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CALVIN D. SAPP,
M.D., deceased; son of Joseph and Drusilla Sapp,
was born near Danville, this county, on the
twenty-first day of December, 1821. He was educated at
Kenyon College. In 1842 he commenced the study of
medicine in Danville with Dr. Houtz. He read
one year there and then went to Loudonville, Ashland county,
where he completed his course with Drs. Fuller and
Whitney.
In the winter of 1846-7 he
attended his first course of lectures in Cleveland. He
then engaged in the practice of medicine, and continued to
practice twenty-three years, and in the winter of 1869-70 he
graduated in the Cleveland Medical college. Mar. 4,
1847, he married Miss Sarah B. Baker, born near
Danville, this county, June, 1835, and settled in
Loudonville. In the spring of 1847 he became a partner
of Dr. Fuller in the practice of medicine, and
remained as such about four years, when their partnership
ceased.
In the spring of 1851, leaving his wife at home, Dr.
Sapp went to California, where he continued in his
profession. He located first in Sacramento City, and
remained about six months; from thence to Weaverville, where
he remained nine months; then went to Portland, Oregon,
where he remained about six months. In 1852 he
returned to San Francisco and remained there about nine
months. In 1853 he went aboard a merchant vessel, as
physician and surgeon, bound for Philadelphia by way of
China, East and West Indies, reaching Philadelphia in the
fall of 1853; and from thence he returned home to his
family.
In the spring of 1854 he commenced the practice of
medicine in Danville, and continued until 1870, when he
moved to Gambier, where he resided until his death. He
left a family of five children - Clinton E., Laura C.,
Dora, Victoria and Lucetta. His son,
Clinton E., was educated at Gambier, read medicine with
his father, attended his first term of lectures at
Cleveland, and graduated at Cincinnati in the Ohio Medical
college in the winter of 1874-5, and is a partner of his
father's in the practice of medicine at Gambier.
Dr. Sapp died on Sunday, Feb. 27, 1881.
His life was closely devoted to his profession, in which he
became eminently successful.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 794) |
GEORGE SAPP,
a member of an honored pioneer family of the Buckeye state,
was born on the farm on which he now resides on the 10th of
April, 1826. His grandfather, George Sapp, was
a native of Maryland, but became one of the early pioneers
of Knox county. He built the first Catholic church in
Union township, also donating the ground upon which it was
erected and the St. Luke's cemetery lot The church was
a small one-room log building. He reached the
eighty-fifth milestone on the journey of life, and
throughout his long and useful career he so lived as to win
and retain the respect and esteem of his fellow men.
Levi Sapp, his son and the father of our subject,
also claimed Maryland as the state of his nativity, but when
a babe he was brought by his parents to this state, his
mother, who made the journey on horseback, carrying him in a
sack, while the father walked and led the horse. He
was reared to the quiet pursuits of the farm, and his
marriage was celebrated in Somerset, Ohio, to which place he
rode on horseback, and after his marriage he located on the
farm on which his son George now resides, where he
made his home for a number of years. In 1882 he
removed to Mount Vernon, and there spent his remaining days,
passing away at the age of seventy-one years. He, too,
was a prominent member of St. Luke's Catholic church.
The lady who became his wife bore the name of Mary Colopy.
Her father, Timothy Colopy, came to this country from
Ireland and her mother from Germany, and they became
prominent early settlers of Knox county, their deaths
occurring in Mount Vernon, where they had resided for many
years. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Sapp was
blessed with ten children, eight of who still survive, the
eldest child in order of birth being Sarah, the wife
of Dr. Bradfield, of Danville; another daughter,
Lucinda, resides in Union township, and is the widow of
John Durbin.
George Sapp, the second children and eldest son of
the above family, has spent his entire life in Knox county,
and during his youth he attended a log schoolhouse, which
was furnished with slab seats and desks. Since his
marriage he has engaged in farming the old Sapp
homestead, which consists of two hundred and seventy acres
of land, all of which is under an excellent state of
cultivation and improved with good and substantial
buildings, everything about the place indicating the
supervision of a thrifty and progressive owner. In
matters of national interest he gives an intelligent support
to the Democracy, but at local election he votes for the men
whom he regards as best qualified to fill positions of
public trust and responsibility.
On July 24, 1853, Mr. Sapp was united in
marriage to Miss Delia A. White, also a native of
Knox county, born Sept. 27, 1832, and a daughter of
Anthony and Keziah (Wade) White, early pioneers of this
portion of the Buckeye state. Seven children
have been born unto this union, namely: Flora, the
wife of John P. Breckler, a prominent farmer of
Howard township; Mary Keziah, wife of M. P.
Hammond, also a farmer of Howard township; Ella,
a wife of Patrick Percel, of Mount Vernon; Julian,
who married Cassie Wiggins and makes his home in
Howard township; Jennie, wife of P. J. Matingly,
of Licking county, Ohio; Lucy, wife of B. R.
Parker, of Cleveland; and Bertha, who lives with
her uncle, Dr. L. W. Sapp, of Cleveland. The family
were all born on the farm on which Mr. Sapp also
opened his eyes to the light of day, and they are all
members of St. Luke's Catholic church at Danville, Mr.
