The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-07-19

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| Christian Rokobl came to this coun.
ty soon after a settlement was made.
He built the brick house now standing
on the southeast corner Of Main and
Second streets, and died in 1924. He
was of German birth. .sa s13u qgNa
1 Jacob Beck, ,.sen,, o native Of Wur-,
temherg, settled on The west side of
Second between Main and Wheeling
streets, and carried on the blacksmith
ing business, and died IN 1889. aged 62'
years, lie was the fatl er OF Jacob
and George, G. Beck, and presented
the lot to ST. Peters Church.
| Henry Sutzen. a Switzer, and tan
ner, settled on the west side of Front,
opposite the west end ofChesnut street.
He died in 1922, at an early time ofliie.
| George Little, from Berkeley coun-
ty. Virginia, was a pioneer, and died in
1916, aged 45 years The principal part
of his largo family still resides in this
vicinity. John N. and George Henry
ARE his sons ~ -.'"''h '.' 20. ~
Robert F. Slaughter became rePi
dent of Hooking Valley in 1893, and as
soon as Fairfield county was organized,
opened a law Office ard commenced
practice. He was elected Senator in
l803-and President of the Court of
Common Pleas Of Fairfield county in
1905, and throughout the remainder of
his life was frequently chosen 10 repre-
sent the county in the General Assem-
bly,. He resided but a short time in
town, and that in the latter part of bis
days. He was a native of Virginia,
and had practiced his profession in
Kentucky, and Chillicothe, previous to
his settlement in Fairfield county,.
He died At his residence near Lincas
ter in 1876, in the 18th year OF his age
| Henry Johns, a native of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, was citizen of
Lancaster, Ohio. in 1902 or 3, or about
that time. He afterwards, lived a few
years in Greenfield township-then at
! the mouth OF Rushcreek, and in 1882
or 3, removed to Fort Wayne. Indiana,
where he died about eight or nine
years ago, at an advanced age, per-
haps eighty years or more.
/ Michael Garaghty, born in Ireland,
opened a store of dry goods on the
north side of Main St, near the Public
square, in 1904 or g. In short time
aiterward he was appointed Clerk of
the Commissioners of Fairfield county,
then elected Commissioner, and on the
organization OF the Lancaster, Ohio,
Bank, in 1876. Of which Ger'l P Beech.
er was first President, was appointed
Cashier, ah Office he held during it's ex-
istence; and closed this life in 1912, at
the nge of SO years. lie, at the time
of his death resided on the south west
corner of Main and Fourth streets =
During the war of 1912, ho served as
Paymaster of Col. John Williamson's g
Regiment, and was stationed at Upper
I Saniusky.
/ John Graham, from Maryland, was a
merchant on Main street as carly as
1903 or 4, and died in 1906 He, Judge
Sco6eld and E. B. Merwin were broth.
ers in law, having married sisters by
the name Of Reed of Allegheny Co., Md.
| Walter Turner, was resident as
early as 1904 or 3, and carried on the
hating business on Main street, in the
storo rooms formerly occupied by
Matthews & ScoGed. He was from
MAJ tlnsburg, Va, and died many
years since. .T- 81 13r ua5 1.H
! In 1901 or 2, Jacob Wolford, became
the owner of tho lot southeast corner
of Main and Second streets. He was
q halter, and carried on the business.
lie is no more. aI'.fa. Hii Hti'
William II. Tong, put up buildings
on the west half of the lot on the enorth
east corner of Main street and Center
alley, at an early period OF the town
and manufactured spinning wheels, nm
article much used in those days. He
was the proprietor of Carroll.
| Alexander Sanderson emigrated
from the State of Pennsylvania to
Kentucky, in 1897, and thence to the
Hooking Valley in the spring of 1900.
In the early part of 1901 he moved in
to the cabin at the crossings Of Hook
ing aflerthe Coates had changed their
residence to the new town. and lived
! there until the spring of 1902, whom he
moved to a cabin which stood near the
west end of Mill street Of the present
city, and resided thero some two or
three years. He died ut his residence
in Perry county. in 1915, at good old
age. He was the father OF the writer
of this aiticle. b, s.1araa.!
John Trump, was n pioneer settler
OF the tbwn, and was living or the
north west corner of Main street and
the Public Square when his SON Col
P. Van Trump was born, in 1910. Flo
died at his residence in Franklin coun-
ty, Ohio, in 1885, aged SO years. a1
|, John U. Giesy, native Of Switzer-
land, Europe, came to Liberty town
/ ship, with his fathers family in 1904
In 1909 he became an employee Of
John ,Shurr. and in a few years after
. com menced business for himself on the
. south side OF Mai1 street, west Of and
adjoining the present Hooking Valley
3 National Bank. "A few years before
: his death he retired from the hustle
and tolls Of town life to his farm, halt
/, a milo south Of our city, where closed
his life in 1856, aged 6S years. ,.1ol 20,
: Jacob Shaeffer was living here as
(. early as o 1909. /. He was o eaddler by
, troda HE -raa;danon woa 0n aouth