OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 61 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 61 Today's Topics: #1 The Steubenville Road, Guernsey Co [MMacmurph@aol.com] #2 Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Frank [Betty Ralph ] #3 The John B. Cook murder in 1865, G [MMacmurph@aol.com] #4 NEWSPAPER ITEM: Bowman, 1900, Pick ["david piatt" Subject: The Steubenville Road, Guernsey Co Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stories of Guernsey County Ohio, by William Wolfe 1943 Pg 196-197 Chapter: Roads and Railroads Section: The Steubenville Road Some of the roads leading out of Cambridge have been known by the names of the places that they reach; as, Coshocton road, Newcomerstown road, and Steubenville road. The one named last is better known to modern travelers as Route No. 22, or the William Penn highway, but to many people in Guernsey county it will always be the Steubenville road. This road held a place second only to Zane's Trace as a way for travel in the early days of the county. Settlers came into this section by both routes. Building the Road -- The path through the forest, that afterwards became the Steubenville road, was cut in 1801, four years later than Zane's Trace. However, it was not extended as far as Cambridge until sometime between 1803 and 1805. It was opened as a good wagon road through to Steubenville in 1811. Edward Carpenter was the pathfinder. For the sum of three hundred dollars he agreed to cut a trail from Big Stillwater creek in what is now Harrison county to a point within seven miles of Cambridge. Having completed the work, he moved to Londonderry township, becoming its first settler. The seven miles leading from the end of the Carpenter contract to Cambridge was completed by Zaccheus Biggs. Used much in Early Days.-- As a pioneer route of travel the Steubenville road was better than Zane's Trace. It was an open path through the forest, while the latter was but little more than a blazed trail. When Zane's Trace had been made into a fairly good route of travel it was called the Wheeling road. That name was dropped upon the completion of the National Road. Likewise, Carpenter's open trail the Steubenville road, and later a part of the William Penn highway. Entering the northeastern corner of Guernsey county from Harrison county, the Steubenville road follows a southwestern course to Cambridge, a distance of twenty-two miles. The villages platted on it were Londonderry (1815), Antrim (1830) Winchester (1836) and Centreville (1842). As it was a shorter route to Pittsburgh than was the old Wheeling road, it was used much in the early part of the last century. Cattle, sheep and hogs were driven over it. Footmen, horseback riders and emigrant wagons were constantly traveling the road. Taverns on the road-- Taverns were opened for the accommodation of the travelers. The proprietors were required to procure licenses, which were issued by the court at a cost of from five to eight dollars. The rates varied in accordance with the location. In each tavern was a bar where liquors were sold. The selling was legal if the tavern keeper held a license. At the first court session held in Guernsey county in 1810, licenses to keep taverns on the Steubenville road were granted to Edward Carpenter, Joseph Dean, and Robert Wilkin. At the same session Robert Wilkin was found guilty of selling whisky without a license and was fined six and one-fourth cents and costs. Joseph Dean neglected to renew his license three years later and was fined five dollars. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 13:48:31 -0600 From: Betty Ralph To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <2.2.32.20000219194831.006e4f74@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Franklin # 9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bios: Garrison, Green, Gridley, Hall - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885 Copyright © 2000 by Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. bralph@hiwaay.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ CHARLES A. GARRISON, veterinary surgeon, Kent, was born in Stowe Township, Summit Co., Ohio, August 18, 1842; son of James and Hannah (Walker) Garrison, who settled in Stowe Township about 1828-30, where they cleared and improved a couple of farms. They had six children: William, who died in the service of the Union, during the late war of the Rebellion; Charles A.; Alice, wife of William Grubb; Fannie, wife of Henry Minnich; Maxwell; and Edward (deceased). The paternal grandfather of our subject was Joseph Garrison, a native of Pennsylvania, and an early settler of Deerfield Township, this county. His maternal grandfather, William Walker, a native of Virginia, was one of the first settlers of Stowe Township. Our subject was reared in his native township, and educated in the Kent High School, and at Twinsburg Institute. In 1875 he went to Seville, Ohio, and studied veterinary surgery with Dr. Miller, of