CARRINGTON T. MARSHALL, who is engaged in the practice of law in Zanesville, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio.  June 17, 1869, his parents being John W. and Rachel A. (Tanner) Marshall, both of whom were natives of Muskingum county.  They reside in Falls township, the former at the age of seventy-two and the latter at the age of sixty years.  Throughout his life John W. Marshall has followed the occupation of farming.  He is of English lineage, while his wife is a descendant of one of the old families of Virginia.  They are the parents of five children: Charles O. and Edwin G., who follow agricultural pursuits; Carrington T.; Herbert C., an attorney of New York city; and Leon C. who occupies the chair of economics in Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio.
     Carrington T. Marshall was reared upon the home farm in Muskingum county, pursued his early education in the district schools and afterward attended the high school at Zanesville, from which he was graduated with the class of 1886.  After graduating from the high school he taught in the district schools of Falls township for three years.  He later became a student in the Zanesville Business College and then, determining to make the practice of law his life work, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1892.  Before becoming a student there he had read law in the office of A. W. Train.
     Mr. Marshall entered upon the practice of his profession in Zanesville the year of his graduation and has been accorded a liberal clientage here that has connected him with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of his district.  He was admitted to practice in the United States district and circuit courts in 1894 and in the United States circuit court of appeals in 1901.  Mr. Marshall was married in 1900 to Miss Dora Foltz, a daughter of Daniel M. and Isadore (Kline) Foltz.  Her father was a merchant at Columbus Grove, Ohio.  Mrs. Marshall was born in Putnam county, Ohio, in 1875.  Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have one child, Constance.  They hold membership in the Second Presbyterian church.  Mr. Marshall belongs to the Commercial Law League of America, to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a republican in his political views.  In matters of citizenship he is interested to the extent that he has been an active supporter of many public measures for the general good.  Aptitude, character and individuality have been qualities strongly manifest in his professional career, together with a persistency of purpose that has enabled him to win notable success at the bar.
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JOHN W. MARSHALL, whose active connection with agricultural interests for many years resulted in the acquirement of a handsome competency and fine property of value, now enabling him to live a retired life at his pleasant home in Falls township, was born in Zanesville, Sept. 21, 1834.  His father, the Rev. William H. Marshall, was born in Newcastle, England, Aug. 18, 1806, and died at the age of eighty years.  He came to America in 1818 with his father, John Marshall, who was a blacksmith in early life and became an ironmaster.  The family home was established in Pittsburg and John Marshall prospered in his undertakings, becoming a well-to-do man.  His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Hodden, was also a native of England.
     Rev. William H. Marshall worked with his father until nineteen years of age.  He was largely self-educated and reading, study and observation made him a well informed man.  He entered upon the active work of the ministry when twenty-three years of age as a representative of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He came to Zanesville about that time, arriving in 1829 and here engaged in preaching for several years as pastor of the Methodist Protestant church on South street and followed the ministry until he was seventy years of age.  He was also president of the conference for two years and his labors in behalf of the church were effective and far-reaching.  He was married in 1830 to Miss Lurana Camp, a native of Muskingum county and a daughter of William Camp, who was born in Virginia and about 1805 came to Muskingum county, where he spent his remaining days, passing away at a very old age.  After residing in Zanesville for some time Rev. Marshall purchased a farm in Falls township, having one hundred and thirty acres of land upon which he reared his family.  He continued preaching, however, until seventy years of age and his labors proved one of the most potent factors in the moral development of this part of the state.  His political allegiance was given to the whig party until its dissolution, after which he joined the ranks of the republican party, continuing one of its supporters until its demise. His children are:  Elizabeth, the wife of John Robert, of Los Angeles, California; John W.; William H., a prominent farmer of Falls township; and Mrs. Mary Tanner, of Zanesville.
