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family resided thereafter. While living in Cadiz the Houser home was a log cabin which stood on the site of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Barnes died at the home of her son Albert O. in Cadiz in 1886. The children of James P. Barnes and wife were as follows: Sarah Jane, who married James Martin and died on her wedding journey; Freman D., deceased; Albert 0.; Zerelda, who died in childhood; Anna, who died in childhood; and five other children who died in infancy.
Albert O. Barnes is a self-educated man. He attended common school at Deersville until he was fifteen years old, but never' attended any school after that. During the summer he was fifteen he clerked in a general store in Deersville, and in the following fall he began teaching school. On his sixteenth birthday he left Deersville and went to Moorefield, this county, to teach in the school of that village, and taught there that winter and the following spring, and then returned to Deersville and resumed clerking. From the fall of 1861, with the exception of one summer which he spent in a store at Steubenville. Ohio, he taught until the spring of 1865, at which time he gave up teaching on account of his health, he having contracted bronchial trouble. With the exception of one year after that he gave his attention to various occupations which gave him out door work and an opportunity to recuperate his health. He resumed teaching in the fall of 1872. taking charge of a school in La Porte County, Indiana. In 1873 he took charge of the schools at Freeport, and from that time, with the exception of one year, he continued to teach in that village until 1883, in which year he retired from that profession.
During the last four years of the above time Mr. Barnes read law under the preceptorship of Judge John S. Pierce of Cadiz, and in October, 1882, was admitted to practice in the Ohio courts. In 1883 he entered the practice of law in Cadiz, and from that time on he has continued meeting with success and winning an enviable position at the bar and as a man and citizen.
Mr. Barnes has long been a prominent member of the democratic party in Harrison County and has frequently been honored by his party by nominations for high office. The County, Judicial and Congressional districts are overwhelmingly republican. and the nominations of this party means the "leading of a forlorn hope," yet Mr. Barnes. in order that he might help to maintain the democratic organization in Harrison County, cheerfully became the leader of the minority, and always lead his ticket in votes in the several elections when he was a candidate. He has been the democratic nominee for Probate Judge, Common Pleas Judge, for Circuit Judge. and for Congress in 1894 and again in 1920, and in each of these campaigns he fought a good fight and went down to honorable defeat. He has on many occasions been a delegate to democratic state, district and county conventions, and has at different times served on the democratic county committees.
In 1863 Mr. Barnes was united in marriage with Susan, the daughter of William Crooks, of
Carroll County, Ohio, and to them were born the following children: James William, Wilfred Freeman and Jean Florance, all now deceased. Mrs. Barnes died on March 6, 1910.
THOMAS M. LOVE, one of the progressive farmers and substantial citizens of Cadiz Township, is a scion of a family that was founded in Ohio in the early pioneer days and one whose name has been identified with the affairs of Harrison County for nearly four score years. Mr. Love was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, October 14, 1871, and is a son of George and Barbara (Barclay) Love, whose marriage was here solemnized November 21, 1854, Mrs. Love having been a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Kissick) Barclay, who were natives of Ireland, and who settled in Harrison County in the pioneer days.
George Love was born in Belmont County, Ohio, August 14, 1827, and was a son of George and Mary (Moore) Love, both natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, where the former was born about the year 1784 and the latter in 1801, she having been a child when she accompanied her parents, John and Mary (Smith) Moore, to America, the family settling in Ohio. George and Mary (Moore) Love became the parents of three children, Thomas, John and George, all of whom are now deceased. The father died on his old homestead farm in Belmont County, Ohio, February 21, 1829. He was about eight years old when his parents, George and Sabilla (Smith) Love left their native County of Tyrone. Ireland. and immigrated to America, about the year 1792. After remaining for a time in the state of Pennsylvania the family came to Ohio and settled in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, where the father purchased a tract of wild land, which he reclaimed, and there both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They were zealous members of the Seceder Church. Their children were eight in number.
George Love III, father of the subject of this review, was about four years old when he accompanied his mother from Belmont County to Harrison County, where they arrived August 10, 1831, Mrs. Love having in the meanwhile become the wife of John A. Todd, a resident of Nottingham Township. this county, where she thus established her home as noted above and where she and her second husband passed the remainder of their lives. Here George Love (III) was reared and educated. After his marriage he purchased a farm of eighty acres in section 20. Nottingham Township, where later be purchased an additional 120 acres and became a successful farmer and stock-grower. He was influential in public affairs, having been called upon to serve in various township offices, and he also held the office of county commissioner. to which he was elected in October, 1879. He was a staunch republican, and he and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church at Cassville. Still in the possession of the family is a prized heirloom—the sword carried by his father in the War of 1812, a conflict in which he served as a captain of a company in the command of Gen-
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eral William Henry Harrison. Mr. Love was one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death, February 9, 1910, and his widow, revered by all who knew her, passed to the life eternal on the 13th of May, 1914. Concerning their twelve children brief record is made in the paragraph immediately following:
Elizabeth I. is the widow of John Blackwood, deceased, of Clay County, Kansas. Her birth occurred October 10, 1855. David B., born January 15, 1857, has been for many years a representative member of the bar of Sandusky County, where he is engaged in practice at Fremont, the county seat. The maiden name of his wife was Josephine Wood. John, born October 17, 1858, married Miss Margaret Wherry, and they reside in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. Mary Isabel is the wife of David Hutchinson, of Granville, Licking County. The date of her birth was February 6, 1860. Annie B., who was born June 28, 1861, became the wife of George Carrothers and they resided in Piedmont, Ohio, from where they removed to Amory, Mississippi. where she died July 27, 1898. William W., born July 20, 1863, married Miss Belle McBride and they reside at Freeport, Harrison County. George S., born September 16, 1865, is now a resident of Denver, Colorado. Ulysses S., born March 29, 1867, married Miss Laura Johnson, and they reside at Cadiz, Harrison County. James K., born May 27. 1869, married Miss Ada McClintock and they reside in Cadiz, Ohio. Thomas M., the immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Ella M., born February 4, 1874, is the wife of Harvey Love, of Fairpoint, Belmont County; and Charles B., born March 27, 1876, married Miss Susan Catherine Hines. He was a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, at the time of his death, April 15, 1918.
Thomas M. Love acquired his youthful education in the public schools of Nottingham Township, and he continued to be associated in the work of his fatherls farm until 1906, when he went to the west. He was absent about one year in Kansas and Colorado, and upon his return to his native county he resumed his association with the work and management of the home farm. After the death of his father he there continued his activities until 1915, when he removed to Cadiz Township, where ample demands are placed upon his time and attention in the management of a fine farm of about 400 acres, devoted to well ordered agriculture and to the raising of excellent grades of live stock. He is one of the alert and progressive representative citizens of his native county. He is a loyal supporter of the principles of the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at New Athens. Their pleasant home is known for its generous hospitality 'and good cheer.
August 7, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Love to Miss Emma Barricklow, a daughter of John D. Barricklow and a representative of an old and honored family of which ample record is made on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Love are the parents of two children, Frederick B., who was born December 20, 1914, and Anna Margaret, born September 30, 1920.
WILLIAM JAMISON, whose death occurred on the 3d of December, 1910, passed his entire life in Harrison County. He was a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this now favored section of the Buckeye State, and in all of the relations of life he gave unequivocal assurance of strong, worthy and useful manhood.
Mr. Jamison was born in German Township, Harrison County, in the year 1841, and was a son of David and Esther (Bishop) Jamison, who here continued to maintain their home until their deaths, the father having reclaimed and developed a productive farm in German Township. William was the eldest of the five children, and the names of the younger children are here recorded: Frank, Almira, Bryce and Elizabeth Ann. William Jamison was afforded the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, and after his marriage, when a young man, he established his residence on the fine old homestead farm in Rumley Township, on which he passed the remainder of his life and on which his widow still remains. Mr. Jamison chose as his wife Miss Mary Nupp, who was born in Rumley Township November 22, 1846, and who is a daughter of Peter and Susannah (Bollinger) Nupp, both natives of Pennsylvania. The family name of the first wife of Peter Nupp was Wolfe, and the names, with respective dates of birth and death, of their .children are here recorded: Jacob, born January 19, 1816, died December 24, 1884; Maria, born February 8, 1818, died September 28, 1896; Eliza, born August 15, 1820, died April 6, 1895; Sarah, born February 1, 1823, died October 19, 1895; George, born November 22, 1825, died August 21, 1899; Henry, born August 8, 1828, died February 26, 1891; Simon, born March 22, 1831. died April 12, 1900; and Susannah, born January 8, 1835, died November 24, 1903. After the death of hie first wife Peter Nupp married Miss Susannah Bollinger, and their only child, Mary, born November 22, 1846, is the widow of the subject of this memoir.
Mr. and Mrs. William Jamison became the parents of nine children, whose names and dates of birth are here noted: Austin, February 21, 1865; Clara, January 6, 1867; Elsie, March 1, 1869; George, December 19, 1871; Etta, August 24, 1874; Emory, born October 1, 1876, deceased; Charles, born May 23, 1878; Clarence, January 9, 188.3; and Ira, October 9, 1887. Of the children George is made the subject of individual mention on the following page of this work. He is a substantial farmer in North Township. Since the death of the honored father the younugest son, Ira, has had the active management of the old home farm, where he remains with his widowed mother and other members of the family.
GEORGE JAMISON has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth and is now numbered among the substantial representatives of farm industry in North Township. He is a son of the late William Jamison, to
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whom a memoir is dedicated on the preceding page of this volume, so that further review of the family history is not demanded in this sketch.
George Jamison was born in Rumley Township, this county, December 19, 1871, and the public schools of that township afforded him his youthful education. When about twenty years of age he began working by the month as a farm employe, and after his marriage, in 1895, he was for four and one-half years employed as a workman on the line of the Panhandle Railroad. Since that time he has marked his course by progressive independent enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower in his native county, his operations having continued on rented land until March, 1910, when he purchased a farm of 125 acres in North Township, to which he has since added until he now has a valuable farm property of 153 acres. This homestead is the stage of his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and as a loyal citizen he takes lively interest in all things touching the communal welfare and the advancement of the civic and material prosperity of his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at Scio.
In March, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jamison to Miss Laura Minard, daughter of John and Rebecca Minard, of Rumley Township, and their only child, Gernard, married Miss Margaret Grissinger, their home being at the present time at Steubenville, Jefferson County. Gernard Jamison entered the nation's military service in August, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he received his preliminary training for the duties that might be required of him in connection with the great World war. Later he was transferred to Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until receiving his discharge, the war having closed before the service of his command was required on the stage of active conflict.
JOSEPH F. ROSS, one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Cadiz Township, Harrison County, has been a resident of this township from the time of his birth and is a scion of a family that was founded in Harrison County more than a century ago. He was born in Cadiz Township on the 12th of March, 1882, and is a son of John P. and Elizabeth (Finical) Ross, both likewise natives of Cadiz Township, where they continued to maintain their home until their deaths, the death of the father having occurred in September, 1919, and the mother having passed away in 1916. She was a daughter of John and Martha (Irwin) Finical, well known pioneer citizens of Cadiz Township at the time of their deaths. John P. Ross was a son of Joseph and Catherine (Patterson) Ross, whose other three children are still living: Dr. Albert 0., of Columbus, Ohio; Rev. S. F., a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and Mary E., who is the wife of James Cope, their home being now in the state of California.
Joseph Ross, grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life in Harrison County. He was a twin brother of the late Aaron Ross, of whom incidental mention is made on other pages of this work, and they were sons of Adam, who was born and reared in eastern Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Susannah Rowe and where in his youth he learned the trade of blacksmith. He came with his wife to Harrison County in the first decade of the eighteenth century, his parents having previously established a home in this county, and here he followed the work of his trade until he entered service as a soldier in the War of 1812. He proceeded with his company to a military post near Sandusky, where he was stricken with fever and where he died within less than a month after entering service. His widow remained on their home farm in Harrison County until her death in 1848, at the age of seventy years. Their children, all now deceased, were: John, Adam and George (twins) Caleb, Joseph and Aaron (twins). Adam Ross was a son of John and Charlotte (Hatcher) Ross, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized and whence about the year 1804 they came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and took up Government land, this pioneer farm, in the midst of the forest wilds, having continued to be their place of abode until the death of Mr. Ross about 1830, when eighty years of age. His widow passed the closing years of her life in the home of one of her sons in Morgan County. Their children were: Adam, William, John, James, Hannah, Eve, Susannah and Polly.
John P. Ross passed the period of his childhood and youth on the old home farm in Cadiz Township, and in addition to attending the public schools he took a course in Scio College and prepared himself for the profession of civil engineer. It became necessary, however, for him to return to the parental home and assume charge of the farm, and here he continued as one of the substantial exponents of farm industry during the remainder of his life. He was the owner of a valuable landed estate of 212 acres and was one of the influential and honored citizens of his native county. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which they were affiliated with Asbury Chapel, not far distant from their attractive rural home. Mr. Ross was a republican in politics and served two terms as trustee of Cadiz Township. Of their children Joseph F., immediate subject of this review, is the eldest; Catherine is the wife of Dwight Dawson; Martha E. still resides in Cadiz Township; and John 0. died at the age of fifteen years.
Joseph F. Ross is indebted to the district schools of Cadiz Township for his preliminary educational discipline, and later he completed a two years' course in electrical engineering at the University of Ohio. As a young man he taught school four years, and it was after this experience that he attended the state university. After the death of his father he took the active management of the fine old homestead
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farm, and while he has here continued as one of the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of the county, he has also taught during eight winter terms in this district schools, with an excellent reputation in the pedagogic profession. He is giving special attention to the breeding and raising of the best type of Shorthorn cattle, is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the lodge of the Masonic fraternity at Cadiz, and both he and his wife are active members of the Asbury Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In December, 1911, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ross to Miss Ethel George, who was born in Jefferson County and reared in Harrison County, and they have two children, Elizabeth and George.
HARVEY E. PITTENGER has been since 1900 the owner of eighty-five acres of the fine old homestead farm in Archer Township, Harrison County, which figures as the place of his birth, which here occurred on the 17th of January, 1868. Here he has always maintained his home and here he has well maintained, both as a loyal citizen and progressive farmer, the high honors attaching to a family name that has been worthily identified with the history of Harrison County since the very early pioneer period. He is a son of Samuel and Antoinette (Thompson) Pittenger, the latter of whom was born in Carroll County, where her father, Gabriel Thompson, was a pioneer settler. Samuel Pittenger was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 15th of August, 1830, and here his death occurred on the 30th of January, 1881, on the farm now owned and occupied by his son Harvey E., of this sketch. He was a son of Samuel Pittenger, Sr., who likewise was a native of Archer Township, where he was born in the year 1798-a date that indicates that his parents were numbered among the earliest settlers in the county. On the 10th of January, 1820, Samuel Pittenger, Sr., wedded Miss Jane Lemasters, daughter of Isaac Le- masters, another representative pioneer of Archer Township. The young couple settled on the farm which was to continue as their place of residence during the remainder of their lives and which they reclaimed from the forest into one of the best farms of Archer Township. They became the parents of five sons and two daughters. Samuel Pittenger, Sr., died on the 26th of August, 1875, his wife having passed away on the 14th of February of the preceding year and both having been devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their mortal remains are resting in the cemetery of the Bethel Church of this denomination in Green Township. Mr. Pittenger was a whig until the organization of the republican party, when he espoused the cause of the latter, the principles of which he continued to advocate until the time of his death.
Samuel Pittenger, Jr., early began to aid in the work of the home farm, and in the meanwhile profited by the advantages afforded in the local schools of the period. His marriage occurred October 11, 1849, and he and his bride began housekeeping in a little log cabin on the farm now owned by their son Harvey E. This primitive domicile later gave place to the commodious and attractive farm house that now adorns the rural domain and that is situated on the side of one of the picturesque hills of this part of the county. Here Mr. Pittenger continued his productive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower dnring the remainder of his life, and here his widow remained until her death, at the venerable age of seventy-seven years, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and having exemplified their faith in their daily lives-marked by kindliness, tolerance and generosity. In politics Mr. Pittenger was a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party. Concerning the children the following brief record is consistently presented in this connection: Rev. Albert A., who was born August 3, 1850, was graduated in Scio College as a member of the class of 1875, and later was ordained a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the service of which he has since continued, his home being now in the state of Iowa. The maiden name of his wife was Della Buckmaster. William H., who was born February 22, 1852, married Charlotte Lineord, and they reside at Marion, Indiana. John W., who was born June 11, 1854, married Emma Reed, and they likewise reside at Marion, Indiana. Sarah J., who was born July 19, 1856, is the wife of Brice M. Reed, of Hopedale, Ohio. Amanda M., born November 27, 1858, is the wife of Dawson W. Stahl, of Jewett, Ohio. Martha E., born June 20, 1863, is the wife of David Walton, of Denver, Colorado. Mary E., born October 20, 1865, is the wife of John Kirkendahl, of Bowerston, Ohio. Harvey E., immediate subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth. Belinda E., born April 4, 1870, became the wife of William Hoobler and was a resident of Waynesburg, Stark County, at the time of her death. Ida M., born April 13, 1872, died on the 23d of March, 1878. Laura B., born March 2, 1874, died April 8, 1878. Eva E., born August 19, 1876, is the wife of Ira D. Strausbaugh, of Archer Township.
To the district schools of Archer Township Harvey E. Pittenger is indebted for his early education, and, as previously stated, the old homestead farm has been the stage of his progressive enterprise as an agriculturist and stock- raiser from his youth to the present time. He gives special attention to the breeding and raising of pure-blood Delaine sheep, is vitally interested in everything tending to advance the civic and industrial prosperity of his native county, is a staunch republican in politics, and he served four years as assessor of Archer Township, besides having been for an equal period the president of the township board of education. He is affrliated with Jewett Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife hold membership in the adjunct organization of the Daughters of Rebekah. They are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jewett, and he is serving as a valued member of its official board.
September 8, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Pittenger to Miss Emma McMannis, daugh-
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ter of Isaac McMannis, and she and her one child, a son, died at the time of the latter's birth, July 7, 1890. On the 20th of March, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Pittenger to Miss Alice M. Flaherty, daughter of Michael and Mary Flaherty, of Harrison County. No children have been born of this union.
ALEXANDER KAIL, one of the successful farmers of Rumley Township, has lived on his present farm since he was four years of age, and has been identified with much of the history of this region. He is a native son of Harrison County, as he was born at Jefferson, Ohio, on October 24, 186E. His family came at an early day from Denmark to the United States, and many of the Kails have been millwrights by trade. The family was established in Harrison County by the paternal grandfather, Gabriel Kail, a native of Pennsylvania who lived on a farm in Rumley Township until his death in 1850. By trade he was a wagonmaker. His second wife was Elizabeth De Vore, and their children were as follows: Gabriel, Hiram, Steven, Joseph, Uriah, Lucinda, Anna, Tabitha and Phoebe.
Uriah Kail, father of Alexander Kail, was born, in Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1825, and died there in 1873. By trade he was a wagonmaker, and was thus employed in Rumley and Jefferson townships. He was married to Maria Miser, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of David Miser, a tanner who spent all of his life in Jefferson County. The children of David Miser were: William and David, who are ex-Union soldiers, Henry, Elizabeth, Maria, Catherine, Mary and Maggie. They were all Lutherans in religious faith. The children of Uriah Kail and his wife were as follows: Elizabeth, who married 0. B. Miller; David M.; Margaret, who married Charles Fry ; Alexander, whose name heads this review ; Eva Jane, who married J. R. Winnings. Mrs. Kail was a consistent member of the Reformed Church.
Losing his parents when he was a little child, Alexander Kail was taken by his uncle, Steven Kail, to the farm in Rumley Township he now owns, and was here reared and educated. His farm comprises 100 acres of land, and on it he is doing general farming and stockraising, and he carries an excellent grade of stock. Mr. Kail has never married. Having spent his life in farming, he understands it thoroughly, and takes a pride in doing everything right and raising banner crops.
JAMES A. McKEE. One of the substantial and wide-awake merchants of Jewett is James A. McKee, who thoroughly understands the demands of his trade and meets them so efficiently that he is doing a large and profitable business not only with the people of Jewett, but those who come to him from a wide outside area. Mr. McKee was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, August 25, 1878, a son of James C. and Mary E. (Jones) McKee, and grandson of William McKee, one of the early settlers of German Township, and a blacksmith by trade. He married a Miss Quillin, and they had the fol lowing children : Thomas, who was killed while serving in the Union army during the war between the states; William, who was also a soldier in the Union army, was killed in the service; James C., who was third in order of birth; and Sarah, who married George Glover. After the death of his first wife William McKee was married to a Miss Wills, and they had two children, Loranzo and Elizabeth.
James C. McKee was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and his wife was born at Westchester, Ohio. With the outbreak of the war between the states James C. McKee enlisted in the Union army from his native county as a member of the Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, participating in all of the engagements of his regiment, and was fortunate in escaping injury. After the close of the war he came to Harrison County, and, being a miller by trade, he was engaged in operating an old burr mill in German Township nntil the burrs wore out, when he ran a threshing rig and a saw-mill, continuing to reside in that township until his death. He and his wife had the following children: Stewart P., John W., Thomas A., Charlotte E., Mary L., Sarah E., James A., Elsie F., Anna L., George G., Louise J., Jesse B. and Ella. The family all belonged to the Presbyterian Church. Mr. McKee belonged to the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
James A. McKee attended the district schools of Annapolis, Jefferson County, Ohio, and for some years assisted his father in threshing and operating the saw-mill. In 1901 he began working in the steel mills at Mingo Junction, Ohio, and remained there for seven years, but then moved to Wellsville, Ohio, where for a year he was in the grocery business. In 1910 he came to Jewett and established his present store, and has been engaged in handling a general line of merchandise ever since.
In 1901 Mr. McKee was united in marriage with Blanche Galbraith, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Mortland) Galbraith. There are no children. Mr. and Mrs. McKee are members of the Presbyterian Church of Jewett. Mr. McKee belongs to Jewett Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and Jewett Camp, M. W. A. A man of enterprising spirit, he recognizes the fact that properly developed public improvements are very necessary for the progress of the community, and is always willing to lend his support to those measures he deems will bring about such improvements without waste of the taxpayer's money. Both he and Mrs. McKee are very well known throughout the county, and their pleasant home is often the scene of gatherings of congemal friends, whom they delight to entertain.
WILLIAM J. HAWK. The most progressive of the farmers of Harrison County recognize the fact that it pays to keep a good grade of stock and operate according to approved scientific methods. Cheap grades of machinery and stock will not produce the best results, and the farmer who is willing to make a proper outlay for his equipment finds that he has a paying investment. At least this is the conclusion reached by William J. Hawk of Rumley Township, and
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men of his caliber, and their finely cultivated acres, sleek stock and orderly premises prove that they know what they are doing.
William J. Hawk was born in Union Township, Carroll County, November 13, 1856, a son of John and Rosanna (Coyan) Hawk, and grandson of Jacob and Katie Hawk. Jacob Hawk came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvama, 'to Lee Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and for the remainder of his life was engaged in running a tavern in that locality. His children were as follows: John, Elias, Mary and Lizzie.
John Hawk was born in Lee Township, Carroll County, and his wife was born at East Liverpool, Ohio. After their marriage they settled in Union Township, where they engaged in farming, but after Jacob Hawk's health began to fail John Hawk returned to Lee Township to take charge of his father's tavern, until the building of the railroad took away the custom, and he then returned to his farming and was engaged in that industry until his death. He was a Presbyterian and his wife belonged to the Reformed Church. Their children were as follows: Leander, Columbus, Washington, Melvina, Minerva, Mary, Ada, William J. and Maggie.
William J. Hawk was educated in the public schools of Lee Township, Carroll County. He began his farming experiences in Lee Township, where he continued to live until 1882, and in that year came to Harrison County, and for about eighteen months worked as a farm hand in German Township. He was then married and began farming in Rumley Township, but a year later moved to Archer Township and for the subsequent eleven years was there engaged in farming. At the expiration of that time he bought his present farm of 145 acres of land in Rumley Township, and on it he is doing general farming and stockraising.
On September 6, 1883, Mr. Hawk was united in marriage with Kate Salmon, a daughter of Lewis Salmon, and they have one son, Alvie D., who was born March 16, 1885. He was married to Minme May Epley, and they have three children: Otto, Ethel and Lewis. Alvie D. Hawk is engaged with his father in conducting the farm, and lives a short distance from his parents. The members of the Hawk family belong to the Hanover Methodist Episcopal Church, of which William J. Hawk is a steward and trustee. Both father and son are regarded as splendid examples of the modern agriculturists of Ohio, and their results in farming often serve as an incentive to others to exert themselves to improve their properties and increase their output.
CHAP GINTHER. Tracing back through several generations the family of Ginther is found in Ohio, members of it having come with its hardy explorers and become pioneers of Tuscarawas County. From that region others bearing the name have journeyed to different portions of Ohio and beyond the state lines, and during the late war the name was borne by one son in the service of his country whose enlistment was credited to Rumley Township, Har rison County, where his father, Chap Ginther, is one of the substantial farmers of this part of the county.
Chap Ginther was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 30, 1861, a son of Casper Ginther, grandson of Abraham Ginther and great- grandson of John Casper Ginther. The last named was a pioneer into Tuscarawas County, and in the intervals of developing a home in the wilderness he, found time to work at his trade as a millwright and the kindred trade of cabinetmaking, and to him is credited the making of the first pulpit used in the Gnadenhuffen Moravian Church.
Abraham Ginther was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and learned his father's trade and was also a carpenter. He did all of the mill work on the first mill erected in Tuscarawas County. His wife was Catherine Varner before her marriage, and she bore her husband the following children: Casper, Mary, George, and Eliza. Abraham Ginther died in 1838, and his wife passed away in 1858.
Casper Ginther was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1828, and his wife, Elizabeth (Crow) Ginther, was also born in the same county, a daughter of Cornelius and Ann (French) Crom. Cornelius Crom was a shoemaker by trade. He and his wife had the following children: Phoebe; Richard, who served during the Civil war; Abraham, who was killed in the Union army at the battle of Perrysville; Elizabeth; and two brothers who died young. The Crom family were Methodists.
Losing his father before he was taught the millwright trade, Casper Ginther adopted farming as his life work, and with the exception of a few years when he conducted a general store and had the office of postmaster he was engaged in that line of industry all of his active years. and his wife became the parents of the following children: Josephine M., Chap and John Casper. Mr. Ginther died in 1900, having survived his wife for many years, as she had died in 1875. She was a Methodist, but he belonged to the Moravian Church.
Chap Ginther has had no other educational advantages than those accorded by the public schools, but he is a very well informed man of more than ordinary intelligence. His first work away from home was done for the Glasgow Iron & Coal Company. Having in this way earned a little money, he took the high school course at Dennison, Ohio, and then for seven years alternated teaching with farming, and he was also engaged for about three years in newspaper work. With all these experiences, combined with his love for reading, he has so enlarged his store of knowledge that he would pass for a college-bred man. While accomplishing all this he never lost his love of the soil or his realization of the importance of farming, and when he moved from Tuscarawas County to Harrison County in 1902 he bought 130 acres of land in Rumley Township, on which he is still living.
In 1891 Mr. Ginther was married to Emily Barr, a daughter of William and Rebecca Barr. Mr. and Mrs. Ginther have the following children: Walter, who is mentioned below; Clara,
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who is a graduate of Kent State Normal College; Emmett, who is now a student of the college at Bethany, West Virginia, was in a military training school at the time of the signing of the Armistice; and Florence, who is the youngest. Mrs. Ginther died June 12, 1918, firm in the faith of the Methodist Church of which she had long been a faithful member.
Walter Ginther was engaged in teaching at the Kent State Normal College when this country entered the World war, and he entered the service September 2, 1918, being stationed at Camp Sherman. He was assigned to the quartermaster's department, and was corporal of Company C, Utilities Division. On May 14, 1919, he was discharged, but continued the same work at Camp Sherman as a civilian for about a year. The family all belong to the Methodist Church.
WELCH ROGERS. A practical farmer, a good business man, a public spirited gentleman, Welch Rogers has given many years to the administration of public affairs, chiefly as superintendent of the Harrison County Home, the office he fills today.
This institution is located in Cadiz Township, and that is the locality in which the Rogers family was established in pioneer times. His great-grandfather was Joseph Rogers, who came west from Maryland very early in the nineteenth century, and employed his strength and resources in the development of a farm in Cadiz Township. The children of this honored pioneer were Warren, Joseph, William, Barrett, Elijah, Lydia and Mary Ann.
The grandfather of Welch Rogers was William Rogers, who was born in Maryland November 30, 1798. He married Susan Carson, who was born in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of John Carson, another early settler. William Rogers spent his active life as a farmer, and lived practically all his years in Cadiz or Nottingham Township. He was a member of the Methodist Church. His children were eight in number, named Cindinia, John B., Jesse, Nancy, Hannah, Frank, Calvin and Barrett.
