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ROWLAND A. BAILEY
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JOHN BAILLIE
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JAMES L. BAILLIE
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ARCHIBLE BAILY;
carpenter; Shawnee, Ohio; was born, July 14, 1851, in
Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Archibald and Melvina (Shirek)
Baily. Mr. Baily lived upon a farm until he was
fourteen years of age, when he was employed upon a steamboat
and running coal barges on the Muskingum River until he was
twenty-four years of age, when he came to Shawnee and
engaged at carpentering, and with which he divided his time
with boating up to the time of his marriage, Sept. 10, 1878,
to Mary, daughter of John and Martha (Hyatt) Smith,
of McConnellsville, Ohio. They are the parents of
three children, viz.: Edward, Harry, and
Walter. Since his marriage he has made his home
in this place, and his business that of a contractor in
house carpentering up to the present.
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EMANUEL BAIR
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JAMES T. BAIRD; farmer and
stock dealer; was born Feb. 15, 1841, in Perry county; has
lived on a farm all his life, and has been in the stock
business ever since fifteen years of age. In 1847 his
father moved to Hocking county, and settled where what is
now called New Straitsville, which had scarcely been thought
of at that time. He sold his property there to Moss
& Marshall, proprietors of the Bessie Furnace, which is
situated upon said property; came to the Junction in 1877,
and has since resided there. Was married Nov. 27,
1867, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Frederick and
Mary A. (Lyle) Wion; are the parents of seen children,
viz.: Dora, Mary F., Julia A., Frederick,
Minnie M., William A., and Roy J.
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DANIEL BAKER
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WILLIAM BALL, miller,
Rendville, Ohio, was born Jan. 5, 1845, in Deerfield
township, Morgan county, Ohio; son of James and Adaline
(Bradley) Ball. William was brought up on a farm,
and enlisted June 27, 1864, in the First Ohio Heavy
Artillery, Was engaged in several conflicts in the Army of
the Cumberland, and served until the close of the late war.
Mr. Ball was married in 1867 to Miss Caroline,
daughter of George Wolf, then of Junction City.
Mr. Ball's father was a resident of Morgan
county for fifty years.
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WILLIAM BARKER, farmer
and stock raiser, P. O. New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio.
Born in New York in 1803, came to this state in 1809; son of
John and Mary (Chamberlain) Barker, grandson of
Samuel and Mary (Fithen) Barker, grandson of John and
Sophiah (Mulford) Chamberlain, married in 1829 to
Miss Barbara Strait, daughter of William Sophiah (Imel)
Strait. They are the parents of seven children,
viz.: John H., Sophia (deceased), Samuel
(deceased), Mary, Elizabeth, two not named
(deceased).
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JOHN BARKER, farmer, P. O.
Rehoboth, Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio. Born
in New York in 1808, came to this county with his parents in
1809; son of John and Mary (Chamberlain) Barker.
Married in 1830 to Miss Nancy Goodin, daughter of
Colonel Samuel and Jane (Skinner) Goodin. They are
the parents of five children, viz.: Jane (deceased),
David C. (deceased), Rebecca, Mary A., Ellen.
Mr. Barker filled the office of Infirmary Director for
six years.
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JOHN H. BARKER, farmer;
postoffice, New Lexington, Clayton township, Perry county.
Born in this county in 1830; son of William and Barbara
(Strait) Barker; grand-son of John and Mary
Chamberlain) Barker; grand-son of William and Sophiah
(Imel) Strait; married, in 1857, to Miss Jemima
Randolph, who died in 1857; married again, in 1859, to
Miss Maria Shaw, daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Rinehart) Shaw. They are the parents of seven
children,: Caroline M.; Harriet E.;
Sarah E., (deceased; W. T. S.; James M.; Perry D.,
and Asbery F. Mr. Barker was elected School
Director of Clayton township in 1867, and has continued to
serve in that capacity till the present date. Mr.
T. R. Shaw, a brother-in-law of Mr. Barker's
enlisted in the late war of 1861, in Company K., 62d O.
