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Gracie N., Duane Russell and Ralph Arnelda. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Cox is an elder. In politics he is a republican. As a man of public spirit, with the interests of his community at heart, he has taken an active and helpful part in various township movements, and has rendered satisfactory and conscientious service in the capacity of member of the Board of Township Trustees, an office which he filled for two terms. As a fraternalist he has been through the chairs of Tent No. 1316, K. 0. T. M., Kensington; and holds membership in Tent No. 61, K. 0. T. M., of Hanover, Ohio.
JOSEPH MCLANDSBOROUGH owns and maintains his residence on one of the excellent farms of Monroe Township, Harrison County, has made many improvements on the place and has marked the passing years by successful enterprise as one of the substantial representatives of farm industry in his native county. He was born on a farm near Scio, North Township, this county, on the 7th of September, 1855, and is a son of John and Anna (Eli) McLandsborough, who were venerable and honored citizens of Harrison County at the time of their death, the father having developed one of the fine farm estates of North Township and for a number of years gave special attention to the dairy business.
John McLandsborough was born in Otley, Yorkshire, England, October 17, 1824, and was ten years of age when he accompanied his father and older brother, Andrew, to the United States, in 1834, the father having come to this country in 1831 and having purchased 106 acres of land in North Township, Harrison County. John McLandsborough. assisted in the reclaiming and development of the pioneer farm in North Township, this county, and he remained on the old homestead until the death of his father, when he removed to the farm on which he passed the remainder of his life, he having accumulated a valuable landed estate of more than 500 acres. He was a man of prodigious energy and industry, commanded unqualified popular esteem and was one of the substantial and influential citizens of North Township, where he died when seventy-nine years, three months of age, his wife having been about seventy-four years of age at the time of her death. He was a republican in politics and served effectively in various township offrces. The marriage of John McLandsborough to Miss Ann Eli was solemnized August 16, 1849. Mrs. McLandsborough was born near Cadiz, Harrison County, a daughter of George and Sarah Eli, who were sterling pioneers of this county. Mr. and Mrs. McLandsborough became the parents of ten children—Andrew, Jenette (Mrs. Benjamin Calcott), Joseph, Alice (Mrs. John Kearns), William. Ellsworth, Sigel, Lincoln, Mary Katura (died in childhood), and John.
Of the genesis of the McLandsborough family another publication has offered the following data: "The McLandsborough family had its origin, according to tradition, in Scotland, where the name is said to have been Lameric; but for four and one-half centuries the ancestry is traceable to that part of Scotland in which the Covenanters had their abiding place, the McLandsborough family representatives in Scotland having all been identified with this religious body.
He whose name initiates this review is of the sixth generation in line of direct descent from Andrew McLandsborough, who was a farmer and shepherd in Scotland. The next in line of descent was his son John, who married Margaret Sloan and became by her the father of two children, John and Andrew, the latter of whom died in England. John, grandfather of Joseph McLandsborough of this sketch, was born in Scotland, in 1782, and at the age of twenty-one years he established his residence at Otley, Yorkshire, England, where for forty years he followed the vocation of draper. His first wife, whose family name was Johnston, died in Scotland, as did also their only child, a daughter. For his second wife he wedded Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Harrison. He visited America several times and here purchased property, including the land in North Township, Harrison County, Ohio. On this land he established his residence in 1834, and here his death occurred March 14, 1857, at which time he was seventy-four years of age, his wife having died February 14, 1839. Of their children Michael and Margaret died in England; Andrew was a resident of Mahaska County, Iowa, at the time of his death; John, father of the subject of this sketch, was the next younger son; Anna and Catherine died in childhood; Elizabeth became the wife of John Sproul and they established their home in Jasper County, Iowa; Robert died in England; and James died after the family home was established in Harrison County.
Joseph McLandsborough gained his early education in the public schools at Scio and remained at the parental home, as his father's assistant in the work of the farm, until the time of his marriage, in 1879, when he began independent enterprise as a farmer. In 1884 he established his residence upon his present fine farm, of 126 acres, in Monroe Township, and his progressiveness has been shown in his reclaiming ninety-two acres of this tract through an effective system of drainage. He has erected good buildings on the place and has been unequivocally successful as a vigorous exponent of agricultural and livestock industry. He is a republican in political allegiance and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The year 1879 recorded the marriage of Mr. McLandsborough to Miss Eliza Cameron, daughter of Thomas Cameron, and of this union have been born two children, Pearl Susan, Anna Alice, the latter of whom died at the age of three years and nine months. Pearl Susan MeLandsborough was born June 23, 1882, and she was reared and educated in her native county. On the 1st of October, 1901, she became the wife of Joshua D. Brown, and they own and reside upon a farm not far distant from that of her father. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have seven children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here designated: Frances Eliza,
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April 2, 1905; Ray M., December 10, 1906; Wilma Jane, July 8, 1909; Eugene Elmo, November 8, 1911; Joseph J., February 26, 1915; Carl E., March 23, 1917; and Edna Belle, April 8, 1919.
JAMES B. GLADMAN. It has been the purpose of the editors and publishers of this history to give in its biographical department as complete data as possible in connection with the various families represented, and it has been found expedient not to repeat in any sketch the record that has already been given in another. Thus in reviving the history of the honored pioneer family of which James B. Gladman is a member ready reference may be made to the ample record appearing in the personal sketch of his older brother, Thomas Gladman, on other pages of this volume. Special interest attaches to the prestige of Mr. Gladman as one of the representative farmers of his native county by reason of the fact that he owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, in Franklin Township, Harrison County. Here he was born on the 5th of March, 1857, a son of David and Elizabeth (Lyons) Gladman, concerning whom due record is given in the previously mentioned sketch of Thomas Gladman.
In the district school known as the Brownsville school, in Franklin Township, James B. Gladman received his youthful education, and from his boyhood to the present time the old homestead farm on which he was born has been the stage of his productive activities, which have marked him as one of the prosperous and influential representatives of general farm industry in his native county, his farm being well improved and comprising 137 acres. In addition to his appreciation of the splendid returns the old homestead has given him in response to his well directed activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, Mr. Gladman places also a high value on the place by reasons of the gracious memories and associations which attach to it. Mr. Gladman is a democrat in political allegiance and he and his family hold membership in the Christian Church at Tappan, in which he served four years as an elder.
On the 16th of October, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gladman to Miss Emma J. Billingsley, daughter of William P. and Leah (Randall) Billingsley, of whom more specific mention is made in the personal sketch of their son Nicholas W., on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Gladman have two children: William D., who owns and resides upon a farm of seventy-seven acres, adjoining that of his father, is one of the progressive farmers of the younger generation in Franklin Township, the maiden name of his wife having been Flora Buffington. Elizabeth Leah remains at the parental home.
NICHOLAS W. BILLINGSLEY has shown his loyalty to and appreciation of his native county by continuous and effective association with farm industry within its gracious borders, and he is now numbered among the successful agriculturists and stock-growers of Washington
Township. Harrison County, where he owns a well improved farm of 103 acres, given over to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent grades of live stock.
Mr. Billingsley was born in Washington Township. this county, on the 1st of January, 1863. and is a son of William P. and Leah (Randall) Billingsley, the former of whom was born in Belmont County, Ohio, where his father, William Billingsley, was a sterling pioneer settler, and the latter of whom was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, a representative of an honored pioneer family. William P. Billingsley became one of the prosperous farmers and influential citizens of Washington Township, Harrison County, where he continued to reside until his death, April 10, 1916. his wife having preceded him to eternal rest and both having been consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children the first, Sarah Margaret, died in early childhood; James L. resides at Lorain, this state; John A. B. is a resident of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County; Marion L. maintains his home in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Albert N. is a resident of the state of Iowa; Nicholas W. is the immediate subject of this sketch; Emma J. is the wife of James B. Glad- man, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume; and Ida A. is the wife of Reuben Lyons, of Uhrichsville.
Reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and afforded the advantages of the schools of his native township, Nicholas W. Billingsley remained on the old home farm of his father until the death of the latter, and in the meanwhile his marriage occurred, in 1888. In 1916 he removed to his present farm, on which he has continued his progressive and successful operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He is a republican in politics, served four years as assessor of Washington Township, one year as real-estate appraiser of the township and one year as a member of the school board.
In 1888 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Billingsley to Miss Mary E. Tennent, daughter of Robert and Caroline (Auld) Tennent, and of this union have been born three children: Leah is the wife of Lewis Morgan, and they have three children, Mary Margaret, Rebecca Jane. and a son. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan reside in the city of Joplin, Missouri, where Mr. Morgan is a teacher in the public schools. Oliver W. died at the age of twenty-one years, and Margaret died at the age of six years. Mr. and Mrs. Billingsley are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe.
WESLEY H. SHEPHERD. There are many reasons why a special tribute should be paid to the memory of Wesley H. Shepherd in the assembling of the individual and family records for this publication. He was a representative of one of the old and honored families of Car roll County and in his personal character and achievement gave to the world assurance of strong, noble and useful manhood. He passed virtually his entire life on the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. in Loudon Township, Carroll County, and was
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long numbered among the leading exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in the county, the while he was a citizen whose civic loyalty was shown in action as well as sentiment, in definite liberality and progressiveness. He was born December 6, 1841, and remained on his ancestral farmstead, in Loudon Township, until his death, May 10, 1919.
James Shepherd, father of him to whom this memoir is dedicated, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, September 4, 1790, a son of William and Mary (Morton) Shepherd. He was reared and educated in his native land and there, on the 27th of February, 1815, a clergyman of the Church of England solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary Reynolds, whose birth occurred in County Fermanagh, February 27, 1797, and who was a daughter of Joseph and Alice (Dowler) Reynolds. In August following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd severed ties that bound them to Emerald Isle and embarked on the sailing vessel that, after a long and weary voyage, landed them in the country of their adoption. They passed two weeks in Philadelphia, where Mr. Shepherd made arrangements for the shipping of his household goods and other effects to Steubenville. Ohio. On arriving at Pittsburgh he sold a part of his goods, in order to gain the funds for the transportation of the remainder of the effects down the Ohio River to the destination. Late in the autumn they arrived at the home of Mrs. Shepherd's uncle, George Reynolds, who later served on the bench of the county court of Carroll County. Their financial resources were reduced to the sum of eighteen cents at the time of their arrival, and in order to augment his depleted exchequer the young husband left his wife with her uncle and returned to Pennsylvania, where he employed himself during the winter in the threshing of wheat by means of the old-time flail. By indefatigable industry and utmost frugality Mr. Shepherd finally accumulated sufficient money to justify him in entering claim to eighty acres of land in what is now Loudon Township, Carroll County. He erected on the land a primitive log cabin, end of this modest domicile he and his wife took possession on the 31st of March, 1817. In the construction of the house not a 'nail, an iron hinge or a pane of glass was used. In his native land Mr. Shepherd had learned the trade of weaver, and he utilized his technical knowledge and facility to good effect in the pioneer locality in which he had established his home. Of special interest is the-following extract concerning his work as a weaver: "He raised flax, which he and his wife wove into linen and then sold. One fine web of forty yards he carried on his shoulder to Canton, where he received forty dollars for the fabric. He then paid one dollar for two yards of calico, and the remainder of the forty dollars he used in entering an additional tract of land. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd encountered their full share of the hardships and vicissitudes that fell to the lot of the pioneers of this now favored section of Ohio, but they were prosperous in their labors with the passing years and reared their large family of children to lives of usefulness and honor, the home ,having been one of happiness and refined influences." This honored pioneer couple became the parents of fourteen children, all but one of whom attained to years of maturity, and of the number two are living at the time of this writing: Alice, who is the widow of Rev. Theophilus Kneen, a Presbyterian minister, and resides at Harlem Springs, Carroll County; and Joseph C., who is a resident of Tacoma, Washington. James Shepherd passed to eternal rest on the 2d,of June, 1872, and his devoted wife survived him by less than three years, her death having occurred March 14, 1875. They were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and their lives were guided and governed by the gracious faith which they thus professed and in which they carefully reared their children, all of whom became active members of the same church body. In politics Mr. Shepherd was a loyal democrat, and in community affairs he wielded large and benignant influence, though he had no desire for official preferment. He developed a large and valuable, farm property and his name, as well as that of his wife, merits high place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Carroll County.
Of the fourteen children Wesley H., was the youngest. In addition to receiving the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period he pursued higher academic studies in Mount Union College, and while he became a man of broad information and mature judgment, he never had any desire to deflect his course from the line of farm enterprise, in connection with which he gained substantial and worthy success. He became the owner of the old homestead, of 320 acres, and here he continued his well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser until the close of his long and useful life, which was crowned with honor and unequivocal material prosperity. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and he took loyal interest in those things that concern the communal welfare. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Amsterdam, as is also his widow, who remains on the old home place, and he filled various official positions in this church. He was a good man, a useful citizen and a generous and kindly friend and neighbor.
On the 7th of October, 1873, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shepherd to Miss Helen France, who was born at Harlem Springs, this county, and who is a daughter of the late Dr. J. B. and Margaret (Donnan) France, the former a native of Washington County, Ohio, and the latter of Butler County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Rev. Alexander and Helen (Hannay) Donnan. her father having been born in Scotland and having come to Washington County, Ohio, in 1799. Rev. John France, who was educated in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, and became a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church, was the father of Dr. J. B. France, and the latter long held precedence as one of the able and honored physicians and surgeons engaged in practice in Carroll County. Mrs. Shepherd attended Harlem College, at Harlem Springs, and is a gracious woman who
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has long held secure place in connection with the representative social life and other activities of her home community, where her circle of friends is limited only by that of her acquaintances. Mr. Shepherd is survived also by three children: Edgard married Miss Mary James and they now reside in the city of Cleveland; Grace is the wife of Benjamin F. James, of Canton, Stark County; and Paul, who remains with his widowed mother, has the active management of the fine old homestead farm, which now comprises 240 acres.
JOHN EVANGELIST KIRSCH. After a wide and valued experience which is of value to him in his present undertaking, John Evangelist Kirsch is now engaged in conducting his farm of sixty- five acres of land in Rose Township. He was born in Barr Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1860, a son of Simon and Anna (Bromanspager) Kirsch. The paternal grandfather, a weaver by trade, was born in Alsace, France, from whence he came to the United States in an early day. He first settled in Barr Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and married Catherine Bear, but after her demise, he moved to Westmoreland County, and became a lay brother at St. Vincent's monastery, where he died. He and his wife had five children of whom Simon Kirsch was the eldest. His life was spent on his father's homestead, and there he died in 1916, and his wife died that same year. By a former marriage to Mary Sheran, Simon Kirsch had two children, namely: Simon and Philomena, both of whom are still living. By his second marriage he had five sons and two daughters, and John E. Kirsch belongs to the second family.
During the winter terms until he was fifteen years old John E. Kirsch attended the country schools, but, after that devoted all of his time to the homestead on which he remained until he was thirty years of age. At that time he married and went to Altoona, Pennsylvania, where for eight years he was in a dairy business, and then came to Rose Township, where for a year he worked as a farm hand. Returning to the dairy business he carried it on at Canton, Ohio, for seven years, and then in 1911 returned to Carroll County and bought his present farm, where he has since remained, carrying on general farming. He is a stockholder in the Auto Transportation Company of Buffalo. New York, and has other interests, being a man of ample means.
Mr. Kirsch was married first to Magdelena Hoffee, a daughter of Simon and Cathrine (Sheran) Hoffee, and she died in May, 1913. leaving no children. In 1915 Mr. Kirsch was married to Ella Klise. a daughter of Francis and .Gertrude (Schott) Klise of San Diego, California. There are no children by this marriage. Mrs. Kirsch was born in Rose Township, and was third in a family of four children. She attended district school Number 6 and the Waynesburg High School, and then lived in different parts of the country, being employed in a private capacity, in this way seeing a good deal of the United States and Canada. and was in California at the time of her marriage.
Mr. Kirsch is a republican. He belongs to the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Marges. A hard worker Mr. Kirsch has earned all he possesses, and has acquired something else of value, the confidence and esteem of all with whom he is associated. While he is somewhat conservative with reference to public improvements, he is in favor of those which will add to the value of the property and prestige of the community, and is a friend of the pnblic schools and the good roads movement.
T. OTHO RICHARDS has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth, has here made for himself a high reputation as a man of probity and ability and as a successful exponent of farm industry. He still gives his close personal supervision to his home place. which is one of the valuable farm properties of Loudon Township, and is known as a progressive and thoroughgoing representative of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in his native county. He was born in Lee Township, on the 31st of August, 1854. and is the youngest in a family of eleven children, of whom only one other is now living—Mary, who is the wife of William Groves, of Rice County, Kansas. Mr. Richards is a son of Otho and Rachel (Little) Richards, the former a native of Carroll County, where his parents were pioneer settlers, and the latter a native of Pennsylvania, she having been born near Burgettstown, that state. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in Carroll County and they settled on a farm in Lee Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the father having died in April, 1855, when his son T. Otho, of this sketch, was less than one year old, and the mother passed away several years later.
T. Otho Richards was still a boy when he became doubly orphaned, but he was not denied consistent education advantages. The discipline which he gained in the district school locally known as the Frog Hollow school was supplemented by his attending for one term the seminary at Harlem Springs, but he was only fifteen years old when he found employment at farm work, by the month. He continued to be thus engaged, as an industrious and valued employe, until the time of his marriage, in February, 1880, when Miss Sarah Jane Color became his wife. she having been born and reared in Loudon Township, a daughter of William and Catherine (Slates) Cohn*. After his marriage Mr. Richards resided for a time on the farm of his father-in-law, in Loudon Township. and for two years he was engaged in the operation of a saw mill, in which enterprise he was associated with two sons of his eldest sister. Mrs. Boop. During this period he and his wife resided at Harlem Springs, and they then returned to the Color farm. By the will of Mrs. Richards' father she and her husband became the owners of 100 acres of his fine old homestead farm, a provision by deed having given to Mr. Richards a half-interest in the valuable property, which has been kept up to a high standard under his control and management. He has made numerous improvements on the farm, and the same is a model of thrift, and good management.
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Mr. Richards is a republican and his standing in his home community is shown in the fact that he has been called upon to serve several terms in the office of township trustee, in which he did much to further the civic and material advancement of his constituent township. He and his wire hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore and he is serving as a member of its board of trustees. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Richards: Charles E. and John C. reside in the city of Cleveland; William Albert is a resident of Los Angeles, California ; Paul G. lives at Amsterdam, Jefferson County; James L., who is now a resident of Cleveland, this state, served in the United States Marine Corps in the great World war, his training having been received at Paris Island, South Carolina, and he having accompanied his command to France, where he remained on active duty about six months, principally at Brest, where he held the rank of quartermaster's sergeant. His service in army was about two years. Arthur M., who likewise resides in- the city of Cleveland, was another of the gallant young men who represented Carroll County in the nation's service in the World war, his assignment having been to a motor-truck company and his training having been gained at Camp Benjamin Harrison, in Indiana, whence be went to France and was in active service at Dijon, having served about two years. He returned to his native land and received his honorable discharge, with the rank of sergeant; -Helen, next older than Arthur M., is the wife of Jay E. Brandt, of Loudon Township; and Catherine, the youngest of the children, remains at the parental home, and is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of her native county.
CHARLES SMITH, who is one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of North Township, Harrison County. is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of this county. He is of the fourth generation in descent from John Smith, who immigrated from Ireland to America in 1818 and who in that year secured from Governor Hare a tract of wild land in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio. where he instituted the reclamation of a farm from the forest. Here he passed the remainder of his life and at Deersville, this county, his widow died at the remarkable age of ninety years. They became the parents of five children, one of whom died in infancy. Those who attained to maturity were Thomas, Robert, William, John and Sarah (Mrs. F. T. Simonton). The son Thomas, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ireland and was reared on the pioneer farm in Harrison County, Ohio. As a youth he learned the printer's trade in the office of the Cadiz Republican, and in 1838 he returned to his native land, where in the city of Dublin was solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary Hopkins, their parents having been old-time friends in Ireland. On his return to Harrison County Mr. Smith engaged in the mercantile business at Cadiz, and later he was for twenty-five years engaged in the general merchandise business at Freeport, this county. In 1863 he sold this business and removed to Leesville, Carroll County, in which county he remained several years, within which he was associated with mercantile and farm enterprise. On his return to Harrison County he purchased a farm in North Township, and here he remained until his death, February 23, 1881, at the age of seventy-two years, his birth having occurred May 6, 1809. His wife was born August 27, 1813, and died June 5, 1882, she having been a woman of culture and most gracious personality and her early education having been received in the city of Dublin, Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Smith became the parents of six children: Joseph J., .who established his home in the city of Cleveland; Robert H., who was a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the time of his death, in 1885; Edward A., who was killed by lightning on the old home farm in North Township; Theodore W., who was the father of the subject of this sketch; Alice J., who died at Leesville, Carroll County ; and Sarah E., who became the wife of M. B. Fierbaugh.
Theodore William Smith was born in Freeport, Harrison County, March 17, 1846, and he passed the closing years of his life on his fine farm in North Township, where he died on the 9th of November, 1908. He received the advantages of the common schools of Harrison County, and early began to assist in his father's store. In 1870 he married, and in the following year he became associated with his brother Robert 11., in the general merchandise business at Leesville, Carroll County, where he remained four years. Thereafter he resided continuously on his farm in North Township, Harrison County, until the close of his long, useful and worthy life, his farm having comprised 160 acres, adjacent to the village of Conotton. At the time of the Civil war he served in the home guard organized to repel the raids of General John Morgan. He was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and gave liberal support to the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he and his wife were zealous adherents.
On the 8th of December, 1870, was recorded the marriage of Theodore W. Smith to Miss Mania M. English, who was born in North Township, Harrison County, a daughter of James and Ann (McCarroll) English, and whose death occurred in her native township July 10, 1914, she having survived her husband by about six years. Mr. and Mrs. Smith became the parents of three children : Alice C., who died on the 22d of September, 1908; Charles. of this sketch, and Anna, the wife of Cassius E. Moreland, who is employed in the steel rolling-mills at New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, their one child being Alice G. In the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith was reared also James Wilfred Smith, who was doubly orphaned when his father, Edward A. Smith, was killed by lightning, as noted in the preceding paragraph, and who was taken into the home of his uncle when nine years of age, and there he remained until his death, June 25, 1890, shortly before his twentieth birthday anniversary.
Charles Smith was born at Leesville, in Orange Township, Carroll County, Ohio, on the
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2d of September, 1874, and was a child at the time when his parents established their residence on the farm in North Township, Harrison County, where he profited by the advantages offered by the district schools and where he remained on the home farm until the death of his father. In the following year he married, and he has since remained on the home farm, of which he has had full charge since the death of his father, and of which he is now the owner. This place, as before stated, is conveniently situated adjacent to the village of Conotton and comprises 160 acres. Mr. Smith is far-sighted and enterprising in all departments of farm industry, and is one of the successful agriculturists and stock-growers of North Township. He is a republican in politics, and be and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Conotton. Mr. Smith is a member of General Custer Lodge No. 106, Knights of Pythias, at Scio.
On the 6th of October. 1909, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Smith to Miss Margaret Simkins, daughter of Willis L. and Martha Jane (Masters) Simkins, both natives of Harrison County, where the former was born January 25, 1832, and the latter on the 12th of February, 1836. Mr. Simkins, who maintained his home at Conotton, was for more than thirty- five years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the first few years as a bridge builder, and thereafter as a master carpenter. His death occurred May 10, 1910, his wife having passed away April 30, 1879, and having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the children the eldest is Miss Stella, who resides in Conotton; Anna is the wife of E. Carson Rogers, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have two children—Frances Louise and Estelle Faye; Mrs. Smith was the third child; and George died on the 9th of July, 1919. William and Catherine (Gould) Simkins, grandparents of Mrs. Smith, were pioneer settlers of Harrison County. William Simkins was a native of Cumberland, Maryland, and his wife was born in the state of West Virginia.
JAMES L. CLUTZ, whose attractive and well- regulated farm of sixty-six acres is situated in section 4, Loudon Township, Carroll County, was born on the adjacent homestead farm which is still the home of his parents, and the date of his nativity was December 12, 1876. He is a son of John C. and Mary A. (Burrier) Clutz, both likewise natives of Carroll County, where they have always maintained their residence. Mrs. Clutz is a daughter of Levi and Elizabeth Punier, who were pioneer settlers in Loudon Township, where they remained until their deaths, the Burrier family, from Pennsylvania, having been founded in what is now Carroll County, Ohio, more than a century ago. Concerning the children of John and Mary (Burrier) Clutz the following brief data may consistently be entered: Eliza Ann remains at the parental home; Sarah Jane is the wife of Ellwood Albaugh, of Dennison, Tuscarawas County; Edward Philip likewise resides at Dennison; Elmer D. is a resident of Jefferson County; James Louis, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Elizabeth Belle is the wife of J. Milton Albaugh, of Loudon Township; Francis Burton resides in the village of Amsterdam, this county; and Margaret Mae lives at Scio, Harrison County.
James Louis Clutz gained in his boyhood and youth a gradually cumulative experience in connection with the work of the home farm and continued his association with its work until his marriage and the initiation of his independent career as a farmer in his native township, where his success as an agriculturist and stock-grower has been on a parity with this Zealous application and progressive policies. His early education was obtained principally in the district school at Dutch Corner, and has been effectively supplemented by the discipline of a vigorous and well-ordered career in connection with the practical affairs of life. He is known as one of the reliable, straightforward and enterprising citizens of his community, and that he has secure place in popular esteem needs no further voucher than the fact that he is serving as trustee of Loudon Township, an office to which he was elected in November, 1919, as candidate on the democratic ticket. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano, Ohio.
In April, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Clutz to Miss Estella D. Cox, who was born at Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Michael A. Cox. It was shortly after his marriage that Mr. Clutz purchased and established his home on his present farm, which he has maintained at a high standard in all particulars and which is one of the excellent farms of Loudon Township. Since 1895 Mr. Clutz has given more or less attention also to sawmill work, principally during the winter seasons. Mr. and Mrs. Clutz have one child, Jessie Marie, who was born March 16, 1906.
JOHN M. DUNLAP is a popular representative, in the younger generation, of a family whose name has been most prominently and worthily linked with the annals of Harrison County since the early pioneer days, and he is one of the enterprising and progressive farmers of Moorefield Township, where he is the owner of a well-improved place of 158 acres and where, in the live-stock department of his farm enterprise, he gives special attention to the breeding and raising of the best type of short-horn cattle.
John M. Dunlap was born In Athens Township, Harrison County, on the 31st of July, 1883, and is a son of Adam C. and Alice (Moore) Dunlap, the former of whom was born in Athens Township, this county, on the 3d of June, 1851, and the latter in Moorefield Township, June 21, 1863, their marriage having been solemnized in September, 1882, and Mr. Dunlap having died in April, 1884. Mrs. Alice (Moore) Dunlap long survived the young husband of her youth and was fifty-three years of age at the time of her death, October 19, 1919. To this marriage two sons were born, John M. and Adam Cheater, the latter dying at the age of eleven months. Mrs. Dunlap was a daughter of Johnson and Emilie
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(Slater) Moore, the former of whom was born in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, in 1837, and the latter in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1841. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Moore was solemnized April 3, 1862, and they continued their residence on their old home farm, in Moorefield Township, until their death, Mrs. Moore having passed away January 18, 1919, and her husband on the 10th of October of the following year. 'They were members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of three children-Alice, the widow of A. C. Dunlap, who later married J. S. Wallace; Charles S. and Addle (wife of Dr. Edward D. Moore). Johnson Moore was a son of John and Elsie (Johnson) Moore, the former of whom was born August 4, 1809, in Jefferson County, Ohio, and the latter was born October 6, 1811, a daughter of William Johnson, who was one of the early settlers of Moorefield Township, Harrison County. John Moore developed one of the fine farms of Moorefield Township, where he remained until his death, May 14, 1874, his children having been three in number-Mary (Mrs. Jackson Ray), Johnson and Albert.
Joshua Dunlap, grandfather of him whose name introduces this record, was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, May 11. 1823, and his death occurred September 4, 1879, on his farm, in Athens Township. In 1847 he married Miss Nancy G. Watson, daughter of Robert S. Watson, she having been born January 30, 1823, and her death having occurred in 1884. both having been influential members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven ehildren: John D., who was born August 29, 1848, and who died on the 15th of the following October ; Watson, who was born October 13, 1849, and who became a prosperous farmer in Athens Township; Adam C., who was the father of the subject of this review and who was not yet thirty-three years of age at the time of his death; Rachel A. (Mrs. J. L. Scott) was born July 8, 1853; Mary J. (Mrs. Winfield Scott) was born April 27, 1855; Louisa B. (Mrs. John Webb) was born August 9, 1856, and died July 29, 1879; and Susan (Mrs. John P. Dunlap) was born May 29, 1858.
After the death of her husband Mrs. Alice (Moore) Dunlap married, August 29, 1895. James S. Wallace, who is a representative farmer of Moorefield Township and of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume.
