BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
PAST AND PRESENT
OF THE
CITY OF ZANESVILLE
AND
MUSKINGUM COUNTY, OHIO
By J. Hope Sutor together with
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
of many of its Leading and Prominent Citizens and Illustrious Dead.
ILLUSTRATED
Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
1905
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ALVAH P. CLARK,
secretary, treasurer and general manager of one of the rapidly
developing and profitable pottery enterprises of Zanesville,
business being conducted under the name of the Ohio Pottery Company,
was born in Washington county, this state, in 1843. His
paternal grandfather, Seneca Clark, removed from the Empire
state to Ohio at an early day, settling near Marietta.
Washington county, when that district contained but a sparse
population, the work of progress and improvement being scarcely
begun. He afterward removed to the vicinity of Beverly, Ohio,
where he followed farming for a time, and then turned his attention
to distilling, which he conducted after the crude manner in which
the business was carried on at that early day. He married
Catherine Stull and they had three children, but only one is
living. Jane, deceased, was the wife of Theodore
Devol, who resides near Marietta, Ohio. The son,
Augustus S., was born in the Empire state and was about nine or
ten years of age at the time of his parents removed to Ohio.
He yet owns the land upon which his father's distillery was once
located. He remained upon the old home farm throughout the
days of his boyhood and youth and early manhood, and in fact, until
after the birth of his son, Alvah P., and followed both
general agricultural pursuits and distilling. He now resides
about three miles from his farm, in the town of Beverly, and has
reached the very advanced age of eighty-five years. He married
Sarah D. Ross, who is deceased. They had two children,
Alvah and Eva, the latter the wife of Charles W.
Reynolds, of Zanesville, by whom she has one child, Louise,
the wife of Professor C. S. Joseph. In the summer of
1904 Mr. Clark of this review, had a picture taken,
representing the four generations of the family, his father,
himself, his son and grandson.
Alvah P. Clark obtained a public-school
education at Beverly, Ohio, and when he had reached man's estate,
was engaged in the drug business of that place, his father owning
the store. He became familiar with the drug business at an
early age and for some time was connected with the store, but
afterward turned his attention to the manufacture of flour at
Beverly, where he continued for three years. In 1896 he was
one of the organizers of the Zanesville Stone Ware Company and
became its vice president. He then went upon the road selling
the product of the house to the trade. The business was
incorporated and he was connected with it until 1899, when he sold
his interest and organized the Ohio Pottery Company, now located in
the Brighton district. He then erected the plant of the
company. The first officers were: C. W. Reynolds,
president; Frank H. Herdman, vice president; and A. P.
Clark, secretary, treasurer and general manager. These
gentlemen still continue in their respective offices and from the
beginning, the business has been a prosperous one. They began
with one building one hundred by eighty feet, and in the summer of
1904, so great had been the growth of their trade, another building
fifty by one hundred and seven feet was erected. Stoneware
specialties are manufactured and employment is furnished to forty
men. They had at first but two kilns, but now five-kilns,
twenty feet in diameter, four of these kilns being fourteen feet
high. They also have one kiln sixteen and a half feet in
diameter and twelve feet high. Their ware is manufactured
after the most modern methods and finds ready sale on the market.
Mr. Clark was the first to introduce in this section of the
state the making of stone ware by steam, thus doing away with the
slow hand process. He has always kept in touch with the most
modern ideas concerning his business and is quick to adopt any new
methods whose practical utility he recognizes.
In 1870 Mr. Clark was united in marriage to
Miss Louise Johnson, who was born in Laporte, Indiana, and they
have one child, Frederick A., who was born in Beverly, Ohio,
and married Flora Miller, by whom he has one son, Earl K.,
a native of Cambridge, Indiana.
