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purchased forty acres of his present landed estate. On this place he initiated the progressive activities through which he has achieved substantial and worthy prosperity, the best evidence of which is offered in his present ownership of one of the large and valuable farm properties of the county. The buildings on the place are of excellent order and all were erected by him. Mr. Wright has brought to bear splendid energy and progressive policies in farm enterprise, and thus his success has been of unequivocal order. He has taken loyal interest in all things touching the communal welfare, is affiliated with the Grange at Dellroy, and his capitalistic investments are of a noteworthy order, as is evident when it is stated that he is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Carrollton; the Beam Spring Company of Massillon, Stark County; the Ohio Northern Traction Company; the Gillian Manufacturing Company at Canton, Stark County; the Chicago & Aurora Traction Company, operating one of the most important suburban electric lines in the State of Illinois; the Worthington Pump Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Middle States Rubber Company of Cleveland, Ohio; the Berger Manufacturing Company of Canton; and other corporations. He has shown marked discrimination in his various investments and is the holder of Government bonds and of bonds issued in connection with various public and corporate enterprises. He is a stalwart republican in politics and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Dellroy, to the support of which he contributes liberally.
April 8, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wright to Miss Elizabeth Robart, of Robertsville, Stark County, a village named in honor of her paternal grandfather, who was one of the first settlers in that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have two children. Nettie is the wife of John F. Leyda, of Harrison Township, and their only child is a daughter, Gladys. Annie C. is the wife of George Best, of Harrison Township, and they have two children— Lester Winfield and Paul Joseph.
CLEMENT E. MILLER has exercised with marked circumspection and progressiveness his functions as one of the constructive representatives of farm industry in his native county, and in German Township, Harrison County, he owns and resides upon the old homestead farm which figures as the place of his nativity. Here he was born on the 14th of June, 1863, and he is a scion of a family that was founded in this county more than a century ago, when this section of the Buckeye State was virtually a forest wilderness. John Miller, the original ,representative of this family in Harrison County, came here from his native State of Maryland, in the year 1806, and in Rumley Township he reclaimed from the forest a productive farm, he having been the owner of an estate of 215 acres at the time of his death in 1836. His nine children were: Daniel, David, John, Jr., Jacob, Joseph, Catherine, Hannah, Polly and Sarah. Of these children Daniel, grandfather of Clement E. Miller of this review, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1788, and thus was a youth of about eighteen years at the time of the family removal to Harrison County in 1806. In 1817 he married Susannah Lowmiller, who was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and whose parents, John and Catherine (Long) Lowmiller. became in 1800 early settlers in Harrison County, Ohio. Daniel Miller acquired a large and valuahle farm property in Rumley and German Townships, and was one of the substantial and influential citizens of the county at the time of his death, his widow having been more than ninety-five years of age when she passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. They had ten children— Catherine. Elizabeth, Sarah, John, Henry, Susannah, Rebecca, Margaret, Abigail and Eliza J.
John Miller, son of Daniel and Susannah (Lowmiller) Miller, was born in German Township, this county, on the 22d of February, 1822, the place of his advent in the world having been a log house of the pioneer type. He continued to be associated in the work of the home farm until the death of his father in 1854, and eventually he became one of the most successful exponents of farm industry in his native county as the owner of a large and valuahle landed estate, including the fine old homestead now owned by his son Clement E., of this review. He was influential in local affairs of public order, served in various township offices, was a democrat in politics and both he and his wife were communicants of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Miller died at the age of eighty- four years and his wife at the age of eighty- nine years. They became the parents of eleven children: Oscar B., Rebecca Margaret, Henry A., Andrew B. (individually mentioned on other pages of this work), Daniel D. (a clergyman of the Lutheran Church), Samuel H. became a member of the faculty of Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, John 0., Joseph M., Clemeut E., Clayton L. and Jessie L. On the 1st of May, 1849, was solemnized the marriage of John Miller to Miss Susannah Mikesell, who was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, February 15, 1824, a daughter of Peter and Mary A. (Long) Mikesell, pioneers who came to the county in 1800 from Frederick County, Maryland, and thus it is to be seen that the subject of this sketch is a representative of fine pioneer stock in both the paternal and maternal lines.
Clement E. Miller was reared under virtually the same conditions and influences as other farm boys of his day and generation, and his early education was obtained mainly in district school No. 4, German Township. He has remained from the time of his birth on the old home farm, which comprises 166 67/100 acres in the portion owned by him, and here he has been engaged in independent and successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower since the year 1906. He is one of the county's leaders in the breeding and raising of pure- blood and registered Poland-China swine, and in all departments of his farm industry he gains
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the maximum returns, owing to his progressiveness and mature judgment, as combined with his long and practical experience, His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are active communicants of the Lutheran Church at New Jefferson.
On the 26th of March, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Mary Elizabeth Rutledge, who was born and reared in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Mahala (Skelley) Rutledge, both likewise natives of that township, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. Thomas Rutledge was one of the prosperous farmers and influential citizens of his native township and county at the time of his death, in 1905, aged seventy-eight years, and his widow passed away June 5, 1915, at the venerable age of eighty-five years. They were devout communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church and four of their sons are clergymen in that denomination. Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge became the parents of nine children: James A. and Caleb H. are ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Margaret Jane is deceased; William A. and John S. are Methodist clergymen, and the latter has given effective service as president of the Anti-saloon League in the City of Cleveland; Bert M. is a resident of Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Miller) was the next in order of birth; Franklin P. resides on the old home farm of his parents in Jefferson County; and Myra R. married Howard Copeland, and they reside in Jewett, Ohio.
HARRY M. MILLIKEN is one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-raisers of the younger generation in his native county, where he owns fifty acres in Cadiz Township, this constituting his homestead place, and eighty-eight acres in the adjoining township of Nottingham. He is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Harrison County, and thus by ancestry as well as by reason of his individual standing in his native county he is specially entitled to recognition in this history.
Mr. Milliken was born in Nottingham Township August 22, 1885. His father, William Milliken, was born in Cadiz Township in the year 1838, his entire life having been passed in Harrison County, where he was continuously identified with farm industry,—in Cadiz and Nottingham Townships. He was the owner of a valuable farm property of 187 acres at the time of his death, on December 13, 1916, his wife having passed away in 1889. He was a son of Michael Milliken, who was born in Green Township, this county, October 25, 1812, when this section of the Buckeye State was mainly a forest wilderness. He was a son of John and Hannah (Karbaugh) Milliken, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized. Mark Milliken, father of John, was a native of England and was a young man when he came to America and established his home in Pennsylvnia. In the old Keystone State John Milliken learned the shoemaker's trade, and this he found of much value after he and his young wife became pioneer settlers in Harrison County, Ohio, where Mr. Milliken first settled on a tract of wild land in Green Township, whence in 1815 he removed to the farm which later was owned and occupied by their son Michael. Here John Milliken died in 1856, at the age of seventy-nine years, his wife having passed away at the age of sixty years. In 1838 Michael Milliken was united in marriage to Charity Day, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and they passed the remainder of their lives on their old homestead farm in Cadiz Township, Mr. Milliken having reclaimed much of his land from the native forest. He became the owner of 248 acres of land, in Cadiz and Nottingham townships, and was one of the honored and influential men of his community. His political support was given to the whig party until the organization of the republican party, when he allied himself loyally with the latter. He and his wife were venerable in age at the time of their deaths, and of their four children, William, father of the subject of this sketch, was the eldest; John is deceased; Adeline became the wife of George Christie, and they established their home in the State of Iowa; and Hannah Margaret became the wife of Albert Rogers, a farmer of Cadiz Township.
William Milliken was reared on the home farm and secured his early education in the common schools of the locality. In his active career he well maintained the prestige of the family name through his loyalty as a citizen and his resourceful and productive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. Following their marriage he and his wife returned to Nottingham Township, where the wife died September 13, 1887. In 1891 he married Hanna (Hines) Blair, the widow of Albert Blair, and then came to Cadiz Township where he died. His widow survives. By his first marriage William Milliken became the father of three children: Lennie became the wife of Obediah K. Ourant and she is deceased; Nannie is the widow of Frank Carson; and Harry M. is the youngest of the children.
Harry M. Milliken is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his youthful education, and he was associated with his father in the work and management of the old home farm until the latter's death, his present farm property being a portion of the land formerly owned by his father. He gives his attention to well diversified agriculture and also raises excellent grades of live stock. He is a republican, but has no desire for political activity or official preferment. August 18, 1909, recorded his marriage to Miss Florence Keesey, daughter of John and Mary (Haverfield) Keesey, of Harrison County, and they have three children—Allen Scott, born May 26, 1910; Neva Elizabeth, born January 25, 1912; and John William, born February 21, 1915.
WILLIAM H. RICHEY, who is one of the prosperous and enterprising farmers of Cadiz Township, is a representative of the fourth generation of the Richey family in Harrison County, where his great-grandparents, Thomas and
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Mary (Clifford) Richey, established their modest home in a log cabin when this section of Ohio was little more than a forest wilderness. Thomas Richey and his wife were born and reared in Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to America about the tear 1795. For the first decade they maintained their residence in New York City. and they then girded themselves to face and bravely meet the trials and vicissitudes of pioneer life in the wilds of Ohio. In 1805 they made their appearance in what is now Harrison County, and at first they lived on a tract of land owned by a former neighbor in Ireland, who had induced them to come to Ohio. Within a short time Mr. Richey secured a tract of 160 acres of heavily timbered land, on which he made a clearing in the midst of the forest and provided space for the erection of his little log cabin. A man of vigor and ambition, he not only began the reclaiming of his land but also established within a comparatively short time after coming here a saw mill. This was located on his embryonic farm and was one of the first mills in the county. He developed a prosperous business in supplying rough lumber for the incoming settlers, and he was one of tbe leaders in the pioneer community. His loved and devoted wife, who shared with him in the experience of frontier life, died in 1823. at the age of fifty-three years, and he died in September of the following year, both having been earnest members of the Associated Reformed Church. Of their children two died in infancy; Mrs. Margaret Milliken was a resident of Allen County. Indiana, at the time of her death: Mary became the wife of James Haverfield and both died in Harrison County: Jane became the wife of Joseph Watson, of this county. where they remained until their deaths; Samuel passed his entire life in this county; John M.. grandfather of William H., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Sarah married Nimrod Wagers, and after his death became the wife of John Weaver, and she died in Harrison County; Thomas was a farmer in Cadiz Township until the close of his life; and Nancy was the wife of John Haverfield, a well known citizen of Harrison County.
John M. Richey was reared on the pioneer farm and profited duly by the facilities afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. As a young man he married Miss Anne Gilmore. who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Collins) Gilmore. and after their marriage they remained with George McFadden, an uncle, in whose home Mrs. Richey had been reared, until his death, when they came into possession of a farm in Cadiz Township on which Mr. Richey had been born. There they remained thirty-one years. at the expiration of which they removed to the Village of Cadiz. where the death of the loved wife and mother occurred three years later, in 1880. Mr. Richey survived her. He was a democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of ten children: Mary became the wife of Samuel McFadden. and her death occurred in her native county; Ruth married Craig Gilmore, and they established their home in Illinois; George died young; Eliza Jane married Samuel McFadden, of Cadiz Township; Arabella became the wife of James McFadden, of the same township; Thomas J. is a success ful farmer in that township; Robert Gilmore married Susan C. Dickerson, and they removed to the State of Missouri; Samuel was the next in order of birth; Martha, whose twin died in infancy, became the wife of John Osburn, of Archer Township, and in her home her venerable father passed the closing years of his life.
Samuel Richey was born in Cadiz Township March 24, 1850, and was there reared to manhood on the farm of his father, the late John M. Richey, his educational advantages having been those of the district schools. September 10, 1873. he wedded Miss Martha M. Hedges, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Rowley) Hedges, of Cadiz Township, and in the following year they established their home on the form in Cadiz Township which is their present place of residence, within a comparatively short distance from Cadiz, the county seat. Mr. Richey has long been numbered among the substantial farmers and influential citizens of Cadiz Township. and is now president of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Harrison County. He is a stalwart in the local camp of the democratic party, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, of which he is an elder. Their home is one-half a mile northwest of that city, on the Moravian road. and their substantial brick residence was erected in 1838 by Thomas Henderson, the former owner of the well improved farm. Mr. and Mrs. Richey have but one child, William H.
William H. Richey was born on the old homestead farm in Cadiz Township, which was the birthplace of hts paternal grandfather. and the date of his nativity was April 3, 1875. He duly availed himself of the advantages of the puhlic schools of his native county, and in the meauwhile gained valuable experience in connection with the productive activities of his father's farm, with the work and management of which he continued his association until 1892. wheu he engaged in the livery business at Cadiz. He continued this enterprise six years. and he theu removed to a farm not far distant from that which he now owns and occupies. To the latter farm, of 125 acres, Cadiz Township. he removed in 1903. and here he is successfully giving his attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of live stock, with preference given to sheep. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, but he has had no ambition for political preferment, his community attitude being that of a progressive aud public-spirited citizen. He and his wife hold memhership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
On the 20th of January. 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Riches to Miss Emma Dickerson. who likewise was born and reared Iu Harrison County and who is a representative of another of the sterling pioneer families of
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this favored section of the Buckeye State. Mr. and Mrs. Richey became the parents of three children: Donald R., who was born January 8, 1898, died on the 30th of July, 1905; Martha Elizabeth, who was born August 5, 1902, was graduated in the Cadiz High School as a member of the class of 1920; and Samuel D., who was born May 18, 1912, is attending school in the home district.
JOHN M. ELLIOTT has every reason to take pride in his fine homestead farm, and is the fortunate owner of a landed estate of 400 acres in Monroe Township; Carroll County, and his is secure vantage place as one of the progressive and representative exponents of farm industry in his native county. His farm is situated one-half a mile distant from the Village of Dellroy, which is his postoffice address.
Mr. Elliott was born in Rose Township, this county, on the 3d of August, 1860, and is a son of James Blaine Elliott and Mary (Wilson) Elliott, both likewise natives of this county. Aaron Elliott, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, and was there reared and educated. When ten years old he embarked on a sailing vessel at Londonderry, Ireland, and voyaged across the Atlantic ocean to the port of New York City with his mother and family. Thence he proceeded to Philadelphia and later to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he remained a few years. In 1817 he came to Carroll County, Ohio, and became one of its sterling pioneer settlers, where he instituted the reclamation and development of a farm of 163 acres, a Government claim, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, his death having occurred in 1857. Of the family of two sons and five daughters James B. was the youngest, and he passed his entire life on the old home farm in Rose Township which was the place of his birth. He was one of the honored pioneer citizens and representative farmers of the county at the time of his death, in 1897, when sixty-five years of age, and his widow attained to the venerable age of eighty. seven years, she having passed to the life eternal in 1917. They became the parents of three sons and one daughter and John M. of this review was the third in order of birth, The parents were earnest members of the Pres. hyterian Church and the father was a republican in his political proclivities.
John M. Elliott passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm, assisted in its work during the summer seasons and attended the district school during the winter terms until he was fourteen years of age. Thereafter he continued his studies in a well ordered select school in the Village of Dellroy until he had attained to the age of eighteen years. Thereafter he completed a short course in the Hagerstown Academy, and he put his acquirements to practical test by teaching one year in the district school at Mingo, Prairie Township. He taught the next year in the Willow Run District School in Harrison Township, and his successful peda-
gogic career included also one year of service in a district school in Rose Township. After his marriage, in 1883, he continued to be engaged in farm enterprise on the old homestead until 1898, and in the meanwhile utilized eighty acres of the place in his operations. From this nucleus, with the increasing financial prosperity that has marked his course as a vigorous and progressive representative of farm enterprise, he has gradually added to his holding until he now has a valuable property of 400 acres, all well improved and devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent types of live stock, Mr. Elliott is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton, and as one of the popular and substantial citizens of his community he has been called upon to serve as trustee of Mon. roe Township and as a member of the School Board of his district. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party and has always been ready to lend his co-operation in the furtherance of enterprises projected for the general good of his home community and native county.
The year 1883 recorded the marriage of Mr Elliott to Miss Margaret D. Davis, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, a daughter of William and Harriet (Parr) Davis, of Monroe Township. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott: Raymond Davis, who was born in 1886, is now a resident of Whittier, California. Lorin S. married Miss Zella Pearl Brown, who died in April, 1916. Their two children are Arthur Francis and Margaret Esther. Winona is the wife of Ralph Downes, of Magnolia, Carroll County, and they have two children—Genevieve and Margaret Ellen. Paul, the youngest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, has to his honor a splendid record of service in connection with the nation's participation in the late World war. He entered service at Carrollton on the 29th of April, 1918, and after having passed three weeks at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he became a private in the Headquarters Company of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second United States Infantry. On the 8th of June, 1918, he sailed with his command for the stage of conflict. He landed at Liverpool, England, and proceeded thence to Southampton, and he arrived at Havre, France, on the 17th of June. His initial training and service in France was in the Chaumont district, and there he was assigned to the Regimental Band, the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry having become a part of the Eighty- third Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. The regiment was sent to Turin, Italy, and thence to Verona, and it then proceeded with the forces sent to repel the Austrians in Trentino, in which district he remained until October 24, 1918. It next participated in the great Treviso drive against the Austrians, and in this action the command marched 100 miles in ten days, crossing the Piave River to Undine in Austrian Baden. After this expedition the regiment was sent to Montaigne, France, and finally it returned to Treviso, where it was sta-
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tioned at the time of receiving news of the signing of the historic armistice, which brought a termination to the conflict. With his regiment Mr. Elliott then proceeded to Geneva, Italy, and on the 31st of November, 1918, the command set sail for the United States. The members landed, en route, at Gibralter, and Mr. Elliott was thus permitted to visit and view the sights of that great English stronghold. He landed in the port of New York City on the 14th of April, 1919, remained ten days in the national metropolis, and finally returned to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he was mustered out on the 5th of May, 1919. as a musician. In the Regimental Band he had played the alto born. While in Italy he made three visits to the City of Rome.—on one occasion to take part in the concert given by his Regimental Band in honor of President Wilson. and on the other two occasions to pay similar tribute to other distinguished persons, his regiment acting as escort at these notable events. The varied experiences which Paul Elliott met during the period of his 'service in Europe will ever remain as an interesting chapter in his life history, and his record of patriotic service is one that will reflect enduring honor on his name.
JEREMIAH WININGS resides upon the fine old homestead farm in German Township. Harrison County, that figured as the place of his birth. and here he has added to the family name new laurels in connection with the progressive agricultural and live-stock industry, which has here enlisted the attention of members of this family since the pioneer days. On his present farm Mr. Winings was born August 8. 1850. a son of John and Susan (Wagner) Winings, both likewise natives of German Township, where the former was born on the 26th of March. 1817. a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Baker) Winings. Jacob Winings was a son of John Winings, who came to Harrison County from Pennsylvania very early in the nineteenth century, obtained 160 acres of Government land in German Township, reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds, and here passed the residue of his life, both he and his wife having been honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of their deaths. It is interesting to record that the land which John Winings thus obtained from the Government is now a part of the fine estate owned by his great-grandson, Jeremiah Winings, subject of this review.
Jacob Winings likewise gained a full quota of experience in connection with pioneer farm enterprise in Harrison County, and after a stage line was established through this section he conducted an old-time tavern or inn en the stage highway, the same having been a popular place of entertainment for sojourners passing along the stage line. Jacob Winings and his wife were venerable in years when they passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, and their names merit place on the roll of the sterling pioneer citizens of this section of the Buckeye State. They were earnest members of the Lutheran Church. The names and respective birth dates of their children are here recorded: Jacob, October 23, 1815; John, Jr., March 26, 1817; Peggie Ann, December 18, 1819 (died in early childhood) ; Henry, December 3, 1821; Peggie and Barbara Ann (twins), Septemher 24, 1823; Polly, December 17, 1825; Jacob IL, July 29, 1828; and Catherine Ann, August 27, 1830.
John Winings, Jr., father of him whose name initiates this sketch, was reared and educated under the conditions that marked the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County, and, like his able forebears in the county, he gave close and productive allegiance to farm industry and stock dealing in connection with which substantial prosperity attended his ',earnest endeavors. He was one of the prominent and highly esteemed citizens of German Township at the time of his death. October 18, 1884, his first wife having passed away February 12, 1859. Both were zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church, as was also the second wife. Mrs. Susan (Wagner) Winings was a daughter of John Wagner, who was born in Germany and who became an early settler in eastern Pennsylvania, whence he went forth as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. After the close of this conflict he became an early settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, whence he later came to Harrison County and settled in German Township. His children were twelve in number: Reuben (died in early childhood), George, Levi, Daniel, John, Henry, Drusilla, Polly, Rachel, Susan, Sallie and Katie. John and Susan (Wagner) Winings became the parents of six children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted: John E., March 23, 1839; Jacob, September 5, 1841: Henry, May 22, 1843; Mary Elizabeth, March 10, 1845; Samantha Jane, September 12, 1847; and Jeremiah, subject of this sketch, August 8, 1850. After the death of his first wife John Winings married Elizabeth Shoemaker, who was born March 3, 1919, and who survived him by several years, no children having been born of this union.
Jeremiah Winings was reared on the old homestead which has ever continued his place of abode and which to him is associated with most gracious memories. After having profited by the advantages afforded in the district schools of German Township he attended the normal school at Hopedale and Richmond College at Richmond, Jefferson County. He has thus been well fortified in both mental powers and practical knowledge in carrying forward his activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower, and in this section of Ohio are to he found few finer farms than this well improved and valuable landed estate. The present buildings were erected by Mr. Winings,—the fine farm house in 1893, and the large barn in 1890. On November 1, 1920, he sold 200 acres of his fine farm, including his splendid residence and barn, to the Apex Coal Company of Cleveland, Ohio. A man of intellectuality and mature judgment, Mr. Winings is well fortified in his political conviction and is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party. He naturally takes loyal interest in all things touch-
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ing the welfare of his home county, and while he has had no desire for official preferment he gave three years of effective service as a memher of the German Township Board of Education. He and his wife and son are communicants of the Lutheran Church, and the family is one of prominence and distinctive popularity in German Township.
June 7, 1876, recorded the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Minerva Leas, who was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, April 1, 1855, a daughter of the late William and Elizaheth (Miser) Leas. Of this union were born two children—John Leas Winings and Clyde Blaine Winings, the latter having been born December 8, 1886, and his death having occurred August 21, 1889. John Leas Winings was born January 6, 1878, and after having been graduated from the high school at Germano he completed a course and was graduated in the Oberlin Business College. Except for the two years of his absence at school he has remained with his parents on the ancestral homestead, and he is his father's efficient coadjutor in the work and management of the fine farm.
RALPH M. WOOD, an automobile dealer of Cadiz, was born in that city on December 31, 1889, the son of William F. and Amanda (Laizure) Wood. William T. Wood was for many years actively connected with the business interests of Cadiz and community. He was born October 3, 1848, at Grinshall Grove, Shropshire, England. He is a son of Robert Wood and his wife, Ann (Owens) Wood, of Shropshire, England. John Wood, of the next generation was a wool buyer through Ohio in its early history. He lived at Putney Bottom, now called Grove Creek. When he retired from the wool business he moved to North Adams, Massachusetts, and died there.
Robert Wood was a cabinetmaker, and in 1862 he located in Cadiz, ending his days there. When he first came to Cadiz he worked for J. W. Gillespie in the furniture trade. Later he became a manufacturer of furniture. He had two sons, William T. Wood and Frederick, the latter dying in England at the age of four years.
While living in England Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wood were members of the Church of England —Episcopalian, but in Cadiz Mrs. Wood united with the Methodists. In 1868 W. T. Wood entered the grocery store owned by Samuel Ferguson as a clerk, remaining ten years in the position. Later be clerked in other stores until 1879, at which time he formed a partnership with Regin Furbay in a grocery store. Three years later Mr. Furbay disposed of his interest to J. H. Moore, and Wood and Moore were partners for a time. Finally Mr. Wood bought the partner's share and has continued the grocery, hardware and queensware business alone. As clerk and proprietor he has been in the grocery business more than half a century.
Aside from his mercantile business Mr. Wood is president of the Third Equitable Building and Loan Company of Cadiz. He is also president of the Cadiz Electric Light and Power Company. In 1875 he married Amanda Laizure, a daughter of Elijah Laizure. Their children are: Fred C. Wood, who has mining interests and lives in Denver, Colorado. Edith, wife of S. A. McCool, lives in Kansas City, Missouri; and Robert and Ralph M., of Harrison County. Mr. Wood is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge, and with his family is a member of the Methodist Church in the community.
When he had completed his studies in the Cadiz Public Schools Ralph M. Wood entered Bliss Business College in Columbus in 1907, and graduated there. His first business relation was with the First National Bank of Cadiz as a bookkeeper, where he remained ten and one-half years. In May, 1919, he became cashier of the First National Bank of Hopedale, in Harrison County, where he continued about one year, since which time he has been handling the Dodge Brothers automobiles, he controlling one-half of Harrison County for the sale of that car. He still maintains his residence in Cadiz.
On June 7, 1917, R. M. Wood married Alberta, daughter of W. A. and Minnesota (Conwell) Holmes, and they have one daughter, Edith Jean. Mr. Wood is a Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason of Cadiz, and a Knight Templar of Steubenville.
BENJAMIN E. HARRISON. In connection with his ownership of a fine farm of 100 acres in North Township, Harrison County, Mr. Harrison has in his possession the original patent or deed to the property, the same having been issued by the Government to Emanuel Hendricks, bearing date of December 10, 1827, and bearing the signature of John Quincy Adams, who was then President of the United States. This ancient document is on old-time sheepskin parchment and is an interesting historical object.
Benjamin Edgar Harrison was born in the township that is now 'his place of residence, and the date of his nativity was October 5, 1869. John Harrison, of Yorkshire, England, was one of the first English pioneer settlers in North Township, Harrison County, where he established his home in 1816 and where he secured a tract of Government land. In 1823, however, he returned to his native land, and there his death occurred about ten years later; when he was seventy years of age, his wife likewise having died in England, where he owned an excellent farm of 114 acres, in Yorkshire. Joseph Harrison, son of John, was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Harrison County in 1816, and here he assisted in the reclamation of the frontier farm. He returned to England in 1823, but in 1826 he again came to Harrison County, where he developed a productive farm in North Township, and where he continued his residence until his death, April 13, 1878. He was first a democrat and later a republican in politics, and his earnest religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a man of sterling character and marked ability, and he contributed his share to the civic and industrial
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development and progress of Harrison County. In 1828 he wedded Miss Ellen Hartley, whose father, Christopher Hartley, came from Carlton, England, and became a pioneer farmer in Harrison County. He remained in North Township until his death in 1864, at the venerable age of eighty-six years, and his widow was seventy- eight years of age at the time of her death in 1867. Their children were seven in number. Mrs. Harrison died in 1853, at the age of forty- seven years, and was survived by two sons, John and William C., a third son, Joseph, having died in 1847, at the age of seven years. In 1857 Joseph Harrison married Sarah Heron. who long survived him and whose death occurred in 1890, when she was seventy-seven years of age. Mr. Harrison served as township trustee and was otherwise influential in community affairs, with high place in popular confidence and esteem.
William C. Harrison, son of Joseph and father of the subject of this review, was born on the old family homestead in North Township October 29, 1837, and in this township he passed his entire life, which was marked by continuous and successful association with farm industry. As a boy and youth he attended school at Richmond. Jefferson County, where for some time his roommate was Gen. George A. Custer, who met his death in the historic Indian massacre that perpetuates his name, a personal letter from General Custer to William C. Harrison being one of the prized family heirlooms at the present time. In 1863 Mr. Harrison and his wife established their home on the farm in North Township which continued to be the stage of his activities until his death, in 1912. He made excellent improvements on this place of 166 acres, and he was one of the representative farmers and influential and honored citizens of North Township, where he served two terms as township trustee. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was a republican in politics and his widow, who now resides with her youngest daughter at Dennison, Tuscarawas County, is a devoted communicant of the Lutheran Church.
