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hood D. 0. McDevitt has always farmed the old homestead in Stock Township. He is engaged in general farming combined with the livestock business, and owns 300 acres of land in Stock and Franklin townships.
On March 15, 1893, D. 0. McDevitt married Margaret Smith. She is a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Johnson) Smith, the father being born November 20, 1834, in Stock Township. He married Elizabeth Johnson January 26, 1865. She was a daughter of Samuel R. Johnson. The children in the Smith family were: Loman J., Della F., Margaret R. (Mrs. ;McDevitt), William E. and Samuel H. Smith. Mr. Smith owned a well improved farm in Stock township, and the family were members of the Methodist Church at Pleasant Valley.
A son and two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. D. O. McDevitt. They are: Homer Smith, Mary and Ruth. Homer Smith McDevitt died April 2, 1921, aged twenty-five years. On July 31, 1895, he married Lydia Cole. He had one daughter, Eileen Marie. He was associated in farming with his father.
JOHN K. SPENCE is president of the. Spence- Roberts Company, which has developed at Jewett, Harrison County, a remarkably large and flourishing mercantile business in the handling of dry goods, clothing, carpets, rugs, draperies, women's apparel and kindred lines. The attractively appointed establishment of the company is metropolitan in equipment and service and contributes definitely to the commercial prestige of Harrison County.
John K. Spence was born at Kilgore, Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio, on the 1st of February, 1853, and is a son of Henry and Martha (Aiken) Spence, the latter having been a daughter of James Aiken. Sr., who was born in Pennsylvania and who became a pioneer settler in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where he established his home in the year 1826. He followed the carpenter's trade many years and was a resident of Jewett, this county, at the time of his death in 1885, his wife, whose maiden name was Scott, having died in 1867, and their children having been seven in number. After the death of his first wife Henry Spence contracted a second marriage, and concerning him more definite record is given on other pages of this work, in the sketch of Dr. Walter S. Spence, a son of the second marriage.
In the district schools of Carroll County John K. Spence acquired his early education and as a young man he became associated with his father in the general merchandise business at Germano, Harrison County. There he continued his activities as a merchant until 1898, when he established himself in the mercantile business at Jewett, where he has since continued as one of the leading merchants and influential citizens of the community. In 1905 he admitted William E. Roberts to partnership in the business, and on the 1st of March 1911, the enterprise was incorporated under the present title of the Spence-Roberts Company, Mr. Spence having continued as president and Mr. Roberts as secretary and treasurer of the company.
Mr. Spence married Miss Harriet E. Abbott, and she passed to the life eternal in the autumn of 1918, being survived by three children, Charles H., Grace and Jennie. Grace is the wife of Otto Elliott, and they have one child, Maxine V. Jennie is the wife of Charles H. Thompson.
JAMES R. CREIGHTON is still identified with farm industry in his native county, though the major part of his present homestead, which originally comprised 140 acres, has been by him platted into town lots in the village of Malvern, to which he has thus laid out three additions. For farm purposes he still retains thirty acres, and he is one of the substantial and progressive citizens of Carroll County.
James Ross Creighton was born in Brown Township, this county, October 6, 1851, and is a son of Thomas M. and Mary A. (Ross) Creighton, the former of whom was born on a pioneer farm north of Waynesburg, Stark County, Ohio, in 1826, and the latter was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1825. Thomas M. Creighton was a son f James and Annie (Creighton) Creighton, the former of whom was born in Ireland and the latter was born on the sailing vessel "Minerva" on which her parents had taken passage from Ireland to America. Both the Creighton and Ross families trace their lineage back to staunch Scotch origin. James Creighton was a child at the time of the family immigration to America, and his father, Patrick Creighton, established a home in Stark County, Ohio, where he became a pioneer farmer and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. James Creighton was reared in Stark County, under the conditions of the pioneer days, and there he continued as an exponent of farm enterprise throughout his entire active career, both he and his wife having been residents of that county at the time of their deaths.
Thomas M. Creighton passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm in Stark County, and his educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality and period, he having become specially proficient as a mathematician. He remained in Stark County until 1849, when he purchased a farm in Brown Township, Carroll County, where the family home was maintained for the ensuing ten years. He then went to Iowa, with the intention of securing land in that state, but after an absence of about one year be returned to Ohio and settled in Columbiana County. Five years later he again came with his family to Carroll County and resumed his acvities as a farmer in Brown Township, where he purchased land and became one of the county's successful agriculturists and stock-growers, as well as a citizen of prominence and influence in his community. He served nine years as county commissioner and was one of the active and prominent workers in the ranks of the republican party in Carroll County. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Christian Church. His death occurred in 1895 and his widow passed away in 1902.
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James R. Creighton, the immediate subject of this review, gained his early education principally in the public schools of Columbiana and Carroll counties, in which latter county he continued his association with farm industry until he was thirty years of age, when he purchased and removal to a farm in Warren County, Iowa, where he remained for fifteen years and met with success as one of the vigorous agriculturists of the Hawkeye state. At the expiration of the period noted he sold his property in Iowa and returned to Carroll County, where he purchased 140 acres of land lying contiguous to the village of Malvern. He has laid out from this land three additions to the village, and much of the property is now improved with good houses. In this way he has contributed definitely to the advancement and upbuilding of Malvern, and he still finds satisfaction in supervising the operations of his farm, which is now of modest area but which is specially well improved. Mr. Creighton is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, but has had no desire for public office. Both he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church at Malvern, and in the community their circle of friends is limited only by that of their acquaintances.
On the 21st of November, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Creighton to Miss Mary Reed, who was born in Brown Township, this county, May 7, 1854, a daughter of James and Mary (Ayers) Reed and a representative of one of the oldest and best known pioneer families of Carroll County. James Reed was a son of James, Sr., who was a son of John Reed, the founder of the family in Brown Township, where he settled in the early pioneer period. James Reed, Sr., was the father of six children : Abraham, Washington, Joseph, Mary, Drusilla and James, Jr. James Reed, Jr., continued as one of the representative farmers of Brown Township until his death, his entire life having been passed in Carroll County. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Creighton: Drusilla Ione, who was born August 18, 1879, is the wife of F. Q. Mason, of Carroll County, and they have had five children, Frederick (deceased), Gladys, Gertrude, Louise and Margaret. Laura E., who was born in Warren County, Iowa, August 25, 1883, was, like her older sister, afforded the advantages of the Malvern High School, and later she pursued higher studies in Wooster University and the Northern Ohio Normal University at Ada, she being a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Ohio and being at the present time a teacher at Malvern (1920). Thomas M., who was born in Warren County, Iowa, September 26, 1887, acquired his preliminary education in the schools f his native county and later was graduated in the high school at Malvern, after the return of the family to Carroll County. For two years he was a student in Bethany College at Bethany, West Virginia, and thereafter he attended for one year the Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Indiana. He further continued his educational work by four years of study in the Northern Ohio Normal University, and by one year of study in the University of Ohio. He graduated from the Northern Ohio Normal University with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He devoted two years to the study of law and is at the time of this writing, in 1920, a student in the historic old Jefferson Medical College in the city of Philadelphia. The fourth child, a son, died in infancy.
EVERETT O. McCLAIN, with experience gained in connection with the operations of the old home farm, has gone forward 'with confidence and resourcefulness in his independent activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his well improved farm of 138 acres in North Township, Harrison County, is but a short distance from the old homestead on which his parents still reside. He is a son of Charles S. McClain, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume, with due record concerning the history of this pioneer family.
Everett 0. McClain, who merits classification as one of the progressive and popular farmers of the younger generation in North Township, was born in Archer Township on the 4th of January, 1883, and his youthful education was obtained in the public schools of Monroe and North townships. Thereafter he continued his association with the work of the home farm almost without interruption until the time of his marriage, in 1906. For the ensuing six years he maintained his residence art Scio, this county, and worked as a tank builder in the oil fields of this section of the state, besides having been for a part of the time associated with the building of bridges on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1912 he established himself upon a farm of sixty acres, which was a part of the old homestead where he remained until the fall of 1920, when he bought his present farm, which is known to the present generation as the Whittaker farm. He is aligned as a supporter f the cause of the democratic party, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Scio.
In the year 1906 was recorded the marriage of Mr. McClain to Miss Pearl M. Minard, daughter of Ervin M. Minard, who is made the subject of. a personal sketch on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. McClain have four children, Elbert H., Margaret C., Charles M. and Harry E.
JASPER GEORGE HENDRICKS. It would be unpardonable omission in any history of Harrison County, Ohio, if reference were not made to Jasper George Hendricks, a prominent and successful farmer of Stock Township, who from the days of his young manhood has been identified with the agricultural life of this part of the state. Mr. Hendricks has the distinction of being descended on both sides of his house from ancestors who settled in an early day in Ohio.
Jasper George Hendricks was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, Fehruary 28, 1869, a son of George and Mahala Ann (Thompson) Hendricks. His father was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, September 18. 1828. and was married to Mahala Ann Thompson.
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April 20, 1864. The latter was born October 3, 1834, a daughter of Basil and Sarah (Shick) Thompson. Basil Thompson was born August 6, 1813, and married Sarah Shick November 28, 1833. Basil Thompson was one f the pioneers of Carroll County, Ohio, and after having lived in that county for a time he moved to North Township, Harrison County, Ohio. Throughout his active life he was engaged as a farmer and stone mason. He was the father of ten children, as follows: Mahala Ann, born October 3, 1834; J. T., March 21, 1836 ; Gabriel, March 30, 1838; Oliver, November 26, 1839; Andrew, June 26, 1842; Elizabeth, September 6, 1844; Josiah, June 5, 1846; Corban, July 16, 1849; William, January 12, 1852, and Basil, February 15, 1854.
George Hendricks, father of the subject of this sketch, was a son of John Hendricks and wife, the latter being a Miss Roush. George Hendricks was one of the early farmers of Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio. In the winter of 1855 he moved to Stock Township, Harrison County, and continued in the township during all his active years and up to his death, which occurred October 12, 1907. His widow survived him for almost ten years, her death taking place August 30, 1917, at that time being one of the oldest residents in Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks became the parents of six children, namely: John A., born April 5, 1855; Sarah M., October 22, 1856; William, June 14, 1858; Basil, October 30, 1861; Alvan S., September 2, 1865, and Jasper G., February 28, 1869.
Jasper G. Hendricks received his early education in the district schools of Stock Township, Harrison County, and at the beginning of his life's career he started farming in his native township, and has been thus engaged ever since, his entire connection with agricultural pursuits being associated with Stock Township. He is now the owner of fifty-six acres of prime land, and on this holding he is engaged along general farming lines and in stock raising, his reputation in the latter department extending beyond the limits of Harrison County. He carried out some valuable Improvements on his present place and erected all the buildings that are now on the holding.
December 16, 1911, Mr. Hendricks was united in marriage to Miss Anna Thompson, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and a daughter of Andrew and Catherine (Keifer) Thompson. Mr. Thompson farmed in Jefferson Township, Tuscarawas County, up to the time of his death, in April, 1915, His widow passed away in July, 1917. They were the parents of eight children : Clara, deceased; Cassandra; Alfred, deceased; Vincent ; Mary, deceased; John, Anna and Alice, the latter also being deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks have two children: Kathryn Marie and Kenneth Vincent. Mr. Hendricks has been for many years identified with the public interests of his township and county and since January, 1920, has served as a trustee of Stock Township, bringing to the duties of that office a practical and ripe experience which he has diligently exercised for the public good. In other directions he has given of his time and ability to further all movements designed to have a beneficial effect throughout the county.
J. ELMER HINES may well take pride in the status that is his as one of the substantial representatives of agricultural and live-stock industry in Archer Township, Harrison County, for here he has maintained his home from the time of his birth and here he stands as a popular scion of a family that has been one of prominence in connection with civic and farm activities in Archer Township for fully ninety years. His grandfather, Jacob Hines, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he was reared to manhood and where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Susanna Brough. In 1830 the young couple came to Harrison County, Ohio, where Jacob Hines purchased 100 acres of land in Archer Township, his original dwelling having been the pioneer log house erected by the former owner. He reclaimed his land into one of the productive farms f the county and became one of the influential and honored men f his community. He was a democrat in politics and was called upon to serve in various township offices, including those of trustee and member f the school board of his district. He was born in the year 1801, and thus was fifty- three years of age at the time of his death, which occurred on the 21st of December, 1854, his widow attaining to the age of eighty-two years and her death occurring October 20, 1885. Both were active members of the Presbyterian Church. Their children were nine in number: Betsy, George, Margaret, Bruce, Peter, Amos, John, Abbie and Susan.
Peter Hines was born in Archer Township, where he passed his entire life and where he gained, through his own ability and efforts, substantial prosperity in connection with farm industry. He not only purchased eventually the interests of the other heirs to the old home farm of his parents but also bought other land, with the result that he finally became the owner of a well improved and valuable farm estate of more than 200 acres, all in Archer Township. In politics he gave unswerving support to the principles of the democratic party, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. On the 22d f October, 1857, was solemnized the marriage of Peter Hines to Miss .Maria Webster, daughter of the late John Webster, of Rumley Township, this county. The death of both occurred in the year 1901, Mr. Hines having passed away on the 4th of March and his widow having died in the following September. They became the parents of two sons, John Leonard and Jacob Elmer, the latter being the immediate subject of this sketch and John Leonard being individually mentioned on other pages.
J. Elmer Hines was born in Archer Township on the 27th of February 1871, and is fourteen years the junior of his only brother. He gained his early education in the public schools of his native township, and has remained from the time of his birth on the fine old homestead farm, which he has made a center of most progressive enterprise in agriculture and ,stock-growing his property comprising 214 acres of most fer-
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tile and productive land, with the best of improvements, including substantial and well-kept farm buildings. He is a loyal supporter of measures and enterprises tending to advance the best interests of his home community and native county, is a democrat in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Hines is the gracious and popular chatelaine of one of the beautiful rural homes f the county, and her cultured tastes give her leadership in the social life of the home community. Mr. and Mrs. Hines have one child, Robert Clive, who was born on the 1st of September, 1903. It should be noted that ancestors of Mr. Hines were gallant soldiers of the patriot forces in the war of the Revolution and that his brother holds active membership in the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
On the 27th of December, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hines to Miss Edith Welling, who was born at Taylorsville, Kentucky, and who is a daughter of George Robert and Eliza Ann (Darneal) Welling, the former of whom was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and the latter at Rock Haven, Kentucky. Mr. Welling was a successful merchant, as well as postmaster, at Taylorsville, Kentucky, at the time of the Civil war, and was employed by the United States Government to purchase horses and mules for use by the Union forces in the field. He died of yellow fever in the city of New Orleans, just following the close of the Civil war, to which city he had gone with a shipment of horses and mules. Mrs. Welling died when Mrs. Hines was a child of between five and six years. Of their children Mrs. Hines is the youngest; Mary Belle is the wife of Dr. Edwin R. Montgomery, a representative physician at Louisville, Kentucky; Charles Carter is deceased; Elizabeth is the wife of Amos F. Brough, of Monterey, Califorma. Mrs. Hines is a graduate of Nazareth Academy at Bardstown, Kentucky, and also of the Kentucky State Normal School in the City of Louisville. The Bardstown academy was the first to open a school exclusively for women in Louisville. She is a cousin of the widow of Admiral Dewey, her mother having been a sister of the mother of Mrs. Dewey, who was a sister to the late John R. McLean, the Cincinnati newspaper man.
JOHN L. HINES, M. D., a man of high attainments and cosmopolitan experience, is now living in semi-retirement on the fine old homestead farm that figures as the place of his nativity and that is one of the valuable rural estates of Archer Township, Harrison County. Here, as a bachelor, he resides in the attractive home of his only brother, Jacob Elmer Hines, of whom individual mention is made preceding with incidental and interesting record concerning the family history. In the pleasing seclusion of the farm Doctor Hines finds satisfaction in giving his attention to the raising of fine poultry, and his success attests his careful study of scientific methods of propagation and care.
Dr. John Leonard Hines was born on the 23d of December, 1858, and his preliminary educa tional discipline was obtained in the district schools of Archer Township. Thereafter he was for two years a student in Wooster University, and he then entered historic old Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1882 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. There he became actively affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, in the affairs of which he continues to take lively interest. After lleaving this university Doctor Hines attended Bellevue Medical College in the City of New York for one year, and the following year found him a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Baltimore, Maryland. He then returned to Bellevue Medical College, Baltimore, where he was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree. During the winter of 1905 he toured through England, France, Italy and Switzerland, and in 1910 he amplified his foreign experience by travel not only in England, France, Belgium, Italy and Holland but also by a tour through Egypt and Palestine. Since his return from the latter tour he has remained with his only brother on the old homestead farm. He is a man of studious habits and distinctive culture, and in addition to his foreign trips he has traveled extensively in his native land. He is a democrat in his political proclivities and is affiliated with the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
REV. HOSEA McCALL. A life of exalted and consecrated service was that of this honored pioneer clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in eastern Ohio, where in the early days he pursued the work of his noble calling under the old circuit-riding regime, which involved much of hardship and self-abnegation. His high sense of personal stewardship never failed and he labored long and faithfully in the vineyard of the Divine Master and for the aiding and uplifting of his fellow men, so that this history may well pay a tribute to the memory of this honored pioneer whose ministrations extended to various places in both Carroll and Harrison counties and who passed the closing years of his long, earnest and useful life in the village of Malvern. Carroll County, where he died in the year 1882, his devoted wife, who shared with him in good works and kindly deeds, having survived him by about eleven years and having passed the life eternal in 1893, the names of both being held in affectionate and reverent memory by all who came within the sphere of their gracious influence.
Rev. Hosea McCall was born in Middletown, Connecticut on the 2d of October. 1810, and thus was nearly seventy-two years of age when he passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. He entered the Pittsburgh Conference in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1835, and was married to Miss Margaret Campbell, born January 15, 1815, at Greensburgh, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1838. As a circuit rider he gave effective service In eastern Ohio, in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and he continued in the active work of the ministry until about 1ST?. when be retired to Malvern and took pos-
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session of the attractive residence which he here owned and which is now occupied by two of his daughters. In this pleasant home he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives secure in the love of all who knew them. In the concluding paragraph of this memoir is given brief record concerning their children.
Elizabeth Ann married Rev. J. F. Huddleston, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, March 27, 1872, and died in Malvern, Ohio, June 10, 1912. Ebenezer Hudson resides in Oneida, Ohio. Rhoda Caroline resides in Malvern, Ohio. Sarah Jane died December 1, 1877, in Malvern, Ohio. Mary Isabel married Rev. R. W. Freshwater, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, June 11, 1868, and died in Wheeling, West Virginia, January 15, 1894. Martha Eleanor resides in Malvern, Ohio. Margaret Samson married Attorney C. S. Cobbs, of Akron, March 2, 1881. She resides in Akron. William Hosea, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, died in Akron, January 1, 1909.
JOHN B. BEADLE. The name Beadle is found in the annals of both Carroll and Harrison counties. John B. Beadle, of Green Township, was born June 22, 1857, in Scio, but his father, William Beadle, dates back to Carroll County. When he located in Harrison County he married Elizabeth M. A. Bricker (see sketch of John Bricker). William was a son of John Beadle, born in Pennsylvania, but later a farmer and blacksmith in Carroll County.
William Beadle was a physician and practiced medicine from 1856 to 1870 in Scio, when he removed to a farm in Green Township, where he combined farming and the practice of medicine as long as he lived, his death occurring there in 1880. Their children are: John B., Anna, Olive, Charles and Ida. The second child, Irena, died young. The Beadles were Methodists.
John B. Beadle had public school advantages in Scio and in Green Township, and when he began farming he remained thirty-five years on one place, starting with 100 acres and adding an eighty-acre tract later. In 1905 he left the farm and settled just outside the corporate limits of Hopedale on the Cadiz and Steubenville road. He has merited a quiet life at last after so many years of farm 'activities.
In 1886 Mr. Beadle married Lizzie L. Cole, a daughter of Farland B. Cole. Their daughter, Marie M., is the widow f Jay Stringer, and with her son, John Beadle Stringer, she lives with her parents again. Mr. Beadle served as trustee and as township treasurer while a resident of the farm in Green Township. He has also served as a member of the Harrison County Infirmary Board of Directors. He is a Mason, a member of both the Blue Lodge and Chapter in Cadiz. When a man has filled positions of trust in a community it indicates that he has executive ability.
CHARLES S MCCLAIN is found aligned with the fine band of citizens who are maintaining the prestige of North Township, Harrison County, as a center of vigorous and productive farm industry, and further interest attaches to his career by reason of the fact that he is a native of this township and a representative of a well known pioneer family whose name has been identified with the history of this county for virtually an entire century.
Mr. McClain was born on his father's farm in North Township on the 14th of January, 1858, and is a son of John E. and Jane (Canaga) McClain, the former of whom was born in North- Township September L5, 1828, and the latter was born May 28, 1837, a daughter of Jacob Canaga, another sterling pioneer of the county. John E. McClain was a son of James L. and Sarah (Endsley) McClain, the former of whom was born September 23, 1802, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and the latter likewise was a native of the old Keystone state, where she was born September 19, 1803. James L. McClain came to Harrison County in the early years of the nineteenth century, here reclaimed land from a virgin forest, and here continued his activities as a pioneer farmer in North Township until his death, both he and his wife having attained to advanced years. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here made a matter of permanent record: Jane, March 30, 1825; Joseph, March 4, 1827; John E., September 15, 1828; Samuel, September 2, 1830; Mary Ann, October 21, 1832; James Alexander, August 14, 1834; Sarah, September 18, 1836; Harriet, September 30, 1838; Thomas Endsley, July 6, 1844) (enlisted in 1862 for service in the Civil war as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he remained until his death, in 1863); William, July 21, 1843; Martha, October 2, 1844; and Nathan S., September 22, 1846.
John E. McClain passed his entire life in North Township, where he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days, and where eventually he became a representative farmer and citizen, his death having occurred on his old home farm January 21, 1908, and his wife having passed away on the 18th f October, 1900. Both were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church. Of their children the eldest is Charles S., who is the immediate subject of this review; Joseph H. was born July 2, 1859, and his death occurred in the year 1916; Sarah Ida was born May 7, 1861, and died April 24, 1911; Jessie R. was born July 29, 1863, and died January 22, 1911; John B., who resides on the old home farm and who is individually mentioned on other pages of this work, was born May 24, 1871.
Charles S. McClain between his youthful duties on the home farm and the pursuing of his studies in the Fisher School of his home district had his time well occupied in his early years, and after leaving school he remained at the parental home until his marriage, in 1881, after which he was engaged in farming in Green Township one year, the following year having found him similarly applying himself in Archer Township, and the ensuing six years recording his residence again in North Township. He then spent two years in Monroe Township, and since that time he has resided continuously in North Township, where he owns an excellent
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farm of sixty-one acres, devoted to well ordered agricultural and live-stock enterprise. He is a republican in politics, served four years as assessor of North Township, and for twelve years was a school director of his present home district. Both he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at Scio.
On the 23d of December, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McClain to Miss Caroline Hall, daughter of Tipton B. and Rachel (Fife) Hall, of Archer Township, and of this union have been born two children—Everett 0., who is the subject of an individual sketch on other pages of this volume, and Lloyd Elbert, who remains with his parents and assists in the activities of the home farm.
WILLIAM S. KIRKPATRICK gained secure prestige as one of the representative exponents of farm industry in Carroll County, has served two terms as county commissioner and has otherwise been influential in community affairs in his native county. He is now living practically retired in the Village of Malvern, and is a substantial and highly esteemed citizen who well merits recognition in this history.
He was born on the old homestead farm of the family in Brown Township, Carroll County, and the date of his nativity was August 28, 1857. He is a son of Isaac and Nancy (Reed) Kirkpatrick, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and the latter was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, Ohio, in 1825, a daughter of John and Jane (Thompson) Reed, both natives of Pennsylvania and the former a son of John Reed, Sr., who came from the old Keystone state to Carroll County, Ohio, in the pioneer days, here passing the remainder of his life. John Reed, Jr., was long numbered among the representative farmers of this county, and here he died August 22. 1872, his birth having occurred in 1796. The family home was established In Carroll County about the year 1820. His wife died in 1867. Their children were seven in number—William, Nancy, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Robert and Eliza.
Isaac Kirkpatrick was a son of William and Betsey (Swisshelm) Kirkpatrick, both natives of Pennsylvania. William Kirkpatrick was born and reared in Westmoreland County, and there he was engaged in farming until 1832, when he came with his family to Carroll County, Ohio, and purchased 120 acres of land in Brown Township. There he followed farm industry until his death in 1841, his wife having died in the preceding year. They became the parents of six children— Betsey, Nancy, Priscilla, Catherine (Mrs. McKinney), Joseph S. and Isaac. Isaac Kirkpatrick was eight years old at the time of the family removal from the old Keystone state to Carroll County, and here he was reared and educated under the conditions of the middle-pioneer period. He eventually became the owner of his father's old home farm and he continued to be one of the representative farmers and honored and influential citizens of Brown Township until his death, which occurred December 12, 1891, his cherished and devoted wife haying followed him to the life eternal on the 2d of the following March and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To them were born eight children—Almira, Elva, John, Jane, William S., James, Olive and Charles Isaac.
William S. Kirkpatrick has never regretted the sturdy discipline which he received in his youth in connection with the varied activities of the home farm, and the experience proved of inestimable value to him in his later and independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He profited fully by the advantages afforded in the schools of his native township, and during the entire period of his active career he gave his undivided time and attention to farm industry save for the period of his service as county commissroner, of which he was the incumbent six years—from 1897 to 1900, and from 1903 to 1906. During these two terms of effective service he was a loyal supporter of progressive policies in the ordering and directing of county affairs, and the same attitude characterized him during his six years of service as trustee of Brown Township-18901896. Since leaving his farm in 1907 he has lived retired in his attractive home at Malvern. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he Is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees.
On the 17th of February, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick to Miss Catherine Lewton, who was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, March 25, 1861, a daughter of Abraham and Susan (Trussel) Lewton, who passed the closing years of their lives at Malvern, where the father died in 1892, at the age of sixty-six years, and where the mother passed away March 5, 1914, about one month prior to the eighty-seventh anniversary of her birth, which occurred April 1, 1827, in Brown Township, this county, where her parents were early pioneer settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Lewton became the parents of ten children: Artemas, Vincent, Mary, Almira, Emma, Catherine, Laura, Nelson, Elizabeth and Lulu. Of the children Artemas, Vincent, Mary and Laura are deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick have been born six children: Isaac L., a former postmaster of Malvern; Maudie, who died when about nine years of age; Laura, the wife of Jesse Hawkins, of Carroll County, and they have four children—Mildred, Lucille, Donald and William; Carrie is the wife of Jacob Wadsworth, of Carroll County, and they have two children—Mary Catherine and William; Ethel, a school teacher, remains at the parental home; and William died at the age of four years.
WILLIAM RAINSBERGER has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth, and his entire active career has been marked by association with farm industry. He now confines his operations to his well improved little farm of eighteen acres in. Monroe Township,
seven miles from Carrollton, from which city he receives service on rural mail route No. 4.
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Mr. Rainsberger was born in Union Township, this county, on the 12th of September, 1853, and is a son of Josiah and Nancy (Fowler) Rainsberger, the former of German and the latter f Irish lineage. Josiah Rainsberger was born in Monroe Township, where his parents settled in the early days, and he continued his active alliance with farm enterprise in his native county until his death, April 11, 1911, at the age of sixty-nine years, his wife having passed away on the 16th of February, 1888. Of their family of three sons and six daughters the subject of this review is the youngest. One of the sons. David, was a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served as a member of the Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he having been mustered out and having received his honorable discharge in 1864, a few months prior to the close of the war. As a young man he was a successful teacher in the rural schools of Carroll County.
William Rainsberger early began to assist in the work of the home farm, and he continued to attend the district schools during the winter terms until he had attained to his legal majority. He was twenty-four years of age at the time of his marriage and thereafter be continued to be associated in the work and management of the old home farm until 1905, when he purchased a farm f ninety-one acres in Center Township, one mile distant from Carrollton. Six years later he sold this property, and after residing for a short time on another farm in the same township he purchased in 1911 his present fine little farm, the operations of which demand all of the time and effort he is justified in giving, now that he is approaching the prophet's span of three score years and ten. He has never wavered in loyal allegiance to the republican party, has taken deep interest in public affairs of local order, but has had no ambition for official preferment. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton.
