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farm, where he assisted with the operations during the busy summer months. Following his marriage he acquired possession of the homestead on which he has lived since he was two years of age, and on which he carries on general farming and stock raising, being a well- known and successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle. He is a capable agriculturist and able business man, and is held in high esteem by those with whom he has been associated. His farming property is made doubly valuable by the presence of sixteen producing oil wells.
Mr. Buchanan was married November 5, 1908, to Miss Lizzie Long, who was born in Union Township, a daughter of William and Nancy (Shotwell) Long, the former a native of Union Township, Carroll County, and the latter of Tuscarawas County, this state. Her grandparents were Alexander and Nancy (Scott) Long, natives of Ireland, and Jacob and Mary (Carlisle) Shotwell, the former a native of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan have no children. Mr. Buchanan is a republican in his political allegiance, but has not sought public office. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as steward and class leader.
THOMAS M. SMITH. No better farm land can be found anywhere in Ohio than that of Carroll County, and the fine agricultural properties in this region show that the persons owning them are developing the natural resources to the utmost and realizing from their industry a fair income and excellent living conditions. One of these enterprising citizens is Thomas M. Smith, owner of seventy acres of valuable land in Harrison Township He was born in Union Township, Carroll County, March 23, 1859, a son of David and Margaret Ann (McElderry) Smith and grandson of David Smith, who moved from Washington County, Pennsylvania, Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and there was engaged in farming until his demise. He and his wife had three sons and one daughter, and of all their children David Smith was the eldest. After his marriage the younger David Smith moved to Center Township and there passed his life. His widow survived him, but she, too, is now deceased. They had five children, of whom Thomas M. Smith was the second in order of birth.
Growing up in his native county. Thomas M. Smith attended the Cold Spring School until he was eighteen years old, during the winter months, and the remainder of the year made himself useful under his father's watchful supervision, in this way learning farming in all of its details and laying the foundation for his future prosperity. At the age of twenty-one yea rs he was married to Luella J. Orin, a daughter of John and Amelia (McCully) Orin, of Harrison Township. Following his marriage Mr. Smith was engaged in farming in Center Township for one year, and then moved on his present farm, where he has since carried on general farming with profitable results. He has always given a sincere support to the principles and candidates of the democratic party. The Presbyterian Church at New Harrisburg, Ohio. affords him expression for his religious faith. and he is one of the most active members of the congregation. In every respect he measures up to the best conception of American manhood, and he and his wife are held in great esteem by their neighbors.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Todd Orin Smith, who is now state chemist of the Rote of New Hampshire, with headquarters at Durham, New Hampshire, which important position he has held for eleven years. He was graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, following which he took a course in the Bloomington, Indiana, College, and also graduated from the Valparaiso, Indiana, University.
PERRY HARSH. A visit to Carroll County will disclose excellent conditions among the farmers. The land is not only fertile but advanced and intensive farming has made it produce to its fullest extent and crops raised here are banner ones. The buildings are modern and the premises are well kept and orderly. One of the men who has proven by his success that it pays to devote time and attention to farming is Perry Harsh of Harrison Township, and he was born in this township, on the farm adjoining the one of ninety-eight and one-half acres which he owns and operates.
Perry Harsh is a son of Philip and Rachel (Wyman) Harsh, and grandson of Lewis Harsh, who married Sarah Thomas, and of their thirteen children Philip Harsh was the youngest born. The grandparents came to Brown Township, Carroll County, from Pennsylvania. and there both died, the grandfather prior to The birth of his youngest child.
Philip Harsh moved to Harrison Township after he reached his majority and settled on his homestead of 160 acres, where he died in 1913. His first wife. who was the mother of Perry Harsh, died in February, 1881, and he was afterward married to Sarah Galier, and they had two children. He was a farmer all his life with the exception of the time he spent in the army during the war between the two sections of the country, he having enlisted in Company I, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was taken sick and was discharged on account of disability. Later he re-enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During his periods of service he took part in some sharp skirmishes, but did not participate in any important engagements.
Until he was twenty-one years old Perry Harsh attended the country schools and at the same time assisted his father in the farm work, and remained at home until he was thirty-one years old, at which time he was married and moved to his present farm, where he has since been occupied with a general line of farming, with very gratifying results. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg. which he is serving as trustee, and he is superintendent of the Sunday school. As a member of the National Grange at New Harrisburg Mr. Harsh is receiving and giving assistance, and he is serving it as assistant steward. All his
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life he has been a hard worker and is reaping the harvest of his industry.
On September 11, 1912, Mr. Harsh was united in marriage with Sarah Elizabeth Westfall, a daughter of Samuel Wesley and Mary Ruth (Beamer) Westfall, of Washington Township, Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Harsh have two daughters, Elizabeth Marie and Ezma Ruth.
HARVEY P. LEYDA. The production of food has become the most important industry of the country, and the men engaged in it are recognized as citizens of importance. One of the men of Carroll County who has found in farming a congenial occupation and a source of profit is Harvey P. Leyda, who operates a rented farm of 107 acres in Harrison Township. He was born in Harrison Township in 1883, a son of David and Samantha (Pottoll) Leyda. His grandfather Leyda came to Harrison Township at an early day, becoming the owner of a fine farm. He and his wife had five children. of whom David Leyda was the youngest. David Leyda was always a farmer, and he lived on his valuable property of 227 acres in Harrison Township until his death.
The youngest in a family of four sons and five daughters, Harvey P. Leyda remained at home until his marriage, learning from his father to be an excellent farmer. Until he was sixteen years old he attended the country schools during the winter months, working on the farm the remainder of the year.
In 1908 Mr. Leyda was married to Varilla Johnson, a daughter of Jasper and Mary E. (Wallace) Johnson, of Brown Township. Mr. and Mrs. Leyda have four children, namely: Lela Verne, Walter E., Earl W. and Robert Leland.
After his marriage Mr. Leyda began operating the homestead and was so engaged for eight years, and then moved to Malvern, Ohio, and for two years was occupied in teaming. In 1920 he located on his present farm, where he is carrying on general farming. Having spent practically all his life as a farmer, he has a wide experience in this calling, as well as a liking for it, and is bound to be successful. It is very seldom that a practical farmer meets with failure, it is only those who go on a farm without knowing any of the details of their work who find that they cannot make a living at it. In his political inclinations and actions Mr. Leyda is a republican, but he has not cared to run for office. The local Presbyterian Church has him on its membership rolls, and he is generous in his support of it. Public- spirited, when it comes to improving his locality he is among the foremost in working for measures which will bring about such conditions, and the people of Harrison Township regard his settlement among them as a stroke of good fortune.
JAMES VANCE SMITH AND CHARLES C. SMITH. James Vance Smith and his son, Charles C. Smith, are numbered among the leading farmers of Harrison Township. The former owns land in both Harrison and Center townships, but lives in Harrison Township. He was born in Union Township, this county, February 13, 1856, a son of David Smith and Margaret Ann (McElderry) Smith, and grandson of David Smith, who married Elinore Hanna and had four children, of whom David Smith, Jr., was the eldest.
At an early day the younger David Smith drove overland from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Carroll County, Ohio, and became a farmer of Washington Township. He died at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife is also deceased. Of their five children James Vance Smith was the first born.
During his boyhood and youth James Vance Smith attended the rural school at Cold Spring Run for three of the winter months, and the remainder of each year assisted his father in operating the farm he had bought in Harrison Township, remaining at home until he was twenty-one years old. He was married to Mary C. Hemming, a daughter of Richard Hemming, and they became the parents of five children. namely: Grace Leyda, who married Edgar Orin, of Elbert, Colorado, and has one child, Morris Edgar; Charles C., who is mentioned at length further on; George Milton, who was killed at Alliance, Nebraska, in a railroad accident in 1908, when twenty-five years old; David Edward, who married Ola Gotschall, of Carrollton, Ohio, and has three children, Pearl E., Moyne E. and Maxine V.; and Richard D., who married May Davis, a daughter of Robert Davis.
Following his marriage Mr. Smith moved on part of his present farm, the original purchase being of thirty-three acres, to which he later added thirty acres. For a number of years he has been engaged in saw-milling, and he operates a thresher in season. In his farming he raises a general line of diversified crops. In politics he is an independent democrat. The Presbyterian Church holds his membership, and he is generous in his donations to it. For some time he has been a stockholder in the Farmers Exchange at Carrollton. Mr. Smith practically adopted a young man named. Homer Lutz, who works on the farm and lives with the family. He is a fine young man, a credit to his foster parents, who have given him the same care and affection they bestowed on their own children. He was drafted into the service and called to the colors September 1, 1917. From September 5, 1917, to July 8, 1918, he was at Camp Sherman, as a member of Company Three, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, Eighty-third Division. On July 8, 1918, the unit sailed from New York and landed at Liverpool, England, from whence after five days they were transferred to Havre. France, and four days later to Longues and placed in the reserves. For nine weeks he was in the offensive at and about Chateau Thierry, and was then sent to Italy, and was in the trenches for two weeks. His ability and bravery earned him promotion and he was first made a corporal and then a sergeant. Mr. Lutz saw action on the Piave River. Following that drive he was sent to Venice and sailed on the Adriatic to Dalmatia at Zelenco, where he was one of the Army of Occupation for five weeks. The com-
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mand was then ordered home, and he landed in New York City in April, 1919, and participated in the big parade of that metropolis. Sent to Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Lutz after some time in Camp Merritt and Camp Sherman mustered out of the service May 2, 1919, and then returned to the home welcome awaiting him. His father was Rev. John Herbert Lutz, pastor of the Lutheran Church of Carrollton at one time. He came to Carrollton from Charlotte, North Carolina, and married Lillian Wilson, who died August 9, 1915. Homer Lutz is the second in a family of nine children, and was born in 1894. Until he was eighteen years old he attended school at North Woodstock, Virginia.
Charles C. Smith, son of James Vance Smith, married Gertrude Hendricks, a daughter of Armstrong and Mary (Swinehart) Hendricks, on February 22, 1910, and they have two children, Dennis D. and Teddy Dale. Mr. Smith owns a farm of 128 acres adjoining that of his father, and is one of the capable agriculturists of this region.
WILLIAM C. MCCARTNEY is owner of one of the well improved farms of Rose Township, near Dellroy. His life for thirty years has been spent in Carroll County as a practical farmer.
Mr. McCartney was born in Warren Township. Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 21, 1865, oldest of the four children of Alfred and Mary (Bartholomew) McCartney. He is of Scotch-Irish and German ancestry. His grandfather was Robert McCartney, who brought his family from Pennsylvania in early days and settled in Jefferson County, Ohio. The family came over the mountains with wagon and a four horse team to Ohio,. Robert McCartney subsequently moved to Tuscarawas County, where he enjoyed a high place in local citizenship and where he died in 1900. Of his eleven children Alfred McCartney was born in Jefferson County, but the greater part of his life has been spent in Tuscarawas County, where he is still living. His wife died in 1916.
In the rural community of Warren Township of his native county William C. McCartney grew to manhood, taking advantage of the winter terms of the district schools, and working at farm labor the rest of the year. For three years he conducted a general store at Sherrodsville. but in 1891, when he married, he resumed farming on the place of his wife's father in Rose Township. Since 1907 he has owned and cultivated his present place of 137 acres, and has shared in the general prosperity of this rich agricultural community. He is a member of the Grange of Dellroy. and casts his vote as an independent democrat.
In 1891 Mr. McCartney married Regina German, daughter of J. T. and Abbie (Hayden) German. of Rose Township. They have two children. Harvey Edison. the son, lives at Dellroy, and by his marriage to Erma Snively has three children, named Kenneth A., Irene and Doris. The daughter. Ethel, is the wife of Elmer Lindner. of Monroe Township, Carroll County. and has a son. William Edward, born in 1917.
JAMES ROY BAXTER, a leading stockman and farmer in Harrison Township, belongs to the noted Baxter family which has been in Carroll County for more than a century. One of the very definite community names in the county is Baxter's Ridge, where Mr. Baxter's great-grandfather settled in the early part of the nineteenth century and the topography and community were named in his honor.
The Baxters are of English lineage. The great-grandfather was Cornelius Baxter, who came from Pennsylvania. He acquired eighty acres of Government land at Baxter's Ridge, and in 1814, in his log house, was held the first meeting for organization of a Methodist Church, and the Baxter's Ridge Methodist Church has been in existence ever since. After living at Baxter's Ridge twenty years Cornelius moved to Willow Run in Harrison Township,'and died there at the age of sixty. He married in Pennsylvania Rachel Pillars, and of their seven children the grandfather of James Roy Baxter was fourth in age. He was born at Baxter's Ridge, but for many years cultivated a farm of 160 acres in Harrison Township, where he died in 1910. His wife was Ianthe McCrary, of Rose Township, who died in 1915, leaving ten children, nine of whom are still living.
