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John D., Anna, Mary (deceased), James, George W. and Emma.
George W. Willoughby was still a boy when he began working on neighboring farms, and it has been through his own energy and well directed efforts that he has made his way forward to a position of independent activity in connection with agricultural and live-stock Industry. Since his marriage in 1902 he has been successfully engaged in farming in Washington Township, where his stage of activity is a well improved farm of 100 acres. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church at Tippecanoe.
September 4, 1902, recorded the marriage of Mr. Willoughby to Miss Amanda Bell Carrothers, daughter of James and Mahala (Ervin) Carrothers. James Carrothers was born in Wash. ington Township, Harrison County, about the year 1846, and is a son of John and Susan (Burgess) Carrothers, both of whom were born in the State of Maryland, whence they came to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Washington Township, Harrison County, where the father entered more than 300 acres of Government land, for which he paid one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, and which he developed into one of the excellent pioneer farm properties of the county. Here he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths. Their children were seven in number—Lemuel, Elizabeth, Samuel, John, James, Thomas and Mary. With the exception of seven years of residence in Tuscarawas County James Carrothers has resided from the time of his birth to the present in Washington Township, where he is the owner of a fine landed estate of 555 acres. Though in his youth he received practically no educational advantages, his native ability has enabled him to achieve large and worthy success, and he is one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of his native township and county. His rise to a place of financial independence has been won entirely through his well directed enterprise in diversified agriculture and the raising of sheep. His wife died in February, 1918, and of their three children Mrs. Willoughby, wife of the subject of this review, is the only survivor. Anna died at the age of fifty-two years and Sarah Jane died at the age of twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby have two children—Hattie Lena, born November 19, 1903, and James Roy. born November 9, 1905.
HARWOOD C. ROSS is secretary and treasurer of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, one of the substantial industrial concerns of Carroll County. This corporation has contributed much to the industrial and commercial prestige of the village of Malvern, and in the manufacturing of fireproofing clay products and building tile it has developed a large and prosperous business.
Harwood Carroll Ross was born at Malvern April 19, 1874, and is a son of Dr. Enoch C. and Cordelia (Paessler) Ross, the former of whom likewise was born at Malvern, the date of his nativity having been October 3, 1846, and the latter likewise was born in Carroll County, a daughter of Christian and Christina Paessler. Doctor Ross was a son of Samuel I. and Angeline (Cross) Ross, and was the youngest of their six children. Samuel I. Ross was a son of Enoch Ross, who came with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled near Waynesboro, Stark County, in 1812. He and his wife there passed the remainder of their lives. Their son Samuel .I. was born in Green County, Pennsylvania, and was two years of age at the time of the family removal to Ohio. He was reared to manhood in Stark County, and the name of his first wife was Stansburg, all of their five children being deceased and the last to survive having been Rev. Jasper S. Ross, a clergyman of the Disciples' or Christian Church. In Carroll County Samuel I. Ross wedded Miss Angeline Cross, who was here born and reared, her parents, John and Margaret Cross, natives of Ireland, having been early settlers in this county. About the year 1842 Samuel I. Ross removed to the village of Malvern, where he opened and conducted one of the first hotels of the place. At Malvern, as a popular and highly honored citizen, he continued to reside until his death, which occurred January 17, 1890, he having there served forty years in the office of justice of the peace.
After having availed himself of the advantage of the village schools of Malvern Dr. Enoch C. Ross in 1861 became a student in Hiram College, in which historic old Ohio institution he continued his studies until he felt constrained by patriotic impulses to tender his service in defense of the Union. In May, 1863, he enlisted for a term of 100 days in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio National Guard, and upon the expiration of his term he re-enlisted, as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Fourth Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland and with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, with a record of having participated in the various battles and minor engagements in which his regiment was involved. After receiving his honorable discharge Doctor Ross continued his studies in Hiram College until 1866, when he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. H. Tressel of Alliance, Stark County. Later he continued his technical discipline in what is now the Cleveland Medical College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1870. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession at Malvern, and here continued in service as one of the honored and representative physicians and surgeons of his native county until his death on the 28th of April, 1905. He also established a drug store at Malvern, and in the conducting of this business he was associated with his son, Harwood C., of this review, under the title of Ross & Son. Doctor Ross was a liberal and public-spirited citizen and took deep interest in all things pertaining to the welfare of his home village, county and state. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, and gave his support also to other enterprises that furthered the advancement of his native village. A stalwart republican, he was influential in political affairs in Carroll County, and in 1885 was
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elected to represent the county in the State Legislature. At the expiration of his four years of service he was nominated for state senator, but he withdrew from the contest. Since the death of Doctor Ross his widow has continued to maintain her home at Malvern. In a fraternal way the Doctor was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and he held membership in the Carroll County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Of the three children the youngest, a daughter, died in infancy. The older son, Iverson H., passed the closing period of his life in his native village of Malvern, where he died on the 1st of March, 1914. His first wife, whose maiden name was Lyda Fast, died in 1896. and is survived by one child, Eleanor C., who was graduated in the Southern University of California in 1918, and who after effective post-graduate work is now a successful and popular teacher at Santa Monica, California, with residence at Pasadena. For his second wife Mr. Ross married Miss Adelaide Newhon, who survives him, as does also their one child, Gretchen, who has shown exceptional musical ability and been given the advantages of the musical department of Heidelberg University at Tiffin, Ohio. She has appeared as a vocalist at public entertainments since she was a child of three years and is only thirteen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920.
Harwood Carroll Ross continued his studies in the Malvern schools until he had completed a course in the high school, and he then entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893, after completing a course in pharmacy. Thereafter he became junior member of the firm of Ross & Son in the drug business at Malvern, and in 1912 assumed the active management of the business of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer, a dual office of which he has been the incumbent from the time of the organization of the company in 1911. The company now gives employment to an average force of 150 persons and adds much to the civic and industrial prosperity and prestige of the Village of Malvern. On Porter Street is situated the modern brick residence of Mr. Ross, and his wife, its gracious and popular chatelaine, has made it a center for much of the representative social life of the community. In politics Mr. Ross is a stalwart republican, and he served several years as postmaster of Malvern, besides which he has given loyal and effective service also as a member of the village council and the local board of education.
The year 1899 recorded the marriage of Mr. Ross to Miss Ella Demaris Elson, who was born at Magnolia, Stark County, a daughter of Richard and Katherine (Baxter) Elson, the former of whom was born in that county in May, 1847, and the latter was born in West Virginia, Richard Elson, Sr., grandfather of Mrs. Ross, was one of the early settlers and influential pioneer citizens of Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Ross have no children.
JAMES S. BORDEN has been successfully engaged in the retail grocery business at Carrollton since 1915, and his well appointed establishment occupies quarters 20 by 120 feet in dimensions, the store being distinctly modern in its equipment and service and receiving a substantial and appreciative patronage.
Mr. Borden was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 21, 1884, and is a son of John W. and Nancy (Crumbley) Borden, both likewise natives of Columbiana County, where the former was born in 1854 and the latter in 1853. John W. Borden was a son of Robert and Mary Ann Borden, who early became residents of Columbiana County, the father having found employment in coal mines when but ten years old and having continued his active connection with this line of industrial enterprise for seventy-two years—until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. Both he and his wife were honored pioneer citizeus of Columbiana County at the time of their deaths. John W. Borden passed his entire life in his native county, where for many years he was associated with coal-mining industry, and he and his wife were residents of Salineville, that county, at the time of their deaths, he having passed away in 1912 and she having survived until 1915.
James S. Borden received his early education in the public schools of Salineville and began to work in the coal mines in Columbiana County when still a boy. He continued his work in the mines until he there met with an injury which virtually incapacitated him for further service in this strenuous occupation, and he finally engaged in the grocery and meat-market business at Salineville, where he remained until 1907, when he came to Carroll County and established himself in the grocery business at Oneida. In 1915 he found a broader field for his activities by removing to Carrollton, the county seat, where he has developed a substantial and prosperous grocery business and is one of the vital business men of the younger generation. Be gives his allegiance to the republican party, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership also in the Rebecca Lodge and in the Christian Church. as did also his parents.
In 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Borden to Miss Nettie G. Brackin, daughter of James Brackin, of Carroll County, and the three children of this union are Kenneth, Leveer, Virginia May and Carl Joseph.
JOHN H. ESTEP, the New Athens druggist, is in the third generation of the Estep family in Harrison County. He was born September 13, 1815; in Short Creek Township, and Ns father. Andrew Estep, was also born there, the grandfather. John Estep, having come from Pennsylvania. Before coming to Ohio John Estep had married Sarah Smith, a daughter of Edward Smith, in Pennsylvania. They settled in the woods of Short Creek Township and rounded out their days, both attaining to more than four score years there. Their children were Harrison, William, Robert, Harriet and Andrew.
William Estep was a medical doctor, but it was Andrew who perpetuates the name in his-
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tory through his son, J. H. Estep, the druggist in New Athens. In 1850 Andrew Estep married Sarah, a daughter of Andrew and Martha (Nichol) Henderson, of Belmont County. Through the Nichol strain there is Scotch blood in the Estep family, the Nichol ancestry passing from Scotland through County Derry, Ireland, at the time of the persecution and from there they immigrated to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was in 1789 the Nichol family landed in America, living for a while in Cumberland and later in Westmoreland counties, Pennsylvania, and about 1800 they came to Colerain Township, Belmont Count, Ohio.
Andrew Henderson, the maternal grandfather, was born in 1798, while his wife was born in 1801—both far off dates when surveyed from the time of life of John H. Estep, who cherishes his knowlege of them. The old Nichol family Bible, which is preserved as an heirloom, was purchased in 1805 at an expenditure of $15.25, which was a good deal of money for a settler to invest in a book, even of its character. However, through the possession of this Bible posterity today knows more of the Nichol family than of any other branch of the Estep ancestry. There was always a place in the old Bibles for the family births, marriages and deaths—records most valuable today when men and women are inclined to investigate their own origin and development. The census of 1920 has caused some families to bring out those old Bibles for data.
When Andrew Estep married he lived for a time at the Estep homestead in Short Creek, Township, then moved to Steubenville for two years. In 1874 they migrated to Missouri, Kansas and later to Kansas City, Missouri, and here occurred the death of the father, the family remaining in Kansas City. Their children were: Thomas B., Emma, John H., James B., Harriet E., William C., Ella, Andrew S., Sarah C. and Charles. There have been Methodists, Presbyterians and Christians in the family relationship, and the father was a "Freemason," a term used at the time of his life, although the initials are used today to designate the order—F. and A. M.
While not much data is available about the Henderson ancestry, the generation of which Mrs. Estep is a representative is as follows: Martha, John N., Annie, Agnes, Margaret, Mary J., Andrew J., Sarah (who became Mrs. Andrew Estep), Isabelle, Andrew, Elizabeth, Harriet, William T., Thomas J. and M. N. Henderson Nichol. When the Commemorative Record was published some one with mathematical bent figured out that there were 94 grandchildren, 366 great-grandchildren, 428 great-great-grandchildren, with 32 in the next generation— great-great-great-grandchildren, and the question a rises—where will the record be duplicated today?
When John H. Estep was thirteen years old he was thrown upon his own resources, and he has had a varied experience, supplementing his common school advantages with study in Franklin College in the way of preparation. He was a drug clerk in Cadiz, Steubenville and New Athens, and his first store of his own was in the "Old Erie House," which burned and he lost his stock. However, he started in business again. At one time and another he tried real estate and insurance, and at one time he was postmaster in New Athens. Mr. Estep is a democrat and has served as mayor of New Athens.
In November, 1881, Mr. Estep married Mary L. Cannon, a daughter of J. E. and Agnes (Cooke) Cannon, and their children are: Arthur E., who is a druggist at Steubenville; Paul C., who was a soldier in the World war stationed eight months at Camp Sherman in the department of the Adjutant General, he married Eleanor, a daughter of Taylor Holmes, of Columbus: and Frank Bill, who died in childhood. The Estep family has many years of history behind it in Harrison County. Combined with his drug and insurance business, J. H. Estep is the local representative of a Canton Stock and Bond House. He is vice president of the Flushing Telephone Company. He has been a member of the official board of the Methodist Church in New Athens for many years.
WILLIAM MERRITT BEALL is the owner of a well improved farm in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, which township has represented his home from the time of his birth, and he is not only one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county but also a scion of an honored pioneer family. Concerning the family history adequate record is given on other pages, in the sketch of the career of his brother, Frank M., present aditor of Harrison County, with further data in the - sketch of another brother, George W.
William M. Beall was born in Nottingham Township on the 2nd of October, 1882, was here reared on the old homestead farm of his parents and here gained his early education in the district schools. In his independent career he has manifested no desire to abate his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and be is known as one of the progressive and successful exponents of farm industry in his native county. In politics he is a republican and he and his wife hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church. The farm on which he stages his activities is the old homestead of the Cope family, and his wife's parents remain with them on the place.
In 1907 Mr. Beall married Miss Bertha Olive Cope, daughter of Wendell G. Cope, D. V. S., of whom individual record is given in following paragraphs. Mr. and Mrs. Beall have no children.
Dr. Wendell G. Cope was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 8th of March, 1860, and is a son of John P. and Martha M. (Brown) Cope, the former of whom was born in this township in the year 1825, and the latter of whom was born at Sandusky, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. Clark Brown, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John P. Cope, whose death occurred April 20, 1890, was a on of Jacob and Mary (Pugh) Cope, the latter a daughter of John and Rachel Pugh. Jacob Cope was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and was a young man when he came in 1807 from the old Keystone State to Harrison County. Ohio, in company with his
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parents, David and Margaret (Brown) Cope, and settled on the farm which is now the home of Dr. Wendell G. Cope. Jacob Cope here obtained 160 acres of Government land and proceeded to reclaim and farm it in the midst of the forest wilds. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, honored as pioneers and as worthy citizens of superior .qualities of mind and heart. They became the parents of ten children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded : Sophia, 1806; Rachel, 1807; Margaret, 1809; Ellis, 1811; Hannah, 1813; Nathan P., 1815; Elizabeth, 1817; Martha, 1821; Mary, 1823; and John P., 1825.
The recorded genealogy of the Cope family runs back to Saint Arnold, who died in the year 640. Oliver Cope, the first representative of the family in America, came to this country in 1682, and from him, in successive generations, the descent is through his son John, the latter's son John, and through David, son of the last mentioned John and great-grandfather of Dr. Wendell G. Cope.
John P. Cope passed his entire life on the ancestral farmstead in Nottingham Township, was one of the honored and influential men of his community, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As previously stated, his death occurred April 20, 1890, and his widow passed away March 11, 1897. They became the parents of six children : Miss Alice D. resides at Cadiz, judicial center of her native county; Dr. Wendell G. was the next in order of birth; Elvira J. is the wife of Joseph V. Hayes, of Cadiz; G. Beecher died in infancy; Miss Ada C. died at Webster City, Iowa, as did also Mary M., who was the wife of Howard Knight.
Dr. Wendell G. Cope was reared on the old family farm which is still his place of residence, and his youthful education was obtained in the district schools of Nottingham Township. While a youth he devoted six years to reading medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. W. Wherry, of Moorefield, and since 1894 he has held a state certificate as a veterinary surgeon. As a skilled veterinarian he has long controlled a large and representative practice—in Harrison, Belmont, Guernsey and Jefferson counties. He has resided continuously on the old home farm in Harrison County save for a period of seven years-1886-1893—passed at Moorefield, this county. Doctor Cope and his wife and daughter are members of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church in Moorefield Township. He is a republican in political allegiance, and is at the time of this writing serving his second elective term as trustee of Nottingham Township, an office which he had previously held one year by appointment to fill a vacancy.
In 1881 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Cope to Miss Caroline Simpson, daughter of Thomas and Martha Simpson, of Athens Township, Harrison County, and the one child of this union is Bertha Olive, wife of William M. Beall, whose name introduces this review.
ALEXANDER JAMES HAMMOND. Strong has been the influence which the Hammond family has exerted in connection with civic and material affairs in Harrison County for more than a century, and the successive generations or tnis sterling pioneer family have continued to add honor and distinction to the family name. The record has not been one marked with pretentiousness, but there have been men who have wrought nobly and well and women who have lived gentle, kindly and gracious lives. True service has been given in connection with the practical responsibilities and social relations of communal life, and the record is one upon which members of the present generation may well look with pride. The subject of this memoir represented Harrison County as a valiant young soldier in the Civil war, and for many years he was one of the leading merchants of the City of Cadiz, where he continued to maintain his home until his death, in the year 1904.
Alexander J. Hammond was born on a farm near Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio, August 14, 1846, and was a son of John H. and Nancy (Carrick) Hammond, both likewise natives of Harrison County. where the former was born January 21, 1822, and the latter a few years later, she having been a daughter of David and Elizabeth Carrick, early settlers in Cadiz Township, where both died when venerable in years, Mr. Carrick having served as a soldier in the War of 1812. John H. Hammond was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Hanna) Hammond. Alexander Hammond was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a sou of Robert and Jane (Cassell) Hammond, both natives of Ireland, where the former was born in 1765, in County Tyrone, and where the latter was born in 1764, in County Down, ancestors of both having been soldiers in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Robert Hammond and his wife came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in an early day, and later they became pioneers of Belmont County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives, be having passed away in 1845 and his widow having died in 1852. Both were zealous members of the Seceder Church. They became the parents of six sons and four daughters. Alexander Hammond, the second son, came to Harrison County in 1809, and here he learned the trade of cloth fuller. In 1812 he wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Duncan) Hanna, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1763, and the latter of whom was born in Scotland in 1766. Samuel Hanna settled in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, in 1801. After his marriage Alexander Hammond settled on a pioneer farm of fifty acres in Harrison County, end in Short Creek Township he erected a fulling mill, which he operated twenty years. Thereafter he devoted his attention to farm enterprise until his removal to Harrisville, where he died in 1874 one of the most venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county. His widow was ninety-three years of age at the time of her death in 1886. In the early days Alexander Hammond was a strong supporter of the cause of the liberty party, and he was once its candidate for representative in the State Legislature. He was an ardent abolitionist prior to the Civil war, and made his home a station on the historic "underground railroad," by means of which he assisted many a fugitive
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slave to freedom. He and his wife were members of the Seceder Church. Their children were eleven in number.
John H. Hammond assisted in the reclaiming and development of his father's farm. By close application he gained a really liberal education, as gauged by the standards of the locality and period. His marriage occurred in 1845, and be continued to devote himself to farm enterprise until the outbreak of the Civil war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of, the Potomac and with which he took part in a few engagements, with the rank of second lieutenant. Prostrated by fever, he was compelled to leave his regiment and return home, but in 1864 he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Regiment, with which he served in defense of the City of Washington. He was a staunch republican and he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church. In 1868 Mr. Hammond engaged in the dry-goods business at Harrisville, and in 1872 he became associated with his younger son, Anderson N., in the hardware business at Cadiz, in which village he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They had only the two sons, of whom the subject of this memoir was the elder.
Alexander J. Hammond acquired his early education in the common schools of Harrison County and an academy at Savannah, Ashland County. He remained on the home farm until he was seventeen years of age, when his youthful patriotism was no longer to be denied action, as shown by his enlistment in the spring of 1864 as a member of Company C, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in General Sherman's Atlanta campaign, including the battles of Kenesaw Mountain and Peachtree Creek and the siege of Atlanta, and thereafter was with Sherman's forces on the historic march from Atlanta to the Sea. He continued in active service until the close of the war, and received his honorable discharge in August, 1865k He then returned home, but within a short time thereafter made a trip through the West, and upon his return to Harrison County he became associated with his brother in conducting a hardware store at Cadiz. In 1878 he here engaged in the dry-goods business, and for many years thereafter he conducted one of the leading establishments of this kind in Harrison County, with a large and representative patronage.
Mr. Hammond was unfaltering in his support of the principles of the republican party and served about ten years as clerk of Cadiz Township. He was affiliated with the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a zealous member of the United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, as is also his widow. He served sixteen years as superintendent of the Sunday school of this church. A man of the highest principles, of gracious personality and abiding human sympathy and tolerance. Mr. Hammond won to himself the staunchest of friends and was essentially one of the representative men of his native county at the time of his death.
In 1870 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hammond to Miss Charlotte Hunter, who was born and reared at Cadiz and of whose parents specific record will be given in appending paragraphs. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond became the parents of two children—Percy Hunter and Helen. The latter married George Carnahan, of Cadiz, and she is deceased. Percy H. Hammond has achieved distinction as a dramatic critic and literateur, and at the present time holds the position of dramatic critic for the Chicago Tribune. He married Miss Florence Carnahan, and their son John, a graduate of Harvard University, saw service with the United States Marine Corps during the period of the World war.
Mrs. Charlotte (Hunter) Hammond is a daughter of Joseph R. and Letitia (McFadden) Hunter. Her father was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1802, and was a son of Cyrus Hunter, who was a member of the staunch Presbyterian colony which early migrated from Fauquire County, Virginia, to western Pennsylvania. Cyrus Hunter came with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio and took up Government land in Wayne County, as one of the earliest settlers of that county. Later Joseph R. returned to Pennsylvania and worked at the trade of cabinetmaker in the City of Pittsburgh. Upon his return to Ohio he established himself in business at Cadiz, Harrison County, as a manufacturer of furniture. He developed this into one of the leading manufacturing industries of this section of the state, and long continued as one of the leading business men and honored and influential citizens of the county, where his death occurred April 4, 1886. He was a man of commanding presence and classical facial contour, and had eminently the qualities that make for leadership, though his environment was such that these never came into full play. Through broad and well directed study and reading he became a man of specially high intellectuality, and his memory was phenomenal in its compass and ready response to every demand. As a Jacksonian democrat he was active in politics in the early days, and he gained reputation as a forceful public speaker. He was a staunch abolitionist, and thus was led to espouse the cause of the republican party at the time of its formation, but, loyal to his convictions, he voted for the democratic nominee for governor in 1883, and for the democratic presidential candidate in the following year. As a young man he had read law under the preceptorship of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of state under the administration of President Lincoln during the Civil war, and though he never applied for admission to the bar he found his technical knowledge of much value in connection with his business activities, as well as in his service as justice of the peace and as mayor of the City of Cadiz. Concerning this man and his distinct character the following words have been written: "He was a man of strong prejudices, and when he took a position that he thought to be right, nothing could change him. For the last twenty years of his life, not being in active business, he gave his time to reading, and was one of the best informed men in the county. In
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English and Roman history he had even the minutest detail of every event at his tongue's command. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, was leader of the choir of a church of this denomination while in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and for many years was the precentor of the church at Cadiz. He stood high as a man of honor and integrity in the community where he was best known. To his friends he was companionable, sympathetic and affectionate, yet dignified."
March 24, 1835, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hunter to Miss Letitia McFadden, daughter of Samuel McFadden, who was a leading merchant at Cadiz in the. early days. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary the year prior to his death, and his widow survived him by only a few days, she having passed to the life eternal April 12, 1886, and his death having occurred on the 4th of that month. Of their seven children, the daughters Mary and Lydia preceded them to the life eternal; Rev. Cyrus J., D. D., is a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania ; Judge Samuel M. is a resident of Newark, Ohio; William H. is editor and publisher of a paper at Chillicothe, Ohio, in company with his younger brother, George F.; Lydia is the deceased wife of William H. Arnold; Mary died when young, in 1859; and Charlotte is the widow of the subject of this memoir. Mrs. Letitia Hunter was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1815, a daughter of Samuel McFadden, who came with his family to America and first settled in Philadelphia, whence he came to Cadiz, Ohio, in 1831. Here he was a prosperous merchant for many years prior to his death. Of this noble and gracious woman the following estimate is well worthy of perpetuation in this connection: "She was a Christian, having all the noble virtues that this name implies—kind, gentle, charitable, and, withal, possessing a happy, cheerful disposition. There are few households in the town of Cadiz to which she had not been called as ministering angel in sickness or to console in death. During her long life she was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Her influence in church affairs was more than local, she having been the means of influencing Bishop Simpson to enter the ministry. She also organized the first Presbyterian Sunday School in Cadiz and was a teacher in the school for many years. She died without regret for action or word, full of years, as one whose mission on earth was completed,"
WILLIAM R. FLOWERS, one of the prosperous exponents of farm industry in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, is a scion of a family whose name has been identified with Ohio annals since the pioneer period and with the history of the United States since the colonial epoch, within which representatives of the name established their residence in the historic old commonwealth of Virginia.
Mr. Flowers was born in Gallia County, Ohio, January 31, 1873, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Sophia (Richey) Flowers, the former of whom was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the latter in Short Creek Township, Harri son County, where her father, Andrew Richey was a pioneer farmer and a member of a family that has been one of prominence in this section of the state since the opening period of till nineteenth century.
Benjamin Franklin Flowers was a son o Charles and Sarah (Jordan) Flowers, the for mer of whom was born in Loudon County, Virginia, and the latter was born near Cumberland Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of Adam Jordan. Charles Flowers died in Tennessee while serving as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he was a member 01 the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry His eldest son, Adam, served during three year. of the Civil war, was captured by the enema and was held a prisoner of war for eight months and three days. Aaron and Jesse, the next two sons, died in childhood. Harris died while sere ing in the Civil war. Benjamin Franklin was the next in order of birth, and the other children were David, Christianna, Mary and Rachel Aaron Flowers, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life in Virginia where he was a prosperous planter in Loudon County.
Benjamin F. Flowers was reared and educated in Gallia County, where he was engaged in farming until his removal to Muskingum County, and finally he went to Mason County, Virginia, where he now maintains his residence. His wife passed away in 1903, survived by three children —William R., Elizabeth and Maude.
The public schools of his native state afforded William R. Flowers his early education, and from his youth he has been continuously associated with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing. In 1887, when fourteen years of age, he came to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he lived about fifteen years in the home of David Minteen, and in the spring of 1914 he purchased and established. his home on his present farm, which comprises eighty-three acres and upon which he has made numerous improvements, especially in modernizing the farm buildings and the installing of an effective private electric-light plant. He is progressive not only in his farm enterprise but also as a liberal and public-spirited citizen. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrisville.
November 27, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Flowers to Miss Alice C. Dickerson, who was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of William and Gabriella (McCoy) Dickerson. Mr. and Mrs. Flowers became the parents of two children—Edgar D., who remains at the paternal home, and Alice Carrie, who died at the age of four months. Mrs. Flowers passed to the life eternal on the 4th of May, 1903, she having been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 15th of August, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Flowers to Miss Carrie Keyser, daughter of John and Martha (Heaton) Keyser. John Keyser was born and reared in Belmont County, Ohio, and finally he removed to and engaged in farming in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he remained until about the year 1894, returning then with his family to his native county, where he passed the remainder of his
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life. His children were eight in number—Emma. Amos, Charles, Alvin, William, John (died at the age of three years), Carrie and Laura. Mr. and Mrs. Flowers have no children.
JOSEPH S. LODGE is a man whose career has shown his full appreciation and utilization of the opportunities offered for achieving success in connection with farm industry, and is numbered among the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County.
Mr. Lodge was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, June 26, 1853, and in the same county were born his parents, Thomas and Rebecca J. (Smith) Lodge, the latter having been a daughter of Joseph S. and Rebecca (McMillen) Smith, pioneer citizens of that county, where Mr. Smith was a farmer by vocation. Thomas Lodge was born and reared in Richland Township, Belmont County, and was a son of Abner and Tamzen (Nichols) Lodge, who were born and reared in Loudon County, Virginia, and whose marriage was solemnized in their native state. In an early day they came to Belmont County, Ohio, where the father reclaimed from the forest wilds a productive farm and where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest and birthright members of the Society of Friends. Their children were eight in number —Thomas, Abner, Harmon, Laban, William, Emily, Mary Elizabeth and Christena.
Thomas Lodge was reared under the conditions of the pioneer period and in due course of time became one of the substantial representatives of farm enterprise in his native county. He was the owner of one of the valuable farms of Wheeling Township, Belmont County, at the time of his death in 1911. His second wife passed away in 1904. His first wife was Nancy Ellen (Merritt) Lodge, and she was still a comparatively young woman at the time of her death, the three children of this union having been Sarah Elizabeth, Abner and John M. The last named died in 1911, and his wife died March 17, 1920. Thomas and Rebecca J. (Smith) Lodge became the parents of seven children—Joseph S., Emmett (died in early childhood), Thomas, William S., Nancy E., Mary A., and Alice. The parents were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
Joseph S. Lodge gained his early education in the district schools of his native township, and there also was staged his initial activity as an independent exemplar of farm enterprise. He continued to be engaged in farming in Wheeling Township. Belmont County, until 1885, when he purchased and removed to his present farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. Here he has gained merited success in his vigorous and well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and is the owner of an excellent farm of 149 acres, his live-stock operations being principally in the raising of sheep.' His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
As a young man Mr. Lodge was united in marriage to Miss Mollie V. Smith, who has been his devoted companion and helpmeet during the long intervening years. She was born on the island at Wheeling, West Virginia, and is a daughter of John and Anna (Ferguson) Smith. John Smith was a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, while his wife was born in Belmont County, Ohio. In 1888 they removed to Oakland, California, where he died in 1906, while his widow died there in 1911. They were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and of whom six are still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Lodge have been born five children—Harold, who married Bertha Cooper, and they have one son, Joseph Wayne and they reside in Smithfield; Hazel, who died in early childhood; Clarence R., who married Zilda Johnson, and they have one daughter, Emma Marie, and reside at Shepherds-town; John B., who attended Dana Music Institute, Warren, Ohio, in 1914, 1915 and 1016, taking instruction on the piano and on tuning, receiving his diploma in the latter branch, and since then he has been teaching and tuning, and also plays in orchestras; and Mary Elizabeth.