After the death of his father John M. Dunlap was taken, with his widowed mother, into the home of his maternal grandfather, where he passed the period of his boyhood and early youth. He profited by the advantages afforded in the public schools at Moorefield and later completed a one year's course in a business college at Wheeling, West Virginia. He has continuously maintained his home on his present farm-the old homestead of his maternal grandfather, and has here achieved distinctive success in his agricultural and live-stock enterprise. His political support is given to the democratic party and he and his wife hold membership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church.
September 26, 1911, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Ava Tedrick, daughter of Samuel H. and Eliza (Madden) Tedrick, of Guernsey County, and the one child of this union is a sturdy little son, Donald T.. who was born February 26, 1914.
JAMES S. WALLACE, who is one of the able exponents of farm industry in his native township of Moorefield, Harrison County, bears a name to which attaches the highest of honors, as well as much distinction in this section of the state of Ohio, by reason of the faithful and exalted service of his grandfather, Rev. William Wallace. an able and revered clergyman of the Presbyterian Church and one of its pioneer representatives of central eastern Ohio. Rev. William Wallace was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1787, a son of John and Mary (Anderson) Wallace and a scion of staunch Scotch ancestry. He attended Jefferson College. Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1821 he was licensed to preach the Gospel by Presbytery of Steubenville, Ohio. He became a domestic missionary through the new settlements in eastern Ohio, and among the Presbyterian churches which he organized in Harrison County were those at Nottingham and Freeport, to the pastoral service of which he gave himself for eighteen years. He died on the 18th of December, 1841, after nearly twenty years of earnest service in the ministry. Of him it has been written: "He was faithful and sucecssful as a pastor, mild and amiable as a man and Christian, tender and kind as a husband and father." June 1, 1815, marked the marriage of Rev. William Wallace to Miss Mary W. McWilliams, who was born March 17, 1797, a daughter of David and Mary (Wilson) McWilliams, who in that year came from Pennsylvania and settled in Belmont County, Ohio, where they passed the residue of their lives. Mrs. Wallace survived her honored husband by nearly thirty years and passed to eternal rest in 1869. They became the parents of ten children, of whom David B., father of the subject of this sketch, was born April 3. 1825, on the old Wallace homestead in Moorefield Township. He .was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer history of Harrison County and passed his entire active life as a farmer in his native township, where his death occurred June 8, 1905. He was a zealous and influential member of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, which had been organized by his father, and of this church his venerable widow is still an active member. On the 25th of March, 1857. was solemnized the marriage of- David B. Wallace to Miss Margaret Dickerson. who was born in Harrison County, December 30, 1834, and who is now one of the venerable and loved representatives of a prominent pioneer family of this county. She is a daughter of Joshua and Belijah (Lafferty) Dickerson, natives of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. whence they came to Harrison County, Ohio, in an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace became the parents of six children: William. D.. born February 6. 1.858. became the pioneer settler in what is now the state of South Dakota ; James S., of this sketch,
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was born November 23, 1859, on the old home farm in Moorefield Township; Mary E., who was born February 28, 1862, became the wife of John Dickerson, of Moorefield Township; Joshua A. was born August 12, 1864, and is now deceased; Lillie B., who was born August 9, 1867, is the wife of John McConnell, of New Athens; and Lewis V., born October 13, 1869, is in the southwest.
To the district schools of his native township James S. Wallace is indebted for his early education, which was supplemented by his attending the Northern Ohio University, at Ada, Hardin County. As a young man he gave two years to effective service as a teacher in the district schools, and about the year 1885 he initiated his independent career as a farmer in his native township, where he has since continued his successful activities in this important domain of industrial enterprise. About 1887 he became associated with his uncle, William A. Wallace, in the purchase of the present home farm, of which he later became sole owner, by purchasing his uncle's interest in the property. This farm comprises about 165 acres, and Mr. Wallace owns also a third interest in another farm, of 170 acres, in the same township. All of the buildings on his home farm have been erected by Mr. Wallace and these, with other improvements, attest to his progressiveness as well as his success. He is a staunch republican in politics and served three years as trustee of Moorefield Township. He is an active member of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, as was also his wife, whose death occurred October 19, 1919.
On the 29th Of August, 1895, Mr. Wallace was united in marriage to Mrs. Alice (Moore) Dunlap, widow of Adam C. Dunlap.
EDWIN F. McCULLY, who was elected township trustee of Lee Township, Carroll County, in the autumn of 1919, has proved a loyal and efficient official and given further evidence of the civic and communal progressiveness that had previously marked his course in his native county. Farm enterprise has engaged his attention during the major part of his active career and he now owns and resides upon one of the admirable farm estates of Lee Township, where he finds ample stage for his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser.
Mr. McCully was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, in the year 1865, and is a son of William and Virginia (Smith) McCully, the latter being a granddaughter. William McCully likewise was born in Carroll County and was a son of Thomas McCully, to whom must be ascribed a due measure of pioneer distinction in this favored section of the Buckeye state. Thomas McCully was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and settled in Harrison Township, Carroll County. Ohio, about 1830, the Ferrell family having settled in Fox Township, near Mechanicstown. The names of both families thus early became prominently associated with farm industry in this county. William Mc Cully was reared and educated in this county and after his marriage he established his residence on a farm in Harrison Township. He not only held prestige as a substantial farmer but also operated a saw mill for a number of years. He was born in the year 1844, his life was worthy in every sense, and he attained to venerable age, his death having occurred on the 3d of May, 1919. Mrs. Virginia (Smith) McCully died in December, 1876, when but thirty years of age, and of the four children Edwin F., of this review, is the eldest ; William died at the age of thirteen years; P. 0. McCully married Nora Long and lives in Carrollton; and Matilda is the wife of James Snively, of Loudon Township. There are two half brothers and two half sisters.
The district school at Cold Spring Run afforded Edwin F. McCully the major part of his early educational discipline, and as a boy and youth he contributed his quota to the work of the home farm, besides assisting his father in saw-milling operations. At the age of twenty- five years he went to Garrett County, Maryland, where he found employment as a teamster in the lumber woods. In 1894 he returned to his native county and rented a tract of land in Center Township. There he farmed about two years, and thereafter he was engaged similarly on rented land in Washington Township. In 1901 he purchased his present farm, of 184 acres, in section 29, Lee Township, and this he has made one of the model rural estates of the township. On the homestead he erected the fine, modern house now occupied by the family, and he has erected other excellent buildings. Mr. McCully is a vigorous and thoroughgoing farmer, and his progressiveness and well ordered activities have brought to him a generous measure of success in the domain of diversified agriculture and in the raising of horses, cattle, sheep and swine. He served four years as a member of the school board of his district, and in the autumn of 1919 he was given further evidence of popular appreciation of his character and ability, in that he was elected township trustee, as candidate on the ticket of the democratic party, in the ranks of which he is staunchly aligned. He and his wife hold membership in the Church of the Disciples.
April 3, 1892, was recorded the marriage of Mr. McCully to Miss Jennie Thomas, who was born and reared in Garrett County, Maryland, a daughter of Elijah and Barbara (Frazee) Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. McCully have six children: Virginia is the wife of Donald George, of Lee Township; Emma is the wife of William Rutledge, of Union Township; William F. married Miss Anna Rutledge and they reside in Lee Township; and James Perry, K. Earl, and Carl E. remain at the parental home.
JAMES G. COMPHER, county commissioner and one of the successful farmers of Harrison County, owns and operates a farm in Moorefield Township. He was born in this township on July 29, 1864, a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Hall) Compher. Peter Compher was born in Moorefield Township, April 25, 1828, there he spent his entire life, and died November 8, 1913. His wife was born in Belmont County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Carver) Hall, her birth occurring February 16, 1834. She died in Moorefield Township, June 4, 1892. Her father, Thomas Hall, was a farmer of Flushing
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Township, Belmont County, Ohio, where he spent practically all of his life. The children born to Thomas Hall and his wife were as follows: George, Hiram, Catherine, James, Mary E., Polly, Lucy, Thomas and Jane. Peter Compher and his wife had children as follows: Wilbur Gilham, who was born February 16, 1857, died August 7, 1903; James G., whose name heads this review; John G., who is mentioned at length below. Mrs. Compher was a devout member of the Baptist Church and a lady of fine Christian character.
James G. Compher attended the district schools of Moorefield Township, and learned farming in all its details from his practical father. When he reached man's estate he began farming for himself in Moorefield Township, and has spent practically his entire life in this calling, with results which can not help but be gratifying. At the time of his marriage he located on his present farm of 168 acres of land and here be is carrying on a general farming and stockraising business.
On February 14, 1885, Mr. Compher was united in marriage with Jennie Dunlap, born in Moorefield Township, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Ellen (Bethel) Dunlap, and they became the parents of the following children : Leona B., who was born November 16, 1885; Charles. who was born March 4, 1887, married Sadie Clemens, their children are James M., Helen Mildred and Alice Leona, and they live in Moorefield Township; Mary Edith, who was born on June 5, 1889, married Carl Kirkpatrick of Dover, Ohio, and they have one child, Marjorie Catherine; and Floyd, who was born April 28, 1891, married Mary Brewer, and lives at Moorefield.
In the fall of 1916, Mr. Compher was elected commissioner of Harrison County and has since held that office. Mrs. Compher belongs to the Stillwater Baptist Church, but Mr. Compher is not a member of any religious organization.
John G. Compher, brother of James G. Compher, is also a farmer of Moorefield Township. and was born in this township, November 5, 1867. He was reared on the homestead and educated in the local schools.
On December 20, 1888, John G. Compher was united in marriage with Laura R. Rowland, a daughter of George and Margaret (Moore) Rowland. After his marriage Mr. Compher began farming for himself in Moorefield Township, and in December, 1918; he bought his present farm near Moorefield, where he has lived since August, 1919. This farm comprises 184 acres and on it he carries on general farming and stockraising. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Compher became the parents of the following children: Ada Lovina, who married first Morris Brenner, and second, James Hiney, has two children by her first marriage—Mildred and Paul; Ross G., who is second in order of birth; and Gertrude, who married George Wood, has twin daughters, Evelyn and Ethelyn.
The Compher family is one of the well-known ones in Harrison County, and these brothers have added to its prestige by their upright and honorable lives and useful work as agriculturalists and citizens.
RODOLPHO S. HIBBS. One of the constructive citizens and good business men of Harrison County, well known throughout this region for his dependability and uprightness, is Rodolpho S. Hibbs, provision merchant, banker and farmer, residing at Piedmont. He was born in Flushing Township, Belmont County, Ohio, April 18, 1860, a son of John R. and Lydia Pierson (Smith) Hibbs.
John R. Hibbs was born at Smyrna, Guernsey County, Ohio, a son of Amos Hibbs, who was also born in Guernsey County, Ohio. By trade Amos Hibbs was a cabinetmaker, and he made many of the coffins used by the early settlers of Guernsey County. He married a Miss Ratcliffe, and they became the parents of the following children: John R., William G., Amos and Barkley.
In about 1889 John R. Hibbs moved to Piedmont, Harrison County, Ohio, and dealt in farm implements and bought wool, building up a large business which he continued until his death in 1903. His wife, who was also born in Guernsey County, Ohio, was a daughter of Amos Smith, a homesteader in Guernsey County. She died in December, 1900, having borne her husband three children, namely : Rodolpho S., who was the eldest born; Oscar B., who died in 1915; and Clarence J., who lives on the old homestead in Guernsey County. Both parents were members of the Society of Friends.
Rodolpho S. Hibbs attended the schools of Guernsey County, the high school at Antrim, Ohio, and the college at Mount Union, Ohio. As a young man he entered the educational field and taught school for one term, but found that his abilities were such as to fit him for a business life, and in 1883 he entered upon the handling of produce under the name of A. G. Greenfield & Company. On January 1, 1890, the name was changed to Goodman, Hibbs & Company, and Mr. Hibbs is still operating under it, and conducts a general produce business', handling poultry, eggs, butter, hay, grain, and also buys wool. Mr. Hibbs owns a tine farm of 150 acres of land in Moorefield Township. In 1900 he and Mr. Goodman organized the first bank of Piedmont under the name of the Piedmont Deposit Bank, which was conducted as a private institution until 1914 when it was reorganized as a state bank, and as such is now carried on, Mr. Hibbs being one of the members of its board of directors.
On September 15, 1881, Mr. Hibbs was united in marriage with Ruth S. Doudna, of Barnesville, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph F. and Belinda Doudna. Mr. and Mrs. Hibbs became the parents of the following children: Fred J., who married Wilhelmina Sterla, has three children, Ruth, William and Elizabeth, and lives at Bridgeport, Ohio; Myrtle D., who married E. G. Frizzell, a merchant of Piedmont, has two children, Stella and Clifton; and Floyd E., who married Edith Conway, has two children, Edwin and Ralph, and lives at Martins Ferry, Ohio. Both Mr. Hibbs and his wife belong to the Piedmont Methodist Episcopal Church, and take an active part in its religious and civic betterment work. Mr. Hibbs belongs to the Freeport Lodge, A. F. & A. M. and to the Modern
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Woodmen of America. A sound man of natural business ability, Mr. Hibbs has been able to expand his various ventures in a healthy and legitimate manner, and in doing so has broadened the commercial horizon of his community. His connection with any undertaking, so reliable is he, guarantees its soundness to his fellow citizens, and he is accepted by them as one of the men of whom any locality can well be proud.
JONAH D. WILSON. In the sketch dedicated to his younger brother, James A. Wilson, on other pages of this work, are given adequate data concerning the family history of Jonah D. Wilson, who is numbered among the representative farmers of Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where his agricultural and live-stock enterprise is staged on a well improved farm of 150 1/2 acres.
Mr. Wilson was born in Moorefield Township, February 25, 1866, and is a son of the late James and Eliza (Davidson) Wilson. He was about seven years old at the time of his father's death but his widowed mother remained on the old home farm, where he was reared to adult age, in the meanwhile profiting fully by the advantages afforded in the district school locally known as the Science Hill school. He remained with his mother on the farm until his marriage, in 1891, but in the meanwhile he was engaged in conducting a general store in the little rural hamlet of Estep, not far distant from the home farm. In 1893 he removed his stock of goods to the village of Tippecanoe, but six months later he sold the stock and business and returned to Moorefield Township. The following spring he engaged in farming in Nottingham Township, where he continued to be thus engaged during the period of five years. He passed the following two years at Piedmont, where he was employed at railroad work, and the following twelve years found him engaged in farming in Green Township. He then sold his property in that township and established his home on his present well improved farm, in Moorefield Township.
In 1891 Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Jeanetta Finney, daughter of Joseph H. and Margaret Finney, and they have two children—Earl L. and Vera Jean. Mr. Wilson gives his support to the republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church. Their only son, Earl L., was one of the patriotic young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's service in connection with the great World war. He entered service July 25, 1918, and at Camp Sherman. was assigned to Company M, Three Hundred and Thirty-third Infantry. In the 2d of the following September he embarked in the port of New York City, for France. and the transport disembarked its young soldiers at Southampton, England, on the 10th of that month. With his command Mr. Wilson then proceeded to France, where his regiment was assigned to the Eighty-fourth Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. In October, however, he was transferred to Company H, Three Hundred and Sixty-fourth Infantry, Eleventh Division, and he was with this regiment in service back of the front lines when he was attacked with the influenza, which resulted in his being confined in the hospital from October 15, 1918, until January 15, 1919. On the 18th of Janua he rejoined his company, and on the 25th of March the command embarked for the return trip to America. Mr. Wilson returned with his comrades to Camp Sherman, and there he received his honorable discharge on the 25th of April.
JAMES A. WILSON, who has worthily won his prestige as one of the progressive and successful representatives of agricultural and live-stock industry in Harrison County, resides on the old homestead farm, in Moorefield Township, which was the place of his birth. Here he was born on the 4th of August, 1873, and his father died on the same day. He is a son of James and Eliza (Davidson) Wilson, and his father was born and reared on this same farm, where he passed his entire life and where his parents, James and Sarah (Brock) Wilson settled in the pioneer days, upon coming to Ohio from their native state of Virginia. As previously stated, James Wilson, Sr., died August 4, 1873, while still a young man, and his widow survived him by more than forty years, her death having occurred March 22, 1914, on the home farm which became her place of abode at the time of her marriage, August 4, 1846. She was a woman of gracious personality and marked business ability, as shown in her effective management of the farm after the death of her husband. James Wilson first married Miss Nancy J. Tarbert, who was born in 1836, a daughter of James and Nancy (McCollough) Tarbert, and she was survived by one son, Madison. Mrs. Eliza (Davidson) Wilson was born in Washington Township, this county, and was a daughter of Jonah and Sarah (Joice) Davidson. Jonah Davidson was born in Allegany County, Maryland, July 4, 1804, and in 1812 his parents,. Samuel and Mary (Drake) Davidson, came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became pioneer settlers on the land which they here obtained from the Government, in Washington Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the father having been a member of the Methodist Protestant Church and the mother a birthright member of the Society of Friends; she was born in the state of Pennsylvania. Jonah Davidson was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County and here, in 1829, he married Miss Sarah Joice, their only child, Eliza, who became the mother of him whose name introduces this review, having been born October 26, 1832. Mrs. Davidson died in 1859 and her husband survived her by thirty years, his death having occurred June 16, 1889. James and Eliza (Davidson) Wilson became the parents of three children—Jonah D.. Sarah B. and James A.
James A. Wilson has always lived on the old home farm, as previously stated, and here is the owner of 120 acres of the excellent land of Moorefield Township. He acquired his youthful education in the public schools and his youthful experience well fitted him for later successful achievement in connection with farm
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industry, in which he has made a record of thrift and progressiveness. His political support is given to the democratic party and he is serving at the time of this writing as a member of the school board of his district. He is also a steward of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he and his wife are earnest and honored members.
October 16, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Hannah Gutschall, daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Stevens) Gutschall, of Rumley Township, and of the three children of this union two are living—Mildred and Harold. Mae, the second child, died at the age of two years.
JAMES A. STEVENS. Among the farmers of recognized moral and material worth whose labors have helped largely to develop the interests of Moorefield Township, Harrison County, is James A. Stevens. His entire life has been passed amid agricultural surroundings, and during the past fourteen years he has carried on successful operations on his present property, a well-cultivated tract of over 117 acres.
Mr. Stevens was born west of Barnesville, in Belmont County, Ohio, March 5, 1856, a son of William and Susan (Brower) Stevens, natives of Guernsey County, Ohio. The founder of the family in this state was William Stevens. the grandfather of James A., who came from his native state of Maryland as a pioneer into Guernsey County and there passed his life in tilling the soil. He married Nancy Diffy, also a native of Maryland, and they became the parents of ten children: Samuel, Owen, William, John, Eli, Thomas, Joshua, Elizabeth, Charlotta and Rebecca. William Stevens the younger, father of James A., was born in Guernsey County, and followed !arming throughout his life in his native community and in Belmont and Guernsey counties. He married Susan Brower, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Claubaugh) Brower, and they had ten children: John William; Daniel W.; James, who died in infancy ; David A.; James A.; Mary E.; Charles W., who died in childhood; Thomas H.; Reuben Ellsworth and McConnell.
James A. Stevens acquired his educational training in the district schools of Guernsey County, and at the age of sixteen years began to be self-supporting by working out among the neighborhood farmers at a monthly wage. Later he began his independent career as a farmer in a small way in Guernsey County, and in 1904 came to Freeport Township, Harrison County, where he farmed two years, then returning to Guernsey County for one year. In 1907 he settled on his present property in Moorefield Township. a highly-improved and productive property of 117 14/100 acres, and here has since carried on general farming and stock raising. He is a thorough, systematic and successful farmer, and is truly typical of the most worthy and substantial agricultural element in Harrison County. He and his family belong to the Methodist Church.
On August 26, 1880, Mr. Stevens was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Bond. daughter of Charles V. and Anna (Shipley) Bond, and to this union there have been born five children: Iona I., who married Ira B. Baker, of Detroit, Michigan, and has two children, Leslie B. and Mary Mildred; Otha E., of Moorefield Township, who married Allie M. Brown and has two children, Edgar H. and Edna Mildred; Howard M., of Moorefield Township. who married Cora F. Morris and has one child, William W.; John R., of Moorefield Township, who married Addle M. Green and has had five children, Bertha D., Anna Berl, Mary F., James L. and Everett F., of whom James L. is deceased; and Alta A., who is unmarried and resides with her parents.
SAMUEL R. COPELAND. The leading agricultural interests of Harrison County are most fortunately in the hands of reliable, sensible, experienced men, who carry on their many farm industries with careful method and good judgment. A prominent example may be found in the Copeland family and its connections by marriage, a congregation of farmers that has brought much agricultural prosperity to Franklin Township.
Samuel R. Copeland, a representative member of this fine old family, was born in Washington Township. Harrison County, Ohio. June 22, 1875, a son of Thomas W. and Mary E. (Ramsey) Copeland, the latter of whom is deceased. Her parents, Samuel and Lydia Ramsey were pioneers in Washington Township, Harrison County, where they were farming people and reared their family of eight children, namely: John, William, Albert, Charles, Nancy, Sadie, Anna and Mary E.
Thomas W. Copeland, father of Samuel R.. was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, a son of James and Mary Ann (Walters) Copeland, pioneers there. Mr. Copeland is an honored veteran of the Civil war. He has been a farmer all his life and his home has been in Washington Township, on the same farm, since young manhood. He is a member, as was his wife, of the United Presbyterian Church at Tippecanoe. Their children were as follows: James A., who is deceased; Clara A., ,who is the wife of John C. Poulson; Samuel R., who is of Franklin Township; Lura, who is the wife of John Finnical; Emma, who is the wife of Walter Cecil; and John G., who operates the home farm.
Samuel R. Copeland always remained at home and gave his father assistance on the farm up to the time of his own marriage. He attended the public schools of both Washington and Franklin townships, has always kept well informed and is not only one of the intelligent farmers of his section but a thoroughly representative citizen. After marriage he settled on his present farm, where he has 150 acres of fine land. He devotes it to general farming and stockraising, taking considerable interest in having a good grade of stock of all kinds.
Mr. Copeland was married on December 21. 1899. to Alice McGill. who is a daughter of Thomas and Esther (West) McGill. and they have two children: Zelma B. and Mildred E. Mr. and Mrs. Copeland are members of the Christian Church. As a worthy citizen, Mr. Copeland takes some interest in politics and has
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served four years as a trustee of Franklin Township.
John C. Poulson, a brother-in-law of Samuel R. Copeland, was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, May 20, 1874, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah E. (Rose) Poulson, and a grandson of John Rose and John and Rachel (Rogers) Poulson. The paternal grandfather owned the farm in Nottingham Township that is still in the Poulson family. His children were one son, Thomas, and three daughters, namely: Sarah, who married Abraham Russell; Harriet, who married Barrett Rogers; and Susan, who married Samuel D. Edgar. The paternal grandparents were Wesleyan Methodists.
Thomas Poulson, only son of John, and father of John C., is a veteran of the Civil war, in which he served as a soldier for three years:. Following the close of the war he returned to Nottingham Township, where he had been born, and still lives on the old homestead. During his active years he was a farmer and carpenter. Of his three sons, John C. and Everett A. are living, and Oscar O. is deceased.
John C. Poulson obtained his education in the public schools of Nottingham Township and remained at home until twenty years old, then worked for other farmers, by the month, for ten years. After his marriage he rented his present farm in Franklin Township for two years. then purchased it and since then has erected all the substantial buildings on the place. He owns 133 acres of valuable land which he is intelligently and successfully cultivating. On September 12, 1900, Mr. Poulson married Clara A. Copeland, and they have two children: Nina BirdeII and Harold Dean. They belong to the Christian or Disciples Church.
John W. Finnical, who is a prosperous general farmer and stockholder in Franklin Township. Harrison County, Ohio, was born on the farm on which he lives, January 23, 1881. and is a son of Thomas A. and Anna (Gibson) Finnical, both of whom were born in Stock Township. Harrison County. Thomas A. Finnical lived in Stock Township until his marriage, then moved to Tuscarawas County and for two years conducted a farm near Uhrichsville, then came to the farm now owned by his son in Franklin Township which he operated until 1903. when he removed to Deersville. where his death occurred November 30, 1910. His first wife, Anna Gibson, a daughter of Edward Gibson, died November 10, 1890, the mother of three children, namely: Franklin F.. who was a physician at Dennison. Ohio. died October 23. 1914; Edward G., who lives at Uhrichsville. Ohio; and John W.. who owns the old homestead. Mr. Finnical's second marriage was to Rachel Malernee. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Deersville.
John W. Finnical was educated in the Brownsville school in Franklin Township and has always lived on his present farm of 132 acres. He is a practical. thorough-going farmer and takes interest also in raising good stock. On October 14, 1903, he was married to Lura Copeland, daughter of Thomas W. and Mary Eliza beth Copeland, and they have one child, Anna Elizabeth, who was born January 23, 1915.
Walter A. Cecil, third brother-in-law of Samuel R. Copeland, is a successful general farmer and stockraiser of Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where he, was born on October 28, 1886, His parents were David Elmer and Mary Catherine (McClintock) Cecil, both of whom were born also in Franklin Township, his father being a son of Jesse and Nancy (Gladman) Cecil, and his mother a daughter of Walter and Susan (Crim) McClintock. After the death of his first wife. David Elmer Cecil married Mary O. Crawford. To his first mar-‘ riage four children were born, namely: Leona May, wife of Robert West; Walter A.; Verna E., wife of Frank Gladman; and Ella L. The following children were born to his second marriage: Margaret E., wife of Henry Law ; Jesse W.; Ira E.; Ida I.; and Gertrude L.
Walter A. Cecil attended the public schools in Franklin Township through boyhood. When his mother died he went to live with his grandfather, Jesse Cecil, which practically became his permanent home. Mr. Cecil owns eighty acres of well-improved land and understands how to turn every acre of it to good account. On March 19, 1908, he married Maude Spray, a daughter of Joseph Spray. She died without issue. July 2. 1909. On January 31, 1912, Mr. Cecil married Rachel Emma Copeland, daughter of Thomas W. Copeland, and they have had two children: Thomas Lloyd, who died April 17. 1919; and Mabel Leona. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil belong to the Christian Church at Tappan, Ohio. It is not remarkable that this entire connection is held in high regard in Harrison County, for it includes people of upright character and solid worth.
DAVID G. CRAMBLETT. Considerable reference has been made on other pages of this biographical volume to members of the Cramblett family who for several generations have been identified with the agricultural life of Harrison County, and therefore, lengthy introduction is not necessary in the case of David G. Cramblett, who for years has been prominent in the farming and mercantile affairs of the county.
David G. Cramblett was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, August 3, 1877. a son of Thomas and Hannah (Mallernee) Cramblett, further reference to whom Is made under the sketch of W. E. Cramblett appearing on another page of this work. David G. Cramblett received his early education in the Beaver Dam school in Franklin Township and at the same time was getting his preliminary lessons in farm work on his father's place. He continued to reside on the home farm up to the date of his marriage which took place March 8, 1900. his bride being Florence Tedrow, a daughter of John and Mary Tedrow.
Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Cramblett commenced farming for himself in Stock Township on a farm that was part of his father's holding. Later he bought 120 acres of the home farm, to which he added 122 acres, bringing his entire agricultural interests to 242 acres of prime land. Mr. Cramblett carried on general
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farming and stock raising, making a specialty of purebred Black Top sheep, and along lines he was very successful. In addition to operating his land he worked a threshing outfit in the neighborhood, in partnership with one of his brothers.
Mr. Cramblett continued his farming operations until September, 1917, when he relinquished agricultural work, and bought a general merchandise business in Tappan, in partnership with C. C. Rea, and since that year the partnership has remained unbroken, the business being conducted to their mutual satisfaction.
Mr. and Mrs. Cramblett are the parents of two children: Mary and Thelma. The family are members of the Christian Church at Tappan and are regular attendants on its services, and Mr. Cramblett and his wife take an earnest part in all movements designed for the improvement of the community in which they reside.
ROBERT McGILL. The McGill family is one of the well-known ones in Harrison County, where its representatives have been established for many years, the majority of them being connected with agricultural activities. One of them who is sustaining the family reputation for upright industry and sturdy thrift is Robert McGill of Franklin Township, who was born on his present farm, June 9, 1856. He is a son of John McGill. and grandson of Thomas McGill, born in Ireland, who never left his native land,
John McGill was born in Ireland, but soon realized that there were no opportunities there for the ambitious young man, and so he left It for the United States and after his arrival in this country came as far west as Harrison County, Ohio, and secured eighty acres of timberland. Here he lived and worked until his death, which occurred in 1869. His wife, Nancy Auld, was born in Franklin Township, a daughter of Stewart and Rebecca Auld, and they had children as follows: Thomas, who died March 1.8. 1920; Sarah, who was second in order of birth; Nancy J., who married Samuel Hitchcock, died in 1901; Mary, who died in 1908; Robert, whose name opens this review: and Stewart, who lives in Oklahoma. The McGills were members of the Presbyterian Church.
Robert McGill attended the district schools of Franklin Township, and at the same time assisted his father with the work of the farm. He inherited the homestead of eighty acres of land, and here he is occupied with a general farming and stock-raising business and is doing well.
