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ELIAS
CAIN, deceased - He was born in Harrison county,
Virginia, in 1798. He came to Ohio in 1802, and located in
Muskingum County. He remained there until 1810. He
then came to Knox county; he was married to Ann Britten,
who was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1802. They had
five children, namely, John, James, Nancy Ann, Sarah E.,
and R. W. Mrs. Cain died in 1859. Mr. Cain
afterward married Margaret Latta, who was born in Loudoun
county, Virginia, in 1822. Mr. Cain was a pioneer of this
county. He left his farm and moved to Amity in 1823.
He died at his residence Nov. 16, 1880.
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JOHN CAIN,
Pike township, shoemaker, post office, Democracy, was born in
Amity in 1823, and married in 1858 to Sarah E. Kesler,
who was born in Columbus in 1833. They had four children,
viz: Elias (deceased) Francis S., Elias H.,
and Allen. Mr. Cain has been engaged in
manufacturing of boots and shoes for many years in Amity.
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JAMES
CAMPBELL, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Butler
township Mar. 14, 1818. His parents, David and Mariah
Campbell, nee Vance, were natives of Virginia,
and came to Ohio prior to 1817, but at what time is not
definitely known. Mr. Campbell came to Butler
township some time before he was married, and entered a tract of
land, and returned to Virginia where he married Miss
Vance, and then returned to his land. He lived for
some time in a wagon until he roofed his log house. He
resided there until in a wagon until he roofed his log house.
He resided there until the spring of 1824, when he moved to
Morgan township, where he purchased the farm on which John
Campbell yet resides, and where he died in 1825. His
widow married Samuel Coe, and has deceased. They
had a Mrs. Buckingham, and Margaret, wife of
Rev. Benjamin Tulloss.
The subject of this notice was raised on a farm and
received a common school education. He has always followed
farming as his chief occupation, and has been successful in
acquiring considerable of this world's goods. He is an
upright man, a lose observer, and well informed, and a leading
member of the Baptist church. Jan. 29, 1844, he married
Miss Eliza A. Sperry, daughter of Jacob and Mary Sperry.
They have a family of seven children, viz: David P.,
of Utica, Ohio; Mary A., wife of E. W. Bell;
Mattie M., wife of Rev. W. E. Stevens, of Dayton,
Ohio; Elizabeth J., wife of W. H. Sellers; H.
S., E. J., and Clyde E.
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JOHN
CAMPBELL, Miller township, farmer, was born in Washington
township, Licking county, Feb. 28, 1815. His father was a
native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he married
Mary McDonald. Shortly after their marriage they came
to Ohio and settled in Washington township, Licking county,
Ohio, where they lived and died.
The subject of this notice was born on the farm and
continued to reside on it until he moved to Miller township,
where he has since resided on the farm situated on the southeast
corner of the township. He is an estimable citizen, and a
consistent member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. He
is one of the leading farmers of Miller township. Honest
and conscientious in his dealings, and ever ready to lend a
helping hand to the poor. In 1844 he married Margaret
Magill, a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania.
They had a family of eight children; three of whom are living,
viz: William G. and Joseph O. R., druggists
in Kansas city, Missouri; William Boyd, at home.
James R., served three years in the One Hundred and
Twenty-fifty regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He died at
home.
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JOHN
CAMPBELL, farmer, was born in Butler township in Nov.
1817, and was married to Phebe Babcock January, 1841.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbel have had no children, but their
niece, Miss Marietta Campbell, resides with them.
Although quite young, Miss Campbell is an accomplished
artist, and has painted many very fine pictures.
Politically, Mr. Campbell is a Republican, and a much
esteemed citizen.
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RICHARD
CAMPBELL, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood,
born in Virginia, Sept. 10, 1814; emigrated with his parents to
Ohio in 1816, and settled in Butler township. He lived
there until 1838, when he bought a farm. In 1841 he was
married to Sarah A. Huddle, and settled on his farm in
Union township, where he still remains.
He had four children, viz? John, who was
born Nov. 3, 1855, and manages the farm for his father.
The other three children have deceased. John
married Miss Siza Lyle, in 1877, and located on the farm.
Richard Campbell's father died in 1870, and his mother
three months previous. They had ten children, all living
except Abner and Elizabeth G.
