HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY

CHAPTER XXV.

1876, he engaged in the mercantile business at Plantsville. His farm containing 400 acres of good land where he makes a specialty of raising high grades of live stock. He has been elected by the people to many local offices of trust and responsibility. He and his wife are members of the society of Friends. Richard Elliott was born in Highlandshire, Scotland in 1831 and came with his father's family to the United States in 1837 and settled on a farm in Bern Township, where he was reared and educated. He was married Sept. 18, 1857, to Miss Margaret J. Barton, a native of Athens County. They have eight children--- John B., Alphia, Mary J., Charles, George, Eva, William and Lewis. He purchased his present farm in 1859, where he has since resided. It contains 150 acres of good land under a high state of cultivation. Lorenzo Ellis was born in Morgan County, Ohio, July 15, 1819, the oldest son of Levi Ellis, who came to Ohio from Vermont about the year 1815, and in 1843 came to Bern Township, Athens County. He afterward moved to Chesterfield, where he passed the re- mainder of his days. His wife, Lucy Gibbon, was also a native of Vermont. They were the parents of seven children, six of whom are still living. They were active and consistent members of the Baptist church for many years. Our subject was reared on a farm and received his education in the subscription schools. He was married March 17, 1851, to Miss Mahalia Dorithy, a native of Morgan County, Ohio. They have two daughters---Emma J. and Lucy A. Mr.Ellis purchased his present farm in 1865, containing 245 acres of improved land. He and his wife are members of the Christian church. Washington Endicott was born in Belmont County, Ohio, a son of Charles Endicott, of Pennsylvania, and of English descent. He was born March 26, 1821. His father died when he was thirteen years of age, and he went to live with an elder brother until he was seventeen, after which he worked by the month until he was twenty-two. He was married Nov. 17, 1842, to Susana Hanson, a native of North Carolina. To them were born nine children, only seven now living---Isaac N., Mary M., Hannah I., Charles E., Samuel M., Washington J.and Eliza M. John W. and Elijah H. are deceased. After his marriage he rented land and followed the avocation of farming, and by strict attention to his farming pursuits he has been highly successful, and gave his children a good and practical education, and fitted them for useful citizens. In 706

1855 he came to Bern Township, Athens County, where he has since resided. He has a fine farm with all the modern improve- ments. He has been elected by the people to nearly all the local offices of trust and responsibility. Edwin F. Glazier was born in Bern Township, Athens County, June 30, 1842, where he was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. At the breaking out of the late civil war he en- listed in Company B, Fifty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in many hard-fought battles. In 1863 his term of en- listment expired, and he re-enlisted and served until the close of the war, and was mustered out of the service; returned to the home of his birth and for a time attended school, after which he engaged in farming, which he has since followed. In connection with his farming pursuits in 1875 he purchased the store at Big Run, Ohio and engaged in the mercantile business for about four years, when he sold out and returned to his farm. He was married Oct. 19, 1870, to Hannah N. Greenwalt, of Washington County. They have three children---Arla M., Effa B. and William E. F. W. R. Goddard was born in Washington County, Ohio, March 24, 1849. He was reared on a farm, and received his early edu- cation in the common schools, and spent three years at the Mari- etta College, after which he engaged in teaching school about three years. In the latter year he was elected to the office of County Treasurer of Washington County. He was first married, May 8, 1878, to Annie Black, of Washington County. They had two children---Blanche and Charles. His wife died Feb. 23, 1881. He was again married, Sept. 14, 1882, to Fanny E. Henry, a daughter of Charles and Fanny (Dean) Henry, of Bern Township, Athens County, Ohio. He has a fine farm of 232 acres of good land on Federal Creek. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian church at Amesville. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Palmer Lodge, No. 351. Charles Henry was born in Bern Township, Athens County, Ohio, April 18, 1821, son of John and Margaret Henry, who set- tled the farm where our subject now lives, in 1817. He re- ceived education in the schools at Amesville. He has always lived on the old homestead and cared for his parents in their old age. He was married Sept. 18, 1848, to Fanny M., daughter of Nathan and Fanny Dean, of Ames Township, Athens County. They have had five children---Charles E., Nathan Wm., Fanny E.. Carlos D., Augusta M. (deceased). He has given his children 707

