(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 750 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Noble county, and also at Derwent. He was married August 24, 1892, to Leeta Secrest, daughter of Valentine and Catherine (Rogers) Secrest. She was born and reared at Hartford. Her father, Valentine Secrest, died September 6, 1883. He was born near Hartford and was the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Spaid) Secrest and the brother of William Secrest, whose sketch appears on another page. Henry Secrest was born August 18, 1785, and Elizabeth Spaid was born on July 22, 179o. She was the daughter of George Spaid, who was a Hessian soldier, brought over to assist England during the American Revolution. He was captured at the battle of Trenton and was taken to Virginia and colonized there. He came to Ohio in a very early day. Valentine Secrest lived most of his life at Hartford, Ohio, and he was a farmer. He married Catherine Rogers, daughter of Lorenzo and Jane (Suddeth) Rogers. Lorenzo Rogers came from Maryland and was an uncle of Lilburn C. Rogers, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson had five children : Ruth Secrest, Lowell R., Lillian, William Byran, who died when eighteen months old, and DeWitt Cramblett. After his marriage Mr. Nicholson taught school for a time, but most of the time since has engaged very successfully in coal mining, also devoting a portion of his time to farming. He is a Democrat in politics and has taken considerable interest in the principles of his party. He has held several township offices, was assessor for several terms and also land appraiser. He has been complimented on the skill and ability in his appraisement. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Pleasant City. He and his wife belong to the English Lutheran church at Hartford. ELIJAH B. HOOPMAN. Although the life of Elijah B. Hoopman, one of Guernsey county's best remembered and highly honored citizens of a past generation, was not entirely devoid of obstacle, and whose rose held many a thorn, he, with indomitable courage, pressed onward with his face set toward higher things and refused to be subdued, and he spent his last years surrounded by plenty and comfort, enjoying the friendship and esteem of a wide circle of friends as a result of his long life of honor and usefulness, and today his memory is greatly revered by the host of warm friends he left behind. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 751 Mr. Hoopman waS born in Harford county, Maryland, March 10, 1834. He was the son of Isaac and Lucinda (Rogers) Hoopman and was one of a family of five children that grew to maturity. The other four were, William H., whose record appears elsewhere in this volume; Roland R., of Zanesville ; Isaac W., deceased, formerly of Kansas, and who, in early life, kept a general store at Hartford, this county ; Mrs. Lizzie Johnson, of Pleasant City ; Catherine died when a young woman, and Christian was a young man when he died. Isaac Hoopman's father came from Germany. Isaac Hoopman, wife and children came to Ohio from Harford county, Maryland, in 1837, making the long overland journey in wagons, arriving in Guernsey county on November 7, 1837. when Elijah B. was only three years old. The family located about one and one-half miles southeast of Byesville, where Isaac Hoopman bought a farm and made the family home, at which Elijah B. grew to manhood and lived until his marriage, having worked hard developing the place amid pioneer conditions, and obtained what schooling he could in the old-time district schools. His marriage took place on November 12, 1860, when he was united with Elizabeth Thompson, who was born September 18, 1842, near King's mine, Center township, this county, where she grew to maturity. She is the daughter of James Thompson, an early pioneer of this county, who located near Kingsis mine. She is a sister of John W. Thompson, now of Center township. Elijah B. Hoopman became the owner of a fine farm about a half mile south of his father's home and lived there until 1899. He followed general farming and stock raising and was very successful, being a hard worker and a good manager. He became widely known as a sheep man, having handled large droves, often as many as six hundred at a time. He prospered and owned three excellent farms, his home place consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, and two others in the same part of the township of one hundred and twenty-five acres each. About 1899 he retired from active work and moved into Byesville, where he spent the rest of his life in a cozy and modernly equipped home, being called to his reward on October 7, 1905. He was a man of sterling character, industrious, temperate, scrupulously honest in all the relations of life. He had been a member of the Methodist Protestant church for forty-nine years, and was always loyal to its principles and faithful to all its duties. In his death the church lost one of its most liberal supporters and one of her most valued official members, being at the time of his death chairman of the board of parsonage trustees. He was widely known and highly esteemed by all who knew him. 752 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Mrs. Hoopman, a lady of many estimable traits and beloved by a wide circle of friends, still makes her home in Byesville. She, too, is a worthy member of the Methodist Protestant church. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Elijah B. Hoopman, namely: Lucinda, wife of David Burt, lives in Byesville; James A., of Byesville; Parmer E., of Byesville; Bertha L., wife of Ed. C. Smith, lives on the farm between Cambridge and Byesville. ELZA D. TROTT. The gentleman whose name forms the caption of this biographical review does not need to be formally introduced to the readers of this history owing to the fact that he has long been known to all classes of Guernsey county citizens as a man of progressive ideas and a leader in local affairs who merits the high esteem in which he is held. Elza D. Trott was born July 16, 1868, in Center township, this county, and is the son of Benjamin Griffith and Eliza (Martell) Trott. Grandfather Martell was a man of prominence here in the pioneer days and was one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal church at Cambridge. There is a tradition that the Martells, or Martels, were of the nobility of France, one member of the royal family who married one of the lower station, being disinherited and deprived of his rank. This family is probably descended from the great military genius of Europe, Charles Martel, prominent in the middle ages. The father was born in Maryland and the mother in Guernsey county, Ohio, The paternal grandparents of Elza D. Trott were Richard and Mary (Simmons) Trott. The parents of Eliza Martell came from the isle of Guernsey, in the English Channel, among the early pioneers here. Benjamin G. Trott was born in Maryland, about twenty-two miles from Baltimore on the Chesapeake bay. He came to Guernsey county with his parents when he was twelve years of age, in 1844. They located in Valley township, near Hartford, and there he grew to maturity. Upon reaching manhood he married Mrs. Eliza Jane Davis, widow of John Davis. Her parents were Nicholas and Judith (Blamfield) Martell. When these parents came from the isle of Guernsey to this country they had two children, Eliza Jane being one of the last children born to .them, her birth occurring on April 16, 183o. Nicholas Martell and wife were, as stated, among the early settlers here, and they owned salt works GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 753 three miles north of Cambridge. Later they lived near where the present tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad are located, about four miles east of Cambridge, and there Mr. Martell died, Benjamin Trott was originally a farmer and for almost fifty .years was engaged in mining, from the time the mining interests began to develop in this county until his advanced age made it necessary for him to abandon such work. His death occurred in September, 1904, his widow surviving until January 31, 1909. Both are .buried in the cemetery at Byesville, where the family had resided for a number of years. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin G. Trott, all of whom are living, with one exception ; they are, Flora, deceased; Virginia Frances married David Cox, of Jackson township ; Anna May married William Hutton, of Byesville ; John W. married Rose Smith and lives at Byesville ; Elza D., of this review ; Nancy married John L. Nicholson, of Byesville ; T. Elmer is professor of mathematics of Scio College. He took the degree of Master of Science at Muskingum in 1908. When only twelve years of age he passed the examination and secured license to teach school. He was one of the youngest in Ohio to receive a state school certificate, and he is now a member of the staff of nautical computers of the United States Nautical Observatory, calculating the paths of the stars for the same. He also has the degree of Master of Arts. Ida Belle married Albrow Smith, of Byesville. Elza D. Trott was educated in the public schools of his home township. When twelve years of age he went to work in the mines and was employed in every phase of work about the mines, from mule driving to engineer and practical mining. He was thus employed until he was twenty-one years of age. He then attended school at Byesville and the following winter he taught in the Black Top district, Richland township. The following summer found him in the mines again, in fact, for several years he worked in the mines during the summer and taught school in the winter. He entered the Northwestern University at Ada, Ohio, later studied at Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, for four spring and summer terms, pursuing the scientific course. Before going to Ada and Muskingum College he had attended the summer normal at Byesville for several terms. Following his college course he taught school for seventeen years in Guernsey county. During this time he was superintendent of schools at Pleasant City for a year. He also taught in the Byesville schools. During all the years he lived in Byesville he walked to and from home to his different schools, eight in number, during the seventeen years, and he was regarded as among Guernsey county's most progressive and able instructors. 754 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Mr. Trott was married, October 14, 1903, to Alice Moseley, daughter of Lemuel O. and Mary (Courtney) Moseley. The father was a native of Ohio but the mother was born in Ireland. She came to America when about twenty- one years of age. Lemuel O. Moseley was a son of Captain Moseley, a man of considerable prominence. The Moseley family were residents of Noble county, Ohio, at the time of the daughter's marriage, she being engaged in the millinery business in Byesville. Both her parents are still living at Orrville, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Trott no children have been born, but they have two children as their wards, the children of Mrs. Trott's brother, Emerson Moseley. Their mother was burned to death by her clothing catching fire in her home at Mount Vernon, Ohio. Politically, Mr. Trott is a Republican and he has always been active in party affairs and is .a man well informed on general issues. He served as justice of the peace in Byesville for five years prior to 1908, during which time he heard about fifteen hundred cases in addition to his teaching duties. He was regarded as a very able judicial officer, his decisions being fair and unbiased and not one was ever reversed at the hands of a higher tribunal. In the summer of 1908 Ile was nominated by the Republicans of Guernsey county for clerk of courts and was elected the following November and he is now serving his first term, and was nominated for a second term in 1910, having made a very creditable and praiseworthy record. Owing to his universal popularity, his nomination for this office a second time was met with approval by members of all parties. He is a member of Red Prince Lodge No. 250, Knights of Pythias, at Byesville, Ohio, and is also a member of the Masonic lodge at Cambridge. He has passed through all the chairs in the Knights of Pythias lodge and has been county deputy for two terms at different times. While an active miner he was a member of the Miners' Union and other labor organizations, including the American Federation of Labor, also the musicians' organization or union, and he has been very active in their affairs. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church; he has been a trustee of the same for about fifteen years, and he has also been both teacher and Sunday school superintendent and a class leader in the church. His wife was also active in all Sunday school work. Mr. Trott was also leader of the church choir for a number of years at Byesville, where he and his wife held membership. On assuming the office of county clerk he moved to Cambridge, the family home being at No. 135 North Eleventh street. Mr. and Mrs. Trott are noted for their work in the temperance cause, and the latter in the work of the young people's organization of the church of which she is a member. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 755 JOHN R. NICHOLSON. A representative agriculturist and liberal minded citizen of Guernsey county is John R. Nicholson, living in the north edge of Jackson township, who was born a short distance north of there, in the south edge of Cambridge township, in 1858. He is the oldest son of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Nicholson, a complete record of whose lives appear on another page of this work. As told in the record of Andrew W. Nicholson, the father bought the farm adjoining on the south, where he now resides, the home having been built and the place improved by the father, who was a successful farmer. John R. grew to maturity on the home farm and attended the neighboring schools. He was married in 1881 to Mary F. Burt, daughter of Nathan and Rosana Jane (Hall) Burt, the former born in Jackson township, this county, October 20, 1829. He was the son of John and Mary (Reed) Burt and was a cousin of Daniel Burt's father, Eli. The ancestry of the Burt family is to be found in the sketch of David Burt, appearing in this work. His parents were pioneers in Guernsey county and occupied land in section 13, Jackson township. He married Rosanna J. Hall, March 7, 1854, and to this union nine children were born, of whom Mrs. Nicholson is the third in order of birth. Nathan Burt and wife lived a short time in Washington county, Ohio, but he spent most of his days in Jackson township where he followed farming and owned two hundred and twenty-six acres at the time of his death, February 20, 1903, his wife having preceded him to the grave in 1882. He was a devout Christian all his life, and he and his wife were for many years members of Mt. Zion Baptist church, and he remained so until his death, being one of the most consistent and faithful members of the church, always giving the duties of the church precedence over everything else. He was an earnest, quiet, honorable man, whose life was a monument to the faith which he professed. