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They became the parents of five children— Sarah, Jane, Oliver W., Joseph and Bell.
Oliver W. Henderson was for a time engaged in farm enterprise in Jefferson County, but the major part of his active career was devoted to farm industry in Harrison County. He is now living retired, and he and his wife reside in the home of their younger son, the subject of this review. The elder of their two children is William A., who is a resident of Scio, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson are earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. in which he has held the office of elder for fully thirty years.
John H. Henderson acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of Stock Township, Harrison County, later attended the public schools at Cadiz, and in 1894-5 was a student in Scio College. As a young man he became associated with the general store conducted by the Davis Store & Mining Company Redfield, Perry County, Ohio, and he continued in the employ of this concern about three years. From 1898 to 1905 he conducted a general store at Smithdale, Harrison County, where he also served as postmaster, and from 1905 to 1910 was engaged in farming in Stock Township, this county. In the latter year he established his residence at Selo, where he has since been engaged in the real estate and insurance business, in which his progressive policies and honorable dealings have gained to him a substantial and prosperous enterprise and a representative clientage. He is a republican in politics and he and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio, in which he has served as a member of the official hoard and of which he is a trustee at the time of this writing. He gave several years of efficient and valued service as village clerk of Scio and as a member of local and county Board of Education and has taken deep interest in all things touching the welfare of his home community. At Scio he is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons; at Cadiz he holds membership in the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; and he is identified also with the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry at Steubenville, Jefferson County, as well as with the Scio Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
On the 23d of March, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Anna L. Buxton, who was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, a daughter of Campbell and Mary E. (Smith) Buxton. Campbell Buxton who has long held prestige as one of the representative farmers of Stock Township, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1847, and he was about five years old when his parents, Haddon and Julia Ann (McCrea) Buxton, came to Ohio and established their home on a farm in Stock Township, Harrison County, in 1852. Here Campbell Buxton was reared to manhood and eventually became owner of the old homestead farm, which he developed into one of the valuable properties of Stock Township. December 21, 1874, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary E. Smith, daughter of James P. and Ann (Cramblett) Smith, and of this union were born two children—Anna L. and Earl C. The parents are specially zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have three children: Robert Buxton Henderson is in the employ of the Timkin Roller Bearing Company at Canton, Stark County. He was graduated in the Scio High School and was a member of the Student Army Training School in the city of Columbus during the winter of 1918-19. Mary Margaret was graduated in the Scio High School as a member of the class of 1920. Elizabeth Virginia is at home.
MEREDITH M. BARR not only has secure status as one of the representative farmers and venerable native sons of Harrison County, but he is also a member of a family whose name has been most prominently and worthily associated with the history of this county since the opening decade of the nineteenth century. This is shown by the following quotation, which refers to his paternal great-grandfather: "In 1803 Arthur Barrett, the elder, came to Ohio, passing through the section on which the town of Cadiz now stands, and on which at that time was a solitary log cabin. Following an Indian trail and cutting his road through the forests, he reached the forks of Brushy Fork, and here, in Cadiz Township, he entered 640 acres of land in one tract and 320 acres in another. Here he erected a log cabin, and on this land he passed the remainder of his life, which came to its close in 1828, he having been a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church." This pioneer ancestor was born in Virginia in 1743, and to the frontier home in Ohio he brought his wife and their large family of children, of whom there were ten—Nancy, Susan, Hannah, Rachel, Sarah, Thomas, Arthur David, Enos and Isaac. Arthur Barrett, Jr., grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Virginia in 1780, and thus was a youth of about twenty- three years when he accompanied his father to Ohio. He married Miss Mary Huff, daughter of William Huff, who was an early settler in eastern Ohio and who became well known as an Indian scout and fighter, as was also his brother Joseph An Indian chief made the boast that he had taken ninety-nine white scalps and that he intended to take the one hundred. Joseph learned of the chief's boast. The old chief was found sitting on the roadside by Joseph Huff, who afterwards said: "I saw him (the chief) sitting by the road, and saw his pipe fall out of his mouth." That was the last of the old chief. Mr. Barrett continued as a farmer in Cadiz Township until his death in 1845, his first wife having died in 1814, the mother of four children—Meredith, Lewis, William H. and Mary Anna. After the death of his first wife Arthur Barrett married Miss Elizabeth Wolf, and they became the parents of four children—Louisa, Enos, John and David. Mrs. Barrett survived her husband by more than forty years and passed to eternal rest in 1887, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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on the old homestead he was reared to manhood, his educational advantages having been those of the primitive subscription schools of the pioneer days. In his youth he learned the hatter's trade, which he followed several years at Oadiz and Salem. Thereafter he developed a prosperous business in the buying of live stock, which he drove overland to the market in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After his marriage he remained on the old homestead farm in Cadiz Township until 1845, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Nottingham Township, where he became the owner of a fine property of more than 300 acres and where he became specially successful in the breeding and raising of sheep. He continued as one of the substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of Nottingham Township until his death, May 4, 1891, about one month prior to the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birth, both he and his wife having been earlrest and faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In this connection it is interesting to record that his father's second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Wolf) Barrett, offered the first prayer in the original Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, besides there making the final prayer before the church was abandoned by the congregation, which took possession of the new edifice.
On the 25th of May, 1837, was solemnized the marriage of William H. Barrett to Miss Eliza V. Betz, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 22d of June, 1817, a daughter of William and Eliza (Veers) Betz, who were honored pioneers of that county, where Mr. Betz reclaimed and developed a productive farm. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven children—Rebecca. Eliza V., Parmelia. Margaret, Lucinda, Brice and McCourtney. Mrs. Barrett passed to the life eternal at the age of seventy-nine years. Of the children Meredith M., of this review, is the eldest; and the names of the others are here recorded : Marion B.: Mary E.: Mrs. Henry Haverfield: Brice W., who became a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and died shortly before his graduation in the college at Mount Union. Ohio, in 1866: Margaret Mrs William Birney: Emma E., Mrs. Samuel Crawford: William Fletcher, a resident of Colorado: and Flora M.
Meredith M. Barrett found in the Ramsey school in the home district the advantages that inured to effective educational advancement in his youth, and he recalls that one of his early teachers was Kersey Kinsey. while later he continued his studies in district school in Nottingham Township. his birth having occurred on the old homestead in Cadiz Township on the 19th of August. 1838. He was a young man when he initiated his independent career as an agriculturist and stock-raiser on the farm which is still his place of residence and which comprises 112 acres of the excellent land of Nottingham Township. From the time of his marriage he has remained continuously on this farm. save for an interval of two years. He has always taken loyal interest in community affairs and has supported measures projected for the general good along both civic and material lines. He served two years as trustee of Nottingham Township, and was for thirteen years a member of the school board of the township. He and his wife have long been zealous and honored members of Asbury Chapel (Methodist Episcopal), and in the same he served more than fifty years as class leader. Hi:. political views have been well fortified, and are indicated in his unfaltering allegiance to the republican party.
On the 2d of September, 1862, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Barrett to Miss Sarah Amanda Christy, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of the late Robert and Jane (McCleary) Christy. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett have four children: George W., a resident of Tuscarawas County; Carrie, the wife of John Rea, of Harrison County; Frank V., who now has active charge of the old home farm married Miss Ella Mallernee, who is deceased, and who is survived by three children—Veda, Benjamin B. and Olga ; and Olive is the wife of Joseph S. Webb, a farmer in Harrison County.
JOHN C. MCFADDEN. With the exception of a short residence in Green Township, John C. McFadden of Athens Township has always lived in one community. He was born March 31, 1850, and is a son of John J. and Esther (Clifford) McFadden. The father died February 7, 1897, and the mother, December 12, 1907, and both came of pioneer stock in Harrison County. The American branch of the McFadden family dates back to 1760, when John McFadden was born in Ireland.
When he was a young man of nineteen John McFadden came from Ireland and established himself in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In a short time he married a daughter of Col. George Sharpe, of .the United States army and in the year 1800 he came with others to Cadiz Township, Harrison County. It was then territorial days, so that the McFadden family belongs to the pioneer element in society. In the following year Mr. McFadden brought his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Their children were: Samuel, George, John, Joseph, Mary and Margaret.
It was John McFadden that continued the family name in Harrison County. He was seventeen when he came with his parents from Pennsylvania to Ohio. He married Mary, a daughter of Adam and Rebecca (Work) Dunlap. They were pioneers in Harrison County, having come from Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Eleven children were born in this generation: Margaret, Adam, Rebecca, Mary. John J., Sarah, Samuel R., George, Esther, Rachel and Jennie. The McFaddens of that day and generation were consistent members of the Union Church, although later the family is connected with the Presbyterian Church in New Athens.
John J. McFadden, fourth son of John, was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, October 21, 1820, and his time of life was when great strides of advancement were being made in civilization. His school days were in the
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time of the log school house with a huge fire place, and when the New Testament and the National Speller were the text books in use in the community. On February 28, 1844, J. J. McFadden married Esther, a daughter of John Clifford. Mr. Clifford was from Ireland. Their children were: Mary, Margaret Jane, Rebecca Ann, John C., George D., Edward S., Sarah, Adam and the Rev. Samuel W.
From the beginning the McFaddens have voted the democratic ticket, and John J. McFadden was several times elected to office and was treasurer of Athens Township for thirty consecutive years.
On January 6, 1876, John C. McFadden married Mary Evelyn, a daughter of Adam Dickerson. Their children are: Edna and Cora E., the latter the wife of H. F. Warne of Washington, Pennsylvania, and their children are John Hiram and Florence Esther. Walter J. McFadden married Mabel Anthony, and they have one daughter, Ruth. They live in Sioux City, Iowa. Jane D. is the wife of A. C. Warne. They live in Washington, Pennsylvania. Howard W. McFadden married Ella May Kirkpatrick, and their children are Mary Evelyn and Helen Irene. Charles McFadden married Zada Moore. Mrs. Mary Evelyn McFadden died in 1890, and on January 30, 1900, John C. McFadden married Mary Alice, a daughter of John T. and Sarah M. (Jackson) Harris. For 140 years there have been McFaddens in the United States who know themselves to belong to one parent stock, all descended from the Irish immigrant, John McFadden.
ERVIN M. MINARD was born in North Township, Harrison County, on the 4th of July, 1857, and the patriotic significance of his natal day has not been more significant in his pronounced civic loyalty than have his fealty to and appreciation of his native county, in which he has found ample opportunity for successful achievement as an agriculturist and stock-grower. with which important lines of industrial activity the family name has been associated in North Township since the pioneer period in the history of the county. John and Frances Minard, grandparents of the subject of this review, were among those who endured the hardships and well performed the labors that fell to the lot of the early settlers in Harrison County. John Minard was born in Germany and was a man of vigor and ambition when he came to Harrison County and took up eighty acres of Government land in North Township, where he reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilderness and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of three sons and several daughters, the names of the sons being Solomon. George and Daniel. Of these sons Daniel, father of him whose name introduces this article, was born and reared on the old pioneer farmstead in North Township, and there he devoted his entire active life to resourceful and successful farm enterprise. He developed a fine farm property of 200 acres, was influential in community affairs, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Scio. He died at the age of sixty-eight years, and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-six years. The maiden name of Mrs. Daniel Minard was Rebecca Knouff, and she was born in German Township, Harrison County, where he father, John Knouff, was a pioneer settler and representative farmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Minard became the parents of eight children—John, Amos B., Morris, Andora, Ervin M., Eunice, Luther and Grant. Of the number John, Amos B. and Andora are deceased.
Ervin M. Minard continued his association with the activities of the parental farm from his boyhood until the time of his marriage, and in the meanwhile he made good use of the advantages offered in the district schools of North Township. In 1887 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Margaret Buxton, who was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, a daughter of Haddon and Julia (McCrea) Buxton, who came from Pennsylvania and established their home in Harrison County in 1852. The father became a substantial farmer in Stock Township, where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives. For four years after his marriage Mr. Minard was engaged in farming in Stock Township, and he then, in 1892, assumed ownership of his present attractive homestead farm in North Township, where he is the owner of a valuable and well improved estate of 240 acres, besides which he retains one-fourth interest in his father's old home farm of 200 acres. It is thus to be readily understood that he stands as one of the representative exponents of farm industry in his native county, where his loyalty has been shown in his ready support of measures and projects advanced for the civic and material good of the community. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at Scio. Mr. and Mrs. Minard have three children : Pearl is the wife of Everett 0. McClain, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work; Julia is the wife of Berlin D. Law, who likewise is represented in a personal sketch immediately following; and Grace remains at the parental home.
BERLIN D. LAW is one of the progressive farmers of the younger generation in North Township, where he maintains his residence upon his excellent farm of 120 acres and is vigorously directing his attention to diversified agriculture and stock-growing. He was born in this township on the 4th of October, 1890, and is a son of William B. and Florence (Donaldson) Law, his father having likewise been born and reared in this county, a son of Matthew Law, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Law, settled in Monroe Township, this county, about the year 1828, here passing the remainder of their lives. Matthew Law married Miss Rebecca Birney, whose death occurred in 1864, and be passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors on the 9th of September, 1879, when seventy-one years of age. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of four children-
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John, William, Robert B. and Jane, the only daughter having died in infancy. Matthew Law became the owner of his father's old home farm in Monroe Township, and there he passed the major part of his life. William B. Law has well upheld the high prestige of the family name in connection with farm industry in Harrison County, and he accumulated a fine farm property of 254 acres in North Township.
Berlin D. Law was but four years old at the time of his mother's death, but was reared and educated in his native county, where he lived with different families for varying intervals until the time of his marriage, on the 2d of April, 1912, to Miss Julia Minard, daughter of Ervin M. Minard, whose individual representation precedes this sketch. Since his marriage Mr. Law has resided on his present farm, and the attractive home, with Mrs. Law as its popular chatelaine, is further brightened by the presence of their son, Cliff M., who was born November 25, 1913.
JOHN T. SCOTT has proved himself well worthy of upholding and advancing the prestige of the family name in connection with farm industry and loyal and progressive citizenship in his native county, and is one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of North Township, in which section of Harrison County his father likewise followed farm enterprise, while the latter's father, Robert Scott, was one of the pioneer settlers and substantial farmers of Rumley Township, this county. Robert Scott and his wife, Nancy, became the parents of a fine family of fifteen children and were sterling pioneer citizens who had secure place in popular confidence and esteem, both having been prominent members of the Ridge Presbyterian Church, in which he served many years as a deacon.
John T. Scott was born in North Township, Harrison County, on the 27th of June, 1878, and is a son of Robert M. and Nancy (Sproul) Scott, the former of whom was born at New Rumley, Rumley Township, this county, July 8, 1840, and the latter was born in North Township, February 27, 1837. a daughter of John and Jane Sproul. Robert M. Scott was one of the gallant young men who responded to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers when the integrity of the Union was menaced by armed rebellion. He enlisted in an Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry in 1861, and he served during virtually the entire period of the great conflict between the states of the North and She South, it having been his to participate in the many engagements in which his command was involved and to have made a splendid record as a valiant young soldier of the Union. He received his honorable discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 10th of July, 1865. He then returned to the parental home in Harrison County, and later he was for a time a resident of Hagerstown, Carroll County, where his par ents were then living. After his marriage, which occurred February 27, 1872, he continued his successful enterprise as a farmer in North Township, Harrison County, until his death, which occurred October 12, 1909, his wife hav
ing been seventy-three years of age at the time of her death. He was an earnest member of the Ridge Presbyterian Church. Of the three surviving children the subject of this review is the youngest, and he is the only son; Serena Belle is the wife of John A. Thompson. of Selo, this county; and Miss Mary E. likewise resides in that village.
John T. Scott gained his early education in the public schools of North Township, and he remained with his parents on the home farm until his marriage, on the 27th of November, 1901, to Miss Jennie Page, a daughter of Joseph and Ann (Oliver) Page. Joseph Page was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1832, and in that county he passed the closing years of his life, his death having occurred in 1895. He was a man of fine intellectuality and gave about forty years of effective. service as a teacher in the public schools, his later years having been devoted to farm enterprise in his native county. His first wife's maiden name was Lucinda Miser, and they became the parents of twelve children—Serena, Melissa, William O., Henry W., John A., Charles F., Forbes M., Amos V., Thomas S., Joseph F., Clark H. and Elizabeth. After the death of his first wife Mr. Page wedded Mrs. Ann (Oliver) Page, widow of Jesse Page and a daughter of Alexander Oliver. Mrs. Page was born in Tuscarawas County and by her first marriage had two children—Alice A. and Mary. The two children of her second marriage are Marvin J. and Jennie (wife of the subject of this sketch). For the first year after his marriage Mr. Scott was engaged in farming in North Township, and for a period of about twelve years thereafter was identified with operations in the oil fields in this section of Ohio. In the spring of 1912 he established his home on his present farm, but for three years thereafter he continued to work more or less in the oil field. He now gives virtually his entire time to the management of his excellent farm, which comprises 167 acres and which he has made a center of successful agricultural and live-stock operations. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Conotton. They have two children—George E. and Zema Pearl.
GEORGE A. SPEER maintains his home in the village of Georgetown in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, which place has been his stage of residence from the time of his birth until the present, save for an interval of about two years passed in the west. In the community in which he is best known he long followed the work of his trade, that of plasterer, but in the summer of 1920 he entered the employ of the Short Creek Company.
Mr. Speer was born at Georgetown on the 4th of March, 1864, and is a son of Charles E. and Hannah E. (Courtright) Speer, the former of whom was born at Coatsville, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1825, and the latter of whom was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 3d of June, 1832. The marriage of the parents occurred on the 28th of January, 1851, and the mother died on the 23d of February, 1865,
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when the subject of this sketch was not yet one year old. Charles E. Speer established his residence at Georgetown about the year 1860, and here he passed the remainder of his life, his entire active career having been devoted to the trade of plasterer. He was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Georgetown at the time of his death, May 18, 1918. He tirst married Miss Sophia C. Hutchinson, who was born in the state of Maryland July 6, 1824, and whose death occurred in 1849, the only child of this union having been a daughter, Mary A., now deceased. The names and respective dates of birth of the children of the second marriage are here recorded : Charlotte E., December 12, 1851: Elizabeth A., November 21, 1853; James W.. September 30. 1855; Sydnie Ann, October 31, 1857. deceased: John S., September 14, 1859; Edmond E., November 30. 1861, deceased; and George A.. March 4, 1864.
On the 8th of May, 1873, Charles E. Speer contracted a third marriage, when Elizabeth M. Graham became his wife. She was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, July 1, 1838, and died in Georgetown in October, 1920. Three children were born of this marriage—Charles B., February 25, 1874; Walter G., September 7, 1875; and Clara P., February 4, 1882, deceased. The parents held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. and at the time of his death the father was. from the point of years of active affiliation. the oldest member of the Masonic fraternity in the state of Ohio. He lived a useful, upright and unostentatious life and commanded the unqualitied esteem of his fellow men.
To the public schools of his native village George A. Speer is indebted for his early education. and as a youth he learned the trade of plasterer under the effective direction of his father, which he followed successfully for many years in Georgetown. It is needless to say that his native village is endeared to him by many gracious memories and associations and that he takes deep interest in all that concerns its well being. His political support is given to the republican party.
September 26. 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Speer to Miss Hannah J. Shields, a daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Ruth) Shields and a sister of Milton M. Shields, In whose sketch, on other pages of this work. are given ample data concerning the family history. To Mr. and Mrs. Speer have been born four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted : Charles Joseph, May 2, 1897: Floyd Clayton, September S. 1900 (died July 2S, 1917) ; Ada Lucille, October 16, 1903; and Wilma Crey, January 26. 1907.
WALTER S. SPENCE. M. D. While Dr. Walter S. Spence. of Hopedale, is an Ohioan, he is the son of an Irish immigrant. He was born May 25. 1866, in Jewett, Ohio. His father, Henry Spence. was born April 26 1827. in Ireland When he came to the United States he married Eliza M. Scott. of Carroll County. Ohio. Her father, Robert G. Scott, came from Washington County, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Elizabeth (Steeves) Scott, was born in New Brunswick, Canada.
In the Spence lineage the grandfather, Thomas Spence, and the grandmother, Mary J, (Rainey) Spence. were from Ireland. It was in 1832 that they came to America and located in Utica, New York. In 1838 they came to Steubenville, Ohio. After four or five years they removed to Amsterdam, where they lived as farmers for many years. Their oldest son, Henry, is the father of Doctor Spence. His brothers and sisters are: Nancy, Mary Jane, William, James, Elizabeth, Violet, John and George. The children in the Scott family are: Belle, Dorinda, Eliza (mother of the Doctor), Ada, James, Riley, Chalmers and William. The generation enumerated were Presbyterians.
In 1864 Henry Spence became a merchant, and was located in Germano, Jewett, Kilgore and Germano again. He died there in 1909, having been a merchant many years. His wife died in 1894. Their children are: John K., Thomas 0., Harvey, Margaret, Robert,. Walter S., Carrie and William. After graduating from public school in Germano, Doctor Spence spent two years in the Normal School at Ada. In 1889 he entered the medical department of Western Reserve University, graduating in 1892, and he immediately began the medical practice in Germano.
From 1906 to 1909 Doctor Spence practiced medicine in East Springfield, and then returned to his old practice in Germano, where he remained ten years. In the spring of 1919 he located in Hopedale and practices in the community. In 1892 Doctor Spence married Mina J. Park, a daughter of N. R. Park, of Ada. Their children are Mignon Tragesez, Park R. and Donald S.. and they have been given educational advantages.
Doctor Spence reads the medical literature of the day, and is a member of both the Harrison County and Ohio State Medical Societies.
JAMES M. SPIKER was a young man when he became associated with the prosperous lumber business conducted by his father at Scio, Harrison County, and in 1901 he was admitted to partnership in the business, of which he assumed full control upon the death of his honored father on the 1st of July, 1918. This enterprise had its inception in 1885, when the father, the late Gideon D. Spiker, formed a partnership with Joshua Arbaugh and erected and equipped a planing mill at Scio. Mr. Spiker purchased his partner's interest in 1888, and thereafter developed a substantial and successful industrial enterprise in the manufacturing of sash, doors, blinds, etc., and the handling of lumber and building supplies. Since his death his only son has continued the business, in connection with which he is well upholding the prestige of the family name.
James Madison Spiker was born at Scio, his present home village, and the date of his nativity was November 22, 1872, he being the elder of two children, and his sister, Miss Kitturah M., being likewise a resident of Selo. The father, Gideon D. Spiker, was born in Stock Township, this county, on the 26th of Decem-
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ber, 1846, and thus was one of the venerable native sons of the county at the time of his death. His father, William Spiker, was likewise a native of Stock Township, where he was born in the year 1826, a son of Christopher Spiker, who was born in 1806, on the same ancestral farm which was the birthplace of his son and grandson. Christopher Spiker and his wife, whose maiden name was Aerie Carnes, passed their entire lives in Harrison County, where the latter died in March, 1870, aged sixty- six years. and where his death occurred in 1879, when he was seventy-two years of age. He had not only been a prosperous farmer but had also operated a grist mill for many years. The original representatives of the Spiker family in America came to this country from Holland in the early colonial period of our national history, and the father of Christopher Spiker came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in a very early day and became one of the first settlers in what is now Stock Township, Harrison County, with the history of which county the family name has continued to be prominently and worthily linked dung the long intervening period of more than a century.
William Spiker assisted in the work of the pioneer farm and grist mill of his father, and at the age of nineteen years he married Mary, a daughter of Adam Cottrell, her father having been a native of Scotland and having come to America when seven years of age, an orphan boy. He was a sterling pioneer of Harrison County, where he and his wife remained until their deaths in 1842 and 1886, respectively. After his marriage William Spiker engaged in farming, and ten years later he turned his attention to work at the carpenter's trade, as a contractor and builder. He was a resident of Deersville, this county, at the time of his death, and both he and his wife attained to advanced age. He was a stalwart republican, was influential in public affairs of local order, served several years as township treasurer, and was for two terms a director of the county infirmary. His children were eight in number: Gideon D., Harvey, John C., George W., William H., Jane. Margaret and Anna.
Gideon D. Spiker was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and in addition to attending the district schools of the locality and period he took a higher course of study in Scio College. He was twenty-three years of age when lre completed his collegiate course, and thereafter he was for six years a successful teacher in the district schools of his native county: He then became a contractor and builder and erected many buildings in and about Selo, as well as in other parts of the county. In 1885 he was associated with Joshua Arbaugh in erecting a planing mill at Scio, and concerning his career from that time to his death adequate record has already been given in this article. Mr. Spiker was a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and be and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Selo, In 1871 was recorded the marriage of Gideon D. Spiker to Miss Lizzie B. Gibson, who was born and reared in Stock Township and who was a daughter of Edward and Catherine Anna (Graham) Gibson. Edward Gibson was a pioneer settler in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. where he remained a few years, after which he came to Harrison County and settled on a pioneer farm in Stock Township. There he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and both held membership in the Pleasant Valley Methodist Church. They became the parents of six children—Anna, Mollie, Catherine, Margaret, Lizzie B. and James A. Mrs. Lizzie B. (Gibson) Spiker was sixty-seven years of age at the time of her death on May 14. 1917, and is survived by two children. as already noted in a preceding paragraph.
In the public schools of Scio James M. Spiker continued his studies until he had duly availed himself of the advantages of the high school, and thereafter he pursued a higher academic course in Selo College. As previously stated, he became a partner in his father’s planing mill and lumber business in 1901. and since the death of his father, July, 1918, he has successfully continued the business in an individual way. Since 1901 he has been secretary of the Home Swings, Building & Loan Association at Selo, and he is one of the most loyal and progressive citizens and business men of his native village. At Scio he is affiliated with the lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and at Cadiz, the county seat. lie holds membership in the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and in the Council at Uhrichsville. His political allegiance is given to the republican party.
The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Flora A. Starkey, daughter of Rev. William D. Starkey, D. D., a distinguished clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Spiker are zealous and influential members of the church of this denomination at Scio. They have four children— Mary K. (Spiker) Parman, deceased; William Draper, deceased; Elizabeth Anne; and George Donald.
ISRAEL RANKIN, whose death occurred on the 26th of June, 1904, had been up to that time the only representative of his generation of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of Harrison County, and his two sons, James J. and William D., are associated in the ownership and management of the fine did homestead farm of 168 acres in Athens Township. Of the early history of the Rankin family in America the following interesting data is available: The lineage is traced back to staunch Scotch origin and the first representative of the family in America was William Rankin, who settled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The maiden name of his wife was Abigail Tassia, and their children were eleven in number, namely: William, Jr., David, Matthew. John, James. Zachariah, Thomas, Mary, Abigail, Samuel and Jesse. The father and some of the children finally removed from Virginia to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where they lived in a block-house on their large landed estate of 1,800 acres. The son James was killed by the Indians when en route
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from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, in which latter commonwealth he had purchased a large tract of land. Thomas settled in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1805, long prior to the organization of the county under the present name, and here he passed the remainder of his life—the founder of the family in this now opulent section of the Buckeye State. His eldest son, James, was born in Mount Pleasant Township. Washington County, Pennsylvania. December 22, 1784, and on the 15th of December. 1809. he married Miss Hester Earley, who was born near Chartiers, Pennsylvania, May 31. 1793. They became the parents of eight children—Jane, Thomas, Margaret, Nancy, Sarah, William, Matilda and Israel. James Rankin served as a minute man in the War of 1812, and in 1813 he settled in Harrison County, Ohio, on the farm which later passed into the possession of his son Israel. subject of this memoir, and which is now the residence of his grandsons, James J. and William D. Thomas Rankin, father of James. died May 12, 1832. William Rankin, the founder of the family in America, was born in Scotland about the year 1720, and was in his eighteenth year when he came to the New World. Thomas Rankin married Nancy Foreman, and they became the parents of five children—James, William, David, Jane and Nacy.
Thomas Rankin participated in numerous battles with the Indians during the period of his residence in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and one of these conflicts, known as the Poe battle, at the mouth of Tomlinson Run on the Ohio River, found the white men outnumbered by the Indians in the ratio of three to one. Of Mr. Rankin's part in this battle the following record is given: "He had taken shelter behind a tree, and an Indian who discovered his place of concealment drew his gun to fire, but in cocking his own gun Mr. Rankin broke the mainspring; one of Mr. Rankin's comrades, seeing the situation, fired, and killed the Indian, whose gun was used by Mr. Rankin in his further participation in the fight." In 1805, as before noted, he came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he settled in what is now Moorefield Township. The Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church was the third organization of this denomination in eastern Ohio, and the original church edifice, a log building of the true pioneer type, was situated on land deeded by Thomas Rankin for the purpose in Moorefield Township. The church organization was effected in 1815 and this land deed was dated 1819. The church was organized by Rev. James Roberts and Thomas Dickerson, and among its members at that time were Thomas Rankin, Sr., Mary Rankin, James Rankin, Hester Rankin, Arthur Barrett, Sr., Isaac Barrett, William Jones, Rachel Jones, Sarah Foreman, Martha White, Mary A. Moffit, Mary Love, John Porter, Samuel Jones and others. This faithful band of pioneer Christians first worshiped in the log cabin home of Thomas Rankin, who was one of the first trustees of the organization, the others having been Leonard Barnes, Ephraim Sears rand Edward !Rudy. The remains Of Thomas Rankin and his wife rest in the pioneer cemetery adjoining the Rankin Church.
