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pal Church, as was also her husband. Of the children three sons and three daughters survive the honored father.
Thomas J. Long early gained practical experience in connection with the activities of the home farm and his youthful education was obtained in the district schools of his native township, where he remained until he was twenty years of age. For one year thereafter he was a clerk in William M. Shepherd's store at Carrollton, and during the ensuing years he was employed by the Standard 011 Company as driver of a tank wagon. Thereafter he passed one year at The Timken Manufacturing Company in the city of Canton, and upon his return to Carroll County he was for some time engaged on the farm of Chalmers H. Long, in Harrison Township. For ten years thereafter he conducted a general store at Tabor, this county, and he served ten years as postmaster of that village, under the administration of Presidents Taft and Wilson. In 1917 he established his residence upon his present farm. and in connection with its operations he has developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock, the most of which he consigns to the Pittsburgh market. Mr. Long is a staunch democrat and is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1906 Mr. Long was united in marriage to Miss Mary K. Long, daughter of Chalmers and Jane (Marshall) Long, of Harrison Township, Carroll County, and the four children of this union are Joseph Kermit, Chester Alexander, June Maxine, and Helen Louise.
JOHN W. REED passed his entire life in Carroll County, became one of its representative farmers and highly honored citizens and a part of his old home farm is now comprised in the village of Malvern, in Brown Township. He was a scion of a prominent pioneer family of the county and through his worthy life and service added honor to the name which he bore. Mr. Reed was born in Brown Township, this county, on the 26th of February, 1834, and here his death occurred on the 8th of November, 1873. The widow of Mr. Reed now maintains her home at Malvern and is one of the venerable and revered women of Brown Township. She and her children still retain ownership of the old home farm, of ten acres, and she has resided at Malvern for twenty-two years. The year 1920 records the eighty-eighth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Reed.
John W. Reed was a son of Robert and Mary (Banghman) Reed, both of whom were born and reared in Brown Township. where they passed their entire lives, Robert Reed having been a son of John and Nancy (Woodward) Reed, who were numbered among the early settlers of Carroll County, the father having been a native of Ireland. John and Nancy Reed became the parents of five children—James. William, Robert, David, and one daughter, who became the wife of Matthew Ayers. Robert Reed continued his association with farm industry in Brown Township until his death and was one of the influential men of his community, both he and his wife having attained to advanced age. They became the parents of a fine family of thirteen children---Nancy, Jesse, Elizabeth, John W., Mary, David, Robert, Jr., Rachel, James, Sarah, William, Ellen, wife of Walter Clark Lewis, and Lewis, a resident of Bayard, Columbiana County. Ellen and Lewis are the only surviving members of this family. All of the sons except lJohn W. and Lewis were soldiers of the Union in the Civil war.
John W. Reed was reared on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth and gained his early education in the common schools of the locality. He inherited a part of the large tract of land accumulated by his father, who gave to each son a farm of forty acres. John W. purchased an additional tract of eighty acres, besides the forty acres which he eventually gave to Thomas Tool, who has been reared in his home. Mr. Reed became a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, though his father had been a democrat, and he gave liberal support to the Lutheran Church, of which his venerable widow has been a lifelong communicant.
On the 2d of April, 1862, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Reed to Miss Nancy Miller, who was born in Monroe Township, Carroll County, October 26, 1832, a daughter of Jacob and Jennie (Morley) Miller. Mr. Miller was born in Pennsylvania, in 1796, and his wife was born in the state of New York, in the same year. He was a son of Abram and Rebecca (Eprite) Miller, natives of Germany and pioneer settlers in Pennsylvania. Jacob Miller and his wife came to Carroll County about the year 1824 and he took up government land in Monroe Township, where he reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds, the old place being now known as the Scott Wright farm. On this old homestead Mr. Miller died in 1857, his wife having passed away in 1854. Both were zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of nine children: Mary married a Mr. Lewis and was the mother of Walter Clark Lewis, mentioned elsewhere in this work; Abram. Isaac, Jacob, Andrew, Ruth, Jane, Sarah, and Nancy, the last named being the only one of the number now living.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed became the parents of five children: Charles married Margaret Hunter and they now reside in the state of Colorado, their two children being Ethel and John, the latter having been in the nation's military service in the late World war and having been with the American Expeditionary Forces in France from September 18, 1918, until the summer of 1919. Ruth is the wife of William Dieringer, and they have one son, Herman. Flora is the wife of Dr. Albert E. Wagner, of Paris, Ohio; Miss Margaret remains with her widowed mother; and Laura is the wife of John Buck, of Union Township, Carroll County, their one child being a son, Charles.
HENRY BUEL, an honored member of one of the sterling pioneer families of Carroll County. has resided at Malvern from the time of his birth and is now nearing the age of three
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score years and ten, so that it is evident that few citizens of the village at the present day can claim so prolonged and continuous residence here. For thirty-six years Mr. Buel was associated with the operations of the planing mill and business owned and conducted by his brother Frederick, and he is now living retired, save that he finds recreation and vitalizing energy through his application each season to the fine gardens which he maintains on his home property, which comprises about four village lots and which has been his place of residence fully forty years. He is a son of the late David Buel, and adequate record concerning the family is given on other pages of this volume.
Henry Buel was born at Malvern on the 16th of November, 1845. and here he received his early education in the schools of the period. As previously intimated, the major part of his active career was marked by his association with the industrial enterprise conducted by-his brother, and he has always taken lively interest in everything touching the welfare and advancement of his native village and county. His political support is given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Lutheran Church, of which his wife likewise is an earnest communicant.
Mr. Buel was too young to be eligible for military service at the inception of the Civil war, but before its close he had opportunity to manifest effectively his youthful patriotism. On the 11th of January, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his total period of service covered about eighteen months. His assignment was changed from Company A to Company K, of the regiment above mentioned, and with the latter he served until the expiration of his term of enlistment. Later he re-enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-Seventh, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, this company having been the last to leave Ohio prior to the close of the war. Mr. Buel took part in the siege of Corinth and a number of skirmishes and other minor engagements, and remained with his last regiment until victory had crowned the Union arms and the war came to its end. He has long maintained active affiliation with the Grand Army f the Republic.
April 14, 1868. recorded the marriage of Mr. Buel to Miss Almira H. Liggett, who was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, September 28. 1845. a daughter, of Nathan and Winifred (Masters) Liggett, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Liggett came to Carroll County in the pioneer days, and here he died about the year 1855, aged thirty-eight years, his widow having , long survived him and having been seventy-one years of age at the time of her death, in 1894. They became the parents of six children—Mary Jane. Ellen, Almira H., Hannah, Amanda, and Samantha. Of the number only Mrs. Buel and ber sister Amanda are living at the time of this writing, in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Buel have one daughter. Winifred, who was born February 1, 1869, and who is the wife of Herbert A. Coomb, their home being in the city of Chicago, Illinois. They have two children—Ray Willard, and Lu cille, the latter being at the parental home; Ray W. married Frances Frey and they have a little daughter, Madaline.
DAVID O. RUTAN, who is now living retired in the city of Carrollton. has long been one of the influential and honored citizens of his native county, of which he has served as treasurer and which he has represented in the lower house of the state legislature. He has been active not only in public affairs but has also contributed his quota to the advancement of farm industry in Carroll County, and for many years he was one of the leading buyers and shippers of wool from this part of the state.
Mr. Rutan was born in Perry Township, Carroll County. August 16, 1843. and is a representative of a family whose name has been identified with the history of this county for more than a century, his paternal grandparents, Peter and Elizabeth Rutan having settled in the southern part of the county in 1818. in the portion of the county that was at that time included in Harrison County. Of their six children Alexander A. was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and was a boy at the time of the family removal to Ohio. He was reared on the pioneer farm of his father, in what is now Carroll County. and eventually he came into control of the old home farm, on which he remained until his death, in 1881, when seventy-five years of age. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Wortman, was born in New Brunswick, Canada, and was a girl when she accompanied her parents to Carroll County. She survived her husband by several years and was a resident of Carrollton at the time of her death. Of the eight children David 0., of this sketch, was the fifth in order of birth.
The rural schools of his native township afforded Davod 0. Rutan his preliminary education, which was supplemented by his attending Rural Seminary, at Harlem Springs,, and Sclo College. In 1864 he enlisted, for a term of 100 days in Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Ohio Infantry, of which he was made a corporal, an office in which he served until he was mustered out, September 2d of the same year. In January, 1865, he re-enlisted, in Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, the regiment having been a part of the Army of the Cumberland. His brother, James S. was first lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil war, and thereafter served as a member of the Pennsylvania senate, as United States marshal and as collector of the port of Pittsburgh. He was tendered, by President Grant, appointment to the office of United States consul at Florence, Italy, but declined this honor. Another brother, Samuel M., was a sergeant in the Ninety-Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in the battle of Chickamauga received a severe wound.
After the close of the war David 0. Rutan resumed his active association with farm enterprise in Carroll County, and he developed and improved one of the model farms of Perry Township, where he remained until his removal
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to Carrollton. He became one of the most extensive and well known buyers and shippers of wool in Ohio, in which field of enterprise he initiated his activities in 1871, and his operations in the succeeding years having involved the handling of fully 15,000,000 pounds of wool. He still continues his association with this important line of business, in connection with which his reputation has ever been of the highest.
Mr. Rutan has been an active and influential figure in the councils and campaign service of the republican party in this section of the state and became specially zealous in the furtherance of candidacy of late President William McKinley when the latter made his initial campaign for Congress. In 1889 Mr. Rutan was elected treasurer of his native county, by a splendid majority, and in 1897 he was elected to represent the Carroll-Harrison district in the Ohio legislature. Mr. Rutan was one of the executors of the estate of Samuel J. Cameron, in which connection he had financial control of the Carroll Republican from the time of the death of Mr. Cameron until the property was sold to the Standard Publishing Company. Later he purchased the Carroll Free Press, of which he retained control three years. at the expiration of which he sold the paper and business to the Standard Publishing Company. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and with McAllister Post, No. 212, Grand Army of the Republic, at Carrollton. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city and he has given many years of service as a member of its board of trustees.
September 6, 1870, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rutan to Miss Anna H. Ebersole, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of the late John Ebersole and Susan (Hewett) Ebersole. Mr. and Mrs. Rutan have three children—Arthur A., Helen F. and Sarah O. Helen is the wife of James C. McKalip
HENRY CLARK GAMBLE. Among breeders of pure-bred livestock in Carroll County, Henry Clark Gamble ranks as one of the leaders. Some years ago be ceased handling grade stock altogether. and believes that the best pleasure and the best profit can be derived only from handling the best of pure-breds and his farm records for several years are convincing proof of the soundness of his judgment.
Mr. Gamble, whose home is in Rose Township, was born on the homestead where he now lives March 23, 1867. His people have lived in this section of Ohio since pioneer times. His grandfather Solomon Gamble came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, Ohio, where he married Anne Young. Their son Solomon Young Gamble was born in Harrison County, and was thirteen years old when the family moved to Carroll County and located on a farm of 163 acres, where the grandfather died in February, 1880, and the mother in 1879. Solomon Young Gamble is still living and has been a prosperous farmer all his life. His wife died February 8, 1894. The family consisted of three sons and three daughters, Henry C. being the third in age.
During his boyhood he was permitted to attend the winter sessions of school District No. 1 in Rose Township, and he learned farming by practical experience at home. He finished his school work at the age of eighteen, and since then has been engaged in farming either for himself or for others.
January 13, 1895, he married Miss Mary Hannah Wear, daughter of Cyrus and May Wear of Mapleton. She died December 25, 1897, leaving one son, Charles Clark Gamble, who was born in 1896 and is now living at Canton. Ohio. On March 1, 1899, Mr. Gamble married Emma Burke, daughter of William and Susan (Shaffer) Burke. Mr. and Mrs. Gamble have seven children: John Desmond, born in 1899; Ralph Bryan. born in 1901; Floyd S.. born in 1904: Mary Myrtle, born in 1907: Alice Winona and Annie Laurie. The son, John Desmond, married Hazel Farber. of Lindentree. Rose Township, and has a daughter Hazel Marie.
After his first marriage Mr. Gamble rented a quarter section of land in Rose Township. but after farming that for two years returned to the old homestead in 1898 and now owns 140 acres, divided into two farms. He has been singularly successful as a stock farmer, and is regarded as one of the largest breeders in the county. His stock consists of pure-bred Berkshire hogs, Jersey and Short Horn cattle, and Delaine registered sheep. He is a member of the National Delaine Sheep Association and a member of the National Grange at Atwood. He is now central committeeman of the democratic party, and is in his third consecutive term as township trustee. He was also elected four terms for a term of three years each as a member of the Carroll County Fair Board. He is a director of the township school board.
ROBERT A. McLAUGHLIN, whose death. occurred July 29. 1909, was a representative of one of the well-known and highly honored pioneer families of Carroll County and in his earnest and well-ordered life he well upheld the prestige of the name which he bore. As a native son of Carroll County and as a man of sterling character and worthy achievement, he merits a memorial tribute in this history.
Mr. McLaughlin was born in Lee Township, Carroll County, June 22, 1859, and is a son of William L. and Jane (Anderson) McLaughlin, the former of whom was born on the old homestead farm, in Lee Township, January 12, 1823, and the latter was also born and reared in Carroll County. James McLaughlin, grandfather of William L., was a native of Scotland and came to America about the middle of the eighteenth century, the remainder of his life having been passed in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He married Margaret Mitchell and they became the parents of nine children. James McLaughlin took part in the French and Indian war and also the War of the Revolution.
Robert McLaughlin. father of William L., was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. February 16, 1782, and there, in 1810, was solemnized his marriage to Nancy Lindsay, who was born December 19, 1786. They became the parents of eleven children, all of whom were born
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in Carroll County, Ohio, where the parents established their home in 1810—the year of their marriage. Robert McLaughlin reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest and became one of the honored and influential citizens of Carroll County, in the organization of which he assisted. He served in various local offices, united with the republican party at the time of its organization, and did well his part in the initial stages of development and progress in this section of Ohio. He was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Lee Township at the time of his death, February 5. 1869, and his widow passed away on the 24th of February of the following year.
That William L. McLaughlin profited fully by the advantages afforded in the primitive pioneer schools is shown by the fact that at the age of twenty-two years he became a teacher in the local schools and that he successfully followed the pedagogic profession five years. He finally came into ownership of the old homestead farm on which he was born and there he continued his well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower during the remainder of his active career. He was of venerable age at the time of his death, as was also his wife, and of their ten children, Robert A., of this memoir, was the eldest. William L. McLaughlin married, in 1854, Miss Elizabeth McAllister, whose death occurred May 1, 1858, and who was survived by one daughter, Elizabeth. October 13, 1858, recorded the marriage of Mr. McLaughlin to Miss Jane Anderson, and of their children nine are now living, Robert A., Ambrose E., Sheridan B., Horace T., James R.. Samuel C., William D., Viola J., Ella F. Both Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin were earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church and in politics Mr. McLaughlin was a staunch republican, he having, served in various local offices, including that of township trustee.
Robert A. McLaughlin passed the period of his childhood on the old home farm which had originally been owned by his paternal grandfather, and there he continued to reside until he had attained to the age of twenty-five years, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those of the public schools of Lee Township. He learned the carpenter's trade, and to this he gave his attention until he was chosen manager of the Bergholz Telephone Company at Carrollton, a position of which he continued the efficient incumbent until his death. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and he was an earnest member of the United Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, she having been chief operator in the Carrollton office of the Bergholz Telephone Company since October, 1904.
On the 30th of September, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McLaughlin to Miss Sarah Jane Scarlott, who likewise was s born in Lee Township and who is a daughter of Stephen and Letitia (Fawcett) Scarlott. both natives of Lee Township, where the respective families settled in the pioneer days. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. McLaughlin were William and Elizabeth Ellen Scarlott, and her maternal grandparents, Alexander and Bessie (Riley) Fawcett, were natives of Ireland, they having been well known pioneer citizens of Carroll County at the time of their deaths. In conclusion of this memoir is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin: Lela J. is the wife of Ernest Favri, of Carroll County, and they have five children— Herman, Harry, Sarah, Helen, and Robert. Bessie is the wife of Roy George, and they have two children—Ralph and Leonard. Grace remains with her widowed mother In their pleasant home at Carrollton. Harry F., who was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, October 6, 1895, was graduated in the Carrollton High School as a member of the class of 1913. In the same year he took a position in the offices of the Cummings Trust Company, of Carrollton, and he was thus engaged until October 6, 1917, when he was called into the nation's service in connection with American participation in the great World war. He was assigned to the medical detachment of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, and was at Camp Sherman. Ohio. until June, 1918, when he went with his command to New York City, where, on the 13th of June. he sailed for France. He landed in France on the 23d of the same month, and previously had received warrant as a sergeant tirst class. Medical Department. On the 22d of November, 1918, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps, and he remained in active service in France until July, 1919, the 15th of that month having recorded his arrival in the port of New York City. On the 5th of the following month he reecived his honorable discharge, and on the 1st of September. 1919, he was made secretary of the Cummings Trust Company, in which position he served up to September. 1920, when he was elected cashier of The First National Bank of Carrollton, which is rapidly growing with success. He is independent in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities. July 28, 1917, recorded the marriage of Harry F. McLaughlin to Miss Florence E. McCully, daughter of P. O. McCully, of whom mention is made on other pages. Of this union two children were born, Harry, Jr.. who was born September 1, 1918, while his father was in service in France, and whose life shall constitute a memorial to the loyalty and patriotism of his youthful sire, and Retha Virginia, born August 7, 1920.
J. MADISON LONG, one of the leading farmers of Carroll County, owns a fine farm of 213 acres of land in Center Township. He is recognized as one of the practical agriculturists of this part of Ohio and many of his operations are watched with interest, and his methods are adopted by those less progressive than he. Mr. Long was born in East Township, Carroll County. March 29, 1860. a son of John and Angeline (Heston) Long, and grandson of Martin Long, born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. who came to Ohio at an early day and settled in Augusta Township. He was married to Elizabeth Harsh and they became the parents of three sons and four daughters, of whom John Long was the eldest. Martin Long died in 1888, his wife hav-
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ing passed away in 1884. The family have been associated with farming interests for generations. John Long was born in Augusta Township, in a little log cabin, but came to East Township after his marriage. He and his wife had eleven children, of whom all but one are now living, and of them all J. Madison Long was the second in order of birth. John Long died in 1910, but his widow survives him. She was born in 1840.
Growing up on the farm, J. Madison Long assisted his father in operating it and during the winter months attended the country schools in District No. 6, East Township. When he was nineteen years old he left school and devoted all of his time to the farm until he reached his majority. He then began working for himself, and for the next nine years received an average of $16 per month, and of that time only, was idle for two weeks, and of that period was sick for one week. He was ambitious and managed to attend high school for a year. Mr. Long then entered a different field of action and for five years and three months was engaged in clerking in a men's furnishing store at Augusta.
In 1888 Mr. Long was marred to Flora S. Crawford, a daughter of John T. and Hannah (Shaw) Crawford, and they became the parents of three children, namely : John C., who is at home; Lawson C., who is at home; and Angeline, who is Mrs. Frank Johnson, of Carrollton. After his marriage Mr. Long settled on a farm of eighty acres in Center Township which he had previously purchased, and added to it two and one-half acres. Subsequently he made several purchases of thirty, twenty-five and one-half and seventy-five acres, and now has 213 acres all in one piece. His first wife died in 1905 and Mr. Long was married to Mary Leeper, a daughter of William and Margaret (Masterson) Leeper, of Leesville, Ohio.
In addition to general farming, in which he has been very successful, Mr. Long has other interests and is a stockholder of the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton. Very active in the democratic party, he served as trustee of Center Township for two years and as a member of the Board of Education for fifteen years. In 1920 he ran for representative of his district on his party ticket, but was defeated, although he ran 1,500 votes ahead of his ticket on account of his personal popularity. Long a member of the Presbyterian Church of Carrollton, he is now an elder of it. All that Mr. Long possesses today he has made himself, and he deserves great credit for his perseverance and industry. While he has achieved a very gratifying success, he has accomplished that which is much better, won appreciation from his fellow citizens because of his many praiseworthy characteristics.
GEORGE THOMPSON is one of the oldest residents of Carroll County, and still lives on a line farm which his energies developed near Jewett in Loudon Township.
He was born In Harrison County, Ohio, February 23, 1833, son of Andrew and Jane (Sloan) Thompson. His father was born in County Armagh, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was brought to America by his widowed mother, who settled with her family in Harrison County, Ohio. in 1830. Jane Sloan was born in County Tyrone. Ireland, daughter of William and Mary (Sloan )Sloan. William Sloan made two trips to the United States, first locating at Smithfield, Ohio. After being there a few years he went back to Ireland for the purpose of getting the money due him for several years of service in the English navy, but was unsuccessful, and soon returned to America and settled in Harrison County and later in Loudon Township of Carroll County, where he died. Andrew Thompson and wife after their marriage lived for a year near North Rumley, Ohio, and then bought land in Loudon Township, where he lived until his death on February 14, 1864, and she passed away February 10, 1853. Of their children George Thompson is the oldest; Mary, deceased, was the wife of William Waggener; Sarah died at the age of eight years; Elizabeth, of Harrison County, is the widow of Joseph Barr; and William, Robert and Andrew are all deceased.
George Thompson grew up in a pioneer district, acquired his education in Loudon Township, walking two miles between home and school. In 1856 he married Hannah Rutan. who was born in Loudon Township in July, 1832, and died in March, 1903, after nearly half a century of married companionship. She was a daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Carr) Rutan, the former a native of France and of Huguenot ancestry, while her mother was a native of Ireland. After his marriage George Thompson moved to an eighty acre farm given him by his father in Loudon Township. Four years later he sold that and bought a place in Harrison County. After living there twelve years he sold and bought 248 acres of improved land in section 10 of Loudon Township. Not until 1920 did the infirmities of age cause Mr. Thompson to give up his active supervision of his farming interests, though since 1911 he has rented out most of the land. For years he made a specialty of raising Delaine sheep. Mr. Thompson is an independent in politics and has been a lifelong member of the United Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the local church of that denomination until it was disorganized in May, 1919.
Of his children the eldest is John, a resident of Stark County. Ohio. The second, Margaret, died at the age of sixteen. Andrew. also deceased, left two children, Agnes, a school teacher, and Andrew, who died at the age of twenty-one. Elizabeth, the fourth of Mr. Thompson's children, died at the age of twenty-seven, Miss Sarah is his housekeeper. Robert is a minister of the United Presbyterian Church. pastor of the First Church at Des Moines, Iowa, and has three children named Samuel, George and Dorothy. The next child, Clarence, died in infancy.
DAVID MCBURNEY came with his young wife to Carroll County, Ohio, from their native county in Pennsylvania, and they established their home in a primitive log house in Center Township, where Mr. McBurney became the owner of a partially reclaimed farm that rep-
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resented hind previously secured from the Government, by a man named Pugh. It was in the year 1832 that this sterling young couple thus made the overland journey from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, in the year of their marriage, Mrs. McBurney riding the entire distance on horseback and her husband driving a team that transported the covered wagon containing their meager outfit of household goods. In their log cabin Mr. and Mrs. McBurney installed one of the first cook-stoves brought into Center Township, and the neighbors in the pioneer community came for miles to view the new device. The young couple bravely faced the vicissitudes and manifold labors of pioneer life, and the domestic economies of the cheery little home included Mrs. McBurney's application to the spinning of flax and wool to be used in making clothing for the family, while in 1844 Mr. McBurney erected on his farm a substantial brick house, the third to be erected in all of Carroll County. In this comfortable dwelling the fine family of children were reared to maturity, and the old house still stands, as one of the landmarks of Center Township. Mr. McBurney brought his farm under effective cultivation and in the passing years his earnest labors were rewarded with a generous measure of prosperity. He was a man of vigorous mentality, well fortified in his opinions, true and loyal in all of the relations of life, and his course was guided and governed by lofty integrity and a fine sense of personal stewardship. Without ostentation, he aided those who were in affliction or distress, and he was a staunch supporter of measures and enterprises tending to advance the general well being of the community. He was a vigorous abolitionist in the period leading up to the Civil war, and was one of only six to vote the abolition ticket in Carroll County. He was thereafter affiliated with the whig party until the organization of the republican party, when he transferred himself to the ranks of the latter, of whose principles he continued a loyal supporter until his death. He and his wife were loved and influential members of the Scroggsfleld United Presbyterian Church, in which he served many years as ruling elder. His death occurred October 27, 1878, and his widow, surviving him by nearly a quarter of a century, remained on the old home farm until her death, March 27, 1901, at the venerable age of nearly eighty-nine years, her birth having occurred in Washington County, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1812.
