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WILLIAM
M. EARLEY, Oxford township; farmer; Evansburgh;
was born in this township in 1854m and was married September
21, 1873, to Miss Emma McIntire in Pennsylvania.
Their children are, Rebecca Jane, deceased,
Desmond, deceased, and Seburtis Mack.
They are members of the M. E. Church in West Lafayette.
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DAVID
EASTER, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel
Hill; born in 1820 in Fayette county. Pennsylvania, and
came to this county in 1830. His father was born in 1783
in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and died in 1839, his wife in
1871. They were the parents of ten children; David
being the eighth child.
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RICHARD
ECKELS, Jackson township; postoffice, Roscoe; born in
Belmont county, Ohio, in 1816, settled in this county, in
1822; son of Thomas and Margaret (Porterfield) Eckels,
and grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Eckels and of
Gabriel and Jane Porterfield; married in 1842 to
Martha Porterfield (first wife), and in 1849, to Mary
E. Nichols, daughter of John and Rachel Nichols.
Mr. Eckels the father of ten children, seven living and
three dead. Three are married, two living in this
county, one in Columbus, Ohio.
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C. C.
ECKERT, Coshocton; proprietor of C. O. D. store,
grocer, baker and dealer in produce, No. 430 Main street,
Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Eckert was born in
Ragersville, Tuscarawas county, August 22, 1850. His
first business engagement was with his father under the firm
name of C. A. Eckert & Son, in general merchandising,
in which he continued about six years. He then went west
and engaged in dealing in groceries and miner's supplies at
Central City, Dakota, where he remained one year, after which
he returned to Coshocton in 1877, and established his present
business. He occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in
the Eckert block, where he carries a large, first class stock
of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries. He
also deals in all kinds of country produce, and has a large
bakery attached, where he does an extensive business in baking
bread, plain and fancy cakes and pies of all kinds. He
also roasts all grades of coffees, which are of a very
superior quality.
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J. M.
EDWARDS, M. D., Pike township; born in 1830, in
this county. His father was born in 1799, in Baltimore
county, Maryland, and came to this county about 1825. He
was married in 1828, to Miss Catharine Lee, of this
county, who was born in 1804, in Pennsylvania. He died
in 1875, she died in 1874. They were the parents of two
children, Dr. Edwards being the oldest. He began
reading medicine in 1853, under Dr. Russell, of Mt.
Vernon, and attended his first course of lectures in 1855-6,
and graduated in 1857. He has been here ever since.
He was married in 1847, to Miss Sarah S. Marquand, of
this county. She was born in 1833, in this county.
They are the parents of five children, viz: Belle B.,
Russell C.; Birdie, deceased, Edwin S. and
Gracie.
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HENRY
EHRICH, Crawford township; shoemaker; born
in Bavaria, Germany, in 1850. Son of Nicholas Ehrich
and Margaret (Nye) Ehrich, both natives of the State of
Bavaria. Mr. Ehrich emigrated to America,
February 23, 1869, and located in Massillon. He worked
as a hand in the shop, until 1873, when he opened a shop of
his own in Chili, and still continues to work at his trade
there. In August, 1873, he married Catharine
Shoemaker, of Crawford township. Her parents,
William Shoemaker and Margaret (Wentz) Shoemaker, are both
of German ancestry. Mr. Ehrich has a family of
three children: Charles Jacob, born June 12,
1874; Margaret, August 23, 1877; Eliza J.,
January 23, 1879.
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CYRUS
ELDER, Jefferson township; born January 25,
1834, in Jefferson township, Coshocton, county, Ohio on the
farm where he now lives; son of John, a native of
Antrim county, Ireland, and Esther (McConnell) Elder,
and grandson of John Elder and John McConnell,
natives of Ireland. Mr. Elder came to Virginia in
1804, and remained there till 1806, when he came to Coshocton
county, where he lived till his death, in 1852. At that
time his sons, Cyrus and William became
possessors of the home farm. They have since divided it,
Cyrus getting the homestead, 310 acres. He was
married to Miss Mary A. Waite, October 4, 1866,
daughter of John and Mary (Boyd) Waite and
granddaughter of William and Sarah (Maines) Boyd,
and of William and Margaret (Milligan) Waite.
Their children were Elwood, William J., Honorah M., John F.
and James H. Mr. Elder was in the 100-day's
service, a member of Company E., One Hundred and forty-third
regiment, O. N. G.
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ANDREW
ELLIOTT, Perry township;
post-office, New Guilford; born in West Virginia, in 1798; son
of John and Charity Elliott; married in 1825, to
Miss Margaret McLewee, daughter of George and
Katherine McLewee. Mrs. Elliott died in 1858.