that place, with whom he remained three years, and in 1878 entered the Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Canada, where he took a two-years' course in instruction. In 1880 he commenced the practice of his profession in Kent, where he has done a successful business to the present time. He was married August 18, 1864, to Mattie, daughter of William and Margaret Reese, of Franklin Township, this county, by whom he has three children living: Frank, Max and Minnie. Mr. Garrison and wife are members of the Disciples Church. In politics he is a Democrat. SENECA GREEN, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Hampshire County, Mass., October 3, 1808; son of Clark and Submit (Hastings) Green, natives of Massachusetts. He was reared on a farm until fourteen years of age, and then served an apprenticeship of six years at the shoe-makers' trade, afterward working in North Lee, Mass., as a journeyman one year; then embarked in business for himself in South Lee, where he was engaged up to 1836. In the fall of the same year he came to Ohio, and in February, 1837, bought the farm where he now resides. There was a plank cabin and a small barn on the place when he purchased it. In 1842 he erected a good barn, and in 1844 built his present residence. Mr. Green has been twice married, his first wife being Sarah Spellman, of Monterey, Mass., to whom he was married October 3, 1832. She died May 6, 1834. February 29, 1836, Mr. Green next married Mary A. Holt, of Austerlitz, N.Y., and the issue of this union was six children: Sarah (Mrs. H.L. Russell); Stephen; Spellman; Ann (Mrs. G.H. Taylor), in Lansing, Mich.; Mary (Mrs. A.A. Ross), in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and George B., residing at home, who was married October 21, 1874, to Clara, daughter of James D. and Mary R. (Olin) Haymaker, of Franklin, and by her he has two children - Mabel A. and James S. Our subject lost his second wife June 6, 1876, in her sixty-fifth year. Mr. Green is one of the representative farmers of Franklin Township. In politics he was formerly a Whig, but has been a stanch Republican since the organization of the party. WILLIAM GRIDLEY, carpenter and machinist, Kent, was born in Hampden County, Mass., August 12, 1807; son of Oliver and Mary (Bradley) Gridley. His educational advantages were limited, as he was bound out on a farm in New Haven County, Conn., until he was twenty-one years old. When nineteen years of age he ran away, and arriving in Hampden County, Mass., he served an apprenticeship of two years at the millwright trade; worked in the cotton-mills at Chicopee Falls, Mass., fourteen months as a journeyman mechanic, after which he engaged as a master mechanic in the mill of A. Denslow, at Windsor, Conn., where he remained about three years. He made, but did not invent, the first machine that made cotton batting out of waste; then went to work on the Boston & Albany Railroad as a mechanic and inspector of lumber, and in August, 1844, he came to Ohio, locating in 1845 in Kent, where he has worked at his trade of millwright, carpenter, etc., up to the present time. Mr. Gridley was married in December 1832, to Clara, daughter of Calvin and Lydia (Grinnell) Bedortha, of Hampden County, Mass., by whom he has had five children: Talbot, William (killed at the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863), Benjamin (killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain), Laura (Mrs. O.S. Nichols) and Clara (deceased). Our subject's first wife dying March, 1853, he next married Mary Chatman, daughter of John and Martha Twitchell, by whom he had one child, Lilian (Mrs. Dr. R.F. Hamblin). His son Talbot served in the late war in the Seventh Regt. O.V.I., and was wounded in the shoulder at the battle of Winchester; his son William was a member of the Eighth Regt., O.V.I., and Benjamin was a member of the Seventh O.V.I. Mr. Gridley is a member of the Episcopal Church; the I.O.O.F. In politics he is a Republican. SAMUEL B. HALL, merchant, Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, July 29, 1831; son of Henry and Elizabeth (Breck) Hall, natives of Vermont. His father was son of Benjamin Hall who settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1818, and taught the first district school in the township; his mother was a daughter of Daniel Breck, of Hartland, Vt. They had four children: Porter B., Caroline (deceased), Samuel B. (first, deceased), and Samuel B. (second). Henry Hall was a carpenter by trade, but after his settlement in Brimfield Township, was principally engaged in farming. In 1850 the family removed to Franklin Mills (now Kent), where Mrs. Hall died in 1852, at the age of seventy-eight. He was a member of the Congregational Church, in which he was a Deacon for many years. Samuel B., the subject of this sketch, engaged in the boot and shoe trade, in which he continued to the present time. Mr. Hall has been twice married, first in September, 1858, to Sarah, daughter of Guy and Sarah Doolittle, of Brimfield, this county. The issue of this union was one child - Cora (Mrs. Charles Reed). Mr. Hall was married to his present wife, Jane Barton, of Kent, Ohio, in September, 1866, and by her has three children: Henry, Porter and Herbert. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican; an active F. & A.M. JAMES P. HALL, shop clerk, New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad Shops, Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, September 12, 1832, son of William and Maria (Law) Hall. His paternal grandparents were Benjamin and Sarah (Brown) Hall, of Windsor, Vt., who settled in Brimfield Township in 1819, where they lived and died. They had six children: Henry (deceased), Betsey (deceased), Charles (deceased), Mary A. (deceased), William, Susan S. (Mrs. Henry Sawyer). By his second wife Mr. Had one child - Sarah (Mrs. Sylvester Wolcott). The father of our subject lived on the old homestead till 1867, when he removed to Kent, where he still resides. He was twice married, first to Maria, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Law, of Brimfield, by whom he had four children: James P., Durand C., Mary E., Lucy M. (Mrs. I.P. Griswold); and second to Berthia Palmer, of Brimfield, by whom he had three children: Newton H., Helen M. (Mrs. Henry Wilcox) and Anna (Mrs. B.F. Shewart). Our subject was reared in Brimfield Township, engaged in farming until twenty-eight years of age, then removed to Kent and embarked in the grocery trade, in which he was occupied two years. Since then, with the exception of four years, he has been in the employ of the Atlantic & Great Western and New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad Companies to the present time. He was married September 27, 1854, to Myra T., daughter of Harmon and Harriet (Bishop) Bradley, of Brimfield, by whom he had four children: Will H., Charles E., Fred P. and Georgie D. (deceased). Mr. Hall and wife are members of the Congregational Church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the K. of H.; has held the office of Township and Corporation Clerk one term. In politics he is a stanch Republican. NEWTON H. HALL, lumberman, P.O. Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, August 4, 1842, son of William and Bethiah (Palmer) Hall. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Hall, a native of Vermont, settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1819, and his maternal grandfather, John Palmer, was a native of Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution. Our subject was reared in his native township, and was educated in the common schools. He was in the late war of the Rebellion, enlisting August 4, 1862, in Company I, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the Tennessee campaign, under Burnside; the Atlanta campaign, under Sherman, and the Nashville campaign, under Thomas; was in all the engagements of his regiment, and at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864, he captured a flag from Gen. P. Clayburn's division of the Rebel Army, for which act he received a medal from Congress in January, 1865. He was honorably discharged in June, 1865, when he returned to Brimfield Township and engaged in farming there up to 1881, and then removed to Kent, Ohio. The same year he embarked in business at Boardman, Ohio, where he is still interested in a planing-mill and lumber trade. He was married April 15, 1874, to Stella, daughter of James and Maria (Hopkins) Woodard, of Kent, this county, by whom he has two children: Anna and Helen. Mr. Hall is a F. & A.M. In politics he is a Republican. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:59:17 EST From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: The John B. Cook murder in 1865, Guernsey Co., OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William Wolfe's Stories of Guernsey County 1943, Page 288: paraphrased by the transcriber: This is a story surrounding the life and times of John B. Cook, Deputy Provost Marshall for the Sixteenth Congressional District. In 1865 he was murdered in his own backyard by two men. The county was stirred with the heinousness of the crime, the mystery attending it, the $2000 reward for the capture of the murderers and the general climate of war-time excitement. They chased the suspects to the National road where they followed the leads of local residents. The following is transcribed as is in the book: Suspects captured-- Hundreds of men joined in the search. On Thursday, March 9, a number of them ate dinner at Edward Carpenter's near Londonderry. In the afternoon they dispersed in different directions. Noticing a barn in a field across from the Carpenter home, two of the men went over to search it. There seemed to be nothing within except some farm machinery and straw. They were about to leave when one of them picked up a pitchfork and began probing in the straw. Two feet down he struck something that caused him to