CLARK TOWNSHIP.
The earliest settlers in Clark township are understood to have been the following: Parker Buckalew, from Virginia, came in about 1817, settling in Killbuck valley; Isaac Hoagland, from Virginia, was here at a very early day; Abraham Miller, also a Virginian, came in about 1819; Andrew Weatherwat, a New Yorker, arrived about same date; Piatt Williamson, from Virginia.
These were all farmers, and encountered the hardships and perils-in that line of work.
About 1820, Eli Fox, originally from the State of New Hampshire, but directly from Zanesville, built a mill on Killbuck, to which the settlers had to blaze paths. The mill was burned in 1829. Before it was built the people went to Knox county for flour, or got it at Zanesville, as well as other goods, which they received in exchange for logs cut on the banks of the Killbuck, and rafted down to that place.
John and William Craig, from Western Pennsylvania, fixed their stakes on Doughty's fork of Killbuck before 1820.
Joel Glover, from Jefferson county, long holding the important office of justice of the peace, and who (as well as his children) has "stood high" among his fellow-citizens, dates his location among the hills of Killbuck, 1829.
It is understood that the township was named in honor of old Samuel Clark, long a county commissioner, who was among the earliest and most highly esteemed citizens of the Killbuck valley.

 

* See" Biographical Sketches."

Historical Collections of Coshocton County Ohio 1764-1876 

William E Hunt, 1876

CHAPTER IV  NOT'ICES OF SOME OF THE EARLIEST SETTLER8, AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST PERTAINING TO EACH TOWNSHIP.

Transcribed by: Sandy Payne 

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