabin, which was afterward used for a school house. Isaac was a potter while in Pennsylvania, and in this county served as assessor and trustee; both of these old pioneers are living, and have had nine children -- William, Joseph M., David, Caroline, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary and Isaac. Sarah and David were Presbyterian missionaries to China for 10 years. The old couple now have a pleasant home. William attended school in a log meeting house, and participated in the duties of the farm life with his father; he was married January 22, 1849, to Anna, daughter of Fleming and Sarah J. (Barney) Higbie; her parents were born in the State of New York, and came to Zanesville, afterward to Mt. Vernon, and to what is now Morrow Co., in 1843, or 1844; the father died in 1855, and the mother in 1871; they had the following children that grew up -- Mary, Keziah, John L., Calvin, Ann, Elizabeth, Haverland.  Mrs. Green was born in 1826; they began housekeeping with her parents for a short time, and then came to the present farm of 75 acres of well improved land; his father owns 125 acres of fine land adjoining, which the subject farms to some extent; he was trustee for eight years, and county infirmary director for seven years; he is a member of Chester Lodge No. 238, F. and A. M., in which he has held offices, as well as being an active member; he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, at Chesterville; their union gave them three children -- Mary E., married Walker Lanning; Adaline, deceased, David L.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 600
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Cardington Twp. –
ROSS GREENFIELD, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O., Cardington; Mr. Greenfield was born Nov. 6, 1825, in Harrison Co., Ohio; his parents, Levi and Jane (Miller) Greenfield, were both natives of Pennsylvania, where they were married, and resided until 1810, when they removed to Harrison Co., Ohio, coming over the mountains in a one-horse wagon. They were frugal and industrious people, and by dint of hard work and economy, they soon had a little home for themselves and family. The father was a carpenter by trade, and was one of the most even-tempered men in all that region of country. He and wife held to the religious tenets of the followers of Wm. Penn. They were the parents of five sons and two daughters. The mother departed this life Feb. 1, 1845, followed by her husband Dec. 30, 1867. Ross was raised upon a farm, and received a common education. When 21 years of age, he began for himself by farming during the summer months, and during the fall and winter he would run threshing machines. He was united in marriage with Miss Thurza Cecil, Apr. 6, 1848; she was born in Belmont Co., Ohio, June 7, 1828; her parents John and Duannah (Long) Cecil, were natives of Maryland, and removed from that State to Miami Co., Ohio, where they remained a short time, when he moved to Belmont Co., where the remainder of their days were passed. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters. Mr. Ross Greenfield remained in Belmont Co. until 1864, when he came to Morrow Co., which he has since made his home. In his family were four children, three of whom are now living -- James T., Ada D. and Adoniram J. The one deceased was named Mary A.  He owns 113 acres of well improved land, which he has obtained by his own exertions. He is a Republican of the stalwart kind, and a consistent member of the M. E. Church. He at present holds the office of township’s trustee, and is one of Morrow Co.’s most respected citizens.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 572-573
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Chester Twp. –
DAVID GRIFFITH, farmer; P. O. Chesterville, is one of the industrious farmers of Morrow Co. Born July 7, 1818, in Wales. His father Thomas, and mother Mary, were born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, came to Welch Hills, Licking Co., about 1822, and remained there fourteen years, and then came to Harmony Tp., where the mother died in 1850, and the father in 1862. They had five children -- Catharine, Edward, David, Thomas, John, deceased in the 3d O. V. C.  David attended school some, and worked at home until 21 years old, when he began learning the carpenters’ trade with a man by the name of Belt, of Granville, with whom he continued three years, and then worked on his own responsibility for some time, and then moved to the present farm of fifty acres, and farmed in connection with his carpentering; the latter he quit in 1870. He was married in 1843 to Ann, daughter of Edmond and Esther James; by her he had six children -- Albert, clerk in Boston, Mass.; Gilman, farmer in Kansas; Marcus, switch engineer in Moberly, Mo.; Alice, married Marion Williams, in Iowa; Roy and Della. He has been justice of the peace six years, trustee four years, school director for many years; he is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and once of a temperance lodge. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, in which he has held office. He enlisted in Co. A., 20th O.V. I., and served his country faithfully for nine months; he was in the siege of Vicksburg and some other battles. He votes the Republican ticket, and is an active member of the party, as well as an upright man. 