David McBurney was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1813, the seventh in order of birth of five sons and four daughters of John McBurney, who was born in Ireland and who was a young man when he came to America and settled in Pennsylvania, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. David McBurney was reared under the pioneer conditions in Pennsylvania, where he received the advantages of the common schools of his native county; where also he gained his initial experience in the basic industry of agriculture. On the 5th of January, 1832. he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Lyle, and in the following March they set forth on the long and tedious journey to Ohio, as noted in the preceding paragraph. Mrs. McBurney was a daughter of James and Mary (Campbell) Lyle, the Lyle family, of Scotch-Irish lineage, having been founded in Pennsylvania prior to the War of the Revolution, and having there become one of prominence and influence. Aaron Lyle, grandfather of Mrs. McBurney, represented his district in the United States Congress for a number of terms. •
Mr. and Mrs. McBurney became the parents of nine children, concerning whom brief record is given in conclusion of this memoir: Mary Ann married George Barry and she remained in Carroll County until her death, July 7. 1908. John married Miss Martha Burson, of Columbiana County, and has been for many years a resident of that county. Sarah sane never married and she remained on the old homestead until her death, October 12, 1899. Elizabeth Ellen died, unmarried, December 2, 1916. Margo ret. wife of Andrew J. Russell, died October 26, 1884. Esther, in company with her sister, Martha, removed from the old home to Carrollton in the year 1908, and here her death occurred in 1913. Kate remained with her sisters on the old homestead until her death, July 2, 1908. Louella, the youngest of the children, became the wife of a Mr. Harvey, and her death in 1855 was the first break in the family circle. Martha remained with her sisters at the fine old home in Center Township until after the death of her sister, Kate, in 1908, and she and her sister Esther then removed to Carrollton, as previously stated. Here she has since maintained her home, and she is now the only surviving member of this honored pioneer family remaining in Carroll County. Miss McBurney not only owns her attractive residence, on South Lisbon Street, but also the valuable old homestead farm on which she was born, the place comprising 106 acfes and being one of the fine landed properties of Center Township. She has witnessed the various stages of development and progress in her native county and her memory links the pioneer days with the present period of opulent prosperity, the while she is favored in being surrounded by a goodly company of friends who are tried and true She is a zealous member of the Presbyterian Church of Carrollton and is active in its work.
THOMAS E. EPERSOLE has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth, is a representative of a well known pioneer family of the county and is now a progressive and successful exponent of farm enterprise in Brown Township. He was born on the 1st of December. 1871, and is a son of John E. Ebersole, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume, by reason of which fact it is unnecessary here to offer further data concerning the family history.
Thomas Edgar Ebersole early learned the lessons of practical industry, in connection with the activities of the home farm, and in the meanwhile made good use of the advantages offered by the public schools, including the high school at Carrollton. His independent career has been marked by close and effective identifi-
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cation with agricultural and live-stock industry and his well improved farm comprises 146 acres, upon which, in 1912, he erected his present modern and commodious residence. For a number of years Mr. Ebersole gave special attention to the raising of the best type of Berkshire swine, but after about fourteen years of specializing in this line of stock-breeding he gradually reduced his operations. He still raises a due quota of live stock on his farm and has attained marked success also in the raising of pure-bred Minorca poultry. His political support is given to the republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
On the 7th of September, 1892, Mr. Ebersole married Miss Ella Miller, who was born in Washington Township, this county, April 13, 1870, a daughter of Henry W. and Sarah (Strayer) Miller, both likewise natives of Carroll County, where the former was born, in Harrison Township, July 4, 1842, and the latter on the 14th of May, 1845. Levi Miller, grandfather of Mrs. Ebersole, was a young man when he came to Carroll County, where he became a pioneer farmer, and who later conducted a grocery business at Carrollton. His first wife, whose maiden name was Julia A. Riley, died when about thirty years of age, and both he and his second wife, whose maiden name was Mary Houck and the name of whose first husband was Buck, were residents of Carrollton at the time of their deaths, both having been communicants of the Lutheran Church. Levi Miller was born in what is now Monroe Township, Carroll County, November 11, 1808, and was a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Reader) Miller, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Washington County, Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized, and whence they came to Ohio and settled in what is now Carroll County in or somewhat prior to the year 1807. They lived up to the full tension of frontier life and Mr. Miller served as a soldier of the War of 1812. He and his wife here passed the remainder of their lives and of their six children Levi was the eldest.
Levi and Julia A. (Riley) Miller became the parents of five children. and of the number Henry W. was the only one who attained to venerable years, he having come into possession of his father's old homestead farm, in Washington Township and having developed the same into one of the valuable properties of the county. He married Miss Sarah Strayer, a daughter of John and Ruth (Johnson) Strayer, who were Pioneers of Carroll County and here remained until their death,
Mrs. Ebersole was afforded the advantages of the Liberty Hall School, in Washington Township, and has a wide circle of friends in her native county, so that her pleasant home has become known as a center of gracious hospitality. Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole became the parents of two children: John William. who was born May 18. 1894, died at the age of nine weeks. Henry Miller Ebersole was born November 7, 1896. and his early educational advantages included those of the Carrollton High School and a course in a business college in the City of Canton. He now holds a responsible clerical position in the office of the Otis Company, an important investment-banking concern in the City of Cleveland. In May, 1918, he entered the nation's military service in connection with the World war, and his service, of about seven months, was at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Florida. The maiden name of his wife was Minnie Shaffer,
JAMES TARBERT. Noteworthy among the active and thriving agriculturists of Moorefield Township, Harrison County, is James Tarbert, a son of the late Albert Tarbert, who, since the death of his father, has managed the parental homestead with the same vigorous ability and skill that characterized his father. He was born, September 18, 1885, in Freeport Township, this county.
His paternal grandfather, Andrew Tarbert, a son of James Tarbert, a pioneer of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, spent his entire life in that township, during his years of activity having been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Margaret Wilson, a native of Belmont County, Ohio, and to them four children were born, George, Albert, Nancy and Mary. They were both of a deeply religious nature, and were prominent members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church.
Albert Tarbert, the second son in succession of birth of the parental household, was born on the old homestead in Nottingham Township, September 17, 1852. Engaging in agricultural pursuits when young, he was first a tiller of the soil in his native township, from there coming to Moorefield Township, where he continued in his chosen work for quite a while. He subsequently followed railroading for fifteen or twenty years, and on retiring from that employment again settled in Moorefield Township, where he resided until his death, June 27, 1904. He was held in high respect as a man and a citizen, and was a worthy member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Mary Elizabeth Parmer. who was born in Nottingham Township, April 28, 1855, a daughter of John Parmer.
John Parmer was born, November 23, 1828, in Ohio, near Coshocton, of thrifty Scotch ancestry. A pioneer of Harrison County, be became widely known as a farmer and stock drover, operating first in Nottingham Township, and later in Freeport Township, residing in the latter place until his death, November 18, 1905. He married Rachel Tool, a daughter of Thomas Tool. who located in Nottingham Township in early pioneer days, and there entered Government land, from which he reclaimed a homestead. She was born December 22, 1836, and 'lied September 29, 1919, at an advanced age. Of the union of John and Rachel (Tool) farmer the following children were born, namely--Mary Elizabeth and Martha J., married Siemens Rowland.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tarbert reared four children, namely : John Elmer; James; Bessie A., wife of W. S. Kildow, has two children, James Albert and Lester Wayne: and Blanche M. James Tarbert was educated in the schools of Nottingham and Moorefield Townships, and since arriving at man's estate has devoted his
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time and energies to general farming. He has never married, but is living on the Clendening farm with his widowed mother, while his sister, Blanche, married E. D. Clay, of Piedmont. Possessing a practical knowledge of the various branches of his chosen occupation, James Tarbert is carrying on general farming in a highly satisfactory manner, his labors being amply rewarded by the abundant crops he harvests each year.
WILLIAM GOTSCHALL, as a citizen of sterling character and as a successful exponent of farm industry, left a benignant impress in the county which represented his home during his entire life and in which he was a scion of an honored pioneer family whose name has been most worthily linked with the civic and material development and upbuilding of Carroll County. He was born in this county' in the year 1822, a date that clearly denotes that his parents, John and Mary (Polen) Gotschall, were numbered among the very early settlers of the county, where the mother remained until her death, the father, when venerable in years, having gone to California, where his death occurred. They became the parents of a fine family of ten sons and three daughters. William Gotschall was reared under the conditions and influences that marked the pioneer era in Carroll County, where he gave a due part of his youth to pursuing his studies in the primitive log schoolhouse. As a youth he had ample experience in connection with the work of clearing and reclaiming new land, and it was his portion to have split many fence rails, at the rate of one dollar a hundred. Eventually he became the owner of a farm of forty acres, in Lee Township, and he passed the closing days of his life in the home of one of his daughters, Mrs. Sadie Gantz, in Center Township, where he died November 30, 1907, at the venerable age of eighty- five years. The maiden name of his wife was Rebecca Drake and she was born in Lee Township, this county, in 1843, a daughter of Simeon and Annie (Scarlett) Drake, pioneers of that township, where they remained during the rest of their lives, their children having been six in number—John, William, Oliver, Anna, Rebecca and Catherine.
William Gotschall was always ready to support measures and enterprises tending to advance the welfare of his home community and native county, was a staunch democrat in politics and was an earnest member of the United Brethren Church. as was also his wife, whom he survived by more than thirty years, her death having occurred in 1873. They became the parents of seven children: Alvina is the wife of Elmer Dickerhoof, of Canton, and they have no children. Anna Mary became the wife of John W. Gotschall. Harry Sherman, who was born in Lee Township, March 18, 1865, will be more definitely mentioned in a subjoining -paragraph. Margaret Belle and Sarah Elizabeth, twins, were born July 21, 1868, the former being the wife of Frank Lotz, and their four children being Foster, Raymond. Mary and Martha. Sarah Elizabeth was united in marriage on the 25th of January, 1895, to Maurice Gantz, who was born in Union Township, Carroll County, May 21. 1866, a son of John and Mary Ann (Moody) Gantz, who were pioneer citizens of this county at the time of their death. Maurice Gantz was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Carroll County, and as a youth he was for some time employed at the butcher's trade in the City of Cleveland. Later he conducted a meat market at Carrollton for several years, and here his death occurred on the 11th of November, 1915. He was a republican, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and he held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as does also his widow. They became the parents of three children: Paul W., who was born in the City of Cleveland, June 17, 1896, and who completed his studies in the Carrollton High School, is a tire-builder by vocation and resides at Carrollton. he having entered the nation's military service September 6, 1918, at Camp Sherman, and having their remained until the signing of the armistice brought the war to a close, his honorable discharge having been received in December; Ariel Margaret, born April 2'6, 1900, has been given the advantages of the public schools of Carrollton, where she remains with her widowed mother; and Mary Ann, born November 23, 1902, is a member of the class of 1923 in the Carrollton High School.
Harry Sherman Gotschall received his youthful education in the public schools and after learning the trade of blacksmith he continued to follow the same, in Lee Township, until 1916, since which time he has lived retired in the home of his sister, Mrs. Sadie Gantz, at Carrollton. The maiden name of his first wife was Margaret Palmer, and they became the parents of three children, Roy, Z. Ralph, and Archie McKinley, of whom only the second is living. As his second wife Mr. Gotschall married Miss Lura Hamlet, and no children were born of this union. The political allegiance of Mr. Gotschall is given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
GEORGE W. MANFULL has not found it necessary to pass from the borders of his native county to find a stage for his successful work in connection with agricultural and live-stock industry, but is numbered among the substantial farmers and highly esteemed citizens of Augusta Township, Carroll County, where he is the owner of an excellent farm. He was born in Washington Township, this county, on the 16th of January, 1865, and is a son of William E. and Martha (Crawford) Manfull, the former a native of Washington Township and the latter of Augusta Township, this county, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. James and Jane (Earn) Manfull, grandparents, were venerable citizens of Augusta Township at the time of their deaths, Mr. Man- full having been born in Nottinghamshire, England, and having been a boy when his parents came to the United States and established their home in Carroll County.
George W. Manfull acquired his early education in the schools of his native township and his entire active career has been one of
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close and effective association with farm enterprise. He has remained on the old home farm which became his place of residence after his first marriage, and he has shown the energy and good judgment that make for maximum success in the important industries of agriculture and stock-raising. His political support is given to the republican party and he is an elder and a trustee in the United Presbyterian Church at Mechanicstown.
June 14, 1888, recorded the marriage of Mr. Manfull to Miss Martha Marsh, who was born in East Township, this county, a daughter of Reuben and Mary Marsh. One child was born of this union. Mrs. Manfull died about a year after her marriage and in April, 1895, Mr. Man- full wedded Miss Cora Crawford, who was born in Washington Township, this county, a daughter of William S. and Mary (Maple) Crawford. There are two children: Pearl, the wife of Earl Cameron, of Augusta Township, and Emmett. Mrs. Cora Crawford Manfull died May 1, 1891, and Mr. Manfull was married to Etta Lomiller in 1900. Emmett Manfull is a student at Union College and his sister, Pearl, studied music at the same place. The father studied the violin at Union College and taught it for a number of years as a side line, but farming is his regular vocation.
EMERSON R. RAINSBERG. Every man who is engaged in farming is not making a success of his work, but there is a reason back of his failure, and it is generally a lack of efficiency. There is no excuse in these days of progress and access to sources of information for the man who cannot make his land yield him a sufficient income to justify his remaining on it. Fortunately these cases of failure are few, especially in an agricultural region like Harrison County, which excels in the number of its finely cultivated and improved rural properties. One of the modern farmers of today is Emerson R. Rainsberg. who, with his brother, T. Herman Rainsberg, is engaged in agricultural activities on an extended scale and according to the latest approved methods, with a success that must be gratifying and is certainly an incentive to others to do likewise, and their fine farm of 207 acres of land is one of the show places of Franklin Township.
Emerson R. Rainsberg was born in Union Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 9, 1885. a son of Isaac T. Rainsberg. Emerson R. Rainsberg attended the public schools of his native township. and those of Franklin Township, Harrison County, and lived at home until his marriage, after which he was engaged in farming for himself in Franklin and Monroe townships, Harrison County. In 1919 he moved to his present farm, where he and his brother are carrying on general farming and stock-raising in partnership. Their land is fertile, well cultivated, and they have a full equipment for doing their work expeditiously and thoroughly. Their buildings are modern, convenient and thoroughly sanitary, and the entire premises are kept in such good order that anyone can easily see that expert farmers own the place. Their farm is conveniently located on the Ocean to Ocean Highway and the passing motors keep them in close touch with the whole Country.
In August, 1915, Emerson R. Rainsberg was married to Lenora Cummings, a daughter of W. L. Cummings. Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberg are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Plum Run. Mr. Rainsberg belongs to Tuscarawas Lodge No. 15, Knights of Pythias. Although they have not lived in this locality for very long, the Rainsbergs have already made their influence felt, and are recognized as very valuable additions to the neighborhood, and have gained the friendship. of a circle of congenial people.
JOHN VICKERS. Many years ago when Franklin Township was still in an undeveloped state, a young Englishman, John Vickers by name, came to Harrison County, and finding here conditions to suit him, entered land from the Government, his grant to the land bearing the signature of President Andrew Jackson. This parchment is among the most cherished possessions of John Vickers, his son, now one of the dependable men and successful farmers of Franklin Township.
John Vickers, the elder, was born in England in 1791, and he was twice married, the first time to a Miss Carnes, by whom he had five children, namely: Cornelius, Mary Ann, Asenith, Isaac and Ruth. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Vickers was married to Anna Bridgeman, born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Philip and Sarah (Carnes) Bridgeman, and their children were: John. James and Thomas, of whom the last named died when very small. Brought up in the faith of the Society of Friends, later on in life Mr. Vickers joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. After locating in Franklin Township. he continued to live in it the remainder of his life. A man of unusually fine character he made his mark in his neighborhood. and his advice was sought by many who learned to rely on his judgment.
John Vickers, whose name heads this review, was given such educational advantages as the district schools of his native township afforded until he reached the age of thirteen years, when he began to earn his own living by working for others. doing as a general thing carpenter work. Until he was married Mr. Vickers continued is this line, but after he had assumed new responsibilities he began to want a farm and in 1887 bought his present property of ninety acres, moving to it from Harlem Springs in Carroll County where he and his wife had been living. Mr. Vickers has put all of the improvements on his place, including the present buildings. and the premises show that the owner takes a pride in having everything in tirst-class order. Since buying his place Mr. Vickers has been a general farmer and stock-raiser, but does not specialize on any one thing, finding it more profitable for him to follow his present lines.
On February 19. 1885. Mr. Vickers was united in marriage with Margaret E. Arbaugh a daughter of William and Anna Arbaugh. There are no children. Mr. and Mrs. Vickers belong to the Presbyterian Church of Deersville, Ohio.
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For twelve years Mr. Vickers was a trustee of Franklin Township, and he was also on the township school board for six years, in both offices giving the people of Franklin Township a faithful service, and safeguarding their interests. While he is deeply interested in the advancement of this community he does not favor any wasting of the taxpayers' money in forwarding movements which do not insure permanent and safe results, and he can always be depended upon to weigh both sides carefully before coming to a decision on public matters.
FREMONT SHOTWELL. The permanent value of this publication as a vehicle for the perpetuation of personal records of those who have played worthy part in the development and up- building and the continued progress of the counties represented, is enhanced specially by the fact that within its pages is given consideration to so goodly a percentage of the present-day farmers in the two counties. In Freeport Township, Harrison County, an enterprising husbandman who well merits such recognition is Fremont Shotwell, who was born in Washington Township, this county, August 5, 1856, and is a popular scion of a family that was founded in this county in the year 1813.
Mr. Shotwell is a son of Arrison and Mary (Dickerson) Shotwell, the former of whom was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and the latter in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Barrick Dickerson, who was a member of one of the best known pioneer families of the county, as records of other representatives will show by referring to other pages of this work. Hugh Shotwell, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born at Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, in which commonwealth the original American progenitors settled as early as 1665, upon immigration from England. The family were members of the Society of Friends. and though this organization has ever been opposed to war it is natter of family tradition that Hugh Shotwell was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, while he further transgressed the ancestral faith by marrying outside the Society of Friends, the family name of his wife having been Arrison. For this action he was not only dismissed from the religious organization mentioned but was also disinherited by his father. In 1792 he settled at Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1813, when lie came with his family to the wilds of Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased land tive miles west of Cadiz. There he continued as a pioneer farmer until 1828, when he removed to Washington Township, where his death occurred In 1853, his wife havIng passed away in 1837. Hugh Shotwell took up Government land, the deed to which, bearing the signatiure of President Madison, is still in the possession of the family. His remains rest beside those of his wife, in the cemetery of the Corinth Baptist Church, situated on a part of the old homestead farm which he obtained from the government.
Arrison Shotwell was a small child at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer era, and where he eventually engaged in farming, in Washington Township. In 1861 he removed with his family to Franklin, Pennsylvania, but five years later, in 1866, he returned to Ohio and established his home in the city of Cleveland, where he continued to reside until his death, in 1893, his widow passing away in the following year and both having been earnest members of the Baptist Church. They became the parents of six children: Elizabeth, who was born in 1836, died in 1903; Victoria was born in 1839; Andrew J., John T., and Austin are deceased; and Fremont, who is the only survivor.
Fremont Shotwell was a lad of about ten years when the family home was established in the city of Cleveland, and thus was afforded the advantages of the excellent public schools of the Ohio metropolis. As a young man he engaged in market gardening and fruit growing near that city, and with this enterprise he was successfully associated until 1902. During the ensuing two years he was not actively engaged in business, but in the spring of 1904 he returned to his native county and established his home on his present fine farm, comprising 145 acres of the productive land of Freeport Township. He has made many modern improvements on the place, including the remodeling and enlarging of the most of the buildings, and in connection with his well-ordered agricultural enterprise he makes a specialty of breeding and raising Holstein cattle and Duroc-Jersey swine. Mr. Shotwell has had no ambition for political activity but gives his support to the cause of the republican party. He is a bachelor.
SIMPSON H. MCCAUSLAND, who is now approaching the age of three score years and ten, is a resident of Lee Township, Carroll County, within whose borders he was born October 6, 1851, and he and his sister Sarah M., who was never married, live upon the old homestead farm, he having returned to this farm in 1919, a number of years after the death of his wife. He is a representative of a. family that was founded in Carroll County in the year 1807, and his grandfather, Joseph McCausland, became one of the first settlers in Lee Township, which was then included within the limits of Harrison County.
Joseph McCausland was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, where he was reared to manhood and where was solemnized his marriage to Mary Lindsey. In the year 1796 the young couple severed the ties that bound them to their native land and embarked on the old-time sailing vessel which in due course of time enabled them to land on the shores of America. They disembarked at Wilmington, Delaware, in which state they remained about one year. Thence they removed to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and from the old Keystone State they came to Jefferson County, Ohio, in the first decade of the nineteenth century. It was in the year 1807 that they established their home in what is now Lee Township, Carroll County, and here, in the midst of the untrammeled forest, Mr. McCausland erected the pioneer log cabin which was the
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original family domicile—primitive in design and equipment but pervaded by a spirit of generous hospitality. Joseph McCausland labored early and late in reclaiming his land from the wilderness, and as his sons grew to adult years they aided materially in the arduous work of developing and cultivating the land. On this bid homestead Joseph McCausland died in December, 1845, his wife having passed away in October, 1842, and the names of both merit high place on the roster of the honored pioneers of this section of Ohio. They were earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church and in politics Mr. McCausland supported the principles of the old-line Whig party. Mr. and Mrs. McCausland became the parents of eight children—Lindsey, George, John, Joseph, William, James, Sarah and Thomas, and all are now deceased.
William McCausland, father of Simpson H. McCausland. passed his entire life in Carroll County and became one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of Lee Township, where his home farm, of 100 acres, in sections 17 and 18, represented land which he had inherited from his father's estate. He served in various offices of local trust, including those of township trustee, road commissioner and school director. He was about seventy years of age at the time of his death. April 2', 1876. Mr. McCausland gave his political allegiance to the republican party and he and his wife were earnest Members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mrs. McCausland survived her husband by more than a score of years and passed to the life eternal on the 17th of April, 1899. They became the parents of eight children—Joseph, Mary Ann and Thomas are deceased; Miss Sarah M. remains on the old home farm; Margaret Jane and William John are deceased; Simpson Henry, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and Adeline is deceased.
Simpson Henry McCausland was reared on the old home farm and is indebted to the district schools of Lee Township for his early education. In his long and active career in connection with the productive affairs of life he never found it a matter of expediency or desire to sever his allegiance to farm industry, in connection with which he found his well ordered efforts rewarded with due success. After his marriage, in 1889, he settled on a farm of about thirty acres, in section 11, Lee Township, and to this nucleus he later added until he became the owner of a well-improved and valuable farm property of 180 acres, which he still retains in his possession and to which he continues to give his supervision, as does he also to the old home farm, where he has resided with his sister Sarah M. since the year 1919. His wife died on the 12th of February, 1900, and no children survived him. Mr. McCausland has taken loyal interest in those things which make for the general good of the community and has been unswerving in his support of the cause of the republican party. He has served as school director of his district, and his religious faith Is that of the United Presbyterian Church, of which his wife likewise was a devoted member, as is also his sister Sarah M. Miss Sarah M. McCausland was born February 27, 1842, and as a young woman she received the advantages of Harlem College, at Harlem Springs. Thereafter she taught school one term, and she remained with her parents on the old home farm until the close of their lives, cared for her venerable mother with affectionate devotion, and since the latter's death she has remained on the old home place, -which is endeared to her by many hallowed memories and associations.