Mr. Clark is a Mason, being identified with the
fraternity in Zanesville, and politically he is a republican, but he
never seeks or desires public office, preferring to concentrate his
energies upon his business affairs. He is a representative of
one of the pioneer families of this section of Ohio and in
citizenship he is public-spirited in an eminent degree, being deeply
interested in the welfare of his country and the prosperity of his
community. He is to-day a typical representative of the
enterprising spirit which is leading to the rapid development of
Zanesville and making it a most important manufacturing and
commercial center.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
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SAMUEL CLARK,
deceased, was one of the early contractors of Zanesville, whose name
is inseparably connected with the history of this city at a time
when it was emerging from villagehood to take on the improvements
and changes of city life. He was born in Virginia, in1805.
His father, John Clark, served throughout the Revolutionary
war, valiantly aiding in the struggle for independence, and
afterward enjoyed the liberty and advantages of the new republic in
his Virginia home.
Samuel Clark was reared in the Old Dominion and
in early life learned the carpenter's trade which he followed for a
number of years as a journeyman and afterwards did contract work.
He came to Zanesville when about ten or eleven years of age with his
parents and has spent his remaining days in this city. It was
but a small place when the family home was established here, there
being a little collection of pioneer houses in the midst of a
largely undeveloped district. After mastering the carpenter's
trade he worked upon many of the prominent early buildings of
Zanesville. He was one of the contractors on the First
Presbyterian church, built in 1839, and many of the best residences
of the early period were erected under his supervision and some of
these still stand as monuments of his enterprise, labor and skill in
his chosen vocation.
In 1846 Mr. Clark was married in Zanesville to
Miss Jerusha Williams, a native of Warwick, Massachusetts,
the wedding ceremony being performed by the Rev. Simeon Brown.
Her parents were Samuel and Polly (Stevens) Williams, the
former a farmer of Warwick, Massachusetts. He died at the very
advanced age of ninety-four years, while his wife passed away at the
age of forty-seven years. They were the parents of seven
children. Mrs. Clark being the fourth in order of
birth. Her grandfather was Colonel Samuel Williams, who
was a native of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and won his title through
service in the Revolutionary war, commanding a regiment which fought
for the independence of the nation. He was with the Colonial
Army and throughout the long struggle for liberty was a brave and
faithful officer. He married Triphenia Lyman, a native
of Northampton, Massachusetts, and they had a large family but
Mrs. Clark's father was the only son. In 1839 Mrs.
Clark came from Massachusetts to Muskingum county, Ohio, and
engaged in teaching school in Zanesville for eight years prior to
her marriage. She was born in June, 1815, and although now
ninety years of age is yet an energetic woman with faculties
unimpaired. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Clark were born six
children, of whom two died in early youth, while four are yet
living, namely: Annie T.; Samuel W., a lumber merchant of
Zanesville, who married Alice Miles of this city and has two
children. Ira G. and Cuyler L.; Ardelia,
the wife of W. J. Massey, who is represented elsewhere in
this volume, and Charles F., a practicing oculist of
Columbus, Ohio, who married Phoebe Rogers and has one
daughter, Margaret.
Mr. Clark passed away in 1883, being at that time
about seventy-eight years of age, and for more than sixty years he
had been a resident of Zanesville. He was very successful in
his business career and accumulated a large property, making
investments in real estate in this city when it sold at a low
figure. The growth and population and the improvements which
he placed upon his property caused its rise in value and at his
death he left a very good estate to his family. He was
prominent and influential in community affairs for many years and
served as a member of the city council. He was also a highway
surveyor of Zanesville, and his political support was given to the
democratic party. He was known as all times as a man reliable
and trustworthy so that he left behind him as honorable name and an
example that is well worthy of emulation. He enjoyed in large
measure the respect and trust of his fellow citizens and well
deserves mention among those who largely promoted the material
welfare of Zanesville and assisted in its building and improvement.