Israel Rankin was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, November 20, 1830, and he profited fully by the advantages offered in the pioneer schools of the locality. He passed virtually his entire life on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, and he was not only one of the substantial representatives of farm industry in his native county but was also a prominent and influential citizen who maintained . inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He was a stalwart and well fortified advocate of the principles of the democratic party and was influential in the local councils of the party, besides which he was called upon to serve in various offices of community order, including that of township trustee. He was one of the leading members of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, contributed generously to its support and served earnestly, in its various lay offices. He served more than a quarter of a century as worshipful master of Lodge No. 298, Free and Accepted Masons, at Flushing, Belmont County; was high priest of Cadiz Chapter No. 98, Royal Arch Masons; and was affiliated also with Hope Commandery No. 26. Knights Templar, at St. Clairsville, Belmont County, besides which he was at the time of his death the only man in Athens Township who had received the Masonic order of the High Priesthood, which was conferred upon him in 1866 at Toledo. He also held membership in the Masonic Veterans of Ohio, organized in 1870.
August 18, 1870, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rankin to Miss Sarah Dickerson, daughter of Adam Dickerson, a member of another of the sterling pioneer families of Harrison County. Mrs. Rankin was called to the life eternal August 29, 1886, a devoted member of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, in the cemetery of which rest her remains beside those of her husband, who survived her many years. They became the parents of three children— Elizabeth Jane, James Jamison and William Dickerson, all of whom remain on the old homestead farm, Elizabeth and William never having married. All hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, and the two sons are democrats in politics. As exponents of farm enterprise they are fully upholding the prestige of the name which they bear, as are they also in their loyal and liberal attitude as citizens. They are numbered among the representative farmers of Athens Township and in their native county their circle of friends is coincident with that of their acquaintances. James J. Rankin, on the 10th of December, 1913, was united in marriage to Miss Mary Daniel, and they have one child, James Frederick.
LEWIS CARNEY HOUZE. Owning 155 acres of land in Rose Township, Lewis Carney Houze is so operating it as to win for himself a position among the most progressive and successful farmers of Carroll County. He was born at Hoff's Run Township, March 14, 1858, a son of William Henry and Cynthia (Need) Houze, of Irish and Pennsylvania-German stock. The grandfather, Henry Houze, located in Pennsylvania at an early day, was there married, and
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had two children, William Henry, and his sister Mary. During the War of 1812 he served as a soldier and received a pension for his services. Coming to Ohio, he secured eighty-eight acres of government land in Rose Township, and there he died at the age of eighty-eight years, and his wife passed away on the same farm. William Henry Houze was the younger of his parentsl two children, and he was engaged in farming in Rose Township all of his life. His death occurred in 1905, his wife having passed away some years prior to that date. They had six children born to them, of whom Lewis C. was the youngest.
Growing up on the homestead, Lewis C. Houze alternated attending school in District Number 5. Rose Township. during the winter months, with work on the farm in the summer ones, until he was seventeen years old, and then for two years he worked in the coal mines at Lindentree. Rose Township. After his marriage he bought his present farm, and has since been engaged in operating it, and also for twelve years operated a threshing outfit. He has been a general farmer all of the time since coming to this farm. and finds interest and assistance in his membership with the National Grange of Atwood, Ohio. He is recognized as one of the solid men of his township, and is held in high esteem by all with whom he is associated.
In 1886 Mr. Houze was married to Ellen Lucetta Harsh, a daughter of Enoch and Ann Catherine (Helfrich) Harsh, of Harrison Township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Houze became the parents of the following children: Homer Franklin, who married Etta Van Pelt of East Rochester, has two children—Curtis and Harvey Albert; Ola, who is Mrs. George Shultz of Carrollton, has two children, Earl Le Moine and Wilma Ellen, living, and one, Gladys Rebecca, who died at the age of nine months; Edna May, who is at home; Anne Catherine, who is Mrs. Fremont Sommers of Malvern, Ohio, has three children, Alice Lucette, Lester and Rose; Chester Clark, and Loren Herbert, who are at home.
Chester Clark Houze served in the United States Army during the late war, entering the service at Carrollton, September 23, 1917, and was mustered out March 21, 1919. He was sent to Camp Sherman, where he remained until February, 1918, and was made a buck private of Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-Second Infantry. Transferred to Camp Forrest, Georgia, in April, 1918, he was placed in the Eleventh Machine Gun Company, and sent to Camp Merrett, New Jersey, and sailed for France from New York City, landing at Brest. He saw action in the offensives of St. Mihiel and Argonne, and at Verdun had the first and second fingers of his right hand shot off by a machine gun bullet at the second joint. This injury was much aggravated by his having to walk and crawl for three miles, during which time he lost a large amount of blood. At the time he was shot, his lieutenant lost his life. The young soldier was in several hospitals recovering from his wounds before he was sent home on the Leviathan, December 13, 1918, and landed in New York City. From there he was sent to the hospital at Camp Sherman, where he was detained until in February, 1919, and received his discharge on account of disability. On account of his injuries he receives a pension. He is one of the Carroll County boys who did not return uninjured, but his wounds are honorable ones, and serve to remind him of that time in his life when he arose above the average manls outlook on life, and rendered the best service in the world, for he risked his life in defense of his country and the ideals of patriotism.
JAMES A. COPELAND. To all right-thinking people some proper tribute ought to be paid the memory of the dead not only as a token of respect, but also to keep before the public the name and virtues of the departed. From the days of the erection of the Egyptian Pyramids to the present it has been an accepted fact that no better means can be found for this outward expression of an inward affection and veneration than that afforded by the erection of a substantial monument over . the last resting place of the dead. One of the men of Harrison County who is rendering valuable service to the people of this locality in this line is James A. Copeland of Jewett, whose monuments are admittedly among the most appropriate and artistic to be found in the cemeteries of the state.
James A, Copeland was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on December 3, 1862, a son of John A. and Lucinda (Stayer) Copeland, the former born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on April 1, 1825, and the latter, born in the same township as her husband, was a daughter of Samuel and Emily (Lowry) Stayer. Samuel Stayer and his wife were of German origin, although the family has been in this country for many generations, and their parents came to Ohio from the eastern part of Pennsylvania. They were all members of the Lutheran Church.
John Copeland, the paternal grandfather, was born in Maryland. He married a Miss Armstrong, and they had the following children: John A., Samuel, William, James, Alexander, George, David, Margaret, Mary J. and Sarah The Copeland family is of Scotch- Irish descent. John Copeland became a pioneer of Salem Township, Jefferson County, and there he reared his large family and taught all of them to be useful. John A. Copeland became a farmer of Salem Township, and there he died in 1880, his widow surviving him until 1894, when she too passed away. Four children were born to John A. Copeland and his wife, namely: Amanda E., William S., Mary E., and James A. The family all belonged to the Lutheran Church, and took an active part in local church movements.
Growing up in his native township, James A. Copeland attended the local schools and after he was grown he began farming, remaining in Salem Township until 1898, when he came to Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio, and for eight years was a salesman for Evans & 'Stevenson, who were in the monument business. Mr. Copeland then went into the monument business for himself, and for thirteen years has been so
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engaged, building up a very large trade as the artistic value and perfection of his work gained appreciation.
On June 1. 1889, Mr. Copeland was married to Mamie E. Porter, a daughter of James L. and Mary J. Porter, of East Springfield, Ohio. Two children were born of this marriage, namely: William Howard, who married Ethel Hilbert, and had one child, James H.: and Loyal Herbert, who on June 6, 1918, enlisted in the hospital service for the great war after being refused admittance to a line organization. He sailed for France as a replacement unit the night after the signing of the armistice, and landed at Bordeaux, France, and was assigned to duty in the office of chief surgeon at Tours. France, American Headquarters, and was promoted to the rank of corporal. On July 10. 1919, he landed in the United States, and was honorably discharged not long thereafter..
The first Mrs. Copeland died on June 8, 1913. and Mr. Copeland was afterward married to Mrs. Susie M. Osborne. Mr. Copeland has taken an active part in civic affairs, and in addition to being a member of the City Council from 1911 until his election to the office of mayor he served that body as its president for six months, and is now the chief executive of Jewett. Under his careful administration of affairs the city is showing an admirable advance, and he is admittedly one of the best mayors the city has ever had, and succeeding officials will he hard put to it in order to make a better record than Mr. Copeland.
FRED A. THOMPSON is the owner of an excellent farm of eighty acres in Rumley Township, Harrison County, and is here proving his ability and progressiveness as an enterprising exemplar of agricultural and live-stock industry. He was born in Archer Township, this county. on the 16th of June, 1888, and is a son of Harvey L. and Maria (Shambaugh) Thompson. The father, now deceased, is accorded a memorial tribute on other pages, so that in the present sketch further review of the family history is not required.
Fred A. Thompson did not manifest more than the usual amount of boyish reluctance when he was pursuing his rudimentary studies in the district schools of Archer Township, and later he applied himself with appreciation while a student in the village schools at Jewett. In 1906, after having been associated in the work of the home farm, he established his residence at Jewett, and for about ten years thereafter he operated a dray line in that village. After retiring from this business he was engaged in teaming during one year, and in 1917 he removed to his present farm, which he has since continued to make the scene of vigorous and successful enterprise along the lines of advanced agriculture and stock-growing. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. His wife holds membership in the Lutheran Church at Jewett.
In December, 1909, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Groves, daughter of Samuel Groves, and they have five children— Forrest, Mary, John, Gwen and Eva. In connection with his general farm operations Mr.
Thompson conducts a prosperous dairy enterprise.
HARRY A. HEAVILIN is numbered among the progressive young farmers of Archer Township, and is well maintaining the civic and industrial honors of a family name that has been long and worthily linked with the history of Harrison County. For adequate data concerning the Heavilin family reference may be made to the sketch of the career of Frank M. Heavilin, on other pages of this work.
Harry A. Heavilin was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 16th of December, 1885, and to the public schools of his native county he is indebted for his early educational discipline. He gained first-hand knowledge of the details of agricultural and live-stock industry, as he early began to assist in the work of his father's farm, and he remained with his parents on the old home farm until the time of his marriage, since which time he has been successfully engaged in farm enterprise on a well improved place of 130 acres, and he is known as one of the vigorous and thrifty representatives of farm industry in his native township. He is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Asbury Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 30th of April, 1918, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Heavilin to Miss Wilma Auld, daughter of Allison P. Auld, of Washington Township, Harrison County, and they are popular factors in the social life of their home community.
JOHN S. REPPART, who is the owner of a well improved farm of seventy-five acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, was born in this township on the 19th of September, 1856, and during his entire active career he has been identified with farm industry in his native township, besides which he has owned and operated a threshing outtit during the past thirty years. He also has operated a saw mill for a long period of years, but since 1917 has found practically no requisition for his mill, owing to the limited amount of available lumber in the immediate sections. He has brought about an effective co-ordination in the agricultural and live-stock departments of his farm enterprise, and his only son is now his partner in the operation of the farm, the while they have become specially successful in breeding and raising registered Holstein cattle, Duroc-Jersey swine, and Cheviot sheep, the Reppart farm having exhibited its fine live stock at the Harrison County and other fairs since 1915. Mr. Reppart is a republican in politics, has always taken lively interest in the welfare and advancement of his native county. and has secure place in popular confidence and good will. His wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at Adena.
Mr. Reppart gained his early education in the schools of his native township and is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Harrison County. He is a son of William S. and Nancy (Smith) Reppart, the former of whom was born in Short Creek Township in 1830, and
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the latter of whom was born ill Tuscarawas County, a daughter of John Smith. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Reppart was solemnized November 15, 1855.
Daniel Reppart, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Wales in 1788. He was a young man when he came to the United States and established his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his first marriage occurred and where were born all of the children—three or more of this union. On the occasion of an epidemic of yellow fever in Pennsylvania he removed with his family to Reading that state, and there his wife died of the fever, as did also all of their children except Frederick Jesse. In 1825 Daniel Reppart married Miss Hannah Stephens, who was born July 26, 1786, and shortly after their marriage they came to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Harrison County. His son Frederick J., of the first marriage, remained in Pennsylvania, and the members of the family in Ohio finally lost practically all trace of him. Daniel Rep- part initiated the development of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds of Short Creek Township, and on the old homestead he and his wife remained until their deaths, Mrs. Reppart having passed away May 23, 1858, and her husband's death occurred on the 10th of the following December. They became the parents of two children: David, who was born in 1826 and whose death occurred May 28, 1887;; and William S., father of him whose name introduces this record.
William S. Reppart attended the pioneer schools of Short Creek Township, and as a young man he learned the trade of stone mason. As a skilled workman at his trade he assisted in the building of the bridges on the old plank road from Cadiz to Adena, and in connection with farm enterprise he continued to work at his trade to a greater or less extent for a long term of years. He was one of the substantial and honored citizens of Short Creek Township, where his death occurred in November, 1898, in the house in which he was born. His widow passed to eternal rest on the 25th of February, 1903, she having been a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Reppart became the parents of three children— John S., the immediate subject of this sketch; Thomas F., who is individually mentioned on other pages; and Junius L., who likewise is individually represented in this publication.
On the 13th of March, 1879, was solemnized the marriage of John S. Reppart to Miss Al- Ora Johnson. who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of the late Jonas and Sarah (Dunlap) Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Reppart have six children: Anna Belle is the wife of Jesse Nation, and they have three children, Olive Moslea, Alta May and Everett Emmerson. Charles J., the only son, is associated with his father in the operation of the home farm. He married Miss Mary Adams, and their children are Charles Floyd, John Ellsworth, Emmerson Roy, who died at the age of two years and eight months, and David Verner. Lucy L. and Sadie E. are twins, the former being the wife of Samuel Buchanan and they have four children, Bernice Berdena, Ruth Hannah, Edgar Franklin and Samuel Raiford, and the latter is the wife of Charles Marchbank and they have four children: Raymond Lamoyne, Laura Elmyra, Charles Emmerson and John Wesley. Grace May is the wife of Oscar Singer and they have two living children and one dead, as follows: Albert Lloyd and Delbert Hoy, and Eleanor Vincetta, deceased. Mary Alice is the wife of Orla Burdette, and they have one son, John Clifton.
ADAM D. PORTER is a representative of the fourth generation of the Porter family to be identified with farm industry and to the exemplar of loyal and progressive citizenship in Harrison County, his paternal grandfather having been one of the pioneer settlers of Cadiz Township and he himself being one of the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Athens Township. His birth occurred in Cadiz Township, August 12, 1857. In the same township his father, John, Porter, was born on the 31st of January, 1831, a son of Samuel and Rebecca (Dickerson) Porter, the former of who was born in Pennsylvania, September 17, 1800, and the latter was born August 23, 1802, their marriage having been solemnized April 5, 1827. Mrs. Porter was a daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Dunlap) Dickerson, and her father likewise was a sterling pioneer and successful farmer of Harrison County. Joshua and Sarah Dickerson became the parents of nine children —Joshua, Jr., John, Adam, William, Rebecca, Susan, Sarah (died in childhood), and Jane and Mary (twins).
Samuel Porter, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Burns) Porter, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where the former learned the saddlersis trade and where he remained until 1802, when he came with his family to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, where he became associated with his brother James in the ownership of an entire section of heavily timbered land. He reclaimed a farm in the midst of the forest, and as the only saddler in the county he found much demand for his service at his trade in the early days. He developed one of the best farms in the county, the land having been purchased from the Government, and here he continued to reside until his death, August 2, 1869. at the patriarchal age of 105 years. His wife was born August 15, 1786, and died in 1830, both having been sincere members of the Presbyterian Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party. This honored pioneer couple became the parents of eleven children—John, James, Smiley, David, Samuel, Jane, Jolly, Elizabeth. Nancy (died in infancy), Irwin and Sarah, the last two having never married and having remained on the old homestead until their deaths. It should be noted in this connection that the Porter family was founded in Pennsylvania in the early colonial epoch and that representatives of the same were patriot soldiers in the war of the Revolution, besides which the family contributed one or more soldiers to the War of 1812.
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Samuel Porter, Jr., grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a small child
at, the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions of the early pioneer period. He became one of the substantial farmers of Cadiz Township and there remained on his old homestead farm of eighty acres until his death, December 23, 1869, only a few months after the death of his remarkably aged father. His widow long survived him and was summoned to eternal rest on the 6th of February, 1892, both having been devout members of the Presbyterian Church. The names and respective birth dates of their children are here recorded: Joshua, May 20, 1828; Sarah, September 8, 1829; John, January 31, 1831; Samuel, November 17, 1832; Mary Jane, October 7, 1834; William, April 7, 1836; Adam, November 30, 1837; Rebecca, June 21, 1840; and Susanna, July 10, 1842.
John Porter was reared on the old home farm and acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Cadiz Township. In that township he initiated his independent career as a farmer, and there he continued his residence on his farm until 1894, when he removed to Cadiz, the county seat. In 1901, however, he located on a farm near Cadiz Junction, and after remaining there six years he returned to the city of Cadiz, where he has since lived retired. He is a democrat in politics and is a member of United Presbyterian Church as was also his wife. November 13, 1856, recorded his marriage to Miss Sarah Dunlap, daughter of Adam and Martha (Thompson) Dunlap, members of honored pioneer families of Harrison County. Mrs. Porter passed away on the 2d of October, 1901. Of their children the eldest is Adam D., Jr., immediate subject of this sketch, the names of the other five being as here noted: Martha J., Mary E., Rebecca Amanda (deceased), Sarah Lydia and Susan I.
Adam D. Porter, Jr., gained his youthful education In the district school locally known as the Pike's Peak School in Cadiz Township, and his initial experience of practical order was gained in connection with the work of his father's farm. As a young man he worked at the carpenter's trade at intervals, but the basic industry of agriculture has. claimed his allegiance during practically the entire period of his independent career. He continued as a farmer in Cadiz Township until 1908, when he removed to his present excellent farm of eighty-four acres in Athens Township, where he stands as an exponent of agricultural and live-stock enterprise. He is a democrat in his political adherence and his wife holds membership in the First Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
On the 15th of September, 1886, Mr. Porter married Miss Samantha Jane Thompson. who was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Shields) Thompson. In the concluding paragraph of this sketch is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Porter:
George married Miss Florence Coleman and is engaged in farming in his native county. Mary is the wife of Chester Busby, of this county. John Joseph was one of the gallant young men contributed by Harrison County to the nation's service in the late World war. On the 6th of October, 1917, he entered service at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and in the following month he was sent to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and in April, 1919, went to Camp Mills, New York. On the 10th of the following month he sailed for the stage of war, arriving at Dover, England, on the 24th of that month and in France on the 5th of June. He forthwith entered active service with the American Expeditionary Forces, and he took part in the famous Chateau Thierry campaign, in which he was wounded in the left arm on the 18th of July. His injury caused him to be confined five weeks in Base Hospital No. 36, and on the 11th of September, 1918, he rejoined his command as a member of Company A, Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Division. He took part in the Meuse- Argonne offensive movement of the allied troops September 25 to October 19, 1918, and after the signing of the historic armistice he was with the army of occupation in Germany until July on the 11th of which month he left Coblenz for Brest, from which port be sailed for the United States on the 24th of that month. He arrived in the port of New York city on the 1st of August, and received his honorable discharge on the 8th of that month. He endured the full tension of the great conflict on the blood-stained fields of France, and made a record that shall ever reflect honor upon his name. He returned to the parental home after receiving his discharge. Adam Craig Porter, the next younger son, entered service at Camp Sherman October 6, 1917, was later assigned to the remount service, and with his command sailed for France October 6, 1918. There he continued in the remount service until the close of the war, and he arrived in his native land in July, 1919, his honorable discharge having been received on the 8th of that month, and he likewise having gladly returned to his native county, as one of the honored young veterans of the World war. The two younger sons, still at the parental home, are William H. and Carl H.
JASPER H. ROUDEBUSH. The career of Jasper H. Roudebush is an expression of well-directed and intelligent industry, of devotion to the best interests of the community, and of promotion of the best tenets of agriculture. His financial standing is indicated by the possession of 354 acres of highly valuable land, located all in one body in Washington Township, a community in which he has passed his entire life and where the people recognize him as a practical agriculturist and skilled raiser of stock. Mr. Roudebush is a self-made man, and all his possessions have come to him through the exercise of thrift, good management and business sagacity.
Jasper H. Roudebush was born February 6, 1875, on a farm in Washington Township. Carroll County, a son of Mathias and Anna (Blazer) Roudebush. His paternal grandparents were Jesse and Jane Ann (Poole) Roudebush, early settlers of Washington Township, and his maternal grandfather was Philip B. Blazer, who was numbered also among the early
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residents of Carroll County. Mathias Roudebush was born in Washington Township, where he was reared and educated and, following his marriage to Anna Blazer, who was born in Center Township, this county, settled on a farm in Washington Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Roudebush died when her son was only three years old, Mr. Roudebush surviving until July, 1918. They had but two children: Jasper H. and Philip, the latter of whom is now deceased.
Jasper H. Roudebush acquired his educational training in the district school adjacent to his father's farm and remained on the home place until two years after his marriage, when he bought 110 acres of land in Washington Township. To this he has since added by thrift and industry until he now has 354 acres, all in one body, on which he has modern improvements and the best of buildings and equipment. In addition to carrying on general farming, he is successfully raising Shorthorn cattle, hogs and other live-stock, and in all departments of his work operates under modern methods. He has kept pace with the advance in agriculture through the various mediums at the disposal of intelligent students of land culture, and is a valued member of Washington Township Grange No. 1961, of which he was formerly master. He belongs to the Mount Olive Disciples Church, in which he is an elder. Politically a republican, Mr. Roudebush wields a distinct influence in the ranks of his party and for many years was a member of the central committee. Since 1914 he has served in the office of justice of the peace, and in the fall of 1920 was elected County Commissioner. A man of sterling general worth, he is respected by all with whom he is associated, and represents, in the variety and extent of his success, an example worthy of emulation by the youth of the rising generation.
On January 10, 1900, Mr. Roudebush married Miss Margaret Shepherd, who was born April 6, 1874. in Center Township, Carroll County, a daughter of James and Ann Eliza (Bothwell) Shepherd, early settlers of Carroll County. To this union there have been born two children : Alma, who is a teacher in the public schools of Carroll County, and Martha, who resides with her parents and is in high school.
JAMES A. McLAUGHLIN. The late James A McLaughlin, of Short Creek Township, was for thirteen years one of the successful farmers and live-stock men of his community, and his name is held in the highest esteem in Harrison County, while his own career and the history of his family lend distinction to the pioneer annals of this section of Ohio.
Mr. McLaughlin was born at Adena, Jefferson County, Ohio, November 24, 1849, son of William J. and Elizabeth (Berry) McLaughlin. His father was born at the old McLaughlin homestead near Adena in Jefferson County March 3. 1812. His mother was born near Venice in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1815. They were married October 20, 1840. The parents of Elizabeth Berry were William and Jane (McConnell) Berry. Her father was born and reared in Washington County, where he learned the carpenter's trade in youth, later became a successful operator of a flour mill at Venice, and owned and developed a good farm in that locality, where he spent his entire life. He served more than thirty years in office as justice of the peace. He and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as an elder for many years. Their children were named John, Mary, Elizabeth, William, Matthew, Prudence and James.
John McLaughlin, founder of the family of that name in southeastern Ohio, was born in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and married there Miss Anna Johnson. In 1801 he became one of the earliest settlers in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, where he and his wife endured the circumstances of the frontier while he was reclaiming a farm from the forest wilds. He was an honored and influential citizen of the county and for seventeen years was a member of the Lower House of the Legislature, having a record of sixteen consecutive years in that office. He impressed his ability upon the legislative record of the period and was the first to suggest and urge the establishment of a state asylum for the deaf and dumb. He and his wife were revered pioneers of this county. They were United Presbyterians. Their family of children were Eliza, Polly, Nancy. Peggie, Anna, William J., John, James M., Jane, Catherine and Samuel R. Samuel R. was distinguished by a brilliant intellect, being only twelve years old when he gained admission to Franklin College at New Athens.
William J. McLaughlin was reared and educated in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County. Virtually his entire active career was devoted to farming, with a high degree of success and accompanied with the responsibilities of an influential citizen. He was a republican, and he and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian Church. His death occurred in January, 1894, while his wife passed away December 28, 1898. The names and respective birth dates of their children were: John M., January 8, 1843; Jane, December 25, 1845; William G., April 25, 1847; James A., November 24, 1849; Samuel, March 24, 1854; and Martha, October 8, 1856.
The late James A. McLaughlin during his youth acquired a fortifying experience in connection with the work of the old home farm, and at the same time profited by the advantages of the district schools. In his native township as a young man he commenced farming for himself, and during the long intervening years gave unwearying industry and allegiance to the production of crops and live-stock, with a degree of success merited by his labors and good judgment. The scene of his farming enterprise continued in Jefferson County until 1907, in which year he removed to Short Creek Township and for the next six years was engaged in partnership with his sons William W. and Wilmer M. in farming and live-stock operations. In 1913 he and his son Wilmer M. became partners in the operation of the old Ladd
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farm, and he so continued until his death on February 14, 1920. During his time the partnership became notable for the successful breeding of registered black-top Spanish Marino sheep and registered Jersey cattle.
Mr. McLaughlin was a republican, though he never sought or held public office. He and his family were United Presbyterians and at the time of his death he was an elder in the Harrisville United Presbyterian Church.
February 26, 1874, Mr. McLaughlin married Miss Sarah A. Barkhurst. She was also born and reared in Jefferson County. Her father, William Barkhurst, was of pioneer ,stock. Mr. McLaughlin was bereaved of his devoted companion of more than thirty years on February 22, 1906. The memory of her kindly personality is deeply cherished in Jefferson County and by her children and grandchildren in Harrison County. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. James A. McLaughlin Ella May, born February 29, 1876, is the wife of George T. Davis and has three children, named James Howells, Sarah Catherine and Martha. Mary E., who was born January 10, 1879, is the wife of Rev. Herbert Haldy, a clergyman of the Society of Friends, They have two children, Helen Avien and Josephine A. The sons of William Wilson and Wilmer M. are accorded special mention in these pages. Jennie B., who was born May 1, 1886, died July 3, 1891. Russell H., the youngest. was born November 16, 1888. married Miss May Rogers and has two children, John Howard and Martha Marie.
WILMER M. MCLAUGHLIN, of Short Creek Township, Harrison County, is recognized as one of the successful and representative farmers and stock-raisers and is a son of the late James A. McLaughlin, of a prominent pioneer family of Jefferson County and whose connections with the life and affairs of that county and also with Harrison County are reviewed in the preceding sketch.
Wilmer M. McLaughlin was born in Belmont County, Ohio, November 19, 1882. He was reared in that county and educated in the schools of Belmont and Jefferson counties. In 1907 he came with his father and other mem hers of the family to Short Creek Township and he and his father and brother, William W. engaged in farming and the stock business it partnership, their partnership being continue for six years, until terminated in 1913. The son Wilmer M. and his father continued part nership relations in farming and stock-raising on the old Ladd farm until the death of hi: father in 1920. Since then Wilmer M. McLaugh lin has continued the operation of this wet: known stock farm and is one of the recognized authorities on pure bred cattle and sheep it that section of the state.
He stands for all that is best in citizenship and is an honor to his community, is indus trious. and has exemplified the quality of fail dealing and consistency in his relations both to business and the fundamental religious principles of life. He is a member of the Harrisville United Presbyterian Church and a republican in politics.
September 18, 1912, Mr, McLaughlin married Miss Matilda McFarland, who was born in Short Creek Township July 26, 1893, daughter of James T. and Hattie (Lynn) McFarland. Her father was a native of Cadiz Township and her mother of Short Creek. Mrs. McLaughlin was educated in the district schools of Jefferson County and in the Harrisville High School, and is a member of the Harrisville United Presbyterian Church. She is a most estimable woman, wife and mother, and an earnest helpmate to her husband. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin are the parents of a daughter and a son, Sarah Marie, born August 14, 1916, and George William, born December 29, 1919.