In the year 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rainsberger to Miss Dorinda J. Long, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of Alexander Scott and Nancy (Brooks) Long, of Monroe Township. The father of Mrs. Rainsberger was a son of Alexander Scott Long. Sr., and Nancy (Scott) Long, the original American representatives of the Long family having come from the north of Ireland. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Rainsberger were Henry and Dorinda (Fawcett) Brooks, and they became the parents of one son and six daughters. The lineage of the Brooks family likewise traces back to staunch Irish origin.
In this concluding paragraph is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberger: Nancy A. is at home. David Reese died at the age of thirteen years. Josiah Clarke. who now resides in the state of South Dakota, married Johanna Capper, of Perry Township, Carroll County, and they have one son, Thomas William. Alexander L., who resides in the city of Carrollton, married Miss Edna Nihart, of Center Township, and they have two children—Roxey May and Horace Del bert. William Ira, now a resident of the city of Canton, Stark County, married Miss Susan Slusser, of that place, and they have two children—Richard Charles and Ada Marie. Emmett Earl, the youngest of the children, died at the age f twenty months, on the 10th of July, 1896.
THOMAS A. YOUNG. Beside being a farmer Thomas A. Young, of Green Township, is president of the First National Bank of Hopedale. He was one of the promoters when it was organized and has always been a member of the Board of Directors, and was elected president of the bank in 1917. He is a native of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, born June 20, 1855. His father, Samuel Young, was born December 22, 1815, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died January 22, 1881. On June 12, 1852, Mr. Young married Susan Harrington. She was born in Erie County, New York. She was a daughter f Dwight Gardner and Lydia (Searles) Harrington.
The father of Samuel was Hiram Young, who was born in Pennsylvania. The mother, Margaret (Fraizer) Young, was born in Ireland. Her parents came to America when she was young. Samuel was the only son of Hiram Young. As a young boy Samuel Young came from Pennsylvania to Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, with an uncle, James Fraizer. He grew into manhood in Wayne Township, and as a young man began farming there. He accumulated about 170 acres of land and remained there till his death, January 22, 1881.
The children of Samuel and Susan Young are: James F., who married Ola Blake and lives at the old Young homestead in Jefferson County; Thomas A. Young, the subject of this review; Lydia Jane, wife of D. H. Welch, lives at Huron, Ohio, and their children are Willard, Nellie, Olga, Vern and Margaretta; Samuel L. is a farmer of Wayne Township, Jefferson County; Anna E. is the wife of J. C. Waggoner, and lives at Bergholz; Mary, the wife of G. W. Polen, lives at Akron, and they have a daughter, Gwendolyn; Flora Estella and the mother are the home makers for Thomas A. Young, who is a bachelor farmer and business man of the community. They are Presbyterians.
Mr. Young's first business activities were in Jefferson County. In 1890 he bought the farm in Green Township, and since then he has lived in Harrison County. Since living there he has been operating a small coal mine in connection with the farm and live-stock business, and beside his relation to the First National Bank of Hopedale as its president he has other business interests in the community.
HARVEY T. ELLIOTT. The Elliott family of which Harvey T. Elliott of Athens Township is a representative have been in Harrison County for many years. He was born October 17, 1883, in Short Creek Township. His father was R. Wilson Elliott and his mother, Laura Belle (Coulter) Elliott. The mother is a daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Sloan) Coulter, her father a Short Creek Township farmer. She was the youngest of the following: Sarah Jane,
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James, Angeline, Robert M., John R., Thomas, Mary Emeline (deceased), and Laura Belle. The Coulters were members of the United Presbyterian Church of Harrisville.
R. Wilson Elliott, father of H. T. Elliott, was a Short Creek Township farmer, and he always lived there. His children are: Mary Emma, wife of Philip C. Morgan; Harvey T.; Elmer C., who entered the World war service April 2, 1918, and had his military training at Camp Sherman. He was a member of Company D, One Hundred and Third Regiment of Infantry of the Eighty-Third Division, and in June, 1918, he sailed for France. He landed at Brest, on June 24, and was transferred from the Eighty- Third to the Twenty-Sixth Division, where he remained until he was mustered out after the signing of the armistice. He fought in the St. Mihiel Offensive September 12 to 16, 1918, in the Marcheville raid, September 25 and 26, and in the Verdun Sector from October 20 until the end of the war, November 11, and he was "over the top" five times in hard fought battles. He received his final discharge April 21, 1919, at Camp Sherman. He was a little more than a year in the service and had experiences that will never be forgotten. There was an opportunity as well as a burden that confronted the young men of America, and those who went overseas and those who only had training for service- all showed their patriotism when the freedom of the whole world was in uncertainty. There are two more sisters: Bessie Belle, wife of Earl Lamborn, and Georgiana, who married William C. Gillespie, of Athens Township. R. W. Elliott, the father, died in 1900. His widow survives, living in New Athens. She is a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
H. T. Elliott had educational advantages in Short Creek Township, and he had one year at the Band Box School, then attended public school at Harrisville. In 1911 he married Gretta Lyle, daughter of George and Nancy Jane Gillespie. Mr. Elliott began farming on the Anthony Aukerman place in Short Creek Township, but in the spring of 1913 they removed to the farm in Athens Township on the Cadiz and New Athens pike where he is engaged in general farming, combined with livestock, and where he has 102% acres. Their children are: Alvin, born March 4, 1912; Clifford L., born November 10, 1913, and Harvey W., born December 3, 1919.
The parents of Mrs. Elliott were born in Belmont County, but they removed to Short Creek Township when they were first married. The father died in 1907, in Short Creek Township, but his widow survives. Their children are : Walter G., Harvey, Joseph, Eleanor (deceased) ; Gretta, Frank (deceased) and David. The family are Presbyterians.
WALTER HOLLE has been numbered among the vigorous representatives of farm enterprise in North Township; Harrison County, since 1911, when he came from his native state of West Virginia and purchased his present excellent farm of eighty-five acres. Here he gives his attention to well diversified agriculture and to the raising of excellent types of livestock, in which latter department he specializes in the breeding and raising of pure-blood and registered Poland-China swine. In personality and industrial achievement he has proved a valued and popular acquisition in the county of his adoption.
Mr. Holle was born in Doddridge County, West Virginia, at St. Clara, and the date of his nativity was August 25, 1854. He is a son of Ernest and Adaline Holle, his father having been born in Germany and having, been young when his parents came to America and established their residence in Maryland, from which state removal was later made to Doddridge County, West Virginia. Mrs. Adaline Holle died in 1858, when her son Walter was but four years of age, and her husband died about two years later, in 1860. The three orphaned children, Walter, Henry and Mary, were reared in the home of kinsfolk in Doddridge County, and Walter, the eldest of the number, was so young as to have but the vaguest memories of his father and mother, the while he regrets that their early death prevented him from gaining more than the most meager data concerning the family history. Henry, his younger brother, was still a 'bachelor at the time of his death, at the age of thirty-one years, he having been a conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Wheeling and Grafton. Mary C., the only sister, is the wife of Lafayette Nicholson, of Coldwater, West Virginia, and they have four children—Clarence, Anna, Dallas and Julia. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Holle were earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church.
Walter Holle gained his early education in the public schools at St. Clara, West Virginia, and later was a student for two terms in the normal school at Fairmont, that state. As a young man he devoted a part of his time for eight years to successful service as a teacher in the schools of his native state, and he then turned his attention to farm enterprise in his native county, where he became the owner of a farm of 120 acres, as well, as a farm of 137 acres in Lewis County, that state. In 1911 he sold his properties in West Virginia and came to his present attractive farm home in Harrison County, where gratifying success has attended his activities. He is well fortified in his opinions concerning governmental and economic policies, and while a resident of West Virginia he represented his native county in the State Legislature during three different terms—those of 1891, 1893 and 1907. During his last term he was the author of the two-cent railroad fare bill that he presented and the passage of which he was primarily instrumental in obtaining in the West Virginia Legislature. He was otherwise influential in public affairs, and during the administration of Gov. A. B. White he served four years as a member of the State Board of Agriculture in West Virginia. He )and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio.
In April, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Holle to Miss Emma Zobrist, who was born in the state of Connecticut, a daughter of Samuel Zobrist. Mr. and Mrs. Iloilo became the parents of six children—Cora E.,
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Retta R., Alma May, Laura E., Henry S. and Walter M. Cora E., Alma M., Laura E. and Walter M, are deceased, and the other children remain at the parental home, Miss Retta R. being at the time of this writing the popular teacher in the school of her home district.
ROBERT T. SPRATT, postmaster of the village of Malvern, Carroll County, has been the efficient and popular incumbent of this federal office since 1914, and prior to that year had been for some time engaged in the grocery business at Malvern. He was born in Malvern, Brown Township, this county, May 6, 1868, and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the county. He is a son • of Dr. William R. Spratt, who was born in Brown Township, this county, September 27. 1837, a son of Andrew and Jane (Russell) Spratt, both natives of Ireland, where the former was born in County Down in 1794, and the latter in County Tyrone. Andrew Spratt came from the Emerald Isle to America in 1819, and his future wife made the voyage to this country in 1822, their marriage having been solemnized in Pennsylvania, where he maintained his home at Cannonsburg for several years. In the early '30s Andrew Spratt took up a tract of Government land in Brown Township, Carroll County, where he remained and developed the productive farm which continued his place of residence for many years. He finally retired and removed to Waynesburg, Stark County, where he died when about ninety- six years of age, his wife having been about eighty-five years of age at the time of her death, and both having been zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Upon coming to Ohio he first located at Waynesburg, Stark County, in 1827, and there he remained until coming to Carroll County, as noted above. Of the four children the eldest, Nelson, died in October, 1916, ten days prior to the ninetieth anniversary of his birth; Ann Jane was a resident of Rome, Kansas, at the time of her death; Mary, eighty-five years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920, is a resident of Pond Creek, Oklahoma ; and Dr. William R. is the youngest of the number.
Dr. William R. Spratt was reared on the old home farm in Brown Township, and after having profited by the advantages of the common schools he pursued a higher course of academic study at Richmond College in Jefferson County. Thereafter he was engaged in teaching school for ten years, and in the meanwhile he formulated definite plans for his future career. In consonance with these plans he began reading medicine under the preceptorship of Doctor Akin at Waynesburg, and later he continued his studies in the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Finally he entered the celebrated Starling Medical College at Columbus, now the medical school of the University of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1865. During the long intervening period of more than half a century Dr. Spratt has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Malvern, Carroll County, as one of the able and representative physicians and sur geons of the county and as a citizen who holds high vantage-place in popular confidence and esteem. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Stark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Canton Medical Society, of which last mentioned he is now an honorary member, and he is one of the leading and veteran members of the Carroll County Medical Society. He is an ardent advocate of the principles of the Democratic party but has never been an aspirant for political office. He served four years as a member of the board of pension examining surgeons for Carroll County, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. though his wife and children hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1866 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Spratt to Miss Nancy Thompson, who was born in Carroll County in November, 1832, a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Downing) Thompson. honored pioneer settlers of the county. Of them more specific mention will be made in later paragraphs. Doctor and Mrs. Spratt became the parents of three children, of whom Robert T., of this review, is the eldest; Anna J. was married to Emery Miller, of Alliance, in 1905 and after his death in 1908 she lived at the home of her parents until the year 1918, when she married Rudolph Marchal of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and they now reside at Malvern; Irwin died at the age of twenty-five years.
Robert Thompson, father of Nancy (Thompson) Spratt, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1787, a son of William and Margry (McCamey) Thompson, and he was an infant at the time of the family immigration to the United States. After a tempestuous voyage of nine weeks the family arrived in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in August, 1789, and soon afterward the father purchased a farm near McKeesport, Westmoreland County. that state, where he remained until 1808. when he sold his farm and came to what is now Carroll County, where he became one of the earliest settlers in the present Brown Township. He reclaimed a considerable part of his land to cultivation and here continued to reside until his death in 1821, his widow passing away in 1829. They became the parents of three sons and four daughters—Robert, Brown, John, Margery, Elizabeth, Mary and Jane. All of the daughters married and all remained in Carroll County until their deaths except Margery, who died in Stark County. Of the sons, Brown and John died while serving as soldiers in the War of 1812. Robert, the surviving son, was born in County Tyrone. Ireland, in 1787, as before stated, and was reared to manhood in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, he having been about twenty-one years old when he accompanied his parents to Ohio. He assisted in the reclamation and development of the home farm, which came into his possession after the death of his parents. In 1818 he married Miss Sarah Downing, daughter of James and Sarah Downing, both of whom were of Scotch ancestry and who came from Virginia to Ohio in 1806, their home being established on a pioneer and em-
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bryonic farm in Sandy Township, Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Downing had seven children—James, Hugh, Adam, Drusilla, Susan, Margaret and Sarah. James Downing, Sr., was appointed by the Government to the office of captain of a body of Indian scouts, assigned to duty in pro- tecting the frontier and reporting the move- ments of hostile Indians. In this service he encountered numerous hardships and dangers, and in one conflict with the Indians he and his companions barely escaped capture and torture.
Robert Thompson continued to reside on his father's old homestead until he too was called to the life eternal, and he made the place one of the model farms of its day in Carroll County. He entered service and started for Detroit at the time of the War of 1812, but when General Hull surrendered the Michigan frontier city and garrison to the enemy Mr. Thompson and his comrades from Carroll county were dis- charged from the service. He was a Whig in politics, held various offices in his township, and he was one of the substantial and influential men of Carroll County, where he accumulated 1,000 acres of fine land. He was not formally identified with any religious organization, but attended and supported the Baptist Church, in which his wife held membership, besides which be contributed to the erection of the Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian Church buildings in the village of Malvern. His death occurred June 14, 1844, and he left his widow with seven children, of whom the eldest, James, was but sixteen years of age. A woman of self-reliance and resourcefulness, Mrs. Thompson, with the aid of the older sons, was able effectively to retain and manage the large farm estate, which remained intact until the youngest child he- came of age, when the property was amicably divided among the heirs, the mother retaining the old homestead, and there remaining until her death, April 28, 1882, when eighty-two years of age. Robert and Sarah (Downing) Thomp- son became the parents of eight children, the second child, who was the first son, having died in infancy. The names of the other children were Margery McCamey, Lavinia, James Down- ing, John, Nancy Ann (wife of Doctor Spratt), William Irvin and Arminta Vienna. All of the children remained in Carroll County, married and reared their children except Arminta, who removed with her husband to the state of Kansas.
Robert T. Spratt, the immediate subject of this sketch, continued his studies in the public schools until he had duly profited by the advantages of the Malvern High School, and there- after he was a student in turn at Scio College in Harrison County and the Duff Business Col- lege in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1889 he took a position as clerk in the hotel conducted by J. W. Burns in the city of Can- ton, Stark County, and later he formed a part- nership and became associated in the purchas- ing of a hotel at Lima, Allen County. There he remained five years, and thereafter he was identified with the hotel business at St. Louis, Missouri, about five years, after which he returned to his native county and engaged in the grocery business at Malvern. He continued this enterprise several years and on the 1st of May, 1914, he was appointed postmaster of the village, a position of which he has since continued the efficient incumbent. It is needless to say that Mr. Spratt is unflagging in his support of the cause of the democratic party, and that he has been active in its campaign service and councils in Carroll County. In 1912 he was a presidential elector on the party ticket, and had the distinction f drawing the luck card which authorized him to bear the Ohio electoral vote to the national capital on the occasion of the first election of President Wilson. He had been a delegate to the Democratic State Convention at Toledo, where he was made presidential elector from his district. Mr. Spratt is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Spratt is a member of the Catholic Church of Malvern, Ohio.
In 1902 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Spratt to Miss Mary E. Wall, of Chicago, Illinois, and they have two children living, Robert W. and Katharine Elizabeth. Virginia, the oldest, died when twelve years of age.
WILLIAM M. WALKER, deceased, was born In Nottingham Township, September 4, 1856, and was a son of Lorenzo D. and Eliza M. (Furney) Walker, the former of whom was born in Nottingham Township April 15, 1821, and the latter of whom was born at Cadiz, the county seat of Harrison County, on the 6th of July, 1823—dates that indicate that the respective families were founded in the county in the pioneer period of its history. Lorenzo D. Walker was a son of Robert and Ruth (Poulson) Walker, who were born in the state of Maryland and who became early settlers in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where they passed the remainder f their lives and where Mr. Walker reclaimed and developed a good farm, both he and his wife having been specially zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and their names meriting high place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Harrison County. They became the parents of four sons and one daughter—Wesley, Wilson, Nelson, Lorenzo D. and Nancy, who married John Davis, and all of the children are now deceased.
Lorenzo D. Walker passed his entire life in Nottingham Township, was one of its substantial farmers and representative citizens, and contributed his share to the civic and industrial progress of the county. He was sixty-one years of age at the time of his death, December 21. 1882, and his wife passed away on June 23, 1910, at the age of eighty-six years, their marriage having been solemnized October 28, 1840. Mrs. Walker was a daughter of Frederick and Deborah (Harris) Furney, both of whom were born in the state of Maryland, the former's father, Abraham Furney, having come to Harrison County in the early pioneer days and having become a large landholder in Cadiz Township, where he improved a farm and where he passed the remainder of his life. Frederick Furney likewise achieved prominent place as one of the successful farmers of Nottingham Township, where occurred the deaths
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of both himself and his wife when they were well advanced in years, Mrs. Furney having held membership in the Christian Church. They became the parents of seven children: Sophia, Mary Ann, Susan, Catherine, Alice, Eliza M. and John. Lorenzo D. and Eliza M. (Furney) Walker were earnest and valued members of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in Nottingham Township. They became the parents of four children: Mary A., who died October 30, 1920; Nancy E., who married John Forney and is deceased; Frederick W., who died August 17, 1920, first married Leah Randall and after her death he wedded for his second wife Mary Ellen; and William M., of this sketch, who died May 30, 1920.
William M. Walker attended the district schools of his native township and early began farming and stock growing. His entire active career was marked by close attention to the hasic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and he resided continuously in Nottingham Township from the time of his birth until his death. Here his farm enterprise was conducted with marked success on his fine farm of 232 acres, and this and an adjoining farm constituted his only place of residence from the time of his nativity to his death. In the live-stock department f his farm industry he gave special attention to the raising of sheep of excellent grade and type. He ever manifested a loyal support to measures advanced for the general good of the community, his political allegiance having been given to the republican party, and his wife was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her death occurred December 30, 1915.
February 7, 1886. recorded the marriage of Mr. Walker to Miss Ella C. Mallernee, daughter of David T. and Esther (Irons) Mallernee, and a representative of a well-known pioneer family of Harrison County, within whose borders she passed her entire life. Mr. and Mrs. Walker became the parents of two children: Frances C. married James A. Irons, who has the active management of the Walker farm; and Ernest R. resides in the city of Columbus, Ohio.
The only son, Ernest R. Walker, was one of Ohio's gallant young soldiers in the nation's service in connection with the great World war. He was enrolled on the 15th of May, 1918, and was thereafter in training at Paris Island until the 22d of the following July, when he was transferred to Quantico. Virginia. After two weeks of discipline at the latter place he sailed for France, August 12. 1918, on the United States marine transport "Henderson," from which he disembarked at Brest, France, on the 26th of that month. He was assigned to the Eighty-Fourth Company. Sixth Regiment, of the Sixth United States Marine Corps, and was with his command in action on the St. Mihiel front and also on the Champagne front. Thereafter he was with his organization on the Argonne- Meuse sector, and thence illness caused him to be sent to one of the French hospitals on the 28th of October. After his partial recuperation be remained in France until February 3, 1919, when he embarked on the steamship "Leviathan," which arrived in the port of the national
metropolis of the United States on the 11th of that month. Later he was honorably discharged at Quantico, Virginia. His record is one of effective service as a member of the American Marine Corps, which won high honors in the great conflict on foreign shores. On January 18, 1921, he received his medal, voted by Congress, for enlistment and good conduct while in service. He is at present circulation manager of the National Stockman and Farmer, of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania.
James A. Irons was born in Nottingham Township on June 30, 1887, the son of Jasper J. and Amanda J. (Poison) Irons. On August 2, 1917. he married Frances C. Walker.
PRESTON H. DICKERSON. A well known and successful farmer of Short Creek Township, Preston H. Dickerson materially assists in maintaining the reputation of Harrison County as a superior agricultural region, the results of his labors bearing evidence of the fertility of the soil and of the good judgment he exercises in his farming operations. A SOn of the late Thomas Hudson Dickerson, he was born March 19, 1869, in the township where he now resides, coming from pioneer ancestry.
Thomas Hudson Dickerson was born June 8, 1832, in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio, being a son of Hiram Dickerson. Reared to agricultural pursuits Thomas Hudson began farming on his own account in Short Creek Township, but later continued similarly employed for a time in Athens Township, Harrison County. Returning to Short Creek Township, he resumed his agricultural labors, and was there engaged in general farming until his death, March 31, 1883, while yet in manhood's prime. He married, March 23, 1854, Hannah McCoy, who was born January 31, 1834, and died October 3, 1907. Her father, Thomas McCoy. a son of John and Susanna McCoy, was born February 13, 1791, and married Hannah Walker, who was born August 7, 1794, a daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Major) Walker. Ten children were born of the union of Thomas and Hannah McCoy, as follows: Mary, born May 11, 1914; John, September 23, 1816; Margaret, February 2, 1819; Susanna, October 20, 1821; Elizabeth, February 26, 1824; Ebenezer, December 24, 1828; Thomas, March 19, 1829; Sarah, January 28, 1832 ; Hannah, January 31, 1834; and Gabriella, born October 6, 1836.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hudson Dickerson became the parents of ten children also, namely: Granville M., born March 9, 1855, died February 13, 1882; Ella M., born November 4, 1856; Mary Bell. born October 2, 1858; Cleora, whose birth occurred November 26, 1860, and her death in March, 1919; Ira E., born April 14, 1863, died January 12, 1864; Everett B., born January 28, 1865: Gilbert, born November 24, 1866; Preston H., the special subject of this brief sketch; Lillian, born April 11, 1871, died June 29, 1901; and Alfred, born February 19, 1874. The parents were both trustworthy members of the Dickerson Methodist Episcopal Church, and reared their children in the same religious faith.
Acquiring his early education in the rural schools of his native township, Preston H. Dick-
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erson began when young to perform his share of the manual labor incidental to farm life. Becoming familiar with the theory and practice of agriculture, he has made farming his life occupation. In 1911 he bought his present farm of sixty-six acres in Short Creek Township, and in its management has met with excellent success, being numbered among the more prosperous farmers and stock raisers of his community.
On February 9, 1898, Mr. Dickerson was united in marriage with Iva Grace Singer, a daughter of Albert and Cynthia (Shields) Singer. Active in public affairs, Mr. Dickerson served during four years as a trustee of Short Creek township, and for two years was president of the board. Both he and his wife are valued members of the Presbyterian Church at Adena.
JAMES E. WALLACE Washington County, Pennsylvania, has contributed a good many families to the population of Harrison County, Ohio, and James E. Wallace, of Athens Township, was born there February 7, 1891, a son of Beverage Wallace. His mother is Elizabeth (Richmond) Wallace. They were farmers in Pennsylvania until 1903, when they removed to Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio.
For five years Mr. Wallace farmed near Unionvale, when he sold the land and bought again in Cadiz Township, where he died January 4, 1912. He had two sons: James E. and Archie Joseph Wallace. Mrs. Wallace later became the wife of William Patterson, one of the commissioners of Harrison County, who lives near Jewett.
The Wallace boys went to school in Pennsylvania and in Ohio. Until his marriage, May 15, 1913, to Anna Watson, James E. Wallace had farmed the homestead in Cadiz Township. Mrs. Wallace is a daughter of Adam and Mary (Cobbs) Watson. After his marriage Mr. Wallace lived on a farm in Green Township until November, 1918, when he moved to the farm in Athens Township where he lives today. The farm is owned by Adam Watson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have two sons: Arthur and Russell. The family are members of Dickerson Methodist Episcopal Church, a rural church near them. Adam Watson, father of Mrs. Wallace, was born March 24, 1850, and is a native of Harrison County. He is a son of John W. Watson. He married Mary Ann Cobbs. a daughter of Dr. Charles Cobbs. For many years Mr. and Mrs. Watson lived on the farm, but when Mr. and Mrs. Wallace came to it they retired to New Athens.
WILLIAM I. STARR, of Green Township, had not lived in Harrison County until 1917, when he came from Wayne Township. Jefferson County. He was born July 24, 1844, and had always lived in one community. His father, William Starr, was a native of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the mother, Matilda (Her- ford) Starr was also born in Pennsylvania. William Starr was a pioneer in Jefferson County. He settled on a quarter section of timber land and reclaimed it, and always lived there. The farm is still owned by the Starr family. It so often happens that an old homestead passes out of the family ownership when there is a division necessary. The following children were born to William and Matilda Starr: John F., Eliza, Joseph, George, Mary Ann, Asenath, Matilda, Hannah, William I., and Louisa. The family are Baptists. They all had the common school advantages of the time, the district school .of Jefferson County.
As a young man W. I. Starr worked for his father and later farmed the home place himself. With the exception of two years he lived in Unionport he always lived at the old homestead. In 1917 he removed to Harrison County, locating on the farm in Green Township. However, he still owns the old homestead in Jefferson County.
In 1876 Mr. Starr married Sarah M. Cole. She is a daughter of John T. and Margaret Ann (Blackburn) Cole. Their oldest daughter, Louisa M., is the wife of Ira Stringer. Their other children are: Anna C., John T., Roscoe, George and Mary. John and Roscoe own a farm of 148 acres together. The family lives on it. Mrs. Starr belongs to the Presbyterian Church in Hopedale.
ELZY MCFADDEN is a representative of the fourth generation of the McFadden family in Harrison County and owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm in Cadiz Township that figures as the place of his nativity. Here he was born August 26, 1858, and on the same ancestral farmstead was born his father, Alexander J. McFadden, the date of his birth having been September 9, 1818, and his early experiences having been those of the pioneer farm in the midst of a semi-wilderness. He attended school in the old log schoolhouse in the vicinity of his home, and his first teacher. John Welch, later became a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Alexander McFadden was a son of Samuel and Mary (Milligan) McFadden, the former a native of County Cavan, Ireland, and the latter of Adams County, Pennsylvania. Samuel McFadden was a son of Joseph McFadden and was eight years of age at the time of the family immigration from the Emerald Isle to America, Joseph McFadden having first engaged in farming near Middletown, Pennsylvania, and eventually he came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, and obtained land in the present township of Cadiz, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives.
Samuel McFadden secured eighty acres of land near Cassville, Harrison County, but within a short time purchased 160 acres in Cadiz Township—the farm now owned by his grandson Elzy McFadden. of this review. He made this one of the productive farms of the county and here he remained until his death, on the eighty-fourth anniversary of his birth. He died in 1870, his wife having passed away at the age of sixty-seven years. Samuel McFadden erected on his farm one of the first brick houses in Cadiz Township, and he was one of the substantial citizens and honored pioneers of the county at the time of his death. He and his wife were
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devout members of the United Presbyterian Church, in which he served as an elder for many years. Of their six children Jane became the wife of James Love, of Archer Township; Elizabeth married John Mehollin and likewise remained in Harrison County until her death; Alexander J. was the father of the subject of this review; and Mary, George and Joseph died in earlier life than did the other three children.
Alexander J. McFadden continued to reside on the old homestead farm—the place of his birth—until the close of his long and useful life, and was a man who commanded unqualified popular esteem. June 29, 1846, recorded his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Barger, daughter of the late Valentine Barger, another of the sterling pioneers of Cadiz Township, and within a short time after their marriage they moved into the new house which he had built on the home farm and in which they passed the gracious evenings of their lives, though for a few years they resided in the village of Cadiz. Both were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. McFadden passed to the life eternal in 1905, his loved wife having preceded him in death. They became the parents of four children: Joseph, who died when young; Mary Jane, who has never married and resides in Cadiz; Martha A., who became the wife of J. Law McFadden and now resides at Cadiz, her husband being deceased; and Elzy, whose mama initiates this sketch. The father was originally a whig and later a republican in politics, his first presidential vote having been cast, for Gen. William Henry Harrison.