V. I., where he made a good record for himself, serving his
country till the close of the war, in 1865.
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R. M. BARR,
attorney; postoffice, Somerset, Reading township. Born
Dec. 7, 1845, in Fairfield county. At the age of
twenty he finished a collegiate course at Athens, and began
the study of law. HE continued ten months, when
sickness compelled him to abandon law, being unable to do
anything for eighteen months. He then gave up the
study of law and went to farming. He continued farming
and taught the home school in the winter until 1876, when he
again began the law. He removed to Somerset in 1877,
and was admitted to the bar Jan. 29, 1879. He
practices in all the courts of record in the State, and has
a large and growing practice. Mr. Barr was
married Oct. 16, 1867, to Miss Susan E. Baker,
daughter of Daniel Baker, ex-Commissioner of Perry
county. She was born Mar. 23, 1848, in this county.
They are the parents of four children, viz.: Sarah
M.; Anna L.; Daniel M., and Mamie.
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WEAVER BARNES
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PHILIP BASTIAN
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SUSAN BEARD, Bearfield
township, Portersville postoffice. Her husband to this
State in 1828, and settled in Belmont county; came to this
county in 1846; located near Oakfield, and came to this
township in 1854. In 1825, he married Susan
Tillett, of Virginia. They are the parents of the
following children, viz.: James E., John, Stephen, Annie,
Charles, Samuel, Mary and Virginia.
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ELIZABETH BEAVER
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WILLIAM G. BECK, Rendvlle,
Ohio, was born in Jackson township, Perry county, Ohio, Jan.
11th, 1848, son of George and Maria (Hillery) Beck.
William G. was brought up on a farm until he was
seventeen years of age, when he began teaching school, and
taught until he was twenty-two. He then engaged in
general merchandising at Middletown, Jackson township, where
he continued to do business until 1878, when he accepted a
position in the store of Martin Ewing & Co., New
Straitsville, Ohio, and in 1880 was employed as clerk in
sore, by the Ohio Central Coal Co. In 1882, returned
to New Straitsville, Ohio. Mr. Beck was married
Sept. 19th, 1869, to Miss Margaret Adcock of Jackson
township. They are the parents of two children,
namely, Charles E. and George W.
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JOSEPH BELL
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ALBERT R. BENNETT,
Bearfield township, farmer, post office, Rendville, Ohio was
born Oct. 30th, 859, in Pleasant township, Perry county,
Ohio, son of George and Anna (Carroll) Bennett, natives of
England, who came to America in 1819. They came to
Perry county, Ohio, about the year 1822, and located in
Bearfield township in 1863. The family consisted of
eleven children, viz.: Thomas J., John R.,
married to Catharine Monahan; Margaret, married to
Bernard Noon; Cecelia, married to Philip Rei;
Mary Ellen, married to Jacob Weiner; Philip P.,
married to Sarah E. Deaver; Albert R.; Josephine, married
to Philip Noon; Caroline, twin sister to Josephene;
William A., and George C. George Bennett
the father a named above was born in 1818, and died in Jan.
1867
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PHILIP P. BENNETT,
farmer, Rendville, Ohio, was born Mar. 21st, 1854, in Pike
Township, Perry county, Ohio. Son of George and Ann
(Carroll) Bennett. He was brought up on a farm and
followed agricultural pursuits, excepting two years, during
which time he was employed by W. P. Rend & Company;
also, merchandising under the firm name of Bennett &
Noon. Mr. Bennett was married Jan. 27,
1880, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Tillman Deaver,
deceased, who formerly lived in Monroe township. They
are the parents of one child, James P.
Phillip P. Bennet, the subject of this
sketch, by adhearing strictly to fair dealing and
temperate habits, has secured a comfortable home.
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R. P. BENNETT,
post office, Rehoboth - farmer and stock raiser, Clayton
township. Born in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1824.
