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HENRY HAINES, Bedford township; teamster; postoffice, West Bedford
Source: History of Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
Newark, Ohio:  A.A. Graham & Co.,  1881
HALLER BROTHERS, George & C. J., 252, Main street, Coshocton; butchers; born and raised in this city; sons of Adam and Catharine (Mank) HallerGeorge J. learned the plasterer's trade, adn worked at it one year.  He was married November 30, 1879, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of George and Mary (McGigen) Moffitt, of this city.  The father of these two brothers was a butcher, and the sons were brought up to their present occupation.  They took possession of their present shop January 4, 1881, and keep a fine assorted supply of sausages, fresh and cured meats.
Source: History of Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
Newark, Ohio:  A.A. Graham & Co.,  1881
JOHN H. HALL, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in West Virginia, in 1821; son of Dennis Hall; came to Ohio in 1865, and located in Linton township, and 1846, to Miss Ingraham, of West Virginia, daughter of Jabob Ingraham  They have had ten children, Elilhu W.; Jacob I., deceased in 1866, in his seventeenth year; Nancy A., Edith M., Mary V., J. H., William M., Arthur Lee, Sarah J. and Anderson Monroe.  Mr. Hall is industrious and well spoken of by all.
Source: History of Coshocton County, Ohio : its past and present, 1740-1881"
Newark, Ohio:  A.A. Graham & Co.,  1881
 
 
 
 
WILLIAM HENDERSON died at his residence, in New Castle township, in 1866, having been many years a farmer and stock-man in Coshocton county.  He was in his seventy-first year; came from Pennsylvania; was married in1837; connected by the marriage of his children with several of the prominent families in the west part of the county.
Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876 - Page 261
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A. J. HOSTETTER, Keene Township; born Jan. 12, 1840, in Keene township; son of Jacob and Harriet (Martin) Hostetter, of German birth.  At the age of five years he moved to Holmes county, where he spent about twenty years, and then three in Ashland county.  He next moved to Indiana, where he remained until 1876, when he returned to Coshocton county.  He has followed cabinetmaking for thirteen years.  Mr. Hostetter enlisted in 1862 in Company B, Sixteenth regiment O. V. I., and was discharged in 1864.  He re-enlisted in Company B, First regiment O. V. I., and remained in service until the close of the war, having been engaged at Mill Springs, Cumberland Gap, and in the numerous battles which were fought in Sherman's Georgia campaign.  He was married February 20, 1867, to Susan E. Beaird, born in 1850, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Miller) Beaird.
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CHARLES HOUSER, farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1814, in Hampshire county, Virginia.  He came to this county in 1819 with his father C. D. Houser.  He was born in 1769, in Germany, and came to Virginia in 1785.  He married Marion Thompson, of same county, who was born in 1773.  He died in 1853; she died in 1851.  They were the parents of nine children.  The subject of this is the sixth.  He was married in 1832 to Miss Rebecca Garee, of Licking county, who was born in 1818.
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A. D. HOWE, Coshocton; foreman in axle department of steel works; was born Mar. 16, 1850, in Lodi, Otsego county, New York; son of George H. Howe.  At the age of thirteen he went on a farm, where he remained two years.   In April, 1865, he commenced his present business, at Springfield Center, Otsego county, New York, and remained two years, then worked two years in Herkimer county, New York.  He came to this city in 1871, and was one of the first who worked in the present works, becoming foreman in September, 1878, which position he has held to the present time.  Mr. Howe was married July 19, 1868. to Miss Mary, daughter of Isaac Sparts of Menden, Herkimer county, New York.  They have two children, Clarence d. and Mildred M.
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GEORGE H. HOWE, Coshocton; boxmaker, in spring and axle works; was born in Otsego county, New York, in 1827; commenced work in cotton factory at the age of fourteen, and continued four years; then learned the carpenters' trade, and followed it until he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-second N. Y. V. I.  He was honorably discharged in July, 1864, and returned to New York and engaged in buggy axle manufacturing, where he continued until 1876, when he engaged in his present position.  Mr. Howe chose Harriet, daughter of Leonard Perkins of Oneida county, New York, for a partner to share the joys and sorrows of life with him.  They were blessed with five children, viz:  Albert, Charles, Ida, George, and Eggert, deceased.