The third generation of this interesting family was represented by John B. Rogers, who was born in Cadiz Township and devoted his years to the business of farming in that locality. He died February 7, 1875. John B. Rogers married Rosanna Keckler, who was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and survived her husband many years, passing away March 14, 1917. Her parents were John and Susan (Gordon) Keckler, who about 1840 came to Harrison County and some fifteen years later moved to Crawford County, Ohio, where they spent the rest of their lives. The children of John Keckler and wife were Josiah, Mary Ann, Martha, Rosanna and Melinda. Welch Rogers was the oldest of the eight children of his parents. The second in age is Alwilda, who married George D. Barger and both are deceased; John G. was drowned May 31, 1872, at the age of eighteen; Nancy Margaret became the wife of Elmer Barger; Susanna Melinda married Bartley Slater; J. Gordon married Mary Dicker son; Rosa became the wife of L. J. Smith; and Nora is the wife of Emmett Nash.
The birth of Welch Rogers occurred in Cadiz Township, September 5, 1851, and he had the normal experiences of country boys in that community, attending schools, working on the farm, and pursuing a variety of sports and pastimes. Before reaching his majority he was handling the responsibilities of a farm in a very capable manner. In 1894, on the basis of his qualifications as a farmer and business man, he was called to the superintendency of the Harrison County Home, and remained in that office continuously for thirteen years. In 1907 he was made farm superintendent of the feeble minded institution at Columbus, and spent three years with this state institution. After returning to Harrison County he was engaged in the feed business at Cadiz until 1918, when he was again called upon and accepted the office of superintendent of the Harrison County Home,
May 20, 1875, Mr. Rogers married Eliza Jane Adams, a daughter of Percival and Mary Jane Adams. She died twelve years after their marriage, on November 14, 1887, and is survived by three children : John, who married Mary Cramblett; Mertie Bell, who died February 28, 1916; and Everett, who married Minnie Schultz. On February 25, 1892, Mr. Rogers married Emma L. Kirk. Mr. Rogers is a member of Cadiz Lodge No. 219, F. & A. M. and is a member of the Methodist Church.
LEE D. S. KLOTZ, the efficient and popular superintendent of the well equipped manufacturing plant of the Whittaker-Greer Fireproofing Company at Malvern, Carroll County, claims this village as the place of his nativity and is a representative of a family _that was founded in Carroll County nearly ninety years ago.
Lee Dell Scott Klotz was born at Malvern on the 26th of January, 1875, and is a son of George and Elida (Scott) Klotz, the former of whom was born at Magnolia, this county, March 30, 1847, and the latter of whom was born in Rose Township, this county, October 28, 1852.
George Klotz is a son of Jacob and Christina (Gutlieb) Klotz, both natives of Germany, where the former was born in 1804 and the latter in 1809, their marriage having been solemnized in their native land, where they remained until 1832, when they immigrated to the Umted States and established their home in the village of Magnolia, Carroll County, Ohio, where Jacob Klotz engaged in the work of his trade, that of shoemaker. Later he became a farmer in Brown Township, and he was one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death in 1886. His wife passed away November 26, 1870, and both were devout communicants of the Lutheran Church. Their children were ten in number, namely: Magdalene, Jacob, Christina, Sophia, Lewis, Philip (died in childhood), Mary, John, George and Clara. George Klotz was three years of age at the time his parents removed from Magnolia to the farm in Brown Township, where he gained experience not only in farm enterprise but also at the trade of shoemaker, in which he was instructed by his father, a skilled workman. The com-
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mon schools of the locality afforded him his youthful education, and he continued to follow the work of his trade for twenty years, after which he gave his attention principally to the management of his farm in Brown Township, but still retained his residence at Malvern. In this village he has owned and improved various town lots, and has erected and sold a number of houses of good grade. He still gives a general supervision to his farm of fifty acres in Brown township, as does he also to the well improved farm of 100 acres owned by his son Lee, of this review, in the same township. Like his father, Mr. Klotz is a staunch democrat in political adherence, and he served one term as mayor of Malvern. He and his wife are active communicants of the Lutheran Church in this village.
On the 16th of June, 1870, was solemnized the marriage of George Klotz to Miss Elida Scott, daughter of Thomas and Harriet (Weaver) Scott, the former of whom was born in Carroll County, Jnly 18, 1818, a representative of one of the prominent pioneer families of the county, and the latter of whom was born August 10, 1819. Thomas Scott bore the Pull patronymic of his father, Thomas, Sr., who was born in Scotland and whose wife, Martha (Harman) Scott, was a native of Ireland. Thomas Scott, Sr., was a young man when he came to America and established his home in Ohio, where his marriage was solemnized, and he and his wife soon afterward established their home on a pioneer farm in Carroll County, where he died at the untimely age of twenty-eight years, leaving his young widow with three children: Oliver, Thomas, Jr., and Julia. Mrs. Scott later became the wife of Harrison Taylor, and of this union were born four children, Patterson, William, Martha and Sarah. After the death of her second husband she became the wife of Isaac Reed, and their children were three in number, John, Elizabeth and Catherine. Mrs. Reed was a resident of Warsaw, Coshocton County, at the time of her death in 1875.
Thomas Scott, Jr., was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days in Carroll County, and that he made good use of his early educational advantages needs no further voucher than the statement that for the long period of fifty- six years he was a successful and popular teacher in the pnblic schools of this section of Ohio and in Michigan, the closing period of his life having been passed at Coleman, Michigan, where his death occurred in 1894. His first wife died at Mineral City, Ohio, in 1863, and was survived by three children, Isabel, Leander and Elida. For his second wife Thomas Scott married Miss Mary Harsh, and of this union were born two children, Edwin and John.
Harriet (Weaver) Scott, maternal grandmother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Kees) Weaver, who were born and reared in Pennsylvama, where their marriage occurred and whence they came in an early day to Carroll County, Ohio, where Mr. Weaver took up an entire section of land near Harrisburg. He later sold this property and removed to Rose Township, where he developed a good farm and where he passed the residue of his life, his widow having been a resident of Findlay, this state, at the time of her death, and their children having been twelve in number : Adam, David, Cynthia, Mary, Daniel, Solomon, Elida, Rebecca, Margaret, Nicholas, Harriet and Jonathan, the last named having entered the ministry of the United Brethren Church, in which he was finally elevated to the position of bishop.
George and Elida (Scott) Klotz became the parents of four children: George Herman married Corinne Clark and they became the parents of three children, Isabel Blanche, Margaret Ellen and Mary Lois. George H. Klotz is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and at the time of this writing holds a pastoral charge at Canal Fulton, Ohio. Blanche is the wife of Frank Mick, of Minerva, Ohio, and they have two children, Albert and Bessie, the latter being the wife of Arthur Leyda, of Malvern, and their three children being Frank, Gertrude and Betty. Lee D. S. Klotz, immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth, and Harry died in infancy. Albert Mick, son of Frank and Blanche (Klotz) Mick, was one of Ohio's gallant young soldiers in the World war. He left home April 29, 1918, and in the following month crossed the Atlantic and became a member of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, where he served as head bugler in a regiment of heavy artillery. He remained abroad for some time after the signing of the armistice and returned home on the 5th of June, 1919.
Lee Dell Scott Klotz continued his studies in the public schools of Malvern until he bud completed the curriculum of the high school, and thereafter he taught thirteen winter terms in the district schools with marked. success. In the meanwhile he completed a course in civil engineering through the medium of a leading correspondence school, and thereafter he entered the service of the Whittaker Fireproofing Company at Malvern, an important industrial corporation now known as the Whittaker-Greer Fireproofing Company, and he is now the vigorous and efficient superintendent of the large and modern manufacturing plant of this company, in connection with which he has shown marked technical and executive ability, as his official position and preferment clearly indicate. For two years he was associated in the operation of a planing mill at Malvern, under the firm name of Buell & Klotz, and he finally sold his interest in the business to his partner. In politics he is found aligned as a loyal democrat, and he served seven years as mayor of Malvern, in which municipal office he gave a most resourceful and progressive administration. His civic loyalty has further been exemplified in his service as a member of the municipal water board and member of the board of education, the while he is essentially one of the most popular citizens and business men of his native village, where he owns a beautiful, modern residence on Main Street, this attractive home having been erected by him in 1907. Both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.
On the 24th of December, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Klotz to Miss Verda Olive Hemming, who was born in Augusta
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Township, Carroll County, on the 20th of October, 1878, a daughter of George and Mary (Harsh) Hemming. Mr. and Mrs. Klotz have three sons: George Chester, who was born January 13, 1904, is a member of the class of 1923 in the Malvern High School; Forrest Henning, who was born December 10, 1905, is a member of the class of 1924 in the local high school; and Lee Dell Scott, Jr., was born February 28, 1918.
George W. Hemming, father of Mrs. Klotz, was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, September 8, 1844, a son of Richard and Lydia (Harsh) Hemming, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in Washington County, March 18, 1823, he having been about eight years of age at the time when his parents came to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, in 1830, and settled in Harrison Township. Richard Hemming was a son of Richard and Eleanor (Leggett) Hemming, the former having been born in the State of Maryland in 1787, a son of William and Sisson (Stephens) Hemming, whose marriage was there solemnized, the father having been a native of England and having become a resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1796. There he remained until 1830, when he became one of the pioneers of Carroll County. Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Richard Hemming developed one of the excellent farms of Harrison Township, and there he died March 23, 1859, his widow passing away February 25, 1849, and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the while his political support was given to the democratic party. Their children were Mary, William, Eleanor, Richard, Jr., and Jesse. Richard Hemming, Jr., grandfather of Mrs. Klotz, was a boy at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, and he continued to reside on 'the old homestead farm. of- which he became the owner, until his death, both he and his wife having been of venerable years when they passed to eternal rest and both having been earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. Their marriage was recorded March 4. 1844, and they became the parents of nine children—George W., Sarah E., Elias R., Enoch N., Abraham H., Daniel W., Mary C., Clara M. and Julia A. Mrs. Hemming was a daughter of Elias and Sarah (Summers) Harsh, who were early settlers in Harrison Township, where they remained until their deaths.
George W. Hemming passed the period of his childhood and youth on the old home farm, a part of the large tract that had been obtained by his grandfather in the early days, and his educational. advantages were those of the schools in Harrison Township. He became not only a successful farmer but also prominently identified with lumbering operations, as the owner of a saw mill. He gave his attention to the latter enterprise for fifteen years and for twenty-five years operated a threshing machine. In 1888 he engaged in the hardware business at Carrollton in company with his brother Enoch, but in 1890 he sold his interest in this business and resumed the operation of a saw mill. He passed one summer in the State of Kansas and after his return to Carroll County was for three years engaged in brick manufacturing at Carrollton. For the next two years he operated a saw mill, and he then engaged in the hardware business at Malvern, where he also bought and sold feed. Later he was associated with F. E. Hoffee in the general merchandise business at Malvern, under the firm name of Hoffee, Hemming & Son, and he and Mr. Hoffee erected the three-story brick building now containing the leading bank of Malvern and also a clothing and shoe store. In 1910 Mr. Hemming sold his interest in the business and property at Malvern and for two years thereafter he was superintendent of the Richards Lumber Company in Upshur County, West Virginia. Later he became a successful real- estate dealer at Canton, Ohio, and since 1918 has lived virtually retired at Malvern. He is a democrat in politics and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church.
October 10, 1866, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hemming to Miss Mary E. Harsh, who was born in Augusta Township, Carroll County, January 28, 1849, a daughter of Abraham and Phoebe (Cook) Harsh, the former of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1815, and the latter of whom was born March 10, 1823. Abraham Harsh was a boy at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, and here he passed the remainder of his life. George W. and Mary E. Hemming became the parents of four children: Lillian is the wife of Charles Tellett, and they have one son, Shelby; Verda is the wife of Lee D. S. Klotz, the immediate subject of this sketch; Eva is the wife of Eli Elder, of Carroll County, and they have two children—Richard and Mary Elizabeth. Richard Perry, the second and only son, is now engaged in the real-estate business at Carrollton. He married Rose Downs, of Rose township, and they have three children—Vivian, Gwendolyn and Mary Ellen.
JOHN C. PATTON. The Patton family is one of the old ones of Harrison County, dating back as it does in this neighborhood to August, 1817, when the farm now owned by John C. Patton of Rumley Township was entered from the Government by his grandfather, Joseph Patton, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Harrison County for the purpose of acquiring land. Having entered his farm, he began to develop it and lived on it the remainder of his life. His wife, Sarah (Burns) Patton, was also born in Pennsylvania, and they had the following children: Margaret, Sarah, Anna, Mary, Cynthia, John, Joseph, McKinney, James and David. They were all Presbyterians.
On the maternal side John C. Patton belongs to the Rutan family, as his mother was Sarah A. Rutan. She was born in Louden Township, Carroll County, Ohio, a daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Carr) Rutan, and a granddaughter of Peter Rutan and his wife, Elizabeth (McAlrath) Rutan, whose children were: Joel, John, David, Alexander, Daniel and Isabel. Of these children Daniel Rutan was the father of Mrs. Patton, and both he and his wife were born in Ireland, but he traced his ancestry back
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to France, from which his people were driven at the time of the terrible persecutions of the Huguenots. For many years Daniel Rutan was engaged in farming in Louden Township, Carroll County, Ohio. During the war between the states his house was one of the stations of the "Underground Railroad," as he was an ardent abolitionist.
David Patton spent his entire life on his farm of 180 acres, where he was born in September, 1823, and where he died in 1892. His widow survived him many years, not passing away until in April, 1918. Their children were as follows: Margaret, who was born in 1856, married Samuel Thompson and died in 1887, leaving two children, David P. and Forrest Scott ; Samuel R., who was born in October, 1857, married Laura Fincum, and has two children, Jesse Raymond and Samuel Willard; and John C., who was born on his present farm July 15, 1865. Both David Patton and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church.
John C. Patton was educated in the district schools of Rumley Township, and while he was receiving his scholarship training he was also learning how to conduct the farm which he now owns. Here he lived until the spring of 1900, when he moved to Jewett and made it his home until April, 1907, when he returned to the farm. For a year while living at Jewett he was engaged in conducting a mill. His farm now comprises 202 acres of very valuable land, and he is carrying on a general farming and stock-raising business on it, and is making a great success of his undertaking, for he is a practical agriculturalist and knows how to make his efforts count for much. In 1896 he was elected one of the commissioners of Harrison County, and held the office until 1903, discharging its obligations faithfully and well.
In April, 1892, Mr. Patton was united in marriage with Mary Jones, a daughter of John and Sarah (Naylor) Jones, of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Patton became the parents of the following children : Oma, who graduated from the Jewett High School and the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio; and George 0., who is a graduate of the Scio, Ohio, High School.
The Patton homestead has not only been in the possession of the Pattons since 1817, but there has never been any incumbrance upon it, and each owner has done his part to increase its value, so that it is now admittedly one of the best rural properties in this part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Patton are very well known and universally liked, and they and their children are numbered among the valued members of the Presbyterian Church at Jewett.
WILLIAM L. FINICUM, who is engaged in a mercantile business at New Rumley, is one of the substantial men of Harrison County, and belongs to one of its old-established families. He was born in Rumley Township June 25, 1847, a son of Nicholas P. T. and Margaret (Leas) Finicum, and grandson of William Finicum, who was a native of England.
Many years ago William Finicum came with his wife, Avis, and their four children to the
United States and first located in Pennsylvania, but later moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he lived until the close of his life. The children. of William Finicum were as follows: David, Thomas, William. Mark, Nicholas P. T. and several daughters whose names are not known.
Nicholas P. T. Finicum was born at Amsterdam, Ohio. and his wife was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) teas. Jacob Leas was born in Germany. from whence he came to the United States in 1810 and located on a farm in Jefferson County. Ohio, which property is now owned by a grandson. Jacob Lens has the following children: Leonard. Jacob, William, Eliza, Maria, Sophia and Margaret. The Leas family all belonged to the German Lutheran Church, but later on in life some of the children affiliated with the Presbyterian denomination.
In 1838 Nicholas P. T. Finicum came to Rum- ley Township, and this date marks the founding of the family in Harrison County. He located on the farm now owned by C. Gotshall, and it continued to be his home until his death in 1881. His wife passed away in 1876. The children of Nicholas P. T. Finicum were as follows: Eliza, William L.. Jacob and Erzilla. Both Mr. and Mrs. Finicum were steadfast in their support of the faith of the Lutheran Church and were members of it for many years.
William L. Finicum made the best of the advantages afforded him by the schools of his district, and laid the foundation of a practical education. He continued to work on the homestead until he was twenty-tive years old, and at that time went to West Virginia and spent eighteen months there. Returning to New Rum- ley Township, after his trip he went into the mercantile business, and has conducted a general store at this point ever since, building up during the intervening years a dependable trade in the surrounding country. He has a small, farm near New Rumley, and is interested in operating it in addition to caring for his store.
In 1869 Mr. Finicum was united in marriage with Margaret Shambaugh, a daughter of Philip Shambaugh, and they have the following children: Samuel K., who married Hattie Ott and lives at Canton, Ohio; Edward W., who married Della Arbaugh, has two children, Mildred May and Mary Margaret, is in business with his father and for the past ten years has been postmaster of New Rumley; Clarence L., who married Edith Richley, has one child, William L., and lives at Sewickley, Pennsylvania; and Harry P., who married Philus Crawford, lives at Indiana, Pennsylvania. The Methodist Episcopal Church of New Rumley holds the membership of both Mr. Finicum and his wife, and he has served it for a number of years as one of its trustees. Mr. Finicum is a Mason and belongs to the Blue Lodge of Scio, Ohio. Aside from holding • the office of trustee of Rumley Township he has not entered public life, but be is regarded as an authority upon many subjects and those appreciating his good common sense and mature judgment often go to him for advice and seldom regret taking it, for his
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ideas are excellent ones, and he knows human nature and the motives which actuate men.
DAVID T. BARRICKLOW may well take satisfaction in the fact that in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, he is well upholding the industrial and civic prestige of a name which has here been prominently identified with farm enterprise for many years, both his father and his uncle, Henry Barricklow, having been numbered among the leading exponents of farm industry in this township, and the present finely improved farm of the subject of this review having been bequeathed to him by the uncle just mentioned.
David T. Barricklow was born on his father's old homestead farm in Cadiz Township January 19, 1879, and is a son of John D. and Mary (Dunlap) Barricklow. John D. Barricklow continued to give his personal supervision to his farm until 1906, when he removed from the place to the village of Flushing, Belmont County, where he and his wife have an attractive home. He still retains ownership of his farm and takes pride in keeping it up to the best modern standard in all departments.
John D. Barricklow was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1328, a son of Frederick and Nancy (Dugan) Barricklow, whose marriage was solemnized in 1826, the latter having been a daughter of John and Catherine (McClelland) Dugan. Frederick Barricklow was born in New Jersey, a son of Henry Barricklow, and the genealogy of the family is traced back to Holland origin. As a young man Frederick Barricklow removed to Pennsylvania, where his marriage occurred, and thereafter he resided in Fayette County, that state, until 1832, when he came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased the farm later owned and occupied by his son John D. Frederick Barricklow here died in 1858, at the age of sixty-three years, and his widow survived him many years, her death having occurred October 17, 1881, when she was eighty-one years of age. They became the parents of five children—John D., Henry, Alexander, Margaret A. and George W.
John D. Barricklow was reared to manhood on the old home farm, where he remained until 1859, when he made an extended tour through various western states. In 1863 he returned to Cadiz Township and resumed his active association with farm industry. Soon after his return he here married Miss Mary Dunlap, daughter of Adam and Mary (Thompson) Dunlap, and for ten years thereafter he was engaged in farming in Athena Township. In 1871 he removed to his father's old home farm in Cadiz Township, and he added gradually to his holdings until at the present time his broad acres number 800, much of which is goad coal land. Mr. and Mrs. Barricklow are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and his political allegiance is given to the democratic party. John D. and Mary Barricklow became the parents of nine children: Nancy Ellen (Mrs. John Ross), John A., Maggie A., Martha E. (deceased), Frederick H., Carrie G., David T., Mary E. and Frank J.
David T. Barricklow was reared and educated in Cadiz Township, and from his youth has been closely associated with farm industry in his native county. His fine farm of 182 acres lies adjacent to that of the county infirmary, and is one of the valuable rural estates of the county. His uncle Henry, to whom a tribute is given in following paragraphs, bequeathed to him this fine farm and was eighty-six years of age at the time of his death,
Mr. Barricklow has traveled about the country extensively, visiting different states, and while in Minnesota he purchased land in the Red River Valley, which he still owns. In 1907 he was married to Pearl Lofton, and to them was born one son, John D., who was born January 19, 1908. He resides with his father and attends the Cadiz schools. Mr. Barricklow has prospered in his business and is now one of the substantial men and taxpayers of the county. Besides his inheritance from his uncle, Henry Barricklow, he has accumulated considerable means and be has invested in high-class securities.
HENRY BARRICKLOW was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Harrison County, Ohio, at the time of his death. He was a child of about three years at the time of the family removal from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, and here he was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm of his father in Cadiz Township. In 1871 he settled on the farm now owned by his nephew, David T., where he made many improvements and where he continued to reside until his death. He was a man of ability and sterling character, and ever commanded the high regard of all who knew him. His political faith was that of the democratic party, and he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church. In October, 1878, Mr. Barricklow married Miss Mary Henderson, of Jefferson County, but no children were born of this union. Mrs. Barricklow died January 20, 1912. They had a deep affection for their nephew and heir, which affection was fully reciprocated.
SAMUEL K. MCLAUGHLIN was for many years actively identified with agricultural enterprise and the raising of live stock in Harrison County, where he improved one of the finest farms in Short Creek Township. He remained on this model rural estate until 1899, when he removed to Cadiz, where he now holds precedence as one of the buyers and shippers of wool in this section of his native state, the family name having been identified with Ohio history for more than a century.
John McLaughlin, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, came to Ohio in 1801, and in the following year he established the family home in. Jefferson County. He had previously gained more than a usual amount of frontier experience, as he had served the Government as an Indian spy through the wild country between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Wheeling, West Virginia. He purchased a tract of heavily timbered land in the midst of the
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forest wilds of Jefferson County, and there instituted the reclamation and development of a pioneer farm, the land having been originally secured by his brother-in-law, John Johnson, at the rate of twelve and one-half cents an acre. Of this resourceful pioneer an interesting record has been previously published, and from the same is reproduced the following data, which is well worthy of perpetuation: "John McLaughlin was a man of more than ordinary attainments for those days, and soon after coming to Ohio he was elected a member of its Legislature, in which he served five years as a member of the House of Representatives. He was then elected to the State Senate, in which he served twelve years. In the Senate he was intimately associated with Gen. William Henry Harrison, John C. Wright and Charles Hammond. The sessions were first held at Zanesville, later at Chillicothe and finally at Columbus, which was made the permanent capital of the commonwealth. Mr. McLaughlin was a member of the 'call session' of the Legislature in 1832 to settle the dispute relative to the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan. He was the founder of Adena, Jefferson County, securing the postoffice for that place and giving the village its name. At the time of his death he was an elder in the United Presbyterian Church and a member of the session of Piney Fork. He was for many years a justice of the peace, and, beyond all doubt, was during his active career the most prominent and influential man in his district. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1774, and died November 10, 1860, in his eighty-seventh year. About 1799 he married Miss Annie Johnson, who died •une 6, 1849. Their children were thirteen in number."
James McLaughlin, son of John and father of Samuel K., of this review, was born on the pioneer homestead near Adena, Jefferson County, and was the second son in the large family of children, of whom four sons and five daughters attained to years of maturity. Educational advantages in his youth were limited in this section of Ohio, but by self-application he became a man of broad information and mature judgments. He was a staunch abolitionist in the climacteric period leading up to the Civil war and united with the republican party at the time of its organization, his previous alignment having been with the whip party. He and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church at Piney Fork, and on one occasion he represented his church as a delegate to the General Assembly of the denomination in the City of Philadelphia. He served long and effectively as an elder of the church, was a leader in movements tending to advance the material and civic welfare of the community and was specially influential in developing an effective public-school system at Adena. He married Miss Sarah J. Kerr. who was born and reared in Harrison County, the eldest daughter of Samuel and Annie (Smith) Kerr, and of the nine children of this union one died in infancy; William B. was a resident of Adena, Jefferson County, at the time of his death; Ann E. became the wife of Lewis Bern hard, of Harrison County ; Mary E. married William Courtright, of Harrison County; Nancy J. became the wife of Joseph C. McNary, of Unionport, Jefferson County; Samuel K., immediate subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Sarah M. married Rev. Hugh W. Parks, of Harrison County; Joseph S., of Adena, Ohio, is now deceased; Mary Emma married Robert G. Dean, and they established their home at Omaha, Nebraska. She is now a widow, residing at Seattle, Washington, and the mother of two sons and two daughters living. James McLaughlin died August 26, 1865, in his tifty-second year, and his widow, surviving him by many years, continued to reside at the old home in Jefferson County until her death, at the venerable age of seventy-two years.
Samuel K. McLaughlin was born at Adena, Jefferson County, September 12, 1846, and was there reared to adult age. There he received' the advantages of the common schools of the period, and at the age of eighteen years entered" the McNeely Normal College at Hopedale, Harrison County, where he continued his studies until the death of his father made it necessary for him to return to the old home and assist. his widowed mother in the management of the farm. While applying himself vigorously to farm work during the summer seasons he made an admirable record as a successful and popular teacher in the public schools in the winter season after having passed the examination which entitled him to a teacher's certificate of the first class.
May 22, 1872, recorded the marriage of Mr. McLaughlin to Miss Mary Belle Snider, who was born and reared in Green Township, Harrison County, a daughter of Samuel and Hannah Snider, and soon after their marriage the young couple established their home on the old Hurford homestead in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. In the following year they removed to Adena, Jefferson County, the old home of Mr. McLaughlin, who resumed his educational service as a teacher in the village schools and who alSO erected in the meanwhile the best residence in the town. In 1875 they returned to Harrison County and established their home on the fine farm of 230 acres which was to continue as their abiding place for many years. In 1888 Mr. McLaughlin erected on his farm one of the most commodious and modern farm houses in Short Creek Township. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin were members of the United Presbyterian Church until they took up their residence in Cadiz, since which time they have been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children: Charles Johnson, John Orrin, Hannah Lucretia and Samuel Parks, all of whom are deceased except Robert Parks, the youngest, who is now Government postoffice inspector at Waterloo, Iowa. He married Margaret Mcllvaine, the daughter of Judge Walter G. Shotwell, of Cadiz. They are the parents of four daughters, Nancy. Shotwell, Margaret McIlvaine, Mary Elizabeth and Ann.
Mr. McLaughlin has never wavered in loyal allegiance to the republican party and has been
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influential in its council and campaign ac tivities in Harrison County. He gave effective service as trustee of Short Creek Township and later represented Harrison and Carroll counties in the State Legislature for two terms, with a record that fully justified his election to this office. Mr. McLaughlin made his farm one of the best improved and most valuable in Short Creek Township, and he still owns the property, though he has maintained his home at Cadiz since 1899 and is here actively and successfully engaged in the buying and shipping of wool, as one of the leading representatives of this line of business in Harrison County. A man of genial sincerity and sterling character, his circle of friends is virtually coincident with that of his acquaintances, and though he has passed the span of three score years and ten he is still hale and vigorous and takes satisfaction in his business activities.
HOMER CLYDE WILLIAMS. The editor of a newspaper in one of the smaller cities of the country comes in much more intimate touch with his public than does his fellow craftsman on one of the metropolitan dailies. Not only does the former know practically all of his readers personally, but he is acquainted with the history of his region and understands its needs so that he is able to give an intelligent and satisfactory support to its public-spirited measures and wage a relentless .fight against those which, because of this very knowledge, he realizes will not be productive of lasting benefits. One of the men who is looked up to as one of the moulders of public opinion in Harrison County, is Homer Clyde Williams, editor of the Freeport Press, and one of the ablest journalists of this part of the state.
Homer Clyde Williams was born in Harrison County, Ohio, February 22, 1876, a son of Rev. Lyman B. Williams, who was editor of the Freeport Press until March, 1917, since which • time he has been retired from all active business. H. C. Williams is a grandson of Elam and Elizabeth S. (McKitrick) -Williams. Rev. Lyman B. Williams, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and an eloquent and able divine, has had the following children born to him: Hamilton Bertel, who married Olive Tewell, who bore him a son, Thomas, and he followed his father's example, entering the ministry, but is a 'Presbyterian minister, and is also a writer of marked ability; Homer Clyde, whose name heads this review; Everett, who was born Mardi 5, 1879, died July -19, 1882; and Martha Edith, who married William A. Pettay and has four children, Jean Alton, Sarah Martha, William Lyman and Homer Buell. Mrs. Pettay is the youngest of the family, having- been born February 9, 1892.