JOHN S. EVANS. It would be difficult to find a family more representative of the solid reliable qualities deemed so desirable in a neighborhood of hard-working, thrifty and loyal Americans than that bearing the name of Evans, of whom John S. Evans of Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, is a worthy member. He was born at Covington, Kentucky, in 1870, a son of George Evans, and grandson of Hugh Evans, both of the last two being natives of Lannasanna, North Wales. Hugh Evans was a minister of the Methodist faith, who died in North Wales when forty-five years of age. In addition to discharging his ministerial duties he owned and operated a woolen factory in his native place. Hugh Evans was the father of the following children: Anna, Mary, Margaret, Ellen, Jane, William, Richard, John, George and an unnamed infant son.
George Evans, who was born in 1834, was reared in North Wales, and there was married to Jane Jones, who was born in North Wales in 1838, the marriage taking place in 1861. As a young man he learned the bricklaying trade, but did not find the opening he desired in his own land, so decided to seek his fortune in another. About 1865 he came to the United States, bringing with him his wife and one child. They stopped for a short time at Troy, New York, from whence they made their way westward as far as Cincinnati, Ohio. A few months later they made another change when they went to Covington, Kentucky, and that city continued to be their home until 1870, when they went to Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, and during the short time they lived in that city George Evans was employed on the construction of the old Postoffice Building. In 1871 he came to Cadiz, Ohio, and there he assisted in erecting the mill, and set the first steam engine in it. About 1875 be and his family returned to England, but he came hack to the United States by himself in 1884, and after three months spent at Cadiz. Ohio, getting things ready for them, he sent for his family, who then joined him. From then on he continued to reside in Harrison County. He and his wife had the following children: Mariam Jane, who married James Mattern; Anna. who married Asbury Freshwater; John Sl., whose name appears at the opening of this review; William, who married Clara Mealey; George, who was fifth in order of birth; and Ellen. who married Charley N. Raynard. George Evans died in October,
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1913, and his widow in June, 1916, both as devout members of the Welsh Baptist Church.
John S. Evans followed his father's example and learned to be a bricklayer, and worked at his trade for a number of years, and during that period did some contract building. For the past nine years, however, he has been engaged in farming and also deals in stock to some extent. His ninety-five acres of land are well cultivated and devoted to a general line of diversified crops and the raising of some stock.
On November 2. 1892, John S. Evans was married to Margaretta Osburn, a daughter of John and Sarah (Amspoker) Osburn, of Archer Township. Mr. and Mrs: Evans have two children: Susie Alice, who married Oakley Henniss, and has one child. Ellen; and Sarah Margaret, who married Benjamin H. Findling, and has one child, Dorcas Winnifred, who was born October 28, 1916.
JAMES S. GILLOGLY has shown no indirection or uncertainty in the management of his substantial farm industry, and has gained the maximum returns from his well improved farm of 160 acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison County.
Mr, Gillogly was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, on the 21st of December, 1862, and is a son of Andrew J. and Eliza (Grim) Gillogly, both of whom were born and reared in that county, where the father devoted his entire active career to farming enterprise, save for a period of three years spent in similar activity in the State of Illinois. Both he and his wife were venerable citizens of their native county at the time of their deaths, and both were consistent members of the Baptist Church. To them were born eight children—Mary Anna, William (died in childhood), Arbelle, James S., Spencer, Flora Jane, Laura and Andrew Perry.
James S. Gillogly is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early education, and there also was staged his first independent enterprise in connection with farming. He became the owner of one of the excellent farms of Greene County, and there continued his residence until 1907, when he sold his property in the old Keystone state and purchased his present homestead farm in Short Creek Township. The original purchase was a tract of 127 acres, to which he has since added until he now has a productive and well kept farm of 160 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of good types of livestock. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are active members of the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville.
The year 1895 recorded the marriage of Mr. Gillogly to Miss Dora L. Smith, who likewise was born and reared in Greene County. Pennsylvania, where her father, George Smith, was a prosperous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Gillogly hecame the parents of four children: Gail died on April 9, 1917, at the age of twenty-four years; and the surviving children are Straus James, who married Florence Mulvihill, of Cadiz Township; Leona, who married Craig Seibert, of Short Creek Township; and Howard. Straus James, the elder son, represented his home county in the national military service in the late World war. On the 25th of July, 1918, he entered service at Camp Sherman, and on the 9th of the following September he embarked for the stage of war. He landed in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 22d of the same month, proceeded thence to Southampton, England, from which port he sailed for France. He landed at Havre and in the American Expeditionary Forces he was assigned to Company C, Three Hundred and Sixty-second Regiment of Infantry. Ninety-tirst Division, his original assignment having been to Company E. Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. He took part in the tinal drive of the allied forces in Belgium, and was in the front lines at the time when the historic armistice was signed and brought hostilities to a close. On the return to his native land he arrived in the port of New York City on the 11th of April, 1919, and on the first of the following month he received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio.
JOHN J. DUSWALD passed his entire life in Harrison County, was reared to manhood in North Township, and received the advantages of the local schools of the period. With the passing years he so directed his activities as to become one of the representative farmers of Rumley Township, and as a citizen of sterling character and worthy achievement he held inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He remained on his farm until his death, December 31, 1915, and his status in the community was such that a tribute to his memory and a brief record of his career find consistent place in this history.
Mr. Duswald was born in North Township, this county, on the 25th of April, 1847, and was a son of James and Sarah (Shook) Duswald, the former a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the latter of the State of Maryland. In his youth James Duswald received excellent educational advantages and gave considerable time to the study of medicine. He was a young man, however, when he abandoned the plan of preparing himself for the medical profession, and a radical change was made in his course when he adopted a seafaring life. In his voyages as a sailor he visited Palestine and the leading ports in Europe and Asia, and he was still a young man when he came to Harrison 'County, Ohio, where his marriage was solemnized, and where he engaged in farming in North Township. He was a man of broad views and fine intellectual ken, and was influential in community affairs. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while his wife was a member of the Lutheran Church, and they were well advanced in years at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of four children—John J., subject of this memoir; Sarah Amanda, Mrs. Frank Ramsey; Mary A., Mrs. William Holmes, and Thomas W., who married Ellen Corbett and he is now deceased.
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John J. Duswald spent his early life working on farms in North Township. In about 1869 he began saw milling, and continued in that work until about 1883. In that year he engaged in farming in North Township on his own account, and in 1887 he came to the George Shambaugh farm in Rumley Township. Following the death of Mr. Shambaugh, his father-in-law, in 1904, Mr. Duswald bought the farm, on which he passed the remainder of his life and on which his widow and their only surviving son still maintain their home. On this 'fine farm of 180 acres Mr. Duswald made many excellent improvements, including the erection of a large and modern barn and all other buildings except the two houses on the place. He was a man of energy, enterprise and good judgment, and in his farm industry he won substantial and well merited success. He never sought public office but was loyal and liberal as a citizen. He was a democrat in politics, and held membership in the United Brethren Church, as does also his widow. John J. Duswald served in the Civil war in the Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, from February, 1864, until the close of the war. he having been mustered out July 4, 1865.
On the 29th of May, 1873, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Duswald to Miss Mary C. Shambaugh, who was born and reared in Rum- ley Township, this county, and who is a daughter of George and Matilda (Hazlett) Shambaugh, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania. George Shambaugh was a boy of about four years when he came to Rumley Township with his parents. His father, who likewise bore the name of George, was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1787. The original American progenitor was George Shambaugh, who was born and reared in Germany and who was one of the early settlers in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he became a man of wealth and influence. The George Shambaugh who was the grandfather of Mrs. Duswald married Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Wirt, a young widow who was born in 1777, a daughter of Michael Brown, who was of German lineage. In 1817 George Brown came with his wife to Harrison County, Ohio, and obtained a large tract of Government land in Rumley Township, where he reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds and where he remained until his death, September 4, 1867, his wife having passed away many years previously. They became the parents of four children—Philip, Michael (died March 20, 1863), George (father of Mrs. John J. Duswald), and Margaret (wife of Samuel Hazlett, both being deceased). George Shambaugh had served in the War of 1812, and one of his uncles, Jacob Shambaugh, was a youthful soldier in the Continental line in the War of the Revolution, he having been a boy when he entered the service and his duty having been principally that of military teamster.
George Shambaugh, father of Mrs. Duswald, was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer days in Harrison County, and eventually he became one of the successful exponents of farm industry in Rumley Township, where he and his wife died when venerable in years, both having been earnest members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of nine children : Sarah J. became the wife of Mathias Markley and is now deceased; Jacoh and Susannah died in early childhood; Isaac B., deceased, was a Civil war veteran; George W. is a resident of the State of Kansas; Mary C. is the widow of the subject of this memoir; Michael L. maintains his home in Nebraska; Andrew J. is a resident of the State of Louisiana ; and Daniel S. lives in Nebraska. It will thus be noted that of the immediate family Mrs. Duswald is now the only remaining representative in Harrison County. She, like her parents, holds. membership in the United Brethren Church. George Shambaugh was twice married, wedding for his second wife Susana Bradley. She lives in North Township, Harrison County.
In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Duswald: George J. remains with his widowed mother on the old home farm, and of him more specific mention will be made later; Sarah M. is the wife of Ott W. English, of North Township, and they have two children—Florence M. and Clyde; Charles W. died in early childhood; Edna E. is the wife of L. J. Duncan, and they reside in the State of Texas; Bertha M. is the wife of John Dunlap, of Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio, and they have two children—George A. and Mary Vivian; and J. Wilbur died in childhood.
George J. Duswald was born in North Township March 2, 1879. In addition to receiving the advantages of the public schools he completed a commercial course at Scio College, this county, and he has since remained on the home farm, of which he assumed the active management upon the death of his father. In connection with diversified agriculture he is a successful stock-grower and gives special attention to the breeding of Aberdeen-Angus cattle.
DAVID M. KAIL. Some of the former energetic agriculturists of Harrison County are now living in retirement, but the work which they accomplished still stands as a monument to their industry and good management. One of these substantial retired farmers of German Township is David M. Kail of Germano. He was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a son of Uriah and Maria (Miser) Kali. Gabriel Kail, his paternal grandfather, was the pioneer of the family in Harrison County. Born in Pennsylvania, he left his native state in young manhood and journeyed westward to Ohio until he reached Harrison County. Buying a farm in Rumley Township, he continued to live on it until his death, which took place in 1850. A wagon-maker by trade, he alternated working at it and farming. His second wife, Elizabeth De Vore, was the grandmother of David M. Kail, and they had the following children: Gabriel, Hiram, Steven, Joseph, Uriah, Lucinda, Anna, Tabitha and Phoebe.
One of these sons, Uriah Kail. became the father of David M. Kail. He was born in
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Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1825, and died there in 1873. He learned the trade of wagonmaking from his fatber, and worked at it in Rumley and Jefferson townships. His wife, Maria Miser, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of David Miser, who was a tanner of Jefferson County. Mrs. Kail was one in the following children: William, David, Henry, Elizabeth, Maria, Catherine, Mary and Maggie. All were Lutherans in religious belief. Uriah Kail and his wife had the following children born to them: Elizabeth, David M., Margaret. Alexander and Eva Jane. Mrs. Kail belonged to the Reformed Church.
Growing up in German Township, David M. Kail attended the district schools and learned to he a farmer. His initial experience in farming was acquired in German Township, and he continued to be engaged in that calling during all of his active years, in time becoming the owner of eighty-two acres of land in that township. In 1916 he retired and moved to Germano.
In 1890 Mr. Kail was united in marriage with Maria Bell Stringer, a daughter of William and
Isabell Stringer, of Adena, Ohio, and she died August 4, 1918, leaving a wide circle of warm, personal friends to mourn her loss. Mr. Kail belongs to Knights of Pythias of Jefferson.
T. NEWELL OSBORNE has been since 1911 one of the interested principals in the Spence-Roberts Company, which conducts a' well appointed and splendidly equipped general merchandise establishment in the Village of Jewett, Harrison County, and he has served continuously as village clerk since 1914. He is deeply interested in all that touches the civic and material welfare and progress of his home village and native county, and is one of the representative business men of the younger generation in Harrison County. For the greater part of the time since leaving college he has been associated with the mercantile business with which he is now connected and in which he has been a stockholder since 1911.
Mr. Osborne was born at Jewett on the 18th of August, 1883, and his personal popularity in his native place sets at naught any application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in is own country." He is a son of Riehie and Susan Maria (Ram- sower) Osborne, and in the public schools of Jewett he continued his studies until his graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1900. Thereafter he was for two years a student in Scio College, and the greater part of the time since leaving school has found him allied with the mercantile enterprise in which he is now a partner, as previously noted. His political allegiance is given to tbe republican party, he is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Scio, where he and his wife also hold membership in the adjunct chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star their home village they are active communicants of the Lutheran Church.
The 19th of March, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Osborne to Miss Augusta Yost, who was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and who is a daughter of the late Elias and Ann (Macklin) Yost, the former of whom was born in Frederick County, Virginia, December 2, 1805, and the latter of whom was born in County Armagh, Ireland, December 2, 1842, and who was a young woman when she came to America and established ber residence in Ohio. Mr. Yost died December 2, 1896 on the ninety-tirst anniversary of his birth, and his widow passed away on tbe 21st of May, 1901.
The Yost family, of German origin, was founded in America in the colonial period, and representatives of the same were valiant soldiers of the Continental line in the War of the Revolution. Michael and Rachel (Beckley) Yost, grandparents of Mrs. Osborne, were born and reared in Virginia, and in 1806 they came with wagon and tive-horse team from the Old Dominion State to Harrison County, Ohio, where they settled in the midst of the forest wilds near the present village of Harrisville. They endured the full tension of frontier life and did well their part in the initial stages of development and progress in this now favored section of the Buckeye State. The substantial brick house which Michael Yost erected on his pioneer farm is still standing, and is one of the venerable landmarks of Harrison County. He was born November 3, 1776. and died on the 2d of February, 1849, his wife, who was born in 1780, having survived him by only seventeen days, both having been devout communicants of the Lutheran Church. Of their eleven children ten attained to years of maturity, and the family name has been prominently and worthily identified with the history of Harrison County since the early pioneer period.
Elias Yost, the seventh child, was not yet one year old at the time of the family migration to
Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and where he became one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of the community in the vicinity of Harrisville. A man of fine character, he commanded the respect of all who knew him, and in his patriarchal years had the pleasure of being the head of a numerous family representing three generations. He first married Kezia Kithcart, who was born in 1812, in Pennsylvania, and who died in 1878, after having became the mother of eleven children. In 1880 Mr, Yost married Miss Ann Macklin, and they became the parents of two daughters, of whom Mrs. Augusta Osborne is the younger. The parents were numbered among the most venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of their deaths. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have two children—Newell Yost, born November 10, 1914, and Katherine, 'born October 19, 1916.
JAMES C. ANDERSON. One of the enterprising agriculturists of Harrison County, James C. Anderson, of Rumley Township, has been engaged for the past forty years in breeding blooded Clydesdale horses, and he has also devoted bimself to raising a diversified line of
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crops and other stock, achieving very gratifying results in all of his undertakings. He was born in Rumley Township April 10, 1850, a son of James and Violet (Caldwell) Anderson, and grandson of John Anderson.
John Anderson was born in Ireland. but came to the United States when his son James was twelve years of age, setting out from Belfast for the trip across the ocean. After arriving in this country he located in Washington County, Pennsylvania, but later moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and about 1849 the family moved to Rumley Township, Harrison County, where John Anderson lived until his death. His children were as follows: Ellen, Mary, Bell, Andrew, Richard, Wiliam, John and James, all of whom were born in Ireland. The family all belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.
James Anderson was a farmer of Rumley Township for practically his entire life* although his last days were passed at Kilgore, Carroll County, Ohio. His wife was born at Cannonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they had the following children: James C., whose name appears at the head of tbis review; and Violet. wbo has never married and lives at Canton, Ohio.
James C. Anderson attended the local schools of his native township, as well as those of German Township, and in Lee Township, Carroll County, and at the same time learned how to be a practical farmer under his father's experienced supervision. In 1877 Mr. Anderson located on his present farm and now owns 219 acres of land in one piece. Although he is generally recognized as a successful farmer, it is as a breeder of Clydesdale horses that he is best known.
On December 29, 1872, Mr. Anderson married Lydia A. Levengood, a daughter of Jacob Levengood, and they had the following children : Olive Ellen, who was born January 15, 1874, married Newton Dutton, now deceased, and they had one child, Jesse Scott Dutton, whose military record is given below; Annie Bell, wbo was born March 14, 1876, died August 10, 1876; Jesse L., who was born December 20, 1879, married Susie Montgomery, and they have two sons, Robert and George, and live with Mr. Anderson on the home farm; and Lydia E., who was born October 2, 1887, died January 25, 1888. Mrs. Anderson died November 7, 1890. In 1891 Mr. Anderson was married to Lena Beck, a daughter, of Louis and Dora (Shantz) Beck. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Reformed Church and active in its work. They have no children of their own, but about 1904 they took into their home a thirteen months-old baby, Charles Otto Fleming. Later they adopted him and he is known as Charles Otto Anderson.
Jesse Scott Dutton, grandson of James C. Anderson, is a veteran of the great war. He entered the service April 30, 1918, and was sent to Camp Sherman for his training, and while there was assigned to Company F, Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers, Eighty-third Division. On June 3, 1918, be left New York City harbor, with his organization for overseas, and landed at Liverpool, England, June 15, from whence he went on to France by way of Southampton, England, landing at Havre on June 20. While in France he served with his organization in the Aisne-Marne offensive from July 28 to August 6; the Oisne-Aisne offensive from August 18 to September 9; the Meuse-Argonne offensive from September 26 to November 11. From December 13, 1918 to May 20, 1919, he served at Neustadt, Germany. Mr. Dutton arrived in the United States on his way home June 26, 1919, and received his honorable discharge July 8, 1919, at Camp Sherman. Ohio. He is the only member of Mr. Andersonls family who came within the military age of the first draft. and naturally all of the Andersons as well as the Duttons are very proud of him and deeply grateful that he is not one of the brave American boys whose white crosses in France bave created so many gold stars at home.
JOHN B. STEWART. The qualities of adaptability, persistence, common sense and good judgment have prevailed in the energetic life of John B. Stewart, of Freeport Township, Harrison County, winning for him an enviable position among the business, civic and social elements of his community. While he is the owner of a farm, he has passed his life at the carpenter trade. He was born in Freeport Township May 14, 1868, a son of George W. and Mary (Booth) Stewart.
James Stewart, the great-grandfather of John B. Stewart, was born in Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneers into Freeport Township, Harrison County, but after a short stay removed with his wife, Mary. and children into Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where his death occurred. He had a family of nine children: John, George, Samuel, James, Andrew. William, Mary, Catherine and Massie. Of these children James Stewart, the grandfather of John B., was born in Pennsylvania, and was a Child when he accompanied his parents to Harrison and later to Tuscarawas County, in which latter he passed the rest of his life as an agriculturist and became a well-known and highly-respected citizen. He married Mary Randall, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, and they became the parents of five children: Amanda, Ananias C., George W. and Thomas Benton, twins, and Marilda.
George W. Stewart, father of John B., was born in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, March 31, 1839, and as a young man worked on a farm and in a sawmill, later learning the trade of carpenter. He was married in 1862 to Mary Booth, who was born in Tuscarawas County, a daughter of John and Nancy (Hart) Booth and in 1865 removed to Freeport Township, Harrison County, where from 1865 to 1873 he was proprietor of the Freeport Mill. For about four years he was engaged in farming in that community, but in 1877 returned to Tuscarawas County, where he conducted a sawmill until 1890 and then came back to Freeport Township, Harrison County, where he farmed and worked at the carpenter trade. In 1911 he retired from active pursuits, having accumulated a competence, and moved
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to the Town of Freeport. For some years he continued to accept small contracts as a carpenter, but since 1919 has lived quietly in his comfortable home. Mrs. Stewart died in 1870. having been the mother of four children: Addle, who died young; Ella, tbe widow of Porter Mitchelt; John B.; and William, who died in Infancy. In 1872 Mr. Stewart was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth beeper, daughter of Moses and Racbel (Carr) Leeper, and they had five children: Allan. who is deceased; Alfred, a resident of New Philadelphia, Ohio; Thomas, who resides in Iowa; Carlton, who lives at New Philadelphia; and George, a resident of Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church of Freeport.
John B. Stewart attended the public schools of Freeport, and when a young man adopted his fatber's trade of carpenter, which he has followed througbout his life. In all parts of the country surrounding Freeport are found evidences of his skill and ingenuity, and he has always adbered to the principle that what is wortb doing at all is worth doing well, with the consequence that he has a reputation as a careful, skillful and reliable workman. He is esteemed also for his integrity and moral worth, and for his consideration and fairness as an employer of labor. He is the owner of a farm of 100 acres, which is being operated by his sons.
In 1890 Mr. Stewart married Miss Mary Rowland, a daughter of James and Mellie Ann (Tool) Rowland, born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. James Rowlandls first wife was Jane, a daughter of Jacob and Jane Heflin. As a young man James Rowland started farming in Cadiz Township. but about 1880 removed to Freeport Township. where he carried on operations until his death in 1917. By his first marriage he had seven children: George, Nancy, Sarah, Jacob, W. R., Hannah and Lydia. His children by his second marriage were Kennedy, Mary. Jennie. Alice, Thomas, James and Jessie. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart: Everett deceased. Earl B.. Ray. Ella and Dewey. Earl B. Stewart enlisted in tbe United. States Army September 19, 1917, and after intensive training was sent overseas to France June 4, 191$, as corporal of Company F. Tbree Hundred and Eighth Engineers of the Eighty-third Division. He participated in the battles of the Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, Meuse and Argonne. returned to the United States June 26. 1919. and was honorably discharged with a splendid record, July 7, 1919, at Camp Sherman. Since his return from foreign battletields this brave young soldier has applied himself to the duties of peace, and is assisting his brothers in tbe cultivation of his fatherls farm.
WILLIAM C. GUNNELL. When he was but tbirteen years old William C. Gunnell, superintendent of the Cadiz Flouring Mills, began working as a millerls apprentice, and he has been "in the grind" practically all of his life. Since 1902 he has lived in Cadiz. Mr, Gunnell was born January 5, 1866, in Eaton County, Michigan, although his father, Thomas Gunnell, came from England. He married Sarepta Brummeling in the State of New York and they located on a farm in Michigan. He was a contractor and builder as well as farmer. He died in Eaton County in 1871 and Mrs. Gunnell died in 1910 in Litchfield. The oldest son, William C. Gunnell, lived in Harrison County several years. His brother, Frank H. Gunnell, lives in Great Falls, Montana, and Fred T. lives in Detroit.
Thomas Gunnell died, and the mother married Charles Rozell, and tbere is a daughter, Vera. wife of John Berry. The Gunnell children had common school education in Eaton County. Michigan, but while yet a school boy, W. C. Gunnell was learning the miller's trade. In the old days of the water mill it was always said the miller had fat hogs and yet no one knew whose corn fattened them, as the miller took toll from all the grists, but in these days of steam mills nothing is ever said about it.
When Mr. Gunnell came to Cadiz he was superintendent of the Cadiz Flouring Mills, but in 1906 be bought the property, and he now buys wheat and grinds it. The Moss Rose Flour is known to the trade, and Mr. Gunnell has established himself as on expert manufacturer of the best flour on the market today.
In November, 1889, Mr. Gunnell married Minnie B. Reed, a daughter of Henry Reed. Their two daughters. Catharine and Martha, are deceased. Catberine was tbe wife of Stewart Yonnelly, but Martha died in childhood.
W. C. Gunnell is q member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias Lodges, and with his wife he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Cadiz. While his early life was spent in Michigan he is now identified with the business interests of Harrison County. There is no industry more necessary to the prosperity of any community than a well conducted flouring mill, and Cadiz is fortunate in having Mr. Gunnell connected with its flour industry.
JOHN P. LIGGETT. When a man has always lived in one community he is interested in its history. John P. Liggett, the Green Township farmer and contractor, was born December 21. 1859. and has always lived in the vicinity of Hopedale. He owns a farm of 279 acres in Green Township, just outside the Hopedale corporation. and he also owns farm land in Jefferson County,
Mr Liggett is a son of Theodore Liggett, who was born September 11. 1830. at Wellsburg, West Virginia. He married Nancy Maholm, of Cadiz Township. who was one year younger than himself. She was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Delaney) ,Maholm. She died February 5. 1912. and Mg. Liggett died February 8, two years later. Samuel Maholm was born July 12, 1801, in Cadiz Township—territorial days in Harrison County, Ohio. His wife, Nancy Delaney, was a Maryland woman. They were Harrison County pioneers, taking up Government land one mile east of Cadiz.
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Maholm and his wife removed to Holmes County. In 1852 he was killed by a falling tree. Their children were: Eliza Jane, born July 25, 1823; James, May 10, 1825; William, August 7, 1827; Martha, July 30, 1829; Nancy, May 9, 1831; Margaret, March 16, 1833; Albina, March 18, 1835; Deborah, July 12, 1838; John, May 16, 1840; Cyrus, May 31, 1842; Maria, May 31, 1845; and Charlotte, July 10, 1847. The above list is an interesting study since there are twelve children, with regular intervals between them, the first birth occurring in July and the last in the same month twenty- four years later.
In the Liggett ancestry, Samuel Liggett, the grandfather of John P. Liggett, was born in 1803 in Maryland. His wife, Jennie Stockholm, was born the same year in the same community. He died in 1860, while she lived until 1893, and was ninety. They came to Annapolis, Harrison County, in 1825 from Maryland. As a young man Samuel Liggett went to Wellsburg, West Virginia, but after a few years he returned to Green Township, Harrison County.
The Liggett children of that generation were Theodore, Isaac, Sarah, Hannah, William, Mahala, John, Otho and Samuel. The four older sons were Civil war soldiers, as were some of the Maholm brothers. John P. Liggett is a son of the oldest child in the above scheduled family, and as a young man Theodore Liggett learned the trade of shoemaker. His three years' apprenticeship was served in Steubenville. In 1848 be came to Hopedale and opened a boot and shoe shop, which he operated until 1883, thirty-five years as a shoemaker in one community. He must have made and cobbled shoes for the fathers and mothers and all the brothers and sisters for miles around Hopedale.
In 1883 Mr. Liggett opened a retail shoe store and conducted it until 1905, and thus be was a shoe dealer almost tifty years in Hopedale. In his last days Mr. Liggett was associated with his son John P., who was then a horse buyer. He engaged in the borse business as a young man, buying, selling and shipping, but the time came when there was little market for horses. In 1910 Mr. Liggett dropped out of the horse market and began contract work, building roads, walks and pavements-all kinds of cement work, and he continues his residence at the farmstead.
The children in the Theodore Liggett household are: Jeannette, born December 21. 1851; Jane, February 21, 1853; Henrietta, May 24, 1855; John F., June 14, 1857; John P., December 21, 1859; Bessie, February 14, 1861; Theodore, Jr., June 13, 1866; Nathan, October 18, 1869; George W., August 15, 1870; Stewart, June 10, 1873; Charles, March 21, 1874; and William, May 2, 1876. Here is another family of twelve born in the period of a little more than twenty-five years.
The Liggetts are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Liggett spent three years and six months in the service in the Civil war. He was a member of the Seventy-Fourth Infantry and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga.
On January 27, 1886, John P. Liggett married Clara Belle Patton. She is a daughter of Ross J. and Elizabeth (Goodlin) Patton. Mr. Patton was born September 12, 1843, in Rumley Township, and his wife came from Knoxville, Jefferson County. Soon after their marriage they removed from Harrison County, Ohio, to Iowa, but in a short time returned to Harrison County. The Pattons then moved to Jefferson County, where he was a miller for ten years. From Jefferson County they removed to Ravenna, and still live there. He was a Civil war soldier in the One Hundred and Twenty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He spent three years in the service.
Mrs. Liggett is the oldest of the Patton children, and she has a brother, Edward, and a sister, Ina D. Patton. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Liggett are: Anna Vesta, wife of Albert Liggett. Their children are: Donald, Lamoin, William, Carl, Ross and LeRoy. Hazel Liggett is the wife of George Brickner. of Buffalo, New York. They have a daughter, Harriet. Helen May Liggett is the wife of William Wilson, of Buffalo. Their children are June and John. The Liggett family are members of the Christian Church in Hopedale. Mr. Liggett is a member of the Board of Deacons. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Germano.