Mrs. Clark still survives her husband and has been a resident
of Zanesville for two-thirds of a century, so that its history is
familiar to her, her mind being stored with many interesting events
of the early days.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 312 |
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WILLIAM COBB,
manager of the Kapner Brothers & Duga knitting mill in
Frazeysburg, has been well trained for his present important
position by years of experience in the line of manufacturing knit
goods, for when a young lad he entered upon his business career in a
similar factory and throughout the greater part of his business
career he has directed his labors into channels of a like nature.
HE was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 20, 1857, his
parents being Isaac and Phoeba (Hunter) Cobb, both
representatives of old families of that state. The father was
a carpenter by trade.
William Cobb was educated in the public schools
of Beverly, New Jersey, and as a boy was employed in the knitting
mills. He began by "piercing on a mule" and through his
perseverance and capability he won promotion from time to time.
Going to Philadelphia he was employed by the Pilling &
Madley Stocking Company and at the age of nineteen was made
foreman in the mill, which position he acceptably filled until 1883.
In that year he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he acted as
superintendent of the mill owned by S. H. Hallsted & Company
until 1890, when he went to Indiana to install a mill at Kokomo.
When that task was completed he went to Piqua, Ohio, where he was
foreman in the underwear mills until 1893, when he returned to the
east and was connected with the underwear mills at Perry, New York,
until 1897. In that year he accepted a position as foreman in
the hosiery mill at Frederick, Maryland, where he continued for six
years. On the 15th of February, 1903, he came to Frazeysburg
to act as superintendent and manager of the hosiery mill just
established by Kapner Brothers & Duga.
The mill is thirty-four by seventy feet, two stories in height and
furnishes employment to thirty-eight operatives, turning out one
hundred and fifty dozen pairs of hose per day. Mr. Cobb
has thorough understanding of the business in principle and detail,
because of his practical experience in various departments, and is
well qualified to assume the management of this enterprise, which
under his capable direction is proving a profitable concern.
Mr. Cobb was married in Wilmington,
Delaware, to Miss Louisa Weigend, of Philadelphia, and eight
children have been born to them: Robert, Martha, Lilly,
and Otto and Mary, twins, all born in Kentucky,
opposite Cincinnati; Ollie, born in Piqua, Ohio; Laura,
a native of Philadelphia; and Ida, born in Perry, New York.
Mr. Cobb is identified with the Odd
Fellows and the Knights of the Golden Eagles. Politically he
is a republican and is now serving as president of the school board
in Frazeysburg, the cause of education finding in him a stalwart
friend, who exercises his official prerogatives for the betterment
of the schools. His life record shows as his dominant
qualities perseverance and the mastery of every task which has
fallen to his lot. It is these which won him ready recognition
in manufacturing circles and gained him promotion until the position
which he now occupies is a responsible one, bringing good financial
remuneration.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 261 |
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W. T. CONLEY, M. D.,
who, in the practice of medicine in Dresden and surrounding
districts has demonstrated his ability by the excellent results that
have attended his professional efforts, was born in Coshocton
county, Ohio, Mar. 17, 1861, and is a son of Charles and Lavina
(Richardson) Conley. The father, a native of New York,
removed to Ohio when a young man and followed the occupation of
farming in this state. His wife was a native of Vermont.
Dr. Conley obtained his literary
education in the public schools and afterward entered upon the
study of medicine in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati.
When he had carefully prepared for his chosen calling he began
practice in 1887 at Willis Creek, Ohio, where he remained for about
five years and in 1882 he located at Dresden where he has since
practiced with constantly growing success. His interest in his
chosen calling has been manifest by the fact that he keeps in touch
with the progress that is continually being made by the medical
fraternity, adopting new ideas and methods that promise to be of
value in the alleviation of human suffering and the restoration of
health.
Dr. Conley was united in marriage to
Miss Belnora Hesket, a native of Ohio, and they
have three children: Nevil, Vera and Jene.