On the 1st of January, 1889,. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCausland to Miss Margaret J. Smith, who was born in Guernsey County, this state, and who was a daughter of Archibald and Nancy (Moore) Smith, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Lee Township, Carroll County. Mrs. McCausland was forty-four years of age at the time of her death, which, as already noted, occurred in the year 1900.
STEPHEN G. DECKMAN, who owns and conducts a well-appointed furniture and undertaking establishment in the village of Malvern, Carroll County, is a son of the late George Deckman, who here established himself as a manufacturer of furniture nearly sixty years ago, and who long held precedence as one of the successful and representative figures in the manufacturing circles of this section of the state, as he built up a substantial and prosperous industry and contributed much to the civic and material advancement of Malvern.
Stephen G. Deckman was born at Malvern January 20, 1867, and is a son of George and Mary Barbara (Young) Deckman, the former of whom was born in Prussia, Germany, May 7, 1833. and the latter was a daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Swigart) Young, who came from Pennsylvania and became pioneer settlers in Stark County, Ohio. George Deckman was the second of the eleven children born to Solomon Charles and Wilhelmina (Miller) Deckman, and was a child of three years at the time of the family immigration to the United States in 1836. The home was established in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the father followed the trade of shoemaker until 1854, when he came to Ohio and engaged in farm enterprise in Stark County, where be also worked at his trade. In 1864 he removed to Steuben County, Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1886 and his widow surviving him by several years. Four of their sons were gallant soldiers of the Union in the Civil war, and all were members of Ohio regiments—Conrad, William, John A. and George.
George Deckman acquired his early education in the schools of Philadelphia, where at the age of sixteen years he was indentured to learn the trade of wood, bone and ivory turning. He served an apprenticeship of five years, and in 1854 entered service on the Unitcd States war vessel "Independence," on which he cruised in the Pacific Ocean and visited among other places the Sandwich Islands. After serving three years and four months he received his honorable discharge, and in 1858 he joined his parents in Stark County, Ohio. At Canton, the county
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seat, he worked at his trade a few months, and in 1859 established his residence in the village of Minerva, Carroll County, where he remained until 1862 and where he had established a modest furniture manufactory. In 1862 he transferred his business headquarters to Malvern, where he erected a factory and began the manufacturing of furniture upon a substantial scale and with a force of eleven employes. Himself a specially skilled artisan, he produced in his factory furniture of the highest grade and the business prospered, even under the depressed conditions incidental to the Civil war. In May, 1864, Mr. Deckman subordinated his personal interests to tender his aid in defense of the Union. He enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was organized at Camp Chase and which shortly afterward reported to General Wallace at Baltimore, Maryland. It was assigned to the command of General Tyler, and a few weeks later it was assigned to guard duty over the large body of military prisoners at Fort Delaware, where it remained until the expiration of its term of enlistment, the regiment having been mustered out at Camp Chase, Ohio, September 2, 1864.
Upon his return to Malvern Mr. Deckman resumed charge of his furniture factory, and with the passing years he developed this into one of the substantial and important industrial enterprises of Carroll County, his connection with the business having continued until shortly before his death, October 1, 1901. His wife passed away a few years later. In the Deckman factory was manufactured much of the furniture for the present courthouse of Carroll County, and the products of the establishment are to be found also in many of the homes of this section of the state, the concern having always maintained its reputation for the manufacturing of high-grade furniture of the staunchest type and of all kinds.
George Deckman was a man of fine character and distinctive ability, and none commanded a more secure place in popular esteem. He served as township trustee and township treasurer of Brown Township, and also gave characteristically loyal service as a member of the Village Council and the School Board. He was affiliated with David Reed Post No. 142, Grand Army of the Republic, at Malvern. and also with the local organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of eight children, namely: Mary E., Charles J., William H., Elizabeth M., Stephen George, Kittie A., John E. and Arthur W.
Stephen G. Deckman gained his early education in the public schools of Malvern, and as a youth he began work in his father's furniture factory. He familiarized himself with all departments of the work, his initial experience having been gained when he was a boy of ten years, and with the passing years he became his father's valued coadjutor in the management of the business. September 19, 1900, he became associated with his father-in-law in the purchase of the retail furniture and undertaking business which had been established by his father, the furniture factory having been sold to a stock company after the death of his father and the enterprise being continued under the corporate title of the Deckman Furniture Company. Stephen G. Deckman is a stockholder of this company and continued as general manager of the business for several years. His attention is now given almost exclusively to the management of his large and prosperous retail furniture business, in connection with which he maintains an undertaking department with the most modern facilities and service. This business has been owned individually by Mr. Deckman since 1915, his father-in-law and partner, John M. Swisshelm, having died in 1908, but the firm name of Deckman & Swisshelm was thereafter retained until Mr. Deckman purchased the interest represented in Mr. Swisshelm's estate and assumed full control of the business in 1915.
Mr. Deckman gives unfaltering allegiance to the republican party. He has served as a member of the Village Council and also as clerk of Brown Township. He was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of J. M. Telfer in the office of clerk of the Common Pleas Court, and by election he continued the incumbent of this office for a full term thereafter. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church in their home village.
August 29, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Deckman to Miss Emma J. Swisshelm, daughter of the late John M. Swisshelm, of whom mention has been made in a preceding Paragraph. Mr. and Mrs. Deckman became the parents of five children, of whom one son died at the age of seven months: Iva L. was graduated from the Malvern High School, and in May, 1920, was graduated as a trained nurse, after completing a thorough course in the training school for nurses maintained in connection with the St. Luke's Hospital in the City of Cleveland; Fred H. was graduated from the University of Ohio as a member of the class of 1919. and now holds a position in the offices of the Cleveland Illuminating Company in the City of Cleveland; and Clarence and Emil are still students-in the public schools of Malvern, the former being, in 1920, a member of the freshman class in the high school.
JOHN L. SNIVELY. No man in Washington Township is more substantially and honorably identified with the agricultural development and prosperity of this part of Carroll County than John L. Snively. Opportunity in the environment of this thrifty farmer has never been allowed to knock twice at the door, but has been turned to the best possible account from both a personal and community standpoint. From small beginnings and without the encouragement of money or influence he has come to be the owner of 200 acres of land in Washington Township and 160 acres in Harrison Township.
Mr. Snively was born in Brown Township January 19, 1861, a son of Joseph and Susan (Grunder) Snively. His paternal grandfather,
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John Snively, was born in Pennsylvania, where he married a Miss Ringle, and became an early settler of Washington Township, where he was engaged for many years in agricultural pursuits. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Snively, Jacob and Elizabeth (Bail) Grunder. were born in Switzerland and were also early settlers of Carroll County. Following their marriage Joseph and Susan Snively settled in their native township of Washington, where they lived on his father's farm. In 1860 they moved to Brown, Township, to a farm of 110 acres given to Mr:- Snively by his father, but in 1875 traded that property for a farm in Washington Township, on which they spent the remainder of their useful and honorable lives. Mr. Snively passed away September 26, 1905, and was followed in death by his widow in January, 1910. They were the parents of four children: Mary C., the wife of Lewis Castleman, of Washington Township; John L.; Ida
M., the wife of William Dewell, of Harrison Township; and Laura V., who died as the wife of Edward Wherry.
John L. Snively attended the district school adjacent to his father's farm and resided under the parental roof until 1891, in which year he purchased ninety-one acres of land from his father in Harrison Township. He made that property his home until 1901, when he moved to his present farm of 200 acres, which he rented for about eight years before purchasing it, and here his activities have been centered ever since, although he also owns and operates 160 acres in Harrison Township. His farm is located in a very desirable locality, about four miles north of Carrollton, and Mr. Snively has installed numerous modern improvements and erected substantial buildings. That he has been a shrewd investor and practical manager is patent to all who note the general prosperity which surrounds his estate. In addition to raising all the standard products of the region he is a breeder and shipper of registered Shorthorn cattle and a good grade of horses, and raises about 200 sheep each year. He has been prosperous in his affairs, and his standing in business circles is that of a man of the highest and strictest integrity. He belongs to Liberty Hall Grange No. 2020. and in his political affiliation is a democrat.
Mr. Snively was married March 19. 1887, to Miss Frances Fletcher, a graduate of the normal school at Augusta, Ohio, and three sons have been born to them: Joseph E., born June 23, 1890, who served eight months during 1918 at Camp Sherman training for the World war, and he is a graduate of the Auctioneer Academy of Chicago; Thomas B., born August 25, 1895; and John A., born September 3, 1902. All the sons reside at home when not in school, and are assisting their father in his agricultural work.'
WILBUR B. BIRNEY has found in his native county an excellent stage for his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. and he is now one of the progressive exponents of farm industry in Archer Township, where he owns a well improved place of 163 acres of the splendid land of Harrison County. He was born in German Township, this county, on the 26th of May, 1881, and is a son of Oliver Birney, a sketch of whose career appears on other pages of this volume. The district schools of his native township gave to Wilbur B. Birney his early educational training, and from his boyhood until his marriage he continued to be associated with the work of his father's farm. In 1906 he bought one of the old Birney estate farms—a tract of 124 acres in Green Township, and here be and his wife maintained their residence ten years. In the spring of 1917 he sold this property, and thereafter he passed one year on another farm in the same township and the following year on a farm in Cadiz Township. In the spring of 1919 he purchased and removed to his present farm, which is one of the excellent places of Archer Township and on which he gives his attention to properly diversified agriculture and to the raising of live stock of good types. He is loyal and liberal in citizenship, with deep appreciation of the attractions and advantages of his native county; Is a democrat in political affiliation, and he and his wife hold membership in Asbury Chapel, Methodist Episcopal, in Cadiz Township.
November 15, 1906, recorded the marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Phoebe A. Heavilin, daughter of Henry Heavilin. Mr. and Mrs. Birney have six children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted: Dorothy Marie, June 27, 1908; Beulah Elizabeth, August 6, 1910; Elmer Wayne, March 27, 1912; Carl Henry, November 20, 1913; Irene Frances, May 4, 1916; and Roy Wendell, November 23, 1918.
HENRY HEAVILIN has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth, which occurred in Stock Township August 3, 1849, and he is a son of Isaac and Susannah (Bricker) Heavilin, sterling pioneers concerning whom adequate record is given on other pages. in the sketch dedicated to Frank M. Heavilin. He whose name introduces this paragraph was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm; and in his mature years he has not severed his association with the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-raising, of which he continues a successful exponent as the owner of one of the valuable farm properties of Archer Township. His initial experience in independent farm enterprise was gained in Cadiz Township, in the rural schools of which he acquired his youthful education. In 1,578 he removed to his present homestead farm. which comprises 184 acres, and the many improvements which he has made on the place. including the erection of the commodious and attractive house and other farm buildings. give evidence of the thrift and prosperity that have attended his well ordered activities as one of the substantial farmers of his native county. He has always shown loyal interest in and given support to measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community, and while he has had no ambition for political activities or public office he is aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican
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party, both he and his wife bolding membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Centennial year, 1876, was that which marked the marriage of Mr. Heavilin to Miss Hannah E. Palmer, (laughter of Michael and Phoebe (Campbell) Palmer, then residents of Archer Township and both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs, Heavilin have six children: Susan is the wife of George Shultz and they have three children—Rosa, Ralph and Leona. Michael P., who resides at Scio, this county, married Miss Jane Gotschall. Phoebe is the wife of Wilbur B. Birney. Ora is the wife of John McCullough, and their three children are Chester, Duane and Beulah. Isaac E. married Miss Delma Salmon, and their one child is a daughter, Pauline. Martin A. married Miss Eva Dutton; and they have one child, Clyde H.
JOHN ALVIN MOORE owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm, in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, that figures as the place of his birth, the date of his nativity having been July 31, 1872. His secure hold upon popular confidence and esteem in his native county is well vouchsafed by the fact that he is serving as township trustee, the duties of which office be assumed on the 1st of January, 1920. He is a son of Albert and Sarah (McFadden) Moore, the former of whom was born July 7, 1841, and the latter May 13, 1844. she having been a daughter of Samuel and Margaret McFadden. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Moore was solemnized June 13, 1867, and they became the parents of three children, of whom John A. of this review is the youngest; Margaret, who was born May 4, 1868, is the wife of John A. Barricklow, of Flushing, Belmont County; and Mary F., who was born December 2, 1869, died on the 31st of May of the following year.
Albert Moore was reared to manhood on the old homestead farm now owned by his only son, and passed his entire life in Harrison County, where he became one of the representative farmers and citizens of Moorefield Township, held various local offices of public trust and was influential in community affairs. His death occurred January 27, 1901, and his widow passed away on the 13th of January, 1907, both having been earnest members of the Presbyterian Church and having commanded secure place in popular esteem. Albert Moore was a son of John and Elsie (Johnson) Moore. and was a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Ohio. John Moore was born in Jefferson County, this state. August 4, 1809, and his parents, Robert and Mary (Armstrong) Moore later came to Harrison County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. John Moore was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days —in Jefferson and Harrison counties—and his wife, who was born October 6, 1811, was a daughter of William Johnson, who was a very early settler in Moorefield Township, Harrison County. John and Elsie (Johnson) Moore be came the parents of three children: Mary (Mrs, Jackson Ray), Johnson and Albert. After his marriage John Moore purchased the farm now owned and occupied by his grandson, John A., subject of this sketch, and here the family home was maintained several years in a pioneer log house, which he later replaced with a substantial brick house. This latter building, with all its contents, was destroyed by fire in 1866, and in the same year Mr. Moore erected the commodious and attractive house which now stands on the place, which is known as Grand View Farm and which contains 158 acres. Here John Moore remained until his death, on the 14th of May, 1874.
John Alvin Moore attended in his boyhood and early youth the Science Hill District School, in Moorefield Township, and he has remained continuously on the ancestral farmstead, which has brought forth its increase from year to year under the ownership of three generations of the Moore family and which he himself has maintained as a center of. progressive and successful enterprise in the important domain of agricultural and live-stock industry. He has kept the farm up to high standard and has made numerous improvements on the place since it came into his possession. He has taken loyal interest in everything pertaining to the well being of his native township and county, is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. He is a democrat in politics and is serving as township trustee as noted in the opening paragraph of this review. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church.
June 11, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Moore to Miss Estella Fulton, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County. and of the four -children of this union three are living—Norris IC., Paul F. and Sarah Martha. Stanley, the second child, died when about sixteen months old. Mrs. Moore is a daughter of John C. and Sadie (Cordner) Fulton, the former of whom was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, May 16, 1840, a son of William Fulton. the family name of whose wife was Pugh. Mrs. Sadie (Cordner) Fulton was born in Belmont County. Ohio, May 16. 1840. a daughter of John Cordner, who owned and operated a pioneer woolen mill in that county. John C. Fulton secured his early education in the common schools; but he was a close student and great reader all his life and secured A well selected library and he became a remarkably well-educated man. During his early manhood he taught school for many years, and even :liter he was engaged in farming he taught a number of terms. During the last few years of his life Mr. Fulton lived retired, in the City of Cadiz, where his death occurred October 2. 1919. his wife having passed to eternal rest on the 1st of November, 1898. They became the parents of four children—William E., John E., Luella and Estella. The elder son, William E., was killed by a falling tree, when he was eighteen years of age.
LEONARD R. COPELAND was born in Franklin Township. Harrison County, Ohio, on the 10th of October. 1850, is a representative of a family that was founded in this state in the year 1805 and the name of which has been concerned with civic and industrial affairs in Harrison. County for fully ninety years. In his vocation
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as a farmer in his native township Mr. Cope- land is in every sense upholding the high stand- ard of the family name, and his homestead farm comprises 160 acres of the excellent land of Franklin Township.
James Copeland, father of him whose name initiates this sketch, was born in the State of Maryland, August 7, 1801, and in 1805 his father. John Copeland, came to Ohio and pur- chased a small farm property in Jefferson County, where he reclaimed his land from the forest and where he continued to reside until his death, in 1840, his widow, whose maiden name was Isabelle Leach, having survived him by a number of years and their children hav ing been nine in number. They held member- ship in the old-time Seceder Church and in politics John Copeland was a democrat. James Copeland was reared on the pioneer farm in Jefferson County and there he continued his active association with agricultural pursuits until 1830, when he came to Harrison County and established his residence on a farm in Franklin Township. There he resided until 1854, when he removed with his family to a farm in Washington Township. Here he de- veloped his farm into consistent productiveness and became one of the substantial men of the township. His death occurred April 30, 1859, and his widow was one of the most venerable pioneer women of this township at the time of her death, in 1904. John Copeland. father of James, was a native of Ireland and he and his wife were sterling pioneers of Jefferson County, Ohio, where they remained until their deaths, their children having been John, Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, Archibald. James, David and a son who died in infancy. James Copeland came to Harrison County in company with his brother Thomas, and they purchased and began the reclamation of eighty acres of land, in Franklin Township, their association in farm enterprise having continued until they married and established individual homes. James Copeland, a man of strong mentality and well fortified opinions, was a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and both he and his wife were zealous communi- cants of the United Brethren Church.
In 1837 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Copeland to Miss Mary Ann Walters, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio. a daughter of Leonard and Rachel (Ruby) Walters, who re- moved in an early day from Jefferson County to Carroll County, their children having been Thomas. Joseph, Mary Ann. Catherine, Martha and Maria. Mr. and Mrs. James Copeland be- came the parents of nine children: Thomas W., who was born in Franklin Township, August 25, 1838. married Mary E. Ramsey, and they became the parents of six children. He was one of the representative farmers of Franklin Township at the time of his death. He served as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil war, was wounded in action at the battle of the Wilderness, was captured by the enemy and was held as a prisoner of war until December 25, 1864, when he was released, the following April having been marked by his re- died young. John C. enlisted in response to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, in 1861, and became a member of the Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he continued in active service, with the Army of the Cumberland, until he was captured by the enemy, on the march to Atlanta. He was held in Andersonville Prison until the close of the war and turn to his home. Matilda, the second child, upon his return to Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, he was struck down, supposedly by a highway robber, his injuries being such that he died soon after his insensible body was found, his remains being interred in the National Cemetery at the Ohio capital. The names of the other children are here recorded: Rachel E., Maria. Isabel, Leonard R., Samuel S. and Nancy Elizabeth.
Leonard R. Copeland found his early youth diversified by work on the home farm and attendance in the district schools of Franklin and Washington Townships. He remained at the parental home until his marriage, in 1884. when he engaged in farming in Tuscarawas County. which continued as the stage of his activities until 1904, when he returned, with his family. to Franklin Township, Harrison County, where he has since been a successful agriculturist and stock-grower, his present farm having come into his ownership in 1914. He is a republican in politics and his wife is an active member of the United Presbyterian Church. They gave three of their sons to the nationls service in the late World war, and each of these fine young men saw service over seas.
October 9, 1884, recorded the marriage of Mr. Copeland to Miss Isabel Carson, who was born in the City of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, and who was about one year old at the time of her mother's death. She was then taken into the home" of her aunt. Mrs. Jane Moore, residing near Tippecanoe, Harrison County, Ohio, where she was reared to adult age and was given the advantages of the public schools. Mrs. Copeland is a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Hamlin) Carson. who were natives of Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized. Upon coming to America the parents established their home at Pittsburgh, where Mr. Carson engaged in the mercantile business in a small way, he having been a resident of Uhrichsville, Ohio. at the time of his death, and his children having been three in number—John. Catherine and Isabel. Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have eight children—William Harvey. George M.. Marietta, Oscar Thomas. John C., Cleda Ethel, James Alexander and Idella May. William Harvey Copeland, who is engaged in farming in Monroe Township, married Miss Laura Conaway, and they have three children— Margaret. Wilma and Lloyd. George M. Copeland, who is now at the parental home, entered the nation's service May 30. 1918, and was stationed at Camp Gordon until the 27th of the following July, when he sailed for France. There he served as a member of Company I, Sixteenth Infantry, First Division, with which he participated in the historic battles of Saint Mihiel, September 12-19, 1918; and the engagements of Meuse-Argonne,
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September 30 to November 9. With the same division of the American Expeditionary Forces he later served as a member of the army of occupation in Germany. He landed on the shores of his native land September 5, 1919, and with his command participated in the review of the overseas troops in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. At Camp Meade, Maryland, he received his honorable discharge September 24, 1919. Marietta, the eldest daughter, is the wife of Harry Patterson, of Harrison County, and they have one child, Ethel. Oscar Thomas Copeland, who married Miss Hattie Yarnell and now resides in Tappan, likewise gave gallant service in connection with the World war. He entered service April 29, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was assigned to Company C of the Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers, Eighty-third Division. With - his command he sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, on the 4th of the following month, and the disembarkment occurred in the port of Liverpool. England, his arrival in France occurring June 18. With his original organization he lived up to the full tension of the great conflict. as he took part in the great battles of the Aisne-Marne offensive, July 29, August 6; those of the Vesle sector, August 6-18; Oise-Aisne, August 18 -September 9; and the Meuse-Argonne offensive, from September 26 until November 11. After the signing of the armistice he was with hi. command in Germany from December 13, 1918, to May 4, 1919, and on the 13th of July, 1919. he sailed from France for the United States, his honorable discharge having been received at Camp Sherman, on the 7th of July. John C. Copeland, who is now associated once more with the affairs of the home farm, entered military service July 24, 1918, and thereafter he was stationed at Camp Sherman, as a member of the Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry. Eighty-fourth Division, until October 20, 1918, when he sailed with his command for the stage of war. He was with his command in camp at Liverpool, England, at the time when the historic armistice was signed, and he arrived in a home port on January 31, 1919, his discharge having been given, at Camp Sherman. on the 14th of the following month. Idella May, the youngest daughter, married Frank Anderson, of Uhrichsville, and now resides at Dennison, Ohio. Four children of Mr. and Mrs. Copeland are at the parental home.
SAMUEL GARFIELD HITCHCOCK. After making a variety of experiments a number of the more progressive farmers of Harrison County have found it more profitable to specialize on certain strains of stock, and concentrate their efforts to produce extra fine quality, rather than to strive for quantity. One of these men is Samuel G. Hitchcock, of Franklin Township, who has made a well-deserved reputation for himself as a breeder of Poland-China hogs and blooded Shorthorn cattle.
Samuel Garfield Hitchcock was born on his present farm, June 14, 1881, a son of Samuel Hitchcock, and grandson of John Hitchcock. The birth of John Hitchcock took place in Cadiz Township. He was married to Sarah Kelly, born in Moorefield Township, this county. After their marriage they began farming in Cadiz Township, but while his children were still small, he moved to Franklin Township, Harrison County, and bought the farm now owned by his grandson, Samuel Garfield Hitchcock. and there he lived until his death. His children were as follows: Samuel, Johnson, Mary and Isabel, the last two being deceased.
Samuel Hitchcock was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio, on April 28, 1840, and was brought to the farm in Franklin Township when a child of two years. There he did general farming and stock-raising, and owned 241 acres of land. His children were as follows: John S., who is deceased; Samuel Garfield, whose name heads this review; Olga Mabel, who lives with her father; and Ernest, who lives at Levettsburg, Franklin County, Ohio. Mrs. Hitchcock died in 1901 firm in the faith of the Christian Church, of which she had long been a devout member, and her husband and children also early united with this church. She bore the maiden name of Nancy J. McGill, and was a daughter of John and Nancy (Auld) McGill. Mrs. McGill was a daughter of Stewart and Rebecca Auld, and Mr. McGill was a son of Thomas McGill, who spent his life in Ireland. John McGill, also born in Ireland, came to the United States in young manhood, and located on a farm in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, which comprised eighty acres, all of which were covered with heavy timber when he bought it. His death occurred on this farm in 1869. The children of John McGill and his wife were as follows: Thomas, who died March 18, 1920; Sarah, who was second in order of birth; Nancy J., who was Mrs. Samuel Hitchcock; Robert. who is a farmer of Franklin Township; and Stewart, who lives in Oklahoma. The McGills were Presbyterians.