Came to Perry county with his father in 1825. Son of
Robert and Cecilia Bennett. The former
died in 1842, the latter in 1855. Mr. Bennett
was married in 1853, to Miss Elizabeth McDonald,
daughter of John and Margaret McDonald. They
had twelve children, viz.: Clara E. (deceased),
John C., Albert J., Margaret E., Clara E.
(deceased), George C., Elizabeth E., James C., Mary
(deceased), Emma E., Mary, Richard.
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ROBERT BENNETT
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BOSTON BETTS
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JOHN BIGRIGG
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JOHN
BINCKLEY, Thornville, Ohio, furniture merchant and
school teacher, was born in 1856, in Perry county. He
is a son of John Binckley, and grandson of Jacob
Binckley, now living in Thorn township, at the age of
ninety-three years. He puts the date of the settlement
of his father, John Binckley, and his brothers, the
sons of John, Sr., viz.: William, John, Christian,
and Daniel Binckley, in 1801. The sisters
of these sons were: Polly, wife of Henry Beeker,
who died in Allen county, Ohio; Betsy, wife of
Adan Anspach, who died in New Reading, Perry county;
Millie, wife of Jacob Shrider, both living, P. O.
Lafayette, Ohio; Peggy, wife of Jacob Custer -
both died in Allen county, near Lafayette, Ohio; Francey,
wife of George Shrider, Lafayette, Ohio; Louisa,
died in infancy. The other twelve children all grew to
mature life, were married, and some are still living;
Sally, the youngest of eight daughters, became the wife
of Barney Hammer, died near Sego, Perry county.
John Binckley, Jr., one of the sons of John, Sr.,
died in Allen county, Ohio; William died in Tiffin,
Ohio; Daniel died in Reading township; Christian
is living in Northern Ohio. These, with Jacob,
above named, were the five sons John, Sr. The
great ancestor of all the Binckley was Christian, Sr.,
who came to Ohio a widower, his wife having died near
Hagerstown, Maryland. The sons of the Christian
Binckley, the patriarch of the family, were John,
the father of Jacob, with whom Christian made
his home, section 31, Hopewell Township. Then there
were Adam Binckley and Henry Binckley,
brothers of John, Sr., aforesaid, the three sons of
the patriarch, Christian Binkley. They all came
to Perry in 1801. At the same time he brought with him
three daughters, to wit: Lizzie, wife of Jacob
Foy; Katharine, wife of Adam Spoon; and Sarah,
wife of Henry Musser, near Millersport. For
each of these three sons and three daughters, the old
widower patriarch provided a home in this new land of
promise. Christian lived till 1831, and died
after his son John, in whose house he lived, now the
Peter Shrider place. He was then in his
ninety-seventh year. After the death of his father (John,
Sr.), in 1804 or 1805, Jacob and his brother
John bought the place - section 31, Hopewell, where this
John also died. When twenty-one years of age,
Jacob married Martha Downour. This was
1810. This marriage produced twelve children, seven
boys and five girls- John, William, Jacob, Barney,
Daniel, David, and Levi (who died young).
Mary, Sarah, Lizzie, Peggy and Louisa.
In 1838 Jacob sold his farm and moved with his wife
to the farm where he lives with his daughter, Sarah
Zartman, in Thorn township. His wife died in 1848.
John Binckley, the furniture dealer of Thornville,
has made a high reputation as a teacher in the common
schools. His mother's maiden name was Katharine
Stevens, who died when John was a babe.
When seven years of age he lost his father by death.
He had eight brothers and three sisters. Seven of
these brothers are still living. He lived in the
family of D. C. Shelly, of Hopewell, eight and
one-half years. He taught fifteen terms of school.
He worked by the month for Nathan Plank and others.
He attended school at Mount Perry, under the tutilage of
Prof. White; also at Delaware College. In 1877 he
became the husband of Miss Irene Orr, daughter of
Albert Orr. Their children are Arthur
and Walter, now two years of age. He bought a
small farm in 1880, which he sold in 1882, and entered upon
his present business, to which he brings, besides some
capital, the same energy, urbanity, and integrity, which,
added to his capacity and judgment, warrants his success,
and makes him a rival in the line of his chosen business.