The oldest of these is Finley Baxter. who was born in 1853 and is still numbered among the intelligent and highly respected citizens of Harrison Township. Though retired from farming be still owns a place of eighty acres here. At different times he conducted cider mills and saw mills in connection with his farming. He is a republican, served three years as a director of the local School Board, and four years as township supervisor of Harrison Township. In 1874 he married Emmeline Suitor, and they have four living children.
The youngest of these two sons and two daughters is James Roy Baxter. who was born in Harrison Township April 19, 1881. He received his education in the same school as his father attended, the Willow Run School, which he attended during winter terms until he was eighteen. After leaving school he found his time and energies taken up by work on the home farm.
In 1904, at the age of twenty-three. he married Texas Inez Davy. daughter of Abraham Gardner and Sarah (Little) Davy. of Rose Township. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter had five children: Helen Beatrice. born in 1907; Sarah Emmeline. born in 1911; Ralph Finley, born in 1914: Verna Evelyn, who died in April. 1918, at the age of eighteen months: and Wilford Otis. who died in January. 1919. aged nine months.
After his marriage Mr. Baxter became a renter, and for seven years had charge of the eighty-acre Henry Smith farm. While he began in comparatively moderate circumstances he acquired much valuable equipment and livestock, saved some money, and in 1911 bought land of his own and has since occupied his place in Harrison Township. This is the old Strayer farm and contains 158 acres. Its cultivation is well diversified under Mr. Baxter's management, and he has done some advanced
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and profitable work in raising Shorthorn cattle and has a flock of fifty-odd American Delaine sheep.
Mr. Baxter is a member of the National Grange at Deliroy, is a republican in politics, and is a member of the Lutheran Church of Rose Township.
JOHN L. SCOTT has significantly proved in his independent career as an agriculturist and stock-grower that he followed the course of wisdom when he decided to remain on the fine old home farm which was the place of his nativity and which has afforded him excellent opportunities for successful achievement. This farm, comprising 162 acres, is eligibly situated in Monroe Township, Carroll County, on rural mail route No. 4 from Carrollton, the county seat, six miles distant. On this farm John Leman Scott was born September 6, 1871, a son of Wilson and Elizabeth Anne (McClintock) Scott. On this same ancestral homestead farm Wilson Scott was born and reared, and here he passed his entire life, during which he never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the basic industry of the farm in connection with which he gained substantial success. He was a son of Thomas and Isabelle (Carlisle) Scott, who were natives of Scotland and who were numbered among the pioneer settlers of what is now Carroll County, where they established their home at the time when this county was still a part of Tuscarawas County, Carroll County having been organized in 1833. Thomas Scott was born July 28, 1789, and his wife was born on the 18th of the same month and year, their marriage having been solemnized February 13, 1817. Upon coming to America from his native land Thomas Scott first settled in Brooke County, Virginia, and it was from the historic Old Dominion state that he came in an early day to Ohio and numbered himself among the pioneer settlers of the present Carroll County. The quarter section of land which he here obtained from the Government constitutes the major portion of the farm now owned by his grandson, John L., of this sketch, who retains in his possession the original parchment deed to the property, the same bearing the signature of James Monroe, who was then President of the United States. Thomas Scott reclaimed his land from the virgin forest and with the passing years prosperity attended his earnest and well ordered activities as a pioneer farmer. He and his noble wife were venerable and honored citizens of Carroll County at the time of their deaths, and remained on the old home farm from the time they came to Ohio until they passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, Mr. Scott's death having occurred on December 21, 1870, and that of his wife April 20, 1862. They became the parents of four sons and three daughters, of whom Wilson, father of the subject of this review, was the youngest.
After the death of his parents Wilson Scott came into full possession of the old home farm, he having purchased the interests of the other heirs, and here he continued his resourceful and successful activities until his death, which occurred January 16, 1912, his wife having passed away August 11, 1906. They became the parents of two sons and three daughters, all of whom are living, and of the number John L. is the youngest, Wilson Scott, a man of strong mentality and well fortified opinions, gave unqualified allegiance to the republican party, and his civic loyalty was shown in his effective service in the offices of trustee and treasurer of Monroe Township. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy.
John L. found the period of his boyhood and youth varied by work on the home farm and attending the district schools during the winter terms. The old farm has continued as the stage of his independent enterprise in connection with progressive agricultural and live-stock industry, in connection with which, as in his civic relations, he is well upholding the high prestige of the family name. He is a republican in politics and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at Deliroy. He takes a lively interest in community affairs, is a member of the Grange at Petersburg, and is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton.
September 12, 1900, recorded the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Jessie B. Johnston, who was born February 14, 1876, in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Andrew J. and Samantha (Smith) Johnston, of Harrison County. The father of Mrs. Scott was a son of Andrew Johnston, Sr., who was born and reared in the north of Ireland, and at the time of his arrival in the United States his financial resources were reduced to the lowest limit, though he was well fortified in energy and self-reliance. He married Margaret Humphreys, likewise a native of Ireland, and they became the early settlers in Harrison County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where Mr. Johnston was a farmer by vocation. Of the eight children Andrew, Jr., was the seventh in order of birth, and is the only one of the number now living. He is one of the substantial farmers and highly respected citizens of Harrison County, where he and his wife reside on their excellent farm in Stock Township. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have four children—Elizabeth, Milton K., Mildred and Mary Smith.
WILLIAM WATSON, one of the men of Carroll County who have assisted very materially in developing this portion of the state with reference to agriculture, owns 121 acres of valuable land in Harrison Township, and is recognized as one of the best farmers of this region. He was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, October 7, 1869, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Moorhead) Watson. The paternal grandfather came to Brown Township from Pennsylvania, and here spent the remainder of his life. In his family there were three sons, Henry Watson was reared in Brown Township, and learned the carpenter trade, following it at Pekin, Ohio, where he died in 1902, but his widow survived him until 1915, when she, too, passed away. They had eight children, of
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whom William Watson was the second in order of birth.
William Watson grew to manhood in Brown Township, and attended the country schools until he was seventeen years old, during the winter terms only. Upon leaving school he worked as a teamster until he was twenty-two years old, at which time he embarked in a teaming business of his own and conducted it for seven years. He then bought timber land in Brown Township, sawing down his timber in the woods and selling it under contract, and did the same thing in Harrison and Monroe Townships. During this period he lived at Dellroy, Ohio, and was engaged in this line of business for nine years. In 1905, having been saving, he had sufficient money to buy ninety acres of his present farm. From time to time he added until he now has 121 acres, all well improved, and he takes great pride in having everything thoroughly modern. Ever since he began farming he has raised a general line of crops, and has met with success in this calling as he did in the others in which he has been engaged.
In 1897 Mr. Watson was united in marriage with Mary Hoobler, a daughter of Elias and Elizabeth Hoobler, of Rose Township. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have three children, namely : Wayne Elias, Miriam Elizabeth and Kenneth Alfred, all of whom are at home. Active as a republican Mr. Watson has served as township trustee for two terms, and has been eminently acceptable to his constituents in this office. The Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg holds his membership. An intelligent man, he takes great interest in the improvement of his neighborhood, has always been a friend of good schools and good roads, and is willing to support those measures tending to further maintain what he believes are necessities to the people.
SOLOMON E. TURNEY is the fortunate owner of Liberty Hall Stock Farm, one of the best improved and most valuable rural estates in Carroll County. He purchased this fine property in the year 1919, and his management of it has added to the high prestige which it had gained under the control of a former owner. Liberty Hall Stock Farm is situated seven miles distant from Carrollton, the county seat, and twenty- four miles south of Canton, the metropolis and judicial center of Stark County. It has been authoritatively pronounced the best equipped stock farm in eastern Ohio. There is running water in every field, and it has given splendid yields in the agricultural department as well as maximum returns in the domain of stock raising. The excellent soil produces the best of fruits, and the land show; also several veins oaf coal. The modern house of ten rooms, with large stone cellar, is heated by furnace, supplied with gas from an acetylene plant, receives its running water from the private water system installed on the place at a cost of $800, and has other modern facilities of the best order. The other buildings on the place are of equally modern order and the property represents a conservative value of fully $17,000. From these brief statements it becomes evident that the initial sentence of this paragraph is fully justified. The farm comprises 162 1/2 acres and is eligibly situated in Monroe Township.
Solomon E. Turney was born in Crawford County, Kansas, on the 2d of August, 1880, and is of Pennsylvania-German ancestry. Two brothers of the name immigrated to America from Germany in an early day and became pioneer settlers of the old Keystone State. Later one of them removed to the south and the other, the ancestor of the subject of this review, became a pioneer in Ohio. Solomon Turney, grandfather of Solomon E., became a substantial farmer in Holmes County, Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and where both died in the decade of the '50s. Of their twelve children the third was Jesse, father of him whose name initiates this article. Jesse Turney was born on the old homestead farm in Holmes County, Ohio, and there he continued his activities as a farmer until his removal to Kansas. shortly after he had returned from serving as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. At Wooster he enlisted as a member of the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command continued in active service two years. three months and nine days, at the expiration of which he received his honorable discharge. He participated in the various battles and minor conflicts in which his regiment was involved, and in an engagement on Graham's Plantation was slightly wounded. After the close of his military career he returned to Ohio, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Catherine Hetrick, and within a short time thereafter they numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Crawford County, Kansas. They became the parents of nine children, of whom Solomon E. was the seventh in order of birth.
Solomon E. Turney received the advantages of the public schools of his native county, and from his youth to the present time has been one of the world's constructive workers in connection with farm industry. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the old home farm in the Sunflower State until his marriage, at the age of twenty-two years, when he came to Ohio and established his residence on a farm of fifty acres in Knox County. He there remained one year and the ensuing seven years he passed on another farm of seventy-one acres in the same county. He then assumed charge of the old homestead farm of his father in Liberty Township, that county, and on this place of 150 acres he continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower for a period of eight years. He then purchased his present farm. and in the management of this model rural estate has proved himself admirably fortified for progressive achievement of most substantial order, his attention being given to diversified agriculture and stock-growing.
Mr. Turney is not self-centered, but takes a loyal interest in all things pertaining to the communal welfare and is always ready to support progressive measures and enterprises tending to advance the civic and material welfare.
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He is a staunch republican, is actively affiliated with the Grange at Petersburg in Carroll County, and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church.
On the 11th of February, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Turney to Miss Francis J. Milt, daughter of Henry C. and Elizabeth Ann (Kenner) Milt, of Liberty Township, Knox County, Ohio. her father being a representative farmer of that county and of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His wife is of English lineage. Mr. and Mrs. Turney have made their beautiful home a center of generous and gracious hospitality, and its precincts are. brightened by the presence of their three children—Edith May, Dwight S. and Velma Anne.
EVAN JONES established his home in Carroll County. Ohio, in the year 1880, and for seven years thereafter was employed in connection with the coal-mining industry in this county, a line of service with which he had become more or less familiar in his native land. A man of energy, ambition and resolute purpose. he has made the best of the opportunities that have presented themselves, and through his own efforts, fostered by the devoted co-operation of his wife, has gained place as one of the substantial citizens of the county. The well improved farm which he owned comprised eighty acres, being situated in Harrison Township, on rural mail route No. 1 from the village of Dellroy. In March, 1921, he sold his farm and removed to Dellroy where he is now living retired.
The north of Wales figures as the place of birth of Evan Jones, who was there born April 25, 1853, a son of John and Mary Jones, representatives of families long established in that part of Wales. There the Jones family had been tenant farmers for many generations, the large landed estates being held by wealthy proprietors, under the old English tenant system, and the tenant farmers having no opportunity to acquire ownership of the land which they cultivated. Evan Jones was reared to manhood in his native land, received a common-school education and early began to work on the farm, besides gaining experience in the coal mines for which the north of Wales has long been noted. In 1876, a few years after his marriage, Mr. Jones left his family in Wales and came to the United States for the purpose of making investigations and formulating definite plans for establishing a home in this country. He made his way to Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and there worked in coal mines one year, at the expiration of which he returned to Wales. Three years later, in company with his wife and their four children, he came again to the United States, and it was at this time that he made Carroll County, Ohio, his destination. He established the family home at Sherodsville, and for the ensuing seven years was engaged as a workman in the coal mines of this locality. He and his wife practiced the utmost frugality and economy, and finally his savings justified him in the purchase of a farm, to the management of which he gave his attention, until recently, the while definite independence and prosperity attended his earnest and vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. He made numerous improvements on his farm and be came one of the substantial and honored repre sentatives of farm enterprise in Carroll County. In politics he maintains an independent attitude and votes for men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy.