ISAAC B. WOODS effectively proved his resourcefulness in the unequivocal success which attended his activities as one of the representative farmers of his native county and is now living retired in the pleasant village of Malvern, as one of the sterling and highly esteemed citizens of Carroll County and as a representative of one of its honored pioneer families. His maternal grandfather, Christian Barkdoll, here established a home in the year 1816. He took up a tract of land in what is now Harrison Township and instituted the reclamation of a farm from the forest wilds, with a pioneer log cabin as the family domicile. The paternal grandfather, William Woods, was probably born in the State of Virginia, and was a scion of a staunch English family that was founded in the historic Old Dominion commonwealth prior to the War of the Revolution. He was in the British army but deserted and joined Americans. Born and reared in Virginia, William Woods there remained until the early part of the nineteenth century. when he came to Ohio and first settled in Jefferson County, where was solemnized his marriage to Mary Pugh, a daughter of Isaac Pugh. He continued his residence in Jefferson County until 1833, when he came with his family to Carroll County and established his residence in Harrison Township. He was a leader in his community, where he was called upon to serve in various local offrces of trust, he having been a democrat in politics and he and his wife having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in connection with which he became the founder of what was known as Wood's Chapel. He was one of the strong and worthy pioneers of the county, and here his death occurred in 1856, his wife having passed away seven months previously. They became the parents of ten children—Elizabeth, Isaac, George (father of the subject of this review), John, Robert, Jane, Mary, Margaret, Nancy Ann and Thomas.
Isaac B. Woods was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, August 20, 1840, and is a son of George and Catherine (Barkdoll) Woods, the former of whom was born in 1813 and the
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latter in 1811. George Woods was about twenty years old at the time of the removal of his parents from Jefferson County, where he was born, to Carroll County. In Harrison Township his father became the owner of a large tract of land. As a young man George Woods engaged in farming in Brown Township, ,where he reclaimed much of his land from the forest, and later he returned to Harrison Township, where he continued as an exponent of farm industry until his death in 1867, when but fifty-four years of age. His wife survived him by a quarter of a century and was one of the venerable and revered pioneer women of Carroll County at the time of her death in 1898. Both became earnest members of Wood's Chapel, mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and their son Isaac B., of this sketch, now owns the land on which this pioneer Methodist Church was erected, on ground donated for the purpose by his grandfather in Harrison Township. George and Catherine Woods became the parents of six children—Margaret Jane. Lucinda, Isaac B., Elizabeth, Mary and Catherine. In politics George Woods adhered to the ancestral faith and was a staunch democrat.
Isaac B. Woods was about twenty-seven years old at the time of his father's death, and was reared to manhood in Harrison Township, where he received his early education in the common schools of the period, later having attended the graded school at Malvern, besides which he attended Harlem College at Harlem Springs, this county, for one term. Like his father and grandfather, he became a successful representative of farm industry in Carroll County, where he became the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of 312 acres. Of this property he sold 160 acres about the year 1905. and in 1919 he sold another portion of the property, though he still retains in his possession twenty-six acres, constituting one of the best farms in Harrison Township and now rented to an approved tenant. On the 12th of November, 1919, Mr. Woods and his wife removed from their farm to the village of Malvern, where he has since lived virtually retired and where he owns an attractive and, modern residence. He has been influential in public affairs in his native county and served seven and one-half years as county commissioner, besides which he gave equally effective service during his incumbency of the office of trustee of Harrison Township. He is a republican in political allegiauce and is actively affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity at Carrollton, as well as with the Commandery of Knights Templar and the Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Cleveland. When it is stated that he is an appreciative and honored member of McKinley Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in the City of Canton, an organization named in honor of the late President McKinley, whose home was in that city, it becomes evident that Mr. Woods WA S one of the patriotic young men who went forth from Carroll County to defend the Union when the Civil war was precipitated upon the nation. In November, 1861. he enlisted as a private in Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued in service three years, the while he lived up to the full tension of the great conflict, was made corporal of his company and took part in many important engagements, besides numerous skirmishes and other minor conflicts. It may be noted that he participated in the battles of Iuka, Farmington, Corinth, Port Gibson, Clinton, Jackson, siege of Vicksburg and the battle of Missionary Ridge, which was the last in which he took—part, his honorable discharge having been received• November 5, 1864.
Christian and Elizabeth (Peters) Barkdoll, maternal grandparents of Mr. Woods, were born and reared in Maryland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Carroll County, Ohio, in 1816, their home being established first at Carrollton, where Mr. Barkdoll followed his trade, that of carpenter. About 1835 removal was made to a farm in Harrison Township, where the grandfather died in 1863, his widow having passed away about 1875, at the remarkable age of ninety-one years. They had five children—Catherine, Margaret, Sarah, Mary and Nancy.
In 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Woods to Miss Sarah J. Masters, who was born in Carroll County on the 30th of August, 1844, a daughter of William and Mary (Thompson) Masters, who were pioneer settlers in that township. Mr. and Mrs. Woods are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, and in 1917, while still residing on their farm, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, the occasion being made one of gracious entertainment extended to their children and their many devoted friends in their native county. To them have been born ten children: Catherine first married Edward Tresler. who is survived by three children, Vina, Oneta and Basil, and she is now the wife of William Marshall, a prosperous farmer of Carroll County. Ada is the wife of D. Grant Orin, of this county, and their one child is a daughter, Pauline. George C. is a representative dentist of Magnolia of his native county. The maiden name of his wife was Minnie Griffith, and they have two children. Florence and Margaret. Elva is the wife of 0. J. Tipe. and they live in Pittsburgh, Penn. sylvania. They have two children, James and Sarah Jane. Emma is the wife of Frank L. Harsh, of Carroll County. They have no children. Pearl is the wife of Frank Cooper, of Harrison Township, and their two children are Sarah Jane and Emerine. James B., who is another of the substantial farmers of Carroll County, married Miss Juanita Fields, but no children has been born of this union. Vern is the wife of Charles C. Shaffer, of Canton, Ohio. William Francis died at the age of three years. Charles Marion died at the age of ten years.
WILLIAM A. LEWIS has shown in his active career a marked versatility and has been identified with varied lines of business enterprise, including intrepid onslaughts into the field of newspaper publishing, and he is at the present time conducting a specially appointed grocery store in the Village of Malvern, Carroll County, where his substantial and representative patron-
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age indicates the estimate placed upon his model store and its effective service.
William Arthur Lewis was born in Carroll County, January 7, 1873, and is a son of William Clark Lewis, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume, so that further review of the family record is not here demanded. In the public schools of Malvern Mr. Lewis continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the high school, and when twenty-four years of age, reinforced with a capital of only twenty dollars but with a full quota of self-reliance and ambition. he purchased the grocery business of B. M. Woods of Malvern. After conducting this enterprise successfully about seven years he sold the same, and he then took a position in the office of the wholesale grocery establishment of John Orr's Sons at Steubenville, Jefferson County, for which he became also a traveling salesman. After the lapse of about one year he returned to Malvern, and three months later he purchased a restaurant in the Village of Magnolia, Stark County. After conducting this two and one-half years he sold the business and went to Canal Dower, Ohio, where he was engaged in office wdrk for a wholesale grocery company eighteen months. Returning again to Malvern, he established and became editor and publisher of the Clay City Times. After publishing this paper three years he was compelled to dispose of the plant and business, owing to seriously impaired health, this action being taken while be was in a hospital in the City of Canton, where he remained for forty days. While still publishing this paper Mr. Lewis was made the democratic nominee for recorder of Carroll County, and in the ensuing election he made an unprecedented showing, as he was defeated by only fifty votes in a strong republican county, while his popularity in the Village of Malvern was significantly attested by his here receiving support on 215 out of a total of 288 ballots cast. After leaving the hospital Mr. Lewis returned to Malvern and opened an attractive restaurant, to which he gave the title of "The Sugar Bowl."
In 1914 Mr. Lewis purchased the grocery business of J. K. Davy, and in 1917 bought also the grocery store of H. J. Wilson. He combined the two establishments, and in December, 1919, removed to his present modern store, where he has a large and appreciative supporting patronage. In politics he is a vigorous advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and he is a Methodist and his wife is a Lutheran. He is now serving his second term as village assessor of Malvern, and when he presented his official report to the county auditor that executive informed him that the report was the best rendered by any assessor in the county. Mr. Lewis is a wizard with figures, and in this practical mathematical field has few equals.
In 1901 Mr. Lewis wedded Miss Sarah Long, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Elsass) Long, the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis became the parents of four children, all of whom are living except one, Donald Alton, Margaret Ellen, Arthur Long (died at the age of four years) and Helen Virginia.
CHARLES C. JOHNSON. For about ten year: Charles C. Johnson, of Athens Township, ha: combined an up-to-date dairy business with gen eral farming, and the man who runs a dair3 never allows soil to decrease in fertility Mr. Johnson was born August 28, 1867, in Short Creek Township, and he has always lived II Harrison County. He is a son of Albert an Rachel (Conoway) Johnson, both natives of the county. Charles Conoway, the grandfather lived in Archer Township, being one of the pioneers of that community. The Conoway chil dren are: Mary, Susan, Sophia, Jennie, Rachel Michael, Charles, Enoch, William and John The Conoways were Methodists.
As a young man Albert Johnson began farming in Short Creek Township and lived there until 1870, when he bought the farm where C. C Johnson lives today. He died there in 1886 and Mrs. Johnson died in 1915, leaving their only son in possession of the farmstead. C. C Johnson has two sisters. Jennie and Carrie older than himself. The Johnsons are member: of the Presbyterian Church of New Athens Usually when a woman sustains one church re lation and the man another they unite in her church—the Conoways, Methodists, and the Johnsons, Presbyterians.
Mr. Johnson was educated in the public school( and in Franklin College in New Athens. Upon the death of his father in 1886 the management of the farm devolved upon him. He now owns 250 acres, and in addition to general farming he operates a dairy of about thirty cows, using the double unit milking machine. They have a modern house, and all the dairy and farm buildings are lighted with electricity.
On November 6, 1906, Mr. Johnson married Ola McFadden. She is a daughter of Law and Martha McFadden. Their children are: Louise and Harold. The Johnsons are members of the Presbyterian Church in New Athens.
ALFRED B. HILDRETH. It is only since 1909 that Alfred B. Hildreth, of Athens Township, has been a resident of Harrison County, Ohio. There must be something in a name, William Shakespeare notwithstanding, as Mr. Hildreth was born December 10, 1884, in Harrison County, West Virginia. He is a son of Elmer and Mary Hildreth, of West Virginia. She is a daughter of Joseph A. and Martha (Wadsworth) Hildreth. The grandfather and grandmother were John and Sallie (Criss) Hildreth.
Elmer Hildreth is a farmer and still lives in Harrison County, West Virginia. Alfred B. Hildreth is the oldest child, the others being Leslie C., Snoye G., Carl, Cole, Roy and Estema. The family are members of the Christian Church. A. B. Hildreth, as was the rest of the family, was educated in the public schools of West Virginia.
On May 18, 1908, A. B. Hildreth married Jennie Freeland, a daughter of Caleb and Sarepta Freeland. Their children are: Vance, born December 22, 1913, and Irene Annette, born August 22, 1918. Within a year after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth bought a farm of ninety-one acres in Athens Township, on the Cadiz and New Athens road, where he is engaged in general farming and the livestock bust-
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ness. While he has always lived in Harrison County, he has lived In both West Virginia and Ohio.
FRANK M. BEALL, who represents the fourth generation of the Beall family in Harrison County, has extensive business and agricultural experience, and was in every way qualified for the service he has rendered during the past four years as county auditor.
He was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, February 7, 1877, and is a great-grandson of James P. Beall, who brought his family from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was one of the early settlers of Nottingham Township. That community for upwards of a century has been strongly influenced by the activities of the Beall family. The children of James P. Beall were Zefinia, James P., Minerva, John, Cyrus and Colmore.
Colmore Beall, the youngest son, carries this branch of the lineal descent. He was a farmer in Nottingham Township and his wife, Hannah Rogers, was a native of the same township. Their children were John B., Ella M., wife of Lyle McDevitt; James Franklin, deceased; Nancy Minerva, wife of A. W. Johnson, and Emma L., wife of James W. Clark.
John B. Beall was born in Nottingham Township in 1850 and spent his active life as a farmer in that locality. December 30, 1875, he married Lucy M. Garner, a daughter of Edward and Julia Ann (Merryman) Garner. They became the parents of nine children: Frank M.; Harry C.: Mary Olive, deceased; William M.; George W.; Ada Florence; Ella Vida: Anna Grace; and Clara R. Beall.
Frank M. Beall, oldest of this generation of the family, grew up in the old home community of Nottingham Township, attended the common schools and was also educated in Scio College. For four years he was a teacher, and by that occupation earned the money necessary to defray his college expenses.
In 1901 Mr. Beall went to Cleveland and for nine years was an employe of the American Steel and Wire Company. Returning to Nottingham Township in 1910, he took up the ancestral vocation of agriculture. but in 1916 entered the campaign and was elected auditor of Harrison County, going into office in October, 1917. He has demonstrated the ability of the farmer to serve the community in official capacity and has maintained a high standard of efficiency as auditor, and recognition of his ability was given by the voters when, in 1918, he was re-elected auditor.
The Beall family has been identified with the Methodist Church, and the family vote has been cast with the republican party. Mr. Beall is identified with both the busness and social interests in the community. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge. the Maccabees, the Knights of Pythias and the Grange, and his church membership is in the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in Nottingham Township, where the family have worshiped through several genera tions.
November 18, 1919, Frank M. Beall married Carrie M. Gallagher. Her grandparents were Patrick and Martha (Bevard) Gallagher, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Maryland. Patrick Gallagher was a blacksmith by trade and on coming to Harrison County had a shop for several years in Cadiz. In 1834 he bought land in Stock Township. This was a 160 acre tract of the state school land. He lived there the rest of his life. His first wife was Ann Gibson, and their children were Peter, Thomas, John, James, Mrs. Mary Brown, Elizabeth and Sarah, who married David Evans. Patrick Gallagher by his marriage with Martha Bevard had five children: Isabel, who became the wife of J. L. Simpson; Martha, who married William Whittaker ; Catherine, whose husband was Moses Conoway; Albert; and R. Wood Gallagher.
The father of Mrs. Beall is R. Wood Gallagher, who was born on the old family homestead August 29, 1850, was reared there, and out of his industry increased the original 160 acres to 234 acres. On April 19, 1883, he married Clara E. Lemmon, a daughter of Amon and Rebecca (Forsyth) Lemmon. To this marriage were born the following children: Carrie M., wife of Mr. Beall; Robert L., who married Nelle Bell and lives at Cleveland, their four children being Henry W., Francis A., Lawrence B. and R. Stanley; George W., who was killed in a munition plant at Cleveland February 2, 1918; James A., who farms the old homestead, married Jessie Copeland and has two sons, Warren J. and Everett E.; Morris Wayne, who entered the army in July, 1918, and while training at Camp Sherman was stricken with the influenza and transferred for treatment to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he died May 10, 1919.
Harrison County sustained the loss of one of its fine citizens in the death of R. Wood Gallagher on March 6, 1917. He had served two terms as county commissioner, from 1905 to 1909, and was also a trustee of Stock Township. These two old pioneer families—the Beall and Gallagher—were further perpetuated by the birth on September 27, 1920, of Frank M. Beall, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Beall.
JOHN H. MATTERN, M. D., of Cadiz, is in the third generation of his family in Harrison County. His grandfather, Abraham, came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to this county when he was a young man and became , a well-to-do farmer in Green Township. His wife. Mary Brown, was born in Harrison County. Ohio. They became the parents of the following children: Hugh, John, Alfred, Wesley, Jane and Nancy.
John Mattern, second son of Abraham and father of Doctor Mattern, was born in Green Township in this county. He married Margaret, the daughter of George and Mary (Braim) Leas, who came from Adams County. Pennsylvania, to Green Township, this county, where their daughter Margaret was born. The Leas children were as follows: Jeremiah. George, Jacob, John. Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. After his marriage John Mattern resided in Green Township for three years, and then removed to Archer Township, where he has since lived. He became a successful farmer and at one time owned 300 acres of land, a large portion of which he has divided among his children. He
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and wife became the parents of the following children : Jacob F., Ellis W., Mary Etta, Emmerson R., John M. and Oscar 0., but the latter son is deceased.
Dr. John H. Mattern was born in Archer Township on February 2, 1875. He attended the common schools and Hopedale Normal School and then taught school for several years. He read medicine and entered the Ohio Medical University at Columbus in 1900, where he was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1904, he having been a member of the first class that was required to take the State Board's medical examination. Doctor Mattern began the practice of medicine June 1, 1904, at Unionport, Jefferson County, Ohio. In 1908 he located at Cadiz, where he has since practiced his profession. He is recognized as a leading physician and surgeon of Harrison County, but of recent years has limited his professional activities to office practice. Doctor Mattern is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in the Blue Lodge at Unionport, the Chapter at Cadiz, Commandery No. 11, Steubenville; Scottish Rite (32d degree) and the Temple at Columbus, and in the Eastern Star at Cadiz. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
On February 6, 1901, Doctor Mattern was united in marriage with Etna I. Baker, and to them have been born the following children: Rezin Neil and John Elmo.
JAMES E. BIRNEY has the distinction of being one of the representative farmers of the younger generation in Washington Township, Harrison County, where on his excellent farm of eighty-three acres he is proving the value of his earlier experience in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing. He was born on his father's old homestead farm in Washington township, this county, June 5, 1896, and is a son of James N. and Anna R. (McFadden) Birney, both representatives of sterling pioneer families of the county. James N. Birney was born in Washington Township August 27, 1845, and was a son of John Birney, who was born and reared in Green Township, this county, whence, soon after his marriage to Miss Hannah McKee, daughter of Robert McKee, he removed to Washington Township, where he eventually accumulated a fine landed estate of 560 acres and where he remained until his death, September 9, 1885. His first wife died in 1872, and later he married Sarah Eaton. The children of the first marriage were six in number : Rachel (Mrs. Henry Pittis), Nelson, Robert M., James N., Rebecca J. (Mrs. Matthew Simpson) and John T. John Birney was a leader in the local councils of the republican party, served several years as township trustee and was called upon to serve also in other township offices. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and contributed loyally to its support.
James N. Birney gave his entire active career to farm industry, and continued to reside upon a part of the old home farm until his death, December 22, 1902, his farm estate at the time having comprised 373 acres. He was known and honored as a liberal and public-spirited citizen, was specially successful in his enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-raiser, was a Republican in political allegiance and was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe, as is also his widow.
The year 1869 recorded the marriage of James N. Birney to Miss Anna R. McFadden, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Moore) McFadden. Robert McFadden was born in Belmont County, Ohio, September 4, 1813, and was a son of Robert and Mary (Morrison) McFadden, the former of whom was born in Vermont October 13, 1768, and the latter of whom likewise was born in the old Green Mountain State, June 13, 1772, their marriage having there been solemnized October 13, 1795. Soon after their marriage Robert McFadden, Sr., and his wife came to Ohio and became numbered among the earliest settlers in Belmont County, where he began the reclaiming of a farm in the midst of the forest wilderness. Eventually he removed with his family to Stock Township, Harrison County, where he continued his pioneer farm enterprise and where both he and his wife passed the residue of their lives.
Robert McFadden, Jr., passed his earlier life in Belmont County, whence he accompanied his parents to Harrison County, where he took up wild land and improved the farm later owned by his son John S. in Stock Township. He was one of the substantial and honored citizens and representative farmers of this township at the time of his death, March 15, 1876, and here his widow's death occurred on the 21$ of June, 1879, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Valley, in which he served a number of years as class leader. In politics he was a staunch democrat.
November 6, 1837, recorded the marriage of Mr. McFadden to Miss Sarah Moore, daughter of Robert Moore, another well known pioneer of Harrison County, and of this union were born eight children : Mary (Mrs. George S. Johnston), James M., Margaret (Mrs. William A. Welch), Robert H., John S., William W., James and Anna Rebecca (Mrs. James N, Birney).
Mr. and Mrs. James N. Birney became the parents of five children : Robert Hopkins, who has the management of the old home farm, and there remains with his widowed mother, who is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe, as was also her husband; ohn M, who owns and resides upon a farm of 119 acres in Washington Township, was united in marriage October 27, 1915, to Miss Eva McClintock ; Betha Viola is the wife of Charles W. Adams, or Archer Township, and they have two children-Birney and Mabel Virginia; Harry Moore, now engaged in farming in Franklin Township, married Miss Ella McClintock, and they have two children-Forrest Earl and Anna Rebecca ; and James Earl is more specifically mentioned in the following paragraph.
James Earl Birney was born on the old homestead mentioned in the preceding context, and the date of his nativity, as before noted, was June 5, 1896. In addition to profiting by the advantages of the public schools of his native county he was for one term a student in the
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business college at Urichsville, Tuscarawas County. Thereafter he continued his association with the activities of the old home farm until his marriage on the 7th of November, 1917, to Miss Bessie Olive Auld, daughter of Allison P. and Mary Belle (Meeks) Auld. After this important event in his career he established his home on his present farm, which he has made a center of progressive enterprise in both the agricultural and live-stock departments. Mr. Birney has made no inroads into the arena of practical politics but gives his allegiance to the republican party, and his wife holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe. They have a tine little son, James Allison.
LAFAYETTE MARTIN, who was born and reared in Harrison County and is a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families, has now passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten and is living virtually retired in the attractive little city of Cadiz, the county seat. He was but sixteen years of age when his youthful patriotism prompted him to go forth as a representative of Harrison County in the Civil war in which he made an excellent record as one of the gallant young defenders of the Union. The same loyalty has characterized him during the long intervening years and in all of the relations of life, so that it is but natural that he should have secure place in popular esteem.
Mr. Martin was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, October 23, 1847, and is a son of George and Mary (Kesey) Martin, both of whom passed their entire lives in this county and the latter of whom was a daughter of Conrad Kesey, one of the early settlers in Cadiz Township. George Martin's parents likewise were pioneers of the county, where they continued to reside until their deaths. He was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days and finally became the owner of a farm of 120 acres in Cadiz Township, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their earnest, unassuming and useful lives, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of four children, Fafayette, Angeline, William and Olander.
The district schools of Cadiz Township afforded Lafayette Martin his early educational advantages, and he gained a full quota of youthful experience in connection with the activities of the home farm. In 1864, when but sixteen years of age, he enlisted as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his enlistment having occurred in May and be having soon afterward accompanied his command to the front. He took part in the battles of Snickers Gap and Maryland Height, besides participating in various skirmishes and other minor engagements, his honorable discharge having been received at the expiration of his term of enlistment, September 10, 1864. In later years he has vitalized his interest in his old comrades by his active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he is one of the comparatively few remaining veterans of the post at Cadiz.
After the war Mr. Martin passed one year in the state of Missouri, and he then returned to his native county and learned the carpenter's trade, in 1868. To this trade he gave the major part of his time and attention for many years, and he became one of the successful contractors and builders in Harrison County. In 1895 he purchased a furniture and undertaking business at Cadiz, but this he sold two years later. Shortly afterward he purchased a store, and this enterprise he continued sixteen years, with his son as his efficient assistant. In 1903, as candidate on the republican ticket, he was elected sheriff of the county, in which he served two terms and gave an excellent administration, his period of service continuing from November, 1904, until January, 1910. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.
The Centennial year, 1876, recorded the marriage of Mr. Martin to. Miss Margaret Finical, daughter of Robert Finical, of Harrison County, and they had two children : Harry Warren Martin and Florence. The son still resides at Cadiz and is actively engaged in business. He married Miss Grace Zimmerman, and they have three children, Robert L., Ralph and Harry W., Jr. Mrs. Martin died October 24, 1919.
CHARLES W. RUFF is distinctively one of the progressive and wide-awake citizens and business men of the younger generation in his native county and is at the present time serving as mayor of the village of Malvern, an office to which he was elected in November, 1918. He is actively identified with industrial and commercial interests of importance as general manager of the Consolidated Clay Products Company, the headquarters of which corporation are maintained in the city of Canton, Stark County.
Mr. Ruff was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, October 21, 1881, and is a son of Jesse C. Ruff, of whom individual record is given on other pages of this work, so that further review of the family history is not here demanded. Charles W. Ruff continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation in the Minerva High School as a member of the class of 1899. Soon afterward he initiated his association with the clay-working industry, which is one of much importance in this section of the state, and his ability and effective service won him advancement in this field of enterprise, as indicated by his present incumbency of the position of general manager of the Consolidated Clay Products Company. He is also vice president of the Valley Electrical Company and president of the advisory council of Carroll County. His personal popularity, as coupled with his staunch loyalty as a democrat, resulted in his election to the office of mayor of Malvern, in which he is giving a characteristically vigorous and progressive administration. He is serving also as justice of the peace and seems to have an unlimited capacity for application to work and service. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Pythian Sisters, of which latter organization his wife likewise is a member, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and both are zealous members of Bethlehem Presbyterian
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Church in their home village, in which he is superintendent of the Sunday School.
In the year 1902 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ruff to Miss Josephine Ha skey, daughter of Henry Haskey, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Ruff have two daughters, Helen, born August 17, 1903, and Esther, born in September, 1912.
CHARLES C. WHITSETT, M. D. Both by inheritance and training Dr. Charles C. Whitsett is a physician and surgeon of marked ability, and he has built up a reputation in his locality for dependability and earnest faithfulness which has won for him the warm appreciation of his fellow citizens. He was born at California, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1860, a son of Dr. James E. and Clara V. (Martin) Whitsett, and grandson of Ralph C. Whitsett, the latter being a farmer and owner of a shovel factory of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Ralph C. Whitsett married Rebecca Estep.
Dr. James E. Whitsett was born at Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and his wife was born in the same place, a daughter of John and Mary (Vale) Martin. John Martin was a glass manufacturer and merchant of Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, at the time of his death. For a number of years Dr. James E. Whitsett was engaged in the practice of his profession at Bethany, West Virginia. and died there while still in practice. He and his wife had the following children; Emma, who is deceased; Dr. Charles C., who was the second in order of birth; Annie. 011ie and Ralph, all of whom died when small children; and John W., who lives at Sardis, Ohio. Dr. James E. Whitsett and his wife belonged to and worked in the Christian Church. They were people of the highest character who took their religion into their everyday lives, and made the world the better for their having been in it.
Dr. Charles C. Whitsett attended the public schools and college of Bethany, West Virginia, and later became a student at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1882. Following this he entered upon the practice of his calling at Hendrysburg, Ohio, and remained there until 1908, at which time he moved to Freeport, and has made this city his place of residence ever since. He is recognized as one of the reliable and skilled men of his profession in Harrison County, and belongs to the County and State Medical Societies. He is a Blue Lodge Mason, and still holds his membership in his lodge at Hendrysburg.
In 1885 Doctor Whitsett was married to Rosa Jones, a daughter of Dr. William and Rebecca Jones, and they had four children, namely: William, Percy and Leona, all of whom died in infancy, and Bessie, who is now married. The first Mrs. Whitsett died in 1894. In 1901 Doctor Whitsett was married to Lena McLaughlin, a daughter of John and Emily (Glass) McLaughlin. Doctor and Mrs. Whitsett belong to the Disciples Church. They have gathered about them a pleasant circle of congenial companions, and are factors in the social life of Freeport. While much occupied with his professional duties, Doctor Whitsett finds time as a good citizen to take an interest in civic matters, and gives his support to those men and measures which he deems will be for the best of the majority of the people.
Prior to her marriage with Doctor Whitsett Mrs. Whitsett was married to. Sherman Penn, of Hendrysburg, Ohio, and they had one son, Harold Floyd, who is now living with his mother and Doctor Whitsett, and is a very promising lad.