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 600
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J. W. GRIFFITH. ––It has often occurred to the writer that the metropolitan press does not fully or fairly appreciate the thorough-pervading influence of the country newspapers and the faithful, able and valuable services of country journalists.  While none fail to give due credit to the agricultural classes and rural communities as forming the stanchest element in economy of America’s world-famed prosperity and general happiness, the fact is often ignored that no one individual has a larger voice in their affairs and is more honored as a wise adviser and strong advocate than the able and faithful editor who, although one of them in sympathies and intimate knowledge of their lives, is still a leader and an inspiration.  When the country editor is thus adopted into the community as a strong elder brother, affectionate and yet just, and remains bound closely to all its interests from young manhood to old age, as with the Rev. J. W. Griffith, of the Morrow County Sentinel, Mount Gilead, it is an injustice indeed that the entire press of the country should not place a very large account to country jounalism [sic] in striking a balance sheet on national prosperity, national patriotism and national stability and progress in general.
     Mr. Griffith is a native of Pennsylvania, and since early boyhood has developed in an atmosphere of printer’s cases, presses and editorial “copy.”  After attaining his majority he came to Ohio to take a position with his uncle at Shelby, but the call of the printer soon drew him away from the mercantile field and he applied for a “case” at the office of the Shield and Banner, Mansfield.  As there was no vacancy on that paper, he sought work in the same line elsewhere, and fortunately learned from a fellow compositor that a case was idle in the office of the Sentinel of Mount Gilead.  So the weary but persistent youth trudged to the county seat of the newly formed county, and was rewarded by securing the coveted work at his beloved trade.  That was sixty-three years ago, and since that time the industrious, faithful and able compositor has surely risen to the position of editor and proprietor of one of the most influential and prosperous country papers in Ohio, with a substantial subscription list and a fine mechanical plant.
     Quoting the words of one of Mr. Griffith’s warm and appreciative fellow journalists: “Brother Griffith has never been sensational as a writer, but is always conservative and thoughtful.  He never has to take back today what he published yesterday.  He is loyal and true to his friends, and in conversation is entertaining, with a tinge of mirth and charming repartee.”
     Again, as suggesting characteristics both of editor and his paper, is the following taken from the first number of the thirty-third volume of the Sentinel: “This issue rounds to a close the thirty-second volume of the Sentinel, and on the threshold of the new year it is befitting that we should look back with our readers over the checkered path we have trod together.  Thirty-two years!  Could the Sentinel speak and tell us of the changes it has witnessed, the trials passed, the triumphs achieved, the friends it has seen pass away or grown gray, as it has grown strong––how the tale would enthrall our breathless attention!  But thirty-two years is not the age of gushing confession, and we cannot expect to hear of its early loves and disappointments, the frolics and vicissitudes of its youth.  A generation has passed since its birth, and while its servants and friends have grown older and fonder of the ease earned by a life of toil, it has just arrived at maturity, and rejoices like a strong man to run a race.
     “In public life what revolutions the Sentinel has seen.  Parties have fulfilled their mission and passed away like autumn leaves; the cause of freedom rising in the cloud of ‘free soil’ not larger than a man’s hand, has spanned the heavens, and equal rights, casting its shadow over a weary land, has delivered that which was holy and set the oppressed free.  The public life of the last thirty-two years has been eventful, charged with potencies for weal or woe to the nation, and the Sentinel, in its place and way, has borne its part without wavering and without regret; and standing now on the eve of another conflict between the old elements of antagonism it draws fresh inspiration from this birthday retrospect, and renews its faith in the policy of honesty, liberty and equal rights before the law and at the ballot box.”