Sapp having assisted largely in the erection of the
house of worship. His genial manner makes him popular
in all circles, and his friends in the community are almost
as many as his acquaintances.
(Source: The
Biographical Record of Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 - Page 114) |
JAMES SAPP,
with the first of M. C. Sapp, boot and shoe dealer, Roger's
Arcade block, east side south Main street, Mt. Vernon.
Mr. James Sapp, was born in Knox county, Oct. 2,
1832. He remained on a farm until his seventeenth
year, when he went as an apprentice to the boot and shoe
trade, and served three years, and then worked as a
journeyman for six months. He then entered the employ
of Messrs. Miller & White, at Mt. Vernon, and
continued with them for four yeas. He then went to
Cleveland and engaged with the firm of Webster,
Spencer & Miller, and remained one year. On his
return to Mt. Vernon he entered the boot and shoe store of
Nathaniel McGiffin as salesman, with whom he remained
two years. In 1860 he purchased the stock of Mr.
McGiffin, and continued business for five years, and
then sold out to Mr. W. J. Morton, and went to New
York city and engaged with the wholesale house of Howes,
Hyatt & Co., with whom he remained one year. He
then returned to Mt. Vernon and repurchased the stock he had
previously sold to Mr. Morton.
In 1866 he sold his stock in trade to Mr. W. T.
Patton, and remained in his employ as salesman for ten
months. His next engagement was with the firm of
Miller & Houston, Columbus, Ohio, as travelling
salesman. For one year he remained with the above
mentioned firm. He commenced business in his present
location in the fall of 1878, and has retained it ever
since. He carries a stock of about one thousand five
hundred dollars, comprising bots, shoes, and rubbers; also
does manufacturing and repairing in all its branches.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 794) |
JONATHAN SAPP,
Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born July
17, 1809, in Union township. He was married to Miss
Mary Durbin, July 15, 1830. He lived on the old
farm with his father thirty years. He then bought the
old Bradfield farm just across the line in Howard
township, where he still lives.
They had eleven children: Simon, Catharine, Susan,
Frances, William, Francis, Edmond, Susanna, John, Timothy,
and Sarah Ann. Catharine died at nineteen years
of age; William at thirty; Edmond at
twenty-two; Susanna, at three; Francis at
three; and Sarah Ann, at three.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 793) |
ROBERT SAPP,
Union township, carpenter, post office, Gann. He was
born Sept. 10, 1813, in Allegheny county, Maryland, and came
here in June, 1818. He settled in Howard township, and
lived there until his twenty-second year.
In 1834 he was married to Rosanna Lose, and
settled in Jefferson township, where he still remains.
His business has been farming and carpentering. He had
eight children: Joseph, who died at nine years of
age; Margaret, born June 16, 1839; Drusilla,
Jan. 19, 1840; Adam, Aug. 21, 1841; Emma, Mar.
4, 1843; M. E., Mar. 2, 1845; H. E., Oct. 30,
1846; Henry, Mar. 3, 1848; Frederick, Jun. 5,
1850; R. D., Jan,. 8, 1857; all living and doing
well.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 794) |
WILLIAM G. SAPP,
Union township, farmer, post office, Gann, born in Gann,
Mar. 3, 1840. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifty-first
Ohio volunteer infantry company I., and served his full time
and returned with the honors of a brave soldier, Sept. 3,
1865. He was married to Margaret Gann, and
settled in Union township, where he has since remained.
His business is chiefly agricultural. His children
are: George, born May 30, 1868; John,
Nov 23, 1870, Sarah Catharine, Aug. 2, 1875; and
Samuel, Nov. 20, 1876. Oscar died Oct. 3,
1878, and Samuel, Nov. 22, 1876. The living
children are all at home and attending school.
William Sapp was wounded in the hip at the battle of
Stone River, Tennessee. He was in about thirteen
battles, but sustained to other injuries, except a
deficiency in his eyesight, which has never been removed.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 794) |
WILLIAM I. SARGENT,
Fredericktown, painter, was born in Fredericktown in 1854.
He was married in 1876, to Jennie Randall, who was
born in Licking county in 1857. They have one
daughter, Martha L., born in 1878. Mr.
Sargent is a painter by trade and is a skilful mechanic.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 794) |
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JACOB SCHINDLER,
owner and proprietor of the Danville Carriage and Wagon works.
These works were established in 1875, in the Collins building, where he
carried on the business of blacksmithing, carriage and wagon making, until 1877,
when he erected his present shop, in which he is manufacturing all kinds of
wagons, carriages, sleighs, etc.
Prompt attention given to repairing of all kinds.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 816)
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WILLIAM
L. SCHROEDER, Middlebury township, farmer, post office,
Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, Aug. 31, 1846, and was
married Mar. 30, 1868, to Louisa Anderson, who was born
in Middlebury township, May 3, 1844. They have the
following children: Corie L., born Jan. 11, 1870;
Charlie W., Aug. 9, 1873; Glenn T., Mar. 15, 1877;
George, Jan. 22, 1879, died Mar. 11, 1879.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 795) |
GEORGE
H. SCOLES, Pike township, farmer, poast office, Mt.
Vernon, born in this township in 1840, and was married in 1866
to Rebecca J. Leonard, who was born in this township
in 1843. They have two children - Ida Belle, born
in 1869, and Alva L., born in 1870. Mr. and Mrs.