Samuel Garfield Hitchcock went to the Weaver School in Franklin Township, and learned to be a farmer. Since 1917 he has owned the 241 acre homestead, and on it he is doing a general farming and stockraising business, and as before stated is giving special attention to breeding pure bred Poland-China hogs and blooded Shorthorn cattle.
In 1905 Mr. Hitchcock was united in marriage with Lura M. Price, a daughter of Benjamin F. and Mary (Barkley) Price. A complete sketch of the Price family is given elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock have three children, namely: Mary O., Samuel B. and Mabel E. The Hitchcocks are members of the Christian Chapel Church, and take an active part in its good work.
SHERMAN W. MCKIBBEN is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Moorefield Township. Harrison County, where he is now a progressive young agriculturist and stock-grower, as the owner of a well improved farm of 100 acres. He was born in this township, on the 24th of September, 1894, and is a son of William and Lydia S. (Porter) McKibben, both likewise natives of Harrison County. George McKibben, grandfather of William, was
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one of thc most venerable citizens of Moorefield Township at the time of his death and had been a resident of that township for many years. he having there developed a good farm. He was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, September 15, 1804, but was reared principally in Belmont. He was a son of Richard and Sarah (Brocaw) McKibben. Richard McKibben was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1742, and was there reared to manhood, his father having there settled upon immigrating from Ireland, his native place. About the year 1790 Richard McKibben came with his family to Ohio, and after remaining a short time in Jefferson County he removed to Belmont County. Later he resided for a time in Harrison County, and he was a resident of Morgan County at the time of his death, in 1825. Upon coming to Ohio he entered a large tract of land, and he and his family had a full share of experience in connection with life on the frontier. The family name of his first wife was Coulter, that of his second wife was Robinson, and Sarah Brocaw became his third wife, eight children having been born of the last union, namely: Richard, Joseph, Samuel, Thomas, William, Rebecca, Jane and George.
George McKibben was reared under the conditions of pioneer life in Ohio and in 1928 he married, the family name of his wife having been Brushers and she died within a short time after the birth of their only child, Jesse. who eventually established his home in the State of Illinois. In 1830 Mr. McKibben. wedded Miss Martha Brocaw, and they became the parents of two sons, George and John. Mrs. McKibben died within a comparatively few years after her marriage and for his third wife Mr. McKibben chose Miss Eleanor Morrison, who became the mother of three children—William. Eleanor and Richard. After the death of his third wife Mr. McKibben married Jane Bealle, who died in 1887.
John McKibben. son of George and Martha (Brocaw) McKibben, was born in Athens Township. Harrison County, January 27, 1833. January 3, 1856, recorded his marriage to Miss Isabelle McMillan, who was born in the same township, October 6, 1829, a daughter of Charles and Rosanna (Gilmore) McMillan, who came from Ireland to America in 1806 and who became pioneer settlers in Harrison County, Ohio. Two years after his marriage John McKibben removed to Moorefield Township, where he became the owner of a farm in section 31 and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church and his political support having been given to the republican party. John and Isabelle McKibben became the parents of six children—George. John C., Mary E., Sarah B., William and Thomas C.
Sherman W. McKibben gained his early education in the public schools of his native township and he remained on the old homestead farm of his parents until his marriage, since which time he has been engaged in independent farm enterprise in his native township, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 100 acres, as previously stated in this context. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church.
On the 30th of June, 1915, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McKibben to Miss Jennie Hamilton, daughter of Salathiel M. Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. McKibben have four children— Sherman, Esther, Ernest and Helen.
ROBERT E. MCCAULEY. In the sketches of Smylie F. and Robert Forbes McCauley appear adequate data concerning the sterling pioneer family of which Robert Emmett McCauley is a popular member of the younger generation in Harrison County, He was born in Monroe Township, this county, May 26, 1878, and, with the exception of one year passed in the Village of Jewett, this county, he has been continuously identified with farm industry in his native township from the time of his boyhood He is a brother of Smylie F. McCauley, in whose individual record is given due information concerning their honored father, the late Booth McCauley.
Robert E. McCauley did not lack for invigorating discipline in connection with the activities of the home farm, in the work of which he began to aid when he was a boy, and to the public schools of Monroe Township he renders tribute for his early education. Since his marriage he has become an independent exponent of farm enterprise and is the owner of fifty- three acres, his attention being here given to properly diversified agriculture and to the raising of good types of live stock. He is a democrat In politics and his appreciative loyalty to his native county is shown in his liberal and progressive civic attitude.
January 8, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. McCauley to. Miss Ida F. Bower. She was born and reared, in Harrison County and is a daughter of Stanton and Catherine (Fierbaugh) Bower. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley's attractive and hospitable rural home is brightened by the presence of their four children—Robert Wayne, Ralph Vernon, Charles Hamil, and Emmet Lloyd. Ethel Lucille, the first child, died at the age of thirteen years.
ISAAC T. RAINSBERG. One of the men who has long been associated with the agricultural activities of Harrison County is Isaac T. Rainsberg of Monroe Township, where he owns 124 acres of valuable land. He was born in Puscarawas County, Ohio, April 21, 1857, a son of Adam and Mary (Wells) Rainsberg. and grandson of Jacob Rainsberg, a native of Pennsylvania. who came to Ohio at an early day and settled in Tuscarawas County. The family is of German descent.
Adam Rainsberg was a stone mason of Goshen and Union Townships, Tuscarawas County, and he also was engaged in farming to some extent. He died in Tuscarawas County, where he was born, passing away, January 6, 1889, His wife was born near Baltimore. Maryland. and was a daughter of Philip Wells, who married a Miss Whitten. The children born to Adam Rainsberg and his wife were as fol-
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lows: Theodore; Freeman; Philip W.; Anna, who married Kennedy Herron; Margaret E., who died unmarried; Isaac T.; George W.; Hannah, who died when small; and William A. Both Adam Rainsberg and his wife were consistent members of the United Brethren Church, and people of upright Christian character.
Isaac T. Rainsberg attended the Windy Ridge District School of Union Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and lived at home, working on his father's farm until his marriage, after which be began farming on his own account and continued to live in Tuscarawas County. In the spring of 1901 he came to Harrison County, and located on a farm in Franklin Township now occupied by his son. This continued to be his home until in March, 1919, when he moved to his present farm, and here he has since carried on a general line of farming and stock-raising.
Isaac T. Rainsberg was married to Mary A. Kaderly, born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, March 20, 1858, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Marty) Kaderly, and they became the parents of the following children: Mary Catherine, who married Ross Bernard, lives near Hale, Michigan, and has two children, Edith Lauretta and Charles Ross; Emerson Roy, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work; and Edith Grace, who married Robert H McDevitt, lives at Uhrichsville, Ohio, and has two children, Helen Marie and Hazel Jane; Therman married Olive Gatchell, daughter of Elias Gatchell, and has one daughter, Alta Elaine. Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberg are members of the Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church in which they are valued forces. Both in Tuscarawas and Harrison counties Mr. Rainsberg has done his part in the constructive work of the neighborhood, and has earned the reputation he bears of being an excellent farmer and worthy citizen.
MATTHEW LAW is in the most significant sense progressive and vigorous as a representative of farm industry in his native township and county and was born on the farm which is now his place of residence, in Monroe Township, Harrison County. Here he was born on the 7th of August, 1869, Mad he is a son of John and Sarah Jane (Trimble) Law, both representatives of honored pioneer families of the county, as may be seen by reference to the personal sketch of their son William B., on other pages of this work, where is given ample record concerning the Law family.
Matthew Law gained his early education in the Havner School in his home district, and he has remained continuously on the old homestead 'farm from the time of his birth, while for the past fifteen years he has here been carrying forward independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with special attention given to the raising of cattle and sheep of approved types. He not only has active charge of his father's old home farm, of eighty acres, but is individually the owner of a well improved landed estate of 337 acres, so that it may well he understood that in his native township he finds ample scope and opportunity for successful farm enterprise upon an extensive scale, as gauged by the standards of the locality. Mr. Law gives his political support to the democratic party and is loyal and public-spirited in his civic attitude. His name is still enrolled on the roster of eligible bachelors in Harrison County.
A. CHALMERS WALLACE is a scion of the fourth generation of the Wallace family in Harrison County, where he is a successful representative of farm enterprise in his native township of Moorefield. Here he was born on the 26th of September, 1871, a son of Elijah R. and Elizabeth S. (Brokaw) Wallace. Elijah R. Wallace was born in Moorefield Township, this county. on the 16th of March, 1828, and here his death occurred December 23, 1910. He was a son of Alien and Mary (Brown) Wallace, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, April 15, 1793. a son of John and Margaret (Anderson) Wallace. who were born and reared in York County, that state, where they remained until about the year 1804, when they removed to Washington County, Pennsylvania, but in 1805 they came to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Pitney Township, Belmont County. There they remained until 1822, when they came to Harrison County, where John Wallace purchased 160 acres of wild land, in section 5, Moorefield Township, where he instituted the development of a pioneer farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their four children having been William, Allen. Nancy and Jane. Allen Wallace was about twelve years old at the time of the family immigration to Ohio, and was reared to manhood in Belmont County, where his marriage was solemnized and where he remained until 1822 when he came to Harrison County and purchased the farm, of 160 acres, which later came into the ownership of his son Elijah R., and which continued to be his place of residence until his death, February 21, 1880, his wife having passed away April 12, 1874. and both having been zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he served many years as an elder. They became the parents of eight children—John, Andrew, William, Mary, James, Elijah R., Anderson and Samuel.
Elijah R. Wallace passed his entire life in Moorefield Township, where he eventually came into possession of the fine old home farm on which he was born and on which he remained until the time of his death, his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party and both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. January 23. 1868, recorded the marriage of Elijah R. Wallace and Miss Elizabeth S. Brokaw, and after his death she remained on the old homestead until she too passed to the life eternal, on the 23rd of February. 1917: Mrs. Wallace was born March 25. 1842, and was a daughter of Abraham and Mary (Guthrie) Brokaw, both of whom passed their entire lives in Ohio, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace became the parents of six children: Samuel Vincent married Miss Luella
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Hayes and they reside in Jefferson County; A. Chalmers, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Mary M. remains with her brother Chalmers on the old homestead; Plummer W. died in infancy; Clara A. died in July, 1893; and Lena B. is the widow of Joshua A. Wallace, who died February 18, 1914, and she still remaining on their old home farm, in Moorefield Township, and her children being four in number—Clara M., David B., William C. and Dean E.
A. Chalmers Wallace is indebted to the public schools of the Village of Moorefield for his early educational discipline, and save for brief intervals he has remained continuously on the old home farm, where he is now conducting a substantial and prosperous enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with a finely improved farm property of 170 acres, owned jointly by him and his sister Mary M., who presides over the domestic economies and social affairs of the attractive home, both she and her brother being unmarried, and both holding membership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. Wallace holds affiliation with the democratic party and as a citizen he takes deep interest in all things touching the welfare of his native township and county.
JACOB M. LONG has contented himself with the opportunities that have been offered in his native township and has not been denied a generous measure of success in connection with his well ordered service as an agriculturist and stock-grower, of which fundamental industries he is a popular and effective exemplar in Lee Township, Carroll County. Further interest attaches to his career by reason of the fact that he owns and has always resided upon the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth and in the upkeep of which he has shown marked energy and good judgment On his present farm Mr. Long was born November 2, 1864, the farm being situated in section 20. Lee Township. He is a son of Samuel and Margaret (Ames) Long, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, and the latter in Lee Township, Carroll County, on the farm now owned by Jacob M. Long. Samuel Long was a son of Jacob Long and the family name of his mother was Slates. Jacob Long was born in Virginia and became a pioneer settler in Jefferson County, Ohio. Margaret (Ames) Long was a daughter of William and Priscilla (Shultz) Ames. the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Harrison County, Ohio. William Ames was one of the pioneer' settlers of Lee Township, Carroll County, where he developed a productive farm which is kept to a high standard by his grandson, Jacob M Long. It was on this farm that Samuel Long and his wife established their home soon after their marriage, and here they passed the remainder of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them, Mrs. Long having inherited the old Ames homestead, of 180 acres. She was one of the venerable native daughters of Lee Township at the time of her death, in December, 1917, her husband having passed away on the 26th of April, 1891. Of the children it may be recorded that Mary Jane is the widow of Frank Busier and resides in Lee Township; William H. is one of the substantial farmers of this township; Eva A. is the widow of John Burrier and resides at Carrollton; and Jacob M., of this review, is the youngest of the children.
The district schools of his native township afforded Jacob M. Long his youthful education, and he has continuously been associated with farm enterprise on the old home place, 100 acres of which he purchased from his widowed mother. The farm is notable alike for its superior buildings and for the excellent productiveness that gives evidence of careful and progressive management. Mr. Long has taken deep interest in all things pertaining to the civic and material welfare and advancement of his home community and native county, is a democrat in politics but has had no desire for the honors of public office of any kind.
On the 4th of October, 1900, Mr. Long wedded Miss Margaret Harple, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of Peter and Isabel (Young) Harple. Mr. and Mrs. Long have one child, Charles D., who remains at the parental home.
RALPH V. WHITTAKER. In this post-war period of general unrest, disturbed economic and industrial conditions, and exaggerated cost of living, the one class of citizens who may well consider themselves favored are the producers in the ever important domains of agriculture and live-stock industry. In all times the vocation of the farmer has been one of signal independence, and at no period in the world's history has this fact become so significantly emphasized as in this opening period of the second decade of the twentieth century. Harrison County rests its prestige and prosperity mainly upon its fine farms and the productive industries which they represent, and among the many sterling citizens who are effectively upholding this basic industry in the county is Ralph V. Whittaker who is one of the progressive farmers of the younger- generation in North Township. Here he was born on the 22d of November, 1884, a son of Thomas A. and Martha Florence (Anderson) Whittaker, both likewise natives of the Ohio district to which this history is dedicated and both representatives of sterling pioneer families of Harrison County. Thomas A. Whittaker was born in North Township, this county, May 5, 1859, and his death occurred August 22, 1914. His wife was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, December 30, 1856, and she was about thirty-two years of age at the time of her death, February 17, 1888. Mrs. Whittaker was a daughter of Robert and Esther (McCullough) Anderson, the former of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1815, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Forbes) Anderson,' who came from the old Keystone State and established their home in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1838. In Stock Township Samuel Anderson purchased a farm, on which were a grist mill and a saw mill, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. He died February 22. 1866, in
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his eighty-third year, his wife having passed away October 16, 1847, in her fifty-fourth year. Samuel Anderson was a man of liberal education and did successful service as a teacher and surveyor. He was first a Whig and later a republican in politics, and both he and his wife were devout members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven sons and one daughter, and Robert was the eldest of the number. July 1, 1840, Robert Anderson wedded Miss Esther McCullough, of Archer Township, and thereafter he operated his father's two mills for seven years. He then rented a farm in Archer Township for three years, at the expiration of which he purchased land in Perry Township, Carroll County, where he developed a productive farm. In the spring of 1860 be sold this property and returned to Harrison County, where he purchased the farm, in North Township, on which he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having attained to venerable age and both having been earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Thy became the parents of nine children, of whom Martha Florence, mother of Ralph V.. was next to the youngest. Ralph V. Whittaker was but four years old at the time of his mother's death, and the other two children were but five days old at the time of her death. They were twin daughters, Martha Anderson and Lucy Florence, and the latter died in October, 1888, surviving the mother by about nine months. Martha A., who was born February 12, 1888, is the wife of D. D. Fierbaugh, and they reside in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thomas A. Whittaker passed his entire life in Harrison County and was one of the substantial farmers and representative citizens of North Township at the time of his death, which occurred in 1914, as previously noted. He was a brother of George Whittaker.
Ralph V. Whittaker gained his preliminary education in the public schools at Hanover, and thereafter was for three years a student in Selo College. In 1909 he went to Akron, Ohio. where for five years he was in the employ of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, and in 1914, owing to the failing health of his father, he returned home and assumed the management of the farm, a part interest in which came to him by inheritance at the time of his father's death, while in 1915 he assumed full ownership of this excellent farm of 139 4-5 acres, by purchasing the interest of the other heirs. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the city of Akron, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Scio.
October 19, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Whittaker to Miss Elizabeth Louise Garman, daughter of George W. and Cynthia Hall (Baird) Garman, of Summit County, Ohio. and the one child of this union is a winsome little daughter, Dorothy Louise, born May 29, 1918.
HARRY M. BIRNEY. Adequate record concerning the honored pioneer family of which Mr. Birney is a popular representative in his native county is given on other pages of this work, in the sketch of the career of his brother James Earl Birney, while other personal reviews in the volume likewise give interesting data concerning the family.
Harry M. Birney, a son of James N. and Anna (McFadden) Birney, was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, on the 19th of January, 1882, and in addition to availing himself of the advantages of the public schools of his native township he completed a course in the business or commercial department of Scio College, at Scio, this county. He remained on the old home farm until his marriage, May 23, 1906, to Miss Ella L. McClintick, daughter of Thomas C. and Rebecca (Easlick) McClintick, and he then engaged in independent farm enterprise in his native township, where he continued his activities until the autumn of 1917, when he purchased his present fine farm estate, of 268 acres. in Franklin Township. Here he has since found ample scope for his vigorous and progressive achievement in connection with agricultural and live-stock enterprise, and he is one cf the representative farmers of the younger generation in his native county, where he and his wife have a circle of friends that is limited only by that of their acquaintances. Both hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, and in politics he gives his allegiance to the republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Birney have two children—Forrest E., who was born December 7, 1907, and Anna Rebecca, who was born February 5, 1918.
Thomas C. McClintick, father of Mrs. Birney. was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, December 23, 1844, and was the youngest member of a family of five children. He is a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Carruthers) McClintick, who, in 1840, left their old home in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and came to Harrison County, Ohio, where the father purchased a farm in section 9, Franklin Township, where he remained until his death, February 6. 1889, his devoted wife having passed away on the 4th of March, 1885, and both ha ving been earnest and influential members of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs, in which he served more than thirty years as superintendent of the Sunday School, besides holding other official positions in the church.
Thomas C. McClintick was reared and edu cated in Harrison County and here he became the owner of a valuable farm of 300 acres, in Franklin Township. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party and he and his wife held membership in the same Presbyterian Church as did his parents. He died November 27, 1920. December 24, 1868. marked the marriage of Thomas C. McClintick to Miss Rebecca Easlick, daughter of Pasco Easlick, of Franklin Township, and of this union were born eight children—Etta (Mrs. James Downs), Lillie Dale, John C., Jesse A.. Eva M.. Ella L. (Mrs. Harry M. Birney), Bert E. and Edna Ferne.
JOHN P. ROGERS. Thoroughly acquainted with the art and science of agriculture as carried on at the present day, John P. Rogers, who owns a well-kept farm in Stock Township, has attained a noteworthy position among the active and
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thrifty farmers of Harrison County, his diligent toil and judicious management of his affairs having won him assured success in his undertakings. A son of Welch Rogers, he was born February 24, 1876, in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio, of pioneer stock.
His father, Welch Rogers, has for many years been superintendent of the Harrison County Infirmary. The history of this old and honored family in Eastern Ohio begins with Joseph Rogers, who came from Maryland early in the nineteenth century and developed a farm in Cadiz Township. His children were named Warren, Joseph, William, Barrett, Elijah, Lydia and Mary Ann. The next generation was represented by his son William Rogers who was born in Maryland on November 30, 1798, and married Susan Carson, a native of Harrison County, Ohio, and daughter of John Carson, pioneer. William Rogers' career as a farmer was "spent in Cadiz or Nottingham Township. His children were eight in number, their names being Cindinia, John B.. Jesse, Nancy, Hannah, Frank. Calvin and Barrett.
John B. Rogers, grandfather of John P. Rogers, was born in Cadiz Township, and died February 7, 1875, after an active career as a farmer. His wife was Rosanna Keckler, who was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and lived until March 14, 1917. Her parents, John and. Susan (Gordon) Keckler, came to Harrison County about 1840 and about fifteen years later moved to Crawford County, Ohio. Their children were Josiah, Mary Ann, Martha, Rosanna and Melinda Keckler. The eight children of John B. Rogers and wife were: Welch; Alwilda who became the wife of George D. Barger and both are now deceased; John C. who was drowned May 31, 1872, at the age of eighteen; Nancy Margaret who became the wife of Elmer Barger; Susanna Melinda who married Bartley Slater; J. Gordon who married Mary Dickerson; Rosa who became the wife of L. H. Smith; and Nora, wife of Emmett Nash.
Elsewhere in these pages is given a brief sketch of the business career of Welch Rogers who was born in Cadiz Township September 5, 1851, and on May 20, 1875, married Eliza Jane Adams, daughter of Percival and Mary Jane Adams. She died November 14, 1887, and of her three children John P. Rogers was the oldest.
Receiving good educational advantages when young John P. Rogers attended the rural schools of three townships. Cadiz. Nottingham and Stock. As a young man he turned his attention toward agriculture, which has since been his principal industry. Beginning as a farmer in Cadiz Township he remained there a few seasons and later continued his operations in Green Township for a period of two years. Coming then to Stock Township, Mr. Rogers bought his present property of ninety-eight acres. which is located along the Ocean to Ocean Highway, and in its management has displayed sound judgment and acknowledged ability, his farm in regard to its appointments comparing favorably with any in the neighborhood.
Mr: Rogers married, March 16, 1898, Mary Cramblett, a daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Mallernee) Cramblett, and sister of William E. Cramblett. Three children have blessed their union, namely: Florence, a graduate of the business department of Scio College; Thomas. born March 13, 1901, died July 19, 1909: and Harold, a pupil in the Cadiz High School. Mr. Rogers, although not an office seeker, has served two terms as trustee of Stock Township. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are consistent members of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
CLARENCE A. BARGAR. As one of the many enterprising men actively engaged in agricultural pursuits in Harrison County, Clarence A. Bargar, of Stock Township, brought to his calling excellent judgment and good business methods, and in the prosecution of his chosen work he met with signal success. A native of Stock Township, he was born July 22, 1883, a son of James C. Bargar, a grandson of Jacob Bargar, and great-grandson of Peter Bargar, one of the very early settlers of Cadiz Township, this county. Jacob Bargar married Abigail Mary Campbell, whose parents were James and Lydia (Shrieve) Campbell. James Campbell was a pioneer of Stock Township, Harrison County. In recounting these genealogical facts it will be seen that Clarence A. Bargar was a lineal descendant of at least two pioneer families of this section of the state.
James C. Bargar, a prosperous farmer of Stock Township. was born here February 22, 1848, and has spent his entire life in this township. He married, November 22, 1877, Anna N Rogers, and into their home five children were born. namely: Louie A.; Violet; Clarence A.. the subject of this sketch; Lanceolet H.; and Winifred E.. wife of R. Park Heavilin.
Completing his early education in the rural schools of Stock Township, Clarence A. Bargar acquired a practical knowledge of the art of farming under his father's tuition, and remained a member of the parental household until establishing a home of his own by taking unto himself a wife. Purchasing at that time his farm of ninety-seven acres, he brought it under an excellent state of cultivation, and as a farmer and stock raiser met with satisfactory results, year by year adding to his wealth, at the same time establishing himself more firmly in the esteem and confidence of his neighbors, and adding to his usefulness and value as a member of the community.