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson have two daughters, Ethel and Pearl; the former married Arthur Davis and lives near the old home in Jackson township, and they have three children, Robert, Edna and Calvin; Pearl Nicholson is at home 'with her parents. When Andrew W. Nicholson & Sons became interested in the natural gas business about 1905, John R., of this review, became a member of the company and, although he still lives on the old home place, he devotes most of his energies to the gas business. However, he does not neglect his farm, but keeps it in an excellent condition, his house, barns and outbuildings being among the most substantial and well kept in the township. He is very suc- 756 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. cessful as a business man. He and his wife both belong to the old Cambridge Baptist church, in which he is a trustee. He is prominent in the affairs of his community. JAMES ARTHUR HOOPMAN. One of the progressive and public-spirited citizens of Byesville, and a man who is held in high esteem because of his exemplary life, is James Arthur Hoopman, scion of an old and worthy family of Guernsey county and who has spent his life within her borders. He was born two miles south of Byesville, in Jackson township, in 1865, the son of Elijah B. and Mary E. (Thompson) Hoopman, who are given full mention in a separate sketch in this volume. The subject lived on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age, assisting with the general. work about the place and attending the common schools. Because of a sunstroke, he waS compelled to give up farming, and he came to Byesville in 1887 and launched out in the hardware business, buying out the Campbell hardware store. He continued in that business successfully until 1902, with the exception of about six months, when he sold out and began business at another place in Byesville. He was also conducting a plumbing business before he sold out the hardware store, which he continued after selling out the latter in 1902. He has met with a very satisfactory degree of success in whatever he has turned his attention to, being a man of good judgment and sound business principles. He is also engaged in manufacturing hosiery at Byesville, also has two farms, one being in Valley township, about one and one-half miles south of the old home where he was born, the other being two miles west of Byesville. They are under excellent improvements and rank with the best farms in the vicinity, being well kept and very productive. He is a man of keen discernment, able to foresee the future outcome of a present transaction with rare accuracy. Politically, Mr. Hoopman is a Democrat, and has long been active in party affairs and influential in the development of the locality in various lines. He was twice elected justice of the peace in Jackson township, serving this office in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. Hoopman is a man to whom many come for advice and they are never steered wrongly, and many a man has him to thank for kindly and safe counsel. He stands high in Masonic circles, and one would judge from his GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 757 daily life that he endeavors to carry the high precepts of this time-honored order into every relation of life. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant church, and prominent in church and Social life, he being superintendent of the Sunday school, this being his second time to serve in this capacity, and he haS been on the board of trustees of the church for about ten years. He is easily one of the leading citizens of Byesville in every respect, and to know him is to accord him praise for his genial nature, his kindliness, his public spirit and his industry, and exemplary life. Mr. Hoopman was married in 1888 to Anna R. Burt, daughter of Eli and Nancy (Smith) Burt, and a sister of David S. Burt, whose sketch is to be found in this work. Mrs. Hoopman is a lady of culture and refinement. This union has been blessed by one son, Marshall B. PARMER E. HOOPMAN. The Hoopman family has long held a very high position in the rank of citizenship in the vicinity of Byesville, Guernsey county, for each member has sought to conduct himself in a manner becoming a high-minded, industrious and public-spirited American citizen. One of the best known of the Hoopmans is Parmer E., who was born about two miles south of Byesville in Jackson township, this county, on June 17, 1871. He is the son of Elijah B. and Mary E. (Thompson) Hoopman, who are given full and proper mention on another page of this work. Parmer E. Hoopman grew to maturity on the home farm, on which he worked when he became of proper age, attending the district schools during the winter months, remaining under his parental roof-tree until he became of legal age. In 1894 he was married to Osa Kackley, of Noble county, Ohio, her birth having occurred near Chaseville, that county. She is the daughter of Wesley and Amanda (Star) Kackley, both natives of Noble county. Her father was a Union soldier all through the Civil war, and is now engaged in farming in Noble county. About six months prior to his marriage, Farmer E. Hoopman went into the hardware business at Pleasant City, but in a short time came to Byesville, where he remained in the same business about four years, and was very successful. After a respite from this line of endeavor of about two years, he entered the butcher business with his brother-in-law, C. W. Johnson, and they continued about three years. building up a good trade the meanwhile. 758 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. In 1903 Mr. Hoopman took charge of the Byesville station of the interurban line connecting this city with Cambridge and he has held this position ever since in a very creditable manner. He was the first, and, in fact, has been the only agent the company has ever had in Byesville, having charge of all the freight and passenger business here. He has been very successful in a business way, and he is the owner of an excellent farm of considerable size, well improved and very productive, located near Byesville, and he also owns city property in Byesville. One son, Guy E., a bright lad, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hoopman. Fraternally, Mr. Hoopman is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he belongs to the Methodist Protestant church, being very faithful in his support of the same, and he is always ready to lend his aid in the furtherance of any movement having for its object the betterment of this vicinity in any way. OSCAR J. BERRY. The present sketch is concerned with a man who has been during his lifetime active in the affairs of Kimbolton, and, though young in years, he has made himself known as one of the aggressive and enterprising citizens of the community. Oscar J. Berry was born in Kimbolton, Liberty township, Guernsey county, Ohio, on March 9, 1869, the son of William T. and Caroline (Sloan) Berry, and a brother of John S. Berry, whose name appears in another part of this work. From his boyhood Mr. Berry has been a hustler. As soon as he was old enough to work he began earning money at whatever he could find to do, and during the winter months attended the public schoolS of Kimbolton. At sixteen years of age he began teaching school in the district schools of Guernsey county, and for twelve years was one of the popular and progressive teachers of the county. Following this he served for six years as a deputy inspector in the state dairy and food commissioner's department, and was a faithful and efficient officer. In politics he is a Republican, and has been active in party matters, serving as a member of the Republican county central committee, and frequently as a delegate to county, district and state conventions. He has been a member of the village council, and is now the village clerk. In 1904 Mr. Berry was appointed postmaster at Kimbolton, and after serving two years resigned to take employment with the O'Gara Coal Company, of Chicago, operating in the Guernsey and Noble county coal fields, as GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 759 pay-roll clerk, a position of much responsibility, which he has ably filled. On his resignation as postmaster, his wife was appointed his successor, and she still holds the position. Mr. Berry was married' on April 23, 1889, to Ida Schrophart, of Kimbolton, and to this union one son has been born, Paul V., a graduate of the Kimbolton high school in 1910, and now a teacher in the county sch0ols. Mr. Berry and his family are members of the Methodist church and are prominent in the social life of their community. Mr. Berry is an active, public-spirited citizen, always favoring whatever is for the betterment of conditions. He is a broad-viewed, companionable man, whom it is a pleasure and a benefit to know. LINCOLN 0. RIDDLE. One of the largest land owners and best known and most successful farmers of Guernsey county is Lincoln 0. Riddle, who was born at his present home, a short distance southwest of Byesville, on October 18, 1862, the son of George and Rachel (Wilson) Riddle. Rachel Wilson is a sister of Henry H. Wilson, whose sketch see for her family history. George Riddle was born in Monahan county, Ireland, on October 17, 1827, the son of Maxwell Riddle. His mother died when he was a little child. By this marriage Maxwell Riddle was the father of five children, one of whom died in Ireland, and the others of whom, George, Susan, Isabel and Maxwell, Jr., he brought to the United States in 1871. They first located at Baltimore, Maryland, then moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they lived until George grew up, and where Isabel and Maxwell died. Maxwell, Sr., had married again, and in 1850 he and his son George came to Guernsey county, Ohio, and bought farms southwest of Byesville. Here Maxwell spent the remainder of his life, and his daughter, Susan, who had lost her sight from measles, died here unmarried. By his second marriage Maxwell Riddle was the father of two daughters, Ann and Sarah. He was a man of much influence in the community in his times. On November 24, 1857, George Riddle was married to Rachel Wilson, who was born west of Byesville on March 3, 1837. He then built a house on his farm, and lived there the rest of his life. To this union nine children were born, Susan Nesbit, Thomas Alpheus, Maxwell Albert, Henry Wilson, Oliver Lincoln, one who died in infancy, Ellsworth, Elizabeth and Tachey C. Susan died on December 8, 1895; Thomas A. died on October 4, 1860; 760 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Henry W. on September 22, 1861 ; Tachey C. on October 13, 1877; Maxwell A. on September 11, 1901. Elizabeth married Hunter Fulton, and lives in Cambridge, Ohio. Ellsworth lives at Austin, Texas. Lincoln O. Riddle has lived on the home farm all his life, He was married on September i 1, 1906, to Anna McConnell, the daughter of John and Manerva McConnell. She waS born and reared on the Steubenville road, four miles east of Cambridge. To this union has been born one child, a sweet little daughter, Maxine. Mr. Riddle has followed farming and stock dealing all his life, buying and shipping horses, cattle and other livestock to Baltimore, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and other cities. His home farm consists of one hundred and sixty acres, and he ownS in all six hundred and twenty-five acres of land, all fully paid for and well improved. His house is large and handsome, with a broad porch on two sides, situated in the midst of a spacious and shady lawn, and is one of the best appearing country residences in his section of the county. In politics Mr. Riddle is an uncompromising Republican. He has traveled very much, in many states, from coaSt to coaSt, and talks very entertainingly on the many places of interest which he has seen. Few men of his county are better known or are more hustling and enterprising. He is a man of liberal minded opinions on most SubjectS. HENRY FERGUSON FRYE. Among the earliest settlers of Jackson and Valley townships were members of the Frye family, which is so well known in these communities. The family has been traced back to Germany, Henry Frye, Sr., having come to America from that part of Germany that lies nearest to Austria, before the outbreak of the American Revolution, in which he took part. He Was a man of considerable wealth and owned a large amount of land in the northern part of West Virginia, along the Big Capon river, not far from Wardensville. He left a large family of children, one son being Henry Frye, Jr. The latter was the father of John Frye. John Frye was the head of the family in Guernsey county, to which he removed from near Wardensville, West Virginia, very early in the last century, and settled at what later became the northwest part of Byesville. At that. time there were many Indians at Oldtown, the Indian village near GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 761 Byesville. There were no roads, but the neighbors joined in and cut a road between ByeSville and Cambridge. John Frye's son, Henry Ferguson Frye, was born in West Virginia on May 14, 1803, and came here with his father in early childhood. When he was a boy of twelve or thirteen, the father was called away for the whole day, and cautioned the boy to leave the gun alone, an old flint-lock musket. Young Henry disobeyed and took it out, and in his wandering saw a bunch of seven bears. He fired at the biggest one, but failed to kill it. It came at him, but he loaded his gun as he ran, shot again several times and killed it. He was a wonder with the gun, a very quick and accurate shot, and far above the ordinary in those days when every farmer was an expert. He grew up on the farm near the present location of Byesville, and attended School in Cambridge when the court house square was full of stumpS. On March 16, 1826, Henry F. Frye was married to Sarah Trenner, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Trenner (see sketch of Benjamin Trenner for her family). John Frye, Henry's father, died soon after this on hiS farm at Byesville. Henry F. Frye lived a while on the old Trenner farm, a short diStance northwest of Derwent, and from there moved to the northwestern part of Valley township along the Clay pike, and bought what is known as the Thompson farm. Later he bought a farm farther east, along the same pike, about two miles west of Derwent. It was then a busy highway of travel, and countless herds and droves of live stock were passing and travelers were numerous. So it afforded an advantageous location for the store along the road which he kept in connection with his farm. In his later years he sold this farm and bought another three-fourths of a mile farther north, where he spent the rest of his days. He died on January 6, 1887, his wife having preceded him on January 27, 1874. In 1848 Mr. Frye became an elder in the Lutheran church, and was such for many years after. In every relation in life he was good and true, and as a Christian his excellencies were specially observable. His influence in the community was very marked, and his judgment on all matters was sound and was sought after by his neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Frye were the parents of four children, Elizabeth, John, William K. and George W. Elizabeth was born on the original home farm at Byesville, and remained with her parents as long as they lived. She now lives in Derwent, with her brother, William K. William K. Frye was born on the farm two miles northwest of Derwent, where his father kept store. He has followed farming nearly all his life, and lived on the farm where he was born until 1873, when it was sold,. then for 762 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. about four years the family lived at Hartford, the father having retired, and William K. followed farming. About 1878 William K. bought back a part of the old farm, and also had a little farm adjoining, and there he and Elizabeth lived and took their father with them until the father's death. William and Elizabeth continued on this farm till the spring of 1908, when they sold it and bought a home in Derwent, where they now reside, and are passing their later days in quiet and plenty, and the enjoyment of the society of their neighbors. The records of George W. and John Frye appear under other headings. The Frye family, as a family and individually, have always been highly esteemed as among the solid and substantial people of their community, upright, honorable and kind of heart, one of the noblest families in the community, in the true sense of nobility. JOHN M. BURT. Coal mining bears a large part in the history of Guernsey county, and the present review is concerned with one of the ablest of the young men in mining circles, who has made his way from the bottom to the superintendency of a mine, and has in so doing overcome many difficulties and in many ways showed his worth. John M. Burt was born at Lonaconing, Allegany county, Maryland, on January 2, 1880, the