     John W. Marshall, born in Zanesville, remained in the city until four years of age when his father removed to the home farm and there he continued until nineteen years of age.  He pursued his education in the public schools and afterward engaged in teaching in Falls township for six years.  At the time of the Civil war he put aside all business and personal considerations in order to defend the Union cause, enlisting on the 22d of August, 1862, as a member of Company K, Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until discharged at the close of hostilities.  He was second sergeant in charge of the regiment ammunition.  Owing to the bravery which he displayed at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant of Company G, Ninety-seventh Ohio Infantry, and he took part in all of the battles with his command, never faltering in the performance of any duty whether it called him to the firing line or stationed him upon the lonely picket line.  He received an honorable discharge at Columbus, Ohio, June 16, 1865, and with a most creditable military record returned home.
     Again reaching Muskingum county Mr. Marshall purchased his present farm in Falls township and Nov. 2, 1865, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel A. Tanner, a native of this county and a daughter of William T. Tanner, who was born in Ohio in 1812.  Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are. the parents of five children - Charles O., who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Pleasant Valley, Muskingum county; Edwin Grant, who is living on the home farm; Carrington T., an attorney of Zanesville; Herbert C., an attorney of New York; and Leon C., who is a professor in the Ohio Wesleyan University.
     As the years passed Mr. Marshall prospered in his undertakings and as his financial resources increased he added to his property until he was at one time the owner of seven hundred and twenty-three acres of rich land, but much of this he has since divided among his sons.  The home farm is located in the northwest part of Falls township and is good land, rich and arable and well improved with modern equipments.  In all his farm work Mr. Marshall has utilized the most progressive methods and his labors therefore have been attended with excellent success.
     In his political views Mr. Marshall has long been an earnest republican and has served as a member of the school board while for three terms he was a director of the county infirmary.  He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and has ever been deeply interested in the educational and moral progress as well as the material development of his native county.  His business career has been marked by integrity and strength of purpose and he has gained an untarnished name simultaneously with a comfortable competence.
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WILLIAM H. MARSHALL, who has led a very active life and is now one of the representative farmers of Falls township, was born in Zanesville on the 22d of February, 1837, and is a representative of a pioneer family of the county.  His father is the Rev. William H. Marshall, long an active minister of the Methodist Episcopal church as well as a leading agriculturist of this part of the state.  The family name is inseparably interwoven with the history of the county through a long period and has always been a synonym for public-spirited citizenship and straightforward business relations.
     During his boyhood William H. Marshall removed with his father to Falls township, settling upon a farm where his sons reside.  He was a public-school student in his youth and his leisure hours were devoted to farm work so that he early gained an intimate knowledge of the best methods of caring for the soil and producing good crops.  He to-day owns a valuable tract of land of two hundred and fifty acres, pleasantly and conveniently located within four and a half miles of the city limits of Zanesville to the northwest.  He raises the largest crops in his township and that he is to-day a wealthy man is largely due to his unfaltering enterprise, perseverance and unremitting diligence.
     William H. Marshall has been twice married, his first wife being Minerva J. Search.  After her death he was united in mariage to Miss Emily Evans, a native of this county and a daughter of Wesley Evans.  The children of the first marriage are the Rev. Elmer E., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, now located in Washington, D. C.; and Ida M. Filmore.
     Mr. Marshall has served as supervisor of roads but has never been active in his search for political preferment, desiring rather to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs which are constantly growing in volume and importance, winning for him a place among the representative farmers of Falls township.
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WILLIAM R. MARSHALL, who owns and operates a good farm in Highland township, was born Jan. 18, 1855, in Guernsey county, Ohio.  His father, Robert Marshall, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, born about 1820, and following his removal to Ohio he has become an enterprising and prosperous farmer of Adams township, Guernsey county, his home being about three miles from the farm upon which his son William now resides.  He owns two hundred and twenty acres of fine land devoted to the raising of grain and stock.  In community affairs he has been actively interested and for many years has capably served as justice of the peace.  His co-operation may always be counted upon to further any progressive movement and he is known for his sterling worth and reliability in all life’s relations.  He wedded Miss Sarah McClure, who was born in Union township, Muskingum  county, about 1819, a daughter of John McClure, who came from Virginia to Ohio about 1815.  Mr. and Mrs. Marshall were the parents of six children, but one son died in 1876.  Two of the surviving sons are residents of Nebraska and the other three live in Ohio.