They had eleven children, viz: Charlotte,
deceased; Simon, Katherine, deceased; George,
Isabella, John, James, deceased; Jane, deceased;
Andrew, M. E. and Francis A., deceased.
Mrs. Elliott still lives upon the old homestead.
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GEORGE
ELLIOTT, Perry township; postoffice, New
Guilford; born in this county, in 1831; son of Andrew and
MArgaret (McLewee) Elliott, and grandson of John and
Charity Elliott, and of George and Katherine McLewee.
He was married in 1861, to Miss Margaret Dengan,
daughter of Thomas and Margaret Dengan. Mr. Elliott
spent some six years of his life in the gold regions of
California. He sailed form New York on the ship northern
light, in October, 1853, and returned in 1869. Mr.
Elliott at one time came near being buried alive, while
engaged in mining operations in California.
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COLONEL
JOHN S. ELLIOTT, Coshocton, of the firm of
Elliott & Marx, 114 and 116 Main Street, is a native of
Keene township; born May 11, 1817; son of Findley and
Catharine (Strong) Elliott, of Irish ancestry. He is
raised on the farm. At the age of twenty-three he was
elected justice of the peace of his native township and served
nine consecutive years. Esquire Elliott was
appointed by Governor Corwin lieutenant colonel of the
State troops, and served until forces were disbanded by act of
the Legislature. He came to this city in 1862, and has
served two terns as mayor; also, president of the National
Temperance Christian Union of this city three years, and
president of the Coshocton Agricultural Society for a number
of years. He was married first to Miss Margaret,
the daughter of George McCaskey, of White Eyes
township, and by this union had one son - Alonzo Milton.
His second wife was Miss Margaret Morrison, who
died some thirteen years since. The above firm is doing
a very extensive business in farming implements and heavy
machinery. In 1880 they sold three thousand two hundred pounds
of wire to bind grain cut by machines sold by them.
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1881 |
MISS
KATE ELLIOTT, Tuscarawas township; teacher; postoffice,
Coshocton, Ohio. Miss Elliott received a good
common-school education, also attended the national normal
school at Lebanon, Ohio. She taught the first school in
the Barnes district, Keene township, in 1869, and has been
constantly employed ever sine, often teaching as much as nine
and ten months in one year. She has been a successful
teacher, having taught two years in the Coshocton schools.
She has taught many schools in different parts of the country,
always giving satisfaction. She is at present engaged in
the Lafayette schools.
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R. M.
ELLIOTT, Layfaette township; tinner; postoffice, West
Lafayette; learned his trade in Coshocton, and has worked at
the business about seven years, and at the present time is
working for F. M. FAMILTON; was married, in 1877,
to Miss Miller, of this township. They have had
two children: William, two years of age, and
Agnes, an infant, Mr. Elliott has lived in
this township about two years, and is steady and industrious.
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SIMON
ELLIOTT, Jefferson township; moulder; post office,
Warsaw; was born in Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, December
15, 1832; son of Thomas and Lucy (Sanders) Elliott, and
grandson of John Elliott, and Nathan and Mary
Sanders. Mr. Elliott is of Irish descent.
Until about the age of sixteen he attended school and worked
with his father in the wagon shop. He then began the
moulder's trade in the foundry at Roscoe, and remained there
about two years. He went to Walhonding in 1848,
and remained until the year 1864, and the next spring went to
Kansas, where he followed farming fourteen years, and on
account of his wife's ill health he returned to Coshocton
county and resumed his trade. He has a small foundry in
Warsaw, and has a very fair line of custom. He married,
October 3, 1857, Miss Electa Butler, daughter of
Allen and Margaret (Smith) Butler, Edward L., born
August 25, 1866, in the Osage Indian Reserve, in Kansas, is
their only child. Mr. Elliott is a nephew of Charles
Elliott, the founder and editor of the Western Christian
Advocate, of Cincinnati, who never went to school, but was
a master of five different languages, and was at one time
elected a college president.
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WILLIAM
B. ELLIOTT, White Eyes township; farmer; was
born in the State of New York, in 1825, and came to this
county, with his parents in 1828. His father, John H.
Elliott, emigrated to this country from Ireland, about
1823, and located in Keene township. He removed to White
Eyes in 1832. William B. began working at the
carpenter trade in 1847, and followed his trade for about
thirty years. He taught school during the winters for
fifteen or sixteen terms. In 1851, Mr. Elliott married
Miss Mary Boyd, daughter of William M. Boyd, who
was born in 1831, in Keene township. They have two
children: Milton, born in 1852, and Almarinda,
born in 1855, both of whom are unmarried and live at home.
Mr. Elliott bought and located on the farm where he now
resides, in the spring of 1852. Mr. Elliott has
served in the office of township assessor two terms, land
appraiser, one term, and one term each of clerk and treasurer
of township. His father is deceased, and his mother, who
is a very old lady, lives in the township.