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JOHN A. BIRKIMER
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SELDON W. BLAIR,
tinner, New Lexington, Ohio, born June 19th, 1944, in Pike
township, son of Thomas W. and Anna (Davis) Blair.
Seldon W. was brought up on a farm, where he remained
until about twenty, when he went to this trade, and worked
journeyman work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wheeling, West
Virginia, Indianapolis, Indiana, and other cities.
Came to this place in 1875. Mr. Blair was a
member of Company F, 160th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
served four months. He was married in April, 1869, to
Miss Sarah, daughter of Sarah (Seals) Williams.
She died early in the summer of 1882.
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NOAH H. BLOSSER,
physician, Maxville, Ohio, was born in Monday Creek
township, Perry county, Ohio, Oct. 26th, 1847; son of
Nicholas and Elizabeth (Hufford) Blosser. Spent
his early days on a farm, and attended school during the
winter, until about seventeen years of age, when he began
teaching, and continued to teach for about eight years.
In 1873 he obtained the position of express agent of the C.
& M. V. division of the P. C. & St. L. Railway, at Junction
City, Ohio, in which position he remained until 1879, when
he resigned to accept the superintendency of the Junction
City public schools. During the period in which he was
acting as express agent and teacher, he was employing all
his spare time in the study of medicine. And in the
fall of 1880, he entered the Pulte Homeopathic Medical
College at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1881, he
located at Maxville, and began the practice of medicine, in
which profession he is rapidly attaining eminence.
Dr. Blosser was married, June 30th, 1870, to Miss
Austirs O., daughter of Samuel S. and Mary Black)
Poling, o Monday Creek township, formerly of Fairfield
county, Ohio; to whom were born two children, Franklin
Elwood and Bertha Belle.
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CHARLES BOIES
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ISAAC BOIES
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PHILIP BOIES
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JAMES H. BOLING
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JOEL
BOWMAN, was born in 1827, and his occupation is, and
has been, that of a successful miller and farmer. His
post-office is Somerset. He is a son of Bernard
Bowman, and grandson of George Bowman, who
settled, in 1802, on the farm in Reading township, where his
son Bernard died in 1863. Joel's mother
was Elizabeth (Poorman), and her father was
Bernard Poorman. Both the Bowmans and
Poormans are of German descent, and Lutheran in
religion. In 1848 Joel Bowman became the
husband of Miss Mary A. Binckley, daughter of the
late venerable Samuel Binckley, of Reading township,
Perry county. They have reared three sons and four
daughters to manhood and womanhood, and buried five others
prior to that period in life. Joel purchased of
his father the grist-mill and twenty-four acres of land in
1863, and paid for it from the earnings of the mill alone in
less than two years' time. Twelve years since, he
built a saw mill, and nine years since, attached to both
grist and saw-mills a steam engine, so they can now be run
by water or steam power. In 1873 he added eighty acres
adjoining the mill property, and thus inside of twenty years
paid for a property estimated to be worth $16,000, besides
investments in Wood county, Ohio, and rearing and educating
his family most respectably. He has also paid over
$1,200 in bail money, which is an improvement on his
father's record, who paid nearly $6,500 of the same kind of
cash and held the fort, but not without an effort that is
creditable to his great energy and the resources of a well
balanced mind and fruitful fields. Bernard, the
father of Joel Bowman, stood high in the
esteem of his neighbors, and his history is full of
instruction to those of his descendants, who have the power
to imitate his sterling virtues while they resist the bonds
held by bank collectors and refuse to become the victims of
commercial bank indorsers in blank. Grandfather
George Bowman generally landed where he started to go.
In 1820, on his road to Perry county, they tried to bribe
him with lot gifts if he would stay in Zanesville and work
at blacksmithing. It was no use; his mind was fixed.