Homer Clyde Williams was reared in his native county and attended its public schools. Always having a taste for editorial work, he developed it, and after he had secured a working knowledge of his calling became part owner of the Freeport Press, of which he is editor, and he and his partner have made it one of the live journals of Carroll and Harrison counties.
On August 17, 1898, Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Margaret Derry, and they have two children, namely: Harry Dean, who was born September 3, 1899; and Mildred, who was born September 3, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are numbered among the social leaders of Freeport, where they have lived for so long, and their pleasant home is often the scene of delightful gatherings of their many friends.
GEORGE O. FLEMING. One of the progressive general farmers and breeders of Holstein cattle and improved Chester-White hogs, who has attained to well-deserved distinction in these lines, is George 0. Fleming, of Rumley Township, whose well-cultivated farm contains 154 acres of valuable land.
George 0. Fleming was born at East Springfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 23, 1866, a son of Robert and Thryza (Hamilton) Fleming, and grandson of James Fleming. James Fleming was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, while his wife, Mary Morland, was born in Maryland. Coming to Jefferson County, Ohio, about ninety years ago, James Fleming became one of the early farmers of that region and a man of considerable local prominence, both politically and in the Presbyterian Church, of which he and his wife were earnest members. Their children were as follows: Robert, James Dempsey and Sarah Ellen.
Robert Fleming was born in Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and his wife, a native of the same county, was a daughter of Dr. George D. and Mary (Taylor) Hamilton. Dr. George D. Hamilton was one of the early physicians of Jefferson County. He and his wife had the following family: Thomas T., Thryza, Minnie, Minerva. Martha, George, Emma and Joseph. The Hamiltons were also members of the Presbyterian Church, while the Taylor's were Quakers.
Until 1886 Robert Fleming continued to reside in Jefferson County, but in that year came to Harrison County and bought a farm in German Township, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until within a few years of his demise, when he retired and moved to Jewett. He died at the home of his son Charles at Marshallville, Wayne County, Ohio. He and his wife had the following children: George 0., Emma, Ada, Charles and Laura. Mrs. Fleming was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was a lady of fine Christian character.
George 0. Fleming went to school in Jefferson and Harrison counties, and had his initial experience in individual farming in German Township. In 1897 he moved to his present farm in Rumley Township, and since then has improved all of the buildings and put everything in first-class shape. In addition to breeding cattle and hogs of the above mentioned strains he also breeds some Norman horses, and has been very successful with his experiments.
In 1893 Mr. Fleming was united in marriage with Ellen Johnson, a daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Galbraith) Johnson, and they have two children; Thryza and George Earl. Mrs. Fleming belongs to the United Presbyterian Church of German Township, while Mr.
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Fleming is a member of the German Reformed Church.
Alexander Johnson, father of Mrs. Fleming, was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and his wife was born in Rumley Township of the same county, a daughter of Samuel and Isabel (Galbraith) Galbraith. Samuel Galbraith and his wife were both born in Ireland, but came to the United States at an early day. Their children were as follows: James, Samuel, William, Jane, Margaret, Anna, Rebecca and an unnamed child. The family all belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.
The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Fleming, also Alexander Johnson, was born in Ireland, but when still a young man he came to the Fnited States and located in Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He was married to Ellen Brown, who was born in Maryland. For a time after coming to this country the elder Alexander Johnson was occupied in rafting timber down the river, and in 1800 he and sevcral companions took a load of flour on a raft on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans from Pittsburgh. Prices were so low in those days that they received so little for their flour that they were forced to make their way back to Pennsylvania on foot. About 1814 Alexander Johnson came to German Township, Harrison County, and, buying a farm, lived on it for the rest of his life, dying on it when ninety-six years and six months old. He and his wife had the following family born to them: John, Alexander, Andrew. Nancy and Mary. They, too, were all members of the United Presbyterian Church.
The younger Alexander Johnson, father of Mrs. Fleming, was reared in German Township, and for many years was one of the substantial farmers of that township, but during the later portion of his life he moved to Rumley Township, and there he died. He and his wife had children as follows: John B., Samuel G., Alexander H., who is living at Columbus, Ohio, where he is engaged in the practice of law: Ellen Jane, who is Mrs. George 0. Fleming: and Isabel Ann. who married M. H. Finnicum. Mrs. Johnson belonged to the United Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Johnson attended services with her, although he never connected himself with any religious organization.
WILLIAM F. MULL. Having spent his life on his present farm, which is also his birthplace, William F. Mull, one of the intelligent farmers of Rumley Township. naturally is interested in the neighborhood and feels bound to it by ties of unusual strength. He is acquainted with the history of the county, and appreciates the value of the advance which has been made by it in every direction. He was born on this same farm July 14, 1866, a son of David and Rachel Watts) Mull. David Mull was born in Washington County, Ohio. while his wife was born in Tuscarawas County. Ohio, at Stone Creek, a daughter of Thomas and Delilah Dotts.
Thomas Dotts was an old school-teacher, and was also a justice of the peace and married a large number of people. In addition to discharging the duties of his office he was engaged in farming, operated a water-power grist-mill, but later on in life went to Iowa, and was there engaged in farming until the close of his life. The children of Thomas Potts were as follows: Rachel, Julia, Margaret, Jennie, Orpha, Philip, William, Thomas and Reason, and three or four others who died when small. The Potts family *were all. Lutherans.
David Mull had the misfortune to lose his father when he was only a small boy, and he was bound out to a slave owner of Virginia. Because of the harsh treatment he received he ran away from his master and came back to Ohio, and managed to find something to do. Although he had absolutely no schooling, he was naturally intelligent and managed to get along in life very well without the educational advantages now deemed so necessary. His first wife was Elizabeth Smith, and their children were Samuel, deceased, and Susannah,- deceased, who became the wife of William Long and lived on a farm in Jefferson County, Ohio. After the death of his first wife David Mull married a cousin of the first Mrs. Mull, who also bore the name of Elizabeth Smith, and they had a daughter, Mary, who became the wife of James Hatfield. Rachel Potts was the third wife of David Mull, and she bore him the following family: Delilah E., who is deceased; Orpha L., who is deceased, was the wife of Sampson Shearer; Luther M., who lives at South Bend, Kansas; and William F., who was the youngest. For some years Mr. and Mrs. Mull were very active members of the Lutheran Church of New Rumley.
William F. Mull went to the rural schools of Rumley Township, and then, as his father was anxious for him to have the advantages denied him, he was sent to Hopedale Normal College at Hopedale, Ohio, during 1884 and 1885. In 1887 Mr. Mull began teaching school, and from then on until 1913, a period of twenty-six years, he was engaged in the educational field, and became one of the most popular educators of Harrison County. As a relaxation from the burdens of his calling he interested himself in farming, living on his farm and driving back and forth each day in order to reach his school, which at times was as far off as ten miles. Since 1913 he has been devoting himself to his farm and is the owner of the Mull homestead of 151% acres of land on which he has put all of the buildings except the residence and a wagon shed. He is doing general farming and stock- raising, specializing on feeding registered Shorthorn cattle. One of the features of his place is the fine seven-acre orchard.
On November 25, 1897, Mr. Mull was united in marriage with Emma C. Howell; a daughter of David Martin and Mary Jane (Wheeler) Howell and they have three children, namely: Dean D., who was graduated from the Jewett High School and later from the business college at Scio. Ohio, is now- a clerk of the Pennsylvania Railway Company at Cadiz Junction, Ohio; Iris Myrtle and William F., Jr. David Martin Howell, father of Mrs. Mull, was born near Hopedale, Harrison County. He served in Company C. Thirtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry for over three years during
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the Civil war, and was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain. After the war he followed farming near Hopedale, where he died March 9, 1915. His wife died in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Mull are valued members of the Lutheran Church of New Rumley. It would be difficult to find people who are more representative of the best element of the county than the Mulls, and through his connection with educational matters as well as otherwise Mr. Mull is known over a wide area, and many of the leading men and women of the county today are proud of the fact that they were at one time under his watchful and intelligent supervision, and remember his painstaking efforts in their behalf with grateful affection.
WILLIS C. CHANEY, one of the younger exponents of farm industry in Athens Township, Harrison County, was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 13th of September, 1881, and is a representative of a family whose name has been worthily identified with the history of the county for more than a century. He is a son of Samuel V. and Clarinda (Edwards) Chaney, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the father achieved success in connection with farm industry, to which he had been reared. He and his wife now reside in Short Creek Township, and concerning them more specific mention is made on other pages, in the sketch of the career of their eldest son, Charles A.
Samuel V. Chaney was born in Athens Township December 14, 1846, and was reared to manhood on the old pioneer farm of his father. He is a son of Thomas Chaney, whose death occurred July 1, 1890, and whose widow survived him by several years, the names of their children being as here noted: James, John, William, Sarah, Martha, Samuel V., Mary Ann, Elizabeth Ann, Mary Ellen, Thomas W., Hannah and Nancy. Thomas Chaney was born in Virginia, October 28, 1803, and two years later, in 1805, his parents came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the early settlers of what is now Harrison County. He was a son of Nathan and Sarah (Mansfield) Chaney, who became the parents of six sons and seven daughters. Nathan Chaney was born in Maryland, where his ancestors settled in the early colonial days. and he became a farmer in Virginia, where his marriage occurred and whence he came with his family to Harrison County, as noted above. Here he died in 1837, and his wife survived him by ten years, her death occurring in 1847. They endured to the full the hardships of frontier life, and their names merit enduring place on the roll of the sterling pioneers of this now favored section of the Buckeye State.
Thomas Chaney was reared to manhood under the conditions of the pioneer days, and he eventually became the owner of one of the excellent farms of Athens Township, where he remained until the time of his death. September 25, 1836, recorded his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Clark, daughter of James and Sarah (Watson) Clark, who came to Ohio from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Mr. Clark having served during the entire period of the War of 1812. Samuel V. and Clarinda (Edward) Chaney became the parents of four children— Iona Estelle, Charles A., William V. and Willis Craig.
Willis Craig Chaney is indebted to the district school locally known as the Hawk's Nest School, in Short Creek Township, for his rudimentary education, which was supplemented by his attending the village schools of New Athens for four years and the Cadiz High School one year, besides which he was for two terms a student in Franklin College at New Athens. He was reared on the home farm and early began to contribute his quota to its work, so that he was well fortified when in 1910 he purchased a farm of 125 acres in Athens Township, where he has since continued his activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, though he has since sold sixty acres of the original tract. He is a democrat in politics, and his wife is a birthright member of the Society of Friends, with membership in the church of this denomination at West Grove.
On the 27th of April, 1910, Mr. Chaney was united in marriage to Miss Clara Belle Sparrow, daughter of John C. Sparrow, of Athens Township, and they have three children—Virginia Isabel, Delma Iona and Sarah Marguerite.
HARTZELL LOVE, of Athens Township, has always lived in one community. He was born December 19, 1884, and is a son of George and in the line of Georges through three generations of the Love family. George Love, the father, was born September 9, 1842, and the mother, Eleanor Caroline (Healea) Love, was born March 29, 1845, in Harrison County. Mr. Love lived on a farm until 1906, when he moved to New Athens. On September 17, 1910, Mrs. Love died in New Athens, and Mr. Love passed away on August 10, 1920. The Loves are Presbyterians;
The grandfather, George Love, married Jane McCracken, of Athens Township. The great- grandfather, George Love, married Mary F. Cook. They were pioneers of Athens Township, Harrison County. Their children were: Robert, George, Mary, John, Martha, James and Margaret. James was a Civil war soldier and died in a hospital at Fredericksburg, Maryland. Of the above children only Margaret is living.
As a boy Hartzell Love attended Oak Hill District School and later he attended high school in New Athens. His entire life has been spent on the farm. Hartzell Love married first, Dora Annetta Moore, daughter of Walker Moore, of Athens Township, and she died in June, 1907. On October 1, 1913, Mr. Love married Bertha M. Howell, a daughter of Harvey W. and Mary (Griffith) Howell. They are members of the Presbyterian Church in New Athens. Mr. Love is trustee of Athens Township. To Mr. and Mrs. Love a daughter was born in September 6, 1920, Martha Healea.
H. W. Howell was a farmer of Union Township. Belmont County. His wife died in 1891 and he died in June, 1915. Their children are: Ralph C., deceased; Anna, deceased, and Bertha. Mr. Howell later married Ola M. Groves and they had two sons, Willard W. and
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Ray T. Howell. Mr. and Mrs. Howell are members of the Methodist Church in Flushing.
REV. JONATHAN SHARP MCCREADY. It has been the privilege of Mrs. Margaret McFarland McCready of Cadiz to commemorate her husband, the Rev. J. S. McCready, in whose honor McCready Post G. A. R. in Cadiz is named, in the annals of Harrison County. She became his wife on May 20, 1856, and on August 7 of the same year he was ordained and installed as minister of the Cadiz United Presbyterian Church, remaining as its pastor until August 14, 1862, when he enlisted and was made captain of Company H, One Hundred Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front as a Civil war soldier.
On May 6, 1864, Captain McCready was wounded in the left arm while fighting in the battle of the Wilderness. He was carried from the field and taken to a hospital in Washington, D. C., and on September 7 he died in Baltimore on his way home to Harrison County. As a minister of the Gospel Reverend McCready soon won the affection and confidence of his people. While he was kind and unobtrusive in manner and courteous to all, when it came to a question of right he was as firm as the rock. In his preaching he portrayed the truth in all of its strength and attractiveness. He served the church in Cadiz from the time of his ordination to the ministry until he answered the country's call and went into the Union army. Through all the years Mrs. McCready has continued her residence in the community. Reverend McCready was born in Darlington, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Hugh McCready, of an old Pennsylvania family.
While paying tribute to her husband Mrs. McCready also enrolls the McFarland family history among the pioneers of Harrison County. She is a daughter of William McFarland, who was born February 2, 1794, in Ireland. He was a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Ferguson) McFarland, the father born in Ireland and the mother in England. The year he was born they came to America, locating in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1800 they removed to Athens Township, Harrison County, beginning their residence in Ohio with the beginning of the nineteenth century. The children in this pioneer McFarland family were William McFarland and a sister, Mary. They were members of the Seceder Church, which was later known as the United Presbyterian Church in Harrison County. William McFarland was educated at home by his parents, and when he was thirteen years old he was a teacher.
On December 25, 1823, William McFarland married Elizabeth Henderson. His home was always in Athens Township, where he accumulated 300 acres of land, and he was a leader of thought and action in the community. In 1843-4 he was a member of the Ohio Legislature, and later he served for several years as an associate judge of Common Pleas Court in Harrison, Belmont and Jefferson counties. Judge McFarland and his wife were pioneer temperance workers in Harrison County, and in the days when it was customary to supply harvest hands with whisky they instituted the custom of supplying lunches—Coffee, Johnny cake, etc., instead of liquor. In that way they had the good will of the men in the field, who recognized their position on a moral question. Mrs. McFarland died in 1875, and he died two years later.
The McFarlands reared a large family in Harrison County. Their children are: Andrew, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, James W., William, Margaret (Mrs. McCready), Robert, Nancy 3. and Sarah, all of whom are deceased excepting Mrs. McCready and Sarah. All the sons were Civil war soldiers and James and William were ministers, the latter occupying the pulpit of the United Presbyterian Church in Cambridge as many years as the Children of Israel wandered in the Wilderness. Mrs. McCready and her sister Elizabeth were the wives of ministers. The McCready-McFarland names will always live in the annals of Harrison County.
WILLIAM J. MORGAN is the owner of an excellent farm of 150 acres in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. He has been a resident of the county from the time of his birth and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this section of the Buckeye State. He was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, February 14, 1854, and is a son of Michael and Eleanor (Whan) Morgan, the former of whom was born in Belmont County, Ohio, June 14, 1817, and the latter was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, May 13, 1813. Mrs. Morgan passed to the life eternal on the 24th of January, 1891, her husband having survived her by more than a decade and having died in Short Creek Township April 8, 1903. Philip Morgan, father of Michael, was born in Belmont County, where he became a prosperous farmer, and he and his wife, whose family name was Jenkins, were venerable pioneer citizens of that county at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of eight children—Michael, Philip, Amos, Levi, George, Milton, Sarah and Susannah. John and Margaret (Boggs) Whan, maternal grandparents of William J. Morgan, passed the closing years of their lives in Athens Township, Harrison County, where Mr. Whan developed a productive farm. His children were five in number—James, John, Eleanor, Sarah (Mrs. John McCullough) and Hannah.
Michael Morgan was reared and educated in Belmont County and in his youth learned the tanner's trade. He came to Harrison County and found employment at his trade in the village of New Athens, where he remained until 1851, when he purchased and established his home on a farm in Short Creek Township, where he continued to devote his attention to agricultural industry and stock-raising during the remainder of his life. He and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he served a long time as elder, and they held secure place in the esteem of all who knew them. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here noted: Mary R., November 3, 1840; George W., July 3, 1844 (died in early childhood) ; Emmett, June 15, 1846 (died in childhood) ; Margaret E..
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August 5, 1848; James W., August 28, 1851 (died March 1, 1915) ; William J., February 14, 1854; and Flora K. January 20, 1859.
William J. Morgan gained his preliminary education in the district schools of Short Creek Township. and thereafter was for three years a student in Franklin College, his brothers and sisters likewise having becn afforded the advantages of this excellent institution. He continued to lie associated with the activities of his fatherls farm the major part of the time until his marriage. in 1882, and he then purchased the old farm of Joseph Clark in Cadiz Township, where he has since continued to be successfully engaged in agricultural and livestock enterprise, with a record of having been at all times one of the progressive and successful exponents of farm industry hi his native county. Ile is a republican in politics, and he and his family hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
September 7. 1882. recorded the marriage of Mr. Morgan to Miss Elizabeth B. Cochran, who was born and reared in Harrison County, and they have thrce children: Ralph Cochran Morgan. who was born ;July 5. 1883. is associated with his father in the management of the home farm: Clarence M.. born January 11. 1890, is a dentist by profession and is engaged in practice in the City of Canton. Stark County; and Margaret Helen. who was born May 2, 1893, remains at the parental home. Samuel Cochran, father of Mrs. Morgan. was born in Cadiz Township, this county. March 31, 1811. and his wife. whose maiden name was Margaret Thompson, was born in Green Township July 11, 1820, a claughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Stewart) Thompson. Samuel Cochran was a son of Robert and Sarah (Calhoun) Cochran, whose marriage was solemnized in 1805. both having been natives of Pennsylvania. where Mr. Cochran was born September 15, 1771. He became one of the very early settlers in what is now Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where he established his residence in 1803. He returned to Pennsylvania. where his marriage occurred, and upon his return to Harrison County his young wife accompanied him. she having made the journey on horseback. He reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds, and on this place he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Following- is a brief record concerning their children: Eleanor. born February 11, 1808, died September 17. 1867: Samuel, born March 31, 1811. died September 7, 1899; David Calhoun, born in 1814. died October 30, 1883; Mary King, bore December 11, 1817, died July 23, 1899; Robert Rcid. born September 15. 1822, died September 1, 1902; and Sarah Jane, born October 9. 1525. is deceased, the exact date of her death not being available.
Samuel Cochran was engaged in farming in Cadiz Township until his death, which occurred in 1890. as noted in the foregoing list, and his widow passed away January 29, 1906. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Cochran served many years as an elder. They became the parents of four children: Clara S.. born April 3. 1850, died January 20, 1878; Robert B. was born February 2, 1852, and is now deceased; Elizabeth Belle, wife of William J. Morgan, of this review, was born May 8, 1854; and Martha Ellen was born October 27, 1856, and died February 27, 1914.
ALBERT W. LAUGHLIN was numbered among the substantial and representative exponents of farm industry in Harrison County, and his operations were conducted on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, in Cadiz Township, the place being well improved and comprising eighty-three and three-fourths acres. Here Mr. Laughlin was born on the 2d of March, 1856, a son of Robert and Rachel (Merryman) Laughlin, the former a native of Tuscarawas County and the latter of Harrison County. Robert Laughlin was long numbered among the successful farmers of Cadiz Township, where he owned and improved a tract of eighty-three acres and where he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths, when well advanced in years, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of a family of fourteen children, namely: James, Hannah, Rebecca, Robert, Sheridan, George, Johnson, Albert, Ruth Alice, and Elizabeth, all of whom are deceased. Those living are Sophia, Rachel, Nettie and Isabel.
Albert W. Laughlin acquired his youthful education in the schools of his native township, where he was continuously identified with farm enterprise until his death on September 11, 1920. His success was on a parity with his well directed endeavors as an agriculturist and stock-grower. On Christmas day of the year 1884 he was united in marriage to Miss Anna Elizabeth Bricker, daughter of John and Lucinda Bricker, of whom more specific mention will be found on other pages of this volume. For seven years after his marriage Mr. Laughlin conducted operations on the farm owned by his father-in-law, and he then returned to the old homestead, where he lived until his death. He was a democrat in politics and served twenty years as a member of the school board of his district. To Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin the following children were born: George, a farmer in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, married Fannie McFarland; Anna is the wife of Walter Cope, living near Jewett; John married Opal Rowland; Vera is the wife of Lyle Cope; Albert married Miss Clara Baker; Paul married Alice Housley; and Margaret is the wife of Glenn McKibben.
WILLIAM WILSON MCLAUGHLIN is the owner of an excellent farm of eighty and one-half acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and is one of the vigorous and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in that township, where he is now beginning to give special attention to the breeding and raising of blooded Shorthorn cattle.
William Wilson McLaughlin was born in Belmont County, Ohio, December 9, 1879, and is a son of James A. and Sarah (Barkhurst) McLaughlin, individual mention of the father being made on other pages of this volume, so
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that further review of the family history is not here demanded. He whose name introduces this article gained his early education in the public schools of Belmont and Jefferson counties and in 1907 he came with his father to Harrison County, where the latter engaged in farm enterprise in Short Creek Township. Here William W. was associated with his fatherls farm industry until his marriage on October 1, 1912, and the following winter they spent in Florida, and then resided in Cadiz for one year. In 1915 Mr. McLaughlin purchased his present farm in Short Creek Township, and here he has since been successfully engaged in effective enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with high civic standing in the community. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he holds membership in the United Presbyterian Church, and his wife is a birthright member of the Society of Friends, with which she maintains active and appreciative affiliation.
On the 1st of October, 1912. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McLaughlin to Miss Erie Esther Fox: who was born on April 13, 1880, and reared in Short Creek Township, a daughter of the late William Spicer Fox, whose death occurred January 28, 1908. Mr. Fox was born in Short Creek Township September 22, 1839, and was a son of Charles James and Esther (Cooper) Fox, the former of whom was born in the City of Washington, D. C., October 17, 1805, and the latter of whom was born near Baltimore, Maryland, April 4, 1810. The Fox family is of honorable English origin and its history has been fully written and published, representatives of the family in Harrison County having copies of these genealogical records, running back to the year 1650. Charles James Fox was a son of Josiah Fox, who was born in Falmouth, England, October 9, 1763, and who entered upon a seafaring life when a young man of about twenty-seven years. He visited many of the important parts of the world and in 1793 he was engaged by the United States Government as navy constructor, in which capacity he drafted plans for a goodly number of early war vessels. He continued in this service until 1811, when he located at Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1814 he established his home on a frontier farm at Colerain In Belmont County, Ohio, and there he died in 1847, his wife having passed away in 1841. By reason of his having been concerned in the building of war vessels Mr. Fox was disowned by the Society of Friends, with which the family has been prominently identified for many generations.
Charles James Fox settled in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1842, and here he passed the remainder of his life. He became one of the most successful farmers and wealthy and influential citizens of the county, and both he and his wife were venerable in years at the time of their deaths, they having been earnest birthright members of the Society of Friends. He died June 21, 1895, and his wife died April 2, 1896.
William S. Fox, a man of superior education and fine intellectuality, developed one of the fine farms of Short Creek Township, and on his farm he constructed a large pond and engaged in fish culture. He was a leader in community sentiment and action, was a staunch republican and he and his wife were members of the Hick- site branch of the Society of Friends. In 1876 Mr. Fox wedded Miss Esther J. Moore, daughter of Jeremiah Moore, of Clearfield County. Pennsylvania. and of this union were born three children—Mary Moore, John Francis and Erie Esther.
Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Francis Fox, February 22, 1915; James Alfred, September 29, 1916; and Dorothy Loraine, born September 17, 1918.
GEORGE W. YOUNG, one of the enterprising business men of Freeport, is engaged in handling hardware and agricultural implements, and is conducting his enterprise in such a manner as to build up a large trade and win the approval of his fellow citizens because of his upright methods. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, August 18, 1847, a son of Christopher Young. The birth of Christopher Young occurred in Maryland, October 7, 1805, while that of his wife, Elizabeth Burkhead, took place in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1816. She was a daughter of Thomas and Rachel Burkhead, who removed from Harrison County to Guernsey- County, Ohio, when Mrs. Young was a small girl. They had the following children ; Joshua, William, Jackson, Elizabeth, Rachel, Happy, Flesh and Anna.
Christopher Young went from Maryland to Wisconsin while still a young man, and for five years was employed in the lead mines of the latter state, but then returned home and moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he was married. A few years later he went to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and bought a farm, conducting it until 1872. In that year he sold his farm and moved back to Guernsey County, bought another farm, and lived on it until he passed away. His children were as follows: Sarah Jane and Elizabeth, both of whom died when small children; George W., whose name heads this biography; Rachel D., who was the fourth child; and Mary M., who was the youngest born. Both Mr. and Mrs. Young were steadfast members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
George W. Young was reared by careful parents who taught him to make himself useful, and he remained with them until he was thirty- three years of age. At that time he bought a small store at Smyrna, Freeport Township, and conducted it for twenty-one years, gradually expanding it until it was a large establishment when he sold it in 1902, and moved to Freeport. Since locating in this city he has conducted his present hardware and farm implement business, one of the leading ones of its kind in the county.
On March 7, 1877, Mr. Young married Lovina Sheppard, born in Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of Hudson and Rebecca (Miller) Sheppard. Mr. and Mrs. Young have one son, Jetty H., who married Ada Reaves, and they have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Ruth
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A. The family all belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Freeport.
Jetty H. Young attended the public schools of Smyrna and a commercial college of Scio, Ohio. Since 1902 he has been associated with his father in business, and is now its manager. He belongs to Freeport Lodge No. 415, F. & A. M., and Cyrus Chapter No. 114, R. A. M., of Uhrichsville.
Both of the Youngs, father and son, .are very fine men, good citizens in every particular, and their standing is of the best. They have not sought to gain wealth or prominence by any unusual methods, but have simply gone ahead carrying on their business and doing their duty to their families, their church and their community as they ought to do, and as a result are numbered among the worth-while persons of Harrison County.
LONZO S. GREEN, postmaster of Freeport, is a man worthy of the confidence reposed in him by the Government, and one who holds the esteem of his fellow citizens. He was born in Freeport Township, Harrison County, Ohio, August 15, 1894, a son of Morris L. Green and grandson of Holland and Hannah Green. Holland Green was one of the pioneers of Harrison County, and was the pioneer cabinetmaker of Freeport Township. As was usual in those days, the cabinetmaker was called upon to make the coffins and act as undertaker at the time of death, and he assisted in burying many of the early settlers of the county. He continued to live in this neighborhood until his demise, and was a man widely known and universally respected. His children were as follows: Morris L., Wiliam, and Jennie, who married James Compher.
Morris L. Green was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, about one mile west of Smyrna, September 15, 1856. As a young man he followed the saw-mill business, leaving it to become a well driller, and drilled wells at Freeport and the surrounding country. Still later he moved on a farm in Freeport Township, where he lived until 1911, all of that time being engaged in farming, but in that year he came to Freeport, where he has since resided. Since locating at Freeport he has been occupied as a stationary engineer with the Freeport Milling Company.
On June 3, 1882, Morris L. Green was united in marriage with Margaret I. McMillin, born July 1, 1860. at Middleton, Ohio, a daughter of William and Rebecca McMillin. Mrs. Green died February 17, 1920, having borne her husband the following children: Ethel, who married Joseph Maxwell, lives at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and has two children, James and Catherine; Elsie, who married W. B. Marsh, lives at New Philadelphia, Ohio; Jennie, who married Robert D. Cotton, lives at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and has three children, Dalton, Freda and Beryl-; and Lonzo S., who is the youngest in the family.
Lonzo S. Green attended the Dry Ridge School of Freeport Township, and after completing the common school course took the teacher's examination, received his license and began teaching school, continuing in this line of work for seven consecutive years in Freeport Township. During his vacation periods he attended normal school and in this way completed his high school work. For two summers he went to the Freeport County Normal School at Freeport during 1914 and 1915, and for one summer term was a student at Wooster, Ohio, completing these studies with the summer of 1916. On July 25, 1919, Mr. Green was made acting postmaster of Freeport, and was appointed postmaster September 6 of that same year. He still holds that office, and discharges its duties efficiently and satisfactorily.