On June 17, 1886. Mr. McGill was united in marriage with Nancy Jane Dickey. a daughter of William W. and Cecelia (Barrett) Dickey, and granddaughter of Benny Dickey. William W. Dickey was born in Harrison County. Ohio, and spent his mature years in farming in Franklin Township, where he awned 160 acres of land, now the property of his son. Perry C. Dickey. His death occurred in 1914. but his widow lived until 1917. Their children were as follows: Alice A., Nancy Jane, Mary and Perry C. The family were all members of the Christian Church. William W. Dickey served for eighteen months in the Eighteenth Ohio Vol unteer Infantry during the war of the '60s, and participated in a number of important battles.
Mr. and Mrs. McGill became the parents of the following children: Ray, who is the eldest; Ada, who married Harry McMillen, has four children, Delmer, Laurence, Ruth and Floyd; William, married Bernice Cecil, who died November 28, 1920, leaving two children, Maxine and Mary; Edith, who married Rowland Blackwell, has one child, Delbert; Elizabeth, who married T. B. Errington, now residing in New Philadelphia, Ohio, has two children, Kenneth Eugene, died at the age of seven months, and Pauline; Robert, who married Edith Knapp, and has one son, William Russell. All of the children with the exception of Robert and Elizabeth live in Harrison County, Elizabeth residing at New Philadelphia and Robert at Canton. Mr. McGill belongs to the Presbyterian Church, while Mrs. McGill is a member of the Baptist Church. A capable farmer and good citizen Mr. McGill holds the respect of his community,
JAMES L. VICKERS. The Vickers of Franklin Township are farming people, and their well- cultivated land and carefully-kept premises prove their choice was a wise one when they adopted farming for their life work. They come of agricultural people, and inherit their love of the soil.' The family was founded in Franklin Township by the father of James L. Vickers, John Vickers, and since then its members have been connected with the best element in Harrison County.
John Vickers was born in England in 1791, but left his native land for the United States where he hoped to secure a farm at a nominal price. The young man made his way across the country and when he reached Harrison County he was satisfied that he had found that for which he was looking, cheap land in a desirable locality. He entered a farm, and in due process of time received his grant to it, and this document, still in the possession of the family, is signed by President Andrew Jackson. John Vickers was a man who commanded respect, and he won the confidence of his fellow citizens, and by them was held in high esteem. From the time that he entered his land until his death which occurred many years afterward, he continued to make Franklin Township his home.
Twice married, the family name of his first wife was Carnes, and she bore him the following family: Cornelius, Mary Ann, Asenith, Isaac and Ruth. After her death, Mr. Vickers was married second to Anna Bridgeman, born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Philip and Sarah (Carnes) Bridge- man, and their children were: John, James L. and Thomas, but they lost the youngest when he was a little child. Born and bred in the Quaker faith. Mr. Vickers adherred to it for a number of years, but later onl in life joined the Methodist Episcopal Church.
James L. Vickers went to the district schools of Franklin Township, and remained at home until his marriage, which occurred August 29, 1883, when he was united with Clarissa M. Lukens, a daughter of Eli B. and Rebecca (Rose) Lukens. After his marriage Mr.
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Vickers began farming on his own account in Franklin Township, and with the exception of one year when he was engaged in the poultry business at Deersville, he has been engaged in farming ever since. In 1890 he moved on his present farm of 122 acres on which he has built all the buildings and made the other improvements. He is a general farmer and stock- raiser and is satisfied with the results of his efforts.
Mr. and Mrs. Vickers became the parents of the following children: Anna Rebecca, who married Arthur A. Millhorn, is deceased; Mary Hollis, who married Jerry Fowler, lives at Justice, Stark County, Ohio, and has the following children, Lawrence Wayne, Audley Austin, Gallitin T., Marie Catherine, Erma Etta, Roy, Helen Clarissa and Mildred; Etta Dell, who married John William Robison, has two children, Rosella and James D. She was married for her second husband to Harry Wagstaff and they live in Monroe Township, Harrison County. The fourth child of James L. Vickers and his wife is John Eli, who married Odessa Kail and their children are: Clara Bell, Howard C.. James Clark and Hazel Maxine. They live in Franklin Township, Harrison County. The youngest in the Vickers family was Zelma Florence, and she died when young. Mr. and Mrs. Vickers are active members of the Christian Church of Tappen, Ohio, and are prominent in church circles just as they are in the neighborhood where they have lived for so many useful years.
ALEXANDER G. OSBURN is an honored scion of a representative pioneer family that was founded in Harrison County more than a century ago, and in all of the relations of life he has effectively upheld the high prestige of the name which he bears. He was born in Archer Township, this county, April 10, 1857, and he is now numbered among the progressive and successful exponents of agricultural and livestock industry in Franklin Township, where his activities are staged on the fine old homestead farm which his wife received as a heritage from her father.
The lineage of the Osburn family traces back to staunch Scotch origin. His European ancestors were among those who, in the early days, left their native Scotland in order to escape religious intolerance and became numbered among the large number of co-religionists from Scotland who settled in the north of Ireland and developed the strong Presbyterian element in that section of the Emerald Isle.
Samuel Osburn, great-grandfather of Alexander G. Osburn, was born in County Derry, Ireland, and there was solemnized his marriage to Susanna Garven, their children having been several In number. In the seventeenth century Samuel Osburn came with his family to America and settled in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and where he not only aided in development and progress but also participated in the early conflicts with hostile Indians. His son Alexander, founder. of the family in Harrison County, Ohio, was born on the 14th of May, 1785, and became identified with pioneer farm enterprise in the old Keystone State, where, on the 10th of May, 1808, 110 wedded Miss Mary Barnes, daughter of James and Mary Barnes, who had come to Pennsylvania from their native Ireland. Alexander and Mary Osburn became the parents of six children, and early in the year 1816 the family home was established in a pioneer log cabin on an unreclaimed farm in Athens Township, Harrison County, Ohio. Here Alexander Osburn girded himself for the herculean task of developing a productive farm in the midst of the forest wilds, and increasing prosperity attended his labors with the passing years. His devoted wife here passed away January 5, 1824, aged forty-three years. Later be married Miss Martha Rankin, of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of one son and one daughter. In 1829 Alexander Os- burn removed to the farm later owned by his son, Samuel, in Archer Township, and there he remained until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-two years, his second wife having passed away December 25, 1848. Mr. Osburn was a man of progressiveness and became specially successful in the growing of sheep, it being a matter of record that he introduced on his farm the first flock of fine sheep in Archer Township. He was a whig in politics and was a most zealous and influential member of the Presbyterian Church in Harrison County. He served many years as ruling elder in the church and was a delegate to the Presbyterian General Assembly in the year 1846. He enlisted for service in the War of 1812, which, however, came to a close before he was called into active service.
John Osburn, son of Alexander and Mary (Barnes) Osburn, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on the 31st of December, 1815, and thus was an infant at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, Ohio, in the following year. He was reared under the conditions marking the early pioneer history of this county and as a young man he operated an old-time woolen mill, in which he carded wool and also did some weaving, in Archer Township. About the year 1852 he established his home on a farm in Archer Township, and there he continued his successful association with agriculture and the live-stock business during the remainder of his active career. He lived a godly and righteous life, earnest in good works, and he remained on his old home farm until his death, July 16, 1903, as one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county. His loved and devoted wife did not long survive him, as she passed to the life eternal on the 7th day of January of the following year,
In the year 1836 was solemnized the marriage of John Osburn to Miss Sarah Amspoker, who was born in Harrison County April 3, 1818, a daughter of Samuel Amspoker, who was another of the sterling pioneers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Osburn became the parents of ten children Emma, Samuel A., Mary, Matthew, Martha M., Charles, Susan J., Gretta, Alexander G. and John J. The parents were most earnest and zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
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Alexander G. Osburn did not fail to profit fully from the advantages offered by the district schools of Archer Township, and for many years thereafter he continued his active association with the work and management of the old home farm. After his marriage, in the year 1900, he and his wife established their residence on their present fine farm in Franklin Township. the same having been inherited by Mrs. Osburn. as noted in the opening paragraph of this review. Mr. Osburn has had thorough experience in all practical details of farm industry and is recognized as one of the progressive and substantial exponents of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in his native county, where he and his wife have a circle of friends that is limited only by that of their acquaintances. Both are earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Deersville, and of its choir Mr. Osburn has been a valued member for fully twenty years. He has an excellent bass voice, and his musical ability is further attested when his proficient manipulation draws dulcet harmonies from the rare and finely preserved old melodeon which is an interesting and prized antique in the family home, its appearance and still pleasing musical response recalling memories of vanished days.
On the 22d of February, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Osburn to Miss Nora Howell, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of James and Margaret (Jamison) Howell, whose marriage was here recorded on the 7th of December, 1843. Mr. Howell was born November 2, 1818, in the State of Maryland, and his wife was born February 14, 1825, a daughter of William Jamison, who became an early settler in Harrison County. When a young man James Howell engaged in farm enterprise in Stock Township, Harrison County, whence he removed eight years later, in 1851, to Franklin Township and established his residence on the fine old homestead farm now representing the abiding place of Mr. and Mrs. Osburn. Here Mr. Howell remained until his death, May 25. 1899. and his cherished and devoted wife passed away on the 12th of the following September. their marital companionship, ideal in all relations, having covered a period of more than half a century. Both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children the firstborn, William J., died in carly childhood; Mary J. died at the age of eight years; Sarah Belle died in 1897; and Nora (Mrs. Osburn) and Ardena are the surviving members of this honored family. Mr. and Mrs. Osburn have no children.
WALTER A. HOLLIDAY is a scion, in the fourth generation, of a family whose name has been identified with the annals of Harrison County since 1815, and here he is well maintaining the prestige of the name which he bears—both as a citizen and as an exponent of farm industry, of which his great-great-grandfather, Robert Holliday, Sr., was one of the earliest representatives in this county. The lineage is traced back to Arthur Holliday, who was a native of Scotland and a member of one of the Scottish families that removed to the north of Ireland to escape religious intolerance in their native country. Robert Holliday, Sr., son of Arthur, was born in Ireland. where he was reared to manhood and where he married Rebecca Ramsey, five of their nine children having there been born and two of them having died there. The other four were born in America, and the last survivor was Mrs. Nancy Cooper. who was a resident of Henry County, Indiana, at the time of her death. In 1793 Robert Holliday, Sr.. came with his family to America and established a home in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, whence he later removed to Westmoreland County, that state. In 1805 he came from the latter county to Ohio and became a pioneer of Jefferson County, where he remained until 1815. when he came to what is now the western part of Harrison County. where he secured land and, with the aid of his sons. reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds, besides which he here followed his trade, that of weaver, and found ready demand for the products of his primitive loom. He was a veritable patriarch at the time of his death, in 1851, when ninety-three years of age, his wife having died in 1826.
Robert Holliday, Jr., was born in Ireland, August 1, 1792, and thus was about one year old at the time of the family immigration to America, in 1793. He was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm in Harrison County and remained with his parents until he was twenty- five years of age, when he married and established a home of his own, on the same tract of land that had here been secured by his father. He had in the meanwhile enlisted for service in the War of 1812, but was not called into active service. March 25, 1817, recorded his marriage to Fannie Melton, who was born November 22, 1795, and who died December 22, 1818. leaving one child, Fannie M., born on the 28th of the preceding month. March 29, 1821, Mr. Holliday wedded Miss Eliza White, who was born December 25, 1800, and of their thirteen children—seven sons and six daughters— eleven attained to maturity, ten of the number having married and reared children and one of the sons having met his death in the Civil war, while serving as an officer on the staff of Gen. William T. Sherman. Robert Holiday remained on his farm until 1830, when he engaged in the general merchandise business at Freeport. where also he conducted a hotel. There he died July 5, 1855, and his widow died August 16, 1872, when nearly seventy-two years of age, both having been members of the Calvinistic Baptist Church and he having been first a democrat, later a whig and finally a republican in political allegiance.
Eldred G. Holliday, son of Robert and Eliza (White) Holliday, was born in Freeport Township, Harrison County, January 19, 1822, and received the advantages of thc pioneer schools. When a young man he was for several years engaged in the work of the trade of plasterer, in Harrison and Belmont counties, and in 1851 he established his residence on a farm in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where he remained until 1883, when he removed to Cadiz, but still retained ownership of his farm. Janu-
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ary 10, 1850, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary Cunningham, daughter of John and Nancy (Sharp) Cunningham and a granddaughter of David Cunningham, who came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and settled in the present Harrison County, Ohio, in 1810. They became the parents of five sons and two daughters: John became a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church; Robert, father of Walter A., of this review, was the next in order of birth; George became a representative farmer of Harrison County; David became a prominent lawyer in the State of Kansas; Thomas E., a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church, became a missionary in India; and the daughters were Laura May and Nancy Bell. The entire family held to the Presbyterian faith. Eldred G. Holliday was first a whig and later a republican, and he was one of those actively concerned in repelling the Ohio raid of Gen. John Morgan in the period of the Civil war. Both he and his wife were venerable in years at the time of their deaths.
Robert Holliday, son of Eldrcd G. and Mary (Cunningham) Holliday, was born and reared in Moorefield Township. and his educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality and period. As a young man he gained place as one of the successful farmers of that township, where he continued his activities until the spring of 1884, when he went to the State of Kansas. About one year later he returned to the old home farm upon which he was born, and there he remained until the spring of 1886, and then he came to the old farm in Moorefield Township and remained until 1901, after which he passed a year in Columbiana County. He then returned to his former farm in Moorefield Township, and there he continued its management until the spring of 1919, since which time he has lived retired in the village of New Athens. His first wife. whose maiden name was Elizabeth J. Dunlap, passed to eternal rest on the 7th of May, 1907, she having been a devoted adherent of the Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Holliday likewise is an active member, his political allegiance being given to the republican party. Of the four children the eldest is Chloe, who is the wife of Dewitt Scott, of Harrison County; Walter A.. whose name initiates this article, was the next in order of birth; Flora became the wife of Bertram Koonce and is now deceased: and Eldred is engaged in the practice of medicine at Cambridge, Ohio. In 1910 the father contracted a second marriage, when Mrs. Louisa Kirkpatrick became his wife.
Walter A. Holliday was born in Moorefield Township, on the 5th of December, 1879, and his early education was obtained in the district schools of Moorefield, Cadiz and Athens Townships, and in the public schools of Cadiz, the county seat. As a young man he initiated independent farm enterprise in Moorefield Township, but a year later he removed to the ancestral Holliday homestead farm, in Cadiz Township, where he remained until November, 1919, when he returned to his father's farm in Mooretield Township, where he is now conducting his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He and his wife now own a well improved farm of 167 acres in Cadiz Township, but the title to the place on which they now maintain their home is still vested in his father. He is one of the loyal supporters of the cause of the republican party and both he and his wife hold membership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church,
On the 14th of February, 1911, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Holliday to Miss Mary J. Smith, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, a daughter of Walter and Christina (Barton) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Holliday have six children—John C., Laura May, Helen Elizabeth, Alfred Wayne, Margaret Virginia and Robert S.
As a matter of historic interest, it is worthy of record that representatives of the Holliday family were the first to bring sheep into Harrison County. The original flock comprised twelve or fifteen head, and each night they had to be placed in an enclosure, to guard them from depredations by wolves, besides which it was frequently necessary to maintain guard with rifles when the prowling waves were particularly insistent in their sanguinary intentions.
SAMUEL A. GUNNING. A visit through the rich agricultural sections of Ohio and acquaintance with the leading farmers of such localities as Harrison County is an interesting experience. It proves that careful old-time cultivation of the soil is still a great and prosperous industry and that the quiet, busy owners of the hundreds of productive acres are men of high intelligence, well equipped to carry on their enterprises in a progressive way. One of these practical and enterprising farmers is found in Samuel A. Gunning, whose splendid farm of 265 acres. lies in Washington Township, Harrison County.
Samuel A. Gunning belongs to an old and substantial pioneer family of Harrison County that was established in Franklin Township by his grandfather, Alexander Gunning, who was born in Pennsylvania. He married a member of the McGill family and they came to Harrison County, lived as farmers in Franklin Township and reared the following children: John. Thomas, Martha, Nancy and Jane. They were worthy people and assisted in founding the United Presbyterian Church in their section.
John Gunning, father of Samuel A., was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, and spent his life there as a general farmer and died August 14, 1901. He married Elizabeth Boyd. who was born in Coshocton County, Ohio. and died May 11, 1919. Her parents were Samuel and Nancy Boyd, both of whom were born in Ireland, came early to Ohio and were members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd had children as follows: Samuel, Robert, William, Allen, David, Sarah, Agnes, Martha, Mary, Alice and Elizabeth. Five children were born to John and Elizabeth Gunning, as follows: Nancy Jane, who died in October, 1911. was the wife of Simeon Rose; Samuel A., who is a representative citizen of Washington Township; Allen S., who lives in Franklin Township; Thomas W., who lives at Beach City, Stark County, Ohio; and Mattie
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Alice, who is the wife of Frank Knisley, of Philadelphia, Ohio. The parents of the above family were faithful members of the Presbyterian Church.
Samuel A. Gunning was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, April 9, 1874, and obtained his education in the Brownsville Public School. He grew up on the farm, where his training was thorough and practical, and remained in his native township as a farmer until his marriage, which took place on March 8, 1900, when he was united to Miss Bertha Irwin, daughter of Oscar and Emma (Riley) Irwin, and granddaughter of Ninian and Sarah Ann (Carpenter) Irwin, who came to Franklin Township, Harrison County, among the early settlers. The Irwins have all belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the grandfather's family there were five children, namely: Oscar, Albert, Mary, Alice and Demaris.
Oscar Irwin, father of Mrs. Gunning, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, and is a leading citizen and substantial farmer in Franklin Township. He married Emma Riley, who was also born in Harrison County, Ohio, daughter of John and Catherine (Suddett) Riley, and they have the following children : Bertha, Charles D., George August, Iona Maud and Jesse H.
Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gunning have lived on Mr. Gunning's farm in Washington Township. It is a fine property, well situated and well watered, and Mr. Gunning is successfully carrying on general farming and stock- raising. Mr. and Mrs. Gunning have one son, Noble Edmond, who was born June 26, 1906, and is attending school. The family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Westchester. Mr. Gunning has never been very active in politics, but he is a thoughtful and well informed citizen, and casts his vote intelligently. He belongs to the Order of Knights of Pythias, attending the Lodge at Tippecanoe, and in that order as in other connections with his fellow citizens he is held in respect and esteem.
GEORGE H. JOHNSTON made in earlier years an excellent record in connection with productive farm industry in his native county, but he has found his potentiality equally effective in the lumber business, in which he has .been successfully established at Bowerston, Harrison County, since 1905.
George Harry Johnston was born in Monroe Township, within whose borders the Village of Bowerston is situated, and the date of his nativity was July 26, 1868. He is a son of Joseph E. and Hannah S. (Smith) Johnston, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the names of both families have been prominently Identified with civic and industrial affairs since the pioneer days. Joseph E. Johnston was born in Monroe Township, August 11, 1832, and the place of his birth was a log cabin of the characteristic pioneer type. His father, Samuel R. Johnston, was born at Baltimore, Maryland, December 3, 1798, of Irish parentage, and Samuel R. was a child when he accompanied his widowed mother to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was reared to manhood and gained his initial business experience. In 1824 he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased a tract of land in Monroe Township. Here he eventually reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds, and he was one of the venerable and highly honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death, November 10, 1883. Of him the following consistent estimate has been written: "He was an exemplary man, quiet and unassuming, reserved and dignified, firm and unwavering in his opinions. His religious belief was free thought, the universal brotherhood of mankind, and his precept the Golden Rule, guided by reason. His integrity was like his character, unimpeachable, and in his daily life among his fellow men he never suffered himsclf to lapse from his chosen standard. He was a man of more than ordinary attainments and education, and became a deep thinker, a close observer and a careful reasoner."
Samuel R. Johnston commanded unqualified respect and confidence and was a leader in community thought and action. He served in various local offices, including those of township trustee and clerk, was a staunch democrat and was significantly generous, loyal, liberal and public-spirited.
July 20, 1826, recorded the marriage of Samuel R. Johnston to Miss Rebecca Barnhill, who was born and reared in Harrison County, where her parents, William and Mary Barnhill, natives of Ireland, settled in the pioneer days, the remainder of their lives having been passed in Monroe Township. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston became the parents of three sons and eight daughters, and those who lived to mature years were: William B., Mary (Mrs. Joseph McKelveen), Joseph E., Margaret (Mrs. Jacob Nor- rick), Rebecca (Mrs. Simeon Smith), Elizabeth (Mrs. Daniel Smith), Cecelia (Mrs. Jonathan Manbeck). The loved wife and mother died August 23, 1873, and Mr. Johnston survived her by ten years, his death occurring in 1883, as previously noted in this context.
Joseph E. Johnston owned the old homestead farm on which he was born and reared, and there he continued to reside until 1907, when he retired from the arduous labors that had long been his portion in connection with farm Industry and removed to the Village of Bowers- ton, where his death occurred August 4, 1914, -tad where his widow still maintains her home. Mr. Johnston gained his youthful education in the pioneer schools and passed his entire life in Harrison County, with the exception of four years devoted to pioneer farm enterprise in Iowa, to which state he removed in 1855. Thereafter he remained with his parents until their death, except for the period of his loyal service in defense of the Union at the time of the Civil war. In 1864 he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio National Guard, in which he was commissioned sergeant of his company, and with which hc participated in engagements at Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry and Winchester. After receiving his honorable discharge he returned to the home farm, and on the 26th of January, 1875, he married Miss Hannah S. Smith. who was born near
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Laceyville, Harrison County, a daughter of the late William P. Smith, a sterling pioneer of the county. In addition to the old home place, of 153 acres, Mr. Johnston owned a farm of eighty-three acres in North Township. He served nine years as justice of the peace, was a democrat in politics, was called upon to serve also as township trustee, and was a valued member of R. M. Lyon Post, No. 405, Grand Army of the Republic, at Bowerston. He had deep reverence for the verities of various religions, but, like his father, was a free-thinker and adnered to no religious dogmas. Of thee four children the eldest is Melvin S., who resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the maiden name of his wife having been Eyler Eurilla Had their one child being a daughter, Hannah Grace. George Harry was the next in order of birth. Anna N. is the wife of Robert H. McGuire, of Harrison County, and they have three children—Nina Dean (Mrs. Eugene Bowers), Verne and Samuel. Samuel R., the youngest of the four children, is individually mentioned on other pages of this volume.
George Harry Johnston made good use of the advantages offered in the district schools of Monroe Township and thereafter continued his alliance with the vigorous activities of the home farm until his marriage, August 15, 1895, to Miss Jessie M. Betts, daughter of Brice E. and Isabelle Betts, of Monroe Township. After his marriage, Mr. Johnston engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township, where he continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower until 1903, when he established his residence in the Village of Bowerston. Here he followed the carpenter's trade for the first two years, and then, in 1905, he here engaged in the lumber business, with which he has since been actively identified and in which he has developed a prosperous enterprise in the handling of all requisite types of lumber and building materials. He is a democrat in political adherency, served for a number of terms as clerk of Monroe Township, is a member of the Bowerston Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and vice president of The Tope School of Phrenology. In religion he is a free-thinker, being a member of the Columbus Rationalist Society of Columbus, Ohio. He and his wife are popular factors in the representative social life of Bowerston. They have no children.
SAMUEL R. JOHNSTON, youngest son of the late Joseph E. Johnston, resides upon and has the active management of the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and of the honored pioneer family of which he is a popular representative adequate data are given on other pages. in the personal sketch of his older brother. George Harry Johnston. of Bowerston,
Samuel R. Johnston was born on his present farm, October 7, 1875, and the educational advantages which were his in his youth were those of the district schools of Monroe Township and the Bowerston High School, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896. Later he completed a course in the Duff Mercantile College, in the City of Pittsburgh, Penn-
Sylvania. This practical business course did not, however, cause him to withdraw his allegiance to the great basic industries under whose influence he had been reared, and he remained on the old home farm for three years after his marriage, in the autumn of 1899. He then purchased a farm about one-half mile distant from the old family homestead, and after residing on the place four years he returned to his father's farm, which comprises 153 acres and which has been in the possession of the family since the pioneer days. Here he is a vigorous and successful exponent of modern agricultural and live-stock enterprise, in connection with which, as well as in loyal and liberal citizenship, he is well upholding the honors of the family name. He takes lively interest in community affairs and gave four years of effective service as a member of the Board of Education of Monroe Township, his political allegiance being accorded to the democratic party.
October 12, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Johnston to Miss Sadie B. Thompson, daughter of Andrew J. and Elizabeth (Betts) Thompson, of Monroe Township, and the two children of this union are Sadie Revelle, who married Roy C. Baker, of Monroe Township, Harrison County, and Joseph Andrew.
SAMUEL S. BETTS was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, September 17, 1861, and is a scion of a sterling pioneer family of eastern Ohio. The genealogy is traced back to staunch German origin and representatives of the name settled in Pennsylvania prior to the war of the Revolution. In the old Keystone state Adam Betts was born and reared, and in 1802 he came from Reading, that state, to the wilds of Jefferson County, Ohio, where he purchased Government land and reclaimed a farm from the forest. There he passed the remainder of his life; and records show that he was a man of superior intellectuality and ability. He retained at the time of his removal to Ohio the original orthography of the family name, Betz, and the name is thus entered on the patent to the land which he obtained in Jefferson County, this deed bearing the signature of President Madison and being preserved as a family heirloom of historic interest and value. Adam Betts was twice married, three children having been born of the first marriage and nine of the second. William, eldest child of the second marriage, was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1787, and was thus about fifteen years old at the time of the family immigration to Ohio. He was reared to manhood on the frontier farm in Jefferson County, where he married Miss Elizabeth Viers, who was born and reared in that county. He and his brother George served as soldiers in the War of 1812, and he continued as a farmer in Jefferson County until his death, which occurred in April, 1883, his wife having passed away in 1862. They became the parents of two sons and five daughters: Rebecca (Mrs. William Powell), Eliza (Mrs. William H. Barrett), Permelia (Mrs. Samuel Scott), Margaret (Mrs. John Dunlap), Brice E. (father of Samuel S), McCourtney, and Lucinda (Mrs. George
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M. Gault). The parents were active members of the Presbyterian Church.
Brice E. Betts was born on the old homestead farm in Jefferson County, where, in the little log house of the true pioneer type, he made his initial appearance June 13, 1824. He received his quota of opportunity in connection with the subscription schools maintained by the early settlers of the locality and that he improved these advantages is shown by the fact that as a youth he became a successful teacher in the rural schools. In 1846 he engaged in business as a general merchant at Salem, Jefferson County, where he remained until 1859. when he went to Missouri and purchased land, but the outbreak of the Civil war caused him to change his plan of removing with his family to that state. He accordingly resumed his association with mercantile business at Salem, but in the autumn of 1860 he sold his interest in this general store and the spring of 1861 marked his removal to Monroe Township, Harrison County, where he purchased the farm on which he continued to reside until 1894, his death having occurred February 20, 1904. and his widow passing away on the 24th of March, 1909. In May, 1864, Mr. Betts enlisted in Company B. One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio State Guards, with which he served in the Potomac and Shenandoah Valleys of Virginia and took part in various engagements, including the battles of Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry, Winchester and Maryland Heights. He received his honorable discharge, in the City of Columbus, Ohio, September 21, 1864. He was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and in Monroe Township he was called upon to serve as township trustee and member of the School Board, besides which he held for twelve years the office of justice of the peace. He became the owner of a valuable farm property of 260 acres and was a leader in community sentiment and action, with secure place in the esteem and confidence of all who knew him.
September 26, 1849, recorded the marriage of Brice E. Betts to Miss Isabel N. Guy, who was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, March 19, 1829, a daughter of Robert and Sarah Ann (Clarke) Guy, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ireland, she having come with her parents to America in 1810 and her marriage having occurred in the following year. Robert Guy was a brass founder by trade and vocation, and finally removed with his family from Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he followed the work of his trade, in an independent way, until his death, in June, 1864, his wife having died April 10, 1843. They had four children, James. Margaret, Isabel and Robert, Jr., all of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Brice E. Betts were active members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of nine children, of whom three died in early childhood: Elizabeth A. became the wife of Andrew Thompson, of Monroe Township, and is now deceased: William L., who was a representative farmer of Monroe Township at the time of his death, married Samantha Conaway and they became the parents of four children—Myrtle. Isabel, Harry and Margaret; Eliza M. is the wife of John Turney, of North Township, Harrison County; George is a farmer in Stock Township, this county; Samuel S. is the subject of this review; and Jessie M. is the wife of George H. Johnston, of Bowerston, Ohio.