JOHN M. MCCONNELL. For one full century the name McConnell has been known in Harrison County, the business roster of Cadiz having the name of Michael McConnell, who came from Maryland in 1820 and operated a chair factory and paint shop one hundred years ago. His children were John A., William, Sarah, Nancy, James, Amanda, Ezra, Rebecca, Samuel B. and Martin A. McConnell. The second son of that pioneer family, William McConnell, became the father of John M. McConnell, the present day dealer in wall paper, paints and varnishes in Cadiz, a business established practically one hundred years ago. In turn it has been owned by Michael, William and John M. McConnell, and has been carried on through three generations in the family.
William McConnell was born March 28, 1828, in Cadiz, and he married Eliza Mary Burns, whose father was an itinerant Protestant Methodist minister. She is a daughter of Rev. John and Mary (Pierson) Burns, and at the time of her birth they were living in Wheeling. Their son. John M. McConnell, was born January 27, 1859, in Cadiz. He has always lived in Harrison County. While the grandfather, Michael McConnell, was born in Maryland, the grandmother, Susan (Gallagher) McConnell, was born in Ireland.
In the study of domestic economy pain is recognized as a preserving agency, and Michael McConnell was a painter. His son William McConnell was a house painter and paper hanger, being the first man in Cadiz to offer wall paper for sale, and his son has continued the business. The death of William McConnell occurred in 1906, after many years as a business man in the community. It is an unusual record for three generations in one family to round out a century in the paint business, but Michael McConnell, who came to Cadiz in 1820, was a painter. While there is no record that he sold paint, his son William McConnell was a dealer as well as house painter, and the McConnell store today specializes in paints. What other family shows one hundred years in the same line of business? The record is unique in any community.
John M. McConnell was the oldest son born to William and Eliza Mary (Burns) McConnell. A brother, Edwin P., was born July 1, 1860, and died January 16, 1902. A sister, Susannah. was born February 27, 1862, and died July 30, 1863; George was born February 7, 1864 ; Lizzie, February 16, 1866; Harry B., September 14, 1867; Ann J., was born January 3, 1870, and died November 2, 1871; Frederick W. was born October 30, 1871, and died November 18, 1876; and Eliza Gertrude, born July 13, 1874, was the youngest of the family. The father died October 30, 1906,
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and the mother, July 2, 1910, both having attained to old age in Harrison County.
After completing his education in the public schools of Cadiz J. M. McConnell learned house painting, and later he became a postal mail clerk, finally traveling as a saleman for a wall paper firm and later becoming a business partner with his father in the store he operates today. Because of the emergency occasioned by the World war Mr. McConnell spent another year and a half in the mail service, doing it as a patriotic duty.
In 1912 he married Mary Harriet Mansfield, a daughter of James W. and Samantha Jane Mansfield, of Jefferson County. Mr. McConnell is a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge in Cadiz; P. H. P. Chapter No. 171, of Cadiz; Hopp Commandery No. 26, K. T., of Bellaire; Aladdin Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., of Columbus, and of the Masonic Veterans of Columbus. Mrs. McConnell is a member of the Eastern Star of Cadiz; White Shrine of Jerusalem, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania ; and Isis Court, Ladies of the Oriental Shrine, of Wheeling, West Virginia. She is an honorary member of the Supreme Council. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell are members of the Methodist Church in Cadiz. Mr. McConnell's first Sunday School teacher was "Uncle" Matthew Simpson, the man who raised Bishop Simpson. Mr. McConnell was the most active member of the local Red Cross Society during the World war, he having had charge of all the packing and shipping of supplies forwarded by the Red Cross. In politics he is a republican, and is now and has been for the last four years coroner of Harrison County.
ROBERT H. LYLE has had the good judgment to appreciate fully the advantage afforded for successful farm enterprise in his native county, and has secure vantage-place as one of the substantial and representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County. where his birth occurred on the 17th of April, 1882. He is a son of George L. and Nancy J.' (Gillespie) Lyle, both of whom were born in Belmont County, this state, and the latter of whom was a daughter of Robert Gillespie. David and Mary (Love) Lyle, paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, remained in Belmont County until their deaths, and the grandfather was there a prosperous farmer. Their children were seven in number, George, John. James, Miller, Annabelle, Ella and Sarah.
George L. Lyle was reared and educated in Belmont County, and there he continued his association with farm enterprise until the late '70s, when he came to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he developed a fine farm property and where he remained until his death in 1907. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens. He is survived by his widow and five children. Dr. Walter G. Is a successful physician and surgeon at Bloomingdale, Jefferson County; Robert Harvey is the immediate subject of this review; Joseph G. is engaged in farming in Harrison County; Gretta is the wife of Harvey T. Elliott, of this county; and David M. is engaged in business with the Short Creek Coal Company, living at New Athens.
In addition to receiving the advantages of the district schools of his native township Robert Harvey Lyle also attended for one year the celebrated Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana. As a young man he was for two years engaged in farming in Athens Township, and he then returned to his native township of Short Creek, where he has since staged his activities on his well improved farm of 104 acres. In connection with well regulated agriculture he gives special attention to breeding and raising registered Shorthorn cattle and Poland China swine. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.
The year 1909 recorded the marriage of Mr. Lyle to Miss Jennie W. Whittaker, daughter of Dr. John W. Whittaker, of Bloomingdale, Jefferson County, and the one child of this union is a winsome little daughter, Frances Irene.
THOMAS E. GEORGE is another of the honored representatives of a family that has been one of prominence and influence in Carroll County for nearly a century and a quarter, and in various other general and personal sketches appearing in this work will be found further record concerning this sterling pioneer family.
Thomas Edgar George, who is now serving as county clerk of Carroll County, was born in Fox Township, this county, February 9, 1887, and is a son of John C. and Anna E. (McGinnis) George, both likewise natives of Fox Township, where the latter's parents settled upon coming to the county from Pennsylvania. Their home was later established in Iowa, where the daughter Anna E. remained until the time of her marriage. She was born in 1856. John C. George was born May 22, 1842, a son of Thomas George, who was born in Cumberland County, Maryland, and who was a child at the time when ,in 1809, the family home was established in Carroll County, Ohio, his father having settled in the midst of the virgin forest and having reclaimed one of the pioneer farms of Fox Township. After his marriage Thomas George and his wife, whose family name was Walker, settled on a farm near the present village of Mechanicstown, where they endured the full tension of pioneer life but developed the excellent farm on which they passed the remainder of their lives. Mrs. George passed away in 1874 and his death occurred in the following year, their children having been nine in number.
John C. George was reared on the old home farm and received the advantages of the schools of the locality and period, including an old-time select school at Carrollton. He continued his allegiance to the great industry of agriculture during his entire active career and was one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of Fox Township at the time of his death, April 28, 1919, his widow still remaining on the old home farm, which is one of the finely Improved places of Fox Township and situated about one mile south of Mechanicstown. Mr. George was a stalwart republican and was an earnest member of the United Presbyterian Church, as is
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also his widow. They became the parents of six children : Myrtle. Ethel, Edwin and Thomas (twins), Walter and Ernest. The son Edwin died July 3, 1907.
Thomas E. George early gained experience in connection with the activities of the home farm, and in addition to receiving the advantages of the public schools he pursued a higher course of study by attending Muskingum College. For three and one-half years thereafter he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Canfield, Mahoning County. and for an equal period he followed the same line of enterprise at Carrollton, judicial center of his native county. In 1918 he was elected county clerk, of which office he has since continued the efficient and popular incumbent, the preferment indicating the secure place which is his in the esteem of the people of his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Carrollton, his father having long served hs an elder of the church of this denomination at Mechanicstown.
March 9, 1910, recorded the marriage of Mr. George to Miss Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Samuel L. Andrews, of Fox Township, and the one child of this union is Carl Edwin, who was born September 26, 1911.
FREDERICK DUEL has been actively engaged in the lumber business at Malvern, Carroll County, for nearly half a century and has been a resident of this county since he was a child of about three years. As a young man he went forth as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and aside from this patriotic service he has further honored his home county by his worthy achievement as a successful business man. He is now senior member of the firm of Frederick Buel & Son, dealers in lumber, cement. plaster, hardware, and paint and other builders' supplies, and the establishment of the firm is one of the oldest and most important in the village of Malvern, Brown Township.
Mr. Buel was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, June 18, 1836, and is a son of David and Fredericka (Bendle) Buel, both natives of Wurtemberg, where the former was born in 1805 and the latter in 1803. The original spelling of the family name was Buhl, and the present Anglicized spelling was adopted after the immigration to America. In 1839 David Buel, accompanied by his wife and their three children, Fredericka, Caroline and Frederick, came to America on a sailing vessel of the type common to that period, and in that year the family home was established at Lodi, Carroll County, Ohio, a village to which later was given the present name, Malvern. The father here engaged in the work of his trade, that of tailor, and this constituted his vocation for many years. He was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Malvern at the time of his death in 1891, and his widow passed to the life eternal in 1895. Their four younger children were born in Carroll County, and Fredericka, eldest of the three born in Germany, is now the wife of Joseph Fishel, of Malvern. She was born July 26, 1833, Frederick, immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth. Caroline became the wife of Moses Gascon and is now deceased. Henry still resides at Malvern. David, who entered the Union service in the Civil war, was wounded in an engagement at Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863, and was brought back to the parental home, where he died, on the 30th of the following July. Catherine died in infancy, as did also the seventh child, a son. David Buel, the father, was a soldier in the Mexican war and also was in active service in the Civil war, as were three of his sons, Henry, of Malvern, being a veteran of the latter conflict, as is also the subject of this sketch. This family record of loyal service bespeaks the loftiest of patriotism.
Frederick Buel acquired his early education in the village school at Malvern, and he attended also the seminary that was here conducted in that early day. In 1859 he entered Mount Union College, where he pursued a higher course of study. In the meanwhile he had become a successful teacher in the district school, and he continued his service in the pedagogic profession until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he promptly tendered his services in defense of the Union. Of the early experiences of Mr. Buel there is one to which special attention may be called. When he was a lad of eleven years he found employment as driver of horses used in transporting the boats on the old canal between Cleveland and Portsmouth.
In May, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the expiration of his three months' term was mustered out, August 18, 1861. On the 4th of the following November he re-enlisted, becoming at this time a private in Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was mobilized at Camp Meigs, whence it went forward to Paducah, Kentucky, and then to Corinth, Mississippi, where it took part in the siege against that city, including the battle continued during the 4th and 5th of October, 1862. Thereafter Mr. Buel was with his regiment in numerous spirited engagements, including those of Raymond and Jackson, the siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Missionary Ridge and participated in Sherman's historic march from Atlanta to the sea. Efficient and faithful service gained to him promotion to the office of second lieutenant January 15, 1863, and on the 27th of the following April he was made first lieutenant. He was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, December 21, 1864, at the expiration of his second term of enlistment, and returned with his regiment to Ohio, where he received his honorable discharge.
After the termination of three and one-half years of gallant service as a soldier of the Union Mr. Buel returned to Malvern, and on the 10th of April, 1865, he here engaged in the general merchandise business. He continued this enterprise until February 21, 1871, when he sold the stock and business and became a partner of his brother-in-law, Joseph Fishel, in the lumber business. The business was successfully conducted under the firm name of Fishel & Buel
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for many years, and a few years before his death Mr. Fishel sold his interest to his partner, who in 1904 admitted his son Henry V. to partnership, the substantial and well ordered business having since been conducted under the firm name of Frederick Buel & Son.
Mr. Buel has been signally loyal and public- spirited as a citizen and has been unwavering in his allegiance to the republican party from the time when he cast his vote in support of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. He has inviolable place in the confidence of the people of his home county, has served as a member of the village council, as treasurer of Brown Township. and as a member of the school board, besides which he gave eight and one-half years of effective service as a member of the board of trustees of the Girls' Industrial Home at Delaware. He has been influential in the local councils of the republican party and was a delegate to the national convention at which Hon. William H. Taft was nominated for the presidency for the second time. He is an appreciative member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He and his wife have long been active and zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, and in the same he has held various official positions, including those of steward, trustee and class leader.
On the 21st of April, 1864, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Buel to Miss Julia A. Fishel, who was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, May 25, 1840. She is a sister of the late Joseph Fishel, who was long her husband's associate in the lumber business, as noted in a preceding paragraph. Mrs. Buel is a daughter of Henry and Margaret (McClurg) Fishel, who were born in Pennsylvania but their marriage was solemnized in Ohio and they were numbered among the sterling pioneers of Carroll County, where they passed the closing period of their lives. The concluding paragraph of this review offers brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Buel :
Agnes Roberta is the wife of Henry H. Tracy, of San Francisco, California. Joseph F. married Miss Lillie Thompson, and they now reside at Lodi, California. Henry V., who is junior member of the firm of Frederick Buel & Son, was born at Malvern in 1873, and after completing the curriculum of the local high school he continued his studies in and graduated from Mount Union College, which his father had attended in his youth. Henry V. likewise proved his powers as a successful teacher in the public schools, and he continued to assist his father in the management of the latter's lumber interests until 1904, when he was admitted to a partnership in the business, the greater part of its active supervision and direction now devolving upon him, the while he is well upholding the prestige of the family name both as a progressive citizen and as an able business man. In politics he is a republican, and he holds the office of notary public. He has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the Masonic fraternity, is affiliated also with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Mr. Buel wedded Miss Vinnie Pearson, of Malvern, and they have two children, Elta and Harlan. Frederick H, Buel, youngest of the children of the subject of this review, resides at Youngstown, Mahoning County, and is a successful lumber salesman.
ELI H. PRETTY is one of the executive heads of the Carrollton Motor Company, which is giving the most effective service with its well equipped garage in the city of Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, and it has been due to his initiative and progressive policies that this city has gained this up-to-date establishment, which is the only garage at Carrollton that maintains a battery-service station and carries a full line of automobile supplies, besides having a repair department that affords the best of service to patrons. The company have the local agency for the celebrated Chevrolet and Overland automobiles and the popular Tuscan tires, which latter they sell to patrons at factory prices, with a guaranty of 6,000 miles of service. Fair and honorable dealings and the maximum excellence of service have gained to this concern a substantial and representative supporting patronage.
Mr. Pretty, a representative business man of the younger generation at Carrollton, was born in Center Township, Carroll County, January 13, 1886, and is a son of William and Elizabeth Pretty, both natives of England, where the former was born in 1854 and the latter in 1852. The parents were reared and educated in their native land, where their marriage was solemnized, and they became residents of Carroll County, Ohio, in 1880. Here the father continued his successful activities as a farmer in Center Township until his death in 1902, and his widow still maintains her home in the county. They became the parents of ten children, all of whom are living, namely : Mary, Emma, William, Allen and Eli H. (twins), George. Ralph, Albert, Howard and Frank.
Eli H. Pretty passed his childhood and early youth on the home farm and was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Carrollton, including the high school. In 1914 he effected the organization of the Carrollton Motor Company, which was incorporated in 1919, and of which he has since been the vice president and manager. The modern and finely equipped garage of the company is situated on East Main street. Mr. Pretty is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. His name is still found on the roll of eligible young bachelors in his native county.
JAMES S. MORGAN is the owner of a productive and well-improved farm of seventy-tive acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he has maintained his home since 1901 and where, he has made an admirable record as a progressive and successful agriculturist and stock-grower. His farm enterprise includes a prosperous dairy department, and since 1905 he has been known as a breeder of registered Jersey cattle of the finest type.
Mr. Morgan was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 13th of March, 1859, and is a son of Levi and Margaret Jane
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(Lemmon) Morgan, both likewise natives of that county and the latter a daughter of Griffith and Mary (Shirdon) Lemmon, of whom incidental record is given in other sketches appearing in this work, as is also additional data concerning the Morgan family. Levi Morgan, a son of George and Catherine (Jenkins) Morgan, was born and reared in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, the date of his nativity having been March 1, 1829. He continued to be identified with farm enterprise in his native county until 1860, when he came to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he continued to he engaged in farming until 1863, when he returned to Belmont County and became a farmer in Colerain Township, where he passed the residue of his life, his death having occurred on the 17th of April, 1892, and his widow having survived him by several years. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of six children: James S., Lindley J. (who died October 24, 1917) : Ross L. ((lied at the age of three years) ; John H., Mary E., and Elizabeth L.
James S. Morgan acquired his early education in the district schools of Colerain Township, Belmont County, and spent two years at the Hopedale Normal School of Harrison County. In Belmont County was staged his initial activity as an independent farmer. He there continued operations until 1901, when he purchased and 'established his residence upon his present farm "in Harrison County. He has never desired the 'honors or emoluments of public office but is a ;staunch supporter of the principles of the democrat party, and both he and his wife bold membership in the United Presbyterian Church.
On the 9th of September, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Morgan to Miss Margaret E. Rusk, daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth C. (Yost) Rusk, of Belmont County. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have four children: Edna Vinora, Mabel L., A. Rusk and Margaret Elizabeth. Edna V. is the wife of Delbert Spragg, and they have three children, Mildred Irene, Helen Elizabeth and Marion Lester. A. Ruck Morgan was one of the gallant young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military service in the World war. He entered the service on the 17th of May, 1918, and received his technical training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, Indiana. He became a member of Company B, Forty-Eighth Engineers, in which he was made a sergeant of the first class. On the 31st of July, 1918, he embarked with his command for France, where he landed at Brest on the 12th of August. He continued in active service in connection with the American Expeditionary Forces for eleven months, in the construction of railway lines and terminals—a most essential part of military operations in the zone of conflict, and he remained abroad until June, 1919, on the 30th of which month he arrived at Brooklyn, New York, his honorable discharge having been given on the 18th of the following month. He honored his home county and state by his loyal service, and he is now in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company at Cambridge. Ohio. He married Pauline Lixie Minto, of Cambridge, on November 21, 1919.
WILLIAM T. SHIELDS has not found is necessary to leave his native township in order to find opportunities and advantages essential to successful achievement, and he is to-day one of the vigorous representatives of farm enterprise in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he holds the position of farm superintendent for the Short Creek Coal Company and has supervision of the operations of a fine farm property of about 1,200 acres. In the sketch of the career of his older brother, Milton M., on other pages of this volume is given ample record concerning the family history.
William T. Shields was born in Short Creek Township on the 14th of April, 1873, and is a son of Joseph and Lucinda (Ruth) Shields, the former of whom died in 7880 and the latter in 1905. The subject of this review was afforded the advantage of the district schools of his native township and was seven years old at the time of his father's death. Thereafter the family resided about five years in Belmont County, where William continued his studies in the public schools, and after the return of the family to Short Creek Township he here eventually engaged in independent farm enterprise. He continued his farm activities, besides giving considerable attention to teaming, until the autumn of 1906, when he removed to the village of Georgetown, where he has since maintained his home. Here he conducted a general store for three years, and for five years thereafter was here engaged in the livery and teaming business. Since 1916 he has held the responsible office of farm superintendent for the Short Creek Coal Company. Mr. Shields has never manifested any ambition for political activity or preferment, but is aligned in the ranks of the republican party and is a loyal supporter of its pause. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
Adda M. (Barr) Shields, wife of the subject of this review, was born and reared in Harrison County and is a daughter of David and Mary Barr. Mr. and Mrs. Shields have two children: Carrie M., who was born September 22, 1896, is the wife of Clement Dorsey, and they have two children, Craig and Donald. George C., who was born August 2, 1898, is with the Short Creek Coal Company. The maiden name of his wife was Nettie Woods and they have one child, Adda May.
JOHN E. McPECK. It is specially gratifying to be able to present in this publication a review of the career of the venerable and honored native son of Harrison County whose name initiates this paragraph, for his life has been marked by worthy thoughts and worthy deeds. He has not only been a prominent representative of farm industry in his native county but also went forth as one of the gallant young defenders of the Union when the national integrity was jeopardized by armed rebellion. He made a valiant record as a soldier in the Civil war and the same loyalty and integrity of purpose have characterized him in all of the relations of life. Mr. McPeck remains on his fine farm in Arches Township with his two older daughters, Misses Jane and Mattie, as his devoted companions.
PICTURE OF JOHN E. MCPECK
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John E. McPeck was born in the village of Hanover, Harrison County, August 1, 1832. He is a son of George and Jane (Endsley) McPeck, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1808, and the latter was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Jane (Blaine) Endsley, her father having come to Harrison County from Pennsylvania in 1808, and having become one of the sterling pioneer farmers of Archer Township, where he died April 29, 1835, his widow passing away January 29, 1848. The old Endsley farm is the homestead now owned and occupied by John E. Mc- Peck, who came into possession of the property In 1870. George McPeck's parents passed the closing years of their lives in Harrison County. Their children were nine in number, six sons and three daughters. George McPeck came to Harrison County in 1829, and here he followed the trade of brick mason for fourteen years thereafter. October 6, 1831, recorded his marriage to Miss Jane Endsley, whose death occurred August 22, 1852, and who was survived by seven children. In 1853 Mr. McPeck wedded Mrs. Barbara Endsley, whose death occurred about one year later and who was survived by one child. In 1857 Mr. McPeck contracted a third marriage. when Mrs. Catherine A. Caldwell became his wife, her death having occurred July 10, 1883, and one child having been born of this union. Mr. McPeck, who had become a representative farmer in Archer township, died on the 24th of March, 1886, at the age of seventy- seven years and tive months.
John E. McPeck acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Harrison County and later attended the academy at New Hagerstown and also Richmond College in Jefferson County. As a young man he was a successful and popular teacher in the rural schools and after his marriage he continued his association with school work and farm enterprise until the outbreak of the Civil war gave the call of higher duty. Leaving his young wife and their two small children, he enlisted on the 11th of August. 1862, as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he was made first lieutenant of his company. The regiment proceeded to Virginia and took part in the battle of the Wilderness, in which the captain of Company C was killed, Mr. McPeck succeeding to command of the company. He was commissioned captain on June 27, 1864, and thereafter commanded his company in numerous battles and minor engagements, including the battles of Spottsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, and in the turning back of the Confederate forces under General Jubal A. Early. On the 9th of July, 1864. after having been severely wounded in the left leg, Captain McPeck was captured by the enemy, his comrades having supposed him dead and having thus reported to the people at home. At the same time that Captain McPeck was wounded in the battle of the Mononacy, Colonel Taft of the "Heavy Ninth of New York," was also wounded and lay on the field but a short distance away from where Captain McPeck lay. Captain McPeck requested that he be taken to the wounded colonel. Both of the wounded officers were taken by ambulance to Frederick City and placed in hospital and given especial attention, a fact which Captain McPeck was at a loss to understand. The explanation which later came to him proved that Colonel Taft was a Mason, and that their captors were likewise members of that order. Captain McPeck was soon taken from his captors, in connection with the activities of the Union forces, and after remaining in a field hospital two months he received leave of absence. He received his honorable discharge on account of disability December 12, 1864, and returned home about the time of the Christmas holidays. After recuperating his health he served two terms as sheriff of Harrison County, and after his retirement from office he made a trip through the west, but his investigation but led to increased appreciation of his native county, with the result that he returned and in 1870 purchased the fine farm on which he has resided during the long intervening years. He is an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he is affiliated with the post at Cadiz, and though venerable in years he retains splendid physical vigor, the while his mental alertness is undiminished and is shown in his lively interest in community affairs and the questions and issues of the day. He is a zealous member of the Ridge Presbyterian Church, as was also his loved and devoted wife, who passed to the life eternal on the 7th of December, 1904, and whose memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of her gracious influence.
On the 8th of September, 1858, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McPeck to Miss Mary Davidson. daughter of Rev. Lewis H. and Lucy (Latham) Davidson, who were at that time residents of Washington Township, Harrison County. the father having been a clergyman of the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. McPeck became the parents of five children : Jane and Hattie remain with their venerable father; Dr. Elmer E. was graduated from Starling Medical College at Columbus as a member of the class of 1889, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Cleveland. He married Miss Lillie S. Crowe, and they have two children, John Kendall and Mary Frances James. who was born November 2, 1865, died October 11, 1866. Lewis, who has the management of the old home farm, is individually mentioned on other pages of this volume.
WILLIAM MAFFETT is giving a characteristically careful and effective administration as judge of the Probate Court of Carroll County, and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the Buckeye State. being .a scion of staunch old colonial stock in Virginia, that gracious cradle of much of our national history. Judge Maffett was born in Center Township, Carroll County, February 27, 1874, and is a son of Alfred and Lucinda (Champer) Maffett, the former of whom was born in Columbiana County, this state, in 1825, and the latter was born in Carroll County in 1838. William Maffett. grandfather of Judge Maffett, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, as was also his wife, whose
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maiden name was Catherine Lodge. They became pioneer settlers of Columbiana County, Ohio, whence they came to Carroll County about the year 1828. William Maffett took up a tract of heavily timbered Government land in Center Township, and to the reclamation, improvement and cultivation of his pioneer farm he continued to devote his attention during the remainder of his active career. He was well advanced in years at the time of his death, and his widow, who attained to the very advanced age of ninety-seven years, remained on the old homestead until her death.
Jacob Champer, maternal grandfather of Judge Maffett, likewise was a native of the historic Old Dominion state, where was solemnized his marriage to Elizabeth Earnst, and they were numbered among the earliest settlers in Carroll County, Ohio, where they established their home long before the organization of the county under its present name. They developed a farm in Center Township, and there passed the residue of their lives. George Champer, a brother of Jacob, was one of the first surveyors in northeastern Ohio, and another brother, Leo Champer, made the original survey of the village of Carrollton. Jacob Champer not only became a representative farmer but also a pioneer miller in Carroll County, his mill having been one of the first established in this section of the state, and he was the second incumbent of the office of county surveyor of Carroll County. Both the paternal and maternal great-grandfathers of Judge Maffett were patriot soldiers of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution. Alfred Maffett was reared on the old home farm in Center Township, and made good use of the advantages afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. He eventually became the owner of the old homestead, and he continued as one of the substantial exponents of agricultural industry in Center Township until his death in 1885. He was a man of fine mentality and sterling character, commanded unqualified popular esteem and was influential in community affairs, his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party. His widow survived him by more than a quarter of a century and passed to the life eternal in 1912, as one of the venerable and revered pioneer women of Carroll County. They became the parents of six children: Jonathan, Martha (deceased), John J., Catherine, William and Elmer.
The environment and influence of the ancestral home farm compassed the childhood and youth of Judge Maffett, and after having completed the curriculum of the local schools he entered the Ohio Northern College at Ada. in which he completed both classical and law courses, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1899. Proving himself well fortified for his chosen profession, he was admitted to the bar of his native state in 1899, and in the following year opened a law office at Carrollton, where he built up a substantial and representative general law practice, to which he continued to give his undivided attention until his election to the office of judge of the Probate Court in 1912, the estimate placed upon his administration having been shown in his re-election at the expiration of his first term. His present term expires in 1921. The Judge was twice elected mayor of Carrollton, served two terms as prosecuting attorney of his native county, and has secure status as one of the representative members of the bar of this section of the state, as well as a progressive and public-spirited citizen. He is an uncompromising advocate of the principles of the democratic party and has been influential in its councils in this section of the state. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his family hold membership in the Christian Church. Though Carrollton is a rock- ribbed republican stronghold, yet Judge Maffett, a democrat, was twice elected its mayor, besides he served a few years as city solicitor and also as clerk of the election board of the county. These statements bear significance as testifying to the inviolable place he has in popular confidence in his native county. As a young man he was a successful teacher in the district schools of Center, Union and Washington townships, and in the pedagogic profession likewise he made an excellent reputation, besides cementing the staunchest of friendships in the districts in which he taught. During the World war Judge Maffett was chairman of the Carroll County War Savings Committee, and in connection with the various loans he was influential in causing the county to go "over the top." As chairman of the committee mentioned he was gratified when the county gave subscription for war-savings stamps in excess of $400,000. A memorial tablet is to be placed in the Court House to commemorate the splendid response made by Carroll County in support of war activities.
In 1915 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Maffett to Miss Anna Morrow, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, a daughter of William F. Morrow, a respresentative farmer in Fox Township. Judge and Mrs. Maffett have two children, Martha E. and Elizabeth L.
ALBERT SINGER still resides on his well improved farm of about ninety-three acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison county, but the active management of the place is now vested in his son Milton S., who rents the property. It is specially interesting to record that the name of the Singer family has been linked with agricultural enterprise in Short Creek Township since the year 1808, though at the time when John Singer came to Harrison County from Virginia he found no fields awaiting cultivation, but was compelled to make a clearing in the virgin forest before a place could be made for his primitive log cabin. Then followed the herculean task of reclaiming land for cultivation, and John Singer and his wife endured the full tension of frontier life, with increasing prosperity attending them as the successive years brought advancement in civic and industrial affairs in this section of the Buckeye State.