Mr. Jones was twenty-three years of age at the time of his marriage to Miss Mary Emanuel, who was born January 11, 1855, daughter of Jarmidan and Sarah Emanuel. of North Wales. Of the ten children of this union all are living except one, who died in early infancy: John Francis, who resides .at Dellroy, married Miss Bertha Kelley, of Leesville, this county, and they have six children—Mary Elizabeth, John Kenneth. Floyd, Pauline, Florence and Irene. Edward Emanuel, the second son, is now a resident of the city of Chicago, Illinois. The maiden name of his wife was Grace Schusler, and their two surviving children are Ruth and Donald, a third child, Dwight, having died in 1906. aged one year. Evan, Jr., the third son, resides at Magnolia, Carroll County. He married Miss Ada Shearer and they have two children—Richard and Mary Evaline. David Thomas, the fourth son, is a resident of Canton, Ohio. He married Miss Eva Chester, and they have three children—Earl, Mary and Hellen. William married Miss Pearl Unkerfer and they reside in Canton, their two children being William and Howard David. Mary, the eldest daughter, is the wife of Oren West, of Dellroy, and they have one child, Clayton Oren. Sarah Ann is the wife of Walter Little, formerly of Dellroy. They have one son, Ivin Daniel. Margaret is the wife of Clare Close, of that village, Emma is the wife of Leslie Holmes, of Harrison Township.
VICTOR S. COUTS is one of the representative farmers of the Sherodsville district of Monroe Township, Carroll County, where he owns an excellent farm of 188 acres on rural mail route No. 1 from the village mentioned.
Victor Shaw Couts was born in Washington Township; Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 5th of February, 1875, and is a son of Gershom Kilgore and Mary Elizabeth (Little) Couts, of whose nine children he was the first born. The father still resides in Tuscarawas County, where he has been long and successfully engaged in farm enterprise, and the mother died when her son Victor S., of this review, was nineteen years of age.
As a boy and youth Victor S. Couts gave effective assistance in the work of the home farm, and
during the winter terms he attended the Peoli district school until he was seventeen years of age. Thereafter he continued his association with the activities of his father's farm until 1893, and he then passed one winter in the state of Idaho, on the farm of Hon. Frank Moos, near Payette. There he had charge of the large stock farm of Mr. Moos, who was then a member of the State Senate of Idaho, and after
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giving effective service in this capacity for a period of seven months he returned to his fatherls farm, but the following winter found him identified with farm enterprise in Wayne County, Nebraska. He then returned to the paternal home, where he continued his alliance with the work and management of the farm until 1899, when he purchased a farm of 163 acres in Perry Township, Tuscarawas County. This property he sold three and one-half years later, and after selling the property he staged his activities on a farm of forty acres in Washington Township, of the same county for the ensuing ten years. He then sold this property, and for the following decade worked at the carpenter's trade in the city of Akron, his natural mechanical ability and previous experience having made him a skillful workman. In 1920 he purchased his present farm and resumed the independent life which most appeals to him. His experience in the west, as well as in Ohio, has fortified him well for successful achievement as an agriculturist and stock- grower, and he is a distinct acquisition to the circle of progressive farmers in Carroll County. He is a vigorous advocate and supporter of the good-roads movement and always ready to give co-operation in the furtherance of measures advanced for the general good of the community. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Akron, and he and his wife are members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Couts is a representative of a family that was early founded in the state of New Jersey, whence came the first representatives of the name in Ohio many years ago.
In 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Couts to Miss Linnie Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, a well known farmer of Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, and the three children of this union are: Adella May, Earl Taylor and Victor Shaw, Jr. The only daughter now resides in the city of Akron, where she holds a responsible position as a stenographer.
JOHN D. SNIVELY. No one but a farmer appreciates the amount of work required to cultivate 125 acres of land even if it is located in so desirable a section as Carroll County. If the land is properly operated it will yield handsomely, but constant effort and intelligent care are necessary requisites. One of the men who is proving this, and that he is able to meet all the requirements of a good farmer, is John Dunlap Snively of Harrison Township.
Mr. Snively was born in Harrison Township August 29, 1877, a son of Daniel and Anna A. (Elder) Snively, of German ancestry, although long established in this country, where members of the family have always been agriculturists. The grandfather came to Carroll County from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and settling with his seven children in Augusta Township, there died, his wife passing away before him. Daniel Snively was the third child in the family. Moving to Harrison Township, he spent the remainder of his life here and died in 1889, his widow surviving him many years, and passing away in February, 1914, Of their five children John D. Snively was the fourth.
John D. Snively was reared as any farmer's son of his day and neighborhood. During the active months on the farm he was kept busy, but during the winter term he had opportunity to learn the fundamentals of an education, and was a pupil of the Whitehall School until he was eighteen years old, after which until he was twenty-five years old he devoted all of his time to the homestead. At that time he married, rented 100 acres of land in Harrison Township for two years, and then bought his present farm, and ever since has been engaged in general farming, with gratifying results, and he also has other interests. A man of decided opinions, he prefers to vote independently for the man he deems best fitted for the office in question rather than to tie himself down to any one party.
Mr. Snively was married to Mary Seaburg, a daughter of Joseph and Kate (Woods) Sea- burg, of Harrison Township, and they have four children, namely: Vera, Joseph, Carl and Ruth, very intelligent young people of whom their parents may well be exceedingly proud.
HERBERT S. HULL, who is now living retired in the attractive old family homestead at Oneida, Brown Township, Carroll County, achieved substantial success through his long and varied association with business enterprise, and proved himself a man of energy, initiative and executive ability during his connection with business enterprises of broad scope and importance. He finds in his native county the gracious associations and manifold attractions that make life worth the living, and here his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. He was born in the village of Oneida, Carroll County, January 27, 1864, and is a son of George and Abbie Jane (Shepard) Hull, both natives of New Hartford, New York, where the former was born November 17, 1813, and the latter in December, 1823. George Hull was reared and educated in the old Empire State and as a young man came to Carroll County, Ohio, and joined his brother Patrick, who had established his home in Oneida and who here lived retired during the closing years of his life. Patrick Hull and Gilbert Shepard, a brother of the mother of the subject of this review, were pioneers in the grain business at Masillon, Stark County, and there Gilbert Shepard' erected and placed in operation the first steam flour mill in the state. The firm of Hull & Shepard had been one of the foremost in the business activities of Massillon in the early days.
George Hull formed a partnership with Amos Buss, under the firm name of Hull & Buss, and they established a general merchandise store at Oneida, where their partnership alliance continued for thirty-three years—until the death of Mr. Buss. Thereafter Mr. Hull continued the substantial business until he too passed away, his death having occurred in 1887, and his widow having been venerable in years at the time of her death, in 1907. They became the parents of seven children: Emily M., deceased, was the wife of Ebenezer Hudson McCall, of
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Carroll County; Harriet A. Is the wife of John W. Trendley, of Youngstown, Mahoning County; Fannie D. died in infancy; George T. is now a resident of the city of Denver, Colorado; Lester H. died when forty-three years of age; Sarah F., is the wife of William H. Pettitt, of Oneida, Carroll County; and Herbert S., of this review is the youngest of the number.
The early education of Herbert S. Hull was acquired in the public schools at Oneida and in the private school of Jonas Cook at Malvern. As a youth he learned telegraphy, and thereafter was for some time a telegraph operator in the general offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Columbus, Ohio. For four years he was a traveling salesman for the celebrated Quaker Oats Company. Severing his connection with this company, he, with his family, traveled in Europe for several months. Upon his return to Ohio he engaged in the flour and feed business in the city of Akron, and later he continued in the same line of enterprise at Ravenna, where he was thus engaged for one year. He then became associated with the Associated Press, and represented them in the office of the Akron Evening Times, and incidentally he did much to bring this paper up to a high metropolitan standard. He thus continued his association with the Associated Press until 1919. when he retired, and he now occupies the old family homestead in his native county, as previously stated. Mr. Hull is still the owner of valuable city property at Akron, and his financial success has been in consonance with his energy and ability during his long and vigorous association with business activities.
In politics Mr. Hull pays unfaltering allegiance to the republican party, though he has never had any ambition for public office, and he has been for many years affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.
In the year 188S was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hull to Miss Sarah Alice Cleveland. who was born at Akron. Ohio, December 27, 1869. a daughter of Thomas F. and Flora Louise Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Hull are earnest communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They have four children : Charles T. was graduated in the Bexley Hall Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Gambier. Ohio. an institution connected with historic old Kenyon College, one of the earliest Episcopal schools established in the west, and after serving as rector of Grace Church at Willoughby. Ohio. he accepted a call to the welfare department maintained in connection with the great industrial establishment of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company at Akron. Ohio. where he is doing splendid service and tinds satisfaction and inspiration in his work. He married Miss Lois M. Clark, and they have two children. Lucia and Margaret. Louise, who remains with her parents, and is a popular factor in the social activities of the home community, is a graduate of the Akron High School. Herbert G.. who was formerly connected with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, is a chiropractic physician and is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Davenport. Iowa. The maiden name of his wife was Pauline Frances McCoy, and their one child is a daughter, Marjorie Olive. Alice remains at the parental home and is a student in the high school at the time of this writing, in 1920.
EDSON LATIMER CROSS is a son of John and Nancy J. (Latimer) Cross and a representative of one of the old and well known families of Carroll County, as may be seen by reference to the personal sketch of his father on other pages of this work. He is the owner of a well improved farm of seventy-five acres in Monroe Township, about two miles distant from Sherodsville, on rural mail route No. 1 from that village.
Edson Latimer Cross was born on his father's farm in Monroe Township on the 3d of June, 1886, and his youthful education was obtained principally in the public schools of Milltown, Tuscarawas County, not far distant from the home farm, he having been four years old at the time of the family removal to Tuscarawas County. He continued to attend school during the winter months until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and in the meanwhile he gave effective co-operation in the work of his father's farm. In his independent career he has continued his active association with farm enterprise, besides which he has been identified with the operation of a saw mill and has done more or less teaming. While still a boy he successfully managed his father's farm of seventy- six acres in Monroe Township, Carroll County, for a period of three years and after his marriage, in 1910, he purchased of his father-in- law a farm in Rose Township. There he continued his successful activities seven months, and after selling this property purchased his present farm, which he makes the stage of vigorous agricultural and live-stock industry, besides which he continues to derive good returns from his teaming business. He is a democrat in politics. is affiliated with the Grange and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County. although he was formerly a Methodist. Mr. Cross is a young man of marked energy and progressiveness, and cumulative success has attended his well directed activities since he instituted his independent career.
In the year 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cross to Miss Zoanelle Schell, daughter of George and Lydia (Adams) Schell. of Rose Township. Carroll County, and the three children of this union are all sons—George E., William N. and John L.
GEORGE W. GREEN early gained practical experience in connection with both the work of the blacksmith trade and that of the farm, and each of these vocations has received his attention in an independent way. He now owns and gives his supervision to his farm of 116 acres in German Township, Harrison County, and formerly operated a blacksmith shop near Laceyville. Stock Township, he having been a resident of Harrison County since his boyhood and claiming the Buckeye State as the place of his nativity.
Mr. Green was born in Rush Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 8th of June, 1856,
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and is a son of William and Elizabeth Ann (Yarnall) Green, the former a native of Franklin Township, Tuscarawas County, and the latter of Harrison County, where her parents, Aaron and Harriet Ann Yarnall, settled in the pioneer days. Aaron Yarnall was born in the year 1811, and was one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death, both he and his wife having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their children were seven in number: Ziba, John, Eli, Asbury, Elizabeth Ann, Sarah Jane and Rachel. John Green, paternal grandfather of George W. Green, was born in Maryland, was a foundry workman and became one of the early representatives of his trade in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Susanna Shimers, were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they reared their children—Hima, Zacharia, William, Barbara, Mary, Catherine and Susan.
William Green was reared and educated in Tuscarawas County, where also he learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith. He remained in his native county until 1872, when he came with his family to Harrison County and engaged in the work of his trade at Laceyville in Stock Township. During the remainder of his active career he continued as the sturdy and popular village blacksmith in this rural hamlet, where he and his wife maintained their home until their deaths. They became the parents of the following children: George W., Harriet Ann, Catherine, James P., John W., Rachel, Charles R., William A. and Wallace.
George W. Green gained his rudimentary education in the schools of his native county and was about thirteen years of age at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he continued his studies in the village schools at Laceyville and where as a boy he began learning the blacksmith trade under the effective direction of his father. He became a skilled workman at his trade, but he was not denied early experience in connection with practical farm enterprise, as he devoted fully twenty years to farm work, in which he was employed by the month on various farms in Harrison County. In 1907 he opened a blacksmith shop in Stock Township, near Laceyville, and here he continued successfully to follow his trade until 1912, when he purchased and assumed active charge of his present farm in German Township. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.