BINGHAM C. SCOW has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth and since 1898 has conducted a substantial and flourishing general merchandise business in the Village of Germano, German Township, where he is known as a representative merchant and as a loyal and progressive citizen. He was born at Hopedale, this county, on the 25th of September, 1870, and is a son of Allen W. and Betha Jane (Croskey) Scott. He whose name initiates this review was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Cadiz, tbe judicial center of the county, where he continued his studies in the high school until he was well qualified to assume a share of responsibility in connection with the practical duties and responsibilities of life. As a youth be became a clerk in a general merchandise establishment at Cadiz, and in this connection he gained an excellent knowledge of the details of this line of mercantile enterprise. In 1898 he estahlished himself in the general merchandise husiness at Germano, where his personal popularity and the effective service given by his well equipped store have gained to the establishment a large and appreciative patronage.
In politics, though never desirous of official preferment, Mr. Scott is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the United Presbyterian Church in their home village. He is a memher of Unionport Lodge No. 333 F. & A. M.; Corson Lodge of Perfection (14̊ S. R.) ; Center Council (16̊ S. R.), and Drummond Chapter (Rose Croix 18̊ S. R.). His father was also a member of Unionport Lodge.
On May 10, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Jessie May Dickerson, daughter of Samuel C. and Mary (McCoy)
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Dickerson, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of Charles C. Dickerson of Cadiz. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have two children—Allen W., born June 13, 1895, and Dorothy D., born August 5, 1897. Allen W. Scott was one of the gallant young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military service in the great World war. He entered service on the 21st of Septemher, 1917, and at Camp Sherman was assigned to Company L, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment of Infantry, from which he was later transferred to the Three Hundred and Eighth Motor Supply Train, with which latter organization he was associated in driving motor trucks from Detroit to Baltimore, and within a period of three months he made three such overland trips. On the 13th of June, 1918 (his birthday) he sailed for France from the port of the City of Boston and after landing at Liverpool he proceeded with his command to France. There he was stationed with his motor-supply organization at LeMons, and he made the return trip to the United States on the George Washington, which was conveying President Wilson on his homeward voyage after his participation in the councils in Paris. Mr. Scott served as duty sergeant and convoy in France, and on the return voyage on the George Washington he was assistant to the detail and mess officer, with special privileges on board. He is now associated with his father in business at Germano. He is a member of Post No. 34, American Legion, of Cadiz. He was raised in Unionport Lodge No. 333, F. & A. M., on December 9, 1916; created Grand Elect Mason M. Corson Lodge of Perfection (14̊ S. R.) on November 6, 1919; Prince of Jerusalem, Cutler Council (16̊ S. R.) on November 7, 1919; Knight of Rose Croix (18̊ S. R.) in Drummond Chapter on November 7, 1919; Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret (32̊ S. R.), Lake Erie Consistory, on November 14 1919. While serving with the American Expeditionary Force in France he was a member of LeMons (France) Sea and Field Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., and also a member of the American Masonic Club at LeMons, France. He is also a member of Hopewell Lodge No. 276 I. 0. 0. F. at Jewett. On October 14, 1920, he was married to Miss Bessie, the daughter of Robert and Nancy (Work) Long, of Cadiz, Ohio.
HOLMES M. THOMPSON. Through father and son the Thompson family has lived for a good many years on the farm in Green Township where Holmes M. Thompson was born June 22, 1864, in Harrison County. Samuel Thompson, the father, was born at the same place in 1822, and his wife, Sarah J. (Moorhead) Thompson, a daughter of Samuel and Sallie (Holmes) Moorhead, was born in the same community. Mr. Moorhead. who was among the early settlers in Green Township, was a native of Adams County, Pennsylvania.
In 1850 Mr. Moorhead located in Archer Township, Harrison County, and lived there twenty years, when he moved back to Green Township. He was a member of the Ohio State Constitutional Convention assembled in 1851 in Columbus. He was a man of social and business acumen in Ohio affairs. He was a soldier in the second war with England. His children were: Eliza, wife of Samuel Gray; John, deceased; Sarah J.; Holmes, a Civil war soldier who died on a hospital boat on the Mississippi; and Morrison. This pioneer Moorhead family were Presbyterians.
Samuel Thompson. founder of the house of Thompson in Harrison County, and his wife, Elizabeth (Stewart) Thompson, were born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In 1813 they removed to their farm in Green Township. They had two children when they came to the Osburn farm of 160 acres, And constructed log buildings for their shelter from the storms of Ohio. In 1824 they built a good barn and in 1837 they built a brick house, and they ended their days at this family homestead.
The children in this pioneer household were: Marie, wife of Jonathan Gray; Martha, wife of Johnson Craig; Eliza, wife of Patterson Gray; Jane, wife of H. Stewart Black; Margaret, wife of Samuel Cochran; Samuel, and Isabelle, wife of John J. Ray. The Thompsons were also Presbyterians. Samuel, the one son in the family and the father of Holmes M. Thompson, grew to manhood on the place where he was born, and he always lived there. He was a farmer and stockman and made many improvements while rearing his family at this old family homestead. He added to it until there are 280 acres in the Thompson farmstead. He died July 23, 1905, and Mrs. Thompson died October 31, 1917. Their children were: Lyra B., wife of John W. Osburn; Jennie, wife of S. A. Hanna ; Walter, wife of Edward Clifford; Holmes M., the one son in his generation, as was his father in the generation before him; and Sallie C. Thompson, who lives in Cleveland.
Holmes M. Thompson secured his education in the Green Township district school, and as a young man he farmed with his father. Since the death of the father he has farmed alone. On January 27, 1898, Mr. Thompson married Emma McFadden daughter of George McFadden. Their children are: Samuel A. and Mary Lucile. They are members of the Presbyterian Church in Cadiz.
JAMES N. WILSON, one of the reliable men and excellent farmers of Rumley. Township, was born on his present place February 27, 1875, a son of John A, and Isabel (McKitrick) Wilson, and grandson of William. H. Wilson.
William H. Wilson was born near Westmiddletown, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1803, and died August 9, 1887. His wife, Margaret (McCombe) Wilson, died March 8, 1884. In 1839 William H. Wilson came to Harrison County, Ohio, and bought 170 acres of land in Rumley Township, and lived on this farm until his death. The children born to him and his wife were as follows: Eliza, Ann, John A., David, who died in infancy, Mary who died young, William L., Margaret, James R. and Tabitha.
John A. Wilson was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1837, and his
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wife was born May 21, 1840. They were married April 26, 1866. She was a daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Ferguson) McKitrick, the former of whom was a farmer and early settler of German Township. The children born to Ebenezer McKitrick and his wife were as follows: Elizabeth, Martha, Nathan, Jonathan. May, Isabel, Alexander, Agnes, Samantha, Juniatta, and one who died unnamed.
For practically all of his life John A. Wilson lived in Rumley Township, where he was engaged in cultivating his valuable farm of 108 acres of land. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: David M., who is deceased; Mary Eveline, who died when small; Maggie Jane, who is deceased; and James N., who was tbe youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were members of the Presbyterian Church, and died firm in that faith, he, June 18, 1911, and she. August 17, 1884.
James N. Wilson attended the schools of his district in Rumley Township, and has lived on bis present farm, which still comprises 108 acres, and he is carrying on a general farming and stock-raising business with gratifying results, for he has good land and knows how to work it.
On May 16, 1894, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage with Anna C. Kuhn, born October 6, 1872, a daughter of Henry A. and Phoebe (Ellwood) Kuhn, Mr. and Mrs: Wilson became the parents of children as follows: John H., who was born August 12. 1895: Wilma V., who was born October 11, 1897: Harold Floyd, who was born November 16, 1899; and Clarence Owen, who was born April 11, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are members of the Reform Church at Jefferson and are highly valued in that congregation as they are elsewhere, for they are tine people in every respect.
BARCLAY WELCH MOORE. The Moore family w:1 S founded in Harrison County in 1808 by William Moore, great-grandfather of the present generation. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1779, and married Sarah Corey. He became Prominent in this county and was the first member of the Ohio Legislature elected from Harrison County.
Barclay W. Moore. prosecuting attorney of Harrison County. was born in Cadiz on July 18, 1884, the son of I. Craig Moore and grandson of John, tbe son of William, the pioneer.
I. Craig Moore was born July 24. 1854, in Green Township. and his wife, Anna E. (Welch) Moore. was born January 15, 1859, in Cadiz. She is a daughter of David Barclay and Martha C. (Lyon) Welch, and the Welch family history is contemporary with the history of Ohio. Her ancestry came as early as 1801. and had much to do with the development of the frontier community. They were active in organizing the Presbyterian Church, and the cemetery at Beech Spring Church was given to the community by this pioneer family. The Moores and Welchs were all early citizens in Harrison County.
John Moore. grandfather of B. W. Moore. was born in Green Township July 27, 1813, and his wife, Elizabeth (McCullough) Moore, was born five years later in the same community.
I. Craig Moore was but a boy- when the family removed to Cadiz in 1868. As a young man he entered the First National Bank of Cadiz, of which he in later years became cashier. In 1897 he was appointed a special national bank examiner and traveled about the country four or five years. In 1902 he became secretary and treasurer of a savings and trust company in Sharon, Pennsylvania, but for the last few years he has been retired from active business, residing at Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Barclay W. Moore was graduated from the Cadiz High School in 1900, and then spent one year in the Kiskiminetas School at Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. Recognizing the advantages of a liberal education, he entered Washington and Jefferson College, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1905, and a year later matriculated in the law department of Ohio State University in Columbus, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1909. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1909, and since that time has practiced law in Cadiz. For two years he was private secretary to Hon. D. A. Hollingsworth, member of Congress. In 1918 B. W. Moore was elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison County and was re-elected in 1920 by the largest majority on the county ticket. He was local chairman of the War Savings Commission in Harrison County, and he is always active in any community effort. In October, 1918, he volunteered for overseas military service, and had his training at Fort H. G. Wright on Long Island, but the signing of the armistice prevented his going overseas and he was discharged November 26th of the same year with the rank of corporal. He immediately returned to Cadiz and entered upon his duties as prosecuting attorney.
On Saint Valentine's day, 1917, Mr. Moore married Persia K. Henthorne, a daughter of the Rev. Charles B, and Catherine (Ryder) Hentborne.
While in Washington and Jefferson College Mr. Moore was a fraternity man, being a member of Delta Tau Delta, and at Ohio State University be was a member of the Phi Delta Phi. He is a member of Cadiz Lodge No. 219, F. & A. M.. and of Chapter 171. By nature and attainment Mr. Moore is suited to the profession he has chosen, and youth and ambition are all in his favor,
JOSEPH MILLER, one of the substantial farmers and sterling citizens of German Township, Harrison County. is a representative of an honored pioneer family that was here founded in the early pioneer days. His grandfather, George Miller, reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and became one of the prosperous citizens of German Township. The family name of his wife was Sawvell, and both were earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. Of their children the following names are recorded: Solomon, Adam, George, Jr., Belinda, Lydia, Mary Ann and Catherine.
Joseph Miller was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, January 4, 1851, and is a son of George Miller, Jr., and Catherine (Lowmiller) Miller, both natives of German Township,
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Harrison County. Mrs. Miller was a daughter of Harry Lowmiller, who was born in Maryland and was a boy when his parents came to Harrison County, Ohio, and numbered themselves among tbe earliest settlers in the present German Township. George Miller, Jr., was reared and educated in German Township and eventually became one of the representative exponents of farm industry in Loudon Township, Carroll County, where he established his home soon after his marriage and where he continued his residence until his death, May 9, 1888. His wife died in August, 1892, and both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of the following children-Mary Ann (Mrs. Simeon Gotschall), Absolom, Jacob, Joseph, Sarah (Mrs. Abraham Baker), Hannah (Mrs. James Ryder). Henry (deceased, aged eight years), and Lydia (Mrs. John Shawver).
To the district schools of Loudon Township, Carroll County, Joseph Miller paid due academic tribute during the period of his boyhood and youth, and in the meanwhile he profited also by the sturdy discipline gained in connection with the activities of the home farm. In 1871 he assumed connubial responsibilities, and it was soon after his marriage that he established his residence on a farm which he rented in Rumley Township, Harrison County. There he continued his vigorous operations eleven years, and for the ensuing three years he rented a farm in German Township. The next two years found him engaged in farming in North Township, and in 1893 he purchased his present farm, which comprises ninety-one acres of fertile and productive land and is one of the valuable properties of German Township. He has erected substantial and modern buildings on the place, in fact all of the buildings that are here found were placed since the property came into his possession except the horse barn. The house Is modern in design and appointments, is equipped with steam heat and has running hot and cold water in all rooms, so that it figures as one of the model farm dwellings of the community. Mr. Miller has had no ambition for political activities or official preferment, but is loyal to all civic responsibilities and gives his support to the democratic party. Both he and his wife are influential members of the Howard Chapel (Methodist Episcopal), and he has served as trustee and steward of the same.
The year 1871 recorded the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Nancy L. Zollars, daughter of David and Matilda (Richardson) Zollars, of German Township, Harrison County. Of this union have been born four children: George D. married Miss Carlie Rife and they had three children-Harold, who is deceased; Nellie, who Is the wife of William Dedrich and has one child, Harold: and Joseph E. David W. married Miss Anna Galligher, and of their two children, Josephine and Nancy Ellen, the former is deceased. Joseph Eugene first married Miss Louise Briney, and they became the parents of three children, Henry, Doris (deceased), and Lando (deceased). After the death of his first wife Joseph E. married Miss Helen Hardington, and they have two children, Marion and Ruth, the family home being now in the City of Columbus. Jacob S., who resides at Dillonvale, Jefferson County, married Miss Hazel Petty, and they have one child, Ward Eugene.
SAMUEL D. COLE, still a landowner of Rumley Township, although now living retired in Martins Ferry, Ohio, was formerly one of the active and progressive farmers of Harrison County. He was born In Washington County, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1847, a son of Moses , and Rebecca (Buxton) Cole, and grandson of Samuel Cole.
Samuel Cole was born December 27, 1792, and his wife, Amy Perrine, was born December 7, 1790, and they were farming people of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Their children were as follows: Moses, who was born February 26, 1815; Sarah, who was born July 22, 1816; Judah, who was born February 9, 1818; Peter. who was born April 28, 1820; Ann, who was born July 16, 1822; and Harmon, who was born April 25, 1824. After the death of his first wife Samuel Cole was married to Ann Perrine, who was born December 27, 1800, and their children were as follows: Samuel, who was born September 8, 1826; Margaret, who was born February 27, 1828; Nancy, who was born December 4, 1829; Stephen, who was born September 20, 1831; Amy, who was born June 18, 1833; David, who was born May 23, 1835; Mary, who was born March 14, 1837; William, who was born June 15, 1839; Catherine, who was born March 29, 1841; and Caroline, who was born August 26, 1843, died February 22, 1910.
Moses Cole was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, but his wife was born in Brook County, Virginia, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Davis) Buxton. Jacob Buxton was born February 12, 1774, and became a miller of Brook County, Virginia. He and his wife had the following family : Aris, who was born August 14, 1808; Davis, who was born April 28, 1810; Amos, who was born December 4, 1811; Ezekiel, who was born July 11, 1813; Ezra, who was born November 15, 1814; Hannah, who was born October 8, 1816; Friend, who was born October 2, 1818; Rebecca, who was born September 1, 1820; Hadder, who was born April 7, 1822; Absolom, who was born March 25, 1824; Amon, who was born June 15, 1826; Elizabeth, who was born May 27, 1828; and Melissa, who was born April 27, 1831.
Until 1848 Moses Cole continued to be a farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania, but in that year migrated to Harrison County, Ohio, and bought the farm in Rumley Township now owned by his son Samuel D. Cole, and here he continued to reside until his death, at which time he was the owner of 300 acres of land. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder for a number of years.
Samuel D. Cole went to the district schools of his neighborhood, and grew up on his present home farm, where he spent his life since coming to it with his parents in 1848 until he removed on October 8, 1920, to Martins Ferry. He owns 168 acres of land, and until about 1917 was engaged in a general line of farming
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and stock-raising, but since then has been taking life less strenuously.
On March 31, 1885, Samuel D. Cole was married to Esther Patton, of Scio, Ohio, a daughter of James and Mary (Maxwell) Patton, and they became the parents of the following children: Mary, who lives at Martins Ferry, Ohio; Alonzo D., who was married August 25, 1915, to Ina Markley; Margaret K.. who was married June 1, 1909, to Paul L. Henderson, and has the following children, Leroy K., born March 28, 1911; Lynn Paul, born November 20, 1913; Martha Mary, born October 16, 1918, and Ralph Cole, born October 17, 1920; Paul L. lives on the old Cole homestead, which he is managing; Bessie Martha. who is now principal of the public schools of Bowerston, Ohio; and James D., who married Florence Lucile Henderson October 25, 1916, lives at Cleveland, Ohio. The Ridge Presbyterian Church holds the membership of Mr. and Mrs. Cole and Mr. Cole has been an elder in it for a number of years. He is a man who is held in the highest respect all over the county and deserves the prosperity which has attended him. He and his wife have reared a fine family, their sons and daughters doing them credit, and playing their part in the world's work.
HOWARD ISAAC HEAVILIN, M. D. The Heavilin family of which Dr. H. I. Heavilin of Cadiz is a member has been in Harrison County almost from the beginning of its history. He was born January 30, 1880, in Archer, altbough his father, Frank M. Heavilin, is a native of Stock Township. Frank W. Heavilin married Jennie Anderson, of the same community. She is a daughter of Hugh and Catharine (Stewart) Anderson. The Heavilins and Andersons were all early residents of Harrison County.
The grandfather, Isaac Heavilin, was born in 1811 in Cadiz Township, and his wife, Susan (Bricker) Heavilin, was a native of Green Township. While Isaac Heavilin lived on a farm in Stock Township, be was a shoemaker and his sons did the farming for him. He died in 1900, having lived eighty-nine years in Harrison County. His sons were: Frank, Henry and Albert, but the last named died in 1918.
Frank M. Heavilin, father of the Doctor, is a farmer in Archer, where he owns 320 acres, and combines general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of sheep. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Heavilin are: Anna, wife of Arthur Beck; Anderson, a Cadiz Township farmer and oil man; Howard I.; Beatty, who died in 1915; LeRoy, principal of the high school at Mycliff; Harry, at home; Park, a Tuscarawas County farmer; Vincent, at home; Pearl, who died in 1916; and Nellie, the wife of William Gibbin. They all attended Gilmore School in Archer Township, and for six years Dr. H. I. Heavilin was a teacher in public schools, attending Scio College between times while he was a teacher. At spare times he worked as a carpenter while securing his education.
In the fall of 1906 H. I. Heavilin entered Starling Medical College in Columbus, and in 1910 graduated from there with the Doctor of Medicine degree. He immediately located in Cadiz and began the practice of medicine, and since that time has been a successful physician and surgeon. On August 3, 1909, Dotor Heavilin married Laura B. Morris, a daughter of Andrew J. Morris, and there are two children: Frank Morris and Gertrude. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association and president of the Harrison County Medical Society. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist Church in Cadiz.
OLIVER BIRNEY. Aside from the prestige that is his as one of the now venerable sons and representative farmers of Harrison County, Mr. Birney has the further distinction of being a scion of an honored pioneer family that was here founded a century ago, when this section of the Buckeye State was little more than a forest wilderness.
Hugh Birney, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1780, and he was reared and educated in his native land. In 1801, at the age of twenty-one years, he came to America in company with two of his brothers, and he first established his residence in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in which commonwealth his marriage to Elizabeth Brown was solemnized in 1807. In 1819 Mr. Birney came to Ohio and purchased 121 acres of wild land in the present Green Township, Harrison County. Later he added 160 acres to his pioneer farm property, and he endured his full share of tbe hardships that marked that period of the county's history. He eventually reclaimed much of his land to cultivation, and on the old homestead he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, his death having occurred in September, 1862. The children of this sterling pioneer couple were eight in number—William, Wesley, Rebecca, Martha (Mrs. Samuel Hitchcock), Jane (Mrs. George Leas), Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob Hitchcock), Samuel and Asbury.
Asbury Birney was born on the pioneer farm of his father in Green Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was March 15, 1815. The primitive log schoolhouse was the scene of his early application to study, and the curriculum was very limited in scope, his broader education having been gained by self-discipline and association with the practical affairs of life. He continued to be engaged in farm enterprise in his native township during his entire active career, and was the owner of a well improved farm of 126 acres at the time of his death this having been the place on which he was born and reared. On the 23d of April, 1840, he was united in marriage with Miss Eleanor McCullough, who was born May 29, 1821, a daughter of Hugh and Isabella (Cunningham) McCullough, natives of Ireland and early settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where they established their home in the year 1810, the remainder of their lives having been passed in that county. Their children were six in number—Alexander, John, Isabella, Margaret,
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Catherine and Eleanor. Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Birney continued to reside on their old homestead farm until the close of their lives, were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and commanded the high regard of all who knew them. Mr. Birney died November 30, 1898, and his wife died May 26, 1903. He was a man of marked energy and business ability, and in 1875 he erected as a family home one of the finest farm houses of the county at that time. Of the children the firstborn was Isabella, who died May 22, 1863; Oliver, immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Almond has long heen a resident of Labette County, Kansas; Hugh W. remained on a part of the old homestead in Green Township until he removed to Cadiz and was one of the representative farmers of that section of his native county, his death having occurred November 24, 1916; John William, a resident of German Township; Elizabeth became the wife of Joseph McCullough, of Archer Township; and Rebecca J., now deceased, was the wife of Henry K. Ford, of Salem Township Jefferson County.
Oliver Birney was born on the old home farm in Green Township April 5, 1843, and is indebted to the common schools of the locality and period for his early education. As a young man he began independent farm activities in, his native township, where he remained until 1871, when he removed to his present farm of 125 acres in German Township. Though he is now nearing the eightieth milestone on the journey of life, he is hale and alert, of mental and physical powers and takes siplea sure in giving a general supervision to the affairs of his fine farm, besides which he has for more than half a century owned and operated a threshing outfit in his native county. He is a staunch democrat in politics, has served as trustee of German Township, and he and his wife in the gracious twilight of their long and worthy lives bave the affectionate regard of the people of their home community, both being earnest members of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in their home township.
On the 24th of August, 1871, was solemnized tbe marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Elizabeth Beatty, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, a daughter of William and Charlotte (Law) Beatty, who there remained until their deaths, Mr. Beatty having been a prosperous farmer of that county. He was venerable in years at the time of his death in 1902, his wife having passed away in 1894 and both having been zealous members of Protestant Methodist Church. They became the parents of a fine family of twelve cbildren, namely : Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Maria, John Wesley, Margaret Jane, Martha, Lucy, Sarah, William Law, Wilbur, Olive and Etta. In the autumn of 1860 eight of these children died within a single week, they having succumbed when attacked by diphtheria, then commonly known as "black tongue." At the time when this epidemic thus brought death in its wake there were only nine children in the Beatty home, and of the number Elizabeth, wife of the subject of this sketch, was the only one that survived, the other children having been born subsequently to that fateful year. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Birney : Etta Belle is the wife of Wesley Mattern, of Green Township; Elmer Emmett, now a resident of El Paso, Texas, married Miss Martha Bush and they have one child, Arlene; Charlotte Eleanor remains at the parental. home; Jennie Olive is the wife of Elmer Hall, of Green Township, Harrison County, and they have one child, Lauress; Wilbur B. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Clara married Ernest Morgan, deceased, of German Township; and Mae is the wife of Rolla Henry, of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County.
DAVID ALLISON. The name of the late David Allison, of Green Township, is commemorated in the annals of the community by his son, Howard S. Allison, who is in charge of affairs at the old Allison family homestead in Green Township. Mr. Allison died there in 1894, after a long and useful life in the community.
David Allison was a native of Starke County, Ohio. Since his death Mrs. Allison and her sons have continued in possession of the family homestead near Hopedale. The mother and one son, Howard S., still live there. H. S. Allison has managed the Allison homestead farm for twenty-five years.
The Allisons are among the most highly respected people of the community. There are three sons. Harry F. Allison married Myrtle Baxter, and after she died he married Jeannette Shultz. Willard R. Allison married Clara Snively. Howard S. Allison is unmarried and lives in the old Allison homestead with his mother.
JOSEPH MITCHELL MCELROY. The late Joseph M. McElroy was one of the well-known and popular citizens of Rumley Township, Harrison County. He was born in Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 30, 1855, and was a son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Lee) McElroy, and grandson of James McElroy.
James McElroy was born in 1774, near Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he bad been a farmer for a number of years, in 1858. He married Mary Mitchell, who was born in 17761, and died in 1850. Their children were as follows: Margaret, James, Jane, Joseph, John and Elizabeth. They were all members of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Joseph McElroy was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and his wife was born in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of James and Ruth (Crouch) Lee. James Lee was one of the early farmers and stockraisers of German Township. During his younger years Joseph McElroy was a merchant, but later on in life he moved from German Township, where he had carried on his store, and became a farmer of Jefferson County, Ohio, and there he died December 4, 1863, his widow surviving him until June 11, 1876. Their children were as follows: Mary Virginia, James Lee, Joseph M., Margaret Florence, who died in 1872, and Anna
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Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McElroy were members of the United Presbyterian Church.
The educational training of Joseph M. McElroy was that afforded by the district schools of Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. As a young man he learned the harness- making and saddlery trade, and worked at it for a few years, and then went on a farm in German Township, Harrison County, and was engaged in farming and handling stock until 1896, when he moved to Jewett and became associated with Samuel Arbaugh in a grain, stock and wool business, which partnership continued until the death of Mr. Arbaugh in 1917. Mr. McElroy continued to deal in stock and handle wool, conduct his fine property in German Township, comprising 110 acres, until his death on November 8, 1920.
On December 27, 1877, Mr. McElroy was united in marriage with Irene Winings, a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Chase) Winings. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McElroy are as follows: Mary Estella, who married Cortez L. Williams, an attorney of Steubenville, Ohio, has one living child, Cortez McElroy, the other one, Edwin Lee, being deceased; Joseph Harold, who married Maude V. Baird, lives at Carrollton, Ohio, and has had the following children, Flora Irene, deceased, Joseph William, Harold Baird, Mary Elizabeth, Lee Montgomery, and Ruth Joan; William H., who married Clara Pratt, lives at East Cleveland, Ohio; and has two children, William H., Jr., and Beatrice Marguerite; Wilma Katherine, who is unmarried and is teaching in the Steubenville, Ohio, public schools. Mrs. McElroy died December 5, 1902. On October 24, 1907, Mr. McElroy was united in marriage with Jennie Herron, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Hanna) Herron. Robert Herron was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1817, ad died June 17, 1884. His wife, who was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, July 10, 1825, was a daughter of James and Mary (McCleary) Hanna. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. McElroy, Andrew Herron, was born in Maryland, hut became a farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Neely.
Robert Herron was a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and in 1847 came to Harrison County, Ohio, as assistant pastor at the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church. In 1848 he was made pastor of the Ridge Presbyterian Church of Archer Township. The Rev. Mr. Herron was a man of great scholastic ability and a graduate of Muskingum College, class of 1845. He had also attended the Western Theological Seminary for his professional training. His pastorate of the Ridge Church lasted until 1874, and he was beloved by his people, to whom he was a tender and sympathetic friend as well as a spiritual director and pastor. His death occurred June 17, 1884, his widow surviving him until November 27, 1901. The children of Robert Herron and his wife were as follows: Andrew, who was a Presbyterian minister, is now deceased; John, who was also a minister of the same faith as his father and brother, is deceased; and Mrs. McElroy, who was the youngest born.
Mr. McElroy was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Jewett, and belonged to General Custer Lodge, K. of P., at Scio, Ohio. A man of energy and determination, made a success of his various undertakings, and while doing so he did not neglect his duty as a citizen, and ever took an active interest in local matters. Mrs. McElroy is a member of the Jewett Presbyterian Church.
DAVID P. HOST. While David P. Host has been a resident of Cadiz for many years his birth occurred January 3, 1842, in West Carlyle. Coshocton County, Ohio. His father, Samuel Host, was born in 1801, near Smithfield, Jefferson County, but the mother, Jane (Hines) Host, is a native of Harrison County. She is a daughter of William and Sarah Hines, who came from Ireland. They were married in Ireland and later came to America. They were pioneers in Harrison County. Their children were: Mary, Christopher, William, John, David, Zilla and Lovina.
There has been evolution in the spelling of the name Host, as the grandfather, Samuel, called himself Hoss. He was a blacksmith in Smithfield, Jefferson County. His children were: Harvey, Samuel, William and John. The son, Samuel, through whom the lineage is traced, was later a blacksmith in Coshocton County. Ohio. In 1847 he removed to Laceyville, Harrison County, where he was a blacksmith the remainder of his days. In 1825 he married Louisa Oxley, and their children were: Henry. James, John and Louisa. She died, and his children by a second marriage were: William, David, Eliza and Amos.