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ROBERT
CARSON, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon;
born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, came to Ohio
with his parents in infancy, and was married in 1856 to Sarah
A. Masteller, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1825.
They have one son, William Carson, who was born Nov. 25,
1862. Mr. Carson resided in Coshocton till he was
twenty-three years old, then came to Liberty township, and in
1869 moved to Wayne township. He owns a well improved farm
with good buildings.
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JACOB CLAYTON, deceased,
died at his late residence in Mt.
Vernon, Feb. 1, 1881, aged sixty years. The deceased was a native of
Maryland, was
born at Rising Sun, in that State on the twenty-ninth of December, 1821. He came to Ohio in 18151, and settled in this city, where he has resided ever
sine.
Mr. Clayton was at his work as usual
Monday, in the carpenter shop of his brother-in-law,
Mr. W. B. Bounds. He went home after work, and
complained some of the pain about the heart, and at fifteen minutes of twelve
o’clock died, it is suppose, of heart disease.
He was a kind neighbor, a good citizen, and an industrious man. He was a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and held a certificate of membership in the Knights Templar and
Masonic Mutual Aid association of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Source: History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its
Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers,
1881 - Page 628
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ANDREW J. CLOW, Pike township, farmer,
post office North Liberty, born in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1828, and was married
in 1854 to Mary Rhodes, who was born
in Perry county, Ohio, in 1831. They have
three children, Ellen, S., born in 1858; Joseph C., in
1865; Gertrude M., in 1869. Mr. Clow came to this county in 1867, located in Brown township, and remained there for
eighteen months, then removed to Pike township.
In 1862, Mr. Clow, fell from a
load of hay, and after falling was kicked by a horse in the team, and has not
been able to do any labor since. He has
suffered a great deal, but is enduring it patiently; is a good citizen, and
highly respected.
Source:
History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio
by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page 628 |
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JAMES CLUTTER, Milford township, farmer, born in Washington
county, Pennsylvania,
Sept. 29, 1806. In 1818 he came to Morgan
township, with his parents, Samuel and
Rachel, nee
Denman.
His paternal grandfather,
William Clutter, was a native of Germany,
and some time during the eighteenth century emigrated to New Jersey with his parents, and served in the war of the
Revolution. He married in
New Jersey and died there. They had three children, two of whom grew
up: Samuel and
Jane, the last of whom married
Mr. Karl, and remained in
New Jersey.
Samuel married
Rachel Denman, and about the year
1800 moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1818,
when he emigrated to Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, with the family, and
both died there. They had ten children,
viz: Mary, widow of Moses
McCollum, who resides in Washington county,
Pennsylvania; William, a resident of
Marion county, Ohio; Joseph,
deceased; Jane (deceased), married
Thomas Harris; John, a resident of
Morgan township; James, the subject
of this sketch; Electa (deceased),
married Joseph Green; David
(deceased); Cornelia (deceased),
married to John Miller, of Morgan
township; and Samuel J., living in
Kansas.
The subject of this notice remained
in Morgan township until he was about twenty-eight years of age. He then went to Bennington township,
Licking county, thence to Clay township, Knox county, and thence to Hartford
township, Licking county, and in 1865 he removed to his present farm in Milford
township. His first wife was
Elizabeth Larason, daughter of
Sylvester Larason, to whom he was
married Nov. 12, 1831. They had six
children.
Orlando, two infants, Sylvester W., and
Elizabeth have deceased. Amanda, wife of William Reynolds, resides in
Jasper county, Iowa. His wife died July 21, 1841. He was married to
Rhoda Myers Aug. 18, 1842, who was born Aug. 3, 1816, in Licking county. They had nine children, eight of whom are
living:
Troubadour, born July 12, 1845, in Iowa;
Emanuel, Dec. 3, 1846, in Iowa;
William O. and James A., twins, born Aug. 9, 1848; Orilla Z., Dec. 7, 1850; Mary E., July 23,
1852, died June 22, 1855; Phila, Oct.
4, 1856; Mancelecta, Nov. 17, 1857;
Art, Sept. 10, 1859.