On August 25, 1915, Mr. Green was married to Mabel Cummins. Mr. and Mrs. Green are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been an elder since 1917. They are delightful people, the center of a congenial social circle, and number their friends by the extent of their acquaintances.
NATHAN M. GRAY, manager of the Freeport Milling Company, is one of the experienced business men and influential citizens of Harrison County. He was born in Guernsey County, Ohio. June 5, 1859, a son of Nathan and Sarah J. (Fisher) Gray, and grandson of George Gray.
George Gray was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where his wife, Matilda, was also born. He was a farmer of Belmont County, Ohio, to which region he came in young manhood. and he was a well known figure of his day. His children were as follows: William, Silas and Nathan. The parents were very religious people and belonged to the Methodist Church.
Nathan Gray was born in Belmont County, Ohio, July 22, 1823, and died January 10, 1910. His wife was born in Maryland in 1822, a daughter of Perry Fisher. For some years after his marriage Nathan Gray was engaged in farming in Belmont County, and then moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he spent about the same length of time as a farmer. Finally be retired and spent the last four years of his life at Massillon, Ohio, where he died. He and his wife had the following children: H. B., who married Phoebe Hall, is deceased, as is his wife; Nathan M., whose name heads this review; George E., who is deceased, married Lucy Thwaite, also deceased, was a' Methodist clergyman; and Mary, who married Dr. R. J. Pumphrey, lives at Massillon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gray belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Nathan M. Gray remained on the home farm until he reached the age of seventeen years, but at that time went to North Carolina and remained for three years. He then went to Kansas, where for two years he was engaged in the grain business, but returned to Ohio and established himself in a general merchandise business at Freeport, and conducted it for twenty years. Then failing health made it advisable for him to sell, and he did so in 1907. Having in a measure regained his strength, in 1908 he bought an interest in the Freeport Milling Company and has been its manager ever
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since. The company does a general and exchange milling business.
On December 19, 1883, Mr. Gray was united in marriage with Alice Harbaugh, a daughter of 0. P. and Olive Harbaugh, of Clifton, Kansas. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are also members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Freeport. Mr. Gray belongs to the Blue Lodge at Freeport, the Chapter at Uhrichsville, and is well known in Masonry. Both he and his wife are held in high esteem and have many friends in Harrison and adjoimng counties.
JOHN M. PALMER was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 27th of May. 1873. He gained his early education in the district schools of this township, and is now numbered among its substantial and progressive exponents of farm industry. He is a son of Andrew Palmer, of whom specific mention is made on other pages, with due record concerning the family history. At the age of sixteen years John M. Palmer began his independent career by obtaining employment as a farm hand. and he continued to be thus engaged for several years. After his marriage he established himself upon his present farm, which comprised 110 acres at the time when he purchased the property, in 1901, but to which he has since added until he now has a well improved and valuable farm property of 186% acres, of which 160 acres constitute the home place, the remaining acre- Age likewise being in Nottingham Township. Vigorous work and good management have brought cumulative success to Mr. Palmer in his independent activities as an agriculturist and grower of live stock, and he is one of the substantial and popular citizens of his native township, where he served two years as township assessor. He holds membership in the Bethel Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the home township.
On the 26th of October, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Cora E. Walker, daughter of L. P. and Elizabeth (Adams) Walker, of Nottingham Township, and the supreme bereavement in his life came when his devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest. She was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her death occurred on the 19th of August, 1919. She is survived by two children—Denver Lewis, who was born November 15, 1906, and Helen Elizabeth, who was born December 26, 1911.
GEORGE M. MALLARNEE. One of the most pleasing revelations of this publication is that in both Harrison and Carroll counties are to be found at the present day many representatives of honored pioneer families who initiated the work of development and progress in eastern Ohio, and such distinction attaches to George M. Mallarnee„ who is now one of the prosperous and enterprising exponents of farm industry in his native county. He was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, February 19, 1876, and he has resided since he was four years old on the fine farm which he now owns in Nottingham Township, the same comprising 160 acres, and special attention is being here given to the raising of fine sheep in connection with well ordered agricultural exploitation.
John Calvin Mallarnee, father of him whose name introduces this review, was born at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, October 22, 1843, a son of John G. and Mary (Galbraith) Mallarnee, the former of whom was born in Maryland in 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Ohio about the year 1820. John G. Mallarnee was a son of Isaac. Mallarnee, who was born in the State of Maryland about the year 1778, and who was there reared to manhood. There he learned the trade of wagon- maker, and from his native state he went forth as a soldier in the War of 1812. Soon after the close of this conflict he came with his family to Ohio, where he first located at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, whence he removed to Smithfield, that county, shortly afterward. At the latter place he followed his trade until impaired health prevented, and he passed the closing years of his life in the home of his son John G., then a resident of Guernsey County, where he died in 1870. John G. Mallarnee was a child at the time of the family removal to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood and where he learned the trade of wagonmaker under the effective direction of his father. He finally engaged in the work of his trade at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, where he remained until 1850, when he removed to Tuscarawas County. Within a short time thereafter he purchased and removed to a small farm near West Chester, Guernsey County, where he and his wife remained until their death, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Protestant Church. They became the parents of eleven children: John Calvin (father of the subject of this sketch). Sylvester, Jasper, 'Afton, Ashley, Samuel K., Margaret, Sarah E., Mary C., Elizabeth and Estella.
John Calvin. Mallarnee gained his early education principally in the schools of Tuscarawas County. and remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority. Thereafter he found employment at farm work, and after his marriage, in 1872, he rented a farm in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. where- he remained six years. Thereafter he was similarly engaged one year in Moorefield township and the next year in Athens Township. He then, in 1880, purchased a farm in section 23, Nottingham Township, and here he remained as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of the township until his death, on the 12th of January, 1900. his widow passing away March 17. 1913. He became prominent as a grower of high-grade sheep, of which he had some of the finest in Nottingham Township, and on the old home farm his son George M., subject of this review, is well maintaining precedence in this special field of industrial enterprise. Mr. Mallarnee was originally a democrat, but when his convictions led him to oppose the liquor traffic he transferred his allegiance to the prohibition party, of whose cause he continued a staunch supporter until the close of his life, both he and his wife having been members of the Presbyterian Church.
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On the 25th of January, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of John C. Mallarnee to Miss Eleanor McKibben, a daughter of George and Eleanor (Morrison) McKibben, and she was about seventy-six years of age at the time of her death, in 1913. They became the parents of two children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the older and the one surviving, the younger son, John Calvin, Jr., having been born September 22, 1878, and having died April 21, 1884.
George McKibben Mallarnee, as already noted, was four years old at the time the family home was established on his present farm, into ownership of which he came at the death of his parents. He early gained practical experience in connection with the activities of the home farm, and thus was well fortified when he began his independent enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower on the old home place, which he has maintained at high standard and which comprises 160 acres of the excellent land of Nottingham Township. His early education was gained in the schools of this township, and has been effectively supplemented by self-discipline and active association with the practical affairs of life. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and be and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Deersville.
On the 14th of September, 1898, Mr. Mallarnee wedded Miss Dessie Titus, who was born in Nottingham Township September 12, 1877, and who is a daughter of Marion and Louisa (Reynard) Titus, both likewise natives of this county, where the former was born August 17, 1854, and the latter on the 1st of November, 1857, in Franklin Township. Mr. Titus was one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of Nottingham Township at the time of his death, in 1881, and his widow survived him by nearly a quarter of a century, her death occurring January 5, 1905. Both were active members of the Presbyterian Church at Deersville. Mrs. Mallarnee is their only child. Marion Titus was the only child of Uriah and Sarah (Garner) Titus, sterling pioneer citizens of Harrison County. Uriah Titus was born January 8, 1813, and died July 28, 1875; his wife was born November 25, 1817, and died January 4, 1907, when eighty-nine years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Mallarnee have six children: Louella Gertrude, Wilma Frances, Walter Raymond, Marion Calvin, Helen Virginia and Alice Geneva. Louella Gertrude was graduated from the Deersville High School, later attended Franklin College at New Athens, and has been a student also in the Ohio State Normal School at Athens, where she intends eventually to complete the full normal course, she being (in 1921) a successful and popular teacher in the district schools of Nottingham Township. Wilma Frances, the second daughter, is a member of the class of 1921 in the high school at Freeport.
LEWIS E. PERKINS, a dependable merchant and public-spirited citizen of Freeport, is a man who has won his present high standing through his own honorable methods. He was born in Belmont County, Ohio, April 8, 1860, a son of Stephen and Mary E. (Denny) Perkins, and grandson of Jacob and Sarah (Taylor) Perkins, the last two being natives of Belmont County, where Jacob Perkins was born in 1804. He was a farmer of Flushing Township, that county, but about 1876 moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he died in 1884. His wife passed away in 1872, before he left Belmont County. They had the following children: Nancy, David; Stephen, Lydia, Mary, Elizabeth, Jacob, Eli, Hannah, Eliza and Lewis. All were members of the Society of Friends and very fine people, noted for their integrity and uprightness of life.
Stephen Perkins was also born in Belmont County, Ohio, February 23, 1839, and his wife was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, January 11. 1834. They were married August 24, 1854. She was a daughter of John N. and Rosanna (Tillman) Denny. For many years Stephen Perkins was a farmer of Flushing Township, Belmont County, where he died November 14, 1898, his wife surviving him until January 12, 1910, when she, too, passed away. The children born to them were as follows: John N., Francis T., Lewis E., Rosanna (deceased), George E., Mary E. and Armintha E.
Like the majority of the farmer's sons of his day and neighborhood Lewis E. Perkins alternated attending the district schools with agricultural labor and learned to be a practical farmer, but did not take to this calling and when a young man became a clerk in a store in Belmont County owned by Isaac Holloway. In 1892 Mr. Perkins moved to Harrison County, and for ten years was a clerk for Goodman, Hibbs & Company at Piedmont, but left that firm, bought a store at Deersville, Ohio, and conducted it for two years. In 1907 he opened a general store at Freeport, where he has remained in business, and his eldest son, Lawrence E. Perkins is now associated with him. This store is first class in every respect and a nice business is carried on with the people of Freeport and the surrounding country.
On November 6, 1884, Mr. Perkins was married to Miss Alice B. Murphy, a daughter of James A. and Lucretia G. (Tracy) Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins became the parents of the following children: Lawrence E., who was born October 5, 1885, married Blanche Pugh, and they live in Freeport, where he is in business with his father. Forrest L., who was born August 28, 1888, married Minnie Rowland, and their first child, Roland L., is deceased, but they have two others, Rodney L., who was born December 21, 1917, and Dorothy I., who was born September 1, 1919. The family live at Wheeling, Ohio, where he has a civil service position. Fred J., who was born January 21, 1897, is a graduate of the Freeport High School. He taught school for two years and then took the classical course at the University of Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1919 with the degree of 'Bachelor of Arts, and is now a student at the Western Reserve University of Law at Cleveland, Ohio, and belongs to the law firm of Pfieffer & Fults of Cleveland. During the great war Mr. Perkins entered the service,
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but was discharged soon thereafter on account of heart disability.
JOHN MAHOLM SHARON. Among the representative men of Harrison County is John M. Sharon, president (of the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, who has been identified with the banking history of this section of Ohio for many years. lie was born in Cadiz, July 16, 1849, the son of the late Joseph and Eliza J. (Malcolm) Sharon, and grandson of James Sharon, who was an early settler of Jefferson County, Ohio.
Joseph Sharon was born in Smithfield, Jefferson County, while his wife, Eliza J., was born in Harrison County, the daughter of John Ma- holm who came to Harrison County in 1804 or 1805. Joseph Sharon was educated in the common schools and at Franklin College. He was admitted to the bar and entered the practice of law at Cadiz, continuing until 1874, when he went to California, and he died in that state in 1877. His widow died in Cadiz in 1882.
John M. Sharon was reared in Cadiz and was educated in the common schools and at Franklin College, and began his independent life as a clerk in a general store in Cadiz. He began his banking career in 1874 as teller in the Harrison National Bank. In March, 1880, he was chosen cashier of that bank. and in 1910 was elected president. His identification with the Harrison National Bank extends over a period of forty-six years, and he has witnessed the growth of the institution into one of the leading banks in Harrison County, in which growth he has been an important factor. As president of the bank Mr. Sharon is a member of the American and Ohio Banking Associations.
He was united in marriage in December. 1883. with Mary, the daughter of David and Laura (Phillips) Cunningham. and to them have been born two sons, Fred and John C.
John C. Sharon is a graduate of the Cadiz High School. the Ohio State University and of Western Reserve University, of which latter he received the LL. B. degree with the class of 1914. He entered Camp Sherman in 1917 and on June 1, 1918. was commissioned a second lieutenant and sent to France and assigned to the Sixteenth Regiment, First Brigade of the First Division, and served at brigade headquarters until the armistice was signed. Returning to Cadiz, he resumed the practice of law-. In April, 1917, he married Helen M. Krieger. of Columbus, Ohio. He has been the attorney for the Harrison National Bank since 1915. He is a member of Cadiz Lodge of Masons.
Fred Sharon was graduated from the Cadiz High School, spent three years at Washington and Jefferson College, and in 1909 entered the Harrison National Bank as teller. For the past three years he has been assistant cashier. In the fall of 1919 he married Bessie Barriclow of Cadiz. He is a member of the Cadiz Lodge of Masons.
JAMES J. KANE. It was on St. Valentine's day. 1850, that James J. Kane first took up his residence in Cadiz, his father before him being a native of the community. William Kane was born in 1813, in Cadiz Township, and in 1838 he married Mary Gray, a daughter of Jeremiah and Abigail (Taylor) Gray, of Meigs County. The grandfather, James Kane, was a very early resident of Cadiz Township, and his children were James, William, Elizabeth, Martha and Margaret.
In an early day William Kane was a com- mon laborer in Cadiz, spending much time as a teamster, and as ,a young man he lived for a time in Steubenville. In 1846 he returned to Cadiz. His children were: Rebecca 0., the wife of George Marple; Margaret; William H. 14.; James J.; Mary Martha, who was the wife of William McGrew, both now deceased; Elizabeth P. is the widow of Fred Carman; and Jessie Lee Kane. The Kane family are Methodists. Miss Margaret Kane is the oldest living telegraph operator of the Western Union- Telegraph system today, having spent forty years at the key board, and she is one of the very few pensioned operators.
As a young man James J. Kane learned the tanner's trade, and in 1877 he bought the Cadiz tannery, operating the business forty years. While he still owns the plant, it is no longer in operation. Along with running the tannery Mr. Kane has managed a farm and operated a coal bank which has been profitable to him. He is a great lover of horses and at one time and another he has owned some good ones. In recent years the horse fancier has turned his attention to other things because Of the uncertain market for them.
On August 19, 1874, Mr. Kane married Ida McMillan. of Deersville, Harrison County. She is a daughter of R. N. McMillan. Their son, Henry Scott, married Bernice McCroba, and their children are Henry Scott, Jr., and Berton McCroba Kane. They live in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Margaretta Kane is the wife of C. C. Pickering and lives in Cadiz. Their children are James and Anna.
Mrs. Kane died June 19, 1911, and on April 2. 1913, Mr. Kane married Florence, a daughter of George and Isabelle Brown. They are members of the Methodist Church in Cadiz.ROBERT
ROBERT R. MOORE, a retired farmer and old soldier, is one of the most respected citizens of Harrison County. and is living in ease and comfort at Freeport. although in former years he was very actively connected with extensive agricultural operations in this part of the state. He was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, November 20, 1839, a son of Robert A. Moore, and grandson of Robert Moore.
Robert Moore Was born in Ireland in 1771 and died February 1, 1835. His wife, Mary (Armstrong) Moore. was born in 1771, and died November 22. 1831. In 1793 Robert Moore came to the United States, tirst settling in eastern Pennsylvania. but two years Inter he moved to Jefferson County. Ohio, ten miles west of Steubenville, where the family spent several years, and then moved to Harrison County, Ohio. Here Robert Moore bought 160 acres of land in Moorefield Township, on a portion of section 13, and made it his homestead. His children were as follows: Samuel, who was born in Ireland in
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1793; and Robert A., John, William, Jane, Margaret and Mary, all of whom were born after the family had come to America. In religious faith Robert Moore was a Protestant, and he worshiped in the Union Church of his locality.
Robert A. Moore, father of Robert B. Moore, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1803, and died on his farm in Nottingham Township in September, 1877. His wife, Mary (Peacock) Moore, was born in Maryland Septemher 19, 1803, and died September 7, 1864. She was a daughter of Neal Peacock. The children born to Robert A. Moore and his wife were as follows: Mary Ann, Susanna, Eli P., William C., Eliza J., Robert B., Julia A., Thomas, and Hiram N., who died when small. Mrs. Moore also belonged to the Union Church of the neighborhood.
Robert B. Moore attended the district schools of Nottingham Township and was reared to a farm life. In the war between the states he espoused the Union cause, and August 9; 1862, enlisted in Company C, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and had a remarkable record, participating in the following engagements: Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862; Grays- vine, Georgia, November 8, 1863; Buzzard Roost Gap, Georgia, May 8, 1864 ; Resaca, Georgia, May 13-16, 1864; Rome, Georgia, May 15, 1864: Dallas, Georgia, May 27 to June 4, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 9-30, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, general assault, June 27, 1864; Nickajack Creek, Georgia, July 2-5, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, July 19-20, 1864; siege of Atlanta, Georgia, July 28 to September 2, 1864; Jonesboro, Georgia, August 31 to September 1, 1864; Bentonville, North Carolina, March 1J-21, 1865, and he also was with General Sherman on his famous "March to the Sea" and in the Grand Review at Washington. He received his honorable discharge on June 1, 1865, having been in the same organization during all of his period of service.
At the expiration of his army service Mr. Moore returned to Harrison County and went on a farm in Nottingham Township. On February 12, 1873, he was united in marriage with Hannah H. Colvin, born in Freeport Township, September 16, 1852, a daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Sears) Colvin. Samuel Colvin was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1791, and his wife was born near Freeport, Ohio, May 1, 1820. He had been previously married to Dorcas Brown, and by her his children were as follows: Dorcas, Thomas, William, Rebecca, Turner G., and Catherine. His children by his second marriage were: Samuel, Lafayette, Harriet, Delight, Emma, all of whom are deceased; Hannah and Frank C., a minister of the Presbyterian Church residing at Columbus, Ohio. Samuel Colvin was a soldier of the War of 1812, and following its close he came to Harrison County, Ohio, from Pennsylvania, being one of the pioneers of the county and developing into a prosperous farmer and successful business man. For three years he served as a commissioner of Harrison County.
For the first five years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Moore lived on a farm in Freeport
Township, but then moved to the old farm in Nottingham Township which continued to be their home until 1905, when they retired and came to Freeport. They have one daughter, Anna Maude, who married Edgar Snyder, of Freeport. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have two children, Frances J. and Robert M. Mr. Moore belongs to the J. S. McCready Post, G. A. R., of Cadiz. Both he and his wife belong to the Presbyterian Church of Freeport, and have been active in promoting its good work. Like his father-in-law, Mr. Moore has served his county as a commissioner, his period of service being from 1884 until 1890. It would be difficult to point out finer people than Mr. and Mrs. Moore, or ones more typical of the best element in this part of the state. During their productive years they worked hard, and now that they feel they can take life easier they occupy themselves with benevolent enterprises and church work, and are held in the highest regard by all who know them.
J. BEECHER ROGERS made an excellent record in his administration as district manager for the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, with headquarters at Cadiz, and he developed for this corporation a substantial and representative business in his assigned district.
Mr. Rogers was born at Pali, now Newtown, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, April 14, 1869, and was a son of Joseph G. and Hannah M. (Carson) Rogers, both natives of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where the former was born March 20, 1831, and the latter June 23, 1836-dates that denote that the families were early settlers in this county. Warner and Elizabeth Rogers, paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, not only reclaimed a pioneer farm in Nottingham Township, but the grandfather also owned and operated a grist mill on Brush Fork Creek. He and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and their children were eight in number : Joseph G., Nelson, William, Elijah, Warner, Jr., Wesley, Pamelia and Hester Ann. Mrs. Hannah M. (Carson) Rogers was a daughter of Elijah and Margaret (Mahaffey) Carson, and the former's father, John Carson, was one of the very early settlers in Harrison County.
As a young man Joseph G. Rogers learned the shoemaker's trade, and to the same he devoted his attention until 1854, when he yielded to the lure of the gold excitement in California and made his way to that state. He sailed from New York City to the Isthmus of Panama, across which he made his way on foot, and then proceeded by steamboat up the coast to California. He met with fair success in his quest for gold and continued his activities as a gold miner in California for six years. In 1860 he returned to the old home in Harrison County, and in 1862 he here wedded Miss Hannah M. Carson. Thereafter they resided about six years in Tuscarawas County, and they then established their home on a farm in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where the father long continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and where he continued to reside until
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his death, November 22, 1905, his widow having passed to the life eternal on the 2d of June, 1917, and both having been earnest members of the Church of Christ. They are survived by four children: Iona M. is the wife of John Morris, of Harrison County; E. Carson has been for twenty years a resident of the city of Columbus, Ohio; J. Beecher, of this review, was the next in order of birth; and Lida M. is the wife of Charles Bowman, of Stark County.
J. Beecher Rogers was an infant at the time of his parents' return to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood, early began to assist in the work of the home farm, and attended the district schools of Cadiz Township, a discipline that was later supplemented by a course of study at Scio College. He put his scholastic acquirements to practical test by entering the pedagogic profession, and for eight years he was a successful teacher in the district schools —principally during the winter terms, during which period he took a business course at Scio College. Thereafter he was associated, as a partner of his father, in the operation of the home farm until the death of his father, in 1905, and he continued as manager of the place until 1911, when he removed to the city of Cadiz and engaged in the insurance business as district manager for the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, and continued so until his death on November 13, 1920. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Church of Christ.
June 21, 1894, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rogers to Miss Nannie E. Cope, daughter of Jacob and Amanda Cope, of Nottingham Township, and to them were born two children : Alma Bermce, who was born June 11, 1895, is the wife of Harry C. Smith, of Monmouth, Illinois; and Celia Gregory, who was born May 22, 1906, is a student in the Cadiz public schools.
SAMUEL A. WEBB owns and resides upon a part of the fine old farm which figured as the place of his birth, has well upheld the honors of the family name, both as a loyal citizen and vigorous and successful farmer, and is a representative, in the fourth generation, of a family whose name has been worthily identified with the history of Harrison County for more than a century. Mr. Webb was born on his present farm, in Athens Township, Harrison County, on the 22d of November, 1873, and is a son of Jacob W. and Sarah (Dickerson) Webb, both likewise natives of Athens Township, Harrison County, where the respective families became established in the early pioneer days. Jacob W. Webb was born November 8, 1833. and virtually his entire life was passed on the old ancestral farmstead which was the place of his birth and in the operation of which he became one of the substantial and influential exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in Harrison County. He was reared on the conditions of the middle-pioneer period in the history of this section of the state, and here he lived and wrought to goodly ends until the close of his long and useful life, his death having occurred on the 21st of October, 1898. On the 18th of
October, 1860, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Sarah Dickerson, who was born September 24, 1835, and who survived him by nearly a decade, her death having occurred on the 8th of March, 1907. Mrs. Webb was a daughter of John and Eliza (McFadden) Dickerson, her father having been born in Harrison County on the 30th of August, 1809, a son of Joshua Dickerson, who came from Pennsylvania to this county in 1800 and became the founder of one of the honored pioneer families of this section of the state. Jacob W. and Sarah (Dickerson) Webb became the parents of nine children: John (deceased), George, Emmet, Sherman, Clayton, Martha, Samuel A., Mary (deceased) and Grace (deceased). Mr. Webb was a democrat in political allegiance, was influential in public affairs in his community, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church, earlier generations of the Webb family having been affiliated with the Society of Friends.
Jacob W. Webb was a son of John Webb, Sr., who was born at Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1806, a son of Jacob and Hannah (Kirk) Webb who married in Pennsylvania and who there remained until 1809, when they came to Ohio and settled on a tract of wild land in what is now Athens Township, Harrison County. The stone louse erected on this pioneer farm by Jacob Webb, Sr., is still standing and is one of the venerable landmarks of the county. Jacob Webb, Sr., reclaimed much of his land to cultivation and on the old homestead his death occurred in 1833, his widow having survived until 1858 and having been eighty- three years of age at the time of her death. They became the parents of twelve children: Sarah died unmarried; Esther became the wife of Joseph Huff ; Edith married John Major; Hannah became the wife of Cyrus Holt; John, grandfather of Samuel A., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Mary married Robert Eanos; Jacob died in Illinois; Ann became the wife of John Perrego; Ezekiel and Joseph remained in Athens Township until their death; Robert became a resident of Illinois; and Phoebe died at the age of seven years.
John Webb was reared on the frontier farm and with the passing years became one of the prominent farmers and influential citizens of Harrison County. November 11. 18,30, recorded his marriage to Martha, daughter of Col. Joseph Holmes, of Short Creek Township, Harrison County. where she was born January 8, 1811. John Webb remained actively associated with farm enterprise until the spring of 1885, when he and his wife removed to the village of New Athens, where his death occurred January 15, 1893, and that of his wife on the 9th of the following September. They became the parents of two children, Joseph and Jacob W., both now deceased. John Webb developed one of the fine farm properties of Harrison County, his estate having comprised more than 300 acres. He was a staunch democrat, and served as township supervisor and in other positions of local trust. He and his wife held membership in the Methodist Church at New Athens.
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Samuel A. Webb acquired his early education in the schools of his native county and in his youth gained a full quota of experience in connection with the activities of the home farm. In his independent career as an agriculturist and stock-grower he continued his operations in his native township until the spring of 1908, when he removed to Marion County, Kansas. After two years of farm enterprise in the Sunflower State he returned to the old home county and has since given his active and effective supervision to his well improved farm of 101 acres, which is one of the excellent places of Athens Township, and which is op rural mail route No. 3 from Cadiz, the county seat. He is one of the enterprising and progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, and is a popular representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of the state. Mr. Webb is a staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and his secure place in popular esteem in his home community is evidenced by his having served since 1916 as trustee of Athens Township, in which office he has done his best to further the civic and material welfare of the township. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens, Ohio.
November 8, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Webb to Miss Flora Fitch, who was born near Moorefield, this county, and who is a daughter of William K. and Hannah E. (Watt) Fitch, both natives of Belmont County, Ohio, and members of old pioneer families, residents of Ohio for more than 100 years. The father was born July 21, 1844, and the mother on the 17th of June, 1852. Within a short time after his marriage, which occurred in 1870, Mr. Fitch established his residence on one of the excellent farms of Moorefield Township, Harrison County, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, Mrs. Fitch having died June 25, 1915, and her husband having passed away July 14, 1919, both having been zealous members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church and both having stood high in communal esteem. Mr. Fitch was a member of the order of Masons. To Mr. and Mrs. Webb have been born five children, all of whom are living except the first. Samuel A., who was born August 30, 1903, and died August 11, 1905; John J. was born October 15, 1907; William Walter, October 2, 1910; Harold Woodrow, October 4. 1914; and George Francis, December 26. 1917.
HARVEY SHIELDS is giving his able management to the fine old homestead farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, that figures as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 10th of November, 1861. The general appearance of the farm, consisting of 100 acres, gives to the observer the immediate deduction that its owner is a man of energy and progresiveness. and Mr. Shields takes great pride in keeping the old homestead up to the highest standard. He is a son of Jackson and Abi (Goodwin) Shields. the former of whom was born in 1827 and the latter on the 22d of May, 1829, a daughter of Jesse and Anna Goodwin. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Shields was solemnized September 25, 1854, and they continued their residence on the old home farm until the death of Mr. Shields, on the 28th of February, 1906, his widow still remaining in the home that has been endeared to her by the memories and associations of many years. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded: Martha (Mrs. John R. Sergant), July 8, 1855; Davis H., June 14, 1858; Ruth Anna, February 16, 1861; Harvey (subject of this sketch), November 10, 1861; Lydia (Mrs. Thompson Matson), May 5, 1863; Mary R. (second wife of Thompson Matson), February 18, 1866; and Tac.y, July 7, 1871.
Jackson Shields was a son of Benoni and Lyda (Woodward) Shields, both natives of New Jersey, where the former was born August 6, 1780, and the latter September 16, 1782, their marriage having here been solemnized. In 1829 Benoni Shields became a pioneer settler in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm from a virtual wilderness and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their eleven children having been bent prior to the removal to Ohio, and the family name having been worthily linked with the history of Harrison County for nearly a century.