David P. Host enjoyed common school advantages at the Sampson School in Stock Township, and as a young man worked on a farm in that community. On November 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company C of the Forty-third Obio Volunteer Infantry, and was out three years and eight months as a Civil war soldier. He was discharged July 13, 1865, and returned to Harrison County. Mr. Host was wounded at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi. and was in a hospital thirty days as a result of it. He was in some of the hardest fought battles and was with General Sherman in his march from Atlanta to the sea. When he returned to civil life Mr. Host first engaged in mercantile pursuits at Tappan, Harrison County. Two years later he engaged in the coal business in Tuscarawas County. He afterward operated a saw mill in Harrison County for thirteen years.
Finally Mr. Host went on a farm near Tappan and remained there until 1892, when he was elected sheriff of Harrison County. He was sheriff four years and served as deputy sheriff four years, and when out of office he remained in Cadiz. For many years he has been a justice of the peace, and he is known to almost everybody in Harrison County.
On June 5, 1872, Mr. Host married Catberine M. Granfell, daughter of Miles and Jane Gran- fell, and their children are: Amos Edwin, Grace Irene, the wife of W. C. Nicholas; Ivan Warren, James A. and John Warren. They are the members of the Methodist Church in Cadiz. Since
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1871 Mr. Host has been a member of the I. 0, 0. F. Lodge, and he is a member of the R. M. Lyon Post, G. A. R., at Bowerston, Ohio, of which he was a charter member and served as its first adjutant.
JOHN CROSKEY. When John Croskey, of Green Township, counts back to the third generation he finds that he is an Irishman. John Croskey, who is now past four score, was born July 22, 1836, in Green (Township, Harrison County, where his father had come as a settler. William Croskey was born in 1796, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Mary Crahb, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio.
Just one step backward in the Croskey lineage shows that Robert and Catherine (Ring- land) Croskey came from Ireland. They came to America in 1774—colonial period in American history. They lived in Maryland through the Revolutionary struggle, and later they located in Washington County, Pennsylvania. It used to be said that Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1802, later historians to the contrary, but according to recent data they were settlers in Ohio one year before statehood was granted, locating in Harrison County. They owned 100 acres of land and ended their days on it.
The children in the second generation of Croskeys in America are: John, William, Robert. Samuel, Catherine, Rachel, Margaret, Elizaheth and Mary. John Croskey is descended from tbe youngest son. William Croskey. He always lived in Green Township, Harrison County. In April, 1845, he moved to the farm wbere his son John Croskey lives today. He died there in 1872. His children were: Robert, Margaret, Henry. Anna, Mary. Sarah, John and William. The Croskeys are Presbyterians.
John Croskey had the meager educational advantages of his day, and early turned his attention to agriculture. He now owns 520 acres of laud. In 1866 he married Eliza Ann Mansfield. a daughter of John and Rhody (Welch) Mansfield. Their children are: William B., Rhody W., John M. and Ephraim S. William lives at the family homestead and John M. near by. and they farm it together. John M. Croskey married Emma Porter, and their children are Naomi, Eliza. John and Mary.
The annals of the Mansfield family show that John Mansfield was a farmer in Wayne Township. Jefferson County. He built the first brick house in tbat part of the country. The Mansfield children are: Welch. Thomas. Eliza. Cyrus and Reason. John and William died in childhood. The Mansfields are Presbyterians. The Croskeys are among the well known families of Harrison County. For more than a century the name has been written in the archives of the commonwealth of Ohio.
EDWARD CLIFFORD. While Edward Clifford is a prosperous Green Township farmer and stockman, his father before him was an immigrant from Ireland. being one of five children who came with their widowed mother to the United States. Mr. Clifford was born in the community where he now lives December 16, 1856. His father, John Clifford, was born forty years earlier in County Cavan, Ireland. The father died May 30, 1900. He married Mary Ann Jamieson, of Cadiz Township, after coming to Harrison County. She was a daughter of Andrew and Mary (McFadden) Jamieson.
John Clifford, Sr., was the head of the house of Clifford in Ireland. His wife was Mary Byers, and after his demise she brought her five children to the land of promise across the Atlantic. After stopping for a while in Washington County, Pennsylvania, they located in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. The children of this immigrant family were: Margaret, John, Edward, Mary and Esther. They must have come from the north of Ireland, as they were Presbyterians. It was in 1841 that the Cliffords came to America, and much devolved upon this oldest son through whom Edward Clifford is descended.
As a young man and a "stranger in a strange land" John Clifford worked out on farms in Harrison County by the month, and finally, when he started farming for himself, he bought a farm in Green Township. Here he spent the remainder of his active business life, retiring to Cadiz finally. Think of a young Irish immigrant with a mother and other dependents who accumulated a competence and had 347 acres of land in Harrison County. Horace Greeley said: "Go west, young man," but he did not say anything about crossing the Atlantic ocean in order to "grow up with tbe country." The children of John Clifford were: Mary, who died in young womanhood: and Edward and Andrew are the two sons. and three other children died in childhood. Their mother died September 8, 1864, and in 1866, Mr. Clifford married Ann Croskey, and they had two children, Anna and William. The daughter became the wife of L. A. Morehead.
Edward Clifford attended the district school of the community, and as a young man be began on the Clifford farm. On October 1, 1885, he married Alice M. Thompson, who was born in Green Township, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Morehead) Thompson. For a time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Clifford lived on a farm on the Hopedale road in Green Township, and in 1902 they bought and removed to their present farm. It is a tract of 340 acres and Mr. Clifford is a breeder of Shorthorn cattle and fine wool sheep combined with diversified farming operations. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford are Helen M. and Isabelle E. The Cliffords are Presbyterians.
REV. ROBERT GOWAN CAMPBELL, D. D., LL. D. The effectiveness of Franklin College at New Athens as an institution of higher education and Christian training and as registered in the minds and hearts of all wbo were enrolled as students there from the close of the Civil war until a comparatively recent date is by general accord attributed to the personality and active presence of Rev. Robert Gowan Campbell, as president and for forty years a member of its staff of instruction.
Rev. Robert Gowan Campbell was born April 4, 1834, in York County, Pennsylvania. The
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founder of the Campbell family in Lower Chanceford Township was William Campbell, who was born of Scotch parentage in the State of Delaware in 1767, but was brought to York County, Pennsylvania, and reared among friends until manhood. Being a popular young man, he married into an excellent family of Scotch-Irish pioneers, founded by John Stewart, a Revolutionary soldier born in 1740, and whose wife was Elizabeth Henry of Baltimore, Maryland. William Campbell, whose vocation was that of a farmer, married Margaret, the daughter of John Stewart, in 1790, and to them were born ten children, six sons and four daughters, of whom survived to establish families two daughters, Mrs. John Workman and Mrs. Hugh Anderson, in Baltimore, Maryland, and three sons, James, Robert and John, who lived as neighbors on or near the old home and reared large families.
The second brother, Robert, was born in 1802 and died in 1883. In 1829 he married Mary, the daughter of Alexander Gowan, Esquire, who came from Ettrick, Scotland, in the middle of the eighteenth century. Mary Gowan was born in 1798 and died in 1879. Both were natives of York County, where they spent their lives. To their marriage were born five sons: William, who died when two years old, Alexander Gowan, Robert Gowan, James Hervey and Isaac Williams. The second son, Alexander, married Margaret A. Smith, of York County, and died 'in Martins Ferry, Ohio, in 1894, leaving a numerous posterity. James H., the only living brother of Dr. Robert G., resides near Arkansas City, Kansas, and is the father of six sons and two daughters, all grown and settled in the great west. His wife was Agnes Smith, of York County. Isaac Williams Campbell married Agnes W. Grove, and lived and died in York County, leaving one son and two daughters, of whom two are married and one a widow.
Robert Gowan, the third son, married in 1863 Euphemia Elizabeth Smith, youngest daughter of Joseph B. Smith, of Belmont County, Ohio. To them were born four daughters and one son: Carrie Lauretta, Emma Blanche, Robert Addison, Margaret Felicia and Edna Crete. All graduated at Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, but Margaret F. only in music.
Carrie L., born in 1865, at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, was married to Rev. Oscar J. Gregg, of Belmont, Ohio, and died in 1908, leaving one son, Howard Campbell, who after graduating from Wooster College in 1918 went to France and participated in the great war and is now doing school work in Ohio.
Emma Blanche, born at Martin's Ferry in 1867, was married to Rev. Harvey Graeme Fur- bay in 1890 and died in 1896, at Tyrone, Pennsylvania, leaving two daughters, Faye Campbell and Helen. Faye is the wife of Theodore N. Westlake, of Newburgh, New York, and has three children, Theodore, Jr., Helen and Walton Harney. Helen was married to E. L. Wynne, of New York City, and lives on Staten Island.
Robert Addison, only son of Reverend Doctor Campbell, was born in 1869, at New Atbens, Ohio, studied medicine, and for over a quarter of a century has been one of the leading physi clans and surgeons at Homestead, Pennsylvania. He married in 1910 Bessie LaRue Coon, of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Their four children were named Robert Addison, Jr., Laura Elizabeth, Mary Florence and John Gowan. Mary Florence died at the age of two and a half years.
Edna Crete, youngest daughter of Doctor Campbell, born at New Athens, Ohio, was married in 1904 to Rev. M. L. MacPhail, D. D., of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. After long pastorates in Boston and Pittsburgh Doctor MacPhail is now pastor at Auburn, New York. His congregation numbers 1,300 members. They have one son, Robert Campbell, fifteen years of age and attending school.
Margaret Felicia Campbell has been the faithful companion and careful housekeeper of her father since her mother died in 1898. She is a teacher of instrumental music and a church organist.
During his youth on his father's farm in York County, Pennsylvania, Robert Gowan Campbell was trained to the occupation of farming. His ambition to secure a liberal education led him to pursue classical studies under the direction of his pastor, Rev. William Carlile. He made encouraging progress, and at the same time taught in common schools. After attending one term in 1854 at Port Royal Academy in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, in May, 1855, he started on a long journey to Madison College at Antrim, Guernsey County, Ohio. Remaining there three months, he started on foot and traveled the National Pike toward Saint Clairsville, Ohio, thence north to Wheeling Creek, and in Belmont County found friends and relatives and a generous welcome. He applied himself again to teaching, and in 1856 entered Franklin College, graduating with honors in 1858. His theological studies were pursued in the Pittsburgh United Presbyterian Seminary, where he was graduated in 1863. As a minister Doctor Campbell has held pastorates at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, four years; New Athens, Ohio, nineteen years; Uniontown, Ohio, twelve years and Roney's Point, West Virginia, six years.
It was in 1867 that he was called to New Athens as president to revive Franklin College after the war. In that college he remained four years as president, fifty years as vice president and fifty years as a member of the board and forty years an instructor. Since 1906 he has received a Carnegie pension. He was honored with the Doctor of Divinity degree from Franklin College and Rochester University of New York at the same time, and later the Doctor of Laws degree from Franklin.
In politics Doctor Campbell is a republican, and his first vote was for Abraham Lincoln, He is by birth and education a United Presbyterian. He intends to live at New Athens, Ohio, until the going down of life's sun.
GEORGE E. ROCHE. The record of the Roche family of which Professor George E. Roche, superintendent of schools in Harrison County, is a representative, seems to begin with the coming of two brothers to Belmont County. William H. Roche, the father of Professor
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Roche, was then a boy of seven, while his hrother James was two years older, and they came here to live with a friend of their family. In later years, when W. H. Roche had grown into manhood, he located in Harrison County and became a Short Creek Township farmer. He died there in 1912.
Professor Roche was born September 21, 1871, near Harrisville, Short Creek Township, while his father was born in 1829 near Winchester, Virginia. He married Emily Carver, a native of Harrisville. She was born in 1835 and was a daughter of Thomas and Tamson (Gray) Carver, the father from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Soon after their marriage they located in Short Creek Township. The home farm was purchased by Thomas Carver, father of Mrs. Roche, in 1818, and is now owned by Professor Roche. The children in the Carver family are: Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Julia and Emily, the youngest daughter becoming the wife of W. H. Roche. Her death
occurred in 1906, while he lived six years longer.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Roche are: Thomas C. (deceased), James F. (deceased), William H. (deceased), Ella L., Joseph B., Albert C., Frederick S. (deceased), Clarence F. (deceased), Clara T., George E. and Eva V. Roche. They all had common school advantages, and when he had finished high school at Harrisville G. E. Roche went to Columbiana and later he studied in Scio College. In 1900 he graduated from Franklin College. He has been a teacher since completing his education, and from 1895 to 1899, prior to his graduation from Franklin College, he was a township superintendent of common schools in Coshocton County. Mr. Roche entered the Ohio State University in September and on December 7, 1900, was admitted to the Ohio State Bar as an attorney at law. In 1917 he was elected superintendent of schools in Harrison County. He was re-elected in 1919, and as an educator his mark is high and his success excellent.
In 1898 Mr. Roche married Emily Love, a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Rusk) Love, of Coshocton County. Their son, William Carver, is a student in Ohio State University, and there is a daughter, Emily Gray Roche. While Mr. and Mrs. Roche were reared as Presbyterians they are now members of the Methodist Church in Harrisville. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. While he is admitted to the bar as an attorney, the call of the school room is unremitting and Mr. Roche is at heart an educator.
JOHN F. MERRYMAN is one of the busy and enterprising citizens of the Village of Cadiz Junction in German Township, Harrison County, where he conducts a grocery and meat market and is a dealer in real estate. He has found in his native county ample scope for successful achievement, and is a popular citizen whose personality and ancestral record entitle him to recognition in this history.
Mr. Merryman was born at Hopedale, Harrison County, on the 22d of October, 1868, and is a son of Charles and Mary A. (Frazier) Merry man, both natives of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. Mrs. Merryman was a daughter of David and Susanna (Lamborn) Frazier, who remained on their old homestead farm in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, until the close of their long and useful lives. In that township Charles and Margaret (Bell) Merryman, paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, likewise continued to reside until their deaths, the grandfather having been a representative farmer of that county. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and their children were three in number—Mary, Margaret and Charles.
Charles Merryman was born in the year 1833 and was reared to manhood on the old homestead farm of his parents, the while his educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality. About the year 1856 he came to Harrison County and engaged in the meat-market business at Hopedale, the butcher's trade having engaged his attention during the major part of his active career. In 1876 he removed to a farm in Green Township, near Cadiz Junction, but still continued his butchering business in connection with the activities of his farm. In 1890 he established his residence at Cadiz Junction, where for the ensuing decade he conducted a meat market and grocery and where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1906, his wife having passed away in 1899. She was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven children: Margaret, Martha, Cora, John F., Charles, Louisa and Carrie. Of the children only Cora and John F. are now living.
John F. Merryman gained his preliminary education in the district school near his father's farm in Green Township, and later availed himself of the advantages of the normal school at Hopedale and also those of Scio College, leading institutions in Harrison County. As a young man he gave ten years of effective service as a teacher in the rural schools, and for two years thereafter was engaged in farm enterprise in Green Township. He then, in 1905, established his residence at Jewett, this county, where for two years he was engaged in the meat-market business. In 1907 he removed to Cadiz Junction, where he has since continued as one of the leading business men of the village. He is a democrat in political allegiance, and he served eight years as justice of the peace in German Township, his administration of this judicial office having fully justified his election thereto and having strengthened his secure place in popular confidence and esteem. He is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Unionport; the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Cadiz; and holds membership also in the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. Both he and his wife are earnest and valued members of the Howard Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is serving as a trustee and in which he served one year as superintendent of the Sunday school.
On the 13th of June, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Merryman to Miss Laura
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V. Sinfield, daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Tipton) Sinfield. Thomas Sinfield was born in Bedfordshire, England, June 12, 1833, and his wife was born in Harrison County, Ohio, March 4, 1840, a daughter of William and Jane (McKittrick) Tipton, well known pioneer citizens of the county. Mr. Tipton was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his wife held membership in the' Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of eight children— Mary Ann, Drusilla, Edmond, Catherine, William, James, Eliza and Julia. Thomas Sinfield was reared and educated in his native land, where his parents, Thomas and' Ann (Burr) Sinfield, passed their entire lives. In November, 1858, he came from England to the United States, and within a short period thereafter he established his residence in Harrison County, Ohio, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of painter. Only a few years elapsed ere he showed his loyalty to the land of his adoption by tendering his aid in defense of the Union at the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted in Company G, Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served three years, as a member of the regimental band. Shortly after his return to Harrison County he married, and both he and his wife were residents of German Township at the time of their deaths, he having followed his trade during virtually his entire active career. His death occurred in 1910. and his widow passed to eternal rest in 1918. They became the parents of eight children, namely: Jesse Burr. Anna, William, Addle, Alice, James, Laura and Clayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Merryman have five children— Mary A., Nora A., Charles, Kermit S. and Francis, and they contribute youthful joy and good cheer to the pleasant family home, which is known for its generous and unassuming hospitality.
JAMES C. BARGAR. For many years actively and prominently associated with tbe development and advancement of the agricultural interests and prosperity of Stock Township, James C. Bargar is distinguisbed not only as a native born citizen, but for his pioneer ancestry. both his paternal and his maternal grandfathers baving been among the earlier settlers of Harrison County. A son of Jacob Bargar, he was born in Stock Township, February 22. 1848. and has here spent his entire life.
Peter Bargar. his paternal grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania. came with four of his brothers. John, Henry. Valentine (Feltie) and Jacob. to Ohio. and all settled in Harrison County. Peter Bargar became a pioneer of Cadiz Townsbip, where he reclaimed a good farm from its original wildness. He married Susan Keckler, and they became the parents of seven children, as follows: Abraham, Isaac. Jacob, Julia. McIntosh. Peter and John. He was deeply religious, and at the time of his death was serving as an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
Joseph Bargar was born in 1823 on the parental homestead in Cadiz Township. and there grew to man's estate. He learned the carpenter's trade when young, and after his marriage located in Stock Township, where he bought land, and was subsequently engaged in farming and carpentering until his death, July 29, 1891. He was a member of the Christian Church at Minksville, to which his wife also belonged, and was ever faithful to its teachings. He married Abigail Mary Campbell, who was born in Stock Township, where her father, James Campbell, was a prominent pioneer farmer. James Campbell, who moved from western Pennsylvania to Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in early days, married Lydia Shrieve, and they reared seven children, as follows: Samuel, Hugh, Matilda, Valentine, Abigail Mary, James and Lydia E. Of the union of Jacob and Abigail Mary (Campbell) Bargar three children were born, as follows: James C., the special subject of this sketch; Susan, who lived but eleven months; and Elmer P., of Stock Township.
Acquiring his education in the district schools of Stock and Nottingham townships, James C. Bargar learned the trade of carpenter when young, and followed it successfully until twenty-nine years of age. Desirous then of establishing himself permanently, he bought fifty acres of his present farm, to which he soon added by purchase another tract. Having that under cultivation and yielding profitable harvests, Mr. Bargar was encouraged to buy more land, finally acquiring title to 276 acres of choice land. He has deeded 100 acres of his farm to his sons, his property now including 176 acres, on which he has made practical and substantial improvements. He carries on general farming, including the raising of some stock, chiefly sheep, and formerly operated a saw mill during the winter months.
On November 22, 1877, Mr. Bargar was united in marriage with Anna M. Rogers, and they are the parents of five children, namely; Louie A.; Violet; Clarence A., deceased; Lanceolet H., who married Bess Fulton, and has one child, Robert F.; and Winnifred E., who married R. Park Heavilin, and has two children, Phyllis Jane and Eugene Vincent. In 1913 Mr. and Mrs. Bargar took into their home to rear to manhood a lad of nine years, Francis Thomas Barchie, who graduated from the Deersville, Ohio. School with honors and is now a student in high school. Active and influential in public affairs, Mr. Bargar was for four years a trustee of Stock Township, and served twelve years as a member of the local school board. Religiously Mr. Bargar is a member of the Christian Church at Minksville, while Mrs. Bargar belongs to the Bethel Methodist Church.
EUGENE C. PARRISH. While the name Parrish is inseparable from the history of Harrison County. Eugene C. Parrish of Green Township was born January 15. 1856. at Mendota. Illinois. His father. Charles Parrish. was born in Cadiz Township, and the mother. Mary Jane, daughter of Joseph Clokey, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. They had listened to Horace Greeley about going west, "Go
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west, young man, and grow up with the country," and when the son was born they were sojourning for a year at Mendota.
In the Parrish ancestry the grandfather, Benjamin Parrish, came from Maryland. He was one among the pioneers of Harrison County. When he came there were only two houses In Cadiz, and he located nearby on a farm, where his active days were passed, and he spent his declining years in the town where he died. His children were John, Joshua, Charles, Susannah, Mary and Eliza. The pioneer Parrish family were Friends. It is through the line of the third son, Charles, that E. C. Parrish represents the Parrish homestead in Harrison County.
As a young man Charles Parrish was a farmer and stockman in Cadiz Township, but a few years after his marriage he and his wife and one child removed to Illinois, remaining one year at Mendota. They returned to Harrison County, and the father died in 1861. He was a farmer and horse buyer in his days of husiness activity. The dealer in horse flesh is almost ,unknown today when almost every family rides out in an automobile of some description.
The children of the generation to which E. C. Parrish belongs are Benjamin A., Eugene C., Charles and Anna Jane. After the death of Charles Parrish, father of tbe family, the mother became the wife of John Singer, and there were two children born to them, Cortney, deceased, and Mary Singer, now a teacher in New Athens. The Parrish family are Presbyterians.
After the second marriage of the mother, who removed from Cadiz to Green Township, Eugene C. Parrish went along and thus his early education was obtained in two different localities. As a young man he began farming in Green Township, but in 1875 he listened to the admonition, "Go west, young man," and for two years was a Nebraska farmer. However, he returned to Harrison County, January 4, 1883. E. C. Parrish married Sarah Elizabeth Adams, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Adams (see sketch of Roy H. Adams). As a man of family Mr. Parrish has always lived in Green Township. He owns 135 acres of land and combines farming and livestock production.
The Parrish children are: Charles A.; Frank G.; Cora B., wife of Roy McClellan; Mary Myrtle, deceased, wife of Wilmer Smith; Russell Clokey and Ernest Clark. They are members and Mr. Parrish is an elder in the Presbyterian Cburch in Beech Springs. He has served two terms as trustee of Green Township.
J. ELMER TARBERT initiated his active experience In connection with farm enterprise when be was a mere boy, and was but fifteen years of age when he began working by the month as a farm emproye. He tbus continued his efficient services for a period of ten years, and in tbe meanwhile carefully conserved his earnings, with the determined ambition eventually to engage in the same line of industrial activity in an independent way. He has realized this ambition and is today giving excellent account of himself as one of the successful agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native township of Nottingham, Harrison County, where his activities are centered on an excellent farm of 154 acres and where he gives special attention to the raising of sheep. He has proved himself one of the world's productive workers, and all who know him are gratified to note his increasing success in his chosen sphere of endeavor. He takes loyal interest in community affairs, gives his support to the cause of the republican party, and his wife hold membership in Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, the while they are popular figures in the social life of their home community.
J. Elmer Tarbert was born on his father's farm in Nottingham Township December 22, 1881, and is a son of Albert and Mary E. (Palmer) Tarbert, both natives of this county, wbere they still reside on their farm. J. Elmer Tarbert was reared to the sturdy discipline of farm life and in the meanwhile attended the public schools at Freeport. His good judgment has been shown in his continued adherence to tbe occupation in which he is fortified by practical experience, and he is doing well his part in upholding the prestige of Harrison County in connection with productive farm industry.
The year 1904 recorded the marriage of Mr. Tarbert to Miss Mary M. Palmer, daughter of Andrew and Rachel (Yarnall) Palmer, concerning whom more specific mention is made In an individual sketch appearing elsewhere in tbis work. Mr. and Mrs. Tarbert have three children—Francis Wayne, born February 27, 1908; Lawrence Delbert, born January 17, 1912; and Vern Leroy, born August 12, 1919.
CLEMENT W. GOTSHALL, one of the solid, sensible and reliable men and steady and industrious farmers of Rumley Township, is a man who stands very well with his neighbors. He was born in Rumley Township February, 10, 1864, a son of Daniel and Amanda (Wortman) Gotshall, and a grandson of Jonas Gotshall. Jonas Gotshall was one of the pioneer farmers of Rumley Township, coming to Harrison County from Pennsylvania, and here he continued to live the rest of his life. He married Pollie Lacer, and their children were: Anna, Matilda, Elizabeth, John, Jerry, Jacob, Daniel and Samuel. In their religious convictions they were all Lutherans except Samuel, who was a Methodist.
Daniel Gotshall was born in Rumley Township, and was here engaged in farming all his life, with the exception of seven years when he lived in Carroll County, and at the time of his death he owned 160 acres of land. His wife was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and she bore her husband the following children: Mary, who married Samuel Arbaugh, and Clement W., whose name heads this review. Daniel Gotshall was married the second time, wedding Eliza Ann Wood, of Loudon Township. Carroll County, and they had one daughter, Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Gotshall also belonged to the Lutheran Church.
Clement W. Gotshall attended the Rumley Township schools and those of Carroll County_
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His first experience in farming on his own account was gained in Rumley Township, and he has continued to be interested in the agricultural matters of this township, where he owns 160 acres, and he also owns eighty-seven acres in Loudon Township, Carroll County. These two farms join each other, so that he has 247 acres in one piece. On this land he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising, with very gratifying results.
On November 11, 1890, he was married to Miriam Cunningham, a daughter of Thomas H. and Elizabeth (McGavran) Cunningham, residents of New Rumley, where Mr. Cunningham was a merchant for many years. He is deceased, but is still survived by his widow. The Cunningham family was established in Harrison County by Mrs. Gotshall's grandfather, Dr. William Cunningham, who came to New Rum- ley from Pennsylvania, and for some years was the only physician of the county. She was born in the house her grandfather built for his family residence. Mrs. Gotshall was one in a family of seven children, of which she was next to the youngest, the others being as follows: John, who lives at Kansas City, Missouri; William E., who lives at Scio, Ohio; Ellsworth, who is deceased; George A., who is a painter and decorator of New Rumley; Thomas H., who is a farmer of New Rumley; and Finley, who is deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Gotshall have the following children: Elizabeth Marie, who was graduated from the Jewett High School and Oberlin College, is now a teacher of Hubbard, Ohio; and Pearl, who married Waldo Thompson, and has one son, Kenneth Waldo. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson live in Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio. For the past five years Mr. Gotshall has been a director in the Jewett State Bank. The Lutheran Church of New Rumley holds the membership of Mr. and Mrs. Gotshall. They are very fine people in every sense of the word, and it would be difficult to find any who are more representative of the best elements of the county and state.
W. M. AND J. G. CULBERTSON. Because they are associated in a business way and live in the same home William M. and John G. Culbertson, of Athens Township, united in commemorating their ancestry in the History of Carroll and Harrison Counties. They are sons of John and Sarah Jane (McDowell) Culbertson, who were among the thrifty, conservative pioneers of Harrison County. These brothers are the oldest and the other children are: Samuel C., Charles A., Robert H., George W., Frank C., Mary Jane, Emma Florence, Clarence C. and Hugh W., beside one still-born child, and all are well-to-do citizens of the community.
Robert Culbertson, who founded the American branch of the Culbertson family, was a native of Ireland. He was twice married before leaving the Emerald Isle, the first wife leaving four children: James, John, Samuel and Ezekiel. In 1811 they all came with their father to the United States. They located in the wilderness of Harrison County. The father married a second time in Ireland, and there were ten children from this union: Thomas, Robert, Benjamin, William, Hugh, Joseph, George, Annie, Mary and Gillespie. It is the youngest son, Gillespie, through whom the present day Culbertsons are descended, and he was born in October, 1816, in Harrison County.
Gillespie Culbertson remained with his parents as long as they lived, the father, who was the first Culbertson in the community, attaining to eighty-seven years and being buried in 1840 on Christmas day. He had been a stone mason in Ireland, but in Ohio he gave his undivided attention to agriculture in helping to develop the new country. He had been a member of the Seceder Church in Ireland and cast bis ballot with the democrats in America.
On December 17, 1840, Gillespie Culbertson married Dorcas Holt, of Guernsey Couuty. Their children were: John, Mary, Sarah Ann and Robert.l The mother died August 15, 1865, and Mr. Gillespie married Eliza Jane, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (McKinney) Duncan. She was also from Guernsey County. One daughter, Dorcas Eliza, was born to them. In the meantime the parents had retired from the farm and were living in New Athens when on September 11, 1800, Gillespie ;Culbertson entered the life beyond the grave. The family homestead passed into the hands of bis son John Culbertson, and for more than a century the Culbertson farm has been a landmark in Harrison County. John Culbertson, father of W. M. and J. G., was born September 20, 1841, on the old Robert Culbertson farm, in Athens Township. His wife, Sarah J., was born in Athens Township August 1, 1846, and died September 19, 1890. He married Sarah Jane Robinson, who was born March 27, 1843, and died July 15, 1906.