son of John and Sarah (Morris) Burt. John Burt was born in Landwickshire, Rotland, in 1850, the son of Peter and Jeanie (Malcom) Burt. Peter Burt came to America in 1869, and engaged in Maryland in mining, which had been his occupation all his life. For generations back, as far as can be traced, the family have been miners. John Burt went to work in the mines when only ten years old, and when John M. was twelve he went into the mines to help his father. On April 16, 1903, the family moved to Gloucester, Ohio, here they lived until June 25, 1896, when they removed to Pleasant City, Guernsey county, where they now reside. John Burt some years ago quit mining, ran a restaurant five years, then went into the grocery business, which he still continues, and in which he has been successful. He owns several pieces of property. in Pleasant City. John M. Burt continued mining at Pleasant City. At the age of sixteen he started driving mules in the mines, then went back to loading for a time, after which he returned to mule driving. At Walhonding mine he rode a GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 763 dilly trip for about two years, then ran a motor for twenty months, again rode the dilly trip for six months, then was made inside boss and boss driver at the old Walhonding mine, and remained in that capacity for two years. In May, 1908, the superintendent of the Walhonding mine was taken to Trail Run mine No. 2, and John M. Burt was put in as superintendent to finish working out the mine, and when that mine was worked out, was sent to the Opperman mine, on August I I, 1908, as under boss. Only five days later the superintendent left, and Mr. Burt was put in as superintendent, left suddenly to take charge, with no boss driver or any one with any authority as assistant, but in a short time had things going smoothly. When he came the force was putting out only four hundred fifty tons per day, but before long he had them getting out six hundred tons. For nearly six months he did without a boss driver, taking most of the detail work himself, and having to meet with many unusual difficulties that would have caused serious concern to an old hand in the position. Since his installation he has continued as superintendent successfully, working nearly two hundred men under hiS direction. On July 25, 1899, Mr. Burt was married to Lacy Odessa Larrick, the daughter .of Jesse and Mary Viola Larrick. The Larrick family is a pioneer family of Guernsey and Noble counties. To this marriage was born one son, John Burt, on February 13, 1902. Mr. Burt is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias at Pleasant City. He owes his success to these facts : In any position he has held he has done his best for his employer's interest ; he has always been willing to assume responsibility when necessary for the interest of the company; and he is not a mere driver, but is reasonable and receives the loyal co-operation of his men. WILLIAM JOHNSON ADAIR. Influential and prominent in his neighborhood, a man who has made a success of his vocation, and has in many ways aided in the development of his community is William Johnson Adair, who was born on March 11, 1853, in the northwestern part of Valley township, Guernsey county, the son of Joseph and Sarah Ann ( Johnson) Adair. Joseph Adair was born either in Washington or Greene county, Pennsylvania, and came to Belmont county, Ohio, with his father, Robert Adair, when young. About 1846 he came to Guernsey county and located in the 764 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. southwestern portion of Valley township. In February, 1848, he was married to Sarah Ann Johnson, the daughter of William and Charlotte (Lazear) Johnson. Her parentS came from Pennsylvania, where they were married in 1814, and shortly after the birth of Sarah Ann Johnson, in 1828, they came to the southwestern portion of Valley township, where the Opperman mine is now located. Charlotte Lazear was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Braddock) Lazear; Thomas was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Stewart) Lazear. Thomas died in 1858, at the age of eighty-eight; Joseph died on August 15, 1822, at the age of ninety-seven. All the Lazear family down to Charlotte were buried in Greene county, Pennsylvania. The Johnsons and Adairs were both Scotch-Irish, their ancestors being Presbyterians, and originally Scotch Covenanters, and both families came to this county from .either Washington or Greene countieS, Pennsylvania. Joseph Adair was in his early days a carpenter here. In 1852 he moved from the southwest part to the northwest part of Valley township, which remained the family home. Here Joseph died in 1864; his wifc survived until December, 1903. William J. Adair was one of six children : Almira married Robert Davidson, and lives in Spencer township, Guernsey county; John Wesley was born in 1850, and died in February, 1879; William J. was the third child in order of birth; Isabel was born in 1857 and died in 1876; Charlotte married Jacob Salladay, whose sketch see; Joseph Howard was born in 1864, and died in 1867. Joseph Adair was a Democrat and was township trustee for many years. He and his wife were both faithful members of Bethel Methodist church and were highly respected by all who knew them. William J. Adair grew up in the community in which he was born, and was in his twelfth year when his father died, after which his mother bought, pursuant to an agreement made by the father, the farm two miles west of Derwent, where 'William J. has since lived. He was married in December, 1873, to Mary Elizabeth Clark, .the daughter of William F. and Ala (Gregory) Clark. Her mother was born in September, 1828, the daughter of Noble and Sarah (Spencer) Gregory. Her father came from Ireland, and her mother from New Jersey. William F. Clark was born in March, 1825, and reared northwest of Pleasant City in Valley township and was married in December, 1851. He is the son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Gregory) Clark. Benjamin Clark came from Pennsylvania in very early days. William F. Clark and wife were the parents of eight children. Martha Jane died in childhood. Mary E. is the wife of William J. Adair. Clarissa lives in Valley township with her GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 765 mother and brother Samuel. Samuel Gregory now lives with his mother on the home farm. Rosa died when a young woman. Allen and Alice were twins, Allen is a physician of Joplin, Missouri, Alice married Hayden McKinley, and lives in Kansas, not far from Joplin, Missouri. Martha Jane was the wife of Joseph Davidson, and died on June 4, 1896, leaving one son, Clovis. William F. Clark was a Mason, and he and his family were members of the Methodist church. He died on December 22, 1894. His wife survives, and is in her eighty-sixth year. Mr. Clark was a trustee of the church, and a steady, faithful member. To Mr. and Mrs. Adair six children were born : Olive is at home with her parents. Ross Wesley, who is pastor of the Methodist church at Larimore, North Dakota, married Maud Elizabeth Carmen, of East Liverpool, Ohio, and has one child, Robert. Emma Charlotte is teaching at Joplin, Missouri. Ala is teaching at Amsterdam, Ohio. Joseph Peragoy is attending Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. Leonard Benson is at home with his parents. William Adair has held various township offices. He is a member of the Masons at Pleasant City, and he and his wife and children are members of the Methodist church at Derwent, in which he is a class leader, trustee and Sunday school teacher. Mr. Adair owns two hundred acres of well-kept and well-improved land, surrounded by exceptionally well-trimmed hedges, the whole forming a most pleasing appearance. He and his wife are hospitable people, of irreproachable character and very highly esteemed. The boys are all members of the Masonic fraternity and Olive is a member of the Eastern Star chapter. ROBERT I. SHEPLER. A prominent farmer of Valley township, Guernsey county, in the activities of which community he takes full part, and in whose development he has aided, is Robert I. Shepler, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, on June 30, 1833, the son of Jacob and Mary (Stewart) Shepler. His father died about six weeks before Robert was born, and his mother afterwards married Daniel Call. Jacob Shepler left six children, besides two that died in infancy. Those who survived were Joseph W.; Hannah 0., who married James Waddell ; Rachel, the wife of J. W. Harris; Margaret, who died single ; Lucinda, the wife of Porter Houseman ; Robert I., the youngest, and now the sole survivor. 766 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. When Robert I. Shepler waS sixteen or seventeen years old he and his brother Joseph and sister Rachel came to Guernsey county. Hannah had already married and gone to Coshocton county. The brothers and sister settled east of Cumberland, and bought a farm in a section called Flat Woods, and here Robert lived until his marriage to Sarah Ann Moore, of Spencer township, a native of the county and a daughter of John C. and Nancy (Ward) Moore. Six children were born to this marriage: John Wilson, who died when less than two years old; Alice, now of Columbus, a prescription clerk in a wholesale drug house; Alvin, who married Marie Byron, of Cleveland, and now lives at Denver; Elmer, who was for twenty years a druggist at Byesville, married Alice Johnson, the daughter of Jesse L. and Jane Johnson, of Valley township, to which marriage one son was born, Raymond, now attending school at Columbus, his parents' present home; Violet, the wife of Justus Lowry, who died in the spring of 1906, leaving two children, Russell Shepler and Gertrude, while a third child, Porter, died at the age of two; Annie, who married Doctor Campbell, of Hartford, was left a widow on February 21, 1897, and now lives in Pleasant City with her half sister, Mrs. Dr. Bown. After his marriage Mr. Shepler continued farming near Cumberland; his wife died on February 20, 1866. In April, 1865, Mr. Shepler enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, receiving an honorable discharge. On August 4, 1867, Mr. Shepler was married a second time to Mrs. Nancy C. (Clark) Johnson, the widow of William T. Johnson, and a daughter of Samuel G. and Mary Ann (Longsworth) Clark. Samuel G. Clark was the son of Benjamin and Mary (Gregory) Clark. Benjamin Clark was born in Ireland, came to this country as a lad, and located in Pennsylvania, where he was married and two of his children were born. About 1812 he came to Guernsey county, Ohio, and settled a mile northwest of Pleasant City, where some of his descendants still live on land that he bought in pioneer times. Samuel G. Clark was born and reared there, and married Mary Ann Longs- worth, a native of Maryland, the daughter of Solomon and Catherine Longs- worth, who came to the northern edge of Valley township early and settled, where Mr. Longsworth dealt in tobacco, as well as farmed. Mrs. Shepler was born and grew up near Pleasant City, and married William T. Johnson, a son of William Johnson, a pioneer of the southwestern portion of Valley township. One child was born to this marriage, Charlotte Ann, who married James M. Wilson, of Valley township, and died on May 28, 1883. Mr. Johnson died on June 12, 1861. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 767 After his marriage to MrS. Johnson, Mr. Shepler moved to his present home in the southwest part of Valley township, where they have lived more than forty years. Four children were born to them : Mary Lucinda, the wife. of Doctor Bown, of Pleasant City ; Samuel Jackson, who married Catherine Gregory, lives on the home farm, and has five children, Hubert, John Irvin, Martha Elizabeth, Mary Lois, and Elmer Merrill; Martha, the wife of P. U. Hawkins, a Methodist minister of Bristolville, Ohio ; and Asbury Lowry, who died on November 27, 1895, aged sixteen. Mr. Shepler has been a farmer all his life, and now owns two hundred and sixty acres, all in the southwestern part of Valley township. He follows general farming, is very capable, and has prospered. In early life he was a Republican, but for many years has been an earnest Prohibitionist. He and his wife are members of Bethel Methodist church, and he is recording steward, district steward and trustee of the church. An honest and hardworking man. an active and earnest Christian, Mr. Shepler is much respected and esteemed in his community. HOMER S. GANDER. Throughout Valley and Spencer townships, Guernsey county, the Gander family has been well known for many decades, having been prominently identified with agricultural and other interests and ever maintaining a high standard of citizenship. One of the best known of this name is Homer S. Gander, who was born near Cumberland, Spencer township, this county, March 4, 1877, the son of David and Rhoda (Moore) Gander. The father was born, reared and educated in the same locality as his son, Homer S., and he was always known as a hard-working, honest and worthy citizen. Homer S. Gander lived on the home farm until he was twelve years of age, then began coal mining at Byesville in the old Pioneer mine. He worked in the mines around Byesville seven or eight years, then went to Pleasant City and worked in the Walhonding mine. After he was there a few years he was promoted to a position as boss driver, then was made pit boss, which position he held about a year, then, having proven his ability and faithfulness, he was made superintendent of the Walhonding mine, filling that important position in a manner that reflected credit upon himself and to the entire Satisfaction of all concerned. From there he went to the Trail Run mine No. 2, for the same company, and was there about four months, then was transferred to the Walhonding mine No. 2, where he sunk a shaft and was there six or 768 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. eight months. He then went with the Ford Collieries Company and was sent to Pennsylvania, where he sank two shafts, remaining there four or five months, then came back to Guernsey county, on February 8, 1910, and sank the shaft at the New Buffalo mine in the northeast part of Valley township. About April 1st following he took charge of the Hartford mine, of which he is now superintendent. He has about two hundred men under him, understanding well not only every phase of mining, but also how to handle his men so as to get the best results possible, being popular with them, for they appreciate his good judgment, fairness and good will. His rise has been steady and sure, since he started as a boy in the mines at seventy-five cents per day, having, by diligence and faithfulness, risen to the front, showing that lie possesses unusual ability in gaining the loyal co-operation of his men in the mines. Mr. Gander was married to Nellie Secrest on September 22, 1899. She is the daughter of James Madison and Frances (Young) Secrest, of Pleasant City, a sketch of whom appears herein. Her paternal grandfather was Harrison Secrest, an old resident of Valley township, and a prominent citizen in the early days among his neighbors. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gander, three sons and one daughter, Paul, Edwin, Mildred and James. Fraternally, Mr. Gander is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 360 at Pleasant City and stands high in the order. L. S. LINKHORN. Owing to his loyalty to his county, his scrupulously honest dealings with his fellow men and his genial disposition, L. S. Linkhorn, the present efficient and popular county treasurer of Guernsey county, has won the undivided respect and esteem of all who know him, and he is regarded by everyone as being among the most enterprising and representative citizens of Cambridge. Mr. Linkhorn was born on August 30, 1870, in Jackson township, this county, and is the son of Joseph and Temperance (Selby) Linkhorn. Both parents were born in Guernsey county, Ohio, and both are still living, the father being a successful stock dealer, having been a shipper of livestock for forty years. He is well and favorably known throughout this and adjoining counties. Politically he is a Republican, and has always been active in party affairs. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 769 L. S. Linkhorn was educated in the schools of his native community, the Byesville schools, and later at the Northwestern University at Ada, Ohio. During his boyhood he also assisted his father in his business. At the Northwestern University he specialized in the commercial course. Prior to going to Ada he worked in a tobacco warehouse as a packer and there earned his first dollar. He also clerked in a general merchandise store in Byesville. After leaving the university he went to Kansas and engaged in farm work for one year. He then returned to Guernsey county, and soon after was appointed a deputy sheriff under Sheriff James Mason and he served eighteen months in this capacity. He then entered the employ of the Morton Tin Plate Company, whose mill was just starting operations in 1893. He was employed in this mill and its various changes of ownership for about fifteen years, learning the trade of sheet roller, which he followed for the last eight years of that time. Politically, Mr. Linkhorn is a Republican and he has always been active in party matters, an interested advocate of the issues he espouses and always prepared to ably defend them. In the summer of 1908 he was nominated by his party for the important office of county treasurer and was elected the same fall, assuming his official duties in September, 1909, and is now serving his first term, and he made such a splendid record that he was renominated for a second term in 1910, without opposition. He is a careful, obliging, competent public official, and stands very high with all classes and parties. He has served his party as a member of the county central and executive committees and is a frequent delegate to party conventions. Mr. Linkhorn was married on March 24, 1897, to Mary E. Chambers, daughter of John A. and Lucinda (Stoller) Chambers, of Kimbolton, Ohio. To this union three children have been born, Adrian T., Walter L. and Audry. Mr. Linkhorn is a member of Pleasant City Lodge, Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Cambridge. Mrs. Linkhorn is a member of the First United Presbyterian church, where the family all attend and are active in church and Sunday school work. For recreation Mr. Linkhorn enjoys hunting and fishing and is a lover of outdoor life. The family home, a comfortable and hospitable one, is at the corner of Gomber and Highland avenues, Cambridge. Jesse Linkhorn, grandfather of the subject, was one of the early pioneers of Guernsey county. He was a farmer and carpenter. He married Sarah Wilson. Jesse Linkhorn was born in Guernsey county. Lloyd Selby, grandfather, and Thomas Wilson, great-grandfather of the subject, were among the 770 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. earliest pioneers of Guernsey county. The latter entered government land in Jackson township at an early date, and was an influential man, and both were largely instrumental in the subsequent development and progress of Byesville and Jackson township. The Linkhorn family and progenitors have been identified with Guernsey county from its organization, taking an active and influential part in its history and development. Lloyd Selby was the first railroad station agent at Byesville, and was one of the early merchants of that town. JOHN BLAIR BRATTON. A well known and representative citizen of Cambridge is John Blair Bratton, city councilman and a man highly respected by all, having maintained a reputation for square dealing with his fellowmen and being public- spirited and upright in all his relations with the world as well as in private life. He was born in Cambridge township, Guernsey county, in 1861, and he is the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Blair) Bratton. A complete sketch of these parents will be found on another page of this work. John B. Bratton spent his early boyhood on the home farm and when very young assisted with the work during crop seasons. At the age of fifteen years he took up coal mining, which he followed three or four years, then went to the city of Newark, Ohio, and learned the machinist's trade. In the month of December, 1889, he came to Cambridge and started in as assistant chief engineer at the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company. About two years later lie was promoted to be chief engineer, which important position he held with entire satisfaction for a period of seven years, then became a shearman in the same plant, which position he has held ever since to the utmost satisfaction of his employers, being an expert in this particular line of work. He has always believed in doing well whatever was worth doing at all, and this has, no doubt, been very largely responsible for his success in life. Mr. Bratton is a loyal Republican in political matters, and he has long taken an active interest in local affairs. In the fall of 1908 he was elected to the city council of Cambridge, and he is now serving his second term in that body, being a very faithful exponent of the peoplesis rights and very careful to look after the general interests of this city in every way. He keeps well posted on current affairs and is a man of ability and is eminently trustworthy. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 771 Fraternally, Mr. Bratton belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Fraternal Order of Owls. Mr. Bratton was married in 1883 to Martha Warren, daughter of John and Eliza Warren ; she was born and reared in Cambridge township. This union has resulted in the birth of five children, namely ; James Francis ; Walter died in April, 1907, when twenty years of age; Hazel; Warren and Olive are twins. James Francis Bratton was educated in the home schools and when he reached maturity he married Julia Weyler, and they have three children, John Wesley, Walter and Gladys Elizabeth. James Francis Bratton is a machinist by trade, and a very skilled one, and is at present filling the position of shear- man in the same plant in which his father is employed. The other children are all at home with their parents. Hazel Bratton is stenographer and bookkeeper in the office of the director of safety in Cambridge, and she is very apt and rapid in her work. Mr. Bratton is attached to his home and family and provides well for their comfort. CHARLES W. FRYE. The name of Frye has long been an honored one in Jackson township, Guernsey county, and the present sketch deals particularly with two bearing that name, who have added to its luster, a father and son, the former one of the best known and most respected residents of the county, the latter a man of honor and integrity, one. of the ablest farmers and most substantial and influential citizens of his community. Charles W. Frye was born on July 26, 1857, in the northwestern part of Valley township, Guernsey county, Ohio, on his father's farm, situated on the Clay pike. He is the only son of John and Rhoda Ann (Moore) Frye. (For ancestry of the Frye family dating back to its home in Germany before the American Revolution, see sketch of Henry Ferguson Frye, father of John Frye.) John Frye was born on the old Trenner farm, a short distance northwest of Derwent. During his young manhood he was a teacher, and taught school for eight or nine terms, while his father was keeping a store along the Clay pike. He lived at home until, on August 13, 1854, he was married to Rhoda Ann Moore. She was born and reared near Derwent, and was the daughter of Joseph and Mahala (Collins) Moore. (For fuller details concerning 772 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Moore family, see sketch of Thomas I. Moore.) For two or three years after marriage John Frye and his wife lived at Hartford, where he was teaching school. He then bought a farm northwest of Byesville, where the brick plant is now located, and lived there thirteen years, until after the war. On April 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Seventy- second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being commissioned as a lieutenant, and was honorably discharged on September 3, 1864, after much arduous service. After the war he was one of the leading members of Davis Kimble Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He bought a quarter section of land a mile and one-half southwest of Byesville, and added to this later forty acres, and then eighty more. Part of this land was bought by his son, Charles, as he grew up and worked and earned money. Although a Democrat, and living in a township that was always Republican, John Frye was for thirty-nine years a justice of the peace, and discharged the duties of his position so efficiently that no decision of his was ever reversed by a higher court. He became well versed in civil law and the law of estates, and was in demand to act as administrator, executor or assignee, being at all times engaged in such work. People came long distances for his advice. While he was justice of the peace, the above duties and those of his office kept him so busy that his docket entries had to be made at night. It was accepted that he was the best informed man in the community. A member of the Lutheran church, he was a thorough Christian and was never heard to speak ill of any person. His death occurred on April 3, 1897, just two days before he would have been re-elected to the office which he had held so long. Charles W. Frye lived on the farm with his father, in his younger days teaching school for a few years. His farm is one of the best and most productive in that community, and he has an unusually fine country home. In politics he is a Democrat, and has been for about twenty years a member of the board of education of Jackson township. An unusual incident of his experience is that while a member of the board that employed John A. Bliss as a teacher, he also attended Mr. Bliss’s school as a student. Charles W. Frye was married on December 29, 1881, to Marcielene Grant, a sister of John R. Grant, of Byesville, whose record gives the family history, She was born on the old Bye homestead across Wills creek from Byesville, and lived at Byesville until her marriage. Mr. Frye is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and in daily life applies the teachings of that order. He is an upright and reliable man, popular among his neighbors, and prominent in all the activities of the community. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 773 SAMUEL CLARK GROVES. Descended from ancestors who took a prominent part in the affairs of their community, himself a young man of high standing and honorable career, the records of Valley township would be incomplete without mention of Samuel Clark Groves. He was born near Cumberland, Guernsey county, Ohio, on November 4, 1871. the son of David and Rebecca Elizabeth (Clark) Groves. The Groves family has a tradition to the effect that the family was originally that of Von Graf in Germany, that the ancestors were expelled for political reasons, and later came to Maryland with Lord John Calvert, first Earl of Baltimore. Jonas Groves, the father of David and grandfather of Samuel C., was born in Maryland, and was, with a brother and sister, brought to Noble county, Ohio, by his parents, locating in the neighborhood of Mt. Ephraim when the country was all new. Here the children grew up, and many of their descendants are still well known residents of that locality, in which David Groves was born. Rebecca E. Clark was born a short distance northwest of Pleasant City and was the daughter of Samuel G. and Mary Ann (Longsworth) Clark, for whom see sketch of Robert I. Shepler. After marriage David Groves and his wife lived for about a year in Noble county, then moved to near Cumberland, Guernsey county, where they lived for about ten years, on a farm of eighty acres, which in 1880 he sold and then bought a farm in the western portion of Valley township, consisting of three hundred and twenty acres, where he made his home until his death. Two children were born to his first marriage, Mary Edith and Samuel Clark. Mary Edith married Lawrence Garber, an attorney, and died on the first Monday of September. 1907. She left four children, Anson, Ethel, Ruth and Martha, while her fourth child in order of birth died in infancy. Mrs. David Groves died in February, 1896, and in 1899 David Groves married Mrs. Martha J. Heinlein, and thereafter made his home in Pleasant City, though still supervising his farm. His second wife was a sister to his first wife. David Groves died in 1902. In politics he was a life-long Republican. During the Civil war he served in the One Hundred and Sixty-first Ohio Infantry, and was wounded in the leg while in action in Maryland, and it was from trouble caused by this old wound that his death was occasioned. David Groves was a man of strong character and considerable influence in the communities in which he resided. Samuel C. Groves grew to manhood on the home farm in Valley township. He attended college at New Concord, and also took civil engineering at Ada, Ohio, graduating in 1894. For two terms before attending Ada he 774 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. taught school, and after leaving college he engaged in civil engineering in connection with farming. For three years he was civil engineer for the National Coal Company, and did their engineering work at the Little Kate, Little Kate No. 2 and Minnehaha mines, also making out their pay rolls and performing other services. He has also done engineering work at a number of other places. For some years he has had charge of the old farm, and now owns the entire place, having bought out the other heirs. In politics he is a Republican, and has often been urged by his friends as a candidate for county offices. In 1898 Samuel C. Groves was married to Carrie D. Gregg, who was born near Chaseville, Noble county, Ohio, the daughter of Col. William J. and Mary (Ball) Gregg. Her father was a soldier in the Civil war, and was nearly blinded in the service at Charlestown, South Carolina. Her mother was descended from the famous Ball family of Virginia, of whom George Washington's mother, Betty Ball, was a member. Mrs. Groves attended normal school at Cambridge, and taught for six years. When Mrs. Groves was teaching school she gained a great reputation for cleanliness, not only in the school room, but in the grounds and general surroundings. She required the children to keep clean and keel) their books clean and to always put their books away in their proper place. She is a strong advocate of better sanitary conditions in our schools, a matter which she believes every mother should become interested in. Her home and home surroundings are a fine example of her idea of cleanliness. Mr. and Mrs. Groves are the parents of three interesting little daughters, Ellen Jane, Elizabeth and Marjorie. Both Mr. and Mrs. Groves are members of Bethel Methodist church, as were his parents. They live in an unusually comfortable and 'well improved country residence. Mr. Groves is reckoned as one of the solid and substantial citizens of the county, and has by his true worth made many friends, JOHN BENSON FISHEL. Among the representative and progressive farmers of Valley township is John Benson Fishel, who was born in the township on January 2, 1861, the son of Henry and Hannah (Storer) Fishel, and who has since made the township his home and has aided in its great development since his boyhood days. Henry Fishel was born just west of Pleasant City on January 27, 1825, the son of Philip Fishel, Sr., and Katherine (Trenner) Fishel, who came to GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 775 this county from West Virginia in 1819, and bought one hundred and sixty acres just west of the present site of Pleasant City. Philip Fishel, Sr., who was influential in early times, died in 1842. Henry Fishel spent his life on the home farm. His wife, Hannah Storer, was born at Horseshoe Bottom, Pennsylvania, on September 30, 1822, and was brought by her parents to this county when five years old. She bore to Henry Fishel six children, three of whom died in childhood. The living are Mrs. Rachel Caroline Secrest, the wife of James Hudson Secrest, of Pleasant City, who was born on March 22, 1859; John B.; and Asbury P., born on April I, 1863, who married Mary C. Frye, and lives at Ashtabula, Ohio. Henry Fishel and his wife were members of the Bethel Methodist church, in which he was a trustee and class leader. He died on April 3, 1906, closing a long and useful life ; his wife had died on August 13, 1895. John B. Fishel grew up on the home farm, attended normal school at Cambridge, and afterwards taught school from 1882 to 1895. During this period he taught at Claysville, Pleasant City, and other schools in Guernsey county. He was married on June 7, 1888, to Anna M. Bugher, the daughter of George and Joanna (Wilson) Bugher. George Bugher was born in the southwest part of Valley township, the son of George Bugher, Sr., who came to this county from Maryland in the early days when the country was unsettled. Joanna Wilson was born in Guernsey county, near the line between Jackson and Westland townships. George Bugher, Jr., moved after his marriage to a farm of one hundred and seventy acres, west of Blue Bell, where he lived until his death, combining the stone and brick mason's trades with farming. In politics he was an ardent Republican and, being a man of strong character, was possessed of considerable influence in many ways in his community. He died on his farm on April 13, 1899; his wife died on April 18, 1900. To Mr. and Mrs. John B. Fishel five children have been born : Beryl, on April 3, 1889; Waite P., on December 9, 1890; one who died in infancy, born in 1894 ; Gail B., born on March 3, 1901 ; and Arden Petty, born on July 16, 1904. Beryl has taught school for three terms, Waite for two, and both are successful in their work. In the spring of 1895 Mr. Fishel came into possession of eighty acres of the home farm, and in 1905 he bought the other eighty from his father, who afterward lived with his son until his death. Mr. Fishel has since followed farming on this home farm, and has a pleasant home in the Fairview addition to Pleasant City, while his farming operations have prospered, and have gained for him a competency. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fishel are active members of Bethel Methodist church, and he has for several yearS 776 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. been superintendent of the Sunday school. They are highly respected in their neighborhood. Mrs. Fishel is a woman of more than ordinary ability and accomplishments and has greatly aided her husband in their progress through life, while she has been a model mother to her children, and has borne her full share in all the activities of her community. She also taught school several years before her marriage. WILLIAM H. DAVIS, JR. Success has been won by William H. Davis, Jr., of Byesville, Guernsey county, because he has persevered in the pursuit of a worthy purpose, gaining thereby a most satisfactory reward. He has been fortunate in the line of endeavor which he has chosen for a life work. He has sought to master the working of that subtle, evasive, inscrutable and possibly unknowable thing men have named electricity, and while neither he nor such a wizard as Thomas A. Edison could tell you what electricity is, they know a great deal of its mysterious workings and bid it do valuable service in furthering man's work and pushing forward the car of civilization. This is truly the electric age, and future centuries will refer to it as such, just as we today speak of the Stone age ; so he who knows aught of electricity nowadays is a useful factor in the industrial world. The success Mr. Davis has achieved as an electrician and superintendent of electrical plants stamps him as a man of much innate talent and capacity, and having at the same time the ingenuity to put his knowledge into practical form. Mr. Davis was born in Doylestown, Ohio, September 22, 1878. He is the son of William H. Davis, Sr., whose complete sketch appears on another page of this work. His mother was known in her maidenhood as Mary Cook, of Hubbard, Ohio, the daughter of Thomas Cook and wife, an old family there. The mother of William H. Davis, Jr., died when he was about two years of age ; the father and the rest of the family made their home at Sherman, Ohio, until the subject was ten years of age. During that period the father re-married and in 1888 the family moved to Byesville. After receiving a good common school education, supplemented by much miscellaneous home study, William H. Davis, Jr., went to Chicago in 1896 and took a position with the Morgan-Gardner Electric Company, remaining there until 1898, when he went with the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, Ohio, manufacturers of electric machinery. Later he returned to GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 777 Chicago and found employment with the Goodman Manufacturing Company in tw0, also electric manufacturers. After remaining with this firm a short time, he returned to Byesville, where he has remained practically ever since. He took a position as electrician with the Wills Creek Coal Company, when it had only two mines. The business has grown until now eleven mines are operated, but they are owned by the Cambridge Collieries Company, and Mr. Davis has remained in his old position, being now superintendent of electrical equipment for all their mines, a very responsible and important position, which he is filling with his usual satisfaction and in a manner that reflects much credit upon his ability. Mr. Davis was married in 1905 to Maude Grant, daughter of John Roland and Sadie L. (Orr) Grant, whose life records appear on another page of this work. Mrs. Davis was born and reared in Byesville and was educated in the local schools, and she has always been popular with a wide circle of friends here. Fraternally, Mr. DaviS is a member of the Masonic order, having attained the Knight Templar degree in the York rite; he is also a thirty-second degree member of the Scottish rite. Personally, he is a genial, whole-souled young man and is popular with all who know him. He has a handsome, modern home in the north side Of Byesville which is often the gathering place for the many friends of the family. SAMUEL ARTHUR FINLEY. The Finley family is one well known in the neighborhood of Pleasant City, where its members have for four generations resided and taken an active part in the welfare and development of the community. Samuel Arthur Finley, a representative farmer of Guernsey county, was born near Ava, Noble county, Ohio, on July 12, 1853, the son of John F. and Mary Ann (Secrest) Finley. John F. Finley was born in the northern part of Noble county, three miles south of Pleasant City, the son of Samuel and Katherine (Frame) Finley. Samuel Finley was born in Pennsylvania in 1800, and Katherine Frame was born in the same neighborhood not far from Pittsburg. Both attended the same school in childhood. When he was about eleven years old and she was nine, the Frame family moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, and settled not far from the head of Leatherwood creek. Samuel's playmates said to him, 778 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. "Well, Sammy, you'll never see your Katie any more," to which lie replied in the piping voice of a little boy, "When I get big I'll go out west and hunt her up and marry her." When Samuel was eighteen years old he did come west, equipped with an outfit to keep "bach," consisting of two frying pans. Game was then abundant, and he saw one evening a bear in the woods near the present location of the Detroit mines. He entered one hundred and sixty acres of land, naturally as good as any in the county, then found his Katie, whose memory had never left him, and they were united in marriage. To get money to buy his marriage license he had to sell one of his two frying pans. But the youthful couple persevered, and improved the farm, on which they made their home until 1857, when they bought a farm near Cumberland, on which they spent the rest of their days, and this farm is still in the family possession. They were the parents of twelve children•: Ebenezer, Elizabeth, James (who died in 1834, aged seven), John F., Katharine, Becky, William, Joseph, Samuel, Sarah, Ezra and Mary Melvina. Their son Samuel was bitten by a dog in childhood, and never recovered from the shock. John F. Finley married Mary Ann Secrest about 1848. She was the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Slater) Secrest, and her maternal grandfather was John Slater, an old deer hunter of what is now Buffalo township, Noble county, whose wife was the first person buried in Buffalo cemetery. Isaac Secrest was born in Virginia in 1798, came to Ohio at an early day, and settled in Buffalo township of Noble county. He and his three brothers, James, Nathan and Jacob, were all large landowners. After marriage John F. Finley lived near Ava for a while and owned a large farm there, part of which was his before his marriage. When his parents moved to the vicinity of Cumberland lie bought the old farm that his father had entered, lived on it for eight yearS, then sold' it and bought a farm where the Derwent mine is now, which he later sold, and, moving to Cambridge, lived in retirement until his death. His wife died on May 30, 1903. He was a man much respected and esteemed by those who knew him. Samuel A. Finley was one of eight children: Isaac Wilson, Samuel A., Mary Catherine, Loamie R. (deceased), Lines E., Minnie M., Willie G. and Cora. Samuel lived with his parents until he was about twenty-four. On October 12, 1876, he was married to Arthella Secrest, the daughter of David and Sarah J. (Miller) Secrest. David was a son of John and Sallie Secrest, who came from Virginia. (For more about the Secrest family see sketches of William Secrest and Noah E. Secrest, Sr., of Hartford.) Arthella Secrest was a twin and one of thirteen children, and was born and reared near Hartford, Valley township. Since his marriage, Samuel A. Finley has followed GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 779 farming as his chief occupation all of his life. He has several tracts of land in Valley township, and residence property in Pleasant City. For four years after marriage he lived on a farm near Derwent, then lived at Hartford for twelve years. In 1891 he moved to Pleasant City, where he has lived ever since. Of his three children, one died in infancy and two, Zula Esther and Sonora Edna, are living. Zula Esther married Robert M. Shields, who was born in Jackson county, Ohio, in 1877, and is a son of John W. and Jane (Russell) Shields. They are living in Pleasant City, and have one daughter, Hilda Bodurtha. Mrs. Finley died on January 7, 1908. She was a woman who well deserved the esteem of her neighbors and many friends and the love of those in her house. She always looked carefully to the needs of her family and was a model wife and mother and a consistent Christian, being a member of the Lutheran church, of which her husband, her daughters and her son-in-law are members. Hers was truly a beautiful character. Mr. Finley is a modest man, kind and generous to all, of unquestioned honesty and integrity, who deserves and retains by his true worth the respect and good will of all who know him. JAMES F. HAWES. Among the men of influence, and who is deserving of the large success he has attained and of the respect and esteem which all who know him freely give, is J. F. Hawes, of Jackson township, who was born in 1867 in the southwestern part of this township, Guernsey county, where the Buckeye mine is now located. He is the son of Joseph and Mary (Mullen) Hawes, the former born in Maryland. He was the son of John Hawes and wife, and during his youth the family came to Guernsey county and located in the northeast corner of Spencer township. There John Hawes became owner of a farm, probably entering it direct from the government, for it was all new land. This is about the oldest family still represented in that locality. There John Hawes lived the balance of his life and prospered, becoming the owner of a large tract of valuable land, probably four hundred acres. He and his wife assisted in organizing the Disciple church in that locality and he remained a faithful member of the same the rest of his life. In later years his hearing failed, and it was necessary for him to have his chair placed near the preacher in order to hear the sermon. When it was possible for him to do 780 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. so, he was in his accustomed place. He was a good and useful man and honored by all who knew him. Joseph Hawes was one of a family of eight children, an equal number of boys and girls, named as follows: Joseph; John died in Valley township about 1902, leaving a wife and two sons, who are now living in Indiana; Frank went to Boise, Idaho, when the gold excitement drew men West and he lived there until his death in 1909; Fletcher was killed by the Indians in Idaho about 1880; Michael, who was a physician and was a surgeon in the Union army during the Civil war. He died in Claysville, Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1905; the sisters were, Mrs. Catherine Collins, now living at Columbus; another sister married a Mr. Heskett and lived in Belmont county ; another married a Mr. Hickison and lived in the West. Joseph Hawes married Mary Mullen, who was born and reared in the same neighborhood as Mr. Hawes. He became a prosperous farmer in the southwestern part of Jackson, buying several tracts of land at different times, aggregating three hundred acres, all of which he owned at the time of his death. He was trustee of the township and was a man of good standing in the community. He was a member and a liberal supporter of the Disciples church, of which his wife was also a member. They were the parents of the following children : Oliver F. lives at Pleasant City; John L. died in Butte, Montana, about 1885 ; Lilla Anderson lives in Spencer township on the old Dennis farm; Olive Belle is the wife of J. B. Neeland, of Valley township, and is now living at Hartford; Sadie Ann is the wife of A. S. Secrest, of Hartford; James Franklin, of this review ; Clarence Glenroy lives in Claysville and owns the old home farm, where Joseph Hawes, his father, first settled after his marriage, at Buck's mines; Maggie Elizabeth, who died when about twenty-one years of age, was the wife of Charles Barton. James F. Hawes, of this review, grew to maturity on the home place in the southwest part of Jackson township and there worked on the farm. In 1889 he was married to Villetta F. Beckett, of Spencer township, the daughter of John and Lottie (Lyons) Beckett, both natives of Noble county, Ohio. They came to Spencer township, this county, about 1872 and lived on a farm there until about 1909, then moved into Cumberland, where they now live. In 1890 Mr. Hawes built a substantial and attractive residence, near that of his father, and lived there until 1908. then built the cozy home where he now lives, near Harmony, in Jackson township. It is a commodious and nicely furnished home, and is well kept. Mr. Hawes is trustee of Jackson township, and fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Cambridge Lodge No. 301. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 781 Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. James F. Hawes : one died in infancy ; one son and one daughter are living, Rominie R. and Lot- tie M. JOHN L. McCREARY. Individual enterprise, which is so justly the boast of the American people, is strikingly exhibited in the career of the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this sketch. While transmitting to posterity the record of such a life, it is with the hope of installing into the minds of those who come after, the important lesson that honor and station are sure rewards of individual exertion. John L. McCreary, an influential citizen of Center township, Guernsey county, was born April 8, 1872, in the same community where he still lives, and he is the son of Hugh A. and Mattie (McKelvey) McCreary, the father a native of Guernsey county and the mother of Belmont county, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, James McCreary, was one of the first settlers of Center township, having come from Pennsylvania when a young man and married Margaret Laughlin, daughter of another pioneer family from Washington county, Pennsylvania. Both grandfathers were 'farmers and large land owners and became prosperous. They and Hugh A. McCreary were all greatly interested in public matters and were well informed and progressive citizens. Each of them filled offices of trust and importance in the township. Five sons and two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. McCreary, namely : John L., of this review ; Mary R. married John A. Burris, of Klondyke; Robert C,, of Washington township, this county ; James H., of Byesville, this county. These children were by Mr. McCreary's first wife, whose death occurred in April, 1884. His second marriage was to Sarah E. McConnell, daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Smith) McConnell, of Center township, and this second union resulted in the birth of the following children : Ethel M., single; Walter H.; Thomas H.; Dwight, deceased. The father's death occurred in February, 1908. He was a Democrat in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church and active in the work of the same, and he was highly respected by all who knew him. John L. McCreary spent his youth on the home farm and assisted in the ordinary work about the place, also assisted his father in the lumber and timber businesS, which was for a time on an extensive scale. The early education of the son was in the district schools of the country, and later he was 782 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. a student of the Northwestern University at Ada, Ohio, for one year ; he subsequently studied at Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, completing three years' work in two, but he was prevented from graduation by sickness, being a student in the classical course. After leaving college he was with his father in the lumber and timber business and their operations were extensive for some time. In January, 1902, he engaged in the mercantile business at Klondyke, Guernsey county, which he conducted until February, 1909, when he sold out and bought the interests of all the heirs in the old home farm and he is now a farmer. His place consists of two hundred and fifty acres, lying in a rich section of Center township, and no better place for general farming purposes is to be found in the county ; but while he devotes his attention to his farm, he maintains his residence in Klondyke. He is also a stockholder and vice-president of the Guernsey Oil and Gas Company, operating in this county, and he is a stockholder in several other companies, and was 'one of the promoters of the Cambridge and Byesville Driving Park Association, being a director in this company for a number of years. He is a lover of good stock, and everything that tends to general progress finds in him an interested advocate. He is a business man of extraordinary acumen and whatever he turns his attention to brings gratifying results. He is a Democrat in politics and he has always been active in the affairs of the party and public matters. He has served as a member of the Democratic county committee for several years and he has been a frequent delegate to district, county and state conventions. In 1908 he was nominated by his party as a member of the Legislature from Guernsey county and at the following election in November he overcame a normal Republican majority in the county of more than two thousand and was elected by a majority of eighty-two over his Republican opponent. This is certainly a criterion of his high standing in this county and of his genuine worth. As a member of that important body he served on the important committees of public ways and turnpikes, public printing, and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Xenia. He made a record that reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of his constitutents, and he was re-nominated by his party for a second term. Mr. McCreary was married on December 25, 1903, to Elizabeth Rigby, daughter of William and Mary (Moss) Rigby, of Cambridge, an estimable English family who came to America some twenty-five years ago and Mr. Rigby is extensively interested in coal operating mines. To Mr. and Mrs. McCreary two sons have been born, Hugh R. and William L. Fraternally, Mr. McCreary is a member of Lore City Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He belongs to the Presbyterian church and GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 783 his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church; both are active church and Sunday school workers. Mr. McCreary has an attractive and pleasant home, neatly kept and nicely furnished; standard books and the best current literature are to be found in his private library and his home in Kipling is one of the township's noted centers of hospitality. Personally Mr. McCreary is a gentleman of fine address, genial, generous, broad-minded and a good mixer, a man eminently worthy of the high esteem in which he is universally held. CHARLES R. AUSTIN, M. D. Among the prominent and successful physicians of Guernsey county is Dr. Charles R. Austin, who was born in Dresden, Ohio, August 15, 1871, the son of Dr. D. A. and Bethany (Springer) Austin. The father, who was born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1822, was a successful practitioner and continued in his profession until about 1894. He was a Quaker, and gained quite a little attention as an Abolitionist, being a promoter of the famous "underground railway." He died two years after his retirement from active practice, in the month of April, 1896, being survived by his 'wife for several years, she having died at Byesville, Guernsey county, on the 24th of July, 1906. She was a woman of beautiful character, and an active worker in the Baptist church, of which she was a member. There are now five children living : L. L, H., Dr. J. S., Dr. Charles R., David A. and Laura Merriam Austin. Charles R. Austin was reared in the town of his birth, and there received his education, having graduated from the Dresden high school in 1888. In the fall of the same year he took up the business of civil engineering, continuing at this for nearly a year. This 'was not his first business venture, however, for while still attending school he had worked at intervals at the printing business. He had also taught school near Dresden, in Muskingum township. Not being satisfied with any of these ventures, he decided to follow in his father's footsteps and to that end entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1894, the same year that his father retired from the practice. He began the practice of his profession in Nebraska, where he spent three months, at the expiration of which time he returned to Byesville, in October, 1894, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession from this point. In his political allegiance, Doctor Austin is a Republican and has served 784 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. the people of Guernsey county in sundry offices. For seven years he was a member of the board of education at Byesville, being also a clerk of the board all that time. While a member of this board he did much for the public school system of the county, was active in the reorganization of the Schools and was instrumental in, and largely responsible for, their advancement in standing from the third to first grade. April 8, 1907, he was further honored by being appointed postmaster of Byesville, and waS chosen his own successor in December, 1907, being still in that position at this writing (Iw0). However, because of the heavy demands made on his time and energy by his large and evergrowing practice, he was compelled to turn the management of the office over to an assistant who ably conducts the office for him. In common with the majority of wide-awake, enterprising men, he is interested in fraternal and benevolent organizations, being a member of Cambridge Lodge No. 448, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Red Prince Lodge No. 250, Knights of Pythias, at Byesville. He is also a member of the Guernsey County Medical Society, of 'which he is ex-president. Doctor Austin was happily married in 1901 to Laura Stewart, of Cambridge, a daughter of William and Phoebe (McPeek) Stewart. To this union two children have been born, David W. and Emma Merriam. One of Doctor Austin's ancestors, his father's grand uncle, David Williams, gained distinction in the Revolutionary war, being one of the three who captured Major Andre, and the powder horn belonging to this man is now a treasured family heirloom. WILLIAM T. RAMSEY, M. D. The name of Dr. William T. Ramsey has long since become a household word throughout Guernsey county, where he has practiced his profession for more than a quarter of a century, and he is regarded as one of the leading medical men of eastern Ohio, keeping abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to his calling and broad-minded and conscientious in the discharge of his professional duties. Doctor Ramsey was born April 18, 1847, in Frederick, Maryland, and he is the son of James M. and Mary Eleanor Addison (Tyler) Ramsey. His father was a lawyer by profession, and he filled the responsible position of chief clerk to the first comptroller of the treasury for several years, dying in GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 785 the service at the early age of thirty-nine years. He was a native of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and his wife was born in Frederick, Maryland. Her death occurred about thirty years ago in Washington, D. C. Doctor Ramsey was educated at the academy at Frederick and while yet a mere lad he entered the commissary department of the Union army during the Civil war, and remained in the same until September, 1865, when he was transferred to the commissary-general's office in Washington and remained there until 1869. Then he entered the commissary department of the army located at Washington, D. C., and while in this service studied medicine at Columbian College, in that city, having been graduated from this institution in 1871. He resigned from the commissary department in 1873, leaving the service to begin the practice of medicine. He was at Providence Hospital in Washington, D. C., until 1879. In 1880 he received an appointment as surgeon with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and remained in the same one year. He came to Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1881 and began the practice of his profession there, and in April, 1883, he came to Cambridge and has been here ever since. He has enjoyed a large practice from the first and his reputation has far transcended the limits of Guernsey county. He is kept very busy as a general practitioner and won an envied reputation in a community long noted for the high order of its medical talent. Doctor Ramsey was married on January 2, 1884, to Martha Isabelle Lawrence, daughter of William A. and Mary (Moore) Lawrence. Her father was a prominent citizen and served as county treasurer for four years. At the time of his death, in December, 1879, he was cashier of the Guernsey National Bank. His wife died the following month, January, 1880. To Dr. and Mrs. Ramsey two children have been born, William L., deceased, and James M., now with the National Coal Company of Cambridge. Politically, Doctor Ramsey is a Democrat, and he has always been active in public affairs and during two terms of President Cleveland's administration he was a member of the board of pension. examiners. In 1907 he was appointed health officer of Cambridge and is still serving very acceptably in that capacity. He is a member of the state and county medical societies, and he was for some time president of the latter. He is a member of the Masonic order and is a Knight Templar and a thirty-second-degree Mason, He is a member of the Ohio Consistory at Cincinnati and he has filled most of the offices of the order. He is active in lodge matters. Doctor Ramsey, wife and son are members of the Episcopal church and active church workers,— in fact Mrs. Ramsey is an active worker in all church and charitable circles, and, like the Doctor, she is held in high favor in a wide circle of friends. 786 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. The Doctor’s sterling old grandfather, Samuel Ramsey, was reared on a farm, the one adjacent to that of President James Buchanan near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They attended school together and graduated from Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the same class, studied law together and were admitted to the bar at the same time. ROBERT STEELE FORBES, M. D. There is much in the life record of the late Dr. Robert Steele Forbes worthy of commendation and admiration. Like many other brainy, energetic citizens of Guernsey county, he did not wait for a specially brilliant opening. Indeed, he could not wait, for his natural industry would not permit him to do so. In his early youth he gave evidence of the possession of traits of character which made his life exceptionally successful and he became one of the county's foremost and successful citizens, especially at Byesville, his late home. Robert S. Forbes was born on October 9, 1833, near Middleton, Guernsey county, Ohio, and he was summoned to close his earthly career on July 2, 1898, at the age of sixty-eight years, six months and seven days. He was the son of Boyd and Martha Forbes, the father having been a native of Ireland, from which country he emigrated to America in an early day. Doctor Forbes spent his boyhood on a farm and when seventeen years of age began teaching school, having received a good education in the schools of his native community, being an ardent student from the start. But being inclined to the medical profession, he gave up teaching and began the study of medicine with Doctor George, of Middleton, after which he attended medical college at Columbus, Ohio, Before completing his course there he came to Byesville and took up the practice of his profession, which he continued for several years, then returned to Columbus and was graduated from the institution there with honors. He then resumed his practice at Byesville, but not long afterwards went to Kingston, Ross county, where he remained in the practice of his profession for a period of six years. He was also part owner of a drug store there and was very successful; but he moved back to his old home at Byesville. On April 1, 1863, Doctor Forbes was married to Malinda Wilson, sister of H. H. Wilson, to whose sketch, appearing on another page of this work, the reader is respectfully referred for the family history of Mrs. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 787 Forbes. She was born about a mile from Byesville, where she was reared and educated, remaining there until her marriage, then went to housekeeping in the house where she now resides. She is a woman of many estimable traits, hospitable, generous and, like her lamented husband, has a host of warm personal friends. Doctor Forbes was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a patriotic man, and during the great struggle between North and South in the early sixties he followed the flag of the National Union, becoming first lieutenant in Company E, under Captain Ferguson, of Cambridge. While in the service he was stricken with paralysis and he never fully recovered the full use of his right arm, but he grew worse later in life. Politically, he was a Democrat and was outspoken in support of his party'S principles, even in the army, where those who differed from him were in the great majority and to speak too freely was sometimes dangerous. He was a man who was fond of home, and he waS seldom away except when out professionally. He enjoyed a large practice both at Byesville and this entire vicinity, and he kept abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to his profession. While at other places. In fact, his work was so strenuouS there that he was not physically able to bear it all, so he gave it up and came back to his old home community. During the last seven years of his life he was unable to practice on account of the paralysis that was gradually mastering him. He was a man with a high sense of honor and was popular wherever he was known. Since his death Mrs. Forbes has continued to reside on the old homestead. ARCHIBALD L. BLACK. From the far-famed and beautiful land of Bruce and Burns, the bluebell and the heather, from which so many of our sterling emigrants have come, Archibald L. Black, well known in mining circles in the vicinity of Trail Run, Jackson township, Guernsey county, has migrated and become a loyal and popular citizen, for in his makeup are many of the strong and admirable traits of the typical Scotchman. His birth occurred on July 17, 11865, in Ayreshire, Scotland, and he was brought to our shores when eight years old. He is the son of James and Agnes Black. The family had previously resided in America, before 1860. Five uncles of the subject, on the paternal side, fought in the Union army during the Civil war. The oldest, 788 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Capt. George Black, was killed in battle. James Black took care of the families of the five brothers. Four of them died during the war, only one returning home. Three of them had previously been in the British army, one having served in the West Indies. In 1861, the father, James Black, took the family back to Scotland. The family were all goldsmiths and glass-cutters and some of them lost their money in the banks during the war. The family returned to the United States about 1873 and located at Mansfield, now Carnegie, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where James Black had lived before the Civil war. He owned a large portion of the land on which the town of Carnegie stands. He lost heavily during the panic of 1873, also in 1883, when the banks in Pittsburg failed,—in fact he was financially ruined, losing all his property. He was a man of excellent business ability and accumulated a large competency. He and his wife died in Illinois. Archibald L. Black is one of a family of nine children, seven boys and two girls. AS the boys became of proper age they began supporting themselves by working out, the subject going into the mines first when only eleven years old. This training was somewhat hard for the youngsters, but made men out of them and taught them many valuable lessons that have been of much subsequent value to them. Archibald L. has followed mining all his life. He worked in various localities, part of the time in the West. He was married in 1885 to Mary Hanson, of Pittsburg, daughter of William and 'Elizabeth Hanson, and to this union three children were born, Alfred William, Agnes Irene and Eva Mary. Mr. Black moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1908. He had been superintendent of mines in various places for nearly twenty years before coming here, especially in the vicinity of Pittsburg, which is still the family home, many of the Blacks still living there. He was brought here for the purpose of assuming the duties of superintendent of Trail Run mine No. 2, in the southeastern part of Jackson township. He now has under his control two hundred and sixty men, whom he handles in such a manner as to get the greatest results and at the same time retain their good will. He is well abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to his line of work, and is a man of much ability and commendable traits. Politically, Mr. Black is a Republican and takes an active interest in party affairs, though he is no office seeker. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Madrid, New Mexico, the subordinate lodge and the encampment at Santa Fe, having been superintendent of a mine there four years. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias at Byesville, and he belonged to a lodge at Pittsburg for about twenty years. He is GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 789 also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and he and Mrs. Black belong to the Presbyterian church. Mr. Black's record as a mine superintendent is second to none and proves that he is a man of much native ability. He was the y0ungest mine superintendent the Santa Fe had, having become superintendent there before he was twenty-five years of age. WILLIAM ALONZO HUNT. One of the successful business men of the younger generation of Cambridge and one of the representative citizens of Guernsey county is William Alonzo Hunt, who has been successful in whatever he has turned his attention to because he is endowed with proper business principles and is persistent in whatever he undertakes. By a life consistent in motive and because of his many fine qualities, he has earned the sincere regard of all who know him and his success bespeaks. for him continued advancements and a higher plane of usefulness in the industrial world. Mr. Hunt was born on October '19, 1872, near Fairview, Guernsey county, and he is the son of Andrew Jackson and Margaret (Stevens) Hunt. The father was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1832, and he was the son of John and Sarah Hunt. When he was five years old they moved to Londonderry township, this county. Andrew J. Hunt was one of fourteen children and he spent most of his life in Londonderry township, coming in later life to Wills township and finally to Cambridge, where his death occurred on May 31, 1899; his widow is still living in Cambridge. Nora Hunt married Steven Decker, of Washington township ; James I.; Clara is the widow of H. F. Claggett, deceased; George S.; William A., of this review ; Andrew J., Jr.; Mrs. Ettie E. Sheer, who died July 29, 1909; Dulcie M., wife of Frank J. Wilkin ; Henry and Mary died in infancy. Andrew J. Hunt was a soldier in the Civil war, having enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. J. G. Bell, and he was an excellent soldier, serving until the close of the war. William A. Hunt, of this review, grew up on the farm in Londonderry township, where he assisted with the general work. He enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education, having attended the common schools of his community and later the college at Scio, and was graduated from the Ohio Northern University in 1897, taking the degree of Bachelor of Science. During 790 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. his college days he had begun teaching in 1890 in the public schools of Guernsey county and for a period of seventeen years he continued to teach, becoming one of the best known and popular educators of the county. He 'was superintendent of schools at Pleasant City; about 1899 he was appointed principal of the South Side school in Cambridge, which position he continued to hold for a period of eight years, being popular with both pupil and patron. He is both an instructor and entertainer in the school room and his services were always in great demand. He kept fully abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to his profession and never allowed himself to grow narrow or pedantic, like so many of his colleagues are prone to do. Finally tiring of the school room, Mr. Hunt entered the real estate business, buying vacant tracts of land, platting and selling them on easy payments. He has been very successful in this line of endeavor and has developed three different additions to Cambridge, Hunt's addition consisting of sixty lots; next was the John M. Ogier addition of twenty-four lots, which had already been platted and one lot sold ; the third was Orchard Grove addition, consisting of fifty-five lots. He has also handled a number of other small tracts, building on them and selling the houses. He has been instrumental in building more homes in Cambridge than any other man and he has done much to develop the city in which he takes a great pride and he ever stands ready to assist in any worthy movement looking to the upbuilding and general good of the same. In 1909 he bought the Oliver & Shawber Planing Mill, which he tore down and moved the machinery to the Crossing Machine Works on Woodlawn avenue, Cambridge, and he has made an up-to-date, modern and well equipped mill of it, which has been a successful venture. Politically, Mr. Hunt is a Republican and he takes much more than a passing interest in public matters. He was elected a member of the city council of Cambridge in the fall of 1908 and served two years in a very acceptable manner. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Hunt was married on August t0, 1898, to Bertha Ford, one of his former pupils at College Hill school. She is a young lady of talent and culture. She was born near Cambridge and is the daughter of James P. and Isabelle (LePage) Ford. Her parents were both born and reared near Cambridge, each representing excellent old families, her mother being the daughter of Thomas LePage, whose parents came from the isle of Guernsey in the early days. The Ford family was also early settlers in Guernsey county. Two sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, Robert and William. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are members of the Methodist Protestant church. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 791 Mr. Hunt is regarded as one of the leading men of Cambridge, popular, obliging, public-spirited, honest and upright in all his dealings with the public and of pleasing address, winning friends wherever he goes and always retaining their esteem, and he and his wife are admired by a wide circle of acquaintances for their congeniality and many praiseworthy attributes. ROBERT HENRY ATKINS. The name of the late Robert Henry Atkins will long be remembered by the people of Guernsey county, for it is a name that was ever associated with the material, civic and social progress of the community. No aspersions can he made on any action of his during an extended pilgrimage here, and for a half century he was one of the leading business men and representative citizens of Cambridge. He was a man of the highest ideals, straightforward in all his business transactions and a man of splendid address. Mr. Atkins was a fine type of the genteel Southern gentleman of the old school, his birth having occurred in Orange county, Virginia, November 29, 1829, and, although he spent the major part of his life in the Buckeye state, having come to Guernsey county with his parents when ten years of age, he evinced traits of the cultured and hospitable son of the Old Dominion all his life. With the exception of a year or two spent in Washington City, he spent his life in the city of Cambridge, receiving his education in the local schools and starting in business here when a young man. He was married in January, 1852, to Martha A. Hyatt, daughter of Noah Hyatt, another prominent early family, a record of whom appears in this volume. To Mr. and Mrs. Atkins nine children were born, of whom five are living, as follows : Bertha, wife of M. R. Patterson, of Columbus; Maley M., wife of S. M. Burgess, of Cambridge; Rose R., wife of A. J. McCullough, of Ashland, Kentucky ; Robert Noah, jeweler of Cambridge, Whose sketch appears herein; James Henry, also of Cambridge. In very early life Robert H. Atkins engaged in the mercantile business. He maintained the first book store in Cambridge and in 1862 embarked in what was from that time the occupation of his life, the jewelry business. From an humble beginning he forged his way to.the front in due course of time, by industry, honest dealing and close application, with the unflagging aid and encouragement of his estimable wife, building up one of the largest as well as one of the most reliable jewelry establishments in this part of 792 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Ohio, this store being twice as old as any other jewelry establishment in Cambridge. He always carried a neat and well selected stock and his repair department was considered second to none in the country. The death of this estimable citizen occurred on March 7, 1892, after an illness of several months. His kind and genial manners brought to him both old and young as patrons. While he was in no sense of the word a politician, he was always in accord with the principles of Democracy, and, though loving the retirement of home, he never neglected to exercise his just prerogative as a citizen. He became a member of the Presbyterian church in January, 187o, and he was a useful and influential member as long as he lived, regular in his attendance and liberal in its support. He was treasurer of the local church for many years. He was a good and useful man against whom no word of unkindness could be uttered, for to know him was to admire, revere and respect him. After his death, Mrs. Atkins continued the business for about fifteen years, showing herself a woman of unusual ability in business affairs. She still makes her home in Cambridge, and, like her esteemed husband before her, is highly regarded by a wide circle of warm personal friends. GEORGE McCLELLAND SECREST. Success' has attended the efforts of George McClelland Secrest, one of the best known agriculturists of Valley township, Guernsey county, because he has worked persistently f0r it along legitimate lines- and has never depended upon anyone else to do either his work or his planning. He comes from one of the old and excellent families of this county, and he was born on his fathersis farm, just east of the town of Hartford, in 1864, and there he grew to maturity, assisting with the general work about the place as soon as he was old enough, attending the neighboring schools during the winter months, and he has made farming his chief life work, being very successful in all its phases. He is the son of William and Mary C. (Buckley) Secrest, a record of whose lives is to be found in this work. On December 9, 1887, George M. Secrest was married to Maggie Laughlin, daughter of James and Mary (Secrest) Laughlin, of Pleasant City, this county, whose sketches also appear in this volume. She was born near Chaswith, Noble county, of an excellent family, well known and highly GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 793 respected there. She remained at her parental fireside during her girlhood days and attended the neighboring schools. After his marriage George M. Secrest lived on his father's farm, east of Hartford, in fact he has made it his place of abode ever since, and has kept the old place well improved and under a high state of cultivation, tilling the soil in a manner that has caused it to retain its original fertility. He has kept the dwelling, outbuildings and fences in good repair and has one of the choice farms of the township, having been very successful not only as a general farmer, but also as a raiser of stock. He has complete management of the farm since his father became advanced in age. In connection with farming, he ran a saw-mill very successfully a few years. Mr. Secrest has ever taken an abiding interest in county affairs, being a loyal Democrat, and he has very acceptably served his township as trustee for two terms. He and his wife belong to the Lutheran church in Hartford. Their union has been blessed by the birth of three children, Waite L., Guy William and Ralph James. ROLAND S. FRAME. A well known citizen of Washington, Wills township, Guernsey county, is Roland S. Frame, who was born December 23, 1844, three miles east of the town of Washington. He is the son of Thomas and Esther (St. Clair) Frame. The father was born in Guernsey county and the mother in Belmont county, near St. Clairsville, and she came to Guernsey county with her parents when a child. Grandfather Moses Frame came to Guernsey county from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Thomas Frame and wife, about 1812 and settled in Wills township. There came with him six brothers and their families, William, Jacob, David, John, James and Thomas, all settling in the same locality, and entered large tracts of land. This family is of Irish descent. George Frame escaped from the persecutors, during the famous persecution in Ireland, all members of his