Harvey Shields was reared and has continuously remained on the old home farm, and his early education was obtained in the public schools of his native township. He is familiar with every nook and corner of the farm, which has been his home from the time of his birth, and this knowledge he has utilized in gaimng the maximum returns from his progressive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. The farm comprises 100 acres and is equipped with good buildings and other modern improvements. Mr. Shields is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Adena.
June 4, 1902, recorded the marriage of Mr. Shields to Miss Sadie B. Wilson, who was born and reared in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, a daughter of James and Eliza (Davidson) Wilson, both likewise natives of Harrison County and representatives of honored pioneer families. James Wilson was a son of James and Sarah (Brock) Wilson, who were natives of Virginia and who were early settlers in Moorefield Township, Harrison County. James Wilson. Jr., passed his entire life in Moorefield Township and succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead farm, his death having there occurred in 1873. He first married Nancy J. Tar- bet. and she was survived by one son. Madison. The marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Eliza Davidson was solemnized August 4. 1864. and they became the parents of three children, Jonah P., Sadie B. and James A. Mrs. Wilson long survived her husband and was about eighty-two years of age at the time of her death. She was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a daughter of Jonah and Sarah (Joice) Davidson, natives of Maryland. Samuel, father of Jonah Davidson, came to Harrison County in 1812 and settled in Washington Township, where he and his wife, whose
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maiden name was Mary Drake, passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of three sons and three daughters. Jonah Davidson was born in Allegheny County, Maryland, July 4, 1804, and thus was about eight years old when the family came to Harrison County in 1812. Here he was reared to manhood and here in 1829 he married Miss Sarah Joice, their one child having been Eliza, who was born October 26, 1832, and who became the wife of James Wilson, as previously recorded. Mr. Davidson died June 16, 1889, his wife having passed away in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shields have two children: Harold Wilson, born August 21, 1904; and Harvey Raymond, born May 5, 1907.
E. C. ROGERS owns and resides upon an excellent farm of 152 acres in Nottingham Township, Harrison County and aside from the prestige that is his as one of the substantial agriculturists and stock growers of his native township, his is the distinction also of being of a family that was founded in Harrison County in the year 1808, the family name having been closely linked with civic and industrial progress in the county during the long intervening years.
E. C. Rogers was born in Nottingham Township on November 3, 1868, and is a son of William F. Rogers, who was born in Cadiz Township, this county, October 28, 1834, and who was a resident of Nottingham Township at the time of his death, December 27, 1909. He was a son of William and Susan (Carson) Rogers, the former of whom was a son of Joseph Rogers. William Rogers was born in Maryland, November 30, 1798, and thus was about ten years old when the family came to Ohio in 1808 and settled in what is now Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where his parents passed the remainder of their lives and where he was reared to manhood under the conditions marking the early pioneer days. Here he married Miss Susan Carson, who was born August 14, 1803. They became the parents of ten children: Sydonia, John B., Jesse B., Hannah, Nancy C., William F., Barrett, Susanna, Lydia and Calvin. After his marriage William Rogers continued as a farmer in Cadiz Township until 1856, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Nottingham Township, the place later passing into the possession of his son William F. Here William Rogers remained until his death, April 28, 1863, his wife having died May 25, 1844, and both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the while his political allegiance was given to the republican party.
William F. Rogers gained his early education in the common schools of the early days, and, as already noted, he eventually became the owner of the farm purchased by his father in Nottingham Township, in which part of the county he continued his successful activities as a farmer during the remainder of his active life. As a young man he married Miss Hannah Hamilton, who was born and reared in Tuscarawas County, where her father, William Hamilton, was a representative farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and she survived him by ten years, her death having occurred March 7, 1919. Of their children E. C., immediate subject to this review, is the eldest; Ernest E. resides at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County; Nancy Virginia is the wife of James L. Nash, of Cadiz Township, Harrison County.
E. C. Rogers is indebted to the district schools of his native township for his youthful education, and he remained at the parental home until his marriage in 1893, since which time he has resided continuously on his present farm, except for an interval of one year. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is one of the progressive citizens of his native township.
February 14, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mrs. Rogers to Miss Leonora Hines, daughter of James M. and Almira J. (Carson) Hines, representatives of sterling pioneer families of Harrison County. James McMahan Hines was born March 5, 1844. a son of William and Isabella (Hitchcock) Hines, his father having been born in Allegany County, Maryland, March 19, 1800, and having been four years old when his parents. Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) Hines, came to Ohio and first settled. in Jefferson County. The family home was established in Harrison County in 1814, and the parents were venerable pioneer citizens of this county at the time of their deaths. Rudolph Hines was a son of John Hines, who came to America from Germany prior to the War of the Revolution. Rudolph Hines served as a soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution, and after coming with his family to Ohio he remained in Jefferson County until 1806, when he removed into what is now the state of West Virginia, where he remained until 1814, when he established the family home in Harrison County, Ohio. Here he developed a farm from the wilderness and here he died when ninety years of age. His children were twelve in number. William Hines married, February 15. 1827, Miss Isabella Hitchcock, daughter of John and Jane McMahan Hitchcock, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ireland. William Hines passed the remainder of his life as one of the substantial farmers of Harrison County, where he died September 7, 1887, aged eighty-seven years. His widow who was born January 24, 1806, survived him by several years and died in her ninety-fourth year, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children, of whom James M. was the sixth in order of birth.
James M. Hines was nineteen years old when he tendered his service in defense of the Union. August 7, 1863, he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Independent Battalion of Rangers, Ohio Volunteers with which he participated in numerous minor engagements in the mountain districts of Kentucky. He continued in service about seven months and then returned home. On the 2d of February, 1865, he re-enlisted as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety- Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was attached to the Army of the East, and he continued in service until July 31, 1865, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Hines
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became one of the successful farmers of his native county, was a republican in politics, and maintained affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. November 3, 1868, he married Miss Almira Jane Carson, daughter of Elijah and Margaret (Mahaffey) Carson, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Pennsylvania. John Carson, father of Elijah, was one of the pioneer settlers of Harrison County, and here Elijah followed the trade of shoemaker in connection with farm enterprise. He served many years as a justice of the peace, and was in later years a staunch advocate of the principles of the Prohibition party. He was born in 1810, and died in November, 1887; his wife was born in 1803, and died in 1884. Their children were seven in number. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hines became the parents of five children, one of whom died in infancy; Leonora is the wife of the subject of this sketch; Alexander L. is deceased; and James Kinsey and John Newton still reside in Harrison County. Mr. Hines died on the 12th of May, 1919, and his widow remains on the old homestead farm in Cadiz Township.
In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers: Craig M. now resides at Marion, Ohio, where he is traffic manager of the Pollak Steel Company. Harry Adell, engaged in farming in Nottingham Township, married Miss Mabel Smith, and they have one child, Robert Cloyd. Frederick H. resides at Marion, this state, where he is a clerk with the Pollak Steel Company. He married Clara I. Finical, of Cadiz Township, the daughter of A. 0. and 011ie D. Finical. Clara Fay, James F. F. Carson and Veda Virginia remain at the parental home. Craig McKinley Rogers represented Harrison County as a gallant young soldier in the late World war. He entered the service June 24, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was assigned to Company A, Three Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. From Quebec, Canada, he sailed for France September 2, 1918, and upon arriving in France he was transferred to Headquarters Company of the Three Hundred and Sixty-second Infantry, Ninety-first Division. As a clerk of his company he was with this command on the Belgian front, and he returned to the United States April 15, 1919, his honorable discharge having been given to him May 1, 1919.
WILLIAM F. DUNLAP, whose death occurred November 26, 1920, was a representative farmer and honored citizen of Athens Township, Harrison County, and a member of one of the oldest and most influential pioneer families of this county. Within the pages of this publication will be found many references to the family, which has played a large and worthy part in the civic and industrial development and up- building of the county.
William Finley Dunlap was born in Athens Township August 2, 1858, and was a son of Samuel and Mary Jane (Dunlap) Dunlap, the former of whom was born in Athens Township December 24, 1825, and the latter of whom was born in Moorefreld Township, a daughter of Adam and Jane (Pattison) Dunlap, who were numbered among the very early settlers of Moorefield Township, even as the parents of Samuel Dunlap were pioneers of Athens Township, the two branches of the family still having many representatives in Harrison County. Samuel Dunlap was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days, passed his entire life in Athens Township, and was there the owner of a valuable landed estate of 489 acres at the time of his death. He was a son of Robert and Mary (Pattison) Dunlap, both natives of Pennsylvania, where 'the former was born in the year 1794, a son of Adam and Rebecca (Work) Dunlap, who came to Harrison County and settled in Athens Township in 1812, there passing the remainder of their lives as sterling citizens who endured their full share of the trials and hardships of life on the frontier. Adam Dunlap was influential in pioneer politics, as a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and he was one of the founders of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. His death occurred September 22, 1830, and his wife passed away May 20, 1846. Robert Dunlap developed one of the pioneer farms of Athens Township and was one of the leaders in community affairs. As a democrat he served in various township offices, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of six children: Hugh P., Samuel, Nancy, Rebecca, Mary and Robert, Jr., all now deceased. Mr. Dunlap died March 2, 1860, his wife having passed away September 29, 1852.
Samuel Dunlap, like his father and grandfather, had the sterling qualities of mind and heart lthat made him specially well equipped for leadership in community sentiment and action, and he was called upon to serve in local offices of public trust, including those of township clerk and township trustee. In his youth he was for a time engaged in teaching in the rural schools, hut his active career was mainly marked by close and successful association with agricultural and live-stock industry in his native township. He and his wife were zealous members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, in which he served in various official positions, including those of trustee, treasurer and deacon. His marriage to Mary J. Dunlap was SOlemnized in 1857, and of their three children William F., of this review, was the eldest; Emily became the wife of John A. Jamison and Is now deceased; and James P. is deceased. Samuel Dunlap passed to the life eternal June 29, 1882, and his widow died on the 18th of August, 1900, the remains of both being laid to rest in the Nottingham cemetery.
William F. Dunlap acquired his early education in the district schools of Athens Township, and he continued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm until about four years after the death of his father. In 1886 he purchased his homestead farm, which he developed into a splendid estate of 569 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and stock- raising, with special attention given to the raising of sheep. Mr. Dunlap long stood well to the front as one of the leading farmers of his native county and in all of the relations of life he well upheld the high honors of the family
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name. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He served as township trustee and was influential in public affairs in his community. He and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Athens. On the 29th of October, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Mary H. Dunlap, who was born in Nottingham Township. Harrison County, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Rea) Dunlap. To Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap were born seven children : Emma Belle, born August 1, 1886, is the wife of Ralph Moore, and they reside in Moorefield Township; Samuel P., born December 15, 1887, married Miss Pearle J. McFadden, and they also reside in Moorefield Township; Clyde C., born September 29, 1891, is at home; Sara L., born November 14, 1894, married George H. Knight, of Short Creek Township; Finley B., who was born February 2, 1898, died March 28, 1909; and the younger children of the home circle are Alfred R., born September 4, 1899; and Clarke H., born May 3, 1902.
OLIVER FRANKLIN DRUM, a well known Cadiz Township farmer, was born October 3, 1882, in Monroe County, Ohio. His father, David M. Drum, who was born April 15. 1856. as well as the mother, Delilah Jane (Eddy) Drum, born June 16, 1856, were natives of Monroe County. The paternal grandparents, John B. and Sarah (Piatt) Drum, were early settlers in Monroe. In the maternal ancestry, Adam and Perdilla (Straight) Eddy and the Drums all lived in the same community. John B. Drum was a Civil war veteran, and was at the front two years. After the war he did carpenter work combined with farming. The following children called him father : Harvey, David, Eugene, Delbert, Lindsay, Adelaide, Viola and Evelyn.
The children in the Eddy household were: Delilah Jane, Frank and Jefferson. It was the oldest daughter who became Mrs. David M. Drum. The father was a farmer in Monroe County. For many years Mr. Drum combined carpenter work with farming, but recently he only does farming and cares for livestock. His children are: Oliver, Frank, Roscoe, Etta, Josephine, Vernon and Homer. The two younger sons were in service in the World war.
Vernon Drum enlisted June 7, 1913, going at once into training at Camp Alfred Vail in New Jersey. He was in the Signal Corps, Company C, One Hundred and Ninth Foreign Signal Battalion. He went to France, landing at Brest July 18th, only six weeks after entering the service. He did service in France and Italy, returning from overseas one year and one day from the time he landed in France.
Homer Drum was stationed at Camp Sherman from the time he enlisted, May 30, 1918, a week and a day earlier than his older brother. For several months he served as sergeant in the Eighth Company, Second Training Battalion, at Camp Sherman and later as field clerk. The Drum family belongs to the Christian Church in Cadiz. The grandfather, who died in 1905, was a Civil war soldier and a regular attendant at post meetings of the local G. A. R. There is sufficient military spirit in the family.
In the different generations in the Drum family carpenter work has been combined with farming, and after completing his common school education in Monroe County, Oliver Frank Drum simply walked in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. The carpenter and the farmer are both valuable adjuncts to any community. The farmer must have shelter as well as the rest of the world.
On Christmas day, 1911, Mr. Drum married Frances Eleanor Thompson (see sketch of Emmett Thompson), who has always lived in the community. For six and one-half years they have lived on a farm half a mile northeast from Cadiz. They have all the advantages of the town and live in the country. Mrs. Drum is a member of the Methodist Church in Cadiz. Through several generations her relatives have been Methodists.
CHARLES C. DICKERSON is fortified both in Practical experience and by careful study of ways and means in the furtherance of his successful activities as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, and his well improved farm of one hundred and eight acres is eligibly situated in Cadiz Township. Mr. Dickerson was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, January 2, 1868, and is a son of Samuel C. and Mary E. (McCoy) Dickerson, both likewise natives of this county, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer era. Samuel C. Dickerson was born in Athens Township May 19, 1840, and he passed the closing period of his life in the city of Cadiz, the county seat, where he died August 27, 1918. His father, John C. Dickerson, was likewise born in Harrison County, a fact which denotes clearly that the family was here established at a very early period in the history of this now opulent section of the Buckeye State. Mrs. Mary E. (McCoy) Dickerson, who still maintains her home at Cadiz, is a daughter of Frank McCoy, who was long engaged in the work of his trade, that of shoemaker, in Moorefield Township, where he continued to reside until his death.
Samuel C. Dickerson gained his early education in the common schools of Harrison County and the major part of his active life was devoted to farm enterprise, though he was for a number of years proprietor of the grist mill known as the Dickerson mill in Athens Township, the same having originally been operated by water power and he having- supplied it with steam power. He finally sold this mill and resumed his active association with farm industry, besides becoming a successful buyer and shipper of live stock. In the late '90s he removed from his farm to Cadiz, where he lived practically retired during the closing period of his life. He was a man of sterling attributes of character, resourceful and progressive in his business activities and loyal and liberal as a citizen. He and his wife became zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, and his political allegiance was given to the democratic party. Of the children the eldest is Eliza Florence, who first married Samuel Breen and after his death became the wife of Thomas J.
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Lane; Charles C., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Eva is the wife of Harry B. McConnell; Jessie is the wife of Bingham C. Scott; Samuel F. resides in Cadiz; and Emma is the wife of William Richey of Cadiz Township.
Charles C. Dickerson is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his early educational discipline, and he was a young man when he initiated his, independent operations as a farmer in Athens Township. After his marriage, in 1897, he removed to Jefferson County, where he was engaged in farm enterprise twelve years, and in 1912 he purchased his present well improved farm, which is devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of good grades of live stock, the place being one of the valuable farms of Cadiz Township. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Asbury Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, not far distant from their home, he having been superintendent of its Sunday School for a number of years.
On the 6th of May, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dickerson to Miss Bertie K. Birney, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and they have one child, Mary Helen, who was born March 17, 1908. Mrs. Dickerson was born in Athens Township October 5, 1870, and is a daughter of Robert N. and Mary M. (Brown) Birney, the former of whom was born in Monroe Township, this county, September 5, 1850, and the latter of whom was born in Athens Township, May 20, 1850, she having been a (laughter of George and Catherine Brown and her father having been a prosperous farmer in Athens Township. Robert N. Birney was a son of Hugh and Anna (Reynolds) Birney, pioneer settlers in Monroe Township. Their children were five in number: Jane, William, Nelson, Joanna and Robert N.
Robert N. Birney was one of .the representative farmers of Athens Township from the time of his marriage until his death, which occurred November 5, 1917. His wife passed to the life eternal on the 20th of February, 1912. Both were earnest and, influential members, of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Athens, and he served many years as superintendent of its Sunday School. Of their children Mrs. Dickerson is the first born; Daisy, born October 17, 1874, is the wife of William H. Chandler, now of Portsmouth, Ohio; George Hugh, who was born March 29, 1876, married Miss Bernice Dickinson, and is now living in 'Cleveland, Ohio; and Dwight, born May 5, 1885, married Miss Flora Birney, and is also a resident of Cleveland.
The pleasant rural home of Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson is known for its cordial and unassuming hospitality and is a center of much of the representative social activity of the immediate community.
JOHN HARRISON. Both by reason of his sterling character and large and worthy achievement and his status as a representative of one of the honored and influential pioneer families of Harrison County, is the late John Harrison entitled• to special tribute in this history. He passed virtually his entire life on the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth in North Township, this county, and in his civic relations as well as his career as a representative of agricultural and livestock industry in his native county he was emphatically the apostle of progress, true and earnest in all of the relations of life and well worthy of the high esteem in which he was uniformly held. He was born July 10, 1830, on the ancestral farmstead in North Township, and on this place his death occurred December 2, 1908.
John Harrison was a son of Joseph and Ellen (Hartley) Harrison, both natives of England. Joseph Harrison was born on a fine old homestead known as Stubbens Farm, near Otley, Yorkshire, England, and was a son of John Harrison. who first came from England to the United States in 1814 and who at the time made his way as far to the west as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After his return to England he there remained until 1$16. when he came again to America and soon afterward became the first representative of the English pioneer families in North Township, Harrison County. In 1823 he returned to his native land, and there his death occurred about ten years later, when he was seventy years of age. He was a farmer by occupation during his entire active career, and in England was the owner of an excellent farm of 114 acres in Yorkshire. His wife likewise passed the closing years of her life in England.
Joseph Harrison was a youth of sixteen years when he came with his father to the Umted States in 1816, and the home was established in a pioneer log cabin on a tract of about eight acres of timbered land in North Township, Harrison County, where he did well his part in felling the forest trees and making the tract available for cultivation. In 1823 he returned with his father to England, but in 1826 he came again to the pioneer farm in North Township, Harrison County. In 1828 he here wedded Miss Ellen Hartley, daughter of Christopher. Hartley, who came from Carlton, England, and became a pioneer settler in Harrison County, Ohio, where he secured land in North Township and where his family joined him in 1820. Here he died in 1864, at the venerable age of eighty- six years, and his wife, Mary, passed away in 1867, aged seventy-eight years, their children having been seven in number. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harrison settled on the farm which later became the property of their son John, subject of this memoir, and in 1835 they here replaced the primitive log house with a substantial frame building. Here Mrs. Harrison died in the year 1853, aged forty-seven years, and of their three children John and William became substantial farmers of North Township, the third son, Joseph, Jr., having died in 1847, at the age of seven years. In 1857 Joseph Harrison contracted a second marriage, when Sarah Heron became his wife, and he remained on his old home farm until his death, April 13, 1878, his widow having long survived him and having passed away in 1890, at the age of seventy-seven years. Both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also the first wife. Joseph Harrison was a democrat until the anti-slavery movement led
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him in 1846 to transfer his allegiance to the free-soil party, from which he withdrew to ally himself with the republican party at the time of its organization. He had no desire for public office, but his civic loyalty caused him to give effective service as township trustee of North Township.
John Harrison gained his early education by attending winter sessions of the pioneer schools, and during the intervening summer seasons he found his youthful services in requisition in connection with the work of the home farm. He became not only the largest landholder in North Township, with a finely improved farm of 420 acres, but he also owned a farm of 290 acres in Carroll County. He was one of the foremost and most successful exponents of livestock industry in this section of the state, was for a number of years a leader in the raising of sheep in Harrison County, but later gave his attention largely to dairy farming, in which connection he shipped large quantities of milk to Pittsburgh ;111d other points, his shipment of milk in the year 1890 having aggregated nearly 15.000 gallons. Mr. Harrison was emphatically a man of prescience, enterprise and progressiveness, and in this connection it is interesting to record that he introduced the first mowing machine placed in operation in North Township, in 1857, besides which lre manufactured and installed on his farm the first tile drain-pipe in the township, his manufacturing of drain tile having been successfully continued for eleven years, within which he supplied much of the liling utilized in his township. For fully half a century John Harrison rode a mowing machine in each successive season, and he took great pride and satisfaction in his successful association with farm industry, in connection with which he was a leader in progressive movements in this section of the Buckeye State. On his farm he raised the largest steer ever shipped out of Harrison County, this animal having been shipped to Pittsburgh and having there tipped the scales at a weight of 3,250 pounds.
In politics Mr. Harrison became a stalwart advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, and in the climacteric period leading up to the Civil war he was a staunch abolitionist. A man of well fortified convictions, he never lacked the courage of the same, and his wife was guided and governed by the highest principles, so that to him was justly accorded the respect and confidence of his fellow men. His widow survived until August 4, 1920. She was a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church.
On the 22d of April. 1852, was solemnized the marriage of John Harrison to Miss Euphemia Patterson. who was born and reared in Carroll County and who was a daughter of John and Isabella (McMillan) Patterson, the latter of whom died September 13. 1859. and the former died November 17. 1846. They were married November 25, 1824. The Patterson family was founded in Carroll County in the early part of the nineteenth century. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison became the parents of twelve children, concerning whom brief record is here given: Joseph T., who is engaged in the prac tice of law, as one of the representative members of the bar in the City of Cincinnati, married Miss Venelia Smith, and they have one child, Louise Kerper. James M., who owns and resides upon a fine ranch in the State of Washington, is, in 1920, serving his second term as representative of Skagit County in the Legislature of that state. He married Miss Ora Holmes, and they have three children—George, Mina and John. John P., born March 31, 1857, died August 2..1895. Charles S. was a resident of the State of Kansas at the time of his death on March 21, 1899. He was born March 22, 1858. Isabella and William were twins, born June 22, 1860. Isabella died March 24, 1896, and William died December 11, 1909. Isabella became the wife of Nelson Carter and was a resident of Marshall County Kansas, at the time of her death. Her twin brother, William, was a resident of California for a number of years prior to his death. Ella continued to reside in Harrison County until her death, in August, 1909. Abraham L., who was born February 28, 1864. died at Gunnison, Colorado, in the year 1882. Thaddeus S. is associated with his brother Milton B. in the management of the fine old home farm in North Township. Effie is the wife of Sherman McKlveen. of Scio. this county. Milton B. is the youngest of the sons. Virginia is the wife of Harry H. Whittaker, of Stock Township.
Thaddeus S. and Milton B. Harrison have maintained a partnership alliance in the ownership and operation of the old home farm since 1909. and the aggregate area of their holdings is 254 acres. They are well upholding the prestige of the family name as progressive agriculturists and stock-growers and as loyal and public-spirited citizens. They give special attention to the raising of pure-blood Aberdeen Angus cattle, and in this department of farm enterprise they have been successful in their activities during •a period of more than a decade. Thaddeus S. is numbered among the eligible bachelors of his native county. Milton B. married Miss Alice Viola Haines, daughter of George D. Haines, of whom individual mention is made in the following sketch of this volume, and the four children of this union are: Wilbur L.. ramy Marie, Delmar S. and Virginia Belle.
GEORGE D. HAINES. who has been a resident of Harrison County since the year 1909, is one of the prosperous representatives of farm enterprise in North Township. where he is the owner of a well improved farm of 165 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent types of live stock, including pure-blood Aberdeen _Angus cattle.
Mr. Haines was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of July, 1853. and is a son of Cyrenius and Mary Ann (Pride) Haines, both likewise natives of the old Keystone State, where the former was born in Greene County and the latter in Monongahela County. she having been a daughter of Burton and Nancy (Sutton) Pride. George Haines, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born in the State of New York and became a substantial farmer in Greene County, Pennsyl-
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vania, where he remained until his death. His first wife was survived by one child, John, and of the second marriage were born eleven children—Justus, Cyrenius, Aaron, Catherine, Rebecca, Maria, Margaret, Sarah, Nancy, Julia Ann and Eleanor. The religious faith of the family was that of the Baptist Church. Cyrenius Haines eventually became the owner of the fine old homestead farm on which he was born, and there he continued to reside, as one of the prosperous farmers of Greene County, Pennsylvania, until his death, his wife likewise having died on this old homestead, and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he had transferred his membership from the Baptist Church. They became the parents of ten children: Burton, George D., William, Olivia L. (died in early childhood), David (likewise died in childhood), Lewis, Dempsey D., John, Nancy Elmira and Alice.
The schools of his native county afforded George D. Haines his youthful education, and he continued his association with the affairs of his father's farm until his marriage, in August, 1876, to Miss Elizabeth Famy White, daughter of Brazil and Mary (Fox) White, of Greene County, Pennsylvania. After his marriage Mr. Haines continued as a farmer in his native •county until 1885, when he removed with his family to Marion County, West Virginia, and established his home on a farm four miles distant from Mannington. There he continued his operations as an agriculturist until 1909, when he sold his West Virginia property and came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased .his present farm, which has continued his place tar abode and which he has made the stage of successful agricultural and live-stock enterprise. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children the eldest is Frank, who married Miss Catherine Kearns, their home being at Burgettstown, Pennsylvania; Mary, born August 10, 1880, died May 20, 1895; Cora is the wife of Aaron Russell, of Cortland, Trumbull County, Ohio; Viola is the wife of Milton B. Harrison, of whom mention is made on other pages of this work, in the memoir dedicated to his father, the late John Harrison; and John D., who married on August 4, 1920, Nellie Thompson, of North Township, and Forney N. remain at the parental home. Forney N. Haines enlisted for service in the United States Army in October, 1917, was sent to Fort Worth, Texas, and was assigned to the Aviation Corps. From Texas he was transferred to Fort Omaha, Nebraska, and there he was discharged from the aviation service, by reason of a physical disability. He then enlisted in the Medical Corps, with which he went to France in November, 1918, his service having there continued until July of the following year. He then returned to his native land and received his honorable discharge.
JAMES N. CROSS. The annals of Carroll County bear evidence that the first representative of the Cross family to settle • within its borders was John Cross, who came here in the pioneer days and instituted the reclamation and development of a farm in the midst of the forest wilderness. He was twice married but left no children. This sterling pioneer was an uncle of the paternal grandfather of James Nicholas Cross of this sketch. In 1851 James L. Cross, father of the subject of this sketch, came from Wetzel County, West Virginia, and settled on the farm which his great-uncle, John Cross, mentioned above, had here obtained, and here he passed the remainder of his life, as one of the sterling citizens and representative farmers of Carroll County. The lineage of the Cross family is traced back to staunch Scotch-Irish stock, and the first representatives of the family in America came to this country probably before the War of the Revolution. James L. Cross married Miss Margaret Anderson, and they passed the remainder of their lives on the fine old home farm in Monroe Township. Mr. Cross was about seventy-one years of age at the time of his death, and his wife is still living, eighty-eight years of age. They became the parents of a large family of children, concerning whom it is permitted to enter brief record in this connection. John, who is now Sixty-eight years of age, married Nancy J. Latimer, of Tuscarawas County, in 1878, and they have three children, namely : Myrtle Alice is the wife of Lewis Waldman, of Mineral City; Margaret Ann is the widow of James Gordon, of 'Tuscarawas County, who died in 1912, and who is survived by two children, Donovan Philip and Margaret; and Edson L. is individually mentioned on other pages, as is also his father. Elizabeth Ann, the second child of James L. and Margaret (Anderson) Cross, is the wife of B. 0. Knight, of Leesville, Carroll County, and they have four children. Nancy Jane is the wife of Andrew William Davis, of Dover, Tuscarawas County, and they have two children. Sarah Katherine is the wife of Abraham Lincoln True, of Sherodsville, Carroll County, and they have two children. Anderson William married Miss Emma Rainsberger, and they reside in Dellroy, this county. Virginia Belle is the wife of Melvin J. Poorman, of Dover, Tusearawas County, but they have no children. Thomas Jefferson, who resides in Jefferson County, married Miss Anna Roby, and they have three children, Frank, Raymond, who died in 1913 at the age of seven years, and Agnes, who is twelve years old. Rebecca Idola and Margaret Idella were twins, the former being a resident of Sherodsville and the latter having died in 1891, at the age of sixteen years. James N., subject of this review, was the third in order of birth of the children.
