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SCHUYLER
C. BALL, Wayne township, farmer, post office
Fredericktown; born in Knox county in 1840, and was married in
1865 to Diana Ink, who was born in Knox county in 1839.
They have one daughter, Stella, who was born in September
1869.
Mr. Ball has always resided in this county,
farming being his chief occupation. His parents are
pioneers of this county. |
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JOHN
C. BANBURY, Jefferson township,
farmer, post office, Danville, son of Richard and Mary Barnbary,
was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, Oct. 11,
1832. He lived with his parents, in said township, until
1852, when he married Miss Eliza Caldwell, who was born
in Germany i the year 1831, and emigrated to America in the year
1843. Mr. and Mrs. Banbury became the father and
mother of twelve children, all of whom yet survive. Mr.
Banburyis now living about one mile north of where he was
born. |
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ANTHONY
BANNING, deceased - Among the old settlers whose names
have figured conspicuously in the history of Knox county, was
Anthony Banning. Connected with the business the
growth and prosperity of the county at every period of its
history after the first, and concerned as he was in various
industrial pursuits, in commercial operations, in temperance
movements, in church affairs, in political actions; as his name
ahs been widely known in legal history, his memory is worthy of
more than a passing notice.
"Judge" Banning as he was called more frequently
than "Parson," notwithstanding his monument states that he was a
Methodist preacher sixty years, was born in Talbot County,
Maryland, May 13, 1768, and was the only son of James Banning,
a proprietor of much consideration and influence, who had but
two children- the son, James Mansfield Anthony Banning
and a daughter who married Benjamin Chew, of
Philadelphia, chief justice of the State of Pennsylvania, a
lawyer of much distinction and a man of great wealth, who was a
bosom friend of Washington, and whose family were his
most intimate associates.
His parents died when he was very young, and he was
consigned to the care of an uncle, Henry Banning, a
bachelor, who was a sea-captian and took Anthony with him
several voyages. The family were members of the Episcopal
church, but in hsi fourteenth year Anthony joined the
Methodists. When about eighteen he went to preaching as a
circuit rider in Greenbrier, Virginia, and the wilderness
mountain region. IN consequence of the great length of his
name and its inconvenience in writing, he dropped a portion of
it in early youth.
July 30, 1791, he married Mrs. Sarah Pierce,
daughter of one of the first settlers on Redstone, near
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, who was also a native of the eastern
shore of Maryland, and had been reared near Elliott's
Mills. The children by this marriage were Sarah,
wife of Daniel S. Norton; Jacob M., who died
in 1835, and whose widow and children reside in Hardin county;
Rachel, wife of Rev. Elnathan Raymond; James S.; Mrs.
Mary Caswell; Elizabeth, Mrs. Bronson; Priscilla; and
Anthony.
Priscilla Banning was born May 1, 1807, and on
November 2, 1835, married Sewall Gray, of Massachusetts,
who was born April 9, 1806, and died of paralysis, at Mount
Vernon in May, 1862, without issue.
Source: 1803 History of Knox County, Ohio, Its
past and present - Publ. 1881 ~ Page 847 |
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GENERAL
HENRY B. BANNING, attorney at law, Cincinnati, Ohio. -
The subject of this sketch was, on his father's side, of
Maryland stock, and his mother's family were Virginia people.
Shortly before the Revolutionary war both his father's and his
mother's families emigrated from their native States and settled
near old Fort Redstone, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
They were pioneers in that then new century.
In 1812 the Rev. Anthony Banning,
a pioneer Methodist preacher, the grandfather of General
Banning, a pioneer Methodist preacher, the grandfather of
General Banning, settled on the banks of the
Kokosing, having traded a lot of iron, leather and saddlery for
an interest in the then small village (now prosperous town) of
Mt. Vernon. James S. Banning, the father of General
Banning, was then twelve years old. When he grew to
manhood he revisited his native town of Connellsville,
Pennsylvania, and married Eliza Blackstone, the
mother of Henry. the Banning family has been
actively and conspicuously identified with the growth and
prosperity of Knox county from its organization. In
religious they are al Protestants. His mother was one of
the principal organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of
which sect she was then a communicant, although at her death she
was a member of the denomination known as Christian. In
politics the Bannings were originally Jackson Democrats,
afterwards Whigs.