The year 1891 recorded the marriage of Mr. Green to Miss Rachel Maxwell, daughter of Walker and Sarah Jane Maxwell, of Harrison County. The only child of this union is Ophie Melissa, who is the wife of James S. Rogers, a farmer of German Township, and the mother of two children—George D. and Rachel Annabel.
THOMAS PATTON, who is now in the employ of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, one of the representative industrial concerns of Carroll County, is a native of this county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born on his father's farm in Center Township December 6, 1869, and is a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth (Heggy) Patton, both likewise natives of Carroll County, where the father has the distinction of being the first white boy born at Carrollton, the present judicial center of the county. His father, Thomas Patton, was one of the very early settlers of the county, where he continued to reside until his death. Thomas L. Patton was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer epoch in Carroll County, and he was one of the gallant patriots who represented the county in the Civil war, in which he saw service in three different Ohio regiments of volunteer infantry—Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment; Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Regiment; and Company F, Sixteenth Regiment. While in service he was made second lieutenant, and he remained with his command until the close of the war. Thereafter be was for many years engaged in the sewing-machine business in his native county, and he passed the closing years of his life in the Soldiers' Home at Washington, District of Columbia, where he died in 1906, an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife preceded him to eternal rest, and they became the parents of the following children: John B. (deceased), Thomas, and Henry, Charles, Ralph and Fred, all of whom are deceased, Charles having served as a soldier in the Spanish-American war.
Thomas Patton, the immediate subject of this review, was reared to manhood in Carroll County and received his early education in the public schools of Carrollton and Center Township. As a youth he entered the employ of Deckerman & Duty, manufacturers of brick, and with this firm he continued his association for the long term of twenty-three years, since which time he has been associated with the Malvern Fire Clay Company at Malvern as an expert workman. He owns his attractive residence property at Malvern, and for three years conducted a restaurant in this village, a business which he sold in April, 1920. He is a Republican in politics, and he and his family hold membership in the Christian Church.
In January, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Patton to Miss Hattie Totten, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, a daughter of Henry B. Totten, of whom individual mention is made in the following sketch. To Mr. and Mrs. Patton have been born six children: Edna is the wife of Cecil Case; Hazel is the wife of Milton Baxter, and they have one child; Oliver, Lawrence and Perry remain at the parental home; and Donald Ray died at the age of two years.
HENRY B. TOTTEN owns and conducts a well appointed general merchandise store in the Village of Oneida, Carroll County, and is a representative of one of the well known pioneer families of this county. He was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, May 3, 1854, and is a son of Thomas Hawkins and Rachel (Neidick) Totten, the former of whom was born in Maryland in 1825, and the latter was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1827. Samuel Totten,
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father of Thomas H., came to Carroll County with his family in the year 1829, and he settled on a pioneer farm of eighty acres in Brown Township. He reclaimed this farm and there remained until about 1852, when he purchased and removed to a farm which he bought of Patrick Hull. About 1866 he purchased from Mr. Hull the grist mill and other property at Oneida. Shortly afterward the mill was destroyed by fire, in 1867, but he forthwith erected a new mill, to the operation of which he thereafter gave his attention until his retirement, a few years prior to his death. He died about 1877, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years, his widow having passed away about 1885, when venerable in age. They became the parents of twelve children—William, Mary, Martin, Jonathan. Israel (a soldier in the Civil war), David, James (likewise a soldier in the Civil war). Thomas H., Henry T. (soldier in the Civil war), Samuel (killed in battle in Civil war), Catherine and Rebecca.
Thomas H. Totten was reared and educated in Brown Township, and as a young man he assumed charge of his father's mill, to the operation of which he continued to give his attention about eighteen years. His father was a shoemaker by trade, and all of the sons learned this trade. Thomas H. served about 100 days during the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his brothers who entered service having for the most part continued therein during the major part of the war. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife held membership in the Christian Church. About forty years ago they removed to Wisconsin, where Mrs. Totten died. after which he returned to Ohio, his death having occurred in the City of Cleveland and his remains being laid to rest in Liberty Cemetery in Stark County. His children, all natives of Brown Township, were nine in number—Mary Catherine, Henry B., Homer. Edwin, George, Sylvester. Ross, Rebecca and Laura. The father Of Mrs. Totten was Samuel Neidick who became an early settler in Paris Township. Stark County. Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.
Henry B. Totten passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm and secured his education in the public schools of the locality. As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade. as a skilled workman at which he continued his activities about thirty years, becoming one of the successful contractors and builders in his native county. In 1917 he erected a commodious store building at Oneida, and here he has since conducted a successful general merchandise business. He is a republican in politics, and after serving sixteen years as constable he refused to retain the office longer. His fraternal affiliations have been with the Knights of the Maccabees and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
In 1874 Mr. Totten wedded Miss Eliza Maria Harsh, who was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, in 1853, a daughter of the late Samuel Harsh. Mrs. Totten passed to the life eternal in June, 1918, and is survived by six children—Hattie Belle, Willis Corwin, Charity, Lawrence, Logan and Henry Harrison. Hattie is the wife of Thomas Patton, of Malvern, of whom mention is made in the preceding sketch.
JACOB WETZEL, who is now living retired in the City of Carrollton, is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of northeastern Ohio and is now one of the venerable and revered native sons of Carroll County. He was born in Harrison Township, this county, July 4, 1843, and is a son of Gottlieb and Regina (Smith) Wetzel, both of whom were born and reared in Wurtemburg, Germany, where their marriage was solemnized and where was born their first child, John Gottlieb, who was born in 1838, and who was a resident of Carrollton, Ohio, at the time of his death. February 15, 1917. In 1839 Gottlieb Wetzel, in company with his wife and infant son, and also his parents and other members of the family. immigrated to the United States, the voyage having been made on a sailing vessel and several weeks having passed before they landed in the port of New York City. The entire family came forthwith to Carroll County, Ohio, and all made settlement in Harrison Township. Gottlieb Wetzel was a son of John George and Christina (Steinbron) Wetzel, whose other children were Jacob. Christian. Frederick, Catherine and Christina. John George Wetzel purchased land and improved one of the excellent farms of Harrison Township, and there his devoted wife died September 21, 1851, he having remained on the old homestead until he too passed to eternal rest, on the 14th of May. 1877, the remains of both being interred in the cemetery of Emanuel Lutheran Church in Rose Township, and both having been lifelong communicants of the Luther's Church. John G. Wetzel was honored as one of the sterling citizens and substantial pioneer farmers of Harrison Township, and in politics he supported the republican party from the time of its organization until his death.
After coming to Carroll County Gottlieb Wetzel and his wife remained with his parents on the old home farm for several years. and he then removed to another farm in Harrison Township. where he continued his successful agricultural enterprise until his death, in 1847. when his son Jacob, of this review, was about four years old. He was survived by four children—John Gottlieb, Christian. Jacob and Christina. and the widowed mother later become the wife of Adam Karns, to whom she bore one son. George A. She was more than seventy years of age at the time of her death, about the year 1885.
After the death of his father Jacob Wetzel remained with his mother and stepfather until he was nine years old. when he became virtually dependent upon his own resources, as his boyish self-reliance led him to secure employment at farm work. When he was but ten years old the sturdy lad guided a team and plowed with goodly results on a hillside, and in the later years the same determined spirit characterized him and brought to him maximum returns for his well ordered industry. He at-
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tended school principally during the winter terms and continued his active association with farm work in Harrison Township until there came the call of higher duty, when the Civil war was precipitated on a divided nation. In October, 1861, when but eighteen years of age, Mr. Wetzel manifested his youthful patriotism by enlisting as a private in Company D. Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he proceeded to the front and with which he took part in many engagements, including the historic battle of the Wilderness, the battles of Petersburg, Chancellorsville and Cold Harbor. and numerous minor engagements. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1864, and his record is one that shall ever reflect honor upon his name and memory. In later years he has vitalized his interest 'in his old comrades in arias by his active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.
After the close of his war service Mr. Wetzel resumed his association with farm industry in Carroll County, and he and his uncle, Christian Wetzel. were for two years engaged in the manufacturing of brick. Christian Wetzel was long numbered among the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Harrison Township, where he died in August, 1908, at the venerable age of eighty-eight years and eight months. Jacob Wetzel finally identified himself with the tanning business at Carrollton, and here he conducted a prosperous enterprise in this line for fully half a century. He finally disposed of his tannery and has since lived in well earned retirement in his home on East Main Street. The political convictions of Mr. Wetzel are clearly indicated by his many years of active affiliation with the democratic party. and he is il communicant of the Lutheran Church. as was also his wife.
In 1869 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wetzel to Miss Sarah J. Lambright, who was born and reared in Carroll County and who was a daughter of John and Angeline (Albrecht) Lambright, who became residents of this county within a short time after their coming to America from their native Germany and who here passed the residue of their lives. The supreme bereavement in the life of Mr. Wetzel was that which came when his loved and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest in 1905. she having been fifty-six years of age at the time of her death. Of their children the eldest is John William. who was born at Perrysville. Carroll County. August 7. 1875. and whose public-school education included a course in the Carrollton High School. As youth he assisted in the work of his fatherls tannery. and later he learned the trade of harnessmaker, to which he continued to give his attention six years. In 1898. still loyal to the leather industry. in which he gained his initial experience at the tannery and thus became an authoritative judge of values, lre engaged in the shoe business at Carrollton. continuing the enterprise until 1901. Ile then removed to Minerva. Stark County. where he has since conducted the largest and most prosperous shoe business of that thriving village and has secure place as a representative merchant and valued citizen. In politics he is independent, is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church. In 1900 John W. Wetzel married Miss Daisy Buck, a daughter of Lawrence and Isabel Buck, of Minerva Junction, Carroll County, the father having been a mine boss at the Pitkin Mills for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel have one child, Clarence, who is a member of the class of 1921 in the Minerva High School. Charles Wetzel, who is engaged in the blacksmith business at Carrollton, married Miss Edna Cummings, and they have four children—Dorothy, Ralph, Sarah and John. Samuel Wetzel died at the age of thirty-two years. Clara is the wife of Robert J. Beadle. of Marion, Ohio. and they have two children— Paul J. and Alonzo. Lewis O. Wetzel, of Elyria. Lorain County, married Miss Mary Sherman and they have two sons, Jacob, named in honor of his paternal grandfather, and Thomas.
NELSON A. LEWTON was born and reared in Carroll County and has here become a prominent figure in connection with industrial and commercial activities of important order. In the Village of Malvern, where he has long maintained his home. he holds the position of superintendent of the Federal Clay Products Company, one of the important concerns in the clay- working industry in this section of the Buckeye State. and he is known and valued as a reliable and public spirited citizen.
Mr. Lewton was born at New Harrisburg, Carroll County. March 28, 1864. and is a son of Abraham and Susan (Tressel) Lewton. both likewise natives of this county and both representatives of honored pioneer families of the county. Abraham Lewton was born at New Harrisburg in 1826. and his wife was born in Brown Township in 182'8. Isaac Lewton, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Scotland and was a man of herculean physique. his weight during his mature years having been more than 300 pounds, so disposed over a stalwart frame as not to impair his physical vigor and alertness. He and his wife were pioneer settlers in Harrison Township. and there he reclaimed from the forest wilds the old homestead long known as the Lewton farm and now in the possession of a man named Farber. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their mortal bodies rest in the cemetery of the Baxter Ridge Methodist Episcopal Church. about one- fourth of a mile distant from their old home, both having been active members of this church. Their sons, Abraham. Isaac. Isaiah and Alexander. are all deceased: Nancy became the wife of John Taylor. of Carroll County. where they remained until their deaths: and Salina and her husband. Eli Orin, who was best known as • Squire Orin. likewise died in this county.
John and Artimisia (Harsh) Tressel. maternal grandparents of him whose name initiates this sketch. passed their entire lives in Carroll County. and their old home farm near New Harrisburg is now owned by David Crawford. One of their sons. Dr. John Tressel, was for
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twenty-eight years a member of the corps of surgeons of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a position of which he was the incumbent at the time of his death, and his son John is now a representative physician and surgeon in the City of Alliance, Stark County.
Abraham Lewton was reared on the old home farm in Harrison Township and received in his youth good educational advantages. He continued his active association with farm industry until 1876, when he removed with his family to Malvern, where for about forty years he owned and conducted a popular hotel, known as the Lewton House. In this hotel, which still stands, he died in the year 1898, and his widow and other members of the family kept the hotel until she too passed away, her death having occurred in 1916. In politics Mr. Lewton was a staunch republican, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children all but one attained to maturity: Dr. James H. became a prominent and successful dentist in the City of Chicago, and he died in 1917, at the age of sixty-eight years; Almira became the wife of Richard P. Beatty, who died in 1917, and she maintains her home in the City of Canton, Stark County; Emma is the widow of William Dickey, who died in 1889, at Malvern, and she now resides in the City of Cleveland; Catherine is the wife of William Kirkpatrick, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume; Laura became the wife of Charles Deuble, of Canton, and there her death occurred; Nelson A., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Elizabeth is the wife of Charles Setterlin, of Columbus, Ohio; Lulu is the wife of Edward Gaum, of Canton; and Artemas died at the age of eighteen months.