Their home is a large two-story brick residence on Main street,
opposite the postoffice, and its hospitality is one of its notable
and pleasant characteristics. Dr. Conley ranks
high professionally and socially and his life may well be said to be
successful, viewed both from a professional and financial
standpoint.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 273 |
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SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX was the second son and
child of Ezekial Taylor and Maria Matilda (Sullivan)
Cox, and was born at Zanesville, Ohio, Sept. 30, 1824. Small of stature, he was
all energy, and his boyish pranks extended to his
dignified father, Judge Cox, and his elder brother, Thomas J., received the reproofs and punishments
due “Sam” rather than betray the real culprit.
The local subscription schools and the Howe
Academy supplied the education the town afforded,
and at the age of thirteen the son was assisting
the father, who was then clerk of the common
pleas and supreme courts, and the boyish
assistant swore jurors and witnesses, issued writs
and made up journals. When fourteen years old
he was formally appointed deputy clerk. When
the juvenile military company, The Zanesville
Lancers, was formed Cox became a member and
was chosen orderly sergeant. In 1842 he became
a student at the Ohio University, at Athens, but
soon discovered that the education he desired
could be obtained only in the east, and in April,
1844, he entered Brown University, from which
he graduated in September, 1846.
He read law in the office of Judge Corrington
W. Searle, and later in the office of Judge Convers,
and was admitted to practice in 1849 at Zanesville. In 1853 he purchased a controlling
interest in the Columbus Statesman, assumed editorial
charge and removed to that city with his
young bride, Miss Julia A. Buckingham, of
Zanesville, to whom he had been married in 1851.
The sobriquet of “Sunset” was attached to him
by reason of an editorial description of a sunset
published May 19, 1853; the article gave him
wide notice, and his initials suggested the appropriateness
of the appellation, and it became his
distinguishing title.
In 1855 he was offered the secretaryship of the
legation to the court of St. James, but declined,
and selected a similar position to Peru, but at Aspinwall
was stricken with an alarming illness, and
returned to the United States and resigned. In
1856 he was elected to congress from the Columbus
district, served four terms, and was defeated
for re-election in 1864. In 1866 he moved to New
York and engaged in the practice of law, and in
1868 was again sent to congress from an east side
district, and served twenty years, except the short
time he was minister to Turkey. His only unsatisfied
ambition was the speakership to which he several times nearly
attained. During the enforced
absence of Hon. M. C. Kerr, he was speaker protein.
In 1885 he was appointed minister to Turkey
by President Cleveland, but after short service
resigned and re-entered congress. During
the Civil war he opposed secession as well as the
policy of the administration but was a personal
friend of President Lincoln. He opposed the infamous
“salary grab” of the forty-second congress
and returned the four thousand eight hundred
and twelve dollars sent him by the treasurer
of the United States.
Mr. Cox was brilliant as a lecturer, of great
force and originality as an orator, abounded in
wit and humor, which was described as “a medicine
for the alleviation of human woes,” and was
widely known as an author and traveler, having
traveled extensively throughout America, Europe
and Africa. He was also a Regent of the Smithsonian
Institution, at Washington. Although his
health was seriously impaired his actual condition
was unknown to the public, and his death, at his New York home,
Sept. 10, 1889, was regarded
as sudden outside his immediate family.
The life saving service of the general government
was established, in 1871, largely through
his persistent effort, and a few months after his
death the members of the service presented to
his widow a memorial vase two feet high, twenty-five
inches in diameter, and weighing one hundred
and twenty-five ounces. Upon the front is depicted
the rescue of the people from a stranded
vessel, by a breeches buoy; the handles are mermaids,
and the ornamentation of the highest order
of design and execution. The inscription is:
“This memorial vase is presented to Mrs.
Samuel S. Cox by the members of the life saving service of the
United States, in grateful remembrance
of the tireless and successful efforts of her distinguished husband,
the Honorable Samuel Sullivan Cox, to promote
the interest and advance the efficiency and glory of the life saving
service.
He was its early and consistent friend;
Its earnest and eloquent advocate;
Its fearless and faithful champion.”