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ELLIOTT
& MARX, General Agency, Nos. 414 & 416 Main street,
Coshocton. This house was first established in 1860 by
William Elliott, deceased, and was conducted by
him until 1862, when, in consequence of his demise his
brother, John S. Elliott, succeeded to the business
which he conducted and greatly enlarged during the years of
187809, after which J. W. Cullison was associated with
him under the firm name of Elliott & Cullison.
This firm continued until 1871, when Mr. Cullison was
succeeded by H. Marx, changing the firm name to
Elliott & Marx. This firm carries a large stock of
agricultural implements and does a general agency business in
which they furnish repairs for all kinds of machinery promptly
on receipt of order. They keep posted in all the
improvements of the age, and deal in the best articles
in the market. They also furnish on lowest rates and
best terms, mowers, reapers and binders, grain drills, plows
and points, field rollers, sulky cultivators, hay rakes, corn
planters, straw cutters, cider mills, corn crushers, farm and
church bells, post hole diggers, wood pumps, churns, clothes
wringers, washing machines, road scrapers, threshing machines,
farm engines, wheelbarrows, sewer pipes, fruit dryers and
bakers, ceiling and sheathing paper, etc.
Source:
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GEORGE
W. ELLIS, Tuscarawas township; farmer, postoffice,
Canal Lewisville; born January 18, 1841, in Keene township;
son of Andrew W. Ellis, and grandson of Samuel Ellis.
His mother's maiden name was Mary A. Crablet, daughter
of William Crablet. George W. was raised
on the farm. When about eighteen he learned the
shoemaking trade and followed it about three years, and has
spent his entire life to the present time in this county.
He came to his present residence in 1867, and has remained to
the present time. He was married March 11, 1869 to
Miss Annie E. Reynolds, daughter of Abraham Reynolds,
whose father's name was Abraham. Her mother's
maiden name was Eliza Binning. Mary S. is
their only child.
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JONATHAN
ELY, Crawford township; teacher; postoffice,
Chili; born Feb. 19, 1859, in Crawford township; son of
Frederick and Mary Magdalena (Yost) Ely. He was
educated in the public schools and national normal school at
Lebanon, Ohio. He has successfully taught two terms of
school, beginning at first teaching October 13, 1879, and is
succeeding first rate.
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ANDREW
K. EMERSON, Keene township; farmer; born Dec. 3, 1838,
in Keene township; son of George and Olive Emerson, and
grandson of Jacob Emerson, a native of Massachusetts,
Andrew and Lydia (Fulton) Weatherwax. He was
married December 21, 1858, to Phoebe, daughter of
John and Phoebe (Stonehocker) Dickey. They had the
following children: George, born December 1859;
Ella, died Feb. 28, 1861, and Angeline, Feb. 1,
1863.
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W. H.
EMERSON, Oxford township; deceased; was born in this
county in 1833; is a son of Timothy Emerson, and was
married Miss Ann Norris, in 1855.
The result of this union was seven children, as follows:
William F., Mary Anara, Timothy C., Henry Siegel, Sherman
Elmer, U. S. Grant, Sheridan and Alverton. She is a
member of the M. E. Church, at Wesley chapel; her father's
name was William Norris, Mr. Emerson owned, at
the time of his death, 253 acres of good land in this
township, and was respected as an honest, upright man, by a
large circle of friends. He died on the 17th of April,
1874.
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J. M.
ENGLISH, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tyrone;
born in 1830 in this county. His father, Patrick
English, was born in 1800 in Pennsylvania. He
removed to Harrison county, and was married, in that county,
to Miss Susannah Dickerson, of the same county, who was
born in 1796, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They came
to this county in 1827. He died in 1857. She died
in 1870. They were the parents of eight children, the
subject of this sketch being the sixth. He was married
in 1862, to Miss Isabella Stephens, of the county, who
was born in 1837. They are the parents of twelve
children, eleven of whom are living, and two are married.
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CHARLES
EVERHART, West Water street, Coshockton; liveryman;
born Sept. 1, 1856, in Franklin township; son of Michael
Everhart, native of Virginia, and of English ancestry.
Young Everhart was raised on the farm, where he
remained until he established his present business at this
place, in August, 1880. He keeps on an average seven
good horses and rigs to suit, such as carriages, buggies, etc.
Source:
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DAVID
EVERHART, White Eyes township; Chili, postoffice;
farmer; born March 8, 1834, in White Eyes township; son of
Frederick and Elizabeth (Miser) Everhart, formerly of
Washington county, Pennsylvania. David was
married, Jan. 16, 1862, to Miss Sophia, daughter of
Jacob and Elizabeth (Stilgenbower) Gonter, a native of
Pennsylvania. This union has been blessed with six
children, five living, Calvin, Mary Elizabeth, Saloma,
Walter, Maggie Ellie and one died in infancy, not named.