Henry B. Banning was the sixth child of is parents and
was born November 10, 1836. His childhood was passed at
Banning's Mills and on the old Banning farm at Clinton.
He first attended school at the Clinton school-house, in 1842,
when Father Mott was the teacher.
Among the children attending that school with him were
the Coopers, the Curtises, the Drakes, the
Lovages, the Johnsons, the Brookses, and
the Montises.
At the age of seventeen he commenced the study of law
in the office of Hosmer, Curtis Devin,
in Mt. Vernon, and was in due time admitted to the bar, and
began the practice. He became the partner of William
Dunbar, esq., the firm being maintained a large
practice, and was succeeding finely when the war began in 1861.
He was one of the first to volunteer to put down for
seventy-five thousand troops. He was at once elected
captain by his company, which afterwards became company B,
Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, a regiment which made one of the
most gallant records of the war.
He was afterward, upon the recommendation of General
Shields, appointed major of the Fifty-second Ohio
volunteer infantry, but never joined that command, being placed
in command of the Eighty-seventh, a three months' regiment.
At the expiration of the term of thsi latter regiment, he was
made lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio
volunteer infantry, and served as such until the spring of 1863,
when he was made a colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-first
Ohio.
The regiment was in a badly demoralized condition, but the new
colonel soon restored the esprit de corps, gained the
confidence of the officers and men, and by a thorough system of
discipline made it one of the best drilled regiments in the
service.
It took part in the Chickamauga and Atlanta
campaigns, showing such signal instances of gallantry in action
as to call fourth frequent mention in the official and
unofficial reports of its engagements. At the battle of
Chickamauga, in a bayonet charge, the regiment under lead of
Colonel Banning, captured the battle flat of the
Twenty-second Alabama regiment, the only Confederate colors
taken by our troops upon that bloody and disastrous field.
At the battle of Kennesaw Mountain an eye witness in describing
the fight said:
"Yesterday was a bloody day of the One Hundred and
Twenty-first Ohio, more bloody in numbers than Chickamauga.
More than one-third of her gallant sons were killed or wounded.
History's page will recall the deeds of her fallen heroes:
and the command of the gallants Banning: 'Lie down,, One
Hundred and Twenty-first, and don't retire one inch until I
order you,' when the storm of battle was at its highest, will
make for him an imperishable record, and the stubbornness with
which the regiment obeyed the order, unsupported, and exposed to
a galling fire from both flanks and front, of artillery and
small arms, for more than four hours, will be rehearsed in story
and in song in after years."
In the spring of 1865, after the fall of Atlanta, on
the recommendation of General Jeff. C. Davis, approved by
Major General George H. Thomas, General Banning was promoted
to be a brevet brigadier general, for gallant and meritorious
service during the Atlanta campaign.
After Atlanta had been taken, General Banning,
still in command of the One Hundred and Twenty-first,
accompanied General Thomas and the Army of the
Cumberland, and took a gallant and conspicuous part in the
fierce and decisive battle of Nashville.
In the spring of 1865 he was placed in command of the
One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio infantry, and served in the
valley of Virginia. He was commander of the post of
Alexandria, Virginia, until December, 1865, when he was mustered
out of the service with the rank of brevet major general, a rank
which his gallant conduct had won for him, enlisting as a
private in 1861.
In the fall of 1865, while he was still in the service,
the people of his home elected him to represent Knox county in
the general assembly. Stepping from the field to the
forum, he became a leading spirit in that legislative body.
He was made chairman of the house committee on military affairs.
He devoted his attention to the wants of the laboring classes,
and though his efforts much good was accomplished for them.
After the expiration of his term in the general assembly,
General Banning removed to Cincinnati, where he resumed the
practice of law, with his usual success.
In 1872 he was nominated by the Liberal Republican
convention as the candidate to represent the Second district in
Congress. His opponent was R. B. Hayes, now ex-President.
After an exciting canvass General Banning was returned by
a handsome majority. He was reelected twice to the same
office as a democrat, beating successively Job E. Stevenson
in 1874, and Stanley Mathews in 1876. In 1880 he
was again a candidate, but was defeated by a small majority.
General Branning, in all his relations in
life, has been a true representative of American manhood of the
highest type; modest in assuming responsibility, but when
assumed from faithful and energetic in the execution of a trust.