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 486-487
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Franklin Twp. –
JOSEPH GROVE, farmer; P. O., Pulaskiville; was born May 3, 1820, in Licking Co., Ohio, and is the fourth son of Samuel and Mary (Moyer) Grove, who came to Licking Co., Ohio, from Shenandoah Co., Virginia, in 1810. They had eleven children -- John, Anna, Isaac, Elizabeth, Samuel, Joseph, Rebecca, David, Henry, Harvey J., and Mary J., all of whom lived to be married and have families. His father was a manufacturer of ropes, and a farmer; he was a member of the Old School Baptist Church. Joseph began farming in October, 1840, with no capital save energy and good health; he followed this calling in Licking county until 1851, when he removed to the place where he now lives, where he first purchased 140 acres of land of William Linn, and afterwards 100 acres more of Elias Higgins; he has bequeathed a son and daughter 160 -- all of which is the fruit of his own industry and careful management; he had few advantages for education in early life, but has since been a constant reader, not only of books, but of men and events. Mr. Grove was married to Rachel Ewers, Feb. 29, 1844; they had two sons and two daughters -- Mary J., Jacob, Milton and Armindia V.; Jacob is deceased, and the others are married; Mrs. Grove died Feb. 2, 1859; she was a devoted member of the New School Baptist Church.  Mr. Grove married a second wife -- Lucinda Blair -- Jan. 25, 1866; she was a daughter of William and Mary (Cook) Blair (a full history of whom will be found in the sketch of John Blair); she was born March 22, 1821, in what is now Franklin Tp.; she is a member of the Disciple Church. He has taken a deep interest in the improvement of stock, first beginning the breeding of cattle with a herd of Devonshires, and later in the Shorthorns, of which he has at present a fine herd of nine animals. The writer saw one cow of this herd, which in all essential points is a true representative of the stock, and a perfect animal; he has also a fine flock of 500 American Merinos.  He has held various township offices -- as Trustee, Director, etc.; voted the Democratic ticket until 1843, since then he has voted for principle rather than party.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 780-781
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                                                                        “Vancouver, B. C., April 28, 1909.

“Dear Brother Young:
     “We take this opportunity of writing you a few lines.  We had the pleasure of a visit from Sister M. Grove, of Ohio.  She preached for us for three Sundays.  We enjoyed her visit very much; she did us good.  May God bless her great heart of love.  She is the ablest woman we ever heard preach the glorious gospel.  She preached one sermon at one of the missions and two young men came out on the Lord’s side.  May the Lord bless her.
                                                                   “Your brothers in Christ,
                                                                   “Robert A. Muir.
                                                                   “Thomas Lobb, Trustees.”

       Another article of appreciation concerning Mrs. Grove’s services appeared in the Advocate, under date of June 13, 1909, and the same is considered worthy of reproduction in this sketch.
     “The recent notice in the Advocate concerning the work of Sister M. Grove in Washington brings to my mind the time of her first appearance in Snohomish, where I had the pleasure of hearing her.  However prejudiced one might be against a woman preacher, it would be entirely dispelled after hearing one of her sermons.  For she presents the Word, modestly but forcefully, in sweetness but convincingly, so that when she has finished her theme the hearer must either receive or reject the message.  I wish she might be secured as a permanent worker in the Washington Conference.  But whenever the Lord calls her I believe she will do most acceptable work for God.
                                                                   “In the Master’s service,
                                                                   “Reverend Charles P. Kittredge,
                                                                   “Pastor of Snohomish A. C. church.”
     Mrs. Grove is considered a woman of strong personality and she is everywhere accorded recognition as an eloquent and forcible speaker.  While pastor of the John Day Advent church in Oregon, Mrs. Grove edited a little book entitled “Broken Links in Error’s Chain,” which caused more commotion among the ministry than anything they had heard for years and which was strongly opposed by religious editors and pastors.  The work, advocating freedom from traditional errors, by which the human mind has been bound for centuries of tradition and superstition, insists that the Satan, which the human family has been taught is an unseen personality, should be relegated to the realms of oblivion and man made to understand that “Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, etc.,” thus teaching the important lesson “Know thyself.”  After this book was published a number of editors and preachers wrote scurrilous criticisms of it and in reply to them Mrs. Grove issued an open challenge to debate the question openly.  In her quest, however, she failed to find a single man who was willing to meet her in the arena of fair and open discussion.  Many broad-minded men heartily endorsed her work and from Maine to California she received hundreds of congratulatory testimonials.
     While a resident of Idaho, Mrs. Grove rode her saddle horse a distance of forty miles to vote for President Taft and during the campaign she herself was elected justice of the peace in Bingham county.  Mrs. Grove has acted as delegate to the state convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union both at Cleveland and at Salem, Ohio.  In 1911 she was one of Morrow county’s delegates to the Ohio State Sunday School Convention, held at Dayton.  While a pastor in Ohio, Mrs. Grove has officiated in one hundred funerals and has solemnized a large number of marriages.
     In connection with Mrs. Grove’s work at John Day Advent Christian church in Oregon the following appreciative statements are here incorporated.