The school in District No. 1, Monroe Township, afforded to Samuel S. Betts his early education, and he thereafter continued his active association with the affairs of the home farm until his marriage, on the 2d of September, 1894, to Miss Lora E. Fisher, daughter of James and Martha (Hendricks) Fisher, of North Township. After his marriage Mr. Betts assumed the active management of the old home farm, his parents having at this time removed to the Village of Bowerston, where they remained until their deaths. Mr. Betts is one of the resourceful and successful exponents of farm industry in his native county and his farm estate comprises 196 acres. He is a republican in political allegiance, is a member of the Baptist Church at Beaver, and his wife was a member of the United Brethren Church, in the faith of which she was reared. her death having occurred on the 4th of February, 1919. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Betts the firstborn, Guy H., died at the age of four years; Nellie M. and Mabel L. are successful and popular teachers in the public schools of Harrison County; Ralph B. and Wayne F. remain at the paternal home; Ruba F. and Rhoda F. are students in the Bowerston High School; and Ross C. and Martha I. are the ayoungest members of the home circle.
WILLIAM L. ROWLAND has shown naught of indirection or faltering in connection with his vigorous enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower in his native county, and his well improved farm, of 105 acres, in Freeport Township, gives the patent evidences of thrift and good management that mark him as one of the successful farmers of Harrison County.
Mr. Rowland was born in Nottingham Township, this county, on the 25th of August, 1850. and is a son of the late Philip Rowland, whose death occurred May 13, 1914. Philip Rowland was born in Nottingham Township on the 25th of May, 1825, a date that denotes that the family was founded in Harrison County in the pioneer period of its history. John and Rachel (Engle) Rowland, grandparents of Philip, were born and reared in Maryland, where their marriage occurred and whence they soon afterward removed to that part of Virginia now constituting the state of West Virginia. There they remained until 1801, when the husband and father set forth on a prospecting journey into Ohio. He came to what is now Harrison County and selected a tract of wild land in Moorefield Township as now constituted. He then returned for his family, who accompanied him on the eventful overland trip through the wilderness to the new home. transportation having been by a team and covered wagon and many hardships having been endured on the journey. On one occasion the wagon was overturned while crossing a river, and members of the family narrowly escaped drowning. Arriving at their
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destination the members of the family took possession of the little log house that had been erected for them. Here John Rowland, a true frontiersman and resourceful pioneer, reclaimed a goodly portion of his land and here he remained until his death, in 1848, at the patriarchal age of ninety-three years, his widow surviving him but a short time. Their children were: William, James, Mary, Levi, Betsy, John, Cyrus and Rebecca. John Rowland, founder of the family in Harrison County, has served as a soldier with the patriot forces in the war of the Revolution, and after its close he served three years as a government Indian spy, along the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. In this hazardous frontier service he encountered many dangers and hardships, including those incidental to suppressing invasions on the part of hostile Indians.
William Rowland, son of John and grandfather of William L., had his full share of experience in connection with the development of the frontier farm, his birth having occurred in Maryland and he having been a boy at the time of the family removal to Ohio. After his marriage to Jane Fulton, daughter of Philip Fulton, another sterling pioneer- of Harrison County, he settled on a farm in Nottingham Township, and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their earnest, worthy and useful lives, secure in the respect of all who knew them. They became the parents of the following children: John, Levi, Philip, James. Sarah. Rachel, William, Hannah, Rachel, Mary (Mrs. Elihu Petty), and Alexander. All of the children are now deceased.
Philip Rowland was reared in Nottingham Township, where he received the advantages of the common schools of the period, and in that township he was associated with farm industry until 1861, when he removed to Freeport Township, where he became the owner of a valuable farm of 250 acres, about two miles distant from the village of Freeport. Here he remained. one of the substantial and honored citizens of his native county, until his death, on the 13th of May, 1914, his first wife having passed away in 1893. In August, 1847, was solemnized the marriage of Philip Rowland to Miss Piety Ann Ford, daughter of Lewis and Ann Ford, and she passed to the life eternal in 1865. Of this union were born six children—William L., Emily J.. Siemens, Rebecca. Arizona and John Newton. Of the number William L. and Siemens are the only survivors. For his second wife Philip Rowland married Julia, daughter of Benjamin and Myrtilla Hart, of Harrison County, and she lives in Freeport. Five children were born of this marriage—Benjamin. George, Myrtle. Philip, Jr., and Burton. Mr. Rowland was a staunch supporter of the prohibition party for a time but always a republican. He and the members of his family held the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
William L. Rowland acquired his early education in the district schools of Nottingham and Freeport Township, and he continued his active association with the work of his father's farm until his marriage, August 5, 1880, since which time he has resided continuously on his present farm, upon which he has made good improvements of a permanent order, besides keeping the place up to high standard in every way. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Freeport.
On the 5th of August, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rowland to Miss Clara V. McCave, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Levi and Delilah (Martin) McCave. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland have six children: Charles O., a prosperous farmer in Moorefield Township, married Miss Odessa Baker and they have six children—Florence, Lucille, Denver, Vivian, and Leona and Iona. twins. Oliver F.. a representative young lawyer at Athens, judicial center of the Ohio county of the same name, married Miss Louise Wooley, and their one child is Don Edwin. Roy D.. who is now a resident of Guernsey County, married Miss Winifred Golden and they have three children—Clara, Granville and Mildred. Minnie May is the wife of Forrest L. Perkins. of Wheeling, West Virginia. and they have two children—Rodney L. and Dorothy Ilene. Bryce Martin. whose record in connection with service in the World war will he more definitely mentioned in an appending paragraph, is a student in Valparaiso University. at Valparaiso. Indiana, and in the same institution his younger brother, Halley H., is a student in the law department.
Bryce Martin Rowland entered the nation's military service April 1, 1918, and at Camp Sherman he soon won promotion to the office of corporal of Company K, Three Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Infantry, which became a part of the Eighty-Fourth Division. Early in July, 1918, he sailed with his command for France, and while the regiment was there stationed at Le Mans he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to the headquarters company of another regiment. He remained in service at LeMans until he was given the privilege of entering the University of Montpelier, France, where he continued his studies about three months. He then returned to his native land and shortly after his arrival in July. 1919. he received his honorable discharge, at Camp Sherman.
JESSE MARSHALL who for many years has been well known in business and the public life of Carroll County, was born in Washington Township, October 14. 1853.
This branch of the Marshall family lives for several generations in West Virginia. His grandfather Joshua Marshall came from West Virginia to Carroll County at a very early day, spending the rest of his active life on a farm in Washington Township. Eli Marshall, father of Jesse Marshall, was born in Washington Township in 1830. He married Sarah Jane Roudebush, who was born in Carroll County in 1835. The Roudebush family is one of long and honorable distinction in this section of Ohio. The ancestry goes back to two brothers, Abraham and Jacob, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1650, the early colonial period. Later the family was established in Maryland,
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1666, and also in Pennsylvania and they became people of large resources and many business enterprises. The first of the family came to Carroll County in 1816, and other followed in subsequent years, and the history of Carroll County makes frequent reference to many of the name. The father of Sarah Jane Roudebush was Jesse Roudebush who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1795. He died at Carrollton in 1868. .He and his brothers and other members of the family founded the Church of Christ at Mount Olive in Carroll County.
Eli Marshall spent his active life on a farm in Washington Township where he died in 1883, and his wife is still living at the age of eighty- six. She was the mother of three children: Jesse, Levi and Anna M. who is the wife of James N. Lawrence of Carrollton.
Jesse Marshall attended the country schools and made good use of his opportunities. For fifteen years he was -a successful teacher, and in 1888 removed to Carrollton where for thirteen years he was engaged in the wool and grain business. He was elected county treasurer on the republican ticket and served two terms. For the last fourteen years he has been in the monument business.
In 1878 he married Miss Catherine A. Den, nis, a native of Jefferson County. Ohio. Her father Christian Dennis spent the last twenty- three years of his life in the Marshall home and died at the age of ninety-one. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall who are members of the Church of Christ have three sons: Elmer G.: Clayton L., who lives at Canton, Ohio, and married Hazel Hines; and Cecil Dwight who married Exa Mills on June 18, 1919.
THOMAS S. BIRNEY has had the circumspection and judgment that have enabled him to appreciate the advantages offered for successful farm enterprise in his native township and is here numbered among the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation of Washington Township in Harrison County. Aside from his- admirable personal achievement he has the further distinction of being a. representative of one of the honored and influential pioneer families of this county.
Thomas Simpson Birney was born in Washington Township, Harrison County. on the 17th of May, 1883, and is a son of Robert M. and Martha J. (Simpson) Birney. Robert M. Birney was born in Washington Township. this County, on the 10th of January, 1849. and was a son of John and Hannah 1 McKee) Birney. John Birney was born and reared in Green Township, this county, where his parents settled in the early pioneer days, and soon after his marriage he removed to Washington Township. where he eventually accumulated and developed a fine farm estate of 560 acres and where he remained until his death. September 9, 1885. His first wife died in 1872. their children having been six in number—Rachel (Mrs. Henry Pittis), Nelson, Robert M., James N., Rebecca J. (Mrs. Matthew Simpson), and John T. For his second wife John Birney wedded Sarah Eaton, who survived him by a number of years. He was prominent in the local councils and ac tivities of the republican party and was zealous in support of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was an active member for many years prior to his death.
Robert M. Birney continued his successful association with farm industry in .Washington Township during his entire active career, and also developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock. He was the owner of a valuable farm property in his native township at the time of his death, November 29. 1888, his wife having passed away on the 17th of July, 1883, and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 28th of May, 1868, was solemnized the marriage of Robert M. Birney to Miss Martha J. Simpson, who was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, October 4, 1842, a daughter of John and Margaret (Law) Simpson. John Simpson was born in Stock Township, this county, in 1814, and was a son of John and Mary (McElroy) Simpson, whose marriage was solemnized in the state of Pennsylvania. the father having come from Ireland to America in 1798. John Simpson. Sr., continued his residence in Washington County, Pennsylvania, until about the opening of the nineteenth century, when he came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, where he eventually developed a productive farm in the midst of the forest wilds and where he continued his residence in Stock Township until his death, In 1836. John Simpson, Jr., was reared under the conditions and influences that marked the pioneer epoch in the history of Harrison County and continued to he identified with farm industry in Stock Township until his death, in 1877. He achieved substantial prosperity through his own well directed endeavors and his character was shown in his high sense of personal stewardship in all of the relations of life. He was a stalwart republican and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
They became the parents of seven children—Mary Ann (Mrs. Joseph Patterson), Martha (Mrs. Robert M. Birney). Margaret (Mrs. Frank Welch), Matthew, William, Frank, and Ella. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Birney became the parents of three children. of whom Thomas S. of this sketch is the youngest and the only survivor. Etta L. was born May 16, 1869. and died on the 12th of March. 1878: and Clarence M. died on the same day as did his only sister. he having been eight years, seven months and twenty days of age at the time of his demise.
Thomas Simpson Birney was but two months old at the time of his mother's death and but five years old when his father died. He was thereafter reared in the home of his father's sister, Mrs. Rachel Pittis, of Deersville, Harrison County, where he was afforded the advantages of the village schools. He has resided on his present farm since he was twenty-one years of age, and under his ownership the place is maintained at a high standard as a center of successful agricultural and live-stock enterprise. The place comprises 197% acres and is well improved. Mr. Birney is a republican in his political proclivities and he and his wife are active mem-
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bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe.
May 22, 191.3, recorded the marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Mary Belle McCullough, who was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, and who is a daughter of Joseph M. and Elizabeth (Birney) McCullough, her father being individually represented in a personal sketch on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Birney have a winsome little daughter, Eva Elizabeth. whose advent in their home came on the 16th of December, 1919.
RICHARD H. GORDON, who with his brother, Claudc O. Gordon, owns the most efficiently managed and well equipped garage in this part of Ohio, is one of the dependable business men of Bowerston. Harrison County. He was born in Stafford County, Kansas, August 28, 1889, a son of Dr. Johnson Wier and Louisa J. (Host) Gordon.
J. W. Gordon was born in Belmont County, Ohio. and his wife was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of James and Margaret J. Host. James Host was a stock buyer and dealer of Franklin and adjoining townships in Harrison County. Mrs. Gordon is still living, and she and her husband had the following children: Nora, who married It. W. Bowers; Margaret, who married A. E. Bowers; Bertha, who married L. B. Timmerman Florence, who married W. L. McQucan; Sadie, who married T. P. Cunningham: Richard H., whose name heads this review; Claude O., who is mentioned at length further on in this article; Hallie J., who was eighth in order of birth; and Nellie, who is deceased.
Doctor Gordon was graduated in medicine at Columbus, Ohio, and in Surgery at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he also was a graduate of an car. eye. nose and throat college at Dayton, Ohio, and of an eclectic course. Later on in life he took up post graduate work, and five or six years before his death he was graduated in a stcam electrical engineering course from the Scranton Correspondence School. Doctor Gordon bcgan the practice of his profession at Bowerston, Ohio. but later went to Kansas, and from that state moved on to Missouri. He then returned to Bowerston, Ohio, where he continued to practice until his death, which event occurred March 2, 1917. He was a student of untiring energy and kept constantly busy, devoting all of his Spare moments to study.
Richard H. Gordon attended the public schools of Bowerston, and when he completed his school days he learned the blacksmithing trade and worked at it for three years, and then for four years was employed as a machinist. In 1914 he and his brother, C. O. Gordon, opened a garage at Bowerston, and are still in partnership. They have the agency for the Overland, Reo and Ford cars, and handle farm light plants, and have a battery service station. They do repair work of all kinds and carry a complete line of auto parts and accessories. Like his father he is a Blue Lodge Mason, the younger man maintaining membership with the lodge at Leesville. Doctor Gor don also belonged to the Grotto." Richard H. Gordon is a member of Bowerston Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is popular in his fraternities, as he is socially.
Claude O. Gordon, brother of Richard H. Gordon, was born June 26, 1891, and was reared at Bowerston. He and his brother had just begun to get their garage business in first-class shape, when he responded to the call of his country and entered its service, March 9, 191.8, in the aviation branch, at Cadiz, Ohio, and was scnt to San Antonio. Texas. He was at Kelly Field but two days when he was transferred to Camp John Wise, Texas, where he was assigned to the Forty-third Balloon Corps, and remained with it until the close of hostilities.
On May 2, 1918, his organization left Camp John Wise for Morrison. Virginia, where it arrived May 8, 1918, and remained there until June 19, 1918, at which time his company sailed on the "S. S. American" from Newport News, Virginia, for France. and arrived at Brest July 13, 1918. Two days later the company left Brest for a baloon school, where the men were in training until August 6, 1918, when they were sent to Tours, France, and after seven days there, moved on to Toul, France. They were in the Saint Mihiel sector, arriving there August 19, and on August 31 were under fire, and were on the front line under fire constantly from then on until the signing of the armistice. At 1:00 A. M., September 13, the historic Saint Mihiel drive started, and Mr. Gordon's company participated in it until September 20, when it was transferred to the Argonne Forest front. On September 21 Paris was reached, and the following day the company arrived on the Argonne-Meuse front. On September 25, at 11:30 P. M., the drive started and the company remained on that front until November 11, 1918. On August 1, 1918, Mr. Gordon was made a chauffeur of the first class, which grade he held until he was discharged. During the time the company was on the front its members did observation balloon work all the time, and lost a balloon which caught on fire while in the air.
On April 19, 1919, Mr. Gordon went aboard the "Susquehanna" at Genecort, France, and the following day set sail for the United States, arriving at Newport News. Virginia, May 3, 1919. On May 9 the company marched to Camp Stewart. and there took boat for Camp Lee, ninety miles down the James River. On June 13, 1919, Mr. Gordon left Camp Lce for Camp Sherman, and he was there discharged from the service, June 17, 1919, and returned home.
The Forty-third Balloon Company has the distinguished honor of being the only organization in the American Expeditionary Force, or of the whole American army, to have a standard and completely equipped band within itself. Mr. Gordon played a melaphone in this band from the time of the organization of the company until it was mustered out of the service.
Both these young men are held in high esteem by the people of Harrison County, and many traveling through this district have good cause to remember them on account of the splendidly efficient service they are rendering in their garage at Bowerston.
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JAMES COONS LYONS has enviable standing in connection with financial affairs in his native county and is the efficient cashier of the First National Bank of Bowerston, which village. in Harrison County. figures as the place of his nativity. his birth having here occurred on the 26th of December. 1887.
James Coons Lyons is a son of John C. and Sarah (Coons) Lyons, the former of whom was one of the representative farmers of Harrison County at the time of his death. February S. 1901, and the latter of whom still maintains her home in this county. John C. Lyons, the second in order of birth in a family of six sons and four daughters. was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania. and was a son of Thomas Lyons, who likewise was a native of the Keystone state and who was a son of William ,Lyons. William Lyons was born and reared in Ireland and after immigrating to America he showed his loyalty to the land of his adoption by serving as a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution. The conflict left him with a rifle ball in one of his hips, and this momento of the Revolution he carried until his death, the surgeons having been unable to extract it. He passed the closing years of his life in Morgan County, Ohio, and was for a time a resident of Harrison County. Thomas Lyons became extensively engaged in lumbering operations in Pennsylvania, where he floated his lumber down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, which was at that time but little more than a village. He married Menie Lowrie, who was born in Scotland and who was a child at the time of her parents' immigration to America. She was a sister of Walter Lowrie. who is supposed to have been the one of this name who served as secretary of state in the cabinet of President John Quincy Adams and who resigned to accept the post of secretary of the Foreign Missionary Society, of which position he continued the incumbent until his death. About the year 1820 Thomas Lyons came with his family to Ohio and took up a tract of land on which the Village of Tippecanoe now stands, in Harrison County. Later he was a pioneer farmer in North Township, and both he and his wife passed the closing period of their lives in Carroll County.
John C. Lyons was a boy at the time of the family settlement in the forest wilds of Harrison County, and here he was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer era in the history of the county. At the age of twenty- three years he married Susanna Forbes, a daughter in another pioneer household, and they settled on a farm in Monroe Township. Many years later they removed to the Village of Bowerston, and there Mrs. Lyons died on the 8th of February, 1883. Of this union were born one son and three daughters, all of whom are now deceased. The only son, John F., was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, as a member of Company A. Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he was still in service at the time of his death, in 1865, at Resaca, Georgia, as the result of illness contracted while with his command. In 1886 John C. Lyons wedded Miss Jennie Coons, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, where her parents, James M. and Mary Ann (Van Dorn) Coons, were early settlers. James M. Coons was born in Virginia and was about five years old when his parents settled in Franklin County, Ohio, in the early pioneer days. His wife died April 22, 1873, aged fifty-one years, her parents having come to Ohio from the State of New Jersey. John C. Lyons became the owner of a large and valuable farm property in Monroe Township, where he had a fine farm of 320 acres, besides an additional tract of twenty acres lying adjacent to the Village of Bowerston. He was one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death, February 8, 1901. and his widow now resides in the Village of Bowerston. Mr. Lyons was a man of fine mentality and sterling character. was a democrat in politics and served many terms as township trustee. Of his second marriage James C. in the only child.
James C. Lyons continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation in the Bowerston High School. as a member of the class of 1907, and before the close of that year he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Bowerston. On the 12th of January, 1909, he was advanced to the position of assistant cashier, of which he continued the incumbent until August 11. 1913, when he was made cashier of this substantial and important financial institution of Harrison County, an office in which he has continued to serve with characteristic cfficiency and in such a way as greatly to advane the prosperity and influence of the bank of which he is a valued executive.
Mr. Lyons has had no desire for political activity but is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is progressive and public-spirited as a citizen. He is affiliated with Orange Lodge No. 406 Free and Accepted Masons of Leesville and is a member of Cyrus Chapter No. 114 Royal Arch Masons; Gebal Council No. 56, Royal and Select Masters and Saint Bernard Commandery No. 51, Knights Templar, the three latter of Uhrichsville. Both he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bowerston, as is also his mother, who is now residing in this village, as previously noted.
November 23, 1911. recorded the marriage of Mr. Lyons to Miss Agnes Griswold, daughter of John C. and Susan Griswold, of Harrison County, and the one child of this union is a daughter, Eloise. born October 13, 1913.
JOSEPH T. PHILLIPS is one of the progressive citizens who is carrying forward in Harrison County the successful farm enterprise which is made possible under modern conditions, with improved facilities and methods, and he has maintained practical and business policies that have enabled him to gain the maximum returns from his excellent farm of 168 acres, in Washington Township. He was born at New Franklin, Missouri, on the 9th of November, 1876, but is a representative of a prominent pioneer family of the county in which he now maintains his home.
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Mr. Phillips is a son of John and Mary Elizabeth (Fletcher) Phillips, the formcr of whom was born in Washington Township. Harrison County, Ohio, June 14. 1843. and the latter in the State of Kentucky. August 17, 1847. a daughter of James and Nancy (Nell) Fletcher. John Phillips is a son of Joseph and Jemima (Johnson) Phillips. the former of whom was born in Jefferson County, Ohio. on the 14th of January. 1803. he having been twelve years of age at the time of the family removal to Washington Township. Harrison County. where he was reared to manhood and became a prosperous farmer, besides which. as a young man, he was a successful teacher in the pioneer schools of the county. After his marriage. in 1833. he settled on the farm now owned by his son Amasa, in Washington Township. and there he passed the remainder of his life. Joseph Phillips died April 19, 1886. and his widow died September 3, 1888. both having been venerable pioneer citizens of the county at the timc when they passed from the stage of lifels mortal activities. Of the nine children John was the fifth in order of birth. and his youthful education was acquired in the pioneer schools of Washington Township. bcsides which he here learned the trade of shoemaker. In 1862 Mr. Phillips went to the State of Iowa and engaged in the work of his trade. He there remained three years, and in that state his marriage was solemnized. At the expiration of the period noted lre returned, with his family, to Ohio and for two years maintained a shoe shop at Westchester. Tuscarawas County. It should be noted that while a resident of Iowa he drove a tcam of four yokes of oxen from that state to Pike's Peak, Colorado, where the gold excitement was then at its zenith. In 1867 Mr. Phillips went to Denver. Illinois. and after there working at his trade one year he removed to Smithton, Missouri. where he was similarly engaged for the ensuing five years, at the expiration of which he established his residence at New Franklin. that state. There he remained in charge of his shoe shop until 1877, when he returned with his family to Westchester, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he conducted a shoe shop until about 1895, when he purchased the small farm upon which he has since maintained his home, in Washington Township, Harrison County, his wife having passed away on the 8th of January. 1888. They became the parents of nine children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: James G., April 13, 1866, died when about forty-one years of age; Della, November 5, 1867; Mcanie, September 3, 1869; John E. died in infancy: Minnie. July 29, 1873; Nancy died in infancy; Joseph T., November 9, 1876; Maude, February 28. 1879; and Frank, November 12, 1881.
Joseph T. Phillips gained his early education principally in the public schools of Tuscarawas and Harrison counties, and he initiated his en- dependent career when he was a youth of seventeen years. During the greater part of the intervening period he has been actively associated with farm enterprises in Harrison County, and since his marriage, in 1906, he and his wife have lived on their present farm, comprising 168 acres of the excellent land of Washington Township.
On the 1st of April, 1906, Mr. Phillips was united in marriage to Miss Effic Green. who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of George and Hannah (Jenkins) Green. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two children—Done W., born November 9, 1906; and Myron. born March 30, 1908.
C. PERRY DICKEY. There is no other occupation so important as that of farming because the man who tills the soil is the one who produces the raw materials without which the world cannot go on. Therefore upon his industry and success rests the prosperity. the life even. of humanity. Ohio has always had among its citizens some of the best farmers in the country. and the finely cultivated fields and sleek cattle. together with the sanitary and modern buildings and machinery bear witness that the present generation is nut falling behind. but is keeping up the rcputation already gaincd. One of these representative farmers of Harrison County. who has the distinction of having spent his life upon his present farm. is Perry C. Dickey of Franklin Township.
Perry C. Dickey was born in Franklin Township. April 16. 1874, a son of William W. and Cecilia (Barrett) Dickey. and grandson of Benny Dickey. William W. Dickey was born in Harrison County. Ohio. and spent his life in agricultural pursuits. After reaching man's estate he began farming in Franklin Township, and became the owner of 160 acres of land. His death occurred in 1914. but his widow survived him until 1917. when she too passed away. Their children were as follows: Alice A.. Nancy Jane. Mary and C. Perry. The family all belonged to the Christian Church. During the war between the North and the South William W. Dickey was a soldier in the Union army. and for eighteen months served in the Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
C. Perry Dickey received his educational training in the public schools of Franklin Township, and his practical knowledge while working on the homestead under his fathcr's supervision. He has spent all of his time and efforts on developing and cultivating his farm which contains 155 acres, and hcre he is now engaged in a general farming and stock-raising business with very satisfactory results.
On August 29, 1896. Mr. Dickey was married to Amy McGill, a daughter of Thomas and Esther (West) McGill and a niece of Robert McGill. Thomas McGill died March 15. 1920, and his widow still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Dickey have two children, twins. Ralph W. and Doris Wilma. Ralph W. Dickey married Guilah Patterson and they have two daughters. Doris Jane and Marjorie June, and live at Dennison, Ohio. Doris Wilma Dickey married Bryce Smith and they live at Deersville, Ohio, and have two children. Ralph Dwight and Elda Madeline, The Christian Church of Franklin Township holds the membership of Mr. Dickey and his wife, and they are highly regarded by the congregation.
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WARNER PHILLIPS. In reviewing the various personal sketches appearing in this publication one can not fail to be impressed with the pleasing revelation that a goodly percentage of the representative farmers of the present day in both Carroll and Harrison counties are native sons of this favored section of the Buckeye state and scions of honored pioneer families. Such conditions apply in the case of Warner Phillips, who is one of the substantial devotees of farm industry in Washington Township, Harrison County, and who is a member of the fourth generation of the Phillips family in this county. He was born in Washington Township, June 15, 1868, and in the same township his father, Amasa Phillips, was born on the 22d of September, 1838, a son of Joseph Phillips, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 14, 1803, and who was twelve years of age when his parents became pioneer settlers in Washington Township, Harrison County, where he passed the remainder of his life. Joseph Phillips was one of the successful and popular teachers in the pioneer schools of this county, and in the meanwhile he carried forward the work of reclaiming a farm in Washington Township. May 9, 1833, he married Jemima Johnson, and they immediately afterward settled on the farm now owned and occupied by their son Amasa, now venerable in years. They became the parents of nine children: Comfort Ann (Mrs. Warner Rogers), Sophia, Amasa, Almeda (died in childhood), John, Elihu, Margaret, Joseph and Jemima. Joseph Phillips died April 19, 1886, and his widow passed away September 3, 1888.
Amasa Phillips was reared on the old home farm, which has continued to be his place of residence during the long intervening years and which is one of the fine old places of Washington Township, with an area of 166 acres. He has specialized in the raising of live stock and though now venerable in years he still gives a general supervision to the affairs of his farm. He has given long and effective service as township trustee and member of the school board, is a democrat In politics and is one of the honored and influential citizens of his native township. June 5, 1862, recorded his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hogue, a daughter of the late Mark Hogue, and she passed to the life eternal on the 30th of May, 1880. Of this union were born five children—George, Warner, Joseph, Mark and Elizabeth. February 19, 1885, Amasa Phillips wedded Mary 'Ellen Crouch, whose death occurred on the 30th of the following August. On the 26th of May, 1886, he married Miss Elizabeth Mears, daughter of William Mears, and they still maintain their home on the farm which was the place of his birth, They have one son, Amasa Alonzo.
The early youth of Warner Phillips found him with no dearth of demand upon his time and attention, for he assisted in the work of the home farm and made proper use of the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township. At the age of seventeen years he went to the State of Illinois, where he was employed at farm work for three years. He then returned to his native county and has ever since been actively identified with farm industry in Washington Township, where from the time of his marriage he has resided on his present well improved farm, comprising 175 acres. He is a democrat in politics and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Westchester.
April 27, 1901, is the memorable date in the career of Mr. Phillips, since he was then united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Galbraith, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of William H. and Eliza (Harding) Galbraith, the former a native of Perry Township, Tuscarawas County, and the latter of Guernsey County, her parents having been Wesley and Rebecca (Carson) Harding. William H. Galbraith was one of the gallant young men who went forth in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated. He volunteered shortly after the inception of the war and, as a member of Company M, Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, he took part in the many engagements that marked the record of this valiant command, including the historic battle of Gettysburg. He continued in service until 1864, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Galbraith was a man of superior intellectuality and devoted about twenty-five years to teaching in the public schools of Ohio. His death occurred on the 13th of December, 1889. His widow still survives, and makes her home with Mrs. Simpson. They became the parents of six children—Emily Ginevra, Frank B., John H. (died in early childhood), Rebecca Elizabeth, Harry B., and Cornelia Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two children—William Vernon and Mary Lucille.
Amasa Alonzo Phillips, only child of Amasa and Elizabeth (Mears) Phillips, and half- brother of him whose personal sketch precedes this paragraph, was born on the old homestead farm, in Washington Township, December 20, 1891, and he has remained continuously' with his parents on the old home place, though he has taught eight terms of district school, with a record of effective and popular service in the pedagogic profession. Greater, however, was the service which he gave in connection with the nation's participation in the late World war. In July, 1918, at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was assigned to the One Hundred and Forty- ninth Hospital Unit, and eventually he was transferred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained until his discharge, in January, 1919. In May, 1918, Mr. Phillips married Miss Lucille Ross, and he now has the active management of his father's farm.