Nelson A. Lewton was a lad of twelve years at the time of the family removal from the farm to Malvern. where he continued his studies in the village schools until his graduation in the high school. At the age of seventeen years he became a successful teacher in this district school, and he continued to follow the pedagogic profession several years. In 1889 he found employment in the Fishel & Buell planing mill at Malvern, and with this firm he remained about six years. He then became associated with the Canton & Malvern Fire Brick Paving Company, and after serving about two years as bookkeeper for this concern was advanced to the position of superintendent, of which he continued the incumbent nine years. He then resigned his place and entered the employ of the Pittsburgh-Malvern Paving Company, which erected a new and modern plant at Malvern. After having charge of this plant four years Mr. Lewton resigned and took the position of erecting engineer for the C. W. Raymond Company of Dayton, Ohio. In this capacity he traveled in the most diverse sections of the United States and Canada, and his effective service with the company continued until 1915, when he associated himself with the Federal Clay Products Company, of which he has since been superintendent, this company having well equipped manufacturing plants in various places in this section of the state, with headquarters at Mineral City, Tuscarawas County. Mr. Lewton is one of the influential citizens and men of affairs at Malvern. is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
October 3, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Lewton to Miss Caroline Fishel, who was born at Malvern March 27, 1855, a daughter of Joseph and Fredericka (Buell) Fishel, of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Lewton have no children.
LOREN E. PRICE served two successive terms as recorder of his native county and retired from this office in the autumn of 1919, since which time he has continued to reside at Carrollton, judicial center of the county in which he was born and reared. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of New Hagerstown, Carroll County, March 23, 1865, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Keziah (McGowan) Price, the former of whom was born in Harrison County, this state, in 1832, and the latter was a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, where she was born in 1838. Benjamin F. Price, Sr., grandfather of the subject of this review, was one of the early settlers of Harrison County, where he took up land and engaged in farm enterprise. , Later he came to Carroll County and developed a farm in Orange Township, where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, this farm having continued in the possession of the family until February 10, 1919, when Loren E. Price, of this review, sold the property to William L. Robertson. Benjamin F. Price, Sr., and his wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Douglas, were numbered among the honored pioneer citizens of Orange Township at the time of their deaths, and both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
Benjamin F. Price, Jr., was six years of age at the time of the family removal from Harrison County to Carroll County, and he eventually became the owner of his father's old homestead farm. He was one of the honored and influential citizens and representative farmers of Orange Township, was a republican in politics and served in various local offices of public trust. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. His death occurred in 1901 and his widow passed to eternal rest in 1913. Of their two children Loren E. is the younger, the older son, Willard M., having died in 1906, at the age of forty-eight years.
Loren E. Price was not denied a due quota of youthful association with farm work, and in addition to attending the public schools was afforded the advantages of the New Hagerstown Academy. On the old homestead he engaged in active farm operations after having been employed three years as a traveling commercial salesman and after having been engaged for twelve years In the dry-good business at Lima, Allen County. He remained on the farm until 1915, when he was elected county recorder,
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and his effective administration in this office continued for two terms of two years each. since which time he has continued his residence at Carrollton, the county seat. He is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Including the local Commandery of Knights Templar, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.
In 1896 Mr. Price wedded Miss Gertrude Davies, of Lima, Allen County, and they have one daughter, Marian D., who was born in 1897. and who is a graduate of the Carrollton High School, as well as of the Thomas Normal School in the City of Detroit, Michigan, she being now a successful and popular teacher of domestic science.
PERRY O. McCULLY, owner of the Carrollton Milling Company, claims the Hoosier State as
the place of his nativity but was about one year old when his parents returned to Carroll County, Ohio, where the father had been born and reared and where the family home had been established in the pioneer days.
Perry O. McCully was born in Noble County, Indiana, December 31, 1868, and is a son of William and Virginia (Smith) McCully, the former of whom was born in Carroll County. Ohio, August 5, 1839, and the latter of whom was born in Williams County. this state. in 1843. Thorns McCully, grandfather of him whose name introduces this sketch, was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1797, and in 1822 he married Miss Anna Young, who likewise was a native of the old Keystone State. In 1830 they came to Carroll County, Ohio, and settled on a pioneer farm in Harrison Township, James McCully, a brother of Thomas, having come to the county at the same time. On his embryonic farm, much of which was still heavily timbered. Thomas McCully erected a log house, and in this modest domicile were reared his children. He reclaimed a productive farm and remained on the old homestead until his death, October 6, 1874, his wife having passed away in 1844, when her youngest child, William, was about five years old, the names of the other children having been as here noted: Sarah, Eliza, Lavina, Margaret. Mary J., Anna M. and Josiah B. , Thomas McCully was a stalwart supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and his brother James was a republican. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Reformed Church. William McCully's seecond marriage in 1877 was to Miss Elizabeth Sheppard, born in ()enter Township. Carroll County. She died October 6. 1889, and left four children, James C., of Amsterdam; Anson, of Lee Township; Laura, who married Lanson Finnicum, a resident of Columbiana County, Ohio. and Addle, who married Roy Smith, of Columbiana County, Ohio. Thomas McCullyls father, who likewise bore the name of Thomas, was born and reared in Ireland and came to America about the middle of the eighteenth century. his home having been established in Pennsylvania, where he remained until his death His children were John, James, Thomas, Jr., William, Jesse, Josiah, Jennie, Peggy. Mary and Elizabeth.
William McCully was reared on the old pioneer farm in Harrison Township, received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period and finally came into possession of the home farm, which he later sold to his brother Josiah, who was one of the honored pioneer citizens of Carroll County at the time of his death, in February, 1919, when eighty- one years of age. After selling this farm William McCully purchased and removed to a farm in the same vicinity, his residence in Noble County, Indiana, having been of brief duration. He continued many years as one of the representative farmers and influential citizens of Harrison Township and passed the last five years of his life in the home of his son, Perry O., of this review, where he died on the 3d of May, 1918, only a few months after the death of his brother, Josiah. He was a staunch democrat and was called upon to serve in various local offices of public trust in Harrison Township. He and his wife became zealous members of the Reformed Church, but after removing to the home of his son at Carrollton he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this city. He survived his wife by more than forty years, Mrs. McCully having passed away in 1875, at the age of thirty-two years. They became the parents of four children: Edwin is a resident of Lee Township, Carroll County; William, Jr., died at the age of fourteen years; Perry O., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and Matilda is the wife of James Snively, a farmer in Loudon Township, Carroll County, Mrs. Virginia (Smith) McCully was a daughter of William Smith and her mother was a daughter of James Ferrall, an honored Carroll County pioneer of whom incidental mention is made on other pages of this volume. After the death of his first wife Mr. Smith contracted a second marriage, and both he and his second wife were residents of Indiana at the time of their deaths, he having died about the year 1901, when more than eighty years of age.
Perry O. McCully was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm, with the activities of which he continued his connection until he was twenty-five years of age, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those of the public schools of Harrison Township. In 1900 he purchased the old Hardesty grist mill at Carrollton, where he developed a prosperous business in the handling of feed and building material, the mill having been utilized principally for the grinding of feed. In 1910 he consolidated his business with that of the Courtright Company, and the combined business has since been conducted under the title of the Carrollton Milling Company. This is one of the important and prosperous industrial corporations of Carroll County and controls a substantial business in the manufacturing of flour and feed and the handling of grain and building materials, Mr. McCully being the owner of the company. In July, 1920, he sold the mill to the Farmers Co-operative Company was one of
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the organizers and is a director of the First National Bank.
Mr. McCully is found arrayed as a staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and he served twelve years as a member of the School Board of Carrollton. In the Masonic fraternity he has completed the circle of the York Rite, in which his maximum affiliation is with the Carrollton Commandery of Knights Templar, and he also holds membership in the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
May 21, 1895, recorded the marriage of Mr. McCully to Miss Nora Long, daughter of William Long, a prosperous farmer of Carroll County. The one child of this union is Florence, who was born July 24, 1896, and who was graduated in the Carrollton High School as a member of the class of 1913, after which she was for two years a student in Mount Union College. Thereafter she was for two years a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Carrollton, and she is now the wife of Harry McLaughlin, of this city. They have two children, Harry, Jr., born September 1, 1918, and Botha Virginia, born August 7, 1920.
JOHN MATTERN. Looking back with justifiable pride on a long life of useful endeavor as a man, and constructive work as a farmer, John Mattern, of Archer Township, is still a forceful factor in the agricultural progress of his neighborhood. He was born in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, on July 12, 1837. a son of Abraham Mattern, and grandson of John Mattern, a native of Maryland who became a pioneer of Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and here rounded out his life. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Nancy Tipton, was a native of Wales, and they had the following children: Abraham, John, Catherine, Anna, Julia Ann and Jane.
Abraham Mattern was born in Harrison County, Ohio, October 6, 1806, and was married to Mary Brown, also born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1808, a daughter of Hugh and Jane (Speer) Brown, the former an early settler and farmer of Archer Township. The children born to Hugh Brown and his wife were as follows: John, William, Mary, Anna, Rebecca and Elizabeth. Acquiring a farm in Green Township, Abraham Mattern lived upon it until his death, and was a man very highly respected in his part of the county. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: Jane, John, Nancy Ann, Hugh B., Wesley and Alfred S. Abraham Mattern and his wife belonged to Bethel Methodist Church of Green Township.
John Mattern went to the schools of his district and following the example of his father and grandfather became a farmer. In 1866 he bought his present farm of 120 acres in Archer Township and here he has since been very successfully engaged in general farming and stock-raising. Prior to buying this property he had some experience as a farmer in Green Township.
On May 12, 1859, John Mattern was married to Margaret Leas, born in Green Township, on August 2, 1839, a daughter of George and Mary (Brean) Leas. George Leas was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and came to Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in young manhood, and here he spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife bad the following children: George, Jeremiah, Mary, Elizabeth, Jacob, Margaret and John. Like the Mattern family, the Leas were also connected with the old Bethel Church of Green Township. John Mattern and his wife became the parents of the following children: J. Finley; Oscar Orlando, who died at the age of fourteen months; E. W., who is mentioned below; Mary Etta, who married William Beatty; E. Ross, and John H., who is also written up on another page. Mr. and Mrs. Mattern belong to Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church of Green Township, and have been connected with it for over fifty-eight years, and in their relations to it are as active as ever. They are very fine people in every respect and carry their religious faith into their everyday life. When sorrows enter a home in their neighborhood, the bereaved ones instinctively turn to Mr. and Mrs, Mattern for sympathy and assistance and never in vain. While they have been blessed with material prosperity, they have also accumulated a large store of something even better, the good will and gratitude of those whom they have generously assisted, and the unlimited respect of all who know them.
Ellis Wilmer Mattern, son of John Mattern, was born in Green Township on October 9, 1864, but he was educated in the district schools of Archer Township, and continued to live with his parents on their farm until his marriage, which occurred on February 10, 1887, to Elsie M. Copeland, a daughter of Henry and Martha Jane (Maxwell) Copeland. Since his marriage he has lived on his present farm of sixty-two acres of land, seven acres of which are planted in apple trees, and he also owns 143 acres of land in Green Township He is a general farmer and stock raiser but of late years has been specializing on raising apples. He and his wife have the following children: Wesley Lloyd, who was born on November 9, 1887, married Lela Barrett, and they have one child, Wilmer Herbert; and George Clinton, who was born on September 22, 1889, married Georgie Lyle, Mrs. E. W. Mattern belongs to the Christian Church of Cadiz.
WILLIAM H MAHAN is a representative of the third generation of the Mahan family in Harrison County, and was born and reared on the fine old homestead farm which is now his place of residence and which, is the stage of his successful activities as an agriculturist and grower of live stock. His farm comprises eighty-nine and three-tenths acres and is one of the well improved and productive farmsteads of Nottingham Township.
William Hanson Mahan was born on his present farm, March 18, 1884, and is a son of William and Mary Elizabeth (Bowles) Mahan, the former of whom died on the 23d of December, 1915, and the latter of whom, passed away
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in April, 1913. William Mahan was born in Nottingham Township, on the 31st of July, 1837, and his early education was gained through somewhat irregular attendance in the common schools of the locality and period. He was one of the young men who went forth from Harrison County to aid in defense of the Union during the Civil war. On the 8th of January, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he served until the close of the war. He participated in many engagements, including a number of the heavier battles marking the progress of the conflict between the North and the South, and he was mustered out of service July 13, 1865, with attendant reception of his honorable discharge. In later years he perpetuated the more gracious association of his military career by maintaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the war he returned to Harrison County; and for several years thereafter he gave his attention principally to work at the carpenter's trade. After his marriage he purchased the farm now owned by his son, William H.,. and here he maintained his home from 1873 until the time of his death. He was one of the highly esteemed and influential citizens of Nottingham Township. where he served as township treasurer, besides having been for seven years a director of the local school district. His political support was given unreservedly to the republican party, and he and his wife held membership in the Bethel Methodist Church.