John Singer was born in Virginia, where the family was founded in the colonial days, and his name is enrolled on the list of honored pioneers who aided in the initial development of Harrison County, Ohio, where he and his wife remained until their death. Of their seven chil-
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dren the eldest was James, who was born in Virginia in 1806, and who was thus about two years old at the time when his parents made the overland journey and established a home in Harrison County, Ohio. Here he was reared under the influences of the early pioneer days, and as a young man he engaged in the overland hauling of merchandise and other commodities from Philadelphia and, other eastern points, to which he took the produce from the farms of Harrison County. He made many of these tedious overland trips through a wild and sparcely settled country, and made the business a success. Finally he purchased a tract of land near the old homestead of his father, and he continued as one of the prosperous farmers and honored and influential citizens of Short Creek Township until his death in March, 1880, his wife having passed away in August, 1872. In politics he was originally an old-line whig, but he united with the republican party at the time of its organization and ever afterward supported its cause. He and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of twelve children, of whom three sons and one daughter are living at the time of this writing, in 1920. In 1838 Mr. Singer wedded Miss Tacy Goodwin, who likewise was born and reared in Short Creek Township, a daughter of Jesse Goodwin, an honored pioneer who was a member of the Society of Friends.
Albert Singer, the seventh in order of birth of the twelve children of James and Tacy (Goodwin) Singer, was born on the old homestead farm of his parents in Short Creek Township, and the date of his nativity was June 22, 1851. Here he has maintained his home during the long intervening period, and as a farmer and citizen he has effectively upheld the honors of the name which he bears. His early education was obtained in the district schools, and he was a young man when he began his independent enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He continued in the active management of his farm until about 1911, since which time he has here remained, with his son Milton S. in active charge of the farm operations. He is a republican in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in the neghboring village of Adena, Jefferson County.
On the 31st of October, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Singer to Miss Cynthia E. Shields, who likewise was born and reared in Short Creek Township, and who is the only surviving child of Joseph and Martha (Stires) Shields the latter of whom was born in Harrison County, a daughter of John Stires, another sterling pioneer. Joseph Shields was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1825, a son of Benoni and Lydia (Woodward) Shields, who came from the old Keystone State to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1829 and settled on a pioneer farm in Short Creek Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Their eleven children were all born prior to the family migration to Ohio. Joseph Shields was about four years old when the home was established in Short Creek Township. where he was reared to manhood and where he continued a prosperous farmer until his death, June 16, 1880. His first wife died in 1854, as did also her first two children, and the one child who attained to maturity is Cynthia Eleanor, wife of Mr. Singer of this review. Mrs. Lucinda (Ruth) Shields, the second wife of Joseph Shields, survived her husband by several years, both having held membership in the Presbyterian Church at Adena. They became the parents of nine children, and of their son Milton M. individual mention is made on other pages, with further data concerning the family.
In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Singer : Iva Grace, who was born in 1873, married Preston Dickerson, of Short Creek Township; Emma L., born in 1875, is the wife of Robert Hendershot, and they have seven children, Waneta, Irene, Floyd, Foster, Carrie Marie, Grace May, and Fay Eleanor. Joseph Oscar, who was born in 1878, married Miss Grace H. Reppart, and they have two children—Lloyd A. and Delbert Ray. Walter A., who was born in 1881, married Miss Mabel Mercer, and they have three children— Hazel May, Dorothy Adell and Frances Isabel. Milton S., who was born in 1883 and who now rents and operates his father's farm, married Miss Irma W. Reppart, and their two children are Mildred Edna and James Louis. Harvey H. was born in 1888 and died in 1891. Carrie Odessa, who was born in 1892, is the wife of Horace S. Heaton, and they have one child, Helen Leona.
JOHN R. SERGEANT, who is still identified with farm industry in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, has been a resident of this county from the time of his birth, and when it is noted that he has now passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten it becomes evident that he is a representative of a family to which pioneer distinction applies. He was born on the 25th of December, 1848, and thus became a welcome Christmas arrival in the pioneer home of his parents, Charles and Tabitha (Strodes) Sergeant. Charles Sergeant likewise was born in Short Creek Township, and thus emphasis is given to the pioneer honors which touch the family name. He was a son of Amos and Elizabeth Sergeant, who were numbered among the earliest settlers in Short Creek Township, the father having been born and reared in the State of New Jersey. The children of Amos Sergeant were six in number— Redden, Amos, Mary. Rainey, Catherine and Charles.
Charles Sergeant was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County, and in Short Creek Township he continued his farm activities until about 1870, when he removed to Missouri. Later he settled in the State of Kansas as a pioneer and there he remained until his death, his wife also having died in that state. They became the parents of seven children—Elizabeth, Amanda, Charlotte, David, William, Vanselis and John R.
In the district schools of Short Creek Township John R. Sergeant acquired his youthful education, and at the age of ten years began
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working by the month. For a period of about twenty years he was in the employ of the Kerr family, and during all of this time his work was in connection with farm industry. Shortly after his marriage, which occurred in 1875, he purchased and removed to his present home farm, which formerly comprised 115 acres, but a portion of which he has sold, with the result that the homestead now comprises eighty-two and one-half acres. Though now venerable in years, Mr. Sergeant takes satisfaction in giving a personal supervision to his farm, in a general way, and the passing years, marked by earnest and honest endeavor, have brought to him a just measure of prosperity. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Adena.
June 10, 1875, recorded the marriage of Mr. Sergeant to Miss Martha Shields, a daughter of the late Jackson Shields, of whom specific mention is made in the sketch of his son Harvey on other pages of this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Sergeant have been born five children, Ira married Miss Ida Moffett and they have three children, John, Olive and Marie; Eva, who became the wife of Perry Masters, died July 28, 1913; Kersey, who is associated with his father in the operation of the home farm, married Miss Leota Morgan; Mary Ella is the wife of Henderson Moore, and they have had seven children—Thelma E., Pauline, Martha (deceased), Mary Emma, Margaret Ellen. John D. and Mildred Lucile; D. Leroy died on the 23d of June, 1899.
LEINARD ROWLAND, of Cadiz Township, who specializes in fruit as a side line with farming, is in the third generation from the Welsh emigrant, John Rowland. This ancestor had part in the Indian wars early in the nineteenth century, and almost before the dawn of present day civilization he married in Pennsylvania and brought his wife to the Harrison County frontier, where they worked together to overcome the wilderness conditions.
In 1830 James Rowland, a son of John and who was a young man in Harrison County, married Elizabeth Leinard, and the family name of the wife has been perpetuated in the name of their son, Leinard Rowland. He is one of twelve children born to this family; John, Mathew, Henry, James, Leinard, Jane, Ann Christina, Elizabeth, Rachel, Mary, Margaret and Nancy Ellen. They knew the vicissitudes of life through the reconstruction period following the Civil war, when there were large families and all were industrious. When twelve children grow up iu one homestead it causes divergent interests when they leave the family shelter, and the Rowlands of that generation scattered to the four corners.
Leinard Rowland was born March 1, 1848, the fifth child in this pioneer household. In 1873 Mr. Rowland married Margaret Mehollin, a native of the same community—Cadiz Township. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Mehollin. For a time they lived in Moorefield Township on the original Rowland farm, the home of the grandfather, John Rowland, and in 1880 they came to the original Mehollin homestead in Cadiz Township. There are 160 acres in the land, the life time home of Mrs. Rowland, and she died there December 18, 1889. Their children are: Estella Blanche is the wife of Rev. Harry Deeds, residing in Montavista, Colorado, and their children are Paul, Edith, Mary and Ruth. Claude Rowland married Gertrude Knight and lives in Cadiz. Joseph Rowland married Ola Moore, and their daughter, Golda, is the wife of James Baker. They reside in Jewett, Ohio, and have two sons, Harry and Charles. Carrie Rowland is the wife of Carl Fulton of Lorain, Ohio. Their children are Syble, Guy, Ross and Nellie. Thomas Rowland, the youngest son, is still at the old home.
On June 3, 1890, Leinard Rowland married Margaret B., a daughter of Aquilla and Moriah (Scott) Tipton, of the Deerville community in Harrison County, Ohio. Their daughter Opal N. is the wife of John Laughlin who reside with him. Their children are Margaret Anna (deceased) and Woodrow Wilson. Another daughter, Kate L., is the wife of Guy Carson and their daughter is Edna Irene. Mr. Rowland has seven children in all. In his social life he belongs to the Cadiz Lodge Knights of Pythias, and he votes with the democratic party and has named a son for President Wilson.
For many years Mr. Rowland has specialized in horticulture. He has 1,600 bearing peach trees and 300 young peach trees not yet at the bearing age. In his orchard are 200 plums, 150 apples and 100 cherry trees. The hills and dales of Harrison County are adapted to fruit culture, and Mr. Rowland is a specialist with small fruits of all varieties. He is the most extensive fruit growing specialist in Harrison County.
WILLIAM A. BLACK. The life history of William Black,- Cadiz Township farmer, reverts back to Clarion' County, Pennsylvania, where he was born November 29, 1874, a son of William and Lucinda (McKissick) Black. The mother was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. She is a daughter of Henry and Lucinda McKissick. Mr. Black bears the name of his grandfather, William Black, who was a contractor in eastern Pennsylvania.
As a young man William Black, Sr. entered the army as a Civil war soldier. He was out three years in the heavy artillery a part of the time stationed at Fortress Monroe. After the war he farmed in Clarion County and in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. He died in Lawrence County, March 17, 1876, and his wife died there July 26, ten years later. Their children were George M., who died March 2, 1903; John H.. Samuel P., David H., Frank L. Marian and Edmond R.
As a young man in Pennsylvania Mr. Black attended public school in Lawrence and Fayette counties. When he settled into business for himself it was as a driller and contractor in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and he continued operations there until 1917, when he came to the farm in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, that he had bought as an investment four years previously. There are 222 acres in the farm-
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stead and besides remodeling the farm building he built a modern house for himself and family.
While Mr. Black had been a mechanic in the Pennsylvania oil fields, he has settled into the methods of a thrifty farmer in Harrison County. The farm improvements are of the best, and he is engaged in general farming and livestock production. He is a breeder of thoroughbred Jersey cattle, and has plenty of pasture for them.
On August 28, 1994, Mr. Black married Lilliam M. Hibbs, of Fairview, West Virginia. She is a daughter of Thomas and Huldah (MIsted) Hibbs, the father a native of Marion County and the mother of Taylor County, West Virginia. The children are: Faye, Glenn A., Edward H., Joseph J., Emma L., Benjamin F. and Doris Louise Black. Mr. Black and his sons Glenn and Edward are members of the Masonic Lodge, Mr. Black belonging to Lodge No. 153, F. & A. M., Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, while Glenn and Edward belong to Lodge No. 171, F. & A. M., Cadiz. Mrs. Black and her daughter Faye belong to the order of the Eastern Star.
Thomas Hibbs, of Marion County, West Virginia, is a farmer and still lives there. He served through the Civil war. His children are: Wilbert, Bertie, Lillian (Mrs. Black), and Howard, who died in 1913, in California. The mother died in 1880, and Mr. Hibbs later married Rhody King. They have a daughter, Ethel. The family are Methodists, as are also the Blacks.
TIPTON J. QUEEN was an honored member of a family whose name has been significant of prominence and influence in Carroll County for virtually an entire century, and in all of the relations of life he well upheld the prestige of the name which he bore. He was a resident of Carrollton, the county seat, at the time of his death, August 3, 1919, and his sterling character and worthy achievement make most consonant the entering of a memorial tribute in this history.
Tipton Jonah Queen was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, October 3, 1858, and was a son of Jonah and Catherine (Robb) Queen, the former of whom was born in Fox Township 'on the 12th of September, 1823, and the latter born in Jefferson County, Ohio, August 15, 1825, she having been of German and Irish lineage. Jonah Queen was a son of Samuel George and Mary (Hesser) Queen, both natives of Virginia, where the former was born June 3, 1790, and the latter on the 5th of September, 1792, their marriage having been solemnized in Loudoun County, Virginia, in March, 1820. Within a short time thereafter occurred their removal to Ohio, where they became numbered among the early settlers of what is now Fox Township, Carroll County. Samuel G. Queen here purchased the Government land, 160 acres, which had been originally taken by Samuel Morgan, and the young couple established their home in a primitive log cabin, the while Mr. Queen set himself vigorously to the task of reclaiming his land from the forest. He later secured 240 acres of Government land in the same township, the deed to the same bearing the signature of President Andrew Jackson, and he was one of the most vigorous and successful of the pioneer farmers of Carroll County. He remained on the old homestead until his death, in May, 1840, and his widow survived him by more than forty years, she having been nearly ninety-two years of age at the time of her death, June 21, 1884. They became the parents of two sons and six daughters. The, ancestral homestead is still held in possession by the family. Samuel G. Queen was a volunteer soldier in the War of 1812, and after his death his widow received a pension as well as a grant, of land in recognition of this patriotic service on his part.
Samuel G. Queen was a son of Jonah Queen, who was born in County Donegal, Ireland, May 5, 1753, and whose wife, of German descent, was born April 15, 1767. As a young man Jonah Queen immigrated to America and became a farmer in Loudoun County, Virginia, whence he finally came with his family to Ohio and became a pioneer settler in Columbiana County, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. His loyalty to the land of his adoption was significantly shown by his gallant service as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution.
Jonah Queen II, father of the subject of this memoir, passed his entire life in Fox Township, where he long held prestige as one of the leading farmers of the county, and it may consistently be said that no citizen had higher place in popular confidence and esteem in Carroll County. His tine stock farm, comprising 320 acres, was by him made one of the show places of the county, and he gave special attention to the raising of Spanish Merino sheep, Shorthorn cattle and Clydesdale horses. He made the best of improvements on his farm, and the fine old brick house on the place is one of the landmarks of Fox Township at the present time, the building having been erected in 1863. Mr. Queen was a republican and served in various local offices of public trust. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He passed to eternal rest August 10, 1892, and his wife did not long survive him, her death having occurred November 8, 1895. Concerning their children, all now deceased, the following data is available: Mary E., born September 5, 1849, died November 20, 1868; Samuel George, born December 26, 1853, died August 8, 1885; William E., born July 2, 1856, died October 15, 1862; Tipton J. is the subject of this memoir; and Willietta, born August 18, 1862, died May 29, 1890.
Tipton J. Queen, the last to survive of the above mentioned family of children, was reared on the old home farm, to the ownership of which he succeeded upon the death of his parents, and in his youth he received the advantages not only of the public schools but also those of a veterinary college of Toronto, Canada. In the management of the old homestead he well upheld the prestige of his father as a progressive agriculturist and stock-grower, and he remained on the farm until 1904, when he was elected county sheriff and removed with his family to Carrollton, the county seat. He
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retained the office of sheriff five years, and thereafter remained at Carrollton until his death. In this city he erected a fine residence of modern type at 55 Southeast Second Street, where his widow still remains, and the valuable old homestead farm is still retained in the possession of his wife and children.
Mr. Queen was vitally concerned in all things pertaining to the welfare and advancement of his native county, and here his circle of friends was coincident with that of his acquaintances. He gave his allegiance to the republican party, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, his widow and daughters being members of the adjunct organization, the Order of the Eastern Star, and his religious faith was that of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Queen likewise is a devoted member.
September 25, 1882, recorded the marriage of Mr. Queen to Miss Alma Green, who was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, January 17, 1804, a daughter of George W. and Catherine (Lindersmith) Green, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, May 7, 1819, and the latter in Columbiana County, November 3, 1821. George W. Green was seven years old when his parents established their residence on a pioneer farm in Fox Township, Carroll County, and here the parents, George and Susan (Ferguson) Green, passed the remainder of their lives. George W. Green was one of the prosperous farmers of Fox Township, and there his death occurred in June, 1891, his devoted wife having passed away in August of the preceding year. Of their sixteen children seven are living at the time of this writing, in 1920.
To Mr. and Mrs. Queen were born the following children: Catherine, the widow of Edwin L. Booth, resides at Carrollton, her two children being deceased; William Barrett died in infancy; Mary E. is the wife of John Westfall, of Carroll County, and they have one son, Tipton Marshall; Samuel David, who is now back in his home county, served nineteen months as a member of the Three Hundred and Forty-Eighth Infantry in the period of the nation's participation in the World war, was made sergeant of his company and was in an officer's training camp in France, ready to go to the front when the signing of the historic armistice brought the war to a close; Elizabeth has prepared herself for business by attending a leading commercial college in the City of Cleveland; Byron Tipton and Owen Burgett, twins, died in infancy; and Martha Irene remains with her widowed mother, whose attractive home is known for its gracious hospitality.
JOHN M. REED, who maintains his residence and business headquarters at Carrollton, is one of the successful buyers and shippers of live stock in his native county and is a young man who has made an admirable record in this important field of enterprise, to which he has given his attention since 1913, besides which he has developed a real estate business of very appreciable proportions. He was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, June 9, 1889, and is a son of James and Selma (Miller) Reed, the former of whom died in the year 1895, after having become one of the prosperous farmers of Carroll County. Mrs. Reed later became the wife of David Nevin, of this county, and both are now deceased. John M. Reed is the younger of the two children of his parents, and his sister, Frances, is the wife of James Smeltz, a farmer of Carroll County. The maiden name of the first wife of James Reed was Fawcett, and their one child, Bessie, died young.
John M. Reed is indebted to the public schools of Carroll County for his early education. and as his stepfather was a dealer in live stock he was enabled early to gaiu practical experience in this field of enterprise. In 1913 be established his residence at Carrollton, where his energy and progressiveness have enabled him to develop a large and substantial business in the buying and shipping of live stock, his operations extending into counties adjacent to Carroll County. He owns and occupies a very attractive modern residence on East Main Street. and is one of the popular young business men of his native county. After the death of his mother Mr. Reed's stepfather married Miss Mildred Donaldson, and with them the stepson continued to maintain his home until the time of his marriage. Mr. Nevin died in 1914, and his wife also is deceased.
Mr. Reed married Miss Lois Fisher, who was born at Smithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, February 21, 1895, a daughter of Charles and Ruella (Plunkett) Fisher, now residents of Carrollton. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have one child, James David, who was born August 18, 1913. Mr. Reed takes loyal interest in community affairs and is a republican in politics.
WALTER J. HENDERSON is the owner of one of the many admirable farms that mark Archer Township, Harrison County, as a center of progressive and prosperous industry along agricultural and live-stock lines, and his popularity and prominence in his home community is shown by the fact that he is now serving as township clerk, besides having previously held the office of township trustee and that of member of the township school board.
Mr. Henderson was born at Leesville, Carroll County, Ohio, on the 13th of July, 1870, but has the distinction of being a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of Harrison County. He is a son of John C. and Mahala P. (Fisher) Henderson, the former of whom died on the 31st of January. 1919, and the latter died October 8, 1877. Of the children of this union the eldest is Hester Virginia, who is the wife of Ephraim Thompson, of Warren, Trumbull County; James Homer, who was born July 1, 1868, died October 14, 1905, the maiden name of his wife having been Ida Worstell; Walter J.. of this review, was the next in order of birth; Susie Rebecca is the wife of Joel Cramblet. of Stock Township, Harrison County; Robert H. married Miss Gertrude Welsh, and they now reside in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
John C. Henderson, who achieved marked success as a teacher and civil engineer, was born in North Township, Harrison County, July 21, 1839, and was a son of James and Susanna
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(McClintock) Henderson. James Henderson was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1813, and was four years of age when his parents became pioneer settlers in Harrison County, Ohio. He was a son of John Henderson, who was born in Ireland and who came with his parents to America when he was sixteen years of age. Upon arriving in this country he ran away from his parents, who made a futile search for him and who finally returned to their native land without him. Many years later one of his brothers came to the United States, and through him he measure- ably renewed the family associations of his childhood. After eluding his parents, in a boyish spirit of adventure, John Henderson made his way to Maryland, in which state was eventually solemnized his marriage to the doubly orphaned daughter of George Henderson, who had bequeathed to her a large amount of property, she having been in the home of her uncle at the time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson removed to Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and later became early settlers in Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where Mr. Henderson purchased a large tract of land and improved a fine farm. There his death occurred in February, 1862, and his widow survived until May 13, 1877. They became parents of four sons and seven daughters, nearly all of whom remained in Harrison County.
James Henderson remained with his parents until October, 1838, when he married Miss Susanna McClintock, of Monroe Township. Thereafter be followed the trades of carpenter and cabinetmaker at Hanover, Harrison County, until 1857, when he purchased and removed to a farm in that vicinity. There he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred November 1, 1889, and his widow having survived him by a number of years. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church and he was a democrat in politics. Though not a seeker of such preferments, he was called upon to serve in various offices of local order. His wife was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fisher) McClintock, the former a native of County Cork, Ireland. Mr. McClintock and his wife were married in Harrison County and here passed the remainder of their lives on their farm in North Township, their children having been ten in number.
John C. Henderson gained his early education in the common schools of Harrison County, and supplemented this by a thorough course in New Hagerstown Academy in Carroll County, where he fitted himself both for teaching and for practical work as a surveyor. He followed the pedagogic profession with marked success for nearly thirty years, and also did an appreciable amount of important surveying service. He passed the closing years of his life on the old Schaffer farm in Harrison County. He was a staunch democrat, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. A man of noble character and high intellectual attainments, he made his life count in worthy achievement and ever commanded the high regard of all who knew him. At the age of twenty-three years he wedded Miss Hester Fisher, of North Township, and she died January 4, 1865, her only child having died on the 5th of the following November. April 2, 1866, recorded the marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Mahala P. Fisher, a sister of his first wife, and, as previously noted in this review, her death occurred in 1877, mention having also been made of the children of this union. Mrs. Henderson was, like her husband, a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1879 Mr. Henderson married Miss Sarah. a daughter of George McPeck, of Archer Township, and she survives him, no children having been born of this marriage.
Walter J. Henderson was but seven years old at the time of his mother's death and was but two years old when his parents returned from Carroll County to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood and where he has resided continuously in Archer Township save for a period of three years passed in Cadiz Township. In addition to the advantages of the public schools he attended Scio College one term and was for a similar period a student in Franklin College at New Athens, besides which he had the privilege of being reared in a home of distinctive culture and high ideals. He is now the owner of a well improved farm of 131 acres and is one of the successful exponents of agriculture and live-stock enterprise in Archer Township, the while he has secured vantage place in popular confidence and esteem and is leader in community affairs. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are active members of the Ridge Presbyterian Church.
On the 13th of February, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Eva M. Dosson, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Shambaugh) Dosson, of Harrison County, and they have tive children—Mahala C., Earl B., Joseph S., Gladys R. and Ralph Clement. Mahala C. is the wife of •Frederick Greer, of Cadiz, and now resides at Holliday's Cove. West Virginia. They have three children —Lloyd A., Ida Elizabeth and Mary Margaret.
LEWIS McPECK has the satisfaction of having under his immediate control the fine old homestead farm of his honored and venerable father, John E. McPeck, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume, so that further review of the family history is not here required. He whose name initiates this paragraph is well upholding the prestige of the family name in connection with farm industry in Archer Township, Harrison County, and is progressive and enterprising as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with a farm that affords ample opportunities for successful achievement.
Mr. McPeck was born in Cadiz, this county, but was only about eighteen months of age when he removed with his parents to the farm where he now lives, and where he has spent all of his life with the exception of seven years following his marriage. After having profited by the advantages of the district schools in Archer Township he attended Scio College one year and Franklin College at New Athens for a
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similar period. From his youth to the present time he has been actively associated with farm enterprise in Archer Township. For seven years after his marriage, which occurred in 1900, he conducted operations on a farm situated on the Cadiz and Jewett turnpike, and in the spring of 1908 he returned to his father's farm, of which fine property he has since had the active control and management. The farm comprises 187 acres and is equipped with good buildings and other high-grade improvements. Mr. McPeck is a republican in political allegiance and he and his wife are zealous members of the Ridge Presbyterian Church, in which he is serving as an .elder, besides which he has held other official preferments, including that of superintendent of the Sunday school.
October 2, 1900, recorded the marriage of Mr. McPeck to Miss Etta May Adams, daughter of John S. and Sarah J. (Welsh) Adams, of Archer Township. Mr. Adams was one of the leading farmers of this township, developed also a large business as a shipper of live stock and was for many years a director of the First National Bank of Cadiz. He was born September 4, 1837, a son of Samuel Adams, who was born January 20, 1808, and died June 13, 1874. He married Jane Stewart, who was born October 22, 1811, and died in March, 1892. The death of John S. Adams occurred on his farm on August 10, 1884, and his widow remained on the find old home farm until 1904, when she removed to Jewett and later removed to Cadiz, where she died December 16, 1915, aged seventy-one years. She was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, on August 2, 1844, a daughter of John Welsh, who was born November 20, 1808, and died in Cadiz in 1880. His wife, Margaret (Gilmore) Welsh, was born January 18, 1816, and died in Cadiz in 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Adams became the parents of five children—Etta May, Samuel F., Charles W., Zella E. and Mary A. Mr. and Mrs. McPeck have two children, Chester Adams and Florence Esther.
ROBERT L. TIMMONS. In consideration of the remarkable impetus that has in later years been given to the good roads movement in all sections of the United States it is specially interesting to record that in his native county Mr. Timmons was actively and successfully identified with the construction of improved roads for fully forty years, and he was one of the oldest road contractors not only in Harrison County but also in this entire section of the state. He also had the distinction of having constructed the first macadamized road in his home county.
Mr. Timmons was born in Cadiz Township, this county, January 14, 1850, and died in Cadiz on October 29, 1920. He was a son of Forney and Elizabeth (Lacey) Timmons, both natives of Cadiz Township, where the respective families settled In the early pioneer period. Forney Timmons was born in the year 1817, and was a son of Charles Timmons, who was born at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1755 and whose wife, Mary (Forney) Timmons, was a native of Georgia and a daughter of Abraham Forney, who came to Harrison County in the early pioneer days and settled on a farm near the present City of Cadiz. He was of French ancestry, was a captain of a militia company in Georgia and served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Charles Timmons came to Harrison County at the same time as did his father-in-law. He was from Berkeley County, West Virginia, and he died within a few years after coming to Ohio.
Forney Timmons became a successful manufacturer of pumps at Cadiz. He supplied pumps to residents of Harrison and adjoining counties for many years and was associated with his son Robert L. in the construction of pike roads. He died in 1885, and his wife survived him by a number of years. Her father, John Lacey, was an early brick and stone mason in Harrison County and was also engaged in the manufacturing of brick. Mr. and Mrs. Timmons held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of four children: Caroline Elizabeth married Charles Allen and they established their home in the City of Columbus, Ohio; Milton J. and Benjamin F. removed to the State of Kansas in the pioneer days; and Robert L., of this review, is the youngest of the number.
Robert L. Timmons gained his early education in the public schools of Harrison County and began to aid in his own support when he was but eleven years old, after his two older brothers entered service in the Civil war. His first work was as a boy in a stone quarry, and finally he learned the trade of stone mason, to which he devoted his attention about a decade. For thirteen years thereafter he conducted a hardware and tin shop at Cadiz, and in the meanwhile became a contractor in the building of turnpike roads. This latter enterprise finally proved so successful that he sold his shop and business at Cadiz, and during the long intervening years he continued his operations as a contractor in the construction of high-grade roads. He was a pioneer in the good roads service in this section of the Buckeye State, in which he achieved worthy success. He was a loyal and public-spirited citizen, was a member of the democratic party, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was affiliated with the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities.
In 1868 Mr. Timmons was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Amanda Howard, daughter of Capt. John M. and Elizabeth (Edney) Howard, of Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio. Her father was captain of his company in an Ohio regiment in the Civil war. To Mr. and Mrs. Timmons were born the following ten children: Bessie May (deceased), Harry Howard, Florence (Mrs. Jesse Smith), Forney Wellington, Bernice Lacey (Mrs. M. M. Mansfield), Lillian (Mrs. James Clark), Frances, who married Brydon Pearce and both are now deceased, their only child, Charles, being reared in the home of his maternal grandparents, Robert Lacey, Jr., Donald (deceased), and Isabel, who married Dr. Bradford C. Godfrey, of Burlington, Vermont.
Harry Howard Timmons, the eldest son, was one of the gallant young patriots who represented Harrison County in the nations military service in the late World war. On the 3d of
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January, 1818, he became a member of the Twenty-third Regiment of Engineers, in which he was made sergeant of the first class and also duty sergeant, and with which he saw twenty months of active service in France. He participated in the great campaigns of the Argonne Forest and the St. Mihiel sector, his regiment having been engaged in building roads for the artillery while moving along with the advance lines of infantry, and its position having been constantly one of great hazard. He sailed for France March 30, 1918, and landed at Brest on the 13th of the following month. On the 11th of May his command reached the front line of the Bachera sector, and remained with that sector until September 18. It was then assigned to the Argonne Forest sector and was behind the lines the morning the great drive started. He remained in that sector until the signing of the armistice, and his regiment was under fire for six months to the day. He received his discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio, June 19, 1919. Robert Lacey Timmons, Jr., went to Camp Sherman on September 2, 1918, with the limited service men, and was discharged from the service on December 11, 1918. Harry Howard, Forney Wellington and Robert Lacey. Jr., were all identified with their father in business, and since his death they have carried on the business successfully. At this writing they are completing a large road-building contract in Belmont County, Ohio, which was begun during their father's life.
