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��and Lewie, Jan. 8, 1873. Lewie died Oct. 22, 1873, and was buried at St. Johns. Mr. Beveridge became a member of Monroe Lodge, No. 224, I. 0. 0. F., in 18-56. After liis return from the army, he united with Sturges Lodge, No. 357, at Newville, of which lodge he is at the present time an active and energetic member ; he has attained to the highest rank in his lodge, and is assiduous in the discharge of all his duties. , He has been a very active and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church about sixteen years.

CALHOON, NOBLE, farmer; P. 0. Newville : was born in Pennsylvania, whence he came to Richland Co.; he g^ettled on the farm one mile north of New- ville along with his father, where he stayed till his marriage; .John Stanton his boyhood friend relates this, and says he (John) came to this county in 1835, and settled at Newville ; Mr. Calhoon has been very success- ful financially in life, as his broad acres and well-filled granary will prove ; he and wife have raised a family of children who are doing business on their own account, being well started in life. ' CARLISLE, FREEMAN, farmer; P. 0. Newville. Mr. Carlisle's grandfather was of German descent ; his father came from Holland at a very early pei-iod of our country's history; Freeman's grandfather was a farmer, he served through the Revolutionary war on the American side ; he served as a Captain, afterward is supposed to have been promoted to a colonelship before the close of the war, he was at the battle of Bunker Hill and many other engagements ; he was the sire of two sons and two daughters, his wife's name being Darvis ; his eldest son, James C. (Freeman'a father), was born in 1780 ; he lived in the State of New Jersey, and was by occupation a farmer ; was married to Lydia Hart in 1807, they had six sons and five daughters : they removed to Columbiana Co., Ohio, 1809, when he teamed over the mountains between Pittsburgh and New York ; when the war of 1812 broke out, he enlisted under Gen. Harrison and seiwed till the close of that sanguinary conflict; he helped to erect the block-house at Jerome- ville, also the one on the Clear Fork, near the present site of Robert Darling's house; he removed to Richland Co. in the fall of 1832, and bought 80 acres in Sec. 4, which he and his sons proceeded to clear and farm till his death, which occurred May 27, 1865 ; his fifth son, Freeman, was boi-n June 5, 1829 ; stayed at home till his majority. Was married to Margaret Baughman in 1851 by Esq. Kile ; the only fruit of this union was one son, Albert, when the mother died; in 1854, was again married to Sarah Ellen Brookings, whose father is a shoemaker and owner of a farm; by his second marriage, Freeman had four children viz.: first, Lydia C, whodied Jan. 14th, 1877; second, Chas. E. C: third, Mary Ellen C; fourth, Sarah E. C; MrCarlisle has held several minor oflBces; he owns the old homestead on which he has lately erected an elegant house and other improvements ; he and wife united with the U. B. Church in 1874, of which they have since been bright and shining lights. His brother James was in the Mexican war, and died at Point Isabel ; also has a brother who went to California where he saw many ups and downs, became an honored and respected citizen.

GATE, ANTHONY, farmer ; P. 0. Butler ; Anthony Gates was born in Germany Jan. 6, 1825; his father,

��John Gate, Sr., was a German ; became to Richland Co. and settled in Washington Township, in 1831, where he bought 160 acres of land ; Anthony was raised to farm work. On 1846, he was married to Margaret Baker, daughter of Christian Baker, who was a citizen of Jefferson Township; he and wife are the parents of three sons and five daughters, all of them are alive, viz., Cyrus, Lecta, Mary, Sanford, Jemima, Anthony, Nora, Alwilda. Cyrus married to Elizabeth Freeh efer. Lecta married to Albert Zelliner. Mary married to George Freehefer, and Jemima married to William Mickey. Mr. Gate bought 120 acres of land in Wyandot Co.; sold it and bought 80 acres near Lexington ; sold this and pur- chased 120 acres below Darlington ; sold out, removed to Wood Co., and bought 280 acres, sold and bought 240 acres where he now lives in Sec. 26, northeast quarter Range 17, Township 21; afterward sold to his son-in-law, William Mickey, 55 acres, he now owns 185 acres in the same section ; Mr. Gate has always been a hard-working man, who has accumulated the most of his wealth by hard labor ; he followed grain thrashing for sixteen years (his son is now engaged in the same business), he is also a member of the Clear Fork Grange. His brother, William Gate, entered the 100-day service during the late war at 19 years of age ; contracted dis- ease, of which he died shortly after he was brought home. Mr. Gate's farm is especially adapted to the pro- duction of wheat, and is beautifully located.

GATE, JACOB, farmer; P. 0. Newville ; was born in Germany Sept. 27, 1832 ; he is the second son of John and Catharine Gate ; his mother's maiden name was Doup ; his parents came to this country when he was but 2 years old ; his father entered a quarter-section of land in the southeast part of Washington Township, Richland Co., where he still continues to reside. He is the father of ten children by one wife, five sons and five daughters ; four sons and three daughters of whom are living and have children. Mrs. Gate died in 1862, and is buried on the farm. Mr. Gate is now about 84 years old ; he is quite hale and hearty for one of his years, and bids fair to live several years longer; he has perform- ed a great deal of hard labor, and witnessed many solemn changes in his time. Jacob Gate was married to Miss Catharine, second daughter of Henry Groun, of Jeffer- son Township, in this county, in 1854; she was a Peun- sylvanian by birth, and was born in 1830. Jacob Cate farmed for his father for a share of the crops, for sev- eral years ; May 8, 1865, he purchased, of his father, the northeast quarter of Sec. 15, in Worthington Town- ship, where he has since resided ; this is a choice farm, and Mr. Cate is a model farmer; he seldom fails to raise good crops ; ^Slr. Cate and wife are the parents of eleven children, all living, save one who died in infancy; of the living there are six sons and four daughters, named in the order of their births, as follows : Elizabeth, David, Mary, Jacob, John, Charles, Margaret, Isadora, Philip and William ; the eldest is about 28, and the youngest 5 years old.

CRAMER, REUBEN, farmer; P. 0. Butler. George Cramer, father of Reuben Cramer, was born in Berks Co., Penn., in 1798; he was of German descent; his ancestors were among the first settlers of Pennsyl- vania ; in the days of his boyhood and early manhood, he followed teaming for about eleven years, between

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