Elzy McFadden is indebted to the district schools of Cadiz Township for his early educational training, and on the old home farm he early gained practical knowledge of the most approved methods of agriculture and stock- growing. It is a source of enduring satisfaction to him that he retains as his home the old farm, which is endeared to him by many gracious memoirs, and here he has made an admirable record in his independent activities as an agriculturist and stockraiser. His landed estate now comprises 277 acres of the valuable land of Cadiz Township, and here he gave special attention for fully a quarter of a century to the breeding and raising of the finest type of American merino sheep, his exhibition of sheep at the county fairs having gained many premiums. He has not been engaged in the raising of this pure- blood type of sheep during the past several years, the farm being given more specifically to diversified agriculture at the present time. Mr. McFadden is liberal and progressive as a citizen, is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
On May 17, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McFadden to Miss Elizabeth Jamison, who was born and reared in Cadiz Township, a daughter of William and Sarah Jamison. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden have two children, Rhetta, the wife of Alexander W. Kirkpatrick. of New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, and they have two sons, Edwin Elliott and Dale
Sherwin; and Mabel Jeanette, the wife of Robert E. McDowell, of Ashtabula. Ohio, now residing in Cleveland.
JOSEPH R. PATTON is one of the progressive representatives of farm industry in his native township and is a member of an old and honored family of Harrison County. He was born in Rumley Township, this county, on the 23d of November, 1860, the place of his nativity having been the farm now owned by Sampson Shearer. He is a son of Robert T. and Elizabeth (Markley) Patton, the former of who was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Daniel and Katherine (Everhart) Markley. Mrs. Katherine Markley was a daughter of John Everhart, and the family name of her mother was Miller. Her maternal grandfather enlisted at Woodstock, Virginia, for service in the war of the Revolution. Rev. Peter Muhlenburg, while preaching from his pulpit one Sunday morning finally threw aside his clerical vestments and called for volunteers to serve in the revolutionary army, and Miller was one of those who responded to this vigorous call of patriotism, and he served in the command of General George Washington. Daniel Markley was a son of Mathias and Catherine (Arnold) Markley, who were born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1806. Mr. Markley became one of the earliest settlers in German Township, where he obtained 320 acres of Government land and began reclaiming a farm from the forest wilds. He eventually removed to Holmes County, where his death occurred about the year 1845. His son Daniel was born at Glade, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and was about ten years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, Ohio, where he was reared to manhood on the frontier farm in German Township. In 1823 he took possession of eighty acres of Government land in Rumley Township, and there he developed the productive farm which continued his place of residence until his death in 1842, as a result of injuries received while he was assisting in the raising of a barn on his farm. His wife survived him by a number of years, both having been communicants of the Lutheran Church. They had seven children—David, John, Mary, Eva Anna, Mathias, Sarah and Elizabeth.
Joseph and Anna (Gallaway) Patton, paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized. About the year 1830, with team and wagon, Joseph Patton came with his wife and their five children from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County, Ohio, where he established a home on a farm in Rumley Township. There he continued as a substantial farmer during practically the remainder of his active career, but the last few years of his life were spent in German Township. He and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. Their children were six in number—John W., Robert T., Mary, Samuel G., Nancy and Ross Joseph. Joseph Patton was
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a son of John and Patsie (Woodrow) Patton, who were born in Ireland and who became pioneer settlers in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Robert T. Patton was a lad of about ten years at the time when the family home was established in Harrison County, and he was reared and educated in Rumley Township, where he continued his alliance with farm enterprise until about the year 1892, when he removed to Jefferson County and engaged in the operation of a saw mill. He there remained until his death, which occurred in 1908, and his widow died December 26, 1920. Of the two children Joseph R., of this review is the elder. Robert J., a resident of Jefferson County, married Miss Lillie Wood, and they have three children— Clarence S., Jesse Earl and Harry.
The "Possum Hollow" School in district No. 4, Rumley Township, afforded Joseph R. Patton his early educational advantages, and in this township he continued his association with the work of the home farm until his marriage in 1886. Thereafter he here devoted five years to the operation of the farm of his father-in-law, and during the ensuing five years was engaged in lumbering enterprise in Jefferson and Carroll counties. In 1905 he returned to Rumley township and located on the farm which has since continued the stage of his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower and which comprises 142 acres. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church at Germano.
On the 28th of December, 1886, Mr. Patton wedded Miss Ellen N. Sawvel, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Ann (Slates) Sawvel, of Rumley Township, and of this union have been born five children: Carl E. S., who now resides in the City of Canton, Stark County, married Miss Margaret Spence and they have one son, Walter S.; John L., who is associated with his father in the management of the home farm, married Mrs. Ethel Turner, and they have one child, Marie; Vera B. died at the age of sixteen years; and Nina and Frederick died in early childhood.
WILLIAM B. LAW, JR., has developed in the village of Bowerston, Harrison county, a substantial insurance business, in connection with, which he gives special attention to the handling of high-grade securities, as local representative of the well known Giger & Jones Company of Canton, Stark County. Aside from his personal standing as one of the representative citizens and business men of Bowerston, Mr. Law has the distinction of being a scion of an old and honored pioneer family whose name has been identified with the history of Harrison County for nearly a century. The genealogy traces back to John Law, who was born and reared in Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, and who became a physician, school teacher and civil engineer in his native land. In Ireland was solemnized the marriage of John Law to Miss Elizabeth Lynn, and they became the parents of two sons and seven daughters, the son Matthew, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, having been about twenty years of age when he accompanied his parents and the other children of the family to America. It was in the year 1826 that John Law arrived with his family in Harrison County, Ohio, where he took up 360 acres of Government land in Monroe Township, and instituted the development of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds. With the aid of his two sons he gradually extended the area of cultivated land about the pioneer log house, the while his high intellectuality and progressive ideas made him a leader in community affairs. This sterling pioneer was ninety-four years of age at the time of his death in June, 1862, and his widow passed away in the spring of 1864, in her eightieth year, the names of both meriting enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Harrison County.
Matthew Law was born in Ireland in 1806, and was a young man of vigor and high purpose when he came with his parents to the pioneer home in Harrison County, where he did effective service in the clearing and developing of the frontier farm. He continued his active association with farm enterprise in Monroe Township until the close of his life. March 31, 1836, recorded his marriage to Miss Rebecca Birney, a member of one of the prominent pioneer families of Green Township, this county, and they settled on the old homestead farm of his father. They became the parents of four children : John, father of the subject of this sketch; William B., who became a representative farmer in North Township, as did also Robert B.; and Jane, who died in infancy. The loved wife and mother passed to the life eternal in October, 1868, at the age of forty-eight years, and Matthew Law passed the closing years of his life in the home of his son Robert B., where he died on the 9th of September, 1878, both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Law was a man of influence in community affairs, and was called upon to serve in various local offices of public trust.
John Law was born on the ancestral homestead farm in Monroe Township, and the date of his nativity was August 26, 1837. His early education was obtained in the pioneer schools, and with the passing years unqualified success attended his well ordered activities as a representative of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native township, where he still remains on his fine farm estate of more than eighty acres and where he is held in high honor as one of the venerable native sons of Harrison County. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with Centennial Lodge No. 94, Knights of Pythias, of Bowerston, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his devoted wife, who passed away on the 18th of November, 1902.
On the 26th of February, 1862, was solemnized the marriage of John Law to Miss Sarah Jane Trimble, who was born in Monroe Township and who was a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Evens) Trimble, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio, where the respective families settled in the early pioneer days. Robert Trimble came to Harrison County about the year 1833, took up Government land in Monroe
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Township, and there developed the farm on which he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Law became the parents of four children: Robert Elmer, whose death occurred in 1913, is survived by his widow, whose maiden name was Laura McDevitt; Forbes J. married Miss Sadie Palmer and they reside at Scio, Harrison County; William B. is the immediate subject of this review; and Matthew, who is still a bachelor, remains with his venerable father on the old home farm.
William B. Law found the period of his childhood and early youth compassed by the influences of the home farm and a,fter having availed himself of the advantages of the district schools of Monroe Township, where he was born on the 26th of November, 1866, he was for two years a student at Hagerstown Academy. Thereafter he continued his association with the work and management of his father's farm until August 1, 1893, when he established his residence at Bowerstown and purchased a well established general insurance business previously conducted by S. S. Foutz. He has continued this business during the intervening years, has greatly extended its scope and importance and is known as one of the representative insurance underwriters in his native county, besides which, as previously noted, he gives attention to the handling of approved securities of the better grade. Mr. Law gives his support to the cause of the democratic party and is essentially a broad-gauged and progressive citizen. He served four years as treasurer of Monroe Township, two years as township clerk, and several terms as a member of the village council of Bowerston. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bowers- ton, and his wife is a communicant of the Lutheran Church, in the faith of which she was reared.
Christmas day of the year 1903 was marked by the marriage ceremony that united the life destinies of Mr. Law and Miss Maude A. Arbaugh. Mrs. Law likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and is a daughter of William and Emily Arbaugh. Mr. and Mrs. Law have one child, Helen J., who was born March 19, 1908.
SAMUEL G. SHOTWELL, whose death occurred at his home in Carrollton June 11, 1919, passed the major portion of his life in Carroll County, where he not only became the owner of a valuable farm property but also followed the carpenter's trade as a contractor and builder for a term of years. His influence in the community was that of a broad-minded, loyal and upright citizen, and he commanded the unqualified esteem and confidence of his fellow men.
Mr. Shotwell was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. August 23. 1848, and was a son of Jacob and Mary (Carlyle) Shotwell, who were early settlers in that county. whence they finally came to Carroll County. where they passed the remainder of their lives. The father was a stonemason by trade. but the greater part of his career was marked with close association with farm enterprise. He was a republican in politics and served a number of years as justice of the peace in Carroll County. His death occurred in 1887, and his wife passed away in 1882.
Samuel G. Shotwell found the period of his childhood and early youth compassed by the influence and activities of the home farm, and after having profited duly by the advantages of the common schools he learned the trade of carpenter, in which he became a skilled artisan. He became the owner f a valuable farm in Union Township,. Carroll County, and there he continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower until 1905, when he sold the property and removed to Carrollton. Here he erected a modern and specially attractive residence on Lisbon Street, where he lived virtually retired until his death and where his widow still maintains her home. Mr. Shotwell took a lively interest in public affairs, especially in his home community, was a republican in politics and served two terms as county commissioner. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his wife.
On the 13th of December, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shotwell to Miss Angeline Hanlin, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Grant and Sarah (Fink) Hanlin, both likewise natives of that county. The father was a miller by trade but devoted the greater part of his active life to farm industry. He died in 1913, at the patriarchal age of ninety years, and his widow passed to the life eternal in 1915, aged eighty- eight years, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the republican party. Mr. Hanlin was a son of Alexander Hanlin, who was a pioneer farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he remained until. his death. Grant Hanlin was next to the youngest son in a family of mne sons and one daughter. Alexander Hanlin was born in Ireland, as was also his wife. whose maiden name was Elizabeth Scott, the family name of whose mother was Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Shotwell became the parents of five children. concerning whom brief record is given in conclusion of this memoir: Harry died in infancy. Frank H. continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation from the high school at Carrollton, and he is now employed in the office of American Railway Express at Massillon, Stark County. In 1917 he entered the nation's military service, and after being for a time at Camp Sherman. Ohio, he was assigned to duty at Fort. Bliss. Texas, where he remained until the close of the World war. when he received his honorable discharge. Grant Scott Shotwell was graduated from the Carrollton High School. and when the nation became involved in the late World war he entered service at Camp Sherman, where he received his preliminary training. He later went to France. where he served as draftsman in the department of the head quartermaster of the American Expeditionary Forces, where he remained until after the signing of the historic armistice. He returned to his old posi-
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tion as draftsman in the City of Canton, Ohio. Samuel, likewise a graduate of the Carrollton High School, is now express agent at Carrollton. Mary Florence graduated with the class of 1920 in the Carrollton High School and is now in the telephone office at Carrollton.
JOSEPH G. LYLE was born on the farm which is the stage of his present activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was April 15, 1884. He is a son of George L. and Nancy J. (Gillespie) Lyle, and of them adequate mention is made on other pages, in the sketch of their son Robert H., who resides on a farm adjoining that of his brother Joseph G., of this review.
After having profited by the advantages f the public schools of his native county Joseph G. Lyle was for one year a student in the University of Ohio. Since the death of his father he has been actively engaged in farming on the old homestead. of which he is now the owner, as he purchased in the spring of 1919 the interests of the other heirs in this well improved and productive tract f 107 acres. his effective management of which marks him as one of the progressive young agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county. Since 1917 he has given special attention to the raising of registered Shorthorn cattle, of which he is a successful breeder. His prominence and enterprise in this field of farm industry is indicated by the fact that he is serving in 1921 as secretary of the Shorthorn Breeders' Association of Harrison County. He is a democrat in politics and is a valued member of the township board of education. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.
December 5, 1912, recorder the marriage of Mr. Lyle to Miss Frances B. Clark, daughter of William E. Clark, of St. Clairsville, Belmont County, and the three children of this union are Mary Frances, George Bruce and Helen
Gall.
ANDREW J. CLIFFORD is the owner of a large and valuable landed estate in his native county and is a substantial and progressive representative of farm industry. He was born in Green Township, Harrison County, Novemher 20, 1858. and in this township he is now the owner of the fine old homestead farm on which he was born, the same comprising 242 acres. He resides, however, on his well improved farm of 180 acres in Short Creek Township.
John Clifford, father of him whose name initiates this review, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, August 12, 1816, a son of John and Mary (Byas) Clifford, the father having been a farmer in the Emerald Isle, where he died in the year 1822, leaving five children--Margaret, Edward, John. Jr., Esther and Mary. Edward and Esther came to America in 1839, and in 1841 the widowed mother and the other children likewise came to this country and established their home in Harrison County, Ohio, where the son Edward had previously located, he being the subject of an individual record on other pages f this volume. The loved mother passed the closing years of her life in the home f her son John, whose filial devotion was unstinted, and she passed to the life eternal March 4, 1864. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, as was also her husband.
John Clifford, Jr., was reared and educated in his native land and was about twenty-five years of age when he came to the United States and engaged in farm enterprise in the vicinity of Cadiz, Harrison County. A man of sterling character and marked energy and business acumen, he accumulated and developed one of the valuable landed properties of Harrison County, the same having comprised 347 acres—partly in Green Township and partly in Short Creek Township. He made the best of improvements on his farm, including the erection of a commodious brick house f two stories, and he continued as one of the honored and influential exponents of farm industry in this county until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-three years. He was a democrat in politics and served several years in the offrce of township trustee of Green Township. He held membership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, as did also both his first and second wives.
December 29, 1852. recorded the marriage of Mr. Clifford to Miss Mary Ann Jamison, daughter of Andrew Jamison, a prominent citizen of Cadiz. and she passed to eternal rest on the 2d of September, 1863. Concerning the children of this union the following brief data are available: Mary, who was born March 24, 1855, died July 27, 1875; Edward, who was born December 16, 1856, is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Andrew J., subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; John Richey, who was born February 17, 1860, died September 2, 1863, on the same day as did his mother; and Sarah Jane, who was born June 4, 1861, died on the 4th of September, 1863, there having thus been three deaths in the family circle in a single month. In 1866 Mr. Clifford was united in marriage to Miss Anna Crosky, a daughter of the late William Crosky, of Green Township, and they became the parents of two children—Anna, born August 17, 1867, and William, born June 4, 1871. Mrs. Anna (Crosky) Clifford was about seventy-eight years of age at the time of her death.
Andrew J. Clifford was reared under the benignant discipline of the home farm and gained his youthful education in the district schools. He has been continuously associated with agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county from his boyhood to the present time. and is known as one of the specially progressive and successful farmers of the county. His marriage occurred in 1891, and he has since been actively engaged in farm enterprise in Short Creek Township, where he gives considerable attention to the breeding of registered Shorthorn cattle and Percheron horses. He also gives his supervision to his valuable farm property in Green Township, this being a part of the fine landed estate accumulated by his honored father. He is a democrat in his political allegiance, has served as trustee of Short Creek
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Township, and is loyal and liberal in support of measures tending to advance the general welfare of the community. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
In 1891 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Clifford to Miss Elizabeth M. Moorehead, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and they have three children—Anna Virginia, John M. and Mary Hilda. Mrs. Clifford is a daughter of Morrison and Jane (Osburn) Moorehead, the former of whom was born in Green Township, this county, September 7, 1838, and the latter was born in Archer Township April 26, 1842, a daughter of Samuel Osburn. The parents of
Morrison Moorehead were Samuel and Sarah (Holmes) Moorehead, both natives of the State of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in Adams County in 1796, and the latter in Washington County, a daughter of William Holmes. Samuel Moorehead and his father, John, were numbered among the very early settlers in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where the father passed the remainder of his life. Samuel became one of the substantial farmers of the county and was influential in public affairs in the early days. He served as one of the associate judges of the county court and was familiarly known as Judge Moorehead. He likewise served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and he and his wife were venerable pioneer citizens of the county at the time of their deaths, both having been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of five children—Holmes, Eliza (Mrs. Samuel Gray), Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Thompson), John and Morrison.
Morrison Moorehead acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Archer Township, and there his marriage occurred. In 1871 he removed to the farm now operated by his son Laverne A. in Green Township, where he continued his activities as one of the representative farmers of the county until 1900. He then retired and moved to Cadiz, where he remained until his death, April 30, 1918, his widow still maintaining her home in that city. Mr. Moorehead was in the 100-days' service in the Civil war, as a member of the One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
THOMAS S. WOOD. North Township, Harrison County, credits Mr. Wood with heing one of its progressive farmers and sterling citizens, and he has resided on his present farm of 100 acres since the spring of 1917. Since the property has come into his possession he has employed the vigorous methods and enterprising policies which make for success in both agricultural and live-stock industry. He became a resident of this county in 1904, and from that year until he purchased his present farm, a period of thirteen years, he was associated in partnership with his brother-in-law, George L. Poulson, in the operation of a dairy farm in North Township.
Thomas S. Wood was born in Goshen Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 24th of
March, 1876, and is a son of Mahlon and Rebecca (Turner) Wood, both of whom were born and reared in Belmont County, where they passed their entire lives and where the father was one of the representative farmers of Goshen Township at the time of his death, in December, 1916, his widow passing away in the following years and both having been earnest members of the Christian Church. They are survived by eight children—Emma, Belle, Anna, Hattie, Frederick, Thomas S., Elsie and Azora. William and Rebecca Wood, paternal grandparents, and William and Martha Turner, maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were honored pioneer citizens of Belmont County at the time of their deaths.
The schools of his native township afforded to Thomas S. Wood his early educational discipline, and in the meanwhile 1 e gained valuable experience in connection with the activities of the home farm, with the management of which he continued his association five years after his marriage. Thereafter he rented a farm in his native county and gave his attention to its operations until 1904, when he came to North Township, Harrison County, and became associated with George L. Poulson in dairy farming, as previously noted in this context. He is loyal to all the duties and responsibilities of civic life. He and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.
On the 21st of June, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wood to Miss Emma Bolon, daughter of Alexander and Alice Bolon, of Belmont County. and of the five children of this union the first born, Clovis V., died in 1917, at the age of eighteen years. The surviving children are Hubert W., Dora M., Chester S. and Thelma Margaret.
JAMES J. HATHAWAY, M. D. It has been specially gratifying to accord in this publication specific recognition to so appreciable a number of the representative physicians and surgeons of Carroll and Harrison counties, and of the number Doctor Hathaway, who is established in successful general practice at Carrollton, is well entitled to such consideration.
Doctor Hathaway was born at Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, June 24, 1871, and is a son of Rev. Daniel Elijah and Mary (Reeves) Hathaway, the former of whom was born at Wilson, Niagara County. New York, in 1836, and the latter was born at Newark, that state, in 1835, their marriage having been solemmzed at the home of the bride's parents, James H. and Cornelia (Adams) Reeves, of Newark. Mrs. Cornelia (Adams) Reeves was a member of the historic old Adams family of Massachusetts which gave two presidents to the United States—John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Three brothers of the Adams family left Massachusetts in an early day and made their way on foot to Wayne County, New York, many of their descendants being still found in the old Empire state, where annual reunions of the family are held.
Alfred J. Hathaway, paternal grandfather of Doctor Hathaway, was born at Wilson, Niagara County, New York, and there was solemnized
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his marriage to Miss Pauline Jeffrey. In 1845 they removed to Michigan and Mr. Hathaway became a pioneer farmer near the present City of Battle Creek, Calhoun County, that state, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Alfred J. Hathaway was a son of Col. Elijah Hathaway, who served as a colonel in the War of 1812 and who became a pioneer settler in Niagara County, New York, which continued his place of residence until the close of his life.
Rev. Daniel E. Hathaway gained his preliminary education in the common schools of Michigan and later completed a course of study at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, after which he attended the Congregational Theological Seminary maintained in connection with that institution and was there graduated in 1868, in which year he was ordained a clergyman f the Congregational Church. Prior to this, while a student at Oberlin, in 1864, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, for a term of ninety days. He became a member of Company K, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command the continued in active service until the expiration of his term of service, about the time f the close of the war, and he then resumed his studies at Oberlin College. As a clergyman he held numerous pastoral charges within the long period of his zealous and devoted service, his ministerial work having included service in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas and Nebraska. He was a resident of Crete, Nebraska, at the time of his death in 1888, his wife having passed to the life eternal in 1877, at Russell, Kansas. They became the parents of two sons, of whom Doctor Hathaway, of this review, is the elder. Roy Andrew, the younger son, became a skilled machinist, and he passed the closing days of his life in the home of his brother at Carrollton, where he died in 1905, at the age of thirty-one years.
Doctor Hathaway was a child at the time f his parents' removal to the West, and he gained his early education principally in the schools of Nehraska. At Crete, that state, he took a higher academic course in Doane College, maintamed under the auspices of the Congregational Church, and in preparation for his chosen profession he returned to Ohio and entered the medical department of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was engaged in practice in Cleveland about one year, and he then, in 1903, came to Carrollton, where he has since continued in the successful work of his profession, with a large and representative practice. He owns and occupies the fine old homestead of Judge Raley on Southeast Third Street, this having been the residence of Judge Raley and his wife until their deaths. Doctor Hathaway served five years as county coroner and at the time of this writing, in 1920, is the incumbent of the office of county health officer. He is a popular and representative member of the Carroll County Medical Society and is actively identified also with the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity in his home city, and here he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
On the 4th of February, 1896, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Hathaway to Miss Isabel K. Soverhill, who was born in Wayne County, New York, near the ancestral home of the Hathaway family, and who is a popular factor in the social activities of her home community. Doctor and Mrs. Hathaway have two children: Daniel J., who was born in 1901, was• graduated from the Carrollton High School and is now identified with the automobile business in his native city; and Mabel Naomi, who was born in 1905, is a member of the class of 1923 in the Carrollton High School.
BENJAMIN H. JOHNSON passed his entire life in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and on his fine old homestead farm, a part of the land obtained from the Government by his paternal grandfather, he passed the closing years of his long, useful and worthy life,—a citizen of sterling character and one who commanded unqualified popular confidence and esteem. Mr. Johnson was born in Nottingham Township on the 31st of January, 1830, and here his death occurred on the 20th of June, 1915. He was a son of Abiram and Lydia (Turner) Johnson, his father having been born in the State of Maryland in 1792, and having been a son of Benjamin and Drusilla (Perrin) Johnson, both likewise natives of Maryland. In 1806, when his son Abiram was four years of age, Benjamin Johnson migrated from Maryland to Ohio and became one of the very early settlers in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where he took up Government land and began the reclaiming of the same. He was one of the resourceful pioneers who aided in the initial development of Harrison County, and here he continued as a pioneer farmer until his death, both he and his wife having attained to advanced age. The farm which is now the home of Mrs. Benjamin H. Johnson was a part of this original tract secured by Benjamin Johnson, the founder of the family in Harrison County. In the family of Benjamin Johnson there were, besides the son Abiram, seven children—Joseph, Lemuel, Ephraim, Enoch, Benjamin, Dorcas and Bathsheba.
Abiram Johnson was reared under the conditions of the early pioneer period of Harrison County history, learned in his youth the trade of gunsmith, but continued his association with agricultural enterprise in Nottingham Township during virtually his entire active life, both he and his wife having remained on their old homestead farm until their deaths, when venerable in years. Both were earnest members of the Christian Church at Minksville. They became the parents of fourteen children, namely : Abraham, Joel M., Lemuel, Perrin, Abiram, Benjamin H., Robert C., George L., Gailand (died in early childhood), Anna, Lydia, Ellen, Drusilla and Elizabeth.
Benjamin H. Johnson was reared on the old home farm which continued his place of resi-
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dense until his death, and his early education was acquired in the common schools of the locality. His old home farm, comprising 186 acres, washy him made a center of vigorous and successful agricultural and live-stock industry, and in his character and achievement he honored alike his native county and the family name. He was loyal to all civic duties and responsibilities, generous and kindly in his association with his fellow men, and punctilious in his personal stewardship in all of the relations of life. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and he held membership in the Christian Church at Minks- Tulle, as does also his widow, who still remains on the home farm.
In May, 1856, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Johnson to Miss Martha Welsh, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of the late. James C. and Martha (Siemens) Welsh. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson became the parents of eleven children : Emma Frances; Abiram W., who died in June, 1919, and who was an elder in the Christian Church for a number of years: Jane Estella, wife of Taylor F. Cope, of whom individual mention is made in this volume; James C. Lizzie Louella, wife of A. Oscar Rose, who likewise is a subject of a personal sketch in this work; George C., a minister in the Christian Church; Laura B.; Martha M.; Drusilla V., who was educated, like her brothers, for the ministry and has frequently filled pulpits in the Christian Church; Lucy L., and Benjamin S., a minister in the Christian Church.
FRANCIS F. HAMILTON. The family name of Hamilton, through whom Francis F. Hamilton, clerk of courts of Harrison County, Ohio, is descended, has long been in the annals of the community. There is Irish and Scotch in the ancestry, Francis H. Hamilton, the Irish immigrant who planted the family tree in America, having been a weaver in Ireland. When he came to the United States early in the nineteenth century he located at Noblestown, Pennsylvania. He was an early day merchant in Cannonsburg and Mercer and accumulated considerable property. In 1806 he married Ruth Williams, and Samuel D. Hamilton, the grandfather of Francis F. Hamilton, was one of ten children born to them. The founder of the American branch of the Hamilton family was a Jacksonian democrat, and later he was a whig. Although an immigrant, he was a United States soldier in the War of 1812, and was a loyal American.
It was in 1820 that Francis H. Hamilton removed from Mercer to Cadiz, Ohio, and here Samuel D. Hamilton was born and lived all of his life in Harrison County, Ohio. The The Hamilton family were Presbyterians. When Samuel D. Hamilton was .a boy thirteen years old he was apprenticed to learn the shoemaker trade, serving six years, although it was not a case of "shoemaker stick to thy last," as he engaged in the grocery trade and was one of the early merchants of Cadiz. He was one of the best known men in Harrison County, Ohio. His children were Samuel D., Henry and
Elosia, and after the death of his first wife he married Bridget Downey, and there is another daughter, Emma. Bridget Downey came from Ireland.
Samuel D. Hamilton, Jr., married Lydia Mariah Webster, of Jefferson County, Ohio. Her father. Naylor Webster, came from Chester County. Pennsylvania, to Jefferson County, Ohio. He settled on a farm near Mt. Pleasant, and the Webster School was named in his honor. He always lived there. Samuel D. Hamilton, Jr.. and wife lived in Cadiz for six years. They moved to Harrisville, Ohio, in 1882. Samuel D. Hamilton, Jr.. died there November 7, 1916. His children are Harry W., George A.. Francis F.. Maude A. and Julia Isabel. The Hamilton children are all graduates of the Harrisville Public High School. George A. also attended Mount Union College and Francis F. attended Franklin College.
Francis F. Hamilton began business activities by knapping limestone, and later became a road builder, and continued in that line for five years. His father and two brothers were associated with him.
For two years he was a bookkeeper, and then he became a school teacher, continuing thirteen years in that capacity, and in November, 1918, was elected clerk f courts of Harrison County, Ohio. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Knights of Pythias Lodges.
On October 18, 1919, he married Mrs. Maud Sanderson Gerke. of Rayland, Ohio, R. F. D. No. 3. She had three daughters, Gladys, Lola and Mildred. They moved to Cadiz, Ohio, April 3, 1920, and the girls are attending the Cadiz Public School. Mrs. Maud Sanderson Gerke Hamilton was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Sanderson, of Tiltonville, Ohio, Jefferson County.