Mr. Clutter’s first purchase of land
was a tract of one hundred and four acres in
Bennington
township, on which he paid two hundred and seventy-five dollars, all he had. He now owns a comfortable home and has
gained a competency.
Source: History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and
Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page
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JOHN CLUTTER,
Morgan township, farmer, born in Washington
county, Pennsylvania,
Sept. 13, 1804. The name
Clutter is German, but at what time
the ancestors emigrated to
America
is not known. The father of the
subject of this sketch was born in New
Jersey; his parents dying a few years after his birth,
he was raised by his uncle.
Samuel Clutter, the father of the
subject of this notice, married Rachel
Denman in New Jersey, and a few years after
emigrated to Washington
county, Pennsylvania,
where he remained, being engaged in farming, until April, 1818, when he came to
Knox county, and located near the centre of Morgan township. He lived here until 1853, when he
died, aged eighty-eight years and seven months.
His wife died in 1855, aged about eighty years. They had a family of ten children. The living are
Mary McCollum, living in
Washington county,
Pennsylvania; William, a
farmer of Marion county, Ohio;
John James, of
Milford
township, and Samuel Jackson of
Kansas.
The deceased are Joseph, Jane, Eclecta, David B., and Cornelia.
Mr. Clutter was reared on a farm, and
has continued farming all his life.
He was twice married, his first wife being
Sarah Sellers, to whom he was married
in 1831. They had two children, viz:
Elvira, now the wife of
Daniel Newton, of Wood county;
Sarah Jane married
David Noffsinger, and died in Iowa. His first wife
dying, he in 1835 married Miss Rachel Marlin, a native of Morgan township.
They had twelve children, viz: Elesta,
married to William Ewart, has deceased; Zebina Ann, married
to William Ewart, has deceased;
Van Buren, deceased;
Waldon D.;
Lucy, married to John Euart, of Morgan township;
Samuel Judson, deceased;
John A.; Hugh, of Clay township;
Nancy Alice; Nora Belle, married to
David Bell, and
William O.
Mr. Clutter is a member of the
Baptist church, and has the respect and esteem of the community.
Source: History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past
and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 -
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SAMUEL CLUTTER, Morgan township,
farmer, was born in Knox county, Jan. 3, 1827.
His father, William Clutter, was born in New Jersey
in 1798, moved to Washington county,
Pennsylvania, and in 1817 to Ohio. He married
Miss Eda McKeown. They had ten children, seven of whom are
yet living.
Samuel was reared on a farm. He married
Miss Ann Eliza, daughter of
Jonathan Brown, in March, 1853, a
pioneer of whom mention is made. She was
born in March, 1833, in Morgan township.
They had six children, viz: Mary A.,
wife of Lewis C. Rose,
Davis county, Kansas;
Anis and
Alice (twins);
Alice died when four years old;
Anis married
Abram Mason, and resides in Marion
county, Ohio;
William J., and
David.
Mr. and Mrs. Clutter reside on
the old homestead, where Jonathan Brown,
father of Mrs. Clutter, first
settled.
Source: History of Knox Co., Ohio, Its Past and
Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers, 1881 - Page
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SAMUEL COCANOWER, Fredericktown, foreman in planning
mills, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, emigrated with his
parents to this county when a boy and was married in 1868, to
Rachel Pinkley, who was born in this
county in 1842. They have one
daughter, Mary Ellen, born in 1869. He is foreman in the planning mills
of S. S. Tuttle & Co., in
Fredericktown.
Source: History of Knox Co., Ohio,
Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers,
1881 - Page 628
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MATTHEW COCHRAN,
residence West High street,
Mt. Vernon.
Mr. Cochran was born Apr. 8, 1794, in
Straven, Scotland, and in 1798 his parents emigrated to America and located in Philadelphia, where they resided until 1810,and during which
Mr. Cochran received his education,
and learned the baking business. In
the year 1814 he went to Baltimore, where he
worked at his trade about one and a half years, when he emigrated to
Ohio and located in Liberty
township, five miles southwest of Mt.