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Mr. Cox was the especial
champion of the letter
carriers, whose compensation was discovered
to be less than common laborers, and which he had fixed at a sum
commensurate with the quality of the labor demanded; an annual
vacation of fifteen days, with full pay, was provided and a day’s
work was limited to eight hours, with compensation for extra work.
The construction of the law respecting overtime was carried to the
supreme court, whose decision was not rendered until three years
after the death of the author of the bill, but the interpretation of
Mr. Cox was sustained and claims aggregating three
million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were filed for back
pay. Mr. Cox’s death was sincerely mourned by
the carriers and in all the free delivery cities meetings were held
and resolutions passed; the movement for the erection of a statue
was started in New York at a special meeting of the carriers, the
day succeeding his death, and committees appointed to solicit
contributions. A bronze statute, of heroic size, costing ten
thousand dollars, was erected in Astor Place, New York, and at the
dedication delegations of carriers were present from Pacific and
Gulf States, and over two thousand carriers from New York and
Brooklyn were in the procession. The inscription on the base
reads:
“Samuel Sullivan Cox, the Letter
Carriers Friend. Erected in Grateful and Loving Memory
of His Services in Congress by the Letter Carriers of New York, His
Home, and of the United
States, His Country, July 4, 1891.“
In 1905 the statute was removed from its down town
location to a more desirable and suitable site further up town.
The funeral was under the direction of the house of
representatives, September 13; the floral tributes from the carriers
were numerous and handsome, and the life saving service sent a
floral life belt and muffled oar. Dr. Talmadge
said of the deceased statesman, “We shall not see his like again.
Without a predecessor, he will be without a successor.”
Source: Past and Present of the City
of Zanesville, and Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S.
J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1905 - Page 238 |
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JOHN EDWARD CROTZER,
one of Zanesville's native sons, was born in the old third ward of
this city in 1868. His paternal grandfather, George J.
Crotzer, was a native of Germany and in early manhood came to
America. He wedded Miss Rose Reckle, who was of German
descent, and they came to Ohio at an early period in its development
and improvement. Here Mr. Crotzer worked for the
Griffith & Wedge Machine Company until a short time prior to his
death. He was a machinist by trade and his efforts were
directed along that ine throughout his entire business career.
Unto him and his wife were born eight children, five of whom are
living: Cal, Annie, Sophia, Libby and Josephine,
George J. Crotzer had a brother Jacob who was identified
with public affairs in Zanesville, serving for two or more terms as
a member of the city council, bing connected with the office of
alderman the year prior to his death. He was also a member of
the board of education.
John Adam Crotzer, father of our
subject, was a native of Zanesville and in early life learned the
machinist trade, which he followed until his life's labors were
ended. For forty yeas he was connected with the Griffith &
Wedge Company and for about thirty-five years acted as foreman
in their shops, capably filling this responsible position.
He learned the trade as one of their employes and was never in any
other service except during the period of the Civil war, when he was
in the naval department of the government, in Washington, D. C.
He displayed the musical talent which was characteristic of his
German ancestry and was one of the members of the Bauer Band.
He married Miss Regina Catherine Mautz,
a native of Germany, and his death occurred in 1894, when he was
fifty-eight years of age, while his wife died in 1888, at the age of
forty-seven years. They were the parents of three children:
John Edward; Edith C., the wife of Charles Weber;
and George F., who married Nora Wilson and has one
child, Vernon.
John Edward Crotzer was educated in Zanesville
and after completing the high school course attended the business
college then conducted by the firm of Parson & Kennison.
The institution, however, is now known as the Meredith Business
College. Like his father he entered upon his business career
by learning the machinist’s trade in the shops of Griffith &
Wedge and for fifteen years was in their employ, becoming an
expert workman and one who enjoyed the full confidence of those whom
he represented because of his capability and his well known fidelity
to his employer’s interests. In 1902 he was elected a member
of the board of public service for a term of two years and he is
also a member of the Weller Theater Orchestra, with which he has
been connected for eleven years.