Scoles are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He has held and filled prominent positions in the
church, also townshp offices. He owns a farm and is one of
the active farmers of Pike township.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 796) |
JOHN
T. SCOLES, blacksmith, post office, Mt. Vernon - He
was born in Pike township in 1844. In 1868 he was married
to Nancy Gower who was born in this county in 1847.
They have three children - Amy L., born June 15, 1869;
Rebecca A., April 13, 1874; and Etta Edith Aug. 10,
1877, and died Aug. 15, 1879. Mr. Scoles has been
engaged working at the blacksmith trade. He is a
good mechanic and is doing an extensive custom trade.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 – Page 796) |
WILLIAM
FINLEY SEMPLE, surgeon dentist, Mt. Vernon, was born in
Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He is the first
child of Alexander W. and Mary F. Semple, nee
Finley, who at the time of her marriage resided at
Steubenville, Ohio. The parents removed to Steubenville,
where the subject of this sketch spent his youth. His
father being a dentist, he commenced the profession at an early
age. In 1856 he came to Fredericktown, this county, and
opened rooms, where he practiced his profession until 1868, and
then located in Mt. Vernon, where he has ever since practiced
his profession with eminent success. In December, 1870, he
was examined by the State board, who were appointed under the
laws of Ohio. He was not compelled to be examined, but
submitted to an examination, as he was desirous of having their
certificate; he has a large and lucrative practice; he is
regarded as a proficient and expert dentist. He was
married to Miss Abbie Young, of Fredericktown, September,
1869. Unto them were born three children, two of whom are
living.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 799) |
ISAAC
D. SEVERNS, Pleasant township, farmer, son of Samuel
Severns, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1824.
Farming is his vocation. On the eighth of October, 1847,
he married Miss Elizabeth Mills, born Apr. 10, 1826,
daughter of Joseph Mills. They settled on a farm in
Coshocton county, where they remained until 1876, when he
purchased the farm in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio where
they are now living. They have a family of four children,
two sons and two daughters.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 799) |
DAVID
SHALER, Middlebury township, millwright, post office,
Levering; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 14,
1812, and was married June 12, 1841, to Martha Dyer.
They have the following family; John D., born Mar. 1,
1842; Catharine, Aug. 27, 1843; E. Shauck Feb. 20,
1845; Martha, June 1, 1847; Mary E., Dec. 22,
1848; Charles, May 31, 1852; Olive, Mar. 18, 1854.
Mrs. Shaler died Feb. 22, 1858. Olive Shaler
died Feb. 15, 1857. Mr. Shaler was married Sept.,
1859, to Helen Burk who was born in Martinsburgh, Knox
county, July 21, 1861. They have the following children:
Charlotte, born July 21, 1861; Frank L., June 8,
1863; Leah D., Jan.28, 1865; Bertie, Feb. 12,
1870; David, Dec. 16, 1873; William, Oct. 27,
1874.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 800) |
JOHN
SHANNON, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt.
Vernon, was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1830; was married
in 1855 to Margaret Davis, who was born in Licking county
in 1833. They had the following children: Emma Jane,
born in 1860; Alonzo, born in 1862; William, in
1856; Byron, in 1864; Maggie, in 1866.
William died in 1861.
John Shannon is a farmer by occupation, and is
one of the active men in his township.
Mrs. John Shannon died in Morris township, June
10, 1880.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 800) |
DAVID
SHARP, deceased, Morris township, was born in New Jersey
in 1808, and married in 1832 to Mary Rinehart. They
had twelve children: William, born in 1833; Christian,
in 1835; Margaret, May, in 1837; Morris, in 1839;
Caroline, in 1841; Anora, in 1844; Samuel,
in 1846; Mary, in 1847; Rebecca Jane in 1849;
David in 1853; George and Thomas in 1855.
Mrs. Mary Sharp died in 1859. Mr. Sharp
subsequently married Margaret Studer, by whom he had four
children: Catharine, born in 1860; Fanny Ellen, in
1865; Phillip, in 1868; Daniel, in 1870.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 800) |
W. L.
SHARP, Morris township, gardener, post office, Mt.
Vernon, born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1822, and was
married in 1852 to Matilda A. Carr who was born in the
same county in 1834. They had eight children: Mary A.,
born in 1853; Pealey A., in 1855; Anna E., in
1856; Peter C., in 1858; Cyrena A., in 1860;
Edward P., in 1862; Margaret J., in 1853; and
Pearlie M., in 1869.
The following members of the Sharp family are
married: Mary A., to Dennis Jackson, September,
1871, and resides in this township; Anna E., to John
S. Cowden, March, 1879, and is a resident of Clinton
township.
Mr. Sharp moved to Bureau county, Illinois, in
1854, and remained there seven years. While residing there
Pealey A. Sharp died, Mar. 31, 1855. Mr. Sharp
moved back to Delaware county, Ohio, and resided there a short
time; then came to Morris township, this county, and resides
here. He owns a pleasant home, is engaged in raising
vegetables, fruits, etc. HE is an industrious and worthy
citizen.
.(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt.
Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 800) |
E.