JAMES C. McCLESTER, M. D. Properly numbered among the dependable and skilled men of his profession, Dr. James C. McClester, of Harrisville, is enjoying a large practice and is worthy of the confidence which is placed in him, not only by his patients but others in his community who recognize the inherent worth of the man. He was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1869, a son of John and Margaret (Clark) McClester, both natives of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the latter being a daughter of James Clark. Her mother's maiden name was Staddart.
John McClester was for some years a farmer of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, but later moved to Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and established himself in business as a merchant. He conducted a similar establishment at Sewickley, Pennsylvania. With the exception of a few years spent in Logan County, Ohio, and Beaver County, Pennsylvania, he passed his life in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He died at Shadyside, Belmont County, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Will Hoskinson, in October, 1918. His wife has also passed away. Their children were as follows: James C., whose name opens this review; Lydia, who was second in order of birth; Clara, who married W. J. Stevenson, an attorney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Jennie, who married W. L. Hoskinson, a merchant of Bellaire, Ohio; Margaret, who was graduated as a nurse from the Ohio Valley General Hospital; and three others who died in infancy.
Doctor McClester was graduated from the Huntsville High School of Logan County, after which he matriculated at the Ohio Medical Uni versity, from which he was graduated in 1894, and on August 16th of that year settled at Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio, and entered upon the duties of a general practice. With the exception of three years spent in practice at Malvern, Ohio, Doctor McClester has remained at Harrisville during his professional career.
In 1914 he was united in marriage with Margaret Toland, a daughter of William and Elizabeth Toland. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Harrisville. For some years Doctor McClester has belonged to the Harrison County Medical Society. For eight years he has been on the village board of Harrisville, and has given his community the benefit of his knowledge of sanitation and awakened it to its responsibility with reference to public health. The Doctor was a member of the Reserve Medical Corps of the United States Army, and was in camp at Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorp, Georgia, from July 5, 1918, in training three weeks, and was then sent to Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he was honorably discharged on October 16, 1918, with the rank of first lieutenant.
WALTER N. HALL. The mercantile interests of Harrisville are admirably conserved by some of the most enterprising men in this part of Harrison County, and their progressive spirit has resulted in the bringing to the community a desirable line of trade from the outlying districts and the establishment of a reputation of fair dealing and sound business methods. One of these merchants who has borne his part in the bringing about of the above mentioned results is Walter N. Hall.
Mr. Hall was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, September 6, 1874, a son of Josiah and Deborah W. (Wilson) Hall, and grandson of Nathan Hall. Nathan Hall was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he was married to Maria Smith, and they had one son, Josiah. By a former marriage he had a son William, who was known as "Big" William Hall. On account of his size Nathan Hall was known as "Big" Nathan Hall, and he was a man of powerful strength. All of his active life he was engaged in farming in his native township. He and his family belonged to the Society of Friends.
Josiah Hall was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and his wife was born at Smyrna, Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Branson) Wilson. Joseph Wilson was a prosperous farmer of Guernsey County, Ohio, and he and his wife had the following children: Benjamin, Lindley, Martha, Maria, Miriam and Deborah W., of whom all grew to maturity with the exception of Lindley, who died in infancy_ The Wilsons were also Quakers in their religious belief. All of his life Josiah Hall was engaged in farming in Mount Pleasant Township, and was held in high esteem in his neighborhood. Both he and his wife belonged to the Society of Friends. They had the following children: Abbie, who married Thomas Starbuck and lives at Colders, Ohio; Firm, who married Edwin Hall, a son of Parker Hall, and lives at Pasadena, Call-
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fornia ; Alice, who married Herman Meislahn, and after his death, Charles Koontz, and lives at Los Angeles, California; Walter N., who was fourth in order of birth; and Miriam, who married Dean White and lives at Colders, Ohio.
Walter N. Hall attended the neighborhood schools of Mount Pleasant Township and a Friends private school in the same township. Still later he was a student at a boarding school at Barnesville for a year, leaving it to enter a Friends boarding school at Westtown, Pennsylvania. In order to gain a practical knowledge of the fundamentals of business, he subsequently took a commercial course at Scio, Ohio. Mr. Hall then put to use his knowledge thus gained, and for some time was in an insurance business at Cleveland, Ohio, but when his father died he returned to Mount Pleasant Township and for three years was engaged in conducting the farm. In about 1904 Mr. Hall bought a mercantile business at Harrisville, but sold it in 1908 and bought a farm of forty acres adjoining Harrisville, on which he erected a modern residence, where he still lives. This is a beautiful place, supplied with all modern conveniences and equipment. In 1912, however, Mr. Hall once more entered the mercantile field and has continued in it ever since, his store being one of the leading ones in this part of the county. For the past three years he has been a director of the Peoples National Bank of Adena, Jefferson County, Ohio.
On October 9, 1901, Mr. Hall was united in marriage at Harrisville, Ohio, with Loretta M. Lewis, a daughter of John G. and Emma Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have two sons, Walter Myron and John G. In their religious connections Mr. Hall and his wife maintain membership with the United Presbyterian Church of Harrisville. Mr. Hall is a Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason, belonging to both organizations at Cadiz, Ohio. He is a man who displays in his life and business efforts that stability and strength of character which work to bring about a proper balance in a man, and the esteem which he inspires is well founded and deserved.
THEODORE DICKERSON. The name Dickerson is associated with the early history of Harrison County, and Theodore Dickerson, of Cadiz Township, who has always lived where he was born, June 26, 1856, has pride in bringing the family story up to date in the forthcoming Carroll and Harrison County History. His father, Joshua Dickerson, was born in the same community, the Dickerson Church neighborhood in Cadiz Township, November 9, 1808.
Thomas Dickerson, great-grandfather of Theodore, came into what is known as Harrison County on Christmas day, 1800, and settled on land immediately surrounding this landmark church, clearing and planting some of it before it was on the market as Government land, and as soon as it was open for settlement he secured title to an entire section. Combined with making a farm in the wilderness he was a frontier blacksmith. Before there were machine shops in the towns the blacksmith was the most necessary man to community development, and Thomas Dickerson was a man of influence in the beginning of Harrison County civilization. He came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he married Mary Curry, who came with him into the frontier community. There were ten children born to them. One son, Baruch, was born in Pennsylvania and came with his parents to Harrison County. Through Baruch Dickerson comes the line of descent, his son Joshua being the father of Theodore Dickerson. Baruch Dickerson worked with his father as a blacksmith. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of William Holmes. She was born and lived near Wellesburg, West Virginia.
Elizabeth Holmes came to Harrison County to care for a brother who was working as a blacksmith with Thomas Dickerson. When he contracted a fever he sent for his sister, and thus was brought about an acquaintance that later ripened into friendship and marriage. They lived in different places, finally settling down In Harrison County. In 1822 Baruch Dickerson was elected sheriff of Harrison County, and at that time he moved to Cadiz. While he was performing the duties of his office a notorious band of horsethieves and counterfeiters infested the whole country from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Lake Erie, and as sheriff Mr. Dickerson was forced to deal with them. While in northern Ohio securing depositions he contracted a fever and died from it.
The children of Baruch Dickerson were Joshua, Susannah, Polly, Thomas, Polly (the first child named Polly died and, as used to be the custom in many families, another was given the same name), Jane, William Wilson and Elizabeth. Baruch Dickerson was a whig, and besides serving the county as sheriff he also served as county commissioner. He was a marksman of ability, and was captain of the first rifle company.
Joshua, the oldest son of Baruch Dickerson, was sixteen years old when his father died, and a year later he went to the home of an uncle, Aaron Mercer, in Short Creek Township, where he worked in a woolen factory and in a ftouring mill, remaining there four years. The capacity of the flouring mill was 1,300 barrels and it was all consumed in the immediate community.
In 1834 Joshua Dickerson married Elizabeth Crumley, who died childless, and his second marriage was with Mary Jane Elliott. She was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Grimes) Elliott, of Belmont County. Eight children were born to this union : Aaron (deceased), Baruch (deceased), Thomas, Sarah, Theodore, Samuel (died in infancy), Hiram (died in 1920) and Charles. While the history of the Dickerson family was identified with the whig political party, Theodore Dickerson was born the year the whig party was swallowed up by another and he has been a republican. His father was a member of the whig party but when it had served its time he became identified with its successor, the republican party.
When a family has lived long enough in one community that a rural church has borne its name through successive generations it has perpetuated itself, and such is the history of the Dickerson family in Harrison County. Theo-
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dore Dickerson began farm activities on the old homestead of his father and he lives there today. On April 15, 1896, he married Ella Haver- field, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Barr) Haverfleld. Their children are: Floyd H. and Hartzell Paul Dickerson, both living with their father. The mother died January 29, 1916, and on March 3, 1920, Mr. Dickerson married Margaret J. McFadden, daughter of Thompson and Elizabeth (Dickerson) McFadden. The church relation is with the Dickerson Methodist Episcopal Church in the community.
Theodore Dickerson has served as a member of the board of trustees and as treasurer of the Dickerson Methodist Episcopal Church for more than thirty years. He has been school director and a member of the local school board for more than twenty years. "By their fruits ye shall know them," and it is the part of good citizenship to serve one's day and generation.
CHARLES PHILLIPS. The family story of Charles Phillips of Cadiz Township reverts at once to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he was born August 19, 1857, a son of William S. Phillips. Pennsylvania means "Woody land of Penn," and the Phillips family have been Quakers, William Penn having offered special inducements to settlers of that faith in the colony founded by him. W. S. Phillips was born there May 12, 1828, and he married Ruth Swan, of the same community. Her father, Richard Swan, was a farmer of Fayette County. Their children are: Presley, Charles, Alfred, Ruth, Sarah and Emily.
W. S. Phillips was a son of Ellis Phillips, grandfather of the Cadiz Township citizen. He was born October 12, 1798, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His wife, Phoebe (Lilly) Phillips, was ten years his junior, born April 1, 1808, and they married and lived on a farm in Fayette County. Their children are Ruth, born July 23, 1826; William S.; Solomon, born September 25, 1830; Thomas, February 17, 1835; James Alfred, December 15, 1839; Ellis, August 31, 1843; Martha Jane, August 26, 1845. The wife and mother died February 27, 1850, and the father died January 9, 1878, their lives having been lived under different conditions from the civilization of today when the high cost of living enters into it. William S. Phillips, who always lived in Fayette County, was a school teacher for three winters in his young manhood, and the remainder of his life was spent as a farmer. As in the previous generation the family are Friends.
In his boyhood days in Pennsylvania Charles Phillips, of Cadiz Township, attended the common schools of Fayette County, and later he was a student in the Pennsylvania State Normal at California, Pennsylvania. He also took a commercial course at Iron City, Pennsylvania. While he had unusual educational advantages, he did not quit the farm for business opportunities. The day of the educated farmer was at hand, and Mr. Phillips was ready for it.
On January 25, 1890, Mr. Phillips married Elizabeth D. Elliott. She is a daughter of James and Jane (Dixon) Elliott. In the following year he bought his Harrison County farm and moved to it. It is on the Cadiz and Steubenville pike, and he has made of it an attractive farmstead. There are 181 acres of land, with good buildings on it. Mr. Phillips combines livestock industry with farming, and his specialty is Shorthorn cattle.
Mr. Phillips has given educational advantages to his children, the son, William, born October 2, 1891, is a graduate of Ohio State University at Columbus in the class of 1915, and Helen Annabelle, born August 22, 1893, is a graduate of Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, class of 1916. In this instance the Phillips family are Presbyterians. There is an old saying: "Once a Friend always a Quaker," but Friends are unknown in some communities.
The Elliott family also lived in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Phillips having been born there. James Elliott was a Fayette County farmer, and his wife, Jane McKee Dixon, was a daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Forsythe) Dixon. Their children were: Josephine, born July 23, 1849; John, March 17, 1852; Edward, September 24, 1854; Elizabeth, September 1, 1857; Harvey, January 27, 1863; Annabelle, November 1, 1866.
The father of James Elliott was William and his mother was Ruth (Crawford) Elliott. William Elliott was a captain in the Revolutionary war. The Phillips-Elliott family have a fine historical background in colonial days in America.
JOHN W. WHITCRAFT succeeded his father as owner of the substantial lumber and planing- mill business which the latter had long conducted at Carrollton, and has secure status as one of the representative business men of his native city and county. He is a scion of the fourth generation of the Whitcraft family in what is now Carroll County, with whose annals the family name has been worthily linked for more than a century. His great-grandfather, John Whitcraft, was born and reared in Ireland, and in 1814 he and his wife, whose family name was Harper, became residents and pioneer settlers of that part of Harrison County that is now comprised in Carroll County. They came to Ohio soon after their immigration to America, and Mr. Whitcraft became one of the honored pioneer farmers of Carroll County, where he reclaimed his land from the forest, the original deed to the property having been signed by President James Monroe and being still preserved as a family heirloom. This deed was for the last land taken by this sterling pioneer, and the tract that it conferred is situated about four miles distant from Leesville, Carroll County. Here John Whitcraft died in 1854, his wife having passed away in 1834. Their son John H. was born within the limits of the present Harrison County but was reared to manhood in Carroll County. In 1834 he married Mary, a daughter of William Alban, of Stark County, and they established their home on a farm four miles distant from Leesville- the old homestead previously mentioned. In 1853 Mr. Whitcraft was elected sheriff of the county, which office he retained four years. He was a presidential elector from Ohio at the time
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when Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president, and he was one of the vigorous and successful men of affairs in Carroll County until his death in 1884, at the age of seventy-two years. His wife survived him by several years, and both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children the eldest, Matilda, widow of Capt. Isaac Ulman, is still living, at a venerable age, and resides at Massillon, Stark County; Elizabeth died in 1858; William Alban met his death in the Civil war, having been killed in action while serving as lieutenant of Company A, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Henry H. was a father of John W., immediate subject of this review; Amanda died at the age of ten years; James P. was in railroad service many years prior to his death; and Mary Martha, wife of William W. Cressinger, still resides in Carroll County.
John W. Whitcraft was born at Carrollton on the 8th of October, 1872, and is a son of Henry H. and Nancy (McLaughlin) Whitcraft, whose marriage was solemnized in 1868 at Carrollton. Henry H. Whitcraft was born in Monroe Township, this county, November 30, 1840, and his wife was born in Fox Township in 1844, a daughter of the late Judge James McLaughlin, a representative of another well known pioneer family of Carroll County. Henry H. Whitcraft was reared on his father's farm and received excellent educational advantages. He was teaching school at the time of the inception of the Civil war, but promptly subordinated all other interests to tender his aid in defense of the Union. On the 7th of November, 1861, be enlisted in Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was made sergeant. In the battle of Iuka, September 19, 1862, his left arm was disabled by a musket ball wound, and in February, 1863, he received his honorable discharge. A few months later, however, he was given a position in the commissary department of the army, and he thus continued in service until the close of the war. For one year thereafter he taught school and also gave supervision to his farm in Carroll County, and thereafter he served as assessor of internal revenues until 1875, when he established himself in the lumber business at Carrollton. With this business he continued his association until his death in 1910, since which time the enterprise has been continued by his elder son, to whom this review is dedicated. Mr. Whitcraft was a staunch republican, held church membership and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. A man of sterling character, he held inviolable place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. His widow still resides at Carrollton, and of their children the eldest is Mary, who is the wife of William M. Shepherd, of Carrollton; Alice is the wife of William F. Forsythe, of Carrollton ; John W., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Mrs. Emma Sterling likewise resides at Carrollton; Grace is the wife of U. 0. Deford, of Youngstown, Ohio; and James H. is a practicing physician at Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
After having received the advantages of the public schools of Carrollton John W. Whitcraft completed a course in the celebrated Eastman Business College in the City of Poughkeepsie, New York, and upon his return to his native place became associated with his father's lumber business, with which his active connection has continued during the intervening years and of which he came into full control after the death of his honored father, on the 6th of December, 1910. The Whitcraft lumber business at Carrollton has long been the most extensive and important enterprise of the kind in Carroll County, and it history has been one of admirable service and fair and honorable dealings— covering a period of fully forty-five years. Mr. Whitcraft is one of the progressive business men and liberal and public-spirited citizens of Carrollton, is a republican in politics, but has never been an aspirant for public office, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
In 1896 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitcraft to Miss Daisy McGuire, only daughter of the late Frank W. and Clara Belle (Hoops) McGuire, of Carrollton. The elder of the two children of this union is John Henry, who was born January 15, 1906, and who is, in 1920, a member of the freshman class of the Carrollton High School. Catherine, the younger child, died at the age of two years.
WILLIAM J. CARSON. Industriously engaged in the prosecution of a calling upon which the support and wealth of the nation largely depends, William J, Carson, of Stock Township, holds an assured position among the enterprising and prosperous farmers of Harrison County. He was born January 6, 1871, in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, which was also the birthplace of his father, Albert Osborne Carson.
A son of William and Betsy (Wells) Carson, pioneers of Harrison County, Albert Osborne Carson spent nearly the whole of his life in Nottingham Township, where his death occurred May 14, 1903. He was a tiller of the soil, and with the exception of nine years that he was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Cadiz Township, carried on general farming in his native township. He married Lydia Ellen Milliken, who was born in Nottingham Township, on the parental homestead, a daughter of Mark and Joanna (Smith) Milliken, who reared five children, as follows: Lydia Ellen, James G., Clifford J., Harvey H. and Anna May. Mr. and Mrs. Milliken were members of the Minksville Christian Church. Mr. and Mrs. William Carson were the parents of nine children, namely: Zella May, wife of Robert M. Smith: Nannie May, wife of John Fitzgerald; William J., of whom we write; Myrtle, who married William Lee; James L.; Emma, wife of William K. Milliken; Eva, wife of George Dunlap; Lloyd, who married Julia Fulton; and Guy, who married Kate Rolands. Mrs. Carson survived her husband a number of years, passing away April 4, 1913.
Having acquired a good common school education in his native township William J. Carson began his life as a farmer in Cadiz Township, remaining there a few years and then returning to Nottingham Township, where he continued
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as a tiller of the soil seven years. Moving to Stock Township in 1912, Mr. Carson assumed the management of the farm belonging to E. M. Long. Buying this farm of 180 acres in 1914, he has since been busily and successfully engaged in general farming. He also takes great interest in the raising of tine stock, meeting with success in this as in his other branches of industry.
Mr. Carson married November 3, 1896, Anna Ball Hammill, who was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Angeline (Robison) Hammill. Into the household thus established eight children have made their advent, namely: Charles Raymond, living in Uhrichsville, Ohio, married Gertrude Robson; William Fred, at home; Nellie L., wife of Clarence Bigger, of Cadiz; Alma Florence; Estella Belle; Howard H., Elizabeth B.; and Elma Lloyd. Mr. and Mrs. Carson are devout members of the Christian Church at Minksville, and liberal contributors towards its support. For four years Mr. Carson, who is especially interested in the education of the children of this generation, served as a member of the local school board.
HARRY H. WHITTLER. A live, wide-awake agriculturist of Stock Township, full of vim and energy, Harry H. Whittaker is numbered among those sturdy, energetic and progressive farmers of Harrison County who thoroughly understand the vocation which they follow and are carrying it on with both profit and pleasure. He was born August 26, 1886, in North Township. His paternal great-grandfather, James Whittaker, a native of Ireland, immigrated to America when young, settling as a pioneer in North Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where he continued a resident until his death.
Harry H. 'Whittaker attended tirst the rural schools of North and Stock townships, later continuing his studies for a year at Scio College in Scio, Ohio, and then spending a year at the Ohio State University in Columbus. A youth of energy and ambition, possessing excellent business ability, he subsequently bought a tract of land adjoining his father's farm, which he manages in conjunction with his own, and has since been prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuits. In addition to carrying on general farming be makes a specialty of stock raising, breeding a pure strain of Aberdeen Angus cattle.
Mr. Whittaker married in February, 1912, Virginia Harrison, a daughter of John and Euphemia (Patterson) Harrison, of North Township. Religiously Mr. Whittaker supports the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is a member of Scio Lodge No. 587 Free and Accepted Masons; and of Cadiz Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He is a past master of Valley Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, is a republican in politics and a member of the Harrison County Agriculture Society.
SAMUEL POOLE, senior member of the firm of Poole & McLaughlin, which conducts a well equipped hardware store 'in the city of Carrollton, has gained secure place as one of the progressive and representative merchants of his native county. He was born in Carrollton, Carroll County, May 23, 1874, and is a son of Andrew J. and Mary (Baxter) Poole, the former of whom was born in Stark County, this state, in 1839, and the latter was born in Carroll County in 1838, a daughter of William and Catherine (Albaugh) Baxter, honored pioneers of whom more specific mention may be found on other pages of this volume. Andrew J. Poole was a son of Thomas and Sarah (Berger) Poole, who came from Pennsylvania and established their home near Waynesburg, Stark County, Ohio, in the early pioneer days, the father having been a native of Virginia and a representative of a family there founded in the colonial period of our national history. His wife was born in Pennsylvania, and there their marriage occurred. From Stark County they finally removed to Carroll County and established their home at Carrollton, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Thomas Poole was a molder by trade, and while the War of 1812 was in progress he was detailed by the Government to service in the manufacturing of cannon balls near Lisbon, Columbiana County. The cannon balls which he thus molded were in part transported overland to Lake Erie, and were used by Commodore Perry in his naval operations on that inland sea. Mr. Poole was a democrat in politics, and his wife was a communicant of the Lutheran Church.
Andrew J. Poole was a child at the time of the family removal to Carrollton, where he received his early education in the common schools of the period and where he learned the molder's trade under the effective direction of his father. He continued to follow his trade during the major part of his active career and continued to maintain his home at Carrollton until his death, which occurred when he was about sixty years of age, his venerable widow now having a home with their only surviving child, Samuel, subject of this sketch, the other two children having died in infancy. Mr. Poole cast his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas, and thereafter he transferred his allegiance to the republican party, in the ranks of which he continued to be staunchly aligned during the remainder of his life. He held membership in the Reformed Church, as does also his widow.
Samuel Poole continued his studies in the public schools of Carrollton until his graduation from the high school, and thereafter he was for a short time engaged in teaching in the district schools. Then he found employment in the hardware store of Audrey J. Stoody, of Carrollton, where he also learned the tinner's trade. Later he served effectively as a clerk in the offices of the county auditor and county treasurer, and in this service he continued until 1907, when he entered into partnership with Charles McLaughlin and engaged in the hardware business under the firm name of Poole & McLaughlin. The firm has a large and well appointed store in which is to be found a complete stock of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, etc., and a well equipped tin shop is maintained in the establishment, with facilities
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for producing the best kind of tinware, as well as the handling of job work in metals. The partners are vigorous and progressive business men and their enterprise has been distinctively successful under their able management.
Though never a seeker of political preferment, Mr. Poole gives a loyal allegiance to the republican party, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including the commandery of Knights Templar in the City of Canton, Stark County, and the Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in the City of Cleveland, where he also holds membership in the Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In the year 1912 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Poole to Miss Cree Butler, a daughter of Joseph Butler, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Poole have no children.
JAMES MURRAY. In his youth this sterling Citizen, who is now living retired at Minerva, was admirably equipped for the battle of life, as he was possessed not only of an alert mentality but also of splendid physical powers, and it was given him to achieve substantial success as a vigorous representative of farm industry in Carroll County, where he continued his activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower until 1902. He then removed from his farm to Minerva, where he has served two terms as mayor and been otherwise influential in civic affairs.
Mr. Murray was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, on the 16th of September, 1840, and is a son of James and Sarah (Washburn) Murray, the former of whom was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1800, and the latter was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1803. James Murray, Sr., was a youth of sixteen years when he left the Emerald Isle and came to America, and after remaining for a time in New Jersey he established his residence at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in which state his marriage was solemnized and in which he continued his residence. until the later '30s, when he came with his family to Ohio and engaged in farming in Columbiana County. There he remained until 1849, when he removed to Carroll County and purchased a partially improved farm in Brown Township, near Minerva. He became one of the substantial farmers and highly esteemed citizens of that township, where he continued to reside until his death in 1856, when fifty-six years of age. His widow survived him by nearly two score years, attained to the remarkable age of ninety years and remained on the old home farm until her death, which occurred in January, 1893, both having been earnest communicants of the Catholic Church. Of the children the firstborn was Margaret, who died at the age of three years; and those who attained to adult age are here named in respective order of birth—Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Charles, Frank, Sarah Jane, James and John.
He whose name initiates this review was nine years of age at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, where he was reared on the old home farm, the while he profited duly by the advantages afforded In the local schools of the period. After the death of his father he remained with his widowed mother on the old homestead, of which he eventually became the owner, and at the time of his retirement from farm enterprise, after many years of successful activity, his landed estate comprised 132 acres—a property which he still owns and which is one of the valuable farms of Brown Township.
At Minerva, a thriving little ,city situated about one-half mile distant from his farm, but in Stark County, Mr. Murray has an attractive home, and he has been one of the liberal and progressive citizens of this place, where, as previously stated, he served two terms as mayor and where he was a member of the Board of Education for nine years,-18841893. In 1886 he was elected county commissioner of Carroll County and served three years. Mr. Murray is a staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and in his religious views is Catholic. He has remained a bachelor, but his venerable mother presided graciously over their rural home on the old farm until the time of her death and received from him the utmost filial devotion.
WESLEY BROWNING HEARN. The late Wesley B. Hearn, long an able editor and leading citizen of Cadiz, was born on a farm in Jefferson County, Ohio, on October 6, 1840, and died at his home in Cadiz April 29, 1915.
The Hearn family, which has been in America since 1765, is of English-Scotch stock. Lancelot, father of Wesley B., was born in Baltimore in 1794, and came to eastern Ohio in 1815. He was a farmer and miller, and at one time was a manufacturer of woolens. He married Barbara Sutherland Urquhart, a daughter of Alexander and Frances (Tucker) Urquhart. She was born in Charleston, West Virginia, then Old Virginia, and came with her parents to Harrison County in 1813, the family locating south of Cadiz. Alexander Urquhart was a Scotchman and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Wesley B. Hearn was a boy of nine years when his parents removed to Cadiz. He attended the common schools and when a boy entered the office of the Cadiz Sentinel as "printer's devil." Later he went to work as a printer in the office of the Cadiz Republican, with which paper he was to be associated practically all the rest of his life. For a time he was employed as compositor by a Boston Publishing House and for a time he was a school teacher, but with those exceptions he was associated with the Republican, and for over forty years was its publisher and owner, he having purchased the paper in April, 1869. As an editor Mr. Hearn was forceful, aggressive and progressive, and his editorial writings were an inspiration to his readers. Thus his influence was strong and far-reaching, and as he was always on the right side of all momentous questions of the day his articles did much to mould public opinion and incline it towards what was right and good for the community. He was an anti-saloon man, and through his
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paper he fought the battles of the crusaders through all the years of the fight on liquor waged by its enemies during the years following the Civil war. And while he was what was termed a "hard-hitter" in his editorials, yet he was fair, honest and conscientious in his writings and always held at least the respect of those with whom he associated through his paper. He was a just man and wrote from an unbiased point of view, and never descended to personalities. He assailed the principle at issue rather than the men who supported the principle. Thus Mr. Hearn came to be regarded as one of the really able editors of eastern Ohio, if not of the entire state.
Mr. Hearn was also active in civic and public affairs generally. He served as a member of the County Board of School Examiners for a time, served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cadiz Public Library, and in 1889 he was elected a member of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly, serving during the session of 1890-91.
Mr. Hearn was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for years sang in the choir of that church. He was deeply interested in Sunday school work and served as teacher and as superintendent of the Sunday school. His entire life was a tune to church work and its kindred interests. He was charitable, benevolent and ready at all times to do all in his power to promote the church and the welfare of the entire community.
Mr. Hearn was always a student, and he collected one of the finest private libraries to be found in this section, and in this library and in his home he found his greatest pleasures and comforts.
Mr. Hearn was an able editor, a staunch church man and a good citizen. He was endowed with a kindly nature, a love for all humanity and a great desire to assist his fellow creatures. He was a noble man and a good American.
On July 30, 1868, Mr. Hearn was united in marriage with Miss Jennie C. Beall, daughter of Dr. John C. and Agnes Tate (Vincent) Beall, To their marriage was born one daughter, Emma Beall Hearn, who married John N. Carnahan, of an old Cadiz family, and now superintendent of a silver mining company in Mexico. He and his wife make their residence at Monterey, Mexico.