He was not a hunter by trade or habit, but on one occasion
he brought in seven bear skins on his pony. On one
occasion his horse fell and broke his ankle as to make him a
cripple the balance of his life. Grandmother Bowman,
whose maiden name was Susannah Rugh, sister of
Peter and Solomon Rugh, late of Fairfield county,
possessed the courage necessary for pioneer life. On
one occasion she loaded the rifle and shot a huge rattle
snake that came too near the cabin in the woods. So
late as the year 1819, when the first mill-dam was being
built above the present site of Bowman's mill, a
young bear was caught and held by the hind legs, as it tried
to scramble up the steep bank, until other workmen
dispatched the beast with hand-spikes. About the same time,
also, but more likely earlier in the date, the Indians took
George Bowman's pony. He followed with one
companion and recaptured the animal at Foresman's old
mill site in Fairfield county, or hear there.
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JOHN
W. BOWMAN, Monday Creek township, farmer, Maxville,
Ohio, was born Mar. 13, 1840, in Jackson township, this
county; son of John and Elizabeth (Strohl) Bowman;
was brought up on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years
he engaged as an apprentice and learned the shoemaker trade,
which he followed in Bristol, Pike township, and in Jackson
township, until 1870, when he went to farming. In the
fall of 1879 he came to this township and located on his
present farm. Mr. Bowman was married Dec. 12,
1861, to Rachel M., daughter of Benjamin and Ann
Maria (Strubble) Griggs, both natives of Sussex county,
New Jersey. They were married in that State and came
to Perry county in the year 1820, and Benjamin Griggs
ever after was a resident of Perry county until the date of
his death, June 9th 1879. Ann Maria Strubble
died Apr. 7th, 1877. John Bowman, Sen., died
several years ago, but his wife, mother of the subject of
this sketch, is living with her son, Joseph D. Bowman,
one of the principal boot and shoe merchants of New
Lexington. Benjamin Griggs served as a drummer
boy in the war of 1812, enlisting from his native State -
New Jersey. To John W. and wife were born the
following children: Edgar J., Madison B., Grant,
William S., Isadora, Ann Maria, Maggie, Myrtle M., Delila
Blanche, and George E.; all living except
Edgar J., the oldest, who died at the early age of three
years. Mr. B. owns one hundred and sixty acres
of the best mineral land in Monday Creek township, underlaid
with eight-feet veins of coal, and a vein of red-grey iron
ore, varying from ten to eighteen inches in thickness.
The Griggses were all prominent members of the Second
Baptist Church, and Mrs. Bowman's brother, Elias,
is at present a prominent minister in Mercer county.
Mrs. Bowman connected herself with that church in
early maidenhood. The Bowmans were all
prominent members of the Lutheran Reform Church.
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WILLIAM
F. BOYD, baggage master for B. & O. R. R., Shawnee,
Ohio, was born Nov. 19, 1828, in County Antrim, Belfast,
Ireland. Came to America Aug. 3, 1847, and located at
Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Boyd was married in
January, 1852, to Miss Catharine, daughter of
Michael and Mary Anne (Stephens) McDonald, of Newark,
New Jersey. They became the parents of three children,
viz.: Mary Anne, married to Owens McKenna, of
Newark, Ohio; Adelaide R., married to Frank W.
Caffee, of Newark, Ohio; and McDonald, who also
resides at Newark, Ohio. Mr. Boyd resided at
Newark, New Jersey, seven years, working at carriage
manufacturing. He came to Newark, Ohio in 1854, and
remained until 1868, working at his trade, carriage
blacksmithing. He also lived at Coalport, Coshocton
county, Ohio, four years. Came to Shawnee in 1872, and
took his present position in 1874. HE was one of the
charter members of the Knights of Pythias, No. 117, Shawnee,
Ohio, and has attended every meeting of the Lodge, excepting
one, then he was absent attending Grand Lodge. Mrs.
Boyd died Mar. 4, 1861.
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REV. JEROME B. BRADLEY
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JOHN BRADSHAW
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W. A. BRADSHAW
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JAMES E. BREECE
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JOHNSON C. BREWSTER
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A. M. BROWN,
physician, Pleasant township, post office, Moxahala, born in
Pike township, Aug. 17th, 1837. His parents are
supposed to be of Irish descent. He went to Illinois
with his parents when thirteen years old, remained there
until he was twenty-one. He then learned the
shoemaking trade, and worked at his trade in Perry county.