In all his career, both public and private, there is not an acct
can sully his name or stain his honor. A good won, a good
husband, a good father, a gallant soldier, a faithful and
industrious representative, in all a worthy citizen, he is one
of the sons of whom Knox corny can point with pride as a part of
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SIMON BECHTEL,
farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Berlin township
in 1854, he was married in 1871, to Mary Ellen Swank, who was
born in Pike township in 1856; they have one son living; Dora,
born in 1878, and Sylvia B. (deceased). Dr.
Bechtel has always been identified with this township;
he is a model farmer. |
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JOHN
BECK, farmer, Union township, post
office, Danville, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania,
Sept. 2, 1818, and lived there until 1829, when he came to Union
township, Knox county. In 1844, he was married to E. J.
McDonald, and settled on a portion of the old homestead
wehre he has since remained. They have the following
children, viz.: Sarah, born in 1846, Mary,
in 1848, Newton, in 1850, Theresa Ann, in 1853,
Eliza Ellen, in 1856, and Nancy Jane in 1860.
They have lost three children: Sarah, Grant, and
Rebecca. |
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SAMUEL
BEEMAN, of Brown township, chairman of the county board
of commissioners, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, June
6, 1820. He received his education in the common schools
of the day. His youth was spent on the farm of his father,
William Beeman. His father, with his family, came
to Ohio in 1820, settling in Wayne county, where he resided
until 1833, when he removed to Knox county, and located in
Jefferson township, remaining there up to the time of his death,
in 1872.
Samuel Beeman, the subject of this sketch, in
1855, married Miss Mary Withrow, daughter of Hon.
James Withrow, of Jefferson township, until whom five
children were born - three sons and two daughters - two of whom
are dead, one son and one daughter. The names of the
living children are, James, Mary A., and Chester F.
James married Miss Lovina Gardner of Brown township.
In 1851 Mr. Beeman engaged in the mercantile business of
Brownsville, this county, and conducted it successfully up to
1867, a period of sixteen years, when he gave up the business
and retired to the farm, where he and his family live a happy
and contented life, with all the comforts within their reach.
In 1875 Mr. Beeman was elected county commissioner, and
was in 1878 reelected to the same position. AS a merchant,
as a farmer, as a county official, and as a citizen, Mr.
Beeman ahs occupied a high and prominent position.
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ASHER
L. BEERS, stone mason, Fredericktown,
was born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1830, and married in
1852 to Mary E. Coleman, who was born in Knox county in
1832. They have the following children, viz.: Lawrence
A., born in 1856; Clio M., in 1862. Mr.
Beers is a stone mason by trade, and has worked at this
business over fourteen years. He is an active member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, being a very efficient worker,
especially in Sabbath-school. |
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JAMES
BELL, farmer, post office Bladensburgh,
is a native of Clay township, born here Sept. 20, 1839, and has
lived in Clay most of the time since his birth. He was
married to Sarah Paul, May 14, 1866, two children being
the fruits of this union, viz., Iva Olive, and Ottie
S. Mr. Bell is in very comfortable circumstances,
financially, and is a highly respected citizen. |
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JAMES
W. BELL, farmer, Pike township; post
office North Liberty; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
in 1848, and was married in 1874 to Bessie Price, who was
born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1850. They have one son,
Edward Austin, born in 1875. Mr. Bell came
to Knox county in 1875. He is a farmer by occupation.
He has been engaged in some interesting and lively debates in
this county - the first an Advent question, "Will the wicked be
eternally punished?" Affirmative, Mr. Bell and
Mr. Scarbrough; negative, Jesse Nichols and
William Romine. They had five judges. Universal
decision for affirmative. He was engaged in a second
debate with the Dunkard question, "Is the bread and wine the
Lord's supper." Affirmative, James W. Bell and
Levi Marshall; negative, Joseph Barnard and Mr.