On the 7th of January, 1900, occurred the marriage of
Mr. Crotzer and Miss Jennie A. McCarthy, who
was born in Ireland. They have two children, Carl A.
and Edith Catherine, both natives of Zanesville.
Politically Mr. Crotzer is a republican, and
fraternally is connected with the Eagles, the Red Men and the
Ancient Order of Druids, all at Zanesville. He also affiliates
with the Musician’s Pinion and the American Federation of
Machinists. One of his most strongly marked characteristics is
his love of music and he is a benefit to musical circles because of
his well developed talents in this direction.
Source: Past and Present of the City of
Zanesville, and Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Co. - 1905 - Page 535 |
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HENRY S. CROZIER,
engaged in the practice of law in Zanesville, is descended from an
old Pennsylvania family on the paternal side, while his mother's
people were Virginians and her father came from Scotland. The
paternal ancestry can be traced still farther back to Delaware and
it is supposed that the first representatives in America were of
Irish or French descent. His grandfather, Joshua Crozier,
came from the Keystone state to Ohio at an early period in its
development. He was a comb-maker by trade and long followed
that pursuit. He married a Miss Clark and died
near Zanesville, at the age of seventy-four years, while his wife
reached the very advanced age of ninety-one years, passing away at
her daughter’s residence in Licking county, Ohio. They are the
parents of three sons and two daughters, but only one is now living,
Joshua, aged eighty-five years and a resident of Cumberland,
Guernsey county, Ohio.
William Crozier, father of our subject,
was a young man when he accompanied his parents from Pennsylvania to
Ohio, his birth having occurred in the former state. He
married Miss Elvira McKenzie, a native of
Virginia, the marriage taking place in this city, then the home of
her parents. Her sisters are Mrs. Julia Fluke
and Mrs. Margaret McCarty, and one brother,
George McKenzie, all of the city of Zanesville.
Mr. Crozier, like his father, was a comb-maker by trade
and he followed that pursuit in Zanesville until his death, which
occurred June 7, 1844, at the comparatively early age of
thirty-seven years. His wife, long surviving him, departed
this life in 1881, at the age of seventy-four years. They had
a family of four children but only two are living: Joshua
B., a resident of Newark, Ohio; and Henry S.
A native son of Zanesville, Henry S. Crozier was
born in 1844 and was reared upon a farm, working in the fields in
his boyhood days when not occupied by the duties of the schoolroom.
He afterward engaged in teaching school for thirteen years at West
Bedford Academy, in the schools of Cumberland in Guernsey county,
and in Caldwell county, Missouri. He was superintendent of
schools in the last-named place for four years, after which he
returned to Zanesville in 1875. Since that time he has made
his home in this city. While teaching school he read law and
in 1876 he was admitted to the bar. After returning to
Zanesville he served as secretary of the .city water works for eight
years and now is engaged in the practice of his profession and also
in loaning money on real estate.
In 1870 Mr. Crozier was united in
marriage to Miss Alice E. Brown, a daughter of the Rev. N.
T. Brown, of Knox county, Ohio. Unto them were born six
children: Eva A., who is the widow of Samuel B. Mooreland
and has one child, Alice; Florence, the wife of
Charles W. Vincent and the mother of two children, Robert
and Herbert; Carrie, the wife of W. H. Bucksbarg,
by whom she has four children; David L., Gale,
William H., and Glenn; Mary E.; Zella, who
died at the age of thirteen years; and Julia, who is the wife
of George E. Roach. The mother of these children died
Dec. 7, 1893, and on the 7th of May, 1901, Mr. Crozier
was again married, his second union being with Miss Lillian M.
Murray, who was born in Monroe county, Ohio, and they have one
child, Wilma B.
Mr. Crozier is a democrat in politics and keeps
well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He has
always been interested in the welfare of Zanesville and has been a
co-operant factor in many movements for public progress and
improvement here so that he is regarded as one of the representative
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