William M. Culbertson was born August 20, 1867, on the old McDowell farm in Athens Township, and after leaving the district school he attended Franklin College in New Athens. In 1898, he married Marie Gillespie, a daughter of Barclay and Susan (Barnes) Gillespie. Within a year he and his brother John G. Culbertson entered into a partnership business relation, and they buy. sell and invest their money together. Mrs. Culbertson died June 3, 1919, and the two brothers live alone. Siuce 1899 J. G. Culbertson has lived in the home of his brother. W. M. Culbertson has been trustee of Athens Township and a member of the Board of Education in the community. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church in New Athens.
EDMOND S. GOODWIN. After many years of hard work as a farmer, during which he prospered on account of his industry and thrift, Edmond S. Goodwin, of Short Creek Township, is now living practically retired on his small farm of thirteen acres. He was born in Short Creek Township June 30, 1850, a son of Kinsey and Alice (Shields) Goodwin. The Goodwin family was brought to Harrison County many years ago by Jesse Goodwin, grandfather of Edmond S. Goodwin, who became one of the prosperous farmers of Short Creek Township.
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ship, Harrison County, where he was engaged in farming for a time, and in 1863 moved to Morgan County, Ohio, and died there in 1865. Following his demise his family returned to Harrison County. Kinsey Goodwin and his wife had tbe following children born to them: Edmond S., who was the eldest; Lydia, who was an invalid for thirty years and is now deceased; Sarah Emilie, who also was an invalid for thirty years and is now deceased; William and Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin were consistent members of the Presbyterian Church.
Left fatherless when still a lad, as the eldest in the family Edmond S. Goodwin early became self-supporting, and chose farming as his life work. His farming ventures have taken him from Short Creek Township, where he began them, into Jefferson and Belmont counties, but be has since returned to his native township.
The first wife of Mr. Goodwin was Catherine Henderson, a daughter of Mathew Henderson, and they had the following children: Ola V., who married Charles Holmes; Sarah. who married J. A. Frazier; John H., who died in 1910. Mrs. Goodwin died February 14, 1891. After her death Mr. Goodwin was married to Mattie Moffett, who was born near Beech Springs Church in Green Township. the daughter of John and Margaret (Moore) Moffett. There are no children by his second marriage. Both Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio. They are held in the highest esteem not only in their immediate neighborhood but elsewhere, and deservedly so, for they are good friends of and always willing to render assistance to those with whom they are brought Into contact.
THEODORE N. VAIL. Of distinguished Americans who were native sons of Carroll County one was the late Theodore N. Vail, who as chief executive of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was head of the largest telephone system in the world. He was not only its nominal head but was from the first the genius that promoted the popular use of the telephone, was the first to establish long distance communication by telephone, and when past seventy years of age was still the initiative head of a system that numbered nine million telephone subscribers and represented an investment of a billion and a half dollars.
He was born in Carroll County, Ohio, July 16, 1845, a son of Davis and Phoebe (Quinby) Vail. Four years after his birth his parents moved to Morristown, New Jersey, where he was educated at the old Academy, and for a time studied medicine. Subsequently, in view of his distinguished services, he was honored with the Doctor of Laws degrees by Dartmouth, Middlebury College, Princeton University and Harvard. Abandoning medicine through his interest in the telegraph, he became an operator and was employed on the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming in 1868, soon after the opening of the first transcontinental railway. In 1873 he was appointed assistant superintendent in the railway mail service at Washington, and served as assistant general superintendent in 1874 and as general superintendent from 1875 to 1878. In 1878, two years after the telephone instrument was demonstrated as a commercial achievement, he became identified with that business and in the next ten years did much to popularize and extend its use. There was a period from 1887 when impaired health compelled him to seek recreation in travel, and from 1893 to 1896 he was a Vermont farmer. In 1896 he went south to Argentine, South America, and was engaged in the promotion of electrical enterprises, introducing American electric system of street railways to Buenos Ayres and telephone systems in principal cities. In 1907 Mr. Vail was elected president of the American Telegraph & Telephone Company, and continued as its chief executive officer until his death on April 16, 1920.
For many years he called his home the farm community in Vermont known as Lyndonville. He was a member of many learned and technical societies, both in this country and abroad, and altogether was one of the most constructive men of business produced in his age.
MARION B. BARRETT. By a series of cross- references, with incidental index facilities, it has been possible in the preparation of this work to incorporate more detailed and complete family records than would have been possible were the attempt made to repeat such data in the various individual sketches of the different representatives of these numerous leading families. Thus in the case of Marion B. Barrett ready reference may be made to the amplitude of family data that appear on other pages, in connection with the personal sketch of his older brother, Meredith M. Barrett, and the repeating of this record is therefore not required in the article here presented.
Marion B. Barrett, a scion of one of the prominent pioneer families of Harrison County, was born in Cadiz Township, this county, on the 16th of June, 1840, and in the schools of that township and Nottingham Township he received his early education. He was one of the gallant sons of the county who served as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. On the 9th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he participated in tbe battle of Perryville, an engagement in which he was struck in the ankle by a spent minie ball, besides having his haversack shot from his back. He took part in various other engagements, mostly of minor order, and remained with his regiment until June, 1863, when he received his honorable discharge. After the close of his military career Mr. Barrett engaged in farming on his present fine farm, which has continued his home during the long intervening years and which comprises about 165 acres of the valuable soil of Nottingham Township. He has made the place the stage of well ordered industry in the departments of diversified agriculture and stock-growing, and in the gracious evening of their lives he and his wife find themselves compassed by ideal surroundings, having the high regard of their home community and the companionship of friends who are
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tried and true. They are members of Asbury Chapel (Methodist Episcopal), and he has served as a member of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Barrett is a republican in politics, and his continued interest in his old comrades of the Civil war is indicated by his appreciative affrliation with McCready Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Cadiz, the county seat.
In 1896 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Barrett to Miss Emma Hagedorn. daughter of Henry and Louisa (Floto) Hagedorn, and the one child of this union is William M., wbo is associated in the management of the home farm.
DAVID M. GIBSON has depended entirely upon his own ability and energy in gaining his present secure place as one of the substantial farmers of his native township, and is now staging his vigorous operations on his wet) ordered farm of 145 acres in German Townsbip, Harrison County. He was born in this township on the 19th of January, 1859, and is a son of George W. and Frauces (Gutschall) Gibson, both likewise natives of Harrison County. Mrs. Gibson was born in German Township, a daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Fisher) Gutschall. Samuel Gutschall was born in Maryland in 1705. and was a son of Nicholas Gutschall, who came from the old Keystone State to Ohio in 1800 and became one of the earliest and most influential settlers in German Township, Harrison County. where he erected and operated the first saw mill and grist mill in the township, besides reclaiming a good farm. Samuel Gutschall was reared and educated under the conditions that obtained in the pioneer period of Harrison County history, and he became one of the prosperous farmers of German Township. where he remained until his death. By his tirst marriage he became the father of tive children—Mary A. (wife of Dr. Aaron Bishop), James, Margaret (Mrs. Jacob DeVault), Elizabeth (Mrs. John Peepels), Frances (Mrs. George W. Gibson). By his second marriage Mr. Gutschall had one son. David, and of his third marriage were born two children—Samuel and Ellen. The maiden name of his second wife was Ellen McLean. the family name of his third wife was Wnesettler, and for his fourth wife he married Ruth Graham. The members of the Gutschall family in the several generations have held principally to the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
James and Mary (Willard) Gibson. paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, were born in Maryland and became early settlers in Harrison County, where Mr. Gibson was a pioneer teacher and farmer and where he died when his children were not yet of adult age, his widow having survived him by ninny years and having been a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. The children were four in number—Agnes. Dorcas, Caroline and George W.
George W. Gibson passed his entire life in German Township. where he was continuously associated with farm activities from his youth until his death, which occurred when he was about seventy-seven years of age. his widow passing away at the age of about eighty-five years and both having been active members of the German Reformed Church. They became the parents of four children: Samuel B. married Miss Belle Vealy, and they now reside in Los Angeles, California; David M. and James Leslie were twins, the latter having died at the age of twenty-four years; and George B. married Miss Dena J. Bawsley, their home being now in German Township.
David M. Gibson gained his early education in the district schools of German Township and later was a student for one year at the Northwestern Ohio University at Ada. He was a young man when he. initiated independent farm enterprise in his native township. where in 1890 he purchased a tract of thirty acres near Cadiz Junction. He remained on this place ten years, and in 1903 he purchased a farm of 100 acres in the same township. Five years later he sold this property, and in 1914 be purchased his present farm, which comprises 145 acres and is one of the valuable farms of German Township. He takes lively interest in all that touches the community welfare, is a democrat in politics, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
November 3, 1885, recorded the marriage of Mr. Gibson to Miss Sarah S. White, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and they have seven children—Iva, Walter L., Viola. George F.. David Crawford, Grace Victoria and Earl H. Iva is the wife of Clareuce Birney, a farmer in German Township, and they have three children—Lawrence, Walter and Mary Rozella. Walter L., the eldest son of Mr. Gibson, married Miss Lena Freshwater, and they have three children—Thelma, Alvin C. and Virgil Dean. Viola is the wife of Larra Kimmel, and they reside in Stark County. Mr. Gibson served as Township Trustee for fourteen years.
WILLIAM H. PATTERSON, county commissioner of Harrison County, and one of the prosperous farmers of Archer Township, is rightly adjudged one of the representative men of this region. He was born in Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1855, a son of John and Jane (McClelland) Patterson, and grandson of James Patterson. James Patterson was born in County Down, Ireland in 1780, and in 1787 was brought to America by his father. They located in Washington County. Pennsylvania, and there James Patterson spent the remainder of his life. He married Mary Miller, who was born in Washington County. Pennsylvania, in 1786. Their children were as follows: Elizabeth, Jane, Alexander, James, Mary, Thomas, Margaret, David. John, Sarah and Martha.
John Patterson was born in the same house as his son. the date of his birth being December 6. 1822. His wife was born in Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1822. and they were married in 1850. She was a daughter of Thomas McClelland, one of the well-known men of Washington County, Pennsylvania. John Patterson spent his entire life on the farm on which he was born, and died
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there in 1881, his widow surviving him until 1909. Their children were as follows: James, who was born April 9, 1851; Thomas, who was born April 1, 1853; William H., whose name heads this review; and John L., who was born May 30, 1859. The parents belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.
William H. Patterson was brought up in his native township and taught to be useful and industrious, and was given the educational advantages afforded by the neighborhood district schools. As a young man he began farming in Washington County, and continued to operate there until 1903, when he moved to his present farm of 163 acres in Archer Township, Harrison County. Ohio, where he has since resided. He also owns 100 acres additional in the same township.
In 1882 Mr. Patterson married Zella, a daughter of Major George T. and Cathrina (Denny) Work. During the Civil war George T. Work organized a company in Washington County. Pennsylvania, and was commissioned its captain. later was promoted and at the close of the war he was mustered out with the rank of major. Later he served as sheriff of Washington County. Pennsylvania. Mrs Patterson died on December 28. 1886. leaving two sons: George W.. who married Nannie Borger. and they have one daughter, Martha Zella: and John Vance, who married Carrie Meyers, and they have two sons. Allen and George. In November. 1888. Mr. Patterson married Laura. a daughter of Walter Denny. She died April 10. 1911. leaving three children: Etta Lee, who married Joseph Reed Thompson, and they have three children. Ralph. Eleanor and Laura Louise. Walter W.. who married Lucile Bigger. and they have three children, Laura Louise and Mary Lee and Margaret Irene (twins) : William McClellan. who married Wilma Hines (no children).
At the November election in 1916 Mr. Patterson was elected a commissioner of Harrison County, and was re-elected in 1918. He is one of the sound. conservative men of this section, and a man who has made his own way in the world, so that be is thoroughly practical and knows how to handle the affairs of the county in an effective manner.
ROBERT M. BOTHWELL. For over thirty years Robert M. Bothwell has had some of the unusual responsibilities of farm management in Carroll County. A practical farmer and also a successful dairyman, he owns the City Dairy. one of the chief sources of the pure milk supply of Carrollton. He is a good business man and has linked his private interests with the essential interests of the community.
Mr. Bothwell was born on the old Infirmary Farm. a mile and a half from Carrollton in Union Township, April 16. 1867. His parents were Armstrong and Catherine (Hill) Bothwell. His mother was a daughter of John and Rebecca Hill, whose lives were identified with pioneer times in Carroll County. John was a noted hunter and frequently invaded the bear dens which were then rather plentiful in this section of Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Bothwell were George and Jane Bothwell, who entered land in Lee Township and improved a farm that is now owned by J. W. Maple. Armstrong Bothwell was born in Lee Township in 1831 and his wife in the same community in 1834. They were married April 17, 1855, and he died at Carrollton February 9, 1912, his wife passing away February 8, 1903. Armstrong Bothwell combined the occupations of farming and stone mason, and for nine years was manager of the County Infirmary. Eventually he bought the Infirmary farm of a hundred fifty-five acres, and subsequently bought twenty-five acres more and was rated as one of the prosperous and substantial farmers and land owners of the county. While always busy with some practical work, he was interested in literature and a great reader and kept up with the times. Politically he was a republican, and he and his wife were among the supporting members for many years of the Methodist Church at Carrollton. In their family were five children: Evaline, born July 20, 1856, and died February 1, 1901; John Chalmers, born March 9, 1860, and flied January 19, 1911; Robert M., the third of the family; Vincent Grant, born January 6, 1872, and died in infancy; and Mary Laura, born December 9, 1875.
Robert M. Bothwell came to manhood in the farm environment, and had a practical training as a youth which well fitted him for the responsibilities he has since carried. He began life with a public school education. At the present time he owns three hundred acres of Carroll County land. His chief farm and home are on eighty acres adjoining the corporation of Carrollton. and this is the headquarters of the City Dairy. The dairy farm is equipped with modern buildings and other facilities for the production and handling of milk. He keeps a herd of fifty cows, and uses two large silos for their feeding. The operation of this dairy in itself is a public service, and probably for that reason Mr. Bothwell has never aspired to office. He is a republican voter and is a member of the Methodist Church which his parents attended so many years.
In 1888 Mr. Bothwell married Miss Jane Marshall, daughter of Joshua and Malinda Marshall. of Washington Township. Her mother died in 1901. To Mr. and Mrs. Bothwell were born six children: Marshall, born in 1890; Grace. wife of Edgar Boyd, of Union Township: Nina. wife of Carl Scharno and the mother of two children, named Robert and Beth Jane: Laura, wife of Lawrence Dunlap: Jahn and Earl, both at home with their father. the son Marshall responded to the draft in August. 1918. and was in training at Camp Stu Dian when stricken with the influenza and soon afterward was granted an honorable discharge
DAVID R. ZOLLARS has given convincing evidence of his ability and progressiveness in connection with farm industry in his native county, and is numbered among the successful representatives of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in German Township, Harrison County., He was born in this township on the 6th of January 1857, and is a son of David and Lu-
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cinda (Ritchison) Zoliars, his father having been actively associated with coal-mining operations in Harrison County and having maintained his residence at Germano, where he died when his son David R. was a child of about two years, his widow surviving him by a number of years. They became the parents of nine children—Lydia, Lovina, Mary, John (served as a soldier in the Civil war), Lucinda, Nancy, Emma, Hattie and David R.
After the death of his father David R. Zollars was taken into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller, and his fosterparents gave him the affection and care that they would have given to their own son. He was afforded the advantages of the district schools of German Township, and thereafter he found satisfaction in continuing his helpful association with the work and management of the farm of his fosterfather in German Township. Since 1909 he has been engaged in independent farm enterprise, with a valuable property comprising 258 acres owned by him and constituting one of the model farms of German Township. Experience and mature judgment have been brought to bear hy Zollars in the prosecution of his progressive enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and he is an exemplar of modern methods and policies in this field of industry, of which he is a prominent and highly respected representative in his native township. He pays tribute of lasting appreciation and gratitude to his fosterparents, and on other pages of this work will be found individual mention of Henry Miller, who was well worthy of the filial devotion of him whose name initiates this article. Mr. Zoliars takes loyal interest in community affairs, is liberal in support of enterprises projected for the general good, and in politics is aligned with the democratic party.
The year 1885 recorded the marriage of Mr. Zollars to Miss Jennie Roberts, daughter of George and Nancy (Benedict) Roberts, of Harrison County, and of this union have been born five children : Buena Vista is the wife of Clifford Ferguson. of Tuscarawas County, and they have two children—Wayne and Olive. Henry Miller Zollars is farming the old Miller farm adjoining his father's farm. He married Miss Hattie Kuhn, and their two children are Margaret Louise and Henry Raymond. Nannie Evelyn is the wife of Clyde Tucker. a merchant of Clarksfield. Huron County, Ohio. and they have two children, David and Clyde Dean. Charles Monford is more specifically mentioned in a following paragraph: and John Roscoe remains at the parental home.
Charles Monford Zollars was one of the gallant young men contributed to the nation's military service by Harrison County in connection with the World war. He entered service May 14, 1918, was in training at Columbus, Ohio, for the ensuing two months, and was then sent to Camp Hancock, Georgia. where he remained about eight months. He was then transferred to Camp Dix. New Jersey, thence to Pittsburgh, and later to Washington. D. C., where he is now located in the War and Navy Building as a clerk. He was discharged April 24, 1919, but continued in the employ of the Government. He was assigned to a machine gun battalion, and served as sergeant of the Fourth Headquarters Battalion of the One Hundred and Fifty- Third Depot Brigade.
HENRY MILLER, who was one of the venerable native sons of Harrison County at the time of his death in 1910, was a representative of oue of the best known pioneer families of this county, with whose history the family name has been identified for more than a century. Adequate details concerning this influential family may be found in the sketch of Andrew B. Miller on other pages of this work. Henry Miller was a man of fine character and marked ability, became one of the most successful agriculturists and stock-growers of his native township, and at the time of his death was the owner of a valuable landed estate of more than 300 acres in German Township. He achieved special success in the breeding and raising of Clydesdale horses, as well as the best type of standard-bred horses and also fine sheep.
Mr. Miller was born in German Township, on the farm which was his place of residence at the time of his death, and the date of his nativity was August 27, 1824. He was a son of Daniel and Susannah (Lowmiller) Miller, and a grandson of John Miller, who came to Harrison County from Maryland in 1806. Mr. Miller passed his entire life on the farm on which he was born, and his early educational advantages were those of the pioneer schools. May 20, 1856, recorded his marriage to Miss E. W. Gault, who was born February 28, 1831, a daughter of John and Nancy (McKinsey) Gault, her parents having become residents of Harrison County in 1839. Mrs. Miller was seventy-one years of age at the time of her death, and both she and her husband were communicants of the Presbyterian Church. They had no children, but in their home they reared from childhood David B. Zollars, a representative Harrison County farmer of whom individual mention is made in the preceding sketch. Mr. Miller was a staunch democrat in politics and was liberal and public- spirited as a citizen, the while his generous and kindly nature gained for him the high regard of all who knew him. He lived and labored to worthy ends, achieved much of success, and by his character and accomplishment honored the country and state of his birth.
ROSS PHILIP RUSK, M. D., of Cadiz. who has won recognition as a successful physician and surgeon, and gained prominence as a progressive citizen, is a native son of Ohio and is a representative in the third generation of two old and well known families of this part of the State.
The more important names and dates in his family relationship are here set down as a means of permanent record. His paternal great- grandparents were David and Jane Rusk. David Rusk had three brothers and one sister, James, Humphrey, Michael and Polly.
Michael Rusk. son of David and Jane, was born September 23, 1796, and was one of the pioneers of Eastern Ohio. He died in Belmont County July 31, 1847. He married Catherine
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McDonald, who was born September 15, 1807, and died September 13, 1878. She had ten brothers and sisters: Jeanette, John, Elizabeth, Rehecca, Margaret, James, William, Jane, Ruhama and Christianna McDonald. The children of Michael and Catherine Rusk were : Jane Rusk Love, born October 21, 1829, and died October 20, 1920; Eliza Rusk Morgan, born March 5, 1832, and died July 9, 1859; Archibald Rusk, born August 30, 1835; David Wilson Rusk, born May 26, 1838, and died April 24, 1842; John Alexander Rusk, born June 26, 1841, and died April 24, 1842; James Harvey Rusk, born May 17, 1842, and died August 9, 1889; and Margaret Malinda Rusk, born August 4, 1846.
James Harvey Rusk, father of Dr. Rusk, spent his entire life as a farmer in Richland Township, Belmont County. He married Mary Ellen Morgan, who was born January 24, 1846, and died March 2, 1907. She was a daughter of Philip and Sarah (Seibert) Morgan, the former born September 22, 1819, and died in 1892, and the latter born November 26, 1826, and died in 1907. Sarah Seibert was a daughter of Adam and Rachel Seibert. Mary Ellen was the oldest of the children of Philip Morgan and wife, the others being: Marshall J., born September 26, 1847; Martha Ann Coleman, born August 14, 1849, and died in 1916; Malissa Jane Love, born October 14, 1851, and died in 1906; John Albert Morgan, born November 13, 1853; Milton Chalmers Morgan, born November 14, 1856, and died in 1861; Adaline Amanda Hedges, born April 24, 1859, and died in 1914; Euphemia Alinda Love, born June 18, 1861; and Eli Seibert Morgan, born December 19, 1865.
James H. and Mary E. Rusk became the parents of the following children: Addison E. of Belmont County; Elmer M. of Missouri who married Ada M. Schenck; Sarah Jane, who married Harry H. Haverfield and both are now deceased; Marshall A. of Harrison County who married Nellie Branson; Ina Etta who became the wife of D. S. Thompson of Belmont County; and Dr. Ross Philip.
Ross Philip Rusk was born in Richland Township, Belmont County. October 11, 1877, and was graduated from the St. Clairsville High School and from Franklin College with the class of '99, with the degree Bachelor of Science. Previous to his graduation from Franklin College he had taken one year of the Medical course at Starling Medical College at Columbus, and following his graduation from Franklin he returned to Starling, where after completing the four years' course, he was graduated with the degree M. D., class of 1902, and since he has been in active practice he has taken post-graduate courses both at Chicago Post Graduate College in 1908 and at the medical department of Harvard University in 1914.
Doctor Rusk entered the practice of his profession in Cadiz in 1902, and during his twenty years of practice his skill and ability have won for him a place among the prominent and successful members of the medical profession of Harrison County. He is a member of the Harrison County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
As a citizen Doctor Rusk has always been progressive and public spirited, always ready to give his earnest support to all civic movements having for their object the promotion of the welfare of the entire community. When the United States entered the World war he was on June 21, 1917, appointed by the Ohio Medical Society as one of three members of the Draft Board for Harrison County, the other two having been appointed by the Common Pleas Court of the county. He practically gave his entire time to the organization of the Board and its subsequent work until he resigned on January 8, 1918, on account of the urgent requirements of his services in private practice, and even after his retirement from the Board he freely gave his time to the work of assisting in the physical examination of the boys who came before the Draft Board. He was the last member of the original board to resign, and his services were fully appreciated both by the Government and the community. On November 9, 1918, Doctor Rusk was enrolled as a member of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps authorized by the Council of National Defense and approved by the President of the United States.
In 1905 Doctor Rusk was united in marriage with Ola, the daughter of Elwood Johnson of Flushing, Ohio. She died on February 5, 1911. On December 25, 1912, the doctor was united in marriage with Beulah Van Zandt Schenck, the daughter of William Schenck, of Brookfield, Missouri. To this marriage three children have been born as follows: Ross Philip, Jr., born on January 27, 1915; Anna Jean, born on July 25, 1916, and William Schenck, born on December 19, 1918.
Doctor Rusk is a member of Cadiz Lodge No. 219, F. and A. M., and of Cadiz Chapter No. 171, R. A. M. He is a republican in politics and the family belong to the Cadiz Presbyterian Church. He is a director in the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz.
THOMAS I. TOPE. Carroll County claims a specially fine contingent of native sons who are here actively identified with farm industry and stand exponent of loyal and progressive citizen ship. Of this number is Thomas I. Tope, whose well improved farm of eighty acres is situated in Monroe Township, on rural mail route No. 4 from Carrollton, the county seat. He was born on the old home farm in this township, near Leavittsville, September 16, 1868, and is a son of Gabriel and Elizabeth (McCue) Tope, the former of whom still resides on and has general supervision of his farm, though he is now venerable in years. Gabriel Tope was born and reared in Carroll County and is a son of Jacob and Katherine (Kale) Tope, Jacob Tope having come from Pennsylvania and numbered himself among the pioneer farmers of Carroll County, where he secured land near Petersburg and where he and his wife remained until their deaths. Their children were eleven in number. Gabriel Tope has devoted his entire active career to agricultural and live-stock industry, and is one of the venerable and honored native sons of Carroll County. His wife likewise is of advanced age, and both are devout members of
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the Presbyterian Church. Their son, Homer D., is general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League for the district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of its organizers and has gained fame as a reformer and eloquent public speaker. He was the oldest in order of birth of the family of four children, and Thomas I. was the fourth child.
Thomas I. Tope is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and he continued to be actively associated with the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority. After his marriage, which occurred in the spring of 1896, he established his residence on a farm of eighty acres in Monroe Township. and here he continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock- raiser fourteen years. He then sold the property and purchased another farm of 160 acres in the same township, and in the spring of 1920 he sold this place, upon advantageous terms, and purchased his present farm, which likewise he is making the stage of progressive and successful agricultural and live-stock industry. He is a staunch republican, has been active in local affairs of a public order and served as city committeeman. He and his wife bold membership in the Methodist Church.
February 15, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Tope to Miss Hattie Rainsberger, daughter of Thomas Rainsberger, of whom individual record is given on other pages of this work. The one child of this union is John Clayton Tope, who was born in the year 1897 and who is now employed in the city of Canton, Stark County. John C. Tope was one of the sterling young men who represented Carroll County in the nationls military service in the late World war. He entered service in September, 1918, passed three months in the training camp at Toledo, and was then transferred to Camp Oglethorpe, at Atlanta, Georgia. Two months later he was sent to Baltimore. Maryland, as a private of the first class, and after the signing of the historic armistice he continued in service until April, 1919. when he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge.
JOHN F. LEYDA. A prosperous stock man and farmer illustrates by his experience the ups and downs of his line of business, its fascinating promises of fortune as well as its equally abundant opportunities for failure. One of the men of Carroll County who has had some of these vicissitudes of fortune, who has made several changes in location and business, but each one dictated by good judgment, and by determination has overcome obstacles and is now enjoying a well earned prosperity is John F. Leyda of Harrison Township.
Mr. Leyda was born in Harrison Township in December 17. 1867, son of David and Samantha (Putoff) Leyda. His father was also a native of Harrison Township and a well known farmer there. Oldest of nine children, John F. Leyda had his early education limited to terms of winter school until he was seventeen. He learned farming by work at home, but had practically no capital when he married Miss Nettie A. Wright, daughter of W. S. and Elizabeth Wright, of Monroe Township.
The first year of their married life they lived on the Wright farm of a hundred acres. He then rented a hundred acre farm in Rose Township, spent a year there, another year on a hundred fifty acres in Brown Township, farmed a hundred sixty acres at Magnolia for a year, and then returned to the Wright farm in Monroe Township, where he continued his varied efforts at agriculture for seven years. After a public sale of his stock and equipment Dr. Leyda located at Dellroy, and employed his labor and a teaming outfit as his principal business for five years.
In 1914 he bought his present place of a hundred five acres. This is now a well equipped farm, and he has made it the source of a steady income for the past six years.
Mr. Leyda is an independent democrat and member of the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy. Two children were born to their marriage. Gladys was born in 1906. Marie died in 1898, at the age of two years and one day.
JAMES GRANT SNIVELY was reared under the discipline of the farm and has depended wisely upon his knowledge of agricultural and livestock industry in making his way to the goal of independence and stable prosperity. He now has secure place as one of the prosperous and representative farmers of his native county, eighty acres of the place being in Loudon Township, Carroll County, and the remaining seven acres in Lee Township. He was born in Washington Township, this county, August 15, 1868, and is a son of John Milton and Eleanor (Figely) Snively, his father likewise having been a native of Washington Township, where he passed his entire life, his vocation having been that of farming. His parents, Henry and Mary (Carmon) Snively, were natives of Pennsylvania and became pioneer settlers in Carroll County, so that the family name has been long and worthily linked with the civic and industrial history of this Ohio county. Of the children of John M. and Eleanor Snively the eldest is Emma. who is the wife of Thomas Demilton, a farmer near Minerva, this county; Robert is engaged in farming in Washington Township; James Grant, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Alvin is a farmer in Washington Township; Margaret is the wife of James McGee. of Augusta Township: Howard remains on the old home farm, in Washington Township; and Mary is the wife of Foster Roudebush and they reside in the city of Detroit, Michigan.