SHARPNECK, Mt. Vernon, was born in Greene county,
Pennsylvania, in 1836, and left there with his parents in the
same year and came to liberty township, Knox county, Ohio, and
has been a citizen of Knox county, ever since. He
commenced in the grocery business in 1877, Mar. 20, in which he
has been engaged ever since. Previous to 1877 he was a
farmer; educated at the common schools; doing a business of
fourteen thousand dollars per year; married Jan. 9, 1859
to Miss C. Tocam of Knox county, and has a family of two
children.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 800) |
DANIEL
SHARTLE, Pike township, farmer, post office; Democracy,
was born in Centre county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; came to Ohio
in 1838, and was married in 1851 to Rebecca Carmichael,
who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1826. They
have five living children - Louisa E., born in 1852; William
H., in 1854; Aaron D., in 1855; Almeda C., in
1861; and Alice M., in 1864.
Their oldest daughter, Louisa E., was married to
N. M. Black, and now lives near Danville, in this county.
William H. was married in Kansas in 1880 to Miss
Phosia E. Zigler and is a resident of that Stae.
Almeda was married in 1880 to Thomas McDonel, and is
a resident of Monroe township. Aaron D. and
Alice M. are living with their parents.
Mr. Shartle purchased the farm where he now
resides, containing eighty acres, on the east half of the
northwest quarter of section twenty, in township eight, range
twelve. He paid three hundred dollars for the farm,
cleared and improved it, and is now one of the most valuable
farms of this county. He gave his children a very liberal
education.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 800) |
JOHN SHAW,
deceased, Union township, son of William and Charlotte Shaw,
was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, Aug. 16, 1787. He
was reared on a farm, and made farming his principal vocation.
In 1809 he married Miss Charity Rickets, born in
Allegheny county, Maryland, in 1792.
They settled in Allegheny county, remained until the
fall of 1833, when he, with wife and family, emigrated to
Danville, Knox county, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of
their days.
They reared a family of ten children, viz: William,
Benjamin R., Otho, Lavinia, Ruth, Josephus, Parmenas, Henry N.,
Eleanor and John T. William, Benjamin R., Lavinia
and Ruth have died. Mr. Shaw filled the
office of justice of the peace for several years, in Union
township. He died in 1842, and Mrs. Shaw, in 1855.
Their third son, Josephus Shaw, was born in Allegheny
county, Maryland, Mar. 27, 1820. He is a saddler and
harness maker, served his apprenticeship for three years, with
M. L. Dayton, in Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio, from
1839 to 1842. He then worked as journeyman at his trade
until 1844, when he commenced business for himself, Danville, in
the same county, where he has since lived, being the oldest man
in the business in Danville.
In 1846 he married Martha Robinson of Union
township. They settled in Danville, where they were living
now. Their union resulted in six children, five sons and
one daughter.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.
Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 800) |
JOHN SHAW,
Mount Vernon was born Mar. 4, 1809, in Lancashire, England,
where he remained until 1826, when he emigrated to America and
located in New Haven county, Connecticut, where he lived four
years, then moved to Ohio and settled in Wayne township, Knox
county, where he followed farming, but becoming dissatisfied in
the spring of 1833, he started from Philadelphia on foot; when
he got as far as Chester county he got a job in a cotton
factory, where he remained some two years. During this
time the railroad had been built, and he returned home by rail.
He went east again in the spring, and worked in the woollen
factory, i Cecil county, Maryland, but very soon after his
arrival, he was taken sick, and when recovered sufficiently, he
returned to England and spent the winter, and regaining his
health; in the spring he returned to Cecil county, Maryland, and
was married shortly after, to Miss Charlotte Porter.
He remained in Cecil for three years and then with his family,
he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and farmed for four years; he
then worked in a woollen factory in Wayne township. In
1849 he came to Mt. Vernon and worked three years in the woollen
factory here, then purchased the Marshal factory which he
operated for eleven years. In 1864 he returned to Mt.
Vernon and rented the Norton factory and has been engaged in
various ways to the present ttime. They have had a family
of eleven children, seven of whom are living.
(* SOURCE: History
of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881
- Page 801) |
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of Knox County, Ohio Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881
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GEORGE SMITHHISLER,
Howard twp., farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Holmes
Co., Ohio, Mar. 18, 1850, moved to Knox co. with his parents in
1855.
He was married June 27, 1871,
and moved to his farm on which he now lives.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio
Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 808) |
MICHAEL SMITHHISLER,
farmer, Union twp., was born in France, May 15, 1824, and was
brought to America by his parents, Phillip and Mary
Smithhisler, in 1828, who located in Baltimore,
Maryland, remained until 1835, then emigrated to Holmes co.,
Ohio, and settled in Knox twp., two miles northeast of
Greersville, where Michael's father died, Jan.
4, 1873. Mrs. Smithhisler survived her
husband until May 1, 1874. She died in Knox co., Ohio,
near Danville, at the home of her son, Michael.
They reared a family of four children - Magdalene,
Michael, Anthony, and Philip.
Michael married Mary Milless in 1844, who
was born in Alsace, France, June 11, 1827, emigrated to America
in 1835, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Milless.