Vernon, in the year 1816. He here
took a squatter’s claim in the woods, and erected himself a cabin and commenced
to fell the forest. He resided here
about seven years, during which he cleared up about twenty acres, and after
which he moved about one mile and erected another cabin and commenced a second
time in the woods; and by indomitable energy and perseverance he succeeded in
changing the gigantic and unbroken forest into beautiful and productive fields,
which yielded him an abundant recompense for his labors, and he was thereby
enabled to change his cabin for better improvements. HE has an excellent farm house and
barn and all the necessary out buildings, a good orchard, and one hundred and
and fifty acres of finely improved fields, and fifty acres of excellent
timber. The timber of this farm was
unusually good. He resided on the
farm place until 1869, when he felt that he had fought the good fight as a
pioneer and farmer, and that declining years would compel him to resign his
place to younger hands. He then came
to Mt. Vernon, and located
on West Vine street,
where he resided until Apr., 1876.
He then came to his present location on
West High street, where, in his eighty-s8ixth year,
he is enjoying the fruits of his labors and the comforts of a pleasant home.
Mr. Cochran has been twice married. He was first married to
Nancy Slemmons, by whom he had had
three children, one of whom is living – Alexander (deceased), John S., who resides on and
manages the home farm, and James (deceased). His second wife was
Mary E. Brown, daughter of
Matthias Brown, of
New York city, who is now his companion in his declining years.
Source: History of Knox Co., Ohio,
Its Past and Present – Publ. Mt. Vernon, Ohio by A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers,
1881 - Page 628
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DANIEL
CONGER, deceased, Wayne township born
in New Jersey, Dec. 24, 1787, and was married to Mary Burch,
who was born in Brooke county, Virginia, in May 1802. They
had the following children: Elizabeth, born Oct.
28, 1826; Catharine, Jan. 8, 1828; Jane, Oct. 31,
1829; Mary D., Jan. 31, 1832; Daniel L., Sep. 27,
1833; Hannah, Dec. 27, 1835; Martha E., ____,
Mr. Daniel Conger died Nov. 4, 1845, and Catharine,
Sept. 28, 1835. They came to Knox county in 1825.
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JOHN
CONKEL, farmer, Howard township, post
office, Howard. He was born June 6, 1844 in Union
township. In 1866 he was married to Miss Charlotte
Hammon and settled on the farm where he now resides.
They had three children, Laura, Charles and Birchfield.
His father was born in Pennsylvania and came to
Ohio at an early day. His mother came from the old
country. His father has been dead twenty-five years.
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SAMUEL
N. COOK,
painter, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne county, Ohio in 1846
and was married in 1872, to Mary E. Johnston, who was
born in 1849. He was a soldier in the late war, in the
Ninth Ohio volunteer cavalry, and served three years.
Mr. Cook received a liberal education. He has been
correspondent for several popular daily newspapers, such as the
Cincinnati Times-Star, New York
Democratic News, and Mt. Vernon Republican. He
has written and produced a number of dramatic pieces. The
Mayor's Daughter, has been rendered publicly in this city, and
highly commented and applauded. Two other of his
productions, entitled The Wanderers Return, and Paul Black,
(a war drama), are popular. Mr. Cook is engaged in
the carriage factory of Stephens & Scott, as
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COX,
DAVID JAMES,
farmer, Pike township, poast office Democracy; was born in
Richland county, in 1854, and was married Aug. 2, 1875, to
Elizabeth Shultz, who was born in this county.
When Mr. Cox was one year old his parents moved to
Fayette county, Illinois, where they remained six years, then
returned to Knox county, Brown township. In 1879 David Cox
located in Amity. He owns a pleasant home, and is a good
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CRAFT,
ALBERT L., millwright,
Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown; born in Morris
township, February 1, 1844, and was married December 30, 1785,
to Susannah Zolman, who was born in Morris
township, December 14, 1845. They have two children -
Levi, born Oct. 12, 1876; and Carrie born June 14,
1878.
Mr. Craft is one of the members of the
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CRAFT,
HEADLY, MILLER,
Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown; was born in
Morris township in 1841, and was married in 1868 to Ellen
Baxter, who was born in Middlebury township, in 1846.
They have two sons - Gaylord, born July 22, 1872; and
William, April 11, 1877.