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JOHN HOWELL, fruit grower; Washington township; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1814, in Belmont county, Ohio. He came to this county i 1827, with his father, who was born in 1767 in Virginia.  He was married in 1897, to Miss Elizabeth Bonham of Virginia, who was born in 1777.  They came to Belmont county in 1814.  He was in the war of 1812.  John was married in 1837, to Miss Phoebe A. Seward, of this county, who was born in 1813, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania.  She died in 1879.  They are the parents of eight children.  Mr. Howell  has thirty acres of orchard.  His gross sales for 1879 were $2,000.
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JOHN HOWLETT, SR., Bedford township; carpenter; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1819, in Ohio county, West Virginia.  He was married in 1848 to Miss Elizabeth J. Steele, of the same county, who was born in 1829.  They came to this county in 1861.  They are the parents of nine children, viz:  Franklin, Albert; Gabriel, deceased; John, James; Charles, deceased; Sarah E., Harry and Ida May.  Mr. Howlett is a carpenter, having worked on many fine buildings.
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A. B. HOWSER, Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born in this county in 1851; son of Jacob and Elizabeth Howser, and grandson of Andrew and Mary (Carson) Lockard, married in 1875 to Mary A. Norris, daughter of William and Rebecca J. Norris.  They have one child - Curtis S.
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JAMES HUGHES, Bedford Township; farmer; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1809 in Belmont county, Ohio, and came to this county in 1821, with his father, who was born in 1767 in New Jersey.  He married Miss Francis Launney, of Winchester, Virginia, and died in 1824.  She died in 1867.  They were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the third.  He was married in 1860 to Miss Rebecca.  She died in 1863.  He was married in 1872 to Miss Lottie Robinson of this county, who was born in 1839, in Harrison county.  They are the parents of three children, viz:  Luella J., James A. and Francis U.
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JOHN D. HUGHES, Keene township; carpenter; born June 26, 1840, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; son of John and Eliza J. Hughes, and grandson of Robert and Mary A. (Robinson) Hughes, and of John and Nancy (Hasson) Duncan.  He remained in Pittsburgh, till 1878, when he came to Keene, and married Miss Rebecca Fullerton, of Irish extraction, who was born June 20, 1844; daughter of Robert and Anna (Aiken) Fullerton, and granddaughter of Robert Fullerton.  Three children have been born unto them:  William, February 2, 1868; Eliza J., October 15, 1871, and Mary E., Oct. 12, 1874.  Mr. Hughes  enlisted in the Thirteenth Pa. V. I., Company F, and was discharged Aug. 28, 1861; re-enlisted Sept. 6, 1861, in the One Hundred and Second Pa., V. I., Company L. and mustered out Sept. 9, 1864.  He was engaged at Williamsburg, Antietam and Fredericksburg.  At Williamsburg he was severely wounded.  He was a member of the militia that helped to suppress the great Pittsburgh riot, in 1878.
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WILLIAM H. HUGHES, Coshocton; carpenter and contractor; was born Apr. 9, 1840, in Muskingum County.  He was a son of Henry C. R. Hughes, American born, of Irish ancestry.  Young Hughes was raised on the farm until about fifteen years of age, when he began to learn the cabinet trade, which he followed until 1861, when he enlisted in Company A, Ninth O. V. C., and served until the close of the war.  On returning from the war he resumed his trade at Roscoe, where he followed it until 1869, when he changed to his present trade.  In 1871 he came to this city, and has successfully follwed the carpenter and contracting business to the present.  Mr. Hughes was married Aug. 8, 1866, to Miss Jennie Mirise, daughter of John Mirise, deceased, formerly of Roscoe.  This union has been blessed with five children, viz: Frank G., Alice Blanche, Edie Belle, Charles H. and William Longdon.
L. H. HURLBUTT,
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