In 1864 he began reading medicine with Dr. M. D. Hufford
of Straitsville, remained in his office two years, and then
practiced with him six months. He then went to
Rendville and practiced there six years, spending one winter
in Indianapolis. Then practiced at Connersville,
Lafayette county, nine months; at Gore, Hocking county,
eight months; at Straitsville one year, and he then moved to
Moxahala, where he still practices, and is also a member of
the firm of Noe & Brown, druggists.
Dr. Brown married Miss Susan Patton, February
21st, 1861; they are the parents of one child.
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DAVID BROWN, was born in
Fairfield county, 1817, November 22d; is a successful
farmer; the oldest of the name now living; brother of the
late Judge William Brown and Robert Brown, old
time officials of Perry county. His post office is
Thornville. His grandfather was William Brown,
who, with his wife, Sarah McMullen, then the mother
of one daughter, Rosannah, afterwards wife of
Robert Walter, emigrated from Ireland. The
children of this marriage were: William, David and
Robert, well remembered in Fairfield county; Sally,
Elizabeth and Margaret, all of whom came to
Fairfield county, except Elizabeth, wife of John,
and Sarah, wife of Abram Yost, who settled in
Perry. William, the father of David W.,
Robert and Judge Brown, was married in
Pennsylvania, to Miss Sarah McTeer, whose father was
a soldier, who fought with the butt of his gun in the
trenches at Bunker Hill, on the side of "liberty or death."
They were the parents of the sons named, and never had any
other children. In 1835, the family came from
Fairfield to Perry county, and settled in Thorn township.
Father Brown survived his wife six or eight years,
and died at the age of eight-two, his wife in her
sixty-ninth year. They were of the Associate Reform
Church, since the United Presbyterian. William,
after service as County Treasurer and Probate Judge, died
near Somerset. Robert, after service as a
teacher for many years, and County Auditor for a long time,
died in the State of Missouri, whither he moved late in
life. David W. is therefore sole survivor; was
married in 1835, to Miss Eliza Cherry, daughter of
John Cherry of Fairfield. His children are,
John C., husband of Miss Harriet daughter of
George Mechling of Thornville; Almonara, wife of
John Yost, son of William post office,
Linville, Ohio; Elizabeth, now the widow of the late
Dr. Allen Whitmer; Azuba, wife of J. P. Eversole
grocer, freight agent and post master, North Berne,
Fairfield county, Ohio; Robert, at home, and David
McGraw, in honor of a Kentuckian of this name, who
nursed his father, David Brown, when sick with
cholera, on board a steamer landed at Hannibal, Missouri, in
1849. Another son, Charles L., husband of
Miss Martha Franks follows the trade of butchering in
Thornville. David Brown lost his estimable wife
of 1880, and is now a widower. The site of his farm of
two hundred acres, is that of the first few settled in Thorn
township, and the same selected by Joseph Cooper,
whose name clings to a road laid out by him, and who drove a
team and sled back to Pennsylvania for provisions, in
winter, leaving his wife and children to hear the wolves
lapping from the slop bucket outside the cabin door.
Here the first water mill of this vicinity was erected, on a
stream passing through the Brown homestead, the
residence of which is of brick, on an eminence overlooking a
vast extent of country, fringed by hills and vocalized by
passing trains and lowing herds. It is a delightful
landscape. Except the cloud cast upon the evening of
his life by the death of his wife, the achievements of
David Brown's career, shed lustre on the rewards of
industry and the joys of rural life.
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GEORGE W. BROWN, born Dec.
12th, 1834, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He is now
proprietor of a livery stable, and is a horse buyer.