WILSON E. McGONAGLE, a prosperous general farmer and stockraiser of Franklin Township, has brought his farm of 155 acres into a high state of cultivation, and through his enterprising methods set a dependable example to his neighbors. He was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, October 10, 1862, a son of Thompson McGonagle, grandson of Thomas McGonagle, and a descendant of one of the sturdy families of Scotland, in which country the grandfather was born. Coming to the United States at an early day Thomas McGon-
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agle became one of the pioneers of Franklin Township, and developed into one of its representative men. He married Mary Thompson, a daughter of Andrew Thompson, born in Ireland, and they had the following children: Thompson, Wilson, Samuel, William, Martha and Elizabeth. After the death of Thomas McGonagle, his widow married Samuel Hitchcock.
Wilson McGonagle, son of Thomas McGonagle, and uncle of Wilson E. McGonagle, served in the 'Union army during the war between the states as a mcmber of the Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and scrved for three years. On account of conspicuous bravery during the siege of Vicksburg, he was awarded a medal. Thompson McGonagle. the father of Wilson E. McGonagle, was a farmer of Franklin Township and continued to be engaged in this line of industry until his death, which occurred in 1909. He was tirst married to Ascnith Vickers, born in Franklin Township. a daughter of John and Eliza (Howard) Vickers. and half-sister of John and James L. Vickers, successful farmers of Franklin Township. She died in 1887, having borne her husband two children: Agnes. who died when twenty-scven years of age; and Wilson E.. whose name heads this review. After the death of his first wife, Mr. McGonagle was married to Catherine Phillips. but they had no children. For many years they were active as members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Franklin Township.
Wilson E. McGonagle received his educational training in the public schools of Deersville. Ohio. 'Until 1888 when he was married, Mr. McGonagle remaincd at home, and during that period acquired a useful fund of knowledge relative to the best methods of carrying on agricultural operations. With the exception of three years when he was away. Mr. McGonagle Iris lived on his present farm since 1888, and is now recognized as one of thc best farmers in his neighborhood.
On September 6. 1885, Mr. McGonagle was married to Alice White, a daughter of Joseph and Mehelail (Johnson) White. and their children are as follows: Jesse. who married Ada Birney. a farmer of the State of Wyoming: Harry L., who married Gladys Eslick. is engaged in farming with his father: and .Melvin. who is at home. Mr. McGonagle belongs to the methodist Episcopal Church and his wife is a member of the Christian Church. Since January. 1915. Mr. McGonagle has served as trustee or Franklin Township. For two years he was a member of the township School Board. and for four years Ile was assessor of Franklin Township. proving himself as capable in public office as he has always been when conducting his private affairs. and he stands very well in public esteem.
GEORGE J. BUTLER. The good citizenship and the enterprise of the Butler fancily have been n steady growing influence in the community of Carrollton almost from thc very beginning of that pioneer village. One of this notable family was the late George J. Butler. a veteran merchant and influential citizen. whose record may be trusted to remain long cherished in the hearts of his fellowmen. His life work was well done when death overtook him early in 1920, after a half a century of continuous association with his native city as a merchant. He had been in business at one location from the year 1879.
George J. Butler was born in West Main Street, Carrollton, February 10, 1849, and his life was a part of the village and city until his dcath on February 14, 1920.
He was a great-grandson of Rev. John George Butler. a native of Germany, who came to America when a young man and subsequently enlisted and served as a soldier in the American Revolution. After that war he gave many years of earnest and consecrated service as a minister of the Lutheran Church in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. He was a resident of Cumberland, Maryland, at the time of his death in 1823. He married a Miss Mills, and they had five sons and one daughter. The names of the sons were George William, Paul, Gideon, George Whitefield and Jonathan.
George Whitefield Butler, representing the second generation of the family in America, and the founder of the honored name in Carroll County. was born and reared in Maryland. and at the age of twenty-five came to Ohio and at Carrollton established the first tannery in Carroll County. his enterprise being an important asset and a stimulus to the industrial character of the pioneer village. This tannery was conducted by him for a number of years. He also bought land and developed and improved several form properties in thc vicinity of Carrollton. Before coming to Ohio he had served as a lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment in the War of 1812. Many years later he was postmaster at Carrollton during the Civil war. He died in 1.473 and his wife in 1868. All of their twelve children are now deceased. Their names in order of birth were Washington, Franklin, Jonathan, Morgan. Lafayette. George. Adams, Amanda. who became Mrs. Miles O'Connor. Harriet. who was Mrs. Benjamin B. Moore. Elizabeth. Cynthia Ann and Jefferson. Of those to grow up only Washington remained a resident of Carroll County to the end of his life.
Washington Butler was born at Carrollton April 6, 1819. and obtained the education of a pioneer village. His associations were with his fatherls tannery until he was elected to the office of county auditor. He filled that position for two terms and afterwards for many years was deputy auditor. In partnership with L. D. Rowley he embarked in 1864 in the mercantile business at Carrollton, was a dealer in men's furnishing goods and also a merchant tailor. He continued in business until his death in April. 1553, at tine age of sixty-four. Washington Butler was an uncompromising republican and was a delegate to the national convention which nominated General Grant for President in 1572. Washington Butlcr married Susanna Van Buskirk. who survived him many years and passed away June 6. 1905. at the age of seventy-nine. He had seven children: William F.. of whom more is said on other pages of this publication: Ann Elizabeth. who died the widow of James W. Cellars. of Carrollton: George J.; Mary F.. who was married to Rev. Absalom T.
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Aller and they removed to Kansas; Marshal J., widow of George H. Aller, of Carrollton, Carroll County; Joseph C., whose record also finds place elsewhere in this publication; and Harry Sumner, now deceased. The latter, long identified with the mercantile establishment of his brother, George, was born January 12, 1864, and as a youth had the distinction of being the first newsboy at Carrollton, distributing Cleveland and Cincinnati papers. He married in 1886 Miss Mary Morris and was the father of one child.
George J. Butler acquired a substantial common school education at Carrollton. In 1868 he became a clerk in the drygoods store of James Huston. This store was in the building now occupied by the Carrollton Laundry. During 1869 he again attended school at Carrollton, and in 1870 began work as clerk in the general store of Isaac Crumrine. Mr. Crumrine had one store in the present City Laundry Building and another in the old McCook Building. It was in the latter establishment that Mr. Butler was employed. In 1879 he bought the business, and thereafter for forty-one years until his death he kept it one of the most progressive and popular of the general mercantile establishments of the city.
The late Mr. Butler gave an unwavering allegiance to the republican party. His good citizenship was attested by the ability with which he filled such offices as city treasurer, city councilman, and member of the Board of Education. He and his wife were both active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
April 26, 1873, Mr. Butler married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Skeeles. She was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, daughter of Maj. David and Rhuhama Skeeles. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Butler is Gertrude A. She is the wife of Paul H. Kemerer, formerly business manager of the Carrollton Freepress Standard, and now one of the owners of the Western Lyceum Bureau at Waterloo, Iowa. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Kemerer are Elizabeth, Alice Delo, George Duncan and Virginia Ruth. Elizabeth Kemerer is now the wife of Vance T. Grimes of Claysville, Pennsylvania, and their son, Vance T., Jr., is the only great-grandchild of Mrs. Butler.
George J. Butler died after a brief illness. There has been a tangible vacancy in the business community where he functioned for so many years. His friends and associates admired not only his success but also the regularity and methodical promptness and faithfulness, the best evidence of his love for his work. It is said that he was at his place of business 313 days in the year. Personally he was quiet and unassuming, and outside business hours his life was lived for his home and family and the public honors bestowed upon him were not of his own seeking. He was liberal to church and charity, but his real generosity was expressed in many unremembered acts of love that were unknown even to his most intimate friends. Mr. Butler owned one of the finest homes in the city, and he had long realized the worthy ambition to provide well for his family.
SAMUEL B. BOOR. As president of the First National Bank of Bowerston, Harrison County, and as proprietor of a well equipped hardware, tinning and furnace establishment, Mr. Boor has secure status as one of. the representative business men and influential citizens of the thriving village that figures as the place of his birth, with the civic and business history of which the name of the Boor family has been identified since the pioneer days, besides which, on the maternal side, he is a representative of the family in whose honor Bowerston was named.
Samuel B. Boor was born at Bowerston on the 17th of January, 1875, and is a son of William Henry Boor and Mary M. (Bower) Boor, whose marriage was solemnized on the 18th of December, 1855. It is specially interesting to record that the parents continued to reside until their death in the house which became their abode, at Bowerston, at the time of their marriage. William Henry Boor was born in a log cabin in North Township, this county, on the 8th of March. 1835, and was the sixth in order of birth in the family of eleven children born to Michael and Caroline (Barantz) Boor, the former of whom was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1897, and the latter near Harrisburg, that state, on the 10th of September, 1802, her parents having come from Germany to the old Keystone state in the pioneer days, as did also the parents of Michael Boor. About the year 1830 Michael Boor came with his family through the wilderness that extended most of the distance between Pennsylvania and Ohio, and after arriving in Harrison County the family home was maintained in North Township for several years. In the late '30s Michael Boor established his residence at Bowerston, where for a quarter of a century thereafter he operated a grist mill. He then became a pionecr farmer in Van Wert County, Ohio, but in 1855 he removed to DeKalb County, Indiana, and resumed his association with the milling business. Eventually he located on a farm in Defiance County, Ohio, and there his death occurred in 1867, his widow having long survived him and having been venerable in years at the time of her death.
William Henry Boor was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer period in the history of Harrison County, and when about sixteen years of age he entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of blacksmith. In January, 1855, he rented a shop and engaged independently in the work of his trade at Bowerston where he followed this vocation until the Civil war caused him to subordinate all personal interests and to tender his aid in defense of the Union. On the 13th of August, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he proceeded with his command into West Virginia. He took part in the various engagements in which his regiment was involved, up to and including the historic battle of the Wilderness, in which be received a gunshot wound in the left shoulder. This injury, from which he never fully recovered, incapacitated him until November, 1864, when he rejoined his regiment
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at the front and participated in the two battles at Petersburg. He was present at the final surrender and was with the Sixth Army Corps when that command was sent forth in pursuit of General Johnston. He took part in the Grand Review in the City of Washington, where he was mustered out, and after returning to Ohio he received his honorable discharge, at Columbus. After returning home Mr. Boor continued to follow his trade, at Bowerston, until 1884, when he turned the active management of the business over to one of his sons. Thereafter he gave his attention to his undertaking and furniture business until about the year 1899, subsequently to which time he lived virtually retired, though he continued to give a general supervision to his farm property, near Bowerston, until his death, in October, 1917, his wife having passed away in 1898. Mrs. Boor was born in Monroe Township, near Bowerston, and was a daughter of Henry Bower. a member of the representative pioneer family in whose honor Bowerston was named-. Mr. Boor was a staunch republican. and though he never sought public office he gave long and effective service as constable and as a member of the municipal board of trustees of Bowerston. He was a charter member of R. M. Lyon Post, No. 405, Grand Army of the Republic. of which he served as commander. besides holding the office of post chaplain for two years. and he was also a charter member of and influential figure in the local tent of the Knights of the Maccabees. Mr. Boor was the virtual founder of the United Brethren Church at Bowerston. has supervision of the erection of the church building and long held official position in this church, of which he and his wife were zealous and honored members for fully forty years prior to their death. They became the parents of thirtecn children, of whom six sons and three daughters are living at the time of this writing, in 1921.
Samuel B. Boor is indebted to the nubile schools of Bowerston for his early education. and as a youth he learned the tinner's trade, as well as gaining a thorough knowledge of the furnace business. In 1899 he became associated with his brother. D. William, in the purchase of their father's furniture and undertaking business. and two years later he purchased his brotherls interest in this enterprise. In the spring of 1901 he sold the business to William Arbaugh, and in the meanwhile he had been continuously an intercsted principal in a hardware. tinning and furnace business in his native village. To this latter enterprise he gave his attention about three years. and thereafter he was again associated with his brother in the undertaking business until June. 1917. when he sold his interest to his brother. Since 1901 he has conducted a well equipped general hardware. tinning and furnace establishment at Bowerston. and the substantial and representative patronage indicates alike the effectiveness of service given by and the personal popularity of the proprietor. In 1904 Mr. Boor became one of the organizers and incorporators of the First National Bank of Bowerston. and he has served continuously as a director of this institu tion since 1905. In 1914 he was elected vice president of the bank, and since 1916 he has served as its president, his careful executive policies having done ranch to further the prosperity of this substantial and well ordered institution.
The political allegiance of Mr. Boor is given unreservedly to the republican party and his civic loyalty has been shown in effective service as cleric of Monroe Township, a position of which he was the incumbent two terms; by two terms of service as a member of the village council; and by effective connection with the Board of Education, of which lie has been a member since 1912. At Bowerston Mr. Boor holds membership in the organization of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees; at Leesville, Carroll County, he is affiliated with the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons and the adjunct chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which he is serving as worthy patron at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1920. At Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, his Masonic affiliations are amplified by his membership in Cyrus Chapter, No. 114. Royal Arch Masons; Gebel Council, No. 56, Royal and Select Masters; and Saint Bernard Commandery, No. 51, Knights Templar. He and his wife are zealous members of the. United Brethren Church at Bowerston, and he has served as a member of its Board of Trustees for nearly a quarter of a century.
In June. 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Boor to Miss Nellie May Albaugh, daughter of William J. and Mary Albaugh, of Bowers- ton. and the one child of this union is William A.. who was born April 8, 1911.
DANIEL .T. LITTLE, one of the substantial farmers of Carroll County, owns a fine farm of 160 acres in Rose Township. which he has brought into high state of cultivation. He is
soil of Daniel and Rosanna (Howe) Little and a grandson of Mathias Little. who came to American from Switzerland in 1800 with his wife. Barbara. and four children, and first located on a small farm near Carrollton, Ohio. Later he moved to Morges, Rose Township. and was engaged in farming and working at his trade as a tinker. Still later he owned a small form near Lindentree. Rose Township, and there he died in 1840, nail is buried at Morges. His wife died in 1856.
Daniel Little was the youngest of his parents' children, and one of his brothers is Frank Little, of Stark County. Ohio. Another brother is Christian Little, of Cedar Rapids. Iowa. One sister. Barbara, now Mrs. John Wagner, lives in Carroll County. Ohio. and the other. Susan Newport. of Owen County. Indiana. Growing up on Ids father's farm. Daniel Little attended the public schools of Carrollton and Morges during the wintcr months. and adopted farming as his life work. He and his wife had six children, namely: Rebecca. who is Mrs. Hoobler, has three sons and two daughters; Mrs. Sarah Davy, who lived in Rose Township where she died in 1919, has three daughters and one son ; James Harvey, who died in 1891 at the age of forty; Marion, who died at the age of
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thirty-six years; I. Wilkes, who lives in Stark County; and Daniel J., whose name heads this review. The father of this family died in Rose Township, where he had always resided, in 1905, the mother having passed away in 1889.
Daniel J. Little attended District School No. 2, in Rose Township, during the winter months until he was twenty years old, and in the summertime assisted his father with the work on the farm. On September 2, 1886, he was married to Molly E. Finefrock, a daughter of Emanuel and Rebecca Jane (Robertson) Finefrock, of Rose Township. Following hiss marriage Mr. Little rented a farm of eighty acres in Rose Township for eighteen months, and then moved to another eighty-acre farm one mile north of the first one. In 1888 he bought this latter farm, and lived on it until 1910, when he bought his present one, on which he has since lived. On September 22, 1920, he sold his first farm at a fair profit. All the time he has been farming he has raised a general line of crops, and has been very successful. He is a democrat, and very staunch in his support of his party. The Lutheran Church of Rose Township holds his membership.
Mr. and Mrs. Little becamc the parents of the following children: Walter Curtis, who married Sarah Jones of Harrison Township, has one child, Irvin Daniel: Verna May, who is Mrs. George Borland of Harrison Township, has one child. Ralph Howard: Ralph Forest, who married Nannie Dunlap. of Magnolia, Ohio, has one son, Roy Donald: and Donald Wilbur, who is now at home. Forest was drafted into the United States Army in September, 1918, at Carrollton, Ohio, and sent to Camp Sherman, later to Camp Cole, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and three weeks later was transferred to Camp Dix, New Jersey. After three weeks in the last named camp, he was returned to Camp Sherman, and honorably discharged.
OLIVER J. DAVIS has resided since the year 1910 on his present farm of eighty acres, in Monroe Township, Carroll County, the place being situated seven miles southwest of Carrollton on rural mail route No. 4 from that city. He is known as one of the enterprising farmers and loyal and progressive citizens of his native township and county. and is here a representative of the third generation of the family, his grandfather, George Davis. having been one of the substantial pioneer farmers of Carroll County and having here remained until his death. The elder of his two children was David, father of Oliver J., of this sketch.
Oliver Jackson Davis was born in Monroe Township. this county. in the year 1874. and is a son of David and Margaret (Pittenger) Davis. David Davis was born June 5. 1839. in Monroe Township and passed his entire life in Carroll County, where be paid close allegiance to farm industry from the time of his youth until his death, which occurred March 10, 1919, his wife having passed to the life eternal in December, 1914. Oliver J. Davis was the third of their four children. The parents were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church and the father gave his political support to the republican party.
The district schools of his native township afforded Oliver J. Davis his early educational advantages, and when a mere boy he began to aid in the work of the home farm, in which connection he learned the lessons of practical industry and came to place true value upon honest toil and endeavor. At the age of eighteen years he .varied his experience by finding employment in a saw mill, and with this line of industrial operations he continued his association at intervals until 1906. His independent farm enterprise was initiated by his renting a farm of seventy acres, in Monroe Township, where he remained three years. He then, in 1910, purchased and removed to his present farm, which he has since continued the stage of his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. Mr. Davis pays allegiance to the republican party and takes loyal interest in community affairs, though he has manifested no desire for political activity or public offrce. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leavittsville.
In the year 1906 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davis to Miss Mary M. Brower, daughter of Israel and Rebecca (Rutledge) Brower, of Monroe Township, and the four children of this union are Dora Ann, David Israel, Wilbur Evan and Helen Nancy.
VALLANDIGHAM MAY. As a class the farmers of Carroll County are way beyond the average both as to methods and production, and among those who are maintaining this commendable prestige none stands higher than Vallandigham May, owner of 102 acres of valuable land in Rose Township. He was born in Rose Township, March 24. 1873, a son of James B. and Catherine (Bowers) May. The paternal grandfather was born in Ireland, but came to the United States in an early day and located in Pennsylvania, where he was first engaged in hauling merchandise from Pitsburgh to Philadelphia and back again. In those days horses and wagons were used and on one occasion he hauled a four-horse load of money. gold and. silver put up in bags. He later became a farmer and continued his agricultural operations after he moved to Rose Township. where he died. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary 'Wiley, also died in this township: They had five sons and three daughters, of whom James B. May was the youngest, and be lived on his father's homestead until he retired. His death occurred September 9. 1918, and his wife passed away August 10. 1898. Of their family of five sons and two daughters, Vallandigham is the eldest.
Until he was seventeen years old Vallandigham May attended District School No. 4. Rose Township, during the winter months, and then became self-supporting, assisting his father in operating the homestead of 147 acres of land, working for the neighbors, and helping with threshing, saw-milling, and other tasks in order to get a start in life. After he was married he rented fifty acres of the home farm, and while conducting it, also worked in the coal mines at
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Lindentree, Ohio. Still later he spent four years as a coal miner and machine boss for L. Davis R. R. Mining Company at Hoff's Run, A thrifty man, he saved his money and in 1909 was able to buy his present farm of 102 acres, and since then has devoted himself to its cultivation. A hard worker, he has made many improvements upon his farm and takes a pride in keeping everything in good order. He has many warm friends.
In 1899 Mr. May was united in marriage with Anna Dieringer, a daughter of Augustus and Elizabeth (Locker) Dieringer, of German stock. Mr. and Mrs. May have two children. namely: William Ambrose and Lyle Dieringer. both of whom are at home.
During the late war Grovcr C. May. a younger brother of Mr. May. entered the United States Army at Carrollton, Ohio. as a member of the First Remount Squadron. Three Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, and served overseas in France.
McKINNEY V. GAULT now resides in the Village of Germano, German Township. Harrison County, but still gives a general supervision to his farm properties in this township. which has represented his home from the time of his birth. On both the paternal and maternal sides he is a scion of sterling pioneer families of Harrison County. and one of his Sons represented the county as a gallant young soldier with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the great World war, in which he sacrificed his life, as will be more definitely noted in a later paragraph.
Mr. Gault was born in German Township on the 6th of February. 1868. and is a son of George M. and Lucinda (Betz) Gault, whose marriage was solemnized October 23. 1849. Gcorge M. Gault was born in Washington County. Pennsylvania, September 24. 1826, and was a son of John and Nancy (McKinney) Gault, both likewise natives of the old Keystone state. John Gault did not become an early settler in Harrison County. Ohio, but the county had not yet emerged from pioneer conditions at the time when he established himself as a farmer in German Township, where he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths, both having been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children—George 9i., Eliza Mary and Margaret. John Gault was a miller by vocation in the earlier part of his career in his native county (Washington) in Pennsylvania. whence he came to Harrison County. Ohio, in 1837, the remainder of his active life having been given to farming.
George M. Gault was about ten years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood in German Township. That he made good use of the educational advantages afforded him. is shown by the fact that as a young man he was a successful teacher in the district schools, In both Harrison and Jefferson counties. He was a man of energy and ambition, achieved precedence as one of the substantial farmers of German Township. where be accumulated a valuable property of more than 200 acres, and no citizen commanded higher place in popular confidence and good will. He served as township trustee and justice of the peace, was influential in public affairs in the community, and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Lucinda (Betz) Gault was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, on the 10th of January, 1830, and was a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Viers) Betz. William Betz was born in Northumberland County Pennsylvania, November 8, 1778. and his early education included instruction in both English and German. April 22, 1812'. recorded his marriage to Elizabeth Viers, who was born August 2. 1795, and they were numbered among the early settlers of German Township. Harrison County, Ohio. where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he and his wife were honored pioneer citizens at the time of their deaths. As a young man Mr. Betz was a successful school teacher, and he served six months under General Harrison in the Mexican war, after having established his home in Ohio. William and Elizabeth (Viers) Betz became the parents of seven children—Rebecca, Eliza. Permilia. Margaret Eve, Lucinda, Brice Edington and John McCourtney. Mr. Betz died on the 3d of April. 1881, his wife having passed away June 6. 1863.
George M. Gault was about seventy-nine years of age at the time of his death and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-three years. They became the parents of five children: John and Lauretta are deceased; Iantha is the wife of William J. Whigham, of Carroll County; William V. is deceased; and McKinney V., of this review, is the youngest of the number.
McKinney V. Gault found his childhood and youth compassed by the invigorating influences of the home farm, and his early educational advantages were those offered in the district schools of German Township. His entire active career has been marked by association with prOgressive farm industry in his native township, where he is now the owner of 1771/2 acres (in separate tracts) and where he still maintains supervision of the various details of farm enterprise. though he and his wife have resided in the Village of Germano since the year 1906. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano. in which he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees.
June 12, 1890, recorded the marriage of Mr. Gault to Miss Cora Davidson, daughter of Cicero and Mary (O'Connell) Davidson, of Jefferson County. Of this union have been born five children—Wilma C., Rose D., George M., Arthur L. and John C, all of whom are living except George M. Wilma C. is the wife of John W. Kohler. Rose D. married McCoy Benedict, and became the mother of two children, Kenneth and Eileen, of whom the former is deceased. Her second marriage was to Frank Johnson, of Tuscarawas County.
George M. Gault, eldest son of him to whom this review is dedicated, entered the nation's military service on the 27th of May, 1918, and
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after having been stationed seven weeks at Camp Gordon, and on the 21st of July. 1918. he embarked on the transport that conveyed him to France, where he was assigned to the Fifty-ninth Machine Gun Battalion of the Fourth Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. He arrived at the front on the 15th of September, 1918, had his full share of the heavy and hazardous service thus implied. and after the signing of the historic armistice he became a part of the allied army of occupation in Germany. There he was attacked with bronchial pneumonia, was sent to an American hospital. and his death there occurred four days later. on the 4th of December. 1918. The name of George M. Gault has place on the honor roll of Ohio's gallant young men who thus made the supreme sacrifice in connection with the nation's participation in the World war.
WILLIAM J. CALDWELL is, with all of consistency. to be designated as one of the representative exponents of farming in German Township. Harrison County. where he has maintained his residence since 1909 and where he is the owner of a fine farm of 235 acres, this being the effective stage of his progressive and well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower.
William James Caldwell was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 23d of May, 1885, and is a son of William T. and Mary E. (Price) Caldwell, the latter a daughter of James and Nancy (Williams) Price and a granddaughter of the late James Price, who was a prosperous farmer in Belmont County for many ,years prior to his death. James Price and his wife were active members of the United Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which they reared their three children—John. Luther and Mary E. William T. Caldwell was born in Richland Township, Belmont County, where he and his wife still maintain their home and where he has long been numbered among the representative farmers of Wheeling Township. both he and his wife being members of the Presbyterian Church, as were also his parents, William and Mary J. (Bell) Caldwcll. who were honored pioneers of Belmont County. where the father became a successful farmer. he having been a native of Ireland. William and Mary J. (Bell) Caldwell became the parents of eleven children, and the names of those who attained to years of maturity are here noted: John, Patrick B., Jennie, Anna, Robert B.. William T., George A. and Sarah. William T. Caldwell is the owner of an excellent farm of 160 acres and is one of the prominent citizens of Wheeling Township. Belmont County. where he and his wife are zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church at Uniontown. To them have been born ten children—Colena (died in young womanhood), Mary B. (Mrs. Charles H. Campbell), Nancy (Mrs. Frederick C. Wilkinson), William James, Charles. Ethel. George (deceased), John, Walter and Sarah.
To the district schools of his native township is William J. Caldwell indebted for his early education, and he continued thereafter to be associated with the work of his father's farm until he assumed connubial responsibilities and established a home of his own. After his mar Hoge. in 1909. he and his wife established their residence on their present fine homestead farm and here be has had no difficulty in maintaiaing prestige as one of the enterprising and successful representatives of agricultural and livestock industry in Harrison County. the while he and his wife have secure place in the confidence and esteem of their home community. They hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in the neighboring Village of Annapolis. Jefferson County, and in politics he is aligned in the ranks of the Democratic party.
On the 25th of November. 1909. was recorded the marriage of Mr. Caldwell to Miss Katharine Armstrong, daughter of John and Martha (Trussell) Armstrong. of Belmont County, no children having been born of this union.
SAMUEL D. HENRY. Harrison County. Ohio. enjoys a well deserved reputation as a great agricultural district because of the fertility of the soil, which has been splendidly developed through the efforts and enterprise of such progressive farmers as Samuel D. Henry, who for years has been engaged in agricultural operations in this county.
Mr. Henry was born in Stock Township, Harrison County. Ohio, September 4, 1875. He is a son of Mathew and Elizabeth (Miller) Henry. the former born in Washington County. this state, and the latter in Stock Township. Harrison County. His mother is a daughter of Bossel and Carrie Miller.
Mathew Henry accompanied his parents while he was yet a child, to Harrison County. where they settled and where he grew to manhood. residing throughout his active years in Stock Township. Mathew Henry was twice married and by his first wife became the father of the following children : Mathew. who served as a soldier in the Civil war: Finley. .Tames. Thomas. Callie. Maggie. Elizabeth and Alexander who died a short time after his marriage. After the death of his first wife he married Elizabeth Miller and to this union five children were born: Isabel. Julia, Lawson. and Samuel D. and Nannie M.. twins.
Throughout his boyhood days Samuel B. Henry was a pupil in the district schools of Stock Township and continued to attend school until he was fifteen years old. About this time he started working out on farms on his own account and remained thus engaged until he was twenty-eight years old, in the intervening years exercising habits of thrift which enabled him to acquire a farm of his own. Mr. Henry is now the owner of a compact and well-kept holding of 174 acres of prime land located in Stock Township, and here he has been successfully engaged since his marriage in general farming operations and stock raising, close, businesslike attention to his work always insuring a ready market for his produce.
May 24, 1904, Mr. Henry was united in marriage to Miss Lucy L. Cope. born in Nottingham Township. Harrison County. October 2,S, 1881, a daughter of Jacob and Amanda (Rose) Cope. Mrs. Henry is a half-sister to Isaac S. Cope.
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry are the parents of three children: Frances Viola, Wilson S. and Willis S., the latter being twins.
Mr. Henry, while not actively engaged in politics, gives a good citizen's attention to all movements calculated to advance the best interests of his native township and county. Mrs. Henry is an earnest member of the Minkville Christian Church, in the good works of which she has always displayed a warm interest.