     William R. Marshall pursued his education in the Pike schoolhouse in Adams township, Guernsey county, and as soon as he was old enough to handle the plow began work in the fields.  After putting aside his text-books his undivided attention was given to farm labor on the old homestead for five years, on the expiration of which period he removed to Richardson county, Nebraska, where he purchased a ranch and engaged in the stock business, buying and selling cattle and hogs.  He owned one hundred and sixty acres of land there and resided thereon for ten years, when he removed to Pawnee county, Nebraska, where he spent the succeeding decade.  Again he sold out and at this time returned to Ohio, settling upon his present farm, where he has lived continuously since 1888.  He had purchased the place five years before and he has made it a valuable and productive property, equipped with all modern conveniences and accessories.  It comprises one hundred and seventy acres of land conveniently situated a mile and a half from Bloomfield and two and a half miles from New Concord. The place is devoted to general farming and to stock-raising. He makes a specialty of hogs but also raises cattle, horses and sheep and this branch of the business adds a considerable fund to his annual income.
     On the 9th of April, 1884, Mr. Marshall was united in marriage to Miss Anna Belle Bennett, who was born July 8, 1864, a daughter of John and Elizabeth ( McDonald) Bennett.  Her father was a native of Ireland and became a farmer of Adams township, Guernsey county, Ohio, but both he and his wife are now deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Marshall became the parents of five children: John, who was born Oct. 15, 1886; Sarah E., born Jan. 22, 1890; Robert H., Apr. 18, 1892; Cora Elma, Mar. 26, 1894; and Frank Ray, Mar. 6, 1899.  All are still at home with their father, but the mother departed this life Oct. 7, 1904, amid the deep regret of many friends as well as her immediate family.
     Mr. Marshall is a republican in his political views and has served as school director.  He belongs to the United Presbyterian church, of which his wife was also a member.  He may well be called a self-made man, for he started out empty handed and gained the foundation of his. prosperity while in the west.  That he has led an active and busy life characterized by executive force and excellent business ability is indicated by his well improved farm, which is to-day one of the model farming properties of Highland township.
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CLAUDE V. MARTIN was born at Ningpo, China, Apr. 28, 1856.  His father, W. A. P. Martin, D. D., L. L. D., president of the Imperial Peking University in 1900, was born at Livonia, Indiana, Apr. 10, 1827, and married Miss Jane M. Vansant, of Maryland, a sister of the late James R. Vansant, a lifelong resident of Zanesville.  Two other sons of these parents are living: Professor W. R. Martin, of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, being four years older than the subject of this sketch; and Newell Martin, a lawyer in New York, who is two years older.  After courses of study at the Hopkins grammar school, Nebraska State University, Yale and Lafayette, his first work in the coal fields was in 1878 at Pottsville, Pennsylvania.  In a short time a lameness, developing from slight injuries, disqualified him for the time being for any active work.
     In 1880 Claude V. Martin entered Columbus Medical College and continued there until he had completed the regular course.  In 1883, while visiting Zanesville, Dr. Martin was led to again take up engineering work, of which an important undertaking was the obtaining and recording of neglected measurements for the city water works.  In this he was at first associated with J. Ferd. Stultz, now of Nogales, Mexico, but completed it alone.  At that time, the second year of its organization, he became and continued an active member of the Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers.  While taking hold of whatever mine or railway work that happened to he available, at intervals he served on municipal work in this city for about six years altogether. In 1895 he won by examination an appointment as a draftsman in the coast and geodetic survey at Washington, from which service he resigned in the fall of 1896.  From that date to the present time (1905) he has been frequently engaged in the service of companies operating in the coal fields of Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky.
