GOSHEN TOWNSHIP .

JOHN Affolter,  manufacturer of bricks Beaver Dam road, near New Philadelphia, Goshen Township , was born in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, December 27. 1841.He is a son of .Stephen and Elizabeth Affolter. both natives of Switzerland , and was reared In his native land, there learning the stone mason's trade, at which he worked many yeas. In 1866, he came to America , living one year at Pilttsburgh, Penn. He then came to New Philadelphia , this county, and worked at his trade till the fall 1882. when be accepted  the position as manager of the brick-yard for T B. Townsend, of Zanesville, Ohio He has  lately leased the yard and operates it himself.  Some 5,000 brick are molded per day, and about fifteen men and boys are employed about the yard. The bricks are sold to the county for the court house, also  private parties in and about New Philadelphia  In 1877, Mr. Affolter bought eight acres of land on the Beaver Dam, road, near the city, part of which is the brick-yard.  He was married, April 4, 1872 to Anna Rentz. a native of Switzerland . They have six children—John, Charlie, Frank, Ella. Herman and an infant daughter. Mr. Affolter and family are members of the German Lutheran Church  New Philadelphia .

George Arnold, a prominent farmer of Goshen Township, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, October 15, 1818. His father John Arnold, was a native of Ireland, and a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio for many years. He finally removed to Morgan County, Ohio, where he died about twenty years ago. He married Elizabeth Hume, also a native of Ireland, who died about 1842. They were the parents of twelve children- five sons and seven daughters- five of whom are living, our subject and four sisters. One brother Robert Arnold was a prominent physician of New Philadelphia for some years, but is now deceased. George Arnold was reared in Jefferson County, Ohio and when twenty-four years of age went to Iowa, where he remained four years. He then came to this county and first bought a farm of eighty acres in Union Township, but sold it soon after and purchased 100 acres of his present far,. He now owns 226 acres, 190 of which are under cultivation. Mr. Arnold is a Democrat; has been Trustee of Goshen Township, also Director of School District No. 2 for twelve years. He was married, March 17, 1838, to Nancy Neel, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio. Of their eight children, five are now living - John, married Mary Parry, and resides in New Philadelphia; Adeline, wife of Oliver Junkins, a farmer of Fairfield Township; Kirkwood, married Caroline Wills, and resides on the home farm; Caroline, wife of George Craig, a hotel-keeper of Dresden, Ohio; and Elzira.

Alex Bartholomew, proprietor of the Union Hotel, Pike Run Goshen Township, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, December 24, 1829. His father John Bartholomew, was a native of Germany, and came to America when sixteen years of  age. About 1836, he came to Tuscarawas County, and located a farm on Beaver Dam. He lived there some years and subsequently removed to Hancock County, Ohio, where he died in 1856. He married Rebecca Smith, also a native of Harrison County, Ohio, who died shortly after their removal to this county. She was the mother of four children, three living; one son John, enlisted in the Union Army and was killed in some battle. After Mrs. Bartholomew's death, our subject and a brother went to work on a farm, and the former lived with  strangers for over twenty years. He finally bought fifty acres of land in Union Township, where he resided for twenty-eight years. In 1881, he located in Pike Run and erected the Union Hotel, where he enjoys a fair run of custom. The farm is leased to a tenant. Mr. Bartholomew is Republican in politics, was Trustee of Union Township two years, Supervisor six years, and has held the latter position in the township for one year; was a member of Union Township Board of Education nine years and School Director for fifteen years. He was  married February 12, 1854 to Prova A. Salmon, a native of Union Township. They have had ten children, eight living- Harriet N., Levina J Sherman, Cora B. John, S. Emma, Charles H.  and Minnie A. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew are members of the Rockford Methodist Episcopal Church.