James G. Snively profited alike by the discipline of the district schools and the home farm, and upon attaining to his legal majority he began to work by the month, as a farm employe. After his marriage, in 1890, he continued to farm on rented land for a period of eighteen years, and he then purchased his present farm, which had been permitted to run down and which thus placed distinct challenge upon his characteristic energy and progressiveness. He has brought the place up to a high standard of productiveness, has remodeled the
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buildings, and has made other improvements which likewise indicate the supervision of a keen, determined and enterprising owner. Mr. Snively takes loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home community and native county. is a staunch republican and is affiliated actively with the Kilgore Grange.
December 21, 1890, recorded the marriage of Mr. Snively to Miss Matilda A. McCully, who was born and reared in Harrison Township, this county, a daughter of William and Jennie (Smith) McCully, the former a native of Harrison Township and the latter of Fox Township. Mr. and Mrs. Snively have six children: Maude is the wife of James Simmons, of Loudon Township; Erna is the wife of Harvey McCartney. of Dellroy, this county; Lillie is the wife of Oscar Reigle, of Carrollton; Mary now resides in the city of Carrollton; and James W. aud Wilbur S. remain at the parental home.
JAMES MILTON FINEFROCK. one of the prosperous farmers of Carroll County, operating the old homestead, 280 acres of as well-developed land as can he found in Rose Township. is recognized as one of the important factors in the agricultural life of his neighborhood. He was born in Rose Township. September 26. 1890. a son of Atwell John and Mary Elizabeth (Shine) Finefrock, and grandson of John Finefrock, who was born in Lancaster County. Pennsylvania. in 1792. He married Elizabeth Harple, who was born at Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1798. and came to the United States with her parents, who located near Lancaster. Pennsylvania. They made the trip on a sailing vessel which took eight weeks to cross the Atlantic ocean. The marriage ceremony which united John Finefrock and Elizabeth Harple was performed at Lancaster in 1817, and for six years thereafter they resided in that city, and they moved to Centerville, Ohio, now Carrollton, making the trip by wagon and being four weeks on the road. On July 4, 1823, they located on a farm in Rose Township, Carroll County. which remained in the family until 1918. After twenty-seven years spent on this farm, they moved to another one mile south of Waynesburg, Stark County, where five years were spent. They then moved to Waynesburg, and spent twenty-four years. Being then advanced in years they went to live with their son. John Finefrock, who resided one-half mile north of Waynesburg, and nineteen months later, January 9. 1881, they passed away within eight hours of each other. By trade John Finefrock was a locksmith, but was also engaged in farming. There were ten children in his family. seven sons and three daughters. Atwell John Finefrock was a farmer for many years, and owned 280 acres of land in Rose Township, but is now retired. Both he and his wife are still living. They had nine children, of whom James Milton Finefrock is the seventh in order of birth.
Growing up in Rose Township, James Milton Finefrock attended district school Number 6 during the winter months until he was sixteen years old, and has always been engaged in farming: After his marriage he took charge of the homestead. and has remained on it ever since, and carried on general farming. His property is in fine condition and he takes great pride in keeping everything up-to-date.
On February 28, 1912, Mr. Finefrock was married to Lou Emma Halter. a daughter of George and Minnie (Yarger) Halter, of East Sparta, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Finefrock have two children, namely: Helen Marie and Roy Herman. In politics Mr. Finefrock is a republican. He finds it beneficial to maintain membership with the National Grange of Magnolia; Ohio. The Lutheran church of Waynesburg has him on its rolls as a useful member: and he gives it a generous support. An excellent farmer, good citizen and honorable man Mr. Finefrock measures up to the best standards. and deserves the confidence he always inspires in those with whom he has dealings.
J. FINLEY MATTERN. One of the old established and highly honored families of Harrison County is that hearing the name of Mattern, and it has representatives here which belong to the highest type of American citizenry. one of them being J. Finley Mattern, a prosperous farmer of Archer Township. He was born in Green Township, where the family was first established many years ago by his great-grandfather, John Mattern. a native of Maryland. J. Finley Mattern came into the world on February 17, 1860, a son of John Mattern. born in Green Township on July 12, 1837, a son of Abraham Mattern, and grandson of the original John Mattern of Maryland. The mother of J. Finley Mattern bore the maiden name of Margaret Leas. and she was born in Green Township on August 2, 1839, a daughter of George and Mary (Bream) Leas. Both the Mattern and Leas families not only were very prominent in agricultural matters, but they also participated to a marked degree in the establishment and support of the old Bethel Methodist Church of Green Township, of which Vain Mattern and his wife have been members for over fifty-eight years. They are both living and conducting their farm of 120 acres on which they located in 1866.
For about two years J. Finley Mattern attended the district schools of Green Township, but his parents then moving to Archer Township he completed his studies in the latter. He remained at home until his marriage to Mary Bell Maxwell, a daughter of Allan and Mary Anna Maxwell. and following that event he located on a farm of his own in Archer Township. His first wife died on August 15, 1888, and on October 2, 1889, he was married to Isabel. Snyder, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Bradford) Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have sixty-one and one-quarter acres in their present farm, and she owns sixty-seven and three- quarter acres not far away. Mr. Mattern carries on general farming and stock raising, and is, like the 'other members of his family, a man of means and influence.
Mr. and Mrs. Mattern became the parents of three children: May Blanche, who was born August 3, 1890, died on February 25, 1914, having married Joseph M. Mitchell; Frank Everett,
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who was born on November 2, 1893; and Wilmot Doyle, who was born on April 8, 1896, is at home. Having been brought up in the faith of the Methodist Church. both Mr. and Mrs. Mat- tern are members of the old Bethel Church of that denomination in Green Township.
Frank Everett Mattern is a veteran of the great war, having enlisted in the service on May 30, 1918, and was trained at Camp Gordon. Atlanta, Georgia. About the middle of July of that year he left Camp Gordon with his organization for Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, on July 24, 1918, and landed in England on August 8, 1918. Following a stay of two days at the American rest camp at Winchelsea, England, he sailed from Southampton, England, for France and landed on French soil on August 12, 1918. He took part in the Saint Mihiel and Argonne offensives, and was gassed on October 3. 1918, serving with the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry, Fortieth Division, and the Eighteenth Infantry, First Division. Sailing for home, he landed at Hoboken, New Jersey, on March IS, 1919, and was discharged at Camp Sherman on May 23, 1919, and returned home, where he is now engaged in assisting his father and brother in conducting the homestead.
MRS. EMMA FITZSIMMONS is one of the property owners of Harrison Township, her valuable farm of 160 acres being one of the best in her locality. She was born in Rose Township, Carroll County, May 1, 1874, a daughter of Jacob Hope and Margaret (Sangler) Warley, and granddaughter of Joseph Warley, who married Dosia Burwell, of Brown Township, and they had ten children, six sons and four daughters. The grandparents are both deceased, the grandmother dying in 1886, in Brown Township. Jacob Hope Warley was born in Brown Township, was married in Harrison Township, but first lived at Mineral City, Ohio. Later he bought forty acres in Rose Township, where Mrs. Fitzsimmons was born, she being the third in a family of one son and three daughters.
Growing up in her native township Mrs. Fitzsimmons attended the district schools of her neighborhood until she was fifteen years old, and remained at home until her marriage. which took place September 6. 1898, when she was united with Patrick Fitzsimmons, a son of Luke and Ellen Fitzsimmons, both, natives of County Cavin, Ireland, where they spent their entire lives. For the first five years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons lived at Canton, where he was night watchman for the Canton Axle Works, and then they moved to the old homestead of Mrs. Fitzsimmons, comprising ninety acres, but a year later bought her present farm of 160 acres, moving on it April 5, 1904, and since the death of Mr. Fitzsimmons, November 1, 1915, she has continued to operate it very successfully, specializing in general farming and short-horn cattle.
Mr. Fitzsimmons was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and was twenty-one years old when he came to the United States. He spent several years In western states, Arkansas and Texas, and located at Canton, Ohio, in 1889. There he met his future wife, whom he courted for three years before they were married. For two years of that time he was with the Canton Axle Works as night watchman. He was independent in politics. The Catholic Church held his membership. A man of quiet tastes, he was a student of literature and very well informed. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons became the pareuts of three sons, Robert Jacob, Marion Theodore and Elmer Patrick, all of whom are at home. Mrs. Fitzsimmons is recognized as an excellent farmer and a lady of unusual' force of character. Left a widow, she has reared her sons to he a credit to their parents and neighborhood, and has every reason to be proud of what she has accomplished.
FREDERICK J. MERRYMAN. The rich soil of Carroll County has already made generous re. turns for efforts expended upon it, and now that modern scientific methods are being so widely adopted, there are years more of fertility left for it. Some of the most properous men of the county are those who have devoted themselves to cultivating this land, and among them oue who is worthy of special mention is Frederick J. Merryman of Rose Township, owner of 158 acres of as valuable land as can be found iu this part of the state.
Frederick J. Merryman was born in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 24, 1879, a son of Nicholas William and Eftie Ann (Elliott) Merryman, and grandson of Jared Merryman, who located in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, at an early date, aud married Mary Jones. His life was spent iu agricultural pursuits. Of their large family, Nicholas William Merryman was the fourth in order of birth. He spent his entire life on the home farm in Wayne Township, where he died January 10, 1906, his widow surviving him until March 4, 1907. During the winter months, when somewhat free from the responsihilities of farming, he made apple and molasses harrels, casks and other cooperage. He and his wife had two children, namely: Mary Belle, who married William Mehollin of Wells Township, Jefferson County and has four childreu; and Frederick J., who was the younger.
Until he was fifteen years old Frederick J. Merryman attended district school Number 9, Wayne Township, during the winter months, and in the spring and summer worked on the home farm of seventy-seven acres. Following his completion of his schooling he spent the greater part of his time on this farm until he was twenty-five years old, when he married, and then he took charge of the farm and conducted it for four years. In 1908 he came to his present farm in Rose Township, and here he is carrying on general farming, and Is very successful. His farm has thoroughly modern buildings which are equipped with electric light, and he takes a great pride in having everything in first-class order about his place. Mr. Merryman is very progressive and is always learning something new, and many of his experiments are so successful that his operations are followed with profit by his neighbors.
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In 1904 Mr. Merryman was married to Eva Blanche Fritchley, a daughter of George and Lucinda
(Hoobler) Fritchley of Rose Township, aud granddaughter of John Fritchley, who came to the United States from Baden, Germany. Decemher 9, 1817. with his father. John Fritchley. and was one of six children. In 1829 he moved to Brown Township, Carroll County, where he died June 15, 1845. The grandfather was married to Christina Wetzel and they had ten children, of whom George Fritchley was the eldest. George Fritchley died May 15, 1908, but his mother is still living. Mrs. Merryman attended the district schools of Rose Township and the Waynesburg High School for two years. Mr. aud Mrs. Merryman have two children, namely: Edna 0., and Donald Fritchley.
A republican, Mr. Merryman has taken an active part in local affairs, and was elected a memher of the school board for three years, and was re-elected for a second term, which office he is still holding. He is an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Waynesburg.
Mr. Merryman is proud of his father's record as a soldier during the war between the two sections of the country. He was a private in Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisting May 15, 1864. After the war he became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and maintained connections with the post at Smithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio. On the maternal side Mr. Merryman is descended from Revolutionary soldiers.
WALTER M. COPE, who is a member of one of the old and highly respected families of Harrison County, operates a, valuable farm in Archer Township. He was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on September 8, 1883, a son of Jacob and Amanda H. (Rose) Cope, and grandson of Samuel Cope and Hugh Rose, both of whom were for years prosperous agriculturists of Nottingham Township. With the exception of a few years passed in Illinois Jacob Cope spent his life in Nottingham Township, and he, too, devoted himself to farming. His death occurred in Nottingham Township in 1897, but his widow survives him and lives in Cadiz City. Their children were as follows: Ida May, Nancy Emma, Jacob 0., Thomas Blaine. Lucy L., Walter Milo and Denver L.
The Cope family is of English origin, Oliver Cope having come to the American Colonies from Wiltshire, England, in 1687 and located permanently in Pennsylvania, where some of his descendants are still living. Others, however, went to Virginia, and from the latter state in 1812 John Cope, animated by the same spirit that prompted his ancestor to brave the unknown perils of a long ocean voyage and those of a practically unexplored country to leave the Old for the New World, came to Ohio. After a year in Belmont County he settled in what is now Harrison County, and from then on memhers of the Cope family have been connected with the constructive work of this part of the state.
Walter M. Cope was given the usual educational advantages of the average farmer's son, and at the same time he acquired a practical working knowledge of farming under the experienced tuition of his watchful father. After his marriage in 1906 he began farming in Cadiz Township, and there farmed the John Devore farm in Archer Township until March, 1921, when he moved to the James Strausbaugh farm in Archer Township. He is engaged in a general line of farming and stockraising, and the results of his training show in his successful operations.
On November 28, 1906 Mr. Cope was united in marriage with Anna Laughlin, a daughter of Albert W. Laughlin. Mr. and Mrs. Cope have one son, Albert Lloyd. Having been reared in the faith of the Christian Church Mr. Cope naturally was inclined toward it, and has found it a medium for the expression of his religious views. For some years he has maintained membership in the congregation at Minksville. Both he and his wife are held in high esteem in the neighborhoods in which their lives have been spent, and they are proud of the records of their families, and are rearing their son to have a respect for his ancestors and a desire to emulate their example.
SAMUEL G. MOORE is a successful and representative exponent of farm enterprise in his native township, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 154 acres, so effectively improved and equipped as to make it an ideal place of residence and the responsive stage of progressive activity in diversified agriculture, stock- raising and dairy farming, in which last mentioned department Mr. Moore utilizes principally Jersey cows of fine type. He is one of the substantial farmers of Harrison County and a scion in the third generation of a well known pioneer family of this favored section of the old Buckeye State.
Samuel G. Moore was born in German Township, Harrison County, on the 1st of May, 1863, and is a son of Thomas and Rebecca (Galbraith) Moore, the former of whom was born near Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Rum- ley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Samuel Galbraith. Thomas Moore, Sr., grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to Harrison County from Pennsylvania in an early day and established his home in the village of Germano, where for many years he followed his trade, that of tailor. The maternal grandfather, Samuel Galbraith, became a prosperous pioneer farmer in Bumley Township. Thomas Moore, Jr., father of him whose name initiates this article, learned the tailor's trade under the direction of his father. and to this trade he gave his attention during virtually his entire active career, he having been a resident of the village of Germano about seventy years and having been one of the venerable and honored citizens of the county at the time of his death, in December, 1914, his devoted wife having passed away in the preceding month, so that in death they were not long separated, both having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church at Germano. Of their two children Samuel G., of this review, is the elder, and William T. is a resident of
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Germano. The maiden name of his wife was Ada Fleming.
Samuel G. Moore profited fully by the advantages offered by the village schools of Germano. and as a young man he engaged in teaming. besides which he followed the butcher's trade for some time. Since his marriage, in 1889, he has resided on his present farm, in the management of which his thrift and enterprise have enabled him to gain success and that secure independence which no other vocation offers so distinctively. He has been influential in community affairs, is a democrat in politics, and his secure place in popular confidence and esteem is indicated in his having served eleven years as trustee of German Township. He and his wife are earnest members of the Reformed Church at Germano, in which he is serving as a deacon.
In 1889 Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Mist Laura Peoples, who likewise is a native of German Township and who is a daughter of James and Ellen (Hahn) Peoples, the former's father, John Peoples, having been one of the early settlers in German Township. James Peoples became one of the representative farmers of German Township. and bis old homestead is the place now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Moore having been an only child and the parents having remained on this farm until their deaths. Both were devout members of the Presbyterian Church but after the death of her husband she joined the Reformed Church at Germano. They commanded the high regard of all who knew them. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two children: Thomas Earl was graduated in Scio College, Harrison County, and also in the University of Iowa. He is a chemist by profession and now resides in the city of Toledo, Ohio. He married Miss Bertha Shaub, and they have two children. Irma L. was graduated from the Jewett High School as a member of the class of 1920, and remains at the parental home.
RALPH E. GALBRAITH is one of the representative farmers of the younger generation in Archer Township, where he is associated with his father in the operation of the fine old homestead farm on which he was born and reared, the date of his nativity having been July 30, 1883. He is a son of James A. Galbraith, who was born in Green Township, this county, on the 18th of January, 1844, a son of John D. and Margaret (Allison) Galbraith. John D. Galbraith likewise was born in Green Township. where he was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer period in the history of Harrison County. His father, James Galbraith, was born in Ireland and was one of the early settlers at Cadiz, Harrison County, where he followed the carpenter's trade a few years. James Galbraith then removed to an embryonic farm in Green Township, and this he reclaimed to cultivation, the railway station known as Cadiz Junction being situated on his old homestead. He was one of the substantial and honored pioneers of the county and passed the closing years of his life in the village of Hopedale. Ins children were seven In number— Elizabeth, John D., Deborah, Sarah, Jane, Tabitha and Mary—and the family name of his wife was Delaney.
As a young man John D. Galbraith engaged in independent farm enterprise in Green Township. but in 1858 removed to Jefferson County. In the autumn of 1861 he removed thence to Washington County, Ohio, where he became a successful farmer and where he remained during the rest of his active career. He passed the closing period of his life in Jefferson County, where he died in June, 1901, at .a venerable age. His first wife died in 1857, and later he wedded Elizabeth Aiken. The four children of the first marriage were James A., John A., Isabel (Mrs. William Long) and Lavinia. David was the one child of the second marriage. John D. Galhraith and both his first and second wives were members of the Presbyterian Church.
James A. Galbraith acquired his early education in the schools of Harrison, Jefferson and Washington counties, and as a young man hegan working by the month as a farm hand. Finally he became associated with his brother, John A., in the purchase of a farm of eighty acres in Athens County, but about two years later he returned to Harrison County. where he has since maintained his residence. On the 4th of November, 1875, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Amanda McKee, daughter of James and Sarah (Lewis) McKee, and in the spring of 1880 they established their residence on their present fine homestead farm of 143 acres in Archer Township. Their only child is Ralph E., whose name initiates this review. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith and their son hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cadiz. where the latter's wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which she was reared. Both father and son are to he designated as stalwart supporters of the principles and policies of the republican party. Mrs. Amanda (McKee) Galbraith was born in .Green Township, Harrison County, on the 14th of October, 1847. the eighth in order of birth of the twelve children born to James and Sarah (Lewis) McKee. James McKee was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 11th of February, 1811, a son of Robert and Rachel (Wills) McKee, who came from Pennsylvania and became early settlers in Harrison County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Their religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. James McKee became one of the successful farmers of Green Township, where his death occurred on the 8th of May. 1886, his widow surviving him by a number of years. Mrs. McKee was a daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Canby) Lewis, who came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1829, and who here passed the residue of their lives.
Ralph E. Galbraith has remained with his parents on the old homestead farm from the time of his birth to the present, and here he has found ample opportunity for the exerting of his energies and the employing of his ability in connection with farm industry, he and his father having maintained a partnership alliance in the operation of the farm since 1907, and the combination of long experience on the part of
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the father, a man of mature judgment, and the youthful vigor and progressiveness of the son having proved specially effective in the co-ordinating and successful directing of the various departments of farm enterprise.
On the 19th of June, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Ralph E. Galbraith to Miss Mary V. Adams, who likewise was born, reared and educated in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Clark and Dora (Copeland) Adams. Adequate record concerning the Adams family appears on other pages of this work, in the sketch of the career of Roy H. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith have no children.
CERAL ARNOLD ORIN. It has been proved that practical industry, wisely and vigorously applied, seldom fails of success. It carries the individual onward and upward, brings out his individual character and acts as a powerful stimulus to others. The most effective results of life are obtained through simple means and the exercise of common sense, perseverance and well- directed effort. In the field of daily activity one of the men of Carroll County who has won an enviable success is Ceral Arnold Orin, proprietor of a general store at New Harrisburg. He was born at New Harrisburg in 1892, a son of Cassius and Melissa (Holmes) Orin.
Until he was eighteen years old he attended the local schools and then took the summer term in the teachers' course at Scio College. Following this he became connected with the K-W Ignitor Company of Cleveland, Ohio, to learn the electrical business, and when he left after four years he was coil tester. Returning to the homestead, he conducted the general store his father had owned for seventeen years, aud which at the death of the father in 1905 was taken over by Mr. Orin's sister, Mary Viola. She was the wife of James Long. but died in 1917, when Mr. Orin became the proprietor, and he has conducted it ever since with the exception of the time he spent in the army.
Under the selective draft Mr. Orin was called into the service of the United States Army June 26, 1918, at Carrollton, Ohio, and sent to Camp Sherman, where he was placed in the Twenty- Second Regiment of the Sixth Training Battalion. One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, July 26, 1918. On August 1 of that year he was placed in Company C, Three Hundred and Ninth Ammunition Train, and sent to Cleveland, Ohio, and thence by army trucks to New York City, sailing from that port by the northern route to 'Port Sidney, Halifax, Nova Scotia. After two days there the command was sent to Liverpool, England, and spent a week at Knotty Ash Camp, from whence it was transferred to Havre, France. Following a week there Mr. Orin's unit was stationed at different French towns, finally going to Bourdeaux, where the men were engaged in the dangerous work of hauling ammunition, Mr. Orin being a wagoner, and was so serving at the time of the signing of the armistice. In February, 1919. he sailed from Bordeaux, France, for New York City, landing at Hoboken, and from there was sent on to Camp Sherman and honorably discharged February 14, 1919. Returning home he resumed operating his store.
In August, 1919, Mr. Orin was united in marriage with Helen Snook, a daughter of Benjamin and Cora (Haynam) Snook, of Columbiana County, Ohio, prominent people of that region. In politics Mr. Orin is a republican. His religious convictions find expression in the creed of the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the American Legion at Carrollton. The forethought, sound judgment and enterprise which form the elemental strength of Mr. Orin's character have brought him to a well-earned prosperity, although he is yet numbered among the young business men of his neighborhood.
WESLEY MCCOMBS is one of the venerable native sons of Harrison County and has been long and successfully identified with farm industry. He still has the general supervision of his excellent farm in Stock Township, and is a sterling citizen who is well entitled to representation in this history. He was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 22d of October, 1844, and is a son of the late Joseph and Jane (Tipton) McCombs. That the family was founded in the county in the early pioneer 'era needs no further voucher than the statement that his father likewise was born and reared in Archer Township, where he became a successful farmer, as had been his father, who here reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds. Joseph McCombs and his wife were venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of their deaths, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Wesley McCombs gained his early education in what was known as the McCoy schoolhouse in Archer Township, and later continued his studies in one of the district schools of Stock Township. In the latter township he initiated his independent farm enterprise when he was a young man, and the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing have enlisted his effective co-operation during the long intervening years. He is the owner of a valuable landed estate of 221 acres, and for more than a quarter of a century has resided on his present homestead farm in North Township. He has been influential in local affairs, served eight years as trustee of Stock Township and three years as assessor of that township. Both he and his wife are representative members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, in which he served many years as a trustee.
On the 7th of July, 1870, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCombs to Miss Emma Jane Campbell, daughter of the late Sylvester Campbell, and of this union the four surviving children are here mentioned: Harry married Miss Ida Huterly and they reside at Carnegie, Pennsylvania; Laura is the wife of William Homer Henderson. subject of a personal sketch following this; Beatty has the active charge of the old home farm; and Earl married Miss Mary Snyder, their one child being a son, Allen.
WILLIAM H. HENDERSON has resided continuously, save for a period of twelve years during which he was engaged in the photographic business at Scio, on the old homestead farm which
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was the place of his birth. This place, comprising 130 acres, is one of the valuable farms of North Township, Harrison County, and its owner was here born on the 7th of November, 1859, a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this township. John Henderson, grandfather of William Homer Henderson of this review, was born in Ireland and was sixteen years old at the time of the family immigration to America. He was reared to manhood in Maryland, after having run away from his parents and the other members of the family, who did not gain trace of him till many years later. This independent youth finally went to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he formed the acquaintance of a daughter of George Henderson, who was of Scotch lineage. This young woman became his wife, she having been a girl at the time of her parents' death and having received from them a goodly heritage of property. From Maryland the young couple removed to Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1816, when they came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became pioneer settlers in Rumley Township, where Mr. Henderson secured a large tract of land and reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds. On this frontier homestead he continued to reside until his death, in February, 1862, and his widow passed away May 13, 1877. They became the parents of four sons and seven daughters, and all but one of the number attained to years of maturity, the while nearly all continued their residence in Harrison County after establishing homes of their own.
James Henderson, son of John, was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1813, and was about four years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, Ohio, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and afforded the advantages of the primitive schools of the period. As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he became a specially skillful workman. Though he developed one of the excellent farms of North Township, he continued for many years to give more or less attention to the work of his trade. He and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of him the following appreciative estimate has been written: "Kind of heart and genial in disposition, he was an agreeable companion and excellent neighbor. He was noted for his great hospitality in his home, and his kindness to the poor and his sympathy for those in atfliction or distress knew no limit. He was always ready to help in time of need."
In October, 1838, was solemnized the marriage of James Henderson to Miss Susannah McClintock, of Monroe Township, she having been a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fisher) McClintock, whose marriage was solemnized in Harrison County. Mr. McClintock was a child at the time of his parents' immigration from Ireland to the United States. He developed one of the excellent pioneer farms of Monroe Township, and there he and his wife remained until their deaths. their children having been ten in number. Mr. McClintock was a member of the Presbyterian Church and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which she was reared. Her parents were early settlers of Harrison County. James Henderson remained on his farm until his death, on the 1st of November, 1889, and his widow survived until the year 1893. Concerning their children the following brief record is consistently entered: John C. was one of the representative farmers of North Township at the time of his death in December, 1918, his birth having occurred July 21, 1839; Thomas M. died in the year 1873; Alexander served as a member of an Ohio regiment under enlistment for a term of one hundred days in the Civil war. Elizabeth Jane, who became the wife of John Lyle, died in 1918; George died in the year 1903; Lovina became the wife of John R. McCauley and is now deceased; Barbara is the wife of Dr. Judson T. Beall; Henry W. died in the year 1867; and William Homer, subject of this review, is the youngest of the number.
William Homer Henderson gained his early education in the public schools of Hanover, which village is situated near the old home farm on which he was born and reared and on which he now resides. Here he has been continously identified with agricultural and live-stock industry from his early youth save for a period of twelve years devoted to the photographic business in the village of Seto, this county. He keeps the farm of 130 acres up to high standard and is one of the highly esteemed citizens of his native county. He is a democrat in politics and served two years as trustee of North Township. For fully a quarter of a century he has served as an elder of the Ridge Presbyterian Church, in which he and his wife are zealous and influential members.
November 12, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Laura McCombs, daughter of Wesley McCombs, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have one child, Emma Almeda.
CHARLES A. SCOTT owns and give his active supervision to one of the fine• farm estates of Harrison County, the same comprising 220 acres and being eligibly situated adjacent to the village of Germano, German Township, Harrison County. In that village Mr. Scott has an attractive home, and his is secure vantage-ground as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native county. He is a brother of Bingham C. Scott, in whose personal sketch, on other pages of this work, may be found adequate record of the honored family of which they are popular representatives.
Charles A. Scott was born at Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, on the 28th of March, 1881, and is a son of Allen Will and Bertha Jane (Croskey) Scott. He gained his early education in the excellent public schools of his native town and those of Germano, to which village his parents removed in 1895. He remained at the parental home until his marriage, in the autumn of 1903, and within one year thereafter he purchased a farm of 170-19/50 acres, known as the old John Gault farm in
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German Township. He remained on this place until 1916, when he sold the property to the Apex Coal Company and purchased his present fine farm adjoining the village of Germano. Here he follows the most progressive policies in modern agriculture of diversified order, and in the live-stock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the breeding and raising of registered Aberdeen-Angus cattle. He is a republican in political allegiance is affrliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Unionport, and he and his wife hold memhership in the United Presbyterian Church at New Jefferson.
On the 28th of October, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Margaret Johnson, daughter of John B. and Nettie Johnson, of German Township, and they have a tine family of five children—John Will, Martha Jane, Bertha Margaret, Charles Allen, Jr., and Harry Dean. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are popular figures in the representative social activities of their home community.
EDWARD H. BUSBY. The necessarily circumscribed limitations of this publication render it inexpedient to give dual entry of family records, and in the present connection this is avoided by directing attention to the ample family data appearing on other pages, in the sketch of John Bushy, brother of him whose name initiates this paragraph.