In the autumn of the year 1860 Mr. Harrison married Miss Elizabeth Ann Waddington, who was born in Harrison County December 4,.1841, and who is a daughter of William and Ann (Wallace) Waddington, whose marriage was solemnized in this county in February, 1839. William Waddington was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1815, and came to America in 1835. His wife was born in Pennsylvania and, as before intimated, was a resident of Harrison County at the time of their marriage. They subsequently established their home on a farm in Tuscarawas County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of ten children—James, Elizabeth, John, William Henry, Mary Jane, Sarah, Amos, Isaac, David Fillmore and Elmer. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Harrison the first born was Elmer, who died at the age of eighteen months; Mary is the wife of C. Melvin Liggett, a farmer near Leesville, Carroll County; Anna is the wife of Frank McCullough, of Richmond,
Jefferson County; Hannah died in infancy; Benjamin Edgar, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Laura is the widow of Homer Porter and resides at East Springfield, Ohio; William W. is a resident of Denver, Colorado; Grace is the wife of Ross Stewart, of Carrollton, Ohio; Joseph is specifically mentioned in an appending personal sketch; and Florence is the wife of Chester Adrian, of Dennison, Ohio, where her widowed mother resides with them.
Benjamin Edgar Harrison, who is more familiarly known by his second personal name, gained his early education in the district schools of North Township and supplemented this by a commercial course of one year at Scio College. From his boyhood he has been continuously associated with farm industry in his native township, and his successful activities include a well ordered dairy business. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio, where he is also affiliated with the lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He is alert and progressive in his farm enterprise and as a citizen takes deep interest in all things touching the welfare of his native county.
On the 6th of November, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harrison to Miss Sadie Markley, daughter of Mathias and Sarah Jane (Shambaugh) Markley, of whom adequate mention is made on other pages of this work, in the personal sketch of Jeremiah J. Arbaugh. The Markley family was one of pioneer prominence and influence in Harrison County, and Mathias Markley, father of Mrs. Harrison, passed his entire life in this county, his death having occurred on his old home farm in Rumley Township October 22, 1887, and his widow having survived him by a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have five children— Byron W., Ralph, Eva, Frederick and Edgar. Byron W. Harrison loyally responded to the nation's call for service in connection with the late World war, but was rejected one week after arriving at Camp Sherman, Ohio, by reason of impaired vision. He married on January 5, 1921, Sue Frances Crawford, daughter of Alexander and Nannie (Mitchell) Crawford, of North Township. Ralph Harrison, in and on the same date as his brother, this being a double wedding, wedded Vera Mae Easlick, daughter of Charles Easlick of North Township.
JOSEPH HARRISON, younger brother of Benjamin Edgar Harrison, in whose personal sketch, immediately preceding this; is given adequate record concerning the family history, was born on the farm which is his present place of residence, in North Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was March 24, 1880. He has remained continuously on the old home farm, and his youthful education was acquired in the public schools of his native township. His practical experience in connection with farm activities has well qualified him for successful enterprise in this important field of endeavor, and he is one of the representative agri-
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culturists and stock-raisers of the younger generation in North Township. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The year 1910 recorded the marriage of Mr. Harrison to Miss Eva Carpenter, who was born and reared in Guernsey County, and who is a daughter of Frederick and Mary (McCourt) Carpenter. The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison is brightened by the presence of their three children—Charles, Kathryn and Mary Martha.
DEMPSEY S. HINES is effectively maintaining hoth as a citizen of loyalty and public spirit and as a successful exponent of agricultural industry the distinctive honors of a family name that has been linked with the history of Harrison County for more than a century, and it is pleasing to record that his activities as a farmer are staged on the fine old homestead in Cadiz Township upon which his great-grandfather. Rudolph Hines, settled in 1814.
Rudolph Hines was born in Germany, a son of John Hines, and was a youth when he accompanied his parents to America, prior to the War of the Revolution, in which he took part as a valiant young soldier in the Continental Line. He came to Ohio in the early part of the first decade of the nineteenth century, as is demonstrated by the fact that it is a matter of record that in 1806 he removed with his family from Steubenville, Jefferson County, this state, into Virginia. where he was engaged in farming about eight years. within which time he saw the first steamboat pass down the Ohio River. In the spring of 1914 he came with his family to Harrison County and established his home in a pioneer log house that long remained a landmark in Cadiz Township, on the farm now owned and occupied by his grandson Dempsey S., of this sketch. He reclaimed much of his land from the virgin forest and continued to occupy the little log house until his death, at the age of ninety years, his wife surviving him but a short time. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom are now deceased.
William Hines, son of Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) Hines, was born in Allegany County, Maryland, March 19, 1800, and was four years old when the family home was established at Steubenville. Ohio. whence about one year later removal was made to Virginia, as above noted. Thus he was about twelve years of age when the family home was established in Harrison County. Ohio. where he was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm, and where on the 15th of February, 1827. was solemnized his marriage to Isabella, daughter of John and Jane (Mahon) Hitchcock. the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ireland. she having been a child at the time of the family immigration to America, and the parents of her husband likewise having been natives of the Emerald Isle. William Hines continued to reside upon the old home farm of his father until lie too was summoned to eternal rest. September 8, 1887, his wife having survived him by more than a dec ade, her death having occurred April 15, 1809. Mr. Hines was eighty-seven years of age at the time of his death, and was one of the best known and most highly honored pioneer citizens of the county, where his valuable landed estate comprised about 380 acres at the time of his death. His widow was born January 24, 1806; and thus was ninety-three years of age when she passed from the stage of mortal life, secure in the reverent affection of all who knew her. They were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Hines was first a Whig and later a repupblican. Of the children the eldest was John R., who was born May 14, 1828, and who was a resident of of Iowa at the time of his death; Sarah Jane, born October 29, 1830, became the wife of Gillespie Haverfield and she died in January, 1915: the next child, a son, died in infancy; Lemuel Browning, born April 15, 1834, finally established his home in the state of California, and he died in the fall of 1920; William F., father of the subject of this sketch, will be more definitely mentioned in a following paragraph; Mary Ellen, born January 13. 1839. became the wife of Joseph McBeth. of Deersville, Harrison County, and she died January 13, 1920; Samuel M., born April 27, 1841, was a successful farmer in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and his death occurred October 29, 1901; James M. was born March 5, 1844, and died in May, 1920; Thomas H. was born July 5. 1847, and died on the 30th of the following December; and Ezra Lawson. who was born May 20. 1851, died May 17, 1865.
William Fletcher Hines was born on the old homestead in Cadiz Township - February 28, 1837, and he received the advantages of the- common schools of the locality and period. He remained on the home farm until the outbreak of the Civil War, when. in 1861, he enlisted as a member of Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. which was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and witb which he continued in active service nearly three years. He participated in sixteen major battles, besides many skirmishes and other minor engagements. He was slightly wounded in one engagement, but this did not long incapacitate him. but it was his misfortune, however, to have contracted typhoid fever, which caused him to be confined four months in a military hospital at Nashville. Tennessee. Upon his recovery he rejoined his regiment. with which he remained until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received June 10, 1865.
After the close of his faithful and gallant service as a soldier of tbe Union Mr. Hines returned to the home farm. and on the 7th of February. 1867, was united in marriage to Miss Christina Spiker, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County. a daughter of Christopher and Ara (Carnes) Spiker. who were pioneers of the county. where the father died in 1870 and the mother in 1879. William F. Hines continued his active operations as one of the representative farmers of Cadiz Township until 1911, when he removed with his wife to Cadiz,
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where he lived retired until his death, which occurred December 7, 1917, and where his widow still resides. His farm, a part of the land entered by his grandfather, is now occupied by his son Dempsy S. In politics Mr. Hines was unfaltering in his allegiance to the Republican party, he was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his venerable widow likewise Is a devoted member. They became the parents of five children: Ara Bell is the wife of Oliver B. Tipton, of Harrison County; Dempsey S., immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Philip Ora is a resident of the city of Chicago; Mary Maude is the wife of D. R. Baker, of Harrison County; and Lemuel Oscar died in childhood.
Dempsey S. Hines was born near the farm upon which he now resides, and the date of his nativity was January 21, 1869. His early education was secured in the public schools of Cadiz Township, and for the past twenty years he has had the active management of the old homestead farm on which his great-grandfather settled more than a century ago. Here he now owns 102 acres, and he is one of the enterprising and progressive agriculturists and stock- growers of his native county. He has served since 1918 as a member of the Board of Trustees of Cadiz Township, and is loyal and liberal in support of measures advanced for the general good of his home community and native county, his political allegiance being given to the Republican party and both he and his wife are active members of Asbury Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church, not far distant from their attractive rural home.
August 2, 1898, recorded the marriage of D. R. Hines to Miss Myrtle Belle Smith, daughter of Frank and Sarah Elizaheth (Johnson) Smith, of Cadiz Township, and the two children of this union are Wilma Frances, born June 1, 1899, and Pauline Bernice, born May 3, 1913. Wilma married on January 21, 1920, William McClellan Patterson, son of William N. Patterson, of Harrison County.
MICHAEL H. FINNICUM has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth, is a representative of an old and well known family of the county and is today numbered among the prosperous exponents of farm industry in German Township. Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum gave two of their sons to the nation's service in the great World War, and have reason to take pride in the records made by these sons in that patriotic service.
Mr. Finnicum was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 14th of July, 1860, and is a son of John Finnicum, who was born in the same Township December 30, 1832. John Finnicum first married Miss Henrietta Bishop, and she was still a young woman at the time of her death. The two children of this union are David E., born July 31, 1853, and Albert Da born April 1, 1855. For his second wife Mr. Finnicum wedded Miss Mary Shambaugh, who was born July 27, 1836, and the names and re spective birth-dates of the children of this union are here made a matter of record: Teresa E., April 13, 1857; Jesse William, July 17, 1858; Michael H. (subject of this review), July 14, 1860; Samuel, May 9, 1862; Hettie E., July 26, 1864; Charles H., October 8, 1867; and Minnie Margaret, March 23, 1872. The mother was born in Harrison County, a daughter of the late Michael Shambaugh.
Michael H. Finnicum gained his early education in the district schools of Rumley Township and the village schools at New Rumley. His native township was also the stage of his initial activities as an independent exponent of farm enterprise, but after his marriage in 1887 he established his home on his present fine farm, comprising 265 acres of the productive soil of German township, Harrison county. He has made many improvements on the place, including the erection of most of the buildings that now mark it as a center of thrift aud prosperity, and he has proved one of the vigorous agriculturists and stock-growers of the county, with special attention given to the raising of fine Delaine sheep. Mrs. Finnicum is not to be outdone in initiative and successful enterprise, as shown in the success which she has achieved in the raising of chickens of the White Wyandotte type. Mr. Finnicum is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church.
On the 24th of February, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Finnicum to Miss Anna Isabel Johnson, who is a sister of Mrs. George 0. Fleming, the latter being the subject of a personal sketch which appears on other pages and which gives due incidental record concerning the parents and family history of Mrs. Finnicum. Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum have four children-John Alexander, Ralph Harold, Lester Acheson and Marshall Leroy. John Alexander Finnicum owns and successfully conducts a well directed business college at Newark, Ohio. The maiden name of his wife was Alwilda M. Lutz. When the nation became involved in the World war John A. Finnicum enlisted in the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, and on the 15th of August, 1917, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster's Corps. From the original camp he was sent to Chillicothe, Ohio, and in October, 1917, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Quartermaster's Department, in the city of Washington, D. C. There he won promotion to the office of first lieutenant, and later to the rank of captain. He continued in active and efficient service at the national capital until June 15, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. Ralph Harold, the second son, was born January 30, 1891, and is associated in the work and management of the home farm. Lester A., the third son, was born August 22, 1898, and upon entering the nation's service in September, 1919, he was sent to Paris Island, South Carolina, where he received three months' training for duty in the United States Marine Corps. He was then transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, and in August, 1919, he was assigned
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to duty at Washington, D. C. Thence he was sent to Philadelphia on the 1st of the following December, and on the 7th of that month sailed for Hayti, where he remains in active service at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1920. Marshall Leroy, the youngest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum, was born on the 8th of December, 1906, and remains at the parental home.
WILLIAM S. TOPE, whose farm of 120 acres is situated in Monroe Township, Carroll County, on Rural Mail Route No. 1 from the village of Dellroy, has secure standing as one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, and he gives special attention to the raising of sheep and Shorthorn cattle, besides which he has established a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock.
Mr. Tope was born in Union Township, this county, on the 4th of February, 1857, and is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage and his paternal great-grandfather came to America from Scotland. The grandfather, Stephen Tope, was one of the early settlers of Carroll County, where he developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their children were eleven in number.
William S. Tope is a son of Jacob and Jane (Parker) Tope, who passed their entire lives in Carroll County, the father having been one of the representative farmers of Monroe Township at the time of his death, in 1886, and William S. was the eldest in a family of three children.
The district schools afforded William S. Tope his early educational advantages and in the meanwhile he gained equally valuable experience in connection with the work of the home farm. He continued to attend school during the winter months until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and his association with the activities of his father's farm was not interrupted until the time of his marriage, when twenty-one years of age, to Miss Dane Camphell, daughter of James and Catherine (Hustin) Campbell, of Harrison Township. Mrs. Tope passed to the life eternal in 1906 and is survived hy three children: Oliver James, who resides in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. married Miss Elva Woods, and they have two children,— James and Sarah Jane. Jackson Ralph, the second son, is engaged in farming in Stark County. The maiden name of his wife was Lettie Brooks, and their three children are Linn, John Lindsay and Katherine. Anna, the only daughter, is the wife of Donald Elliott, of Harrison Township.
On the 11th of June, 1919, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Tope to Mrs. Melissa Holmes, daughter of William and Rebecca (Boggs) Holmes. of Harrison Township, the Holmes family having long been one of prominence and influence in Carroll County.
After his first marriage Mr. Tope rented land in Monroe Township, where he became the owner of forty acres, and where he continued his farm enterprise ten years. He then became associated with his brother Robert in the hardware business in the village of Dellroy, where they continued successful operations, under the firm name of Tope Brothers, for a period of thirteen years. The building and stock were then destroyed by fire, and William S. resumed his association with farm enterprise. For three years he utilized a farm of 160 acres in Harrison Township, a property which he rented, and he then purchased a farm of equal area in the same township. There he remained eight years, at the expiration of which he sold the farm and engaged in the dry-goods and grocery business at Dellroy. Three years later he sold this business and purchased his present well improved farm of 120 acres, where he has since continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower.
Mr. Tope is a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party, and has been influential in public affairs of a local order. He served three years as trustee of Monroe Township, and has given effective service also as Township Treasurer and as a member of the school board. He is a charter member of ,Dellroy Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Tope is a woman of fine intellectuality and takes lively interest in all things tending to advance the social and material welfare of the community, besides being a popular factor in social affairs.
JOHN A. DUNLAP. In the compilation of the various personal and family reviews appearing in this edition it has been specially gratifying to note that there remain In Carroll and Harrison County a large percentage of representatives citizens who are scions of sterling pioneer families of this section of the state, and this distinction applies to Mr. Dunlap, who owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm in Cadiz Township which figures as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred December 1, 1859. His grandfather, Samuel Dunlap, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, a son of Adam and Rebecca (Work) Dunlap, the former of whom was a native of Ireland, whence he came with his parents to America when he was a lad of ten years. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, where his marriage occurred, both he and his wife having passed the closing years of their lives in Harrison County, Ohio, where they were pioneer settlers. In the old Keystone State, about the year 1800, Samuel Dunlap married Miss Sarah Dickerson, daughter of Thomas Dickerson, and in 1807 they came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and established their home in a pioneer log cabin in the midst of the forest, Mr. Dunlap having secured 168 acres of government land in Cadiz Township, and having reclaimed the same into a productive farm, which continues in the possession of the family to the present day. His death occurred October 2, 1839, and his widow passed away November 11, 1858, their name having place on the roster of the honored pioneers of Harrison County, where
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they lived and labored to goodly ends. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now deceased, one of the last survivors having been Mrs. Nelson Pearce, of Cadiz Township.
Adam Dunlap, father of John A. Dunlap, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and thus was a child of about two years at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions and influences of the early pioneer days, his educational advantages being limited to the primitive subscription schools, which he attended in his boyhood. He eventually became the owner of his father's old homestead farm, on which he continued to reside until his death and which is now owned and occupied by his son John A. He added to the area of the original tract and was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 400 acres at the time of his death, in 1883. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and assisted in the erection of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church edifice, he having been a liberal supporter of this church, of which his wife was a zealous member.
As a young man Adam Dunlap married Miss Martha Thompson, daughter of David Thompson, of Cadiz Township, and she was still a young woman at the time of her death. They became the parents of three children: Sarah became the wife of John Porter; Martha married Samuel M. Porter; and Mary hecame the wife of John D. Barricklow. The second marriage of Mr. Dunlap was with Miss Elizabeth Jane Spratt, who was born in Pennsylvania but who was a child at the time of her parents' removal to Harrison County, Ohio. She preceded her husband to eternal rest, her death having occurred May 15, 1871, when she was forty-two years of age. Of their children the eldest, Nancy E., now deceased, became the wife of A. M. Ferrell, and they established their home in West Virginia ; Elizabeth Jane, deceased, became the wife of Robert Holliday, of Moorefield Township, Harrison County; Samuel died in early childhood; Amanda Adeline, deceased, became the wife of Henry Bartow, who survived her; John A., of this review, was the next in order of birth; William S., deceased, was a substantial farmer in Athens Township; and Clara Belle died at the age of eleven years.
John A. Dunlap learned in his boyhood and youth the best methods of carrying on farm enterprise, for he early began to lend his aid in the various activities of the old home farm. which has continued to be the stage of his progressive service as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Harrison County to the present day. He is the owner of a well improved and valuable landed domain of 300 acres and is one of the substantial and influential citizens of his native township. In the live-stock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the raising of sheep and Shorthorn cattle of the best types. In his many years of active association with farm industry he has kept abreast of the advancements made in this important field of enterprise, and as a citizen he is loyal and public-spirited. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.
On the 6th of December, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Mary Hannah Chaney, who was born and reared in Cadiz Township, a daughter of James and Margaret Chaney. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap have three children: George Alvin, who is now superintendent of the public schools at Jewett, Harrison County, married Miss Anna Dickerson, and to them were born two children, Vivian Maxine and John Albert, but the son is deceased. Chauncey Adam married Miss Ola Garner, and they now reside in the city of Cleveland. Clyde Beatty, of Cadiz, married Miss Helen Grear, and they have six children—Mary Josephine, Elizabeth Jane, Zora Leonda, Mildred Ellen, Edith May and a baby daughter.
FRE PATTON. The indubitable consistency and value of thought and study as applied in connection with farm industry has received striking demonstration in the career of this well known citizen and native son of Harrison County. With an exceptionally comprehensive and well selected library in his attractive farm home, in Archer Township, the scientific volumes on agronomy, horticulture, irrigation, food preservation and conservation, etc., give evidence of the close study which he has giveu to them, and he has gained wide reputation as an authority in practical and scientific truck farming, of which industry he is one of the foremost and most successful exponents in Ohio. His vigorous and well disciplined mind has found numerous channels through which to exert progressive influence, as later paragraphs in this review will disclose, and it is gratifying to accord to him in this publication the recognition due him as one of the representative men of his native county.
The eleventh in order of birth of a family of twelve children, Mr. Patton was born in Rum- ley Township, Harrison County, on the 12th of April, 1862, and is a son of Matthew M. and Sarah Jane (McCullough) Patton, the former of whom was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, October 1, 1820, a daughter of Samuel McCullough, who later removed to Carroll County. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Patton was solemnized on the 3d of March, 1842, and after a gracious companionship of more than thirty-six years, the marital ties were broken by the death of the loved wife and mother, on the 13th of June, 1878. Mr. Patton had the sterling qualities that make for benignant influence in connection with social and industrial progress, and became one of the specially successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in Harrison County, where he accumulated a large and valuable landed estate, in Rumley Township, which section of the county continued to be his place of residence until his death, at the age of eighty-
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three years and sixteen days. He was influential in the local councils and work of the republican party, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. The names and respective birth-dates of their children are here made a matter of permanent record: Sarah Margaret (Mrs. Adam Miller), January 19, 1843; James, October 23, 1844; John H., August 25, 1846; Joseph, May 7, 1848 (died August 22, 1851) ; Samuel M., April 12, 1850 (died August 31, 1851) ; Addison, May 25, 1852; William, August 17, 1854 (died February 27, 1858) ; an infant daughter, born March 12, 1859, died on the 17th of the same month: Ida, February 9, 1860; Fre, April 12, 1862; and Thomas B., December 8, 1863.
Matthew M. Patton was a son of Joseph and Sarah (Burns) Patton, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Ohio in the spring of 1816; they became pioneer settlers in Rumley Township, Harrison County, where they reclaimed and developed the frontier farm which continued to ,be their home the rest of their lives. Mrs. Patton died in September, 1842, and his death occurred in February, 1851, the names of both meriting place on the roster of the honored pioneers of the county. They became the parents of ten children—John, Sarah, Joseph, Margaret, Matthew M., James, Mary, Cynthia J. David and Ann, all deceased. In politics Mr. Patton was a democrat, and he was influential in public affairs in Harrison County, where he served in various offices of trust. Further data concerning the Patton family are to be found on other pages, in connection with the personal sketches of Joseph and Thomas B. Patton.
Fre Patton is indebted to the district schools of Rumley Township for his early education, which has been effectively supplemented by his assiduous study and reading in later years, his home library giving evidence of his appreciation of the best in standard literature. Soon after attaining to his legal majority he became associated with his brother, Thomas B., in leasing the old homestead farm, to the affairs of which he continued to give his attention until January, 1888, when he removed to his present model farm of sixty-five acres, in Archer Township. ahout one mile southwest of the village of Jewett. He has made this splendid farm a center of remarkably successful enterprise in the raising of fruits and garden products, and has demonstrated in no uncertain way the possibilities in intensive truck farming in his native county and state. In 1911 Mr. Patton amplified his truck farming by establishing on his farm a canning factory of modern facilities and appointments, and he now markets virtually all of his products in cans, with special attention given to the raising and canning of tomatoes, beans and pumpkins, as well as cabbages of the finest type, the latter being largely manufachired into sauerkraut, which is canned on the place. There has been nothing uncertain or haphazard in the progressive activities of Mr. Patton, but, on the contrary, his study, his experimentation and his general industrial produc tion have been carefully and scientifically directed, with the result that in many senses he has established a precedent, even as he has achieved large and gratifying success and high reputation in his chosen domain of enterprise. In 1895 Mr. Patton began planting catalpa speciosa trees on his farm, and his catalpa speciosa grove of seventeen acres now shows a total of fully 14,000 trees. He has made many and punctilious soil experimentations in connection with the propagation of these timber trees. his fine young forest of which has attracted attention from all parts of Ohio, as well as outside the boundaries of this commonwealth. Another of the admirable incidental works of Mr. Patton has been the development and application of the fine irrigation system on the bottom lands of his farm, his initial work in this direction having been done a quarter of a century ago. Many of the representative truck- growers of Ohio have visited the Patton farm, to study its methods of cultivation, propagation, irrigation, etc. In his special field of industrial enterprise Mr. Patton is well recognized authority, and he takes pride not only in his achievement as a successful truck-farmer and in the results that have attended his raising of catalpa trees, but also in the lesson and incentive which his work has given. He has gladly imparted to others the results of his study, experimentation and practical application, and has done a large amount of effective "missionary work" in connection with farmers' institutes throughout his native state, the state board of Agriculture and Experiment Station having repeatedly called upon him to give public addresses upon the subjects of truck farming, irrigation and forestry.
Outside of the progressiveness which he has shown in connection with productive farm industry. Mr. Patton has further manifested his initiative and self-reliance in the furthering of enterprise for the general good of the community. In May, 1904, he founded the effective telephone system which is maintained by him under the title of the Patton Telephone Company. This system now has sixteen miles of pole-line, sixty-four miles of wire and fifty-one subscribers, its service is maintained at the highest standard.
Mr. Patton is well fortified in his opinions concerning economic and governmental policies and gives his allegiance to the republican party, though he has manifested naught of ambition for public office. Both he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church, and their attractive home is a center of gracious hospitality, even as it is the stage of much of the representative social life of the community.
On the 11th of March, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Patton to Miss Annettie Viola Patterson, daughter of the late Capt. Joseph C. and Mary Ann (Simpson) Patterson, the former of whom died August 25, 1918, and the latter on the 24th of March, 1919. Of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Patton the first a son, died in infancy, March 18, 1889. Paul F., born February 11, 1891, a prosperous farmer near Avella, Pennsylvania, married, April 14,
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1916, Miss Frances Buchanan, of Washington, that state, and they have one child, Robert Paul, born March 26, 1917. Leona Ruth, born January 25, 1896, married to Stanley M. Lawthers, July 30, 1920. And Hearn Lowell, January 4, 1899, are successful and popular teachers in the public schools of Harrison County. All of the children were given collegiate advantages and all have been successful teachers.
Capt. Joseph C. Patterson, father of Mrs. Patton, was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, August 30, 1835, and was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death. His father, Joseph Patterson, was born in County Down. Ireland, in April, 1799, and his parents, who were of staunch Scotch lineage, immigrated to America when he was twelve years old. -They became pioneer settlers in Harrison County, Ohio, where they remained until their death. Joseph Patterson reclaimed one of the pioneer farms of Stock Township and passed the closing years of his life in Cadiz Township, where he died in 1879. February 14, 1822, recorded his marriage to Jemima Hoagland, daughter of James Hoagland, a pioneer of Stock Township, and of this union were born six sons and five daughters. Joseph Patterson was first a whig and later a republican in politics, was a leader in community sentiment and action and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Patterson survived her husband and was more than ninety-six years of age at the time of her demise.
Capt. Joseph C. Patterson was given the advantages of Hopedale College, and was one of the gallant young men who went forth from Harrison County in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. He left college and enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he soon won promotion to the office of captain of Company F. With his regiment he took part in the various battles of the Army of the Cumberland, was with Sherman in the Atlantic campaign and the historic march to the sea and continued in service until the close of the war. After participating in the Grand Review, in the city of Washington, Captain Patterson returned home and engaged in teaching. He eventually 'became one of the representative farmers in Stock Township and was one of the substantial and highly honored men and influential citizens of his native county. He was a stalwart republican and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 7th of September, 1865, Captain Patterson wedded Miss Mary Ann Simpson, daughter of John and Margaret Simpson and a representative of the Simpson family that gave the late Bishop Simpson and the mother of General Ulysses S. Grant. Captain and Mrs. Patterson became the parents of six children, of whom Annettie Viola, wife of Fre Patton, of this review, is the eldest, she having been born October 17, 1866; Vernon was 'born July 11, 1868; Glenn V., October 10, 1871; Henry 0., March 8, 1874 (died December 14, 1900) ; Min nie J., December 21, 1875 (died December 5, 1896) ; and Clara G., January 28, 1879.
SHERMAN W. SNEE controls a substantial and representative mercantile business as a dealer in hardware and agricultural implements in the village of Dellroy, Carroll County, and is a popular citizen who has passed his entire life thus far in the section of Ohio to which this history is dedicated. He was born at Deersville, Harrison County, on the 5th of September, 1855, a son of William and Emma (Wells) Snee and a scion of staunch Scotch and Irish ancestry.
William Snee was born and reared in Pennsylvania, and there learned in his youth the trade of shoemaker. Upon coming to Ohio he established his residence in Harrison County, and he was engaged in the work of his trade at Deersfield, that county, at the time of his death, in 1868. His wife survived him by many years and was of venerable age at the time of her death in 1901, both having been active memhers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Tbey became the parents of three sons and four daughters, and of the number Sherman W., of this review, was the fifth in order of birth.
Sherman Weller Snee gained his early education in the village schools of Deersville, and he was but thirteen years of age at the time of his father's death. The financial position of the family was such that he forthwith began to work at whatever employment he could find, and thus he aided in the support of his widowed mother and the other members of the family. At the age of eighteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade at Deersville, and after becoming a skilled workman he followed his trade as a journeyman. On the 25th of November, 1880, he came to Carroll County and established his residence at Dellroy, where he engaged in the work of his trade with a partner. One year later he assumed full control of the business, and thereafter he successfully conducted his well equipped blacksmith shop in this village until 1906, hesides which he conducted also a prosperous livery business for some time. In 1906 he engaged in the hardware business at his present location, and here he has built up a large and prosperous enterprise in the handling of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, and agricultural implements and machinery, his trade extending throughout the wide area of country normally tributary to Dellroy as a distributing center. Mr. Snee also owns a well improved farm of seventy-seven acres in Harrison Township, and twelve acres in Monroe Township, and to this he gives a personal supervision.