James Nicholas Cross, who now owns two of the excellent farms of Monroe Township, their aggregate area being 236 acres, has his attractive home on rural mail route No. 1 from Sherodsville. One of the two farms which he thus owns is the old homestead of his parents, and it was on this place that his birth occurred April 6, 1857. Reared on this farm, Mr. Cross gained his early education in the district schools, including what was known as the "Little Fraction School" in Warren Town-
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ship, Tuscarawas County. At the age of twenty- seven years he wedded Miss Nancy Jane Warner, daughter of George and Lydia (Pillars) Warner, of Palermo, Perry Township, this county. Mrs. Cross passed to the life eternal on the 24th of May, 1918, and is survived by one son, Emerson William, who was born August 4, 1889, and who is associated with his father in farm enterprise. On the 18th of June, 1919, Emerson W. Cross married Miss Myrta Griffin, of Monroe Township.
From the time of his marriage to the present James N. Cross has resided upon his present homestead farm of 110 acres, and his ownership of his father's old homestead brings the area of his landed estate up to 236 acres. He has proved himself one of the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of Monroe Township, and has also controlled a prosperous business in the operation of a threshing machine year after year, and besides this he has owned and operated a saw mill and through its medium has been actively identified with lumber manufacturing in this section of the state. He is a democrat in politics and has given loyal service in behalf of the party cause. He is affiliated with the Grange at Atwood and holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, of which his wife likewise was a devoted member.
WOOD HAVERFIELD, who is giving loyal and efficient service as a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Harrison County, and who owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm in Cadiz Township which was the place of his birth, has the further distinction of being a scion of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of this county, where he is a representative of the fourth generation to be actively and prominently identified with the great basic industry of agriculture and to stand exponent of loyal and 'liberal citizenship.
Mr. Haverfield was born on his present farm July 23, 1857, and is a son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Johnston) Haverfield, both likewise natives of Cadiz Township, where their marriage was solemnized March 15, 1855. Mrs. Haver- field was a daughter of Samuel Johnston, a pioneer of the county, where he and his wife remained until their deaths.
Joseph Haverfield was born November 15, 1832, received the advantages of the common schools of the period, and after his marriage he remained on his father's farm until the spring of 1856, when they located on the farm now owned and occupied by their only son, to whom was given the baptismal name of Kersey Wood Haverfield, though he is familiarly known only by the second of these personal names. On this farm Joseph Haverfield continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower during the remainder of his active career, and here both he and his wife remained until their deaths, when of venerable age. He made excellent improvements on the farm of eighty-five acres, including the erection of good buildings, and was one of the representative farmers and influential citizens of Cadiz Township. On the farm Mr. Haverfield developed a coal mine that gave an appreciable yield of coal of excellent quality, and on the place he stocked what is probably the largest fish pond in Harrison County. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church.
Joseph Haverfield was a son of Nathan and Harriet (Barnett) Haverfield, whose marriage was solemnized in Pennsylvania, where the latter was born and reared. Nathan Haverfield was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1797, a son of James and Nancy Haverfield. James Haverfield was born in Ireland and was a youth when he came with his parents to America. In 1800 he came with his family from eastern Pennsylvania to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives on their frontier farm. Their seven children were: William, John, Joseph, James, Nathan, Elizabeth and Ellen.
Upon coming with his wife and his parents to Harrison County Nathan Haverfield purchased 100 acres of land, all covered with heavy timber, and here he developed a productive farm from the forest wilds. Here he died at the age of seventy-six years, and his widow was eighty-six years of age at the time of her death, both having been devout members of the Seceder Church, which later became known as the United Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of eleven children : John N., James N., William B., Thomas H., Sarah Jane, Jemima H. (Mrs. Jeremiah Weaver), Joseph, Nathan B., Samuel P., George A. and Nancy E. (Mrs. Neil McCaffrey).
Nathan Haverfield was a man of superior intellectuality and possessed also much musical talent. He was a skillful performer on the violin and also a good vocalist. As a young man he taught old-time singing schools, and as a clerk in the Seceder Church he led in the singing. Two or more of his older brothers were soldiers in the War of 1812, in which he himself was too young to participate, but as a youth he served actively as a member of the old-time state militia of Ohio, in which he had command of a regiment. He united with the republican party at the time of its organization and supported its principles until his death.
Joseph and Mary J. (Johnston) Haverfield became the parents of three children: Elizabeth married James A. Mitchell and remained in Harrison County until her death; Kersey Wood, immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; and Bertha Virginia is the wife of John B. Welch, of Harrison County.
Wood Haverfield gained his early education in the district school in Cadiz Township that bore the family name, and with the exception of four months passed as clerk in a hotel at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, he has resided continuously on the old homestead farm on which he was born and which still comprises eighty-five acres. He has always been loyal and zealous in support of measures and enterprises tending to advance the civic and industrial interests of his native township and county, is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party and served six years as
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trustee of Cadiz Township. In November, 1916, he was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners, the duties of which office he assumed in September, 1917, and in November, 1918, he was re-elected, his second term beginning in September, 1919, and his re-election indicating the high popular estimate placed upon his services in this important position. He is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Cadiz, and his son Joseph C. also holds membership in this lodge, as does he also in the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Bristol, Tennessee. Mr. Haverfield was reared in the Presbyterian faith but attends and supports Asbury Chapel, Methodist Episcopal, of which his wife is an active member.
Mr. Haverfield was united in marriage to Miss Mary McElroy, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Young) McElroy. Mr. and Mrs. Haverfield have had three children: Mabel Fay died at the age of six years; Joseph Craig, who is now engaged in the piano business at Cadiz, married Miss Elizabeth Metcalf, and they have three children—Sterling Wood, Joseph Craig, Jr., and Robert Metcalf; and Grace Elizabeth is the wife of Oliver Ruckstuhl. of Harrison County.
WILLIAM T. WILSON stages his progressive enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower on the fine old homestead farm in German Township. Harrison County, that tigures as the place of his nativity. Here he was born on the 18th of December, 1876, a son of Robert D. and Sarah C. (Barnhouse) Wilson, the former of whom was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio. April 9, 1842, and the latter in German Township. Harrison County. December 19. 1842. she being a daughter of William and Sallie (Kelly) Barnhouse. William Barnhouse was one of the representative pioneer farmers of German Township. The family name of his first wife was Beatty, and they became the parents of three children—John, William and Eliza. Of his marriage with Sallie Kelly were born three children—Nancy B., who became the wife of George M. Harrah; Sarah C., who is the mother of the subject of this sketch, and Clorinda Jane. who died in childhood.
Robert D. Wilson is a son of Rev. Thomas Wilson, who was born near Cannonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and who became a pioneer clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church in eastern Ohio. He engaged also in farming in Loudon Township. Carroll County. whence he came in 1850 to Harrison County and purchased the farm now owned by his grandson. William T. Wilson. of this review. Here he remained until 1880, when he removed to Annapolis. Jefferson County, where he passed the remainder of his long, earnest and worthy life, secure in the high regard of all who had come within the compass of his benignant influence. He was the father of four children—James B. and Robert D., twins; Martha J., who first married James Wilson and after his death became the wife of David Ryder: and Ewing. who died from an attack of measles while serving as a Union soldier in the Civil war, his older brothers likewise having been in service in that conflict for the preservation of the Union.
Robert D. Wilson was a boy at the time when the family home was established on the farm in German Township, where he was reared to manhood, his educational advantages having been those offered in the common schools of the locality and period. On the 10th of May, 1864, he enlisted for one hundred days in an Ohio regiment that gave effective service in the Civil war. He participated in the battles of Snicker's Gap and Harper's Ferry, besides many skirmishes and other minor engagements, and received his honorable discharge on the 10th of September, 1864. After the close of this patriotic service he returned to the old home farm, and here he continued to hold secure prestige as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of German Township until October, 1915, when he retired and removed to Annapolis, Jefferson County, where he and his wife have since maintained their home, Miss Nannie J., the elder of their two children, being still with them, and William T., the only son, remaining on the home farm.
William T. Wilson had no lack of youthful fellowship with the sturdy activities of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages offered in the district schools of German Township. He continued his active alliance with the management of the old farm until 1903, in January of which year he went to Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and took a clerical position in the freight offices of the Panhandle Railroad. There he remained until September 21, 1915, when he returned to his native county and assumed the active supervision of the old home farm on which he was born, his parents removing to Annapolis in the following month. On the place he has since erected the commodious and attractive modern house which is his place of abode, and which is equipped with an individual electric-lighting system. He is the owner of a fine landed estate of 218 acres, and causes it to bear maximum tribute in both agricultural and live-stock departments, as he is significantly energetic and progressive in his methods and policies. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Annapolis, as do also his parents, and his political support is given to the republican party.
On the 14th of January, 1903, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss May Groves, daughter of Samuel and Mary E. (Copeland) Groves, of Jefferson County. and the names and respective birth dates of the three children of this union are here recorded, all of whom were born at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania : Robert G., December 15, 1903; Oscar, February 3, 1907; and James Carl, December 12, 1908.
DAVID HOOBLER. The genius of success in connection with farm industry has been definitely shown in the career .of this venerable and honored native son of Harrison County, and he still maintains his home on the fine farm on which he was born in German Township, the date of his nativity having been January 5, 1835. He is a representative of an honored
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pioneer family of Ohio, his father, Michael Hoobler, having been born in Cumberland County, Maryland, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Shultz, having been born at Harper's Ferry on the Potomac River, Virginia, the date of her birth having been October 8, 1794. She was a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Shultz. George Shultz served as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution, and after its close he finally came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1804, and became one of the very early settlers in what is now German Township. The first night after the family arrived at their future home, in the midst of the forest wilds, a bear paid an unwelcome visit to the little family group, the tracks of the animal having been in evidence the following morning, not only around the primitive log cabins but also the prints of its paws were to be seen on the window sill. Adam Hoobler, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, likewise became one of the early settlers in German Township, and the Shultz and Hoobler farms were among the first productive tracts developed in this now opulent section of the county..
As a young man Michael Hoobler established his home on a small farm in German Township, but he gave the major part of his time to his trade, that of shoemaker. His wife attained to the remarkable age of one hundred and two years, two months and twenty-nine days—a record of longevity that is said never to have been equaled by any other resident of Harrison County. On the one hundredth anniversary of her birth more than 1,800 persons assembled at the Hoobler home to pay tribute to this noble and venerable pioneer woman. Both she and her husband were devout members of the German Reformed Church. They became the parents of nine children—Susan (remained unmarried until her death), Jacob, John, George, Rachel (never married), Samuel, Andrew and David, Mary Anna, who died in youth. Of the number only David, Andrew and Samuel are living in 1921.
David Hoobler early began to aid in the work of the home farm, and the common schools of the locality and period afforded him his youthful education. His entire active career was marked by close association with the work and management of the farm which is now his place of residence and the ownership of which he retains. He is still alert and vigorous of mind and body, but the active management of the farm is now vested in their one surviving child. Kinney V., of whom more specific mention is given in later paragraphs. Mr. Hoobler has always shown -loyal interest in community affairs, is a democrat in politics, has long been a zealous member of the Reformed Church at Germano, as was also his wife. Mrs. Hoobler died September 27, 1920.
In 1874 Mr. Hoobler was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Leavengood, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and who was a (laughter of the late Jacob and Catherine (Miller) Leavengood. Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler become the parents of two children—Ira S. and Kinney V. Ira S. was born October 15, 1875, and died October 9th of the following year.
Kinney V. Hoobler, the one surviving child of the honored subject of this review, was born February 23, 1883, and is indebted to the public schools of German Township for his early education. He has remained continuously on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth and since 1906 he has had active management of the place in an independent way. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he and his wife hold membership in the Reformed Church at Germano, in which he has served as a deacon.
On the 9th of November. 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Kinney V. Hoobler to Miss 011ie B. Narragon. daughter of Irvin and Christina E. (Barnhouse) Narragon, of German Township, and the one child of this union is Howard E., who was born May 10, 1909.
NELSON T. HINES, who is one of the prosperous and representative farmers of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, was born in this township on the 27th of June. 1858, and is a scion of pioneer stock in this county on both the paternal and maternal sides, the names of both families having been long and worthily linked with the history of this favored section of the old Buckeye State. Mr. Hines is a son of Jehu W. and Jeminia (Garner) Hines, both likewise natives of Nottingham Township, where the latter's parents, James and Keziah (Shannon) Garner, settled in the pioneer days, Mr. Garner having here improved one of the excellent farms of the early days, and both he and his wife having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their children were eight in number: Harrison, Timothy, Elizabeth, Jemima, George, Abbie Ann, Nelson H. and Theodore.
Jehu W. Hines was born in Nottingham Township in the year 1826, and here he held status as one of the substantial farmers of the county at the time of his death, April 28. 1863. He was a son of Joseph and Anna (Poulson) Hines, who were pioneers in Nottingham Township, where they remained until their deaths and where the father reclaimed and developed an excellent farm. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hines became the parents of seven children—Rudolph, Kingley, Wesley, James, Jehu W., Nancy and Sarah Ann. Rudolph Hines, the founder of the family in Harrison County, was a son of John Hines, who came with his family to America in the colonial days from Germany. Rudolph Hines served as a soldier with the patriot forces in the War of the Revolution, and in 1814 came with his family to Ohio and settled in Harrison County, where he remained until his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety years, his children having been twelve in number. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Huff, was venerable in years at the time of her death.
Jehu W. and Jemima (Garner) Hines became the parents of two children, of whom the subject of this review is the elder, the younger being Anna E., who is the wife of Wesley Hines, of Delaware County, Ohio. After the death of hcr first husband Mrs. Hines became the wife
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of Levi Mallarnee, of whom mention is made in family sketches on other pages of this volume, and both attained to advanced years, three children having been born of this union-James G., Edward L. and Ruth Jane.
Nelson T. Hines gained his early education in the district schools of Nottingham Township, and he was a lad of twelve years when he was taken into the home of his maternal grandfather, with whom he remained until he married and initiated his independent career as farmer in his native township, where he has been established as a progressive agriculturist and stock-grower since the year 1883 and where he owns in addition to his fine homestead place of 106 acres another excellent farm, comprising seventy-nine acres. He is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Deersville.
On the 5th of September. 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hines to Miss Harriet S. Hefting, who was born in Washington Township, this county, and who is a daughter of Noah and Jane (McCullough) Hefting. Mr. and Mrs. Hines became the parents of three children, the first, a daughter, having been born June 30, 1884, and having died the same day. Clarence Alexander, who resides in the City of Canton, Stark County, was born August 21, 1886. He married Miss Fodie L. Stamm, and they have one child, Clarence N., born August 25, 1917. Ray Waterman Hines, the younger son, was born April 22, 1890, and he too resides in the City of Canton. He married Miss Hazel E. Stamm, and they have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Maurine Estella, April 20, 1912; Robert Frank, November 28, 1914; and Ray N., March 28, 1918.
Noah Hefling, father of Mrs. Hines, was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, on the 2d of February, 1813, and he continued his residence hi his native county until his death, on the 4th of December, 1886. He passed his entire active life as a farmer in Washington Township and was one of the substantial yeomen and highly esteemed citizens of his native county. His first wife bore the maiden name of Martha Hearn, and they became the parents of four children, the youngest of whom, Mary, died in early childhood; John L. was born July 12, 1840; Louisa was born in December, 1841; and Joseph S. died while in service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. After the death of his first wife Noah Hefting married Miss Margaret Stewart, and they became the parents of three children-James, who was born in 1848, and who is now deceased; William S., who was born in 1850, and who is now a resident of Corning, Iowa; and Albert, who died in childhood. The second wife died, and the third marriage of Noah Hefling was with Mrs. Jane (McCullough) Cunningham, widow of William Cunningham, to whom she bore four children- Mary Elizabeth, Emma Jane, Isabel Frances and Margaret Ellen. Mrs. Jane (McCullough) Hefting was born July 6, 1821, and was eighty years of age at the time of her death.
Noah and Jane Haling became the parents of four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here made a matter of enduring record: Martha, July 18, 1858; Alexander, April 17, 1860; Harriet S. (wife of the subject of this review), December 22, 1862; and Alice, April 13,
1864.
Noah Hefling was a son of John and Louisiana (Stone) Hefting, the former of whom was born November 29, 1777, and the latter on the 19th of March, 1773, the names and birth-dates of their children being here noted: Fielding, December 26, 1799; Louisa, April 1, 1802; Katherine, March 15, 1805; John L., May 15, 1807; Wesley. November 20, 1809; and Lucy and Noah, twins, February 2, 1813.
JOHN A. DUTENHAVER, a young man of fine intellectual attainments and marked administrative ability, is proving himself one of the specially popular and successful representatives of the pedagogic profession in his native county and at the time of this writing is giving effective service as principal of the public schools at Malvern, one of the attractive villages of Carroll County.
Mr. Dutenhaver was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, on the 9th of December, 1889, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Koontz) Dutenhaver, both likewise natives of this county, the father having been born in Rose Township, in 1850, and the mother in Brown Township, in 1857. William Dutenhaver was a son of John and Magdalene (Seips) Dutenhaver, who were natives of Germany and whose first place of abode in the United States was in Pennsylvania, whence they came in an early day to Carroll County, Ohio, and settled on a pioneer farm, in Rose Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Benedict and Dorothy (Mutchler) Koontz, maternal grandparents of the subject of this review, were born in Switzerland and Alsace, respectively, and their marriage was solemnized in Ohio, Mr. Koontz having been a young man when he immigrated to America and his wife having been a child when her parents came to this country. Mr. Koontz became a substantial farmer in Brown Township, Carroll County, where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives and where both died in the same year.
William Dutenhaver was reared to manhood on the old home farm of his father, in Rose Township, and was afforded the advantages of the schools of the locality and period. In addition to gaining a full quota of youthful experience in farm enterprise he also learned the shoemaker's trade, to which he devoted more or less attention for a number of years, though his primary vocation was that of farming, in connection with which he achieved a generous measure of success. After his marriage he purchased the old homestead, but about two years later he purchased and removed to one of the excellent farms in Brown Township. In 1890 he took possession of another farm, in the same township, and there he continued his well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower until he was called from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, his death having oc-
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curred July 2, 1919. He was a man of fine character and worthy achievement, commanded unqualified popular esteem, was a democrat in his political proclivities, and was a zealous communicant of the Lutheran Church, as is also his widow, who remains on the home farm. He is survived by three children—Dorotha, Iva and John A. Dorotha is the wife of Charles W. Peters and they reside on a farm near Pekin, Carroll County, Iva and John remain with their widowed mother.
John A. Dutenhaver may well consider himself fortunate that he was reared under the conditions and influences that mark progressive farm industry in this favored section of the Buckeye State. He attended the district schools of Brown Township and later was graduated in the high school at Malvern. Thereafter he attended the Mount Union Normal School and the academy at Wooster, and after this preliminary fortification he finally was matriculated in Wooster University, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science. After teaching two years in the district schools of Brown Township Mr. Dutenhaver was for two years superintendent of the public schools of East Sparta, Stark County, and in the year 1916, which marked his graduation in the university, he became a teacher in the public schools at Malvern, where he has held the office of principal since 1918, with a record of distinctive success along both academic and executive lines. He is earnest and progressive in his professional work, which was interrupted when he responded to the call of patriotism and entered the national service in connection with the World war. He entered the service on the 21st of June, 1918, and was assigned to Camp Sherman, where he received his preliminary training in military affairs and where he received promotion to the rank of corporal. Later, by reason of his ability as a scientist, he was assigned to the chemical warfare service, at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, where he continued in service until he received his honorable discharge January 3, 1919, whereupon he resumed his work in the village schools of Malvern. He is a staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, is a communicant of the Lutheran Church, and his name is still enrolled on the list of eligible young bachelors in his native county.
JOSEPH C. BUTLER, who owns and conducts a well equipped furniture and undertaking establishment in his native City of Carrollton, is a representative of a family whose name has been prominently and worthily associated with the history f Carroll County for more than a century, and on other pages of this publication, in the sketches of his older brothers, William F. and George J., appear adequate genealogical records, so that a repetition of the data is not demanded in the present connection.
Mr. Butler was born at Carrollton on the 18th of December, 1854, and here he acquired his early education in the public schools of the period. At the age of eighteen years he became a clerk in the retail mercantile store of Isaac Crumrine, and in 1882 he here established himself in the furniture business, as an exponent of which he has since conducted one of the leading enterprises of the kind in Carroll County, the undertaking department of the business having been added in 1887 and its equipment throughout being of the most approved modern type. For the accommodation of his substantial business Mr. Butler utilizes a building with a frontage f thirty-two feet and a depth of 132 feet.
Like other representatives of this well known family Mr. Butler is a staunch supporter of the principles of the republican party, but he has never consented to hold public office save that of a member f the City Council. In the Masonic fraternity his maximum York Rite affiliation is with the local Commandery of Knights Templar, and he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has been an appreciative student of the history and teachings of this time-honored fraternity and has passed official chairs in various Masonic bodies with which he is identified. Mr. Butler has been a loyal supporter of the prohibition cause and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city.
In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Butler to Miss Cora Ebersole, daughter of the late John and Susanna (Hewitt) Ebersole, of Carrollton, and of this union have been born the following children: Cree is the wife of Samuel Pool, f Carrollton. Washington is associated with his father's business. John was for a number of years a clerk in the local mercantile establishment of his uncle George J. Butler. The maiden name of his wife was Blanche Henry and their two children are Joseph and Edress, besides which they had a twin son and daughter who died in infancy. Florence, who was for some time employed in a newspaper office at Carrollton, later served as deputy clerk of the court and is now cashier in the Carrollton office of the American Railway Express. She married Charles E. Mills, an attorney of Akron, Ohio. Erma, who formerly held a clerkship in the Carrollton postoffice, besides having been a popular teacher in the schools of her native city. She now holds a position in the offices of the American Express Company of Carrollton.
JOHN T. HEISLER, JR. In the annals of German Township, Harrison County, the name of Heisler appears as one of significant prominence, for here the original representative of the family settled more than a century ago, when this section f the Buckeye State was virtually a forest wilderness. In successive generations the members of this sterling family have here continued as vigorous and successful representatives of farm industry, and have stood exponent of high-minded and loyal citizenship.
John Thomas Heisler, Jr., named in honor of his uncle, the late John Thomas Heisler, to
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whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this volume, was born on the tine old homestead farm which he now owns and occupies in German township, and the date of his nativity was April 3, 1869. He is the elder of the two surviving children of William and Sarah (Maple) Heisler. The father was born on the old homestead now owned by his son John T., Jr., in German Township, and the date of his birth was March 23, 1834. In 1868 William Heisler wedded Miss Sarah Maple, who was born in Rose Township, Jefferson County, in the year 1831, a daughter of Aaron Maple, who was a pioneer settler in that county. John Heisler, father of William, was born on the same ancestral farm as was the son, and was a son of Henry and Catherine Heisler, who came from Pennsylvania and became very early settlers in German Township, where the father obtained large tracts of Government land and reclaimed a farm from the wilderness, he mill his wife having here passed the residue of their lives. John. Heisler was born July 6, 1806, and passed his entire life in. German Township, where he likewise became a successful farmer, the closing period of his life having been spent on his farm of 160 acres, where both he; and his wife died when well advanced in years. The maiden name of Mrs. John Heisler was Anna Maria Bear, and she was born October 29, 1809. They became the parents of eight children— Henry, Jacob, Susan, William, Elizabeth, John Thomas, Margaret and Lucinda.
William Heisler became the owner of a fine farm estate of 337 acres in German Township, and was one of the honored and influential citizens f this Section of his native county, where both he and his wife remained until the close of their earnest and worthy lives. Their religious faith was that of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of five children, of whom the two daughters died at birth. Of the two surviving, John T., of this review, is the elder, and the younger, Henry A., is individually mentioned elsewhere in this publication. James, the third son, died when about eighteen months of age.
The cultural advantages that came to John T. Heisler, Jr., in the period of his youth were those of the district schools of German Township and those of Scio College 'at Scio, this county, and Harlem College at Harlem Springs, Carroll County. His excellent judgment has been shown in his continuous allegiance to the great basic industries under the influence of which he was reared and of which he has become a prominent representative in his native county, where he still resides upon the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. Here he owns a fine tract of 100 acres, and he is the owner also of another farm of seventy-one acres in the same township. He takes loyal interest in community affairs, is a democrat in politics, and he served about five years as a member f the Board of Education of German Township. He is a communicant of the Lutheran Church and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
April 30, 1805, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heisler to Miss Flora Ann Yeager, who was
born and reared in Carroll County, her birth occurring November 18, 1868. She was a daughter of Jacob and Emeline (Burlier) Yeager. Mrs. Heisler passed to the life eternal on the 26th of July, 1919, and she is survived by one child, Ethel May, who was born May 8, 1896, is the wife of Roy Kerr, and they reside with her father, Mr Kerr being associated with the work and management of the farm. Earl Yeager, the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Heisler, was born' June 26, 1898, and his death occurred February 18, 1911.
ALBERT C. POULSON. The personal characteristics and broad experience of Mr. Poulson have enabled him to achieve distinctive success in connection with farm enterprise in his native county and township, and he is now one of the venerable and influential citizens of the attractive rural community which has represented his home from the time of his birth to the present, his farm being a well improved tract of eighty acres in Nottingham Township. In this township Mr. Poulson was born on the 8th of April, 1847, and he is a scion of one of the county's sterling pioneer families. His paternal grandparents, John and Susanna (Knight) Poulson, were natives of Maryland, where the former was born April 9, 1763, and the latter on the 16th of November, 1781, they having become early settlers in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where Mr. Poulson reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Names and dates of birth f their children are here recorded: Nelson, July 1, 1802; Matilda, December 5, 1805; Rachel, April 17, 1809; and Andrew, December 28, 1814. Andrew Poulson was born in Maryland and was young at the time of the family immigration to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm in Nottingham Township, in which township he continued his activities as a farmer during virtually his entire independent career. He wag an upright man, loyal in all of the relations of citizenship, and was of venerable age at the time of his death, as was also his wife, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As a young man Andrew Poulson wedded Miss Susannah Garner, who likewise was a native of the State of Maryland, and who was a daughter of Hezekiah and Sophia (Tippett) Garner, her parents having come from Maryland to Harrison County in the pioneer days and having passed the remainder of their lives in Nottingham Township. They became the parents of eleven children, namely: John, James, Julia, Mary, Elizabeth, Susannah, Amanda, Sarah, Edward, Thomas and Nelson, the last named having died when a young man. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Poulson became the parents of five children: John, who died when about seventy-four years of age; William, who died in August, 1920; Albert C., the immediate subject of this sketch; Amanda, the wife of Jasper Irons, of Moorefield Township, Harrison County; and Hezekiah resides in Nottingham Township, more specific mention of him being offered in later paragraphs.
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The Hines District School in Nottingham Township gave to Albert C. Poulson his early educational advantages, and from his youth to the present time he has maintained close association with agricultural and live-stock industry in his native township. His political alignment is in the ranks of the republican party, and his wife and daughter hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Deersville.
On the 4th of June, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Poulson to Miss Bertha Granville, daughter of John and Martha (Wheeler) Granville. John Granville, who was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, became a skilled stonemason, followed his trade for a number of years at Selo, this county, and then removed to the village of Tappan, likewise in Harrison County, where he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children: Clara (deceased), Mary, Anna, Jennie, Nettie, Bertha. Wilbur (deceased), Blanche and Per- ley. Mr. and Mrs. Poulson have two children, both of whom remain at the parental home. Martha Blanche is the wife of Joseph Griffith, who is associated in the work and management of her fatherls farm, and they have one son, Joseph Cole. Harold, son of the subject of this sketch, as already noted, is a member of the parental home circle.
HEZERIAH G. POULSON, younger brother of Albert C. Poulson, subject of the preceding personal sketch, likewise was born on the old homestead farm in Nottingham Township and is numbered among the prosperous farmers of this township, the date of his nativity having been March 7, 1851, and his youthful education having been obtained in the district schools. As a young man he assumed independent functions in connection with the activities of the old home farm, in the management of which he continued until 1901, when he removed to another farm not far distant. There he continued his operations until 1912, when he removed to his present farm, which adjoins his father's old home place and which comprises 101 acres.
The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Poulson to Miss Anna B. Clark, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Locke) Clark. and the one child of this union is a daughter, Vivian L., who was born September 25. 1904.
ISAAC S. COPE is to be ascribed the prestige of representative position as one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of Nottingham Township. Harrison County. He is a native son of this township and is a scion of an honored pioneer family of the county. He was born in Nottingham Township on the 21st of February, 1853, and is a son f Jacob and Martha Anna (Salisbury) Cope, whose marriage was solemnized May 10, 1847. Jacob Cope was born in Harrison County, November 7, 1822, and was a son of Samuel and Jane (Moore) Cope. Samuel Cope was one of the sterling pioneers of Harrison County, where he passed the greater part of his life in Nottingham Township. and here he reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds. April 11, 1810, recorded his marriage to Jane Moore, who was born May 20, 1792. and whose death occurred August 7, 1855. The names and respective birth pates of their children are here noted: Margaret, November 7, 1811; Thomas, January 18, 1814; David, June 17, 1816; Martha, August 3, 1818; Samuel, August 9, 1820; Jacob, November 7, 1822; Mary A., October 27, 1824; Nancy J., September 27, 1828; Israel, May 8, 1830; and Robert C., December 10, 1832. Samuel Cope was a son of David and Margaret (Brown) Cope, the latter having been a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Brown. The marriage of David Cope and Margaret Brown occurred on the 17th of July, 1777, and they became the parents of eight children- John, Elizabeth, Jacob, Grace, David, Caleb, Samuel and Nathan.