Workman. Decision in favor of affirmative. |
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MORGAN
BELL, farmer, Morgan township; was
born in Morgan township, May 6, 1852. He is a son of
Benjamin Bell, of this township, and of whom mention is made
elsewhere. HE was raised on a farm and received a
common-school education. He was married to Miss Jennie
E. Horn, daughter of Jacob Horn, July 8, 1875. |
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JEREMIAH
BELT, farmer, Pike township; post
office Democracy; born in Monroe township in 1850, and was
married in 1875 to Permelia Fields, who was born in Pike
township in 1856. They had two children - Clara Belt,
in 1876; Permelia (deceased). Mrs. Permelia Belt
died in 1877. Mr. Belt was subsequently married to
Ellen Fields, who was born in Pike township in 1852.
They have one daughter, Izora Blanche, born in 1880.
Mr. Belt is a farmer of this township. |
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MRS.
SOPHIA BEST, Hilliar township, was born in Hilliar
township in 1823. She is the daughter of Henry and
Rhoda Houck, nee Jennings. Her parents were
among the first settlers of Hilliar township They came in
1811. She spent her youth at home. She was married
to William Best Nov. 10, 1846. They had a family of
five children, two of whom are living. Mr. Best
died Sept. 12, 1877.
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JAMES
BIGGS, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard, was
born in Jefferson township, Knox county. His mother died
when he was a small child, and was given to his uncle with whom
he lived fourteen years. He then went to Coshocton county,
Ohio, and learned the shoemaking trade, and followed it five
years. Then after two years of farming life he married and
settled on his present farm, where he has lived twenty-one
years. He has four children: Carrie, Maggie, Jackson
and Olive. His wife died in 1877, and was buried in
the Millwood cemetery.
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L. O.
BINGHAM, Middlebury township, mason, post office
Levering, born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1849, and was married
in 1874 to Amanda Gaumer, who was born in Knox
county in 1850. They have two children: Bessie O.,
born in 1876, and Henry L., born in 1877.
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JOHN H. BIRD
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MILTON
BIRD, farmer, Liberty township, born there Nov. 14, 1831,
and his the son of John and Keziah Bird, of whom mention
is made in this volume. He spent his youth on the farm and
attended the common schools, and has always followed farming as
his occupation. HE married Sarah M. Robertson,
daughter of Hezekiah K. Robertson, of Liberty township,
Nov., 1855, and has a family of five children, viz: Eva M.
(wife of Dr. W. Merriman, of Centreburgh, Ohio),
Elmer M., Flora M., Alfrata M., and Orville M.
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MORGAN
BIRD, Wayne township, farmer, postoffice, Fredericktown,
born in Morris township, this county, in 1849, and was married
in 1871 to Sarah McCutchen, who was born in Morrow county
in July 1849. They have the following children: Leroy,
born in 1872; Etta, 1875; Daisy, 1878, and
George, in 1880. Mr. Bird has always resided in
this county. He is one of hte intelligent and active
farmers of Wayne township.
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WILLIAM BIRD, JR.
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ARNOLD
BISHOP, Milford township, farmer, was born in Milford
township Feb. 1828; is the son of Gardner and Millie Bishop,
nee Young, who were natives of Rhode Island, and early
settlers of Milford township. Mention is made of the
Bishop settlement of Milford in the general history of the
township.
The subject of this notice was raised on a farm.
He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment,
Ohio volunteer infantry; was second sargeant of the company at
its organization, and about a year after commissioned orderly
which he held until he was discharged. He participated in
most of the battles in which his company and regiment was
engaged. He did not participate in the campaign from
Atlanta to Savannah, and was with it from that time until the
discharge of the company. After his return home he resumed
farming, at which he has since been engaged. Politically
he is a zealous Republican; is a good citizen; was married to
Miss Sarah A. McClelland December, 1854. They had two
children (one of whom died in infancy), Leulla, is the
wife of Aaron W. Gearhart.
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JOHN L.
BLACK, physician, Pike township; post office Democracy;
born in Union township, this county, in 1846, and was married in
1869 to Dora J. Sapp, who was born in this county in
1850. They have three children - Aurilla, Robert R.,
and Eva A. Dr. Black attended school at the
academy at Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, and studied
medicine with Dr. C. Sapp of Danville. He attended
lectures at Cleveland, in the medical department of the
University at Wooster, (formerly called Charity Hospital Medical
college). He graduated in the spring of 1869, and
commenced the practice of medicine the same year in Amity, where
he still remains.