     “In acknowledgement of the services of Sister M. Grove as our pastor for the past nine months, the John Day A. C. church desires to say, that in Sister Grove we found an earnest and congenial co-worker, and an able exponent and defender of Adventual truths, who never presents a theme without being thoroughly conversant with it.  As a result our church has been strengthened, and increased in numbers, and we feel encouraged and better equipped for work because of the instructive school we have been attending.
     “A fine reception was tendered Brother and Sister Grove by their friends before their leaving for their home in Sparta, Ohio.  We would have been pleased to have them remain with us, and hope they may return.

                        “For the church at John Day, Oregon,

                                                                        “F. I. McCallum, Trustee,
                                                                        “J. A. Laycock, Trustee,
                                                                        “M. C. Timms, S. S. Supt.”

     The entire careers of Mr. and Mrs. Grove have been characterized by deep human sympathy and that innate kindliness of spirit which begets comradeship and cements to them the friendship of all with whom they have come in contact.  They are everywhere accorded the unalloyed confidence and high regard of their fellow citizens and their exemplary lives serve as lessons and incentive to the younger generation.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 874-881
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Franklin Twp. –
MILTON GROVE farmer and stock-raiser; P. O., Pulaskiville; he is the son of Joseph and Rachel (Ewers) Grove; was born in Licking Co., Ohio, Aug. 30, 1848; he worked at home until twenty years old, receiving a good education in the meantime; he then came to the present place of 160 acres of fine farming land, which he now owns; on his fields you will see a fine flock of American Grade Merino sheep, and a high grade of the shorthorn cattle, which he is constantly improving; although a young man, he has held the office of Township Treasurer with credit to himself and satisfaction to all; he is a member of Chester Lodge, Number 156, F. A. M.; he married Lillias Craven March 11, 1874; she is a daughter of Leander and Lenora (Ewers) Craven; she was born March 17, 1855, in Knox Co., Ohio; her father was born in the “Old Dominion,” Dec. 17, 1818, and emigrated to Ohio in 1833; Leonora Ewers was born July 7, 1824, and came from Loudoun Co., Va., in 1840; they were married Dec. 1, 1842; after marriage they settled in Mt. Gilead, where they lived some time, then removed near Waterford, Ohio; subsequently they settled permanently on the present place, near Salem Church, Wayne Tp., Knox Co., Ohio. Four children have been born to them -- William Franklin Craven was born Aug. 13, 1844; died Sept. 25, 1861; Marcella Craven was born Aug. 19, 1847; married Elias Cooper January 4, 1870; Lillias Craven (see sketch); Linna F. Craven was born March 7, 1865.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 782-783
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JOSEPH GROVES, of Cardington, Ohio, was born in this city April 22, 1837, and his ancestors were originally from Holland.  His father, Benjamin Groves, was a native of Pennsylvania, but came to Ohio in a very early day, locating in what is now Canaan township, Morrow county, and was a miller by occupation.  About 1835 he located in Cardington, and operated the old Bunker Mill near the dam, having been the first miller in the old water mill here.  Three years afterward he moved to Lima, Ohio, and his death occurred there in 1847.  Mr. Groves married Ann Haight, a native of Guernsey county, this State.  They had four sons and two daughters, four now living, namely: Joseph, Augustus, William and Martha Jane.  The father had been previously married to a Miss Hight, and their son, Samuel S., is now living in Canaan township, Morrow county.
      Joseph Groves, the subject of this sketch, learned and followed the blacksmith’s trade in Jasper county, Missouri.  In 1860 he went to Kansas, and in the following fall located in Pekin, Illinois.  April 25, 1861, he enlisted for service in the late war, entering Company F, Eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the first regiment sent out by the State of Illinois into the Rebellion.  They were drilled at Cairo, and were discharged at the close of the three months’ service.  Immediately re-enlisting in the same regiment, Mr. Groves was promoted to Corporal, and served as such until after the battle of Fort Donelson, when he became Sergeant.  He took part in the capture of the Rebel flag at Columbus, Kentucky, December 22, 1861; participated in a midnight skirmish at Norfolk, Missouri, and served in the battles of Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, Holly Springs, Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, Black River, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, and took part in the entire siege of Vicksburg, lasting forty-seven days.  While there his gun was struck by a piece of shell and knocked him down, and, although disabled, he remained at his post.