     Feb. 14, 1885, Dr. Martin was married to Miss Emma T. Gurley, the eldest daughter of the late John B. Gurley, of this city.  Mr. Gurley was a son of the Rev. James Gurley and was a good Mason and a substantial citizen.  The Gurley family is one of the sturdy, excellent old stock of Ohio.  John B. Gurley’s grandfather was the Rev. William Gurley, who came from Ireland in 1801 and first settled in the “firelands,” in the counties of Huron and Erie, buying a farm of one hundred acres.  The Rev. William Gurley was born in Wexford, in 1757, of an excellent Church of England family that has records and arms dating back to 1100 in Scotland.  He had for a time an intimate acquaintance with the great John Wesley and was licensed to preach by him.  His eleven children were the parents of many who became famous in the Methodist church and prominent in the politics of Ohio.  Several of these were closely identified with the founding and maintenance of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware.  The Rev. William Gurley died in 1848 at Milan, Ohio.  Mrs. Kate E. Gary, wife of Daniel B. Gary, of this city, and Mrs. Edith Wedge, wife of John Wedge, of Kansas City, Missouri, are Mrs. Martin’s sisters and Fred. T. Gurley, of White Cottage, this county, is her brother.  Since 1883, no matter where his work called him.  Dr. Martin has made his home in Zanesville.
     For a number of years he has been a faithful member of Concordia Grove, No. 13, U. A. O. D.  He has not practiced medicine though at all times taking great interest in medical study particularly with reference to municipal sanitary problems.
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HARRY A. MARTIN, M. D.   Dr. Harry A. Martin, engaged in the practice of medicine in Gratiot, is a son of George W. and Belinda (Patterson) Martin, and was born in Springfield township, Muskingum county, Oct. 19, 1872.  His father, a native of Perry county, Ohio, was born about a mile south of Asbury Chapel, near the old Martin mill.  The paternal grandfather, George Martin, Sr., was a native of Carroll county, Pennsylvania, and came to Muskingum county in 1808, settling in Hopewell township, where he purchased land.  George W. learned and followed the trades of a carpenter and millwright in early manhood and subsequently he purchased a homestead of forty acres in Springfield township. Muskingum county.  His early education was acquired in the district schools and he made the most of his opportunities through life, reading, experience and observation greatly broadening his knowledge.  He was always interested in the cause of education, believing in affording the children good advantages in that direction and for a number of years he has been a member of the school board.  His political allegiance is given to the democracy.  He married Miss Belinda Patterson, a daughter of Alfred Patterson, a native of Virginia, who came to Muskingum county in pioneer times.  Mrs. Martin’s mother was a direct descendant of General Nathaniel Green, of Revolutionary fame.  The sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Martin are: Mrs. Henry Munch, living at 832 Ridge avenue, Zanesville, who has three daughters and whose husband is a contractor and builder of that city; Arthur, who died in 1880 at the age of sixteen years; Belle, at home; Harry A.; and Merwin S., who married Susanna Terry, and lives in Zanesville.
     Dr. Marvin acquired his early education in the district schools and afterward attended Muskingum College, while later he entered the university at Ada, Ohio, from which he was graduated on completing the pharmaceutical course on the 20th of July, 1901.  Having determined to engage in the practice of medicine he then attended the Eclectic Medical Institute, at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated after three years earnest study, completing the course in that time because of the credits which he had received because of his course in Ada University.  The date of his graduation was Apr. 19, 1905, and on the 16th of May he came to Gratiot, where he opened an office and has since practiced, meeting with splendid success.  Already he has a large patronage which is constantly growing.  Dr. Martin is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Modern Woodmen camp and is also connected with a Greek letter fraternity, the Tan Alpha Epsilon, in which, during his senior year in college, he held the highest position in the gift of the society.  He is medical examiner for many insurance companies and has won a notable and creditable position in the circles of the medical fraternity in Muskingum county.