The following are the surviving members of the Francis H. Hamilton family tree in America : Francis F., of Cadiz. Ohio; Harry W., George A., Maud A. and their mother, Lydia Mariah, of Rayland, Ohio, R. F. D. No. 3; Julia I., of Steubenville, Ohio. Julia I. married Attorney Fred M. Coleman, of Steubenville. Ohio. They have one son, Myron.
George A. married Mrs. Louisa Chambers, of Rayland, Ohio, R. F. D. No. 3. They have one daughter, Ruth Chambers, and a son, George Samuel Hamilton.
Ida Brown Alexander has two daughters, Jean and Frances, of Cadiz, Ohio.
Francis F., Harry W., George A., Maud A. and Julia Isabel Hamilton and Jean and Frances Alexander were teachers and educators. Harry. W. Hamilton is one of the best mathematicians in Ohio.
Frances and Jean Alexander are exceptionally intellectual educators and have state life certificates. The Hamiltons are Methodist Episcopals. Harry W. and George A. are progressive farmers.
CRAIG W. WARREN. The results incidental to the progress of the great World war again showed, with significant emphasis, to how great a degree all humanity depends upon the activities of the farmer, and never before has
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there been so definite an appreciation of the important industrial status of the agriculturist and stock-grower. Of these great basic lines f industrial enterprise Mr. Warren is a successful representative in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and he has spared no effort in bringing up to the highest standard the general productiveness of his farm during the war period and the later days that have shown great demands for the maximum energies of the loyal and patriotic farmer.
Mr. Warren was born in Green Township, this county, on the 31st of January, 1871, and is a son f James and Elizabeth (Havnar) Warren, both likewise natives of Harrison County and the latter a daughter f Joseph and Rebecca (Mitchell) Havnar. Joseph Havnar was born in Monroe Township, this county, a son of Dominic Havnar, who was one of the pioneer settlers of that township and who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. Joseph Havnar, who was a carpenter by trade but who also became active in farm enterprise, was a resident of Cadiz Township at the time of his death, as was also his wife, and both were active members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of the following children: Elizabeth. Mary Ann, Laura, Frances (died young), Missouri, William and James (died in infancy ) .
James Warren was born in Green Township, this county, a son of James and Eliza Jane (Emfield) Warren, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Harrison County, Ohio. James Warren, Sr., became a successful physician and surgeon, and was engaged in the practice of his profession in Pennsylvania prior to becoming a pioneer physician in Jefferson County, Ohio. Later he returned to Pennsylvania and spent the remainder f his life there. Eliza Jane Emfield. grandmother of Craig Warren. was born in Harrison County in 1826, the daughter f John Emfield, a pioneer of Harrison County. Not long after her marriage her husband left her and returned to Pennsylvania. leaving her to rear their only child. James. She lived the remainder of her long :md useful career in this county, making her home with her son after he had married until her death in 1902. Their son James was reared to manhood in Green Township, and made good use of the advantages offered in the district schools of the period. As a boy he began working on neighboring farms, and he continued his service in this line sixteen years. during which he carefully conserved his earnings and looked forward to the time when he might initiate independent farm industry. He finally rented farm land on shares in his native township, where he continued operations under this plan for a period of sixteen years. He then purchased a farm of 212 acres in Cadiz Township. and here he remained as one of the broad- gauged and substantial farmers and sterling citizens of his native county until his death in 1918. his wife having passed away in 1902. In later years Mr. Warren became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his wife having been a member of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven children:
Craig W., Clara, the wife of Wilmer C. Edwards, of Cadiz Township; Carrie, wife of Homer H. Heaston; Laura and John, twins, the latter f whom died at the age of twenty-one years; Clyde E., who married Ella Holmes; and Harry H., who married Martha Dickerson.
Craig W. Warren acquired his early education principally in the Beaver Dam District School in Franklin Township, and from his youth to the present time he has been actively identified with farm industry in his native county. In 1913 he established his home on his present farm, which comprises 166 acres and is one of the well improved places of Short Creek Township, and in addition to this he owns also a tract of forty-three acres in Cadiz Township. He is a progressive agriculturist and stock-raiser and has made a dairy department of his farm enterprise one of successful and important order. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Georgetown.
On the 9th of November, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Warren to Miss Mary Jane Baker. daughter of Orr and Elizabeth (Heaston) Baker, and of this union have been born two sons, whose names and dates of nativity are here noted: Ralph Raymond, January 11, 1899. and John Orr, November 10, 1903, both on the home farm. Ralph R. married Lillian May Tedrow, who was born in Harrison County, the daughter of George F, and Elva S. (Blackwell) Tedrow. The mother died on June 10, 1920.
Mrs. Warren's parents were both born in Monroe Township of Harrison County. Her grandfather was named Samuel Baker. Orr Baker spent all his life on the farm where he was born, owned 160 acres, and was successfully identified with general farming and stock raising. He was born July 27. 1839, and died January 20, 1904: and his widow is still living. She was born July 3;1844. Both were actively identified with the Methodist Church in their vicinity. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Orr Baker were: Addle. widow of William Harrison; Mmls. Craig Warren; Samuel S.; Anson Ross. who died in childhood; and Margaret Ann. who died at the age of thirteen.
A. OSCAR ROSE has through his own efforts worked his way upward to a plane of distinctive success and prosperity in connection with farm industry in his native county, and since 1903 he has owned and resided upon his present excellent farm of eighty acres in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where he exemplifies modern and progressive methods in both agricultural and live-stock industry. He has been loyal in support of measures and projects that have tended to advance the best interests of the community, is a republican in political adherency, and he gave three years of effective service as a trustee of Nottingham Township. Both he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church at Minksville.
Mr. Rose was born in Washington Township, this county, on the 25th of February, 1858, and is a son of the late John Stanley Rose and
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Elizabeth Betsy (Ford) Rose, who were representatives of sterling pioneer families f this section of the Buckeye State, Mrs. Rose having been born and reared in Nottingham Township and having been a daughter of Clayton Ford. John S. Rose devoted practically his entire active career to farm enterprise in Harrison County. He died in 1864 and his wife passed away in 1909. Their children numbered eight sons and four daughters.
A. Oscar Rose was able to attend the district schools of Washington Township, thoughl in a somewhat irregular way, and was but a boy when he began working on a neighboring farm. As a workman by the day or month he thus continued his association with farm industry for twelve years, and about three years after his marriage he rented a farm in Nottingham Township. This place continued as the stage of his vigorous and resourceful activities for the ensuing fourteen years, and he then, in 1903, purchased his present farm, as previously noted in this context.
February 21, 1885, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rose to Miss Lizzie Louella Johnson, daughter of the late Benjamin H. Johnson, to whom a memorial tribute, with incidental family record, is made on other pages of this volume. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rose: John Benjamin, who was born December 31, 1885, and who still maintains his residence in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, married Miss Etha Moore, and they have four children —Arthur Vern, Ella Marie, Harry Moore and Pauline. Della Vern, who was born February 22, 1888, is the wife of Earl E. Price, of Akron, Summit County, and they have two children— Halcyon Pauline and Harold Wayne. Martha Blanche. who was born November 9, 1891, is the wife of Wilbur Poulson, of Nottingham Township, and they have five children—Oliver Lloyd, Elda Vern, Carl Leroy, John Andrew and Margaret Louise. Ralph McKinley, who was born July 29. 1893, and who resides in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, married Miss Etta Cope, the daughter of Isaac Cope; of Nottingham Township. Their one child is a son, Alfred Clyde. Paul Johnson, who was born February 28, 1895, served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World war, and of his record in this connection specific mention will be made in an appending paragraph; Frederick C., born October 17, 1890; Louella Frances. born September 15, 1903; and Forrest Wayne, born July 21, 1912, are all at home.
Paul Johnson Rose entered the nation's service on the 25th of July, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. On the 2d of the following September he sailed with his command from the port of New York City, and on the 16th of the same month the regiment landed at Bristol, England. On the voyage (Paul contracted measles, and upon arriving in England he was placed in a hospital at Bristol Bay, where he remained ten days. He was then transferred to an American rest camp at Woodleigh, England, and within a short time thereafter was sent to France, as a casual. There he served with the Seventh Regiment of Infantry, Third Division, and later his command became a part of the Allied Army of Occupation in Germany. He sailed for the United States June 5, 1919, on the "Leviathan," landed on the shores of his native land the 12th of that month, and August 19th he received his honorable discharge from United States General Hospital No. 21. He then returned to the parental home, where he has since remained, and his record as one of the patriotic young men who served in the World war shall ever reflect honor and distinction upon his name.
DAVID W. CUMMINS. In its general stock and appointments the attractive music store of Mr. Cummins stands forth as one of the representative mercantile establishments in the vital little City of Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, and it also makes material contribution to the artistic life and activities of the community.
Mr. Cummins was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1866, and is a son of David F. and Elizabeth (Allison) Cummins, both likewise natives of the old Keystone State, where the father was born March 9, 1822, in Washington County, and the mother in the year 1833, in Beaver County, she having been a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Miller) Allison, and her father having been a successful miller in Beaver and Washington counties. John and Anna (Morrison) Cummins, grandparents of him whose name initiates this review, passed their entire lives in Pennsylvania, where John Cummins was a farmer in Westmoreland County at the time of his death. His children were Paul, Joseph, John, Jr., David F., Jane, Sarah, Lucinda and one other daughter. Samuel and Mary (Miller) Allison became the parents of nine children—Joseph, James, Samuel, John (died from the effects of measles contracted while serving as a soldier in the Civil war), Mary, Emeline, Isabel, Margaret and Elizabeth.
David F. Cummins received good educational advantages in his youth and became a successful teacher in the public schools of his native county, where he continued to follow the pedagogic profession until he was forty years of age, his initial salary having been thirteen dollars a month and his first examination to prove his eligibility for pedagogic honors having been taken while he was seated with his inquisitors on a pile of logs. He achieved marked success as a teacher, and after retiring from service in the profession he purchased a farm in his native county, where he remained until 1891, when he sold the property and came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio. Here he purchased a farm in Short Creek Township, where he died in 1894, after about three years' residence, in the county. His widow here passed the remainder of her life, and she passed to eternal rest on the 28th of July, 1919, both being devout members of the United Presbyterian Church, in which he served more than thirty years as an elder. Of the children the
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eldest is James A., who resides in Freeport, Ohio; David W., f this review, was the next in order of birth; Ida is the wife of Henry H. Brownley, of Clayville, Pennsylvania; Samuel B. resides in the City of Pittsburgh, that state; and John K. is a resident of Cadiz.
David W. Cummins is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and there he initiated his independent career as a farmer. He came with his parents to Harrison County, and here after his marriage he had the active management of his father's farm until 1905, when he became a piano salesman. In 1910 he engaged in the piano and general music business in an independent way, and he now has one of the leading music stores in Harrison County, the same having a substantial and representative patronage. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the local Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church of Cadiz.
In 1889 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cummins to Miss Jennie E. Rea, daughter of Charles C. and Catherine (Cook) Rea, of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and of the six children of this union Ethel died at the age of six years, and Delbert at the age of four years; Myrtle R. married Lieut. Lawrence J. Bowman, of the United States Aviation Corps, now living in Nashville, Tennessee; Lela died at the age of six months; and Vera and Nellie are the younger members of the pleasant home circle.
JOHN B. BIRCH, proprietor of the Carrollton Nursery, has developed one of the important industrial enterprises that has contributed materially to the prestige of Carroll County, which has represented his home from the time of his birth and his allegiance to which is marked by appreciation and loyalty. He was born at Carrollton March 14, 1861, and is a son of Joseph and Isabel (Strayer) Birch, the former of whom was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and the latter was born in Carroll County, Ohio, March 12, 1837, their marriage having been solemnized on the 17th of June, 1860. Of the eight children the subject of this review is the eldest, and the second, Margaret, died at the age of twelve years, the names of the other children being as follows: Ruth, Calvin, Mary, William, Demaretta and Robert. Joseph Birch was reared and educated in the old Keystone state and was a young man when he came to Carroll County and found employment at farm work. At Carrollton he learned the shoemaker's trade under the direction of Jacob Helfrich, and eventually he engaged in the boot and shoe business at Carrollton, where he continued to conduct a prosperous business as one of the representative merchants of the city until his death in 1904. His widow passed away in 1913, and both were zealous communicants f the Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. Birch was a republican, and in his civic attitude he was loyal and public-spirited.
John B. Birch gained his youthful education in the public schools of Carrollton and early turned his attention to gardening, his success in which finally led him to establish his present nursery business, to which he has continued to give his attention since 1887. Prior to that year he had gained valuable experience as a salesman of nursery stock for a nursery established in Louisville, Ohio. His business headquarters have continuously been maintained at 610 North Lisbon Street, and he has brought his nursery up to the best modern standard, the while he has gained to it an appreciative and substantial supporting patronage, his trade extending into many counties in this section of the state.
In politics Mr. Birch maintains an independent attitude, and supports men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He and his wife are affiliated with the Tribe of Ben Hur, and Mrs. Birch holds membership in the Presbyterian Church.
May 14, 1884, recorded the marriage of Mr. Birch to Miss Mary J. Hartzell, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, January 4, 1861, a daughter of Samuel and Angeline (Smith) Hartzel, sterling pioneer citizens of that county, where they continued to reside until their deaths, Mrs. Hartzell having passed away in 1902, aged sixty-three years, and Mr. Hartzell having been seventy-four years of age at the time of his death, in 1913. Della, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Birch, was born March 4, 1889, and continued her studies in the Carrollton schools until her graduation in the high school. She is now the wife of Frank B. Roudebush, of Carroll County, and they have one son, Frank B., Jr., born May 13, 1918.
THOMAS GLADMAN has resided for a period of virtually forty years on his present fine homestead farm in Washington Township, Harrison County, and he has not only proved one of the resourceful and enterprising agriculturists and stock-growers of the county but is also a native of Harrison County and a scion of a family that was founded in Ohio more than a century ago. His paternal grandparents, Thomas and Mary (Lavely) Gladman, were born and reared in the State of Maryland, where their marriage was solemnized and where they continued their residence until 1811, when they came with their four children to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Jefferson County. They rented the old Joel Kirk farm, which was about one mile from York. They came with their son David to Franklin Township. Harrison County, in 1842, the remainder of their lives having been passed in the home of this son, who became one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of the township mentioned. Thomas Gladman died in the year 1855, and his wife survived him by six years, both having been earnest and devout members of the Christian Church. They became the parents of five children—Margaret, Rachel, Nancy, David and John—and all save the youngest were born in Maryland prior to the migration of the family to Ohio.
David Gladman, father of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Maryland
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September 10, 1810, and thus was an infant at the time of his parent's removal to Jefferson County. He grew to manhood on the pioneer farm and continued his active association with farm enterprise until 1842, when, as already noted in the preceding paragraph, he came to Harrison County and became associated with his father in purchasing the farm in Franklin Township, where he continued his successful career as an agriculturist and stock-grower during the remainder of his life. The farm had been but slightly improved when it came into his possession, and the original family home was a log house of the true pioneer type: He reclaimed the place into one of the productive and valuable farms of the county, was h man of sterling character and marked ability, was influential in community affairs and was called upon to serve in various township offices, his political allegiance having been given unreservedly to the democratic party and both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Christian Church. The death of Mr. Glad- man occurred in the year 1888, and his widow remained on the old homestead until she too passed to eternal rest in 1895.
On the 17th of March. 1842, was solemnized the marriage of David Madman to Miss Elizabeth Lyone, daughter of James and Nancy (McLaughlin) Lyons, who likewise were early settlers in Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Gladman became the parents of nine children, namely: Nancy, John W. and Mary E., all of whom are deceased; Thomas, who is the immediate subject of this sketch; and Sarah Margaret, Rachel Emma, James B., Lydia J. and Anna Bell (died in early childhood).
Thomas Gladman was born on the old homestead farm in Franklin Township July 30, 1848, and his youthful educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality and period. Ile continued to be associated in the work and management f the old home farm until his marriage, in the autumn of 1881, soon after which important event in his career he established his home on his present farm, which at that time comprised seventy-eight acres, but to which he has added until he now has a fine farm property of 101 acres, upon which he has made excellent improvements, in consonance with the increasing prosperity that has attended his efforts during the intervening years. In his civic loyalty and his effective enterprise as an agriculturist kind stock-grower he has contributed a generous quota to the advancement and prosperity of his home township and county, and he is one of the substantial and honored native sons of Harrison County. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are devoted and influential members of the Christian Church at Tappan, in which he has served continuously as an elder for fully thirty-five years and in which he has previously been a member of the Board of Trustees. A man of alert mentality, he profited fully by his early educational privileges, even as he has broadened his mental horizon in later years by reading, self-discipline and the experiences of a busy and useful life. In this connection it may be noted that two of his brothers and two of his sisters were successful teachers in the schools of this section of the state in the early days.
On the 22d of September, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gladman to Miss Rosetta J. Guthrie, who likewise was born and reared in Franklin Township, and who is a daughter of Andrew and Louisa (Turner) Guthrie, both of whom were born in that township, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. Andrew Guthrie became a prosperous farmer in Nottingham Township, where also he followed the stonemason's trade. During the Civil war he served two and one- half years as a private in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He continued his residence in Nottingham Township until his death, on the 26th of February, 1901, his widow passing away in 1906, and both having been earnest members of the Christian Church. They became the parents of five children—Rosetta J., Elsie E., James A., Emma and Melvin. Mr. and Mrs. Gladman became the parents f three children: Ada is the wife of Jacob R. Cecil, a prosperous farmer in Franklin Township, and they have seven children—Lyle R., Rosetta B., Evelyn Edna, Orlando T., George Leslie, Ruth Elizabeth and Marjorie Irene. Lizzie, the second daughter, died at the age of eight years.
James F., the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Gladman. was born in the family homestead in Washington Township on June 25, 1889. He attended the township schools, and has spent his entire life on the old farm, of which he is now (1921) in charge in co-partnership with his father. He is also assistant mail carrier on Tippecanoe route No. 7, R. F. D. He is one of the prominent young citizens of the township, his well-known reputation as a good farmer, honest and upright character as a man and his' public spirit and progressive ideas as a citizen giving him the friendship of all who know him. He married Miss Verna Cecil, and they have two children, Charles Herman and Ella Irene.
JOHN WALLACE GILLESPIE was born in Cadiz on October 1, 1856, and died October 11, 1905, having been a life-long resident of Cadiz. He was a son of John W. and Nancy (Anderson) Gillespie. and he is survived by a son, John W. Gillespie. who is now at the head of the furniture and undertaking business established by the first John W. Gillespie in 1840. For eighty years the name J. W. Gillespie has been actively connected with it. The J. W. Gillespie who founded the business in Cadiz in 1840 was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was a cabinetmaker, and immediately after coming to Cadiz he established the business that has been handed down to son and grandson, and is still conducted by John W. Gillespie.
The senior John Wallace Gillespie was a cousin to the late James Gillespie Blaine, who was once active in national republican affairs. On November 29, 1842, Mr. Gillespie married Nancy Anderson, of Cadiz, and seven children were born to them: Albert, James, Nettie, Elozia, Laura, John W. and Wayne. The
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mother of these children died May 7, 1877. His second marriage was with Mrs. Jane Dallas.
John W. Gillespie second was associated with his father in business from the time he was twenty-one years old, and in 1884 he became the proprietor and manager of the business until his death in 1905. The business is still owned by the family and managed by the son John. W. third.
In 1890 John W. Gillespie married Agnes, a daughter of A. N. and Mary Sheriff. She died on November 14, 1920, leaving the following children: Mary, who married Francis W. Wright, of Warren, Pennsylvania, and is the mother of Francis W.. John W. and David Gillespie Wright; Cornelia. married L. D. Miller, who was a chaplain in the United States Regular Army stationed at Fort Benning, Atlanta, Georgia ; and John W. third.
John W. Gillespie entered the service in the World war May 27, 1918, and was assigned to the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division. On July 21st he sailed for France, landing August 3d in Liverpool, and within a few days he was "somewhere in France," where he remained until after the signing of the armistice. He went into action with the Third Battalion of Observation in the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division. and he saw real warfare at Verdun, Saint Mihiel and in the Argonne Forest. On October 10th he was wounded by a high explosive shell and was in Base Hospital at Vichy until November 7. when he was transferred to Base 8 and waited sixteen days for a boat. On November 25th he sailed for the• United States. He received a hospital discharge from Park View Hospital in Pittsburgh and was sent to Camp Sherman, where on February 5, 1919, he received his final discharge from the army. Since his return to Cadiz he has resumed his position at the head of the John W. Gillespie Furniture and Undertaking business which has been identified with the history of Harrison County for four score years.
SAMUEL M. DUNLAP is numbered among the prominent representatives of farm industry in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and is a member of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families f this county. His great-grandfather, Adam Dunlap, Sr., was born in Ireland, where he was reared to manhood and where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Rebecca Work. They became the parents of six sons and six daughters. Adam Dunlap came with his family to Ohio in the year 1812, when he made settlement in the present township of Athens, Harrison County, where initiated the reclaiming of a frontier farm in the midst of the forest wilds. He and his wife endured the full tension of the pioneer life and continued their residence in Athens Township until their deaths, both having been charter members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church in their home community. His political support was given to the democratic party, and he was influential in local affairs in his community. Mr. Dunlap died September 22, 1830, and his widow passed away May 20, 1846.
Robert Dunlap. grandfather of Samuel M., was born in 1794 and thus was about eighteen years of age at the time when he accompanied his parents to Harrison County. He married Mary Pattison. a daughter of Hugh and Nancy Pattison, who immigrated to America from Ireland and established their home in Pennsylvania, where the death of Mr. Pattison occurred shortly afterward. Robert Dunlap reclaimed a productive farm in Athens Township, was a leader in community affairs, was influential in the local ranks of the democratic party and served in various township offices. He died March 2, 1860, his wife having passed away September 29, 1832, and both having been zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Their children were seven in number—Adam, Hugh P., Samuel, Nancy, Rebecca, Mary and Robert.
Adam Dunlap, Jr., father of him whose name introduces this record, was born on the old homestead farm in Athens Township October 2, 1820. He was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer period in the county's history, and in February, 1845, he wedded Miss Margaret McFadden, who was born in Cadiz Township, a daughter of Samuel McFadden, another of the sterling pioneers of the county. After his marriage Mr. Dunlap was engaged in farm enterprise in Cadiz Township about twenty years, and he then removed to a farm in Athens Township, where he became the owner f a valuable landed property of 200 acres. His first wife died in 1863, and June 27, 1874, Mr. Dunlap married Sarah Jane Dickerson, who died about eleven months later. Mr. Dunlap was a staunch democrat, and held various local offices of public trust, and he was an active member of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens, as was also the wife of his young manhood, as well also as was his second wife. Adam and Margaret (McFadden) Dunlap became the parents of five children—Robert, Samuel M., Mary, Elizabeth and Andrew ' J. Both daughters were young women at the time of their deaths. Robert and Andrew J. Dunlap became successful farmers and substantial citizens f their native county, and Samuel M. is the immediate subject of this review.
Samuel M. Dunlap was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, November 19, 1847, and received his youthful education in the schools of Cadiz and Athens townships. In the meanwhile he gained practical and valuable experience in connection with the affairs f his father's farm, with the management of which he continued his connection for twelve years after his marriage, which occurred in 1876. Thereafter he farmed on rented land in Athens Township, and in 1889 purchased his present excellent farm of about 400 acres in Short Creek Township. He has made many improvements in the place, including the erection of a large and attractive farm house, and is known as one of the substantial and enterprising agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, with special attention given to the raising of fine Shorthorn cattle.
Mr. Dunlap is a loyal supporter of the principles for which the democratic party stands
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of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. He is a sponsor, and he and his family are members stockholder and director of the Harrison National Bank at Cadiz.
On the 16th of March, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Anna R. McFadden, who was born and reared in Athens Township, a daughter of the late John J. McFadden and a sister of John C. McFadden, in whose sketch on other pages of this work is given adequate record of the family. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap have five children—Grace, George D., Edwin J., Adam M. and Carrie Esther. Adam M. married Miss Edith Lamborn, and they have two children, Wilbur Samuel and Richard Adam
GEORGE W. DUNN, who holds the responsible position of stock collector from the clay shop to gloss wire room in the modern pottery of the Albright China Company at Carrollton, was born at Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, August 1, 1866, and is a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Cary) Dunn. Mr. Dunn was a child at the time f the death of his father, who was superintendent of a steel rolling mill at Steubenville, and the widowed mother, a native of the State of West Virginia, was a resident of Columbiana County, Ohio, at the time f her death, she having been a devoted member of thel Methodist Episcopal Church. She was the mother of four children—Robert, George W., Elmer and Flora Ella.
George W. Dunn gained his youthful education in the public schools of Steubenville and Irondale, Jefferson County, and in the latter place he finally found employment in the brick yard of William Lacey. lLater he went to East Liverpool, Columbiana County, where he gained his initial experience in the pottery industry. Later he became a stockholder and active executive in a pottery in the City of Akron, where he remained from 1894 until 1909, during six months of which latter year he was employed in a leading pottery in the City of Columbus. On the 1st of October, 1909, he accepted a position with the Carrollton Pottery Company, and after holding a position as foreman with this company about five years he assumed, in 1916, the position of foreman of the clay department of the pottery of the Albright China Company, and is now stock collector from the clay shop to the glossware room, where his technical and executive ability come into effective play and where he is known as an efficient and popular official.
Mr. Dunn is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party, is affiliated with the Independent Order, of Odd Fellows, and be and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1895 Mr. Dunn wedded Miss Elizabeth Brooks, who was born and reared in Columbiana. County, Ohio, and they have two children: Edith gained her early education in the public schools at Akron and is now (1920) a student in a leading conservatory of music at Ithaca, New York; Georgette, who completed her studies in the Carrollton High School, is now the wife of Harvey A. Gottschall, who is associated with a representative brokerage firm in the City of Cleveland.
TAYLOR F. COPE. None can gainsay that the marked success attained by Mr. Cope in connection with farm industry in his native county has been the result of energetic and well directed efforts on his part, and no native son of Harrison County has profited more fully by the practical experience gained in early association with agricultural and live-stock enterprise. He is one of the representative farmers and progressive citizens of Nottingham Township, and his secure status in popular esteem has been shown in his being called to local offices f public trust, including that of county commissioner.
Mr. Cope was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County. on the 23d of April, 1858, and is a son of Jacob and Martha Ann (Salisbury) Cope, the former of whom was born in Harrison County October 7, 1822, and the latter of whom was born in Fulton County, Illinois, May 22, 1831, her parents, Albert and Hopeful Salisbury, having been pioneers of that county. Jacob Cope was a son of Samuel and Jane (Moore) Cope, who were honored pioneers of Harrison County, where the father became a substantial farmer in Nottingham Township. Samuel Cope, who was a son f David and Margaret (Brown) Cope, was well fortified for the heavy burdens that fell to the lot of the early settlers in HarriSOn County, and here he and his wife remained until the close of their long and useful lives. They became the parents of ten children, namely: Margaret, Thomas, David, Martha, Samuel, Jacob, Mary A., Nancy J., Israel and Robert C.
Jacob Cope was reared and educated under the conditions that marked the pioneer days in Harrison County, and as a young man he went to Illinois, where he remained four years and where his marriage was solemnized. Upon his return to Harrison County he engaged in farming in Nottingham Township, and there his first wife died. She was a devoted member of the Christian Church. The names of their children are here recorded: Rachel, Anna Eliza, Mary Jane, Isaac S., Sarah Margaret, Taylor Fremont, Philip Randolph and Jennison L. For his second wife Jacob Cope wedded Ruth Amanda Rose, and they became the parents of seven children: Ida. Nannie, J. Osburne, Thomas B., Lucy M., Walter M. and Lyle. Mr. Cope was venerable in years at the time of his death and his widow .survived him by several years, both having been active members of the
Christian Church.
Taylor Fremont Cope was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and profited by the advantages Offered by the district schools of his native township. From his young manhood he has been actively engaged in farm enterprise in Harrison County, first in Nottingham Township, where he remained until 1898. when he removed to Cadiz Township. There he remained three years, at the expiration of which time he established his residence upon his present farm, which comprises 134 acres and is one of the model places of Nottingham
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Township. Mr. Cope has made many excellent improvements on this farm, including the erection of nearly all of the farm buildings that now give evidence of his distinctive thrift and prosperity. In connection with diversified agriculture he raises good grades of live-stock, with special attention given to breeding the large type of Poland-China swine: Mr. Cope is a republican in his political allegiance, and has been one of the loyal and influential men of his township in connection with community affairs. Here he served six years as township trustee, for a similar period held the office of township treasurer and six years of service were given as a member of the school board of his district. Further evidence of his personal popularity and the high estimate placed upon his ability and civic loyalty came when he was elected a member of the Board f County Commissioners, in which capacity he served from September, 1909, until September, 1913, with a record that reflects honor upon him and that was marked by his supporting of measures that proved of marked benefit to the county and its people. Mr. Cope and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.