After his marriage to Miss Milless they settled
in Knox twp., Holmes co., Ohio, remained until 1847, then moved
to Knox county. He now owns a farm near Danville, Union
township, on which they are living. They have a family of
eleven children, eight sons and three daughters.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio
Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 808) |
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OBADIAH
STILLWELL, Middlebury township, deceased, born in
Pennsylvania, and was married to Sarah Whaford, who was
born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 7, 1782. They
came to Ohio in 1818. They had the following children,
viz.: Josiah, born Dec. 29, 1804; Charlotte,
Feb. 1, 1806, now deceased; John, deceased;
Rachel, July 6, 1811; Jackson, Jan. 18, 18151;
Arthur Jan. 9, 1871; Josiah, Oct. 1, 1819.
Obadiah Stillwell died Apr. 8, 1850.
Mrs. Sarah Stillwell is still living on the old homestead,
with her great-granddaughter, Olive S. Blackford, who was
born Feb. 24, 1862.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt.
Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 813) |
JOSIAH
STILLWELL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office,
Levering, born in this township Oct. 1, 1819, was married in
1849, to Mary Levering who was born in Morrow county,
Apr. 7, 1825. They had teh following children: Zantha,
born Nov. 6, 1852; Zoe, Aug. 13, 1856; Mary, Nov.
29, 1859; Lee V., Apr. 28, 1863; Jay W., June 15,
1866; Jennie L. Oct. 6, 1869.
Mrs. Mary Stillwell died Mar. 17; 1872;
Zantha Stillwell is married to George Ireland.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt.
Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 813) |
JOSHUA
N. STIVES was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, Jan. 31,
1840, and came to Butler township, Knox county, in 1872.
He was married Feb. 16, 1862, to Rosan Smith, who
was born July, 1844, in Guernsey county. They have had
eight children, viz.: Minnie May Bell, born Nov.
11, 1862; Charles W., Apr. 25, 1865; Lillie F.,
born Apr. 13, 1867; Theudas E., Sep. 14, 1870.
Samuel Martin, Aug. 28, 1872, James D., Sept. 25,
1874; John R. Hancock, May 27, 1876; Joshua L.,
June 7, 1880; all are living except Minnie, who died Feb.
13, 1863. Mr. Stives was a member of company H,
Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, served three months and
reenlisted in the Ninety-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry.
(* SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio Mt.
Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881 - Page 813) |
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ABRAHAM STOFER,
Pike township, retired, post office, North Liberty, born in Northampton county,
Pennsylvania, in 1807; came to Ohio in 1834, and was married in 1836, to
Barbara Bearinger, who was born in
Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1814.
They had fourteen children: Flora,
born in 1837; Joseph, in 1838;
Jane, in 1839;
Rachel, in 1840; Jacob,
in 1842; Nancy, in 1844; John, in 1845;
Samuel, in 1847;
Allen, in 1848;
Harriet, in 1852; Eli, in 1855;
Amanda, in 1857; and
George, in 1859. The deceased are:
Flora, Jacob, Jane, Nancy, and Allen:
Joseph
married Margaret Swank; Rachel
married James Landes; John married Sarah E. Hipsley.
Dr. Samuel Stofer
was married to Lucretia Frances Boals,
of Richland county, and resides in Danville, engaged in the practice of medicine.
Harriet Stofer was married to
William H. Harris; Henry was married
to Adda Loney.
Eli Stofer is
engaged in the study of medicine, attending lectures in
Cleveland,
Ohio.
Mr. Stofer, after marriage, returned
to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and remained about three years and then came to Knox
county, and located in this township.
He has improved and cleared a farm, and by industry and economy has
accumulated a competency. He has
reared a large and respectable family, and is one of the reliable and respected
citizens of this township, everybody esteeming him highly.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 813)
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JOHN J. STOFER, Pike township, post office, North
Liberty, born in Pike township in 1845, and was married in 1873 to
Sarah E. Hipsley, who was born in
Berlin township in 1849. They had two children –
Jesse L., born April 5, 1874, and
died April 24, 1875.
Cora May was born April 28, 1876.
Mr. Stofer is a farmer, owns a well
improved farm, which good buildings, and has been very successful in his
occupation, having accumulated rapidly.
He bought the farm on which he resides, and made most of the means to pay
for it upon the farm.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 813)
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JOSEPH STOFER,
Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, in 1838, and was married in 1869 to
Margaret Swank, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1838. They have four children living –
Amanda, born in 1870;
Arminda, in 1871;
Alfred, in 1877; and John A., in 1879. The deceased members are infant
twins, and Rosa.
Mr. Stofer
resided in Indiana from 1864 to 1866, then returned to Pike
township, Knox county. He owns a farm in a good state of cultivation, and is a
leading active citizen of this township.
Mr. Margaret Stofer’s father,
Gabriel Swank, was born in
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and was married to
Catharue Stone, who was born in the
same county in 1797. They had ten
children – Henry, born in 1818, was a
resident of Richland county, and came to his death by the falling of a tree,
which occurred in 1876; Lenah was
born in 1820; Zachariah, Elizabeth,
Susannah, Christena, Mary, Sarah, Margaret, and
Catharine.
Mrs. Catharine
Swank died in Franklin county, Pennsylvania,
in 1856. They came to
Ohio
in 1866, first to Richland
county. In 1878 came to Knox county.