Dr. Black has been successful as a
physician, has accumulated considerable property, and stands
high in his profession in this county. He was a soldier in
the late war, a member of company K, One Hundred and
Thirty-ninth regiment, independent volunteer infantry,
continuing in the service for about six months.
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WILLIAM
B. BLACK, farmer, Pike township; post office Corning,
Adams county, Iowa; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
Jan. 1, 1823, and was married to Margaret Cornell, who
was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1827. They had
eight children - Ransom b., John L., Mary E. (deceased),,
Alvin S., Sarah R., (deceased), Martha A., Irena
M., and Harriet.
Mr. Black came to Ohio with his parents at the age
of four years, who located in Union township, this county.
His father, George Black, remained on ten same firm they
purchased until his death. After marriage W. B.
Black located in Danville, and engaged in manufacturing
wagons and buggies for some years, after which he moved to Gann,
this county, and continued in the same business till 1869, when
he moved to Iowa, where he still resides, engaged in farming in
that State.
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WILBUR
BLACKBURN, farmer, Middlebury township; post office
Fredericktown; born in Middlebury township, July 19, 1842, and
was married Feb. 6, 1866, to Elvina Keyes, who was born
in Middlebury township, July 15, 1849. They have one
daughter, Effie, who was born Mar. 26, 1879. Mr.
W. Blackburn was a soldier in the war, a member of company
A, Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged
in the service over three years.
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WILLIAM
BLAKE deceased. The subject of this sketch was one
of Knox county's pioneers. He was born in Ireland in 1761,
migrated to America, located in New York, remained married to
Miss Hannah Sprague, born in Connecticut in 1778. they
moved to Clinton township, on the farm now owned by John Guy,
where they passed the remainder of their days. He died in
1848, aged eighty-seven years. His companion survived him
until 1850, when she died, aged seventy-two years and five
months.
they reared a family of seven children - Sarah,
Hannah, William, Mary, Richard, James and Emily J.
Two of the children, Hannah and Richard are
dead. When Mr. Blake came to Clinton township it
was comparatively a forest, and settlers were few and far apart.
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HUGH BLAKELY
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PETER
BLUE (deceased), was born near Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 1,
1825, and removed to Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio at an
early age, residing there until his demise, May 8, 1868.
He was married Aug. 2, 1849, to Mary McCamment, who was
born in Jackson township, Feb. 3, 1829. They had nine
children: Laura J., Henrietta E., Ella M. Alice E.,
Susan M., Wilbur M., James O., Emma B., and
Maggie L. Alice died Mar. 7, 1865; Henrietta died
May 21, 1879; Laura was married Sept. 16, 1869, to
Franklin Giffin, and resides in Coshocton county.
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EVERHART
BOGK, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was
born in Hesson, in Europe, in 1804. He lived in the old
country until 1822, when he came to New York. He came to
Maryland in 1832, and then went to California in 1860, and
remained there fourteen years. He then came to Knox
county. He came from California poor and worked on the
canal from Rosco to Rochester two years, made some money and
bought a farm. He married his first wife in the old
country, but she died the first year of their marriage. He
married his second wife in Knox county. He has five
children. His wife died in 1860.
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JOHN
BONAR, deceased, Morris township, was born in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and was married in 1826, to
Lucinda Cooper, who was born in 1805, in Washington county,
Pennsylvania. They had three children: Josiah, born
in 1827; Catharine, in 1829, and Belle, in 1837.
Mr. John Bonar died in 1860, in Morris township,
Knox county, Ohio. He emigrated with his parents, to
Knox county, in 1812, who located in Morris township, on a farm
that was all in timber, and the country was in its infancy.
He was a member of the Congregational church.
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JOSIAH
BONAR, Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon,
was born in 1826, in Morris township, Knox county, Ohio.
He was married in 1854, to Margaret A. Swan, who was born
in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1836. They had two
daughters: Anna B. and Ada. Ada died in
1865.
Mr. Bonar has always been identified with this
county, and owns one of the best improved farms in the county
with modern style buildings. He is a model and
enterprising farmer, and has done much to promote the general
interest of schools and public enterprise of the township.
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MOSES C.
BONE, Miler township, farmer, was born in the county of
Cornwall, England, about 1832, and was reared on a farm.
In 1852 he emigrated to America and worked at wagon making for
some time. He them worked by the month for some time until
he had earned enough to set himself up on a rented farm.