Mr. Bargar married, June 25, 1912, Lydia Phillips, a daughter of William Phillips, a prosperous farmer of Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. William Phillips has been twice married. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Mary Keefe, he had eleven children. Elroy, Martha, Wesley, William, Jacob. Lillie, Philip, Logan, George, Homer and Lydia. Of this union with his second wife, Mrs. Penina Darling, one child was born, Edwin Phillips. To Mr. and Mrs. Bargar five children were born, namely : Mary Anna, born August 9, 1913; Ruth Phillips, born September 10, 1914; Dora Esther, born November 23, 1915; and James William and Martha Elizabeth, twins, born May 20, 1919.
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Greatly interested in public affairs, Mr. Bar- gar rendered excellent service as a trustee of Stock Township from 1918 until his death. He was a conscientious member of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church. of which he was a trustee, and his wife is also a member of that church. Clarence A. Bargar died February 24, 1920.
EDWIN MARION LONG. In a log cabin situated in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, there was born on May 17, 1851. a child who was destined to become the founder and executive head of one of the most prosperous industrial enterprises of the county: and that child, reared and educated in this county, grew to be the vigorous business man whose name introduces this review and whose administrative ability is attested in the broad scope and importance of the business controlled by the present firm of E. M. Long & Sons at Cadiz. -The story of Mr. Long's career offers both lesson and incentive, and in connection with his successful activities there has been a reflex in the furtherance of the general business and industrial progress of his native county. The firm of E. M. Long & Sons has built up an important wholesale and retail business in the handling as well as the manufacturing of lumber and builders' supplies, with a general plant that is of the most modern type, with mills and warehouse of large capacity, and with two garages that are models in structural plans and equipment in all departments for the handling of all kinds of automobile supplies and accessories.
Edwin M. Long was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, as noted above, and is a son of William E. and Mary Ann (Slonaker) Long, the former of whom was born in Columbiana County, this state. December 7, 1822, and the latter in Monroe Township, Harrison County, where her parents. James and Nancy Slonaker, were pioneer settlers. Their children were seven in number. Matilda, Sarah. Rebecca. Susan, Eliza. Elizabeth Jane and Mary Ann. William E. Long was a son of James and Elizabeth (Eversole) Long, and the former's father, James Long. Sr.. was born in Ireland, the original spelling of the name having been Lang. James Long (Lang), Sr., was a leading pioneer clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania, where he was pastor of a church at Fallen Springs for more than a quarter of a century. While pastor at this place he preached a memorial sermon on the occasion of the death of General George Washington, and this sermon is still preserved in the archives of the church.
James Long, grandfather of Edwin M. of this review, was a pioneer in Columbiana County, Ohio, where he passed the greater part of his life, though he was a resident of Harrison County for several years prior to his death, his vocation having been that of a carpenter. He and his wife became the parents of a family of twelve children—William E., John, James. Henry, Hezekiah, George, Louisa, Mary. Sarah. Rachel Ann, Elizabeth and a daughter who died young.
William E. Long learned the carpenter's trade under the direction of his father and for many years followed this trade in Harrison County, where he maintained his home in Monroe Township. He was known as a skilled and conscientious artisan and developed a representative business in the erection of buildings and bridges this county. He was venerable in years at the time of his death in 1909, his wife having passed away in 1894.
They were members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of eight children, of whom Edwin M., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth, the names of the other children being as follows: Nancy Jane, Cora, Bingham, Virgil, Ida, Joseph and Linville.
To the rural schools of Monroe Township Edwin M. Long is indebted for his early education, and when he was a lad of fourteen years he began a practical apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade under the direction of his father. When but eighteen years of age his skill at his trade was such that he was made foreman of the carpenters engaged in completing the dwelling house of John McCauley on Plum Run, this county. and he continued to give his wages to his father until he attained to his legal majority, this having been in accordance with the custom of that day. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Long married and began his independent career at his trade. In the initial stages of his career as a contractor and builder he took great pride in making every detail of workmanship of the highest grade. and thus his reputation grew apace and resulted in his being awarded many important contracts, in each of which he manifested the same fidelity to plans and specifications. In Harrison County today are many important buildings that stand as monuments to his ability as a contractor, and in this field of enterprise he became a leader in the county. In 1889 he secured the contract for the erection of the Harrison County Children's Home: in 1893 he assumed the contract for the erection of the County Court House; and among other notable buildings erected by him are the county jail and sheriff's residence, the Harrison County Infirmary. the building of Franklin College, the Cadiz High School, the Fourth National Bank building in Cadiz, the Wood & Wright building, as well as many other business and residential buildings of the best type. About the time of assuming the contract for the erection of the county Court House Mr. Long purchased the Crew & Hanna lumber yard at Cadiz. besides which he admitted to partnership his elder son, Emerson W., and about 1900 the younger son became a member of the firm, whose title was then changed to the present form. Emerson W. Long has charge of the local yards and retail business of the firm, and the younger son, Alfred C., has the management of the extensive wholesale department of the enterprise, in connection with which shipments have been made as far south as Florida, north into Canada, east to the Atlantic coast and west into Kansas and Iowa. Two traveling representatives tire retained by the firm, which makes a specialty of shipping in mixed carload lots, and a substantial wholesale business is controlled by the firm in furnishing supplies to several of the largest railway systems in the United States and Can-
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ada, the while the various specialties manufactured or handled by the firm are sold also through jobbers in leading cities, including Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Columbus. Since discontinuing the contracting department of the business the head of the firm has acted principally in an advisory capacity only, and devotes his attention principally to the very extensive farm industry conducted in the firm's name near Cadiz. In the handling of its extensive wholesale trade the firm justly claims many advantages that are not to be had in the metropolitan trade center, and the wonderful expansion of the enterprise testified to trade appreciation of this fact. The garages of the firm are modern buildings of fire-proof construction with a capacity for storing about one hundred and twenty-five cars on the main floor, and the repair department is modern in every detail of equipment. Here are handled' all lines of automobile supplies and accessories, and gasoline and oils, the latter purchased by the firm in tank car lots.
The splendid farm property to which Mr. Long gives his personal supervision comprises 771 acres and is situated in Stock Township. The farm is a model in equipment and management, is devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-raising, and in this connection the following estimate is worthy of reproduction in this review: "Because of the fine grade of stock kept, its excellent care, and the systematic and economic attention to all details of crop raising, the management of this farm has set a new pace in this locality, and has stimulated a pride in that most useful and necessary of all callings —a pride not hitherto seen in this excellent community. The demand of the times is for better farming and more of it. This will solve the problems of rural schools and the rural church, and of keeping the boys and girls on the farm, and keeping the nation secure in morals, culture and patriotism."
In 1869 Mr. Long became a member of the United Brethren Church at Bowerston, but he and his wife now hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cadiz. He is a republican and prohibitionist in politics, and his civic liberality and loyalty have been on a parity with the distinctive success which he has achieved in business.
In the year 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Long to Miss Amadilla Wyandt, who was born and reared in Monroe Township, this county, a daughter of Abraham and Roxana (Dunlap) Wyandt, both of whom were likewise born in Monroe Township. Abraham Wyandt was a son of John and Amelia (Snyder) Wyandt. John Wyandt was born in Maryland, later established his home in Washington County. Pennsylvania, and thence he finally came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he obtained an entire section of land in Monroe Township and developed one of the best pioneer farms of that part of the county. He was a member of the United Brethren Church in this county and built the first church of this denomination at Tunnel Hill in Monroe Township. His children were John, Jacob, Mary, Daniel and Abraham.
Abraham Wyandt passed his entire life on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, and for a long term of years followed the shoemaker's trade in connection with his farm enterprise. He and his first wife were zealous members of the United Brethren Church. Their children were three in number, Amadilla, Martha Ann and Miriam Jane. After the death of his first wife Mr. Wyandt married Margaret Ann Gamble, and they became the parents of three children—Webster, Amelia Alice and Orpha Olive.
Mr. and Mrs. Long have three children. Emerson Ward Long married Miss Alberta Birney, and they have three children—Esther, Hugh McLauren and Edwin Birney. Alfred Curtis Long married Anna Haverfield, who is deceased and who is survived by one child, Emmett Edwin. Alfred C. Long volunteered and entered the nation's military service in connection with the World war. He entered Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, on the 13th of July, 1918, and was assigned to the Tenth Infantry Band. In the latter part of the same month he accompanied his command to Camp Custer at Battle Creek. Michigan, where the regiment became a part of the Fourteenth Division, and he was assistant director of the Regimental Band at the time of receiving his honorable discharge January 13, 1919, at Camp Custer. Iva Jane, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Long, is the wife of Harry D. Smith, a well-known dentist of Cadiz, Ohio, and they have one child, Marian Jane.
FRANK SMITH. A farmer of well-known ability, whose extended practical experience has made him an authority on this branch of industry, Frank Smith owns and occupies a well-cultivated and well-managed farm in Stock Township, which has been his home for thirty or more years. A son of the late William H. Smith, he was born April 2, 1851, in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, of Irish ancestry.
William H. Smith was born in Ireland. Coming to the United States in early life, he subsequently met and married Julia E. Hedges, who was a native of Virginia.
William H. Smith was five years old when his parents came over from Ireland, and six years old when the family settled in Nottingham Township of Harrison County, where both he and his wife died.
Acquiring his early education in the rural schools of his native township, Frank Smith later attended the public schools of the village of Deersville, near by. Throughout his early manhood he assisted his father on the home farm, remaining an inmate of the parental household until his marriage. He subsequently continued his agricultural labors in Nottingham Township for a period of fifteen years, after which he lived for a short time in Deersville. Coming from there to Stock Township, Mr. Smith lived on one farm for a quarter of a century, but for the past five years has occupied his present farm. He has 165 acres of rich and fertile land, on which his labors have proved remunerative, and is carrying on general
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farming and stock raising with gratifying results.
Mr. Smith married, March 6, 1876, Sarah E. Johnson, who was born in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of John Wesley and Elizabeth (Ruby) Johnson. Three children have been born of their union, namely: Myrtie O. B., wife of Dempsey S. Hines; Nannie E., wife of Lester Pugh, who is engaged in farming with Mr. Smith; and Fannie E., twin sister of Mrs. Pugh. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are valued members of the Deersville Methodist Episcopal Church.
JAMES BIRNEY ROGERS. The Rogers family history as represented by James Birney Rogers, of Cadiz, Harrison County, is contemporary with statehood in Ohio. John Rogers came from Hartford County, Maryland, in 1802 and married Nancy Lemasters, of Harrison County. He settled in Cadiz Township, and was one of the pioneer farmers of Harrison County. A son, William Rogers, was born to him December 14. 1817. The Rogers ancestry came from England in an early day to Maryland. William Rogers, who owned farm land in both Maryland and Pennsylvania, was later a manufacturer of combs. On July 30, 1752, he married Susanna Barrett, and eleven children were born to them, one of them being John Rogers. On July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence came into existence, William Rogers was cradling rye in Maryland.
John Rogers was eight years old when his parents came to Ohio, and the Lemasters family, whom they found in Ohio, had been one of the first to cross the Ohio River, building their log cabin in what seemed to them the far west, and the maternal grandfather was killed by the Indians. When John Rogers married Nancy Lemasters they made their home in Cadiz Township on land entered by his father, William Rogers, where their son William was born and grew to manhood, receiving his education in the stone school house. He loved books, and the end of his school days was not the end of his study.
On June 21, 1838. William Rogers. son of John Rogers, married Mariah Adams, a daughter of Thomas and Charlotte (Blair) Adams. Mr. Adams was a farmer and miller, and was among the early settlers of Harrison County. The daughter Mariah was the oldest child. Her brothers and sisters were: Percival, Matthew B., Isabelle, James N., Albert G., William B., John W. and Sarah Ellen. William Rogers died August 15, 1898, being more than four score years old and having always lived in one community. The children born to him are: James Birney, born July 21, 1839, and named in honor of a political leader in the Liberty party of the day, John T., Isabelle J., William P., Albert L., Nancy E. and Bailey S. Rogers.
All through its history members of the Rogers family have been political leaders, being affiliated with whigs, freesoilers and republicans, and in the family there was always a strong anti-slavery sentiment. In 1885 William Rogers identified himself with the prohibition party, being among the first to espouse the cause that has gained universal favor today. Although urged to allow his name to appear on election tickets, he always declined to assume the responsibility of political office—the office at that time seeking the man, while in modern politics the man seeks the office. In its church relations the Rogers family has been Wesleyans and Methodists, always abreast of moral movements.
James B. Rogers grew up on the farm in Cadiz Township, and combined the carpenter's trade with farming, but on December 24, 1863, he enlisted as a mechanic in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and on July 31, 1865, he received his discharge from the Union army. After his return to Harrison County Mr. Rogers combined school teaching with farming for a number of years, later operating a saw mill in the community. In 1883 he started a general merchandising business in Cadiz, continuing it until 1907, and since then he has been a carpenter. He is a director in the Cadiz Electric Light and Power Company, superintending the construction of the new building in 1916 now occupied by the plant. Since December 1, 1918, he has been the day engineer, furnishing the electric current to consumers in Cadiz. Few men of his age are more active than Mr. Rogers.
On October 16, 1861, James B. Rogers married Mottle M. Merryman, a daughter of John and Mary Merryman, who were also pioneer residents of Harrison County. Their children are: Herman A., who died January 9, 1917; Jasper C., Clarence S. and Angella Estelle, the wife of S. W. Means, of Pittsburgh, a lumber dealer. While the early Rogers family were Methodists Mr. Rogers is a member of the Christian Church, and Mrs. Rogers is a Methodist. For twenty- eight years Mr. Rogers has served as quartermaster in the J. S. McCready G. A. R. Post of Cadiz. From its organization he has affiliated with the prohibition party in Harrison County, and he has lived to see the temperance question a live political issue—economic rather than moral—and yet as a wheelhorse of the party he rejoices in the victory.
JOHN G. ROOF, of Loudon Township, Carroll County, has so directed his energies as to gain maximum returns from his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser and aside from his personal standing and achievement special interest attaches to his career by reason of the fact that he is a representative of one of the honored and well-known pioneer families of this county. He was born in Loudon Township, on the old home farm in section 2, and the date of his nativity was April 8, 1859. He is a son of John Perry Roof and Elizabeth (Albaugh) Roof, the former of whom was born in Loudoun County, Virginia. and the latter in Loudon Township, Carroll County. The paternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Long) Roof, were born and reared in Loudoun County, Virginia, which was their home during life.
The maternal grandparents, William and Catherine (Simmons) Albaugh, were born in Maryland. From Frederick County, that state, William Albaugh came to Ohio in the year 1805, in company with. his father, John Peter Albaugh, whose brother Morris was the first settler in
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what is now Loudon Township, Carroll County, which was still a part of Jefferson County when he here established his home in the forest wilds, in 1802. In that same year Jacob Gotschali likewise settled in the township, and these two pioneers became the founders of the township. William Albaugh and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in Carroll County, and the family name has been one of special prominence in the civic and industrial development and upbuilding of this now opulent section of the Buckeye State.
After their marriage John P. Ropf and his wife settled on the farm in Loudon Township which continued to he their home during the remainder of their long and useful lives. There they took up their abode on the 10th of November, 1853, and Mr. Roof developed the place into one of the valuable and well-improved farms of the county. He was an honored and influential figure in community affairs and served as township trustee and for many years was steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. His death occurred January 14, 1907, his devoted wife having passed away on the 12th of September, 1897. Their eldest child, Alice, is not married and she still maintains her home in Loudon Township; Alma is the wife of John Shultz, of Canton, Stark County; Jane remains with her sister Alice; Mary is the wife of Albert Gibson. of Kilgore, this county: Margaret, the third of the maiden sisters, resides with Alice and Jane on the fine old homestead farm that was obtained by their maternal grandfather in 1815; Elmer is a farmer in Loudon Township; and John G.. of this review, was the fourth in order of birth.
John G. Roof is indebted to the district schools and Harlem Seminary for his youthful education. which was supplemented by his attending the Northern Ohio University at Ada for two terms. On the 4th of April. 1881. he began his career as a teacher in the district schools, and he has continued his effective service in the pedagogic profession during the long intervening years with the sole exception of the winter of 1912-13. After the death of his father he purchased the old home farm of eighty acres and in the operation of the same his son Foster is nose' his able assistant. His service as a teacher has been principally given during the winter terms, so that he has found ample opportunity to supervise the work of his farm, as well as that of his maiden sisters, which comprises sixty-two acres. In his career as one of the successful and popular teachers of his native county Mr. Roof taught a number of years in the public schools at Harlem Springs and at Kilgore. and for three years in the schools at New Rumley. He is a staunch republican, well fortified in his political. views and his opinions concerning economic and governmental policies. and while lie has had no ambition for public office his civic loyalty was effectively shown in his two terms of service as township clerk of Loudon Township. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. and he holds in the same the office of steward.
On the 8th of May, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Roof to Miss Rada Cooper, who was born and reared in Perry 'Township, this county, and who is a daughter of William and Jane (Hill) Cooper, the former a native of Harrison County and the latter of Guernsey County, Mr. Cooper was hem August 27, 1834, and now resides at Ligonier, Pennsylvania, his wife being deceased. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Roof the eldest, Wilma, is a popular teacher in the public schools of the city of Canton, Stark County, as is also her next younger sister, Mabel; Fannie is the wife of Lloyd George, of Carrollton, and she likewise had been a successful teacher; Olin died at the age of ten years; Everett, who was the musician of the family, died at the age of eighteen; Foster is associated with his father in the management of the two farms mentioned in a preceding paragraph; Mrllie, a stenographer and bookkeeper, resides in the city of Canton; and Ruth and John are, in 1921, students in the high school at Carrollton. Mr. and Mrs. Roof have two fine grandchildren, Ray Erskine George, son of Loyd and Fannie (Roof) George, and Carl Dean Roof, son of Foster and Mae (Maple) Roof.
JOHN WITTEN. Owning a finely improved farm of 122 acres of land, John Witten, of German Township, has fairly earned the high position he occupies in the esteem of his fellow citizens through his own industry, thrift and good management, and is rightly numbered' among the sound and sensible men of Harrison County.
John Witten was born in Weisel County, West Virginia, September 4, 1863, a son of Philip Witten, grandson of John Witten, and great-grandson of Philip Witten. the latter being a native of Maryland. Leaving his native state, Philip Witten accompanied his father-in- law, Noah Dickerson, down the Ohio River as far as Louisville, Kentucky, but then, not finding conditions to his liking there, retraced his way up the Ohio River and finally located in Monroe County, at what later came to be known as Witten's Landing. A post office was also named in his honor, and he became one of the leading men and representative farmers of his day.
John Witten was born October 29. 1783, and died of typhoid fever October 11, 1827. By his first marriage he had two children, twins, Joseph and Nancy, who were born June 2, 1810. After the death of his first wife, on November 25. 1813, John Witten was married to Susannah Roby, who was born September 16, 1792. Their children were as follows: Philip, who is mentioned below; Owen R., who was born July 2, 1816; K. D.. who was born April 11, 1817; Ruth D., who was born February 22, 1819; Mary Ann, who was born January 16, 1821; William, who was born May 26, 1822; John, who was born April 29, 1825; and Leander, who was born September 22, 1826. Mrs. Susannah Witten died March 27. 1862. having survived her husband for many years.
Philip Witten was born in Tyler County. Virginia, January 20. 1815, and his wife, Ann Gard, was born in 1832. After he reached manhood he moved into what is now West Virginia, and con-
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tinned to live there until his death, which occurred September 2, 1876, being all of that time engaged in farming. His wife passed away October 10, 1916. Their children were as follows: John, Theresa and Owen, of whom the daughter is deceased.
John Witten attended the schools of his locality. and began farming in West Virginia, where he continued to live until 1908. when he came to German Township, Harrison County, and bought 122 acres of land on which he has since resided. Here he is carrying on a general farming and stockraising business, and takes pride in keeping his property in first-class condition.
On November 17, 1887. Mr. Witten was married to Amanda Leggett, a daughter of Robert D. and Mary (Birch) Leggett. Mr. and Mrs. Witten lost their only child, Bessie, when sire was four and one-half years old, the little one dying of starlet fever. Mrs. Witten is a 'consistent member of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. Both slit' and Mr. Witten have many friends here as well as in their old home in West Virginia.
ALLEN L. ADAMS. It is said of Allen L. Adams, the Cadiz insurance man, that when he was treasurer of 'Harrison County he was the youngest man to be elected to that office. He was elected in 1910 and re-elected in 1912, showing that the people of Harrison County had confidence in his executive ability, notwithstanding his youthfulness. Before his election as county treasurer Mr. Adams had served six years as postmaster at Laceyville. He was born November 5, 1879, in Nottingham Township, and has always lived in Harrison County.
Allen L. Adams is a son of Albert B. and Emily J. (Crawford) Adams, the father a native of Stock and the mother of Franklin townships. She is a daughter of Edward Crawford, of Franklin. Percival Adams, the grandfather, Was born September 10, 1820, in Harrison County, but his father, Thomas Adams. was born in Pennsylvania, in 1790. and always lived near Pittsburgh until 1815, when he located in Harrison County. Thomas Adams married Charity Blair, and that was the beginning of the Adams family in Ohio. On March 27, 1845, Percival Adams married Mary J. Downs, a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (McKinney) Downs. Mr. Downs was a native of Carroll County, while his wife came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Their children are John F., Albert B., Richard W., Thomas B., James B., Eliza J. and Margaret II. Adams.
In its early history the Adams family were Methodists, and they were given the educational advantages of the day. Albert B. Adanrs spent his entire life as a farmer in Stock Township. Ills children are: Harry E.. Allen L.. Mary J. (wife of Joseph Walker) and Cloyde P. Adams. A. L. Adams supplemented his common school education with five years of study in Solo College, and for a few years was a teacher in public schools. In the meantime he completed a course of study in a business college, and was employed for some time in Pittsburgh.
