History of Licking County Ohio United States of America

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Joseph Oriel Eaton, painter, was born in Licking county, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1829. He was educated in art in New York city and because especially well-known as a portrait painter. He was elected an associate National academician and a member of other art organizations. His paintings include: Landscape View on the Hudson, (1868); Moral Instruction (1869); Portrait of R. S. Gifford (1869); Portrait of the Rev. George H. Hepworth (1870); Dawning Maternity (1870); The Lost Chapter (1871); Little Nell and Her Grandfather (1871); The Greek Water-Carrier (1872); and many portraits. He died in Yonkers, N.Y., Feb. 7, 1875.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles Griffin, soldier, was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1826. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1847. He served in the war with Mexico, commanding a company of artillery in Gen. Robert Patterson's division, taking part in the battle of Cerro Gordo and the capture of Jalapa. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1849 and engaged in the campaign against the Navajo Indians, 1849-54, and on general frontier service, 1854-59. He was instructor of artillery practice at West Point, 1859-61; commanded the "West Point Battery" at Bull Run, July 21, 1861; was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, June 9, 1862; served with McClellan's army, gaining distinction for action at Gaines's Mill; commanded the artillery at Malvern Hill and with it resisted the assault of General Magruder on his brigade and turned seeming defeat into victory. He was ordered to the support of General Pope at Manassas and after the battle of Aug. 30, 1862, was arrested on the charge of "spending the day in making ill-natured strictures upon the commanding general." He was tried, acquitted, and promoted to the command of a division which he led at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and in all the engagements from the Wilderness to Five Forks. He commanded the 1st division of the 5th army corps at Appomattox and succeeded Maj.-Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren to the command of the corps and by direction of General Grant he received the arms and colors of the army of Northern Virginia after the surrender. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Aug. 1, 1864; brevetted colonel in the regular army Aug. 18, 1864, and brigadier-general and major-general, May 13, 1865. He was promoted colonel of the 35th infantry, July 28, 1866, commanded the district of Maine, 1865-66, the department of Texas with headquarters at Galveston, 1866-67, and the department of the Gulf on the removal of Gen. P. H. Sheridan, March 11, 1867. He refused to transfer his headquarters from Galveston to New Orleans as yellow fever was epidemic in the former city, and he reported to headquarters that "to leave Galveston at such a time was like deserting one's post in time of battle." He died of yellow fever at Galveston, Texas, Sept. 15, 1867.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Henry Crevitt, farmer, was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts, in October or November, 1755, and was the son of Richard Trevitt and Elizabeth (Brown) Trevitt. His father emigrated with two brothers from England before the outbreak of the war of the Triple Alliance, and settled in the above mentioned locality. He, the father, was engaged in the military service of his country against the French and Indians, and while serving in the army lost his life in that service at Fort George, on the lake of the same name. The maternal grandmother of the subject of this notice was a sister of General Putnam, a name prominent in the revolutionary annals of America. His mother, about six years subsequent to her husband's death, was again married to Amos Flint. The family then moved to Reading, Massachusetts, whence, after a lapse of five years, the various members removed to that part of Amherst, New Hampshire, subsequently set apart as Mount Vernon, where Amos Flint purchased a farm, on which the entire family resided until the decease of both its heads. He served as a volunteer soldier, or "minute man," for nearly the entire period of time of the revolutionary conflict. He participated in many of those unequal engagements of the revolutionary struggle, and concluded his active services in the field in the memorable "Bennington Fight," under the gallant Stark, which contributed so much to bring the great conflict to a successful close; and for his services during that eventful period was, up to the date of his demise, in the receipt of a pension from the government. In June, 1829, he left the farm at Mount Vernon, and settled in St. Albans township, Licking county, Ohio, where he ever afterward permanently resided. He was one of the race of hardy pioneers and adventurous settlers to whose courage and calm endurance must be attributed the after prosperity of the country. And at ninety-five years of age, he was able to walk unassisted, while his intellectual faculties were in an unusually excellent state of preservation. He was married when thirty years of age, at the residence of the officiating clergyman, Rev. Mr. Goodrich, Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, to Jane Thompson. At the date of their marriage, her parents were dead. Her grandmother, who had emigrated from Scotland, lived with the couple subsequently until her decease. The issue of that union was seven sons and two daughters, of whom all but one son arrived at full manhood or womanhood. His wife died in the fall of 1816, and April 27th, 1850, occurred his decease. July 3d, 1850, his remains were removed to the Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, where a suitable monument has been erected to mark the resting-place of one whose long, eventful life as soldier, citizen, parent and friend challenges the admiration of all who appreciate the highest order of perfect manhood and of human excellence.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

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