Lewis Cass

Lewis Cass was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, on the 9th day of October, 1782. His father, Major Jonathan Cass, was a soldier of the revolution, who enlisted as a private the day after the battle of Lexington. He served in the army till the close of the war, and was in all the important battles in the Eastern and Middle States, where he was distinguished for his valor and good conduct, and attained the rank of captain. He was afterwards a major in Wayne’s army, and, after a life of usefulness and honor, died at an advanced age, at his residence near Dresden, in Muskingum county, Ohio. His son, Lewis Cass, the subject of this biography, emigrated, at the age of seventeen, to the then North-western Territory, and settled first at Marietta, in the county of Washington. He was thus, as he was recently called by the Convention of Ohio, one of the “early pioneers ” of that immense western region, which has already risen to such a magnitude in our own days, and is destined to attain one so much greater hereafter. The country north of the Ohio then contained one territory and about 20,000 people.

The Lemert Family

The ancestors of this family were probably from Alsace, Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania about the year 1760, afterwards my grandfather migrated to Loudoun county, Virginia, where he died about 1780. His wife died in Coshocton county, Ohio, early in the present century. Lewis Lemert, the grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, accompanied his father to Loudoun county, Virginia, afterwards settled and married in Fauquier county, Virginia, to Elizabeth Glasscock. They raised six sons and one daughter. Lewis Lemert died in 1817. His widow and family came to Dresden, Muskingum county, Ohio, in the autumn of the same year, and I think, raised the first house in Dresden. The names of the sons were Thaddeus, Laban, Beverly, Leroy, Ferdinand, and Abner. The latter the only one surviving. The daughter’s name, Minerva. The widow and younger children removed to Licking county, Perry township, where they owned a considerable body of land, and laid out the village to which she affixed her own name (Elizabeth). She erected a meetinghouse at her own expense, dedicated to the use of the Disciples, of which she became an active and zealous member. She manifested a great amount of energy and business tact, and filled well her part in pioneer life, and died in August, 1834, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. Thaddeus died in Dresden, in 1820.

Joseph Shaw

Manufacturer: born Newburgh, N. Y., 1840; son of Joseph and Mary (Williams) Shaw; educated in Putnam Academy, Zanesville, Ohio; married, Dresden, Ohio, Oct. 1881, Amanda A. Marshall; seven children. Engaged as pharmacist 1869-1881; assisted in organizing The Citizens’ National Bank and its successor old Citizens’ National Bank, of which he is vice-president, Muskingum Coffin Co., of which he is president. The Shaw & Welty Shirt Co., snd the Hercules Pants Co., president of both; president The Elgin Silver Plate Co.. Gold Hill Mining Milling & Power Co., organizer of both; vicepresident Guardian Trust Co., organizer; and director and organizer Homestone Building & Loan Co.; was president of Municipal Board of Sinking Fund Trustees, organization, until 1909. Served in 3d and 62d Ohio Voluntear Infantrv, during Civil War, started as private, and mustered out as captain. Republican; Presbyterian. Member Grand Army of Republic (commander). Club: Zane. Address: 328 Woodlawn Avenue, Zanesville.

Source: page 774 of Who’s Who in Finance, Banking and Insurance, Volume 1, edited by John William Leonard, published by Who’s who in finance, incorporated., 1911.