 Source:  Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1905 - Page 707

JOHN W. MARTIN.  Among those practicing at the bar of Zanesville with a good clientage that is an indication of capability and merit as a lawyer is numbered John W. Martin, one of Muskingum county's native sons.  He was born Oct. 25, 1842, his parents being George and Elizabeth (Huff) Martin.  The grandfather, Peter Martin, was a native of Virginia and was of English descent.  His father was Cavilier Martin.  Peter Martin married Elizabeth Heberling, a native of Virginia, and they became the parents of eight children, as follows: Luther, who died in Athens county, Ohio, in 1864; John, who became a well-to-do farmer and died in 1898, at the age of ninety-four years; Jacob; Nancy Sarah; George; William and Jessie.  The father was born in Jefferson county, Virgina, July 29, 1816, and throughout his entire life followed the occupation of farming.  His wife was born in Washington township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and is a daughter of George Huff, who was one of the pioneer settlers of this state, removing from the old Dominion to Ohio when it was largely an unimproved district.  George Martin was called to his final rest in 1895, in the eightieth year of his age and is still survived by his wife, who has reached the advanced age of eighty-three years, her birth having occurred on the 31st of January, 1822.  They were the parents of eight children, of whom seven are now living:  John W.; Elizabeth, the widow of Hugh Byron Brown and a resident of New York city; Evan H., who wedded Mary Brown, pastor of an Episcopal church in Rochester, New York; Arny C., who married Emma Sandal, of Muskingum county and is a minister of the Lutheran church; Martha J., the widow of Charles E. Haun; Charles S., a farmer who married a Miss McKnight and after her death wedded Emma McDow; and Oswell L., who married Hester Perry.
     John W. Martin supplemented his early educational privileges by study in Denison University and while a student there in 1864 he responded to the call for troops to serve for one hundred days and became a member of Company A, One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  On the expiration of that term he re-enlisted and was enrolled with the boys in blue of Company A, Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment, thus serving until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged, July 14, 1865.  Following the close of hostilities he resumed his studies, becoming a pupil in the Washington & Jefferson College, while afterward he attended the University of Rochester, New York, from which he was graduated with the class of 1870.  He taught school for six years after leaving college and during that time he devoted his leisure hours to the study of law, being admitted to the bar on the 1st of May, 1877, at Columbus, Ohio, after successfully passing the required examination.  He has since practiced in Zanesville, gradually working his way upward.  Advancement in law is proverbially slow and results from individual merit, comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence and their correct application to the points in litigation.  It necessitates close attention to each wearisome detail as well as a force and power in the presentation of a case before court or jury.  Mr. Martin has steadily developed along all these lines and his practice is now large and of an important character.
     On the 10th of December, 1885, occurred the marriage of John W. Martin to Miss Emma J. McCashland, who was born in Washington township, Muskingum county, a daughter of William D. and Sarah (Bagen) McCashland.  She was born in Zanesville, which is also the birthplace of their four children: Sarah L., John C., Raymond B., and William L.  Mr. Martin is a republican in his political views and fraternally is collected with the Grand Army post of Zanesville and thus maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades.  His entire life has been passed in Muskingum county and the fact that many of his warmest friends are those who have known him from his youth to the present time is an indication that his has been a straightforward and honorable career.
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M. T. Merrick

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C. E. F. MILLER, known throughout the county as Ed. Miller, is the publisher and owner of the Dresden Transcript.  He was born in Dresden, Apr. 7, 1856.  His paternal grandfather was one of the pioneer settlers of Coshocton county, Ohio, where he owned and operated two large farms a few miles north of Dresden.  His son, Samuel Miller, was born in that county and after arriving at years of maturity was married to Miss Henrietta Dowell, whose birth occurred in Cass township, Muskingum county.  Her father, George W. Dowell, is a native of Virginia and came to Ohio in 1797 with his parents, the family home being established in Muskingum county, in what is now Cass township.  Her mother's maiden name was Helms; she came from Maryland with her parents in 1797 and the family settled on government land in Cass township.  There were but eight families living in this part of Muskingum county at the time.  Samuel Miller was reared upon his father’s farm until nine years of age when he was left an orphan and from that time he made his own way in life, depending entirely upon his own resources for all that he possessed or enjoyed.  For twenty years he was connected with the Ohio and Erie canal and afterward turned his attention to farming.  He is now living a retired life in Zanesville.  During the period of the Civil war he espoused the Union cause and served his country as a member of Company F, Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He is now seventy-two years of age.  Unto Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller were born ten children: C. E. F.; Frank L., who resides in Akron, Ohio; George and Minnie, both deceased; William M., who is living in Zanesville, and was for over five years the successful manager of the Times-Recorder, being regarded as one of the prominent and influential men of the county; Fred T., of Dresden; Mrs. Francis M. Russell, Mrs. John Fritz, and Harry and Herbert, of Zanesville.