     In July, 1863, Mr. Groves participated in the battles of Clinton, Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely.  He was detailed by General Canby to place the stars and stripes on the battle house in Mobile, Alabama, on its surrender, and successfully accomplished the task.  He was veteranized January 5, 1864, and was promoted to Orderly Sergeant.  He carried the regimental colors through the later battles of the war.  August 28, 1865, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company F, Eighth Illinois Volunteers, and January 20, 1866, was made First Lieutenant of the same company, both having been issued by R. J. Oglesby.  Mr. Groves was ordered for duty in Texas, and served there until finally discharged at Springfield, Illinois, in June, 1866, after a continuous service of five years and one month.  Just before the battle of Shiloh our subject went outside the lines to get squirrels for a sick comrade, and, while hunting, a rebel ordered him to drop his gun and proceeded to march him to Corinth.  On the way Mr. Groves put his hand in his pocket for tobacco, where he also had a loaded revolver, which he drew upon the rebel and turned the tables, marching him to General Leggett’s headquarters.  He then went back after the squirrels.  Mr. Groves took part in twenty-three battles in all, and was never wounded.
     In the fall of 1866 he went to Wisconsin, but two years afterward removed to Michigan, and in 1874 came to Cardington, Ohio.  In his political relations, he affiliates with the Republican party.  Socially, he is a member of the I. O. O. F., also of the Encampment and Rebekahs, is Commander of the James St. John Post, No. 82, G. A. R., and is a member of the U. V. L., No. 89, of Mount Gilead.
     Mr. Groves was married, in 1868, to Alvira Benson, who was born in Lincoln township, Morrow county, March 29, 1847, a daughter of Darius and Eliza A. (Warner) Benson.  Our subject and wife have four sons, ––Otto J., Arden B., George F. and Charles S.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 225-226
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FRANK WAKELY GUNSAULUS. ––As the native sons of America go forth from their home communities into the untried outer world, as uncertain if not as portentuous [sic] as the wierd [sic] west was to Columbus, they little know how many of those they leave behind are tracing their actions and their careers with trembling interest and warm affection.  When those who thus venture into larger fields are blessed with the privilege of radiating a wide and strong influence for good, the home people cannot but glow with a sort of proprietary love for their children who have thus gone into a far country and stimulated greater communities than theirs to high thoughts and high actions.  Thus it is with Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, with Dr. Gunsaulus, of Chicago, who spent those periods of his life in Morrow county, which fixed those tendencies, if they did not fully form his character.  Those who were his mates in the public and high schools of Chesterville until he was well into his sixteenth year are now middle-aged men and women; but when they have visited Chicago and sat under his words of inspiration and fraternity at Plymouth church or Auditorium Hall, they could not but turn back into the mist of forty years and see and still love him as their bright-eyed, enthusiastic and affectionate comrade of the youthful times.  The home ties are the strongest, after all, both for those who break them and for those who keep them fast.
     Dr. Gunsaulus was born in Chesterville, Ohio on the 1st of January, 1856, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Hawley) Gunsaulus.  The father was born on the family homestead in Cayuga county, New York, April 29, 1825, and when thirteen years of age was brought by his parents to the farm in Chester township where he spent his boyhood, and commenced to deal in real estate and live stock at a later date.  He also read law for a number of years previous to his election, in the fall of 1861, as a representative from Morrow county on the Republican ticket.  Taking his seat in January, 1862, he was admitted to the bar during the same winter, and represented his county during the succeeding four years, spending his vacations in the promotion of the Union cause at home.  While in Columbus he served on the Military Committee and on the Committee on Municipal Corporations.  Returning from the state capital in 1865, he located at Chesterville, where he continued to practice, superintend his farming and real estate interests, and serve his home town as mayor, president of the school board and in other positions of local honor.
     Frank W. Gunsaulus spent his boyhood and youth at Chesterville, passing through its grammar school with commendable industry.  After graduating from the local high school he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from that institution at his graduation in 1875.  His alma mater conferred Master of Arts upon him in 1887, and Beloit College, Wisconsin, D. D., in the same year.