William Mahan was a son of Joseph and Rebecca (Brown) Mahan, both natives of Harford County, Maryland, where the former was born February 20, 1811, of Welsh and German ancestry, and where the latter was born on the 20th of July, 1801, a daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Bowen) Brown, respectively of English and Irish lineage. Joseph Mahan was a child at the time of his mother's death, and he was reared in the home of his uncle, William Mahan, under whose direction he learned the trade of cooper. As a young man he made his way on foot from Maryland to Harrison County, Ohio, where he found abiding place in the home of Ebenezer Brown, who likewise was a native of Harford County, Maryland. In this home he met Miss Rebecca Brown, who had come to this county in company with her two sisters, Catherine and Sarah, and this acquaintanceship finally resulted in his marriage to Miss Rebecca. Mr. Mahan continued to follow his trade in connection with farm enterprise, and lived in turn in Nottingham, Stock and Franklin Townships,si in the last of which his death occurred on the 25th of March, 1855, his widow having long survived him and having passed to eternal rest on the 6th of December, 1873. They became the parents of three children: Margaret (Mrs. Isaac P. Hines) ; Rebecca (Mrs. Samuel Wood) and William.
On the 14th of May, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of William Mahan to Miss Mary Elizabeth Bowles, who was born July 15, 1842. a daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Strahl) Bowles, natives of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Thomas Bowles was born in November, 1796, and Hannah (Strahl) Bowles was born July 18, 1801. Thomas Bowles was a pioneer settler near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, and his tirst wife, whose maiden name was Amy Nichols, was survived by one child, John, born January 27, 1823. Thomas and Hannah (Strahl) Bowles became the parents of six children: Alfred E. was born November 19, 1828, and died in childhood; Henry C., who was born November 1, 1831, was killed in battle while serving' as a soldier in the Civil war; Lindley M., who was born January 3, 1834, became a pioneer settler in Iowa; Hanson D., who was born November 21, 1836, became a resident of Belmont County, Ohio; Martha J., was born September 24, 1839, and she and her husband, Mr. Pennell. established their home in Monroe County; and Mary Elizabeth became the wife of William. Mahan, as noted in the opening sentence of this paragraph. Mr. and Mrs. William Mahan became the parents of six children: Joseph L., born June 22, 1873, died when about twenty-one years of age; Ora H., who was born September 30, 1875, was about eighteen years old at the time of his death; Albert V., who was born October 27, 1877, is married and resides in Mabton, Washington: Rebecca Jennie, deceased wife of Howard Deselms, was born August 23, 1879, and became the mother of two children, William T. and Virginia, the latter of whom is deceased; Luna M., who was born July 5, 1881, is the wife of Ferman C. Hogue, of Piedmont, Harrison County; and William Hanson.
William Hanson Mahan found in the district school known as the Walker School in Nottingham Township the advantages which enabled him to fortify himself in youthful education, and later he completed a course in the commercial department of Scio College in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906. He has remained continuously on the old home farm, and is now owner of the, property and has had the active management of the place since 1917. He is aligned with the republican party, served five years as assessor of his native township, and takes loyal interest in community affairs. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Bethel Methodist Church.
January 9, 1918, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mahan to Miss Maude Shambaugh, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a representative of one of its honored pioneer families. Mr. and Mrs. Mahan have a winsome little daughter, Lauretta Mary, born April 5, 1919. Philip Shambaugh, father of Mrs. Mahan, was barn on the farm which is his present place of residence, in Burnley Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was February 18, 1851, this ancestral homestead having been land which was obtained from the Government by his paternal grandfather, George Shambaugh, and the property having continued in possession of the Shambaugh family for more than a century. Of the original tract of more than 200 acres, Philip Shambaugh owns 166 acres. He is the youngest child of the late Michael and Hettie (Hazlett) Shambaugh, the former of
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whom was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1811, and the latter of whom was born April 16, 1816. Michael Shambaugh was a son of George Shambaugh, who was born in Perry County,. Pennsylvania, in 1787, a representative of a sterling family, of German lineage, that was founded in the old Keystone State in the early colonial days. In his native county George Shambaugh married a widow Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Wirt, who was born in 1777, and in 1817 they came to Harrison County, Ohio, where Mr. Shambaugh took up Government land and instituted the development of a farm in the midst of the virgin forest. Prior to coming to Ohio he had served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and one of his uncles, Joseph Shambaugh, was a youthful soldier in the War of the Revolution. George Shambaugh remained on the old pioneer homestead farm until his death, September 4, 1867, his wife having passed away several years previously. They were the parents of four children: Philip, Michael, George and Margaret (Mrs. Samuel Hazlett).
Michael Shambaugh was six years old at the time of the family immigration to Harrison County, and here he remained on the old home farm until his death, March 20, 1863, his widow having passed away October 22, 1884, and both having been earnest members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of ten children, namely : James, Elizabeth (Mrs. Abraham Fetroe), Mary A. (Mrs. John W. Finnicum), Simon B. (died unmarried and bequeathed a large estate to his brothers and sisters), Adam H., Charlotte (Mrs. Peter Overhold), Maria (Mrs. H. L. Thompson), Jane (died at the age of twenty years), John and Philip.
Philip Shambaugh was reared on the ancestral farmstead which is his present home, and he completed his youthful education by attending Westerville College one year. He has always lived on the old home place and is one of the representative farmers and citizens of Rumley Township, both he and his wife being zealous members of the United Brethren Church at New Rumley, of which he has been a trustee for fully forty years. On the 15th of March, 1881, Mr. Shambaugh married Miss Eliza Loretta Scott, a daughter of John A. and Eliza (Bivington) Scott, of New Rumley, and of the three children of this union Mary Maude, wife of William H. Mahan, is the eldest; Estella Loretta is the wife of Raymond C. Calhoun, and they have one child, Philip; and Nellie Ruth remains at the parental home.
Mrs. Mahan is a graduate of Scio College and taught school for a number of years at various places, among them being schools at New Rumley, German, and Scio. She finished her teaching in the public schools of Akron.
CHARLES B. MILLER. Among the enterprising farmers of Harrison County whose well-directed efforts have been rewarded by deserved success, is Charles B. Miller of Monroe Township. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, a son of Isaac and Mary (Bricker) Miller, and grandson of Simeon Miller, a native of Germany, who came to the United States when a young man and established himself in Stark County as a farmer. The children born to him and his wife were as follows: James, Andrew, Isaac, Hannah, Polly, Rachel and Betsy. The maternal grandfather was Jacob Bricker, and he was a saddler of Pennsylvania, who later on in life came to Ohio and here became a farmer and mail carrier. He became the father of the following family : Mary, Margaret, Minerva, Emma, Clara and Edith.
Isaac Miller was born in Stark County, Ohio, and his wife was born in Pennsylvania. Until about 1878 he was engaged in farming in Stark County, Ohio, but in that year he went west to Kansas and for the succeeding eleven years was there engaged in farming. Returning to Ohio, in 1889, he located on the farm in Monroe Township, Harrison County, now occupied by his son, Charles B. Miller, and here he continued to reside until 1909, when he retired, moved to Canton, Ohio, and died in that city, March 26, 1913. His wife died July 1, 1906. Their children were as follows: William, who is deceased; Charles B., who was born June 1, 1872; Edgar, who lives in Stark County; Stewart, who is deceased. The family all belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Charles B. Miller attended the public schools of Stark County, Ohio, and Kansas, and completed his education in those of Monroe Township. Since 1889 he has lived on his present farm, and became owner of its 158 acres at the death of his father, and here he has since been engaged in general farming and stock- raising with very gratifying results for his land is fertile and he knows how to operate it as he is a practical agriculturist.
On August 23, 1894, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Mary Helen Crumrine, a daughter of James and Catherine (Dixon) Crumrine. James Crumrine was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and his wife was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and they were farming people of Monroe Township. Mr. Crumrine died April 27, 1916. His children were: Ellen, who is Mrs. Miller; Elizabeth, who lives at Uhrichsville, Ohio; and Carrie, who is deceased. The Crumrine family all belonged to Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. and Mrs. Miller also belong to this church. Clyde A. is the only child of the Millers, and he married Gladys M. Brown and they have a daughter, Helen Elizabeth, born September 6, 1920.
Clyde A. Miller is a veteran of the great war, having entered the service of his country July 24, 1918. He was first sent to Camp Sherman and assigned to Company E, Three Hundred and Thirty-third Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. On August 22, 1918, he left Camp Sherman with his organization for Camp Mills, Long Island, and on August 31, set sail on the "Carmanian" for France, landing at Liverpool, England, on September 13 at six o'clock in the evening. From there the organization went on to Southampton, England, and crossed the English Channel on the night of September 17th, landing at Le Havre, France, although the boat
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was torpedoed when nearing the harbor, but managed to reach it before sinking. After landing in France he had the misfortune to be stricken with the influenza, and was confined in the hospital for a month on account of it. Following his recovery he was sent to Le Mans, France, where he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Eighth Motor Transport Train, and remained with this organization until his return to the United States. On June 16, 1919, he left Le Mans and sailed from Le Havre on June 28, arriving in New York City July 8, 1919. He received his honorable discharge July 18, 1919, at Camp Sherman, and returned home. His marriage occurred on October 14, 1919. Like the majority of the young soldiers of this memorable conflict Mr. Miller is very modest about his service, but the fact remains that when his country had need of him he responded to its call and risked his life and limb in its behalf. No man can make such a sacrifice without emerging from the experience a better citizen. A land worth dying for is certainly one worth the best efforts of its American-born people, and it is doubtful if any of the returned soldiers will be indifferent to the welfare of the land in whose behalf they took up arms.
PETER T. CLOSE. who is now living virtually retired, in the Village of Dellroy, Carroll County, still retains possession of a valuable farm property of eighty-one acres, in Monroe and Rose Townships, and in connection with the returns given in connection with the agricultural and live-stock phases of his farm enterprise good financial results have attended also the operation of coal mines on the farm. Mr. Close is a native son of Carroll County and is a representative, in the third generation, of a family that was founded in this section of Ohio more than a century ago.
Peter Thorley Close was born in Harrison Township, this county, on the 12th of November, 1847, and is a son of Joseph and Margaret (Thorley) Close, whose marriage was solemnized in this county on the 29th of November, 1838. Joseph Close was born in the settlement that still bears the name of Island Creek, in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 18th of August, 1815, and his wife was born in Somerset County. Pennsylvania. Joseph Close was a son of Peter and Rebecca (McMurland) Close, whose marriage was solemnized in the State of Pennsylvania. Peter Close was born in Germany, in the year 1775, a son of John Close, and his wife was born in Ireland, in 1785. she ha ving been a child when she was brought to America and having been reared and educated in the State of Virginia. When Peter Close was a lad of ten years he came to America in company with neighbors who immigrated from Germany, and after landing in the port of New York City he eventually made his way on foot to Virginia, in which state he remained until the time of his marriage. soon after which important event in his career he came with his wife to Ohio and became a pioneer of the Island Creek district in Jefferson County. There he remained until April 9, 1820, when he came with his family to what is now Monroe Township, Carroll County, where he leased the partially improved farm owned by Dr. Samuel Black, one of the pioneer physicians of this section of Ohio. On this farm he remained until 1828, when he obtained from the Government a tract of eighty acres in section 5, that township. He reclaimed this land from the forest, developed a productive farm and on the homestead he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, Mrs. Close having died in 1863 and his death having occurred in the following year. Peter Close served as a private in the War of 1812, and his political allegiance was given to the democratic party, both he and his wife having been earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of nine children, all of whom are now deceased, namely: Sarah, John, Michael, William, Peter, Rebecca, Phoebe (Mrs. Thorley), Jane (Mrs. Robbins), and Joseph.