Edward H. Busby holds prestige as one of the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in German Township, Harrison County, and his secure hold upon communal confidence and esteem is indicated by the fact that he is now serving as township trustee, the duties of which office he assumed in 1919. He was born in Archer Township, this county, July 10, 1858, and is a son of Martin V. and Belinda (Healey) Busby. The district schools of his native township afforded him his early education, and he continued to be associated with the activities of the old home farm until his marriage, in 1878, as well as for a year thereafter. For the next six years he gave his attention primarily to the operation of a saw mill and a threshing machine, and the ensuing three years found him in sturdy service as a locomotive fireman on the Panhandle Railroad. Since his retirement from railroad work he has followed farm enterprise successfully and vigorously—in Archer, Green and German townships. His residence in German Township has covered a period of twenty years, and here he is now farming on rented land, as the year 1918 was marked by his selling his excellent farm of 117 acres, to the coal company which is conducting mining operations in German Township. In his operations as an agriculturist and stock- grower Mr. Busby is utilizing, in 1920, a tract of ahout 162 acres, and he has prestige as one of the substantial representatives of these basic industries in his native county. He is a democrat in politics and, as already noted, is serving as trustee of German Township. He is also trustee and steward of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he and his wife are zealous and honored members.
In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Busby to Miss Letitia Dudgeon, daughter of William and Anna Jane (Weir) Dudgeon, of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Busby have four children: Laura Bell is the wife of William Dennison; Blanche Anna is the wife of Bnrton P. Myers of this county, and they have three children—Venus, Jay Clark and Edward; Mary is the wife of Alonzo Tipton, and they have four children—Beatrice, Fred, Gayl and Hazel; Frank, a prosperous farmer in German Township, married Miss Bessie Moffett and they have three children—Duane, Donald and Glenn Franklin.
ELMER E. HENRY is staging his vigorous and successful enterprise on a well improved farm of ninety-six acres in Archer Township, Harrison County, and has made for himself a secure place as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county. He was born in Athens Township, this county, where he was reared to adult age and received the advantages of the district schools. As a young man he left the parental homestead farm and found employment as a farm hand in his native township. Later he was similarly engaged in Archer Township, and in the late '90s he purchased sixty-six acres of his present farm and instituted his independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. His ability and energy brought success to him and he eventually purchased an adjoining tract of thirty acres, so that his admirable farm now comprises ninety-six acres, as previously noted in this paragraph. He is alive to all that touches the welfare of the community and is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. His political support is given to the republican party and he is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
Elmer E. Henry was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, on the 5th of January, 1862, and is a son of Nicholas S. and Mary (Thompson) Henry, the latter being a daughter of Thomas Thompson, a sterling pioneer citizen of Harrison County. As a young man Nicholas S. Henry followed the carpenter's trade„ in which he was a skilled workman, and later he turned his attention to farm enterprise in Athens Township, where abundant success attended his well ordered activities. He and his wife became the parents of ten children, namely: Martha, William T., Ebenezer S., Thomas H., Elmer E., Maggie, Caroline, Rachel, Mary Ann and Margaret.
The year 1897 recorded the marriage of Elmer E. Henry to Miss Flora Smylie, who was born and reared in Archer Township and who was a representative of one of the old and influential pioneer families of Harrison County. She was a daughter of John and Julia A. (Cox) Smylie, both of whom likewise were born in Harrison County, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days. John Smylie was born in Archer Township November 9, 1826, a son of William and Rachel (Borland) Smylie. William Smylie was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1794, and was a son of David and Sarah Jane (Coon) Smylie,
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who were born and reared in Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in the latter part of the seventeenth century.- David Symlie followed his trade, that of tailor, during the period of his residence in Washington County, Pennsylvania, whence he removed to Westmoreland County, that state, where the family home was maintained until 1815, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became a pioneer citizen of Cadiz, the present county seat. Here he died on the 13th of September, 1843, and his wife survived him by only a few days. William Smylie learned the trade of blacksmith, which he continued to follow more than thirty years. He remained in Pennsylvania until 1825, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased a small farm in Archer Township. He later purchased another farm of 180 acres in the same township. and there he remained until 1855, when he numbered himself among the pioneer settlers of Washington County, Iowa, where he acquired an entire section of land and where his death occurred in 1858, his widow there passing away in March, 1875. They became the parents of a fine family of fourteen children.
John Smylie became one of the most successful exponents of farm industry in Harrison County, and he was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Archer Township at the time of his death. He was a democrat, was called upon to serve in local offices of public trust, including that of township trustee, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their eight children Flora, wife of the subject of this review, was the seventh in order of birth. Mrs. Smylie was a daughter of George and Sarah (Titus) Cox, who were early settlers in Harrison County and who here remained until their deaths, Mr. Cox having been one of the early superintendents of the county infirmary and farm and having become the owner of a large and valuable farm property in Archer Township. George Cox was born in New Jersey in 1784, and his father, Richard Cox, was a native of Holland, he having first settled in New Jersey and having later become a very early settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he acquired land and developed a farm. On a part of his old homestead is situated the city of Steubenville, the judicial center of that county.
Mrs. Elmer E. Henry died in January, 1921, leaving one son, Donald S., who was born on the 17th of August. 1902, and who is a student in the Cadiz High School, class of 1922.
ANDREW J. DAVIS, was one of the venerable and highly honored native sons of Carroll County at the time of his death, June 19, 1919, and he passed virtually his entire life on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth in Monroe Township. He was a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the county, his paternal grandfather, David, having been born and reared in Wales and having first established his residence in Pennsylvania upon coming to the United States. From the old Keystone State he came in an early day to Ohio, and was one of the substantial farmers and highly esteemed pioneer citizens of Carroll County at the time of his death. Of his two children the elder was David and the younger was George, father of the subject of this memoir. George Davis was born and reared in Monroe Township, Carroll County, and here continued his active association with farm industry until the close of his life. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Ellen Kale, and both were in advanced years at the time of their deaths. George Davis was one of the success. ful farmers of Monroe Township, and of his old homestead the farm later owned by his son Andrew J., of this memoir, was a part.
Andrew Jackson Davis was born January 12, 1841, and thus he was seventy-eight years of age when he passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. He was the younger of the two sons of his parents, was reared to the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the farm aud gained his early education in the common schools of the locality and period. His studies were pursued in what was known as the Bu. chanan School, district No. 1, Monroe Township, and here his attendance was principally during the winter terms, when his services were not in requisition in connection with the work of the home farm. He was a man of distinctive energy and ambition, of well poised mind and of sterling integrity in all of the relations of life. He achieved worthy success through his effective alliance with farm industry, and since his death his widow continues to reside on the fine old homestead farm of 162 acres on rural mail route No. 3 from the city of Carrollton.
The year 1863 recorded the marriage of Mr. Davis to Miss Mary C. Long, who was born in Union Township, this county, March 11, 1839, a daughter of Alexander and Nancy (Scott) Long. of whose twelve children she was the sixth in order of birth. Alexander Long and his wife were born and reared in County Donegal, Ireland, and were young folk when they came to America and established their residence in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, whence they came to Ohio in the year 1832 and established their home on a pioneer farm in Union Township, Carroll County, where they passed the remainder of their lives, both having been more than eighty years of age at the time of death and both having been devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Alexander Long was a democrat in politics, was a man of strong individuality and inviolable integrity, and he left a benignant impress upon the community in which he long maintained his home and to the civic and material development and progress of which he contributed his quota. Mr. Davis is survived by two children. George Alexander, who is engaged in clerking at Bowerston. Harrison County, married Miss Leona Vasbinder. of Bowerston. and they became the parents of three children—James Lawrence who is nineteen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920; Mary, who died in Infancy, in 1902; and Mary Cora, thirteen years of age. Nancy Cora, the younger of the two children, is the wife of Raymond Homer Vasbinder, of Carrollton, and concerning their children the
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following brief record is consistently entered: Roy Davis, now twenty-six years of age, married Miss Sarah Tope, and they reside in Carrollton; Harold Samuel married Miss Florence Williams, who died in 1919 and who is survived hy one child, Irene; Mary Lois is a popular teacher in the public schools at Amsterdam, Jefferson County; Nancy Ellen is the wife of Everett Saila, of Minerva, Stark County; and Perry Jackson is the youngest of the number.
Mr. Davis gave his political allegiance to the democratic party, and while never ambitious for puhlic office he took loyal interest in community affairs and was always ready to support progressive measures and enterprises tending to advance the general wellbeing of his native county. He was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Hill, as is also his widow, who, as before stated, still remains on the old home farm, where she delights to extend welcome and generous hospitality to her wide circle of friends in the county that has ever represented her home.
OLIVER H. CARMAN, in the personal sketch of whose older, and only, brother, John W., on other pages of this volume. is given adequate record concerning their parents and ancestry, was born in Salem Township. Jefferson County, Ohio, June 27, 1874, and was a lad of ten years at the time of the family removal to German Township, Harrison County. Here he was reared to manhood, his early educational discipline having been received in the Grassy Run District School in his native township and the Blue Ridge District School in German Township, Harrison County. He gained at tirst hand his knowledge of farm industry, as he early began to assist in the activities of his father's farm, with the work of which he continued to he associated until he formed an alliance with his brother in connection with the latter's general store at Carman, a postoffice hamlet maintained in connection with a coal-mining camp and established on the Carman farm. With this business he continued his connection about ten years, and on September 28. 1904, he purchased the old home farm, which comprises ninety-six and one-fourth acres and which he has made the stage of his successful operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and on which for several years past he has made a specialty of the dairy business. This is one of the fine farms of German Township, with facilities and improvements of modern type. Mr. Carman pays loyal allegiance to the republican party, though he has manifested no desire to enter the turbulent course of practical politics, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 11th of November, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Carman to Miss Nannie M. Graham, who was born and reared near East Springfield, Jefferson County, and who is a daughter of John C. and Ruth (Stewart) Graham. Mr. and Mrs. Carman have one child, Ruth Hobson, who is a popular figure in the social activities of the young folk of the home community and also is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Unionport, Ohio.
MILTON M. SHIELDS is another of the native sons of Harrison County who has expressed his appreciation of its advantages and attractions by continuous residence within its borders, save for a period of five years marked by his engagement in farm enterprise in Belmont County, and he is now one of the substantial representatives of agricultural and live-stock industry in Short Creek Township, where he is the owner of a well improved farm of 104 acres. In the past few 3-ears
Mr. Shields has extended his activities by dealing in cattle, horses and sheep, of which he has become a successful buyer and shipper.
Mr. Shields was born in Short Creek Township on the 24th of September, 1861. and is a son of Joseph and Lucinda (Ruth) Shields, the former of whom was born in Chester County, New Jersey, March 22, 1825, and the latter was born and reared in Harrison County, Ohio, where her father, Parker Ruth. was a pioneer settler. Joseph Shields was a son of Benoni and Lydia (Woodward) Shields, the former of whom was born August 6, 1780, and the latter on the 16th of September, 1782. Their marriage was solemnized in their native State of New Jersey, whence in 1829 they came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where they remained on their old home farm until the close of their long and useful lives. They became the parents of eleven children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded: William, 1804; James, 1806; Sarah, 1808; Eli, 1812; Mary, 1813; Eleanor, 1815; Thomas, 1818; Alice, 1820; Lydia, 1822 ; Joseph, 1825; and Jackson, 1827. These dates show that all of the children were born prior to the family migration to Ohio.
Joseph Shields was about four years old when the family home was established on the pioneer farm in Short Creek Township, where he was reared to manhood and where he continued his active alliance with farm enterprise until the close of his life. He was the owner of a good farm of 160 acres at the time of his death, which occurred June 16, 1880. The maiden name of his first wife was Martha Stires, she having been a daughter of John Stires, another pioneer settler of Harrison County. Mrs. Shields died in the year 1854, as did also her first two children—John and Sarah Emily, and the one child who attained to years of maturity was the youngest of the three Cynthia Eleanor. Mrs. Lucinda (Ruth) Shields, the second wife of Joseph Shields, died in the year 1905. Both were active members of the United Presbyterian Church at Adena. They became the parents of nine children—Joseph E., Milton M., Thomas, William T., Clayton, Anna, Lizzie, Jennie and Hannah,
Milton M. Shields has reason to look back with satisfaction on the benignant influences that compassed his childhood and early youth. He was reared on the home farm and made good use of the advantages afforded in the dis-
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trict schools of Short Creek Township, within whose borders he initiated his independent career as a farmer. Here he has been continuously engaged in farm industry from his youth to the present time, except for the five years passed in Belmont County, as previously noted. He has neither time nor inclination for the activities of practical politics or the honors of public office. but is a loyal supporter of the principles of the democratic party and is progressive in his attitude as a citizen.' His wife holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On December 11, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shields to Miss Phoebe J. Wright, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of William and Elizabeth Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Shields have five children: Chester married Miss May Bennett and they now reside at Caton, Stark County; Dora is the wife of Dallas McCue, of Harrison County: Veda is the wife of Leslie Fox, and they reside in the City of Akron, Ohio; Halford married Miss Irene Stephens, and operates a garage at Georgetown, Harrison County; and Faye is the wife of Raymond Braumbaugh, of Akron, Summit County.
CHARLES H. POLEN now resides in the Village of Germano, German Township, Harrison County, but continues to give his active supervision to his well improved farm about two miles distant from the village mentioned, and in addition to his successful farm enterprise has for a number of years devoted attention to the buying and shipping of live stock. He is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the Buckeye State and was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County. on the 25th of November, 1847. He is a son of William and Sarah Jane (Wallace) Polen, the former of whom was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 16, 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in the 3d of June of the same year, she having been a daughter of William Wallace and the family name of her mother having been Hamilton. William Wallace was born in Scotland and his wife in County Glare, Ireland. They became early settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where Mr. Wallace reclaimed and developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their religious faith having been that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of eight children—James, Hamilton, William, George Washington, Hugh, Elizabeth, Anna and Sarah Jane.
William Polen, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was born and reared in Loudoun County, Virginia, and the family name of his wife was Pegg. They were numbered among the early pioneer settlers in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where Mr. Polen obtained Government land and reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds, this old homestead having remained in the possession of the Polen family until about 1905, and eighty acres of the tract being still retained in the family. William Polen and his wife were zealous mem bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and they endured with fortitude the trials and vicissitudes that ever fall to the lot of pioneers. They became the parents of ten children—John, Nathaniel, William, George, Charles, Peter, Elizabeth. Mary, Catherine and Anna.
William Polen, Jr., father of Charles H., was a boy at the time of the family removal to Jefferson County, where he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days, and where he initiated his independent activities as a farmer in Salem Township. There he remained until 1860, when he came with his family to Harrison County and settled on a farm in German Township. In 1870 he removed to Columbiana County, and there both he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having died in the year 1876 and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of a fine family of fourteen children, of whom three died in infancy. The names of the other children are here recorded: William, Martin, Thomas J., Mary Ann, Elizabeth, John, Peter, Charles H., Johnson W., Sarah Jane and Reuben.
Charles H. Polen gained his youthful education in the district schools of Salem Township, Jefferson County, and German Township, Harrison County. In the latter township he began his independent farm enterprise when a young man, and with this important line of industry he has continued his association during the long intervening years. Though he has now passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten he is still alert in mental and physical powers and takes satisfaction in giving the general supervision to his farm, from which he removed to the Village of Germano in 1906. He has followed the even tenor of his way as a man of industry and loyal citizenship, has had no desire to enter actively into political affairs, but is aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He and his wife have long been representative members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano, in which he has held the office of steward for fully thirty years and in which he served twenty years. as superintendent of the Sunday school.
On the 22d of June, 1871, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Polen to Miss Anna Bell Miser, who was born in German Township, Harrison County, and who is a daughter of the late John and Angeline (Stonesifer) Miser. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Polen: Jesse A. married Miss Margaret Groves, and they have three children —Harold, Marie and Charles A. Sarah A. remains at the parental home. John W. married Miss Eva Christwell, and they have six children—Dean, Daisy, Harry, Frank, May and Robert. Harvey, the third son, died at the age of seventeen years. Clyde died in early childhood. Grace is the wife of Milton Ingler and they have two daughters—Ruth Ella and Naomi Frances. Howard M. sacrificed his life on the altar of patriotism while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the great World war. He entered service October 6, 1917, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he
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was assigned to a depot brigade. About the 1st of November. 1917, he was transferred to Camp Pike, Arkansas. and from that camp was later transferred to Camp Green, North Carolina. In April. 1918, he was sent to Camp Mills, later he was stationed at Camp Merritt, and thence he sailed with his command for France, where he was assigned to Company E. Fifty-eighth Infantry. Fourth Division. He was killed in action on the first day of his service in the front lines at Chateau Thierry, July 18, 1918, and his name shall ever have place on the exalted roll of honor that records the names of those fine young men who gave their lives in behalf of patriotism and the cause of human liberty. He made the voyage to France on the transport "Moldavia," and it will be recalled that this vessel was torpedoed and sunk by the enemy on the voyage, the most of the soldiers on board having been transferred from the boat before it disappeared beneath the waves. Nannie L., the youngest daughter, married Ernest A. Johnson, and they reside in German Township. Archibald is still at the parental home.
FRANK M. WELSH owns and is vigorously supervising an excellent farm of sixty-eight acres lying adjacent to the old homestead farm in Archer Township, Harrison County, upon which he was born, the date of his nativity having been January 23, 1875, and due record concerning the family being given on other pages of this volume, in the sketch of the career of his father, Lyons A. Welsh.
In addition to protiting .fully by the advantages offered in the public schools of his native township Frank M. Welsh attended Scio College two years, this being one of the well ordered educational institutions of Harrison County. He continued his active association with the work and management of his father's farm for a few years after his marriage, and he then removed to his present well improved farm, upon which he is successfully engaged in agricultural and live-stock enterprise, with standing as one of the progressive and popular exemplars of farm industry in his native township. He takes loyal interest in all matters touching the community welfare, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Village of Hanover.
The year 1904 recorded the marriage of Mr. Welsh to Miss Dora Birney, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of William J. and Margaret (Barrett) Birney. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have two children—Edwin Birney and William Andrew.
JAMES LOVE was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 11th of February, 1855, and is one of the representative farmers and influential citizens of his native township, of which he has served effectively as trustee and has given equally valuable service in the office of president of the township school board. His excellent farm comprises 117 acres and is the stage of his vigorous and progressive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower.
Mr. Love is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families whose name has been closely identified with the development and progress of western-central Ohio, He is a descendant of George Love, who was born and reared in Ireland, where he married Miss Isabelle Smith. In the year 1791 he came with his family to America and established a home in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1800, when he came with his family to Ohio and became a pioneer settler in Belmont County. where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and where they endured their full share of the hardships and trials that fell to the lot of the frontier settlers. George Love was a man of strong mentality and mature judgment, became a leader in community affairs and was actively concerned in the organization of Belmont County. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his wife held membership in the Seceder Church. later known as the United Presbyterian. Concerning their children the following brief record may consistently be given: John settled in Harrison County in 1808 and was the ancestor of the subject of this review; Thomas met his death while on one of his periodical trips in connection with pioneer transportation on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; George became a farmer in Belmont County and served with distinction as an officer• in the War of 1812; William likewise assisted in the development of farm industry in this section of the state; Jane became the wife of Thomas Gillespie; Catherine married Joseph Haverfield; and Mary became the wife of Jacob Morgan.
John Love, son of George, was twenty-one years old at the time of the family immigration from Ireland to America and after coming to Ohio he married Mary, daughter of James Cooke. who was one of the earliest settlers in what is now Harrison County. After his marriage Mr. Love resided in Belmont County until 1808, when he came to Harrison County. Here he purchased a large tract of wild land in Athens Township, and he reclaimed one of the productive farms of the early days in this township. He was a man of prominence and influence in the communal life, served in various local offices of public trust, was a zealous and effective advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and both he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church. He died in March. 1860, his devoted wife having passed away December 16, 1830. They became the parents of six children—George, James C., Thomas, John, Nancy and Mary.
James C. Love, father of him whose name introduces this review, was born and reared in Athens Township, Harrison County, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Jane McFadden. Shortly afterward he engaged in farm enterprise in Archer Township, and here with the exception of a few years passed in similar occupation in Cadiz Township he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in 1876 and his widow having survived until
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1891. She was a daughter of Samuel McFadden. Of the children of James C. and Jane (McFadden) Love the first born was Samuel, who died from an attack of measles while serving as a soldier in the Civil war; John is a resident of Minnesota ; Mary, Elizabeth and Alexander are deceased; and the three younger children are George, James and Nancy Jane. The parents were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
James Love, the immediate subject of this sketch, gained his youthful education in the district schools of Archer Township. and here he initiated his independent career as a farmer. In 1882 he became a pioneer farmer in Stearns County, Minnesota, where he continued his residence until 1901, when he returned to his native township and county, where he has since continued his successful association with agricultural and live-stock industry.
The year 1882 recorded the marriage of Mr. Love to Miss Sarah Ann Merryman, daughter of the late John Merryman, of Harrison County, and they have two children: Goldie M. is the wife of Clarence Dickerson, of Archer Township: and Floy Josephine is a popular teacher in the district schools of Harrison County. Mr. Love is a democrat in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
HARVEY G. WININGS. In an enumeration of the representative farmers of Harrison County who claim the county as the place of their nativity and who have here a gracious heritage of pioneer honors a place of prominence is justly accorded to Mr. Winings, who owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm, which was the place of his birth, in German Township. Here he was born on the 28th of September, 1863, a son of Samuel S. and Phoebe (Chase) Winings, the former of whom was born in the same township April 22, 1821, and the latter was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 2c1 of May, 1826, a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Manchester) Chase. Benjamin Chase was born and reared in the State of New York, whence he came to Ohio with an ox team and became one of the early settlers in Loudon Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he and his wife reared their children to lives of usefulness and honor and where they were early and influential members of the pioneer Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of twelve children— Joseph, Asa, Gary, Harvey, Elisha, Virgil, Rutfin, Lydia Ann, Phoebe, Mary, Sarah and Libbie.
Samuel S. Winings was a son of John and Elizabeth (Snyder) Winings. John Winings was a child at the time when his parents came to Harrison County and became pioneer settlers in German Township where they passed the residue of their lives and where he was reared to manhood on the frontier farm. Here he eventually became the owner of a farm of 160 acres, to the management of which he continued to give his attention during the remainder of his active life, and there he and his wife maintained their home until their deaths, the remains of both being interred in the Zion Cemetery in German Township. They were zealous and consistent communicants of the Lutheran Church, in the faith of which they reared their children—John, William, Samuel S. and Sallie, the only daughter having remained unmarried till her death.
Samuel S. Winings passed his entire life in German Township, where he became the owner of a valuable farm of 212 acres and where he stood as an honored figure in productive industry and loyal and progressive citizenship, His death occurred on the 12th of June, 1890, and his second wife passed to the eternal rest on the 15th of September, 1898. On the 11th of August, 1842, Samuel S. Winings wedded Miss Elizabeth Beckley, who was born June 3, 1823, and who was survived by three children—Clark, Jane (Mrs. J. Henry Mills), and Rebecca (Mrs. George Mills). In February, 1854, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Phoebe Chase, and they became the parents of three children—Hannah Belle (Mrs. John W. Shultz), William A. and Harvey G. The parents were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father was a repuhlican in political affiliation.
Harvey G. Winings availed himself of the advantages of the district schools of his native township and in the meanwhile has gained valuable experience in connection with the work of the home farm, which has been the stage of his successful operations during his independent career as a progressive agriculturists and stock-grower. He is the owner of a well improved and admirably equipped farm estate of 221 acres and is a leader in farm industry in Harrison County, of whose manifold attractions and advantages he is deeply appreciative. His sterling character has gained to him unequivocal popular esteem, and his local status is such as to render impossible any application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country." He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano, of which he has served as a trustee for fully a decade. His wife likewise was a devoted member, and all of their children save the youngest holds membership in this church.
On the 2d of March, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Mary Florence Sawvel, who was born in German Towuship October 1, 1871, a daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Beckley) Sawvell. The supreme loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Winings came when his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, her death having occurred on the 5th of February, 1906. She is survived by six children—Ralph S., Zella Mae, Ula Vern, Albert G., Earl B. and William Donald. Ralph S. Winings, the eldest son, was one of the patriotic young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military service in the World war. He entered service April 2, 1918, and at Camp Sherman was as-
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signed to Company K, Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, Eighty-third Division. May 25, 1915, he left the Ohio camp and was transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and on the 12th of the following month embarked with his command on a Government transport that in due time disembarked the troops in Liverpool. England. He passed five days at Winchester, England, and landed in France on the 1st of July. There he was transferred to Company F, One Hundred and Third Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division, and on the 12th of September he arrived at the front-line trenches. He "went over the top" that same morning, on the St. Mihiel sector, and continued in active service at the front until the 14th of that month. He was absent froth the front one week and after his return was eventually transferred to the Verdun front. He endured the full tension that marked the conflict between the opposing forces and after the signing of the armistice he remained in France until February 24. 1919, when he sailed for home. He landed in the port of New York City on the 7th of March, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio. he received his honorable discharge on the 5th of April. He is now at the parental home. and his military record is one that will ever reflect honor upon his name and upon the county and state which he represented. Zella Mae. the elder daughter of Harvey G. Winings, married December 23. 1920. Robert Curtis Roof, and they reside with Mr. Winings. Fla V.. second (laughter, is the wife of John M. Jones, and they reside at Hamlin. Pennsylvania. The other children remain at the paternal home.
WILLIAM A. WININGS is the only brother of Harvey 0. Winings. in whose personal sketch. immediately preceding this. are given ample data concerning the family history. Mr. Winings, like his brother, is numbered among the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in German Township, Harrison County. where he owns and gives characteiistically effective management to his fine farm of 206 acres.
Mr. Winings was born in German Township on the 0th of August. 1555. and his early educational advantages were those of the district schools. He early began to lend his quota of assistance in connection with the activities of the home farm, and with the same he continued his association until he purchased his present homestead place —one of the valuable farm properties of German Township. His political allegiance is given to the republican partv and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano. as was also his wife. whose death occurred January 18, 1909.
On the 17th of February, 1857. was recorded the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Jackson and Nancy (Hosterman) Smith. of German Town ship and she is survived by three children—Jesse 0., Harry S. and Nancy Phoebe. A fourth Theresa, died at the age of nine years. Harry S. Winings married Miss Mary Edna Cox and they have two children—Ernest William and Everett Harry. Jesse O. Winings, the eldest son, was one of the gallant Harrison County boys who served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the great World war, and his record in this connection has added luster to the name which he bears. He entered service September 21, 1917, and at Camp Sherman was assigned to the supply company of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry Regiment, with which command he sailed for France in June, 1918. His regiment, however, was assigned to service in Italy, where it arrived on the 7th of August, and where he continued in service until March, 1919, when he departed for his native land, his return to Camp Sherman, Ohio, having finally resulted in his receiving his honorable discharge on the 3d of July. 1919. He is now at the family home.
WINFIELD S. WRIGHT has long stood forth as a vigorous. discriminating and successful exponent of farm industry, is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of eastern central Ohio. and is today the owner of a valuable farm estate in Carroll County. the same comprising 257 acres in Monroe and Harrison townships and the attractive residence property being situated in the township first named.
Winfield Scott Wright was born in Tuscarawas County. Ohio, in the 23d of November, 1849, a son of James B. and Anna (Ickes) Wright. The genealogy on the paternal side traces back to sterling Irish origin; and Samuel Wright, grandfather of the subject of this review, was numbered among the pioneers of Tuscarawas County. Ohio. He became the owner of a tract of land near the present Village of Beaver Dam, and the locality became known as the Wright settlement. his name having been applied to the same by reason of his prominence in community .affairs. The portion of Tuscarawas County in which he established his home later became included in the new County of Carroll. and on his farm near Tabor. this county. he continued to reside until his death in 1852, his widow, whose family name was Coleman. having long survived him and having passed to the life eternal in 1870, when venerable in years. Of their four sons James B. was the third in order of birth, and he continued his active association with farm enterprise in Tuscarawas County until his death. His first wife. mother of the subject of this sketch. died on the 5th of January, 1880, and of their seven children Winfield S. was the fourth in order of birth. By the father's second marriage were born three sons and one daughter.
Winfield S. Wrigbt early gained close fellowship with the activities of the old home farm and his youthful education was acquired in the rural schools of bis native county. He continued his association with the work of his father’s farm until the time of his marriage, when he was twenty-seven years of age,. and then established his residence in the Village of Dellroy. Carroll County. and found employment in the coal mines in that locality. He continued to be thus engaged six years. and then