Jacob Cope, father of the subject of this review, was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days in Harrison County, and as a young man he was employed four years as a farm workman in Short Creek Township. In the early days he utilized a four-horse team in hauling wheat from Harrison County to Dover, Tuscarawas County. From Short Creek Township he finally made his way to Illinois, in which state he remained four years, within which period his marriage was there solemnized. Upon his return to Harrison County he engaged in farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, where he spent the great part of his life thereafter on the farm now owned by his son Isaac S., of this sketch. In 1847, as previously noted, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Martha Anna Salisbury, she having been born in Fulton County, Illinois, May 22, 1831, a daughter of Albert and Hopeful Salisbury, pioneer settlers of that county, where her father engaged in farming. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded: Rachel, February 7, 1848; Anna Eliza, November 21. 1849; Mary Jane, April 13, 1851; Isaac S., February 31, 1853; Sarah Margaret, June 12, 1856: Taylor Fremont. April 23, 1858; Philip Randolph, December 14. 1859; Jennison Lane; and Eva Almedia, who married J. C. Johnson. of Cadiz. After the death of his first wife Jacob Cope eventually married Ruth Amanda Rose, and they became the parents of seven children-Ida, Nannie, J. Osburne, Thomas B., Lucy M., Walter M. and Lyle. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cope were members of the Christian Church, as was also the first wife.
Isaac S. Cope found his early youth diversified by attending the district schools of his native township and assisting in the work of the home farm. He was a young man when he began .independent operations as a farmer in Nottingham Township, where he has continued his active and successful association with agricultural and live-stock industry during the long intervening years. He is the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of more than 300 acres, and is one of the substantial and influential citizens of the community in which he has resided for the major part of his life. He is a republican in politics, and he served six years as township trustee, besides
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having been for an equal period a member of the School Board of his district. He and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church at Minksville.
In 1875 Mr. Cope was married to Miss Lydia Melissa Carson, who likewise is a native of Nottingham Township and a representative of a well known pioneer family of Harrison County, she being a daughter of the late William and Elizabeth (Wells) Carson. Mr. and Mrs. Cope have six children: William J. is the subject of an individual sketch following in this volume; Harry F. married Miss Elizabeth Compton and they reside in Nottingham Township; John H. wedded Miss Ada E. Wallace, and their home is in Nottingham Township; George F. married Miss Anna L. Fulton and they reside in New Philadelphia, Ohio; Lulu Olive is the wife of John Fulton, of Nottingham Township; and Etta Belle is the wife of Ralph M. Rose, of Nottingham Township, their one child being a son, Alfred Clyde.
WILLIAM J. COPE, who is now numbered among the progressive farmers of Stock Township, Harrison County, was born in Nottingham Township, this county, February 14, 1876, and is the eldest of the children of Isaac S. Cope, in whose personal sketch preceding this is given adequate record concerning the family. William J. Cope is indebted to the district schools of his native township for his early education, and in that township he made his first essay into the domain of independent farm enterprise. In December, 1911, he removed to North Township, where he was engaged in farming for the ensuing five years, and in March, 1917, he removed to his present farm in Stock Township, where he is meeting with distinctive success in his vigorous and well directed activities as an agriculturist and stock- raiser. He takes loyal interest in public affairs of a local order, is a republican in political allegiance and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.
October 20, 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cope to Miss Mary Margaret Rogers, daughter of Barrett and Harriett (Poulson) Rogers, of Nottingham Township, and of this union have been born nine children—James Glenn, John B., Harold S. (died in early childhood). Wilbur Herman, Mary Olive, Nellie Mildred, Samuel Taylor, George William and Anna Florence.
RALPH M. HARDING has had the active management of the hardware business established by his father in the village of Jewett, Harrison County, since the death of his honored father in 1916, and is one of the progressive young business men and popular citizens of his native county. He was born in German Township, Harrison County. on the 13th of July, 1893, and is a son of John W. and Louisa (Helter) Harding, the former f whom was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and the latter at Port Washington, Tuscarawas County. John W. Harding' was reared and educated in Carroll County, where his father, Philip Harding, was a prosperous farmer, and where he himself became independently engaged in farm enterprise in his native township. From Carroll County he finally came to Harrison County and established himself in the hardware business in the Village of Germano, German Township. There he continued in business until 1900, and the following year he passed at Jewett. He then removed to Scio, this county, where he established a prosperous furniture and undertaking business. He sold the stock and business three years later and then returned to Jewett, where he opened a well equipped hardware store, to the management of which he gave his attention until his death, on the 20th of May, 1916. His first wife died in 1904, and their only child was Ralph M., of this review. For his second wife Mr. Harding wedded Mrs. Addie Bond, who survives him. No children were born of this union.
In the public schools of Jewett Ralph M. Harding continued his studies until his graduation in the high school, and he then became actively associated with the hardware business of his father, of which he has had the active management since the death of the latter and in connection with which he has shown marked business acumen and progressiveness, with the result that the enterprise has been signally prospered under his control. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, and he is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted -Masons at Scio, the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Cadiz and the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Jewett.
In September, 1912, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harding to Miss Golda Umbour, daughter of John B. and Alma Umbour, of Jewett, and the one child of this union is a fine little son, John Howard.
FRANKLIN H. MISER has resided in German Township, Harrison County, since his boyhood and has become one of the prosperous -farmers and representative citizens of this township, where he has a well improved farm of 163 acres, which is given over to well diversified agriculture and the raising of approved types of live stock.
Mr. Miser was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and is a scion of well known pioneer families of that county, where both his parental and maternal grandparents were early settlers. He is a son of David and Harriet (Johnson) Miser, both likewise natives of Salem Township, where the former was born December 29, 1822, and the latter on the 10th of December, 1833, a daughter of Thomas Johnson. Samuel Miser, father of David, developed one of the excellent pioneer farms f Salem Township, and there he and his wife remained until their deaths. David Miser was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the pioneer schools. He continued his active association with farm enterprise in his native township until 1878, and on the 8th of January of that year he came with his family to Harrison County and established a home On the farm which he purchased in German Township. Here he continued as one of the pros-
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perous farmers and highly respected citizens of the county until he passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors in the year 1896, his widow having passed away on the 15th of March, 1912, and both having been consistent members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of six children—John W., Mary (deceased), Annetta (Mrs. Henry Courtwright), Franklin H., Samuel R. and David A. (died July 7, 1889).
Franklin H. Miser gained his rudimentary education in the district schools of his native township and was about ten years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he continued his studies in the district schools of German Township. His present homestead farm has been the stage of his activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower from the time when he initiated his independent career when a young man, and he keeps the place of 163 acres up to the best standard in all ways.
October 27, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Miser to Miss Margaret Scott, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Miller) Scott, and she passed away April 24, 1905, no children having been born of this union. In November, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miser to Mrs. Mary 0. (Roberts) Tedrow, widow of John C. Tedrow, whose death occurred in November, 1903. The two children of Mrs. Miser's first marriage are Clifford W., who was born August 9, 1900, and whose death occurred September 24, 1903; and Blanche Isabel, who was born July 17, 1902. Mrs. Miser is a daughter of E. W. and Eleanor May (Hall) Roberts, who became the parents of four children—Mary 0., Clara Jane, Bertha May and Leonard L. After her divorce from her first husband, Mrs. Roberts became the wife of Samuel P. Skipper, and the one child of this union is William Raymond. Leonard L. Roberts, youngest child of the first marriage, was eventually legally adopted by Samuel P. Skipper, the second husband, and he has since borne the name of Leonard L. Skipper. For the past twelve years he has maintained his home with Mr. and Mrs. Miser. Leonard L. Skipper was one of the Harrison County boys who made admirable record in connection with America's participation in the World war. He entered service June 27, 1918, at Camp Sherman and was assigned to the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade. Later he was transferred to Company G, Three Hundred and Thirty-fourth Infantry, and on the 6th of October, 1918, was assigned to Company M, Three Hundred and Sixty-second Infantry. He sailed for France on the 3d of the preceding month, and with his command was in service in the front-line trenches for a period of thirteen days in the Ninety-first Division, on the Argonne front. On the 25th of April, 1919, he was assigned to the Third Company, First Training Battalion, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, as preliminary to discharge from service. Arriving in his native land, he received his honorable discharge on the 1st f May, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Miser have one child, Clarence Arthur, who was born June 21, 1907.
SAMUEL R. MISER, a brother of Franklin H. Miser, a review of whose career is given in the preceding paragraphs, was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 22d of June, 1868, and his early activities and educational advantages were precisely similar to those of his brother. He owns and resides upon an excellent farm of 101 acres, adjoining that of his brother in German Township, Harrison County, and has long been known as one of the progressive farmers and business men of this township. In connection with farm enterprise Mr. Miser has operated a threshing machine, a clover huller and a saw mill, and he still continues to do a considerable amount of threshing each season, besides which he has been a successful salesman of farm implements and machinery and also of high-grade fertilizing products. He is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Annapolis, Jefferson County.
December 25, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Miser to Miss Magdalena Maple, daughter of George and Anna (Maple) Maple, of Mooretown, Jefferson County, and they have four children- Essie, Jay D., Roy E. and Harry R. The only daughter, Essie, is the wife of Walter Snyder, and they have two daughters, Elsie and Wilma Maxine.
ANDREW PALMER was born in the State of New York on the 10th of October, 1850, and he was ten years old when he was sent from the old Empire commonwealth to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he was made the adopted son of David and Mary Magdaline (Temper) Palmer, in whose home he was reared to manhood, the while he was afforded the advantages of the public schools, his fosterparents having in the meanwhile established their home on a farm in Harrison County. He remained with his fosterfather until his marriage, in the year 1872, and he then engaged in independent farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, whence he later removed to Washington Township, where he farmed two years. He then returned to Nottingham Township, where he has since continued his activities as a substantial agriculturist and stock-grower and where he owns an excellent farm of eighty-three acres. He is loyal to all civic responsibilities, is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in Bethel Chapel (Methodist Episcopal) in their home township.
On the 4th of July, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Rachel Yarnall, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 16, 1851, a daughter of Aaron and Harriet (Poulson) Yarnall. Aaron Yarnall was born November 12, 1815, a son of Aaron and Mary Ann (Bell) Yarnall, and Mrs. Harriet (Poulson) Yarnall was born May 26, 1813, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Poulson. Aaron Yarnall, father of Mrs. Palmer, came to Harrison County about the year 1857, and engaged in farming in Nottingham Township. He and his wife passed the residue of their lives in this county, and both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They be-
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came the parents of ten children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded: Elizabeth, 1837 ; James, 1839; Ziba, 1841; John, 1843; Eli, 1845; Sarah Jane, 1847; George, 1849; Rachel, 1851; Asbury, 1854; and William, 1855 (died in infancy). Aaron Yarnall, Sr., grandfather f Mrs. Palmer, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1783, and in 1811 he came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased 160 acres of land in Nottingham Township and became a pioneer farmer. Here he remained until his death in 1851, and his widow passed away in 1857, both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had nine children, namely: Ziba, William, Aaron, Eli, Colver, John, Nelson, Lydia and Mary A.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer became the parents of eight children : John M. is a farmer in Nottingham Township; William T. is individually mentioned on other pages f this work; Hattie died in early childhood; Alice M. is the wife of James Walker; Bertha R. is the wife of Joseph 11. Rogers; Mary is the wife of Elmer Tarbett ; and Harry and Wesley are still members of the parental home- circle.
RICHARD L. BRADEN, who belongs to one of the well-known families of Harrison County, is conducting a blacksmithing business at Jewett. Ile was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. on June 14, 1859, a son f Joseph Braden and his wife, Isabel Sharp, natives of Pennsylvania and Ireland. respectively. Joseph Braden was a miller by trade, and after coming to Harrison County at an early day conducted the Wartell Mill in Short Creek Township until his death in 1878. His Wife died some years before him. passing away in 1861. They belonged to the Presbyterian Church and took a very active part in its work in their community. Their children were as follows: Margaret, W. F'.. Richard L., Laura, who -married Newton Johnson and is deceased, and one who (lied young.
The boyhood and youth of Richard L. Braden was passed much like that of any normal lad of his time and locality. In those days parents believed in teaching their children to be useful, and from a very early age he assisted about the mill and at home, and in the winter season went to the Red Hill School in Cadiz Township. When he was old enough he began learning the blacksmithing trade, and has continued to work at it all of his life, now owning his own shop at Jewett. to which place he moved in 1883. He has a large trade in blacksmithing and horse-shoeing, and is recognized as an expert in his line.
In 1882 Mr. Braden was united in marriage with Elizabeth Mitchell. a daughter of Rudolph Mitchell. They have no children of their own. but in 1903 they took into their home and hearts Nell McPeek. then eight years of age. She is now a teacher of East Liverpool, Ohio. and a source of great pride to them. Mr. and Mrs. Braden belong to the Presbyterian Church. For the past four years Mr. Braden has been one of the trustees of the Childs Home of Harrison County, and he also is a member of the Board of Control of Jewett. The Odd Fellows of Jewett have in him a faithful and valued member. He is one of the hard-working, thrifty men of the county who, while not going into public life to any spectacular degree, yet exert considerable influence among their associates, and fortunately for all concerned always follow sound, dependable and constructive lines.
TAYLOR S. MATSON. The remarkable accuracy of the .memory• of this well known native son of Harrison County came into effective play in furnishing the data from which this review of the family history is compiled, and in gathering material for the publication there have been few instances where the person interviewed did not have to refer to written records for data and names. Mr. Matson proved a distinct exception. He was able to enlist his splendid memory in supplying the information concerning an honored family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of Harrison County for more than a century.
Taylor Scott Matson was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, on the 20th of April, 1847, and until his death lived retired in the Village of Georgetown, after years of productive association with farm industry. He is a son of Thomas C. and Loretta M. (Close) Matson, the former of whom was likewise a native of Short Creek Township, where he was born September 28, 1816, and the latter was born in Belmont County, this state, January 18, 1818, she having been a daughter of Henry and Magdalene (Neete) Close, who were sterling pioneers of Belmont County. Henry Close, who had been a successful farmer in Belmont County, was eighty-seven years f age at the time of his death in 185S, his wife passing away the same year, at the age of seventy-seven years, and both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of eight children-John, George, Josiah, Loretta, Mary, Eliza, Lucinda and Harriet.
John Matson, who was born in the year 1784, was the paternal grandfather of Taylor S. Matson. John Matson and his wife, whose maiden name was Parthenia Cooper, were numbered among the earliest settlers in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he remained until his death, May 9, 1857, his widow having passed to eternal rest on the 15th of June. 1870, her religious faith having been that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. These honored pioneers became the parents of six children —Sarah, Rachel. Prudence, Naomi, Thomas C. and John.
Thomas C. Matson was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer period in the history of Harrison County, and in Short Creek Township he passed his entire life. He became one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in his native township, and it is interesting to record that in that township two excellent farms remained in the possession. of the Matson family for 109 years. Mr. Matson was a man of earnest and upright character, loyal in community affairs and imbued with a fine sense of personal stewardship, both he and his
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wife having held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Matsonls death occurred March 26, 1879, and his widow passed away on the 24th of March, 1891. Of their children the first born, Henry N., died at the age of fifteen years; Taylor Scott was the next in order of birth; Thompson still resides in Harrison County, as does also Emma, who is the wife of John G. Lewis.
The district schools of his native township afforded to Taylor S. Matson his youthful education. and he early gained practical experience in connection with the activities of the home farm. As a young man he began independent enterprise on one of the old Matson homesteads, and he remained on this farm until January. 1898, when he and his wife removed to the Village of Georgetown, and though he retired he continued to give his general supervision to his fine farm until 1916, when he sold the property. He never sought political preferment, but was always ready to do his part in supporting measures advanced for the general good f the community.
July 10, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Matson to Miss Julia Ellen Kerr, daughter of James and Julia Kerr, and she passed to the life eternal on the 24th of March, 1892, the only child of this union having been Ella Louise, who died at the age of five months. On the 21st of October, 1896, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Matson to Miss Sarah Eleanor Douglas, daughter f Robert and Clarissa (Hulta) Douglas, but no children were born to this marriage.
Robert Douglas was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1820, and in the same county his wife was born April 8, 1839, their marriage having been solemnized September 11, 1866. In 1878 Robert Douglas came with his family to Harrison County, and in the following year he engaged in farming in Short Creek Township, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death occurring January 7. 1900, and his widow being still a resident of this township. They became the parents of three children: Mary Louisa, born December 13, 1867; Sarah Eleanor, born June 17, 1869; and Abner C., who died when about two weeks old.
THOMPSON MATSON, who is now living retired in the village of Georgetown, Harrison County, continued to give his personal supervision to his farm in Short Creek Township until 1916, when he sold the property, the same having been continuously in the possession of the Matson family for more than a century. Mr. Matson hos maintained his home at Georgetown since 1897, but, as previously stated, he continued to manage his farm until 1916, with frequent trips bock and forth between the farm and his home viliage. He is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Harrison County, and concerning the history of the family adequate data Is given on the preceding pages, In the sketch of the career of his older and only brother, Taylor 8. Matson, deceased.
Thompson Matson was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 15th of August, 1848. He gained his early education in the rural schools of the locality and period, and his entire active career vas marked by close and successful association with farm industry in his native township.
The year 1882 recorded the marriage of Mr. Matson to Miss Lydia Shields, daughter of Jackson Shields, and the one child of this union was Estella, who died in 1897. Mrs. Matson died on the 24th of July, 1909, a zealous member of the Presbyterian Church. July 1, 1911, Mr. Matson was united in marriage to Miss Mary R. Shields, a sister of his first wife. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
JOHN W. HAVERFIELD has the distinction of being a substantial and prominent exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry in Stock Township, Harrison County, and is a scion of a family whose name has been prominent in connection with civic and industrial affairs in Harrison County for more than a century. He was born in Cadiz Township, this county, on the 17th of October, 1871. and is of the fourth generation in descent from Nathan Haverfield who, in the year 1800 settled in what is now Harrison County, where he took up a tract of heavily timbered land and instituted the development of a frontier farm. Nathan Haverfield was born near the present city of Wheeling, West Virginia, and was a son of James and Nancy Haverfield. the former a native of Ireland. In Pennsylvania Nathan Haverfield married Miss Harriet Barnett, and from that state they came to Ohio in 1800, the remainder of their lives having been passed on their pioneer farm, in what is now Harrison County. Mr. Haverfield died at the age of seventy-six and his widow at the age of eighty-six years. Their children were eleven in number. John N. Haverfield, son of Nathan, was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, May 17, 1820, and who was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days. October 27, 1842, recorded his marriage to Emeline, daughter of John and Annie (Gorsuch) Lavely, and they became the parents of four children, of whom the eldest was Henry L., father of him whose name initiates this sketch. John N. Haverfield developed one of the fine farm properties of Stock Township, was for six years a director of the county infirmary, was a director of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Cadiz and was one of the honored and influential men of his native county. He was a republican in polities and both he and his wife were most zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he held official position for many years.
Henry L. Haverfield was born in Cadiz Township on the 29th of July, 1843, and he was reared on the home farm. In August. 1862, shortly before the nineteenth anniversary of his birth, he enlisted for service in the Civil war. He became a member of Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served three years, in the Army of the Cumberland and with which he took part in the Atlanta campaign and Sherman's historic march from Atlanta to the sea. He remained with his command until the close of the war and received his honorable discharge on the 10th of June. 1865. later years having found him
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actively affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the war Mr. Haverfield remained on the old home farm until 1885, and for a number of years thereafter and until his death was engaged in the hardware business at Cadiz. His death occurred on the 27th of October, 1892. He was a man of sterling character, commanded unqualified esteem in his native county, was a staunch republican and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow, who maintains her home in the city of Cadiz.
Henry L. Haverfield was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Barrett. who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a representative of another of the honored pioneer families of the county. Mrs. Haverfield is a daughter of William H. and Eliza V. (Betz) Barrett, the former of whom was born in Cadiz Township, this county, June 10, 1812, and the latter was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1817, their marriage having occurred in 1837. William H. Barrett was a son of Arthur and Mary (Huff) Barrett, and the former was a son of Arthur Barrett. Sr., who came to the present county of Harrison in 1803 from Virginia, where he was born in 1743. Arthur Barrett, Sr.. obtained nearly 1,000 acres of wild forest land in Cadiz Township, and became one of the earliest settlers of the county. Here he remained as a pioneer citizen until his death, in 1828. Arthur Barrett, Jr., was born in Virginia, in 1780, and accompanied his father to Ohio. where he married Mary, daughter of William Huff, a pioneer and a famous Indian scout of Ohio. Arthur and Mary (Huff) Barrett became the parents of four children: Meredith, Lewis, William H. and Mary. Mrs. Barrett died in 1814, and later her husband married Elizabeth Wolf, four children having been born of this union. Mr. Barrett died in 1845, and his widow passed away in 1887, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his first wife.
William H. Barrett passed his entire life in Harrison County and was one of the most substantial farmers and venerable citizens of Nottingham Township at the time of his death. Both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Henry L. and Mary E. (Barrett) Haverfield became the parents of six children: Brice is a manufacturer of store fixtures in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and resides at LaGrange, one of the beautiful suburbs of that metropolis. He married Miss Grace Huff, and they have three children, Helen Beatrice, Elythia May and Sarah Virginia. John William, the next in order of birth, is the immediate subject of this review. Earl, who is a resident of Los Angeles, California, married Miss Emma Kearney, and their one child is a daughter, Dorothy. Eugene L., a resident of Cadiz, Harrison County, married Miss Edna Blanche Bidwell, and they are the parents of three children, Melvin, Madeline and John Henry. Raymond B. died in infancy. Cora Ethel is the wife of George H. Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio.
John William Haverfield passed the period of his childhood" and early youth in Cadiz
Township and in addition to receiving the advantages f the district schools he attended also the public schools of Cadiz, for one year. He has given virtually his entire independent career to farm industry and is now operating a finely improved and productive farm of 223 acres, his valuable farm estate being one of the best equipped and most capably managed in Stock Township, and his energy and ability having gained him place among the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county. In politics he is a republican, and he served six years as trustee of Stock Township, besides which he is at the present time a member f the township school board. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias at Cadiz, and both he and his wife are members of the Bethel Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they were reared.
April 21, 1895, recorded the marriage of Mr. Haverfield to Miss May Chaney, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Nathan and Jane (Kirby) Chaney, the latter having been the eldest of the five children of John and Maria (McMillan) Kirby and her death having occurred December 27, 1916. Nathan Chaney, for many years a prosperous and highly esteemed citizen of Cadiz Township, died on the 22d of December, 1918, his entire life having been passed in this county, where his parents, Nathaniel and Catherine (Steele) Chaney, were early settlers. Nathan and Jane (Kirby) Chaney became the parents of seven children: McMillan is a resident of Beloit, Ohio; Ida, who became the wife of Samuel McFadden, died in 1884; Jennie died in childhood; Albert resides at Jewett, Harrison County; May is the wife of Mr. Haverfield, of this sketch; Leota is the wife of Edward 0. Adams, of Canton, Stark County; and John resides at Toronto, Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Haverfield have two children, H. Hayes and Ethel Leota.
SAMUEL M. DICKERSON. In view of American nomadic tendencies and the general spirit of unrest that marks the present day, it is specially pleasing to find a sterling citizen of Harrison County, Samuel M. Dickerson, residing on the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth and which is to him a haven of peace and prosperity as the shadows of his life begin to lengthen from the golden west. On this farm in Athens Township Mr. Dickerson was born April 13, 1844, a son of Joseph and Mary (Jones) Dickerson. The parents were both natives of Fayette County, Pennsylvama, where the father was born May 30, 1796, and the mother on the 7th of April, 1802, she having been a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Smith) Jones. Thomas Jones was born in Wales in the year 1750, and was a child when he was left an orphan, in the state of Delaware, where he was reared to manhood and where was solemnized his marriage to Rebecca Smith. He served as a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and finally he removed with his family to Pennsylvania, Where he passed the remainder of his long, worthy and useful life
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and where he died at the patriarchal age of 104 years, in 1854. He was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thomas and Rebecca (Smith) Jones became the parents of five sons and two daughters, and before his death he had become the grandsire of forty-six children, with numerous representatives also of two younger generations.
Joseph Dickerson’s grandfather, Joshua Dickerson, was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in 1728, and the maiden name of his wife was Susanna Whitten. About 1748 he accompanied his parents on their removal to Maryland, where the home was established not far distant from the present Harper's Ferry. There Joshua Dickerson married and there his first child, Thomas, grandfather of Samuel M. Dickerson of this review, was born on the 19th of May, 1764. About the year 1771 Joshua Dickerson removed with his family to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths. Their children were twelve in number: Thomas, William, Eli, John, Joshua, Jr., Levi, Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Dunlap), Mary (Mrs. John Dunlap), Susan (Mrs Josiah Allen), Ruth, Elizabeth and Rachel.
Thomas Dickerson was, as previously noted, born in the year 1764, and he was reared to manhood in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Currey and her birth having occurred January 16, 1766. In the year 1800 Thomas Dickerson set forth on foot and alone from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to make his way to the frontier wilds of Ohio. On the night of the 8th of November, while en route, he stopped at a lone cabin and requested accommodation for the night. The owner f the cabin stated: "We have but two rooms, but if you can put up as we do you are welcome." A little later in the evening another man appeared and asked for similar entertainment, with the result that the two sojourners found sleeping quarters in one of the two rooms of the pioneer cabin. The other guest was Joseph Huff, the pioneer Indian fighter and surveyor in Ohio, and when he learned that Mr. Dickerson was a mechanic he persuaded the latter to continue his journey by way of the Huff cabin in Athens Township, Harrison County, ere he continued onward to his destination, the White Plains of Ohio. The next day—November 9, 1800—the two men arrived at Mr. Huff's cabin, and Mr. Dickerson became so favorably impressed with this county that he abandoned the plan of continuing his journey. At the suggestion of Mr. Huff he set forth the following day to file entry at Steubenville on Government land in what is now Harrison County. His financial resources were limited, and Mr. Huff insisted on lending fifty dollars, for which he would accept no security. Mr. Huff took the money from his improvised "safe," which was an iron frying-pan buried beneath the dirt floor in one corner of the cabin. Mr, Dickerson entered a section of land in Harrison County, which became Cadiz Township when the county was organized. Here he established his home, reclaimed a productive farm and here remained until his death. His wife joined him in the pioneer home and there they reared their children, thirteen in number, namely : Eli, Levi, Joshua, Joseph, William, Ruth, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Sarah, Susan, Mary, Rachel and Nancy. No name has been more closely or honorably linked with the development and progress of Harrison County than that f the Dickerson family, in each successive generation of which the sons and daughters have well upheld the honors of the name.
As a young man Joseph Dickerson engaged in independent farm enterprise in Athens Township on what is now the home farm of Hiram and Elizabeth Dickerson. On the place, as a veritable landmark, is still standing the pioneer log house in which Joseph Dickerson and his wife began housekeeping, the building having been erected by him and being retained as a relic of the past, though it is no longer occupied. Joseph Dickerson was a man of energy and spirit, was successful in his farm enterprise, and was the pioneer in the operating of a saw mill with steam power in Harrison County. He remained on his old home farm during his entire active career. In 1865 he retired from the farm to the village of New Athens, and there his death occurred on the 10th of May, 1877. His first wife died March. 10, 1857, and later he married Mrs. Sarah A. Mills, who survived him by several years. Joseph and Mary (Jones) Dickerson became the parents of twelve children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded:. Joshua, March 25, 1822; Rebecca, January 1, 1824; Mary Jane, October 23, 1825; Baruch, September 4, 1827; Hannah, September 4, 1828; Thomas, May 4, 1830; William, August 13, 1832; Joseph, September 11, 1834; Susanna, February 12, 1837; John Allen, May 6, 1839; James W., July 6, 1841; and Samuel M., April 13, 1844. Samuel M., youngest of the number and the immediate subject of this sketch, is now the only survivor,
On the old home farm which was the place f his birth Samuel M. Dickerson has always resided, and it may well be understood that the place is endeared to him by gracious memories and associations, even as it has afforded an admirable stage for his successful achievement as an agriculturist and stock-grower. His early education was acquired in the common schools and has been supplemented by the experiences of a long, busy and useful life. He has always taken deep interest in everything pertaining to the welfare and advancement of his native county, has had no desire for public office but is a staunch supporter f the principles of the republican party. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which the Dickerson family has been notable for liberal support from the earliest pioneer days in Harrison County, where they were active in founding what became known as the Dickerson Church of this denomination in 1804. Samuel M. Dickerson's grandfather organized the first church meeting held in the county, said to be the oldest church organization in the state of Ohio.
