A Brief History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

106 Tuscarawas County we find the names of 2\Iaj. Henry Kaldenbaugh. Maj. Nathaniel, Col. Bartilson. Col. Woods. John Sergeant Ci. ft^appointed Maj., but declined promotion. ) Adjt. Charles Mitchiner, Capt. George H. Hildt and Capt. Samuel Slade. There were many other brave men who deserve mention, but space only permits the names of a few. While Tuscarawas County sent many trave men to the front to fight the nation's battles it was also the boyhood home of one whose name spread terror wherever it was known 1 throughout the Southwest. That man was William Clark Quantrill. the guerilla. He was born in 1337. His father emigrated to Dover from Hagerstown. Md., and for awhile operated a tinshop, then became Superintend ent of the Public School, in which position he died. Young Quantrill. at the age'of sixteen, became a teacher in one of the lower grades of this father’s schools. He afterward attended school at Fort Wayne, Ind., and re turned to Canal Dover in 1856. The next spring he went to Kansas, where he engaged for a time in teaching. Later he went to Santa Fe. drove a stage coach, taught school until thp’breaking out of the war. and then

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