In 1882 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Snee to Miss Alice Yant, daughter of Samuel and Ester (Wyse) Yant, of Dellroy, and of their three children the eldest Is George Raymond, who is now associated with his father's business. George R. Snee was one of the patriotic young men who represented Carroll County in the nation's military service in the late World war. He entered service in 1918, and after being for some time in training at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was sent to Virginia, from which
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state he was later transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he continued in service until the signing of the armistice, which brought the war to a close. Upon his return to Camp Sherman he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge. Ethel, the second of the children, was graduated in the Dellroy High School and has been for the past eight years a successful teacher in the public schools of her native county. Mary B., the younger daughter, was graduated in the Dellroy High School and in Scio College in Harrison County, and she likewise is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools.
Mr. Snee is a democrat in politics and has heen a staunch advocate of prohibition. He is known as one of the progressive and public- spirited citizens of Dellroy, has served two terms as mayor of the village, besides having heen otherwise a member of the village council for a number of terms and having also given effective service as a member of the Board of Education, as treasurer of Monroe Township, and as a member of the Dellroy Board of Health. Both he and his wife, as well as their daughters, are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Dellroy, in which he has served in virtually all official positions for which a lay member is eligible.
ALMER E MILLS was born in German Township, Harrison County. on the 30th of October, 1852. He was reared to manhood on the old homestead farm of his father, gained his youthful education in the public schools of the county, and in his independent career he has shown the urge and ambition and progressiveness and gained and maintained a place as one of the substantial exponents of agricultural and livestock industry in his native county and township. Here he is the owner of a valuable farm property of 262 acres, and he has insistently followed methods and policies that have conserved the productiveness of his broad acres, which yield generous returns from season to season, the while he has been equally successful in the raising of live stock of excellent types. Since coming into possession of this attractive and valuable farm Mr. Mills has erected the substantial and commodious house which is the family home, and has effected other improvements of permanent value. He has never failed to do his part in the furtherance of measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of his community, is a loyal and liberal citizen who commands unqualified popular esteem, and he served two years as trustee of German Township. His political views are indicated by his active support of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in the neighboring village of Annapolis, Jefferson County, he being an elder of this church at the time this sketch is in preparation, in the summer of 1921.
Almer Emerson Mills is a scion of the staunchest of English stock. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Webb) Mills, the former of whom was born in Worcestershire, England, on the 4th of July, 1804, and the latter of whom was born in the city of London, England, January 3, 1814, a daughter of George and Sarah (Dowland) Webb. The Mills family has long been one of prominence in connection with Worcestershire, England, and there Henry Mills, grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life, his vocation having been that of farming.
John Mills was reared and educated in his native land, where his marriage was solemnized and where the first two of his children were born. In 1842, accompanied by his wife and these two children, he came to the United States, and within a short period after his arrival he established his family in a house next door to that of the Custer family at New Rum. ley. Harrison County, Ohio, Gen. George Custer, who later lost his life in the historic Indian massacre that perpetuates his name, having been a small boy at the time when the Mills family came to Harrison County. After remaining at New Rumley six months Mr. Mills re moved with his family to Salem Township, Jefferson County, but nine years later returned to Harrison County and became a farmer in German Township, where he remained until his death in 1861, his widow having survived him by more than a quarter of a century and having been venerable in years at the time of her death, in 1888. They became the parents of seven children—John Henry, George William, Thomas Anthony, Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Wheeler), Charles Albert, Almer Emerson and Flora Jane (Mrs. Ezekiel Kerr).
On the 12th of February, 1884, was solemn ized the marriage of Almer Emerson Mills to Miss Harriet V. Davis, who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of William and Nancy (Grimes) Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Mills have five children: Bertha is the wife of John Miller, a prosperous farmer in German Township, and they have two children —Vera Virginia and Mary. Walter R. is a physician and surgeon and is engaged in the successful practice of his profession at East Springfield, Ohio. Warner D., a substantial farmer in Salem Township, Jefferson County, married Miss Inez Dye, and they have three children---Almer Eugene, Walter and Doyle. Harold and Emerson, the two younger sons, remain at the parental home.
WILLIAM H. MILLER, who maintains his residence and business headquarters at Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, has become one of the representative buyers and shippers of live stock in his native county, and is a scion of one of its well known pioneer families. He was born in Center Township, this county, June 19, 1858, and is a son of John and Susanna (Cox) Miller, the former being a native of Union Township and the latter of Center Township. Jonas Miller, grandfather of William H., was born and reared in Lancaster County. Pennsylvania, and from the old Keystone State he and his wife came in an early day to Carroll County and settled on a pioneer farm in Union Township, he having taken up a tract of Gov-
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ernment land there and having reclaimed the same from the forest into a productive farm. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives on this old homestead.
John Miller was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days, receiving the advantages of the common schools of the period, and eventually became one of the substantial and representative farmers of his native county, where he died when about seventy- four years of age and where his wife passed away when about seventy-two years of age, both having been zealous members of.the Reformed Church and Mr. Miller having been a republican in political adherency. They became the parents of six children—Sarah Ann, Jacob N., Alice, William H., Hannah and Caroline.
William H. Miller was reared on the home farm which was the place of his birth and is indebted to the public schools of Carroll County for his early educational discipline. As a young man he was engaged in independent farm enterprise about eight years, and since 1886 he has been engaged successfully in the buying and shipping of live stock, with residence in the city of Carrollton, where he occupies the handsome and modern residence which he erected in 1915. on West Main Street. He is a stockholder in the Cummings Trust Company, of Carrollton, and also in the First National Bank of this city. Though never manifesting aught of ambition for political activity or preferment, Mr. Miller is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Miller is still actively associated with the basic industry of agriculture, as the owner of two well improved farms, in Washington Township, and in addition to his substantial business as a shipper of live stock he also buys and ships wool each successive season. His reputation is that of a vigorous, resourceful and successful business man. His maternal grandparents, Henry and Hannah (Price) Cox, the latter a native of Scotland, were early get- tiers in Center Township, where Mr. Cox de. veloped a good farm, though he was a young man at the time of his death, his wife having survived him by many years.
In September, 1881, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Lucinda Adams, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and whose death occurred in 1888, she having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She is survived by her only child, Grace, who is the wife of Robert E. Cameron. of Carroll County, they having become the parents of five children—Helen, Miller (deceased), Margaret, Robert and Dorothy.
In 1891 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Maude Florence Stewart. who was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, June 23, 1865. The one child of this union is John Stewart Miller, who is engaged in the electrical business, and resides at Lorain, Ohio.
He married Miss Ruby Moore, and they have one child, Lois Adrianna. Mrs. Miller is a daughter of Edward and Martha Ann (Davis) Stewart, the former of whom was born in Perry Township, Harrison County, a daughter of William Davis, a pioneer of that county. Edward Stewart became one of the most substantial farmers and influential citizens of his native township, and also operated a tannery for a number of years. He owned a fine farm of 464 acres, was a republican in politics, and served with marked ability as a member of the board of county commissioners, both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and both having been venerable in years at the time of their death. Their marriage was solemnized in 1847, and they became the parents of eleven children. Edward Stewart was a son of Mahlon and Elizabeth (Park) Stewart, natives of Maryland, and in 1804 they became pioneer settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, whence they came in 1820, to what is now Carroll County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he remained until his death, in 1879, when nearly ninety-two years of age, his wife having passed away in 1871, at the age of eighty-four years. Mahlon Stewart became a resident of Carroll County more than a decade prior to its organization, and in 1835, on his land, he laid out the village of Perrysville. He was first a Whig and later a republican in politics and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, though she was a birthright member of the Society of Friends. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now deceased.
JOHN W. CARMAN has been a resident of Harrison County since he was a lad of twelve years, and is now one of the progressive farmers of German Township. He was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 24th of March, 1872, and is a son of Lewis N. and Mahala A. (Hobson) Carman, both of whom likewise were born in Jefferson County—the former on the 8th of October, 1840, in Wayne Township, and the latter in Salem Township, on the 23d of March, 1876, she being a daughter of Caleb and Sarah A. (More) Hobson.
Lewis N. Carman was a son of Andrew and Isabelle (Maxwell) Carman, and a grandson of John Carman, who was born in Maryland, of Welsh ancestry. John Carman was born in the year 1785, and in 1817 he became a pioneer settler in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. He went forth as a soldier in the War of 1812. and it was after the close of this conflict that he established his home in Jefferson County, where he reclaimed a productive farm and where he remained until his death, in 1861. His children were ten in number: Andrew, Samuel, Marshall, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Patience, Thomas, Jane and Cyrus. Andrew Carman was born in Maryland, in the year 1810, and thus was about seven years old at the time of the family removal to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he was reared to manhood, and where he passed the rest of his life, his active career
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having been marked by close association with farm industry. His first wife was survived by two children, Selena and John. For his second wife he wedded Miss Isabelle Maxwell, and they became the parents of six children, all of whom are now deceased—Enoch, Oliver, Lewis N.. Andrew, Matilda and Ann (Mrs. John Walker).
Lewis N. Carman was reared and educated in his native county and when the Civil war was precipitated he was one of the gallant young men of Ohio who went forth in defense of the nation's integrity. October 16. 18624 he enlisted as a member of Company E, Fifty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this regiment he continued in service at the front until the expiratiou of his term. January 16, 1863. He then returned to his home, but on the 10th of May of the following year he re-enlisted in Company 11, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer 1nfantry, with which he continued in service until September 10, 1864, when he received his honorable discharge. After his return to his native county he was there associated with the work of his uncle's farm until March 4. 1869, when he was united in marriage to Miss Mahala A. HobSon. In December, 1871, he purchased a farm in Salem Township, Jefferson County. and there he remained until 1884, when he sold the property and came to Harrison County. Here he purchased a farm in German Township and he developed the same into one of the best stock farms in this section of the county. On this fine old homestead he continued to reside until his death, in 1901, and his widow still maintains her home in this county. she being an earnest member of the Christian Church. as was also Mr. Carman. They became the parents of four children— Sarah B.. deceased. John W. Oliver H. and Caleb. the latter having died in childhood.
John W. Carman gained his rudimentary education in the district schools of Salem Township, Jefferson County. and after the family removal to Harrison County he continued his studies in the district schools of German Township. Thereafter he was a student in the normal school at Hopedale during one year, and attended Seto College two terms. He put his scholastic acquirements to practical test and effective use by entering the ranks of the pedagogic profession. as a representative of whicb he was for four years a popular and successful teacher in the district schools of Harrison County. In the early 'Ws he established a general store at Carman. a little village developed iu connection with a coal-mining enterprise on the farm which he now owns, and he continued this business until 1911. in the meanwhile having served as postmaster at Carman. Since his retirement from mercantile business he has given his attention to the management of his farm, which comprises fifty acres and which is given over to diversified agriculture and stock- raising. Mr. Carman is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Unionport. where both he and his wife also hold membership in the adjunct organization, the chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. besides which they are representative members of the Christian Church in that village.
On the 25th of June, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Carman to Miss Mary A. Wallace, daughter of William and Rachel A. (Rife) Wallace, both natives of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Carman have one son, Eugene Lewis, who was born March 20, 1902.
THOMAS RAINSBERGER is a sterling citizen who is specially entitled to consideration in this publication, for he is not only one of the venerable native sons of Carroll County, a representative of an honored pioneer family and known for his worthy achievement in connection with farm industry, but he is also a man whose character and ability have gained to him inviolable esteem in the county which has ever represented his home. He resides on and continues in the general supervision of his excellent farm of sixty acres in Monroe Township, some distance from Sherodsville, from which village the farm receives service on rural mail route No. 1.
On the old homestead farm of his father, in Monroe Township, this county, Thomas Rainsberger was born July 27, 1849, a son of John and Patience (Davis) Rainsberger, the former of German and the latter of Welsh ancestry. John Rainsberger, great-grandfather of Thomas Rainsberger, was born and reared in Germany and was a young man when he immigrated to America and established his home in Pennsylvania. From that commonwealth he went forth as a loyal soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution, and after the war he continued his residence in Pennsylvania, as a farmer, until the close of his life. His son John. grandfather of him whose name initiates this article, became the founder of the family in Carroll County, Ohio, where he established his residence in 1812, more than a quarter of a century before this county was created. He obtained a quarter-section of government land near the present village of Sherodsville, in Orange Township. and he reclaimed from the forest wilds a productive farm, this place having continued to be his home until his death, in 1842. at the patriarchal age of ninety-seven years. This sterling pioneer endured his full share of the hardships and heavy labors that fell to the early settlers of this section of the state. and contributed his quota to the initial development of Carroll County. In the earlier period of his residence here he found it necessary to make his way on horseback to Syracuse. New York, to obtain the salt required in the proper maintenance of his live stock. He was born in Pennsylvania, on the 25th of June, 1790. Mr. Rainsberger married Miss Susan Albaugh, a member of the representative pioneer family of that name in Jefferson County, Ohio. In July. 1819. the father of Mrs. Rainsberger took up 146 acres of Government land in what is now Monroe Township. Carroll County, which section was then included in Jefferson County, and here the family home was established in a pioneer log cabin. Mr. Albaugh continued to reside on this farm until his death, in an epidemic of fever. in 1835, his children having been
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eight in numher. It was in the pioneer home of Mr. Albaugh that was organized the little religious society which was the nucleus of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leavittsville, Carroll County.
John Rainsberger (III), father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the pioneer homestead farm in the present Orange Township, and the year of his nativity was 1821,- Here he passed his entire life, and as a farmer and as a loyal and substantial citizen he well upheld the prestige of the family name. He became one of the representative farmers of Monroe Township, was a staunch republican in-politics, served at one time as road supervisor, and he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife became the parents of three children—Isabelle, George D. and Thomas.
Thomas Rainsberger was reared on the home farm which is still his place of residence, and his youthful education was obtained in the common schools of the locality and period. He attended school during the winter months and during the summer seasons applied himself vigorously to work on his father's farm, he having been a mere boy when he began to do a man's work, including plowing and other arduous farm service. He continued to attend school until he was eighteen years of age, and upon attaining to his legal majority he further signalized his independence by taking unto himself a wife, his marriage to Miss Margaret A. Pearch, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth Jane (McDevitt) Pearch, of Monroe Township, having been solemnized in the year 1870. After their marriage they remained nine years on the old farm of Mr. Rainsberger's father, and then, in 1879, purchased and removedRi to their present farm, which at first comprised only thirty-three acres and which a subsequent purchase increased to its present area of sixty acres. Here Mr. Rainsberger has continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower during the intervening years, and he has secure status as one of the representative citizens of his native township, of which he served one term as trustee, besides which he held for six years the office of constable, and was a director of the county infirmary six years-1900-1906. He is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberger brief record is given in this concluding paragraph: Electa Laura is the wife of Henry A. Long, of Jewett, Carroll County, and they have one child, Katherine Nellie, sixteen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920. Homer B. married Miss Alice McCourt, of Loudon Township, this county, and they have three children —Lois Patience. Wilma Edith, and Arthur Bruce. Hattie Violet is the wife of T. I. Tope, of Monroe Township, and their only child is a son, John Clayton. Leroy Ross, the youngest of the children, resides in the city of Cleveland. He married Miss Una B. Orin, of Monroe Township, Carroll County.
ROBERT S. BUSBY. Numbered among the prosperous farmers of Archer Township is Robert S. Busby, owner of 280 acres of highly developed and valuable land. He was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, February 1, 1874, a son of Jacob Busby, grandson of Joshua Busby, and great-grandson of Abraham and Deborah (Kemp) Busby. Joshua Busby was born in Archer Township, but in young manhood moved to Perry Township, Carroll County, where he continued to farm the remainder of his life. He was married to Catherine Bear and their children were as follows: Jacob, who is mentioned below; Deborah, who married William Mal; and Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Bracker.
Jacob Busby was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, and his wife, Nellie Steel, was born in Loudon Township, a daughter of James and Mary (Sells) Steel. Commencing his farming on the same farm that had given his father his start, Jacob Busby remained on it for a quarter of a century, but then came to Harrison County, and for the past ten years has been a resident of Bowerston, Ohio. Here he and his wife are held in the highest esteem and they are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the place. Their children, living and dead, are as follows: Glenn, who married Mansfield Liggett; Robert S., of this sketch; Wade, who died when ahout thirty-two years of age; Clyde, who was fourth in order of birth; Nellie, who married Harry Keys, lives at Canton, Ohio; and Ruth, who married Walter Pender, also lives at Canton, Ohio.
Growing up amid rural surroundings Robert S. Busby gained a practical knowledge of farming from his father at the same time he was attending the district schools of his neighborhood. His first farming was done in Perry Township. Carroll County, but in the spring of 1902 he moved to his present farm in Archer Township, and rented it for about ten years, when he then bought. Here he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising, and is now specializing on dairying, keeping a herd of sixty cattle, and milking from thirty-five to forty all the time. Starting out in life with no capital, Mr. Busby has gone a long way on the road of success, and entirely through his own efforts. He is a man who knows how to make his efforts yield him good returns, and may be said to have had no failures in his undertakings.
In 1899 Mr. Busby was united in marriage with Vettle Baker, a daughter of Thomas and Emily A. (Robertson) Baker, members of old families of this section. Mr. and Mrs. Busby have four children : Lloyd Forrest, Harry Wade, Bessie Blanche, and Roy Baker. Both Mr. Busby and his wife belong to the Methodist church of Jewett.
ROBERT MERRICK. By scientitic methods, strict business policies and progressive measures Mr. Merrick has achieved the maximum success in connection with farm industry in Carroll County, where his model farm, "Grand View," of 172 acres, is situated in Monroe Township, half a mile east of the village of Dellroy, which
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is his postoffice address. He is known as one of the most progressive students and exemplars of agriculture and horticulture in Carroll County, and the results have been shown in his reclaiming a run-down farm into one of the most productive in the county. He has conducted careful experimentations in fertilizing and in restoring the integrity of the soil throughout the medium of legume crops of diversified order. He was the first man in the county to mark practical appreciation of the value of powdered lime in restoring so called "sour" land to fertility, and he was also the first to plant sweet clover as a means of soil regeneration in this county. Mr. Merrick is a regular correspondent of the national Department of Agriculture, which has manifested marked interest in his various experiments and shown a desire to have complete record of results achieved. He has recourse to the leading periodicals representative of farm industry, and has contributed valuable articles to a number of these farm journals. Mr. Merrick has the largest and finest orchard of Baldwin apple trees in the county, and from the same he shipped fully 2,200 bushels from his crop of the season of 1920. By careful spraying, etc., he produces prize-winning Baldwin apples of the finest type, the same commanding the maximum market prices. He is an enthusiast in the reclaiming of sour land by means of lime and in the enriching of the soil by means of leguminous crops. With all his success and hroad and scientific knowledge gained in these connections Mr. Merrick has been characteristically modest in working out his methods and plans, and has accepted both mistakes and successes with philosophic calm. His example has led to much emulation in Carroll County, and many who at first ridiculed his work are now copying his methods. One familiar with his indefatigable labors and earnest study and experimentation has pronounced him the most valuable citizen of Carroll County in the matter of instituting progressive measures in connection with the various departments of farm industry.
Mr. Merrick was born at Dellroy, this county, in the year 1879, and is a son of Robert and Mary Jane (Smith) Merrick. He is of Scotch- Irish lineage, and his paternal grandfather, Israel Merrick, came from Maryland and established his home in Harrison Township, Carroll County, where he became an extensive landholder and representative farmer.
Robert Merrick, Jr., subject of this review, acquired his youthful education in the public schools of his native county, and his broader education has been gained through self-discipline, well directed study and active association with the practical affairs of life. At the age of eighteen he took the position of engineer at the Dellroy coal mines, and he continued his service in this capacity for a period of fifteen years. With the money which he had saved he then purchased sixty-four acres of Ms present farm, to which he subsequently added an adjoining tract of 108 acres. Here he has achieved remarkable results in general agriculture, besides developing one of the finest apple orchards in this section of the state. He operates a coal mine on his farm, the product of the same being used largely in this and adjoining counties. Mr. Merrick has been emphatically one of the world's constructive workers, and his success and prestige have been worthily won. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton and has other financial interests. Though never a seeker of political preferment, he accords a loyal allegiance to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy.
In 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Merrick to Miss Mary E. Booth, daughter of Jeremiah and Matilda (Parker) Booth, of Harrison Township, she being the youngest in a family of six children and the original representatives of the Booth family in America having come from the north of Ireland. Jeremiah Booth was the owner of a farm of sixty acres in Harrison Township and for many years worked to a greater or less extent at the trade of blacksmith. His death occurred in 1913, and his wife has also passed to eternal rest. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Merrick are: Harry, Doyle and Earl, aged respectively fifteen, eleven and nine years, in 1920. The attractive family home is known for its generous and refined hospitality.
WILLIAM McKIBBEN. Worthy achievement is that of productive activity in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and stock- raising, and he whose name initiates this paragraph has the distinction of being not only a representative farmer of his native county and township but also a scion of a sterling family that was founded in Ohio prior to the admission of the state to the Union. His well improved homestead farm, of sixty-five acres, is attractively situated in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, and in addition to this farm he has also the management of another fine farm estate of 248 acres not far distant from the home place, and in connection with well diversified agriculture he gives special attention to the raising of sheep of excellent type, making this an important feature of his farm enterprise. The progressiveness and prosperity of Mr. McKibben are clearly indicated in the admirable appearance and facilities of his landed estate, and he is a citizen whose sterling character has given him secure place in popular confidence and good will.
William McKibben was born on his fathersis old homestead farm in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was July 30, 1861. He is a son of John and Isabelle (McMillan) McKibben, both natives of Athens Township, Harrison County, where the former was born January 27, 1833, and the latter on the 6th of October, 1829.
John McKibben was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer period in the history of Harrison County where he was reared on the old home farm and where he received the advantages of the common schools of the day. He was a son of George and Martha (Brokaw) McKibben. George McKibben was the
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youngest of eight children born to Richard and Sarah McKibben, and it was about the year 1790 that Richard McKibben immigrated from his native state of Pennsylvania to Ohio, where he obtained a large tract of land in Jefferson County. Within a short time, however, he removed to Belmont County, later he resided in Harrison County, and finally he removed to Morgan County, where his death occurred in 1827. He was born and reared in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where his father settled upon coming from Ireland to America. George McKibben, grandfather of William McKibben, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, September 15, 1804. and in that and Belmont counties he was reared. The family name of his first wife was Brashers. who lived only a short time after the birth of her only child, Jesse, who eventually established his home in the state of Illinois. In 1830 George McKibben married Miss Martha Brokaw, and they became the parents of two sons. George and John. After the death of his second wife George McKibben wedded Miss Eleanor Morrison. and they became the parents of three children—William. Eleanor and Richard. The mother of these children passed to the life eternal and George McKibben thereafter contracted a fourth marriage, with Jane Beall, who died in 1887. George Beall developed one of the productive farms of Moorefield Township and was one of the most venerable men of the county at the time of his death.
John McKibben's marriage to Miss Isabelle 'McMillan. daughter of Charles and Rosanna (Gilmore) McMillan, was solemnized January 3, 1856, the parents of his wife having been natives of Ireland and having become early settlers in Harrison County. Ohio. After his marriage Mr. McKibben continued his residence in Athens Township for two years. and in 1859 he purchased a farm of sixty-four acres, in section 31, Mooretield Township. where he continued his successful career as a farmer until the close of his long and useful life. He was a republican in polities and he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of six children—George, John C.. Mary E.. Sarah B., William and Thomas C.
William McKibben grew to manhood on the farm which was the place of his birth, and his youthful education was acquired in the district schools of Moorefield Township. None can doubt his wisdom in having never abated his allegiance to farm industry, for in connection therewith he has won substantial success and lived a life of independence, with a home of which any man might well be proud. For three years after his marriage he was engaged in farming in Nottingham Township. and he then removed to the fine farm which has since continued his place of residence and which is one of the model places in Mooretield Township. In politics he is a staunch advocate and supporter of the cause of the republican party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. in the faith of which they have reared their children.
On the 15th of December, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McKibben to Miss Lydia S. Porter, who was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, August 15, 1864, a daughter of John and Sarah (Dunlap) Porter. Concerning the children of this union the following brief record is consistently entered: John Allen, who was born October 13, 1887, remained at the parental home, and he continued as his father's valued coadjutor in the work and management of .the farm until January, 1920, when he entered service in the position of rural mail carrier on one of the routes from Piedmont. Later he gave up his work as mail carrier and removed to Piedmont, where he is now residing. On November 24, 1920, he married Melva E., daughter of Everett Leyster, of Guernsey County, Ohio.
J. Frank, the second son, was born August 10, 1890, and is giving his attention to farm enterprise in his native county. He married Miss Cora Simpson and they have had two children, Bertha Clara, who was born January 29, 1892, died on the 2d of February, 1918, and Alberta Lenore Sherman, who was born September 24, 1894, is engaged in farming in Moorefield Township. Sarah Emma, who was boru November 23, 1897, is the wife of Wilbur Lee, of Moorefield Township, and they have two children, Dorothy May and William.
WILLIAM FINNICUM has long been numbered among the substantial farmers of Carroll County, which has been his place of residence from his childhood and in which he is a representative of sterling pioneer families—on hoth the paternal and the maternal sides. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 18th of March, 1853, and is a son of James D. and Eleanor (Moorehead) Finnicum, both of whom were born and reared in Carroll County, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they soon afterward removed to Jefferson County and established their home on a farm near Steubenville. In 1858 they made the venturesome journey by water to California, where the gold excitement was still at its height, and they located at Forest Hill, Placer County, that state, James D. Finnicum did not give much time to the search for gold in the mines, but for thirty-six years he drove stage for the Wells-Fargo Express Company, within which long period he had mnny interesting experiences in connection with frontier life. He now resides at Chico, as a patriarchal citizen of ninety-three years, his birth having occurred on the 6th of Octoher, 1827. His devoted wife passed to the life eternal in August. 1903. Of their children the first, Angeline, is deceased; William, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Meriman died March 19, 1921, in Chico, California : and at Chico reside also Mary, who is the widow of James Barnes, and Elizabeth. who is the wife of Harry Kregger.
The paternal grandparents of William Finnicum were William and Maria (Richards) Final- cum. the former a native of the north of England and the latter of Carroll County, Ohio. where her parents settled in the early pioneer
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days. Thomas and Mary (Hill) Moorehead, the maternal grandparents, likewise were numbered among the early settlers of Carroll County, where they obtained land from the government and did well their part in the initial development of the county.
He whose name initiates this review was about five years old when his parents went to California. and he was taken into the home of his maternal uncle, Crawford Moorehead, of Lee Township. Carroll County. Here he was reared to adult age. and in the meanwhile he did not ueglect the advantages offered in the district schools of the locality. After the death of his uncle he remained with his widowed aunt on the farm until she, too, passed away, in the spring of 1876. On the 6th of December of the following year he married Miss Margaret J. Taylor, daughter of John and Mary (Swickard) Taylor, of Jefferson County. He then, worked a farm in Lee Township, and after remaining on this place two years, with incidental attention given to the mining of coal in this locality, he purchased a farm of eighty acres in the south part of Lee Township. About ten years later he sold this property and purchased eighty acres of his present farm, one mile northwest of Harlem Springs. Later he added fifty- five acres to his farm property, but by the sub- sequent sale of two acres the tract was reduced to its present area-133 acres. Mr. Finnicum has always been known as an earnest and industrious exponent of farm enterprise, and his success as an agriculturist and stock-grower has been such as to attest his good Judgment aud his close application to productive industry. For a number of years he gave considerahle attention to the digging of coal during the winter seasons, an appreciable amount of coal having been mined on his own farm. He is a republican in political adherency, has served as a member of the election board but has had no desire for public office. He has always been ready to do his part in the furtherance of measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community and his is an inviolable place in popular confidence and good will.
In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum: James D. is a resident of Raymond, Washington; Charles M. resides in the city of Minneapolis. Minnesota ; John F. maintains his home at Carrollton, judicial center of his native county: William Albert is a progressive farmer of Lee Township; Alanson is engaged in farming in Columbiana County; Jesse W. died at the age of about thirty years; Crawford R. remains at the parental home and is associated in the management of the farm; Mary Eleanor is the wife of James Nape, of Washington Township, Carroll County; and Annie C. is the wife of Perry Roudebush, of Lee Township. Two of the sons. Jesse W. and Crawford Ra represented Carroll County as valiant young soldiers with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World war, and white in service both contracted influenza. Jesse W. having heen confined in .a hospital in France for ten weeks and having virtually sacrificed his life in the cause of patriotism, as he did not long survive after his return to his native land, his death occurring in Canton, Ohio. on the 7th of May, 1920.