June 1, 1878, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cope to Miss Jane Estella Johnson, daughter of the late Benjamin H. Johnson, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Cope had three children: D. Frank, who now resides at Cadiz, is engaged in the selling of most all kinds of machinery, touring through different parts of the country, married Miss Frances Haverfield, and they have two children,—Isabel and Taylor F. The second child, an unnamed son, died in infancy. Martha, who remains at the parental home, is a successful and popular teacher in the schools of her native county. She taught three years in her home district, and in 1921 is teaching in the schools of Cadiz City.
FRANK B. GROVE, of Cadiz, who is a practicing attorney at the Harrison County bar, has also had political preferment, having served as prosecuting attorney and as a deputy in the office of the clerk of courts and as clerk of Harrison County. He entered the office as deputy clerk in 1903, and in 1905 was elected clerk, and re-elected in 1908. In 1914 Mr. Grove was elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison County and served two terms 'as prosecutor. He supplemented his education in common schools by attending Franklin College at New Athens, graduating from there in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and he then spent three years as a teacher in the public schools of Harrison County.
Frank B. Grove was born January 28, 1879, in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. His father, Frank P. Grove, came from York County, Pennsylvania, but the mother, Nancy (Mitchell) Grove, was born in Cadiz Township. She is a daughter of Rudolph and Nancy (Faral) Mitchell. Rudolph Mitchell was one of the pioneer farmers of Harrison County. While his ancestry came from Pennsylvania, F. P. Grove grew into manhood in Harrison County, and as a young man he worked as a carpenter. He became an expert as a builder of winding stairs in the days when all wood turning required the skill of a master instead of being turned out by machinery as it is today. He died in 1915, but his wife still lives in the county. Mr. Grove was a Civil war soldier, serving three years in the One Hundred Twenty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and he was in all the engagements of his regiment until he was wounded at Spottsylvania Court House.
The children born to Frank P. Grove were: Janet, wife of Charles W. Field; Jesse M., Ella M., Clara E., wife of John C, Smith; Lauretta B., wife f W. F. Livingston; and Frank B. Grove.
Except when holding official position Frank B. Grove engaged in the practice of law since graduating from Franklin College. In 1008 he married Clara E. Arbaugh, a daughter of A. G. Arbaugh. of Jewett. They have one son, John Francis Grove.
Mr. Grove is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, and he holds a membership with the Sons of Veterans in Cadiz. The family belongs to the United Presbyterian Church" and he is serving as one f the Board of Trustees. He is a director and stockholder in the. Harrison and Jefferson Telephone Company. As legal adviser he is in touch. with all of the business interests of the community. There were twenty-seven members in his graduating class from Franklin College, and he was the second honor student in literary attainment. Few men are better acquainted with the history of the community. Mr. Grove has always lived in Harrison County.
W. ALFRED JOHNSON is a representative of one of the very appreciable number of sterling pioneer families identified with the Society of Friends who early settled in Harrison County, and he and his wife are members of the gentle and benign religious organization mentioned above, Mr. Johnson being a birthright member. He is the owner of a fine little farm of twenty- five acres in Short Creek Township, and in the productive enterprise of the same he finds ample demand upon his time and attention.
Mr. Johnson was born in Short Creek Township on the 24th of April, 1867, and is a son of William C. and Judith C. (Stanley) Johnson, the former of whom was born near Georgetown, Short Creek Township, May 24, 1833, and the latter was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, a daughter of John Stanley, Jr., a pioneer settler in that county. Micajah Johnson, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born and reared near the historic old City of Richmond, Virginia, in which commonwealth the family was founded in the colonial days, and he became one of the pioneer farmers in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he lived and wrought to goodly ends and commanded the fullest measure of popular esteem. He contributed his quota to the civic and industrial development of the county and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Edna Ladd, were zealous members of the Society of Friends, in the faith of which they were reared. They became the parents
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of six children—Judith D., William C., Jonathan, Mary T., Elizabeth A. and Thomas Elwood.
William C. Johnson passed his entire life in Short Creek Township and became not only one of its prosperous farmers but also served many years as a minister of the orthodox organization of the Society of Friends, he having continued as a zealous, able and faithful minister of this church from about 1876 until his death in 1901, his widow having survived him but a short period, as she passed to the life eternal in 1903. Their children were the following: Edith, Ellen H., Anna M. (died in 1898). W. Alfred, Ida, Charles. Ross (died at the age of three months), and Franklin S.
W. Alfred Johnson gained his early education in the district schools of his native township, and thereafter he pursued higher studies in Selo College and also in the college. maintained under the auspices of the Society of Friends at Damascus, Mahoning County. As a young man he engaged in independent farm enterprise in his native township, and he still owns an attractive little farm, as already noted, though he has devoted his attention mainly to the manufacturing of evaporated corn since the year 1903. The output the first year was about 150 gallons, and from this modest Inception the enterprise has expanded until the annual output is now about 1,500 gallons. Mr. Johnson has had no desire to enter the arena of so-called practical politics, but is well fortified in his political views and is independent in his voting. supporting principles rather than parties. He And his wife hold membership in the Friends Church at West Grove.
In 1892 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Johnson to Miss Elizabeth Whitten, daughter of William and Elizabeth Whitten, of Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have no children, but they delight in welcoming into their pleasant borne net only their many friends of their own generation but also the children and young folk of the community.
CHARLES L. SCOTT, of the Scott-Wright Company in Cadiz, is a citizen of Harrison County from choice, his birth occurring July 5, 1865. in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He is a son of David C. and Martha (Price)_- Scott, the Mother a daughter of Benjamin and Tacy (Gore) Price. Benjamin Price was a Methodist minister.
The grandfather. William Scott. and the grandmother, Nancy (Rush) Scott, were natives of Somerset County. Pennsylvania, William Scott was a lawyer, a member of the bar in
Somerset County. and he practiced, law there for runny years. His son David C. Scott was born there, and April 19. 1861, he enlisted in Company A of the Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry—a Civil war soldier. For three months he was a member of this reserve regiment, and was then regularly mustered in to the U. S. Army, giving three years to the service. He went through the Peninsular campaign With General McClelland, and was wounded at Fredericksburg. He was also in the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Antietam.
For four years in the reconstruction period following the Civil war Mr. Scott engaged in contract railroad construction, and his next business venture was at Rockwood, Pennsylvania. where he engaged in the lumber trade. For four years he was United States Internal revenue collector. His first business introduction to Cadiz and community was in 1887, when he joined his brother A. W. Scott in the sale of clothing and shoes. After a time he located in Minerva. Ohio, remaining there seven years in the sale of clothing. He finally returned to Cadiz. but in a short time retired from business and returned to Somerset County. Pennsylvama. His children are: Charles L., May, Margaret, James B. and Nancy.
Charles L. Scott had educational advantages in Somerset County, and he later attended Bethany College. When he was but sixteen he began teaching. and continued for four years as a teacher. While teaching his vacation periods were spent at college and finally he spent two full years in Bethany College. In 1886 Mr. Scott engaged as a clerk with his uncle in the clothing and shoe store, and in 1890 he went to Minerva with his father. In December, four years later, they bought the business of the uncle and returned to Cadiz.
In March. 1895. Mr. Scott took charge of his father's business, and two years later he bought it. The enterprise was continued as a clothing and shoe store, and in 1910 it was organized as the Scott-Wright Company and dry goods, carpets and rugs. etc., have been added to the stock. Mr. Scott also owns a one-half interest in the Canaga-Scott Company, a general store in Scio.
In 1891 C. L. Scott married Nettie, a daughter of Henry C. and Sarah McClure, f Manstield. Ohio. Their first child, Martha. is deceased. and they have twin daughters, Mary and Margaret, Mr. Scott is a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge and Chapter of Cadiz and the Commandery at Bellaire. He is also a member of the Eastern Star. The Scott family are members of the Christian Church in Cadiz.
MILO V. COURTRIGHT has gained secure vantage ground as one of the progressive and representative business men of his native county and is a partner in the Carrollton Milling Company. In connection with the Carrollton Milling Company he has been a forceful factor in developing one of the important industrial industries of the county. He was born in Center Township, this county, November 24, 1865, and is a scion of a family whose name has been identitied with the annals of Ohio for more than a century. His grandfather. Isaac Courtright, was born at Beaver Falls, Beaver County. Pennsylvama, July 8, 1814. and was four years old when his parents came to Ohio and established their home in Columbiana County, whence ten years later they removed to Jefferson County, where they endured the full tension of strenuous pioneer life and where they continued to reside until their deaths. Isaac Courtright was the eighth in a family of twelve children born to John and Mary (Clarke) Courtright, who were natives of New Jersey and who established their resi-
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dence in Pennsylvania in the opening years of the nineteenth century, their home having been in Beaver County, that state, until they came to Ohio in 1818.
Isaac Courtright was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer .period of Ohio history and early became dependent upon his own resources. He first came to Carroll County in 1822, but three years later he left the county, to which he returned after the lapse of an additional five years. July 5, 1835, he married Miss Sarah Norris, who was born in New Jersey and who was young when she accompanied her parents to Ohio. The young couple established their home on a pioneer farm in Umon Township, Carroll County, hut in 1838 they removed to Center Township, where he developed improved the fine farm, about two miles distant from Carrollton, on which he passed the remainder of his life. His wifc died April 22. 18,8;) and he passed away at the venerable age of seventy-five years, honorcd by all who knew him. Both were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in polilics he was a republican, having served in various local offices of public trust. He was one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Carroll County at the time of his death. Of his five children the only one who attained to maturity was James, father f him whose name introduces this review.
James Courtright was born in Union Township. Carroll County, and he passed the period of his childhood and early youth on his father's farm in Center Township. That he made good use of his educational advantages is shown in the fact that for several years he was a successful teacher in the district schools. However. he never faltered in his allegiance to the basic industry of agriculture, and continued as one of the representative farmers of Carroll County until about five years prior to his death. Upon retiring: from the farm he and his wife removed to Chicago Junction, Huron County, where the latter died in 1914 and where he passed away February 19, 1909. The maiden name of his wife was Barbara Cook, and she was born in Washington Township, Carroll County. in 1840. Both were earnest members of the Methodist, Episcopal Church, and his political atfiliation was with the republican party. They are survived by three children: Ida, born November 10. 1863: Milo V.. the immediate subject of this review; and Martha. born December 12. 1878.
Milo V. Courtright found the first twenty-six years of his life compassed by the influences of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he profited fully by the advantages offered by the public schools of his native county. At the age of twenty-six years he established himself in the timber business, with headquarters in the city of Carrollton, and two years later he turned his attention to the buying and shipping of grain. in which he continued independent operations six years. In 1900 he became associated with Harvey J. W. Courtright and engaged in the flour-milling business. under the tirm name of Courtright & Courtright. Later the business was consolidated with that of Perry 0. Me-
Cully, of whom mention is made on other pages, and in 1910 the milling plant was established at its present location, with modern equipment and facilities. Here the vigorous and prosperous industrial enterprise has been conducted under the corporate title of the Carrollton Milling Company, and Mr. Courtright has been able effectively to utilize his executive and initiative ability in furthering the splendid success of the business. In 1920 he sold his interest in the Carrollton Milling Company and is now manager of the Farmers Exchange Company, who own the mill.
The republican party receives the allegiance of Mr. Courtright, and he has given six years of effective service as a member of the City Council of Carrollton, besides having been for nine years a member of the Board of Education. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of the Maccabees, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1890 Mr. Courtright was united in marriage to Miss Lydia B. Ralston, who was born at Martins Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio, and who was a child at the time of the family removal to Carroll County. Her parents, John and Rebecca Ralston, are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Courtright have two children: Lillian is the wife of David 0. Brown, and they reside at Broken Bow. judicial center of Custer County, Nebraska ; Ralph V. was graduated from the 'Carrollton High School and is now, in 1920, 1 member of the sophomore class in Mount Union College..
CLYDE M. BARR claims Harrison County as the place of his nativity, and for him can be claimed the honor of achieving distinct success as one of the prosperous and progressive representatives of mercantile enterprise in this County. He has been engaged in the general merchandise business in the village of Tippecanoe since 1897, and is a citizen whose high standing in the community renders specially consistent his recognition within the pages of this history.
Mr. Barr was born in North Township. Harrison County. on the 2d of February, 1869, and is a son of James W. and Mary (Pierson) Barr, the former of whom was born near Paris, Pennsylvania. and the latter of whom was born at Jersey. Licking County. Ohio. a daughter of Elijah and Sarah (Mingis) Pierson. Elijah Pierson was born in the state of New Jersey and was a young man when he came to Ohio and established his home in Licking County, where he became a representative merchant at Jersey. in which village he conducted a general store for many years. he having there remained until the time of his death, and his widow likewise having died at that place, their two children having been Martha and Mary. The parents were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church.
James W. Barr was a son of Matthew W. and Margaret (Williamson) Barr. both natives of the old Keystone state. In the '40s Matthew W. Barr came front Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled on Bacon Ridge, Jefferson County, where
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he passed the remainder of his life, he having been drowned while endeavoring to swim one of his horses across the Ohio River. His children were seven in number: Joseph, James W., Thomas W., Margaret Jane, Eleanor, Elizabeth and Nancy Ann.
James W. Barr was young at the time the family came to Ohio and established a home in Jefferson County. When the Civil war was precipitated he did not long restrain his youthful patriotism, for records show that on the 19th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he continued in service until he was incapacitated by an attack of typhoid fever, his honorable discharge having been received on the 30th of May, 1865. While afflicted with typhoid fever he was placed in a military hospital in the city of Columbus, Ohio, , and it was while in this institution that he formed the acquaintance of the young woman who later became his wife. The disability entailed by his illness resulted in his receiving his honorable discharge from the army, and after recuperating he remained for a time on a farm near Conotton, North Township, Harrison County. In the early '70s he engaged in the retail hardware business at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, and shortly afterward his place of business was destroyed by fire. By reason of the impaired health of his wife they returned to the old home at Jersey, Licking County, and there his death occurred on the 15th of November, 1877, his devoted wife having passed away on the 4th of January, 1874. Both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their two children Clyde M., of this review, is the elder, and the younger, Bessie 0., is the wife of Rev. Charles M. Robb, a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church and at the time of this writing pastor of the church of this denomination at Mount Vernon, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Robb have five children—Dorothy, Mary, Helen, Ruth and Gladys.
After the death of his parents Clyde M. Barr was taken into the home of his widowed maternal grandmother, at Jersey, Licking County, where he profited by the advantages of the public schools, as did he later by those of the city of Columbus, where he continued his studies two years. As a young man he was employed two years at farm work in Harrison County, and thereafter he was similarly engaged in Licking 'County for a period of six years.
In 1897 Mr. Barr formed a partnership with Howard Auld and engaged in the general merchandise business at Tippecanoe, Harrison County, where he has continued his active and successful connection with this enterprise during the intervening years. In 1901 he purchased his partner's interest and he has since maintained sole control of the substantial business, with a store that is well stocked and gives the effective service that assures appreciative supporting patronage. In Stock Township he is the owner of an excellent farm of 171 acres, and he finds both satisfaction and profit in giving to the same his personal supervision in a general way. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, and he has long given effective service as a trustee and the treasurer of this church. In politics his support is accorded to the republican party.
July 28, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Barr to Miss Addle B. McFadden, who was born and reared in Stock Township, Harrison County, and Who is a daughter of William W. and Margaret J. (Johnson) McFadden. Mr. McFadden was born in Stock Township, and passed his entire life in Harrison County, where his death occurred on the 1st f January, 1885. His wife was born January 11, 1849 and her death occurred June 20, 1914. Mr. McFadden was one of the prosperous farmers f the neighborhood in which he was born, and he passed the closing years of his life on his farm in Stock Township, a short distance north of Laceyville. He and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children the first two, Ora Lee and Della, died in early childhood; Shirley M. is the wife of Charles L. Miller. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Addle B., wife of the subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Robert E. met a tragic death while employed in one of the great steel mills at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1907; and Willis Estelle is the wife of Homer Bower, of Port Washington, Tuscarawas County. Mr. and Mrs, Barr have five children ; Ansel Lee, Robert Dale, Wayne W., Menzie Margaret and Shirley Estelle.
WILSON H. MADDOX, a representative farmer of Short Creek Township, is a scion of a sterling and honored family whose name has been identified with the history of Harrison County since the year 1825. He was born on the old Maddox homestead in Short Creek Township, March 6, 1871, and is the eldest child and only son of the late Thomas and Henrietta T. (Hague) Maddox, the former of whom was born in Short Creek Township June 22, 1841, and the latter likewise was born in this county, a daughter of Henry and Sarah A. (Thompson) Hague. Thomas Maddox was a son of, Wilson Maddox. who was born in Caroline County, Virginia, July 24, 1813, and who was about twelve years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County. Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. November 30, 1836, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary Ladd, likewise a native of Virginia, she being a daughter of Robert and Mary T. Ladd, who came to Harrison County in the early '30s. Wilson Maddox was a son of Thomas and Jane (Freeman) Maddox. who came from Virginia to Ohio in 1825 and settled on a partially improved farm in section 15, Short Creek Township, Harrison County. where they remained until their deaths. Thomas Maddox having died January 5, 1838, aged sixty years, and his widow having been eighty-four years of age at the time of her death, December 30, 1858. Their two children were Eliza. who died in Virginia, and Wilson. Both families were actively affiliated with the Society of Friends, the faith of which has been retained by later generations. The Maddox
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family is of English origin and was founded in Virginia in the colonial era of our national history.
After the death of his father Wilson Maddox continued in charge of the old home farm until 1859, when he removed to a farm which he purchased in section 14, Short Creek Township, and there he died before the close of that year—at the age of forty-five years. Of him the following estimate has been given: "He was an industrious farmer during his entire active career, and became one of the largest growers of fine wool sheep in Harrison County. He was an enthusiast in all things pertaining to the public good and always ready to support movements tending to advance his native county. In politics he was originally a whig and later a republican, and both he and his wife were birthright members f the Society of Friends." Wilson and Mary T. (Ladd) Maddox became the parents of four children—Eliza (Mrs. G. B. Coutant), Thomas (father of the subject of this sketch), Mary Jane (Mrs. Benjamin Chambers), and Virginia W. (Mrs. William Buchanan). The devoted mother survived her husband by fifteen years and entered into eternal rest in 1874, aged fifty-six years.
Thomas Maddox, father of him whose name initiates this article, was reared and educated in Short Creek Township, wherein 1869 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Henrietta T. Hague. They remained on the old Maddox homestead until the death of the loved wife and mother, who passed away on the 13th of January, 1886, and who was survived by three children—Wilson H., to whom this review is dedicated; Annie M., who is the wife of Benjamin Haldeman, of East Rochester, Columbiana County; and Miss Carrie E., who remains with her brother on the homestead farm to which their father removed after the death of the mother, he having sold his portion of the farm of his father and having then purchased the farm which was formerly owned and reclaimed by Isaac Thomas. Thomas Maddox continued as one of the honored citizens and representative farmers of Short Creek Township until his death, on the 27th of February, 1919, a few months prior to the seventy-eighth anniversary of his birth. He was aligned with the republican party until he transferred his allegiance to the prohibition party, of whose cause he was an ardent supporter, and he was a leading exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county, his farm. comprising eighty acres in section 19, having been made a center of successful dairy enterprise, with the tinest type of Jersey cattle, and the finely improved place being now the home of his only son and the younger of his two daughters, the son having assumed the active management of the place a number of years prior to the death of the honored father.
Wilson H. Maddox is fully upholding the civic and industrial prestige f the family name and is one of the enterprising and popular representatives of farm industry in his native county. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Short Creek Township, where he continued to be associated with the activities of the home farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-four years. He was thereafter a resident of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for twelve years, and there became a successful dealer in butter and eggs. In 1907 he returned to and assumed charge of the old home farm, to the management of which he has since given his attention, the place being devoted to diversified agriculture and dairy enterprise, in connection with which latter department Mr. Maddox is a successful breeder of registered Jersey cattle. He is a republican in political adherency, and he and his wife are birthright and zealous members of the Society of Friends, as was also his first wife. His affiliation is with the Friends Church at West Grove.
In 1894 Mr. Maddox was united in marriage to Miss Margaret L. Ladd, daughter of Joseph and Francina (Cook) Ladd, of Columbiana County, Ohio, and she passed to the life eternal in the year 1899. Joseph T. is the only child of this union. Joseph T. Maddox. who was for three years a student at Earlham College, an admirable institution maintained by the Society of Friends at Richmond, Indiana. He taught school in 1919-20 at Guilford College, North Carolina, but in 1921 is a chemist with the Empire Oil & Fuel Company in Kansas. His intentions are to ultimately complete his college education.
The second marriage f Mr. Maddox was solemnized on May 11, 1904, when Miss Erba R., daughter of William E. and Anna (Willis) Ladd, became his wife. She was born at Peoria, Illinois.
ALFRED P. SHERIFF. While he is an Ohioan, Alfred P. Sheriff, cashier of the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, is not a native of Harrison County. He was born April 20, 1857, in Steubenville. The parents, Adam N. and Mary (Vickrey) Sheriff, were Pennsylvanians. The father was born in 1832, at Mercer, Pennsylvania, while the mother was born in 1831, at New Brighton, and in 1856 they were married and located in Ohio. The mother was a daughter of William Vickrey.
Adam N. Sheriff was a son of Joseph Sheriff, who lived in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and his mother was Nancy Fulton, f that community. He was a saddler and harness maker by trade, and his active business career was passed at Mercer, Pennsylvania. When Adam N. Sheriff located in Steubenville as a young man he worked in a woolen mill with his uncle, James McDevitt. Soon after his marriage he entered the service of the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, later known as the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, although at the time it only extended from Steubenville to Newark, Ohio. Mr. Sheriff remained with the road the remainder of his life, al though in 1806 he came to Cadiz, and he died in 1880—an honorable record of employment through many years. Mrs. Sheriff died sixteen years later. They were members of the Cadiz Presbyterian Church, and Adam N. Sheriff was a member of the Masonic Lodge. Their children were: Alfred P., Agnes, wife of John W. Gil-
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lespie, William V., James M., and Caroline T., wife of W. C. Bigger.
As a young man Alfred P. Sheriff attended the public schools of Cadiz, and, like his father, his early active life was in the railroad service. He had such employment both in Cadiz and Wheeling. In 1880, however, he entered the Harrison National Bank as teller, and was soon advanced to assistant cashier and later became cashier of the institution so long associated with the business interests of Harrison County. Mr. Sheriff is identified with the community interests as secrctary of the Third Equitable Building and Loan Association, and he is also a director and the treasurer of the Harrison and Jefferson Telephone Company.
In 1886 he married Platti McNeely, a daughter of Platoff 'McNeely. Their children are Helen and Alfred P. Sheriff, Jr. On September 7, 1917, Alfred P. Sheriff, Jr., enlisted in the World war and entered Camp Sherman for military training. He was a sergeant in the One Hundred Fifty-Eighth Depot Brigade, and in May, 1918. he was transferred to Camp Taylor, whcre he was assigned as sergeant to the One Hundred Fifty-Ninth Depot Brigade. In June be was returned to Camp Sherman with the Eighty-fourth Division, and when the armistice was signed he was at Gordon Central Officer’s Training School. all ready for overseas service. He received his discharge in November, after more than one year of special military training.
THOMAS WILLIAM WELLS. For many years Thomas William Wells has been plowing, Sowing, tilling and reaping on the land and the farm which has been his home practically all Ids life. This place is one of the highly improved farms of Carroll County. contains two hundred acres, and is located in Harrison Township on Rural Route No. 1 out of Dellroy.
Mr. Wells. who has a very substantial relationship with the agricultural and civic community. was born in Columbiana County. Ohio, February 7, 1871. son of James Henry Farmer Wells and Belle James Wells. His grandfather was William Wells of an old Maryland family, who came to Ohio in pioneer days and lived in Columbiana- and Jefferson counties. He died in Columbiana County in 1878. having survived his wife a number of years. They had five sons and five daughters, and second among the sons was James Henry Farmer Wells. The latter grew up and married in Columbiana County, but in the spring of 1871 when his son Thomas W. was six weeks old moved to Harrison Township. Carroll Comity. and acquired the land now so capably handled by his son. He lived there until his death in 1890, and was one of the well known and highly respected citizens of Carroll County. The widowed mother is still living in Dellroy.
The oldest of three sons, Thomas William Wells lived at home and had the opportunities to attend the Nebo school only during the brief winter terms. His help was needed on the home farm and after his fatherls death which occurred when he was about eighteen he gave all his time to farming.
In 1900 Mr. Wells married Zua Kelly, daughter of Alpheus and Anna (Cullar) Kelly of Minerva, Ohio. Mr: and Mrs. Wells have five children: Charles Guy, born in 1901, a graduate of the Dellroy High School; William Dwain, born in 1903; Howard Kelly, born in 1907; Morris James, born in 1912; and Erma Dorothy, born in 1919.
Mr. Wells' program since his marriage has been one of diversified farming, placing his dependence upon the staple and tried and true methods of agriculture and stock raising. He is a member of the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton of Dellroy Grange No. 2113. The Wool Growers Association and the Farm Bureau. Some of his time has also been given to the welfare of the local community, and for two terms, four years altogether, he was township trustee. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Baxterls Ridge Methodist Episcopal Church.
KIRK W. BILLINGSLEY has, save for an interval of one year, been continuously engaged in the general merchandise business at Tippecanoe, Harrison County, since the year 1886, and thus he stands as one of the veteran merchants, even as he is one of the highly esteemed and representative citizens, of this attractive village. He has long controlled a substantial business, in which he has catered successfully to the requirements of an appreciative trade drawn from the fine section of which Tippecanoe is the normal business center.
Mr. Billingsley was born on a farm in Flushing township. Belmont County, Ohio, and is a representative of a family that was founded in that county in the pioneer days: His father, George Billingsley, passed his entire life in Belmont County, where he not only became a prosperous farmer in Flushing Township, but where he also followed the carpenter's trade for a term of years. He was a son of Lemuel Billingsley. who settled in Belmont County in the pioneer. days and who there remained and developed the productive farm upon which he continued to reside until his death. His children were , five in number—Lemuel. Jr., William, John. George and Rebecca. As a young man George Billingsley married Miss Lucretia Lindsay, who was born in the city of Baltimore. Maryland, and who was a child at the time of the family removal to Ohio. her father. Thomas Lindsay. having established the family home in Belmont County. where he and his wife remained until their deaths. George and Lucretia (Lindsay) Billingsley became the parents of five children—Adaline. Kirk W., Melissa, Anna and Charlotte. The parents were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Kirk W. Billingsley gained his early education in the schools of his native county, and there he continued his association with farm industry until he was nineteen years of age, when he became a clerk in a general store. in Birmingham, Guernsey County. In 1886 he opened a general merchandise store at Tippecanoe. Harrison County. and here he has, as previously stated, been continuously engaged in this line of enterprise to the present time with the exception of one year. He has taken loyal
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interest in all matters touching the civic and material welfare of his home village, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe.
In 1885 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Billingsley to Miss Jennie Thompson, of Guernsey County, and of this union have been born five children : Pearl died at the age of twenty- four years; Nellie resides in the city of Cleveland, as does also George B.; and Sanford T. B. and Marie remain at the parental home.
WILLIAM BOYD HAWTHORNE, one of the representative farmers of the younger generation in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, was born in this township on the 21st of December, 1883 and is a scion of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of eastern central Ohio for more than a century.. He is a son of James L. IN Hawthorne, who was born in Mount Pleasant Township. Jefferson County, Ohio, May 14, 1844. William Hawthorne, father of James L., likewise was a native of Mount Pleasant Township, whcre he was born in March, 1817, his death having occurred in 1896. His wife. whose maiden name was Mary Lemmon,,; was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison' County, in 1822. and was about eighty years of age at the time of her death. Her father, Griffith Lemmon. a native of Ireland, was one of the very early settlers of Harrison County. William Hawthorne was a son of John Hawthorne, who was born on shipboard while his parents were voyaging from their native Ireland to America, where he was reared to manhood. He became one of the pioneer farmers of Jefferson County, Ohio, where he endured the trials and vicissitudes of frontier life and where he remained until his death.