Since completing his service as treasurer of Harrison County Mr. Adams has remained in Cadiz, where he conducts a general insurance business, dealing in stocks and bonds and doing something with real estate. His experience as county treasurer gave him a wide acquaintance with the citizens of Harrison County. On September 10. 1913. Mr. Adams married Rosa Belle Pettily. a daughter of Elihu and Mary Jane (Rowland) Pettay. Their children are Allen Leslie and Sterling Pettay. They are members of the Methodist Church in Cadiz:
CHARLES D, SNYDER, deceased, was one of the representative farmers of German Township, where he owned and occupied the pleasant old homestead house in which he was born on the 30th of October. 1859. and in which he died on June 8. 1920. He was a son of Adam and Mary M. (Angel) Snyder, the former of whom was s born in Maryland December 25, 1796. and the latter wits born in Rumley Township. Harrison County. in the year 1827. John Lawrence Snyder, grandfather of hint whose name initiates this paragraph, made the long overland trip from Maryland to Ohio in the early days, the original journey having been made by him on horseback, and be became one of the pioneer settlers and farmers of German Township, Harrison County. where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their children having been seven in number—Henry. George. Samuel. Adam, Anna. Elizabeth and Mary. Adam Snyder gained experience in connection with pioneer life in Harrison County and became one of the. substantial farmers and representative citizens of German Township. where he owned an excellent farm of 140 acres at the time of his death, June 14, 1868. The family name of his first wife was Shuss, and they had six children —George, Jeremiah. Catherine, Mary Ann. Sarah and Margaret, the last named having died in early childhood. After the death of his first wife Adam Snyder married Miss Mary M. Angel, who survived him by a number of years and passed away in about 1879, aged fifty-nine years. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded : John L., September 29, 1840; Hiram, February 2, 1845; Samuel. November 1, 1851 : James H.. August 5. 1853; Josephus. April 16. 1856: Charles D.. October 30. 1859; Maria, date of birth not entered on family records; Eliza Jane. October 7, 1841 : Matilda, April 29, 1850; Amanda, December 24. 1842 (died in early childhood) ; and William, who was born February 2, 1844, and died as a small child. Of these children it was given to John L. to render gallant service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he continued in active service three years and took part in many engagements, including the battles of Antietam, Cold Harbor and the Wilderness,
Charles D. Snyder gained his youthful education in the district schools of German Township and save for a period of nine years, during which he resided in the village of Germano, this county, he remained continuously on the old
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homestead farm which was the place of his birth and of which he owned seventy acres, his brother Josephus owning and occupying the adjoining seventy acres, likewise a part of the original farm. He was always ready to give his loyal support to measures advanced for the wellbeing of his native township and county, was a republican in political affiliation, was a member of the German Reformed Church at Germano, and his widow holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 16th of June, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Snyder to Miss Martha Jane Harding, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, a daughter of Philip and Mary (Lucas) Harding. Philip Harding was born in Carroll County May 26. 1832. and his wife was born at Kilgore, that county, January 18, 1828, their marriage having occurred February 19, 1857. Mr. Harding was engaged in farm enterprise in his native county up to the time when he tendered his service in defense of the Union. He enlisted in 1863, as a member of an Ohio regiment, and was still in the service at the time of his death, July 29, 1865, about the time when the great Civil war came to its close. His widow survived him by a quarter of a century and was sixty-two years of age at the time of her death, July 3, 1890. Their two children were John, deceased, and Martha Jane (Mrs. Charles D. Snyder). Adequate data concerning the Harding family and its connection with the pioneer annals of Carroll County appear in connection with the personal sketch of Ralph M. Harding on other pages of this work, so that repetitions is not required in the present review. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder became the parents of seven children—William 0., Jesse Philip, Mary, Emmett, Earl E., Helen and Wilma. William 0. married Miss Minnie Roberts, and they became the parents of three children, Harry, Frank and Lena, the first named having died in early childhood. Jesse Philip Snyder married Miss May Slater, and they have four children—Ruth, Martha, Leona and Dorothy. Mary, the eldest daughter, is the wife of Earl McCombs, and they have one child, John Allen. Earl E. Snyder married Miss Minnie Winnings and they reside on the home farm, and have a son, Charles Alben. Earl served as one of the gallant young soldiers who- represented Harrison County during the' nation's participation in the great World war. He entered the service on the 5th of October, 1917, and was stationed at Camp Sherman until the following February, when he was transferred to Camp Forrest, Georgia. In the following April he proceeded with his command to New York City, and on the 19th of that month he sailed for France. With the American Expeditionary Forces in France he served in Company A, Sixth Infantry, Fifth Division, and he gained his full quota of experience at the front. In the battle of Verdun he was wounded in the right thigh, and his injury necessitates his remaining in hospital for some time. He arrived in his native land December 24, 1919, and he received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman on January 27, 1920.
JOSEPHUS SNYDER, brother of Charles D., whose personal sketch immediately precedes this, with due record of the family history, owns and resides upon seventy acres of the old homestead farm upon which be was born, in German Township, Harrison County, the date of his nativity having been April 16, 1856. He profited by the advantages offered in the district schools of the township and his entire adult life has been marked by close association with agricultural and live-stock enterprise on the old homestead, of which he owns seventy acres, as above noted, his farm having been greatly improved under his direction, including the erection of good buildings. He has shown no desire for political activity or office, but is a loyal advocate of the principles for which the republican party stands sponsor, and he and his wife are zealous members of the German Reformed Church at Germano.
In 1877 Mr. Snyder was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Lanora Smith, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Stenger) Smith, both natives of Loudon Township, Carroll County, and the latter a daughter of George and Sarah (Harner) Stenger. From his native county Henry Smith finally came to Harrison County, where he became one of the successful farmers of Rumley Township, his children being five in number— Emma J., Sarah Lanora, Monroe, Jacob Heber and George Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have a fine family of nine children: Charles Ross married Miss Bernice Berry, and they have one child, Martha Marie; Edna P. is the wife of Ralph Smith, and they have one child, Mildred Isabelle; Elmer H. married Miss Frances How- art, and their four children are Emma Maude, Sarah Lanora, Mildred M. and Joseph; Glenn married Miss Odessa McConahey, and their one child is Dorothy E.; Merton H. wedded Miss Emma Yenna, and they have two children, Harold E. and Thelma; Keller married Miss Maude Wagner, and their one child is Wayne Kenneth; Raymond married Miss Nora Thompson, and they have a son, Loren; Ermil married Miss Goldie Cox, and they have one child, Ileen; and Anna Marie, who is the wife of Ward Bower, has one son, Ward Keith, and a daughter, Kathlyn Fae.
SAMUEL L. CRISSINGER has resided for nearly half a century in his present attractive home in the village of Malvern, Carroll County, where he is now living retired, after having been a successful contractor and builder of this community for forty-five years, with standing as one of the skilled carpenters of his native county. Special honor is his also by reason of the service which he gave as one of the brave defenders of the Union in the Civil war.
Mr. Crissinger was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, May 16, 1842, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Lindersmith) Crissinger, who settled as pioneers in that township upon coming to Ohio from their native state of Pennsylvania. The father developed a good farm of eighty acres, and here he remained until his death in 1884, at the age of eighty years, his wife having passed to eternal rest in 1862. He was a republican from the time of the party's
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organization until the close of his life, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of ten children—George. Wilson. Eliza. Cecily, Julia, William, Samuel L.. Gerion, Polly and Elizabeth.
Samuel L. Crissinger remained on the old home farm until he was nineteen years of age. and in the meanwhile profited fully by the advantages afforded in the common schools of the locality, besides which he attended the high schools at Malvern. He was nineteen years old when he left the parental roof to respond to President Lincoln's first call for troops to aid in the preservation of the Union. In 1861 he enlisted in the Third Battery of Ohio Light Artillery, with which gallant command he served nearly four years and took part in many important engagements. including the battle of Pittsburg Landing, the siege and capture of Corinth, the various battles of the Vicksburg campaign, the almost continuous fighting in the Atlanta campaign during a period of nearly three months, the battle of Nashville, and the repelling of Hood's invasion of Tennessee. He continued in service until •the close of the war, duly received his honorable discharge, and arrived at the paternal home on the 1st of August, 1865.
Mr. Crissinger is a republican of unswerving loyalty, and has served as a member of the village council and also of the school board of Malvern. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. has been for fifty-two years a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is an appreciative and valued member of McKinnney Post. Grand Army of the Republic, in the city of Canton. He and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.
In 1865 Mr. Crissinger was united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Reed, who was born in Carroll County June 10, 1842. a daughter of Robert and Mary (Baughman) Reed, early settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Crissinger have two sons: Lorenzo Edwin. who is associated with a leading industrial corporation at Malvern. married Miss Leona Tolton. and they have two children—Esther and Carl. Loren. the younger son, who was afforded the advantages of the Northern Ohio University at Ada, is a skilled chemist and pharmacist and is now superintendent of the Columbus Pharmacal Company in the capital city of Ohio. The maiden name of his wife was Jennie Capper.
CLYDE E. WARREN is claimed by his native county as one of its vigorous and successful younger exponents of farm enterprise, and in January, 1919, he established his residence upon his present well-improved farm of 101 acres in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. Here he is giving his attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of approved types of live stock, and on his farm he erected his present commodious and attractive residence, which is of the bungalow style of architecture and which adds to the picturesqueness of the countryside in Cadiz Township. Mr. Warren takes a lively in terest in all things pertaining to the communal welfare, is affiliated with the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Cadiz, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in that city.
Clyde E. Warren was born in Franklin Township. Harrison County, on the 20th of January, 1883. and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Havnar) Warren, both likewise natives of this county and the latter a daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Mitchell) Havnar. Joseph Havnar was born in Monroe Township, this county, a son of Dominic Havnar, who came from Pennsylvania and became an early settler in Harrison County. he and his wife having been residents of Monroe Township until their deaths. Joseph Havnar followed the carpenter's trade and also became a successful farmer in Cadiz Township, where he and his wife died. both having been members of the Presbyterian Church. Their children were seven in number.
James Warren was born in Green Township, Harrison County, a son of James and Eliza Jane (Emfield) Warren, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Harrison County, Ohio, where their marriage was solemnized. James Warren, Sr., was a physician by profession and became a pioneer practitioner in Jefferson County, Ohio, as did he later in Harrison County, where he and his wife passed the rest of their lives. Their son James was reared and educated in Green Township, and eventually became the owner of a fine farm of 212 acres in Cadiz Township, where he continued as one of the representative farmers and honored citizens of his native county until his death in 1918, his wife having passed away in 1902. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, from which in later years he transferred his membership to the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven children: Craig W., individually represented on other pages of this work; Clara, wife of William C. Edwards; Carrie, wife of Howard Heaston; Laura and John. twins, the latter of whom died at the age of twenty-one years: Clyde E., the immediate subject of this sketch; and Harry H., the maiden name of whose wife was Martha Dickerson.
Clyde E. Warren acquired his youthful education in the district schools of Franklin and Short Creek townships, and he continued his association with farm activities until 1910, when he became a mail carrier on one of the rural routes extending from Cadiz. He continued in this branch of the Government mail service until the 1st of September, 1918, and in January of the following year, as previously stated in this article, he established his home on his present farm.
On the 22d of October, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Warren to Miss Ella Holmes, daughter of George B. and Ada (Meek) Holmes, of Harrison County, and the one child of this union is a fine little son, Clyde Spencer.
LEONARD STUBBINS. In his long and successful career as an exemplar of farm industry Mr. Stubbins has applied himself vigorously and closely, with full recognition of all that is implied in the ancient aphorism that "he who by the plow should thrive, himself must either hold or drive." He is now the owner of a fine lit-
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tie farm of seventy-five acres in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and in addition to his farm activities he operated for thirty-one years a threshing outfit in this section of the county. He has worked at the blacksmith trade to a greater or less extent, has been associated with operations in various oil fields, and after having served as a valiant young soldier of the Union during the Civil war was for twelve years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, his position having been that of section foreman during three years of this period. Thus it becomes evident that his career has been active and productive in the fullest sense, but with advancing years he is abating his active labors and enjoying the rewards of former years of earnest endeavor, his attractive home being situated on the Ocean to Ocean Highway.
Mr. Stubbins was born at West Chester, Harrison County, Ohio, on the 20th of October, 1848, and is a son of Rev. George W. and Elizabeth (Clifford) Stubbins, his father was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and became a pioneer clergyman of the United Brethren Church in Ohio, besides having followed the trade of blacksmith, at which he was a skilled workman. He passed the major part of his life in Harrison County, and here his death occurred in 1865, his wife having survived him by a number of years. Their children were seven in number—Thomas Benton, Rachel, Urthie, Adaline, Leonard, James and George.
Leonard Stubbins was a child at the time when the family home was established in Harrison County, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the common schools of the period. He was but sixteen years old when he manifested his youthful patriotism by enlisting for service in the Civil war in 1864. He became a member of Company H, One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in the battles of Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee, and Kingston, South Carolina, as well as numerous skirmishes and other minor engagements. He continued in service until the close of the war and received his honorable discharge in July, 1865. After the close of this military service in defense of the Union Mr. Stubbins returned to Monroe Township, Harrison County, but soon afterward entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as noted in the opening paragraph of this article.
The greater part of his active career has been given to farm enterprise, and his only son now assumes the greater part of the active supervision of the home farm, on a part of which he resides. Mr. Stubbins is a republican in politics, and is an appreciative and honored member of the post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Bowerston.
The year 1868 recorded the marriage of Mr. Stubbins to Miss Isabel Cornelius, daughter of the late Richard and Maria (Tinney) Cornelius, of Harrison County, and the one child of this union is Frank, whose home is on the old farm. as previously noted. Frank Stubbins married Miss Rebecca Wolfe, and they have four children—Walter, Joseph, Vernie and Frederick.
HERBERT C. CLOSE, one of the prosperous general farmers of Rose Township, Carroll County, deserves special credit for his success, for he has earned it through his own efforts. As a youth he learned the carpenter trade as well as farming. and has relied upon his diligent work in both occupations to rear and provide for his family and achieve home and property.
Mr. Close was born near Dellroy in Monroe Township February 29, 1872, son of Thomas and Susannah (Wilkins) Close. His grandfather was James Close, an early settler in Carroll County, who was both a farmer and carpenter. He married a Miss Thorley, and they had four sons and five daughters. The oldest son was Thomas Close, who spent his active life as a farmer in Carroll County but is now living retired at Moultrie in Stark County. His family consists of five sons and one daughter, third among them being Herbert C. Close.
Mr. Close during his youth attended school regularly, although he also worked on the home farm. His first school was in district No. 4 of Rose Township, but after the age of twelve and up to eighteen he attended the Oneida School. Having a genius for mechanics, he readily acquired a practical knowledge of the carpenter trade, and he has done a great deal of building work in Carroll County, and when the duties of his farm are not too heavy he occasionally responds to the call for a first-class carpenter.
In 1904 he married Miss Rose Davy, daughter of A. G. and Sarah (Little) Davy. After his marriage he lived in Dellroy a year, worked steadily at his trade, and his first independent farming was done on a rented eighty acres in Rpse Township. In 1909 he acquired sixty acres, constituting his well improved and valuable homestead today, and has farmed with profit and success. He has acquired some other business interests and is one of the dependable, upright and industrious citizens of his community. Mr. Close votes for the man rather than the party. and is a member of the Emanuel Lutheran Church of Rose Township.
GEORGE WHITTAKER. The late George Whit. taker, of Stock Township, was one of the extensive and well-to-do agriculturists of Harrison County. A son of the late William Whittaker, he was born in North Township, March 6, 1857, of Irish ancestry.
His paternal grandfather, James Whittaker, was born and bred in the Emerald Isle. Immigrating in early life to the United States, he came directly to Harrison County, Ohio, and, settling in North Township, entered a tract of Government land and soon began the pioneer labor of improving farm from the wilderness, in his labors meeting with good success. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Arabelle Patterson, five children were born, as follows: William, Thomas, James, Jane, who married William Scott, and Christianna, who became the wife of Joshua Jackson. Both parents were members of the Methodist Church.
William Whittaker was born on the parental homestead in North Township, Harrison County, and there spent his entire life, passing away
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in 1899. He succeeded to the occupation of his father, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits during his active career. He married Elizabeth Fisher, who was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of George Fisher, a well-known farmer. George Fisher was twice married, by his first wife having nine children, William. James, George. John, Agnes, Temperance, Susan, Martha and Elizabeth. By his sccond marriage he had two children, Thomas D. and Rebecca J.
Of the marriage of William and Elizabeth (Fisher) Whittaker the following children were born: William, James F., and Martha Jane. deceased: Mary, who died in childhood; Arabella, and Leota, deceased; George, the special subject of this brief biography; Thomas, deceased, and Oscar. Both of the parents were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Brought up in North Township, George Whittaker received his early education in the district schools, and there began his career as an agriculturist. Moving to Stock Township in 1896, he bought the farm of 227 acres which he occupied at the time of his death, and in its improvement he labored diligently, the larger part of it being under cultivation and yielding abundantly of the crops common to this section of the country. Mr. Whittaker was prominent in pub-• lie affairs of Stock Township, and served as trustee, clerk and assessor.
He was twice married. He married first, November 4, 1879, Amanda V. Spiker. a daughter of Henry and Arabelle (Fowler) Spiker. She died April 7, 1907, leaving two children, Harry H., who now manages the farm of his father as well as his own, married Virginia Harrison; and Wilmina Belle, wife of Le Roy Cramblett. On February 1, 1912, Mr. Whittaker married for his second wife Nannie E. Haverfield, daughter of James N. and Eliza Jane (McDougal) Haverfield. Mrs. Whittaker is a most estimable woman, and an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Whittaker died November 2, 1920.
WILLIAM HENRY MCFADDEN. The McFadden family have played an important part in the history of Harrison County from pioneer days down to the present time. John McFadden, the great-grandfather of William H., was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1740. He came to America when he was nineteen years of age (1759), and settled first at Hickory on Buffalo Creek in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He became acquainted with Col. George Sharp, who later served under Washington in the Revolutionary war. When it came time for Colonel Sharp to leave home for the war he hired young McFadden to take care of his farm and look after the family. So faithfully did the young man perform his duties that Colonel Sharp gave him the hand of his daughter Margaret in marriage.
In 1800, in company with Colonel John Jameson, a Revolutionary soldier, John McFadden came to what is now Cadiz, Harrison County (then in the Steubenville land division), and filed, on the "credit system," on a full section of land (section 4), and on this section he made his home and died in 1839. In the spring of 1801 his family joined him. The children of John and Margaret McFadden were Samuel, George, John, Joseph, Mary and Margaret. Mary married James Sharp and Margaret married Edward Lafferty.
John McFadden, grandfather of William H. McFadden, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1788, and died in 1851. He married Mary, the daughter of Adam and Rebecca (Work) Dunlap, and their children were: Margaret, Adam, Rebecca, Mary, John. Jr., Sarah, Samuel R., Elizabeth, George, Esther and Rachael.
George McFadden, the father of William H., was born on the old parental homestead September 15, 1829. On March 29, 1860, he married Mary R. Croskey, who was born in Green Township of Harrison County August 5, 1831, the daughter of William and Mary (Crabb) Croskey. The Croskeys are of Scotch-Irish and the Crabbs are of German descent. George McFadden passed away on the 31st of March, 1909, and his loved and devoted wife soon followed him to eternal rest, her death having occurred on the 14th of September of the following year, and both were earnest members of the First Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. The political allegiance of Mr. McFadden was given to the democratic party, and loyalty and progressiveness characterized him as a citizen. Of their children William H., the immediate subject of this review, is the eldest, his birth occurring March 29, 1861; Mary Elizabeth was born October 25, 1863; and Emma was born January 29, 1867, and there was also one other child in the family, which died in infancy. Adam McFadden, brother of George, never married, and he likewise remained on the old home place until his death, July 17, 1873, at the age of fifty-eight years.
William H. McFadden attended in his youth the district school known as the Irish Ridge School in Cadiz Township, and he has continuously remained on the old homestead farm, of which he assumed the active management when he was a young man, he being the only son of his parents. Here he is now the owner of a well-improved and valuable estate of 200 acres, constituting one of the finest farms in Cadiz Township and situated about two miles distant from Cadiz, the county seat. He has had fellowship with farm enterprise from his boyhood days, and is at the present time a leading exponent of this line of industry in his native township and county, with secure place in the confidence and good will of the community that has always represented his home. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
February 15, 1906, recorded the marriage of Mr. McFadden to Miss Anna Grace Dickerson, daughter of William and Virginia (Rickets) Dickerson, of Athens Township, and they have five children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here designated: John R., born September 5, 1907; Mary Virginia, April 20, 1909; Margaret Helen, December 9, 1910; Frances Gwendolyn, December 29, 1913; and George
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Clayton, May 19, 1919, and his death occurred July 14, 1920.
WILLIAM H. VICKERS, who is serving in 1921 as trustee of Nottingham Township, is one of the representative farmers of this favored section of Harrison County, and special interest attaches to his career by reason of his being a native son of the county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born in Franklin Township May 28, 1866, and is a son of Isaac and Rachel (West) Vickers, both of whom likewise were born and reared in this county. Isaac Vickers was born in Franklin Township, where his father, John Vickers, a native of England, settled in the early pioneer days, secured Government land and developed the productive farm on which he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. His first wife became the mother of seven children: Mary Ann Vickers Cams, Elizabeth Vickers Erwin, Cornelius, Asiena Vickers McGonagle. Isaac, Ruth L. and Thomas. After the death of his first wife Mr. Vickers contracted a second marriage, and of this union were born two children, John and James.
Isaac Vickers passed his entire life as a farmer in Franklin Township, where he was the owner of a farm of fifty-five acres at the time of his death, February 2, 1890. His widow, who is now a resident of Deersville, Ohio, is a daughter of the late Albert West, who was an early settler and prosperous farmer of Harrison County. His children were ten in number—Rachel, Harriet, Esther, Anderson, Pinkney, Fletcher, Lee, Hannah, Sarah and Martha Jane. Isaac and Rachel (West) Vickers became the parents of three children: Harriet Amanda, who became the wife of Thomas Coleman, and her death occurred in 1892; William H., the immediate subject of this sketch; and Otto, who died at the age of two and one-half years. Mr. Vicker was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow, and his political affiliation was with the republican party.
William H. Vickers remained on the old home farm until the time of his marriage, and in his youth was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Brownsville. In 1898 he married and for four years thereafter continued to be engaged in farming in Franklin and Nottingham townships as a renter. He then, in 1903, purchased his present fine farm of 195 acres in the latter township, besides which he is the owner of the old homestead farm of his father in Franklin Township. the same comprising fifty-five acres. In his well ordered operations as a progressive agriculturist and stock grower Mr. Vickers utilizes an aggregate area of about 400 acres of land, and he brings to bear the best modern methods and facilities in connection with his vigorous farm enterprise. He is a stalwart supporter of the principles of the republican party and has served as trustee of Nottingham Township since 1917, besides which he was for four years a member of the school board of this township. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Deersville, and he is a valued member of its Board of Trustees,
In 1898 Mr. Vickers was united in marriage to Miss Laura Jane Donahoo, daughter of Shannon and Mary (Hall) Donahoo, her father having been a successful farmer in Guernsey County and later in Harrison County. Mrs. Vickers is the eldest in a family of three children, the other two being Bingham and Luella. To Mr. and Mrs. Vickers have been born eight children: Verna Viola, who graduated from the Freeport High School and was an ambitious and popular student in Scio College at the time of her death, September 30, 1919; Hazel Marie, Goldie Margaret, Fairy Dale, Elizabeth Luella, Lila Florence, William (died in infancy), and Dallas Wayne.
HENRY A HEISLER is another native son and representative farmer who has an heritage of pioneer honors in Harrison County, and in German Township he owns and resides upon a well improved farm of 165 acres, the most of the present buildings upon the place having been erected by him and giving evidence of his thrift and progressiveness as a successful exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry.
Mr. Heisler was born in German Township, on the 5th of December, 1871, and is a son of William and Sarah (Maple) 'Heisler, the former of whom was born March 23, 1834, on the ancestral farmstead now owned and occupied by his son Henry A., of this review. In 1868 was solemnized the marriage of William Heisler to Miss Sarah Maple, who was born in Ross Township, Jefferson County, this state, in the year 1831, her father, Aaron Maple, having been an early settler in that county. William Heisler was a son of John Heisler, who was born on the same homestead farm as his son and whose parents, Henry and Catherine Heisler. were numbered among the very early settlers in German Township, where their farm was reclaimed by them from the forest wilds. Henry Heisler became the owner of about one section of Government land in this township, and was one of the substantial and influential pioneer citizens of Harrison County. His son John was born July 6, 1806, on the pioneer farm on which his parents settled upon coming to Harrison County from Pennsylvania. John Heisler, passed his entire life in German Township, where he became the owner of an excellent farm of 160 acres, upon which he continued to reside until his death, when well advanced in years, as did also his wife, whose maiden name was Anna Maria Bear and who was born October 25, 1809. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded: Henry, April 1, 1827; Jacob, April 15, 1829; Susan, February 15, 1831; William, March 23. 1834; Elizabeth, March 21, 1838; John Thomas, April 25, 1843; Margaret, May 23, 1846; and Lucinda. June 12. 1849.
As a successful farmer and sterling citizen of German Township William Heisler well upheld the high prestige of the family name, and there he became the owner of a valuable farm property of 337 acres. He was one of the most vigorous and progressive representatives of farm industry
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in his native township, commanded unqualified popular esteem, and both he and his wife remained on the home farm until their deaths. Their religious faith was that of the Lutheran Church. Of their five children the two daughters died at birth; John T. is individually mentioned on other pages of this volume; Henry A. is the immediate subject of this review; and James died when about eighteen months of age.
Henry A. Heisler gained in his youth a full amount of practical experience in connection with the work of the home farm. the while he did not neglect the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township. He has continued as a valiant exponent of farm industry during the intervening years, and on the old home farm he has erected excellent buildings, though he still occupies the substantial and commodious house that was erected by his father. He is a democrat in politics and as a citizen has shown loyal interest in community affairs, the while his secure standing in popular confidence and esteem is shown in his having retained the office of township trustee from January, 1915, to January, 1920. While the incumbent of this position he exerted strong influence in the furtherance of progressive measnres that inured greatly to the benefit of his native township. He and his wife are active communicants of the Lutheran Church.