Mr. Craft engaged in the milling business
in 1867 with John Boggs, and is still engaged in
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ALEXANDER
CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer,
post office, Howard, was born September 11, 1845. His father
came from Pennsylvania in 1806, and commenced life on the old
farm. He died September 16, 1854. His mother still remains on
the old farm. She is seventy-four years of age. Alexander
Critchfield was married to Matilda Humbert
January 12, 1867. They have one child - Emma born August
22, 1868. Alexander Critchfield enlisted in the
One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in
1863. He went from Mt. Vernon to Chattanooga and remained at
this point until the army started on the Atlanta campaign. After
this he went to Florence, Alabama, as a scout, then to
Gailesville and to Rome, Georgia, then to Kingston, and remained
there until the army went with Sherman to the sea. From there
they went through North and South Carolina, then to Richmond,
Virginia, then to Alexandria, and from there to Louisville,
Kentucky, and were there mustered out of the United States
service. They then went to Camp Denison and were mustered out of
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BENJAMIN
CRITCHFIELD, deceased, Howard
township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 18,
1797. He came to Knox county in about 187, settling in
this township, near where the village of Howard is now located.
He was married September 11, 1820, to Miss Mary Welker.
Their children were: Sabry, born May 3, 1822;
Horace, January 9, 1824; Calvin, August 2, 1827;
Marvin, January 20, 1829; Christie Ann, April 28,
1833; Nathaniel, February 25, 1835; Mary, April
27, 1838, and Roland, March 24, 1840. Mary
died Marcy 9, 1847. Benjamin Critchfield died
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CHARLES
CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer,
post office, Howard, was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, moved to
Knox county in 1806, and settled on what is now known as the
Upper Prairie Indian lands, in Union township, near Owl creek.
He remained with his father at this place until he was
twenty-three years of age. He was married in 1829 and
moved to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he remained seventeen
years, and then removed to Knox county, and settled on the old
homestead until his death, March 23, 1865. The day of his
burial was his eighty-fifth birthday.
Charles Critchfield buried his first wife in
Union township in 1848 and married again in 1850. He had
three children by his first wife. Amanda, who died
in 1848 in her seventeenth year; George, who moved to
California, and Charles Edward, for some time a probate
judge. He had three children by his second marriage -
Albert Judson ( who died September 15, 1851, in his sixth
year) and Ellen, who still remains at home. |
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CHARLES
EDWARDS CRITCHFIELD,
lawyer and probate judge, Mt. Vernon, was born in Coshocton
county, Ohio, November 25, 1836. He spent his youthful
days on a farm and teaching school. When seventeen years
of age he went to California via Nicaraugua, and remained there
seven years. He was engaged in mining about two years, and
two years teaching, and three years on a ranche near San Jose.
He returned to Ohio and settled in Mt. Vernon in March, 1862,
and commenced reading law with Major W. R. Sapp, and read law
two years. He was admitted to the bar in 1864. He
was in practice about four years. In 1869 he was elected
probate judge on the Democratic ticket by a majority of one
hundred and seventy-four, although the county was Republican.
He was reelected in 1872. His majority was four hundred
and twenty-five. He served to February, 1876. He
then went to the practice of the law, and was thus engaged until
the fall of 1878, when he was again elected probate judge
by a majority of nine hundred, and which office he now holds.
He was married to Miss Amanda Vincent, October, 2, 1862, by whom
he had two children - a son and a daughter. |
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HARRIS
CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer,
post office, Howard, was born in Howard township, Knox county,
January 9, 1820. He married in 1851, and commenced
business on his farm in Harrison township, where he lived
fourteen years. On the fourth of April, 1868, he moved to
the farm which he now owns. They have four children -
Dora, Emma, Ellen, and Rosa. Dora was married to
Clark Stow, December 19, 1872; Ellen to
Legrand Britton, August 24, 1876; Emma to O. C.
Farmer, January 1, 1879; Rosa to W. T. Horn,
January 1, 1880. |
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LEWIS
CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer,
post office Howard. He was born August 17, 1812, in Howard
township. In 1827 he moved to Brown township, remained
there five years and then removed to Howard township. In
1838 he was married to Mary Jane Dawson and
immediately settled on his present home, where he has lived
forty-two years. They had the following children:
Joseph, John Eleanor, and Mary Jane.
Joseph enlisted in the Sixty-fifth regiment, O.