On account of failure in crops he lost all his previous
earnings; but being determined to succeed he struggled on until
he succeeded in being able to make a purchase of six acres of
land. A few years after, he purchased the farm of one
hundred and forty-seven acres on which he now resides, and
subsequently purchased adjoining land until he now has two
hundred and seventy-three acres, and is a one of the leading
farmers of Miller township. He farm is improved, having a
commodious, new, and substantial dwelling, with all other
necessary farm buidings. Mr. Bone is a leading
citizen, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities.
He was married March 18, 1858, to Miss Martha White, a
native of Pennsylvania. They had nine children, eight of
whom are living, viz.: John H., Lovilla C., Mary Jane, Frank
E., Alta Amelia, Charley C., Anna Dell, and Martha M.
Burnella has deceased.
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F. P. BONER,
Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in
Morrow county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in 1877 to
Amanda Cooper who was born in Knox county in 1855.
They have two children- Mary, born in 1878, and Olla,
born in 1880. Mr. Boner has been a resident of
Wayne township about fifteen years.
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MATTHEW
BONE, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown,
born in Knox county in 1831, and was married in 1854 to
Hannah Dalrymple, who was born in Knox county in
1831. They have one daughter, Avarilla, who still
resides with her parents. Mr. Boner is one of the
leading and enterprising men of this township, and one of the
official members of the Baptist church.
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SAMUEL
BOYD, of Fredericktown, deceased, was born in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; came to Knox county, Ohio, in
1864, and was married to Matilda Hastings who was born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1820. They had the
following children, viz.: Sarah J., now Mrs.
John W. Leedy; and William who married anna B.
Mane; they reside on the home place. Mr. Samuel
Boyd died in 1874. He was a farmer by occupation.
Mrs. Boyd still resides on the home place.
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EDWARD
BOYLE, dealer in tobacco, cigars, etc., was born in Mt.
Vernon, June 14, 1859, and was educated in the public schools.
When seventeen years of age he commenced selling papers as a
newsboy, which he followed until he was twenty years old, when
by economy and industry he had enough money to buy out J. M.
Robets' cigar star. He now carries a large stock of
cigars, tobacco, confectionery, daily papers, etc.
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BRICKER
FAMILY, Liberty township. Ludwig Bricker,
the grandfather of the original Brickers of Liberty
township, was a soldier of the Revolution. He entered two
thousand acres of land in what is now the northeast corner of
Liberty township. He was a resident of Washington county,
Pennsylvania, where he lived and died. Banning Norton,
in his History of Knox county, says that Lewis Bricker
came to Liberty township about 1810; but David Bricker
says he came prior to that time, as Lewis Bricker, his
brother, was born in this township in 1807. Ludwig
or Lewis Bricker induced his son, Peter, and
George Lewis, a relative of the family, to come out and
settle the land he had entered. Accordingly they brought
their families. They remained one night, by noon the next
day they were on their way back to Pennsylvania. They saw
many Indians, heard the wolves howling, and the owls hooting.
They agreed with their wives to let the land go to the devil and
they would return to Pennsylvania, as they thought no one would
or could ever live in the Owl Creek country. He however
induced some of his tribe to settle this land. He finally
got Peter, George, Jacob, David, Solomon, Lewis, Catharine,
Rachel, and Mrs. Lewis, to come here. From
these have descended the Brickers of this county, mostly.
David went to Morgan township. All the original
Brickers remained in this township but David.
The Bricker family became quite numerous,
and it is not our purpose to write or follow up the family of
each, but give such an outline of the family that it will be
preserved to their descendants. Among these is David
Bricker, grandson of Peter Bricker, and son of
Peter Bricker, one of the first of the family whom came to
Ohio. He was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Oct.
30, 1805. His parents came, April, 1806, to Ohio.
David was raised as were pioneer children, with but few
educational advantages; he, however, acquired sufficient to
transact business. On the twelfth day of October, 1830, he
married Sarah Beam. They had nine children, five
living - Malinda, Jacob, Wilson, Marshal, and Jerome.