As a young man William Hawthorne learned and followed the cooper's trade, but the major part of his active career was marked by close association with the basic industry of agriculture. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church: Their children were four in number—Martha, James Lemmon, Alexander and Sheridan.
James Lemmon Hawthorne gained his early education in the common schools of Jefferson County and at the age of seventeen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of blacksmith. In the winter of 1801 he established his residence at Harrisville, Harrison County. where he opened a blacksmith shop and where he continued his vigorous application to the work of his trade until the year 1900, when lie removed to a farm adjoining the village and turned his attention to agricultural and live-stock enterprise. In 1908 he sold his farm of 140 acres, and since that time he has lived retired in the village of Harrisville, in the enjoyment of the peace and prosperity that are the fitting reward for his former years of earnest endeavor.
On the 18th of October. 1806, was solemnized the marriage of James L. Hawthorne to Miss Jennie McLaughlin. a daughter of William McLaughlin. She was born and reared in Harrison County and concerning the family ade quate record is given on other pages, in the sketch of Wilmer W. McLaughlin. Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne are members of the United Presbyterian Church in their home village, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. Of their three children the eldest is Ross M., who is a farmer in Short Creek Township; Reed I. is now a resident of South Bend, Indiana ; and William Boyd is the immediate subject of this sketch, he being familiarly known by his second personal name.
William Boyd Hawthorne acquired his early education in the excellent public schools of Harrisville, and in 1900, the year which marked his fatherls retirement from the work of his trade and assumption of farm activities, he himself initiated independent activities as a farmer in Short Creek Township. Here he has since continued his successful and progressive enterprise as in agriculturist and stock-grower. and in 1917 he purchased and established his residence on his present well-improved farm, which comprises 185 acres of the excellent land of Short Creek Township. In the live-stock department of his farm industry Mr. Hawthorne is giving special attention to the breeding and raising of registered Shorthorn and Holstein cattle. He is a republican in political adherency and he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church at Adena, Jefferson County.
April, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hawthorne to Miss Lydia Townsend. daughter of David and Adaline (Morris) Townsend, of Harrison County, and the three children of this union are Wilmer Townsend, David Forrest and James Binford.
THOMAS SIMPSON maintained his home in Athens Township, Harrison County, from the time of his birth until his death on October 13, 1920. He was one of the veteran representatives of farm industry in this township, besides being a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of the county. He was born on his father's old homestead farm in Athens Township February 9, 1848, and was a son of James and Sarah Jane (Evans) Simpson, the former of whom was born in the state of New York and the latter at Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio. a daughter of the late Dr. John Evans, who was a pioneer physician and honored and influential citizen of that village. James Simpson was a son of Alexander Simpson, who was a native of Ireland, and the family name of whose wife was Powers. He came from the old Empire State to Ohio and settled in Harrison County in the pioneer days, his son James having been a boy at the time, and he developed one of the productive farms of the day in Athens Township, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their religious faith having been that of the Presbyterian Church. Their children were eight in number, namely: Samuel, Alexander, Jr., Thomas, James, Jane, Ellen, Nancy and Mary.
James Simpson became one of the successful farmers and substantial citizens of Athens Township, where he owned a farm of 114 acres, and where he remained until a few years prior to his death, when he removed to the village
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of New Athens. where both he and his wife died. They were active members of the United Presbyterian Church at Cassville during the many years of their residence on the farm. They were the parents of seven children—Margaret; John. Thomas. Evans, Martin IV., Frank P. and Rachel.
Thomas Simpson. the immediate subject of this sketch, passed the period of his childhood and youth on his father’s farm. and in the meanwhile profited by the advantages afforded in the district schools of Athens Township. This township was from his young manhood the stage of his vigorous and successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his well improved farm comprised 140 acres. At one time he owned 224 acres in Coshocton County and sixty acres in Belmont County. He was loyal and liberal in the support of measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the community. and Ins political allegiance was given to the republican party, both he and his wife being zealous members of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1873 Mr. Simpson wedded Miss Susanna Tipton, daughter of the late Joshua Tipton, a well-known citizen of Harrison County. and they had six children—Walter. Wilbur E.. Charles C., Blanche, wife of John Edward Sinn) son. and Albert A. and Harry R., twins.
WILBUR E. SIMPSON Is a son of Thomas Simpson. a sketch of whose career immediately precedes this article, so that further review of the family history is not here demanded. lie has gained and maintained secure place as one of the progressive representatives of farm enterprise in his native township and county and well merits -individual consideration in this publication.
Wilbur Evans Simpson was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, January 15, 1877, and his early education was obtained mainly in the district schools Vocally known as the Jockey Hollow School. At the age of seventeen years he entered upon a practical apprenticeship. to the trade of blacksmith, in which he became a skilled workman and to which he continued to devote his attention about eight years. Thereafter he was engaged in farming three years in Flushing Township, Belmont County, and in connection with this enterprise he established and successfully conducted a dairy business. Upon disposing of his interests in Belmont County Mr. Simpson returned to Harrison County, where for the ensuing period of about tive years he conducted a dairy farm in Athens Township. During one year thereafter he was engaged in the general merchandise business at New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, and the ensuing three years found him engaged in secret-service work for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and other companies. He next established his residence at Quaker City, Guernsey County, where he engaged in the dairy business and where he remained until- 1911, when he returned to his native township and established his residence on his present home farm of 133 acres, besides which he owns a well improved farm of 119 acres in Belmont County. He still makes the dairy business an important feature of his farm enterprise and is known for his energy and progressiveness also as an agriculturist who employs scientific methods and modern policies. He is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Athens.
In 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Simpson to Miss Linnie Gregg, daughter of Lindley Gregg, of Belmont County, and they have three children—Fern. Gertrude and Lindley. Fern was born in Union Township, Belmont County, Ohio. on October 30, 1902. She graduated from the Flushing. Ohio, High School in 1019. attended Franklin College and now, in the winter of 1920-21, is engaged in teaching. Gertrude was born in Flushing Township, Belmont County. Ohio. on January 2, 1905, and in 1920 is a junior in Flushing High School. Lindley was born in Flushing Township, Belmont County. on September 2, 1907.
LEVIE. MALLERNEE is another of the native sons of Harrison County who is here standing as a successful exemplar of agriculture and livestock industry, and the finely improved farm which he owns and operates comprises 245 acres in Nottingham Township. He was born in this township on the 20th of October. 1868, and is a son of Levi and Jemima (Garner) Mallernee. the latterls first husband having been a Mr. Hines, concerning whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the sketch of their son Nelson T.
Levi Mallernee was born in Jefferson County. Ohio. February 12, 1816, and in 1829 his father came to Harrison County. where he bought eighty acres of forest land in Nottingham Township. where he remained until his death. February 23..1839, his industry as a pioneer farmer having been supplemented by his work at the shoemakerls trade. This worthy pioneer, Emanuel Mallernee, was born in Maryland, November 3, 1779. a son of William and Sarah Mallernee. who came from that state and settled in Jefferson County. Ohio. in 1009. Emanuel Mallernee first married Rachel Matthews. Who was born in Maryland November 3. 1778, a daughter of Francis and Mary (Carr) Matthews, who come to Ohio in 1809. Emanuel and Rachel Mallernee became the parents of eight children-- William, Aquino. Mary A.. Matthew F.. Levi, Emanuel, Jr., Lewis and Elizabeth. Mrs. Mallernee died June 24, 182S, and her husband later married Hannah Eaton, the three children of this union having been Benjamin, Rachel and Jared.
On the 6th of December, 1838, Levi Mallernee married Eleanor Johnson, who was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, January 27, 1820, a daughter of Benjamin Johnson. They became the parents of nine children—David Turner. Emanuel, Mary A., Benjamin J., Lemuel, Lydia A., Caroline L., Eleanor J. and Kinsey C. Mrs. Mallernee died December 23, 1863, and afterward Mr. Mallernee wedded Mrs. Jemima (Garner) Hines. They became the parents of three children—James G., Levi E. and Ruth J. After the death of his
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second wife Mr. Mallernee married Rachel Crabtree, and exactly one year later his death occurred, on the 1st of June, 1880. Levi Mailer- nee passed his entire life in Harrison County and his active career was given principally to farm enterprise. He was a republican in politics and his religious faith was that f the Baptist Church.
Levi E. Mallernee gained his early education in the district schools of Nottingham Township, but he was only thirteen years of age when he began working on a neighboring farm. He has been continuously identified with farm industry during the long intervening years and has through his own efforts become one of the prosperous farmers f his native township, his large farm being the stage of well ordered agricultural and live-stock operation, and many of its modern improvements, including the house and barn, having been installed since he became the owner of the property. He is a loyal and progressive citizen, is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.
May 22, 1890, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mallernee to Miss Olive Carson, daughter of John K. and Anna (Cope) Carson, and of this umon have been born three children: James Lyle, who resides at Alliance, Stark County, married Ada Howell, and they have three children-Olive, Veda and Charles. Edith May and Ethel Pay were twins, the former having died at the age of eleven months, and the latter remaimng at the parental home.
BENJAMIN J. MALLERNEE, son of Levi and Eleanor (Johnson) Mallernee, mentioned in the preceding sketch, was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 10th of February, 1849; was here reared and educated; and here he has been continuously identified with farm enterprise, except for two years passed at Cadiz, the county seat. He is the owner of an excellent farm property of 191 acres and is one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of his native county, his home farm comprising ninety-one acres, and the remainder of his farm property being not far distant. He is a staunch republican and has served as township trustee, his religious faith being indicated by his status as an earnest member of the Baptist Church.
January 17, 1872, was marked by the marriage of Mr. Mallernee to Miss Margaret J. Warman, who was born in Illinois March 15, 1850, a daughter of William and Margaret (Hoffman) Warman. Mrs. Mallernee passed to the life eternal April 8, 1894, and of her four children two are living: Ellen Mabel, born January 10, 1873, is deceased; Myrtie Florence, born November 4, 1874, is the wife of Alvah Lee, and they have one child, Clyde; Blanche W., born •September 5, 1879, is deceased; and Frank G. was born October 24, 1881.
On the 23d of December, 1896, Mr. Mallernee married Mrs. Emma Morris, and they are leading members of the Christian Church at Minksville. Frank G. Mallernee, only son of the subject of this review, married Miss Blanch Garner, whose death occurred October 3, 1917, and who is survived by two children-Harold V. and Mary Margaret.
JAMES G. MALLERNEE. a brother of Levi E. Mallernee of Nottingham Township, was one of the honored residents f that community for many years. and though he died comparatively young he was in every sense a successful mall.
He was born in Nottingham Township October 10, 1806. and was reared and educated on the home farm in that locality.. In 1887, at the age of twenty-one, he married Alice R. Hefling, a native of Washington Township in Harrison County and daughter of Noah and Jane (McCullough) Haling. After their marriage they made their home on a farm in Washington Township, where Mr. Mallernee continued to live until after the death of his wife. In 1915 he removed to Tippecanoe, Ohio, and died there May 7, 1918. He was an elder in the Christian Church at Tippecanoe. On May 12, 1914, he married Sarah M. Hitchcock, who was born in Washington Township August 18, 1880, daughter f Johnson and Rebecca (Jackson) Hitchcock.
Mr. Mallernee by his first marriage had six children: Earl, who died June 28, 1916; Audra, who is the wife of Laurence Rose and has • four children named Viola, Helen, Pauline and Lucile; Mabel, wife of Frank Jenkins, has four children, named Mirl, Edith, Hazel and James; • Paul, whose career is briefly sketched below ; Bessie, wife of Robert Young and mother of Maxine; and Marian, wife of Eugene Walker.
Paul Hefling Mallernee, who was born October 24, 1893, was one of Harrison Countyls soldiers in the World war. He entered the service September 20, 1917, and was trained at Camp Sherman, where he was assigned to duty with the 308th Veterinary Section. In January, 1918, he was promoted to corporal. June 14, 1918, he left New York, landed in France on the 21st of June, and was in service with his organization until the signing of the armistice, and was then sent to Germany with the Army of Occupation. He returned to the United States July 9, 1919, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Mills. Before going overseas and while at Camp. Sherman his father died, and he came w home to attend the funeral and while at home was married on May 10, 1918, to Alice Jenkins, daughter of James Jenkins.
CHESTER A. BRANSON is conducting successful operations on one of the finest farm estates of Harrison County, and has gained precedence as the largest breeder and grower of Shorthorn cattle in his native county. In control of a valuable landed estate f about 500 acres, known as Elmhurst Stock Farm, of which he individually owns 320 acres, he is one of the specially vigorous and successful young exponents of agricultural. and live-stock industry in Harrison County, is a member of one of the honored families of this section of the Buckeye State and is entitled to definite recognition in this history.
On the old homestead which is his present place of residence in Short Creek Township Chester Abraham Branson was born March 19. 1880, a son f Lindley M. and Anna M. (Fox)
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Branson, the former of whom died December 8, 1899, and the latter on the 15th of January, 1919, she having been born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of Charles J. and Esther (Cooper) Fox, sterling pioneers of whom more specific mention is made in other sketches appearing in this publication. Both the Branson and Fox families have been for many generaitions affiliated with the Society of Friends. the gracious and gentle faith of which they have exemplified in their daily lives.
Lindley M. Branson, a man of noble character and large and worthy achievement, was a representative of an English family, holding the religious faith of the Society of Friends, which sent representatives to America about the middle of the eighteenth century, the original settlement having been made in the state of Virginia, where the ancestral homestead still re-maius in possession of the family. Abraham Branson, from whom Chester A. Branson is a direcl descendant in the fifth generation, was 1 prosperous farmer near Winchester, Virginia, and was for many years an elder amid exhorter of the Society of Friends, in expounding the faith of which he journeyed far into the wilderness and ministered in the scattered settlements as far to the west as central Ohio. His only child, Reese Branson, came to Ohio about the year 1800 and passed the remainder f his life at St. Clairsville. Belmont County. His four children were Abraham, William, Maria and Eliza.
Of these children. Abraham was born in Belmont County on the 13th of June, 1806, He was a boy at the time of his father's death and was taken into the home of his paternal grandfather in Virginia. where he remained until he was about fourteen years of age. He then returned to Ohio and entered the home of his uncle, Isaac Branson, who owned and operated a large woolen and flouring mill at Glen Run, Jefferson County. Here Abraham Branson learned the trade of manufacturing woolens, in which he became an expert, and in the spring of 1831, shortly after his marriage to Miss Ann M.Wilson, a native of Jefferson County, He engaged in the manufacturing of woolens in Belmont County. In the spring of 1833 he came to Harrison County and purchased a milling and woolen manufacturing property in Short Creek Township. Ile continued the successful operation of the pioneer industrial plant until his death, and in connection with his mills he installed the first steam engine used for manufacturing purposes in Harrison County. He developed a remarkably prosperous and important industry in the manufacturing of various types of woolen goods, ;Ind contributed much to the civic and material development, and progress of this section of the state. He died January 16, 1867, and his widow passed away February 3, 1888, aged eighty-two years. Of their five sons and two daughters Lindley M. Was the eldest.
Lindley M. Branson was born near Wheeling, Belmont County, Ohio, September 2'6, 1832. and was an infant at the time of the family removal to Harrison County in 1833. Here he was reared under pioneer conditions and upon at taining to his legal majority became a partner in his fatherls manufacturing business, he having learned the trade when a boy and youth. The enterprise was successfully continued, under the firm name of A. Branson & Son until 1861, and in the meanwhile Lindley M. Branson has become prominently associated with the buying of wool in this section of Ohio, a line of enterprise with which he was actually concerned during the period of the Civil war, He was an authoritative judge of the qualities of wool and purchased millions of pounds of wool in eastern Ohio, the same having been shipped to eastern manufacturers. With this important line of industrial enterprise Mr. Branson continued his association for more than a quarter of a century, with precedence as one of the leading buyers and shippers of wool in eastern Ohio. He became the owner of one of the fine farm properties of Short Creek Township, and in 1.878 he erected on this property a commodious brick and stone house of three stories and finished throughout in hard woods. This is still one of the finest farm residences in the county, the building being situated on an eminence and commanding a splendid view of the surrounding country. Mr. Branson became a stockholder and director of leading banking institutions in Harrison County, and was one of the substantial men and influential citizens of the county for many years prior to his death. His character was the positive expression f a strong, noble and kindly nature, and he commanded the high esteem of all who came within the compass of his benign influence. He was a republican in his political allegiance, and he and his wife ever retained the faith of the Society of Friends, of which both were birthright members. The marriage of Mr. Branson to Miss Anna M. Fox was solemnized May 7, 1874, and they became the parents of two children—Charles Fox Branson and Chester Abraham Branson.
Chester A. Branson has remained from the time of his birth on the splendid old homestead farm in Short Creek Township save for the period during which he was pursuing educational work. He gained his Preliminary training in the district schools of his native township, later attended the Selo Business College one year, and in the autumn of 1899 entered Oberlin College, where he continued his studies part of one year, the death of his father then causing him to return to the home farm, in the operations of which he and his brother continued their partnership association until 1905, since which time Chester A. has had Sole management of the property and business, his brother, Charles F., being now in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, associated With the Short Creek Coal Company.
In 1900 Mr. Branson initiated the breeding of the finest type of Shorthorn cattle, to which he has since continued to give special attention, with registration of all of his cattle. His first sale of cattle brought an average return of eighty dollars a head, and his last sale, in the spring of 1920, gave an average of $1,200 a head. He is vigorous and progressive in all departments of his farm enterprise, and through his live-stock operations is doing much to improve grades in this section of the state, his
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success as n breeder and grower of fine Shorthorn cattle having been of the highest. He is loyal and liberal in his civic attitude, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Presbyterian Church at Adena.
Governor Willis appointed Mr. Branson a member of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture on July 22, 1915, and he served two years on tint board. In 1920 he was elected on the republican ticket a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Harrison County.
On the 11th of October 1905, was solemnized the marriage, of Mr. Branson to Miss Vincetta Holmes. daughter of Thomas and Melissa J. Holmes, of Hopedale. Harrison County, and of this union there are three children—Mary Vincetta. born May 10, 1908; Lindley M., born February 4, 1913: and Amin Jean, born January 15, 1921.
ANDREW B. MILLER is a well known citizen and farmer of Rumley Township. Harrison County. For nearly hnlf a century his time and activities have been devoted to the routine of agricultural effort, and his standing as a former and a good citizen is an additional tribute to the qualities of one of the sturdy pioneer families established in this county more than a century ago.
Mr. Miller was born in German Township, Harrison County. December 9. 1852. His grandfather. Daniel Miller. was born in Frederick County. Maryland, in 1788. and was a youth of eighteen years when he came with his parents to Harrison County in 1806 his father settling on Government land in German Township in that year. Daniel Miller lived o long and useful life. had a share in the arduous task of clearing a portion of the wilderness. and lie lived to see the fruits of his toil and the many collective benefits achieved by an increasing population. Ile married Susannah Lowmiller. who was born in Dauphin County. Pennsylvania in 1796. daughter of JOhn and Catherine (Long) Lowmiller, who had settled in Harrison County in 1800. when she was four years of age. The children of Daniel Miller and wife were Catherine. Elizabeth. Sarah. John, Henry, Susannah, Rebecca. Margaret. Abigail and Eliza J.
John Miller, a son of Daniel, was born in German Township February 22, 1822. His birthplace was a log cabin. He attended log cabin schools in his early youth and taught Public school. When he left the home farm he began an independent career as a farmer. and at the time of his death had a valuable and well improved place of 166 acres. He was a democrat who filled several local and county offices, and was a devout member of the Lutheran Church. May 1. 1549. he married Susannah Mikesell. who was born February 15, 1824. daughter of Peter and Mary A. (long) Mikesell, another early family in Harrison County. John Miller and wife had the following children: 0. B.. who was a public school teacher and a music teacher: Rebecca Margaret: H. A., deceased, was a fanner of German Township: Andrew B. Rev. Daniel D., a minister of the Lutheran Church; Prof. Samuel H., an educator and at one time a member of the faculty of Thiel College at Greenville, also president of Fredonia Teachers Institute, Pennsylvania ; John O.; Joseph M. of Hanlon Station, West Virginia; Clement E., owner of the home farm; Clayton I., deceased, formerly of Greenville. Pennsylvania ; and Rev. Jesse L., a minister of the Lutheran Church, Youngstown, Ohio.
Andrew B. Miller like the other children was afforded good educational advantages. After the district schools in German Township he spent a year in the Hopedale Normal School, taught in the public schools for a time, and since then his life has been one steady and successful devotion to farming. Mr. Miller owns ninety acres in Rumley Township, and it is a farm of well diversified industry. His specialty in livestock is sheep. It is an attractive home, and from this farm have radiated some of the good influences to the community at large. Mr. Miller has never sought a place in politics, but has been a life long democrat, and he and Mrs. Miller are members of the Lutheran Church at Germano.
In 1875 he married Miss Flora A. Smith, a native of Carroll County and daughter of Aaron and Sarah (Wier) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of five children. Rev. Charles D., the oldest, a resident of Cleveland, married Miss Adeline Con" of Greenville, Pennsylvania, and has four children, Charles, Robert, Frank and Dorotha. The second son is Monfred L. of Harrison County. Wilbert S. Miller, President of the Wheeling Realty Company, lives at Wheeling, West Virginia. He married Miss Ruth Snyder. Laura B.. the only daughter, is the wife of Frederick Miller. of Jefferson County. Ohio, and is the mother of three children. Arthur. John and Flora Frances. The youngest f Mr. Miller's sons is Harry C. of Wheeling. West Virginia.. and honored as one of the ex-service men from Harrison County. He enlisted and joined the colors August 30, 1917. and after ten days at Columbus was stationed at Madison Barracks until the latter port of November, when he sailed for overseas. In France he was with the transportation department of the Medical Corps, and was on duty abroad for nineteen months. He received his honorable discharge July 5. 1919. He is at present post commander of the Loyal Legion at Wheeling.
MONFRED L. MILLER. son of Andrew B. Miller, subject of the personal sketch and family record that immediately precedes this review, was born on the old homestead form in Rumley Township May 5, 1881. He acquired his youthful education in the district schools of Rumley and German townships. and thereafter continued his association with the activities f his fatherls farm until he was about twenty years of age. when he went to the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. where for two years was in the employ of the street-railway company. For the ensuing three years he was there in the employ of the Pittsburgh Construction Company. He then manifested his wisdom by returning to his native county and resuming his active association with farm industry. He is now the owner
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of a well improved and productive farm of 102 acres in the northeast corner of Burnley Towuship, and his pleasant farm residence is almost directly across the road from that of his parents. For six years after returning to Harrison County from Pittsburgh Mr. Miller gave special attention to the buying and selling of horses, but as an agriculturist and stock-raiser he has found his maximum potential in a business way and counts himself fortunate to be an exemplar of the basic industries under the influences of which he was reared, the while his loyalty to his native county is marked by full appreciation of its attractions and advantages. He is a democrat and his wife is a republican in their political proclivities, and both are communicants of the Lutheran Church.
On the 1st of August, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Grace Amos, daughter of Joshua and Mary V. Amos, of Loudon Township, Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have four children--John A., Anna Virginia, Helen Elizabeth and Samuel Jefferson.
SAMUEL DONNELSON STEWART has marked with success his career as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers in his native township, and is a scion of a family whose name has been worthily associated with the civic and industrial history of Harrison County for more than a century. In addition to his well improved homestead farm of eighty-seven acres in Washington Township, Mr. Stewart also owns ninety and one-half acres in Tuscarawas County, about two miles distant from the bome farm. In the live stock department of his farm industry he gives special attention to the raising of sheep of excellent type and grade.
Mr. Stewart was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, on the third f November, 1855, and is a son of Samuel and Maria (Auld) Stewart. Samuel Stewart was born in Pennsylvania on the 25th of June, 1809, and was a son of Archibald and Margaret (Donnelson) Stewart, whose marriage was solemnized in 1805, in the old Keystone State, where Mr. Stewart, Sr., established his residence upon immigrating to America from his native Ireland. Archibald and Margaret Stewart became the parents of five children, James, Samuel, Mary. Isabell and Margaret. In 1816 Archibald Stewart came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, and after remaining a short time near Cadiz he removed to Washington Township, where he began the reclamation of a farm from the forest wilds, and where he remained until his death, March 18, 1854, his wife having passed away November 13, 1849.
Samuel Stewart was a lad of seven years at the time of the family removal from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, and here he was reared on the frontier farm, with such educational advantages as were afforded in the primitive pioneer schools. June 2, 1840, recorded his marriage to Miss Marie Auld, who was born in Washington Township, this county, a daughter of William Auld, and a granddaughter of Samuel Auld, who was a native of Ireland, and who became a pioneer settler in Harrison County after having previously resided for a short period in Pennsylvania. He was a resident of Iowa at the time of his death. William Auld first married Mary McAdoo, whose death occurred in 1820, the one child of this union having been a daughter, Maria. For his second wife Mr. Stewart wedded Elizabeth Todd, and they became the parents of three children: James, George T. and Alexander T. Mr. Auld became affiliated with the republican party at the time of its organization, and ever afterward continued a staunch advocate of its principles. For many years he was a member of the Seceder Church, but during the closing years of his life was affiliated with the United Presbyterian Church. His death occurred January 11, 1880.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Stewart established their home in Washington Township, and with the passing years success attended their earnest and indefatigable activities in connection with farm enterprise. Both were venerable in years at the time of their deaths, and both were consistent members of the United Presbyterian Church, the while the political faith of Mr. Stewart was exemplified in his zealous advocacy of the principles of the democratic party. He lived a life of honor and usefulness, and was one of the sterling pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death.
Samuel D. Stewart and his twin brother. Thomas M., were born November 3, 1855, and the names and birth-dates of the other and older members of the family are here recorded: Mary, April 6, 1841; Archibald, January 10, 1843, who died in 1919; William Alexander, August 16, 1845; Margaret. September 10, 1847; and James M., January 25, 1850.
Samuel D. Stewart gained his youthful education in the Billingsly District School in Washington Township. and from boyhood until his marriage in 1877 he was associated actively with the work of the parental farm. For three years after his marriage he had charge of this farm, and in 1881 removed with his wife to the state of Kansas, where he remained two years. He then returned to his native county, and here he has resided continuously since the year 1885. He is aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Brethren Church.
May 23, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Stewart to Miss Margaret J. Green, a sister of Elmer E. Green, in whose personal sketch, on other pages of this work, are given ample data concerning the family. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart became the parents of five children, of whom the first born, Bertha. died in early childhood; Elva Florence married Arthur Watson, and became the mother of three children, Glenn A.. Dorris and Samuel D. ; Bertie is the wife of Mark Phillips, f Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and their one child is a son, Lee; Clarence, who resides in the state of Nevada, married Miss Bernice Dehaven, and they have adopted a son, Lyle; and Herbert, who is a prosperous farmer in Rush Township, Tuscarawas County, married Miss Cora Amos, their children being Helen and Margaret Fay.
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JAMES H. SEPTER not only conducts a well stocked and well patronized general merchandise establishment in the village of Tippecanoe, Harrison County, but is contributing further to the prestige of this section of the county through his effective association with the real estate business. He has been in the most significant sense the maker of his own prosperity and is one of the substantial business men and loyal and influential citizens of Tippecanoe.
Mr. Septer was born in Hocking County, Ohio, on the 23d of August, 1871, and is a son of William and Sammiah (Campbell) Septer, both of whom were born in Fairfield County, this state. William Septer became a farmer in Hocking County, where he remained until about 1885, when he removed to Tuscarawas County and established himself upon a farm in Rush Township. There he continued his residence until about the year 1896, when he came to Harrison County and engaged in farm enterprise in Washington Township, where he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in 1898, and his widow having passed to eternal rest on the 17th of January, 1920. Both were earnest members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of the following children—Elizabeth, Sadie, William, Savilla, James H., Scott Earl and Pearl Ellsworth.