On the 8th of March, 1870, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dickerson to Miss Mary Ellen Holmes, daughter of Asa S. and Mary
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(McCoy) Holmes, of Athens Township. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson: Lucy, born September 30, 1871, is the wife of Dr. George R. Grose, the distinguished president of DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. Dr. and Mrs. Grose have five children: Mary Frances, Wilbur D., Helen, Virginia and William Edwin. Oliver H., only son of Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson, was born November 19, 1873, and is a civil engineer by profession. He resides in the city of Duluth, Minnesota. He married Miss Alice Osburn, and they have three children, John 0., Joseph H., and Samuel. Gertrude Dickerson, born January 23, 1878, is the wife of Rev. Franklin Kerr, a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church of Logan, Ohio, and they have two children, Marcus and Samuel W.
ROBERT F. RAMSEY is found numbered among the representative farmers of his native township, and that he has secure place in popular confidence and esteem in Harrison County needs no further voucher than the fact that here he served four years as county Recorder. As a young man he gave five years of effective service as a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Cadiz and Nottingham townships, and since that time, save for the period of his incumbency of county office, he has given his attention to vigorous and successful farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, where he is the owner of a well improved and productive farm of 136 acres— a center of progressive agricultural and live-stock industry. He is a republican in politics, has been active in the local councils and campaign work of the party, and his service as county recorder continued from September, 1910, to September, 1914, with an administration whose efficiency was attended with marked popular approval. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church at Cadiz.
Mr. Ramsey was born in Nottingham Township, this county, on the 6th of October, 1861, and is a son of John C. and Sarah J. (Hines) Ramsey, the former of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of November, 1823, and the latter of whom passed her entire life in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where her parents, Isaac and Sarah (Patterson) Hines, stood as representatives of honored pioneer families. John C. Ramsey was a son of William and Mary (Anderson) Ramsey, and was sixteen years of age at the time when the family home was established in Harrison County. Here he learned the trade of cooper, but the major part of his active career Was given to constructive farm enterprise in Nottingham Township. His marriage to Miss Sarah J. Hines was solemnized March 16, 1847, and her death occurred in the year 1865. They became the parents of eight children, namely: Isaac L. (dead), Mary E. (dead), William B., John T. (dead), James P. (dead), Harvey C., Robert F., and Martha A. (dead). For his second wife John C. Ramsey wedded Miss Emily Ford, who was born in Harrison County in 1825, a representative of another of the honored pioneer families of this county, and she passed to the life eternal in 1880. In 1882 Mr. Ramsey married Miss Angeline Hines, who was born October 31, 1831, and who was a daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Carson) Hines, of Harrison County. From the time of his first marriage until his death Mr. Ramsey resided on his fine farm in section 6, Nottingham Township, and he was one of the influential and highly esteemed citizens of that township. He was a prominent worker in the ranks of the Prohibition party and held memhership in the Christian Church. He died on the 7th of February, 1898, his wife having died several years before.
Robert F. Ramsey was reared to the invigorating discipline of the farm, and that he made good use of the educational advantages that were his in his youth was demonstrated in his five years of service as a teacher in the rural schools, as noted in the opening paragraph of this sketch. His record as a farmer in his native township has been marked by the vital progressiveness and the circumspection that ever augur for maximum success and he is a substantial agriculturist and stock-grower whose farm gives ample evidence of his thrift and good management.
On the 15th of January, 1888, Mr. Ramsey was united in marriage to Miss Margaret B. Carson, who likewise was born and reared in Nottingham Township and who is a daughter of David L. and Mary Ellen (Wells) Carson, concerning whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of 0. K. Martin, who married another of the daughters in this well known family. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey have seven children: Florence E., is the wife of Ernest Walker, of Cadiz, this county; Clyde H., who resides at Dennison, Tuscarawas County, married Miss Dora Finical, and their one child, Robert F. II, was named in honor of his paternal grandfather, to whom this review is dedicated; Wilbur C., at home; John It:, at home; Hazel 0., who married Ross Finical, of Cadiz Township; Martha Bernice, who married Frank Porter, of Cadiz, Ohio; and Helen M., who remains at the parental home. John R. Ramsey was among the fine young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military service at the time of the World war. He entered service October 6, 1917, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was assigned to Company 12, Third Training Battalion of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade. With this command he continued in service at Camp Sherman until he received his honorable discharge on the 6th of January, 1919.
EDWARD C. HENNEN. Prominent among the prosperous agriculturists of Harrison County, a record of whose lives fill an Important place In this volume, is Edward C. Hennen of Cadiz Township, proprietor of a well-kept farm that, with its excellent improvements, constitutes one of the most attractive pieces of property in his immediate neighborhood. A native of West Virginia, he was born May 11, 1878, In Monongahela County, which was likewise the place of birth of both his father, Lewis Hennen, and of his grandfather, Alexander Hennen.
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Alexander Hennen, a life-long resident of West Virginia, was twice married. He married first Mrs. Anna (Stoops) Hennen. She died a few years after her marriage with Alexander Hennen, leaving four children, Levi, Elroy, Lewis and Sarah. Alexander Hennen married for his second wife Rachel Russell, and they became the parents of seven children, as follows: Henry S., William, Christopher C., Joseph, Matt, Emma and Jennie.
Born January 13, 1854, Lewis Hennen succeeded to the occupation of his ancestors, and was engaged in farming in Monongahela County, West Virginia, until 1904. Coming in that Year to Harrison County, Ohio, he was a resident of Cadiz Township until his death in 1908. He married Elzena Clovis, who was born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, March 20, 1854, and died in Harrison County Ohio, in 1912. Her father, Jacob Clovis, a farmer of Battell district, Monongahela County, married first, a Miss Santee. and to them was born one son, Andrew. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Chalfon, and to them seven children were born, as follows: Martin J., Elijah C., Robert S., Benjamin E. Margaret, Elzena and Matt. Mr. and Mrs. Clovis were Methodists in their religious beliefs. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hennen reared three children, namely: Edward C., the special subject of this sketch; Everett S., who died November 10, 1897: and Elizabeth Ona, wife of A. G. Henderson, of Cadiz Township. The parents were members of the Methodist Church.
Educated in the district schools of Monongahela County, West Virginia, Edward C. Hennen acquired a thorough knowledge of agriculture while working with his father, and for many years was actively employed in agricultural pursuits in his native county. Desirous of finding better opportunities for favorably following his favorite pursuit, he came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1904, locating in Cadiz Township, where he has since net with genuine success as a general farmer and stock raiser. He has a finely improved farm of seventy-eight acres, and in its management displays much ability and good judgment, each year adding improvements and increasing its value. In the winter seasons for the last four years he has successfully operated a coal bank, a paying proposition thus far.
Mr. Hennen married August 27, 1902, Nevada Maple a daughter of John and Catherine (Throckmorton) Maple, and they have five children. Lew Roy, Robert M., Elizabeth E., Margaret E. and Mildred Lee. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Hennen are members of the Cadiz Methodist Church. Fraternally Mr. Hennen belongs to Cadiz Lodge No. 130, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a republican.
ALBERT Q. ARBAUGH, the present postmaster of the village of Jewett. Harrison County, has been long and prominently identified with business affairs in this village, is a native son of the county and has the distinction of being a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families.
Mr. Arbaugh was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 24th f December, 1859, and is a son of Levi and Elizabeth (Reid) Arbaugh. Levi Arbaugh likewise was born and reared in Rumley Township the date of his nativity having been October 28, 1825. He received the advantages of the pioneer schools, assisted in the reclaiming and improving of his father's farm and eventually became one of the successful and representative farmers of his native township, where he remained until his death, at the Venerable age of seventy-four years. He was a son of John and Rosanna (Wentz) Arbaugh, both of whom were born and reared in Maryland, where their marriage was solemnized. John Arbaugh's father was William Arbaugh, who likewise was a native of Maryland, was of German lineage and served as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. John Arbaugh and his wife continued their residence in Maryland until about the year 1820, when they came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased a pioneer farm of 160 acres in Rumley Township. He reclaimed this land, in section 6, into a productive farm, and was one f the substantial and honored pioncer citizens of Rumley Township at the time of his death, both he and his wife having been earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. Their children' were nine in number: Sarah, Margaret, Lovina, Lydia. John, James, Adam, Levi and Catherine.
On the 23d of December, 1858, was solemnized the marriage of Levi Arbaugh to Miss Elizabeth Reid. daughter of Hugh and Margaret (Fulton) Reid, who were pioneer settlers in Archer Township, Harrison County. Hugh Reid was born and reared in Pennsylvania, where his marriage to Margaret Fulton was solemnized on the 6th f June, 1830. His father, John Reid, was a native of Ireland, whence he immigrated to America when a young man, and he was a resident of the old Keystone State at the time of his death. Hugh Reid and his wife continued their residence in Archer Township until their deaths, and their names merit preservation on the roll of the honored pioneers of Harrison County. They became the parents of six children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Elizabeth, June 4, 1831; William, March 30, 1834; John, May 16, 1836; David A., June 16, 1838; and Hugh Nelson and Mary, twins, April 21, 1841.
Levi and Elizabeth (Reid) Arbaugh became the parents of three children: Albert Q., the immediate subject of this sketch; William R., likewise a resident of Jewett; and Henry N, a prosperous farmer in Rumley Township. Mrs. Elizabeth Arbaugh, a devoted communicant of the Lutheran Church, was summoned to eternal rest in 1885, and in April, 1889, Levi Arbaugh contracted a second marriage, when Miss Louisa Hilbert, of Defiance County, became his wife. No children were born of this union.
Albert Q. Arbaugh was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools of Rumley Township, Later be completed a course in the Duff Business College in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and on the 1st of January, 1885. he purchased the general merchandise stock and store of B. N. Winings at Jewett, and also became postmaster,
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serving five years. In 1889 he received his second appointment, serving over four years. In 1887 he erected a substantial building for the accommodation of his large and prosperous mercantile business, and about the year 1894 he sold the stock and business and turned his attention to the insurance business, in which he has since continued, though the major part of his time and attention is required in connection with his effective service as postmaster at Jewett, a position to which he was appointed in August, 1915, and of which he has since continued the incumbent. In 1913 he was appointed county superintendent of taxes, in which office he served sixteen months, with characteristic efficiency and acceptability. He owns a 100-acre farm adjoining the village on the south, and qualifies as a farmer and fruit grower. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home village.
On Christmas day of the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Arbaugh to Miss Margaret A. Spence, who was born at Germano, this county, in July, 1862, a daughter of Henry and Martha (Aiken) Spence, of whom incidental mention of more specific order is made in connection with other personal sketches appearing in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Arbaugh have four children: Clara E. is the wife of Frank B. Groves, an attorney of Cadiz, Ohio, and they have one child, John F. Martha E. is the wife of Harry M. Mansfield, Assistant Real Estate and Claim Agent of the W. & L. E. Railway at Canton, Ohio, and their one child is a daughter, Margaret E. Albert Byron is an attorney, in practice in association with the well-known law firm of Herbruck & Black of Canton, Ohio. He was educated in the Jewett High School and at Ohio State University. Arthur H. is with the Labell Iron Company of Steubenville, Ohio.
GEORGE A. DUNLAP is making in his native county an excellent record as a representative of the pedagogic profession, and is at the time of this writing superintendent of the public schools of the village of Jewett, Harrison County, where his academic and executive ability has brought exceptional efficiency in all departments of the school work, his progressive policies having the loyal support of the people of the community. Mr. Dunlap was born in Cadiz Township, this county, and is a son of John A. Dunlap, of whom individual record is made on other pages of this volume, so that a repetition of the data is not required in this connection.
The district school locally known as the Pike's Peak School in Cadiz Township afforded to George A. Dunlap his preliminary educational discipline, and thereafter he completed a preparatory course at Franklin College, in which institution he continued his studies in the regular academic or literary department until his graduation as a member of the class of 1905, when he received the degree of Bachelor or Arts. A year after his graduation he became a member of the corps of instructors in his alma mater, and he continued his successful service as a teacher in Franklin College for three years. During the ensuing three years he was superintendent of the village schools of New Athens, Harrison County, and he then resumed his pedagogic service at Franklin College, where he remained three years. The following three years marked his efficient service as superintendent of the public schools of Hopedale, Harrison County, and in the autumn of 1918 he accepted his present position in which his administration has proved most effective and popular. He has high standing as one of the enthusiastic and successful representatives of his profession in his native county, he is a republican in political allegiance, both he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church in their home village, and he is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Cadiz, the while both he and his wife maintain membership in the chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at Sclo.
On the 24th of January, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Anna D. Dickerson, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a representative of one of the honored and influential pioneer families of this county, she being a daughter of Dr. Albert and Ella (Dickerson) Dickerson. Doctor Dickerson died in 1903, and his widow married J. F. Adams and residents of Stock Township, Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap have a winsome little daughter, Vivian M., who was born February 26, 1909.
FRANK M. SMITH. While Frank M. Smith was born August 22, 1864, in Stock Township, he is able to trace his direct lineage to Daniel Smith, who was born in Maryland in 1774, afterward living in Pennsylvania and coming to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1818, and three years later locating in Stock Township, Harrison County. He married Elizabeth Perigo, and their children were: William, Job, Marie, Harriet, Millie, James, Joel, Jesse, Nathan and John. When Daniel Smith came to Stock Township he entered a section of land, and with the help of his sons he improved it. He was a life-long democrat and an early day member of the Methodist Church, which he helped organize in the community. He died July 14, 1856, and his was the first grave in Pleasant Valley Cemetery.
It is through the oldest son, William, that F. M. Smith is descended, and while the educational advantages of William Smith were limited to fifteen days in school, he applied himself diligently to a course of self-instruction, finally becoming one of the best informed men in his community. On August 31, 1826, he married Margaret, a daughter of Richard Parker, who was an early settler in Stock Township. Their children are: James, Harriet, Sina, Richard, Daniel, Margaret, David, Hannah and Simeon—Hannah and Simeon being twins. While the ancestry had been democratic, William Smith was a republican, although he never sought political preferment.
The son Richard P. Smith, who died February 17, 1907, was the father of F. M. Smith. He was born July 20, 1832, and while he had a common school education he was always con-
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sidered a well informed man, making a specialty of mathematics. He was always a farmer in Stock Township. On November 2, 1853, he married Mary Jane, a daughter of Samuel G. Miller. She was born April 16, 1834, and died February 20, 1910. Her father came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, as a young man to Harrison County. In his early life Mr. Miller was a miller, but after coming to Harrison County he became a farmer. The children in the Miller family were: John, Mary Jane, Elizabeth, Margaret and William. The parents were members of the German Lutheran Church, but later Mr. Miller became a member of the Hanover Presbyterian Church and his children became Methodists.
The children born to Richard P. Smith are: Samantha E., John M., Jason B., Frank M. and Emmett E. Smith. In his generation Richard P. Smith reverted back to the democratic party, although his father was a republican. He served the community as township trustee, treasurer and assessor, and it was his pleasure to give to his children a common school education and to have one son become a doctor of medicine.
Frank M. Smith attended Scio College, and for five years was a teacher in the public schools of Stock Township. He is a farmer and stockman today, with sheep as his specialty.
On September 16, 1806, Mr. Smith married Violet Hastings, who is a native of Guernsey County. She is a daughter of the Rev. Joseph and Eliza Jane (Ripley) Hastings, the mother a daughter of Andrew Stephen Ripley. Rev. Joseph Hastings was a Methodist Protestant minister f Guernsey County. He attended the seminary at Antrim, and was in the ministry many years. He died in 1906, and Mrs. Hastings now lives in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The children in the Hastings family are: Adolph, Violet, Carrie and Veda. The grandfather, James Hastings. came from Ireland. He married a Scotch woman, Mrs. Sarah Johnson, whose maiden name was Story. He met her in Philadelphia. They came from Philadelphia to Guernsey County in a wagon, and they were among the pioneers of that community. Their children were: George, John, Margaret, Sarah Jane, Joseph and William.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith are: Arthur H. Smith, a graduate of the Cadiz High School and a student in Ohio State University in Columbus, and Donald M. Smith, a student in the Cadiz High School. The family are members of the pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church, and for a full century the immediate circle of Smith relatives have been in the community there.
J. ALLEN SMITH, of Green Township, has gained an enviable reputation as a successful breeder f Shorthorn cattle and he is also recogmzed as one of the progressive farmers of Harrison County. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, May 7, 1859, a son of John V. and Ann (Thompson) Smith, and grandson of James Smith. James Smith married a Miss Rankin, and they had the following children: Hugh, William K., John V. In religious faith he and his wife were Presbyterians.
Losing his father when he was a lad, John V. Smith was taken by an uncle to Pennsylvania, and there reared, but after he reached manhood's estate he returned to his native state of Ohio, and spent the remainder of his life in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, developing into an extensive farmer and breeder of blooded Shorthorn cattle. He and his wife had the following children: J. Allen, Melvin T., Laura Esther and Oren. The Beech Spring Presbyterian Church held the membership of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Smith.
Mrs. John V. Smith was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Esther (Francis) Thompson. John Thompson was a farmer of Jefferson County, Ohio, for a number of years, but later moved to Illinois, where his death occurred. The children of John Thompson and his estimable wife were as follows: Hugh, Ann, James, Elizabeth, Amanda, Ella, Margaret, William and Alexander. The Thompson family belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.
J. Allen Smith attended the district schools of his neighborhood, and when he had attained to his majority he began farming on his own account on the homestead in Jefferson County, but following his marriage he moved to an adjoining farm. Still later he moved to Green Township Harrison County, and in 1910 bought the farm which is known as the "Wabash Stock Farm," which he sold in September, 1920, to the Hudson Coal Co. Mr. Smith, like his father and grandfather, has always been a breeder of blooded Shorthorn cattle, and had about twenty- five head of registered stock, which he sold when he disposed of his farm.
On December 21, 1882, Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Violet J. Eagleson, a daughter of Andrew and Sarah M. (Simpson) Eagleson. Mrs. Smith died April 6, 1919, leaving two children : Everett E., who married Elsie Black and has one son, Chester Allen; and John W.
Andrew Eagleson, father of the late Mrs. Smith, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, January 21, 1830, and his wife was born in the same county, a daughter of James and Violet (Scott) Simpson. The grandfather, Henry Eagleson, was a farmer and miller of Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, who married Eliza Host, and their children were as follows: Alexander, William, Dool, Andrew, Elizabeth, Amanda and Jane.
Andrew Eagleson was engaged in farming in Illinois for a short time, and was living there when he died. December 4, 1862. Mrs. Eagleson and the children returned to Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in about 1863, and there Mrs. Smith was reared. She was the eldest of her parents' children and was born in Harrison County, Ohio. The other children are: William S. and James Elmer, who were born in Illinois. The Eaglesons were also Presbyterians. Mrs. Smith's death was a blow not only to her family but her neighborhood, for she was a lady of beautiful, christian character. and she left many warm, personal friends to mourn her untimely loss.
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JEREMIAH J. ARBAUGH made an enviable record of successful achievement in connection with farm industry in North Township, Harrison County, where he remained on his well improved farm of 120 acres until the spring of 1920. He then removed to the village of Sclo, where he is now living virtually retired, although still retaining ownership of his farm, the excellent buildings and other improvements of which were Installed by him.
Mr. Arbaugh was born in Rumley Township, this county, July 15, 1850, and is a son of William and Anna (Gotschall) Arbaugh, the former of whom was born in North Township and the latter in Rumley Township, both families having settled in Harrison County in the early pioneer days. Mrs. Anna Arbaugh was a sister of the father of C. W. Gotschall, in whose personal sketch, on other pages, is given adequate record concerning the family. Daniel Arbaugh, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, became one of the pioneer farmers and substantial citizens of North Township, where he remained until his death, both he and his wife having been earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of nine children, namely : Edward, David, Jacob, William, Daniel, John, Rachel, Malinda and Elizabeth. William Arbaugh became a skilled workman at the trade of stone-mason, and he likewise hecame one of the successful farmers of Rumley Township, where he and his wife maintained their home until their deaths, when well advanced in years. both having been zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of ten children: Joshua, Christina, Jeremiah J., Mary Matilda, William S., Samuel, Margaret, Emma, Anna and Oscar M.
Jeremiah J. Arbaugh gained his early education in the schools of Rumley Township, where he continued to aid in the work of the old home farm until he married and initiated his independent career as a farmer in Rumley Township in 1872. There he remained eight years, at the expiration of which he established his home on the farm which he now owns in North Township, and on which he continued his vigorous and successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower until his removal to Scio in the spring of 1920. He is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
April 18, 1872, recorded the marriage of Mr. Arbaugh to Miss Mary E. Markley, who was born in Rumley Township and is a representative of one of the old and honored pioneer families of Harrison County. She is a daughter of Mathias and Rebecca (Stevens) Markley, both of whom were born and reared in this county, where the father became one of the suhstantial farmers of Rumley Township, which continued his place of residence until his death. The names f the children of his first marriage are here recorded : Catherine Elizabeth, Mary Ellen, Eliza Ann and Henrietta Jane. After the death of his first wife he married Sarah Jane Shambaugh, and they became the parents of seven children: George, Clara, William, Margaret, Daisy, Sadie and Myrtle. Mr. Markley and both his first and his second wives were consistent communicants of the Lutheran Church.
Mathias Markley was a son of Daniel and Catherine (Everhart) Markley, and a grandson of Mathias and Catherine (Arnold) Markley, who were born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and who came from the old Keystone State to Ohio and settled in German Township, Harrison County, in 1806. Mr. Markley obtained from the government 320 acres of wild land, and in the passing years he here developed a productive farm. Finally he removed to Holmes County, and there his death occurred about 1845. Daniel Markley was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and thus was a lad of about ten years at the time of the family removal to Ohio, where he was reared on the pioneer farm in Harrison County. He became a prosperous farmer in Rumley Township, where his death occurred in 1842. His children were: David, John, Mathias, Mary, Eva A., Sarah and Elizabeth.
To Mr. and Mrs. Arbaugh have been born six children: Samuel E., who resides on the old farm in North Township, married Miss Anna Hilbert, and they have four children, Hilbert, Raymond J., Ralph and Dwight L. Linwood M. wedded Miss Nannie Hammill, and they reside in the city of Passaic, New Jersey. Winnetta Adella is the wife of Edward Finnicum, of Harrison County, and they have two children, Mildred May and Mary Margaret. Anna Blanche is the wife of Ralph English, a farmer in North Township, and they have two children, Pearl and Nannie Adella. Jesse W., who resides in the village of Scio, Harrison County, married Miss Carrie Hammill, and their four children are William Merle, Mabel Ellen, Dorothy and Sarah June. Roy, the youngest of the children of J. J. Arbaugh and wife, died at the age of four years.
WILLIAM E. CRAMBLETT. An extensive landholder, and one of the leading agriculturists of Stock Township, Harrison County, William E. Cramblett is conspicuously identified with one of the more important industries of the Umted States, the material wealth of our great country being largely dependent upon the quality and quantity of the crops annually produced by the industrious and intelligent farmer. He is a native born citizen, his birth having occurred De- comber 24, 1861, on the farm of his father, the late Thomas Cramblett.
John Cramblett, grandfather of William E., was born and reared in Ireland. Immigrating to the United States in early life, he located first in Maryland, where he was engaged in mechanical pursuits for a number of years. Following the tide of migration to Ohio, he took up land in Stock Township, Harrison County, in pioneer days, as early as 1843, and thereafter was engaged in tilling the soil until his death. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Gladman, six children were born, Jacob, Joseph. Thomas, Rachel Ann, Ellen and Margaret.
Thomas Cramblett, a native of Maryland, came with his parents to Stock Township when young, and performed his full share of clearing and
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improving the parental homestead. Being reared to agricultural pursuits, he naturally adopted farming as his occupation, and made a specialty of stock raising. A lover of sheep, he took an especial pride in the growing of sheep, his favorite breed having been the Black Top, his flock containing registered rams and ewes. He met with excellent success in his undertakings, and continued as a farmer until his death, November 24, 1914. He married Hannah, a daughter of William Mallernee, a pioneer farmer of Stock Township, who reared four other children, Ezra, William, Henry and Lydia. He subsequently moved to Freeport Township, in which the closing years of his life were spent. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cramblett were the parents of eight children, as follows: William E., the special subject of this brief sketch; Amanda, deceased, was the wife of Robert Mallernee; Otis; Joel; Burton died in early manhood; Mary; David ; and Addle. Both parents were members f the Christian Church, and generous contributors towards its support.
Having obtained a good common school education in the rural schools of Franklin Township, William E. Cramblett began farming on his own account in Stock Township. A young man of push and energy, diligent in his labors, he spared no efforts to make a success of anything which he undertook, and it is not at all surprising to learn that he became very prosperous in his agricultural career. In addition to owning his home farm of 1771/2 acres, he also owns a nearby farm of ninety-four acres, likewise having a good farm of eighty acres in another part of the township. He carries on general farming, and as a stock raiser is a breeder of thoroughbred Black Top sheep, having some registered sheep in his flock.
On April 9, 1886, Mr. Cramblett was united in marriage with Martha Smith, a daughter of John P. and Hannah (Welsh) Smith, and a sister of N. A. Smith, of whom a brief account is given elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Cramblett have two children, Carl S., a farmer in Stock Township, married Olive Fulton, and they had one child, Velma, who died on March 6, 1920. John T., also engaged in farming in this township, married Hazel Mason, and has one child, Merle Eugene. Actively interested in anything pertaining to the welfare of the community in which he resides, Mr. Cramblett has never shirked the responsibility of public office, but for six years served as a trustee of Stock Township, and for fourteen years was a member of the local school board. Religiously both he and his wife are valued members of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church.
EMMETT E. SMITH, of Stock Township, was ban December 2, 1869, and has always lived in the place where he now resides. He is a son of Richard P. Smith, and the family history has already been related in the sketch of his brother, Frank M. Smith. He had common school advantages and he has always been a nature student, making a special study of the birds of Harrison County. For a number of years he has Owned the old Smith family homestead, and the birds are encouraged to nest and rear their young on the premises. The home of Mr. Smith is almost an aviary.
For ten years he made annual reports to the United States Government on the springs and fall migration of the birds of Ohio and those that fly across the country. He has a rare collection of more than sixty different kinds of bird eggs, and he is so familiar with the different species that at a glance he can classify them. When he sees an egg he knows the kind of bird that laid it He is an authority on birds and is a close reader on all nature subjects. Mr. Smith has a well selected library.
Birth, marriage and death are said to come to' all men, but Mr. Smith has indefinitely postponed the latter two ordeals, and as a citizen of the community he is engaged in general farming and livestock business and for three years he has been trustee of Stock Township, and is at present the township treasurer. As a naturalist Mr. Smith is a source of general information in the community.
DENNIS OWEN McDEVITT. The McDevitt family as represented by Dennis Owen McDevitt of Stock Township has long been identified with the history of Harrison County. He was born February 9, 1868, in Stock Township, and he has always lived there. His father, John W. McDevitt, was born March 19, 1836, in North Township, and the mother, Elizabeth (Evans) McDevitt, was born April 16, 1846, in the same community. She was a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Simpson) Evans and she became the wife of J. W. McDevitt April 12, 1866, in North Township. The maternal grandfather, James Evans, Sr., was a pioneer in that community. The children in the Evans family were: William, Margaret, Mary, Rebecca, Jane, Ezekiel, David, John W., Sarah, and Elizabeth (Mrs. McDevitt). The Evans family were members of the Methodist Church.
In the McDevitt ancestry the grandfather, George McDevitt, came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County. He was a pioneer in North Township. He married Mrs. Susan Scott, whose maiden name was Rutlidge. Of their children Mary, Martha and Samuel all died in childhood. The others are: Eliza, Thurzey, John, Thomas and Lyle. As a young man the son John W. McDevitt, father of D. 0. McDevitt, began farm activities in North Township, but after his marriage he located in Stock Township, near Mount Hope Church, and in 1879 he moved to the farm where D. 0. McDevitt lives today. He remained on the farm until October, 1918, when he moved to Scio, and he died there the last day of December, following. His wife died April 26, 1911, while the family lived at the old homestead.
For six years J. W. McDevitt was a member of the Harrison County Infirmary Board of Directors, and he gave much attention to the needs of the unfortunates of the community. The McDevitt family was long identified with Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church, and they were always abreast of moral questions. Besides the son Dennis Owen McDevitt, there is a daughter, Laura, widow of Elmer Law. She lives in Scio. Since his young man-