     C. E. F. Miller was educated in the public schools of Dresden and while pursuing his studies he also worked for the Dresden Monitor, a paper published here by John T. Shryock.  When sixteen years of age Mr. Miller had almost entire charge of the paper and he was connected with the office for three years.  He began business on his own account as proprietor of a job printing office.  When the name of the Monitor was changed to The Herald, the paper having been purchased by Hunt & Springstead, Mr. Miller entered the employ of these gentlemen.  He was married in 1876 to Nettie M. Hunkin, daughter of Robert Hunkin, of Cass township; to this union one child was born, a daughter, Daisy M., who married George P. Peffer, a resident of Dresden.  In 1880 he was married to Elizabeth Hammond at Beverly.  To them were born three children: Edward F., who resides at Norwalk, Ohio; Mrs. Roy Guss; and Harry, of Dresden.  In 1879 he went to Beverly, Ohio, where he and William C. Walter, of Homer, Michigan, established the Beverly Dispatch.  After four months the partnership was changed, Mr. Walter having sold his interests to Charles N. McCormick, of Bellefontaine, Ohio.  Two years later Mr. Miller bought his partner's interest and conducted the business alone for seven years.  On the expiration of that period he sold out and went to Zanesville on account of impaired health.  In 1889 he moved with his family to Montpelier, Ohio, where he recovered his health; returning to Zanesville four months later he worked for the Courier until 1891.  He went to Athens county and established the Advance at Albany in 1893.  Later he returned to Beverly and became proprietor of the Beverly Advance, the publication of which he continued until 1897, when he sold out and purchased his present paper at Dresden of his brother, W. M. Miller, who bought a controlling interest in the Zanesville Daily Times Recorder.  The Transcript is the lineal descendant of the Intelligencer, established in 1838 by a Mr. Deffenbaugh.  Later the name was changed to the Chronicle, the Citizen and the Monitor; the last named paper was published from 1867 until 1872, when the name Herald was assumed, then later The Doings, and in 1882 it became the Dresden Transcript, at which time it was owned by William M. Miller, brother of our subject.
     Mr. Miller owns a two-story brick building and his paper is one of the excellent journals of Muskingum county, devoted to the dissemination of local and general news, being the champion of all progressive measures that have their root in the modern institutions of the community and town and its improvement.
     Mr. Miller is a republican and served two terms as councilman during his first residence in Beverly and was elected mayor on his return to that village in 1896.  Shortly after his removal to Dresden he served one term in the town council.
     Mr. Miller is of a rather quiet, yet resolute disposition, with keen intellect and love of research and investigation.  He has fraternal relations with Dresden Lodge, No. 464, Knights of Pythias, and also with the Masons, having been “raised'’ in Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 37, at Beverly, Ohio, in 1886, and affiliated with the local lodge on his removal to Dresden.  He is also a member of Muskingum Chapter, No. 145, R. A. M.
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HENRY P. MILLER, owning and cultivating one hundred and thirty-two acres of land in Falls township, was born in Muskingum township, Feb. 23, 1868.  The family has long been resident of Ohio, the grandfather, James Miller, having come to this state in pioneer times, settling in Perry county, and there he assisted in the work of early development and improvement, meeting the usual hardships and privations of pioneer life.  He afterward removed with his family to Muskingum county and cast in his lot with its frontier settlers.  For four years he operated a sawmill in Zanesville on the Licking river, near the Y bridge, and was thus identified with early industrial interests of the locality.  In his advocacy of progressive measures and as a reliable business man he contributed to the material upbuilding of the county.
     Percival Miller, father of Harry P. Miller, was born in Perry county, Ohio. Oct. 17. 1825, and accompanied his parents to Muskingum county, where for many years he has resided, one of the valued and honored citizens of his community.  He, too, was engaged in the manufacture of lumber for many years, conducting a sawmill for a long- period, but finally he disposed of that enterprise and purchased two hundred and seventy acres of land in Falls township, on the river road, four miles north of Zanesville.  There he lives retired, enjoying a well merited rest, for in former years he toiled laboriously in order to gain a start and achieve a competency, that he might give his family good advantages and provide for the evening of life.  He married Miss Elizabeth Lane, a native of Muskingum township and a daughter of John W. P. Lane.  They have two living children: Harry P. and Pearl, the latter now upon the old home farm. Percival Miller has always given his political allegiance to the democratic party but has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to give undivided attention to his business interests, and in the everyday life, with its cares and duties, he has found ample time for the exercise of his talents and energies.  The good will and confidence of his fellowmen is cordially extended him and he is to-day numbered among the honored pioneer settlers of the county.