James H. Septer early began to assist his father in farm work, and his youthful education was acquired in the district schools of Fairfield and Tuscarawas counties. As a young man he was identified with farm enterprise in Tuscarawas County and later in Washington Down- ship, Harrison County. In 1892 he found employment in the sewer-pipe manufactory at Midvale, Tuscarawas County, where he remained thus engaged until 1896. In 1897 he established his residence at Tippecanoe, Harrison County, where for the ensuing four years he was engaged in teaming. Thereafter he devoted three years to independent farm industry in Washington Township, and after leaving the farm he conducted a livery business about one year at Byesville, Guernsey County. He next passed a brief period in the city of Columbus, and he then returned to Tippecanoe and purchased the general merchandise establishment which he has since conducted with marked success. For the past few years he has also given attention to the buying and selling of real estate in this immediate section of the county, and in Randall County. Texas, he is the owner of a valuable farm property of 412 acres. Mr. Septer is a republican in politics, and while he ha s had no desire for office his civic loyalty is shown by his effective service as a member of the school board of Washington Township, a position of which he is the incumbent at the time of lids writing. He has been for fully twenty years actively affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.
December 19, 1897, recorded the marriage of Mr. Septer to Miss Lucy Thompson, daughter of Isaiah and Leah Jane (Grubb) Thompson, of Tuscarawas County. Mr. Thompson was engaged in the mercantile business in Tuscarawas County until the early '80s, when he came to Tippecanoe, Harrison County, where he continued in the same line of enterprise until his death in 1885, his widow being still a resident of this village. They became the parents of nine children, namely: Charles, Leah Margaret, John T. and Naomi (twins), Ella, Sadie Gertrude, Lucy, Edward and Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Septer have one son, Leslie Earl, who was born October 28, 1905.
REZIN L. BAKER, one of the successful farmers of Archer Township, is a representative of the third generation of the Baker family in Harrison County, where his paternal grandparents, Rezin and Sarah (Thompson) Baker, established their home in the pioneer days, the grandfather having reclaimed and improved a productive farm in Green Township.
Rezin L. Baker was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 25th of January, 1871, and is a son of Elijah W. and Mary M. (Maholm) Baker, the latter a daughter of James and Maxie Maholm, whose farm home was in Archer Township, where they gained pioneer honors. Their children were seven in number— Martin, James, Thomas B., Stewart (died in childhood), Jane, Anna and Mary M. Rezin Baker, paternal grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born and reared in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and, as previously noted, he became a pioneer settler in Green Township, Harrison County. Ohio, where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives, both having been numbered among the early members of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church of their neighborhood. Their children were three in number—John L., Thomas and Elijah W., and all are now deceased.
Elijah W. Baker lived a life of purposefulness and worthy achievement, and through his well directed endeavors he accumulated and improved one of the large and valuable farm properties of his native county. He was born in Green Township on the 4th of January, 1847, and was afforded the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. His marriage was solemnized November 28, 1868, and soon afterward he settled on a farm in Archer Township, where the original habitation of the young couple was a primitive log house. Eventually he became the owner of more than 250 acres of valuable land, and upon his home place he made the best of improvements. He was one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of Archer Township at the time of his death, which occurred October 15, 1909. His widow passed away on the 15th of October, 1915, and both were earnest members f the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of four children, of whom the youngest, a daughter, died in early childhood: Thomas M., whose death occurred in October, 1905, was born August 28, 1869. The maiden name of his wife was Virena E. Baxter, and their one child. Dean Baxter Baker, is now a member of the family circle of his uncle, Rezin L., of this sketch, who was the second child in his parents' family. Axin Dora, became the
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wife of Jesse L. Martin and was a resident of Archer Township at the time of her death. She is survived by one child, Florence M. Sarah E., the youngest of the four children, was born February 16, 1878, and died June 19, 1880.
Rezin L. Baker gained his youthful education in what is known as the Brown school in district No. 8, near the line between Archer and Green townships. His entire active career has been marked by active alliance with the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and in 1900 he made his first purchase of land—a small tract in Archer Township. Through inheritance and the purchase of additional land he is now the owner of a fine farm property of about 400 acres, and he has secure prestige as one of the progressive and successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in his native county, cattle and sheep of excellent types being raised on his farm. His loyalty to his native county is shown in his liberal and progressive civic attitude, and while he has had no desire to enter the domain of practical politics he is a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party, as was also his father. His name is still enrolled on the roster of eligible bachelors in Harrison County.
JUNIUS L. REPPART is the youngest of the three sons born to William S. and Nancy (Smith) Reppart, and like his brothers, John S. and Thomas F., is a successful representative of farm industry in his native township of Short Creek, Harrison County, individual mention of his brothers being made on other pages of this volume. He was born in Short Creek Township December 2, 1860. and his early education was obtained in the little schoolhouse of district No. 5, this township, where his entire active life has been marked by close and successful association with farm enterprise. In 1894 he established his residence upon his present farm, and in connection with his agricultural and live-stock enterprise he continued for eighteen years to mine coal from the productive vein on his farm, his activities in mining having been continued, until 1912. His farm originally comprised 160 acres. but he has gradually sold small tracts from the property Until he now retains only sixty acres, constituting one of the well improved and productive farms of Short Creek Township.
William S. Reppart, father of him whose name introduces this review, passed his entire life in Short Creek Township, where he died in the house which figured as the place of his birth. He and his father were stonemasons by trade. He was born in the year 1830 and his death occurred in November, 1898. His widow, who was born in Tuscarawas County. a daughter of John Smith. passed away on the 25th of .February, 1903. an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their three children are all represented by individual sketches in this publication, as noted in the foregoing paragraph. William S. Reppart was a son of Daniel Reppart. who was born in Wales in 1778. and was a young man when he came to America. His first wife and all save one of their children died during a yellow fever epidemic in the State of Pennsylvania, and in 1825 he married Miss Hannah Stephens, who was born July 26, 1786. They came soon after their marriage to Ohio and settled in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. Their two children were David and William S. David was born in 1826 and remained in Harrison County until his death on the 28th f May, 1887.
In 1887 was solemnized the marriage of Junius L. Reppart to Miss Ruth Ella Ely, who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of William and Naomi (Randall) Ely. Mr. and Mrs. Reppart have five children. Hartzell married Miss Stella Gum- mere. and they have two children—Mervin and William. Irma N. is the wife of Milton Singer, and their two children are Mildred and James. Edna is the wife of Samuel Boyles, and they have one child, Mary Ella. Willard married Miss Emma Carter. Ray married Miss Ethel Rucker, and they have one child, Betty June. All of the children still reside in Harrison County and are well upholding the honors of a family name that has been identified with the history of this county for nearly a century.
JAMES C. MERRIMAN. The attractive village of Tippecanoe in Washington Township, Harrison County, has its full complement of well ordered mercantile and industrial establishments, and one of the important enterprises thus lending to the prestige of the village is the general merchandise store of Mr. Merriman, the volume of whose business indicates alike the excellent service of his establishment and his personal popularity in his native county, where he is a representative of an honored pioneer family.
Mr. Merriman was born at Deersville, this county, on the 24th of February, 1863, and is a son of Nicholas and Amy Ann (Moore) Merriman, both of whom likewise were born in Harrison County, where their marriage was solemnized on thesi 18th of June, 1840. Nicholas Merriman was born on the 24th of November, 1817, a date that indicates that his parents were numbered among the early settlers of the county. He was a son of Micajah and Sophia (Snyder) Merriman, who were born and reared. in Pennsylvania and who became pioneer settlers in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. Ohio, where the father developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their sixteen children all but one attained to years f maturity. The names of the children are here recorded: Sheridan, Nicholas, Daniel, William (died in young manhood), Abraham, Samuel, John. Charles,. Anna, Betsy, Rachel, Polly, Ruth, Susan, Julia and Rebecca.
Mrs. Amy Ann (Moore) Merriman was born and reared in Stock Township, Harrison County, and was a daughter of Peter and Sarah (Jones) Moore. who likewise were numbered among the sterling pioneers of this county, the father having become a snbstantial farmer in Stock Township and both he and his wife having been devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children—Phoebe, Charity, Catherine, Ingabee,
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Mary, Amy Ann, Sarah, Isaiah (served as a soldier in the Civil war) and John.
Nicholas Merriman was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County, and in his youth he learned the trade of blacksmith. In the autumn of 1863 he established his home at Tippecanoe, this county, and here he continued in the sturdy work of his trade until the close of his long, useful and worthy life. He died on the 29th of December, 1897, and his widow passed to eternal rest on the 25th of January, 1904, when venerable in years. Both were earnest and consistent members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of ten children, of whom the first five are deceased, namely: Rachel, Finley, Robert, Peter M. and Aquilla. The surviving children are: Elizabeth, Julia Ann, James C., Susanna and Buenavista L.
The district school known as the Birney School, in Washington Township afforded to James C. Merriman his early educational advantages, and he was a lad of fifteen years when he began clerking in a general store at Tippecanoe. Thus he early gained valuable knowledge in connection with the line of enterprise with which he has been continuously associated and in which he has won substantial success. In 1896 be established an independent mercantile business at Tippecanoe, and this he conducted until 1902, when he sold the stock and business. Thereafter he lived virtually retired until 1906, when he opened his present well equipped general merchandise establishment, which receives a substantial and representative patronage and is one of the leading mercantile stores of Tippecanoe. He takes loyal interest in community affairs. He and his wife are earnest and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, he having served many years as class leader and being at the present time a steward of this church, besides which he has given effective service of several years in the position of superintendent of the Sunday school.
On the 28th of November, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Merriman to Miss Catherine Elizabeth Groves, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and who is a daughter of Hiram and Mary Ann (Phillips) Groves, both natives of Washington Township, this county. Mr. Groves was one of the representative farmers of Washington Township at the time of his death, in December, 1872, and his widow survived him by many years, her death occurring in May, 1916. His first wife, whose maiden name was Maria Johnson, became the mother of seven children— Phoebe, Ellen Ann, John, Jane, Susan, Andrew S. and William. Of the second marriage were born lye children—Agnes, Thomas, Catherine Elizabeth (Mrs. Merriman), Della and Margaret. he parents were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Merriman ave no children.
HENRY B. STIERS is another of the native sons Id representative farmers of Short Creek Township, and is a member of one of the old d honored families of Harrison County. He
was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 17th of January, 1852, and is a son of Henry and Lucinda (Close) Stiers, the former of whom died January 1, 1901, and the latter passed away on the 10th of November, 1908, their marriage having been solemnized May 15, 1839.
Henry Stiers, who was for many years one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of
Short Creek Township, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1807, and thus was nearly ninety-four years of age at the time of his death. He was a son of Jacob and Mary (Moore) Stiers, both of whom were reared in the State of Pennsylvania, the latter having been a daughter of Henry and Rachel (Dunn) Moore. Jacob Stiers was a son of Henry Stiers, whose wife was of English lineage, he himself having been born in Germany and having become an early settler in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where his home was destroyed by Indians, who set fire to the buildings on his farm and killed his wife and their youngest child, as well as one of his sisters, another girl of the family having been taken captive and borne away by the Indians. Jacob and one of his brothers fled for their lives, and he was pursued some distance by the savage Indians, but finally he reached the house of a neighbor and gave an alarm that rapidly spread through the pioneer community. A. brother of Jacob Stiers served as a soldier in the War of 1812 and incidentally gained information that the captured girl above mentioned was living with the Indians in Canada. He proceeded to Canada in search of her, and there found her married to an Indian, to whom she had borne four children.
Jacob Stiers was born in New Jersey and was a boy at the time of the family removal to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he was reared to manhood and where his marriage was solemnized. About the year 1810 he came to Ohio and settled in what is now Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, he having died January 1, 1837, at the age of sixty-six Years, and his wife having passed away in August, 1832, at the age of sixty-three years. They became the parents of nine children—Rebecca, Rachel, John, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Jacob, Hannah (Mrs. Christopher S. Hall), and Henry. All of the children are now deceased.
Henry Stiers was not yet three years of age at the time when the family home was established in Harrison County. where he was reared on the frontier farm and where he gained a rudimentary education, in the pioneer log schoolhouse. He was reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the pioneer church which he attended was a log structure situated on his father's farm, his father having hewed the logs and done all of the carpenter work on this primitive sanctuary. At the age of twenty-five years Henry Stiers initiated independent farm enterprise near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, but he later sold this farm and returned to the old home to care for his
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venerable father, from whom he purchased the old homestead, at the rate of twenty dollars an acre. After his marriage he removed to another farm in Short Creek Township, and at one time he was the owner of a valuable landed estate of 400 acres of valuable land in Harrison County. He was one of the county's most progressive and successful agriculturists and stock- growers, and was the first to introduce the raising of fine-wool sheep into this section of the state. He was a staunch republican, was liberal and loyal as a citizen and ever commanded the high regard of all who knew him. Both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Stiers was born near Saint Clairsville, Belmont County, September 18, 1815, a daughter of Henry and Magdalena (Neat) Close, sterling pioneers of that county, to which they came from Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Stiers became the parents of ten children, one of whom died in infancy. John, George, Mary Olive and Laura are deceased; Harriet E.; Henry Bennet, the immediate subject of this sketch; and the younger daughters were given the names of Ellen Augusta, Emma Rebecca and Louella.
Henry B. Stiers acquired his early education in the district schools of Short Creek Township, and in his native township he has been actively identified with farm industry from the time of his boyhood to the present. His well improved farm is effectively devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of approved types of live stock. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Shepherdstown.
On the 19th of April, 1877, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stiers to Miss Mary Ethel McCleary, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of the late Ephraim and Mary A. (Gillespie) McCleary, the former of whom was born in the State of Maryland October 19, 1810, and the latter of whom was born and reared in Franklin County, Ohio. Her father, Menzes Gillespie, was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mr. McCleary's first marriage was with Nancy J. Dunn, a daughter f General Dunn, who long represented Belmont County in the Ohio Legislature. All three children of this first marriage died in childhood, and Mrs. Nancy J. (Dunn) McCleary was still a young woman at the time of her death. Ephraim McCleary was a blacksmith by trade, and he was a pioneer workman at his trade in the Village of Harris- vine, Harrison County, Ohio. In 1859 he removed to a farm near that village, and there he died on the 28th of April, 1874, and his widow passed away on the 19th f May, 1886. They became the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Stiers was the third in order of birth. Mr. and Mrs. Stiers have three children —John Clayton, William Henry and Menzes Phelps. John C., the eldest son, is district superintendent of schools in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he resides at the county seat. He married Miss Margaret Sewell, and they have three children—Marion, Josephije and Aura Mae.
CHARLES E. ALLISON, whose pleasant home is situated just without the corporate limits of the Village of Hopedale, Harrison County, has since 1889 been actively engaged in the practice of law, with his native township as his place of residence and his professional headquarters.
Mr. Allison was born on his father's farm in Green Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was April 26, 1863. He is a son of John R. and Nancy A.1 (Shamel) Allison, both natives of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where the former was born on the 12th of March, 1818, and the latter in the year 1835.
John Rea Allison was about seven years old when his parents came to Harrison County and numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers f Green Township, where the father reclaimed and improved a good farm. John R. Allison was a son of James and Margaret (Hervey) Allison, the former of whom was born in Ireland, whence he came to America when he was fifteen years of age, in 1805. At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Allison served an apprenticeship at the trade of saddler and harness- maker, and his marriage to Margaret Hervey, a daughter of William Hervey, was solemnized at Cadiz, Harrison County. Ohio, where they thereafter maintained their home about seven years. They later resided in Stark and Tuscarawas counties, but in 1825 they came again to Harrison County and established their home on a pioneer farm in Green Township, where Mrs. Allison died in 1837, her husband having attained to the patriarchal age of ninety years and his death having occurred in 1881. In connection with the operation of his farm Mr. Allison worked at his trade for many years, with a shop maintained at his home. James and Margaret Allison became the parents of eleven children—Margaret (Mrs. John Galbraith), John R., David, Henry, Sarah, James, Mary Jane (Mrs. John Hammond), Joseph, Elizabeth (Mrs. Daniel Eaton), Bell and Isabella. All of these children are now deceased. John R. Allison was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer period in the history of Harrison County, where he assisted in the activities of the home farm, besides which he learned the trade of tanner As a young man he began independent operations as a farmer in Green Township, where he became the owner of an excellent farm of 110 acres, besides giving his attention to the operation of a tannery and to the driving of cattle to the eastern markets in the pioneer days. He was one of the sterling and honored pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death. November 29, 1902, when eighty-four years of age, his widow having passed away on the 10th of May, 1918, aged eighty-three years, she having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their two children Charles E., of this review, is the elder, and Rowena M. is the wife of William J. Stainger.
Charles E. Allison passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the home farm and was afforded the advantages of the village schools at Hopedale. There also he attended Hopedale College, in which he was graduated in 1885, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts,
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and from which he received in 1887 the supplemental degree of Master Of Arts. In preparation for his chosen profession Mr. Allison entered the Cincinnati Law School, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He has since been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession in Harrison County, and has handled a large volume of law business, much of which has been of important order. He has remained continuously in Green Township. He was a resident of Hopedale from 1905 until 1918, in which latter year he removed to his present attractive home, just outside the corporate limits of Hopedale. Much of his law business has been as counsellor, but he has gained also a high reputation as a careful and resourceful trial lawyer. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Hopedale.
On the 14th of September, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Allison to Miss Mary E. Hervey, daughter of David and Mary M. Hervey, well known citizens of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Allison have no children.
WILLIAM G. KENT is not only one of the prosperous and enterprising reprcsentatives of farm industry in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, but is also a native of this county and a scion of one f its old and influential pioneer families. His paternal grandfather, Absalom Kent (III), was born in Stock Township, this county, in 1810, and was a son of Absalom Kent (II), who was born in Virginia in 1777, a son of Absalom Kent (I), who likewise was a native of the historic Old Dominion State, where the family, of English origin, was founded in the early colonial era. Absalom Kent (II) came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, at a very early date, probably about the opening of the nineteenth century, and he settled in Stock Township, where he took a large tract of Government land and instituted the reclamation of a farm. Here he remained a number of years, but he finally removed to the State of Illinois, where he continued to reside until his death in 1875. His children were six in number—Absalom (III), Abner; John, Jacob, Jane and Mary. He became the owner of an extensive landed estate, in both Ohio and Illinois, and he gave to each of his sons 200 acres of land. Absalom Kent (III) was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer days in Harrison County, and he passed virtually his entire active life as a farmer in Nottingham Township. His first wife bore the maiden name of Mary Walker, and they had six children—Absalom (IV), John H., Joseph W., Stewart, William and Tabitha. For his second wife he married Sarah Traub. and they became the parents of one child, Sarah Jane, now Mrs. John Toole. After the death of his second wife Absalom Kent (III) married Margaret Worman, and their one child was Mary G., who married Samuel Grimes, of Cadiz. In politics Mr. Kent was a republican from the time of the organization f the party of that name until his death, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Joseph W. Kent was born and reared in Nottingham Township, and there he continued his active association with farm industry during the major part of his active life, though he was for a few years a farmer in Washington Township and for a time in Tuscarawas County. As a young man he wedded Miss Janie Guthrie, who likewise was born in Harrison County, a daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (Fitzgerald) Guthrie, her father having been a farmer in this county and having finally removed to Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, where he remained until his death. His children were Mary, Janie, Thomas and Wilhelmina. Joseph W. Kent was about sixty-six years of age at the time of his death, and his widow survives, aged seventy-seven years, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of eight children: Nettie (deceased), Hattie, John T., William G., Caroline, Josephine, Ora and Cora.
William G. Kent was born on November 3, 1868. He gained his early education principally in the schools of Tuscarawas County and was about twelve years of age when his parents returned to Nottingham Township, Harrison County. In this township he has continued his alliance with farm enterprise during the intervening period, and also gave some attention to the mining of coal. Since 1908 he has resided on his present farm, which comprises 138 acres and is well improved, even as it is well managed in both its agricultural and live-stock departments. In politics he is aligned in the ranks of the republican party and he and his wife are active members of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, best known as Bethel Chapel.
On the 30th of July, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kent to Miss Margaret V. Gaines, who was born near Little Rock, Arkansas, November V, 1876, and who is a daughter of Edwin Y. Old Jennie (Widdoes) Gaines. Mr. Gaines, who was a captain in the United States Army during the Civil war, continued his residence in Arkansas until his death, and his widow then removed with her children to Kansas, where they remained until 1888, coming then to Harrison County, Ohio and established a home in Cadiz Township, where Mrs. Gaines remained until her death. Her children were three in number: Herbert (died in the same week as did his father), Anna and Margaret V. Mr. and Mrs. Kent became the parents of four children: Violet (died February 20, 1901), Lawrence R., Isabel and Viola.
GEORGE A. PHILPOTT has effected an excellent adjustment of the various forces and agencies that make for success in farm industry and is one of the staunch and progressive agriculturists and stock-raisers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County.
Mr. Philpott was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 11th of March, 1856, and in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were born and reared his parents, Charles and Eliza Jane (Stradling) Philpott. Charles Philpott remained in the old Keystone State
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until be was about thirty-six years of age. coming then to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he remained until about 1860. He then came with his family to Harrison County and engaged in farming in Short Creek Township, where his earnest and well ordered endeavors brought to him a goodly measure of success. In this township he and his wife continued to maintain their home until their deaths. They became the parents of four children: Louis, George A., Sarah Elizabeth, deceased, who became Mrs. Samuel Colville, and Charles Edgar, also deceased.
George A. Philpott was a child at the time of the family removal to Harrison County and was reared and educated in Short Creek Township, where he was afforded the advantages of the district schools of the period. In this township when he was a, young man he initiated his independent activities as a farmer, and with the exception of seven years. during which he was a farmer in Jefferson County, he has resided continuously in Short Creek Township from his childhood to the present time. He now owns an excellent farm of 100 acres, in section 24, and on this place he established his residence in the spring of 1001. He has remodeled the house and erected various new farm buildings, so that the place has adequate equipment not only for the successful prosecution of all departments of productive farm industry, but also offers a pleasant and attractive home. Mr. Philpott takes loyal and helpful interest in community affairs, is a republican in politics but is a substantial citizen to whom the honors of public oflice have never appealed in a personal way. His wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church in the Village of Adena.
March 29, 1893, recorded the marriage f Mr. Philpott to Miss Belle M. Townsend, who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of David and Adaline (Morris) Townsend, both residing in Short Creek Township. Mr. and Mrs. Philpott have three children—Earl T., Irma Lucile and Wiley.
CHARLES ALLEN CHANEY. Among the progressive young farmers of Athens Township is Charles Allen Chaney. He was born October 2. 1.878, and has always lived in Harrison County. The Chaney family story began in Harrison County in 1805 with the coming of Thomas Chaney from Virginia. Nathan Chaney, of the preceding generation, was born in Maryland. The Chaney ancestry came into the colonies at the time of the French and Indian war.
After leaving Maryland and locating in Virginia, Nathan Chaney married Sarah Mansfield and seven daughters and six sons were born to them, among them Thomas Chaney. When a young man making his start he worked about the country at almost starvation wages, but he kept on adding to his savings until he finally acquired a competency. On September 25, 1836, he married Elizabeth, a daughter f James and Sarah- (Watson) Clark, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Their children were Martha, Elizabeth, Mary, John and William. The second daughter became the wife of Thomas Chaney. While they had no money they had courage and were Industrious, and they were just the type of young people for the frontier community. They developed one of the best farmsteads in the county. They were the grandparents of Charles Allen Chaney.
The children born to Thomas and Elizabeth (Clark) Chaney were: James, John, William, Sarah. Martha, Samuel, Mary Ann, Elizabeth Ann. Mary Ellen, Thomas W., Hannah and Nancy. Some 'of the good old family names were made to do double service in designating the children, but Samuel is the one through whom the lineal descent is continuous to the next generation. He was born December 14, 1846. and grew up in the community. On August 5, 1875. he married Clarinda, a daughter of John and Eliza Jane (Morgan) Edwards. She was born September 12. 1856, and after their marriage they lived at the old Chaney homestead. Their children are: Ione Estelle. Charles Allen, William Vernon and Willis Craig Chaney. Ione Estella was born January 9. 1877. and died November 27, 1908. She was the wife of James Eaton. William Vernon was born April 10, 1885, and died May 4, less than one month later. Willis Craig Chaney was born September 13. 1886. The Chaneys are members of the Presbyterian Church in New Athens. Mrs. Chaney died September 8. 1913, and he died June 5. 1916, at the family homestead in Athens Township. The Commemorative Record says of Mr. Chaney: "Quiet and unassuming. his presence is, nevertheless, always felt and acknowledged," and that is sufficient tribute. The Edwards family had come from Belmont to Harrison County, and Clarinda (Edwards) Chaney also came of excellent parentage.
The Chaney young people attended the Beech Point country school, and later C. A. Chaney attended Franklin College. On October 15, 1902, he married Nannie E. Moore. She is a daughter of Walker and Sarah Rebecca (Campbell) Moore. Their children are: Willard Doyle. born July 26, 1907: Oliver W., born August 4, 1911, and died January 2, 1912; and Sarah Agnes, born March 7, 1914. In 1914 Mr. Chaney bought the old homestead, and his livestock specialty is Jersey cattle.
WILLIAM S. CESSNA was a youth of eighteen years when he established his home at Cadiz, and from a modest clerkship in a local grocery store he advanced step by step until he became president f the First National Bank of Cadiz, which progress was won entirely through his own ability and faithful efforts. His record as one of the representative business men of Harrison County is without blemish, while his attitude has at all times been that of a loyal and progressive citizen. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, and for ten years was successfully engaged in the practice of law. He then identified himself with a banking enterprise. of which he long stood as a prominent and influential representative. He resigned the presidency of the institution in 1911, since which time he has lived virtually retired.
Mr. Cessna was born at Bedford, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1845, and was there reared and educated. He is a son of John J. and
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Nancy (Powell) Cessna, both natives of Bedford, and is a grandson of James Cessna, who was a prosperous farmer in Bedford County, where he and his wife, whose family name was Lysinger, continued to reside until their deaths. They became the parents of seven children—John J., Charles, Alexander, William, Polly, Susan and Margaret. Alexander Cessna came to Cadiz, Ohio, in the '50s and engaged in the work of his trade, that of tailor, but in 1884 he removed to California. John J. Cessna, father of William S., was for a long period a tailor at Bedford. Pennsylvania, and later engaged in the livery business in 'that city. He served one term as sheriff of his native county. He and his wife passed their entire lives in Bedford. Their children were five in number —John A.. William S. James P., Mary E. (Mrs. William C. Dorsey) and Frank P.
William S. Cessna continued his residence in the old Keystone State until' he was eighteen years of age, when he came to Cadiz. He arrived in this village in 1864, and for a time was employed as clerk in the grocery of George Brothers. He then began the study of law under the preceptorship of William P. Lupton, and in 1871 he was admitted to the bar. He continued in the practice of his profession as one of the representative younger members of the Harrison County Bar until 1882. at which time lre assumed the position of bookkeeper in the First National Bank at Cadiz. In 1884 he was appointed assistant cashier of the institution, and later he was advanced to the office of cashier, of which executive office he continued the efficient and popular incumbent until 1904. after which he was president of the bank until his retirement in 1911. He has at all times taken vital and loyal interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of his home village and county. He is a democrat in politics, and served two terms as mayor of Cadiz. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife bold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 16th of May, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cessna to Miss Laura McBean. a daughter of Dr. John and Belinda (Johnson) McBean. the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Harrison County, Ohio. where her parents were pioneer settlers upon coming from Pennsylvania. Dr. John McBean was a boy at the time of his parents' death and thereafter was taken into the home of an uncle who was residing in the West India Islands. Thence he tinally came to the United States and established his residence in Ohio. He was a man f fine scholarship, and for a number of years was a teacher f Latin and Greek. He then prepared himself for the medical profession. and for half a century was eugaged in the practice of his prfession at Cadiz. He was one of the best-known and most highly honored citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death. January 7, 1875. His widow survived him by several years. They became the parents of three sons and seven daughters. Doctor McBean was first a whig and later a republican in politics. and under the old judicial system of Ohio he served for a time on the bench of the County Court of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Cessna have but one child, Frank J., who maintains his residence at Cadiz, where he was born and reared. He married Miss Florence V. Martin, and they have three children—William M., Julia and Philip.
AGER FAMILY. The Ager family of Harrison County is of Irish descent. The earliest known ancestor was James Ager, who lived in County Tyrone, Ireland, during the latter half of the eighteenth century. He was a farmer and land owner.
His son William Ager immigrated to this country in 1811, locating first in Virginia, where he married Elizabeth McFadden. Soon afterwards they removed to Montgomery County, Ohio, and later to Clark County, Ohio, where William Ager died in 1831.