family being killed except himself and two children, and even he was left for dead after an attack on the people of his vicinity, but he recovered and escaped. From him descended the present Frame family and their immediate predecessors. Thomas Frame, father of the subject, was formerly a fruit grower and when the improved farming machinery first came to be generally used he began selling farming machinery, selling the first reapers and mowers brought into this 794 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. locality. He was a progressive and prosperous man and active in public life, but was not an office seeker, though he filled many appointed positions. He was a Republican. He was a man of clean, upright character, a devout Presbyterian for many years. His death occurred in September, 1873, and his widow is also deceased, both being buried in the cemetery at Washington. Their ancestors, many of them, were soldiers in the war of 1812 and other wars. Seven children constituted the family of Thomas Frame and wife, namely : Roland S., of this review ; Sebastian C., Tyrannus B., Alonzo Ottis D., Cornelius A., Mary N. (deceased). Besides the subject, all died several years ago but Alonzo P. and Ottis D. Roland S. Frame spent his youth on the home farm and received his early education in the common schools, also attended select schools in Cambridge, and he began teaching school when only sixteen years of age, in the district schools, later. at Senecaville, and was at one time superintendent of the schools at Washington for three years. He was very successful as a teacher, but gave up this line of work to enter the mercantile life, which he has continued to the present time, having opened his first store in 1874. He has became widely known as a hardware and implement dealer, also handles builders' supplies and other lines. He has a large business. He also had farming interests for many years, but has sold his lands and invested in Columbus and Chicago manufacturing concerns. Mr. Frame was married on December 19, 1864, to Isabelle L. Lowry, daughter of Elijah and Mary (Richey) Lowry, of Wills township, an early pioneer family and prominent in business, church and social life. To Mr. and Mrs. Frame the following children have been born : Clare L., a dentist of Chicago and organizer of the Frame Dental Supply Company; Minnie, now Mrs. Charles Thompson, of Wills township; Gertrude, deceased ; Rolla St. Clair, a civil engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, located at Pittsburg; Mabel F., now Mrs. Dr. J. H. McCreary, of Byesville, Ohio. Politically Mr. Frame is a Republican, but independent in local affairs, is active in the party and has filled various positions of responsibility. He was the first Republican clerk elected in Wills township, in 1876, serving in that capacity several years. He was a member of the school board of Washington for about twenty years. He was county school examiner for a period of nine years. In 1879 he was elected as the representative from Guernsey county in the Ohio Legislature, on the Republican ticket, serving two terms in a most commendable manner. He had a place on many important committees. He has always been a temperance advocate and worker. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 795 He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church, he being an elder in the same and is a Sunday school worker, and has been superintendent for more than twenty-five years. WILLIAM SECREST. One of the grand old men of Valley township is William Secrest, whose long and useful life has been spent in his home community, where he has labored to goodly ends, not only for himself and family, but also for his neighbors and the general public, and now that the twilight of his age has begun to envelop him he can look backward over a well spent life and forward to a glorious inheritance. Mr. Secrest was born a short distance east of Hartford, this township, February 6, 1828, and he is the seventh child of a family of nine children born to Henry and Elizabeth (Spaid) Secrest. Henry Secrest was born August 18; 1785, in southern Pennsylvania and he moved into Virginia early in life, where he married Elizabeth Spaid. She was the daughter of George Spaid and wife and was born in Virginia on July 22, 1790. Her father had been a Hessian soldier, brought to this country by the British during the Revolutionary war to fight in the Continental army. He was captured at the battle of Trenton and was taken to Virginia, where he and a number of his comrades were colonized, and he remained there and married. Three children were born to Henry Secrest and wife while living in Virginia, John, Abram and George W. This sterling family emigrated to Guernsey county, Ohio, probably as early as 1820, and Henry Secrest entered a tract of land south of where the town of Hartford now stands, becoming the owner of two hundred and twenty-eight acres, which he brought up to a high state of improvement, having begun life in typical pioneer fashion, when the country was covered with vast native woods through which roamed wild beasts, and even the foot prints of the red men had not been obliterated from the soil. He became prosperous and owned considerable land in addition to his home farm, and he played an important role in the early development of this section of the country. After coming here six other children were born into his family, namely : Michael, Frederick, Martha, William, of this review ; Elizabeth and Valentine. William Secrest grew to maturity on his father's farm, which he helped develop, and he has lived to see this vicinity grow from the wilderness to 796 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. its present thriving condition, having taken a prominent part in the same, and it is, indeed, interesting to hear him recount reminiscenceS 0f the early days here. On September 6, 1854, Mr. Secrest was married to Mary C. Buckley, a native of Noble county, Ohio, and the daughter of John Buckley and. wife. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Secrest, namely : Noah E. is mentioned elsewhere in this work ; Abram lives in Senecaville; Violet L. married 0. F. Hawes, and died in February, 1909 ; Otis D. lived in Newark until his death, October 1,5, 1904 ; Emma L. married Charles Sc0tt and lives between Hartford and Byesville in the north edge of Valley township; George McClelland, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work, lives on the home place near Hartford ; James W. lives northeast of Hartford, where he has a small farm. The death of the mother of these children 0ccurred on December 13, 1904. She was an excellent woman, a member of the Lutheran church at Hartford, of Which her husband is still a faithful member. William Secrest still lives on his fine farm of two hundred and twenty-eight acres, east of Hartford, which is one of the most desirable places in the township. He has kept it in splendid condition and has been very successful as a farmer and stockman. This place has been in the Secrest family ever since it was secured from the government, only one deed having been made to it. William Secrest has very ably served his township in various public capacities, such as assessor for several years and as trustee several terms. He is a loyal Democrat. When a young man he taught school three winters, two terms in Valley township and one in Buffalo township, Noble county. With that exception he has been a tiller of the soil all his life. He is a man whom to know is to accord the highest respect owing to his many splendid characteristics. JAMES C. HENDERSON. From the far-off "banks and braes" of bonny Scotland has come James C. Henderson, a highly respected citizen of the vicinity of Hartford, Guernsey county, and outcropping in his nature are so many of the sterling traits of the typical Scotchman, that we are not surprised to learn that he has not only made a success of his life work, establishing a good home, hut that he has won the confidence and good will of all who know him. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 797 Mr. Henderson was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1861, and he is the son of Philip and Margaret (Crystol) Henderson, a most excellent family. The subject's paternal grandfather was a gallant and brave soldier, serving in the British army in the Spanish Peninsular war, and later in the Crimean war. The son, James C., lived in Scotland until he was nineteen years of age and there received his education, which was somewhat meager owing to the fact he was compelled to begin working in the coal mines when eleven years of age, and he has followed this line of endeavor ever Since. About 1880 the family came to America and located in the suburbs of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and for many years the subject made his home in Allegheny county, that state, engaged in coal mining. In 1893 he passed the examination for mine foreman and started in as a fire boss. About 1896 he was promoted to the position of mine boss, and in 1901 he was made superintendent of a mine in Pennsylvania for James W. Ellsworth & Company. He was later with the Pittsburg Coal Company as mine superintendent. All these positions of important trust he filled to his credit and to the entire satisfaction of his employers. In 1909 he came to Guernsey county and became superintendent of Walhonding mine No. 2, for the Cambridge Collieries Company, where he is giving his usual high-grade service, having charge of about two hundred and eighty men. He not only understands all the phases of mining, but is a good judge of human nature and handles his men in such an able manner as to get the best possible results and at the same time retain their good will. Mr. Henderson was married first to Catherine Honeymen, daughter of Robert and Margaret Honeymen, of Scotland, and to this union were born a large family, eight children, now living, namely : Robert, Catherine, Helen, Mary, Jessie, Dewey and Shafter, the last two twins, and Charles. The wife and mother passed to her rest in 1907, and he was again married in 1909 to Ada Belle Sethman, of Pennsylvania, who was born and reared near Smithton, Westmoreland county, and is the daughter of John Sethman and wife. Her father was a soldier in the Civil war. Mr. Henderson has a brother, Philip R., who is in the United States army. He fought in the Spanish-American war and was wounded at the battle of El Caney, and saw considerable hard service. He has been a soldier twenty-three years and a most faithful one. While living in Pennsylvania Mr. Henderson took part in the public affairs of his community and served as school director. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, while his wife belongs to the Baptist church ; but 798 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. the former is broad-minded in his religious, as well as other views, and he helped build the Methodist church in hiS neighborhood in Pennsylvania and several of hiS children below:, to that denomination. ROBERT B. MOORE. The long, eventful, useful and strenuous career of Robert B. Moore, one of Guernsey countysis honored and well known citizens, has been fraught with much good to those with whom he has come into contact, and is well worthy of detailed mention in a work of this nature. He has lived to see, from his infancy to his old age, the gradual development of this community and has taken part in the same in a manner that has proved him to be a man of progress. He was born in Cambridge, this county, on February 9, 1836, and he is the son of James B. and Amanda (Abbott) Moore. This family is of Scotch-Irish descent, the paternal grandparents, Andrew and Margaret (Bins) Moore, having come to America sometime prior to the Revolutionary war. The father, James B. Moore, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. The Abbotts were of high rank in England, and, like the Moores, always ranked among the best families in their communities. Amanda Abbott, mother of the subject, was a guest at the inaugural ball of George Washington, and her costume and jewels worn on that occasion became the property of the son and are highly prized. Upon coming to America the Moores first settled in Maryland and the Abbotts in Virginia and were among the "F. F. V,'s." The Moore family emigrated westward to Guernsey county, Ohio, as early as 1806 and were among the earliest pioneers of this section, being prominent and influential in social, civic and business affairs here, and played an important role in the development of the new country. The father conducted a tannery for years, later engaging in the hotel business, conducting the Eagle hotel, located on what is now Wheeling avenue, between Sixth and Seventh streets, Cambridge (on the north side of the street). He was a popular host and well known to the traveling public, this town being a prominent station on the old National stage route. He was a busy man and was successful. He Was known as an upright, genial gentleman, a man admired and respected by all. His death occurred at the advanced age of eighty- five years, his widow preceding him to the grave in 1873. These parents had two sons, Robert B., of this review, and Charles H., who is now deceased. During his life he was prominent in the public life of the state. The parents GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 799 were adherents of the Presbyterian church, as the Moores and Abbotts were before them, and James B. Moore was a Republican in politics. Robert B. Moore grew to maturity and was educated in Cambridge, and later attended Madison College at Antrim, Guernsey county, for two years, thus receiving a good education for those early days. When seventeen years of age he began work for himself in whatever way he could make an honest dollar. For a time he drove a team, hauling coal from the mines to the retail trade in Cambridge. When eighteen years old he went to California, in the gold fever dayS, having borrowed the money with which to go, making the trip by way of the iSthmus of Panama. He worked in the gold mines of California for five years and met with much success as a prospector. He returned to his old home in 1857 and soon afterwards went to Jackson, Tennessee, where he remained until the beginning of the Civil war, when he sold out and came back to Cambridge. He again went to California in the winter of 1861, making the trip by vessel, as he had previously done, and he remained in the Golden state until 1873. For several years he was again in the mines, and he engaged in the hotel business in Nevada City until his return to Cambridge, Ohio, where he has Since been engaged in the general insurance business. For twenty-five years he was state agent for the Phoenix Insurance Company of New York, having supervision of the states of Ohio and West Virginia. He was regarded by the company as one of its most trusted and valued employes and he did much to increase its prestige in this territory. Mr. Moore has been twice married, first in California, in May, 1869, to Josephine C. Johnson, who lived only about eighteen months after her marriage. His second marriage was solemnized on June 21, 1873, t0 Tillie J. March, of Grass Valley, California. To this union one son was born, Chauncy Abbott Moore, a noted musician, who makes his home in Paris. France, being a great success in grand opera. He obtained his musical education in Chicago and Paris, under the best music masters of the Old World, and he has since traveled all over Europe and America, appearing in the principal cities of both countries, and his company will tour America in the season of 1910-11. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Moore visited their son in Paris in 1907 and spent three months on the continent. MrS. Moore was called to her reward in September, 1907, soon after her return from abroad. Politically, Mr. Moore is a Democrat, and is well informed on all public questions and issues and is a strong partisan. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the Cambridge Commandery, Knights Templar ; he is also a member of the Cambridge Lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order