Dr. John Bean, father of Mrs. Hearn, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1809, the son of James and Jane (Baird) Bean, who came from Virginia. He was of Scotch Presbyterian stock, his American ancestor, Ninnian Beall, having come over from Edinboro in 1636 and settled first at Annapolis, Maryland. Doctor Beall was educated in the public schools and at Franklin College. He conducted a drug store and a book store in Cadiz for many years. He served as postmaster at Cadiz during the administration of President James K. Polk. He was twice married, his tirst marriage being with Sarah Heald, who bore him two children, Amanda and William. His second marriage was with Agnes Tate Vincent, who was born at Beech Springs, Harrison County, the daughter of Thomas C. and Jane (McCurdy) Vincent. To the second marriage of Doctor Beall the following children were born : Jennie C., Mrs. Hearn, Mary I., Albert, deceased, Ida F., Laura A., Emma B., Anna B. and John A.
Thomas C. Vincent and his wife, Jane McCurdy, were Harrison County pioneers. The Vincent family is of French Huguenot stock. The family fled from France upon the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, going to Ireland and then to the United States. Thomas C. was ten years old when he came with his parents to America, and was a young man when he came to Harrison County, locating first at Beech Springs and later in Cadiz. He was the second man elected county clerk, and later he was elected to the Ohio Legislature.
Gen. Thomas McCurdy Vincent, son of Thomas C., was graduated from West Point Military Academy and was serving as professor of astronomy at the Academy when the Civil war came on. He was commissioned brigadier general and was at the first battle of Bull Run, where his horse was shot under him. He was recalled to Washington by Secretary Stanton, and during the remainder of the war he was on duty at the War Department with Stanton. To him was given the demobilizing of the troops after the war, and he marched at the head of the parade at the Grand Review in Washington City. Like Stanton, he was a close friend of President Lincoln, and both of them were with the President during his last hours, ministering to and comforting the stricken man; and it was General Vincent who closed the eyes of the dead martyr when the end came.
SAMUEL H. GIFFEN. The Giffen family is one of the old and respected ones of Harrison County, and is also equally well known in Belmont and surrounding counties, where representatives of the name are displaying the balance, stability and strength (of character which belong to the best regulated men and women. One of those bearing the name with dignity and honor is Samuel H. Giffen, a retired merchant of Harrisville. He was born near Glencoe Station, Belmont County, Ohio, April 26, 1840, a son of William Giffen, and grandson of John Giffen. -
John Giffen came from Glasgow, Scotland, where he was born in 1765, with his parents to the United States in 1769 and the family settled in New York State, but later moved to Ohio County in what is now West Virginia. There John Giffen was married to Elizabeth Morrison, born in Ohio County, West Virginia, a daughter of Robert Morrison. They became the parents of the following children : Robert, Mary, William, John, Samuel, Joseph, Morrison, Jane Ann, Elizabeth and Sarah Ann. When they came to America the Giffens were Coventers, but later became members of the United Presbyterian Church.
William Giffen was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, in 1802, and died in 1878. In 1826 he was married to Helen Grayham, born in Claysville, Pennsylvania, a daughter of James and Mary (Marshall) Grayham. The children born to William Giffen and his wife were as follows:
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James G., who was born in 1828; John M., who was born in 1830; Elizabeth, who was born in 1832, married Elisha Oxley; Samuel H., who was born in 1840; and Margaret, who never married, lives in Montana. The family were strong church people, very religious and conscientious members of the United Presbyterian Church. With the exception of one year spent in Iowa, William Giffen passed his life in Belmont County, and directed his efforts to farming, becoming a prosperous man.
Samuel H. Giffen attended the district schools of Belmont County at Cherry Hill, and later was given the advantages of a course in Cunningham's Academy in Belmont County, Ohio. When he was seventeen years old he came to Harrison County, and during the fall of 1858 became an apprentice in his uncle's general store at Harrisville. His contract required him to serve three years, and during that period he lost but seven days, which he made up. In the spring of 1862 Mr. Giffen went to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he became a member of Harper Brothers Company, dealers at wholesale in hats, caps and straw goods and maintained these connections until 1870, when he dissolved them. In partnership with Charles Cessna, Mr. Giffen established the wholesale firm in connection with which he did business along the same lines until 1873. He then left Wheeling and went to Johnson County, Kansas, and conducted a grocery for a year, but, preferring Ohio, returned to Harrisville and opened a grocery, later branching out as a general merchant. After fifteen years in mercantile life he went into the manufacture of cigars and carried that on for ten years. Although he has transacted business which necessitated his being at Wheeling more or less at different periods, Harrisville has continued his permanent home since he returned from the west, and his interests are centered here. About 1919 Mr. Giffen retired, and is now enjoying the comforts his industry and good business management have secured for him. For a period of twenty-one years he served as mayor of Harrisville, and he has also held every village office, the people having such confidence in him and his ability that they have been eager to thrust responsibility upon him. He assisted in making West Virginia a commonwealth, and he served two years in the West Virginia State Guards.
On August 26, 1859, Mr. Giffen was united in marriage with Mary J. Bleakmore, born at Harrisville, Ohio, a daughter of George W. and Sarah (Miller) Bleakmore. George W. Bleak- more came to Harrisville from Moundsville, West Virginia, in 1834, and was engaged in conducting a hotel at Harrisville the remainder of his life. Mr, and Mrs. George W. Bleakmore had the following children: Marissa, Mary Jane, Sepharvaim, Amanda, Cecilia and Angeline. The children born to the first marriage of Samuel H. Giffen were as follows: William A., who died in 1888; James F., who was second in order of birth; Samuel H., Jr., who died in 1914; Helen Jane, who married Robert S. Ball, lives at Great Falls, Montana; Gussie T., who married Edwin French, became a physician, and she is engaged in practice at Detroit, Michigan;
John B., who is a merchant of Harrisville; and Anna M., who married Leonard Burdick and lives at Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Giffen died in 1883. On December 31, 1891, Mr. Giffen was married to Mrs. Sarah J. Morgan, widow of George Morgan, and a daughter of John and Mary (King) Parterfield. By her marriage with Mr..Morgan Mrs. Giffen had six children, five of whom lived to reach maturity, namely: Mary C., who married William Watson; Clara Bell, who married George Webster; Anna B., who married Dr. George Furby; Lola, who married Grafton Stephens; and George P., who married Jeanette Beck. Mr. and Mrs. Giffen belong to the United Presbyterian Church, and are active in its good work.
JOHN B. GIFFEN. One of the leading business men of Harrisville is John B. Giffen, who for the past fifteen years has been conducting one of the leading mercantile houses and restaurants of this part of the county. He was born at Harrisville, October 26, 1875, a son of Samuel H. and Mary J. (Bleakmore) Giffen, grandson of William Giffen, and great-grandson of John Giffen.
The Giffen family originated in Glasgow, Scotland, where John Giffen was born in 1765, and when he was four years old his parents came to America. William Giffen was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, to which locality his father had moved from the initial settlement in New York State, and he went on westward into Ohio, locating near Glencoe Station, Belmont County, Ohio, where his son Samuel H. Giffen was born in 1840.
Leaving the home of his father, Samuel H. Giffen traveled about for some years, living at Harrisville, Ohio, Wheeling, West Virginia, and Johnson County, Kansas, and then settled permanently at Harrisville, where he is now living in honorable retirement. In the preceding sketch will be found the biography of Samuel H. Giffen and his first wife, the mother of 'John B. Giffen, as well as other matters of family history. Mrs. Giffen was born at Harrisville, Ohio, a daughter of George W. Bleakmore.
John B. Giffen attended the public schools of Harrisville and in 1890 went to Wheeling, West Virginia, to visit relatives, and while there attended school. He was also employed in a music store of that city. Going to Cleveland, Ohio, in search of a wider field, he was employed by the Kimball Piano Company of that city for two years, but in 1897 returned to Harrisville, where he has continued to live. For the past fifteen years he has concentrated his efforts upon making his store and restaurant paying enterprises, and has succeeded in an admirable manner.
On April 14, 1904, Mr. Giffen was married to Hattie I. Watson, a daughter of J. W. and Mary Catherine (Morgan) Watson. Mrs. Giffen was a graduate nurse, having taken her course in the Old Wheeling Hospital at Wheeling, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Giffen have no children. Although brought up in the United Presbyterian Church, Mr. Giffen does not belong to it, but his wife does. He is a member of Saint Clairsville Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and also be-
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longs to the Knights of Pythias of Harrisville. In addition to his other interests Mr. Giffen is a director of the Adena Commercial and Savings Bank of Adena, Jefferson County, Ohio, and in every line he is displaying excellent business ability, and discharging the duties assigned to him in a wholly efficient and praiseworthy way.
JESSE C. RUFF, whose effective administration in the office of postmaster marks him as one of the leading citizens of the thriving village of Minerva, was born in West Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, September 5, 1857, and in addition to receiving the advantages of the public schools of his native county his ambition to gain a liberal education resulted in his attending Mount Union College in the years 1871 and 1872. At the age of seventeen years he engaged in teaching in the district schools, and he continued successfully to follow the pedagogic profession until 1886, after which he was engaged in farm enterprise for six years. In 1892 he became associated with the operation of a brick yard at Pekin, Carroll County, and with this enterprise he continued his alliance twenty years. For the ensuing three years he was employed at the warehouse of L. Dennis at Minerva, and in 1916 he received appointment to the office of postmaster of this village, a position in which he has since continued to give most effective and popular service, besides which his civic loyalty has been further shown in his service as a member of the Board of Education of the village, of which he was president for some time. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party and has been active in the promotion of its cause, both he and his wife being members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
On the 20th of March, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ruff to Miss Mary M. Harsh, daughter of Isaac and Barbara Harsh, of Carroll County, and a granddaughter of the late Lewis Harsh, one of the sterling pioneers of this county. To Mr. and Mrs. Ruff have been born seven children : Charles resides at Malvern, this county; Homer, who is a resident of the state of California, married Miss Minnie Henry, of Malvern, and they have one child, Don; Wade, who resides in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, married Miss Olive Ruff, and their one child is a daughter, Betty; Mary died at the age of sixteen years; Emma is the wife of Otto Mount, of Cambridge, Guernsey County, and they have one son, Dick Wilson; John resides at Minerva, the maiden name of his wife having been Cleo Rue, and their one child being a fine little son, John, Jr., more familiarly known as "Jack ;" and Goldie is the wife of J, D. Herr, of Chicago, Illinois.
JAMES W. WILKIN. Among the well-known farmers of Freeport Township, Harrison County, whose industry, energy and good management have placed them in comfortable circumstances and gained for them a reputable standing among their townsmen is James W. Wilkin, who has successfully pursued his vocation on his present property for twelve years. Mr. Wilkin was born in Belmont County, Ohio, July 31, 1860, a son of Thomas and Mary (Griffin) Wilkin.
The pioneer of this branch of the Wilkin family in Ohio was Archibald Wilkin, the grandfather of James W., who was born in Pennsylvania and in young manhood removed to Guernsey County, this state, where he followed farming during the remainder of his life. He was the father of the following children : Andrew, William, James, Archibald, Mary Jane, Catherine and Rebecca. Thomas Wilkin was born in Pennsylvania and as a young man adopted the pursuits of the soil for his life work, subsequently following farming and stock raising in Guernsey and Belmont counties during the remainder of a long and honorable career. His death occurred in 1891. Mr. Wilkin married Miss Mary Griffrn, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, a daughter of James and Hannah Griffin, natives of Ireland. She died December 9, 1920. They had nine children, as follows: Margaret; Elizabeth, who died as a child; Hannah; Harriet; Martha ; James W.; Thomas Henry ; John A., who died as a child; and Rebecca, deceased.
James W. Wilkin was given the advantages of attendance at the district schools of Guernsey County and resided on the home farm until his marriage, in 1891, to Miss Lizzie Bond, a daughter of Joshua and Susanna (Huffman). Bond. Following their marriage Mr. Wilkin started farming in Belmont County, where he• remained until 1906, then removing to Scio,. Ohio, where he resided for four months. At that time he made his advent in Harrison County, which has since been his home, and during the past twelve years has lived on his present farm of 160 acres in Freeport Township. He carries on general farming and stock raising, and his labors have been attended with gratifying success, he being justly accounted one of the substantial men of his section. As a citizen he has given his moral and material support to worthy measures, and while he has never sought office or public honors has endeavored to assist in the securing of good officials and proper legislation. Mrs. Wilkin is a member of the Methodist Church. They have no children.
Thomas Henry Wilkin, a brother of James W. Wilkin, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, January 15, 1864, and received his education in the public schools in the vicinity of the home farm. As a young man he started farming in his native county, where he became the owner of 160 acres, but in 1906 disposed of his holdings and moved to his present farm in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where he owns a valuable and productive property, consisting of ninety-three acres. He does general farming and stock raising, in which he has achieved success, and since his arrival has made numerous improvements, including the building of a new barn. In 1895 Mr. Wilkin married Iona Campbell, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Donley) Campbell, and four children were born to this union: Dorothy Blanche, who married Worthy Milliken and has one son, Harry Raymond; an infant who died unnamed; and Freda May and Ralph Raymond, who reside with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkin are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Piedmont.
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DAVID A. KEAN. In ascribing the distinction of pioneer ancestry to citizens of the present generation In Carroll County more than ordinary prestige must be accorded to David Addison Kean, who is a native of Lee Township, this county, and who is one of the progressive farmers of this township. The original representative of the Kean family in this section of the Buckeye State was John Kean, who was born and reared in Ireland and who received a liberal education. After his marriage he served about three years in the English army, his repugnance to this enforced military service finally resulting in his deserting from the ranks and making his way to the United States, he having first located in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in teaching school. In 1814 his wife joined him in this country, and soon afterward they came to Ohio and established their residence at Salem, Jefferson County. There they remained but a short time, and they then came to what is now Washington Township, Carroll County, where Mr. Kean took up a tract of wild land and instituted the reclamation of a farm, besides which he became one of the first school teachers within the limits of the county as now constituted. After here remaining several years he returned to Jefferson County and located near Bergholtz, where he passed the remainder of his life. Both he and his wife were of venerable age at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of the following children : Mrs. Jane Kelly, Mrs. Rosanna Sweany, John, Mrs. Mary A. Miller, Francis, Mrs. Isabella Fulton, Mrs. Matilda Wallace, Daniel and William. Of the above named children John was the grandfather of him whose name initiates this review.
David Addison Kean was born in Lee Town, Carroll County, on the 28th of July, 1870, and is a son of Francis and Sarah (Hunter) Kean, the former a native of Jefferson County, this state, and the latter of Washington County, Pennsylvania, whence her parents, John and Christiana (George) Hunter, came to Ohio in the pioneer days. Francis Kean was reared and educated in this section of the Buckeye State and after his marriage he settled in Lee Township, Carroll County, where he continued as one of the substantial citizens and representative farmers of the county until his death, on the 18th of March, 1890. The family name of his first wife was Hoobler, and of this union were born eleven children. After the death of his first wife he married Miss Sarah Hunter, and they became the parents of two sons and five daughters. Mrs. Kean survived her husband fourteen years and entered into eternal rest on the 9th of May, 1904, both having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church.
David A. Kean remained on the old home farm until the death of his father, and in the meanwhile he had profited by the advantages offered in the Pleasant Hill district school, which he continued to attend at intervals until he was eighteen years of age. After the death of his father he assumed active management of the old home farm, and here he continued to care for his widowed mother with deep filial odevotion until she too passed away. He then came into possession of about ninety-two acres of the original farm of his father, in section 4, Lee Township, and there he continued his residence until July, 1919, when he sold the property and purchased his present well improved farm of 150 acres in the northwest corner of Lee Township. Here he has a splendid field for his vigorous and progressive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and in all of the relations of life he is well upholding the prestige of the honored family name. In addition to the home place he owns also another farm of 160 acres, this being likewise in Lee Township and being used largely for pasturage and the raising of fodder crops. Mr. Kean gives special attention to the raising of cattle, sheep and swine, and in this department of farm enterprise his operations are carried on upon a somewhat extensive scale. His home farm was owned in the pioneer days by a man named Wolf, who here maintained an old-time tavern and stage coach station for the accommodation of travelers passing along the road between Steubenville and Canton, the farm being about midway between these no attractive cities. In the old Wolf Tavern were held pioneer court proceedings, and it was the stage also of public meetings of both political and social order.
Mr. Kean is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party, is affiliated with the Carrollton camp of the Modern Woodmen of America, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Carrollton, in which he is serving as an elder.
On the 14th of November, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kean to Miss Anna Allmon, who was born and reared in Fox Township, this county, a daughter of John and Lydia (Dennis) Allmon, and a granddaughter of Preston and Elizabeth (Woods) Allmon, who were early settlers in Jefferson County. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Kean were John W. and Rebecca (Hart) Dennis, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and of Carroll County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kean have four children: Mary B., John F., David R. and Martha Lydia.
EMMETT THOMPSON. There are families who continue through succeeding generations in one community, and Emmett Thompson, of Cadiz Township, was born March 6, 1857, on the same farmstead where his father before him, Joseph L. Thompson, was born February 16, 1826. Thomas Thompson came to Cadiz Township in 1816, and for more than a century the Thompson family has gone in and out in the community.
In 1849, Joseph L. Thompson married Mary Conoway. She was born February 28, 1831, in Archer Township. She was a daughter of Charles and Frances (Arnold) Conoway. Her father was one of the pioneer farmers of Archer Township. In 1868 he removed to Richland County. The Conoway children are: Benjamin, John, Michael, Charles, Enoch, Sophia, Elizabeth, Mary (Mrs. Thompson), Rachel, Susan and Jane. Michael and Enoch were Civil war soldiers, Enoch being killed at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. The Thompsons and Conoways were
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all Methodists, and are cited as exemplary Christian citizens.
Reverting to the Thompson lineage, Thomas Thompson, who planted the family tree in Harrison County, was born, September 8, 1779, within the Revolutionary war period. He was ten years old when George Washington became president of the United States. On May 3, 1804, he married Mary Weston, of Huntington County, Pennsylvania. When they came to Cadiz Township, Harrison County, they located on a farmstead, where they lived the remainder of their days. He died there January 17, 1875. The children in the pioneer Thompson family are: Nancy, born September 25, 1806; John, August 13, 1808; Sarah, October 19, 1811; Thomas, June 20, 1814; Mary, February 9, 1817; Catharine, June 22, 1819; Elijah, December 4, 1821; Joseph, February 16, 1826, and Rachel, June 28, 1828. The early Thompsons were Methodists.
Joseph L. Thompson was born, lived and died where the son Emmett Thompson was born. After the death of .his father, Thomas Thompson, he bought the homestead of 180 acres aud spent all of his life there. The children in his family are: Elosia, wife of Emery Birney ; Rachel, deceased; Emmett, the subject of this review; Jennie, widow of Oscar Sparrow; Junietta, who died in infancy; Mary, wife of Joseph B. Dunlap; and Eleanor, wife of Frank Drum. The mother died June 9, 1907, and the father died January 25, 1908-less than one Year later.
There has been a genealogist abroad in the early Thompson family records, the family annals showing that the great-grandfather of Emmett Thompson, the line coming down through Joseph from Thomas back to Thomas Thompson, was born December 7, 1744, in Center County, Pennsylvania, and that on August 23, 1768, he married Eleanor Lindsay who was born May 4, 1747. The Thompsons of that day and generation were: William, born April 1, 1769; Thomas, who died in infancy; Elizabeth, April 26, 1773; Abraham, December 6, 1775; John, born February 6, 1777; Thomas already mentioned, born September 8, 1779. the child having the name given the second son who died, this one founding the family history iu Harrison County; Isaiah, born August 25, 1781; Amos, October 20. 1783; Nathan, July 8, 1785; Mary, September 6, 1787; Jonathan, August 5, 1790, and Joseph, November 25. 1792. The entire Thompson family were Methodists.
Emmett Thompson who looks back over such a long line of American ancestry, was educated in public school at Cadiz. He always farmed with his father and in 1888 he bought sixty acres adjoining the family homestead. He inherited seventy acres and now owns 130 acres with substantial improvements on it. On August 30, 1888, Mr. Thompson married Abbie Busby. She is a daughter of Martin V. and Melinda (Halley) Busby. Their children are: George B., who married Erma Cramblet, and their children are George Lawrence, Charles Edward and Helen Marie; Oscar V. married Marie Lockhart and they have a son, Robert; Clara is a teacher in the public schools at Kent, Ohio; Joseph L. married Bessie Stamm, and their children are Marion Virginia and Edith Naomi ; and Martha E., Eloisa E., Mary A. and Emmett L.
As a slight resume, the Thompson family is Scotch Irish, the emigrants coming from Scotland and locating in Center County, Pennsylvania, in the eighteenth century. Few families continue longer in one community than the Thompsons of Harrison County. It is written in the Bible that the places that know us now shall soon know us no more forever. Few other families have the heritage of more than a century in one community, the land titles always remaining in the same name, changed only by inheritance from father to son, and now there are Thompson children in the fifth generation.
JAMES W. NEWLIN, while residing in Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, where for the past quarter of a century he has been engaged in the manufacturing of ice cream on a modest scale, still gives his active supervision to his well improved farm of seventy acres in Short Creek Township, about two miles distant from Cadiz.
Mr. Newlin was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 24, 1858, and is a son of James P. and Elizabeth (Cochran) Newlin, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County in December, 1817, and the latter was born in Harrison County, a daughter of Martin Cochran and a representative of one of the well-known pioneer families of this county. James P. Newlin became a skilled workman at the carpenter's trade, to which he gave his attention during the major part of his active career, in the meantime having developed an appreciable business as a contractor and builder. He continued his residence in his native county for many years and then removed to Belmont County, where his death occurred in 1881, and where his wife died in 1873. They were consistent members of the United Presbyterian Church. Of their children the eldest was William A., who entered the service of the Union at the beginning of the Civil war and who was killed while participating in the historic battle of the Wilderness; Margaret A. became the wife of Samuel Patterson, and both were residents of Kansas at the time of their deaths; Martha Jane became the wife of Rev. D. M. Sleeth, and both are now deceased; Emma, the wife of Charles Balch, died in Kansas ; Elizabeth became the wife of Rev. John Giffen, and accompanied him to Egypt, where he was in service as a missionary ; and James W., of this review, is the youngest of the number.
James W. Newlin gained his early education in the public schools of Belmont County, and later attended a high school in West Virginia for two years. As a young man he initiated his independent career as a farmer in Belmont County, where he remained until 1886, when he came to Harrison County and engaged in the same line of industrial enterprise in Short Creek Township, where he still retains and manages his excellent farm of seventy acres, though he and his wife have maintained their home in the village of Cadiz since 1905. He is a loyal supporter of the principles of the repub-
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lican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
December 30, 1884, recorded the marriage of Mr. Newlin to Miss Elizabeth A. Davis, daughter of Alfred and Sarah Davis, of Belmont County. Mrs. Newlin passed to the life eternal in 1909, and of their three children two are living: Gertrude M. is the wife of Rev. William Brainard Jamison, a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church, and they are in active missionary service in Egypt, as successful workers in that ancient land, their one child being a son, Wallace Newlin Jamison ; Roy died at the age of two years; and Mary is, an official in the Young Men's Christian Association at LaCrosse, Wisconsin. In July, 1911, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Newlin to Laura May Holliday, who was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of Eldred G. and Mary (Cunningham) Holliday, both likewise natives of this county and both representatives of early pioneer families that settled in this section of Ohio more than a century ago. Eldred G. Holliday was long numbered among the representative farmers of his native county, where he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths, when venerable in years, their children having been seven in number : John became a distinguished clergyman of the Presbyterian Church; Robert took charge of the old home farm in Harrison County upon which his great-grandfather settled in the early pioneer days; George likewise became a prosperous exponent of farm industry in this county; David became a leading member of the bar in the state of Kansas; Rev. Thomas E., a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church, went as a missionary to India ; Laura May, wife of Mr. Newlin of this review, completed her education in the college at Monmouth, Illinois, and is an active participant in the work of the United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz; and Nancy Bell, the youngest of the children, is Mrs. Nancy Wortman. Mrs. Newlin is the popular chatelaine of the attractive home at Cadiz and makes it a center of gracious hospitality.
J. OSBORN COPE is the owner of one of the well improved and ably managed farm properties of his native county, 104 acres of the tract being in Cadiz Township and seventy-three acres in Nottingham Township, with the dividing line between the two townships thus traversing the farm. He is a representative of one of the old and prominent families of Harrison County, the lineage being traced back to English origin and the founder of the family in America having been Oliver Cope, who came from Wiltshire, England, and settled in Pennsylvania in 1687. One or more of his descendants became residents of Virginia, and it was from that state that John Cope came to Ohio in 1812, and after remaining about a year in Belmont County came to the present Harrison County, where the family name has been one of prominence during the long intervening period of more than a century. In sketches appearing on other pages of this work will be found adequate data concerning the earlier members of this representative family in Harrison County.
J. Osborn Cope was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, October 1, 1876, and is a son of Jacob and Amanda R. (Rose) Cope, both likewise natives of this county, the former a son of Samuel Cope, who was a farmer in Nottingham Township, and the latter a daughter of Hugh Rose, another sterling pioneer of the county. Jacob Cope was for a few years a resident of Illinois, but all of the remainder of his life was passed in his native township of Nottingham, where he was a successful farmer and highly honored citizen at the time of his death, in 1897, his widow still maintaining her home in this county and being a devoted member of the Christian Church, in which he likewise held membership. Their children are seven in number—Ida May, Nancy Emma, J. Osborn, Thomas Blaine, Lucy Lucretia, Walter Milo and Denver Lyle.
J. Osborn Cope acquired his early education in the public schools of his native township and was also afforded advantages for the cultivation of his exceptional musical talent. As a young man he devoted six years to the successful teaching of music in the public schools of Cadiz and Nottingham townships, and since 1900 he has resided upon and given his close attention to his present excellent farm which is given over to diversified agriculture and the raising of live stock, with preference given to sheep. He also owns fine residential property in the city of Cadiz. A republican in politics, Mr. Cope has been influential in community affairs, he having served two terms as trustee of Cadiz Township. Mr. Cope is a member of the Christian Church and Mrs. Cope is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
July 24, 1897, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cope to Miss Ida E. Blair, who was born and reared in Harrison County, as were also her parents, Albert and Hannah R. (Hines) Blair, whose marriage was solemnized June 4, 1871. Mr. Blair was born, in Cadiz Township in 1838, and his wife in Nottingham Township in 1843, she being a daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Carson) Hines. Mr. and Mrs. Cope became the parents of three children, Alberta Estelle, Dorothy Beryl and Helen Irene, the last named having died in infancy. Albert Blair, a son of William and Sarah (Day) Blair, was the owner of a farm of 180 acres in Cadiz Township, and there he died on the 22d of March, 1882, when still a young man. His widow still resides in Harrison County. Of their children Mrs. Cope is the younger, and the firstborn, Mary Effie, died in early childhood.
WALTER C. TOLAND has built up a prosperous business as a painter and paper-hanger in his
native village of Harrisville, Harrison County, where he also gives attention to expert electric wiring service. He was born on the 1st of February, 1871, and is a son of Michael H. and Julia Ann (Dowdell) Toland. Michael H. Poland was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, a son of Hugh and Mary Toland, his father having been a millwright by trade and vocation and having settled in Jefferson County in an early day. He was a native of Ireland, and both he and his wife con-
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tinued their residence in Jefferson County until their deaths. In his youth Michael H. Toland learned the shoemaker's trade, and as a skilled workman he engaged successfully in the work of his trade at Harrisville, Harrison County, where he maintained his home many years, commanded unqualified esteem and where he died at the age of seventy-three years. His wife died in 1880. He held membership in the Union Church of Harrisville, and his wife held to the faith of the Methodist Protestant Church. Their eight children were: Alfred W., Catherine A., Lindley M., Edgar Allen, Walter C., John, Samuel and Isabel. John, Samuel and Isabel are deceased.
The public schools of Harrisville afforded Walter C. Toland his early educational advantages, and at the age of seventeen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the printer's trade. The first year found him in service in the offrce of the Ohio Valley News at Martin's Ferry, Belmont County, and the remaining three years of his apprenticeship were marked by his connection with the Martin's Ferry Times, beginning with the latter paper when it was established. Thereafter he continued in the work of his trade about one year, and he then returned to Harrisville, where he has since maintained his home and where he has been definitely prospered in his chosen business. During this time he published a weekly newspaper, "The Independent," for six years. He is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.
March 30, 1897, recorded the marriage of Mr. Toland to Miss Ada Morris, daughter of Samuel T. and Laura (Hicks) Morris, and the one child of this union is a son, Donald C.