Lewis P. Bricker, one of this family was born Nov. 5,
1807, in what is now Liberty township. It is said he was
the first white child born in this township. Dec. 6, 1832,
he was married to Sarah White. She was born July 7,
1809. They had a family of eight children - Abigail,
born Nov. 24, 1833, married Nelson Bidwell; Margaret E.,
born Jul. 6, 1836, married Nicholas Darling; Ann Rebecca,
born Apr. 19, 1839, married Mortimer Hayatt; Mary Sophia,
born June 5, 1841, married William Gray; Sarah E., born
Mar. 24, 1844, married John Creamer; Viola M., born July
21, 1846, married L. B. Lewis; Peter, born Dec. 28, 1848;
Alexander, born Nov. 29, 1852.
We might go on and follow up this family, tracing the
different branches, but it will suffice to say that our work
does not admit of so much space being occupied by one family.
The Bricker family are good citizens, industrious and
well-to-do people.
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DEMAS
BRICKER, Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in
Morgan township, Knox county, Mar. 7, 1828. He youth was
spent on the farm, and he attended the district schools and
spend about two years at an academy at Martinsburgh, where he
was a classmate of William Windom, Secretary of the
Treasury, from Minnesota. Mr. Bricker taught school
for several terms. His principal business, however, has
been farming and the raising of stock. He gave up farming
in 1875, and removed to his present home in Rich Hill. He
is a man who is well informed; has a remarkably retentive
memory; is a ready and interesting talker, and takes an interest
in teh questions of the day. He was married to Miss
Cinderella Miller April 1, 1857. They have a family of
two children.
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DOUGLASS
BRICKER, Wayne township, farmer, postoffice,
Fredericktown, born in Clinton township, Knox county, and was
married in 1874 to Hannah Brachling, who was born in
Ireland. They have three children - Fannie - born
in 1875; Edward, born in 1876; and Olive, born in
1878. Mr. Bricker came to Wayne township in 1877,
and is a farmer by occupation.
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HIRAM
BRICKER, Morgan township. The name Bricker
is of Dutch origin. Tradition says there were three
brothers came from Europe, but at what date is not exactly
known. They settled in Maryland. One of the branches
of the famly went to eastern Pennsylvania, wehre quite a
numerous progeny sprang up; and subsequently a number of their
descendants settled in Richland county, Ohio, near Shelby.
Lewis, or Ludwig Bricker, the paternal grandfather
of Hiram Bricker, moved from Maryland to western
Pennsylvania shortly after the Revolutionary war, in which he
was a soldier. He raised a large family.
Some time in the early part of 1800 he came to what is
now Liberty township, Knox county, and located two thousand
acres of land, and subsequently induced a number of his children
to become settlers on it, although he never moved upon it.
David Bricker, father of Hiram, and son
of Peter, was born in Pennsylvania in 1799. He
married Indiana Cox, in 1818, who was born Mar. 8, 1798,
and is yet living. Soon after their marriage they came to
Liberty township, but did not remain long. About 1821 they
located and settled on the farm in Morgan township, which he
cleared up, and became one of the well-to-do citizens of the
community. He died September 14, 1878, in Utica, where he
had resided some time prior to his decease. By his
marriage they had six children, viz: Elizabeth
(deceased); she was the wife of Jesse Bell; Christopher
and Emeline (deceased); Anna B., wife of Samuel
Elliott; Hiram and Demas are living.
Hiram was raised on the farm, was educated at
the common schools, and has farmed and dealt in stock as his
occupation. In April, 1853, he moved to Licking county,
where he remained for twenty-years. He was lieutenant of
company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth regiment Ohio National
guard, and subsequently was captain of the same. February
17, 1853, he married Mellissa Bell, daughter of Isaac
Bell, of Morgan township. They had a family of twelve
children, viz: David A., Isaac, (deceased when about
seven years old), Catharine, (wife of R. McWilliams),
Anna B., Elizabeth, (wife of Hugh Harrison), Jennie,
James F., Emeline, Cary F., Laura, Charley C., and Nellie
M. Mr. Bricker is well informed upon general matters,
is a good farmer, and one of the substantial men of Morgan
township.
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MARSHALL
BRICKER, Milford township, thresher, son of David
Bricker, a pioneer of Liberty township. He was born
June 13, 1844, was raised on a farm, and remained at home until
he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first
regiment, Ohio volunteer Infantry. He participated in the
engagements at Perryville Duck river, and Franklin, after which
he taken sick and was in the hospital for some time. He
spent about eleven months at Indianapolis. He endeavored,
with several others, to return to his retirement, but was
retained. After his discharge he returned home, and has
been engaged at farming and running a separator. Mr.