Joseph Close was about five years old at the time of the family removal to what is now Carroll County, and here his early educational advantages were those of the pioneer schools of Monroe Township. In his youth he learned the carpenter's trade, and as a skilled workman his services continued to be in demand in connection with building operations in this section for many years. He became a successful farmer, but continued to work more or less at his trade until within a few years of his death, which occurred in 1890, his wife having passed to the life eternal on the 12th of November, 1886. After his marriage Joseph Close purchased a tract of forty-five acres in Monroe Township, not far distant from his father's farm, and there he remained until 1868, when he removed to a farm which he had purchased in 1864, the same comprising 114 acres, partly in Monroe and partly in Rose Township. On this farm he passed the remainder of his life, and in addition to his work as a carpenter and millwright, he was for a number of years the owner and operator of a saw mill. He was an influential member of the local contingent of the democratic party, and he gave twelve years of effective service as justice of the peace, both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of eleven children, of whom John and Elizabeth died when young; Mrs. Jane Briceland was a resident of Greencastle, Indiana, at the time of her death; Peter T., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Thomas is a resident of Oneida, Carroll County; Mrs. Phoebe Huff resides in Monroe Township and Mrs. Sarah Bower in Rose Township. this county; William; Mrs. Margaret C. Marshall resides in Monroe Township; John R. is a farmer in Rose Township: and Mrs. Rebecca Griffin resides in Stark County.
Peter Thorley Close gained his early education in the schools at Atwood and Dellroy, and thereafter he was employed at farm work the greater part of the time until he had attained the age of twenty-two years. His initial farm enterprise of independent order was made when he purchased the farm which he still owns and
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which he improved into one of the valuable properties of his native county. He continued to reside on his farm until he virtually retired, and is now living in an attractive home in the Village of Dellroy. He is a stalwart in the local camp of the democratic party and is now serving his fourth term in the office of justice of the peace. He has served also as mayor of Dellroy, and he was for two terms a member of the democratic committee of Monroe Township, these various preferments indicating alike his personal popularity and his influence in public affairs of a local order. He has various capitalistic investments and is one of the substantial men of his native county. The Close family was among the first to settle in Carroll County, and the Thorley family likewise gained pioneer distinction in this section of the old Buckeye State. There has been organized the Close and Thorley Family Society, which holds reunions at regular intervals and these meetings draw together numerous representatives of the two families, besides tending to perpetuate memories and associations of the pioneer days. Peter Close, an uncle of Peter Thorley Close, was one of the venturesome spirits who went across the plains to California in 1849, at the time of the discovery of gold in that state, and he made the journey with an ox team.
The year 1892 recorded the marriage of Mr. Close to Mrs. George Griffin, a daughter of John and Sarah Booth. Mr. and Mrs. Close have no children, but Mrs. Close has two children by her first marriage: Martha Jane and Cora, who is the wife of William Moore, of Union Township. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have six children, all of whom are living except Chester K.. twin brother of Harry K. Both of these young men entered the nation's military service in the World war, Chester K. having become a member of Company G, Fifth United States Infantry, in which he was assigned to service in the medical corps, and he died while in active duty in France. Harry K. entered service at Carrollton, was sent to Cleveland, and after receiving due preliminary training he accompanied his command to France, where he saw his full share of active field service. While in France he married a young woman of that war scarred country, and they are now at the home of his parents, in Union Township, Carroll County.
JOHN M. BOYD. Having by persistent energy, keen foresight, and wise investments accumulated a fine property, John M. Boyd is now living in Carrollton, Ohio, retired from active business cares, and is enjoying to the fullest extent the reward of his many years of assiduous toil. He was born, November 23, 1851, in Morrow Township, Carroll County, of Virginia ancestry.
His father, John Boyd, was born in West Virginia, at Carters Station, and as a young man migrated to Ohio, settling in Carroll County in pioneer days. Taking up a tract of wild land in Morrow Township, he cleared and improved a valuable homestead, on which he spent the remainder of his long life of seventy- five years. He was at first identified with the republican party, but subsequently became an ardent prohibitionist. Both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Matilda McQueen, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, where her parents, John and Margaret (Crozier) McQueen, were veritable pioneers. She preceded him to the life beyond, dying on the home farm in April, 1878, when but fifty-one years of age. Seven children were born of their union, as follows: Amanda, James. John M., Mary Margaret, William, Anna, and Frank.
Gleaning his early knowledge of books in the rural schools of Morrow Township, John M. Boyd grew to manhood on the home farm, and under his father's instructions obtained a practical knowledge of general agriculture as then carried on. He subsequently made use of his native mechanical talent, being especially handy in the use of tools, and for many years was engaged in carpentering. In October, 1918, Mr. Boyd moved to Carrollton, where he is living retired. A man of excellent business ability and judgment, he has accumulated considerable valuable property, owning a farm of 214 acres in Morrow Township, and one of ninety-four acres in Monroe Township. He is a staunch democrat in politics, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Boyd married, December 24, 1874, Minerva West, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, January 9, 1852, a daughter of Michael C. West, and grand-daughter of Charles and Margaret West, early pioneers of Monroe Township, where they cleared and improved the homestead on which they spent their remaining years. Michael C. West grew to manhood on the home farm in Monroe Township, and was later engaged in mercantile pursuits in Leesville, where during the Civil war he raised Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to the front as captain of that company. After receiving his discharge, he settled on a farm, and there resided until his death, in 1875, when fifty-one years of age.. Michael C. West married Susan James, a daughter of Thomas James. She survived him many long years, passing away in September, 1918, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years. Michael C. West was a steadfast republican in politics, and an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd six children have been born, namely: W. V., a street car man in Canton, Ohio„ married Bessie True, and they have one child, Virginia; Anna Matilda, who married Charles Owens, died in 1911, at the age of thirty-two years, leaving two children, Anna Belle and Charles. the former of whom married Benjamin Barker, and has one child, Charles Barker: Daisy Lelia, wife of Henry Merriman, has one child, Blanche Minerva; Jason Roy, of Canton, Ohio, married Jessie Belknap, and they have one child, Helen; Pearl Grace, wife of Joseph Smith, of Canton, has two children. Roy Harvey and Wilson Emerson; and Harvey Bradshaw. now serving as mayor of Carrollton. married Ethel Long, and they have one child, Kenneth Wilson.
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CRAWFORD D. CARROTHERS may well take satisfaction in the fact that he is the owner of the fine old homestead farm upon which he was born and reared and which, comprising 165 acres, is one of the model farmsteads of Moorefield Township, Harrison County. Mr. Carrothers is a representative of a family whose name has been identified with the history of Harrison County for more than a century and of the children of his parents he is the only one of the number remaining in this county.
Mr. Carrothers was born on his present farm, as previously noted, and the date of his nativity was July 1, 1865. He is a son of Beatty and Ailsa (Johnson) Carrothers, both likewise native of Harrison County. the father having been born in Nottingham Township, March 14, 1832. and the mother having been born July 10, 1839; their marriage was solemnized June 21, 1860. Beatty Carrothers was a son of George and Ann (Hastings) Carrothers, natives of Ireland. George 'Carrothers was born in the year 1784, a son of James Carrothers, and in 1803 he came from the Emerald Isle to America. He first located in Washington County, Pennsylvania. and there, about the year 1810, he wedded Miss Jane Hall, who was born February 2, 1791. They became the parents of five children- James, John, George, William and Margaret. About the year 1813 Mr. and Mrs. Carrothers came from the old Keystone State and established their home in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where be obtained 320 acres of Government land and initiated the development of a farm from the forest wilds. He was one of the resourceful and successful pioneer farmers of the county, commanded unqualified popular esteem, and here remained until his death, December 4. 1863, his religious faith having been that of the United Presbyterian Church, as his ancestors were of the religious seeders who left their native Scotland and established a home in Ireland. The first wife of George Carrothers died February 2, 1828, and for his second wife he married Miss Ann Hastings, who was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, May 1, 1798. and who accompanied her parents to America about the year 1820. Of this union were born five children. Four are now deceased: Sarah became the wife of James Wilson; Beatty. father of Crawford D., was the next in order of •birth; Eliza became the wife of Jackson Kennedy: Mary died when young; and Christopher went, in 1869. as a missionary to Japan. where later he became a government teacher and is now living on Tapaz Island, Washington. Mrs. Carrothers survived her husband by more than twenty years, was a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. and her death occurred January 14, 1886,
Beatty Carrothers was but four years of age when his parents removed to the farm, in Moorefield Township, which was to continue his place of residence during the remainder of his long, active and worthy life, his death having occurred September 17, 1917. and his widow being now a resident on home farm, this county. November 26, 1856. recorded his marriage to Miss Martha J. McClintock,, who died March 26, 1859, and their only child, Winfield. died the following June. On the 21st of June, 1860, Mr. Carrothers wedded Miss Ailsa Johnson, who survives him. They became the parents of five children: Johnson R. married Miss Mayme Kenney and they now reside in the city of Lincoln, Nebraska ; George married Anna Johnson and they maintain their home at Los Angeles, California; Crawford D., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Sadie M. is the wife of Howard H. Moore, of Washington, D. C.; and William C. died in childhood. Mr. Carrothers was a member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow.
To the district schools of Moorefield Town. ship Crawford D. Carrothers is indebted for his early education, and he was reared on the farm which is now his place of residence. On the 15th of October, 1890. he was united in marriage to Miss Mary B. Dickerson, daughter of James K. P. and Hannah (Moore) Dickerson, the former of whom was born in Athens Township, this county, December 25, 1845, and the latter was born in Moorefield Township, April 29. 1849. During the major part of his active career Mr. Dickerson was engaged in farm enterprise in Moorefield Township, he having been a representative of one of the prominent pioneer families of Harrison County. He and his wife. who died February 9, 1917, were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven children: Mary B. (Mrs. Crawford D. Carrothers) was born May 16, 1870; Miss Annetta was born March 17, 1874; Margaret H. was born May 30, 1876, and is the wife of Lee Dunlap; William M. was born July 3, 1879, and his death occurred April 1, 1901; Albert J. was born July 28, 1882, and the maiden name of his wife was Blanche Dickerson; John F. died in early childhood: Elliott, who was born January 25, 1894. died while serving as an American soldier in France during the late World war.
Elliott Dickerson was one of the fine sons of Harrison County who entered the nation's military service when America became involved in the great World war. He entered service July 25. 1918, proceeded to Camp Sherman, and was assigned to Company K, Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. In the latter part of August he went with his command to Camp Mills. New York, and early in the following month they sailed for France. Shortly after his arrival in France he suffered an attack of influenza, and as a result thereof he died, in Base Hospital No. 3, on the 7th of October, 1918. He sacrificed his life on the altar of patriotism-as fully as though he had fallen on the field of battle-and his death was deeply mourned by his host of friends in his native county.
For twenty-six years after his marriage Mr. Carrothers was engaged in farming in Nottingham Township, and he then returned to the old house farm, in Moorefield Township, where he has since continued his vigorous and successful activities as a progressive agriculturist and stock-grower. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he and his wife hold membership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. They have five children: Ella
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M., who was born August 17, 1891, is the wife of George W. Beall and they have one child, Francis Wayne. Chester S., who was born May 30, 1893, married Miss Ressie Stevens and they have three children—Elsie May, Ralph Cecil and Harold Love. Elsie, who was born in 1896, died in 1904. Irene was born May 22, 1902, and Bessie M. was born May 21, 1904.
JAMES LAWRENCE WILLIAMS is owner of a farm of eighty-six acres in Rose Township, getting his mail on Route No. 1 from Mineral City. A hard worker, he has striven to do whatever he undertook well, and to render efficient service, and as a result he has acquired a fair competency and good standing in his neighborhood.
Mr. Williams was born in Rose Township October 9, 1863, son of David Noble and Emma- line (Guess) Williams. His grandfather Williams was a native of England. David Noble Williams spent his life as a farmer in Carroll County, where he was reared and educated, being the second in a family of six children. He was twice married, and of his five children James L. is the fourth.
The latter attended school regularly until he was sixteen, the school being in. District No. 5 of Rose Township. He grew up on his father's farm of eighty acres, lived there and shared in Its work and management until he was thirty-three, when he married and established a home of his own. It was in 1897 that Mr. Williams married Miss Sarah J. Mowls, daughter of John and Louise (Gamble) Mowls of Rose Township. They have three children: LoneMee, born in 1898, a graduate of the Deliroy High School and of the Normal School of Kent, Ohio, now a popular teacher at Canal Fulton, Ohio; James Paul, born in 1900, and Oscar, born in 1903.
The first two years after his marriage Mr. Williams looked after the farm of Mrs. Williams' father, and in 1900 moved to his present location. He first bought a small place of ten acres and later thirty-eight acres more and Mrs. Williams inherited forty-six acres from her father. Of this he sold eight acres so that his present farm comprises eighty-six. He does general farming, raising considerable livestock. Mr. Williams is an independent democrat and has responded to the confidence of his fellow citizens by serving a time as supervisor of Rose Township and as a member of the school board. He is a Methodist and his family are Lutherans.
JOHN A. CRAWFORD still retains ownership of one of the fine farm properties of Archer Township, Harrison County, but is now living retired, in the village of Adena, after having been for ninny years actively associated with farm industry in his native county. He is a representative of one of the old and honored pioneer families of this county and is a venerable native son who is specially entitled to recognition in this publication.