Mr. Swank resides with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Stofer.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 813)
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HARRISON N. STOW,
N. Pike township, carpenter, post office, North Liberty, born in Crawford
county, Pennsylvania, in 1827, came to Ohio in 1836, locating in Holmes County,
and remained there a year; then came to this county and was married in 1851 to
Louisa Johnson, who was born in this
township. They had six children,
four of whom died in infancy.
Ampuda Winton and
Cora May are living in North Liberty.
Mrs. Louisa Stow died at their
residence in this township, July 4, 1879.
Mr. Stow is a carpenter engaged in
working at his trade in this and adjoining townships. He is a skilful workman and the
leading carpenter in this neighborhood.
Ampuda W. Stow is engaged in
carrying the mail from North Liberty to
Independence, three times per week, and is a promising
young man.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 813)
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FREDERICK
STREETER, Union township, teamster, post office, Rossville, was born in Jackson
county, Michigan,
in 1843, and remained there until his twenty-sixth year. He was then married to
Ella A. Howell, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1840. In 1864
Mr. Streeter and his wife settled in
Harrison township, Knox county, and lived there two years; then moved to Jackson
county, Michigan, for two years; then to Columbus, Ohio, for one year; then back
to Harrison township for two years, and once more to Jackson, Michigan for a
year, and from there to Rossville, where he has bought a piece of land and is
making a permanent home. He has one
child, Samantha B., born in 1866.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 813)
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LEWIS STRONG,
Fredericktown, farmer, was born in Frederick
county, Maryland, in 1815, came to
Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1839 to
Susannah R. Cone, who was born in New
York. They have one son,
Clayton Strong, who was born in 1847. He is now married and resides in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Strong is a dealer in stock.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 813)
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NORMAN M. STRONG,
Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury
township in 1832, and was married in 1856 to Sarah A. Farquhar. They have five children –
Wilbur T., Charles F., Edwin Franklin,
and Eddie.
Mrs. Sarah A. Strong died in March, 1871.
Mr. Strong married Ruth P. Farquhar, who was born
in Knox county.
Mr. Strong owns an excellent farm,
with buildings in a fine condition.
His father, Truman Strong, was born
in Vermont; came to Ohio in 1811; was engaged in the War of 1812, under
General Harrison, and was among the
earliest settlers of this county.
When it was all in woods he settled in Middlebury township, cleared up a farm,
and was engaged in preaching in the Universalist denomination, and was very
conscientious and zealous in his religious faith.
He had a charge in Huron county several years, and was familiarly known
by many of the early settlers. In
1870 he died in this county, at an advanced age.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 814)
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REV. P. B. STRONG,
was born in
Medina county, Ohio,
May 3, 1842, and received his preparatory education at Baldwin university, at Berea, Ohio, after
which, in 1861, he enlisted during the first call for troops, in company H,
Eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served three months. He then enlisted in company H, Ohio
Volunteer Cavalry, in which he served consequence of disability. After his return he engaged in the
study of law at Elyria,
Ohio, where he remained two years, and was admitted to the bar Aug.
29, 1864, but did not engage in practice.
He then entered the ministry in the travelling connection of the North
Ohio conference, and was ordained elder by
Bishop E. S. Janes (deceased) at Norwalk, Sept. 12, 1869. His first charge was Republic
circuit, where he remained one year, then East Townsend, two years,
Milan, three years, Fairfield, one year,
Troy, two years, Ashland,
two years, Sandusky
City, three years, and at present is laboring on the Mt. Vernon
station. He was appointed presiding
elder of the Mt.
Vernon
district by the conference held at
Norwalk
in September, 1880, Bishop J. T. Peck,
presiding.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 814)
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JOHN D. STRUBLE, Berlin township, deceased, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1792, and
was married in 1822 to Mary Hadley,
who was born in Norris county, New Jersey, in 1802. they
had nine children – Rebecca, born in 1824; Headley, in 1826;
Daniel, in 1828;
William J., in 1831;
John S., in 1834;
Charles S., in 1836; Oscar, in 1839;
David W., in 1841; and
Edwin Dallas, in 1845.
Mr. Struble located in Fredericktown
in 1832. He was an extensive land
holder, owning over four hundred acres, and a very active and successful
business man, engaged in different enterprises, such as the sale of merchandise
and the milling business, superintending all himself.
In 1874 his mill
property was destroyed by fire. He
did much to improve Fredericktown, and was a prominent member of the Baptist
church. He departed this life May
21, 1875.
Mrs. Struble is living with her son, John S., in
Berlin
township.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 814)
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DAVID W. STRUBLE,
Fredericktown, retired from business, was born in Wayne
township, this country, in 1841; was married in 1866 to
Anne Cummings, who was born in Richland county in 1844.
He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Second New York
Cavalry, and was in the service over three years.
Mr. Struble has been engaged in the
mercantile business for some time, but has retired from all business pursuits.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 814)
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DAVID STRUDER,
Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county,
Pennsylvania, in 1825; emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1830, and was
married in 1858 to
Rebeccca Ebersole, who was born in
this county in 1833. They have three
children – Byron, born in 1859;
Albert, in 1864; and
Castilla, in 1866.