FRANK B. SPIKER is a representative of the fourth generation of the Spiker family in Harrison County. within whose gracious borders his paternal great-grandparents settled in a very early day. upon immigrating to Ohio from Pennsylvania. in which latter commonwealth the original American progenitors established a home upon coming from their native Holland. in the colonial period of our national history. The great-grandfather took up Government land in what is now Stock Township. Harrison County, and began reclaiming a farm in the midst of the primeval forest. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and endured the hardships that fell to those who thus established homes on the frontier, in the late part of the eighteenth or early part of the nineteenth century. Christopher Spiker, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born on the pioneer farm in Stock Township, in the year 1806. and he became one of the substantial farmers of his native township. where he also operated a grist mill in the early days. He was seventy-two years of age at the time of his death. in 1879, his wife. whose maiden name was Ara Carnes, having passed away in March. 1870.
Frank B. Spiker was born in Stock Township. Harrison County. December 3, 1863, and is a son of John W. and Nancy (Crawford) Spiker. both of whom were likewise born and reared in Stock Township and the latter was a daughter of Josiah Crawford. John W. Spiker was born July 31, 1833. and remained until his death on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. He became the owner of a valuable landed estate of nearly 600 acres and was one of the leading agriculturists and sheep-growers of Stock Township, besides which he became associated with his sons in the buying and shipping of live stock, a portion of his farm property having been situated in Franklin Township. He was a staunch republican, was an honored and inftuential tigure in his community, served many terms as township trustee and in 1889 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners. in which office he served with characteristic loyalty and efficiency. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Deersville, in which he held for many years the office of trustee. He was eighty-three years of age at the time of his death, December 30. 1916, and his wife passed to eternal rest at the age of eighty-one years, on the 3d of January, 1913, their children having been five in number—Edward C., Flora. Frank B., Crawford and Birdella.
The early life of Frank B. Spiker was passed like that of the average farm youth of the locality and period, and he profited duly by the advantages of the district schools of his native township. He continued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm until the time of his marriage, in 1900, since which time he
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has maintained his residence in the village of Deersville, Franklin Township, where he continues to conduct a large and prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock, with which line of enterprise he has been actively identified for fully a quarter of a century, besides which he gives a general supervision to his farm property, in Franklin Township. For the past several years he has been one of the owners of the grist mill at Deersville, but he has given but little of his time to the active management of this industrial enterprise. He is a republican in political allegiance and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church in their home village.
In the year 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Mary Belle Fulton. and they have one child, Helen B. Mrs. Spiker was born and reared in Nottingham Township. this county, and is a daughter of William P. and Emma J. (Cunningham) Fulton. William P. Fulton was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 23d of October, 1835, and was a son of William and Elizabeth (Pugh) Fulton, the former of whom was born at Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 25, 1806, and the latter in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, February 6, 1813, their marriage having been solemnized on the 3d of May, 1832. Mrs. Elizabeth Fulton was a daughter of William and Bethsheba (Johnson) Pugh, both natives of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days, Mrs. Pugh having been a daughter of Benjamin Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. William Pugh became the parents of seven children—John, Benjamin, Ellis, Enoch, William, Jr., Elizabeth and Rachel. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Pugh became the wife of John Heavilin, and they became the parents of two sons, Byron and Albert, the last mentioned having served as a soldier in the Mexican war. John Pugh, the founder of the family in Harrison County, came here from Maryland and in Nottingham Township he reclaimed from the wilderness the farm now owned by Marion D. Barrett. Here lie reared his two sons, David and Wiliam, and his several daughters, and here he and his wife remained as sterling pioneer citizens until the close of their lives.
The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Spiker were Philip and Hannah Fulton. Philip Fulton was a pioneer school teacher at Steubenville, Jefferson County, and among his pupils was Edward M. Staunton, who later served as secretary of war in the cabinet of President Lincoln. Mr. Fulton later became a pioneer farmer in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he was a leader in community affairs, he having served many years as justice of the peace. He and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which they reared their children— Alexander, William, Philip, John, Hannah, Jane, Mary, Eliza, Julia and Sarah. The son William became a substantial farmer and stock-grower in Nottingham Township, where he owned at one time 464 acres of land and where he achieved special success as a sheep-grower. His children were eight in number—John Calvin, William P. (father of Mrs. Spiker), Alexander, Wintield Scott (died while serving as a Union soldier in the Civil war), Hannah (died at the age of four years), Rachel, Louisa and Ellis.
William P. Fulton was reared and educated in Nottingham Township and he represented his native county as a soldier in the Civil war. In the autumn of 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued in service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 19, 1865. He took part in numerous engagements, including the battles of Jonesboro, Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Rome, Kenesaw Mountain and Bentonville, and was with Sherman's forces on the historic march from Atlanta to the sea. At the close of hostilities he participated in the Grand Review, in the City of Washington. Thereafter he was numbered among the prosperous farmers of his native township until about 1890, when he purchased and assumed charge of the grist mill at Deersville, where he and his wife have since maintained their home. Here Mr. Fulton is an appreciative and valued member of John A. Norris Post, No. 495, Grand Army of the Republic, and his wife is a member of the Christian Church. July 5, 1866, recorded the marriage of Mr. Fulton to Miss Emma J. Cunningham, daughter of William and Jane (McCullough) Cunningham, of Nottingham Township, and of this union have been born four children: Winfield Scott resides in the City of Columbus, Ohio; William Marshall maintains his home at Spokane, Washington; Mary Belle is the wife of Frank B. Spiker, the subject of this sketch; and Bessie is the wife of Lauce Bargar, of Deersville.
EDWARD C. SPIKER, whose excellent farm of 120 acres lies partially within the corporate
limits of the Village of Scio, Harrison County, where he maintains his residence, not only gives his supervision to this farm but has been for many years engaged in the buying and shipping of live stock, in which he was formerly associated with his father and brother. In the personal sketch of his brother, Frank B., In the preceding sketch of this work, is given adequate review of the family history, so that a repetition of the record is not here demanded. Suffice it to say that Mr. Spiker is a popular representative of one of the sterling pioneer families whose name has been identified with Harrison County history for more than a century.
Mr. Spiker was born on the ancestral homestead farm, in Stock Township, this county, and the date of his nativity was May 19, 1860. He continued to be associated with the work aud management of the home farm until his marriage, in 1893, but in the meanwhile he had devoted nine years to successful service as a teacher in the rural schools of his native county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in North Township, and there
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he remained until the autumn of 1917, when he removed to his present fine farm, lying partly within the Village of Scio, in the same township. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.
The year 1893 recorded the marriage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Anna J. Miller, daughter of John and Margaret (Smith) Miller, of Franklin Township, and the one child of this union, John J. M., is a member of the class of 1923 in the University of Ohio, at Columbus.
RICHARD HETHERINGTON is one of the leading men of Fox Township, where he owns a valuable farm, although he devotes his attention to coal mining as boss of the Sterling Coal Company. He was born at Salineville, Ohio, October 6, 1876, a son of Richard and Jane (Vasey) Hetherington, natives of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, where they were married. The father was a miner in England, and continued to work at that calling when he came to Salineville, Ohio. for a time, but the last twenty-five years of life he was in the liquor business. His death occurred about 1902, but the mother survived him until 1912. They had thirteen children, of whom the living are as follows: William and Robert, both of whom live at Salineville, Ohio; Maggie, who is Mrs. Henry Westlake of Salineville; John T., who lives at Cleveland, Ohio; Richard, whose name heads this review; and Charles, who lives in Fox Township.
When he was fourteen, years old Richard Hetherington began digging coal, and has remained in the coal-mining business ever since. At one time he and his brothers. William, Charles and Robert opened a coal mine in Fox Township, which was a drift one, and three years later sold it to the Sterling Mining Company of Cleveland, after which Mr. Hetherington worked in the mine for two years. At that time he, William Hetherington, Richard Hetherington, Mathew Smith and Herman Granpner opened another mine in Fox Township and conducted it for about four years, and sold it to the Sterling Coal Company, Limited, of Toronto, Canada. They then leased the Y. & 0. Mining Company of Barton, Ohio. Six months later Mr. Hetherington engaged with the Sterling Coal Company as mine boss, and has since held that position. In March, 1907, he bought a farm in Fox Township, which his sons conduct. Since making his purchase he has sold thirty-nine acres of the farm.
On January 20, 1897, Mr. Hetherington was married to Lula Saltsman, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Martin and Eliza (Van Dyke) Saltsman, natives of Jefferson and Athens counties, Ohio, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Hetherington became the parents of the following children: Walter Leroy of Salineville, who married Verona Grove; Erma, who married Fred Everitt of Salineville, has one son. Fred, Jr.; Harold, who is on the home farm; Ernest, who died in infancy; and Helen, Richard and Delmar, who are at home.
Mr. Hetherington and his wife attended the public schools of their several neighborhoods. The Christian Church holds Mr. Hetherington's membership, and for several years he was a deacon, and has always been interested in its progress. A republican, he has served as trustee of the water works and cemetery, and as a member of the school board at Salineville. Fraternally he belongs to Salineville Lodge No. 435, I. 0. 0. F. In every relation of life Mr. Hetherington measures up to the highest conception of American citizenship, and has fairly won the prosperity and good standing in his community he now enjoys.
HOMER WHITE. One of the widely known citizens and substantial ,Farmers and stock- raisers of Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, is Homer White, who was born in this township April 12, 1860. His parents were Joseph T. and Mahala (Johnson) White, both of whom were born also in Franklin Township. William Johnson, the maternal grandfather, was an early pioneer in this section, coming when a large portion of the land was yet heavily timbered and the home of many Indians. The children of William Johnson were four in number, namely: Sarah J., who married John Czatt; Harriet, who married Moses Gordon; Caroline, who died young; and Mahal* who became the wife of Joseph T. White.
Joseph T. White, the paternal grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, married Hannah Rodgers, born in Hamilton County, Ohio. They came in pioneer days to Franklin Township, Harrison County and lived and died on their farm. They were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had children as follows: Wiliam Pinckney, Joshua, Warner, Joseph T., Charles, Permelia, Anna and Hannah, the two last named still surviving.
Joseph T. White the second, spent his entire life as a farmer in Franklin Township, and both he and wife died on the old homestead there. They were quiet, industrious, virtuous people and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Four children were born to them. namely: Alice, who is the wife of Wilson E. McGonegal; Homer, who is a representative citizen of Franklin Township; Jesse, who died at the age of seven months; and John, who married Bertha Wallace, of Carroll County, and still lives on the old homestead.
Homer White obtained his educational training in the Weaver School, in Franklin Township, and gave his father assistance on the home farm. For one year after his marriage, he resided at Uhrichsville, Ohio, but then returned to the home farm, which he conducted for the next seven years. In 1894 he purchased his extensive farm in Franklin Township, consisting of 200 acres, which property has closely engaged his attention ever since. He finds general farming and moderate stock-raising under his progressive methods quite profitable although requiring careful and intelligent management.
On May 17, 1886, Mr. White was married to Ellen Cecil, daughter of Richard and Jane (Bliss) Cecil, and they have five children:
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Della, who resides at home; Earl Ma who lives on one of his father's farms, married Birdie Hines, and they have two children, Helen and Lewis Homer; Frank B., 'who is assisting his father since released from military service; and Forest M. and Florence Opal, both of whom are at home.
Frank B. White has an honorable record testifying to cheerful and efficient duty well performed during his five months' service in the National Army. He entered service in July, 1918, and was sent to Camp Sherman and assigned to the organization for foreign service wben the armistice was signed. The young soldier received his discharge in December, 1918, and returned to his home.
For many years Mr. White has been active in politics to some extent and has been called upon to serve in important township offices. For four years be was a trustee of Franklin Township, and for a like period served on the township board of education. The family attends the Christian Church, of which Mrs. White is a member.
BENJAMIN F. PRICE has wisely followed in the footsteps of his honored father in his continuous and successful association with the great basic industries of agriculture and stock- growing, of which he has long been a substantial exponent in his native township. He was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, on tbe 20th of October, 1847, and is a son of the late Joel and Sophia (Leas) Price, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County, this state, January 9, 1805, and the latter was likewise a native of that county, where their marriage was solemnized on the 24th of May, 1836. Mrs. Sophia Price was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Leas, who were born and reared in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where their marriage occurred and whence they came in an early day to Jefferson County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of tbeir lives as sterling pioneer citizens, their children having been seven in number—Leonard, Maria (Mrs. Miser), Sophia (Mrs. Joel Price), Jacob, Margaret (Mrs. Finnicum), Eliza (Mrs. Reukenbrod), and William. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Joel Price was a native of Germany and became an early settler in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he reared a family of six sons and six ,daughters. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joel Price continued their residence in Jefferson County until 1846, when they came to Harrison County and settled on a tract of land which had been secured from the Government, by the father of Mr. Price. There the passing years marked the development of one of the fine farms of Franklin Township, and there Mr. and Mrs. Price continued to reside until their deaths, when venerable in years. Both were earnest and influential members of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs, in which Mr. Price served as a trustee and also as treasurer. The dates and respective dates of birth of their children are here .made a matter of record: Jacob L., September 13, 1837; Catherine. September 30, 1839; William H. H., October 14, 1841; Elizabeth, November 4, 1843: Sarah J., October 29, 1845: Benjamin F.. October 20, 1847; George W., December 3. 1849 (died October 28, 1864), Leonard, August 23. 1852: John La December 30. 1854: and Mary M.. December 28, 1859.
Joel Price was a grandson of Josiah and Mary (Frazier) Price. the former of whom was ;1 native of Wales. whence he set forth for America when a young man. in company with his two brothers. one of whom was drowned at sea while on the voyage, he having fallen overboard and having swam for half a day before he succumbed, his pleadings and those of his brothers having not availed in causing the captain of the vessel to attempt a rescue. Benjamin Price. father of Joel, was born in New Jersey, December 12. 1768, and his wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Beebout. was born September 5, 1766. The parents became pioneer settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio. where they passed the remainder of their lives, the death of the father occurring September 15. 1853.
Benjamin F. Price gained his youthful education in the pioneer schools of Franklin Township and in a well ordered school then maintained at Feed Springs. He thereafter continued his association with the activities of the old home farm until his marriage, in 1876, wheu he established his home on the farm which has continued to be the stage of his effective enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower during the long intervening years. The excelleut buildings on the place were erected by him, and the farm comprises 166 acres. On the place Mr. Price has a number of pure-bred Shorthorn cattle and Percheron horses. but he has not specialized in the raising of these types of live stock. He is a republican in his political proclivities and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs.
On the 7th of February. 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Price to Miss Mary R. Barkley, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Andrew and Rebecca (Welch) Barkley. Mr. and Mrs. Price have two children—Edgar K. and Lura M.. the latter being the wife of S. Garfield Hitchcock. of Franklin Township. Edgar K. Price. who has for the past twenty years maintained partnership association with his father in the operations of the home farm and who individually owns eighty acres in Franklin Township, was born in this township on the 7th of December. 1878, and his early education was obtained in the public schools at Feed Springs. He has always remained with his parents on the old homestead, and for twelve or more years he also did effective contract work in the drilling of oil wells. besides which he has leased lands for oil prospecting and is still actively identified with oil production enterprise. He pins his political faith to the republican party and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs.
October 3, 1900, recorded the marriage of Edgar K. Price to Miss Jessie E. Melaney, daugh-
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ter of John and Ella Melaney, and she died May 1, 1906, leaving no children. On the 19th of August, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Price to Miss Elizabeth Wenger, who was born in Switzerland, daughter of Rudolph and Miriam (Crepps) Wenger, and the one child of this union is Benjamin R., who was born June 13, 1909.
CHARLES W. PALMER. The history of Monroe Township would not be complete without some mention of the Palmer family, which has been established within its confines for several generations, and many of whose representative men have been actively connected with agriculture in all of its branches. One of these representatives who has achieved a notable success as a farmer is Charles W. Palmer, born in the township September 4, 1S76, a son of Richard R. and Frances Elvin:, (Gamble) Palmer, and grandson of Nicholas Palmer, the latter one of the early farmers of Monroe Township, who lived here until toward the close of his life when he moved to Carroll County, Ohio, and there died. Ile married Jane Maxwell and their children were: Eliza, Richard R., Martha Jane and Robert.
Richard R. Palmer was born in Monroe Township March 20, 1851, and was married November 30, 1875. His wife was also born in Monroe Township, June 25, 1854, a daughter of William and Nancy (Kerr) Gamble. For many years William Gamble was engaged in farming in Monroe Township, but he spent the last twenty years of his life in Carroll County, Ohio. His first wife was named Isabel Gamble, and she bore him the following family: George, Margaret, Martha Jane, Isabel, William and Wilson, of whom William died while serving in the Union army during the war between the North and the South. After the death of his first wife William Gamble was married second to Ruth Dew and they had two children, namely: Sarah and David Wesley. As his third wife he married Mrs. Nancy (Kerr) Weyandt, widow of John Weyandt, and daughter of Robert and Mary Kerr. The children of his third marriage were Frances Elvina and Jerusha Ellen.
Richard R. Palmer has spent practically all of his life in Monroe Township. Both he and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of the following children: Charles W., who was the eldest born; James Delbert, who was born October 8, 1878. married Sarah Penman; Elsie Lenora, who was born December 16, 1880, married Edward Meese; Roy H., who was born November 18. 1883, married Mary J. Slonaker; Elmer Glenn, who was born June 10, 1886, died January 9. 1887; Alice May, who was born December 10. 1887, married R. J. Troutman; Flemming, who was born April 24, 1890, married Dessie Warner and they have one child,—Ruth Elizabeth: Earl G., who was born December 31, 1892. married Edna Pearl Shields; and Lloyd R.. who was born July 2, 1896.
Earl G. Palmer entered the service of his country during the great war, in 1917, and was stationed for some time at Camp Sherman and assigned to Company B, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry. Going overseas, he was in France but a short time when he was sent to Italy, his being the only regiment to land on Italian soil and from there he was returned safely to his own country and honorably discharged. While in the service he was the carpenter of his company.
Lloyd R. Palmer enlisted for service during the same war, in February, 1918, in the Marines, and was stationed on Paris Island. He was sergeant of Company C, Second Battalion, Thirteenth Regiment, United States Marine Corps. His organization was sent overseas, and during the time he was in France Sergeant Palmer was principally stationed at Saint Nezeire. While be is now out of the service he belongs to the Marine Reserves.
Charles W. Palmer attended the schools of Monroe Township, and lived with his parents until he was married to Mary Jenette Penman, a daughter of Robert and Anna (Stubbins) Penman, November 29. 1896. Following his marriage he began farming for himself in his native township, and continued in that line of business until 1908, when he entered the employ of the Sun Oil Company, and was engaged in pumping oil for eleven years. Then, in the spring of 1919 he returned to farming. He and his wife have three children, namely; Robert Penman, who married Gladys Cables, lives at Dennison, Ohio; Francis Delbert, and Joseph Henry, both of whom are at home. Mr. Palmer and his wife are consistent members of the Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church.
Robert Penman, father of Mrs. C. W. Palmer, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, June 30, 1846, a son of Richard and Ellen (Ramsey) Penman, both born in the same shire as their son. Richard Penman was a coal miner in Scotland, where his life was spent. He and his wife had the following children : Richard, who came to the United State§ about 1880; James, who died in Scotland; Robert, who is mentioned elsewhere, being the father of Mrs. Palmer; and Ellen, who lives in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
When he was twenty-one years of age Robert Penman came to the United States, and located in Fayette County. Pennsylvania. After living in a number of places, in 1872 he came to Harrison County, and was married, and then returned to Scotland where he remained for four years. Once more he came to this country, and for the past thirty-four years has made Harrison County his home. Here he owns 108 acres of land, but he rents his farm and is engaged in digging coal, this having been his occupation since he was nine years of age. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: Mary, who was born in Scotland; and Sarah, who was born in America. Mr. and Mrs. Penman are members of the Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church.
ROBERT PENMAN PALMER, son of Charles W. Palmer of Monroe Township, Harrison County, though a resident of Dennison deserves mention in this record as one of the gallant soldiers of Harrison County in the World war. He was with the Forty-second or Rainbow Division.
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He was born at the home of his parents in Monroe Township September 8, 1897. He was not yet twenty years of age when he volunteered and enlisted April 17, 1917, at Dennison, Ohio. He received his early training at Camp Perry, being assigned to Company K of the old Fourth Ohio Regiment in the Thirty-seventh Division. August 16, 1917, he was transferred to Company H of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry in the Forty-second or Rainbow Division. October 8, 1917, he left Hoboken, New York, on the "Peoria" for France, landing at Brest, and after some intensive training with the Rainbow Division he was placed on the Luneville sector from March 11 to 22, 1918; Bacarat sector March 25 to June 20th; on the Champagne-Marne defensive from July 15th to July 18th; took part in the Aisne-Marne offensive from July 27th to August 3rd; was in the Saint Mihiel campaign from September 12th to 16th; in the Woevre sector from September •5th to 30th; and in the Meuse-Argonne battles from October 10 to November 7, 1918. June 18, 1918, he was gassed and hit by shrapnel, and was in hospital recovering from these injuries three weeks. During his service he was in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, and was with the Army of Occupation in Germany for six months.
In April, 1919, he left France on the Leviathan, landing at New York April 29th, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman May 16, 1919, more than two years after his enlistment.
June 3, 1919, Robert Penman Palmer married Gladys Cable of Dennison, daughter of Lee and Callie Cable.
HARRY J. JOHNSON. With the increasing demand for all farm products, there has come a corresponding added value to the work of those who are devoting their talents and time to the cultivation of the soil and the development of the agricultural resources of the country. Ohio has furnished some of the best examples of what the intelligent man of today can .do as a farmer, and one of these men of Harrison County worthy of special mention in this respect is Harry J. Johnson of Archer Township.
Harry J. Johnson was born in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, Ohio, February 18, 1879, a son of George and Mary (Dowdel) Johnson. George Johnson was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and became a farmer of Moorefield Township, Harrison County, but later moved to Cadiz Township, this same county. After two years he made another change and for eight years was engaged in farming in Short Creek Township, leaving it for Athens Township. After two years in Athens Township, he moved back to Short Creek Township, and there he remained until his death, which occurred in April, 1909. His wife died some years before him, passing away in April, 1S95. They were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The children born to George Johnson and his wife were as follows: John William, Jennie, Louisa and Alice, who are deceased, Robert, Harry J., George, Edward, Golda and Charles.
Harry J. Johnson attended the district schools of Harrison County, and at the same time he learned the essentials of farming under his father's care. As a young man he begau farming in Cadiz Township, and remained there for three years, when he moved to his present farm of ninety-three acres in Archer Township and here he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising with very gratifying results, both to himself and his neighborhood.
On November 8, 1899, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage with Jennie Chaney, a daughter of Nathan and Nancy Chaney of Franklin Township, Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have one child, Chester F., who was born August 3, 1901. Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson helong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which they are held in high respect, as they are elsewhere, for they are people of fine characteristics and deserving of all the confidence they inspire.
ROBERT H. McGUIRE, a trustee of Monroe Township, and one of the successful farmers of Harrison County, is a man who stands very high in popular esteem. He was born in Mouroe Township, October 1, 1865, a son of Sampson and Elizabeth (Crumley) McGuire, and grandson of James McGuire. James McGuire and his wife Nancy (Beatty) McGuire were born in Ireland, from which country they came with their family to the United States in 1818, hut she died soon after their arrival here. They located in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and Mrs. McGuire is buried in that township. Later James McGuire moved to Monroe Township. His two children were: Sampson and Eliza, the latter of whom died unmarried.
Sampson McGuire was born June 15, 1815, iu Ireland, but his wife was born in Monroe Towuship, Harrison County. April 27, 1824, and she was a daughter of Dr. James and Jane (Pruvine) Crumley. Doctor Crumley was one of the early physicians of Harrison County, and he was one of the active members of the Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife helonged to the church of that denomination at Tappan. The children born to Doctor Crumley and his wife were as follows: Elizabeth, Margaret, Jane and Isabel.
Growing to manhood in Harrison County to which he was brought in childhood, Sampson McGuire became a farmer of Monroe Township, and at the time of his death owned 188 acres of land. He passed away July 6, 1879, and Mrs. McGuire died September 4, 1905. She was his second wife, his first one having been Nancy Hoover. By his first marriage Sampsou McGuire had the following family : James H., who died in 1881; Adam, who lives at Scio, Ohio ; and Nancy, who married J. A. Price, lives in Nebraska. The children of his second marriage were as follows: Bell Ann, who died when small; Margaret, who married E. A. Phillips; William B., who is deceased; Catherine, who married N. A. Smith; David C.; John C.; Rob-
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ert H.; and Dr. Samuel B., who lives at Dover, Ohio. Mrs. McGuire belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Robert H. McGuire attended the district schools of his native township, and while doing so learned the details of farming from his father. He remained at home until his marriage after which he located on his present farm of 115 acres, and here he has since carried on a general farming and stock-raising business. He has remodeled his residence, putting in electric lights, steam heat and making it thoroughly modern in every respect, and he also huilt the barn. Since 1920 he has been serving Monroe Township as a trustee and has saved the taxpayers some money by his care of their interests.
On June 16, 1892, Mr. McGuire was united in marriage with Anna Johnston, a daughter of Joseph E. and Hannah (Smith) Johnston. Mrs. McGuire is a sister of G. H. Johnston. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McGuire are as follows: Nina Deane, who married Eugene Bower, lives in North Township, Harrison County, and has two children—Elsie May and Rohert Eugene; Nora Verne, who lives at Pittshurgh, Pennsylvania, is in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad; and Samuel Robert, who is at home. Mr. McGuire is a man who takes a deep pride in his farm and his premises show that he knows the value of neatness and efficiency. His buildings are modern and well- kept, his fences are maintained in good order, and his soil is cared for so that it produces hanner crops. Many of his methods of farming are so good that they have been adopted hy others in the neighborhood and he is recognized as an authority on agricultural matters.
JOHN W. MORGAN has signalized his energy and productive ability through many years of successful association with farm industry in Harrison County, where he is the owner of a well improved farm in Stock Township, the property giving ample evidence of the thrift and good management that have attended its varied operations. Mr. Morgan has here contributed his full quota toward making Harrison County one of the best and most productive agricultural sections of the Buckeye State.
Mr. Morgan was born in Belmont County, Ohio, on the 1st of January, 1855, and there he was reared to adult age, his early associations having been those of the home farm and his educational advantages those of the local schools. He is a son of Thomas and Catherine B. (Allen) Morgan, both natives of the old Keystone State, the former having been born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and where he served in his youth an apprenticeship to the trade of cabinetmaker. He finally came to Belmont County, Ohio, and engaged in farm enterprise in Wheeling Township, where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been active members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Rev. Moses Allen, father of Mrs. Morgan, was a clergyman who rendered long and zealous ministerial service. Thomas Morgan died about the year 1867 and his widow survived him by a number of years. They became the parents of nine children—Moses Aa Thomas Newton, Maggie J., William R., Martin Luther, Cassie E., John W., Millie Florence, and Elmer E. Thomas N. and William R. were gallant young soldiers of the Union in the Civil war, the former having served three years and having been killed in battle.
Reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, John W. Morgan early gained appreciation of the dignity and value of productive agricultural and live-stock enterprise, and his good judgment has been shown in his continuous identification therewith. He remained at the parental home until he initiated his independent career as a farmer, and on the 19th of August, 1879, was solemnized his marriage to Mary Elizabeth Layport. In connection with this important event in his career, Mr. Morgan purchased his present home farm of ninety-two acres, which had been originally owned by John Layport, grandfather of Mrs. Morgan, and to the value of which he has added by the installing of many improvements and by maintaining the place at the maximum stage of productiveness during the long intervening years. On this fine rural domain Mrs. Morgan was born June 19, 1853, a daughter of William Layport, the latter having likewise been born on this old homestead and the date of his nativity, June 12, 1805, showing that his parents were numbered among the earliest settlers in Stock Township, Harrison County. It is virtually assured also that John Layport, father of William, was born In Cadiz Township, this county, where his father, George Layport, settled when this section of the state was on the very frontier. John Lay- port was one of the first to institute the development of farm property in the midst of the forest wilds of stock Township, where he endured his full share of the hardships and herculean labors that fell to the lot of the pioneer and where he lived and labored to goodly ends. The maiden name of his wife was Mary McCain and they became the parents of eight children—Caspar, Nancy, George, John, William, Abraham, Isaac and Anna.