Alexander Ager, a son of William, and father of the Agers born in Harrison County, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio. in 1821 and died at New Rumley in 1898. He attended New Hagerstown Academy, taught district school for a time, and was talented as a musician and in early life taught that art. His real trade and occupation, however, was that of gunsmith, a work in which he excelled. Many rifles of his make are still in use. A few days before the capture of Morgan's raiders near Salem, Ohio, he and some neighbors started out with their squirrel rifles to assist in the capture. In the early '40s John J. Ager, a brother of Alexander, and a physician, performed the operation of trephining and replaced the lost hone with a silver plate fashioned by himself, thus saving the life of a boy whose skull had been fractured by the kick of a horse. This was an unusual operation for a country physician at that time.
In 1850 Alexander Ager married Susan Bishop, daughter of John and Naomi Bishop. It was in the beginning of the nineteenth century that John Bishop with his father, mother and family removed from Pennsylvania to what is now German Township. He was born in 1795 and died in 1891. John Bishop was a blacksmith and farmer. His wife was the daughter of Joshua and Catherine (Haun) Martin and a granddaughter of John and (Polly) Mary Stokes Haun. John Haun was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, having lived prior to that struggle in Washington County, Maryland, but enlisted in Virginia and was in a number of battles, having been severely wounded in the battle of Brandywine. Soon after the war he and his family settled near Germano. He is buried in Zion Cemetery near that place. Evidently John Bishop and wife were not believers in race suicide, for to them were born fourteen children, three sons and eleven daughters, all of whom reached the age of manhood and womanhood. Two of these children were living at the beginning f 1920: One. Vernelia Bishop Couch, at New Rumley, Ohio. and the other. Bathia Bishop Badger, at Unionport. Ohio. A son of John Bishop, Dr. Hiram Bishop. was a surgeon in the Civil war. His son and grandson are physicians, the son
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practicing in Columbus and the grandson in Vinton County, Ohio.
Alexander Ager and wife have six living children, the oldest son being John William Ager, whose career as a prosperous farmer of Rumley Township is reviewed elsewhere.
Another son is Alexander Scott Ager, who was born at New Burnley October 21, 1867, was educated in the district schools and Hopedale College, and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati in March, 1892. He had previously taught district school for three years, but for upwards of thirty years has been actively engaged in dental practice, beginning at New Philadelphia in May, 1892. After a year he bought the office of Dr. J. E. Barricklow, and was in partnership with Dr. W. W. Richardson until 1909 and since then has practiced alone. He is a member of the Tuscarawas County Dental Society, the Ohio State Society and the National Dental Association, is a director of the Tuscarawas Building and Loan Company, a republican, and is affiliated with the Elks and Masons and is a member of the United Brethren Church at New Rumley. February 12, 1907, at Akron, Ohio, Doctor Ager married Lida Stuffier, daughter of George F, Stiffler.
JOHN WILLIAM AGER. An industrious and well-to-do agriculturist of Harrison County, John William Ager, of Rumley Township,. is proprietor of a fine homestead, which in regard to its appointments compares favorably with any in the locality. The neat and orderly appearance of his property manifest to the most casual observer the thrift and care of the owner, and show conclusive evidence that he has a thorough understanding of the business in which he is engaged A native of Harrison County, he was born June 25, 1855, in the Village of New Rumley. His father, Alexander Ager, was born near Springfield, Ohio, but for many years was a resident of New Rumley. He married Susan Bishop, who was born in German Township, Harrison County, a daughter of John Bishop.
John W. Ager was educated in the district schools of Rumley Township, and as a young man worked as a day laborer. Industrious and thrifty, he accumulated some money. and subsequently bought a saw mill, which he operated successfully for a number of seasons. In May, 1897, he assumed possession of his present farm in Rumley Township, and in its management has shown excellent judgment and wisdom, being known as one of the most able farmers and stock growers of the vicinity. The improvements that he has made on the place are of an excellent character, the buildings, all of which he erected, being both comfortable and conveniently arranged.
Mr. Ager married, December 16, 1880, Maria Myers, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel Myers, a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Left fatherless when young, Mr. Myers was brought up in the family of Jacob Leas in Jefferson County, Ohio, where be began life for himself as a tiller of the soil. Coming from there to Harrison County in 1859, he located in German Township, and was there a resident until his death, in March, 1910. Mr. Myers married Lydia Lichtenwalter, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, and to them two children were born, as follows: Maria, now Mrs. Ager; and Sarah Ann, wife of Homer Anderson, of Stark County, Ohio.
Three children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ager, namely: Florence A., who married Charles Markley, has one child, Gladys, wife of Samuel Kimmel; G. Earl, a resident of Stark County, married Blanche Morrow, and they have one child, Ethel; and Harry Albert, living on his father's farm, married Dora Baker, and they have three children, Charles William, Kenneth Earl and Ralph D. Mr. and Mrs. Ager are faithful members of the Brethren Church of New Rumley, in which he has served as chorister for the past forty years, and in which his daughter Florence has been organist since twelve years of age. Mr. Ager takes much interest in public matters, and for three years was supervisor of the roads of Rumley Township.
GEORGE W. BEALL. In making this publication authoritative and comprehensive it has been found both consistent and imperative to avoid repetition of family records in the various personal sketches here appearing, and in connection with this representative farmer of Nottingham Township reference may be made to the adequate family data appearing on other pages, in the personal sketch of his brother Frank M.
George W. Beall was born on the farm which is the stage of his present effective enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was July 22, 1884. His father, John B. Beall, gained secure prestige as one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of this township. Mr. Beall found in the district schools of his native township the privileges which enabled him to acquire the basic education that has been amplified in later association with the practical affairs of life, and he has resided continuously on the old home farm, of which he has had the independent management since the autumn of 1917. He is a member of the school board of the township, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church.
May 22, 1918, recorded the marriage of Mr. Beall to Miss Ella M. Carrothers, who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Crawford and Mary Belle (Dickerson) Carrothers. Mr. and Mrs. Beall have a fine little son, Francis Wayne, who was born April 10, 1919.
THOMAS RAY BROKAW. It was January 14, 1879, that Thomas Ray Brokaw was born in Athens Township, Harrison County. His father. John M. Brokaw, was born August 4, 1842, in Wheeling Township, Belmont County. The grandfather, George Brokaw, was born in February, 1813, in Athens Township, Harrison
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County. The grandmother, Jane McKibben, was born in October, 1813, in the same community. She was a daughter of John McKibben, who was a pioneer in Harrison County. His children were: Mathew, Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Nancy, Jane and Martha.
The great-grandfather, George Brokaw, was born in New Jersey and his wife was Mary McCullough. The great-great-grandfather, George Brokaw, was one of two brothers who left Germany because of religious and military conditions, and coming to the United States they were pioneers in the new country. When George Brokaw, the German immigrant, first came to Harrison County he located his sons on Government land, and he later built the first frame house in Harrison County. He attained to the ripe old age of ninety-six. He spent his first year in a tent after locating in Cadiz Township, and he was a Harrison County soldier in the second war with England.
The children of this soldier of 1812 were: William, George, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, John, Benjamin, Sarah, Martha, Mary and Isabelle. Great-great-grandfather George Brokaw helped build Crab Apple Presbyterian Church. He died in 1878, in his ninety-seventh year. As a young man Grandfather George Brokaw located in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, and he died there March 25, 1892.
In the next generation of Brokaws are the following children: Thomas, George, who died in childhood, and John M. Brokaw, the father of Thomas Ray Brokaw. In 1870 J. M. Brokaw married Elizabeth Henderson, a daughter of James C. Henderson. In the previous year he had bought the farm in Athens Township where the son T. R. Brokaw now resides, and there is where he established his household. He improved the farm and lived there until 1892, when he returned to the old home in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, to care for his mother in her declining years. She died in 1896, and he returned to Athens Township and lived on the farm again until 1898, when he located in Saint Clairsville, Ohio. There were six children born to John M. Brokaw, hut James. George and Anna are dead, and their mother died October 8, 1918. Those living today are Jane, Thomas Ray and William C., the latter a jeweler in Saint Clairsville. He and his sister Jane live with their father.
Thomas Ray Brokaw was educated in public school and went to the Wheeling Business College. For two years he worked in Wheeling, then went to Old Philadelphia, where he remained twelve years. He was a watchmaker there. For ten years he was a jeweler in Saint Clairsville. In 1912 he returned to the farm in Athens Township, Harrison County.
In 1906 Mr. Brokaw married Helen Shearer. Their children are Virginia, Howard C. and Raymond E. The family are members of Crab Apple Presbyterian Church, as were the Brokaws of past generations in Harrison County.
OBEDIAH R. K. OURANT, who is numbered among the substantial farmers of North Township, Harrison County, is a native of this county and a representative of one of its sterl ing pioneer families, besides which his paternal great-grandfather, John Ourant, was one of the earliest settlers in Columbiana County, this state, the maiden name of his wife having been Rachel Hewett, and their four children having been Obediah, Matilda, Harriet and Washington.
Washington Ourant, grandfather of him whose name initiates this paragraph, was born In Columbiana County, Ohio, September 15, 1808, and he was a mere boy at the time of his father's death. He was then taken into the home of an uncle, Rudolph Hines, and the family soon afterward came to Harrison County, where Mr. Ourant was reared to adult age. At Moorefield, this county, when a lad of fourteen years, Washington Ourant entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of hatter under the direction of William Kennedy. He later severed this association, and he completed his trade under the supervision of another hatter, George Kinsey, with whom he remained until his marriage, January 22, 1830, to Miss Mary Martin, who was born April 5, 1808, a daughter of Arthur Martin. After his marriage Washington Ourant continued working at his trade in the Village of Moorefield for some time, and he then purchased a diminutive tract of land in Nottingham Township. He later acquired other tracts in that and Stock Townships, and he was one of the substantial landholders and successful farmers in Nottingham Township at the time of his death, September 13, 1884. His political allegiance was given to the republican party from the time of its organization, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which both his first and his second wives likewise were members. Mrs. Mary (Martin) Ourant passed to eternal rest on the 20th of March, 1866, their children having been eight in number : John M., James K., Eliza A., William G., George W., Enos B. Joseph R. T. and Mary M. For his second wife Washington Ourant married Miss Ann Horn, who was born March 21, 1813, and who survived him by several years.
John M. Ourant, son of Washington and Mary (Martin) Ourant was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 27th of June, 1831, and he was reared to manhood on his father's farm, his educational advantages having been those of the common schools of the locality and period. He remained after his marriage on the old home farm until 1854, when he removed to Wyandot County, which was the stage of his farm enterprise until 1859, when he engaged in the same vocation in Tuscarawas County. Later he was for a time similarly engaged in Crawford County, but in 1881 be returned to the old homestead in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where he remained until his death, in 1903, his wife having died previously. He was a man of strong personality, well informed and of sterling attributes of character. He never sought public office but gave loyal and intelligent allegiance to the republican party.
April 18, 1852, recorded the marriage of Mr. Ourant to Miss Harriet Kennedy, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 1st of June, 1834, a daughter of John I. and Matilda
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(Ourant) Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. Ourant became the parents of nine children : Alexander Kinsey was born July 8, 1853, and died June 29, 1867; George W. was born May 2, 1856, and resides in Nottingham Township; Mary M., born March 16, 1858, became the wife of William H. Dunlap, and they reside in Moorefield Township; Charlotte Ella was born February 14, 1861, and is the wife of John W. Jackson, of Nottingham Township: Citizens J. K. was born September 2, 1862, and died November 4, 1864; Rachel J. was born August 4, 1864, and died October 9, 1865: Hattie 0. was born May 17, 1866, and died June 19, 1885; Obediah R. K., immediate subject of this review, was born July 4, 1868; and Angeline V., who was born August 16, 1873, is the wife of Thomas Adams, now residing in Nottingham Township.
Obediah R. K. Durant is indebted to the district schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and he continued to be associated with his father in farm enterprise until his marriage in 1891. He then began independent operations as a farmer in Nottingham Township, where he remained until 1904, and then established his residence in the Village of Scio. where he remained six years. For the ensuing seven years he was a farmer in Monroe Township, and in March, 1918. he located on his present farm in North Township. Here he is the owner of seventy-four acres of fertile and productive land. the farm being equipped with good buildings and other improvements, and being given over to well directed agricultural and live-stock industry.
In October. 1891, Mr. Ourant wedded Miss Linnie B. Milliken. daughter of William and Sarah (Hines) Milliken, of Harrison County, and she was summoned to the life eternal in the Month of February. 1900. being survived by two sons, Harry W. and Lyle K.. both of whom were in service in the World war, as will be noted in appending paragraphs. Harry W. married Miss Freda Ferber and they now reside in the City of Gary Indiana. Lyde K. is at the paternal home at the time f this writing, in 1920. In 1902 Mr. Ourant contracted a second marriage. when Miss Alice Stonecker became his wife, she being the daughter of Abraham Stonecker. No children have been born of this union.
Harry W. Ourant enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in July. 1917. and continued in service until August, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. In January. 1918. he went with his command to France. where he participated in much of the heavy conflict which brought honor- to the American Marines. On the 18th of July. 1918. he was wounded in the left shoulder, but he was not long incapacitated. He took part in four of the important offensive movements of the allied forces. and after the signing of the armistice he was with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany.
Lyle K. Ourant entered service in April. 191S, and. at Camp Sherman. Ohio. was assigned to the Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers. with which command he sailed for France on the 3d of June of that year. He was in active service in France and also with the occupying allied forces in Germany, and he returned home in July, 1919, duly receiving his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman.
JOHN B. MCCLAIN resides upon the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth in North Township, Harrison County, and is a scion of an honored pioneer family of this county, adequate data concerning his parents and the family history being given in the personal sketch of his older and only living. brother, Charles S., on other pages of this volume, so that a repetition of the record is not here demanded, inasmuch as the index makes reference to the sketch of the brother a matter of facility.
Mr. McClain was born May 24, 1871. He gained his youthful education in the public schools of North Township, attended University of Ohio at Athens for two terms, and was graduated from Muskingum College. He has supplemented this discipline by private study and by wide reading of the best in literature. The old home place has been the stage of his activities from his boyhood to the present time, and here he is progressive in the management of the fine farm, which comprises 117 acres, a property of which he became the owner upon the death of his parents, to whom he accorded the deepest filial solicitude during the closing years of their lives. Mr. McClain is a bachelor and maintains a hospitable bachelor's hall at the attractive. old home, which is endeared to him by many gracious memories and associations.
NATHAN M. WALLACE has given a full quarter of a century to effective service as a sturdy blacksmith in Nottingham Township, where he erected his present well equipped blacksmith shop in the year 1914, and where the scope and character df his trade patronage attest alike his skill as an artisan and his personal popularity in his native township, He was. born in Nottingham Township on the 30th of May, 1866, and is a son of William H. and Ruth Anna (Miller) Wallace, the former of whom was born near Steubenville, Jefferson County, this state, April 27, 1841, and the latter was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, on the 12th of October, 1840, a daughter of Nathan and Amy ,.Tones) Miller. As a young man Nathan Jliplei worked as a millwright in Washington Township, where later he became a successful farmer, besides following the trade of shoemaker. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Miller continued their residence in Washington Township until their deaths. They became the parents of five children-Ruth Anna. Jason, John N., Ardena, Jane and Alwilda.
William H. Wallace was a Son of Mark and Margaret (Robinson) Wallace, both natives of Ireland. where their marriage was solemnized and whence they immigrated to America within a year thereafter. Mr. Wallace was born November 23, 1806, and his lineage traces back to staunch Scotch origin, as the name implies.
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Within a short time after their arrival in the United States Mark Wallace and his wife established their residence in Jefferson County, Ohio, whence they later came to Harrison County and located in Moorefield Township, where he engaged in farming and also did a prosperous business in the operating of a huckster's wagon. Mr. Wallace died on the 3d of November, 1862, and his widow passed to the life eternal on the 21st of February, 1886, both havmg been devout and zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of five children, whose names and dates of birth are here recorded: William H., April 27, 1841; John W., June 6, 1843; Mary J., September 16, 1845; Thomas R., February 24, 1848; Leander M., September 7, 1852 (died July 11, 1905). William H. Wallace was reared and educated in Nottingham Township, and there he became a prosperous farmer. He continued his residence in that township until his death, on the 13th of November, 1895, and his widow passed away on the d of November, 1907, at a venerable age. Mr. Wallace held membership in the Presbyterian Church and his wife was a member of the Disciples or Christian Church. Their marriage was solemnized in June, 1865, and they became the parents of three children: Nathan M., the immediate subject of this review ; Miss Amy, who married Harvey Forsythe and resides in North Township, Harrison County; and Ella M., the wife of Emanuel Mallernee, of Cadiz Township, their children being five in number—Eva E., Herbert E., Paul B., Rusk and Carl.
Nathan M. Wallace profited duly by the scholastic advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township, and there he continued his association with farm industry until he was twenty-nine years of age, since which time he has here maintained a shop and worked successfully at his trade, that of blacksmith. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose, and is a member of the Christian Church at Minksville, as was also his wife.
In 1887 Mr. Wallace was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth E. Mallernee, daughter of Lewis and Covina (McFadden) Mallernee, of Harrison County, and she was twenty-nine years of age at the time of her death. Her only child, Ada Ethel, is the wife of John H. Cope, of Nottingham Township.
ROSS M. HAWTHORN is another of the native sons of Harrison County who is giving vigorous and effective impetus to farm industry in this county, and since May. 1911, he has staged his activities on his present excellent farm of 130 acres in Short Creek Township. He was born in this township December 17, 1868, and is the eldest in a family of three children, his next younger brother being Reed I., now a resident of the State of Indiana, near South Bend, and the youngest of the three being William Boyd Hawthorn, who is individually represented on other pages of this work.
Mr. Hawthorn is a son of James Lemmon and Jennie (McLaughlin) Hawthorn, whose marriage was solemnized on the 18th of Octo ter, 1866, and who now reside at Harrisville, this county, where the father is living retired. The mother is a representative of a pioneer family of which due record is given in this publication.
James L. Hawthorn was born in Mount Pleasant Township Jefferson County, Ohio, May 14, 1844, was there reared and educated and there learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith. During the early years of the Civil war he was a Government blacksmith, stationed at Nashville. In the winter of 1862 he engaged in the work of his trade at Harrisville, Harrison County. where he continued as the sturdy and honored village blacksmith until 1900, when he purchased and removed to a farm adjoining that village. He continued the management of the farm until 1908, when he sold the property and returned to Harrisville, where he has since lived retired. He is a son of William and Mary (Lemmon) Hawthorn, the former of whom was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, in March, 1817. His death occurred in 1896. His wife was born in 1822 in Harrison County and is also deceased. She was a daughter of Griffith Lemmon, who was a native of Ireland and a sterling pioneer settler in Harrison County. William Hawthorn was a son of John Hawthorn, who was born on the vessel on which his parents took passage in immigrating from Ireland to America. and he became an early settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he passed the residue of his life. William Hawthorn learned in his youth the cooper's trade, but the greater part of his active life was given to farm enterprise. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children—Martha, James, Alexander and Sheridan.
Ross M. Hawthorn is indebted to the public schools of Harrisville for his early educational discipline, and as a young man he engaged in farming in Jefferson County. He continued, his activities in this line six years. and for two years thereafter was engaged in the lumber business at Adena, that county. In 1902 he returned to Harrisville, where he maintained his home until 1911 and where he gave the most of his time during this period to the lumber business. In May, 1911, as previously noted, he removed to his present farm, where he has since continued his activities as one of the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of his native township and county. He is a republican in politics and he and his wife and son hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville.
April 29, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hawthorn to Miss Elizabeth L. Simpson, daughter of Edward and Catherine Simpson, of Harrison County, and she was summoned to the life eternal on the 26th of March, 1907, a devoted member of the United Presbyterian Church. Ralph S., the only child of this union, is associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm. In December, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hawthorn to Miss Jennie Shields, daughter of Joseph Shields, of whom more specific record is given
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on other pages, in the sketch of his son Milton M. Mrs. Hawthorn is a member of the United Presbyterian Church of Harrisville.
GEORGE L. POULSON exemplifies a full measure of sponsorship for constructive enterprise in connection with agricultural and dairy enterprise in North Township, Harrison County, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 170 acres. He was born in Wayne Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 28th of August, 1871, and is a son f John W. and Mary M. (Davis) Poulson, the former of whom likewise was born in Belmont County, and the latter was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of George Davis, who was a prosperous farmer in that county. John W. Poulson was reared and educated in Belmont County and is a representative of an honored pioneer family of that section of the Buckeye State. In that county were born his parents, Mortimer and Olivia (McFadden) Poulson, who there passed their entire lives, the father having devoted his active career to farm industry' and he and his wife having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of five children—George W., Franklin, John William, Margaret and Hannah.
John William Poulson was reared and educated in his native county, as previously stated, and there he became not only a successful farmer in Wayne Township but also gave effective service as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. About the year 1914 he and his wife removed to the State of Arkansas, where he is now engaged in farming near Wheeling, besides continuing his earnest church service, both he and his wife being specially zealous in the activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children: Josephine is the wife of William F. Clark and they reside in the State of Missouri; George L., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Charles R. is a clergyman of the Methodist Church and at the time of this writing holds a pastoral charge at West Salem, Wayne County, Ohio; Emma M. is the widow of Dr. M. J. Skiff and lives at Northeast, Ohio; Omar B. is a pastor of a Methodist Church at Altoona, Pennsylvania ; William Arthur resides at Canton, Ohio; Jennie is the wife of Thomas Carpenter, of Bellville, Richland County, Ohio; Herman remains at the parental home; and Mary died in early childhood.
George L. Poulson gained his early education in the district schools of his native county and supplemented this by attending the high school at Somerton, that county. He remained at the parental home in Belmont County until his marriage in 1895, and for two years thereafter he found employment on the fine dairy farm of Dorsey Brothers in Washington County, Pennsylvania. For a time thereafter he was associated with the operation of a saw mill at Loydsville in Belmont County, Ohio, and in 1901 he rented a farm near Scio, Harrison County, where he conducted a successful dairy business during the ensuing five years in partnership with his brother-in-law. Thomas S. Wood, of whom individual mention is made on other pages, their alliance in this field of enterprise having continued thirteen years. In 1906 Mr. Poulson purchased and established his home upon his present farm, which he has brought to a high standard of productiveness and on which he continues his successful dairy business, with the Village of Scio as the principal market for his products. Mr. Poulson is a republican in his political proclivities, and he and his wife hold membership 1,n the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, Ohio.
November 12, 1895, recorded the marriage of Mr. Poulson to Miss Hattie A. Wood, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Turner) Wood, of Belmont County, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of their son Thomas S. Mr. and Mrs. Poulson have five children—Clifford E., Grace Leah, Mary, Dean Allen and Veda. Clifford E. Poulson was one of the gallant young men who represented Ohio in the nation's military service in the late World war. He entered the service in May, 1918, at Columbus, Ohio, and ten days later was sent to Camp Dix, where he was stationed ahout two weeks. He was then sent to Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, to receive training for service as railroad fireman, and later he received instruction in rifle practice at Fort May, Virginia. In September, 1918, he sailed for France, where he served first with the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Engineers in the railway department of military activities and later with the One Hundred and Eighteenth Engineers at Le Mons, and he continued in active service until September, 1919, when he returned to his native land and shortly afterward received his honorable discharge at Camp Dix, when he was not yet twenty-one years of age. He is now associated with the activities of the home farm.
JOSEPH H. PORTER. Farm enterprise in Athens Township, Harrison County, finds a resourceful and progressive representative in the person of Mr. Porter, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, March 2, 1881, and who is a scion of a pioneer family of the old Buckeye State. He is a son of Nathan M. and Ella R. (Hervey) Porter, both likewise natives of Jefferson County, the former a son of Nathan and Nancy (Andrews) Porter, early settlers of that county. The paternal grandfather of Nancy (Andrews) Porter was an officer of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution.
Nathan M. Porter was reared and educated in Jefferson County and there continued his activities as one of the substantial farmers of Wayne Township until 1892, when he came with his family to Harrison County and established his home on the farm now operated by his elder son, the immediate subject of this review. He made numerous improvements on the place after it came into his possession, and here he remained, as one of the highly esteemed citizens of the county, until his death, which occurred June 14, 1914, when he was fifty-eight years of age, his widow now maintaining her home in the Village of New Athens, this county, where she is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, as was also her husband during
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the entire period of his residence in the county. Of the three children Joseph H., of this review, is the eldest; Martha V. died February 2, 1911; and Nathan Audley now resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Joseph H. Porter acquired his rudimentary education in the district schools of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, and later continued his studies in the district schools in Athens Township, Harrison County, he having been eleven years of age at the time of the family removal to the latter county. His higher education was gained through two years' attendance in Franklin College at New Athens and by his attending Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana, for one year. In the latter institution he completed a course in telegraphy, and after thus becoming a skilled operator he entered in 1904 the Signal Corps of the United States Army, in which he served two years as a telegraph operator in the Philippine Islands. He received his honorable discharge from Government service in 1907 at San Francisco, Califorma, and thereafter he was for the major part of the time in the telegraphic service of the Pennsylvania Railroad until June, 1914. After the death of his honored father he assumed active charge of the home farm, which comprises 103 acres and is one of the well improved and valuable places of Athens Township. His youthful experience well equipped him for independent activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his governmental and railway service have further fortified him in the successful handling of his business affairs. He is one of the alert and progressive young farmers of Harrison County, and he and his wife have made their attractive home 'a center of gracious hospitality. Mr. Porter is a republican in political allegiance and is affiliated with the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Cadiz. His wife is a member of the United Presbyterian Church at New Athens.
In 1915 Mr. Porter was united in marriage to Miss Nora Hawthorne, daughter of James and Margaret (Rogers) Hawthorne, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have a fine little son, James Nathan, who holds distinct dominion in the pleasant home.
Mr. Porter is a scion of a family that was founded in America in the colonial days and that has given soldiers not only to the War of the Revolution but also to the various other wars in which the nation has been involved.
RICHARD M. ADAMS is a popular representative of a family whose name has been closely associated with civic and industrial affairs in Harrison County since the year 1815, and in the personal sketch of his eldest brother, John F., on other pages of this work, is given ample record concerning the family history, so that repetition of the date is not here required, even were the prescribed limitations of the publication such as to make such indulgence possible in this and many similar cases.
Richard M. Adams, who is now numbered among the substantial farmers of his native county, was born in Stock Township, this county, August 27, 1853, and is a son of the late
Percival Adams who was long numbered among the prosperous farmers and honored and influential citizens of that township. The district schools of his native township afforded to Richard M. Adams his early educational advantages, and on the home farm he gained thorough and practical experience which has been of inestimable value to him in his independent enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He continued his activities as a farmer in Stock Township until April, 1889, when he removed to his present homestead farm, which comprises 143 acres and about seventy acres of which are situated in Stock Township, the remainder, on which is the family residence, being in Nottingham Township and all being in one body. The political allegiance of Mr. Adams is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Chapel in Cadiz Township.
January 16, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Adams to Miss Mary Alma McCleary, who was born and reared in Nottingham Township, and who is a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Bush) McCleary, the former of whom was born in 1837 and the latter in 1842, her father, John Bush, having been an early settler in Harrison County. Joseph McCleary passed the greater part of his life in Harrison County, as he was a child at the time of the family removal to this county, where his parents, James and Lydia (Rogers) McCleary, became pioneer settlers. Their other children were David, Ross, Ruth Ann and Louise. Joseph McCleary was one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death, March 19, 1917, his wife having passed away December 20, 1897. They became the parents of ten children: Kate (died in infancy), Mary Alma. Luther Martin, Ella May, Percival, Lydia Elizabeth, Frank Everett, James L., Walter Howard and Marion Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have two children. Ethel Agnes is the wife of Francis B. Merryman, of Cadiz, this county, and they have three children—Harold Eugene, Florence Irene, and George Howard. Madison Paul married Miss Dessie Hazel Garner, and they reside in Nottingham Township.
JOHN H. HENDERSON, who is successfully engaged in the real-estate and insurance business at Scio, Harrison County, is one of the representative citizens of this village and served several years as clerk of its municipal government. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, November 17, 1872, and is a son of Oliver W. and Margaret (Guiney) Henderson, the former of whom was born in Ireland on the 12th of March, 1844, and the latter was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio April 15, 1846. Oliver W. Henderson was a lad of about fourteen years when the family immigrated to America in 1858, and his father William Henderson, settled on a farm in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where he remained the greater part of the time during the remainder of his life, he having been for a short period a resident of Carroll County. He and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church.