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	JAMES W. EASTMAN Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 519
	JAMES ELLIOTT - See Orange H. Elliott Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 669
	ORANGE H. ELLIOTT.     The respect which should always be accorded the brave sons of the North who left homes and the peaceful pursuits of civil life to give their services, and their lives if need be, to preserve the integrity of the American Union is certainly due Orange H. Elliott, a venerable farmer and respected citizen of Monroe township, Knox county, where his long and industrious life has been spent.  He proved his love and loyalty to the government on the long and tiresome marches in all kinds of situations, exposed to summer's withering heat and winter’s freezing cold, on the lonely picket line, a target for the missile of the unseen foe, on the tented field and amid the flame and smoke of battle, where the rattle of the musketry mingled with the terrible concussion of the bursting shell and the deep diapason of the cannon’s roar made up the sublime but awful chorus of death.  All honor to the heroes of the early sixties.  To them the country is under a debt of gratitude which it cannot pay, and in centuries yet to be posterity will commemorate their chivalry in fitting eulogy and tell their knightly deeds in song and story.  To the once large but now rapidly diminishing army that followed “Old Glory” on many bloody fields in the sunny South, crushed the armed host of treason and re-established upon a firm and enduring foundation the beloved government of our fathers, the subject of this sketch belonged.  Like thousands of comrades equally as brave and patriotic as himself, he did his duty nobly and well and retired from the service with a record unspotted by a single un soldierly act.      Mr. Elliott was born in Monroe township, this county, on June 16, 1838.  He is the son of James and Hannah Reed (Berry) Elliott, the father born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and the mother in Knox county, Ohio.  When eight years of age JAMES ELLIOTT came with his parents to Knox county.  Grandfather William Elliott was a miller by trade and he built a mill on Owl creek, this being one of the very first mills in this locality.  The father of this subject was also a miller and in addition an operator in a woolen mill.  He worked for Orange Hollister, who conducted an early business establishment here.  James Elliott later in life turned his attention to farming and became the owner of considerable land and was an active man of affairs.  Politically, he was a Democrat in early life, but after 1860 he voted the Republican ticket.  He took considerable interest in public matters, and was a man of upright character and sound judgment.  His death occurred in February, 1887, his wife preceding him to the grave about twelve years.      To James Elliott and wife ten children were born, only four of whom are now living, Orange H., of this sketch, being the eldest of the serviving surviving children.  The others are Elizabeth, who has remained single; Alice Mary, who married Leander Farquar, of Gambier, died Nov. 8, 1911; Alexander lives in Mt. Vernon.      Orange H. Elliott, of this sketch, was reared on the home farm, on which he worked hard when a boy during the crop seasons, receiving such education as he could in the old-time schools of his neighborhood.      Mr. Elliott enlisted in Company C, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the fall of 1861 and he served over two years in the Army of Western Virginia, taking part in many hard-fought engagements and trying campaigns, finally being discharged for disability.  He was taken prisoner at Harper’s Ferry in 1862, the entire command of nearly twelve thousand men, including his whole regiment, being captured.  He was immediately paroled and exchanged in due time, returning to his company and regiment.  He returned home and, after regaining his health, he resumed farming, remaining at home until his marriage, on Mar. 17, 1865, to Emily J. Hartsook, daughter of William and Amy (Ganoe) Hartsook, a pioneer family of Monroe township.  To the subject and wife was born one daughter, Amy R., who married John W. Totman, a farmer of Monroe township, this county.      After his marriage Mr. Elliott lived one year in Milford township, then returned to Monroe township, where he located about two miles north of Gambier and engaged in general farming and stock raising of all kinds, and here he has continued to reside.  He has a fine farm and has laid by a competency for his old age.  He has always been a Democrat and is a great admirer of William J. Bryan, the great commoner.  He has served as town ship trustee and as a member of the school board.  He has always been deeply interested in public matters.  He has been a frequent delegate to county and district conventions.  He and his family are members of the Dunkard church, in which he is a deacon and is active in church and Sunday school work. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 668
	HENRY EWALT Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 586