DAVID M. ROBB was one of the representative farmers and highly honored citizens of Green Township, Harrison County, at the time of his death, May 23, 1916, and this memorial tribute to a man of sterling character and worthy achievement is accentuated by the fact that he was a native son of Harrison County, his parents, Joseph and Mary (Porter) Robb, natives of Ireland, having come to America and having established their residence in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, more than sixty years ago. It was about the year 1853 that Joseph Robb thus engaged in farm enterprise in Green Township, where he continued to maintain his home until his death, he having been killed in an accident while driving a pair of colts in August, 1859, and his wife having survived him by more than thirty years. She was born in 1815 and passed to eternal rest April 3, 1893, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their children were nine in number : Robert, Samuel, William, David M., John, Joseph, James, Craig and Mary.
David M. Robb was born in Green Township, Harrison County, May 3, 1852, and was about seven years of age at the time of the tragic death of his father. His widowed mother remained on the home farm, and there he was reared to adult age, his educational advantages having been those afforded in the district schools of his native township. His initial activities as an independent exponent of farm industry were staged in Green Township, where he remained until about the year 1871, when he went to Iowa and found employment at farm work and where he also became associated with his brothers Samuel and John in the ownership and development of a tract of land. He remained in the Hawkeye State three years, and he then returned to his native county and resumed farm operations in Green Township. About 1885 he here purchased eighty acres of land, to which he later added an adjacent tract of 120 acres and thus became the owner of a valuable farm estate of 200 acres. With characteristic energy and discrimination he so ordered his operations as to make his place one of the model farms of his native township, the same having been devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising Of live stock. During the last forty years of his life he controlled also a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of cattle. His political support was given to the democratic party, and he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, as are also his widow and their only daughter. His life was guided and governed by high principles and ideals, and he commanded the unqualified confidence and respect of his fellow men.
On the 20th of August, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr., Robb to Miss Martha Elizabeth Caldwell, who likewise was born and reared in Green Township, and after his death she remained, on the old home farm until 1917, when she sold the property and purchased the old Thompson McFadden farm of 206 acres in Cadiz Township, where she and her daughter, Mina May, the only child, now maintain their home, this being one of the valuable and attractive farm estates of Harrison County.
Mrs. Robb is a daughter of Ankrum and Eleanor (Reed) Caldwell, whose marriage was solemnized in January, 1849, and both of whom were natives of Harrison County, the father having been born in Green Township July 23, 1823, and the mother having been born August 22, 1828, a daughter of Thomas and Nellie (Stone) Reed, pioneers of this county. Ankrum Caldwell was a son of John Caldwell and his second wife, Sarah (Reed) Caldwell, the former of whom was born June 1, 1780, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom was born in March, 1797, in Harrison County, Ohio, her father, Robert Reed having been one of the very early settlers of this county. John Caldwell learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith, to which he applied himself in the old Keystone State until 1808, when he came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and settled in the midst of the forest in Green Township. Here he erected a rude blacksmith shop, in which he applied himself vigorously, besides which he cleared and reclaimed a small tract of farm land. He died on his farm near Hopedale, this county, at the patriarchal age of eighty- eight years and honored as one of his sterling pioneer citizens of the county. His widow survived him and died February 16, 1871. He was a democrat in politics and served in various local offices of public trust, including those of township trustee, county commissioner and justice of the peace, in which last mentioned po-
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sition he served many years. Both he and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian Church. John Caldwell first married Miss Elizabeth Birney, who died a few years later, the only child of this union having been Robert Reed Caldwell, who was a resident of Wood County, this state, at the time of his death, when seventy-five years of age. Of the second marriage were born ten children : Samuel M., who removed to Clarke County and there established his home and is now deceased; Elizabeth Ray, deceased, who became the wife of James Davidson; Ankrum, father of Mrs. Robb of this review; William H., deceased, who became a prosperous farmer in Cadiz Township; John, deceased, who removed to the state of Kansas; Isaac Shannon, who died in youth; Martha Mccrea, deceased, became the wife of James English; James, deceased, established his home at Fort Wayne, Indiana; and David Hilbert and Albert Hamilton, both of whom became residents of Guernsey County, Ohio, and both are deceased. Ankrum Caldwell passed his entire life in Green Township, where he became a successful farmer and a man of prominence and influence in community affairs. There he died on the 8th of December, 1883, and his venerable widow, revered by all who knew her, passed away January 18, 1900, both having been earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children the eldest is Sarah, wife of Smiley McBride, of Guernsey County; Martha Elizabeth is the widow of the subject of this memoir; John T. is a resident of the state of Oregon; and Miss Ella M. resides with her sister, Mrs. Robb.
Since the death of her honored husband Mrs. Robb has shown marked discrimination and ability in the management of her farm and business interests, and In her native county she has a wide circle of loyal and valued friends.
ELMER COULTER is found aligned with the sterling yeomen who are upholding the precedence of Harrison County in the d( main of farm industry and is one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Short Creek Township.
Mr. Coulter was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 17th of December, 1866, and is a son of James S. and Hannah A. (Henderson) Coulter, both likewise natives of the county, the latter having, been a daughter of Alexander and Hannah (Hawthorne) Henderson. Alexander Henderson was a young man when he came from Pennsylvania to Belmont County, Ohio, where he continued for many years to be successfully engaged in farm industry, the last five years of his life having been passed at Harrisville, Harrison County. His children were eight in number: Andrew, William, James (captain of his company in an Ohio regiment in the Civil war), Alexander Y., Martha, Mary Jane, Elizabeth and Hannah A.
James S. Coulter was born in Belmont County in the year 1841 and was a son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Sloan) Coulter, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Belmont County, Ohio, where her parents settled in the early pioneer days. Thomas Coulter was a child at the time of his parents' immigration to the United States, and he was but nine years of age at the time of his father's death. He was indentured, or "bound out," to a man named Smith in Belmont County after the death of his father, and in that county he was reared to manhood. There he continued his association with farm enterprise until 1845, when he came with his family to Harrison County and settled in Short Creek Township, where he developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of seven children : James S., Sarah Jane, Robert, Angeline, John R., Thomas and Laura Bell.
James S. Coulter was about four years old when his parents came from Belmont County to Harrison County, and he was reared on the old home farm in Short Creek Township. After his marriage he removed to Wheeling Township, Belmont County, but after having there been engaged in farming for two years he returned to Harrison County, where he followed the same vocation during the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in February, 1916, and his widow having passed away on the 14th of August, 1918. In 1866 they became members of the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville, and they maintained their active affiliation with this church until they passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. Of their two children Elmer, of this review, is the elder, and Miss Mary B. resides in the village of Harrisville.
Elmer Coulter is indebted to the district schools of Short Creek Township for his early education, and from his youth to the present time he has been actively identified with agricultural and live-stock enterprise in this township, where he is the owner of a well-improved farm of 170 acres. Upon the death of their parents he and his sister inherited the old home farm of 145 acres, and this property they sold in 1919. Mr. Coulter is vigorous and enterprising in both the agricultural and live-stock departments of farm industry and is one of the substantial men of the township in which the major part of his life has thus far been spent. He is a republican in political allegiance and he and his wife are zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville, in which he has served as trustee and also as an elder.
On the 29th of October, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Coulter to Miss Anna M. Ferguson, daughter of James P. Ferguson, of Belmont County. Mr. and Mrs. Coulter have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here designated: Alma Katherine, November 17, 1903; Thora Elizabeth, May 6, 1908; and Maryanna, October 30, 1913.
THOMAS H. CUNNINGHAM. When Harrison County was still in its formative period there came to this region a physician, Dr. William Cunningham by name, who built a house in what is now New Rumley and entered upon the practice of his profession. His skill and kindly sympathy made him the friend of all with whom he was brought into contact, and he earned and held the respect and confidence of the people of the county. With his location here the
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family of Cunningham was established in Harrison County, and his descendants have lived up to the standards he raised, one of the most representative of them being Thomas H. Cunningham, a farmer of Rumley Township, although he lives at New Rumley in the same house his grandfather built so many years ago. Doctor Cunningham continued in active practice until his death, and for some years after he came here was the only one of his profession in the county. His wife's first name was Nancy, and they had the following children: Thomas H., William, John and George. Both Doctor Cunningham and his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Thomas H. Cunningham, of the above mentioned family, and father of the Thomas H. Cunningham, whose name heads this review, was born at New Rumley, but not in the house erected by his father. When old enough to support himself he became a clerk in a store, and in time owned and conducted a store of his own at New Rumley, and was a merchant of the place for half a century, being actively engaged in this line of business at the time of his death in 1906. He was married to Elizabeth McGavran, a daughter of Stephen and Julia (Haines) McGavran. Stephen McGavran came from Stark County, Ohio, where Mrs. Cunningham was born, to Harrison County, Ohio, and located in the village of New Rumley, where he worked as a carpenter and cabinetmaker. In the early days when the necessity arose for a coffin the cabinetmaker would be called upon to make it, and Stephen McGavran furnished these last coverings for many of the early settlers who passed away after his advent hi the neighborhood. He and his wife had two children: John and Elizabeth. The children born to the elder Thomas H. Cunningham and wife were: John, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri; William E., who lives at Scio, Ohio; Elsworth, who is deceased; George A., who is mentioned further on in this article; Thomas H., of whom we write; and Myram, who married C. W. Gotshall.
Thomas H. Cunningham, the younger, was born in his present house March 12, 1869. He was reared at New Rumley, where he has spent his life, and his education was acquired in its schools. From the beginning of his career he has been interested in fur buying and farming, and now owns seventy acres of land in Rumley Township.
On October 30, 1895, Mr. Cunningham was married to Jennie Graham, a daughter of John and Lydia (Amos) Graham. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have two sons, Stephen Merle and Dwight.
Stephen Merle Cunningham is one of the veterans of the World war, having entered the service in September, 1918, at which time he was sent to Oberlin, Ohio, and was beginning his training when the signing of the Armistice made it unnecessary for any further sending of troops abroad, and he was discharged December 28, 1918. He was graduated from the Scio Normal College, and is now engaged in teaching school, being principal of the public school at New Rum- ley. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Rumley.
George A. Cunningham, a brother of Thomas H. Cunningham, is another solid and reliable member of the Cunningham family. He was born at New Rumley February 25, 1866, and attended its public schools. When he reached young manhood he learned to be a painter and paperhanger, and has been engaged in these lines of work all his life. He has made New Rumley his place of residence, but oftentimes has contracts in territory outside the village.
In 1891 George A. Cunningham was married to Valerie Shuss, a daughter of John and Mary Jane Shuss, and they have two children, namely : Ethel Fay, who married Robert Montgomery, has a daughter, Eileen; and Nellie May, who married William Vanfossen, and has a child, Lamoin. George A. Cunningham and his wife both belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Rumley, in which he has been a member since reaching man's estate, and he has also been superintendent of the Sunday School.
LEMUEL W. FISHER. Some of the most progressive men of Harrison County are those who own and operate farm land within its confines, and through them and their efforts many new methods are being adopted and improvements made which are proving of general benefit to all. Lemuel W. Fisher, of Freeport Township, is one of these energetic men of affairs who has not confined his efforts to agricultural matters, but has been connected with a number of other undertakings of his neighborhood.
Lemuel W. Fisher was born in Londonderry Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, March 26, 1859, a son of Edwin and Sarah (McGuire) Fisher, and grandson of Perry G. and Mary E. (Williamson) Fisher. Perry G. Fisher was one of the early farmers of Belmont County, Ohio, and he and his wife became the parents of the following children : John, George, Perry, Edwin, Sarah J., Lecretia, Keziah, Eliza and Mary. They were religious people and worshiped and worked in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which they were consistent members.
Edwin Fisher was born in Flushing Township, Belmont County, Ohio, in 1828, and his wife was born in Londonderry Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1826. She was a daughter of John and Mary (Fulton) McGuire. During the greater portion of his life Edwin Fisher was engaged in farming in Belmont County, Ohio, and died there in 1901, his widow surviving him until 1911. Their children were as follows: John M., who lives in North Dakota ; Mary J., who was second in order of birth; Lemuel W., whose name heads this review ; and Lafayette, who lives at Belle Center, Logan County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and their children all joined the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Although the family lived in Belmont County, the children all went to school in Londonderry Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, and later Lemuel W. Fisher became a student of the normal college at Lebanon, Ohio, leaving that institution after a year to study for another year at Mount Union, Stark County, Ohio. For fifteen
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years he was engaged in teaching school, and during that period did a large amount of reading and kept himself posted upon current matters, and has never lost the habit of going into a subject thoroughly before he makes a decision. Leaving the educational field, he became a farmer, and in 1894 moved to Freeport Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and now owns 140 acres in his homestead and fifty acres more not far away in the same township. Here he is engaged in raising a general line of crops and stockraising, specializing on breeding Durham and Holstein cattle. Mr. Fisher and his sister Mary J. have always lived together, and she looks after the affairs of the household, making a pleasant home for the two. He was appointed war food and crop commissioner of Harrison County by Governor Cox, and served as such during the period of the war. From 1909 to 1913, Mr. Fisher was a commissioner of Harrison County, and is now a member of the Harrison County Board of Agriculture. Since its organization es a state bank he has been the president of the Piedmont State Bank. Both he and Miss Mary belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Smyrna, Ohio, and their fellow members look to the Fishers for effective work no matter what may come up to receive attention, and are never disappointed of generous assistance from both. For some years Mr. Fisher has been a trustee of the church.
FRANCIS A. HILLIGAS. The family name borne by this sterling citizen of Short Creek Township, Harrison County, is one that has been of significant influence in connection with the civic and industrial development and progress of the county, which has represented his home from the time of his birth and with the history of which the family name has been identified since the early pioneer days.
Mr. Hilligas was born in Short Creek Township December 6, 1847, and is a son of William M. and Jane (Sparrow) Hilligas, the former of whom was born in Cadiz Township, this county, August 9, 1818, and the latter was born in Green Township November 8, 1819, she having been a daughter of Eli and Nancy (Dihal) Sparrow. Eli Sparrow was born and reared in Montgomery County, Maryland, and he came to the western frontier as a soldier in the War of 1812, but it was not until about the year 1816 that he removed from Maryland to Harrison County, Ohio, the long and hazardous overland journey having been made with team and wagon and he and his wife having become early settlers of Green Township, where he not only followed his trade, that of shoemaker, but also instituted the reclamation of a farm, both he and his wife having here passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of five children: Samuel, Jane, Lorena (Mrs. Elias Case), John and Benjamin F. (a physician by profession).
William M. Hilligas was a son of Conrad Creighton Hilligas and Elosia Selvada (Maffitt) Hilligas, the latter's parents having been natives of Holland. Conrad C. Hilligas came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County, Ohio, about the year 1802, and he was one of the very early settlers at Cadiz, the present judicial center of the county. Here he engaged in the work of his trade, that of carpenter, and all of his sons, Tunnis, David, William M. and Conrad, likewise became skilled workmen at this trade, their apprenticeship to which was served under the effective direction of their father. Conrad C. Hilligas and his wife were honored pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of their deaths, and Mrs. Hilligas was a zealous member of the Disciples Church.
William M. Hilligas was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer epoch in this history of Harrison County, was afforded the advantages of the primitive schools of the locality and period, and in his youth he learned the carpenter's trade under the tutorship of his father. He followed his trade to a greater or less extent for many years in Short Creek Township, where he owned a home, both he and his wife having remained in this township until the close of their earnest and worthy lives, and Mrs. Hilligas was a devout member of the Disciples' Church. They became the parents of three children, of whom the subject of this review is the youngest; Mary did not marry and was about sixty-five years of age at the time of her death; and Louise, who became the wife of Harry Jones,. died in October, 1883.
Francis A. Hilligas acquired his youthful education in the district schools of Short Creek and Athens townships, and as a young man he initiated independent enterprise as a farmer in the former township, which has continued the stage of his activities to the present time. The Hilligas family now own the old homestead of Isaac Cope, and on the place still stand the buildings that were erected many years ago, the original log barn on this place having been the first building raised in Harrison County without the customary accompaniment of whiskey dispensed freely to the workers.
November 11, 1869, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Hilligas to Miss Rachel A. Cope, a daughter of the late Isaac and Abigail (Cope) Cope, representatives of old and influential pioneer families of Harrison County. Oliver Cope came from Wiltshire, England, to America in the year 1701 and settled in Pennsylvania, where he passed the remainder of his life. Representatives of the family later became settlers in Virginia, and it was from that state that came the original representatives of the family in what is now Harrison County, Ohio, the migration to this county having occurred in 1813. John Cope was the founder of the family in this county, and here he remained until his death, his widow, whose maiden name was Grace Steer, having been ninety-two years of age at the time of her death, March 30, 1855. They became the parents of five children, all sons, and all settled on farms in Short Creek Township, Isaac, former owner of the old homestead now owned by the Hilligas family, having been born February 1, 1801, and his death having here occurred December 19, 1883, and his wife, a member of a collateral branch of the same family, survived him by several years.
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Church, and his wife holds membership in the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends. To them have been born seven children: Harry C. died in the year 1893; William I., a merchant in Cadiz, married Miss Clara J. Smith; Frank E., likewise is a representative of farm enterprise in this township, and the maiden name of his wife was Della Barkhurst; Lena 0. remains at the parental home; Charles C. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work, as are also Clarence G. and George A.
CHARLES C. HILLIGAS is a sturdy young representative of farm industry in his native county, where he owns a well improved farm of 180 acres, in Short Creek Township. He remains at the parental home, and on preceding pages due record concerning the family is given in the sketch of the career of his father, Francis A. Hilligas.
Like many other native sons of Harrison County, where he was born on the 24th of July, 1888, Charles C. Hilligas was signally favored in being reared to the invigorating and beneficent discipline of the farm, and he acquired his youthful education in the district schools of Short Creek Township. He has remained with his father and mother on the old home farm and has not yet consented to withdraw from the ranks of the eligible and popular young bachelors of his native county. He is an aggressive and successful exponent of farm industry, in connection with which he is giving added prestige to the family name, which has long been closely associated with this line of productive enterprise in Harrison County, the Hilligas having distinct pioneer honors in this section of the Buckeye State.
Mr. Hilligas was reared in the faith of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends. In politics he gives his allegiance to the republican party.
GEORGE A. MARTIN. The Martin family of which former County Treasurer George A. Martin of Harrison County is a representative belongs to the history of Jefferson County. Mr. Martin was born May 12, 1855, in Jefferson County. He is a son of Jonathan and Eliza (Spencer) Martin, the parents both natives of Jefferson County. The mother is a daughter of Dunham Spencer. The Martins were farmers in Jefferson County. In March, 1869, Jonathan Martin removed with his family from Jefferson to Harrison County.
Jonathan Martin located on a farm in Short Creek Township. renting and owning land, sometimes living on rented land when he owned other land. He owned a farm of 157 acres in Short Creek Township but never lived on it. There are three sons: William F., George A. and Charles D., and there were two daughters: Ella, who died in childhood, and Mary, who was the wife of David Barr. As a family the Martins were Methodists. Their children were given common school advantages both in Jefferson and Harrison Counties. G. A. Martin attended the Georgetown Schocl in Short Creek Township as a boy, and as a young man he became a farmer in Short Creek Township.
In 1879 Mr. Martin married Mary B. Dickerson, daughter of Hodson and Hannah Dickerson. At this time he entered into a partnership with his father, Jonathan Martin, which relation continued twenty years. He finally bought the farm of 278 acres in Short Creek Township that they had rented for a good many years. In the fall of 1899 Mr. Martin moved into Green Township and farmed there. Twelve years later he removed to Cadiz Township, and after two years he went back to Short Creek Township, to his own land, but he only lived there two years when he sold it and bought another farm at Science Hill in Short Creek Township on the Cadiz and Wheeling Pike, and here he lived when he was elected treasurer of Harrison County. He has always been a member of the republican party. In 1914 he was elected on the republican ticket to the office of County Treasurer, was re-elected in 1916, and retired from the office in 1919.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Martin are: Harold S., who married Edna Adolph; Ira D., who married Gertrude Ackerman; and John W., who married Lena Wagner. Since he was fourteen years old Mr. Martin has been a member of the Methodist Church, and his entire family is interested in the business and social advancement of Harrison County. He was a boy of twelve when his parents removed from Jefferson to Harrison County, and after so many years be only thinks of citizenship in Harrison County.
CHARLES D. CONAWAY, recorder of Harrison County, was elected to the office in November, 1916, and was re-elected two years later, and before coming to Cadiz and becoming a county officer be had served as clerk of Stock Township four years. Mr. Conaway was born October 2, 1863, in Stock Township, and he has always lived in Harrison County. He was educated at the Sampson rural school and as a young man devoted three years of his life to teaching in public school. Mr. Conaway is a mechanic, and had worked at the carpenter trade many years before coming to the Harrison County Court House.
The Conaway family is connected with the early history of Stock Township, C. D. Conawayls parents both being natives of Harrison County. Michael C. Conaway was born April 5, 1833, and Barbara Ann (Turney) Conaway was born November 29, 1836. in that community. She is a daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Turney. When he was a child Mr. Turney came with his parents to Rumley Township from Pennsylvania. He reared his family in Harrison County.
In the Conaway family the grandfather, John Conaway, and his wife, Betty (Hoagland) Conaway, both came from Pennsylvania to Stock Township, where he entered land, and the claim where he first located has always remained in the Conaway family name. His children. were: Cynthia. Hannah, Charles, Jemima, Elizabeth, Susannah, John. Michael, Martha and Rachel. As a family the Conaways were Methodists. John Conaway was a soldier in the War of 1812 the second war with England, and Harry M.
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Conaway has a World war record, the Conaways always responding to the call of the country.
Although he has attained to eighty-seven years, Michael Conaway, who has always farmed in Stock Township, is still an active man, A. D. 1919. Mrs. Conaway died in 1913. Their children are: Samantha, James (deceased), Lucy (deceased), John, Charles D., Emma M., Effie S., and William (deceased). While all were given common school advantages of the day, Charles D. Conaway fitted himself for teaching, and he has always been interested in educational advancement.
On June 19, 1884, Mr. Conaway married Jennie E. Polen, a daughter of Joshua and Anna (Denning) Polen. Their children are Laura E., wife of W. H. Copeland, Harry M., William 0. and Raymond. The family maintain their membership in Mount Hope Methodist Episcopal Church in Stock Township while sojourning in Cadiz.
SAMUEL S. HALL succeeded his honored father in the ownership of the remarkably prosperous and representative merchant-tailoring business which the latter had built up at Carrollton, and is well upholding the prestige of the family name not only in this enterprise but also as a loyal and progressive citizen. He is serving in 1920 as secretary and treasurer of the Carrollton Business Men's Association, in the vital activities of which he takes an influential part.
Mr. Hall was born at Sherodsville, Carroll County, August 23, 1892, and is a son of Lewis S. and Jennie (Belknap) Hall, the widowed mother still maintaining her home at Carrollton. Lewis S. Hall was born at Columbia City, Indiana, February 20, 1866, and when he was six years old his parents, Sutton and Catherine Hall, came to Carroll County and established their residence at Sherodsville, whence they later removed to Cadiz Junction, Harrison County. After there residing a few years they established their home on a farm near New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, later moving to Orrville, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The early educational advantages of Lewis S. Hall were limited to a desultory attendance in the rural schools, and as a young man he learned the tailor's trade. After having been for a time engaged in the work of his trade at Leesville, Carroll County, he removed to Hampton, Iowa, but within a comparatively short period returned to Carroll County and established himself in the tailoring business at Sherodsville. Three years later, on the 1st of August, 1892, he removed to Carrollton, the county seat, and here he built up a remarkably substantial and representative merchant tailoring business, known for high-class productions that so furthered the success of his business that he found it imperative to retain a larger force of employes than could be found in a similar establishment in a city of the same appreciable population within the state of Ohio. A man of vigorous mentality and mature judgment, he was signally progressive and public-spirited and was foremost in furthering measures and enterprises tending to advance the best interests of his home community. He was a skilled artisan at his trade, had taken two courses of technical study and practical workmanship in a leading school of cutting and designing in New York City, and was authoritative as a designer and draper of men's clothing of the finest custom type, He gave most timely and effective service as a member of the City Council and Board of Public Service, besides doing much to raise the general standard and facilities of the Carrollton public schools during his several terms of service as a member of the Board of Education. He was clerk of this board at the time of the construction of the present fine central school building, and was a member of the City Council at the time when the Carrollton waterworks plant was installed, no one citizen having done more to place the municipal water -system on a paying basis than did he, while none had been more ardent in promoting this much needed public improvement. He was a most earnest and zealous churchman and served for twenty years as superintendent of the Lutheran Sunday School of the church in which he held membership, as does also his widow, and in which he served in every official position, besides being most liberal in his support of the various departments of church work. For the advancing of its spiritual and temporal prosperity the Lutheran Church of Carrollton owes much to this honored and devoted member. His public spirit was of insistent order, and he was always a leader in fostering undertakings for the general good of the community. Thus it may be noted that he was prominently identified with Chautauqua work and also for preparing for its centennial observance in 1915. The entire community manifested its sense of loss and sorrow when Mr. Hall passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, his death having occurred on the 5th of February, 1917. His marriage to Miss Jennie Belknap was solemnized in December, 1889, and his widow and six children all remain at Carrollton at the time of this writing, in 1920. The names of the children are here entered in respective order of birth: Cecil, Leah, Samuel S., Bessie, Luther and Judd.
Samuel S. Hall was only one month old at the time of the family removal from Sherodsville to Carrollton, and here he was reared to adult age, his studies in the public schools having continued until his graduation in the high school as a member of the class of 1911. He learned the tailor's trade in his father's establishment and by taking a course in the Mitchell School of Cutting and Designing in New York City, and after his return to Ohio he was for three years engaged in the work of his trade at Orrville, Wayne County, where he built up a prosperous merchant tailoring business and continued it until the death of his father in the spring of 1917. He then succeeded to the ownership of the latter's well established business at Carrollton, where his success has been such as to fully uphold the high prestige gained by his father. He is a democrat in political adherency, he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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June 16, 1916, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hall to Miss Beatrice Allison, daughter of Howard W. Allison, of Mechanicstown, Carroll County, and she is the popular chatelaine of their pleasant home at Carrollton.
JAMES B. FIEDLER has been a resident of Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, since 1886, and no other citizen has been more closely and influentially concerned with its civic and business interests. None has been more loyal and progressive in furthering the general advancement of the community, and none holds more secure place in popular confidence and esteem. Mr. Fiedler has been specially prominent in connection with banking enterprise in Carroll County, served several years as a member of the City Council and was for two terms mayor of Carrollton, in which office he gave a characteristically vigorous, wise and progressive administration.
Mr. Fiedler was born at Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio, on the 8th of May, 1864, and there he received his early education in the public schools. Upon leaving his native village he went to the city of Columbus, where for three years he was employed in the dry goods department of the leading department stores of the Drum-Taft Company. In 1886, as a young man of twenty-two years, he came to Carrollton and established himself in the retail grocery business, in which he continued six years. In 1894 he accepted the position of assistant cashier in the offices of the J. P. Cummings Bank Company, and thereafter he continued an active and influential figure in local banking circles until March, 1919, when he resigned his position as manager of the savings department of the Cummings Trust Company, an office which he had held from the time of the organization of this representative banking institution, which is known as one of the strongest and most important financial concerns in this part of the state.
A man of broad views and marked initiative energy, Mr. Fiedler has been deeply interested in the civic and industrial development and progress of his home city, and he made his influence potent along these lines during the period of his service as a member of the City Council, and especially during his regime as mayor. In the council he served as a member of the finance committee and the committee on bills, and no extravagant claim ever succeeded in eluding his scrutiny and opposition. He has been successful in life and has shown deep appreciation of the stewardship which such success involves, with the result that he has been generous and charitable and has not only given liberal support to approved benevolent, philanthropic and charitable agencies but has also extended aid and sympathy to those in need or distress—as one ever willing to "do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." He has been influential in the affairs of the local Chautauqua, and served on various important committees of the same, while his service in connection with the Chautauqua Centennial was marked by the same vigor, earnestness and effectiveness as has been his career as a business man.
In politics Mr. Fiedler gives his allegiance to the republican party, he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is affrliated with the Masonic fraternity, including the Knights Templar and the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
In October, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Fiedler to Miss Emma Cummings, and she was summoned to eternal rest in July, 1913, her memory being revered by all who came within the circle of her gracious influence. She was a daughter of James P. Cummings.