William Layport passed his entire life on the old homestead farm in Stock Township, where his death occurred in the year 1866. On the 10th of May, 1849, he married Miss Jane Laughridge, who was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, November 24, 1824, a daughter of Edward Laughridge, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, September 10, 1803, and whose death occurred in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, June 16, 1889. His parents, Edward and Margary (McConnell) Laughridge, immigrated to America in the year 1809, and within a short period thereafter they established their home in Jefferson County, Ohio, whence they removed to the western part of the state a few years prior to their deaths, their children having been eight in number. Edward Laughridge developed and improved one of the fine farms of Green Township, Harrison County, where he remained until his death and where his widow continued to reside until she too passed
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to the life eternal. Edward and Margaret (McConnell) Laughridge became the parents of eleven children—Jane, Joseph, Margaret, Thomas, Robert, Edward, Elizabeth, Nancy, John, William and Samuel. Mrs. Laughridge died August 26, 1868, and Mr. Laughridge later married Susannah, a daughter of John Conaway, of Stock Township, two children having been born to this union—James H. and Susannah. The religious faith of the family has long been that of the Presbyterian Church.
William and Jane (Laughridge) Layport became the parents of five children—Edward, who became a clergyman of the ,Presbyterian Church; Mary Elizabeth, who is the wife of John W. Morgan; Robert B. Layport; William F., who likewise became a minister of the Presbyterian Church; and Perry, whose vocation has been that of farming. Upon coming to Harrison County, Edward Laughridge first settled in North Township, whence he later removed to Green Township. where he continued his residence as an honored pioneer citizen until his death.
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have two children: William Thomas, who is engaged in farming in Louisiana, Caldwell County, married Miss Hazel Bechtelheimer and their child, Dorothy Louise, now resides in the State of Louisiana; Orville Allen, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, remains at the parental home and is associated in the work and management of the farm. He married Ruth Gough July 30, 1920, and they have a daughter, Francis Evelyne Morgan, born May 1st, 1921. John W. Morgan is a democrat in his political allegiance and his wife is a devout member of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which she was reared.
FRANK WOODS FISHEL has spent all his life in Harrison Township of Carroll County, and his friends and neighbors recognize in him a man of substantial industry and thrift, one who has improved his opportunities and achieved a comfortable home and farm, and altogether proved worthy of his American citizenship.
Mr. Fishel was born on the homestead where he now lives November 14, 1881, son of James and Mary (Woods) Fishel. His father was four years old when the grandfather died in Washington Township of Carroll County. James Fishel lived as a farmer in Washington and Harrison Townships, and died in 1907, one of the highly respected citizens of his community. His widow is still living. Frank W. Fishel is the youngest of their children. His brothers are Lawrence of Chicago and Charles of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and his only sister is Mrs. Maud Hudson of Dellroy. who is the mother of two children, Mary and Charles.
Frank W. Fishel grew up at home, attended country school at Mount Nebo, and graduated from the Dellroy High School in 1901. He took two summer normal courses in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and before getting down to farming as a permanent vocation he taught in his home school of Mount Nebo and also in District No. 1 of Rose Township. Since his marriage his tasks and duties have been on the old homestead, where he has 140 acres devoted to general farming and dairying. Mr. Fishel is a good business man, and besides his farm interests is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy. His first wife was Ella Benedum, daughter of Frank and Mary Elizabeth (Hough) Benedem. She died in July, 1918, leaving two childreu. James David born in 1908, and Myrta May, born in 1911. On July 31, 1919, Mr. Fishel married Sylvia Gamble, daughter of William Melville and Olive Jeannette (Long) Gamble of Rose Township.
JOHN T. HEISLER. passed his entire life in Harrison County, was a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of German Township, and here his entire active career was marked by close and effective association with farm industry. In all of the relations of life he well upheld the honors of a family name that has been prominently linked with the civic and material development and advancement of Harrison County since the early pioneer period and his character and achievement render most consonant the memorial tribute here entered.
John Thomas Heisler was born on the an. cestral Heisler farmstead, in German Township, and the date of his nativity was April 25, 1843, and in this township he was the owner, at the time of his death, of a fine farm of 190 acres. His death occurred April 9, 1902. On the old Heisler homestead was born John Heisler, father of John T., and he was a son of Henry and Catherine Heisler, who came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County very early in the nineteenth century, as shown hy the fact that here their son John was born on the 6th of July, 1806. Henry Heisler here hecame the owner, of about one section of wild forest land, which he obtained from the Government, and he reclaimed one of the excellent pioneer farms of German Township, and he and his wife remained on the old homestead until their deaths. John Heisler passed his entire life in German Township, and was here the owner of a valuable farm of 160 acres at the time of his death, when well advanced in years. He married Miss Anna Maria Baer, who was born October 25, 1809, and she likewise attained to venerable age. They became the parents of eight children; Henry, Jacob, Susan, William, Elizabeth. John Thomas, Margaret and Lucinda.
John Thomas Heisler was reared under the conditions marking the later pioneer period in the history of Harrison County and profited hy the advantages of the common schools of the locality. From boyhood to the time of his death he was actively identified with farm enterprise in German Township, and his earnest and well ordered activities not only brought to him geuerous prosperity but also contributed the industrial advancement of his native county. He was a man of superior intelligence, of well fortified opinions and of sterling attributes of character. so that he naturally commanded and merited popular confidence and good will. He
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was an earnest communicant of the Lutheran Church, as was also his first wife and is likewise his widow.
In 1876 Mr. Heisler married Miss Emma Wiles, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wiles. Mrs. Heisler and her infant son died in 1877. On the 18th of September, 1878, Mr. Heisler wedded Miss Martha Jane Shultz, daughter of Hiram and Maria (Sproll) Shultz, of North Township, and she still makes her home with her son James B. Of this union were born six children: James B., who remains on and has active management of the old home farm; Emma A., is the wife of Walter Lowmiller, of German Township, and they have three children: Eunice, Esther Marie and Martha ; Bertha Jane remains on the old home place; Sarah L. Howell, also on the old home place; Margaret A., wife of Herman Polen, and mother of four children: Charles, Anna, Nellie and Vern Lee; and Wiliam V., who married Miss Ruth Dye, and they became the parents of two children: Catherine (deceased) and Edith Naomi. After the death of his first wife William V. Heisler wedded Mrs. Anna Stewart, who survives him and who remains on the home farm. They had no children. After the death of the honored father, the sons James B. and William V. assumed associate management of the home farm, and this arrangement continued until William married and left the place, which has been under the active and sole supervision of James
B., save for a brief interval during which William V. again gave temporary cooperation.
GEORGE W. PATTERSON. The name of Patterson is one of the best known ones in Archer Township, where it is borne by several of the leading men, and it stands as a synonym of what is best in American citizenship. One of its representatives in this part of the county is George W. Patterson, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1883, a son of Hon. William H. Patterson, county commissioner of Harrison County, and a wealthy farmer of Archer Township.
The Patterson family was founded in this country by the great-great-grandfather of George W. Patterson, who, with his son, James Patterson, left County Down, Ireland in 1787, and upon reaching America, settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania. James Patterson was reared in the new home, and here his life was spent. He Married Mary Miller, and they had a large family, among whom was John Patterson, grandfather of George W. Patterson. John Patterson was born on his father's farm in Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1822, and in this same house his son. William H. Patterson, was born, September 9, 1855. The wife of John Patterson was Jane McClelland, a daughter of Thomas McClelland.
William H. Patterson was a farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania, until 1903, when he moved to Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, at that time buying his present farm of 163 acres of land. In addition to it he owns another farm of 100 acres in the same town ship. William H. Patterson was married in 1882 to Zella Work, and she was the mother of George W. Patterson. After the death of the first Mrs. Patterson, Mr. Patterson was married to Laura Denny, and his third wife was Mrs. Lizzie M. Wallace.
The maternal grandfather of George W. Patterson, Maj. George T. Work, was one of the distinguished officers of the Union army during the war between the states. Having raised a company of Washington County,. Pennsylvania boys, he was made their captain, and rose to be major of his regiment by the close of the war. His wife bore the maiden name of Catherine Denny.
George W. Patterson attended the public schools of West Middletown, Pennsylvania, and came with his father to Archer Township, finding plenty to occupy himself on the homestead, until his marriage, when he left home to found a home of his own. On September 20, 1905. he was united in marriage with Nannie Barger, a daughter of S. D. and Martha (Maffit) Barger. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have one daughter, Ma rtha.
Following his marriage George W. Patterson began farming in Archer Township and has been so engaged ever since. He carries on a general farming and stock-raising business, and is one of the successful men of his neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are members of the United Presbyterian Church of Cadiz.
HARVEY SYLVESTER ULMAN. Some Of the most energetic and successful farmers in Carroll County live around Dellroy, one of whom is Harvey Sylvester Ulman, whose farm of ninety-five acres is in Rose Township. Mr. Ulman has not only made an excellent living as a farmer, but has been a citizen of value to his community.
He was born in Brown Township of Carroll County January 17, 1879, son of Adam W. and Mary Jane (Hazlett) Ulman. His grandparents were John and Matilda (Fishel) Ulman, who were also identified with Carroll County, owning a farm in Augusta Township. He died at Malvern. Of their family of six sons and two daughters the second in age is Adam W., who gave part of his active years to farming in Carroll County and is now a mail carrier in Canton, Stark County, where he and his second wife reside. His children are John Hazlett and Harvey Sylvester.
Harvey S. Ulman attended country school at Willow Run in Harrison Township until he was seventeen. His schooling was limited to the winter terms, and the rest of the year he did work in proportion to his strength and abilities on the home farm. He continued to assist his grandparents after school days were ended, and his career throughout has been one of commendable industry.
In September, 1900, Mr. Ulman married Mary Jane Haynam, daughter of David and Lydia (Teegarden) Haynam, of New Franklin, Stark County. The Haynams are an old English family who settled at Youngstown and also in Stark County, Ohio.
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After his marriage Mr. Ulman bought forty acres near Alliance, Ohio, and during the four years he lived there raised a large amount of vegetable truck which he sold in Alliance and other nearby markets. In 1905 returning to Carroll County he bough his present farm of ninety-five acres in Rose Township. He does general farming, but has also specialized to an important degree in breeding Berkshire hogs and Rhode Island Red chickens.
Mr. and Mrs. Ulman's only child Ray Tee- garden died January 7, 1912, at the age of nine months nine days. Mr. Ulman is an independent republican and is a member of the Baxter Ridge Methodist Church. He is also a member of the Subordinate Grange at Dellroy.
ERWIN L. SIMPSON. The Simpson family story began in Harrison County in 1800, with the arrival of John Simpson from Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1790 he came from County Tyrone, Ireland, to the United States. In Washington County, Pennsylvania, he married Margaret McElroy. He and his brother James Simpson, came to Harrison County together and they opened the first store in Cadiz. When they sold the business John Simpson located on a farm in Stock Township. Six sons and three daughters were born to him. The brother James Simpson, was the father of Bishop Simpson, so well known as a foreign missionary.
John Simpson. Jr., married Margaret Law, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1820, and when she was ten years old she came with her father's family to America. Her father, John Law, married Bessie Linn, and two sons and seven daughters were born to them. John Simpson, Jr., was born in Stock Township in 1814, and his marriage occurred in 1839, and there were nine children born to him, as follows: Mary, Martha, Maggie, Matthew, James, Henry, William, Ella and Frank Homer. The youngest son was the father of Erwin L. Simpson. The Simpsons were Methodists and republicans.
Frank H. Simpson as a young man made the most of his educational advantages, and all of his life was spent on a farm in Stock Township. On December 17, 1883, he married Phoebe Taylor, a daughter of Samuel Taylor of Tuscarawas County. The Taylor family is of English descent, and they were pioneers in Tuscarawas County. Samuel Taylor married Melissa Laken, and their children are: Edwin. deceased; Phoebe and James. Mr. Taylor voted the democratic ticket, and his family are Methodists. When Mr. and Mrs. Simpson were married they settled in Stock Township, and their children are: Edwin, Nora, Mary, Annie, Melissa and Margaret. Mr. Simpson died in 1906, but Mrs. Simpson survives him. She is now the widow of Elmer Brown, Tuscarawas County.
Erwin L. Simpson was born March 10, 1885, and he has always lived on the farm in Stock Township. In addition to his common school advantages he attended Tappan High School and Scio College. In 1907 he married Sarah Fulton, a daughter of Philip and Belle (Hines)
Fulton. They lived six years in Uhrichsville, where he was employed as a shipping clerk in the wholesale grocery with McGovern Brothers. With that exception Mr. Simpson has always lived on the farm, and he lives there now. His livestock specialties are registered Berkshire hogs, Red Polled cattle and Shropshire sheep. He is a frequent exhibitor at local fairs and at the West Virginia State Fair at Wheeling.
Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have one daughter, Helen Isabelle. They are members of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church, and are always interested in any movement for the betterment of the rural community.
JOHN H. MELANY. On the "Ocean to Ocean Highway," in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Mr. Melany is the fortunate owner of a fine farm of 187 acres, which figures as the stage of his progressive activities as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county. He is a leader in his community and has served as trustee of Monroe Township, an office of which he was the incumbent for three years.
Mr. Melany was born in Monroe Township, this county, July 11, 1854, and is a son of John R. and Martha (McMillan) Melany, the former of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Ireland, about the year 1816, she having been about three years old when, in 1821, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McMillan, came to America and established their home on a pioneer farm in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. McMillan died in August, 1843, and his widow's death occurred in 1852. John Riley Melany was a son of John and Sarah (Quigley) Melany, whose marriage was solemnized in Pennsylvania. John Melany was born and reared in the old Keystone State, whence he came with his family to Ohio in an early day and became a pioneer settler in North Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a good farm and where he continued to reside many years. He finally sold the property and removed to' Franklin Township, where he and his wife remained until their deaths. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church and he was a democrat in politics. John Riley Melany was reared and educated in Pennsylvania and was twenty-five years of age when he established his home in Harrison County, Ohio. Here his marriage occurred on the 24th of August, 1848, and he and his wife settled in Monroe Township, where they remained until 1866, when they removed to Franklin Township, where he continued in farm enterprise until his death, on the 18th of March, 1889, his wife having survived him by several years and both having been earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Melany was a staunch democrat and was a citizen who ever commanded high place in popular esteem. Of the children the eldest is Susannah, the wife of Jewel E. Hillyer; Miss Ellen resides in Franklin Township on the home farm: Elizabeth is
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the wife of George W. Crim; Addison Q., who married Margaret Downs, is deceased; and John H.
In the district schools of Monroe and Franklin townships John H. Melany acquired his early education, and in the meanwhile he continued his quota to the work of the home farm. This association continued until the time of his marriage, in 1888, when he began independent farming in Franklin Township. About 1890 he removed to a farm in Monroe Township, near Bowerston, and in 1892 he purchased and established his home upon his present farm, which comprises 187 acres and the general appearance of which marks him as an enterprising and progressive exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party and, as previously noted, served three years as township trustee. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as did also his wife, whose death occurred in 1907.
In 1888 Mr. Melany was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ella Carmack, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who was a daughter of George and Emma (Adams) Carmack. Mr. and Mrs. Melany became the parents of four children, of whom two survive the loved and devoted mother: Jessie, now deceased, married Edward K. Price; Harry Floyd, who is engaged in farming in Tuscarawas County, married Etta Coe and they have one child, Pearl; George, who is associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm, married Miss Rella Fowler and they have a fine little son, Kenneth Edgar; and Etta Bell died at the age of four months.
JOHN S. STEWART. While the career of the late John S. Stewart belongs rather to the past than the present of Carroll County, he having passed away thirteen years ago, he is worthy of remembrance because of the wholesome lessous taught by his well-spent life. Starting with no adventitious aids, with nothing to depend upon but his innate ability and steadfast resolution, he made his career a success, discharged all the duties of citizenship and fatherhood, and passed to his final rest followed by the unfeigned regrets of the entire community of his home locality in East Township.
Mr. Stewart was born at Alexandria, Ohio, in January, 1869, a son of James and Rebecca (McCray) Stewart. James Stewart was born in Ireland and as a child was adopted by an aunt, with whom he came to the United States and settled in Columbiana County, Ohio. Later he went to Pennsylvania, where he secured employment as a clerk, and was married in that state to Miss McCray, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio. His fortunes being later bettered, Mr. Stewart went to Alexandria, Ohio, where he established himself in business as a merchant, but eventually disposed of his interests there and moved to East Township, where he engaged in farming until his retirement. His declining years and those of his worthy wife were passed at Augusta, Ohio, where both died.
John S. Stewart was educated in the district schools and was reared to the pursuits of farming. Following his marriage he resided on a farm which he rented from his father, in East Township, while he built a house on another property which he owned. When the new home was completed, he occupied it and continued to engage in farming in that community for nine years, then selling out and purchasing another farm, of 117 acres, which was well improved. There he passed the rest of his life in industrious and successful farming operations, and died February 14, 1908, since which time the property has been operated by his widow and children. In politics Mr. Stewart was a republican and was an ardent advocate of the principles of his party. He was very public-spirited and took an active part in the affairs of the township and county. He was a hard worker and a man of strict integrity, his word being as good as his bond, and his attachment to the faith of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church was sincere. He was fraternally affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees at Augusta, in which he had numerous friends, as he had also among his fellow members in the Grange, to which his widow belongs. Mrs. Stewart is a woman of much ability and numerous accomplishments and is greatly respected in the community in which her home has been made for so many years.
On December 1, 1892, Mr. Stewart was united in marriage to Miss Anna Niswonger, who was born near Summitville, Columbiana County, Ohio, October 24, 1867, a daughter of Jonathan and Catherine (Williard) Niswonger, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Columbiana County. The grandparents of Mrs. Stewart were John Niswonger and his wife, formerly Miss Nancy Wiseman, and John and Elizabeth (Lindersmith) Williard. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart: James N., who is at home and carries on operations on the farm; Mabel R., the wife of Floyd Baxter, of Minerva, Ohio; and Earl, Walter and Grace E., at home.
WILLIAM MANSFIELD HOOBLER has by energy, circumspection, progressive policies and fair and honorable dealings built up a substantial general merchandise business at Mechanicstown, Carroll County, and is known and valued as one of the loyal and public-spirited citizens of the community. He was born at Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio, on the 9th of October, 1874, and is a son of Alonzo D. and Mary Elizabeth (Mansfield) Hoobler, the former a native of Harrison County and the latter of Bloomingdale, Jefferson County. John and Sarah (Miller) Hoobler, paternal grandparents of William M. Hoobler, were natives of Jefferson County and representatives of sterling pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State, as were also the maternal grandparents, William and Harriet (Harrah) Mansfield, who were born and reared in Harrison County. Michael Hoobler, great-grandfather of William M., was born in or near Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and his father was a patriot soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution. Michael
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Hoobler and his wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Shultz, were numbered among the early settlers in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where they endured the trials and labors of pioneers and where they remained on their farm until the close of their lives.
After his marriage Alonzo D. Hoobler settled on a farm near Jewett, Harrison County, and in that locality he has maintained his home during the long intervening years. He is now one of the venerable native sons still residing in Harrison County, where his birth occurred in the year 1851, and his wife passed to eternal rest on the 27th of April, 1899.
William Mansfield Hoobler is indebted to the schools of his native county for his early education and passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm. After his marriage, which occurred in the year 1897, he continued his active association with-farm enterprise for six years, and then removed to the village of Mechanicstown, in Fox Township, Carroll County, where he opened a general store. From a comparatively insignificant beginning he has developed a large and important business, and his establishment is well equipped in all departments, the stock of general merchandise being large and diversified and so selected as to meet all normal requirements of the substantial and appreciative patronage. It may incidentally be noted, as showing the modern facilities of the store, that here may be found a goodly line of automobile supplies and accessories, in addition to the general stock of merchandise customarily provided in such establishments. Mr. Hoobler is liberal in supporting measures tending to advance the best interests of the community, is a republican in political adherency and he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in their home village, Mrs. Hoobler being the organist of this church. Mr. Hoobler is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Augusta, the chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Carrollton, and with the allied organization, the Order of the Eastern Star, in which his wife and daughters likewise hold membership.
On the 30th of May, 1897, Mr. Hoobler wedded Miss Edna Belle Scott, who was born at Kilgore, this county, July 27, 1872, a daughter of James M. and Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Scott, the former a native of Carroll County, Ohio, and the latter of Washington County, Pennsylvania, where she was born April 1, 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler's children are : Claire Elizabeth, who was born in December, 1898, is the wife of Joseph Parks; Thomas, of Altoona, Pennsylvania ; Mary Mansfield remains at the parental home; Margaret Scott is with her eldest sister in Altoona, Pennsylvania; and Pauline Jeanette remains with her parents. Mrs. Hoobler received excellent educational advantages, including a course in the Muskingum College of Music, in which she developed her distinctive musical talent, with the result that she has been specially successful as a teacher of both vocal and piano music.
James M. Scott, father of Mrs. Hoobler, was born and reared in Carroll County, a son of
Robert G. and Elizabeth (Steeves) Scott, the former a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of New Brunswick, Canada. The parents of Mr. Scott were pioneer settlers in Carroll County and here he was reared to vigorous young manhood, a status that was his at the time when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. His patriotism was shown in his prompt enlistment as a private in the Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to special duty with the signal corps during a period of eighteen months and then resumed service with his regiment, in which, by faithful and gallant service, he won promotion to the office of major. He led his command in many engagements, including a number of the important battles marking the progress of the great internecine conflict, was with General Sherman on the historic march from Atlanta to the sea and continued in active service until the close of the war, when he received his honorable discharge, with the rank of major. After the war Major Scott was engaged in the general merchandise business at Kilgore, Carroll County, for seven and one-half years. He then sold his stock and business and removed to Jefferson, Harrison County, where he continued in the same line of enterprise until he established his residence in Harrison County. In 1880 he was elected auditor of the latter county, in which office he served his term of three years. He was then re-elected, but his death occurred shortly afterward, on the 9th of November, 1883. His widow soon afterward left Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, and resumed her residence at Jefferson. Nineteen years later she removed to East Liverpool, this state, and three and one-half years thereafter she became a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which city she has since maintained her home with her youngest daughter.
On the 20th of August, 1863, was recorded the marriage of James M. Scott to Miss Elizabeth McLaughlin, who, as previously noted, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1844. She is a daughter of James Patterson McLaughlin and Mary (White) McLaughlin, both likewise natives of that county. Records of the family would indicate that Thomas and Elizabeth (Moorhead) McLaughlin, parents of James P., were born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the former having been a son of James and Margaret (Mitchell) McLaughlin. James R. White, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Scott was a soldier in the War of 1812, the maiden name of his wife having been Jane Ross. The various family names of kinship indicate fully Scottish origin of unmistakable order. Both the Scott and McLaughlin families were founded in Carroll County, Ohio in the '40s. Here James Patterson McLaughlin died on the 8th of August, 1848, his father, Thomas, then becoming guardian of the children. Mrs. Mary (White) McLaughlin later became the wife of James Forsythe, of Loudon Township, Carroll County, in 1859, and Mrs. Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Scott thereafter remained with her mother and stepfather until her marriage to James M. Scott. Of the children the eldest is Jessie C., who resides at Mechanicstown, Carroll County;
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Edna B. is the wife of William M. Hoobler, the immediate subject of this review; and Nina S., who, with her venerable mother, resides in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the widow of Frederick G. James.
ALBERT WAGNER. In his character and his worthy achievement the late Albert Wagner honored the county in which his entire life was spent and in which he was a scion of a family there established in the pioneer days. He became one of the substantial exponents of farm enterprise in Carroll County, was for ten years the efficient and popular superintendent of the Carroll County infirmary, and he passed the closing years of his life at Carrollton, where he died on the 1st of March, 1917, in the attractive residence which he erected on Prospect street, his widow having sold this property in the following year and having then purchased her present fine home place, at 378 South Lishon Street.
Albert Wagner was born in Carroll County on the 18th of March, 1859, a son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Hidey) Wagner. who here passed their entire lives, the father having been a carpenter by trade but having been engaged in farming in Perry Township at the time of his death, his political support having been given to the democratic party and both he and his wife having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of four children—Albert. Nannie, Ida and Lillie.
Henry and Susannah (Abel) Wagner, grandparents of the subject of this memoir, were sterling pioneers of Carroll County.
Reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native county. Albert Wagner eventually became the owner of a well improved farm in Center Township. one mile north of Carrollton, the county seat. There he continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower until 1897, when he was chosen superintendent of the county infirmary and farm, of which he continued the able executive head for ten years. Upon his retirement from this position he returned to his farm, where he remained ten years. at the expiration of which he retired and established his home at Carrollton, where he passed the residue of his life. as previously stated in this sketch. His political allegiance was given unreservedly to the republican party, he was affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees. and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. of which his widow likewise is a zealous member.
On the 13th of November, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wagner to Miss Elsie Smeltz, who was born in Union Township. Carroll County, August 1. 1859, a daughter of Peter and Nancy (Norris) Smeltz. both likewise natives of Union Township, where the former was born in 1832 and the latter in 1834. Mr. Smeltz became one of the representative farmers of his native township, where his well improved farm was about a mile distant from that on which be was born, and his death occurred in 118, his first wife having passed away in 1876. Both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his political views were in consonance with the principles of the republican party. Peter and Nancy (Norris) Smeltz became the parents of six children—William, Catherine, Marion, Elsie, Electa and Grant. The second marriage of Mr. Smeltz was with Margaret McCort, and they became the parents of three children—Ross, Bessie and James. Peter Smeltz was a, son of Louis and Catherine (Harpel) Smeltz, who came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and became pioneer settlers in Carroll County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. William and Martha (MeCommas) Norris, maternal grandparents of Mrs. Wagner, likewise came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Carroll County, where they contributed their share to pioneer development and progress and where they maintained their home until the close of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner became the parents of two children, of whom the first, a son, died in infancy. Isaac Ralph, the surviving son, was born in Perry Township, October 18, 1889, and gained his early education in the public schools, including the Carrollton High School. For a time he was employed in the freight offrce of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad at Carrollton. He then went to the city of Akron, where he was in the employ of the Goodyear Rubber Company until he connected himself with the Timpkins Company, manufacturers of vehicle springs, with which concern he is now traffic manager for one of its manufacturing plants, in the city of Canton. Stark County. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. including the Knights Templar, is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which he was reared. Qn the 4th of August, 1916, Mr. Wagner was united in marriage to Miss Lois Moore, of Carrollton, she having been graduated in the Carrollton High School and later in the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Her father, the late Charles Moore, was a well known citizen of Carrollton.
IRA F. SLONAKER, one of the successful farmers of Monroe Township, and a man who is beld in the highest esteem in Harrison County, owns a fine farm of 261 acres of land. He was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, September 13. 1870. a son of David and Sarah Jane (Robey) Slonaker, both of whom were born in Monroe Township. Mr. Slonaker was a daughter of John and Zinema (Newton) Robey. John A. Robey was one of the early farmers of Monroe Township and after locating in this neighborhood. continued to reside here until his death. The children of John A. Robey and his wife were as follows: Luther. William, Sarah Jane, George. Martha, -A ddie and Anna. The Robey family were all members of the United Brethren Cburch.
David Slonaker was reared and educated in Monroe Township, and became one of its energetic farmers. For many years he was also an employe of the Panhandle Railroad, but spent his last years on his farm. Like the Robeys he and his wife united with the United
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Brethren Church. David Slonaker and his wife had these children born to them: Laura, who lives at Colorado Springs, Colorado; Edwin, who lives at Indianapolis, Indiana; Ira F., whose name heads this review; Aljo, who died in infancy; Luella, who married Von Boston, lives at Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Etta Bell, who is deceased, married Warn Woodruff.