     Harry P. Miller spent the days of his boyhood and youth under the parental roof, enjoying the usual advantages afforded by people of moderate means, and having impressed upon his mind the value of persistency of purpose and unfaltering energy as a basis of prosperity.  He has always carried on farming and is to-day the owner of a good tract of one hundred and thirty-two acres of land, which under his cultivation has become productive, returning gratifying harvests annually.
     On the 10th of April, 1889, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Salina Gadd, a native of Muskingum township and a daughter of Hiram Gadd.  They have three children: Percival B., Ralph L. and Lee.  The parents are well known in the locality where they have spent their entire lives, both being natives of this county, and their strong characteristics are those which command regard and win friendship.  Mr. Miller gives his political support to the democracy.
 Source:  Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1905 - Page 425

Mrs. John Miller

JOHN MILLER, one of the oldest and most prominent farmers living in Wayne township, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 2, 1818.  He was a son of Peter Miller, who was also a native of Washington county and married Elizabeth Dolman, a native of New Jersey.  In early life Peter Miller engaged in teaching school but afterward devoted his energies to farming. In 1819 he brought his family to Ohio, making the journey from Pittsburg by boat.  He landed at the mouth of Salt creek, in the month of April, near the farm which now belongs to John Miller of this review.  They were accompanied on the trip by John Dolman, father of Mrs. Peter Miller, and after reaching their destination Mr. Dolman purchased a tract of land in Rich Hill township, living thereon until his death. Peter Miller removed from Muskingum county to Guernsey county, Ohio, and after a brief period spent there took up his abode in Morgan county, where he resided until his life's labors were ended in death when he had reached the age of sixty years, two months and two days.  His political support was given the democracy.
     John Miller was educated in the common schools of Ohio to which state he was brought by his parents when only a year old.  He spent his early life in mechanical work in Washington county, Ohio, assisting in the construction of the first locks at Lowell and Marietta.  He was thus engaged on public works until 1840 and he purchased his present farm in Wayne township, Muskingum county, in 1850. Here he has now lived for more than a half century and is the owner of three hundred and sixty-two acres of rich and arable land devoted to general farming and the raising of cattle and other stock.  The place is situated on the river road about eight miles southeast of the courthouse in Zanesville and is an attractive property because of the many improvements that have been placed upon it and the modern equipments that are there seen.  He owned and operated a mill at Duncan’s Falls for many years in addition to his agricultural interests.
     Mr. Miller was united in marriage in Washington county, Ohio, to Miss Mary Swift, who was born in that county Aug. 9, 1821, and was a daughter of Henry Swift, one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio.  She became the mother of twelve children and departed this life Oct. 20, 1901.  The family record is as follows: Harriet, the widow of John A. Forsyth, of Duncan’s Falls, Ohio; Maria, the wife of Washington Neff, of Wayne township; William, a farmer in Kansas; Eliza, Peter, and Samuel, all deceased; Sadie; John; Mary, the wife of Rev. Ashton Carrie, the wife of A. L. Carter, of Wayne township; and Henry and Charles, who have departed this life.
     Mr. Miller gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has served as trustee and as a member of the school board.  He is also a member of the Baptist church and his life has ever been honorable and upright so that he can look back over the past without regret.  He has never smoked either a pipe or cigar nor chewed tobacco in his life.  Seventy-six of his eighty-seven years have been spent in Muskingum county.  He is a well preserved man and though the snows of many winters have whitened his hair, in spirit and interests he seems yet in his prime, keeping well informed upon the questions of the day and in touch with the world’s progress.  His life has been active and useful and he has accomplished much through an enterprising business career.
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