He is a son of Dixon Brown, late of Somerset, who was
a leading dry goods merchant, railroad director, member of
the Methodist church, and citizen of large influence in
society, and who had acquired a large share of wealth, which
was ever held subject to his hospitality, his desire to
advance the public good, and to assist his children and his
friends. George's mother was Elizabeth
Richard a daughter of George and Ellen Richard,
both of whom died in sight of Somerset, where their daughter
also died. George's only brother, is J.
Murray Brown, of Columbus, Ohio, and his only surviving
sister is Mrs. Ella McCune of Newark, Ohio.
George W. was a willful lad, who cut loose from parental
moorings in Somerset, when only fourteen years of age, and
landed in Wheeling, Virginia, without a dollar in his
pocket, but soon applied to a Mr. Culberson for work
in a tin shop, which he obtained; but his father soon heard
of him and bound him as an apprentice to Mr. Culberson,
for three years. George served his time and
became a good workman, and was more inclined afterwards to
stay in sight of the paternal roof. After the death of
his parents, assisted by the friends and legal counsel, he
rescued a handsome homestead from the wreck occasioned by
his father's weakness on his sick bed, and the evil disposed
who seemed to have his mind under their control. This
was a great triumph for George, and leaves him in
comfortable circumstances. His wife was Miss Emma
Zane, daughter of Samuel Zane, and
great-granddaughter of Colonel Ebenezer Zane, and of
Elizabeth Bloomfield. The name of Zane is
linked with the earliest history of Ohio, and with the
heroism which defended the border of civilization against
the attacks of the savage. Her ancestors owned the
sections where Zanesville, Lancaster and part of Chillicothe
now stand, and were of the highly educated and polished
movers in the progress of the past. Elizabeth Zane,
fresh from school at Philadelphia, on her return to
Wheeling, soon found that place. (1782), under siege
from Indians. The fort was occupied by brave
defenders, but the powder was nearly exhausted, and none
nearer than Colonel Zane's house, forty rods distant.
Elizabeth Zane insisted on going there and
returning with supplies. She was told a man could go
and come quicker, and, therefore, with less danger; but she
replied, "a woman would not be missed so much as a man;" and
after preparing herself for the greatest fleetness, she ran
for the powder, and arriving at the house, a table cloth was
tied by two corners around her neck, while she held the
other two corners in her hand, and while her first trip was
assailed only by the cry of "squaw, squaw," her return was
beset by whizzing bullets and savage yells, but she got back
without a scratch, except holes through her clothing, and
her memory grows green on the pae of history. She died
in Belmont county, Ohio, after two marriages - the first to
Mr. McLaughlin, the last to Mr. Clark, near
Martinsville.
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J. J. BROWN,
P. O. Crooksville, farmer. Born in Kent county,
Delaware, in 1816; settled in this county in 1846; son of
William and Susan (Black) Brown. Mr. Brown's
father died in 1857, his mother in 1862. They were of
English and Scotch descent. Mr. Brown has been
twice married, first in 1839, to Miss Jane Dills who
died in 1854. This union was blessed with four
children, viz.: Benjamin, Richard, Jane
(deceased), William. Married again in 1854, to
Mrs. Julia A. Triplet. Mrs. Triplet had three
children, viz.: Margaret, Susan and Mary.
Mrs. Brownhad two sons in the late war.
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W. H. BRUMAGE, P. O.
Roseville, Muskingum county. Born in Perry county in
1822; son of A. W. and Elizabeth Brumage (Pemberton);
grandson of John and Rebecca (Lashley) Brumage.
Married June 5, 1856, to Miss Elizabeth M. Guy,
daughter of James and Elizabeth (Miller) Buy.
They are the parents of two children, viz.: Samuel
G. and Ida G.
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DANTON O. BRUNNER
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DAVID D. BRUSH
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EDMUND C. BRUSH, M. D.
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C. F. BRYAN
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JONATHAN
BURGESS, farmer, Madison township, postoffice, Mt.
Perry. He was born June 24, 1848, in this township; is
a son of Amos and Mary (Reddick) Burgess. He
was raised on a farm, and still follows agricultural
pursuits, now owning about one hundred and fifty acres of
fertile land. He was married Jan. 4, 1872, to
Virginia McCarty, daughter of John and Catharine (Eversole)
McCarty. They have two children: Edward G.,
and Daisy O.