withdraw the fork. He remarked to his companion "There is nothing here." But outside he beckoned for others to come and they soon surrounded the barn. The men under the straw were ordered to come out. They remained quiet until orders were given for all to fire at the straw pile; then they surrendered. They denied knowing anything about the Cook murder. It was a proud body of horsemen that brought them to Cambridge where they were lodged in jail (the old jail) Paraphrased: The prisoners, deserters of the army, Hiram Oliver and John W. Hartup, were southern sympathizers having lived in Guernsey county for a few months before Marshall Cook had been ordered to arrest them. What Guernseyites had hoped for, a civil trial, turned into a Military offense, as Marshall Cook was considered not a citizen, but an officer of the military arm of the government. The prisoners maintained their innocence. The concern for danger was there, regarding the deliverance of the prisoners by Southern sympathizers or the potential of being taken out and lynched. Meanwhile, while the trial progressed, President Lincoln was assassinated adding more unrest to the circumstance. It was the most expensive trial in the history of the county, but the expense fell upon the federal government. The defendants were found guilty and sentenced to be hung. They were taken to camp Chase, Columbus, where they were executed at one o'clock p.m., September 6, 1865. Before ascending the scaffold Oliver confessed. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:36:26 -0500 From: "david piatt" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <008401bf7b32$246f04e0$a3fcb7ce@randalro> Subject: NEWSPAPER ITEM: Bowman, 1900, Pickaway Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This article is from the Circleville Democrat and Watchman, Pickaway County, Ohio, 1900. Bowman Reunion Sunday, Sept. 30, a reunion of the Bowman family assembed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Bowman, (the homestead of J. H. Blacker) about 3-1/2 miles southwest of South Bloomfield. The day was an ideal one; nature shed forth her beauty and gave evidence of her reverence to Deity. About forty assembled to honor the name of their most estimable parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bowman, of Washington township, (now deceased). Among those present were, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Christy, Columbus; Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Groce and family, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Tompkins and family, B. H. Spayth and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Spayth and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Huffer and family, all of East Ringgold; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cookson and daughter; Mrs. William Klingensmith and son, of Circleville; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bowman, of Stoutsville; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Howard and daughter and Miss Etta Hanna, of Harrisburg, Ohio. After all had assembled and engaged in a pleasant and cheerful handshake, the good ladies announced dinner, which is characteristic of the culinary art, peculiar to the Bowman family. They cannot be surpassed in this most tasteful art. A portion of the dinner and ice cream having vanished in a satisfactory manner, the photographer then turned his camera on the crowd and obtained a picture of them just as they were looking their best. Evening came and they all left the scene with happy hearts, wishing that the reunion of friends on earth may prepare them for the great reunion in Heaven. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:34:02 EST From: MMacmurph@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Lore City and Walhonding Guernsey Co Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William Wolfe's Stories of Guernsey County Pg 808: Lore City was platted in Center Township July 8, 1903, right on the border of Center, Wills and Richland Townships. (Note: Think of an upsidedown T with Richland below the horizontal line and Center on the left side, Wills on the right. Lore City is on that intersection) Lore City was incorporated in 1906. The original name was Campbell's Station and changed to Lore City in 1876. In 1910 the population was 609, in 1940 population was 606. pg 1006 Chapter: VALLEY TOWNSHIP Walhonding is in Valley Township, Guernsey county, right above the border of Noble County. "Walhonding in the southeast part of the township is composed almost entirely of foreigners" pg 408 - Chapter "Coal, Oil and Gas" Walhonding No. 2 has mined 1259 acres of coal to date (1943) but the pillars have not been removed. Several hundred acres yet remain unminded at Walhonding. The company has yet to decide whether coal will be lifted from present shaft or a from new shaft sunk elsewhere. MMM 2/2000 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #61 ******************************************