James P. Cummings, one of the founders of the Cummings Trust Company of Carrollton, was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1820, his father, Robert Cummings, having been one of the representative pioneer settlers in that county. James P. Cummings was reared and educated in his native county, whence, at the age of seventeen years, he came to Carrollton and became a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Isaac Atkinson. Later he formed a partnership with Wilson L. Akers, with whom he continued to be associated in the general merchandise business at Carrollton until 1868, when he formed an alliance with his brother-in-law, the late Eli Couch, and engaged in the wholesale grocery business in the city of Columbus. They remained in the capital city until 1870, when they returned to Carrollton and established the private banking house of Cummings & Couch. The death of Mr. Couch occurred in 1888, and thereafter Mr. Cummings continued the banking business in an individual way until 1893, on the 1st of May of which year he admitted Thomas J. Salsman to partnership, under the firm name of Cummings & Salsman. In December of the following year the bank was reorganized and incorporated under the state law and under the corporate title of the J. P. Cummings Bank Company. Mr. Cummings became president of the institution and Mr. Salsman its cashier, while James B. Fiedler, immediate subject of this review, assumed the position of assistant cashier. In addition to these executive officers the original directorate of the corporation included also Judge U. C. DeFord, George J. Butler, Judge James Holder and Jesse Marshall. On the 1st of June, 1906, the institution was consolidated with the First National Bank of Carrollton, which had been organized August 1, 1900, and at this time the present title, the Cummings Trust Company, was adopted. Mr. Cummings continued as president of the company until his death, on the 12th of July, 1912, at the patriarchal age of ninety-two years. He was a man of great ability as a financier and became the founder of one of the staunchest and most influential financial institutions in this part of the Buckeye State, the while his sterling character gave him a high place in the confidence and good will of the community in which he so long maintained his home and in which he stood as one of the leading and most influential citizens of Carroll County.
In 1844, at Carrollton, Mr. Cummings married Miss Phiniah Beatty, daughter of George and Mary Beatty, her father having been elected the first auditor of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Cummings became the parents of five children-
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Addle, Mary, Robert, Lucy and Emma, four of whom are now deceased. Mary became the wife of M. M. Marshall and their home was established in the City of Omaha, Nebraska. Emma became the wife of James E. Fiedler, whose name initiates this article. Mrs. Cummings preceded her husband to eternal rest, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his political allegiance having been given to the republican party.
On the 25th of October, 1917, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Fiedler to Miss Mary West- fall, who was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Jacob Westfall, of whom specific record is given elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Fiedler is the gracious and popular chatelaine of one of the beautiful homes of Carrollton and has made it a center of generous hospitality.
ROBERT P. LEMMON was a man whose character and achievement marked him as one of sterling principles and fine sense of personal stewardship. He passed his entire life in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he was born on the 15th of September, 1857, and where his death occurred September 2, 1910. His career was one of active and successful association with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and the fine farm of which he was the owner at the time of his death is still the home of his widow and their younger children.
Mr. Lemmon was a son of Griffith and Rebecca Elizabeth (Pogue) Lemmon, and on other pages of this work is dedicated a special memoir to his father, so that further review of the family history is not here demanded. Mr. Lemmon acquired his early education in the district schools of his native township, and in that township he began his independent activities as a farmer, his youthful experience having been marked by practical application on his father's farm, so that he was well fortified. when he initiated his individual enterprise. In 1895 he purchased and removed to the fine farm upon which his widow now resides, and here he continued as one of the vigorous and successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry until the close of his worthy and unassuming life, the farm being well improved and comprising in acres. Though essentially loyal and liberal in his civic attitude, and a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party, Mr. Lemmon had no desire for political activity or official preferment. He and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at Adena, but since his death Mrs. Lemmon has transferred her membership to the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville.
On the 10th of January. 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lemmon to Miss Mary B. Nicholson, who likewise was born and reared in Short Creek Township and who is a daughter of James and Margaret (Maycline) Nicholson, the former of whom was born in Short Creek Township and the latter was born in Ireland. John Nicholson, father of James, was one of the pioneer settlers of Short Creek Township, where he and his wife remained until their deaths.
James Nicholson was reared and educated in his native township and was one of its representative farmers at the time of his death. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends. and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of five children: Anna N. is the wife of Binford T. Stanley; Mary B. is the widow of the subject of this memoir ; Margaret is the wife of Henry W. Lupton; James died at the age of seven years; and John R., who married Miss Carrie Morgan, is a farmer in Harrison County.
In this concluding paragraph is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon : Charles N., who resides at Decatur, Illinois, married Miss Nan McDonald, and they have one child, Donald N. Binford F., a traveling salesman residing at Akron, Ohio, married Miss Lulu Spencer, and their one child is a son, Robert Leroy. James G., M. D., is a practicing physician at Akron Ohio. The maiden name of his wife was Pearl Freyer, and their one child is James Francis. Robert M. was in the nation's military service, at Camp Sherman, Ohio, in the period of the World war, he having there been member of the Depot Brigade until he was assigned to the military-police service at that cantonment. He entered service in September, 1918, and received his honorable discharge on the 19th of June, 1919. He is now a member of the class of 1924 in the medical department of the University of Ohio. John A. and Margaret remain with their widowed mother on the home farm.
JACOB O. BOWER has made an admirable record in connection with farm industry in Harrison County, is a native of this county and is a representative of one of its honored pioneer families, his birth having occurred in Monroe Township on the 26th of January, 1862. Besides having proved a progressive exponent of farm enterprise Mr. 'Bower also devoted several years to effective service as a teacher in the schools of his native county.
Mr. Bower, who now owns and resides upon one of the fine farms of North Township, is a son of John and Jane (Heaston) Bower, both likewise natives of Monroe Township, this county, where the former was born October 13, 1832. and the latter on the 13th of August, 1834, she having been a daughter of John and Mary (Hines) Heaston, likewise representatives of well known pioneer families of this favored section of the Buckeye State. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Jacob and Anna (Frye) Bower, the former of whom was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1800, and the latter of whom was a native of Ireland. Jacob Bower became one of the prominent pioneer farmers of Harrison County, and here he remained until his death, in 1871. He was a son of Barnhart Bower, and of the family history ample record is made on other pages of this work, in the personal sketch of Charles A. Bower. Jacob Bower, Sr., not only became one of the substantial farmers in Monroe Township, but in earlier years he here operated a grist mill. Both he and his wife were consistent communicants of the Lutheran Church, in the
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faith of which they reared their four children— Margaret, John, Andrew and Mary Jane (Mrs. Wesley Hen ston).
John Bower was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm, and the major part of his active career was marked by close and successful association with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, though for a few years after his marriage he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Bowerston, which village was named in honor of the family of which he was a member. He passed the closing years of his life on his farm in Monroe Township, where his death occurred February 21, 1907. His widow survives him and is nowl in the eighty-seventh year of her age, both being earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven children: Mary A. died in early childhood; Martha E. is the widow of Norris Cartrell; Sarah E. is the wife of Stewart W. Price; Jacob 0., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Clara A. is the wife of Albert W. Swinehart; Ernest W. is a resident of Bowerston; and Ida J. is the wife of Thomas Fierbaugh.
After having profited by the advantages afforded by the district schools of Monroe Township Jacob 0. Bower pursued a higher course of study in New Hagerstown Academy, in Carroll County, under Professor J. Howard Brown. He put his scholastic acquirements to practical test and utilization by entering the pedagogic profession, in which he achieved marked popularity and prestige and to which he gave his attention for a period of fourteen years as a teacher in the schools of Harrison and Carroll counties. He continued to teach six years after his marriage, which occurred in 1887, and thereafter he was engaged in farm enterprise in Monroe Township until the 7th of February, 190S, when he removed to his present fine farm of 174 acres in North Township, where he has been distinctly prosperous in his vigorous and progressive activities in connection with diversified agriculture and the conducting of a substantial dairy enterprise. He erected the modern house which now adorns the farm, besides rebuilding the barn and making other excellent improvements. The house is equipped with an electric-lighting system and also provided with hot and cold running water.
In character and mentality Mr. Bower has been well qualified for leadership in community sentiment and action, and he has at all times stood exponent of loyal and progressive citizenship. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since he was a youth of sixteen years. In the church of this denomination at Conotton he has held virtually eery official position to which a lay member is eligible.
September 1, 1887, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rower to Miss Elsie T. Roby, daughter of George and Mary Roby, of Carroll County, and of this union were born five children: Arthur Ross, the first born, was graduated from Mount Union College, in which institution he thereafter held the chair of mathematics and physics for some dine, and during the year prior to his untimely death. April 11. 1916, he was superintendent of the high school at Bowerston. He married Miss Christine Fierbaugh, who survives him. George Walter, the second son, died at the age of six months. Harold Eugene married Miss Nina D. McGuire. and they have two children, Elsie Mae and Robert Eugene. Herbert L. and Emery Pearl remain at the paternal home. The loved wife and mother passed to eternal rest on the 16th of January, 1914, a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Qn the 25th of December, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bower to Miss Eliza May Barr, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Barr, of Harrison County, and she died on the 27th of December, 1919, leaving no children. Mrs. Bower likewise was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
WILLIAM H. GILLESPIE. of Athens Township, has not always been a resident of Harrison County. He was born November 25, 1853, in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, although all the other Gillespie children of his generation were born in Guernsey County. His father, John Gillespie, was born in 1810, in Pennsylvania. He died in Lucas County, Iowa, in 1884. The mother, Margaret Taylor, a daughter of John Taylor, was born in Knox County, arid died in Belmont County.
While John Gillespie was born in Pennsylvania, his father. James Gillespie, was born in Ireland. When he was eighteen years old he came to the United States. While living in Pennsylvania he was a farmer and later he was a farmer in Guernsey County. As a young man John Gillespie was a Guernsey County farmer and later he removed to Iowa. The five older children of John were born in Guernsey County.
W. H. Gillespie was born after the family removed from Guernsey to Belmont, and he lived there until March, 1883, when he listened to the advice of Horace Greeley about the young man growing up with the western country, and he went to Iowa. When his father died in Lucas County, Iowa, he returned to Belmont County, Ohio, and in November, 1904, he came to Harrison County. He removed to the Village of New Athens in 1915, where he is now living. The children of his fatherls family are: James, Mary, who died in young womanhood, Nancy, Taylor, Thomas and William H. Gillespie. The early Gillespies were members of the United Presbyterian Church, and they were a Sabbath observing, God-fearing people.
W. H. Gillespie had a common school education at Fairport in Belmont County. As a young man he began farming in Wheeling Township, remaining there until 1904, when he moved to the farm in Athens Township, Harrison County. He owned 137 acres in Belmont County, but in 1917 he sold it. He is now a permanent citizen of Harrison County.
In 1875 Mr. Gillespie married Margaret Emaline Campbell, a daughter of William F. Campbell, of Belmont County. Their children are: John C., who married Lilly Clark, and their children are Mary Frances and William Herbert, and William C., married Minnie Dunlap, who
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died in July, 1916. The Gillespie family are members of the United Presbyterian Church in New Athens. The sons are farmers.
WILLIAM F. BUTLER. The Butler family has been one of prominence in Carroll County since the early pioneer days, and in its various generations representatives of the name have been active and influential in connection with civic affairs and business enterprise in this favored section of the Buckeye State. He whose name initiates this paragraph was born and reared in Carrollton, and has here been closely identified with progressive mercantile enterprise, besides which he has been prominent in political affairs in his native county and has been called upon to serve in various offices of public trust.
Mr. Butler was born at Carrollton February 23. 1845, and is a son of Washington and Susanna (Van Buskirk) Butler. both likewise natives of Carroll County. the latter a daughter of Enos Van Buskirk, who was a sterling pioneer of this county. Washington Butler was born at Carrollton April 6. 1819. a son of George Whitefield Butler. He was the eldest of a family of eleven children. nine of whom are now deceased, the names of the children being here recorded: Franklin. Jonathan, Jefferson. Adams, Lafayette, George. Morgan. Lizzie, Franklin died at Des Moines, Iowa: Jonathan. Amanda, Cynthia and Hattie, died in California. Jefferson died in infancy. Adams became a resident of Jasper County, Iowa; Lafayette established his home at Marshall, Texas; George became a farmer in Rush County, Kansas; Morgan was a resident of Goshen, Indiana. for many years prior to his death; Lizzie (Mrs. Young) died in North Carolina ; Amanda became the wife of Hon. M. P. O'Connor and they reside' at San Jose. California ; Cynthia died in infancy: and Hattie is the widow of Dr. B. B. Moore, of Marshalltown, Iowa.
George Whitefield Butler, the founder of the family in Carroll County, was born In Maryland and was a son of Rev. John George Butler, who was a native of Germany and who came to America in the colonial days, he having been a patriot soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution and having thereafter entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church, as a clergyman of which he served in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and other, southern states. His death occurred in the early '20s —presumably at Cumberland, Maryland. The family name of his wife was Miller, and their five sons were George William, Paul, Gideon, George Whitefield and Jonathan. There was also one daughter, the name of whom is not a matter of available record.
George Whitefield Butler was a lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment in the War of 1812, and in his youth he learned the tanner's trade. He was twenty-five years of age when he came to Ohio and established the first tannery in Carroll County. He was one of the pioneers of Carrollton, a successful business man and a worthy citizen who held impregnable place in popular confidence and esteem. He continued his residence at Carrollton until his death, in 1873.
Washington Butler was reared under the conditions and influences that marked the pioneer epoch in the history of Carroll County, and here he learned the tanner's trade in his father's establishment. He eventually assumed control of the tannery, which he continued to operate until he was called to public office. He was a staunch abolitionist in the period preceding the Civil war and became a member of the republican party at the time of its organization, as did also his father, who was postmaster of Carrollton during the war. He served two terms as county auditor, besides which be served as deputy auditor, as deputy county treasurer (sixteen years) and as deputy county clerk. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1872, when General Grant was nominated for the presidency. In 1864 he engaged in the retail mercantile business at Carrollton in partnership with L. D. Rowley, and the firm of Rowley & Butler sold clothing, boots and shoes, besides maintaining a department devoted to merchant tailoring. In 1865 Mr. Butler purchased his partnerls interest and admitted his son William F., of this review. to partnership, under the title of W. Butler & Son, which firm name was retained until his death, in 1883. at the age of sixty-four years. His widow passed away when seventy-nine years of age. Of their children William F., whose name introduces this record, is the eldest; George J. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work: Ann E. is the widow of James W. Cellars, of Carrollton; Mary F.. now deceased, became the wife of Rev. A. T. Aller, a Presbyterian clergyman, and they established their home in Kansas; Jane M., widow of George H. Aller, who was long a resident of Malvern, Carroll County, is mentioned on other pages of this work; Joseph C. and Harry S, deceased.
William F. Butler acquired his youthful education in the common schools of Carrollton, and at the age of fifteen years became a clerk in the general store of Isaac Crumrine. In 1862 he took a similar position in the store of James Huston, and in 1864 became associated with the firm of Rowley & Butler, of which his father was the junior member, as indicated in a preceding paragraph. In 1865 he was admitted to partnership with his father, under the title of W. Butler & Son, and since the death of his father in 1883 he has individually continued the enterprise, his establishment being one of the pioneer mercantile concerns of the county, with a continuous and most creditable history of nearly sixty years.
Never wavering in his allegiance to the republican party, in the local councils of which he has been an influential figure, Mr. Butler initiated his service as a public official in 1868 when he was made city marshal of Carrollton, a position which he retained two years. In the early years he served also as constable and deputy sheriff, and he held the office of sheriff a short time, upon the death of the regular incumbent. He has been a delegate to various conventions of his party, including the state convention in which former Governor Charles Foster was nominated. In 1891 he was elected sheriff of the county, of which office he con-
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tinned the incumbent four years, and in 1896 was made chairman of the Republican County Committee. A man of fine physique and with the genial and companionable disposition consonant with such robust personality, Mr. Butler has always held the high esteem of the people of his native county, and in earlier years his fine basso-profundo voice caused him to be much in demand in connection with social affairs and representative musical activities in this part of the state. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Shrine and Al Koran Temple of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Butler still maintains active association with the substantial and prosperous business with which he has been connected for half a century, but the active management of the enterprise is now vested largely in his only son.
April 26, 1866, recorded the marriage of Mr. Butler to Miss Matilda Stidger, daughter of Gen. H. A. Stidger, of Carrollton. General Stidger was born and reared in Virginia, was an officer in the War of 1812 and in 1830 he opened a mercantile establishment at Carrollton, where he continued in business until his death in 1885, his wife having survived him by several years. Mrs. Butler was born in the building now occupied by the mercantile establishment of William M. Shepherd on Main Street, Carrollton, in the year 1841, and she passed her entire life in her native place. A gracious and noble woman who was loved by all who knew her, she was summoned to the life eternal on the 22d of November, 1919, after an ideal wedded life of more than half a century. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have but one child, Charles Harvey, who was born November 18, 1867, and who has long been associated with his father's mercantile business, of which he is now the active manager and in connection with which he is fully upholding the high prestige of the family name. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including the local Commandery of Knights Templar and also the Mystic Shrine, besides which he is a popular member of Carrollton Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1895 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Amanda Huston, who was born and reared at Carrollton and who is a daughter of V. E. and Ida (McCoy) Huston, the former of whom is deceased and the latter still resides at Carrollton. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Butler, have six children: Charles H., Jr., who was born in 1897, was one of the gallant young patriots who represented Carroll County in the nation's military service at the time of the late World war. He enlisted in 1917 in the artillery branch of the service, and was stationed in turn at Columbus, Ohio; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Henderson, Texas; Fort Sill and Camp Merritt. He finally embarked with his command on a transport and sailed for France. When the vessel was two days out it received news of the signing of the historic armistice, and forthwith returned to the home port. Charles is now holding a position in an express office at Kent, Ohio. Catherine, who was graduated in the Carrollton High School, holds a position as bookkeeper in the office of the Cleveland Trust Company in the
City of Cleveland. Helen, likewise a graduate of the high school, is deputy clerk of the court at Carrollton. Emma died in 1906, aged four years. William F. II, named in honor of his grandfather, is twelve years old at the time of this writing, in 1920, and Martha is three years of age.
ELI T. HAINES has been dependent upon his own resources from his boyhood, as he began work to provide for his own support when he was but twelve years of age. He has proved a valiant and determined soul, and thus his success is the more gratifying to contemplate, for the true American ever pays tribute to the man who has achieved prosperity through his own efforts. Mr. Haines is today numbered among among the most progressive agriculturists and stock-raisers of Athens Township, Harrison County, where he stages his activities on a tract of about 550 acres. The place upon which he resides is rented by him, but be utilizes also his own farm of 146 acres, not far distant.
Eli Thomas Haines was born in Belmont County, Ohio, March 27. 1876. and is a son of George W. and Rebecca (Patrick) Haines. both likewise natives of that county, the former a son of Samuel Haines, an early settler of Belmont County, and the latter a daughter of Eli and Hannah (Jenkins) Patrick, likewise pioneers of that county. Samuel Haines was a millwright by trade and was one of its early representatives in Belmont County. With the exception of about three years passed in Harrison County, George W. Haines continued his residence in his native county until his death, his principal vocation having been farming. George W. and Rebecca Haines became the parents of ten children—Hannah, Rachel Louisa, John W., William (died in early childhood), Eli T., Mahala, George W., Margaret J., Robert E. and Everett.
For a very limited period Eli T. Haines was enabled to attend the district schools of his native county, but his broader education has been that acquired in the school of practical service and experience. He began working by the month on a farm when a lad of but twelve years, and from that time to the present has been dependent upon his own ability and efforts in making his way in the workaday world. Hard work and determined purpose, with worthy ambition, have proved efficacious, and he has made his way gallantly to the goal of independence and prosperity. In 1898 Mr. Haines engaged in farming in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where he remained until 1901, when he removed to the farm which is his present place of residence, in Athens Township. Vigorous and progressive as an agriculturist and stock-grower, he gives special attention to the raising of pure-blood Poland-China swine, as well as good types of cattle and sheep, and no man has done a fuller share of hard work in the worthy effort to gain success along normal and legitimate lines of industrial enterprise. He has had neither time nor inclination for political activity, but gives loyal support to the cause of the republican party. He and his
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wife, whose maiden name was Lona P. Brock. and who is a daughter of William Brock, of Belmont County, have two children—Henry W. and George W.
GEORGE GALBRAITH. A man of undoubted business ability and judgment, endowed with the keen foresight that never allows anything to escape his attention that may ultimately advance his material interests, George Galbraith has met With well merited success as one of the leading liverymen of Carrollton, where be has built up an extensive and remunerative business. A son of the late David Galbraith, be was born Juno 14, 1868, in Harrison County, Ohio, of thrifty Scotch lineage.
Charles Galbraith, his paternal grandfather, was born, bred and educated in Scotland. Immigrating to the United States in early life, he located first in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he lived a number of years, following his trade of a weaver a part of the time. In 1850, accompanied by his wife and children, he drove westward for two hundred miles to Harrison County, Ohio, where he bought land and subsequently embarked in sheep raising, a profitable industry at that time, and was thus employed until his death. He married Josephine Kirby, a native of Carroll County.
A native of Washington County, Pennsylvania. David Galbraith's birth there occurred in 1836. A lad of fourteen years when he trekked across the country with his parents to Harrison County. Ohio, be continued his studies for a time in the pioneer schools of that vicinity, and while assisting his father obtained a practical knowledge not only of sheep raising, but of general farming. Subsequently buying 180 acres of land in Harrison County, he was there successfully engaged in tilling the soil until his death, in 1900.
David Galbraith was twice married. He married first Sarah Cole, who was born in 18.34 in Harrison County, Ohio, where her father. Thomas Cole, was a pioneer settler. She died on the home farm at a comparatively early age. leaving four children, as follows: Lafayette. Charles, George and David, now deceased. David Galbraith married for his second wife Isabel Robinson, and to them five children were born, namely: Junius, Clara, Wilma, deceased; Neola and Edna, deceased.
Obtaining his early education in the public schools, George Galbraith succeeded to the occupation in which he was reared, and was engaged in agricultural labor until 1900. Coming to Carroll County in that year, he established a livery business in Carrollton, where he has won an extensive and profitable patronage and gained a noteworthy position among the re-spected and substantial citizens of his community. An influential member of the republican party, he served for four years as sheriff of Carroll County, having been elected to the office in 1912 and re-elected in 1914. Religiously he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Galbraith married, February 15, 1900, Josephine Kirby, a daughter of Joseph and Susan Kirby, of Carroll County. Her father passed' to the life beyond in 1910, but her mother is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith have one child, Joseph D., born January 10, 1908.
ALBERT J. LAUGHLIN is consistently to be designated as one of the progressive and representative farmers of the younger generation in Archer Township, Harrison County, which county has been his place of residence from the time of his birth. He was born in Cadiz Township on the 25th of August, 1894, and is a son of Albert W. .Laughlin, of whom individual record is made on other pages, se that further data concerning the family history are not here required.
Reared to the invigorating discipline of the farm, Albert J. Laughlin did not fail to profit fully by the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township, and thereafter he continued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm until the time of his marriage, in 1917, in which year he rented the excellent farm of 196 acres in Archer Township where he is carrying forward his energetic and successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He is aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, and his wife holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jewett.
On the 12th day of May, 1917, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Laughlin to Miss Clara Margaret Baker, daughter of Albert 0. and Martha (Maxwell) Baker, of Archer Township, and they have two sons, Albert W. and John R.
HOMER F. MOYER. Active, enterprising and progressive, Homer F. Moyer, of Stock Township, holds a worthy position in the ranks of the world's workers, being numbered among the more thrifty and prosperous farmers and stock growers of Harrison County. A son of the late Daniel E. Moyer, he was born November 8, 1874, in North Township, Harrison County, Ohio, coming from Irish, German and Scotch ancestry.
Daniel E. Moyer was born in 1837 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and as a child was left an orphan. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Union Army as a member of a company raised in his native county, and served bravely for three years and seven months, taking part in several engagements. At the close of the conflict he came to Harrison County, Ohio, locating in Hanover, North Township, where with the exception of ten years that he was engaged in farming in Stock Township he worked at his trade of a blacksmith until his death in 1910. He married Margaret Whittaker, who was born in 1838 in North Township and died at the home of her son, Homer F., on September 2, 1920. Her father, William Whittaker, came to Harrison County, Ohio, as a pioneer, and having entered Government land in North Township, was there engaged in clearing and Improving the land for many seasons, continuing his agricultural labors until his death. Born in Ireland. he came to America as a young man, and after settling in Harrison County married Hannah Conaway, a native of Stock Township, and they became the parents of eleven children.
Of the marriage of Daniel E. and Margaret (Whittaker) Moyer two children were born,
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Harry W. and Homer F. Harry W. Moyer, the first born child, married Sadie Hammill, and is now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio.
Completing his studies in the district schools, Homer F. Moyer attended the Newton Falls High School a year, and subsequently continued his Studies for a year at Scio College in Selo, Ohio. Having gained a practical knowledge of the various branches of agriculture when young, he chose farming for his life occupation. Settling in Stock Township, he has met with eminent success as a general farmer and stock raiser. He owns a fine farm of 233 acres, and in addition to harvesting each year abundant crops of the cereals common to this section of the country he makes a specialty of raising sheep, 0. I. C. hogs and pure bred Shorthorn cattle, a branch of industry which he has found extremely profitable.
Mr. Moyer married in October, 1897, Mary J. Brough, a daughter of Oliver and Rachel Brough, of Harrison County, and their only child, Raymond E. Moyer, born June 12, 1899, is now a student in the Ohio State University. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Moyer are worthy members of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Church, in which they are earnest workers.
LYONS A. WELSH. The records of the Welsh family show that many of this name are located in Harrison County, and that the majority of them have devoted themselves to agricultural pursuits. One of the representative farmers of Archer Township who bears this honored name is Lyons A. Welsh, owner of 240 acres of valuable land in Archer Township.
The birth of Lyons A. Welsh occurred in Archer Township February 6, 1850, and he is a son of John and Margaret (Gilmore) Welsh. He is a grandson of Samuel Welsh, who was among the early settlers of Archer Township, coming to Harrison County from Pennsylvania, which was his native state. Here he lived out his remaining years and became one of the well known men of his period. His children were as follows: John, James, William,. Eleanor and Catherine.
Having been brought to Archer Township when young, John Welsh turned his attention to the cultivation of its land, and was one of the large landowners of his day, devoting his land to general farming and the raising of stock. He spent his last years at Cadiz, Ohio, moving there after he retired from his farm. The Presbyterian Church gave him a medium for the expression of his religious faith, and he was long a member of it. His wife, born in Harrison County, was a daughter of Francis Gilmore, also one of the early settlers of Archer Township, who became a stockdealer later on in life. John Welsh and his wife had the following children: Samuel, Francis G., Jason R., Sarah J., Amanda and Lyons A.
Like the other sons of farmers in his neighborhood, Lyons A. Welsh attended the district schools and learned to make himself useful on the farm, and by the time he was a grown man he found that his inclinations were in favor of an agricultural life and so he adopted it. With the exception of two years when he lived at Scio, Ohio, he has passed his life in Archer Township. His fine farm shows the effect of his care and experience, and on it he is doing general farming and stock-raising.
On June 29, 1871, Mr. Welsh was married to Amanda Osburn, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Welsh) Osburn, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have had the following children born to them: John B:, who married Bertha Haverfield and lives on a farm in Cadiz Township, Harrison County; Frank M., who married Dora Birney; Bertha, who married Earl Pocock; Byron S., who married Olive Henderson; and Percy R., who married Mary Porter and lives at Toronto. Ohio. Very active church people, Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have long belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, Ohio, and be has held nearly all of its offices. In 1874 Mr. Welsh organized the first Grange in this part of Ohio, and has never lost his interest in Grange work, believing that the organization is of great benefit to the farmer and a means whereby a better understanding of agricultural and neighborhood needs may be acquired. He is easily one of the foremost men of his township, and few stand any higher anywhere in the county in the confidence of their associates.
EMMETT NATHAN HAVERFIELD. For more than a century the Haverfield family have been intluential citizens of Harrison County, identified primarily with developing the land and upholding the social and community esteem of their time. Representing the fourth generation of the family in America is Emmett Nathan Haver- field, president of the First National Bank of Cadiz.
His great-grandparents were James and Nancy Haverfield. The former came from Ireland, first settled in Maryland, and subsequently moved through Pennsylvania to the Ohio Valley. Their seven children were William, John, Joseph. James. Nathan. Elizabeth and Ellen.
Of these Nathan was born in 1797 at Wheeling on the Ohio River. and became one of the widely known and popular citizens of Harrison County. Two of his brothers were in the War of 1812. For many years after that war the laws of Ohio required able bodied young men to be enrolled in the State Militia, and Nathan Haver- field at one time was in command of a regiment appearing periodically in company and regimental drills. He was a member of the Seceder, now called the United Presbyterian, Church at Cadiz. was a musician, both vocal and instrumental, the violin being his favorite instrument, and as a young man he taught singing. As clerk of the Seceder Church his place was near the pulpit, it being his duty to announce and line the Psalms. For a pioneer busied with the strenuous tasks of the wilderness he had an unusual range of knowledge, and was a student of Shakespeare as well as of the Bible. He married in Pennsylvania Harriet Barnett, and their children were John N., James N.. William B., Thomas H., Sarah Jane, Jemima H., Joseph, Nathan B., Samuel P., George A. and Nancy E.
The oldest of these was John Nathan Haver feld, who was born May 17, 1820, and always