FRANK R. STEWART. A progressive and prosperous farmer of Stock Township, Harrison County. Frank R. Stewart displays sound judgment and marked ability in his agricultural operations, and in the work to which he is giving his time and attention is meeting with undoubted success, the greater part of his land being under cultivation, while his improvements are of a practical and substantial character. A son of the late James Cooper Stewart, he was born, January 28, 1877, in UhrichsvilIe, Ohio, coming on paternal side of Irish ancestry, his grandfather, James Stewart, Jr., and his great-grandfather, James Stewart, Sr., having been born in Ireland, while on the maternal side he is of French lineage, his maternal grandfather, William Mozena, having been a Frenchman.
James Stewart. Sr., was born, bred and educated in Ireland. Coming with his family to America in 1812, he lived for about a year in New York state, moving from there to Washington County, Pennsylvania. Settling in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1820, he entered 180 acres of land in Stock Township, and on the farm which he hewed from the forest spent the remainder of his life, dying at a comparatively early age. He was a man of great physical vigor, exceptionally strong, and a great worker. One summer day he cradled seven acres of oats, and when he finished in the evening laid down to rest under a maple tree. He took a severe cold, from which he never recovered, his death occurring a very few days later. To him and his wife. eight children were born, namely: James. Robert, Charles, Thomas, Erasmus, Sarah, Mary and Jane.
James Stewart, Jr., was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. in 1809, and at the age of three years came with his parents to America, being six weeks in crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel. He completed his education in the rural schools of Stock Township, which were then supported by subscription. Turning his attention to agriculture when young, he bought the farm now occupied by Robison B. Stewart, and was there employed in tilling the soil until his death. December 28, 1878, putting a part of its 128 acres under culture. He married Jane Patterson, who was born in Ireland in 1811, and came with her parents to Ohio in childhood. Her father. Samuel Patterson, came with his wife and children to America about 1812, having a tedious voyage of six weeks on the broad Atlantic, and a few months after landing in New York came to Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and having taken up land from the Government began the improvement of a homestead. While thus employed, he was acci dentally killed while working in the timber, a log rolling over him, causing injuries from which he died. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Kelley, seven children were born, David, Joseph, William, John, Samuel, James and Jane. Both Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Patterson were devout members of the Presbyterian Church, James Stewart, Jr., and his wife, Jane (Patterson) Stewart, were the parents of nine children, as follows: David, who spent the larger part of his life in Kansas, died there in 1900; John, of Akron, Ohio; Samuel, formerly of Carroll County, Ohio, spent his last years in California; Jane Anna, who married Wesley Ferrel ; James C., father of Frank R.; Calvin T., formerly of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, is not living; Elizabeth married Josiah Thompson; Frances became the wife of Byron Anderson; and Robison, a well known farmer of Stock Township, married Rebecca Jane Fisher. Both parents were active members of the Presbyterian Church.
A native of Stock Township, James Cooper Stewart was born on the home farm May 10, 1842, and there grew to man's estate. The life of a farmer not appealing to him, he entered the employ of a railroad company at Uhrichsville, Ohio. and was accidentally killed in the Dennison Railroad Yards, at Dennison. Ohio, on April 15, 1882. He married Mary Mozena, who was born in Uhrichsville, Ohio, April 19, 1842, a daughter of William Mozena, a native of France. They left two children, Thomas, a resident of San Diego, California ; and Frank R. The mother died August 25, 1881.
After the death of his parents, Frank R. Stewart came to Stock Township, :Harrison County, to live with his aunt, Mrs. Catherine Anderson. On attaining his majority, he began farming on his own account, and has met with highly gratifying results. His fine farm of 103 acres is well improved, and amply supplied with all the machinery and equipments necessary for carrying on general farming after the most approved methods. He makes stock raising a part of his work, and finds it a paying branch of agriculture.
Mr. Stewart married, March 22, 1899, Elizabeth Taggart, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret Taggart, and their pieasant houschold has been brightened by the birth of eight children, namely: James Russell, who died in childhood; Robert S.; Margaret; Alvin T.; Catherine; Anna ; Charles and Harold. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart belong to the Presbyterian Church at Deersville.
OKEY L. GERMAN is another of the native sons of Carroll County who is here making an excellent record in connection with progressive farm industry, and the stage of his operations in the old homestead farm, in Monroe Township, on which his birth occurred, the date of his nativity having been March 16, 1894, and he being a son of J. R. and Martha C. (Anderson) German, both representatives of well known pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State. J. R. German likewise is a native of Carroll County, and has been continuously identified with farm enterprise in this
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county from the time of his youth, the founders of the German family in this county having come to Ohio from Virginia about the year 1826. Okey Leroy German continued his studies in the public schools of Carroll County until he was graduated, with the honors of his class, in the Dellroy High School, in 1914. Thereafter he continued his alliance with farm enterprise until his marriage, in 1917, and since that important event in his career he has gained standing as one of the most progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native county, where he owns his well improved farm. of 105 acres. Mr. German makes specialty of raising registered Duroc-Jersey swine, and is giving much study and experimentation to this feature of farm industry, his progressive policies being such as to insure to him cumulative success, and he being a careful and appreciative reader of the leading farm papers. He is an active member of the Farmers Exchange at Carrollton, is a republican in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Rose Township, which is on rural mail route No. 1 from the Village of Dellroy.
The year 1917 recorded the marriage of Mr. German to Miss Mary A. Shotwell, daughter of John W. and Rose (McCourt) Shotwell, of Union Township, and the two children of this Union are Evelyn Fay and John A.
S. SHERMAN BUCEY. Having when young acquired a practical knowledge of the various branches of agriculture, S. Sherman Bucey selected the independent occupation that has brought comfort, happiness and wealth to unnumbered thousands of the world's industrious workers, and the results of his years of labor prove conclusively that he made no mistake in the choosing of a vocation. his home farm in Stock Township being under a good state of cultivation, and highly productive. He was born. March 18. 1867, in Wells Township. Jefferson County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood.
His father, Dallas Bucey, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, of pioneer ancestry. Selecting the occupation in which he was reared, he was actively engaged in general farming in Wells Township, his native county, for many years. Moving from there to Jewett, Ohio, in 1914, he has since been an esteemed resident of that placc. He married Sarah Ellen Taylor, a daughter of Hiram Taylor. and into their home ten children made their advent, as follows: S. Sherman: Anna; William Albert; Clarence, deceased; Cora ; Howard; Blanche; Carl; and Louisa. deceased. Both parents are identified by membership with the Methodist Church.
Educated in the district schools of Jefferson County, S. Sherman Bucey grew to manhood on the parental homestead, as a boy and youth assisting in the manual labors incidental to farm life. Becoming thoroughly initiated into the intricacies of agriculture, he settled in Stock Township, Harrison County, about 1894, where he began life for himself as a farmer. Subsequently moving to Washington Township, Harrison County, he continued there a farmer for fourteen years. Returning to Stock Township, Mr. Bucey assumed possession of the farm which he now owns and occupies, and began adding to the improvements previously inaugurated. Going to New Philadelphia. Ohio, in 1917, be remained there two years, but since his return, in 1919. to Stock Township has devoted his energies to the management of his valuable farm of 106 acres. and is meeting with most desirable results as a general farmer.
Mr. Bucey married, in 1888. Hattie Barkus, a most estimable woman. and they became the parents of three children, namely: Odessa. wife of Edward Selaway; Harry, who married Laura Ervin, has one child, Lester; and Neona. who died in childhood. Mrs. Hattie Bucey died in 1894. Mr. Bucey subsequently married for his second wife Jennie Stevens. and of their union one child has been born. Florice, who married Orville De Witt. and has five children. Lucille, Richie. Clara. Grace and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Bucey are active and faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
SIMON . P. BECKLEY, Farm industry in Carroll County has found a vigorous and effective exponent in the person of Mr. Beckley. who is the owner of a large and well improved landed estate in Lee Township. though he has deeded a considerable part of his farm property to his sons. the remainder of his land being rented and his home being now in the attractive village of Harlem Springs, where he is living virtually retired, though he still has general supervision of his farm properties and other business interests.
Mr. Beckley was born in Jefferson County, Ohio. on the 9th of December, 1859, and is a son of John and Susanna (Reigle) Beckley. He was a mere boy at the time of the death of his parents and was reared in the home of Sylvester Moorehead, of Jefferson County, his early educational advantages having been those of the local schools and farm work of all kinds having become familiar to him in his youth, so that he was well fortified when he initiated his independent career as an agriculturist and stock- grower. For four years after his marriage, which occurred in 1883, be resided on the farm of his father-in-law, in Lee Township, Carroll County. and he then purchased a farm near Amsterdam. that Township. There he remained ten years, and he then rented a farm near Harlem Springs. where he remained two years. He then traded his farm near Amsterdam for 160 acres in section 22. Lee Township. He established his home on this latter place and made numerous improvements of substantial and permanent order. There he continued his farming operations until 1911. and the following two years he resided at Harlem Springs. He next passed two years at Carrollton, and since that time he and his wife have maintained their home at Harlem Springs, where they own an attractive residence property. In the home farm are comprised 240 acres. and in addition to this Mr. Beckley became the owner of an additional tract, of 200 acres, in another part of Lee Township, where his wife owns a farm of 120 acres. Of his landed estate he has
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deeded 262 acres to his two sons, and the remainder of the land he rents to good tenants. Mr. Beckley is found arrayed in the ranks of the republican party, and he served one term as trustee of Lee Township. Both he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church of Harlem Springs and he is a member of its Board of Trustees.
In 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Beckley to Miss Martha A. GotschaIl, who was born in Jefferson County but reared and educated in Carroll County, where her parents, Samuel and Betsy A. (George) Gotschall. established their home, in Lee Township, when she was a child. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Beckley the eldest is Samuel S., who is one of the progressive farmers of Lee Township. He married Miss Odessa Marshall and they have three children— Robert M.. Homer S. and Freda. a fourth child, Mary C., having died in infancy. Sarah Bell is the wife of Charles W. Kail, of Perry Township, and they have one daughter. Leona. James Ralph, who Is a representative fanner in Union Township, married Miss Hazel Greer. and they have three children—Ralph, Helen and Kenneth.
GEORGE WILLIAM LONG. If concrete evidence is demanded as to the ability and progressiveness of Mr. Long. as a representative of agricultural and live-stock industry, there is no necessity for making further investigation than that implied in a general survey of his present fine farm property. in London Township. Carroll County, where he is the owner of a valuable tract of 137 acres, of which about seventy acres are utilized for agriculture. the remainder for pasture and meadow, save for the portion that is still in timber. He was born in this township. on the 8th of September. 1871, and is a son of Whiting and Martha (Stenger) Long, the former a native of Loudoun County, Virginia, and the latter of London Township, Carroll County, Ohio. where their marriage. was solemnized. William Long. the paternal grandfather, passed his entire life in Virginia, and the maternal grandfather, George Stenger, was one of the early settlers in Loudon Township. Carroll County. After his marriage Whiting Long purchased a part of the farm of his father-in-law, and this he made one of the productive places of Loudon Township. He remained on this homestead until his death. in April, 1909. his first wife having died in 1879 and his second marriage having been with Miss Margaret Ruff. who was born near Dellroy, this county. Of the children of the first union the eldest is Mary, who is the wife of Frank Carter. a resident of western Canada George W.. of this sketch. was the next in order of birth: Sarah. A. is the wife of Edward Weir. of Mechanicstown. Carroll County: Elmer C. and Elgie were twins, the former being a resident of Bergholz, siJefferson 'County. and the latter having died in infancy: John is a substantial farmer in Loudon Township. No children were- born of the second marriage of Whiting Long.
George W. Long gained his youthful education in the district schools, which he attended principally during the winter terms, and he was but fifteen years old when he began to work by the month, as a farm hand. He thus continued to apply himself until the time of his marriage, in 1898, and thereafter he was similarly employed about one year. He then removed to the farm of his father-in-law, and later he farmed on rented land until 1905, when he purchased thirty acres of his present farm, the adjoining tract of 107 acres having been purchased by him in, 1911. He has erected modern buildings on his farm and has otherwise brought the place up to a high standard, in consonance with the many fine farms to be found in this favored section of the old Buckeye state. Prior to his marriage he had supplemented his education by a business course In the college at Scio. The Kilgore Grange numbers Mr. Long among its loyal and valued members, he is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Kilgore, of which he is serving as treasurer.
November 23. 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Long to Miss Oella B. Sawvel, who was born in Harrison County, a daughter of William E. and Margaret (Brown) Sawvel, the parents having been born in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs_ Long became the parents of four children, of whom two are living: Martha Margaret is a- popular teacher in the public schools of Carroll County; Evelyn died in infancy, as did also the next child, a son; and George William, Jr., remains at the parental home.
NELSON E. SLATES. The Slates family was founded in America in the colonial period of our nationls history, Frederick Slates having immigrated to this country from his native Germany and having established his home in Virginia, where he passed the remainder of his life. His son Adam was born and reared in Loudon County, that stater and there he married Miss Savilla Winner. their children having been five in number: George, William, Mary (Mrs. Walters), Elizabeth (Mrs. Sawvel), and Solomon. Adam Slates died when his son William was still a boy, and his widow later became the wife of John Snow. William was born in Loudoun County. Virginia. near Harper's Ferry. December 29, 1823, and was there reared to the age of sixteen years. He then came to Ohio, where he found employment at common labor, and after returning to his native state he was employed one year by his stepfather. He finally left the Old Dominion state and came again to Ohio. where, in 1847. he purchased a farm of 150 acres in Loudon Township. Carroll County. the place having been land that had been obtained from the government by Jacob Gotschall. January 15, 1814. Mr. Slates coming into possession of the original deed or warrant, which hears the signature of President James Madison, this document being now in possession of his son Nelson E.. who owns and resides upon the old homestead farm, which now comprises 146 acres and is one of the valuable properties of Carroll County. To his original homestead William Slates added, with increasing prosperity, until he was the owner of a fine landed estate of 363 acres. He remained on
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the home place until his death, August, 1894, and was one of the reliable, upright and honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time when his long and useful life came to a close. His widow survived him by fourteen years and passed to the life eternal in November, 1912. both having been zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church and Mr. Slates having been a loyal republican in political allegiance. He was a thoroughgoing farmer and made the best of improvements on his property, the while he stood forth as one of the successful and representative agriculturists and stock-raisers of Loudon Township.
On the 1st of June, 1847, was solemnized the marriage of William Slates to Miss Mary Hosterman, who was born at Kilgore, Carroll County, November 1, 1827, a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Shell) Hosterman, sterling pioneer settlers of this county. William and Mary Slates became the parents of nine children: Franklin, who was born July 23, 1848, was a representative farmer of Loudon Township at the time of his death; Minerva was born October 2, 1850, and died in childhood; the next two children died in infancy;' Samantha was born March 4. 1855, died young, as did also Armin- thin. who was born March 5, 1858, and died at the age of six years: Linaeus was born December 21, 1860, and resides upon his excellent farm, in Perry Township; Nelson E., whose name introduces this article, was the next in order of birth; and Laura, who was born June 18, 1866, is the wife of Henry Sieves, of Loudon Township.
Nelson E. Slates was born January 5, 1864, on the old homestead farm which is his present place of residence, in Loudon Township, and to the public schools of his native county he is indebted for his youthful education. He continued his association with the activities of the old home farm until his marriage, in 1890, and for the ensuing three years he lived on the fa rm of his father-in-law, near Amsterdam. this county. He then returned to the old home place, and he now owns 146 acres of the landed estate accumulated by his honored father. Here he has gained secure vantage-ground as one of the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of the county, special attention being given to the raising of registered short-horn cattle. He has not been self-centered but has shown a loyal interest in all things touching the communal welfare. the while he has high place in popular confidence and esteem. as indicated by the fact that he has served two terms as trustee of his native township and is now a member of the board of county commissioners, in which he is serving his second term, by re-election in the autumn of 1920. He is a stalwart republican. is an active and valued member of the Kilgore Grange. and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. he being a member of its board of trustees.
October 13. 1890, recorded the marriage of Mr. Slates to Miss Oella B. McGary, who was born in Loudon Township. a daughter of James and Dorinda (Scott) McGary, the former likewise a native of that township and the latter of Jefferson County, this state. Mrs. Slates passed to the life eternal on the 3d of August. 1900, and is survived by five children: Pearl is the wife of Thomas E. Chambers, of Selo, Harrison County; Dora is the wife of Harvey D. Chase, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Thomas and Robert remain at the paternal home and are associated with their father in the activities of the farm; and Mary is the wife of William Patterson, of Canton, Stark County.
In October, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Slates to Miss Josephine Waggoner, who was born in Perry Township. a daughter of Hiram Waggoner and a representative of an old and honored family of Carroll County. No children have been born of the second marriage.
MORRIS JAMES. The vital principles, policies and procedures that conserve success in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-raising are more readily designated and described than they are of practical application. The man who really succeeds in this all-important domain of productive enterprise is to be honored and admired, for his service not only furthers his own sturdy independence but is of far-rcaching communal and general value. Among the many substantial and representative exponents of farm enterprise in Carroll County is Morris James. who is one or the venerable native sons of the county, a representative of a sterling pioneer family. and who now rests from the vigorous labors and' discriminating thought and action that gave to him a large measure of success in his many years- of active identification with farming. He finally retired from the farm and thereafter showed his versatility and resourcefulness by achieving equally noteworthy success as a merchant. His son is now associated with him in the conducting of the well equipped general store at Kilgore. and the junior member of the firm now relieves his father of the more active management of the business.
Mr. James was born in Monroe Township, this county, on the 8th of December, 1837, and is a son of Thomas and Susan (Springer) James, both likewise natives of this county, the former having been born in Monroe Township and the latter in Loudon Township. The father was a son of Thomas and Phoebe James. the former of whom was born in the state of Maryland and the latter in Jefferson County, Ohio, where her parents settled in the early period of developmcnt in this section of the state. Data already given show that both the James and the Springer familics gained early pioneer honors in Carroll County. and here Thomas and Susan (Springer) James were reared and educated under the conditions that marked the formative period of the county's dcvelopment. After their marriage they lived two years in Monroe Township, and Mr. James then bought a farm in Loudon Township, where he died in 1849, his widow surviving him by several years and both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children Morris of this review is the eldest; Margaret became the wife of Josiah Lucas and was a
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resident of Carroll County at the time of her death; Oliver is a resident of Cory, Clay County, Indiana; Mary became the second wife of Josiah Lucas and remained in Carroll County until her death; William was killed while serving as a soldier in the Civil war; Emeline, the widow of Clark Slates, resides at Kilgore, this county; and Samuel is a resident of Loudon Township.
Morris James was given the advantages of the common schools of his native county and continued his association with the work of the home farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he began an apprenticeship to the trade of blacksmith, in Jefferson County. After there remaining eighteen months he pursued a high course of study by attending Mount Union College, where he continued his studies at intervals for three years. Thereafter he was actively and successfully engaged in teaching in the district schools until he responded to the call of higher duty, by enlisting, on the 20th of August, 1862, in Company I, Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His regiment became a part of the Army of the Tennessee and he served under the command of General Sherman. He took part in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee. And thereafter was detailed as clerk of court at the headquarters of the commissary department of the Army of the Tennessee. In this capacity he served until the close of the war, and he received his honorable discharge on the 25th of June. 1865. After his return to his native county he continued to teach in the schools of the county until 1867, and on the 28th of March, 1868, he married Miss Susan Brandt, who was born and reared in Loudon Township, a daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Shawver) Brandt. the former a native of Germany and the latter of Carroll County. In the June following his marriage Mr. James established his residence on a farm of 189 acres, in Loudon Township, a property which he had purchased a short time previously. There he continued his vigorous and successful farm enterprise until 1883, when he sold the property and opened a general merchandise store at Kilgore. Here he has continued the business during the long intervening period of nearly forty years, and effective service and fair and honorable dealings have enabled him to command at all times a large and representative supporting patronage, drawn from the section normally tributary to the village of Kilgore. In 1890 his only surviving son, Emerson. who had previously been engaged in the retail grocery trade in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. sold his business in the Keystone state and became a partner of his father in the prosperous business at Kilgore. this alliance having since continued, though the business is still conducted under the name of the father.
Mr. James, a man of exceptional intellectual and business ability, has been well qualificd for leadership in community sentiment and action. and he served many years as justice of the pence. as did he also as clerk of Loudon Township. besides which he has been a notary public since 1904. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, is affili ated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Unionport, Jefferson County, and be is one of the appreciative and honored comrades of Grand Army of the Republic, at Harlem Springs, of which he has served as commander. Both he and his wife have long been earnest and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, and he has given effective service as a trustee and steward of this church. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. James the eldest is Gertrude, who now presides over the domestic economies of the parental home; Emerson is his father's business partner, as already noted; Maude is the wife of S. P. Campbell, of Harrison County; Mary is the wife of William E. Shepherd, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Earl died at the age of eleven years.
GUY R. RINEHART. Public official, able business man and excellent farmer, Guy R. Rinehart holds a position that many envy, and stands among the dignified representatives of Carroll County, and especially those centering in Rose Township where he owns 150 acres of land and farms 210 acres. He was born in this township, August 13, 1885, a son of James Henry and Caroline ( Wanner ) Rinehart. and grandson of David Rinehart, who came to Rose Township at an early day, and bought the homestead now owned by his grandson. He married Elizabeth Snyder, and they had four sons and one daughter. James Henry Rinehart lived on his father's farm and was a successful selling agent for the Walter A. Wood Machine Company of Glenns Falls, New York. manufacturers of agricultural implements, and acted as general agent for the company out of the Cleveland, Ohio, office. He was a county commissioner of Carroll County two terms. His death occurred in 1895, but his widow still survives him. Of seven children, Guy R. Rinehart is the fifth in order of birth.
Until he was fourteen years old Guy R. Rinehart attended district school Number 9. Rose Township, and then for two years was a student of the Magnolia High School. At the age of sixteen years he began operating the home farm, and has remained on it ever since, later acquiring ownership of it. He carries on a general line of farming, and is recognized as one of the prosperous agriculturists in this part of the county.
In 1914 Mr. Rinehart was united in marriage with Grace Elizabeth De Ford, a daughter of A. F. and Olive (Houze) De Ford of Dell Roy, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart have two children, namely: James De Ford and Kenneth Stanley. Mrs. Rinehart was graduated from the Dellroy High School in 1906, and taught district schools Number 8 for three months. the Scroggs Field school for two years. in Fox. Township. the Queensboro school for eight months, in Monroe Township, and the Middle Run school in Brown Township. for two years when she married. Active as a republican Mr. Rinehart has served as township clerk. and member of the school board. He is vice president of the Tri-County Mutual Life Insurance Company, and is also serving on its hoard of directors. The Lutheran Church of Waynes-
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burg holds his membership, and he is a generous supporter of it. The position of the Rinehart family, and especially that of Guy R. Rinehart and his wife, can not be over-estimated, nor can the importance of the strong influence every member of it has exerted on the history of Carroll County.
HARVEY H. COGSIL does not claim Carroll County as the place of his nativity but he is a scion of one of its most prominent and influen tial families of the pioneer epoch, and to-day he owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm of the family, in Loudon Township, this place being consistently designated by the title of "The Oaks," and being one of the model farm estates of this section of the state. Harvey Cogsil, grandfather of him whose name initiates this paragraph, was born near Roxbury, Connecticut, on the 17th of April. 1798, his parents, Truman and Civil (Hawley) Cogsil, having passed their entire lives in that section of the Nutmeg state, where the Cogsil family, of English origin, was founded in the colonial period of our national history. As a young man Harvey Cogsil made his way to Virginia, and there was solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary Vincel, who was born in Loudon County, that state, in 1801, their marriage having occurred in 1820• and they having remained in the Old Dominion commonwealth until 1838. when they came to Ohio and established their home on the fine old farm now owned by their grandson, Harvey H., of this review. Harvey Cogsil became the owner of a very large landed estate in this county, and also owned 2.000 acres in Missouri. He was one of the most liberal and progressive men of his day in Carroll County, was strong and loyal in all of the relations of life, and his splendid initiative powers were shown in his becoming the virtual founder of the Carroll County Agricultural Society, of which he was the first president and to the success of whose fairs he contributed much in the earlier period of its history. He was associated with James Huston and Ephraim Eckley in the promotion and construction of the first railroad to enter Carrollton, this line having extended from the judicial center of Carroll County to Oneida, this county, and having been known as the Carrollton & Oneida Railroad. Mr. Cogsil served as president of this railroad and in many other ways he gave his influence and tangible support to measures and enterprises that had much to do with the social and material advancement of this now favored section of the Buckeye State. He continued his residence at "The Oaks" until his death, which occurred March 12, 1885. his wife having died June 30, 1876. Of their seven children Harvey L., father of Harvey H. of this sketch, was next to the youngest of the five sons.
Harvey L. Cogsil was reared and educated in Carroll County and was about thirty-two years of age when he removed to Muskingum County. where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Rose Snively, whose death occurred about the year 1870. Harvey H.. of this sketch. being the only child of this marriage. The father was born November 17, 1832, and he continued his active association with farm industry until he retired in 1915 and now lives in Adamsville,, aged eighty-nine years. For his second wife he married Alice Vincel, who is now deceased, and they became the parents of five children: Maude is the wife of James L. Browning, of Frazeysburg, Muskingum County; Frank is a resident of Cleveland and John of Zanesville, Ohio: Bruce maintains his home at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Mabel is the wife of Bruce Vincel, of Muskingum County.
Harvey H. Cogsil was born in Muskingum County, on the 27th of December, 1867, and was about three years of age at the time of his mother's death. He was then taken into the home of his paternal grandfather, in Loudon Township, Carroll County, where he was reared to manhood and where he has remained until the present time. save for a period of three years passed in Muskingum County, and three years in the village of Amsterdam, Carroll County. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools, including the high school at Adamsville, and from the estate of his Grandfather Cogsil he inherited 175 acres, this being the fine old homestead on which he was reared and on which he now resides. He is one of the leaders in modern farm enterprise in London Township and is a citizen who commands unqualified popular confidence and good will.
In March. 1892, Mr. Cogsil wedded Miss Flora Fawcett, who was born in Loudon Township, a daughter of Alexander and Helen (Kneen) Fawcett. Alexander Fawcett was a native of Carroll County and his wife of the Isle of Man, off the coast of England. After his marriage Mr. Cogsil was for three years engaged in the general merchandise business at Amsterdam. and he then returned to the farm, which is improved with modern buildings and which is the stage' of his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He is a stalwart in the local ranks of the democratic party but has had no political ambition as expressed in desire for office. His wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. They have three children: Charles married Miss Anna Shambaugh and they reside at Lamartine, this county; Alexander married Miss Dorris Wallace and is in the life insurance business at Canton. Ohio; and Orin. who resides at Lamartine, married Miss Ethel King. their only child being a daughter. Eleanor.
GEORGE NOBLE has been. a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth, is a representative of a sterling pioneer family and is now one of the venerable and honored residents of Lee Township. his entire active career having been marked by close and effective alliance with farm industry. He was born in Lee Township. on the 17th of December. 1847, and is a son of William and Jane (Tripp) Noble, whose marriage was solemnized August 10, 1843, the bride having been a daughter of Job and Rebecca (Kelley) Tripp, of Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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William Noble was born in East Bethlehem. Washington County, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of February, 1808, and was one of the most venerable men of Carroll County, Ohio, at the time of his death, in 1901. His parents, William and Eliza (Scarlott) Noble, were born and reared in Comrty Leitrim. Ireland, where they were wed and whence they immigrated to America in 1796. the father becoming a pioneer farmer in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where lie died in 1818, his widow having survived until 1854. and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had ten children—Catherine, James. David, Thomas. Mary, William, John. Richard, Robert and Eliza.