Ira F. Slonaker attended the district schools of Monroe Township until he was thirteen years old when he went to live with his uncle, E. M. Long, with whom he remained until his marriage in 1893 to Diana Trushell, a daughter of George and Rushilla (Clark) Trushell. Following his marriage Mr. Slonaker began farming in Monroe Township on one of the farms he now owns, and has continued to be engaged in this line of endeavor ever since. In addition to carrying on general farming and stockraising, he specializes in fruit-growing, and has some of the most valuable property in the township. Mr. and Mrs. Slonaker became the parents of the following children: Mary Jane, who married Roy Palmer, a farmer of Monroe Township, has one son, George; May Bell, who married Arthur McMillen, had three children: Pauline, Donald and Lela Jane, and lives at Bowerston, Ohio; Earl Edward, William and Frank, who are all deceased; and Laura, who is the youngest. In November, 1918, Mr. Slonaker and his wife were called upon to bear one of the heaviest sorrows which can befall parents for their three sons, fine, healthy young men, were stricken with the influenza and died within four days of each other. It has taken all of the Christian fortitude gathered from their long membership in the Tunnell Hill United Brethren Church to enable them to submit to their loss. It is in times like this terrible affliction that the souls of humans are tried, and those who are professed Christians emerge from the ordeal sustained by a strength given them from above. The entire neighborhood sympathized with the bereaved family and remember the young men with kindly regret and admiration for their many excellent traits of character.
CHARLES F. MCCAULEY is the youngest of the three sons of the late Booth and Mary Elizabeth (Smylie) McCauley, and it is gratifying to record that each of the sons find individual representation in this history of their native county, with whose history the family name has been long and worthily identified. For detailed information concerning the family, and especially the late Booth McCauley, reference may readily be made to the sketches dedicated to Smylie F. McCauley and Robert Forbes McCauley, on other pages.
Charles F. McCauley was born on the fine old homestead farm which is his present place of residence, in Monroe Township, and the date of his nativity was January 14, 1889. His father accumulated a large and valuable landed estate in this township, and of the same Charles F. owns the old homestead place, which comprises 231 acres and which has been the stage of his activities from the time he initiated his constructive service in connection with farm in dustry. He profited fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native township and is one of the vigorous and discriminating young representatives of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in Harrison County, where his popularity is on a parity with his sterling character and genial personality. He gives his political alegiance to the democratic party and takes lively interest in measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of his home community and native county. On June 10, 1920, he married Mary, the daughter of William and Margaret (Wagner) Morland, of Monroe Township.
SMYLIE F. MCCAULEY, who has impressed himself admirably in successful farm industry in Monroe Township, Harrison County, is not only a representative farmer of his native township and county but also a scion of a family whose name has been long and worthily identified with the civic and material interests of this favored section of the Buckeye State. As ample data concerning the family appear on other pages of this work, in the sketch dedicated to Robert Forbes McCauley, it is unnecessary to repeat the record in the article here presented.
Smylie F. McCauley was born in Monroe Township, this county, on the 9th of May, 1880, and is a son of Booth and Mary Elizaheth (Smylie) McCauley, the former of whom was born in Monroe Township and the latter in Archer Township, this county. Booth McCauley was a son of Robert McCauley, who was born in Ireland and who became an honored pioneer settler in Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm in Monroe Township and where he and his wife passed the rest of their lives. Booth McCauley was reared and educated in this county and became one of the prosperous farmers and substantial and popular citizens of Monroe Township, his entire life having there been passed and his death having occurred March 11, 1919. He and his loved and devoted wife were not long separated, as she died one year and two days later, on the 13th of March, 1920. Mr. McCauley was a man of much ability and accumulated a valuable landed estate of 388 acres, in connection with which he held status as one of the most successful farmers of his native county. He was a democrat in politics and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children—Robert F., Smylie F., Sarah A., and Charles Floyd. The only daughter is the wife of John M. Hamil, of Grafton, Pennsylvania,
Smylie F. McCauley is indebted to the puhlic schools in Monroe Township for his youthful education and he continued to remain at the parental home until the time of his marriage, in 1905. Since that time he has lived on one of his father's farms, not far distant from the old homestead, and he is now the owner of his residential farm, of 104 acres, as well as another farm, of fifty-three acres, likewise in Monroe Township. He is a staunch democrat, takes lively interest in all that touches the well being of his home community and native county and
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in September, 1919, he entered service as trustee of Monroe Township, an office in which he is giving excellent account of himself at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1920. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Bowerston.
The year 1905 recorded the marriage of Mr. McCauley to Miss Aleta Hanna, daughter of Rohert A. and Alice (English) Hanna, of Monroe Township, and the three children of this union are Wilfred Booth, Mary Maxine and Robert Hanna.
The mother of Mr. McCauley likewise was a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Harrison County. She was a daughter of Robert and Esther (Hanna) Smylie, and her father was one of the fourteen children born to William and Rachel (Borland) Smylie. William Smylie was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1794, a son of David and Sarah Jane (Coon) Smylie, who there established their home upon immigrating to America from their native Ireland. In 1815 David Smylie came to Harrison County, Ohio, and established his residence at Cadiz, where he and his wife remained until their death and where both passed away in the year 1843. They were the parents of three sons and one daughter. William Smylie continued his association with farm industry in Harrison County until 1855, when he became a pioneer settler in Washington County, Iowa, where he secured a large tract of land and where he died in February, 1858, his widow surviving until March, 1875. Robert Smylie became a representative farmer of Harrison County and both he and his wife here remained until their deaths.
ROBERT C. SCOTT, JR., who is associated with his brother James M. in the conducting of a prosperous general merchandise business at Harlem Springs, Carroll County, has had a diversified and interesting career that has involved his residence in various states of the Union, hut his loyalty to and appreciation of his native county eventually led to his returning to the same and identifying himself with his present husiness enterprise. He is a scion of a family that was founded in this section of Ohio nearly a century ago, by Robert G. Scott, Sr., who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a sou of Josiah Scott, who was one of the early settlers in that county. Two brothers of Robert Scott became clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. He himself was reared and educated in the old Keystone Slate, where, in 1804 was solemnized his marriage to Elizabeth Munnel, and In 1827 they came to Ohio and settled in that part of Harrison County that Is now included in Carroll County. Here he remained until his death, in 1830, and his wife survived him by several years. Their son Robert Ga grandfather of Robert C., of this review, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1813, and he was about fourteen years old at the time of the family removal to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood under the conditions marking the pioneer days. In April, 1835, he married Miss Elizabeth Steeves, who was born in the Province of New Bruns wick, Canada, in April, 1814, her parents, Christian and Olive (Lutz) Sleeves, having come to Ohio in 1829 and settled in North Township, Harrison County. Robert G. Scott followed the trade of carpenter for a number of years, was a sutler with the Union forces during about one year of the Civil war, and at the time of his death he was a resident of Germano, Harrison County, his business having been that of operating a planing mill at that place. He was one of the leading citizens of Harrison County and one of its honored and venerable pioneers at the time when his life came to a close. He was a republican in political adherence and be and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their eleven children Robert C. Jr., was the eighth in order of birth.
Robert C. Scott, Sr., whose death occurred at Harlem Springs, Carroll County, November 9, 1916, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, October 24, 1847. He was five years of age at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, where his early educational advantages included those of Harlem College. He was employed for some time in his father's grist mill, and in 1871 he engaged in the buying and shipping of farm produce, at Kilgore. He became one of the leading wool buyers of the county, and shipped an average of 75,000 pounds of wool annually for a number of years. In the autumn of 1912 he removed to Harlem Springs and became associated with his sons in mercantile business, and here he remained until his death. He was a man of sterling character and marked business ability, was a republican in politics and his religious faith was that of the Presbyterian Church. of which his widow likewise is a zealous member.
October 30, 1873, recorded the marriage of Robert C. Scott, Sr., to Miss Almira Shipps, who was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, August 30, 1853, a daughter of James and Margaret (Simmons) Shipps, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of what is now Carroll County, Ohio, she being now a resident of Carthage, Missouri, and celebrated in 1921 the ninety-third anniversary of her birth. Mr. and Mrs. Scott became the parents of five children, of whom the first, Maggie 0., died at the age of thirteen years; Robert C., Jr., and James M. are partners in the mercantile business at Harlem Springs, as previously noted; and Paul died in infancy.
Robert C. Scott, Jr., elder of the two surviving children of Robert C. and Almira (Shipps) Scott, was born at Kilgore, Carroll County, on the 18th of October, 1876. He received the advantages of the public schools and also attended college at Harlem Springs. When he was but fifteen years old he and his younger brother, James M., began the operation of a huckster's wagon from Kilgore, and they continued the enterprise about two years, in the handling of farm produce. Mr. Scott became a street Car conductor in the city of Cleveland, and after thus serving one year he followed the same vocation at St. Louis, Missouri, for three years. For the ensuing three years he held a position in the auditing department of the Wabash
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Railroad, at Detroit, Michigan, and his next change took him to Texas, where he was for three years in the auditing department of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, with headquarters at Dallas. Finally he returned to Kilgore, Ohio, where he was for one year associated with his father and brother in the conducting of a general store. Removal was then made to Harlem Springs, where he and his brother purchased a substantial business block and in the same opened the general store which they have here successfully conducted since that time. The brothers are wide-awake, progressive and reliable business men and have developed a substantial enterprise, based alike on their personal popularity and on the effective .service given. Mr. Scott is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is affrliated with Union Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, in the city of Detroit, Michigan, and is identitied also with the Scottish Rite branch of the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home village.
In June, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Monica Phillips, who was born at Kilgore, this county, and who is a daughter of Andrew and Mary (Seaton) Phillips, both likewise natives of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have one child, Lucile Mary, born July 23, 1906, in Dennison, Texas.
JAMES M. SCOW. In the preceding sketch of the career of his brother, with whom he is associated in the mercantile business at Harlem Springs. Carroll County, is given adequate record of the fraternal partnership and also of the family history, so that this sketch of James M. Scott may permit the elimination of data already given.
Mr. Scott was born at Kilgore, Carroll County. on the 2d of December, 1878, and here he was reared and educated. While a mere lad he became associated with his brother in the running of a huckstering wagon, as noted in the preceding article, and after the termination of this juvenile business alliance he went to Nodaway County. Missouri, where he was employed on a farm for one year. Thereafter he held a position in the Ohio State 'Hospital at Cleveland. for six months, and for tive years thereafter he was a street car conductor in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He then returned to Kilgore and became an assistant in his father's wool business. About a year later the father and son here established a general store, and of the removal to Harlem Springs and the upbuilding of the present thriving mercantile business of the Scott brothers sufficient description is given in the foregoing sketch. Mr. Scott gives his allegiance to the republican party. he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. and he is affrliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 124. Carrollton Township, while in the Scottish Rite of Masonry he maintains affiliation with the Carson Lodge of Perfection, at Steubenville.
In November, 1910, Mr. Scott wedded Miss Mary Blazer, who was born in Lee Township. Carroll County, a daughter of Joseph and Mar garet (Scott) Blazer, both likewise natives of Carroll County.
JOHN W. GOTSCHALL. Vigorous and prolific have been the activities of Mr. Gotschall in connection with farm industry in his native county, and he still remains on the farm, adjoining the corporate boundaries of Carrollton, though he sold the property to his only son, in the spring of 1920, and is now virtually retired, his son proving an able successor in the operation of the farm, which comprises eighty acres and is equipped with modern improvements.
Mr. Gotschall was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, August 2, 1860, and is a son of Eli and Malinda (Yingling) Gotschall, the former of whom was born in Lee Township, this county, in March, 1830, and the latter in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1837. Eli Gotschall was a son of George and Anna Gotschall, who were pioneer settlers in Lee Township, Carroll County, where they established their home upon immigrating from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Both passed the closing years of their lives on a farm in Loudon Township, the property being now owned and occupied by their only surviving child, Cyrus. John Yingling, maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, likewise was a sterling pioneer settler in Carroll County, whither he came from Tuscarawas County.
Eli Gotschall was reared on the pioneer farm of his father, in Lee Township, and received the advantages of the schools of the locality and period. During the long years of a signally active and worthy life he never faltered in his allegiance to farm industry, and he gained prestige as one of the substantial and representative agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county, where, honored by all who knew him, his death occurred February 11, 1904, his venerable widow being one of the revered pioneer women of the county and having celebrated in 1920 the eighty-third anniversary of her birth. Eli Gotschall was a loyal supporter of the principles of the republican party and was a specially zealous and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow. He was active and liheral in the support of church work and during a period of five years he never failed in attendance at the regular services of the Methodist Church at Simmons Ridge, of which the Rev. Mr. Piggott was pastor at that time. Mr. aud Mrs. Gottschalk became the parents of niue children: Anna (wife of Frank Lowmiller) John W., George. David, Mary (wife of William Beckley), Cora (wife of Oliver Gotschall). Harvey, Ida (wife of John B. Summers). and Frank.
John W. Gotschall was reared to the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the home farm, received the advantages of the public schools of native county, and in Lee Township he initiated his independent activities as a farmer. He followed the same line of enterprise in Loudon Township. and in 1895 he purchased and established his home on a farm of eighty acres in Center Township, adjacent to Carrollton. Here he has since maintained his residence. but, as previously noted, the farm is now owned and
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operated by his only son, with whom he and his wife maintain their home.
The republican party receives the loyal allegiance of Mr. Gotschall, but he has had no amhition for public office of any kind. He and his wife are earnest and active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton.
In 1886 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gotschall to Miss Anna M. Gotschall, who was born in Lee Township, in 1862, a daughter of William Gotschall. Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall have two children. Bernice is the wife of Anson Brooks, a successful farmer in Carroll County, and they have six children—Mary, Wilson, Pauline, Neva, Robert and Dorothy. John Gotschall, the only son, was born January 1, 1891, and is indebted to the public schools of Carroll County for his educational training as a youth. He is making an admirable record as one of the progressive young farmers of Center Township and is loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, his political support being given to the republican party and he and his wife being members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton. On the 15th of August, 1912, Mr. Gotschall wedded Miss Bertha Rinder, of Martins Ferry, Belmont County, and they have three fine little sons—John Ray, born October 13, 1914; Jack Orrin, born March 1, 1916; and Leland Edward, born January 22, 1920.
ROBERT M. GEORGE, SR., one of the substantial farmers of Carroll County, owns and operates a very valuable farm of 160 acres in Fox Township, and is recognized as one of the representative agriculturists or his neighborhood. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in Novemher, 1858, a son of Mitchell R. and Mary E. (McCausland) George, and grandson of Robert and Isabella (Ramsey) George, early settlers of Carroll County, Ohio; and George and Mary (Kelley) McCausland, who were also early settlers of this region.
After their marriage Mitchell R. George and his wife moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and there he died in 1867, and she was later married to Samuel McBurney, a farmer and they settled at Scroggsfield, where both later died. The children born to Mitchell R. George and his wife were as follows: Lemuel C., who lives in Jefferson County; Robert M., whose name heads this review; and John A., who lives in Center Township. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McBurney were as 'follows: Anna, who lives at Scroggsfield; Ida, who is Mrs. John Ramsey; and Elva, who is the widow of W. G. Donaldson of Scroggsfield.
Robert M. George, Sr., attended the public schools and a private school at Scroggsfield, and learned to be a farmer. In 1888 he became the owner of his present farm in Fox Township, aud here he has since been engaged in a general line of farming, in which calling he has heen very successful. Although the place was improved, he has remodeled some of the buildiugs and erected a new residence, and has a property which reflects creditably on his skill and good management. It has been his policy to install machinery and appliances as they were required, and he carries on his work in a capable and modern manner.
The mineral resources are proving to be very valuable on this farm as well as adjoining farms. The first test well being the best gaser in eastern Ohio which was sold to the Natural Gas Company of West Virginia for thirty thousand dollars. There is already two producing oil wells on this farm and the derricks are being built for other wells to be drilled. There has been a pipe line laid to the field for the purpose of marketing the oil. The tield is being developed by A. L. Curry of Amsterdam, Ohio, who has had much experience along this line and was a former resident of Carroll County.
On March 4, 1888, Mr. George was united in marriage with Belle Moore of Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of George L. and Mary (Leslie) Moore. Mr. and Mrs. George became the parents of the following children: Paul L. who lives in Fox Township, married Grace Blazer, who died leaving four children—Doris, Marjory, Richard and Stanley; Mary M., who died at the age of fourteen years; Helen, who married Warren Hill of Salineville, Ohio, and has one son born December 7, 1920, and called William Robert after both grandfathers; and Elva Agnes, who died at the age of four years. Mrs. George died July 2, 1910. Mr. George belongs to the United Presbyterian Church of Scroggsfield. A man of strong convictions he prefers to select his own candidate and casts his vote for the man he deems best fitted for the office under consideration.
JESSE T. SIMMONS. It is given to this well known citizen and representative farmer of Loudon Township, Carroll County, to be not only a native son of this county but also a scion of the third generation of the family in this section of the state, for his paternal grandparents settled, in Loudon Township, Carroll County, fully a century ago, prior to, the creation of this county. Mr. Simmons was born in Loudon Township, on the 5th of May, 1862, and is a son of Adam and Mary Catherine (Lucas) Simmons, both natives of the state of Maryland, where the former was born in 1808 and the latter, in Frederick County, on the 20th of June, 1822. Adam Simmons was one of the substantial farmers and influential and honored citizens of Loudon Township, Carroll County, at the time of his death, July 25, 1877, his landed estate in this county having comprised 320 acres. He was a son of Peter and Catherine (Jacobs) Simmons and was a lad of about ten years when, in 1818, his parents came to Carroll County and established themselves as pioneer settlers in what is now Loudon Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where Adam was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm. His widow survived him by many years and was about seventy-eight years of age at the time of her death. They became the parents of eight children, of whom only two are now living: Harvey died at the age of fifteen years, John at the age of four years, Sarah at the age of two years, Martha died in infancy, Catherine at the age of six and Joseph at the age of four years, Jesse T.,
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of this review, having been the next in order of birth, and Theresa being the wife of John Stenger, of Loudon Township. Adam Simmons served in various offices of public trust in his community, including that of township trustee, was aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served many years as steward.
Mrs. Mary Catherine (Lucas) Simmons was a daughter of Adam and Rhoda (Larkins) Lucas, both natives of Maryland, where the former was born in 1798. a son of Thomas Lucas, who came to Ohio in 1808 and established the family home in Jefferson County, where he passed the residue of his life. Adam Lucas was ten years old when the family came to Ohio and was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm in Jefferson County. His marriage occurred in Maryland, where he had gone for a visit to the old home of the family, and about a year later he purchased a farm of 181 acres in Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio. Here he remained until his death, which occurred in 1877. his wife having died in 1872, and both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of ten children, of whom three daughters and two sons attained to years of maturity. Mary C. (Mrs. Simmons) having been the eldest of the number.
Jesse T. Simmons was reared on the old home farm which was the place of his birth and received his youthful education in the public schools of his native township. After the death of his father he assumed the active management of the old homestead farm, where he remained with his devoted' mother until about two years after his marriage, his mother having passed to the life eternal on the 14th of January, 1900. Mr. Simmons married in the year 1886 and for two years thereafter he remained on the farm which was the place of his birth. He then removed to the farm which had originally been obtained from the government by his paternal grandfather, and on this fine property, of 240 acres, he has since continued his vigorous and progressive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, the farm being one of the best in Loudon Township. Here he gives special attention to the raising of Durham cattle and fine merino sheep, his flock averaging about 200 head, while he has been notably successful also in the raising of cattle and swine upon a comparatively equal scale. He is a staunch republican, has taken active and helpful part in community affairs, served one term as township trustee and was for eight years a member of the school board of his district. Since 1900 he has held the office of steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church called The Simmons, in Loudon Township. He is actively affiliated with the lodge of Knights of Pythias, Amsterdam, in which he has passed the various official chairs.
On the 3d of June, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Simmons to Miss Prudence McIntire, who was born and reared in Lee Township, this county, a daughter of Samuel and Barbara (Maple) McIntire. Mrs. Simmons passed to eternal rest on the 17th of July, 1895. Of the children the eldest is Mary A., who is now the wife of George Thompson, of Loudon Township; Martha, David and Theresa remain at the paternal home; and Jesse M. died at the age of fourteen years.
SILAS AUSTIN DAYHUFF. A native of Kansas, descended from Carroll County pioneers, and with most of his life spent in the county, Silas Austin Dayhuff of Harrison Township has heeu a farmer and promoter of home industry and is one of the most interesting and useful citizens of the county.
Mr. Dayhuff was born in Kansas Novemher 1, 1871. His great-grandfather came to America from Germany and was one of the pioneers of Carroll County, taking up Government land aud making a farm out of the wilderness. The grandfather spent all his life on a farm in Carroll County. The parents of Silas A. Day- huff were Reuben M. and Sarah (Need) Day- huff. The former a native of Carroll County after his marriage went out to Kansas soou after the close of the Civil war when Kansas was part of the great western frontier. Two of his sons Silas and Emmett were born in that state. After five years in the west Reuben Dayhuff returned to Carroll County and was husily engaged with the responsibilities of a farm of a hundred sixty acres in Harrison Township until he retired. He still lives on the west half of his homestead. The mother died in 1892.
Silas A. Dayhuff grew up on the farm, spent six months each year in the Mount Nebo country school and farmed in other seasons, this being the program of his activities until he was nineteen, and since then all his best efforts have been concentrated along the line of agriculture and stock raising. At the age of twenty- five Mr. Dayhuff married Hattie V. Price, daughter of James and Thursa Adeline (Benedum) Price of Union Township, Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Dayhuff have three children; Vesta Marie, born in 1899, now a resident of Canton, Ohio; Helen Irene born in 1902, a student in the Dell Roy High School; and William Kenneth born in 1909.
The first five years after his marriage Mr. Dayhuff rented a farm, made considerahle progress in that time, and since 1900 has lived at the old homestead and now owns eighty acres of that property. He has done much to improve as well as cultivate the land, and aside from his work as a farmer he has for the past ten years been superintendent of road construction for Harrison Township and has helped place this district in line with advanced standards of modern highways He is a memher of the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton, is a republican in politics, and is treasurer of the Methodist Church at Dell Roy.
THOMAS S. TINLIN. Among the substantial farmers of Carroll County who have estahlished an especially creditable record in agriculture and in citizenship, is Thomas S. Tinlin, who is carrying on extensive operations in Fox Township. His has been a career of constant advancement from small beginnings and one which
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is typical of self-made manhood. During his rounding out, Mr. Tinlin has found the time, ability and willingness to serve his fellow-citizens in a number of public offices, and as farmer and official has well won the material rewards and the high esteem which are now his.
Mr. Tinlin was born in Ayreshire, Scotland,. December 3, 1855, a son of James and Jenette (Scott) Tinlin. His parents, worthy Scotch people, emigrated to the United States in 1863, settling at once in Fox Township, Carroll County, where the mother died in July, 1880, the father continuing to be engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death in December, 1891. Mr. Tinlin the elder was a man of industry, and this trait combined with his thrift and good management served to win him a full share of prosperity. He and his wife were the parents of the folowing children: William, who died In June, 1915; James, who is engaged in agricultural operations In Fox Township; John, who is deceased; Mary, deceased, who was the wife of James N. Thompson, of this township; Ellen, who is the wife of James Allman, of Bergholz, Ohio; George, a resident of Carrollton; Thomas S., of this notice; Margaret, who died in 1863; and Andrew, who died in 1900.
Thomas S. Tinlin attended the Scroggsfield district school in Fox Township and was reared on the home farm, on which he resided until his marriage in 1877. At that time he moved to Wattsville, where he operated a sawmill for two years, then returning to agricultural pursuits in Fox Township, where he purchased a farm of forty acres. He centered his energies in cultivating this tract for three years, after which he sold it and bought another farm of eighty acres, in the same township. This was his home place until 1915, when he sold out and bought his present farm of 200 acres, three- quarters of a mile north of Wattsville, in Fox Township, about 160 acres of which are under cultivation, the remainder being in timber. Mr. Tinlin carries on diversified farming and is a man of practical ability, progressive ideas and sound judgment. He is a member of the board of directors of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For six years he served as township clerk, and at present is serving his tenth year as assessor of Fox Township. In politics he is a republican, Mr. Tinlin belongs to East Township Grange, and is interested in handling fire and life insurance. a field in which he has built up a profitable business as a side line to his farming activities.
On October 10, 1877, Mr. Tinlin married Miss Jennie M. Andrews, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of George and Elizaheth (Groves) Andrews, natives of that county. To this union there have been born the following children: Lillie G., who married John W. Johnson of East Liverpool, Ohio, and has two children—Hilma and Eldon; Florence, who married Walter Polan of Bergholz, Ohio, and has one son—Leland; Catherine, who married Ray Tetlow, and resides in Huron County, Ohio; Mattie, who married Leonard Newbolt of Mechanicstown, and has had four children—Vera, Ralph, Thomas and a son who died in infancy; and Lewis, of Wattsville, who married Georgie King and has two children—Gene Laverne and Thelma.
JAMES A. LAWRENCE is a man whose character, ability and worthy achievements mark him as one of the representative citizens of his native county, and here he is the owner of Orchard Hill Fruit Farm, which he has made a model center of successful and scientific, fruit-culture. He has precedence as one of the most progressive agriculturists and horticulturists of this section of the Buckeye state, his fine farm property being situated in Lee Township, Carroll County, and he being a representative of a family whose name has been closely linked with the civic and industrial history of the county for nearly eighty years.
James Alexander Lawrence was born on his father's old homestead farm in Lee Township, this county, and the date of his nativity was April 7, 1855. He is a son of Richard and Ann (Parke) Lawrence and a grandson of James and Mary (Noble) Lawrence, who were born and reared in Ireland and who established their home in Lee Township, Carroll County, Ohio, in the year 1843. James Lawrence here purchased a tract of land and developed the same into a productive farm. On this old homestead he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their names merit a place of honor on the roll of the sterling pioneers of Carroll County. The maternal grandparents, John and Margaret (Fee) Parke, were early settlers in Trumbull County, this state, and there continued to reside until their deaths. James Lawrence contributed his full share to the civic and industrial development of Carroll County and was one of its venerable and honored pioneer citizens at the time of his death, in 1876, his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party and both he and his wife having been devout communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Richard Lawrence was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, January 26, 1826, and thus he was about seventeen years of age at the time when the family home was established in Carroll County, Ohio, where he became a prosperous exponent of farm industry, stood exemplar of the best type of citizenship and where be continued to maintain his home, in Lee Township, until his death, March 25, 1897, his widow having passed to the life eternal on the 19th of August, 1899, and both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Harlem Springs from its organization in 1849. Of their children the eldest is Mary, who is the widow of David Noble and who resides at Harlem Springs, this county; James A., of this review, was the next in order of birth; John P. died in infancy; Margaret, the widow of John Cogsil, resides in Lee Township; William died at the age of twenty-nine years; Lillian is the wife of Henry C. Schwartz and they reside in the city of Cleveland; Cora Bell died at the age of nineteen years; Richard A. is a resident of Carrollton; Helen I. is the wife of James Brown, of Lee Township, and resides on the old homestead.
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James A. Lawrence was reared on the home farm and after having profited fully by the advantages of the public schools he continued his studies in Harlem College. at Harlem Springs. Thereafter he was for eight years a successful teacher in the rural schools. and after his marriage, which occurred when he was twenty-two years of age, he established his residence on one of his father's farms, in Lee Township. Eight years later, in 1881, he purchased from his father a farm of forty-five acres, to which he has since added until he now has a splendidly improved and valuable farm estate of 140 acres, all in one body with the exception of twelve and one-half acres, situated on Elkhorn Creek, in Lee Township. His Orchard Hill Fruit Farm is one of the show places of the county, with its fine orchard of fifteen acres. In this orchard are 700 apple trees. 250 peach trees, and cherry, plum and pear trees to the number of about sixty. Mr. Lawrence has made a close study of horticulture and brings to hear modern scientific methods in the management of his orchard, from the fine products of which he receives substantial financial returns. He has been a member of the Ohio State Horticultural Society since 1895 and has attended and made exhibits at many fruit shows and county fairs. Ha is a member also of the American Pomological Society, and attended its meeting when it was the collective guest of the Ohio State Horticultural Society, in the city of Columbus, December 1-3, 1920. In the autumn of 1920 Mr. Lawrence exhibited at the Carroll County Fair fifty varieties of fruit from his fine orchard, and he has done much to raise the standard of fruit culture in this section of Ohio. His orchard is situated at an elevation of 1,350 feet above sea level, with the most effective of drainage and with a soil that conserves prolific yields of fruit of the best type. The orchard has been visited by many of the country's leading pomologists and fruit-growers. In all other departments of his farm enterprise Mr. Lawrence has shown the same energy and progressiveness and has taken deep interest in furthering the industrial precedence of his native county. His civic loyalty has been on a parity with his successful personal achievement, and he is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party. He served seven years as clerk of Lee Township; from 1890 to 1900 he was land appraiser of this township; and in 1881-2 he was assessor of personal property in the township. From 1884 until 1915 he was a member of the school board of his township: he was for two terms a member of the county election board: and was appointed by Governor Cox for three years as a member of the county board of assessment or complaints. He was the only man in Carroll County who received 100 per cent in the civil- service examination for district assessor of real estate. He served three years on the jury commission of the county, and he has served a number of times on juries, including the federal grand and petit juries at Cleveland. In 1911 he was his party's candidate for representative of Carroll County in the state legislature, and though the normal republican majority in the county is from 1,200 to 1,400 votes, he was defeated by only ninety-eight votes. He made a spirited campaign, in which he gave special emphasis to his desire to bring about measures for the raising of the standard of the public schools in the county, especially the rural schools, and his personal popularity and secure hold upon the confidence of the people of the county were signiticantly shown in the results of this election, even though he met defeat. Even the brief statements made in this article show that Mr. Lawrence has almost constantly concerned himself with the public affairs of his home county, and he is a progressive and representative citizen whose benignant influence has touched many phases of the communal life. He is one of the leaders in Straw Camp Grange No. 1204, Patrons of Husbandry. of which he served four years as master, and which he represented as delegate at the meetings of the Ohio State Grange at Columbus in 1919, and at its meeting at Cleveland in December/ 1920. On January 20, 1920. he was sent by the County Farm Bureau to appear before the State Tax Commission in Columbus as representative of the county in opposition to re-appraisement of real property at that time.