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LEVI
J. BURGESS, attorney at law, Logan, Ohio. Among
the first settlers of Madison township, Perry county, (then
belonging to Muskingum,) were Joseph and Richard Burgess,
brothers, who emigrated from Maryland about the year 1810.
Richard, after serving in the war of 1812, moved to
Hocking county, Ohio, to the farm on which stands the
village of New Gore, and the noted Gore Furnace. From
him also a church took its name, and the "Burgess Meeting
House" was, for a long time, a familiar name and place to
hundreds of people in Perry and Hocking counties.
Joseph continued to live in Madison township until 1856,
when he died, leaving nine sons and one daughter, some of
whom had found homes in the far west, and and all of whom
are yet living. Four sons and the daughter continue to
reside in Perry county, near their birth-place, where they
have acquired comfortable homes, and are among the leading
and influential people of that locality. A number of
their children have long been known as being among the
leading scholars and educators in Perry county, having aided
largely in establishing and maintaining Madison Academy, at
Mt. Perry. Professor E. J. Burgess, one of the
descendants, is at present the President of Ashland College.
Perhaps the most prominent member of this old pioneer family
of Perry county, is Hon. Levi J. Burgess, of Logan,
Hocking county, Ohio, a grandson of Joseph Burgess,
and son of Jeremiah and Eliza (Evans) Burgess.
He was born at Mt. Perry, Perry county, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1848,
and received his education in Perry county, with the
exception of a short time at Muskingum College, New Concord,
Ohio. He began to 1870, the study of law with the Hon.
William E. Finck, at Somerset, and was admitted to the
bar in the fall of 1873. Before and during the time he
was studying law, he was engaged in teaching, and was one of
the leading young teachers of Perry and Muskingum counties.
In the spring of 1874, he located in New Lexington and began
the practice of law, forming a partnership with Hon. L.
J. Jackson. His rise was rapid, and in the fall of
879 he was nominated by a overwhelming majority over all
competitors for the office of Prosecuting Attorney.
Shortly afterwards Hon. John S. Friesner, of Logan,
was nominated and elected to the office of Common Pleas
Judge, and Col. Burgess declined the nomination of
Prosecutor, and moved to Logan where he succeeded to the
large and extensive practice of Judge Friesner.
He is at present the attorney for the Columbus, Hocking
Valley & Toledo Railway Company, and also for a number of
the leading coal and iron companies in the Hocking Valley
region. He was a prominent candidate before the
Democratic State Convention of 1881, for the office of
Attorney General and though not seeking it, came near
receiving the nomination. He was, the same year,
honored with the Chairmanship of the Congressional
Convention of his district, and also of the Senatorial
Convention, composed of the counties of Fairfield, Hocking
and Athens, and although a resident of his county less than
two years, was unanimously tendered the nomination for State
Senator, which he declined to accept. As a lawyer,
advocate and political speaker, Col. Burgess stands
in the front rank of the young men of Ohio. He is
popular wherever known, and numbers among his acquaintances
and friends, many of the leading men of the State and
Nation. His successful course reflects honor upon
himself, credit upon the family name and serves to make him
a conspicuous figure among the prominent men of Perry
county, who have achieved a reputation at home and
abroad, and of whom the county may justly be proud. He
was married Dec. 11th, 1870, to Rebecca A., daughter
of Jacob and Mary (Fulton) Weller They have
three children, Lulu, Alma, and Levi J., Jr.,
living, and two. Annie and Fannie,
deceased.
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LAZILERE BURLEY
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W. N. BURLEY
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GEORGE M. BURNS
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A. H. BURRELL
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NATHAN BURTON
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JOHN BUTLER
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SAMUEL W. BUTT
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EMERY A. BUTTS
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MECHACH BUTTS
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JAMES L. BUTTS
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WILLIAM H. BUTTS
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