V. I., in 1861, for three years; served his time, then
reenlisted and was known as one of the old veterans. At
the close of the late war he went to Texas with a number of
other members of the Sixty-fifth regiment, remained there until
the following January when he received an honorable discharge.
John married Mary E. Hammond in March,
1864, and settled in Union township on a farm only a short
distance from the old home. They have two children,
Lulu and Keturah.
Eleanor married M. Welch in 1868 and moved
to a farm near Howard township. They had two children,
Lewis and Charles.
Mary Jane married Thornton Whitworth in
1869, and settled in Howard township. They have two
children, Abraham and Sarah E.
Mr. Lewis Critchfield has lived in Howard township
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MARTIN
CRITCHFIELD, Howard township, farmer,
post office, Howard, was born in Howard township, March 10,
1840. He remained at home until 1868, when he went to
Union township and worked on a farm. He was married to
Mary Bradish July 4, 1870, and came to Howard township,
where he has remained. His business has been farming, the
greater part of the time. |
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CROWELL,
FRED S.,
photographer, Ward's block, corner Main and Vine streets, Mt.
Vernon. Mr. Crowell was born April 26, 1844, in
Huron county, Ohio, where he resided until 1856, when his
parents came with their family to Mt. Vernon. His first
Business engagement was with Moses White,
bookseller, and stationer, as salesman, with whom he continued
two years. He then engaged with Hyde & Young,
jewelers, where he remained two years, when he engaged in the
photograph business in Payne's gallery, where he worked one
year. He then went to Norwalk and engaged with Mr.
Benham, with whom he remained only a short time. He
went into Week's gallery at Sandusky city and operated there
some eighteen months. In the galleries at Cleveland, and
at Erie, Pennsylvania, where he operated a short time in each
city. In 1866 Mr. Crowell went to
Fredericktown and bought a gallery there, and run it for three
years. In 1869 he sold out and came to Mt. Vernon and
opened out an establishment, which he still continues. He
carries a stock of about five thousand dollars, consisting of a
general supply of photo material, picture frames, art goods and
cards. His establishment is the largest in the city, and
the past productions of this gallery establishes the abilities
of Mr. Crowell as an artist, and assures all
patrons of obtaining first-class work. |
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CRUNKELTON,
M. L., Pike
township, retired, post office, North Liberty, born in Franklin
county, Pennsylvania, in 1816, and came to Ohio when seven years
of age. He was married in 1845 to Caroline Roch,
who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1819. They had three
children: Daniel (deceased), born in 1846,
Sophia, in 1849, and James in 1851.
Mrs. Caroline Crunkelton died in Knox
county, Ohio, in September, 1879.
Mr. Crunkelton came to Knox in 1854. He is
a farmer by occupation, has always been in that business until
his recent retirement. |
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CRUNKELTON,
JAMES, Pike township; farmer; post
office, North Liberty; born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1851, was
married in 1870, to Catharine L. Allen, who was born in
Richland county in 1851. They have four children:
Curtis O., born in 1873; Harry L., in 1876; Lucinda
E., in 1878, and Daniel, in 1880. They came to
this county in 1854, and have lived here since that time. |
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CULBERTSON,
WILLIAM CRAIG,
Mt. Vernon, attorney, was born in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, January 1, 1847. He spent his youth on the
farm, and attending the schools of the district during the
winter. He is the second son of Franklin and Narcissa
Culbertson nee Craig. In 1865 he attended
the academy at Elder's ridge for two years and then in 1867 he
entered the junior class in Washington and Jefferson college at
Cannonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, from which college
he graduated in the fall of 1869. He came to Wooster,
Ohio, and entered the law office of General Aquilla Wiley.
He read law until 1871, when he was admitted to the bar in the
fall of that year. In January, 1872, Mr. Culbertson came
to Mt. Vernon, and formed a partnership with Mr. McClellan
under the firm name of McClellan & Culbertson, which firm
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CULP,
ROWLAND D.,
farmer, is a native of Clay, was born September 9, 1848, and has
lived on the farm of his birth ever since. He was married
to Miss Mollie F. Harrington, of Martinsburgh, February
8, 1872. Mr. Culp engaged in farming for several
years, but owning to ill health he procured a printing press and
material, and is engaged in the job and card printing business
at present. |
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