A specially potent work that has been done hy Mr. Lawrence in connection with moral and spiritual influences has been in connection with his membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has held all of the lay offices of the church of this denomination at Harlem Springs, of which he is now a steward, besides being recording steward for the Harlem Springs circuit and a trustee of the district parsonage, at Steubenville. He served many years as superintendent of the Sunday school. has been a delegate a number of times to represent his circuit at the annual lay conference, and in the autumn of 1919 he was chosen a lay delegate from the North-East Ohio Conference to the General Conference of the church, at Des Moines, Iowa, in May. 1920. In the spring of 1919 he was appointed a Minute Man, and in July, attended the Centenary Celebration at Columbus of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and also assisted his pastor very materially, in the Centenary Financial campaign. His wife likewise has been zealous and influential in various departments of church work.
On the 30th of April, 1877, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lawrence to Miss Mina M. Oliver, who was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, October 10, 1858, a daughter of Charles and Mary (Parke) Oliver, the former a native of Holland and the latter of Ireland. Charles Oliver left home as a boy of eleven years. entered upon a seafaring life and he had circumnavigated the globe several times before he left the sea and established his home in Trumbull County. Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence have three children: Mary Blanche is the wife of Edward. C. Shaffer, of Trumbull County; Homer K. is one of the successful farmers of Lee Township; and Albert W. remains at the parental home and is associated with his father in farm enterprise. The fine home of the Lawrence family is situated about one mile east of the village of Harlem Springs, which is the postoffice address. One of the highest ambi-
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tions of Mr. Lawrence and his wife has always been to make their home one of Christian hospitality, culture and cheerfulness, in which friends would always find a welcome, and from which the needy would never be turned away empty. They have always insisted that any person's life must be looked upon as a failure, who does not leave the community in which they have lived, and the world at large, some better for their having lived in it.
WILLIAM JAMES DONALDSON. For many years connected with the agricultural history of Carroll County, William James Donaldson is now taking life somewhat more easily, and maintains his residence on ten acres of land in the vicinity of Scroggsfield, and is recognized as one of the representative citizens of Fox Township. He was born in Fox Township, April 3, 1845, a son of Richard B. and Mildred (Donaldson) Donaldson, natives of Florida, New York, and Schenectady, New York, respectively. The paternal grandfather was Rev. John Donaldson, and the maternal grandfather was William Donaldson, and both were very early settlers of this part of Carroll County.
After their marriage Richard B. Donaldson and his wife settled near Cadiz, Ohio, and for a time he worked on the turnpike for fifty cents per day. Later he bought a farm, on which Scroggsfield now stands, and after he sold this land he moved to Washington Township, to a farm just across the Fox Township line, and there both he and his wife passed away. Five of their children survive, namely : Samuel, who lives in Center Township; Mitchell who lives in Washington Township; William James, whose name heads this review ; Jennie, now living in Carrollton; and David, also living in Carrollton. Henderson, John, Mary, Millie, and Richard are deceased.
Growing up in his native county William James Donaldson attended its rural schools. Loyal to his government, with the outbreak of the war between the North and the South, he espoused the Union cause, and December 3, 1863, gave practical proof of this by enlisting in Company M, Sixth Ohio Cavalry, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. He participated in many of the principal engagements of his regiment, including those at Wilton Railroad, Davies House, Vaughn Road, Gravely Run, Boydon Plank Road, Stony Creek Station, Hatches Run, Dinwiddie Courthouse, Jettersville and Appomattox Courthouse, where occurred the surrender of General Lee. Following that Mr. Donaldson was on patrol duty in many counties of Virginia, was one of the color guards of the regiment, and was honorably discharged August 7, 1S65, at Cleveland, Ohio, after which he returned home. A brother, Richard B. Donaldson, was a member of the same company, but after an engagement at Saint Mary's Church. he was missing and no trace of him has ever come to light. Another brother, John P. Donaldson. was in the eastern army, and was wounded at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, by a gunshot wound in the thigh. Still another brother, Henderson Donaldson, enlisted and was sent to the front, but got no further than Baltimore,
Maryland, before the surrender of the Confederate forces, and he was therefore honorably discharged as sergeant.
On January 19, 1869, William J. Donaldson was married to Christiana Andrews, who was born in Fox Township, November 26, 1849, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (George) Andrews, natives of Virginia and Fox Townships, respectively, and granddaughter of Robert and Sarah (Ramsey) George, very early settlers of Fox Township.. Robert George was one of the first judges of Carroll County. He entered a large tract of oil land, and was a man of considerable importance. Strong in his disapproval of slavery, he maintained one Of the "stations" of the "underground railroad." For three years following his marriage Mr. Donaldson lived on his father's homestead, and then left Washington Township for Fox Township where he owned a farm. Until 1908 this farm was his home, but in that year he sold it and moved to the property owned by his wife in the village of Scroggsfield, where they now live. Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson became the parents of the following children: Sheridan and Newton, both of whom reside in Fox Township; Mary Elizabeth, who is Mrs. Emmet Shane, her husband being a merchant of Scroggsfield; Agness, who is Mrs. Frank Scarlett of Dillondale, Ohio; Sarah, who is Mrs. William McClave of Bergholtz, Ohio; Anson, who lives in Washington Township; Everett, who died at the age of sixteen years; Harper, who lives at Albuquerque, New Mexico; Lemoyne, who was killed in an accident. September 6, 1919.
Always active in the republican party Mr. Donaldson has served as township trustee, assessor and been otherwise honored by his fellow citizens. Zealous in the Grand Army of the Republic, he has long been a member of Harlan Post Number 624 and is now serving as chaplain of it. The United Presbyterian Church has him on its membership rolls, and he gives it a generous and effective support. Having spent his life in Fox Township, Mr. Donaldson's interests are naturally centered In this neighborhood. He can recall with pleasure many interesting incidents of the earlier days, and compare those times with the present with the gratifying knowledge that he has been connected with much of the constructive work of this part of the county, and that his influence has been exerted in favor of law and order and moral uplift.
JOHN CROSS is one of the sterling citizens of Monroe Township, Carroll County, where he resides upon his well improved farm on rural mail route No. 1 from Sherrodsville. He was born and reared in this township, the year of his birth having been 1852, and of the honored family of which he is a popular representative adequate record is made on other pages. in the personal sketch of his brother James N.
Mr. Cross gained through early experience a deep and enduring appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and endeavor, for he was but a boy when he began to lend his quota to the work of the home farm. He has never severed his allegiance to the basic industry of
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agriculture, but during much of his active career he has given his attention primarily to the manufacturing of lumber, as the owner and operator of a saw mill. In his varied activities he has contributed to the civic and material advancement of his native county, and here his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is affiliated with the Patrons of Husbandry, as a member of the Grange at Atwood, is a democrat in his political proclivities, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at New Cumberland, in Tuscarawas County, he being a member of the board of trustees of this church.
The year 1878 recorded the marriage of Mr. Cross to Miss Nancy J. Latimer, of Tuscarawas County, and of this union have been born three children: Myrta Alice is the wife of Lewis Waldman, of Mineral City, Tuscarawas County; Margaret Ann was the wife of James Gordon, of Lawrence Township, Tuscarawas County. She died August 10, 1913. She had two children— Donovan Paul and Margaret Mable; Edson L., the youngest of the children, is the subject of an individual sketch on other pages of this work.
FREDERICK BRANDT has been a resident of Loudon Township, Carroll County, from the time of his birth, which here occurred on the 10th of February, 1851, and he has long held secure vantage-ground as one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers, as well as representative citizens, of his native township. He is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of this part of the Buckeye State. His father,, Frederick Brandt, Sr., was born in Germany, in the year 1802, and in his native land was reared to pastoral life. At the age of twenty-one years he immigrated to America and he remained in the state of New York until 1829, when he came to Ohio and purchased a tract of virtually unimproved land, in Loudon Township, Carroll County. Here he reclaimed and developed a good farm, and that abundant success attended his earnest and well ordered activities is attested by the fact that at the time of his death, in December, 1868, he was the owner of a valuable landed estate of fully 1,000 acres. His first marriage was with Margaret Shawver, and they became the parents of four children—William, Elizabeth, Henry and Susan (Mrs. James). After the death of his first wife Mr. Brandt married Miss Elizabeth Able, who, was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 5th of July, 1819, a daughter of Conrad and Mary (Shriver) Able, whose marriage was solemnized in the state of Virginia and who became pioneer settlers in Loudon Township, Carroll County, where Mr. Able died in 1845 and his widow in 1853, their children having been twelve in number. George Able, father of Conrad, was one of the German soldiers subsidized by the English for service in the war of the American Revolution, after the close of which he settled in Loudon County, Virginia, where he passed the remainder of his life.
After their marriage Frederick and Elizabeth (Able) Brandt continued to reside on their farm in Loudon Township until their deaths, Mrs. Brandt having survived her husband by many years and having been eighty-six years of age at the time of her death. Both were communicants of the Lutheran Church, but Mrs. Brandt was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church the latter part of her life. The children of the first marriage are all deceased, and of the children of the second union the following brief data are available: George W. is a resident of Nebraska; Frederick, Jr., is the immediate subject of this review ; Mary Etta is the wife of Robert Campbell, of Loudon Township; John M. is a prosperous farmer in this township; Lizzie Belle is the wife of George T, Burrier, of this township; Andrew died at the age of twelve years; and Harrison is a resident of the state of Oklahoma.
He whose name initiates this article has effectively upheld the prestige of the family name, both as a successful exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry and as a loyal, upright and public-spirited citizen. In addition to receiving the advantages of the schools of his native township he was for two terms a student in Mount Union College. After his marriage, in 1882, he established his home on his present fine farm, of 190 acres, in London Township, and he has since been recognized as one of the substantial and progressive farmers and citizens of this township, which he has served as trustee and in the communal welfare of which he has shown a lively and helpful interest at all times. He is a republican in politican allegiance, is an active member of Kilgore Grange, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore, in which he is serving as a steward.
In April, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Brandt to Miss Margery Fawcett, who was born and reared in Union Township, this county, a daughter of John and Roseann (Crozier) Fawcett, both likewise natives of Carroll County. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Brandt the firstborn, John Curtis, died at the age of four years; Anna is the wife of Paul Shepherd, of Loudon Township; Flora remains at the parental home and is a popular teacher in the public schools; and Margery, likewise a successful teacher, is also a member of the parental home circle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Of the men whose ability, industry and public spirit have added to the character, prosperity and good government of Fox Township, few are better known than John Quincy Adams. Mr. Adams is an agriculturist not only by training and long practice, but by temperament and preference. He has tilled the soil throughout an active and successful career. Political tendencies and executive ability have added to his possibilities of agricultural compensation and have broadened his efforts into the channels of school director, land appraiser and justice of the peace, in which last-named office he is now serving his eleventh year.
Mr. Adams was born on a farm in Fox Township, Carroll County, Ohio, December 15, 1866, a son of Christopher C. and Eleanor (Lewton) Adams, natives of Carroll County, and a grandson of John and Elizabeth (Kimmons) Adams. John Adams was born in the suburbs of London,
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England, and as a young man adopted the vocation of a sailor, which be followed for some years. On his last trip his ship was wrecked off the coast of Cuba, and Mr. Adams, swimming ashore, subsequently made his way to the United States, where he was married, and settled down to an agricultural life in Columbiana County, Ohio. Not long thereafter he came to Carroll County, where he entered eighty acres of Government land in Fox Township, and there passed the remaining years of his life in tilling the soil. Jacob Lewton, the maternal grandfather of John Q. Adams, was likewise an early settler of Fox Township, where he followed farming.
Following their marriage, the parents of Mr. Adams located at Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, but later moved to Scroggsfield, where Mr. Adams followed the trade of blacksmith. He was a man of ambitious character, and while working at his trade began the study of law, which he finally mastered and was admitted to the Ohio bar. He then went to Carrollton, where he engaged in successful practice for many years and advanced to a recognized place in his profession, being eventually elected Probate judge of Carroll County, an office in which he served efficiently for two terms. He died near Scroggsfield in 1893, Mrs. Adams having passed away in 1880. They were the parents of the following children : P. W., who is deceased; Lucinda, who is also deceased; George L., a resident of Newcastle, Wyoming; Eli J., who is engaged in farming in Fox Township; John Quincy; and Minnie, who is the wife of John A. George, an agriculturist of Center Township, Carroll County.
John Quincy Adams attended the public schools in his youth and resided with his parents until his marriage, at which time he moved to a farm in Fox Township owned by his father. This farm he later bought from his father's second wife, and at present his operations cover 220 acres of highly cultivated land, Mr. Adams being known as one of the leading general farmers of his community and as a man whose practical and progressive measures and methods have been productive of highly satisfying results. He is a well educated and well posted man, fully abreast of the times in all that pertains to agriculture and its most practical development, and takes a deep interest in politics, education, religion and home-making. He is a consistent member of the United Presbyterian Church, of which he is secretary. For four years he served as a member of the school board and also acted for a time as land appraiser. In 1910 he was appointed a justice of the peace, and subsequently was elected to that office, in which he has served to the present. In politics be is a republican. He holds membership in the East Township Grange, and as a fraternalist is affiliated with Lodge No. 752, Knights of Pythias, at Berkholz, Ohio, in which order he has numerous warm friends.
Mr. Adams was married March 31, 1896, to Miss Minnie Wiggins, who was born in Fox Township, daughter of John R. and Jennie (Ault) Wiggins, the former a native of Carroll County and the latter of Jefferson County, Ohio. To this union there have been born five children : Carl, who died aged four years; Bertha, who died when eighteen years of age; and Earl, Ruth and Jean, who reside with their parents.
JOSEPH B. FERGASON. After being engaged in many lines of business, Joseph B. Fergason has definitely settled down upon that of farming, and for the past ten years has owned and conducted his father's old homestead of 110 1/2 acres of land in Fox Township. The results of his farming are such as to justify his selection, and in addition to his material prosperity he enjoys the confidence and respect of his associates. Mr. Fergason was born in Fox Township, May 15, 1858, a son of Robert and Mary E. (Butcher) Fergason, natives of New Jersey and England, respectively, and grandson of Henry and Priscilla (Berry) Butcher, natives of England. The parents came to Fox Township when young, and were married on the present farm of Mr. Fergason, March 24, 1853. The father, who was born December 25, 1830, died in 1886: and the mother, who was born July 14, 1834, died August 4, 1916. Their children were as follows: Priscilla, who was born December 15, 1853, is deceased; Thomas, who was born February 20, 1855, died in infancy; Sarah Ma who was born October 25, 1856, is the widow of James White of Fox Township; Joseph Ba who was next in order of birth; Henry S., who was born June 15, 1860, lives at Sebring, Ohio; Robert George, who was born May 21, 1862, lives at Salineville, Ohio; Hannah E., who was born April 24, 1864, married B. E. Neel of Fox Township; David J. W., who was born February 5, 1868, died at the age of thirteen years; James A., who was born December 27, 1869, lives at Newburg, West Virginia; Anna, who was born in 1870, married William Reed of Denver, Colorado; and Rachel Cora, who was born in 1872, married Addison Todd, of Denver, Colorado.
Until he was about seventeen years old Joseph B. Fergason attended the rural schools during the winter months, and then began working out by the month, and he also conducted a saw-mill, but his father took charge of his money until he was married. Following his marriage he resided with his father for about a year and then moved into a log house standing on the homestead. A few months later he went to another farm in the neighborhood. In 1910 he bought the old home farm, and has since then devoted himself to its cultivation. For eighteen years he was engaged in operating a threshing outfit, but gave that up in 1910.
On September 30, 1880, Mr. Fergason was married to Genora Willson, who was born in Fox Township, in February, 1862, a daughter of Hugh and Ann Jane (Lewis) Willson, natives of Ireland, and Salineville, Ohio, respectively. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Fergason was Madison Willson. Mr. and Mrs. Fergason became the parents of the following children: Berthetta, who was born September 29, 1881, married John Morrow of Fox Township; Robert Hugh, who was born October 8, 1883, lives in Columbiana County, Ohio; Earl Clyde, who was born April 1, 1885, lives in Fox Town-
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ship; Mary E., who was born April 29, 1887, married Doctor O'Ran of Belleview, Ohio; and Nora V., who was born August 13, 1899, married Harold Goddard, lives with her father. Mr. Fergason belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a steward of it for many years. Active as a Republican he was a justice of the peace for thirteen years, and was elected to other offices within the gift of the people, in which he proved reliable and capable. He maintains membership with the Protected Home Circle, and is interested in its development.
JOHN S. DUNLAP. The monotony which often ensues from the continuous following of a certain line of work has never been a feature of the career of John S. Dunlap. Gifted with mechanical ingenuity beyond the average, this well-known wagonmaker of Fox Township has, at different times, followed the occupations of wagonmaker, carpenter and builder, saw-mill operator and farmer, in each of which he has demonstrated his ability. His career has been one in which he has worked industriously in his own behalf, but in which he has likewise found time to devote at least a part of his activities to the betterment of his community.
Mr. Dunlap was born on a farm in Harrison County. Ohio. September 20, 1856, a son of Hazzard Perry and Rebecca Ann (Brown) Dunlap.' Ills father, a carpenter by trade, came to Fox Township, Carroll County, about the time of the birth of John S. Dunlap, and here purchased an eighty-acre farm. During the remainder of his life he divided his time between carpentry and farming and through his industry won a modest competency. He was a man of sound business integrity and a good citizen, and his standing in his community was accordingly high. When he died July 1, 1911, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years, there were many to mourn sincerely the loss of a true friend. Mrs. Dunlap, a woman of splendid qualities, passed away in February, 1892. They were the parents of the following children: William, who is a resident of Carrollton; Mary E.. who is deceased; John S., of this review; Jane. who is deceased: Edward, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Center Township. Carroll County: and Effie, who is the wife of Tipton Tobin, of Stark County, Ohio.
John S. Dunlap received his education in the rural schools in the vicinity of his fatherls farm. and was reared on the home place. on which he was associated in work with the elder man until he was about twenty years of age. At that tine' he turned his attention to the mastery of the trade of wagon-maker. which he subsequently followed for some years. In 1892 he purchased a tract of eight acres, located in Fox Township. on which he erected a fine home and wagon-making shop, and this property continued to be his place of residence until 1913. when he bought a farm of eighty acres. in the same township, with a stable and wagon shed. For the most part Mr. Dunlap has applied himself to wagon-making. although at various times he has followed fanning. carpentry and saw-milling. He has always adhered to the principle that work worth doing at all was worth doing well, and in consequence has built up 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.
On September 29, 1881, Mr. Dunlap was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Potts, who was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, a daughter of William and Mary ..(Miller) Potts, natives .of Jefferson County, Ohio. To this union there have been born the following children: Hallie M., who is the wife of Mervin Dorances, an agriculturist of Jefferson County, Ohio; Dora Ann, who is the wife of John Cameron, of Lisbon, this state; Arthur, who is a resident of Jefferson County; Elva, who is unmarried and resides on the home place with her parents; and James, who is a resident of Salinesville.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part. In his political allegiance Mr. Dunlap is a republican, but has not been a seeker for personal preferment. He belongs to the Fox Township Grange. in which he is at present serving his fellow-members in the office of treasurer. Since his own attendance at the Potts and Greenbrier schoolhouses in Fox Township, he has been a friend of education, the movements of which find him a generous supporter as do all other worthy enterprises which promise to be of benefit to the community.
JAMES CLENDENING. The great-grandfather. of James Clendening was born and 'married in Ireland and his children were all born in that country. He came to America with his family in 1802. He located for a time iu Washington County, Pennsylvania, and soon thereafter came as one of the early settlers to Jefferson County, Ohio, and located near Knoxville. William Clendening, oldest son of James, and grandfather of our subject moved to Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio. in 1844. John W. Clendening, third son of William and Elizabeth (Birney) Clendening, was born at Knoxville, Jefferson County, in 1839 and died at Freeport, Ohio. in 1918. John W. Clendening was five years old when the family moved to Harrison County and located at Nottingham Township. His early life was spent on the homestead farm. In 1863 he left farm life and entered merchandising in partnership with his brother James in Freeport, Ohio, retiring in 1869 on account of declining health. He then purchased 320 acres adjoining his fatherls homestead and again gave his attention to farming which he continued to follow the remainder of his life with eminent. success. He continued his residence on this farm, except for five years he resided on a farm be had purchased adjoining Freeport. until two years of his death. when he built a commodious residence in Freeport and moved to it a short time before his death.
In 1863 he was married to Sarah Niblock. claughter of John and Matilda (Kerr) Niblock. To this union two children were born. James, born December 4. 1871. and Oliver Lentz. born
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March 29, 1869. For a more extended account of the genealogy of the Clendening and Niblock families 'reference is made to the biographical sketch of Oliver Lentz Clendening on another page of this volume. Both branches of the family are pioneers in this section.
The first forty years of James Clendening's life was spent with his father improving his large acreage of grazing lands and in keeping the same stocked. In his early life he received a liberal education in the common schools of the neighborhood which was supplemented by a college course at Oberlin College. In selecting his life avocation he decided to follow the footsteps of his fatber and has always had an active interest in agriculture and stock raising, specializing in cattle, in which he hassi been eminently successful. He has always taken an active part in the local affairs of the neighborhoods in which he has lived, and is always found at the forefront in matters for the best interest of the community. After the death of his father in 1918 he was elected by the stockholders of The Fourth National Bank of Cadiz. to succeed him in the office of director in that institution, which is one of the strong financial institutions of the county. In 1919 he moved from his Washington Township farm near Freeport and located in the village, having purchased the old homestead occupied for many years by his uncle. Thomas Green, deceased. Thus he has provided excellent school advantages for his children, And located adjoining his father's late town residence, where he can cheer his mother in her declining years.
December 25, 1899, James Clendening was united in marriage to Ella Black, daughter of R. H. and Eliza (Fulton) Black. To this union three children have been born: Sarah Eliza, born July 27, 1905; Elizabeth, born January 30, 1907; and John Black, born February 7, 1909.
The family of Ella (Black) Clendening has been prominently connected with Freeport affairs for many years. In 1852 her grandfather, Dr. H. C. Black, moved to Freeport, Ohio, from Guernsey County and began the practice of medicine, and continued in active practice for more than fifty years. retiring only a few years before his death in 1906.
Daniel Black, the grandfather of Dr. Henry Clay Black, was a native of Ireland. where he was married. A short time prior to the Revolutionary war he and a brother. James, came to America and first located in Virginia. The family of Daniel Black consisted of seven children, viz.: James, Joseph K., Daniel. Ralph. Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. In 1803 the family moved from Virginia and located in Guernsey County, Ohio, where both Daniel Black and his wife died and are buried near the old homestead in Adams Township.
Joseph K. Black was born April 16. 1794, in Virginia and came with his parents to Guernsey County when he _was nine years old. In August, 1818, he was married to Ann Eliza, daughter of Joseph Hutchison, a resident of Loudon County, Virginia. They began their married life on The lands of his father. In 1832 they moved to a farm they had purchased near Cambridge. where Joseph K. Black died in 1850 and was buried in the old cemetery in Cambridge, and was followed by his wife in 1874, who was buried in the Baptist Cemetery at Center, Guernsey County. The following children were born to them: Lucretia (1819-1902), married John Scott; Clarinda (1820-1896), married Joseph Pugh; Cephas N. (1822-1912) ; Gain R. (1823-1921) ; Caroline A. (1824-1891), married George Scott; Henry Clay (1825-1906) ; Eliza F. (1827), married Joseph Linkhart; Charlotte C. (1829-1859), married R. I. Thaker; Mary C. (1832), married William Scott. This family have a remarkable longevity. Two are yet living and one died at the age of 30 years, yet the average life of the family is more than eighty years.
Dr. Henry Clay Black, grandfather of Mrs. Ella (Black) Clendening, was twice married. In 1848 he was married to Rebecca McCarty (1818-1881), a daughter of John and Sarah (DeFrance) McCarty, and a sister of Prof. H. D. McCarty, late State School Superintendent of Kansas. The issue of this marriage was four children: Clelia DeFrance (1850-1919), married James C. Carver; Rucinus McCarty (1851). married Jane Allen; Bourrienne Hutchison (1853-1917). married Eliza Fulton; Ottis King (1854-1917), married Ruth Caldwell.
Bourrienne Hutchison Black was born August 28. 1853, and was married in 1874 to Eliza Fulton. daughter of James and Mary (Boyd) Fulton. They lived in Freeport during their entire married life and until the death of the husband, March 3, 1917. B. H. Black was an active business man of Freeport for nearly fifty years and had a very wide business acquaintance. For many years he dealt in horses and sold farm machinery. To this union four children were born, Ella B., who married James Clendening, was born April 9, 1875: Lena, wife of Paul Lawrence, was born July 7, 1879; Charles F., married Bessie Willis and was born November 28, 1883; Hal McCarty, born February 19, 1885, a lawyer of Wichita, Kansas, married Helen Simm.
John McCarty, the great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Clendening, was one of the early settlers in western Pennsylvania. He married first Hepsibah Green, and had issue as follows: Elizabeth. married John Stewart; Hepsibah, married Robert Johnson, and later William McClure: Timothy, married Jane McConnell; Polly. married Andrew Birch; John, married Sarah DeFrance; Sarah, married Thomas Conner. By his second wife, Kesiah Cooper, John McCarty had the following children: Katharine, married James McDowell; Nancy, married David Walsh; Jane, married Robert Thompson; James; Kesiah. married William Elder; Samuel. married Sallie Aires and later Mariah Henry.
John McCarty, Jr., was born August 23, 1782, and on May 30, 1809, was married to Sarah DeFrance, who was born January 13, 1794, and had issue as follows: Jane, married William Lindsey; Hepsibah, married Robert Cassiday; John. married Julia Marquis; Rebecca, married Dr. H. C. Black; Timothy, married Ann Smith; Hugh; Sarah. married Wiliam K. Mathewson;
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Martha ; Kesiah, married William Forbes; James; Elizabeth, married James Portlock.
Sarah DeFrance, the great-grandmother of Mrs. Ella Black Clendening, was the daughter of John and Jane (Caldwell) DeFrance. The DeFrances in France were a titled family and this branch of the family were early settlers about Fort DuQuesne, near the present site of Pittsburgh. There is a family legend that at one time one of the DeFrances traded the land now occupied by Pittsburgh for a horse, saddle and bridle. John and Jane (Caldwell) DeFrance had issue as follows: Sarah, married John McCarty; John; Jane, married John De- France; Hugh; Allison, married Pattie Alender; Rebecca, married Robert DeFrance.
The maternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Ella Clendening on her mother's side, was William Boyd (1794-1868). His father, John Boyd, came from Ireland about 1812, and settled in Freeport Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and entered the northeast quarter of section 25 under date of November 6, 1915. John Boyd died on this same farm in 1832, leaving two children, Samuel and William.