upon their reaching their majority each a good farm. The home- stead contains 360 acres of land, and is one of the finest in the county. He has a fine residence and large and commodious barns and stables. He has a large and beautiful fish pond, well-stocked with the choice varieties of fish. Mr. Henry has always led a quiet life, never aspiring to publicity, but in 1881 he was persuaded by his friends to accept their proffered suffrage, and was elected by a large majority to the office of Director of the Athens County In- firmary, which he has filled with honor to himself and credit to his constituents. David Henry was born in Bern Township, Athens County Jan. 19, 1827, son of John and Margaret Henry, where he was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was united in marriage April 11, 1850, to Miss Margaret A. Owen, of Ames Township, Athens County. They are the parents of eight chil- dren, seven only now living---Florina, Marcela, Ray, Jennie, Mary, Nora, George B. and Bradford. He has a fine farm con- taining 160 acres of land under a high state of cultivation. George E. Henry, the youngest son of Robert and Lavina (Glazier) Henry, was born in Bern Township, on the same farm and in the house where he has since resided, Aug. 15, 1841. Re- ceived his early education in the common schools of his native township, finishing in the Ohio University, at Athens. His youth was spent in assisting his father on the farm and attending school. After leaving school he engaged in teaching until the breaking out of the late civil war, when he enlisted, Jane 24, 1863, in Battery K, Second Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, and was ap- pointed Quartermaster-Sergeant, but served on detached duty as clerk in the office of Provost Marshal and Provost-Marshal Generals at Knoxville, Tenn., until March, 1865, when he was ap- pointed Hospital Steward at Knoxville, and served in that capac- ity until Aug. 12, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service, after which he returned to his home in Bern Township and took charge of the farm where he has since resided. After serving in various township offices he was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, serving since 1870. He was united in marriage, Sept. 18, 1872, to Sarah C. Demming, daughter of Daniel and Louisa (Curtis) Demming, born in Washington County, July 15, 1850. They have one son---Heber Homer, born July 13, 1877. Mrs. Henry is a member of the Presbyterian church at Amesville. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Amesville Lodge, No. 278. He is also a member of Columbus Golden Post, No. 89, G.A.R. 708

Captain Robert Henry, deceased, was born of Irish parents in Chester County, Penn., Dec. 14, 1797, and came with his father's family to Newport, Washington Co., Ohio, in 1801, and five years later removed to Warren, four miles below Harmer, and in the spring of 1817 came to Athens County, and located in what is now Bern Township, where he assisted his father in clear- ing his land and opening up their frontier homes. Having more than an ordinary education he engaged in the winter in teaching school, working on his farm in the summer. He was united in marriage to Lavina Glazier, Nov. 30, 1826, by Judge George Walker. He immediately moved on his farm, where he continued to reside until his death, a period of over fifty-four years. During his life he held several local offices of trust and responsibility. He was naturally of a retiring disposition, which prompted him to refuse places of this kind unless tendered him under circumstances that left no doubt in his mind that it was the earnest wish of his friends that he should accept their proffered suffrage. In 1826 he was commissioned by Governor Jeremiah Morrow Captain of the Second Light Infantry Company, First Brigade, Third Di- vision, Militia of Ohio, which office he held until 1830, when he resigned his commission. In the fall of 1829 he received the appointment as Postmaster at Amesville, being the second Postmaster in that township. In 1834 he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held for several years. Mr. Henry and his wife were ardent workers in the cause of Christianity, and united with the Presbyterian church at Amesville, at the time of its organization in 1832. He was very affable, courteous and gen- tlemanly in his intercourse with mankind, and received, as he de- served, the confidence and respect of all who knew him. His wife died Oct. 31, 1857, and he, Jan. 5, 1881, leaving four sons and two daughters and a large number of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. Mathew Henry, deceased, was born in Ireland in October, 1792, a son of John and Rachel Henry, and when he was about six months of age he came with his parents to the United States, and located in Chester County, Penn., where he lived until 1801, when they removed to Ohio and settled in Newport, Washington County. Five years later they moved to Warren, where they re- sided until August,1817,when they came to Athens County, settling in what is now Bern Township, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was married Aug. 16, 1817, to Lavinia Proctor, 709

who was born in Danvers, Essex Co., Mass., April 12, 1793, and came with her parents to the then Northwestern Territory in the same year and located in Washington County, where she was reared and educated. After their marriage they settled on a part of the tract of land previously purchased by his father, where he set to work clearing his land and improving his home. He followed the avocation of a farmer until his death, and was highly successful. Although he never aspired to publicity be accepted the proffered suffrage of his friends and was elected to many local offices of trust and responsibility, having served as Township Trustee for several years, and Justice of the Peace several years. Mr. Henry and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian church, having joined at the time of the organization in 1832. They were the parents of eight children, five still living. Mr. Henry died March 17, 1865, at the advanced age of seventy-three years, having re- tained the mental and physical vigor of his youth to a remarkable degree. Nov. 23, 1882, his wife followed, at the age of eighty-seven years. Lorenzo Lovell was born in Morgan County, Ohio, July 13, 1840, a son of Thomas R. and a grandson of Thomas S. Lovell, who was prominently identified with the pioneers of the county. Our subject was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools. In 1861 he went to California and engaged in the lumber business in which he met with good success, and returned to Athens County in 1864. He was married Feb. 7, 1867, to Hannah T. Hopkins, of Morgan County. They have three chil- dren---Thomas S., Hannah S., George O. After his return from California he engaged in farming, and raising and dealing in live- stock. His farm contains 268 acres of good land under a high state of cultivation. Charles B. McCune, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Bern Township, Oct. 14, 1843, the fourth son of Samuel McCune. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, living with his parents until the breaking out of the late civil war, when he enlisted, in September, 1862, in Company I, Seventh Ohio Cav- alry. He participated in many hard-fought battles; among some of the more prominent were the siege of Atlanta and Nashville. Just after they raised the siege of Atlanta he was taken prisoner. While out gathering feed for the horses the enemy made a charge and took several, and while going toward the enemy's lines our sub- ject started for the woods and hid behind the trees and thus 710