On the 7th of March, 1895, Mr. Heisler was united in marriage to Miss Nora B. Hess, daughter of William and Sarah (Palmer) Hess, the former a native of Monroe Township, Harrison County, and the latter of Perry Township, Carroll County, where they now maintain their home and where Mr. Hess is a prosperous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Hess are members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of six children: Anna May, deceased, was the wife of Elmer E. Slates; Nora is the wife of Henry A. Heisler, of this sketch; Mary K. is the wife of Jasper Dodd; Bessie Pearl is the wife of William Epley; Oma E. died in, early childhood; and Hazel remains at the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Heisler have three children—Orrin Mitchell, William Howard and Goldie Belle, the latter two remaining at the parental home and Orrin M. being now a resident of Unionport, Jefferson County. The maiden name of his wife was Louise Shields,' and their children are Virginia Rose and an unnamed infant son. Orrin M. Heisler represented Harrison County in the nation's military service in connection with the great World war. He entered service August 29, 1918, and was sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, where he was assigned to a battery of light artillery. Later he was transferred to West Point, Kentucky, where he was assigned to the Fourth School Battery, in which he there served until December 10, 1918, when he received his honorable discharge.
SAMUEL J. GEORGE is well known throughout Carroll County as a good citizen and experienced farmer, and his valuable farm in Fox Township shows that he understands his business, and the stock he raises commands banner prices because of its excellence. He was born in Fox Township, August 19, 1850, a son of Andrew and Eliza (Graham) George, the former of whom was also a native of Fox Township. The paternal grandparents, Robert and Sarah George, were born in Ireland, and they, and the maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Graham, were early settlers of Carroll County, the former entering land from the Government in Fox Township.
Andrew George was a widower when he married Eliza Graham, his first wife having been Ann Robins, and they had four children, namely: Wilson, who lives at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Michael, who died during the war of the '60s; Sarah, who is Mrs. T. G. Donaldson of Scroggsfield, Ohio; and Jennie, who is the widow of J. M. Stevenson of Cadiz, Ohio. By his second marriage Andrew George had the following children : Samuel J., whose name heads this review; David N., who lives in Pox Township; Ida, who is Mrs. William Stevens of Alliance, Ohio; Ella, who lives in Fox Township, Mary, who is Mrs. Elza Robbins of East Liverpool, Ohio; and Robert, who lives in Fox Township. Andrew George died in Fox Township, January 1, 1900, and his widow passed away in 1908.
Samuel J. George attended the district schools of Fox Township, and for one term taught the Hopedale School. With the exception of that period and a year he worked in a saw-mill, Mr. George has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Some years ago lie bought 174 acres in Fox Township, and later sold four acres of it to the railroad. He has erected all of the present buildings and otherwise improved the place, making it one of the most desirable properties in this part of the county. Here he is carrying on general farming, and raising horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.
On April 23. 1874, Mr. George was married to Anna M. Ramsey. who was born in Fox Township. a daughter of R. G. and Margaret (McLaughlin) Ramsey, natives of Pennsylvania and Fox Township, respectively. and granddaughter of Mitchell and Ann (George) Ramsey, natives of Ireland, and Robert and Margaret Ann (Wilson) McLauglin. also natives of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. George became the parents of the following children: Anna. who is Mrs. Robert McAllister of Fax Township; Lydia, who is Mrs. John Barber of Fox Township; Robert A., who lives at Grover, Colorado; Porter, who died at the age of ten years; Vern, who is Mrs. Bert Crabb of Jefferson County, Ohio; Lloyd M., who lives at Bergholtz, Ohio; Margaret, who is Mrs, Walter Robbins of Alliance, Ohio; David, who died December 24, 1917, aged twenty-seven years; John W., who lives at Brackenridge, Texas, saw service in France and was a corporal of the Eightieth Division during the World war; Jay, who lives at Grover, Colorado, is also a veteran of the World war, was in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Division; and Samuel L., who is at home. Mr. George belongs to the United Presbyterian church of which he is an elder. A republican, he has served on the school board and also as township trustee. In every relation of life.
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Mr. George has striven to do his duty as he has seen it, and has won the appreciation of his fellow citizens.
HARVEY WOOD, who is now living virtually retired, in the city of Carrollton, is still the owner of one of the fine farms of Carroll County, and is a representative of an honored pioneer family of Eastern Ohio. He was born in North Township, Harrison County, Ohio, August 23, 1853, and is a son of John and Margaret (Fry) Wood, the former of whom was born in that county, in 1814, and the latter of whom was a native of Pennsylvania. John Wood was a son of Zachariah and Mary Wood, who were born and reared in the old Keystone State, where their marriage occurred and whence they came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the very early settlers of. Harrison County, where Mr. Wood reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having attained to venerable age and Mrs. Wood having been ninety-eight years, seven months and fourteen days of age at the time of her demise. Both were earnest members of the United Brethren church. Margaret (Fry) Wood was born in one of the Southern States, where her father was a prosperous planter and slave-owner in the period long prior to the Civil War.
John Wood was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm in Harrison County, where eventually he became a substantial and successful exponent of independent farm enterprise and where be was influential in community affairs, his political support having been given the Democratic party and he and his wife having been originally members, of the United Brethren church, but later uniting with the Christian Union church near their home, he having contributed liberally to the erection of the church building. They became the parents of four children—Zachariah. Jonas. George and Harvey.
Harvey Wood passed the period of his childhood and youth on the old home farm and was afforded the advantage of the public schools of his native county. He became a progressive and successful fanner and stock-grower and continued his activities in this field of industry until 1914, when he removed to Carrollton, where he has since lived retired. He gives his allegiance to the Democratic party and is liberal in his religious views.
As a young man Mr. Wood married Miss Caroline Cogan, who was born and reared in Carroll County. and of this union have been born eight children—Harry. Jasper, Emerson. Loren. Ulysses, Orville, Annie and Bessie. Emerson and Loren were in the national military service in the late world war, the former having served fourteen months, eleven of which were passed in France, and .the latter having been stationed at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, during the major part of his ten months' service.
HARVEY J. ECKLEY, judge of the Common Pleas Court of Carroll County, began the practice of law at Carrollton more than tifty years ago, and has achieved much of the honor and
success that seem to belong to the Eckley name and family by tradition and achievement for many generations.
Judge Eckley was born at Carrollton, October 29, 1845, and is a son of the late General Ephraim R. Eckley and Martha L. (Brown) Eckley, Eckley is a German name, but the family has been subject to the infusion of English and American influences for centuries. In Colonial times John Eckley immigrated from England to America, first living in New York and then in New Jersey. He had five sons, all of whom were soldiers at the time of the Revolution. These sons were Barnabas, who subsequently built up a large mercantile business in Boston; John, who was chief justice of the courts of Pennsylvania; Ephraim, who during the Revolution was hanged in Long Island by the Tories, but left descendants who spell the name Akley. Peter, direct ancestor of the Carroll County branch of the family; and Joseph who served in the Revolution under Washington and later joined the expedition against the Sandusky Indians under Crawford and lost his life in that fateful enterprise.
Peter Eckley was wounded during his Revolutionary service. Peter Eckley after his marriage for some years lived in Western Pennsylvania and about 1800 came to Ohio, then part of the Northwest Territory. They spent their last years in Richland County, where Peter died at the age of eighty and his wife at ninety- two.
The oldest son in their family of eleven children was Ephraim Eckley, grandfather of Judge Eckley: He grew up on his father's farm in Pennsylvania but came to Ohio Territory before his parents. He was a river trader, and made no less than twenty-two trips to New Orleans. His home for many years was in Jefferson County, Ohio, but late in life he moved to Illinois, where he died in 1863 at the age of eighty-four. His wife was Sarah Van Gilder, who died at the age of ninety. She was a descendant of the old Dutch family of Van Gliders, ship builders at Cape May, for whom a square in New York is named.
General Ephraim R. Eckley was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, December 9, 1811, and lived to the venerable age of ninety-seven. He was the last living congressman of the Congress that served under President Lincoln. His early life was one of typical pioneer environment and influences, including the traditional log schoolhouses of the time. He came to Carroll County in 1833, taught school for a time, read law, and subsequently did some surveying in Northern Ohio around Mansfield. He returned to Carrollton in the fall of 1836 and that city remained his home the rest of his long and eventful life. He began practice in the fall of 1837, and prior to the war served as a member of the State Senate and also of the Lower House. He was a leader in the Whig party, and was a delegate to the convention which nominated Fremont In 1856 as the first Republican candidate for President. Early in the Civil war he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 26th Ohio Infantry, later was promoted to Colonel of the 18th Reg-
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ment, and was in active service with his regiment in Kentucky and Tennessee until the spring of 1863, when he resigned his commission and returned to Carrollton. In the fall of 1863 he began his first term in Congress, and was in Congress six years, including the last three years of the war and four years of the important reconstruction era. Of his five children Judge Eckley is the only surviving son. One of the sons died in infancy, and the other William, served as a captain in the Civil War, and later while a lieutenant in the Regular Army died in New Mexico in 1867.
Harvey J. Eckley as a boy at Carrollton was deeply impressed by. the great events of the war period. He finished his education at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, graduating A. B. in 1868, and since his admission to the bar has practiced at Carrollton. He Served as prosecuting attorney during the years 1877-80, was elected a member of the State Senate serving from 1890 to 1893, and for a time was a member of the board of trustees of the State Hospital at Massillon. He was appointed jndge of the Common Pleas Court in 1915 and was elected for a full term in 1916.
Judge Eckley for a number of years was associate editor of the Carroll Free Press with John H. Tripp. He is a director of the Cummings Trust Company, is a Republican, has held all the chairs of the Masonic Order, is a member of the Rotary Club and the Presbyterian Church.
July 10, 1879, at Carrollton, he married Anna M, McCoy, daughter of Judge and Mrs. William McCoy of Carrollton. Her father though for several terms Probate Judge of Carroll County was best known as an educator, being founder of the college at Harlem Springs, Ohio. Judge and Mrs. Eckley hove two children. The daughter, Gretchen McCoy, is the wife of Fred G. Craig of Cambridge, Ohio. The son, Frederick R. Eckley married Mary May of Columbus, Ohio.
JOHN E. EBERSOLE. The Ebersoles have been in Carroll County for twelve decades. They came here before the first state was created from old northwest territory, and the succession of their lives has been impressed by and in turn has impressed all the events and developments of the county.
Ebersole is a name that occurs again and again in local history.,
The founder of the family was John Ebersole, a name that has been repeated through three successive generations. John Ebersole, a native of Pennsylvania, about 1800 brought his family to Carroll County. He entered land in Washington Township, and either by entry or otherwise acquired more than a section. He was a real pioneer and besides improving his land helped to shape other affairs in his community, including the construction of roads and the establishment of churches and schools.
His home was long identified with the Eber- sole farm, and on it he lived out his life.
The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Etter, and their children were named Peter,
Henry, Polly, Eva, Sallie, Mary Elizabeth and John.
Of the second generation, Judge John Ebersole was born near Humbelstown, Daphin County, Virginia, February 13, 1793, and was about seven years old when he came with his parents to Carroll County.
His boyhood was spent on the Ebersole homestead, and from early manhood he was associated with his father in his various interests. On October 22, 1822, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Pamelia Brown of Hanover, O. They located in Cleveland. O., and conducted a hotel where the American Hotel now stands. His wife only lived a little over a year, and on aCcount of her death, and the failing health of his father, he returned to the farm and assisted his father until his death. His mother made her home with him during the remainder of her lifetime, On August 1, 1827, Judge Ebersole was married to Miss Adaliza Carmen of Augusta, O. Three children were born to this union: Elizabeth, who died in early womanhood; Margaret, who became the wife of Noah Westfall of Washington Township, and Milton, who died in infancy. At the death of his father Judge Ebersole inherited one hundred and sixty acres or more of the homestead. He then purchased enough adjoining land to make four hundred acres. On this he built a fine two-story brick residence. a large commodious barn, a grist mill, carding machine, carriage house and other buildings and improvements, making it the best equipped farm in the community. His barn was conceded to be the best barn in Carroll County. Today this barn stands the same and, in a splendid state of preservation, on the farm now owned by John Snively, and although built almost one hundred years ago, is still considered among the best in the county. Again death entered the home and claimed the wife and mother. May 22, 1834, Judge Ebersole was married to Susannah Hewett, who was born July 8. 1811, near Washington, Pa., and in early childhood came with her parents, George and Anna Dager Hewitt, who were among the pioneers coming from Pennsylvania and locating in Washington Township, Carroll County. Of his third marriage there were six children: Isabel (deceased), who was the wife of Wayne Amos of Carrollton; George Hewett, who enlisted in the Union army August 15. 1861 (he was a corporal in Company F, Thirty-second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was drowned May 1, 1863. at Vicksburg:. while on duty as engineer on the steamer Horizon; John Etter, of a following paragraph; Anna, wife of D. Oliver Rutan of Carrolton; Millie, who married Richard Baxter of Carrollton, and after his death married George Spooner of Cleveland, both now deceased; and Cora, wife of Joseph Butler of Carrollton.
Judge Ebersole was a man of sterling character; be made the most of his education, which was the best the country afforded at that time. In boyhood he manifested high ideals of manhood and a marked business and executive ability. He took great pride in his home and surroundings, and in the personal appearance
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of himself and family. They were well and neatly dressed, the Judge always wearing a silk hat for dress, which was exceptional in those days. His personality was such as to create respect wherever he went, and with his keen sense of honor and justice, won for him the name of "Gentleman John Ebersole," by which he was known until he became associate judge of Carroll County, in which capacity he served for a number of years. He was in the advancement and good of the community, was one of the first men to advocate the erection of Carroll County, and in 1832, in company with Isaac Atkinson and others, rode horseback through to Columbus to intercede for its creation, and it was largely through their influence that the bill passed the Legislature, December 25, 1832, creating Carroll County, with the seat of justice at Centerville, and later changed the name to Carrollton. Judge Ebersole prospered in his business affairs. He dealt largely in stock of all kinds, but particularly in horses, buying and driving them through the country (then largely woods) to market at Old Philadelphia. On his various trips to this and other cities he had the opportunity of purchasing many things for the home and family which could not be purchased in smaller towns. They possessed the first wool carpet in this community, the universal floor covering being the old-fashioned rag carpet. On one of these trips to Philadelphia, Judge Ebersole purchased what is yet spoken of by older citizens, who remember it, as the finest carriage ever seen in the county. It was a highly finished closed carriage, with folding steps, beautifully upholstered and with draperies of pearl gray satin and heavy fringe. A team of fine horses, for which the Judge was noted, and a set of silver-plated harness, completed the turnout, which attracted much attention and admiration. Judge Ebersole and wife were both among the early members of the Carrollton Presbyterian Church, the Judge serving as elder from 1853 until his death in 1869, and all their children became members of this same church. In 1858 Judge Ebersole retired from the farm and with his family moved to Carrollton. He purchased the brick residence on North Lisbon Street, now the John Wright residence. He also purchased thirty-five acres of land on the opposite side of the street from his residence, and which extended from North Lisbor Street over to the railroad and as far north as what is now the Fair Grounds. On this land was a nice grove, known as "Ebersole Grove," where many of the celebrations, public meetings and picnics were held. This land is now the site of the Albright China Pottery, L. & M. Rubber Works, Carrollton Novelty Works and many residences.
In 1859, when the Carroll County Railroad was sold at sheriff's sale, Judge Ebersole bought one-fourth of the road, Henry A. Stidger one- fourth, and James Huston, James Cummings, Jacob Helfrich and James Cameron the other half. The new company operated under the name of the Carrollton & Oneida Railroad, and was operated by horse power until 1866, when a charter was taken out, and the road repaired and equipped with a locomotive built in Cleveland.
On the morning of June 18, 1869, Judge Ebersole was suddenly stricken with apoplexy at his home, and passed away a few hours later.
In 1873 the Ohio & Toledo Railroad Company made proposals to extend the track into the new coal fields, equip the road with “T" rails and put on first-class rolling stock, with the ultimate purpose of building. on to Toledo or other Lake Erie port, providing the new company were given the old roadbed as it stood, and the people of Carrollton donate 845,600. In 1874 the citizens subscribed 832,000 and the Carrollton & Oneida Railroad Company donated its track and right of way to the Ohio & Toledo Company, receiving no return therefor. The one-fourth interest of Judge Ebersole being donated by his widow, Susannah Hewett Ebersole, who died February 2, 1884, and was laid to rest by the side of her husband, Judge Ebersole, in Grandview Cemetery, Carrollton.
John Etter Ebersole, son of Judge John and Susannah Hewett Ebersole and grandson of John and Elizabeth Etter Ebersole, was born in Washington Township. Carroll County, January 25, 1841, and grew up in the environment with which the associations of the Ebersole family- have been so long identified. He received his early education in what was known as -The Brick," the only brick schoolhouse in the county.
At the age of seventeen. he moved to Carrollton with his parents and entered McCoyls private academy. After completing his education, for a short time he assisted his father, who owned a fourth of the Carrollton & Oneida Railroad and was freight agent of same. A few years previous Hesikiah Long purchased the Cochran dry goods store, which was located in a large frame building which stood on the present site of the Wheeling & Lake Erie depot. Judge Ebersole going bail for Mr. Long. Being a fine mechanic, Mr. Long also opened a cabinet shop in the same building, making all kinds of furniture. About 1861 Mr. Long failed in business, and Judge Ebersole was compelled to take. the business, which he turned over to his son, John E. Ebersole, who closed out the store, but continued the making of furniture until Augnst 1, 1862, when Mr. Ebersole left a growing bnsiness and entered the war, enlisting in Company I of the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under. Captain R. F. Williams, and was made a sergeant of his company. He received his honorable discharge while in a hospital at Quincy, Ill., April 10, 1863, on surgeon's certificate of disability. About the close of the war Mr. Ebersole was appointed to enroll Rose and Brown townships. Strong objection was made hi Rose and part of Brown, but Mr. Ebersole was equal to the occasion and carried ont his task in spite of threats against his life. After the war he engaged in the hardware business with his brother-in-law, Wayne Amos, under the name of Amos & Ebersole. On October 22, 1863, Mr. Ebersole was married to Miss, Nancy Jane Lyons, the ceremony being performed in the Presbyterian Church in Carrollton by Rev. Mr. Swaney. Mrs. Ebersole was
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the eldest daughter of Thomas and Eliza Ann Kyle Lyons. Thomas Lyons was born in Pennsylvania in September, 1790. In early manhood he came to Ohio and settled in Harrison County, near Conotton. On January 1, 1811, he was married to Menie Lowrie, who was born in 1788. To this union there were eleven children. as follows: Jane, John. William. Katharine. Mathew, Margaret, Walter. Thomas. Mary Ann, Cyrus and Elizaelen, who died at the age of six years. Menie Lowrie Lyons died October 6, 1837. and on February 19, 1839, Mr. Lyons was married to Eliza Ann Kyle, who was born November 14, 1811. Four daughters were born to this marriage. Nancy Jane (Mrs. Ebersole) was born January 20. 1840. The other daughters were Elizaelen. who still lives in Carrollton; Amanda. the widow of Clark Barter, of East Liverpool, and Emma. who died at the age of one year. In 1856 Mr. Lyons retired from the farm and moved to Carrollton, where his three daughters entered Mrs. Swaneyls private academy. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons and their three daughters were all members of the Presbyterian Church at Carrollton. Mrs. Lyons died in 1863. Mr. Lyons was a veteran of the War of 1812. He lived a retired life in Carrollton until his death in IS—. Both are buried hi Grandview Cemetery, Carrollton. Mrs. Ebersole was one of the most popular young ladies in social, musical- and religious circles. She was a teacher in the Sabbath school, she possessed a splendid voice, and both she and Mr. Ebersole were members of the Presbyterian choir for many years. In 1865 Mr. Ebersole bought a farm of eighty acres in Center Township. one-half mile wesf of Carrollton. Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole had a host of friends and their country home was always one of gracious hospitality, and in the culinary art Mrs. Ebersole was conceded to have few equals.
Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole: William George (deceased). a sketch of whose life' appears at the close of this history; Frank Kyle, John Alvernon (deceased) and Thomas Edgar, all of whom sketches appear elsewhere in this edition (that of John Alvernon, in the sketch of his widow).
Elbert Lyons, who married Miss Henrietta Welch of Hornelsville. N. Y., was for a short time prior to his marriage associated with his brothers. F. K. and J. A. Ebersole, 'in the brick business in Boone, Ia. Since their marriage they have resided in Cleveland and Canton. O., residing at the latter city at the present time. For many years he was on the road, erecting ice machines for the Arctic Ice Machine Company of Canton, O. For several years he was sales manager of the Real Motor Sales Company. and since disposing of his interest in this firm about two years ago is proprietor of a battery shop and auto repair in Massillon, O. Nanetta, the only daughter. lives with her father at 505 Main street N. W. She is a graduate of the Carrollton High School and was a milliner for several years. While active in social and musical circles, she is best known for her church and patriotic service. She has been a leader in Christian Endeavor work, has served as a county C. E. officer, and has represented the society in county, state and national conventions. She was patriotic instructor of the Sons of Veterans Auxiliary from its organlzation until she resigned, being unable to attend on account of her father's illness. During the World war she was appointed U. S. Marine Corps recruiting agent for the district of Cincinnati. and had the honor of being the most successful lady recruiting agent in that division. Since her fatherls affliction, almost four years ago, Miss Ebersolc has devoted her entire time in caring for him in the home.
Mr. Ebersole's enterprise readily took him into other occupations besides farming. He raised some of the best horses in Carroll County, taking many first premiums at different fairs over the state. He was a dealer in live stock and wool with D. O. Rutan. Operated a coal mine on his farm for about fifteen years. In 1880, associated with Edward Hays and John Seeton of Harlem Springs. Mr. Ebersole began the manufacture of hand-made brick on his farm, making the brick for the fine large residence of Hon. Isaac Taylor (now the residence of George J. Butler. Main Street). In 1881 they purchased one of the first dry press brick machines made. making the dry press brick far the handsome residence of the late Dr. Samuel Stocken (now the residence of Thomas J. Salts- man of the Cummings Trust Company). In 1882 they moved this brick machine to Harlem Springs, making the brick for the Methodist Church of that place. From there they moved to Amsterdam, where they made the brick for the Presbyterian Church, after which they returned to the Ebersole farm. In 1884 James Daniels purchased the interest of Messrs. Hay:: and Seaton, and under the firm name of Ebersole & Daniels they erected a factory in Carrollton on the present site of the ice plant and creamery. In 1886 they purchased an Auger brick and tile machine. At this plant they made the brick for the Carroll County jail, and those used in the Court House, the Presbyterian Church, United Presbyterian Church and many other principal brick buildings in the town. This plant was operated until the, death of Mr. Daniels, in 1902. Most of the young men about Carrollton earned their first dollar at the Ebersole & Daniels brick and tile plant, it being the only factory in the town for many years. When the old Court House was sold, Mr. Ebersole bought and razed it, using the material for various uses. In 1903 Mr. Ebersole retired from the farm and moved to Carrollton, purchasing his present residence at 505 Main street.
Mr. Ebersole is a Republican and had a long and competent record of service in the City Council, was trustee of Center Township. and was one of the trustees when Grand View Cemetery was laid out. He was one of the organizers of the Carroll County Fair, and a member of its board when the Fair Grounds were bought. While on the farm he was in the dairy business for ten years. For more than twenty years he was a member of the Soldiers' Relief Board. and for about fifteen years was a member of the County, Board of Charities and Cor-
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rection, serving as president of the board a good portion of the time.
On October 2, 1913, Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a dinner at noon to the family and relatives, with the exception of the bridesmaid, and her husband and another guest at the wedding fifty years ago, being guests of honor. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole held a public reception in their home, no invitations being issued. About one hundred and fifty friends assembled to extend congratulations and refreshments were served to all.