William Boyd (1794-1868), was born in Ireland and came to America with his father. In 1823 he married Annie White, born in Ireland in 1802 and died at Freeport in 1879. During his early life William Boyd kept a store in Westchester, Tuscarawas County, but soon after his father's death he returned to the homestead farm and continued to live there until his death. Eleven children were born to their marriage, as follows: John (1824-1863), married Sarah, daughter of William and Mary (Moore) Fulton; Hannah (1825-1905), married Dr. W. H. Williams; George (1827-1914), married Eliza Markee; Eliza (1829-1880), married William Fulton; Mary (1830-1856), married James Fulton; William (1832-1898), married Mary Phillips; Anna Boyd (1834-1857) ; Melancthon (1838-1862) ; Margaret Boyd (1840-1865) ; Belinda (1842-1894), married James Kerr; Martha (1845-1871), married Rowet K. Niblock. Nearly all the members of the Boyd family are buried on the old home farm in Freeport Township in what is known as the Boyd Cemetery.
The maternal great-grandmother of Mrs. Ella Clendening on her mother's side, Annie White (1802-1879), was a daughter of Hannah White, who died in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1849. She was born in Ireland in 1774 and continued to live there until the death of her husband. These children were born to them: John; George; Eliza (1800- 1872), married Robert Holliday; Annie (18021879), married William Boyd; and Margaret White (1809-1892). During the War of 1812 the Widow White left Ireland with her family and emigrated to America. While on the Atlantic they were intercepted by a British man of war and all able bodied men were drafted into the British service. John, being a young man, was pressed into the service against the country of his adoption, and the passenger ship was diverted to Nova Scotia, where the passengers were landed. The White family continued there for some two years when they had an opportunity of getting to America, and soon after landing settled at Cadiz, Ohio, and were soon thereafter joined by the son John.
James Fulton, grandfather of Mrs. Ella Clendening, was a son of Wiliam and Mary (Moore) Fulton. William Fulton (1792-1871) and Mary Moore (1803-1882) were married in 1823. This union resulted in these children, viz.: William, James, Robert and Sarah who married John Boyd. William Fulton was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. When he first came to Ohio he located for a time in Green Township, Harrison County. Later he moved with his family to Washington Township and entered the southeast quarter of section 23, just north of Tippecanoe.
James Fulton was born September 10, 1826, in Washington Township, Harrison County, and was united in marriage to Mary Boyd, born in Freeport Township, Harrison County, in 1853. To this union two children were born: Eliza, born December 23, 1853, married B. H, Black; and Albert, born April 6, 1855. Soon after their marriage the entire foregoing Fulton connections moved to Illinois and located near Bloomington. Mrs. James Fulton died there in 1856, and later Mr. Fulton again married and continued to live near Bloomington until his death. William Fulton and wife also were buried at Bloomington.
Sarah (Moore) Fulton, the great-grandmother of Mrs. Ella Clendening, was the first child of a family of thirteen children born to William (1779-1847) and Sarah (Coroy) Moore - (17831863). William Moore was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and came to Harrison County, Ohio, about 1808. Sarah Corey was born in New Jersey. They were married in Westmoreland County in 1802. Nancy (18091881), a sister of Mary (Moore) Fulton, was married to William Birney in 1830, and soon after their marriage moved to Washington Township, Harrison County, near the Fultons, and soon thereafter began preaching under very peculiar circumstances. Every two weeks on Sundays after doing the usual morning work she would be compelled to go to bed and soon sank into what was then called a "trance." She was usually attended by her husband, who sat by the bedside and would wipe away a froth that would work out of her mouth, and also wipe away great drops of perspiration that would raise on her forehead. At about 10:30 o'clock a, m. she would ask to be raised up to a sitting posture in the bed. With eyes closed and apparently unconscious to the surroundings, she would begin a religious service, by first offering a prayer, and then take a text of Scripture and begin to preach and expound the Scripture in a most intelligent manner aud to the astonishment and amazement of the hundreds of people who would often congregate for the service. The service would last for about an hour. At the conclusion she would fall back to a reclining position and show signs of physical exhaustion, but without signs of being conscious of her surroundings. She said she had no recollection of anything she had done or said. Her physical condition was supposed to be a peculiar form of catalepsy. Her discourses were reported as being quite logical
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and interesting. This condition and program continued for thirty years or more, every two weeks on Sundays at 10:30. During the earlier years of this phenomenon people came from miles to these services, largely as a matter of curiosity, probably, but went away deeply impressed. The place on many, many occasions had the appearance of a country picnic. Many of the older people about Tippecanoe are still living to testify to these facts.
OLIVER LENTZ CLENDENING. The Clendening family has been actively connected with Harrison County history since the year 1844, when William Clendening, the grandfather of our subject, with his family, moved from Jefferson County, Ohio, to Nottingham Township in Harrison County, and located on what became their homestead farm of 240 acres on the Deersville and Freeport road, at a point midway between the towns which for many years has been known as Clendening cross roads. Later a postoffice was established called Clendening. E. D. Clendening acted as postmaster for many years until the establishment of rural mail routes. The farm continued in the family name until 1916. After the purchase of this tract Mr. Clendening later added an additional quarter section to his land holdings, which was later transferred to Israel B. Clendening, a son, and the same continues to this day in the name of a grandson, Deuver C. Clendening.
William Clendening was the son of James Clendening, who was born and married in Ireland. and was a weaver by trade. Early in his married life he immigrated to America and located for a number of years at or near Hickory, Pennsylvania. He had four children, William. James, Margaret and Nancy. About 1830 the latter daughter became the second wife of Hugh Birney, to which union two children were born who are located in the western states. She was born in 1794 and died in 1854.
William was born in 1789 and was thirteen years old when the family immigrated to America. While in Pennsylvania he received quite a good education for his time and was considered a man of more than average talent. Early in 1800 he and probably other members of the family moved from Hickory, Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Jefferson County. Ohio, where he acquired quite a tract of forest lands which he continued to hold until about the time he moved to Harrison County. December 19, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth Birney, daughter of William and Elizabeth Birney, of Deersville, Ohio. They began their married life at Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, and continued to live there until 1844. To this union six children were born: James (1834-1871), married Arminda Holliday; Israel B. (1837-1915). married Sarah Wages; John W. (1839-1918) ; Ebenezer D. (1841-1904). married Metta Burris; Elizabeth J., married W. F. Lafferty; Oliver D. (1849-1884), married Mary Hanley. The father, William Clendening, died September 15, 1867.
Elizabeth Birney, his wife, and the paternal grandmother of Oliver Clendening, was born in Green Township, Harrison County, March 23, 1813, was a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Letchworth) Birnev. William Birney and his three brothers, John, Hugh and Robert, came from Ireland to this country about the year 1800, first locating near Brandywine. Pennsylvania. William Birney was born in Ireland in 1782. In 1814 he and his brothers John (17771854) and Hugh (1779-1861) emigrated from Pennsylvania to Green Township, Harrison County. Ohio, and located near Cadiz Junction, and were among the early settlers of Harrison County. With their help Bethel Church. one of the first in the county, was established. Soon after they came to Ohio, they were joined by their brother, John, and the early religious sentiment of the communities was the result of their influence.
William Birney was married to Elizabeth (Letchworth) while they resided in Pennsylvania. She was a daughter of a Quaker preacher, of old Philadelphia. In 1825 they moved from Green Township to Franklin Township and located on a quarter section of land joining the town of Deersville, on the west, which land continues in the family name. Quite an acreage of the land entries of Harrison County were originally made by these brothers. At one time William Birney owned more than 1,200 acres. To this union eleven children were born, John, Israel, Letchworth, Ebenezer, Oliver, Jane, married John Baker; Mary, married Hiram Palmer; Debora, married Phillip Bartlett ; Isabelle, married Samuel Moore: Rachel, married Zontz Bonnett; and Elizabeth, married William Clendening. Elizabeth Letchworth, wife of William Birney, was born in 1787 and died at the old Clendening homestead in 1871. Her daughter, Elizabeth Clendening, wife of William Clendening, died at the same homestead September 7, 1885.
John W. Clendening, third son of William and Elizabeth Clendening, and father of our subject, was born August 23, 1839, and was reared to manhood on the home farm and received a practical business education in the common schools. In 1863 he entered the mercantile business in partnership with his brother James at Freeport, Ohio, continuing a prosperous business until 1869, when his health required his retirement from the business. Soon thereafter he purchased 320 acres of land in Nottingham Township which has since been known as his homestead farm, and is regarded as one of the best stock farms in this section of the county. For many years prior to his death in 1919 he was known as one of the most extensive live stock growers in Harrison County, and was recognized as having a place at the head of the progressive business men of the county, and always foremost to assist in enterprises for the advancement of the public weal. He was one of the organizers of The Fourth National Bank, of Cadiz, Ohio, and a member of its first board of directors and continued in such connection until his death.
June 2, 1868, he was married to Sarah Niblock, a daughter of John and Matilda Kerr Niblock, of Freeport Township. To this union there was born two children, Oliver Lentz, March 29, 1869, and James, December 4, 1871.
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John Niblock, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was of Irish descent, and was born March 29, 1807, on Wall Street, New York City, a son of John and Jane (Taylor) Niblock. To this union six children were born, Jane, James, Robert, John, Julia and William. When John was six years old the family moved by wagon from New York to Tuscarawas County. Ohio, and such was the condition of the roads that the family were compelled to walk nearly the entire distance. In 1846 the father died and was followed by his widow in 1870. In early life John Niblock was apprenticed to a millwright and during his young manhood followed this trade. He was . a man of very strong characteristics. After his marriage he turned his attention to agriculture and soon was rated one of the best farmers of this section. For many years his farm in the southern part of the township was highly improved as for, that day and was reputed one of the best farms in the township. In 1829 while he yet held a residence in Tuscarawas County he was married to Sarah Grewall (1808-1840). Soon thereafter he removed to the vicinity of Freeport. To this union three children were born: Mary (18321892) ; Nancy Green (1835-1911) ; Caroline Johnson (1838-1888). In 1840 he was again married to Matilda Kerr, daughter of Rowet and Susan Stewart Kerr. To this union was born Sarah Clendening, born July 11, 1841; Rowet K., deceased; Margaret, who died young; William Albert; James, deceased; Henry A., also deceased; Susan J. Bear; Dorcas B. Alexander. In 1889 John Niblock married Margaret Porter, daughter of James Porter of Cadiz Township.
Matilda Kerr Niblock (1816-1881), the maternal grandmother, was a daughter of Rowet and Susan Stewart Kerr. Rowet Kerr (17721869) was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and there married Susan Stewart (1775-1871). He was a son of John Kerr, and had two brothers, John and Robert. His father, John Kerr, was a Revolutionary soldier and lost his life during that war by being blown from a war vessel during a storm and drowned. Rowet Kerr, with his family, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Freeport Township with his brother-in-law, James Stewart and family. about 1816, and they jointly entered the northeast quarter of section 34, for many years locally known as the John Niblock farm. The first year they were on this tract after their crops were nearly mature, an alarm was given that the Indians were on the war-path against the settlers. The neighborhood settlers at once thronged to the fort at Freeport for protection. These two families gathered together such stuff as they could carry on their horses and came to the fort, but instead of returning after the alarm had been proven false, they continued back to Pennsylvania and spent the following winter there, leaving their crops to be harvested by their neighbors, the Davidsons on Crab orchard. The following spring they returned and became permanent settlers thereafter. To this union of Rowet and Susan Kerr the following children were born: Mary McCullough; Margaret McCullough; Rachey Leeper (1801- 1869) ; Matilda Niblock (1816-1881) ; Sarah, James (1820-1894), married Belinda Boyd (1842-1894). Susan Stewart Kerr's grandfather, Andrew Stewart, was a native of Ireland, County Tyrone, where he married and had two sons, Andrew and Daniel. Daniel immigrated to this country from Ireland when thirteen years of age, coming with a family by name of Gibson, leaving behind his brother, Andrew, who later died there. It was reported that a large for tune was willed to his brother in America but so far as known it was never received by either him or his posterity. Daniel Stewart, father of Susan Stewart Kerr, was married to a Miss Perry, who was of French descent, and who was a cousin of Com. Oliver H. Perry, who iu 1812 engaged the British squadron on Lake Erie, forcing it to surrender. Daniel Stewart had twelve children, nine boys and two girls besides Susan.
Mrs: Sarah Niblock Clendening, widow of John W. Clendening, is living at this date, 1921, at the age of eighty years, in their commodious Freeport residence, which was built but a few years before the death of her husband, and is given every possible comfort and care by her son, our subject, Oliver Lentz.
The early life of Oliver Lentz Clendening was largely spent on the old homestead farm of 320 acres of excellent pasture land. His education was acquired at the common schools supplemented by a college course at Oberlin College. The old homestead has come to him from his father's estate, and he continues to keep the same fully stocked in much the same manner followed by his father. He is a Presbyterian in his church connection, thus following the admonition of a saintly mother. The Clendening generations have been democrats in their political affiliations, but since 1896 John W. Clendening has been as ardent an advocate of republican principles, and his sons are following in his footsteps.
The foregoing line of ancestors are buried at the following cemeteries: Greenmont Cemetery, Freeport Ohio—John W. Clendening (18391918) ; Israel B. Clendening (1837-1915) ; Ebenezer D. Clendening (1841-1904) ; John Niblock (1807-1893) ; Sarah (Grewell) Niblock (1808- 1840) ; Mary Niblock (1832-1892) ; Nancy (Nib- lock) Green (1835-1911) ; Caroline (Niblock) Johnson (1838-1888).
Presbyterian Cemetery, Freeport Ohio—Rowet Kerr (1772-1869) ; Susan (Stewart) Kerr (17751871) ; Rachel (Kerr) Leeper (1801-1869); Sarah Kerr.
Old Deersville Cemetery—William Clendening (1813-1867) ; Elizabeth (Birney) Clendening (1813-1885) ; James Clendening (18341871) ; Arminda (Holliday) Clendening (18351874) ; William Birney (1782-1865) ; Elizabeth (Letchworth) Birney (1787-1871).
Londonderry U. P. Cemetery—Matilda (Kerr) Niblock (1816-1881) ; Margaret Niblock; Henry A. Niblock.
Bethel Cemetery, Green Township—Hugh Birney (1779-1861) ; Nancy (Clendening) Birney (1794-1854) ; John Birney (1777-1854); Robert Birney (1795-1871).
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DENVER C. CLENDENING. Some of the best farms in Ohio are located in Harrison County, for, not only is the land unusually fertile and the drainage excellent, but the agriculturists understand their work and take a pride in improving their property, with the result that banner crops are here grown and the landowners are becoming wealthy men. One of the prosperous farmers of the county who has proven his worth as a factor in its agricultural life and also as a citizen, is Denver C. Clendening of Freeport, owner of 238 acres of valuable land in Nottingham Township.
Mr. Clendening was born in Nottingham Township. November 3. 1875, a son of I. B. and Sarah (Wagers) Clendening. I. B. Clendening was born in Jefferson County, Ohio. April 4. 1837. and his wife was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, February 11, 1836, a daughter of Nathan Wagers. Until 1495 I. B. Clendenning lived on his farm in Nottingham Township. but in that year moved to Freeport. and resided there until his death, which occurred December 25. 1915. His wife had died April 6. 1909. Both were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and very active in religious work. Their children were as follows: Edwin M., who was born October 1, 1850, died January 9. 1889: John F.. who was born December 30, 1860. died November 29. 1861: Otis C., who was born September 20. 1863, died February 20, 1866; William, who was born September 28. 1865, died November 1, 1865: Wilmer, who was born November 21. 1866, died February 22, 1867 Earl, who was born May 21. 1868, died April 9. 1908; and Denver C. who is the youngest and only survivor.
Denver C. Clendening was reared on his .father's farm and sent to the district schools of Nottingham Township. He remained with his parents as long as they lived and inherited the homestead of 238 acres of valuable land on which he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising. although he resides at Freeport. He belongs to tbe Presbyterian Church of Freeport. A Mason, he is a member of the Blue Lodge of Freeport and the Chapter of Uhrichsville.
SALATHIEL M. HAMILTON. With a fine farm of 380 acres, in Moorefield Township. Harrison County. Mr. Hamilton has secure prestige as one of the substantial and representative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county. Where he stands also as a representative of a well known pioneer family, his father, Andrew Hamilton. having here passed his entire life and having been a successful farmer. He was in the very prime of his useful manhood at the time of his death. in 1865, when his son Salathiel L. was about two years of age. Andrew Hamilton chose as the wife of his young manhood Miss Maria Kennedy. who was born in Moorefield Township. a daughter of Return Matthew Kennedy. who was one of the honored and influential citizens of Moorefield Township at the time of his death, June 10, 1888. Mr. Kennedy was born at Georgetown. District of Columbia. March 15, 1803. a son of Matthew and Christina (Hines) Hamilton. whose marriage was solemnized in the District of Columbia. Matthew Kennedy was born in Scotland, in 1767, and was there reared to manhood. He was a young man when he immigrated to America and he remained near Georgetown, District of Columbia, until 1806, when he came with his family to Jefferson County, Ohio, whence he came to Harrison County in 1811. He took up 160 acres of Government land in Moorefield Township, and in 1814 he removed thence to a tract of 320 acres which he entered in section 13 of that township. There he passed the remainder of his life, as one of the sturdy and industrious pioneers of the county and as an influential representative of the democratic party in this locality. He was the father of a fine family of seventeen children, of whom two died in infancy.
Return Matthew Kennedy was eight years old at the time when the family home was established in Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood under the conditions of the early pioneer period. On the 19th of February, 1824. he married Miss Jane Moore, who was born September 20. 1792, a daughter of Robert and Margaret (Armstrong) Moore, and of this union were born six children—Mary A., Howard. Robert, Jackson, Maria and Salathiel. Mary A. and Howard died young. About 1828 Mr. Kennedy removed to Tuscarawas County, but in .1849 he returned to Moorefield Township. Harrison County, where he passed the remainder of his life. His first wife died September 25. 1866, and later he married Martha McCollough, who survived him by several years.
Andrew and Maria (Kennedy) Hamilton became the parents of seven children: Matthew (deceased), Rebecca Jane (died at the age of eleven years). Evelyne, Robert. Adam (deceased). Salathiel M. and Daniel. After the death of Mr. Hamilton his widow became the wife of John G. Moore. no children being born of this union. She died in Kansas.
Salathiel M. Hamilton gained his youthful education in what was locally known as the Irish Ridge District School, in Moorefield Township. and as a young man he initiated independent enterprise as a farmer in his native township. Here abundant success has crowned his well directed endeavors, and he is now the owner of one of the large and valuable farm properties of this township, as noted in the opening paragraph of this review. His birth occurred in Moorefield Township on the 9th of December. 1862. He has taken loyal interest in community affairs but has had no desire for public office. His political support is given to the democratic party and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Moorefield.
In 1884 Mr. Hamilton wedded Miss Ella J. Moore. daughter of Allen D. and Mary (Haines) Moore. and of this union have been born eleven children : Evaline (the wife of Frank Toole) : Robert A. (married Miss Orpha Abbott and now a resident of the State of Oregon) ; Howard M. (mentioned on other pages of this volume) : Ada B. (Mrs. Hugh A. Sproull) : Charles (married Miss 011ie Knight) : Harry Craig (married Miss Anna Dickerson) ; Jennie (wife
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of Sherman W. McKibben) ; Ernest B.; John W. (died when about two years of age) ; Luella Bertha, and Oscar Ross.
HOWARD M. HAMILTON has found in his native county ample scope for successful achievement in his chosen field of enterprise and is one of the representative farmers of the younger generation in Nottingham Township, Harrison County. He was born in Moorefield Township, November 27, 1889, and due review of the family history is given on other pages, in the sketch of the career of his father, Salathiel M. Hamilton.
Mr. Hamilton early became familiar with the various details of farm industry, in the meanwhile profiting fully by the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township, and he continued to be associated in the work of the home farm until his marriage, April 20, 1910, to Miss Rosa Hunt, daughter of Daniel and Nettie (Shipley) Hunt, of Moorefield Township. During the first year after his marriage he was employed at public work in the county, and since that time has given his attention to progressive enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. In 1916 he purchased his present farm, of 144 acres, Nottingham Township, and on the same he has since made excellent improvements, including the erection of most of the farm buildings.
His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Piedmont, as was also his wife, who•passed to the life eternal on the 14th of March, 1919. They became the parents of four children, the second of whom died on the 3d of March, 1919, aged six years, his mother's death occurring only eleven days later. The surviving children are Albert Ross, May and Mary. On March 30, 1920, Mr. Hamilton was married to Elsie Johnson, daughter of Henry and Jane (Barcroft) Johnson, of Nottingham Township.
JOHN W. SHOTWELL. Experience has taught a number of the prosperous men of Carroll County that there is profit in farming, and they are devoting their energies and abilities to this line of work. One of them deserving of more than passing mention because of what he has accomplished is John W. Shotwell of Union Township, whose valuable farm of 212 acres stands as a monument to his good management and energy. Mr. Shotwell was born in this same township February 27, 1870, a son of James and Mary Ann (McCray) Shotwell, natives of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, respectively, and grandson of Jacob and Mary (Carlysle) Shotwell, the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania. After their marriage James Shotwell and his wife settled in the northern part of Union Township, and remained in Carroll County all of their lives. He died as the result of an accident when he fell out of the barn in February, 1910, and was survived by his widow, who passed away in August, 1919. Their children were as follows: Winfield Scott, who is a resident of Monroe Township; H. Mary, who is deceased; Flor ence, who is Mrs. Thomas J. Davis, of Carrollton, Ohio; Ella, who is Mrs. Charles Rutledge, of Lee Township; John W., whose name heads this review; Bertha, who is Mrs. John E. Smeltz, of Lee Township; Anna B., who is Mrs. E. C. Herron, of Harrison Township; Sada B., who is Mrs. I. B. Phillips, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Sarah Edna, who is Mrs John Ellenberger, of Dayton, Pennsylvania.
John W. Shotwell attended the district schools of his native township and took a nine- months' course at the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and then from 1889 until 1898 was engaged in teaching school during the winter months, in the meanwhile living on the homestead of eighty-three acres, of which he owned thirty acres. In 1910 he bought ninety- two acres of his present farm, to which he has added until he now has 212 acres, on which he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising. Taking as he does a great pride in his property, he is constantly improving it and has one of the fine farms of Carroll County.
On June 1, 1895, Mr. Shotwell was married to Rosa J. McCort who was born in Missouri, a daughter of Hugh and Margery (Fawcett) McCort, natives of Ireland and Carroll County. respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Shotwell became the parents of the following children: Ruby, who is Mrs. Roy C. Orwick, of Carroll County; Mary, who is Mrs. Okey German, of Monroe Township; Fay, who is Mrs. Lorin Marshall, of Washington Township; James and John, twins, who are at home; and Lynn, who is also at home. Mr. Shotwell is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a republican, and served for eight years as a member of the School Board. Believing in the efficacy of co-operation, he belong to the Grauge at Petersburg, and is one of its active factors, An excellent farmer, good business man and dependable citizen, Mr. Shotwell has fairly earned his present standing in his community.
GEORGE W. GOTSCHALL, owner of a very valuable farm of eighty-eight acres of land in Center Township, is one of the representative meu of Carroll County. He was born in Louden Township, this county, June 26, 1862, a son of Eli and Malinda (Yingling) Gotschall, and grandson of George Gotschall, a pioneer of Carroll County, who married a Miss Albaugh, and they had four sons and one daughter, the former all becoming farmers. The grandfather Yingling came to Carroll County from Tuscarawas County, Ohio, married Mary Hurler, and they had five daughters and one son. Eli Gotschall attended the public schools of Harlem Springs, Ohio, and became a farmer. His death occurred at Simmons Ridge, Carroll County. in 1904, but his widow survives him and is living at Amsterdam, Ohio. They had teu children, and of them George W. Gotschall was the fourth in order of birth.
Like the majority of the farmers' sons of his day and locality George W. Gotschall went to the rural schools during the winter months and worked on the farm in the summer ones, and grew up on the homestead, where he remained until he was twenty-four years of age.
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On December 22, 1887, he was married to Essie Ann Brown, a daughter of David and Eliza J. (Long) Brown, of Loudon Township, and of English stock. The grandfather of Mrs. Gotschall, Henry Brown, came to Loudon Township from Georgetown, Maryland. He married Sarah Shephard, who died in 1909, having survived her husband for many years, he having heen killed in an accident when only thirty- seven years old.
After his marriage Mr. Gotschall rented a small farm and was engaged in a teaming business in Lee Township, where he remained for a year, and then moved to Louden Township and operated the homestead and continued doing the teaming for a time. Still later he rented a farm of 140 acres in the same township and conducted it for five years. He then moved to Center Township, and from 1905 to 1908 rented the Huston farm. At the expiration of three years he rented 134 acres of land, and after two years bought eighty-eight acres of it, which land constitutes his present farm, upon which he has since made a number of improvements. He raises a general line of crops, but specializes on dairying and has a herd of twenty-five Jersey cows.
Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall became the parents of the following children: Laura, who is at home; Ola B., who is Mrs. David Smith, of Carrollton, and has three children, Pearl, Moine and Maxine; Mary Florence, who is at home; George Frederick, who is assisting his father on the farm, was drafted for service during the great war, but the armistice was signed before he was called; Forrest Herbert and Raymond Clark, both of whom are at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall are strong republicans, and exercise their right of suffrage. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Carrollton has in them earnest, purposeful workers and members. While they have attained success in a material way they have acquired something more important than the mere accumulation of money, the respect and friendship of those with whom they are associated, and are justly numbered among the worth-while people of Carroll County.
ADAM BEAMER. Inheriting his love of farming, Adam Beamer is making a success of his life work and owns 127 acres of very valuable land in Harrison Township, where he makes his home. His grandfather on the paternal side came to Monroe Township, Carroll County, from Maryland at a very early day. He married a Miss Stoody, and they had ten children, of whom Philip Beamer, the father of Adam Beamer, was the eldest. Later on in life the grandfather moved to Owen County, Indiana, where he died in about 1860, his wife having died in 1852. All his life he was a farmer. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.
Philip Beamer was also a prosperous farmer of Monroe Township. He died March 17, 1871, aud his wife, whose name was Sarah Eick before her marriage, passed away April 1, 1899.
Adam Beamer was born in Monroe Township iu 1853 and was the eldest of the children of his parents. He attended the public schools at Atwood, Ohio, until he was eleven years old, after which he was a student of Valley Hall School No. 3, Harrison Township, until he was eighteen years of age, and during that time assisted in the farm work.
When he was twenty-seven years old Mr. Beamer was married to Ruth Ann Scott, a daughter of William C. and Mary (Scott) Scott, of Tabor County, Ohio, the ceremony taking place on September 14, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Reamer became the parents of the following children: William C., who lives at Canton, Ohio, married Alvina Heider, and they have one child, Katherine; Sarah Isabelle, who is at home; Mary, who is a school-teacher of Canton, Ohio; Alice, who married Archibald Krohe, of Harrison Township, and has no children; and John Wallace, who died February 5, 1893, when three months old.
After his marriage Mr. Beamer moved to his present farm and here he has since been engaged in general farming with very gratifying results. He takes great pride in his place and carries on his operations in a thoroughly efficient manner. Active as a republican, he was elected a school director of his township three times, and has served as road superintendent for fifteen years. The Presbyterian Church of Dellroy, Ohio, bolds his membership and he is an elder in it. In addition to his other interests Mr. Beamer is a stockholder in the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton. He is a man who has always been in favor of the public schools, good roads and other improvements, and recognizes the fact that no community can grow unless its people are public-spirited enough to make an effort to keep it abreast of the times. Both as a farmer and public official Mr. Beamer has borne his part in the expansion of his neighborhood, and deserves the confidence he inspires among his associates.
WINFIELD SCOTT SMITH. Prominently associated with the representative farmers of Carroll County, Winfield Scott Smith owns 138 acres of land in Center Township and 220 acres in Harrison Township, 160 of which is owned in partnership with his son, and he is a man of ample means and flourishing interests. He was born in Union Township, Carroll County, May 15, 1865, a son of Perry Andrew and Mary (Parker) Smith. The paternal grandfather married a Miss Gartrell, and they had six children, of whom Perry A. Smith was the only son. The latter was always engaged in farming, and died on his farm in 1897, but his widow survived him until 1916, when she, too, passed away. Of their four children Winfield Scott Smith was the youngest.
After attending the country schools in Orange Township and that held in what was known as Smithls schoolhouse during the winter terms until he was eighteen years old Winfield Scott Smith worked on the home farm until his marriage. when he bought fifty-seven acres of land in Orange Township and operated it for five years. Moving to Harrison Township at the end of five years, he rented 177 acres for eighteen months, and then came to his present farm in Center Township, which then comprised sixty-five acres. Having faith in the farm land