escaped, walking six miles without shoes, hat or coat. He was the only one who escaped. Three others afterward died in Anderson- ville Prison. He served for three years and at no time was he unable to attend to his duty, although once sent to the hospital but returned to his regiment without orders. He was discharged July 4, 1865, and returned to his native home, where he engaged in the avocation of farming, which he has since followed. He was mar- ried Nov. 29, 1871, to Nannie Marquis, a daughter of William M. Marquis, a native of Noble County. They have two children--- Bernice G. and Effie I. He first purchased his present farm in 1871 containing fifty acres, and by strict attention to his pursuits he has added to it from time to time until he has a fine farm of 110 acres of good land under a high state of cultivation, where in 1880 he erected a fine residence. Aaron Ogg was born in Athens County, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1826. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was married Sept. 17, 1851, to Theodosia Wickham. Ten children were born to them---William W., Izola, Clarinda, Lucy, Elmer E., Arthur, Lydia, Lindley, Leonard and Charles. Mr. Ogg followed the avocation of farming until the breaking out of the late civil war, when he was among the first to answer to the call for men, and enlisted in August, 1861, in Company B, Fifty- third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He engaged in the battle of Pitts- burg Landing, when he was taken seriously ill and was unable for active duty, and received an honorable discharge in November, 1862, and returned to his home in Athens County and again en- gaged in farming. He now has a farm of seventy-five acres of good land. He is a member of the Columbus Golden Post, G. A. R., and also a member of A. F. & A. M., Amesville Lodge, No. 278. Andrew J. Ogg, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Athens County, Oct. 11, 1827, a son of Andrew and Lucy (Wright) Ogg, who came to Athens County among the first settlers. Our subject was reared on a farm. When he was about sixteen years of age he began work for himself, working out by the month for John Brown and George Walker for a period of ten years. About 1847 he purchased forty acres of land in Bern Township. He was mar- ried March 22, 1855, to Elizabeth Rathburn. Four sons and one daughter were born to them---David L., Sally A., Andrew L., William N. and Silas F. Mr. Ogg is a self-made man, having accumulated a large property by his own exertion and industry. 711

He has a farm of 400 acres of good land, where he makes a spe- cialty of growing live stock. About 1857 he moved to Morgan County where he resided for about sixteen years, after which he returned to his native county where he has since resided. He is a member of A. F. & A. M., Amesville Lodge, No. 278. Warren W. Selby was born in Washington County Ohio, Dec. 7, 1822, a son of D. Selby. When our subject was about twelve years of ago he came with his parents to Bern Township, Athens County, and settled on the farm where he has since lived. He re- ceived his education in the common schools. He was married Jan. 1, 1850, to Emily Garratson, a native of Jefferson County but a resident of Morgan County. Six children were born to them Ida E., Susan, J. W., F. M., A. D. and Metta A. Mr. Selby's home contains 300 acres of improved land with a fine brick residence erected in 1867, which with its surroundings has no su- perior in the township. He has one of the finest orchards in the county. Ezra H. Wolfe was born in Ames Township, Athens Co., Ohio Dec. 15, 1833, a son of George P. and Eliza (Walker) Wolfe. He was reared on a farm, and received his education in the common schools, residing with his parents until he was twenty- three years of age, when he went to Lee County, Ill., and remained two years. He was married Feb. 26, 1860, to Miss Polly Swett, a daughter of Johnson and Polly Swett, who were among the pio- neers of this county. By this union there are five children---Addie A., Lolie B., A. O., Lizzie L. and Frank C. After his marriage he remained on the old homestead for about three years, when he pur- chased a farm of sixty-six acres, which he added to from time to time until it contained 100 acres of improved land, where he resided seven years. In 1871 he purchased the farm where he now lives, in Homer Township, Morgan County. It contains 150 acres of good land, under a high state of cultivation. Mr. Wolfe takes great interest in all the political questions of the day, and casts his suffrage with the Republican party. Joseph H. Wolfe, Homer Township, Morgan County, was born in Porter County, Ind., Jan. 22, 1835, a son of Frederick and Mar- gret Wolfe, who were natives of Ames Township, Athens County When he was two years of age he came to Athens County with his parents, where he was reared on a farm and received his early edu- cation in the common schools, completing it in the Normal School at Albany, Lee Township, Athens Co., Ohio. After leaving 712

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