Mr. Studer’s parents first located in
Fairfield
county, Ohio;
also resided in Holmes and Wayne counties, and then came to Knox county. He has since been a resident of this
county, and owns a beautiful farm in this township, with fine improvements.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 814)
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MARTIN STULL,
farmer and stock raiser, Miller township, was born in Greene county,
Pennsylvania, Aug. 2, 1828.
He is the son of George and Elizabeth Stull, deceased, who came to Ohio
in 1833, and resided for about seven years in Milford township, when they came to Miller township. They had ten children, viz:
Mary, Elizabeth, Catharine, Abram,
Martin, Philip, Isaac, Sarah Ann, Lucinda, and
Lucina, of whom
Mary, Elizabeth, and
Philip have sine died.
Mr. Stull was reared on a farm, and
was educated at the district school.
In April, 1861, he enlisted in company H, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and
was in several of the engagements in West Virginia, and in the army of the Potomac. He suffered considerable while in the
army from chronic diseases, which greatly impaired his health. He was discharged with his regiment.
Mr. Stull
entered the army upon patriotic
principles. Nothing can deter him
from expressing his sentiments on the political issues of the city. He is a Democrat from principle, and
is well informed upon the policies of the two great parties.
Mr. Stull started in life poor, but
with a determination to succeed; he has gained the object of his determination. He is a man of strict integrity, and
his word is regarded as “good as gold,”
He has a beautiful home. He
was married to Miss Magdalene Ilgenfritz, December 10, 1867. They had seven children, three of
whom died in infancy.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 814)
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PHILIP STULL,
was born in 1840 in Millwood, Knox county, Ohio. He was married to
Melissa Darling on the seventeenth of November, 1865.
Mrs. Stull was born in 1847. They have had five children, viz:
William, born July 13, 1866, and died
July 23, 1866; Ida May, born July 4, 1867;
Sherman, born Oct. 2, 1869;
Eliza D., born Oct. 15, 1871; Samuel,
born Feb. 4, 1874, and died July 6, 1874.
Mr. Stull was
a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment,
Ohio volunteer infantry, enlisting in 1862, and served about three
years and until the war was over.
Mr. Stull was wounded at Perryville,
Kentucky; he was also in the engagements at Crab Orchard, Kentucky;
Campbellsville, Kentucky; Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, also in Sherman’s
march to the sea.
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FRED D. STURGES,
cashier of the First National bank of Mt.
Vernon, was born in Zanesville,
Muskingum county, June 1, 1833, where he received a preparatory education,
entered Marietta college, and graduated in 1851;
came to Mt. Vernon in 1853, and engaged
in banking, where he has since lived.
He was formerly engaged in a bank at Zanesville
and at Newark.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 814)
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JACOB STYERS, of
Mt. Vernon, was born in
Greenwich township, Warren
county, New Jersey,
Oct. 31, 1813, about two miles from Easton, Pennsylvania, the Delaware river
being the boundary line between the two States.
His education was received in the common schools of that day. He has been a hard worker from his
youth up to old age, enjoying good health through life. At the early age of nine years he
left his father’s house and commenced work on the farm of
Mr. John Lance, with whom he
continued six years. His father, John Styers, was the father of ten
children, eight sons and two daughters,
Jacob, the subject of this sketch, being the second child. All are living except two of the
sons, one of whom died while quite young, and the other was drowned in
Wisconsin. The parents
are both dead.
In 1832, after
leaving the Lance farm, Mr. Styers
went south and engaged with his Brother
Daniel, a carpenter, who had been employed by a New
York
company to erect houses in the town of St. Joseph,
located by them on St. Joe’s bay,
Florida.
Here he remained about one year, when he returned to his father’s home in
New Jersey. On May 31, 1838, he married
Miss Elizabeth A. Andrews, daughter
of Mr. Jacob B. Andrews, of
Warren county,
New Jersey, by whom he had three children:
Sarah Ann, who married
William A. Rose; Jacob M.,
who married
Miss Callie C. Reed, to whom one child was born, a daughter, and
James W., who married
Miss Olla Jadden, to whom three
children have been born.
Mr. Styers came to Knox county with
the family of his father-in-law, Mr.
Andrews, September, 1846.
Mr. Styers engaged with the late
Samuel F. Voorhies to work on his
farm in Clinton township, now owned by the heirs
of Jacob B. Andrews, where he worked
one year when Mr. Voorhies sold the
farm and came to Mt.
Vernon, retaining Mr. Styers in his
employ with whom he remained six years.
Mr. Styers’ next employment
was at the foundry of General C. P.
Buckingham as general teamster, where he remained for six years and until
1859. For the last few years
Mr. Styers has been in the employ of Mr. Charles A. Bope, an extensive coal merchant.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 815)
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DAVID A. SUTTON, Hilliar township, farmer, was born
in Licking county, Ohio,
Dec. 31, 1826. His parents were
Elijah and Nancy Sutton, nee
Gillespie, born respectively July 24, 1802, and Jan. 8, 1799.
They were married Feb. 12, 1824.
They had two children, one of whom died when young.
Mr. Sutton dying, he married Sarah Stonebraker,
June 4, 1829. They had six children.
Mr. Sutton died Nov. 12, 1872, his wife dying some years previous.
