religious harmony until his death, which preceded her own
about two and one-half months.
John V. Lasher was born August 8th, 1799, in Dutchess
county, New York, and married Catharine Martin, October
24th, 1820. In 1825 they moved to Sullivan county, New
York. In 1835, in company with his brother-in-law, Frederic
Tuckerman, they came to Ohio and settled on a farm in Rut-
land township. They had a large family of nine children:
William V., Charles, George V., Margaret, Mrs. Green;
Mary, Mrs. Tuckerman; Beattie, Mrs. Stansbury; Carrie,
Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Catharine Lasher died in 1864. After-
wards Mr. Lasher married Mrs. Chase, widow of Charles
Chase. Mr. Lasher seems to have favored all religious and
political reforms. First a Whig; then one of two or three
who voted for Birney, the Liberty Party man, and in his last
years for the Prohibition Party. He died in 1864.
STOW AND THE WOLVES.
An incident related by Mrs. Eliza Watkins, nee' Stow:
Mr. Erastus Stow, at an early period, when a young man, was
employed by Captain James Merrill to stay with his family
in Salem while he (Captain Merrill) was taking a vessel from
Marietta to the ocean. Young Stow started with ten bushels
of corn to get ground on the Ohio or Muskingum. After
being gone a week, he returned to the mouth of Leading
creek. He then took a bushel of meal and started for home
and walked as far as Mr. John Miles, where he stopped and
borrowed a horse and proceeded on his way. Before he
reached home it became dark, and wolves began to howl and
made an attack on him. Both he and the horse were fright-
ened. He threw off the bag of meal, put his feet on the
horse's flanks and his arms around the animal's neck and
made all speed to his home. When he arrived, Mrs. Merrill
and family came out, having heard the noise, and with