William Noble, Jr., was reared in his native county and was eighteen years of age when he came to Ohio, in 1826. At Youngstown he served an apprenticeship to the trade of stone and brick mason, and he followed the work of his trade in eastern Ohio until 1837, when he went to Iowa and found employment at his trade in various new towns along the Mississippi river in that state. After his return to Ohio lre became actively identified with agricultural industry in Carroll County, and with the passing years he accumulated a valuable farm property of 353 acres, in Lee Township, this county. He gained a large and well merited success in his vigorous and resourceful career and was one of the prominent and honored pioneer citizens of Carroll County at the time of his death, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest, and both having been active members of the Presbyterian Church. He was a democrat. Of the four children the eldest, William T.. is deceased, George, of this review. was the second in order of birth, and David and James are residents of Lee Township,
In the township which is now his place of residence George Noble was reared on the old home farm of Ins father, and his educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality and period. He has never cared to deflect his course from the vocation under the influences of which he was reared, and has been_ successful in his independent activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. After his marriage, iu 1869, he established his residence upon the farm of 124 acres that had been willed to him by his father, and this place is now one of the well-improved and specially well-ordered farms of Lee Township, its location being in section 3. Mr. Noble has not only bent his energies to worthy achievement in his chosen sphere of enterprise but has also been loyal in his communal spirit and action, as shown in his support of measures projected for the general welfare. in political matters he votes in accord with the dictates of his judgment and his conscience, and his hold upon the esteem of time people of his native township is indicated by his having served one term as township trustee. besides which he has held the office of township assessor. He and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
On the 13th of October, 1869, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Noble to Miss Thursie Jane Cogsil, 'who was born in Loudon Township, this county. a daughter of the late Oliver and Jane (Algeo) Cogsil. the former a native of the state of Indiana and the latter of Lee Township, Carroll County. where her parents were pioneer settlers. In conclusion. is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Noble: Jane is the wife of John Algeo. of Lee Township; Oliver resides at Massillon. Stark County: Lillie is the wife of Hamlin Guess of Lee Township; Harvey resides at Alliance. Stark County; Robert maintains his home at Columbus. Ohio's capital city: Corralie is the wife of Charles Knox. of Lee Township; Lycurgus is the wife of John Tinlin. a farmer in Lee Township; Bessie is the wife of Ralph Maple. of Carrollton: John is at Alliance. Stark County: Ralph remains at the parental home and has active supervision of the farm: Lydia and her husband, Ray Maple, likewise remain at the old homestead farm: Charles is associated with farm enterprise in Lee Township; and Marion died at the age of twenty-two years,
MRS. CHRISTINA RINEHART is one of the landowners of Rose Township, and her valuable farm of 146 acres of land is in fine condition. She is the widow of Valentine Rinehart, who was born at Waynesburg. Stark County. Ohio, April 1, 1841, a son of David and Elizabcth (Snyder) Rinehart, the former of whom was born in Germany, but came to the United States in young Manhood. and settled in Stark County, where he was married. Later on they came to Carroll County, and located in Rose Township. They had three sons and one daughter, namely: George, David, James. Sarah Ann Finebrock, and they are all now deceased. Valentine Rinehart attended district school Number 9, Rose Township during the winter months until he was a young: man. He first married Mary Elsass of Rose Township. and she died without issue. As his second wife he married Christina Grosse, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Engle) Grosse of Waynesburg, Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart became the parents of eleven children. all of whom are living, namely: Lurena Belle. who married Frank Long of Waynesburg. and they have seven children: Arthur Ellsworth, who is unmarried; John Francis, who married Lillian Barber of Fox Township, has four children; Emma Loretta, who married Clarence Daum of East Canton, Ohio. has one child: Alice, who married Charles F. Houze of Canton. Ohio, has two children; George, who married Cora Garner, lives at North Industry, Ohio; James Valentine. who married Irene Carl of Robertsville; Sarah Eva, who married John J. Van Voorhes of Sandyville. Ohio, has two children; William McKinley. who married Lula Wetzel, has one child and lives at Dellroy, Ohio; and Homer and H. Wesley, both of whom are at home.
Valentine Rinehart spent his life on the farm now owned by his widow, and carried on general farming, and was also a stock dealer, buying and selling cattle and hogs, and shipping to the Pittsburgh market. He was also a buyer of wool, and was a man of many interests. In politics he was a republican, and he was a mem-
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ber of the school board and supervisor of his township.
Four of the Rinehart boys registered under the selective draft during the World war. James Valentine was called into the service April 2, 1918, and was sent to Camp Sherman for five months, where he was made a member of Company E, Three Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment, as a private. As a member of the Eighty-Second Division he was sent to New York. from whence he sailed for Brest, France. and landed there in October. 1918. He was in action at St. Mihiel. and other offensives until the signing of the Armistice. In the spring of 1919 he sailed from Bordeaux, France, for New York city where he participated in the great peace parade. and was then sent back to Camp Sherman, and mustered out May 30, 1919.
William M. Rinehart was called into the service at Carrollton. in July. 1918. spent three weeks at Camp Sherman as a member of Company F, Three Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Regiment. and sailed from New York city for Liverpool. England. which port was reached in five days. From England he was sent to France and was in action until he was taken sick and sent to a base hospital, where he was still confined at the time the armistice was signed. He was mustered out at Camp Sherman. March 23, 1919.
LINAEUS SLATES was born in Loudon Township. Carroll County. December 21. 1860, and is to-day numbered among the substantial farmers of Perry Township, this county, with secure standing as one of the prosperous, progressive and highly esteemed citizens of his native county. His father, the late William Slates. who became one of the substantial farmers of Loudon Township, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, near Harper's Ferry, December 29, 1823, a son of Adam and Savilla (Winner) Slates, both natives of the Old Dominion state. where were born their five children, of whom William was the second son. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Savilla Slates became the wife of John Snow, and they remained in Virginia until their deaths. William Slates. who was a boy at the time of his father's death, remained in Virginia until he was sixteen years old, when he made his first visit to Ohio, whence he returned to Virginia. About a year later, however, he returned to Ohio, and in 1847 he purchased a farm of 150 acres in Loudon Township, Carroll County. He eventually became the owner of a valuable farm property of 363 acres, in this county, and here he remained until his death. He was a staunch republican and both he and his wife were earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church.
June 1, 1847, recorded the marriage of William Slates to Miss Mary Hosterman, who was born in the immediate vicinity of Kilgore, Carroll County, on the 1st of "November, 1827. a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Shell) Hosterman, sterling pioncer settlers of this county. Her children were nine in number. namely: Franklin, Minerva. two who died in infancy; Samantha, Arminthia, Linaeus. of this sketch, Nelson E., and Laura.
Reared on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, Linaeus Slates profited by the advantages offered in the village schools at Kilgore. In 1881 he married, and thereafter he and his wife resided at Kilgore for a period of six months. He then removed to one of his father's farms. in Perry Township, and later he purchased this place, which comprises 166 acres, twenty-five acres of the tract being still covered with a fine growth of native timber. and the remainder of the farm being given over to well ordered agriculture and stock-raising, in which Mr. Slates has achieved distinctive success. He has had no desire for political activity but is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and takes consistent interest in all things touching the communal welfare. Both he and his wife are active communicants of the Lutheran Church.
In July, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Slates to Miss Lydia Shawber. who likewise was born and reared in Loudon Township and who is a daughter of Amos and Adeline (Wrikeman) Shawber, the former a native of Loudon Township. Carroll County, and the latter of Jefferson County. this state. Amos Shawber was a son of Jonathan and Lydia (Roser) Shawber, both likewise natives of Ohio, within whose borders the respective families were founded in the early pioneer period. Mr. and Mrs. Slates have three children; William Roy married Miss May Caries and they now reside in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Jesse Lloyd married Miss Nellie Lotz, their home being in Harrison Township. Carroll County. and their two children being Loren Lotz and Harold Linaeus; J. Donald, the youngest of the three children, remains at the parental home.
SAMUEL B. MCGAVRAN. B. S., M. D. No name stands higher among the professional men in Harrison County and eastern Ohio than that of Dr. S. B. McGavran, whose life has been devoted largely to the work of alleviating the sufferings of humanity, not only as a regular practicing physician in the county of his nativity but as counsellor and sympathetic friend of those who nced friends most.
Dr. S. B. McGavran was born near the town of Conotton, Harrison County, Ohio. November 25, 1847, son of William H. and Elizabeth (Brown) McGavran. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania. of Irish descent. His father. William H. McGavran. and his grandfather, William McGavran, were born on the same farm in Harford County. Maryland, on which his great-grandfather, John McGavran. native of Ireland. had settled in 1755.
Dr. McGavran's parents moved to Harrison County, Ohio, about 1840. The father was a cabinet-maker and to some extent farmed. In 1.859 he was elected state representative from Harrison County on the republican ticket, and was serving when the Civil war broke out in 1861.
To the doctor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McGavran, were born six children. viz.: James B.. deceased; Henrietta, deceased, who married W. H. Masters. of Sclo: George W.. deceased; Samuel B.. the subject of this review; Eliza-
PICTURE OF SAMUEL B. MCGAVRAN, B.S., M.D.
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beth, deceased wife of M. E. Clendennin; and William Thomas, deceased, who married Nannie F. Kennedy.
Of Dr. Samuel B. McGavran's early boyhood it may be stated that he had to rely upon his own resources. He had the advantages of the common schools, and two full years' attendance at New Hagerstown Academy, after which he taught school five years to obtain funds to defray his expense in taking a collegiate course. attending this academy during the summer. He completed his junior year in Scio College in Harrison County in 1869. In 1870 be entered the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College. graduating therefrom February 29. 1872. By reason of his class standing he was made the valedictorian of the class, which had a membership of twenty-nine, and delivered the address with honors.
In the month of June. 1874. he commenced the practice of medicine in the village of Bowerston. Harrison County. Ohio. There he was eminently successful, but preferring a wider field. moved on December 1. 1882. to Cadiz. the county seat. Here he has built up a medical practice second to none in the county. In the pursuit of his profcssion he has traveled thousands of miles. and made hundreds of professional calls where the remuneration was not considered, knowing his patient was unable to pay him for his services. In brief, he has always been liberal to the poor and distressed portion of the .community, and has endeared himself to hundreds of home fire-sides within his native county. in which his entire life has been spent as a faithful physician and an enterprising and highly esteemed citizen who has ever had the best interests of his town, county and state at heart.
As evidence of his ability let it be said that he has been the physician and surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for thirty years and is still holding this position. For many years he was examining surgeon for the United States Pension Board in Harrison County. In 1896, with six others, he was appointed by Governor Asa Bushnell as member of the Ohio Board of State Medical Registration and Examination: re-appointed, and served in all twelve years. He has been examiner for all the leading life insurance companies in this county.
As medical examiner of the Draft Board during the recent World war the Adjutant General of Ohio commended him for making the best medical examinations in the state. In 1920 he was appointed the first designated examiner of the United States Public Health Service. whose duty it is to examine soldiers of the World war. When the new law in Ohio required a health commissioner in each county. Dr. McGavran was appointed as such for Harrison County, serving from February, 1920, to February, 1921, when he resigned on account of ill health. For a number of years he has served as one of the trustees of Harrison County Children's Home.
His has been an active career, and when not occupied in his profession he has found time and a disposition to write much for both the medical and secular press, as well as occasional articles for religious publications. In 1894 he compiled the first history Harrison County ever had in book form. In this small volume he crowded in much of historic value and general interest concerning this county from its first settlement up to time of publication. He was appointed historian at the time of the dedication of the present Court House. and on that day delivered the address, as he also did upon the occasion of the unveiling of the Hon. John A. Bingham monument in the Court House yard. These efforts were well received by the press and people. It was he who, as a lending citizen of Cadiz. was instrumental in securing the present Court House when there arose a contest between other towns of the county and Cadiz.
Doctor McGavran has long been a member of the County and State Medical Societies, as well as the American Medical Association, in which he has frequently prepared and read valuable articles and papers.
In its historical sketch of 1909 the Democrat Sentinel includes him among those from Harrison County who have found recognition in the "FIELD OF LETTERS."
At the organization of the Fourth National Bank on March 28. 1893. he was elected director. which office he has held ever since. and is at the present time vice president of this institution.
In his church affiliations Doctor McGavran is Presbyterian. and has been an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Cadiz since 1883, and not only in this church, but in many other churches be has been of great usefulness. Politically be has always been a supporter of the republican party. While residing in Bowerston he was elected to a seat in the Ohio Legislature, being elected by an overwhelming majority. In that body he was placed on numerous important committees, and was found entirely satisfactory by his constituents. The Doctor is an honored member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders at Cadiz (see Lodge Chapter). Scio College many years since conferred the degree of B. S. on him as one of that institution's alumni.
In August, 1872, Doctor McGavran was married to Jennie E. Johnston, of New Hagerstown. Carroll County, Ohio, and to them were born four children: Mary Brown, who married C. H. Judkins, of Cleveland. Ohio: Charles William. of Columbus. Ohio, married to Flora Holmes. of Hopedale. Ohio: Frank Johnston. of Cadiz, Ohio, married to Mary V. Holt. of Carnegie, Pennsylvania; and George C.. of Troy. Ohio, who married Nelle Geiger. of Springfield. Ohio.. Mrs McGavran. who had endeared herself to a11 who knew her by her kind, gentle and sympathetic manner, and with whom the Doctor shares all credit for whatever successes be may have attained, died April 1, 1919, the Doctor, all the children, and eleven grandchildren surviving. Doctor McGavran prizes his acquaintances and friends in Harrison County as his chief assets.
The above is an outline of the life of a man whose career has not been one-sided, but whose deeds have affected nearly every avenue of
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community life; the professions, church life, citizenship, and who has ever been a true friend of his brother man.
IRA S. MOODY. A broad-minded, public-spirited citizen of Carrollton, Carroll County, Ira S. Moody, a prominent coal operator and merchant, has long been associated with the higher and better interests of this section of the state. ever advocating and working for those ideas and measures that will he of lasting good to the community. A native of Carroll County, he was born, April 12, 1874, in Center Township, on the farm which his Grandfather Moody hewed from the wilderness. On the paternal side he is of Irish ancestry, being a lineal descendant in the fifth generation of James Moody, the immigrant, the lineage being thus traced: James, John, John, Frank B., and Ira S.
Born and reared in Ireland, James Moody came as a young man to the United Slates, making his way directly to Ohio. Locating in Fox Township, in that part of Columbiana County that is now included in Carroll County. he took up land near Scroggsfleld, and began to clear from the dense wilderness a home for himself and family.
His son John Moody was born and brought up on the parental homestead, in Fox Township, and there spent his entire life, being engaged during his active career in agricultural pursuits. He married Phoebe Pugh, and to them seven children were born. three sons and four do ughters.
John Moody, son of the foregoing John Moody, was born January 14, 1818. in Carroll County. where he acquired his early education. At the age of fourteen years, he went to Harrisburg, Carroll County. and there served with his brother-in-law, David Need, an apprenticeship at the wagon maker's trade. Returning to his home at the end of three years. he subsequently entered the employ of Elisha McG the pioneer wagon and plow manufacturer of Carrollton. Embarking in business on his own account in 1839, he continued at his trade for a number of years, building up a large business. Subsequently buying a farm of 160 acres near Carrollton, he moved on to it, and in addition to carrying on general farming and sheep raising operated a coal mine, being the pioneer in that branch of industry. He was a republican in politics. influential in party ranks, and served two terms as county treasurer. He married. March 28, 1839. Lena, daughter of John and Mary (Reed) Pugh, of Virginia, and they became the parents of the following named children: Mary Ann, who became the wife of John Gratz; John married Areal Amos, daughter of William Amos. of Carroll County: Frank P., father of Ira S.; William married Susie, daughter of W. F. Brecker, of Carrollton: William Harrison died in 1841; Phoebe Ellen died in 1843; Maurice died in 1857; and Samantha Jane died in 1888. Both parents were members of the Presbyterian Church. Neither are now living. It is well here to say that John Moody, the pioneer coal dealer of Carroll County, operJed .a mine situated on the farm now owned by Honorable D. O. Rutan, conducting the busi ness for a quarter of a century. He was succeeded by his son Frank, and his grandson, Ira S.. who operated on a much more extensive scale, the Moodys having supplied the people of this part of Ohio for a full half century.
Frank P. Moody was born in Carrollton. Ohio. September 8, 1853, and acquired his education in the public schools. Growing to manhood on the farm. he became familiar with coal mining. and having succeeded to the business established by his father operated the mine located on the farm now owned by Mrs. Emma Fawcett for a number of years. He married, October 16. 1873. Catherine C. Smeltz, who was born January 26. 1854, in Union Township. Carroll County, where her father, Peter Smeltz. was a pioneer settler. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Moody, who are now living on a farm just west of Carrollton. have but one child, Ira S.
Ira S. Moody became associated with his father in business when a young man, and has operated on an extensive scale. For a long time he and his father supplied the local brick yard with coal, also carrying on a large domestic business, and their mine, with the exception of the brick yard. giving employment to more men than any other concern in Carrollton. When the mine was practically worked out father and son gave up operating its. In 1912 Ira S. Moody established what is now one of the most modern and convenient coal yards in this section, it being located along the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. south side of Carrollton. and there he is carrying on a large and substantial business. handling the Pennsylvania and Ohio coal. and furnishing most of the coal consumed by the people of Carrollton. Mr. Moody founded his business on the principles elucidated by the honest coal dealers, his motto, to which he is ever faithful, being "No short weights, and no long waits." As a youth Mr. Moody worked for awhile on the old "Carrollton Republican," learning the printer's trade. and later held cases for awhile on that paper's successor, the "Republican Standard."
Mr. Moody is a fine musician, his favorite instrument being the double BB bass on which he has become very -proficient. He has had a wide experience in the hand business. covering a period of over twenty years. playing with niany good organizations. He was one of the leading spirits in the famous Carrollton Band. and was its manager for a number of years. This organization was made up from the best families of Carrollton and would have been credit to many towns of a much larger population. for it attracted considerable attention wherever it went. Mr. Moody served a five-year enlistment with the Fifth Regiment Band. When this organization was engaged to play at St. Louis Exposition in 1905 Mr. Moody was with them on this engagement. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, belonging to lodge. chapter, council and commandery.
Mr. Moody married, November 7, 1903. Miss Josephine Campbell, and they have an attractive home, in which they hospitably entertain their Many friends and acquaintances. Mr. and
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Mrs. Moody have no children. Both are active and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
FRANK JOHNSTON is actively identified with banking interests in his native county, where he is associated with the Cummings Trust Company, one of the leading financial institutions at Carrollton, and he is one of the alert and progressive young men of Carroll County. He was born at New Hagerstown, this county. October 1. 1887, and is a son of John N. and Margaret J. (Leggett) Johnston, the former of whom was likewise born at New Hagerstown, in 1852, and the latter of whom was born at Leesville, this county, in 1854. Francis Johnston, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review. was born in Pennsylvania and was an early settler in Orange Township, Carroll County, Ohio, where he developed a valuable farm which is still in the possession of the family and upon which he remained until his death, in 1887. his wife, whose maiden name was Caroline Geiger, having likewise been a native of the old Keystone State and having passed to eternal rest. Robert G. and Mary Ann (Forbes) Leggett. maternal grandparents of Frank Johnston, were natives of Ohio. and in Carroll. County they maintained their residence on their farm until their removal to Dewitt County. Illinois, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where the latter died in 1918, after having survived her bus hand by several years.
John N. Johnston was reared on the old home farm and received the advantages of the piddle schools of Carroll County. He became one of the substantial farmers of his native county. and also developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock and wool. • He remained on his farm. near New Hagerstown. until 1910. when he established his residence at Carrollton. where he continued to maintain his home until his death. February 2. 1917, his wife having passed away on the 29th of May, 1901. and both having been consistent members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of three children: Mary F. is the wife of Austin O. McDowell. of Heyworth, Illinois. and they have two children. Carrie Grace and Austin Johnston: Carrie N., the second of the three children. died June 15, 1910. at the age of twenty-five years: and Frank, of this sketch, is the youngest of the children.
Frank Johnston passed his childhood and early youth on the old home farm of his father. in Orange Township, and in addition to availing himself of the advantages of the public schools he completed a course in a business college at Wooster. Thereafter he became actively associated with his father in the buying and shipping of wool. and with this enterprise he continued his identification until 1910, when he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the otfices of the Cummings Trust Company, of which he later became assistant treasurer. Of this important institution he is now vice president. PS is he also of the Selo Bank Company, at Sclo. Harrison County. of which he was one of the organizers and of which he was elected vice president in 1916. Mr. Johnston is still one of the leading buyers and shippers of wool in Carroll County, in which line of enterprise he is associated with D. O. Rutan, under the firm name of Rutan & Johnston and with headquartcrs at Carrollton.
When the nation became involved in the great World war Mr. Johnston subordinated all other interests when called into war service. On the 6th of October, 1917, he entered the medical department of the Three Hundred and. Thirty- second United States Infantry. with which he was assigned to duty at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and with which he went to France in June, 1918. He continued in active service with the American forces in France and Italy, until after the signing of the historic armistice, and he once more landed in his native land on the 18th of April, 1919, his honorable discharge having been received on the 2'd of the following month. He was a sergeant, first class in the medical corps, at the time of receiving his discharge, efficiency having led to his promotion from the rank of private. During the first summer after his return to his home county Mr. Johnston devoted his attention to the wool business, and on the 1st of Qctober. 1919, he resumed his association with the Cummings Trust Company, of which he is now vice president, as before noted. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church of Carrollton and are popular factors in the social activities of their home city.
December 9, 1919, recorded the marriage of Mr. Johnston to Miss Angeline Long, who likewise was born and .reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of J. Madison Long, a representative farmer of Center Township, and they have one son, John Nelson.
WALTER H. ALLENSWORTH is a bachelor farmer whose popularity 1st his native county is unqualified and who is numbered among the successful expenents of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in London Township. where he is associated with his younger brother in the productive operations of the old home farm, which is one of the excellent places that make Carroll County a center of noteworthy prominence in the field of agricultural industry.
Mr. Allensworth was born in Perry Township, this county. November 27, 1870, and is a son of Henry and Justina (McCaskey) Allensworth, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, and the latter in Perry Township, Carroll County. her father. George McCaskey, having been a native of Ireland and her mother having been born in Jefferson County, Ohio: The McCaskey family was early established in this section of Ohio, as was also the Allensworth family, whose lineage traces back to staunch English origin. Jacob and Rebecca (Calhoun) Allensworth. grandparents of Walter H., early became associated with farm enterprise in Jefferson County and they were residents of that county at the time of their death. After his marriage Henry Allensworth established his residence in Orange Township, Carroll County. During the last eighteen months of the Civil war he served as a member of Com-
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pany H, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he participated in a number of engagements of major order, as well as in various skirmishes. He received his honorable discharge after victory had crowned the Union arms, and in after years he vitalized his interest in his old comrades by maintaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the war he engaged in the work of the blacksmith trade, in which he was a skilled workman, and in pursuance of this vocation he made a number of changes of residence in the passing years. Finally, in October, 1899, he established his residence on the Alpha Simmons farm, in Loudon Township, and here he continued his alliance with constructive agriculture until the time of his death, in January, 1911, his widow passing to eternal rest on the 29th of November, 1919, and the home farm being now in charge of the two younger sons. Of the children the eldest is Dr. J. E., who is engaged in the practice of medicine in the city of Canton, Stark County; W. H. is a farmer in Perry Township, Carroll County; Walter H., of the sketch, was the next in order of birth: Ida is the wife of J. E. Chase, of Loudon Township: Charles is associated with his brothel Walter in the management of the home farm; and Lena is the wife of E. M. Sheridan, of Orange Grove, California.
Walter H. Allensworth acquired his early education in the public schools and remained with his parents until their death, since which time he and his younger brother have conducted the home farm with ability and excellent attending success_ He still permits his name to remain enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in his native county. He is loyal in supporting measures and enterprises projected for the communal welfare, is affiliated with the Kilgore Grange and is a republican in his political allegiance.
GEORGE M. WELSH, a successful general farmer and stock-raiser of Archer Township, owns and operates 160 acres of land and is recognized as one of the representative men of Harrison County. He was born in Archer Township, December 13, 1859, a son of David Welsh and a grandson of John Welsh, who was born in Ireland in 1782, and died December 30. 1871. His wife, Jane McClellan, was born in 1792 and died February 17, 1872. They were married in 1813. Coming to America when he was ten years of age with his parents. he was reared in this country, and in young manhood located in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio. and here entered a farm from the government. and spent the remainder of his life improving and operating his farm. He and his wife had the following children : Mary, who was born August 27. 1814; Elizabeth, who was born August 26. 1816; Ann, who was born August 8, 1818: Samuel. who was born June 13, 1820: John K., who was born November 6, 1822: Mathew. who was born March 21. 1825: Jane. who was born May 6. 1827: James, who was born November 11, 1829: David. who was born November 18. 1831: and William A.. who was born April 5. 1835. Mr. and Mrs. John
Welsh were members of the Presbyterian Church.
David Welsh was reared on the farm in Archer Township where he was born, and on it he spent his life, owning at the time of his death, April 11, 1918, 237 acres of land. He was married to Susannah Fisher, born in Rum- ley Township, Harrison County, February 2, 1833, a daughter of George Fisher, one of the early settlers of Rumley Township. They had the following children: George M., who was the eldest born; Ella, who was born October 27, 1862, died August 26, 1865; John V., who was born December 22', 1863, died September 1, 1865; Mary, who was born August 15, 1867, died October 7, 1902, as the wife of Vern Patterson; Harry E., who was born May 18, 1869; Clara Amanda, who was born October 8, 1871, married Alva D. Cavin June 17, 1914, and died August 7, 1014; Emma Viola, who was born August 22, 1875, died March 21, 1889; and Gertie. who was born January 13, 1878. married Robert Henderson, and lives at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The parents of these children also belongcd to the Presbyterian church, in which they were active. Mrs. Welsh died before her husband, passing away July 21, 1906.
George M. Welsh attended the district schools of Archer Township, and adopted farming as his life work. He remained at home until he was thirty-nine years of age, and then, may 31, 1899, he was married to Nora Burdett, a daughter of James and Sarah (Porter) Burdett, and made a home of his own, moving on his present farm of 160 acres, on which he is carrying on general farming and stockraising. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have one child, Harlan B., who was born April 25. 1905. Having been brought up in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Welsh connected himself with it after he reached years of discretion. and he and his wife belong to the Ridge Church of that denomination.' He is an experienced farmer and his land shows the results of his care and knowledge of his calling.
Harry E. Welsh, brother of George M. Welsh. attended the Oak Grove district school, and was also taught farming by their careful and sensible father. He has developed into one of the prosperous gencral farmers and stockraisers of Archer Township.
On June 24, 1914. Mr. Welsh was united in marriage with Abbie Lorana McClain. a daughter of J. A. and Catherine McClain. They: too, belong to the Ridge Presbyterian Church.
JAMES DANIEL SLATES owns and resides upon the old homestead farm which represents land obtained by his paternal grandfather from the Government more than a century ago, this ancestral farmstead being situated in Loudon Township. Carroll County. The grandfather. John Slates. Sr.. was born in Loudoun County. Virginia. August 2. 1754, and was there reared to manhood. There he married Miss Elizabeth Rusc. who was born in that county in 1780. both families, of English origin, having been founded in Virginia in the colonial period of our national history. John and Elizabeth Slates became the parents of three sons and
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four daughters, and of the sons the youngest was John, Jr., father of him whose name initiates this review. In 1811 John Slates, Sr., came with his family to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, and secured a tract of Government land in Loudon Township. Here he reclaimed a goodly part of his land to cultivation, and in providing for his family under the pioneer conditions he worked to a considerable extent at his trade, that of shoemaker. He was one of the sterling pioneers who aided in the initial stages of development and progress in the county and here he remained on his farm until his death, in 1859, his wife having passed away in 1855. Both wcre earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church and in politics he was a democrat of the old school.
John Slates, Jr., was born on the pioneer farm in Loudon Township, March 11. 1821, and he was here reared to adult age, with much of arduous work on the farm and with educational advantages limited to the common schools of the period. Eventually he became the owner of one of the well improved farms in the southeastern part of Loudon Township, and there he achieved worthy success through his well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower. He passed the last twenty years of his life in the Village of Jewett, where he died at the age of eighty-four years. and his widow now makes her home with her daughter Hattie, the wife of William Miller, of Loudon Township. Mr. Slates was a staunch democrat in political adherency and was a communicant of the Lutheran Church, as is also his widow. His first marriage was solemnized June 27, 1844, when Miss Nancy Stinger became his wife, she having been born in February, 1821. a daughter of George Stinger. Mrs. Slates died in 1853, her children having been five in number: Oliver, Harvey, Emily (Mrs. Arbaugh). Sarah E. and Herbert. April 20. 1854, Mr. Slates wedded Miss Abby Flamer, whose death occurred in 1860, their children having been three in number: Nancy (Mrs. Myers), Samuel and John. September 12, 1865. recorded the marriage of Mr. Slates to Mrs. Eliza Jane (Duel) Walters, who was born in 1833, a daughter of Samuel Duel. Of this union were born five children. The Duel family settled in Lee Township. Carroll County. in the pioneer days. Of the five childrcn James D.. of this sketch, is the eldest; Hattie B. is the wife of William Miller, of Loudon Township; Howard W. resides at Dennison. Tuscarawas County: Mary is the wife of David Hosterman. of Loudon Township; and Charles W. resides at Jewett. this county.
James Daniel Slates was born in Loudon Township on the 30th of April. 1867. and was reared on the home farm, the while he profited fully by the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township. He continued his association with farm enterprise until his marriage, in 1891. and thereafter was employed as forcman in connection with construction work on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad. at Jewett, for several years. He then purchased and removed to his grandfather's old homestead farm, of 160 acres, and here he has since conducted successful operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower, the property being one of the excellent farms of Loudon Township. Mr. Slates pays unequivocal allegiance to the democratic party, is an active member of the Grange at Kilgore, and has served since 1915 as librarian of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Kilgore, of which he and his wife are zealous members.
September 5, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. Slates to Miss Etta Belle Wenner, who was born in Lee Township, this county, a daughter of John and Rebecca (Slates) Wenner. Mr. and Mrs. Slates have five children, all of whom remain at the parental home, namely: John Wenner, Donna Jane, Lois Winifred, James Merrill and Edith May.