Mr. Sutton was from Greene county,
Pennsylvania, came to
Ohio
with his parents, and was a stone-cutter by trade. The subject of this notice, after the
death of his mother, and whom about eighteen months old, was taken by his
grandfather, David Gillespie, and by
him reared until about eighteen years old, when he went to his Grandfather Sutton’s where he remained several
years. June 10, 1851, he was married
to Miss Sarah Emery¸ and in 1853 they
moved to Hilliar township, where he purchased the farm on which he now resides.
Mrs. Sutton was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Sutton is a good farmer, a man of
fine social qualities, and is respected by the community. They have had three children, all
sons, viz: Elijah, Ellmore, and
Allen K.
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GIDEON SUTTON,
Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Licking county, Dec. 24, 1807.. His father,
Jehu Sutton, was born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 1777. He was married in the year 1801, and
in 1804 came to Licking county, being among the early settlers.
He was lieutenant
of a company of soldiers during the War of 1812, and went to
Upper Sandusky to protect the frontier from the devastations of the
Indians. He was esteemed by all who
knew him.
He was a
consistent member of the Old School Baptist church for many years, and died at
the ripe old age of nearly eighty-eight years.
His aged companion died some years later, at the age of ninety-six years. Thus passed away two of Licking
county’s first and most influential settlers.
They did not live
in vain. They left their impress on
the minds and hearts of their family, who grew up to be useful and influential
citizens.
Gideon was one of their sons. We learn from him that he spent his
youth on the father’s farm. After
leaving home he engaged in cutting stone for the National road, which was then
being built. He subsequently
contracted for stone work in Newark
and surrounding country, in which he was successful.
In the fall of
1834 he came to Hilliar township, Knox county, and the following spring he moved
on the farm he now occupies. His
first abode on the farm was a cabin
near his present dwelling. This he
occupied until 1839, when he built his present dwelling. He has been successful in making for
himself a competence.
He was elected
justice of the peace in 1841, and held the office until 1847. He is a man of good judgment, social
and congenial, and makes all who call upon him feel at home.
We are indebted
to him for an article entitled Centreburgh, its Past and Present, which he had
written some years previous, and which he kindly lent us.
He was married to
Miss Eliza Shaver, of Licking county,
Mar. 8, 1832. They have therefore
been together for over forty-nine years.
They had four children born to the, viz:
Rebecca, married to
David N. Potter; Jasper N., and
Joseph S., and
Samantha A., married to
Dr. W. S. Pollard.
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GEORGE SWANK,
Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Pike
township, Knox county, in 1825, on the same farm he now resides. In 1851 he was married to
Nancy Gilmore, who was born in Pike
township in 1827. They had the
following children:
Christain, born in 1854; Mary Ellen, in 1856;
Eliza Alice, in 1858;
John, in 1866, and
Amanda, in 1868.
Christian Swank was married in 1880
to Irena Garber. Mary Ellen Swank was married to
Simeon Betchel in 1877.
Mr. and Mrs. Swank are both members
of pioneer families. He now owns the
old homestead, a farm that was improved and cleared up by the
Swank family.
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H. C. SWETLAND,
dry goods merchant, corn of Main and Gambier streets, Mt.
Vernon, was born in Morrow county Apr.
7, 1855, when he resided until he was sixteen years old, and during which he
attended school, and assisted his father who was a merchant in the store. He then came to
Mt. Vernon, and entered
the employ of J. C. Swetland as
salesman, where, in appreciation of his abilities and faithfulness, and has
since been conducting the business himself.
He commenced with a stock of about fifteen thousand dollars, and has been
doing a successful business. He now
has a stock of about sixteen thousand dollars, consisting of foreign and
domestic dry goods, notions and fancy goods, and does a business of from forty
to forty-five thousand dollars per year.
Mr. Swetland is a young man of
character, energy and ability, and his prospects for the future as a citizen and
a business man are most flattering, as he commands the respect of the public
generally.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 815)
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ALLEN SWETZER, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in
Richland
county in 1833, came to this township when a child, and was married in 1862, to
Mary Ann Pound. They had three children, viz:
Charles M., born in 1865;
Marion, in 1867, and an infant,
deceased.
Mrs. M. Swetzer died in 1867.
Mr. Swetzer’s second wife was
Ruth Ann Kesler, who was born in Pike
township in 1837.
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JACOB SWITZER,
deceased,
Berlin township, was born in
Berlin township, this county, in 1836, and was married in 1857, to
Alvira Hughes, who was born in
Berlin
township, this county, in 1839. They
had four children: Hiram M., born in
1858; Clayton, in 1860;
Freddie, in 1862, and
Willie A., in 1865, and died Jan. 24,
1864.
Mr. Switzer studied medicine with
Dr. Ring, of Fredericktown, and
attended lectures in Cleveland. He engaged in
the practice of medicine in Sparta, Morrow county, and in 1836 located in Fredericktown, where he
remained until the time of his death.
He was a member of the Disciple church.
Hiram M. was married Dec. 29, 1880,
to Miss Minnie Gibson. He has been engaged in teaching
school in this county for about four years.
Clayton
Switzer is teaching school in
district No. 4, and is a very promising young man.
Dr. Switzer died Mar. 17, 1867.
(SOURCE: History of Knox County, Ohio - Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.A. Graham & Co.,
1881 – Page 816)
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