There are three grandchildren, Dorothy, daughter of John Alvernon (deceased), and Grace Cameron Ebersole. Miss Ebersole assists her mother in her ladiesl furnishing store which she conducts in the block she recently built on the square adjoining the Cummings Trust Company. Harry M. Ebersole, son of Thomas and Ruth Miller Ebersole, who did service in the World war at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., and is now holding a responsible position with Otis & Company, investment bankers, of Cleveland, 0. Carl H. Ebersole, son of Dr. William George Ebersole (deceased) and Ora Stemple Ebersole, and who served two years in France with the Lakeside Hospital Unit, the first of the A. E. F. to enter the World war. He is now with the Clark Publishing Company and at present located in Detroit. There is one great grandchild, Harold Haman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ebersole of Cleveland.
About fifteen years ago Mr. Ebersole suffered a stroke of paralysis, affecting the entire left side, and for sometime was bedfast, but gradually through perseverance he became able to go about again, but with little use of his left hand and arm. On July 19, 1916, Mrs. Ebersole was suddenly stricken, losing consciousness in a few minutes, from which she never rallied, and passed away July 25, 1916. Hers was a life of service and devotion to her home, family, friends and church, and her sudden death caused much sorrow wherever she was known. She was a member of the Carrollton Presbyterian Church for fifty-five years. She was laid to rest in the mausoleum in .Grandview Cemetery.
In September, 1917, Mr. Ebersole suffered another stroke of paralysis, and since that time has been bedfast, unable to feed himself or change his position; but through it all his mind has remained good and he is ever patient and cheerful, always glad to meet and greet his friends. Altogether,. Mr. Ebersole is the type of citizen worth most to any community, interested not only in his private affairs, but in every cause of good and advancement.
Dr. William George Ebersole, M. D., D. D. S., eldest son of John E. and Nancy J. Lyons Ebersole, died October 6, 1920, in his home, 1894 Roxbury Road, East Cleveland, after having been a patient sufferer from complications caused from an operation for appendicitis about eight years previous. Three subsequent operations only afforded temporary relief. Dr. 'Ebersole was born at Carrollton, November 18, 1864. His early education was received in the Carrollton schools. At the age of eighteen he became superintendent of the Ebersole & Daniels brick and tile plant at Carrollton. In his twenty-first year he entered Ohio Northern University, at Ada, spending three years there. In 1887 he took up the study of law with the firm of Fimple & Holder, at Carrollton. On December 17, 1890, he. was married to Ora Stemple, eldest daughter of Levi and Mary Gearheart Stemple, of Carrollton. The ceremony was performed by Rev. James H. Hawk, who also officiated at his funeral at Carrollton. Later he took up the study of medicine and dentistry, and by carrying double work graduated from Western Reserve Dental College, at Cleveland, in 1896, and from the same medical college in 1897. Shortly after the completion of his studies he was made professor of oral surgery in Western Reserve Dental College, and served in that capacity for several years, when he resigned to devote his entire time to his practice, which at the time of his death was one of the largest, most successful and thoroughly ethical practices in the country. He was the originator of humanitarian dentistry and the method of transplanting teeth, an organizer of the National Mouth Hygiene Association, and established the first clinic in the schools of Cleveland for the treatment and preservation of the teeth of school children. So successful were these clinics that his assistance was sought to establish similar clinics in nrnny cities throughout the United States. Being a recognized authority, he was sought to lecture at most of the state and national dental conventions, and was also the author of many articles published in the dental journals which attracted wide attention. In 1910 the doctor was elected president of the Cleveland Dental Society, and in 1911 was elected president of the Northern Ohio Dental Association, the second oldest dental association in the world. In 1909 he was elected chairman of the Oral Hygiene Committee of the National Dental Association, and in 1912 secretary and treasurer general of the National Mouth Hygiene Association. Dr. Ebersole was several times honored by his profession in recognition of his service to his profession and to humanity. One token which the doctor prized very highly was a beautiful gold pin which the Cleveland Dental Society had especially designed for him a few years before his death. This pin contained a large diamond set in gold, and underneath, in platinum, was a figure presenting the Good Samaritan giving the cup of cold water, and the words, "In His Name," while on the other side was engraved, "Presented to Dr. Ebersole by the Cleveland Dental Society, in recognition of his service to humanity." At the doctor's death this same organization begged leave to have a wax mask taken, that they might have a bronze bnst made of the doctor.
Funeral, service in Cleveland was held at the Windemere Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. Ebersole was an elder, Rev. Ruff, his pastor and close personal friend, officiating. The Cleveland Dental Society attended in a body. Something
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of the high esteem in which the doctor was held by all who knew him was evidenced by the large assembly. at the church, the beautiful personal tribute paid to him by his pastor and church, and the overwhelming number of beautiful floral offerings from all parts of the country. The body was brought to Carrollton and, on account of illness of his father in the home, was taken to the home of his brother, F. K. Ebersole, where service was held, after which he was laid to rest in the mausoleum at Grandview Cemetery, Carrollton. He is survived by his wife and son, Carl H. Ebersole, Cleveland; his aged father, John E. Ebersole, and one sister, Miss Nanetta, with three brothers, Frank K. and Thomas E. of Carrollton, and Elbert L. of Canton. Dr. Ebersole's life was a model of marked devotion and service not only to his family amt friends, but to humanity.
THOMAS E. EBERSOLE has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth, is a representative of a wellknown pioneer family of the county and is now a progressive and successful exponent of farm enterprise in Center Township. He was born in Center Township, on the 1st of December, 1870, and is a son of John E. Ebersole, of whom individual mention is made on preceding pages of this volume, by reason of which bct it is unnecessary here to offer further data concerning the family history.
Thomas Edgar Ebersole early learned the lessons of practical industry, in connection with lhe activities of the home farm, and in the meanwhile made good use of the advantages offered by the public schools, including the high school at Carrollton. His independent career has been marked by close and effective identlfication with agricultural and live stock industry, and his well improved farm comprises 146 acres. upon which. in 1912, he erected his present modern and commodious residence. For a number of years Mr. Ebersole gave special attcntion to the raising of the best type of Berkshire swine, but after about fourteen years of specializing in this line of stock breeding he gradually reduced his operations. He still raises a due quota of live stock on his farm and has attained marked success also in the raising of pure-bred "Minorca poultry. His political support is given to the Republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
On the 7th of September. 1892. Mr. Ebersole married Miss Ruth Etta Miller. who was born in Washington Township. this, county. April 13, 1870. a daughter of Henry W. and Sarah (Strayer) Miller. both likewise natives of Carroll County. where the former was born, in Harrison Township. July 4, 1842. and the latter on the 14th of May, 1845. Levi Miller. grandfather of Mrs. Ebersole. was a young man when he ea me to Carroll County, where he became a pioneer farmer, and who later conducted a grocery busincss at Carrollton. His first wife, whose maiden name was Julia A. Riley. died whcn about thirty years of age, and both he and his second wife, whose maiden name was Mary Houck. and the name of whose first hus band was Buck, were residents of Carrollton at the time of their death, both having been communicants of the Lutheran Church. Levi Miller was born in what is now Monroe Township, Carroll County, November 11, 1808, and was a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Reader) Miller, the former a native of Germany, and the latter of Washington County, Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized, and whence they came to Ohio and settled in what is now Carroll County in or somewhat prior to the year 1807. They lived up to the full tension of frontier life and Mr. Miller served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He and his wife here passed the remainder of their lives, and of their six children Levi was the eldest.
Levi and Julia A. (Riley) Miller became the parents of five children, and of the number Henry W. was the only one who attained to venerable years, he having come into possession of his father's old homestead farm, in Washington Township, and having developed the same into one of the valuable properties of the county. He married Miss Sarah Strayer, a daughter of John and Ruth (Johnson) Strayer, who were Pioneers of Carroll. County and here remained until their death.
Mrs. Ebersole was afforded the advantages of the Liberty Hall School, in Washington Township, and has a wide circle of friends in her native county. so that her pleasant home has become known as a center of gracious hospitality. Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole became the Barents of two children: John William, who was born May 18, 1894. died at the age of nine weeks. Harry Miller Ebersole was born November 7. 1896. and his early educational advantages included those of the Carrollton High School and a course in a business college in the city of Canton. He now holds a responsible clerical position in the office of the Otis Company, an important investment banking concern in the city of Cleveland. In May. 1918, he entered the nationls military service in connection with the world war, and his service of about seven months was at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville. Florida. The maiden name of his wife was Minnie Shaffer. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Shaffer, of Cleveland. Ohio.
FRANK KYLE. EBERSOLE. Frank Kyle Ebersole. one of the Advisory Board of the publication of the History of Carroll and Harrison Counties. has been closely identified with the business and civic progress of Carrollton for over twenty years.
He was born in Carrollton March 6, 1867. son of John E. and Nancy J. Ebersole. He was reared and educated in Carrollton and in 188,S, at the age of twenty-one, engaged in the livestock and machinery business. In 1893 he moved to Iowa. and for two years was in the brick making business at Boone. while from 1895 to 1898 he was associated with his brother. J. A. Ebersole, in the hardware business at DesMoines.
After returning to Carrollton in 1899, Mr. Ebersole conducted a farm and a dairy until
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1908. His capital and enterprise were then turned in a direction that resulted in much industrial benefit to Carrollton. In 1909 he installed the first ice plant in that city and in 1911 organized the Carrollton Creamery, operating in connection with the ice plant. The creamery was sold to the Canton Cold Storage Company in 1915 and the ice plant to Joe Miller in 1920. Thus relieved of his responsibility hr local industrial affairs, Mr.. Ebersole assisted in 1920 to organize the First National Bank of Carrollton and is one of its charter members and on the Board of Directors. At present he is owner of a large- stock and dairy farm adjoining the city limits of Carrollton.
In politics he is a progressive republican. November 4, 1902, at Carrollton he married Fredalma Sterling, daughter of M. C. and Jane Elizabeth (Atkinson) Sterling. Her father is a well-known druggist in Carrollton.
WILLIAM THOMAS PERRY, who is the present probate judge of Harrison County, was born in Short Creek Township. Harrison County. Ohio. on September 28, 1858, and has lived in the county all his life. In every community there are always some citizens who per force of their natural endowments. coupled with a determination to achieve something worth while in the battle of life, have become successful in their undertakings and been held in high esteem by their co-workers and fellow citizens generally. It is of such a one that this biography will treat. Of his immediate ancestry it may be said that he is the fifth son of William W. and Elizabeth (Kelly) Perry. The grandfather was William H. Perry, who was the son of a Revolutionary soldier.
William W. Perry was the father of six children: John IL Perry, a Civil war veteran, who died in 1911; James A. Perry, who died in 1908; Albert K. Perry, who died in 1912; Samuel K. Perry, who died in infancy; William T. Perry, of this notice; and Joseph D. Perry.
The father. William W. Perry, was a soldier of the Civil war in Company F of the One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio -Regiment, and died in 1865 from the effects of the Maryland Heights battle. His widow, Elizabeth Perry. died in March. 1906, at the advanced age of ninety-two years.
Judge William T. Perry was educated in the common schools of his native county, and studied at home completing a college course, reciting on Saturdays to the professors in Hopedale College and New Athens College, though never matriculating as a student in either of these institutions. In 1875 he began teaching school in Harrison County, continuing until 1883, when he moved from near Cadiz to Jewett and organized the Jewett High Schools, taking charge of the same for a period of seven years. In 1883 he received on examination the first state certificate ever issued to a resident of Harrison County. He served as teacher's examiner in Harrison County for eight years— the last eight years of his teaching.
But Mr. Perry had an ambition to become a lawyer and had studied with that end in view until March 7, 1887, when he was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Ohio on actual examination, receiving the second honor of his class. He studied law at home and under the tutorage of John C. Givin and John N. Garvin, two eminent attorneys of the county seat town, Cadiz.
On October 1, 1890, he opened his law office in Cadiz, Ohio, and has practiced law ever since. In the autumn of 1893 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county, and held the office from January 1, 1894, to January 1, 194)0. In 1912 he was elected probate judge Of Harrison County, and has held the otfice ever since, being re-elected to a third term, which will expire February 9, 1925. Considering the importance of this office in a county like Harrison this thrce term incumbency bespeaks much for the ability, promptness and accuracy with which Mr: Perry has dispatched business in the Probate Court of the county, where the estates of scores and hundreds of the citizens of the ., mrry ; to at stake.
Politically Judge Perry is and always has been since old enough to cast his vote a republican, has been active in campaign work, in demand as a speaker in political party work, in church. Sunday school and social gatherings, as well as in the temperance movements of the state and county. He is what may be termed "an active dry on the temperance question." Fraternally let it be stated that Judge Perry is an honored member of the Masonic bodies of the county, the Knights Templar, the Shrine, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and Sons of Veterans. In religious faith he is a Methodist Episcopal adherent.
Judge Perry was united in marriage September 2, 1878, to Miss Mary J. Blackburn, eldest daughter of John H. and Addle (Granville) Blackburn, of Tappan, Ohio, and unto this marriage were born four children: William Clyde Perry, a public accountant of Akron. Ohio; John Linton Perry, of Oklahoma; Mary E. Perry, wife of E. R. Hoagland, of Uhrichsville. Ohio: and Charles B. Perry, an attorney-at-law of Newton Falls, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have four
grandchildren— Charles McC. Hoagland. Irma L. Hoagland, Linton Hoagland, all of Uhrichsville, Ohio, and William T. Perry. Jr., of Akron. Ohio. William C. Perry was married to Virginia McDermitt. of Canton, Ohio; Mary E. Perry was married to Earl R. Hoagland, of near Cadiz, Ohio: and Charles Bingham Perry married Mary Clark. of Cadiz, Ohio.
It may justly be added that Judge Perry counts his friends by the one word—Legion.
ELISHA MCGUIRE was the kind of character, exemplified the type of manhood, and lived the daily life that must always prove an inspiration to all who regard substance as more than show. and integrity as more important than material wealth.
He was one of the last of the real pioneers of Carroll County to pass away. His family was contemporary with the Beattys, the McCooks, the Shobers, the Cogsils, the Atkinsons and
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others. His father, John McGuire, was of the rugged Scotch-Irish ancestry which peopled and gave character still largely maintained to the mountain and hill districts of the old Virginias and Carolinas. John McGuire as a young man moved out of Virginia to the Northwest territory, and settled in what afterwards became Jefferson County, Ohio. September 29, 1803, he married Miss Sarah Milligan, and located on a farm near Steubenville. John McGuire and wife had a family of six sons and three daughters. In 1816 the family moved to what is now Union Township in Carroll County, on the farm afterwards known as the old Jake Everhart farm and still later as the George Kali farm. This farm adjoins Angonquin. Their home was virtually in the wilderness there until 1828, when the family located at Centerville, now Carrollton.
Elisha McGuire was fifth among the children of John McGuire and wife. He was born December 4, 1812, and was therefore four years of age when brought to .Carroll County. His was the environment of a real pioneer. With growing strength and years he took his share in the clearing of the timber and the working of the fields. In after life he admitted that the aggregate of years spent in school under a master was less than six months. The schools he attended were conducted on the subscription plan, and the schoolhouses were log cabins, with puncheon floors, split log benches and greased paper windows, and a fireplace.
He was sixteen when the family moved to Centerville. and at that time was bound out to a trade, being indentured to John Morrison. the general blacksmith and wagon maker of East Springfield. After three years' apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman two years in Springfield and Steubenville. In 1833, the year Carroll County was organized and Centerville under the new name of Carrollton became a Court House town, he opened a wagon and plow shop there, and was more or less actively connected with this work all his remaining years. He was an active, athletic, vigorous young man, full of life and energy and fully endowed with an inherited spirit of progress and "gift of gab" from his strain of Irish ancestors. A prominent factor and figure on muster days and known throughout four counties for his shrewd common sense, his good fellowship, his progressive business and working qualities, and as "a man who could stock twelve plows a day"—no title Mr. McGuire earned during his long and useful life gave him more satisfaction than the achieving of the one mentioned, it being considered a fair day's work to stock three plows.
In 1846 Mr. McGuire was chosen by the democrats as their candidate for sheriff, and although Carroll County was strongly a whig county the popularity of the Scotch-Irish wheelwright elected him a second term. That was a vigorous canvass and the candidate traversed the county north. south, east and west on horseback, there being no decent wagon roads in those days. After the expiration of his second term he returned to his manufacturing interests and also established a foundry—the only one between Steubenville and Canton—for the cast ing of plow-points, farm bells, stoves (which were then coming into general use), hollowware and anything needed for which it was possible to make a pattern..
In 1852 Elisha McGuire established "McGuire's United States Mail and Stage Line" from Steubenville to Massillon with a daily line of four-horse stages over the State Road—now Main Street. Disposing of this route to the Ohio Stage Company he devoted his time to the mail and stage routes connecting Carrollton with Wheeling, New Lisbon, Cadiz, New Philadelphia, Wellsville, Summittsville and other points. This service continued until the growing system of railroads.
Always an active progressive business man and enjoying an enviable patronage, his very nature precluded his ever amassing any considerable wealth. He was too progressive to hoard; money meant nothing except for investment in the aid of enterprise and this spirit was maintained until his death. Charles A. Dana's motto of "Move on, Move on," could well have been Elisha McGuire's: nothing was allowed to stand still which he had the means; influence or physical power to aid forward. He lost money heavily in the re-incarnation of the old "elderberry branch" Carrollton & Oneida Railroad, and under the new name of the Ohio & Toledo Railroad he was its president and general manager. This line formed the nucleus and made possible the later Cleveland, Canton & Southern Line. now part of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. He and his associates began their task with only "two streaks of rust and a right of way" ten miles long. Mr. McGuire and General Eekley devoted years of hard work and thousands of dollars only to see the result of their labors and untiring efforts enrich others. It was characteristic of both men that no sign of regret ever escaped. them Over the lack of reward or wage hardly earned and justly due. They had secured the town a "sure enough" railroad—no matter for personal losses and misunderstood plans and work of theirs.
During the Civil War Mr. McGuire was especially active in aid of recruiting and the work of forwarding supplies from home to volunteers. During 1862-63-64 he made frequent trips to the western army. in Which the Ninety-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteers served, and of which regiment his son and son-in-law were members as well as a number of Carroll County men. On each of these trips he carried a large quantity of supplies for the soldiers which had been gathered by patriotic citizens of the community. He had the acquaintance and the personal friendship and esteem of Ohio's famous and greatly beloved war governor, David Tod.
In 1875 he was the democratic nominee for representative, and made a vigorous fight against an overwhelming republican majority. Several times he was chosen a member of the Board of Education in spite of politics and the republican precinct in which he lived. Thus democrats and republicans respected and admired the rugged, strong, outspoken character of "Uncle Lisha" and no personality could have been missed more deeply from the town where he lived so many years. For six years he was pro-
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prietor of the old Beatty House, later the Hoopes, and enjoyed a just popularity as a landlord. •
Despite the fact that his politics differed from the strong majority of the citizens of his township, his neighbors took delight in honoring him wilh officcs of trust. He was the most open mid outspoken friend of the new school project when the building of the new Union schools was a local issue. As a member of the Board of Education he was the moving spirit in the first Teachers Institute held there and -through his energy and hard work these institutes were for a number of years more successful and productive of more good in Carroll County than in any other county in eastern Ohio.
Mr. McGuire's social and family relations were of the pleasantest nature—his family connection being perhaps the largest in this township. A trace of his Scotch ancestry developed itself perhaps in Uncle Lisha's making it .more or less a clan—not an unfriendly and deprecatory clan, but a hospitable clan—a clan for the promotion of good fellowship, family and neighborly feeling, and of which "The McGuire" was early the chief and leading spirit about which all delighted to center. An outspoken, kindly man, sincere in his likes and dislikes tempered by the characteristic of forming no unreasonable dislikes. earnest, sincere and aggressive for the right as he saw the right; he lived a long, active and -useful life which made a lasting impress upon the community. It was in the eighty-seventh year of his age and almost at the end of the century when he passed away May 11, 1899.
Himself a strong man, he was the founder of a strong race. When he died, besides his own children, he was survived by sixteen of the twenty-six grandchildren born, by twenty-five out of twenty-eight great-grandchildren, so that forty-five direct descendants mourned his passing. His own children are now all gone, the last surviving Elisha McGuire nearly twenty years.
In 1838, then a young wheelwright and plow maker, be married Miss Hannah Baxter, daughter of a prominent old Center Township family. She preceded her husband to the grave by five years, passing away June 5, 1894, some six years after they had celebrated their golden wedding. She was the mother of nine children, two of whom died in childhood. The seven who grew up were: Elizabeth, who married Robert Stewart. and reared her family in Iowa ; Mary, who became the wife of Major Robert F. Williams, and died May 16, 1904; Emma, who was the wife of Bright, of Wellsville; Edith, who became the wife of James P. Whitcraft and died December 14, 1914; Lieut. Richard McGuire, who was wounded at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was brought home by his father and died at the family home October 16, 1863; Annie, who became the wife of John W. Gould, and died in 1906; and Frank W. McGuire, who passed away September 27, 1918.
PICTURE OF ROBERT FORBES MCCAULEY
ROBERT FORBES MCCAULEY. Numbered among the successful agriculturists of Harrison County. the late Robert Forbes McCauley of Monroe Township accumulated during his lifetime a competency and left a valuable farm and good name to his family. He was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, September 27, 1852, a son of Robert McCauley, and grandson of Robert McCauley and his wife Mary (Booth) McCauley, who had three children, Namely: Margaret, Samuel and Robert. Of these children of the grandfather, Margaret and Robert came from Ireland to the United States in 1832, at which time Robert McCauley was seventeen years of age as he was born in Ireland, Marcia 17, 1815. They settled at once in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and bought eighty acres of land. The following year their parents and Samuel joined them, and all spent the remainder of their lives in this township.
Robert McCauley was the only one who left descendants. . Samuel McCauley never married, and while Margaret was married to Alexander McCauley, she had no children. They were all consistent members of the Presbyterian Church, and they were of Scotch-Irish descent from County Tyrone, Ireland. The wife of the second Robert McCauley bore the maiden name of Sarah Forbes, and she, too, was born in Ireland, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Johnson) Forbes. The children born to Robert and Sarah McCauley were as follows: Booth, who married Elizabeth Smiley ; Sarah Jane, who never married; Robert F., whose name heads this review. This generation also belonged to the Presbyterian Church.
Robert F. McCauley attended the district schools of Monroe Township, and lived at home until he was married on May 6, 1880, to Sadie A. Brown, a daughter of James and Rebecca (Evans) Brown. James Brown was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, February 12, 1834, and his wife was born August 1, 1836. For many years they were engaged in farming in Monroe Township. Their children were as follows: John, Sadie, Annie K, Laura E., Robert D., Mary Ida, Emma, Elizabeth, James Edmond and Bell Jane. The Browns were Methodists. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. McCauley were John and Sarah (Davis) Brown, natives of Ireland. John Brown came to the United States as a young man, and was one of the pioneers of Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio. John Brown and his wife had the following children: Margaret, George, Joseph, William, Samuel, David, James. Jeremiah and Hester Ann. They, too, were Methodists.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCauley came to the farm now owned by Mrs. McCanley, which is near Bowerston, in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and contains 160 acres. On it Mr. McCauley carried on general farming and stock-raising until his death, which occurred November 26, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley had two children: Olive M. and Ida J. The latter was marred to L. C. Price and lives at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since the death of Mr. McCauley, Mrs. McCauley and her daughter, Olive M., have continued to live on the farm. Mr. McCauley was a supporter of the Presbyterian Church, but his widow and daughters belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a Blue Lodge Mason, belonging to the lodge at Leesville, Ohio. A man of the highest principles he lived up to them and was recognized as a person of fine character and pleasant manner, and left behind his many friends in addition to his family, to mourn his loss.