HENRY TOMLINSON manifests in his connection with farm enterprise in Carroll County the same vigor and resourcefulness that have characterized his activities in other fields of business enterprise. and he is one of the progressive and highly valued citizens of Loudon Township, where he is now serving his first term as township trustee, an office to which he was elected in the fall of 1919. He was born in Perry Township, this county, on the 25th of November, 1864, and is a son of George and Catherine (Shambaugh) Tomlinson, the former of whom was born in Harrison County, this state, and the latter in Perry Township, Carroll County. Thomas Tomlinson, grandfather of Henry Tomlinson, was born in England and became one of the early settlers in Harrison County, Ohio. John Shambaugh, the maternal grandfather, came in an early day from Pennsylvania and obtained government land in Perry Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed and improved a farm and where he passed the remainder of his life, he having been a native of Germany. George Tomlinson became one of the representative farmers of Perry Township, where he settled after his marriage and where both he and his wife maintained their home for many years, secure in the high regard of all who kncw them. However. George Tomlinson did a large amount of important work as a contractor and builder, and in this line of enterprise he had his son Henry as an effective coadjutor, as will be noted in a later paragraph.
Henry Tomlinson is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and in his youth he gained also a valuable experience in connection with farm industry. At the age of nineteen years he found employment in connection with lumbering operations near Dellroy. this county, and later he became associated with his father in work at the carpenter's trade at Sherodsville, this county. As contractors and builders they erected many houses and other buildings in the village. and they continued their successful activities as contractors during a period of fully twelve years. Henry Tomlinson then went to Dennison. Tuscarawas County, where he did construction work in connection with the opening of a coal mine for the Davis Coal Company, in which corporation he became a stockholder. In 1893 he retired from his alliance with this company, and in 1896 he became associated with
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John B. Rammage in the purchase of the Twin City coal mine in the vicinity of Dennison. Two and one-half years later he made a lease of his interest in this mine, and for six months thereafter he was engaged in repair work for the Panhandle Railroad, at Dennison. For some time he was associated with his brother George W. and a man named Schofield in the bottling of carbonated water and other soft drinks, at Dennison, and the failing health of his parents then led him to return to the home in Carroll County. where he remained with his parents on the farm until the close of their lives. He then returned to Dennison, where he 'continued his activities as a contractor and builder about five years. On the 25th of March, 1909, Mr. Tomlinson established his residence on the William Arbaugh farm, of 164 acres, in Loudon Township, Carroll County, this property having previously. been purchased by .him. In 1911 he bought fifty-four acres of timber land, in Perry Township. and from this tract he obtained 230,000 feet of timber. He now utilizes the land for pasturage purposes. In his vigorous farm enterprise Mr. Tomlinson gives special attention to the raising of registered Percheron horses, registered Poland-China swine, fine Delaine sheep, and registered Hereford cattle, besides which the farm shows several hundred chickens and is a center of successful poultry enterprise.
Mr. Tomlinson is a thoroughgoing republican and is well fortified in his political convictions. While a resident of Sherodsville he served two terms as a member of the village council, and, as before noted, he is now serving as trustee of Loudon Township. He is a valued and appreciative member of Kilgore Grange, and is serving on its financial board. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. In October 1891. Mr. Tomlinson was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Morgan. who was born in Stark County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Jane Morgan. both natives of Wales. She died November 13, 1917, and left three children : Corinne is the wife of John Mooney, of Dennison, Tuscarawas County : Dremond, who is associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm, married Miss Jessie Smith and they have one child, Willis: and Catherine is the youngest member of the attractive home circle.
WILLIAM SAMUEL RINGER has relied almost entirely on his own ability and energy in making for himself a !dace of independence in connection with the productive activities of life, and is to-day numbered among the substantial and representative farmers of Loudon Township. Carroll County. where his progressive activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser are staged on the fine old Joseph Wood farm, of 237 acres. He was born in Perry Township. this county, on the 20th of September, 1871. and is a son of Mathias and Rebecca (Gotschall) Ringer, both natives of Harrison County. this state, where the respective grandparents were early settlers—John and Mary Binger, and James and Eva Gotschall. After his marriage Mathias Binger settled on a farm in Perry Township, later he resided for some time in the State of Wisconsin, and he was a resident of Plymouth, Indiana, at the time of his death, his wife having died about the year 1900 and William S., of this review, being the eldest of the three children. The second, Homer, died when about eight years of age, and the third, Alonzo, is a resident of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County.
William S. Binger gained his rudimentary education in the schools of his native township, and when he was a lad of ten years he was taken by his father to Browntown, Green County, Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools four ycars. His father departed and left him at Browntown, and his mother soon came for him and returned with him to Carroll County. For two years thereafter he was employed on the farm of Emanuel Sawvel, near Rumley. Harrison County, and after meeting with an accident that resulted in the fracturing of the bones of one of his legs he passed several months in the home of his uncle, Joshua Arbaugh. at Scio, Harrison County. Thereafter he continued to be employed, principally at farm work, by the month and the year, until 1902, when he married Miss Margarct Gotschall, who was born and reared in London Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Wood) Gotschall, the former a native of Harrison County and the latter of Loudon Township, Carroll County. After his marriage Mr. Binger established his residence on the homestead farm of his wife's parents, and here he has since been successfully and vigorously giving his attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of cattle, hogs and Delaine sheep. He is a democrat in his political views and he and his wife are zealous members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at New Rumley, in which he is serving as a member of the Board of Trustees. They have three children—Harold, Mary and Marjory.
CHESTER REDMAN WORLEY. It is not given to every man to own his birthplace, but such is the good luck of Chester Redman Worley, one of the energetic young farmers of Carroll County. whose fine farm of 140 acres is located in Rose Township. Here he was born in 1892, a son of Owen E. and Florence (Redman) Worley. The family is an old one in this region, the great-grandfather having conducted a hotel at Morges. Rose Township. after he came to Carroll County from Pennsylvania. John V, Worley, the grandfather, lived in Brown Township. this county. where he died in 1901, having been a farmer all of his life. He married Abigail Snyder, and they had four sons and four daughters, of whom Owen E. was the fifth in order of birth. He developed into a farmer, bought the 140-acre farm now owned by his son, and operated it until he retired. locating then at Magnolia, where he and his wife are now enjoying the comforts of life. Chester R. Worley is their only child. Politically he is a republican. and has held a number of the township offices. having been a member of the School Board of Rose Township. They are both very popular, and the success of the elder man is
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being reflected in the life and work of the younger.
Chester R. Worley attended the schools of Districts Nos. 6 and 3 until he was seventeen years old, and then in 1912 he took a short course in the agricultural department of the Ohio State University, and returning home, has been engaged in farming ever since. He married Emma Wetzell, a daughter of Christopher and Caroline (Warner) Wetzell, of Rose Township, in 1914, and they have one son. Roscoe Ellsworth. Mr. Worley finds it expedient to belong to the National Grange at Magnolia, and benefits from his association with his fellow members. The Lutheran Church at Magnolia has his earnest support, and he has been a member of it for some time.
If more of the young men of the rural districts could be induced to do as Mr. Worley, devote themselves to an agricultural life,, a wonderful advancement would he seen in this industry. The man who has been born and bred on a farm has the love of the soil ingrained in his being. Having spent his life in a neighborhood he understands its needs and possibilities and can advocate and support those measures which will he most beneficial to it. and at the same time gain a competency of fair proportions. Carroll County has a number of these young men interested in farming, and this is one of the reasons for its present prestige.
JOHN H. STENGER has effectively proved his success-winning powers in connection with farm industry in his native county and township and as a scion of the third generation of the Stenger family in Carroll County, the family, in fact, having been founded in this section of Ohio, in Harrison County, in the year 1798.
Mr. Stenger was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 21st of August, 1862, and is a son of John and Helen (Sarbaugh) Stenger, the former of whom likewise was born in Loudon Township and the latter of whom was a native of Virginia. George Stenger, grandfather of John H. Stenger, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, March 4, 17W, a son of William Stenger, who was born NI Germany and who became an early settler in the State of Pennsylvania, where he passed the remainder of ,his life. as a farmer. At the age of seven years George Stenger accompanied his widowed mother and the other children of the family to Ohio, where settlement was made in Harrison County, in 1798. In that county he was reared to manhood amid the scenes and influences of the frontier, and in 1821 he became a resident of Loudon Township, Carroll County, where he developed the productive farm that continued to he his place of residence until his death, in January, 1873, he having followed the trade of Cabinetmaker prior to removal to Carroll County. The family name of his wife was Hamer and she was born in Pennsylvania, in 1798. Of their fourteen children two died in infancy, and most of the others attained to years of maturity. Mrs. Stenger preceded her husband to the life eternal, her death having occurred in 1863. They contributed their share to the earlier development and upbuilding of Carroll County and their names merit high place on the roster of the sterling pioneers of the county.
John Stenger was reared on the old home farm in Loudon Township, gained his early education in the common schools of the locality and period, and his entire active career was marked by successful association with farm enterprises in his native township. Here his death occurred April 9, 1885, his wife having passed away on the 24th of February of the preceding year. and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children the eldest is Sarah E., who is the widow of Robert G. Gordon and who resides in Loudon Township; John H., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and Mary is the wife of Elmer Roof, of Loudon Township.
John H. Stenger was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the Village of Kilgore and he remained with his parents on the old home farm until their deaths. After his marriage. in 1887. he continued in charge of the home farm for a time. and then removed to the farm of 160 acres which his wife had inherited from her father. Here they have since maintained their home, and the area of the place is augmented .by their ownership also of an adjoining tract of eighty acres the farm being one of the well improved and well ordered landed estates of Loudon Township, where Mr. Stenger has been notably successful in his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He is a republican, has been for many years a member of the School Board of his district. is an active and influential member of the Amsterdam Grange, which he has served as treasurer, and he and his wife are zealous members of the., Methodist Episcopal Church at Simmons Ridge,' in which he has held various official positions, including that of steward, of which he is the present incumbent.
On the 3d of November, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stenger to Miss Thirsa A. Simmons, who likewise was born and reared in Loudon Township, and who is a daughter of Adam and Mary (Lucas) Simmons, the Simmons family being honored in the, perpetuation of the name in Simmons Ridge, in the immediate vicinity of which the old family homestead is situated. Mr. and Mrs. Stenger have three children: William, who married Miss Hazel McIntire, is a progressive farmer in Loudon Township; and Bert M. and Mary Helen remain at the parental home..
JOHN HENRY FAWCETT is a scion of the fourth generation of the Fawcett family in Carroll County and in all of the relations of life he is upholding the prestige of a family name that has been one of prominence in the annals of this county for more than a century.
John and Letta (Armstrong) Fawcett, great- grandparents of him whose name initiates this review, continued to reside in County Fermanagh. Ireland, until 1816, when, with their children, they severed the ties that bound them to their native land and set forth to establish a new home in America, where they were destined to have a full share of pioneer experi-
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ences in what is now Carroll County, Ohio. From New York City Mr. Fawcett set forth on foot for Ohio. and upon his arrival in the present Carroll County he entered claim to a one- half section of Government land. in the township that later was to bear the name of Union. He brought to bear his versatility and resourcefulness in meeting the requirements of the frontier region, and the first dwclling which he provided for his family was of the most primitive type. Scanty was the provender of the home at times, but with the development of his land this sturdy pioneer gained in prosperity. and the hewed log house which he erected as soon as possible. continued to be the family domicile until 1837, when he crected on the home farm a substantial brick house which long remained as one of the landmarks of this county. Mr. Fawcett was one of the strong, resolute and upright men who did much in furthering the normal development and progress of the county in the pioneer days and he remained on his original farm until his death. in 1838. when he was about seventy-five years of age, his wife having died in the preceding year, and both having been for many years zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their childrcn were seven in number: Elizabeth Riley, Letta Grace. Jane Atwell, Ann McCourt, Dorinda Brooks, Charles and Alexander.
The son Charles was born in County Fermanagh. Ireland, in 1799, gained his early education in his native land and was a vigorous youth of seventeen years when he accompanied his parents to the United States and loyally girded himself to bear his share of the burdens and responsibilities of the pioneer farm in the forest wilds of Ohio. In 1820 he wedded Miss Margery Brooks, who was born in Ireland. about the year 1800, and who was sixteen years of age when she came to America. After his marriage Charles Fawcett remained on the old homestead farm, in Union Township, until 1857, when he removed with his family to Iowa and became one of the pioneer settlers and farmers Of Cedar County, where he remained until his death, in 1873, his widow surviving until 1882 and both having been consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Fawcett was originally a whig in politics but united with the republican party at the time of its organization and ever afterward was a staunch supporter of its cause. Prior to his removal to Iowa he has served several years as justice of the peace in Union Township. His children were eleven in number: Nancy Grace, John, Dr. Henry, Letta (Mrs. Kneen), Rebecca (Mrs. Butler), Alexander A., Dr. Charles, Dorinda (Mrs. Teter), Thomas, Margery (Mrs. Moore), and James. Of the sons Thomas and James served as soldiers of the Union in the Civil war, and Alexander A.
Alexander Armstrong Fawcett was born in Union Township, Carroll County, May 16, 1829, and was there reared to manhood under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days. He remained on the old home farm until his marriage, in 1855, on the 1st of February of which year Miss Ellen Kneen became his wife, she having been born in Loudon Township, this county, in September. 1829, a daughter of William and Mary (Kenyon) Kneen, natives of the Isle of Man. William Kneen and his wife came to the United States about 1820, and upon coming to Ohio they first located in Cleveland. Later they removed to the vicinity of New Rumley, Harrison County, whence they shortly afterward came to the present Carroll County, where. about the year 1825, Mr. Kneen purchased a slightly improved farm of 165 acres, in Loudon Township. For this property, in section 7, he paid $500. He reclaimed and developed the farm and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. In their declining years they werc cared for with earnest solicitude by their daughter Ella. Mrs. Ella Fawcett was born on the homestead farm, as were also all of her children, and here she died in April, 1906, her husband passing away in May of the previous year and the memories of both being revered in the community in which they long lived and wrought to goodly ends. their religious faith having been that of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Fawcett having been a republican in politics. Of the children the firstborn was Mary, who be came the wife of J. W. Reed and who died when a young woman: William C. is a civil engineer by profession and now resides at Martin's Ferry, Belmont County; Ella and John H. remain on the old home farm, in the ownership of which they are associated with their brother William C.; and Flora is the wife of Harvey H. Cogsil, a prosperous farmer in Loudon Township.
John Henry Fawcett, to whom this review is dedicated, was born on the farm which is his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was April 21, 1864. After having attended the district schools he continued his studies two years in Harlem College and one year in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. When twenty-five years of age he went to Iowa, where he visited for some time with kinsfolk and thence, in company with his sister Ella, he went to Los Angeles, California, in which state they remained a few months. In the following year they again went to that state, and on this occasion remained nine months. After his marriage, which occurred in 1892, he and his wife maintained their home at Kilgore, Carroll County, about three years, during the major part of which time he was clerk in a mercantile establishment. Thereafter he assisted in the management of his father's home farm and then moved to another farm owned by his father in Loudon Township. After the death of his mother he returned to the old farm upon which he was born, and here he has since remained, as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock- growers of his native county. As before stated, he is associated with his brother William C. and sister Ella in the ownership of this fine farm of 160 acres. He is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and has been active in public affairs in Loudon Township, where he served two terms as township treasurer, where he has been township"
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trustee since 1918, and where he has represented the township as a member of the County Board of Education from the time of its organization. He is affiliated with Kilgore Lodge No. 342. Knights of Pythias, and is an active and valued member of Kilgore Grange, in which he holds the office of overseer in 1921. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. and he is serving as a steward of the same.
February 25. 1892. recorded the marriage of Mr. Fawcett to Miss Mary Smith. who was born at Kilgore, this county, a daughter of John H. and Emma J. (Stenger) Smith, natives of Loudon Township and representatives of old and honored families of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett have two children, Ralph S. and Lucile, both of whom remain at the parental home. Ralph S. gives much of his time to his technical service as a driller of oil wells for the American Gas Company. He married Miss Minnie Wile, and they have two sons. James Wendell and John Kenneth.
It is worthy of mention that Mr. Fawcett has marked talent as a musician, as a skilled player on the cornet. He initiated his career as a member of a band when he was but fifteen years old, and since that time has been a member of several different bands organized in his native county. Since 1900 he has been the leader of the Kilgore Band, in which his son plays the slide trombone, his daughter the E-flat bass, while William Shearer, a partner of Ralph S. Fawcett in drilling oil wells, plays the baritone horn in this band, which has attained to a high degree of proficiency.
PETER K. HERSTINE has developed a valuable farm in Rose Township of Carroll County and is recognized as one of the leading representatives of the agricultural class in that section.
He was born in Fairfield Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, October 13, 1856, son of Joseph Triver and Rachel (Kollar) Herstine. The family was an old established one in Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania. The grandparents were Abraham and Catherine (Zimmerman) Herstine, who were married in Westmoreland County and were the parents of five daughters and three sons. When Joseph Triver Herstine was five years of age the family moved to Tuscarawas County and later to Owen County. Indiana. Joseph T. Herstine died in December, 1903, and his wife on March 19, 1908.
Peter K. Herstine acquired his early education in the public schools of Owen and Clay counties, Indiana, and when he was nineteen the family returned to Tuscarawas County. where he attended several winter terms of school in Fairfield Township until he was twenty-two. He also assisted on the farm and on March 27, 1891, he married Emma Magdalen" Warner, daughter of James Christopher and Catherine (Wertz) Worner, of Fairfield Township. Her father was thirteen years of age when his parents came from Wuertemberg, Germany, and settled in Tuscarawas County, where he married and where he died February 23, 1909, Mrs. Herstine's mother passing away September 13, 1913. She was the oldest of three sons and five daughters, all of whom are living. Mrs. Herstine attended the Possum Hollow School until she was sixteen, and was twenty-nine when she married.
After his marriage Mr. Herstine located on a sixty-acre farm adjoining his present home, and was a renter there for nine years. He made progress. supported his family and accumulated the means which enabled him to purchase his present farm of forty-five acres. He took the land comparatively undeveloped, built a good home, and has been doing well ever since. He is a carpenter by trade, and that occupation has fitted in well with his farming enterprise, enabling him to keep busy practically the entire year. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church and he is independent in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Herstine have two children: Leona Idella and Glenwood Harold, both at home.
CHARLES W. SIMMONS passed his entire life in Carroll County, save for the period of his gallant and patriotic service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and he was a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this now opulent and progressive section of the Buckeye State. Mr. Simmons was born in Loudon Township. this county, on the 24th of November, 1841. and he passed the closing years of his life on his well improved farm in Lee Township, this county. where his death occUrred January 5, 1918. He was a son of William and Elizabeth (Albaugh) Simmons, the former of whom was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, December 3. 1795, and the latter August 11, 1800, a daughter of John Peter and Leah (Cook) Albaugh. who were numbered among the sterling pioneers of what is now Carroll County, Ohio. William Simmons was a lad of about ten years when he accompanied his older brothells, John, Adam and Jacob, to Ohio. and here he remained in the home of his brother Adam until he had attained to his legal majority. In March, 1820, he married Miss Elizabeth Albaugh, and they established their home on an embryonic farm of 155 acres which he had previously purchased, in Loudon Township, Carroll County. The young couple had as their domicile a log cabin of the true pioneer type, and with the passing years Mr. Simmons reclaimed much of his land from the forest and developed a productive farm. On this old homestead he remained until his death, December 22, 1876, his widow having passed away February 1, 1883, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Simmons having been a staunch republican in politics. They became the parents of eight children—Levi, Mary, John, Sarah, Matilda, Eliza, Charles W. and Jacob. Charles W. Simmons was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the common schools of the locality and period. He represented Carroll County as a soldier of the Union during the closing period of the Civil war. On the 14th of February, 1865, he enlisted as a private in Company A. One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment commanded by Col. Thomas E. Welds,
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while James E. Phelps was captain of Company A. The command was assigned to an independent brigade of the First and Second Divisions, Department of the Cumberland, and Mr. Simmons accompanied his regiment in turn to Murfreesboro, and Cleveland, Tennessee; Dalton, Georgia, from which latter point it proceeded to Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the 10th of May. In that locality the regiment remained until July 20. when it moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he continued to be stationed until September 19, when it was ordered to Columbus. Ohio, where Mr. Simmons received his honorable discharge on that date, his services having thus continued for several months after the surrender of Generals Lee and Johnston. In later years he vitalized the associations of his military career by his appreciative affiliation with the post of the Grand Army of the Republic then maintained at Harlem Springs, Carroll County. nearly all of the comrades of this post having now passed away, so that the organization has lapsed.
After the close of the war Mr. Simmons rcsumed his active association with farm enterprise in Carroll County, and after his marriage, in 1883, he resided on his well improved farm of eighty acres, in Lee 'Township. until his dcath, his widow still remaining on this place and their' sons having active management of the same. Mr. Simmons erected the substantial buildings on this farm, including the attractive house, and here he continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower until the close of his life. A man of inviolable integrity in all of the relations of life, he commanded secure place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew him, and his influence in community affairs was ever benignant and helpful. He was a staunch republican and he served several terms as trustee of Lee Township. He had served also as a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore, of which his widow likewise is an earnest member.
On the 12th of August, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Simmons to Miss Ellen Hosterman. who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, and who is a daughter of the late Peter and Rebecca (Hibbs) Hosterman. Of the children of this union the eldest was Mary, who was born May 20, 1884, and whose death occurred April 27, 1917. She became the wife of Oscar Shepard and is survived by four children—Harold, Ellen, Earl and Joseph. William. who resides at Carrollton, the county seat. married Miss Jessie Brooks and their only Chilil, Ma rtha Marie. died in early childhood. Frederick, of Lec Township, married Miss May McIntyre and they have one daughter, Pauline. Bert E., likewise associated with farm industry in Lee Township, married Miss Ruby Cogsil and they have one child, Mary. Jesse and Earl remain with their widowed mother on the old home farm and have active charge of its operations. Jesse was in the nation's military service in the late World war, as a private in the Ninety-first Division, which was called into active service overseas. After the close of the war he received his honorable discharge, in May, 1919, and he then resumed his activities on the home farm.
HUGH MILTON RINEHART, one of the substantial farmers of Rose Township, has earned the right to be considered one of the prosperous agriculturists of Carroll County, and his fine farm of 115 acres shows the result of his practical knowledge and hard work. He was born in Rose Township, May 7, 1864, a son of George and Harriet (Wall) Rinehart; of Pennsylvania- German stock, and grandson of David Rinehart, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer. He married Elizabeth Snyder and they came to Ohio, locating on a farm near Waynesburg, Stark County, his father, Valentine Rinehart. accompanying them. Subsequently David Rinehart movcd to Rose Township and settled in the woods two miles south of Magnolia, where he built a log lint, in which the family lived for a time. There were four sons and two daughters in the grandparents' family, of whom George Rinehart was the eldest. Mrs. Rinehart died April 5, 1896, her husband having died in 1891. He was born June 12, 1816. and they werc married June 3. 1837.
George Rinehart resided in Rose Township until 1882, when he moved to Sumner County, Kansas. By his first marriage he had three sons and one daughter, namely: David Oliver, who lives at Ford, Kansas, is married and engaged in farming; John Elmer, who lives at Canton, Ohio, married Eva Minckley, and they have two sons and two daughters; Hugh Milton. who was the next in order of birth; and Sarah Elizabeth, who is Mrs. John Parks of Kansas, has two sons and two daughters. There were two sons and one daughter born of the second marriage of George Rinehart.
During the winter terms until he was nineteen years old, Hugh Milton Rinehart attended District School No. 9, in Rose Township, and took one summer course at the Magnolia Normal School. During the remainder of the year until he left school, he worked on either his grandfather's farm, or that of his Uncle James Rinehart, and then began working for neighboring farmers as a farm hand, and was so engaged until 1881. Going back to his grand- father's farm, he remained on it for a year.
On February 4, 1886, Mr. Rinehart was married to Rosa Belle Finefrock, a daughter of George and Belinda (Worley) Finefrock, of Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio, of Pennsylvania-German stock. The grandfather John Finefrock married Elizabeth Harple, and they had four daughters and five sons. The members of the family for many generations have been farmers and stockbuyers. Mr. Finefrock, father of Mrs. Rinehart, died at Waynesburg, Ohio, at the age of seventy-four, and her mother died in April, 1886, aged fifty-four years. Mrs. Rinehart attended school at Waynesburg until she was sixteen years of age, and then remained at home until she was married.
After his marriage Mr. Rinehart bought eighty-two acres of land in Rose Township, and lived on that farm for thirty-three years, when he moved on the R. P. Beatty farm of 115 acres
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in October, 1919, and is now carrying on general farming and specializing in raising Shorthorn blooded stock cattle. This farm is one of the best improved in the county, the buildings being splendidly adapted for their several purposes, and furnished with electric lights and other modern improvements. A republican, Mr. Rinehart is active in his party, and was elected trustee of Rose Township for six years, in a strongly democratic township, and has also served on the School Board. The Lutheran Church of Waynesburg holds his membership.
Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart have three children, namely: Erna Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Homer, of Waynesburg, has four ehildren, —L. Gidbert, L. Milton, Eileen and Ivan Francis, and one who died in April, 1918, at the age of eighteen months, little George Arthur; Sarah Olive, who married Harvey E. Sherer of Magnolia, has two children.—Hugh George and John Glenwood; and George William, who married Jessie Olive DeFord, August 15, 1920, and lives with his parents.
George William Rinehart attended the district schools of Rose Township and the Magnolia High School. On July 24, 1918. he was called to the service under the selective draft, ht Carrollton. and sent to Camp Sherman, where he was placed in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade. and trained as such for a month, when he was transferred to Company B. Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Machine Gun. Eighty-fourth Division, in which he was a buck private. He was then sent to Camp Mills. Long Island, for a week, and then saired for Quebec, Canada, on Labor Day, on an English ship, and landed at Liverpool, England, with a convoy of twenty-two wessels. From Southampton, England, the unit sailed for Havre. France, where three days were spent, following which five days were taken up with a trip, to Bordeaux, where they arrived October 29, 1918. lie, with the rest of his command, was sent to the training area and transferred to Company A. Thirteenth Machine Gun Corps, and he was under tire all through the Argonne campaign until the signing of the armistice. He was also under shell fire in the Meuse engagement and becoming sick was sent to the hospital. After he recovered he was sent to London, and from there to different points in France. Transferred to the Fifth Military Police. he was sent to Arlen. Belgium. and then to Esche. Luxemburg. on police force there. and he was placed on detached duty. and remained in that principality until in March. 1919, when he was transferred to Trier. Germany. Two days later he left for Savoy, France. and finally soiled on the "Ryndam." hospital ship. June 19, 1910, and landed in New York City. June 29. For four days he was at Camp Merritt, New Jersey. and was then returned to Camp Sherman. and mustered out July 9. 1919. as first-class private and returned home. He is a member of Waynesburg Post No. 432. American Legion. and is chaplain of his post.
Hugh Rinehart has become one of the best-known men in agricultural circles in this part of the state. Because he has known how to carry on his work and taken an interest in it he has achieved a more than ordinary success. He and his wife display an openhanded hospitality not very generally found today, and welcome to their beautiful home their many friends whom they entertain delightfully. As a public official he justified the confidence displayed in him and has every reason to be satisfied with what he has accomplished in life.
ROSS P. BUCHANAN. Belonging to that class of workers whose practical training, quick perceptions and great capacity for painstaking labor have advanced them to positions of agricultural leadership, Ross P. Buchanan is known as one of the substantial citizens of Union Township, where he owns a 'large and valuable property which produces not only all the standard crops of the locality but a high grade of oil as well. He is a native of Carroll County, born on a farm in Monroe Township February 10, 1870, a son of Samuel and Ann (Rutledge) (Griffin) Buchanan.
The great-grandparents of Mr. Buchanan, Samuel and Susanna Buchanan, natives of Pennsylvania, came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1800, and there purchased a large tract of land, on which they spent the rest of their lives in agricultural pursuits. Their son. John Buchanan, followed in the footsteps of his father, and applied himself to farming, first in Harrison County and later in Carroll County, where he owned a valuable property in Union Township. John Buchanan married Mary W. Pittenger. and among their children was Samuel Buchanan, who was born in Union Township and there grew to manhood and married Mrs. Peter Griffin, a widow, who had one son by her first marriage, William Ira. who now resides with Ross P. Buchanan. Ann. (Rutledge) Griffin was a daughter of Robert and Jane (Brooks) Rutledge, natives of Ireland, who were brought to the United States as children, their respective families settling in Union Township, where they met and were married. After the union of Samuel and Ann (Rutledge) Buchanan they bought a farm adjoining that of Mr. Buchanan's father, but soon moved to Monroe Township, where they spent a few years. Returning then to Union Township, they purchased the old family place, to which Mr. Buchanan added until he had 240 acres, all brought under cultivation and containing numerous improvements. On this farm Mrs. Buchanan died January 11. 1907, Mr. Buchanan surviving until March 24. 1920. They were the parents of the following children: Mary E., who married James Brackin. of Union Township: Ross P.; and Lettie J.. who married Howard Lytle. of Union Township.
Ross P. Buchanan attended the public schools of Union Township and Mount Union College. Alliance. Ohio. after his graduation from which he became a teacher in the district schools. This vocation he continued to follow for twelve years. becoming one of the popular and highly efficient instructors of Carroll County. but in the meantime continued to reside on the home