Mr. Everhart has obtained a comfortable farm home, and
exerts a good moral influence in his community.
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DAVID EVERHART,
deceased, was born in White Eyes township, Coshocton county,
Ohio, Mar. 8, 1833, his parents being
Frederick and Elizabeth
(Mizer) Everhart, who were natives of
Washington
county, Pennsylvania,
and were among the earliest settlers of White Eyes township.
Their family numbered four children, all of whom are
now deceased.
David Everhart was
reared on the old home farm in his native township and
assisted his father in the work of the fields until the
latter’s death. In 1871
he purchased the farm of one hundred and eleven acres in White
Eyes township that is now owned by his children, and there
successfully carried on agricultural pursuits until called to
his final rest. In
addition to the work of general farming he was also
extensively engaged in stock-raising and bought and sold a
great many horses. In
fact, he was one of the best judges of horse flesh in the
county, being able to give the correct value of an animal
almost at a glance. He
was well known and highly esteemed as one of the prosperous
and enterprising citizens of the community, and gained the
confidence and good wil of all with whom he had came in
contact by reason of his straightforward and honorable
dealings under all circumstances.
The main portion of the residence which stands on the
Everhart farm is
over one hundred years old and was one of the first
frame houses erected in this part of the county.
The same floor and the same plastering have done
service since the time of its construction.
On the 16th
of January, 1862, Mr.
Everhart was united in marriage to
Miss Sophia Gonter,
whose birth occurred in Tuscarawas county,
Ohio, July 2, 1840, her parents being
Jacob and Elizabeth (Stilgenbower)
Gonter, the former a native of Tuscarawas county and the
latter of
Germany.
The mother was born in 1813 and when eighteen years of
age accompanied her parents on their emigration to the new
world, the family home being established in Tuscarawas county, Ohio.
There she gave her hand in marriage to
Jacob Gonter and they resided on a farm in that county until the
time of their demise.
The father of Mrs.
Everhart, whose birth had occurred in 1814, passed away
Aug. 5, 1898, while her mother’s death occurred on the 7th
of October, 1884. Unto
this worthy couple were born seven children, six of whom still
survive, namely:
Mrs. Everhart;
Elizabeth, the wife of
Samuel Wyler, of
Ragersville, Ohio; Mary,
the wife of John
Saunterman, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio;
Sylvester, a
resident of White Eyes township;
Adeline, the wife
of Adam Dook¸ of
White Eyes township; and
George, living in Tuscarawas county.
Unto
Mr. and Mrs. Everhart were born six children, as follows:
Calvin, of
white Eyes township;
Mary E., the wife of
Wilber Ely, of
Crawford township;
Saloma, the wife of
Jacob Leavengood, Coshocton;
Walter, a resident
of Coshocton; Ella¸the
wife of Henry Hooper, of Keene township; and
Milton, who operates the home farm for his mother.
In his political
views Mr. Everhart
was a republican, while his religious faith was indicated by
his membership in the English Lutheran church, with which his
widow is identified.
Mrs. Everhart has
won the regard and friendship of all who know her because of
her genuine personal worth and many excellent traits of heart
and mind.
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SAMUEL
EVERHART, White Eyes township; farmer; born in
the county in 1832. His father, Henry Everhart,
came to this county from Tuscarawas county. Samuel
remained at home until he was twenty-five years old, and
married Miss Florinda Hoober, of Tuscarawas county, in
1857. Mrs. Everhart was born in 1839. They
have had a family of six children, one of whom is deceased.
Those living are Eliza J., born in 1858, is married to
Peter Farney, and lives in Tuscarawas county;
Isaac B., born 1859; Catharine, born 1864;
John A., born 1872; Della M., born 1879.
Mr. Everhart has always resided in this county.
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H. A.
EXLINE, Washington township; farmer; postoffice, West
Carlisle; born in 1822, in this county. His father was
born in 1777, in Loudon county, Virginia, and was married in
1805, to Miss Elizabeth Betz, of the same county, who
was born in 1789. They came to this county in 1818.
He died in 1850 and she died in 1860. They were the
parents of three children, the subject of this sketch being
the youngest. He was married in 1844 to Miss Mary
Gault, of this county, who was born in 1827. She
died in 1856. They were the parents of three children,
viz: Elizabeth E., Elsie A. and Flora
B. He afterward married, in 1861, Miss Elizabeth
A. Yunker, of this county, who was born in 1833.
They are the parents of three children living, viz: Nora
M., John H. and Charlie B.
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