Bricker is social and pleasant in his manners, and has the
reputation of a good fellow. He married Mrs. Amanda
Lewis, of Liberty township, Nov. 29, 1866, and they have one
child - Clara, born Apr. 10, 1868.
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WILLIAM
M. BRICKER. Mr. Bricker was born in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 12, 1844. When about
nine years old his parents emigrated to Ohio and located in
Wayne county, where he resided until Jan. 26, 1880. His
first business was in the dry goods and grocery line, under the
firm name of Paul Bricker & Co. In this he remained
two years, when he sold out his interest and continued as a
salesman in the same house for one year more. He then
engaged in the hotel business, and became proprietor of the
American house, in Shreve, Wayne county, in which he continued
four years. In January, 1880, he removed to Mt. Vernon,
and became proprietor of the Philo House, in which he did a
successful business for one eyar, since which he has been
engaged with a nursery, selling all kinds of fruit and
ornamental trees.
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SYLVANUS
P. BROOKS, Wayne township (deceased), was born in
Timpkins county, New York, June 15, 1817, and was married to
Amarilla Hewett. They had five children, viz:
Phylena (deceased), Cyrena Jane, Cyrus Hewett,
John Wesley, and Sarah Amarilla. Mrs Amarilla
Brooks died Apr. 8, 1867. He was married in 1841 to
Mary Angeline Cocharan, who was born in Newark, Ohio.
Their children are: Squire Sylvanus, born Apr. 5, 1861;
William Emulus, Sept. 14, 1866; Carrie, Oct. 15,
1868; Waitie; Orphy; Rosa, June 24, 1873; Streby Deso,
Nov. 28, 1875. Sylvanus P. died in Liberty
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JOSEPH C.
BROWN, farmer, Pleasant township, was born in Cork
county, Ireland in 1827, where he grew to manhood. In 1856
he emigrated to America and located in Clermont county, Ohio.
In 1861 he came to Knox county, Ohio, where he married Miss
Mary Clark, of College township, March 31st of same year.
They returned to Clermont county, where they lived a year, then,
in 1862, they moved to this county and located for three years
in College township, and in 1865 he purchased and moved on the
farm in Pleasant township where they are now living. They
have a family of seven children, three sons and four
daughters. He has followed farming as his vocation.
Miss Clark was born in county Cork, Ireland, November 23,
1833, daughter of Thomas and Mary Clark. She
emigrated to America in 1852; lived in Hamilton county, Ohio,
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ELIZABETH
OGLESBY BYERS, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, on Feb. 11, 1788, and died at her late residence,
corner of Gay and Vine streets, Wednesday morning, Aug. 4, 1880,
aged ninety-two years five months and twenty-four days.
Her husband, the late Samuel Byers, died in 1832.
Her son, Joseph M. Byers, came to Ohio, and located in
Newark, in 1841, and in 1842 went back to Pennsylvania and
brought his mother to his Ohio home. In 1854 the family
came to Mt. Vernon, and located in the house at the corner of
Gay and Vine Streets, where they have remained up to the present
time. The deceased, was the mother of seven children.
Four children, Mr. Joseph M. Byers, of this city,
Mr. James D. Byers and Mr. John H. Byers, both of
California, and Miss Margaret Byers, of this city,
survive her. Some sixty years ago Mrs. Byers
associated herself with the Presbyterian church, and up to 1838
retained her membership with that organization, but on account
of being removed from church privileges by a change of
residence, she joined the Methodist Episcopal church by letter,
and remained a member to the close of her life. Besides
her four surviving children, deceased leaves sixteen
grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren, with a large
circle of friends and acquaintances to mourn her departure.
An intimate acquaintance with Mother Byers for nearly
thirty-five years enables the writer to say that the beauty of a
blameless life and been shown in her every act, as a wife, as a
mourning widow, and as a mother mourning for the loss of her
children; and the cheerfulness with which she patiently waited
for long years the call to meet those members of her family who
had gone before her, evidenced a life free from guile.
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her hands, who riseth while it is night, and giveth meat to her
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