     Shortly following his graduation from Wesleyan University, Dr. Gunsaulus was ordained to the Methodist ministry, and preached within the pale of that denomination from 1875 to 1879, but in the latter year became a Congregational clergyman, believing that the tenets of that creed would give him greater freedom in the exercise of his individual views.  He served as pastor of the Eastwood Congregational church at Columbus, Ohio, until 1881; of the Newtonville church, Massachusetts, during the succeeding four years; of the Memorial church, Baltimore, from 1885 to 1887; of the Plymouth church, Chicago, from the latter year until 1899, and of the. Central church, that city, from 1899 to the present.  He has been president of Armour Institute of Technology, with its fourteen hundred students since it was founded by him, through the munificence of the late Philip D. Armour, in 1893.  Dr. Gunsaulus became a lecturer of the Yale Theological Seminary in 1882, and for many years has served as professional lecturer at the University of Chicago.  As an author he is widely known through the following: “Metamorphosis of a Creed,” 1878; “November at Eastwood,” 1879; “Phidias and Other Poems,” 1887; “Loose Leaves of Song,” 1888; “Songs of Night and Day,” 1889; “Monk and Knight,” 1889; “Transfiguration of Christ,” 1892; “Life of Wiliam [sic] Ewart Gladstone,” 1898; “The Man of Galilee,” 1899; “Paths of Power,” 1905; “Path to the City of God,” 1906; “Higher Ministries of Recent English Poetry,” 1907.  The above sketch gives but an imperfect idea of the range of Dr. Gunsaulus’ thought or activities.
     One of the Doctor’s Chicago friends and admirers, who gratefully acknowledges the good influence of his printed and spoken words, has rounded ou [sic] this work in the western metropolis in the following fashion: “The twenty-four years which Dr. Gunsaulus has spent in Chicago have placed him in the front ranks of pulpit orators, organizers, scholars and literateurs.  The warm friendship which the late Philip D. Armour conceived for him early in his career suggests a parallel between the practical union of their forces in the establishment of moral and educational institutions, the work carried on by Dwight L. Moody and John V. Farwell.  Dr. Gunsaulus was ordained a minister and preached within that denomination for four years, joining Congregationalism in 1879 and preaching in Ohio and Massachusetts before going to Baltimore.  While pastor of Plymouth church, Chicago, he accomplished wonders in the development of the Armour missions, and throughout his pastorate showed a strong and practical interest in the young men of the community.  In one of his sermons he drew a general outlines an ideal picture of an institution which should scientifically prepare them for the practical duties of life and make special provision for those in humble circumstances, but of moral, ambitious and able characters.  After the discourse Mr. Armour, in his impulsive way, met his pastor and offered to found such an institute as he had pictured, provided he would assume its organization and management.  This was the origin of the great Armour Institute, of which Dr. Gunsaulus is still president.  Notwithstanding that for years he carried the noted technical school upon his shoulders, at the same time he developed a church organization which became so strong and broad in its influences that Central church was formed in 1899, and he commenced his notable services at the Auditorium.  This great hall is also filled to overflowing every Sunday forenoon, and Dr. Gunsaulus has long been called the Wendell Phillips of the west and the David Swing of his day.”
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 919-921
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Gilead Twp. –
JOHN J. GURLEY, lawyer; Mt. Gilead; is one of the oldest members of the Morrow Co. Bar, who came to Mt. Gilead in 1850; he continued the practice of law here ever since, save when the partiality of fellow citizens have called him to occupy public offices. He was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Aug. 6, 1819; is the son of John S. and Nancy (Spink) Gurley.  He comes of good New England stock, his mother being a native of Rhode Island, and his father of Connecticut. His mother lived to the rare old age of 88 years, passing away at St. Lawrence County, in the present year. Mr. Gurley spent his minority upon the farm where he was born, when, possessed with a desire for the practice of law, he entered upon the preparation of his chosen profession. After reading law some two years, he came to Ohio, and in the year 1843 entered the office of Corey and Ramsey, attorneys-at-law, at McConnelsville, in Morgan Co. He was admitted to the Bar in 1844, at Bucyrus, and continued with this firm some four years longer, when he went to Ashland, O., where he opened an office for the practice of his profession. Here he remained, however, only about two years, when he came to the newly-formed county of Morrow, and opened another office at Mt. Gilead, in 1850. Three years later he was elected to the Legislature, a position which his love for his profession led him to resign to accept the position of Probate Judge in 1854, when he served the people for three years with great acceptance. In 1873, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, an honor he prizes more than any other that he has received from the public. In 1874, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, when his abilities as a lawyer were fully recognized and appreciated. Mr. Gurley is a Democrat, but brings to this subject, as to all others, a candid consideration, unbiased by party passion or the hope of personal preferment. He is an earnest, conscientious worker for the principles of the cause which he has espoused and alike commands the respect of his political friends and foes. He was married in 1850 to Miss A. C. Armentrout, of Ohio, a union that has been blessed by the birth of two children.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 533
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