Mr. Crawford was born in Archer Township, on the 6th of October, 1846, and he is a scion of families that were founded in Virginia in the colonial period of our national history. His father, Thomas Crawford, was born in Brooke County, Virginia, on the 3rd of December, 1804, and both his paternal and maternal grand parents likewise were natives of the old Dominion State. Thomas Crawford was a son of Edward and Mary (Wiggins) Crawford, and in the early part of the nineteenth century they became pioneer settlers in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where they established their residence in a primitive log cabin and girded themselves to bear the burdens and hardships of frontier life. It was in the year 1806 that Edward Crawford instituted the develop- ment of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds of Harrison County, where he' reclaimed a large tract of land and became one of the substantial and influential men of the pioneer community. He was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their twelve children six were born prior to the removal from Virginia to Harrison County. and the other six were born on the old pioneer homestead in this county. Mr. Crawford's death occurred in 1831, and his widow passed away in 1864, at a venerable age.
Thomas Crawford was an infant at the time when the family home was established in Archer Township, where he was reared under the conditions of the early pioneer days and where he assisted in the work of the home farm until he was about nineteen years of age. He then went to Cadiz, the county seat, where he learned the blacksmith trade, to which he gave his attention for fifteen years. He then resumed his association with farm industry, and be continued to reside on his fine homestead farm, in the eastern part of Archer Township, during the remainder of his long and useful life —a man of sterling character and a citizen of loyalty and liberal spirit—one who commanded the high regard of all who knew him. The old home farm is that now owned by his son John A.. his entire landed estate having comprised 220 acres. He honored Harrison County by his worthy life and achievement and his death occurred in 1893. He was unfaltering in his allegiance to the democratic party and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church.
In 1829 Thomas Crawford married Miss Jane Kelly, daughter of Hugh Kelly, of Cadiz, and she was still a young woman at the time of her death. She was survived by four children— Hugh. Edward, Isabella and Thomas.
On the 5th of March. 1839, was solemnized the marriage of Thomas Crawford to Mrs, Eleanor (Ginney) Forbes, widow of Joseph Forbes and a daughter, of Robert Ginney, Who was an early settler in Carroll County. Mrs. Crawford passed to the life eternal 'in the year 1889, five children having been born to the second marriage, namely : Jason, Robert F., John A., Elizabeth (died in 1864), and James F.
John A. Crawford gained in his youth a full quota of practical experience in connection with farm enterprise, and his early education was obtained in the district schools of his native Township. He remained with his parents on the old home farm until their death, and there he continued his independent activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower until the death of his wife, since which time he has lived re-
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tired at Adena, where he resides in the home of his older son, Dr. Homer C. The old home farm, now comprising 126 1/2 acres, is now under the effective management and control of his younger son, John R. Mr. Crawford is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, but has never had any desire for the honors of public office. He is an active member of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, as was also his wife.
In September of the Centennial year, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Crawford to Miss Margaret M. Campbell, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and who was a daughter of the late James and Catherine (Huston) Campbell. The supreme loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Crawford came when his devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, her death having occurred on the 9th of August, 1910, after their companionship in the pleasant home had continued for nearly thirty-five years. Of the two children the elder is Dr. Homer C., who is a dentist by profession and who is engaged in practice at Adena, the maiden name of his wife was Vergie Townsend, and their three children are Margaret A., Raymond C. and Georgia. John R., the younger son, is still a bachelor and he has, as previously noted, active charge of the old home farm.
OTTO EICK. The opportunities given the Carroll County farmers to acquire more than a competence are many, for not only is the soil fertile, but the transportation facilities are excellent and the agriculturists can market their produce rapidly and profitably. One of them who has taken advantage of these opportunities is Otto Eick of Harrison Township, who owns and operates a farm of seventy-eight acres of land. He was born at Sherodsville, Carroll County, February 9, 1860, a son of John and Martha (Belknap) Eick, and grandson of Peter Eick, who, after his marriage to a Miss Jennings in New Jersey, drove overland to Orange Township, Carroll County, with a wagon, and lived on the farm he bought there, and he and his wife both passed away on their homestead. They had seven children, of whom John Eick was the youngest. On March 22, 1869, John Eick moved to Harrison Township on a 160- acre farm he has bought and there he rounded out his useful life, passing away jury 5, 1903, his wife having died in 1900. They had five children, Otto Eick being their first born.
Until he was eighteen years old Otto Eick attended the Swamp school in Harrison Township during the winter terms, and always made himself useful on the farm, where he remained until he was twenty-two years old. For the subsequent two years he operated his father's homestead, and then moved on his present farm. where he has lived ever since, being occupied with general farming. He has other interests and is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Carrollton. Very active as a republican, he has been elected on his party ticket to several offices, in 1909 becoming county commissioner for a two-year term, and being elected to succeed himself for another two years, and he was also elected township treasurer of Harrison Township. The Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg holds his membership, and he is well liked in it as he is elsewhere in his community.
Mr. Eick was married to Elizabeth Hess, a daughter of John and Christine (Vance) Hess, of New Harrisburg, Ohio, and they have one son, John H., who is at home, married Blanche Conway of Carrollton, and they have one son, Samuel Otto. An excellent farmer and good business man Mr. Eick has, made a success of his work, and won approval as a public official.
ROBERT TAYLOR MONTGOMERY is the owner of one of the fine farm estates of Loudon Township, Carroll County, where he has 200 acres of the exceptionally fertile land that has made the county the stage of successful agricultural enterprise. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 14, 1864, and is a son of John H. and Emeline (Henderson) Montgomery, the former of whom was born in the Bacon Ridge district of Jefferson County and the latter was a native of Morgan County, this state. After their marriage the parents established their home on a farm on Bacon Ridge, Jefferson County, and there the father died in 1879, the mother surviving him by nearly a score of years and passing to the life eternal in 1898.
Robert T. Montgomery is indebted to the schools of his native county for his youthful education and there he was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm. He is the elder of the two children and his sister, Martha Jane, is the wife of Ezra Peterson, of Jefferson County. March 11, 1891, Mr. Montgomery was united in marriage with Miss Elzan Peterson, who was born July 6, 1859, daughter of John and Emily J. Peterson, and reared in Loudon Township, Carroll County, his record being that resided on a farm of 156 acres in his native section of Jefferson County for one year. He then traded that property to his brother-in- law, Joseph Scott Peterson, for the farm of 200 acres which was his wife's old homestead and his present place of residence and which he has made one of the model rural estates of Loudon Township, Carroll County, his record being that of a progressive and successful agriculturist and stock-grower and a liberal and public-spirited citizen. Their only child, Martha Grace, is the wife of Durell C. Algeo and they remain on the home farm of her father, Mr. Algeo being actively associated in the work and management of the farm. He was born in Loudon Township and is a son of George and Salina (Miller) Algeo. Mr. and Mrs. Durell Algeo have two children—Gladys Marie and Leona Grace.
Mr. Montgomery is a democrat in his political proclivities, is an active and influential member of the Amsterdam Grange, of which he is a director, and he is assistant classleader in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Amsterdam.
WILLIAM F. MARTIN. Varied business inter ests carried on over a long period of years give William F. Martin a place of prominence in the affairs of Georgetown, Harrison County. His home and business headquarters are at that village, and he is still engaged in the poultry buying and commission business. He is a ster-
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ling citizen, especially interested in church work, and properly enjoys the esteem of the community.
Mr. Martin was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, October 9, 1853, son of Jonathan and Eliza (Spence) Martin. A complete outline of the family history is given under the name George A. Martin, a brother of William F. Martin. The latter was about sixteen years of age when the family moved to Harrison County. His early education had been acquired in the schools of Jefferson County, and he also attended school for a time from his parents' new home at Georgetown in Short Creek Township. His work became an increasing factor in the parental home and he assisted in the labors of the farm until attaining his majority, when he began farming as a croper. For about fourteen years Mr. Martin gave his •attention principally to the teaming business. Since retiring from that enterprise he has been a buyer of poultry, his buying facilities reaihing out all over Short Creek Township and he ships large quantities of eggs to market from Cadiz. For a number of years he has also bought and sold veal calves.
While never a radical partisan Mr. Martin gives his support to the republican party, and in community affairs takes a loyal interest. Outside of family and business his deepest interest has been in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Georgetown. He has been an active member since he was seventeen, and since he was eighteen has sung in the church choir. He has filled various lay offices in the church and is now a steward and trustee, and at intervals during a period of twenty years has been superintendent of the Sunday School, an office he still holds. He has been active and zealous in all work promoting righteousness morality and temperance.
August 17, 1875, Mr. Martin married Dora Lamb, who was born April 23, 1858, daughter of Lemuel B. and Mrs. Kate (Brooks) Lamb. He was a Civil war veteran in Company C of the First Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, serving four years. He resided in Georgetown from the close of the war until his death, being a city postmaster for twenty- seven years, merchant for forty-five years and county infirmary director two terms, township trustee two terms, and was also township treasurer for several years, a and was a general depository and banker for the community. Mr. Martin was a republican in politics and his religion was with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her mother was born January 17, 1838, and died March 15, 1887. The married life of Mr. and Mrs. Martin continued for a little more than a quarter of a century until Mrs. Martin's death May 26, 1901. To their union were born the following children : Clyde A., born May 22, 1878, a resident of Akron, Ohio, married Bessie Hughes; Carl W., born August 30, 1880, and died August 28, .1881; and Katie L., who was born January 19, 1883. Katie is the wife of Emmet C. George of Georgetown, and their children. Mr. Martin's five, grandchildren, are Frank Earl, born March 22, 1902, Nellie, born March 4, 1904, Willard A., born March 20, 1906, Howard W., born January 12, 1909, and Harry L., born January 1, 1912.
On October 6, 1903, Mr. Martin married Sadie McLaughlin, who was born and reared in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, daughter of William Gilmore and Minnie (Livingston) McLaughlin. Her father was born April 25, 1847, in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and attended Franklin College after leaving the common schools. He has been justice of the peace in Short Creek Township since 1879, and is still acting as such. He takes an active part in all public movements as well as moral and religious movements. The mother of Mrs. Martin was born September 19, 1848, in Monroe County, and died at Georgetown, Harrison County, May 17, 1918. She was a student in Franklin College, a prominent teacher for years and an active Christian worker. Both parents were active in the United Presbyterian Church. They were married June 27, 1872, and the McLaughlin children were: Clyde L., born May 28, 1873, and died January 22, 1881, Sadie M., was born December 3, 1874, Genevra H., born November 29, 1876. died July 11, 1918, survived by her husband, Clinton Dickerson, and two children, Evelyn and Nellie, the latter the wife of Jack T. Boone. William Sewell, born December 30, 1878, married Martha Watson and his children are Raymond, Leonard, Stanton, Clinton, William and Mary. Ralph M., born October 21, 1883, married Lillie Cunningham and has two daughters, Virginia and Margaret. Lida, born August 14, 1885, is the wife of Warren Reichard and was the mother of Genevra now deceased, Elizabeth, Marjorie and Howard Gilmore. Pearl K., born December 10, 1888, is unmarried and lives at home with her father in Georgetown and is active in the Springdale Friends Church as a minister of that faith.
William Gilmore McLaughlin devoted his years to farming in Jeffersan and Harrison counties until 1916, when he removed to Georgementown. He is a son of William J. and Elizabeth (Berry) McLaughlin. His father was born in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, in 1812, and his mother in Washington County, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1815. Elizabeth Berry was a daughter of William G. and Jane (McConnell) Berry. The parents of William. J. McLaughlin were John and Anna (Johnson) McLaughlin, who were married in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1801 and became pioneers of Jefferson County, Ohio, where John McLaughlin achieved prominence and for seventeen years represented the county in, the Ohio Legislature. William J. McLaughlin spent his entire life in Jefferson County, where he died January 15, 1894, and his widow on December 28, 1898. The children of William J. McLaughlin and wife were William G., James A., Samuel, John and Jennie. Jennie became the wife of James L. Hawthorn, and Martha married Alexander Hawthorn, and died in 1895.
The story of the Berry family, with which the McLaughlins are connected by intermarriage, is an interesting one. John Berry married Elizabeth Gilmore, and their son William Gilmore Berry married Jane McConnell in 1804,
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and their daughter Elizabeth Berry became the wife of William J. McLaughlin.
At the age of eighteen years Elizabeth Gilmore and her younger sister Ann left their home in old Ireland and came to America. On the same ship they met John Berry. a young Irishman, on his way to join the Continental army. As soon as the ship reached Philadelphia John Berry enlisted in Washington's army, while the Gilmore sisters joined as nurses, and for seven years the three followed the fortunes of the struggling colonists. A family tradition has it that Elizabeth Gilmore enlisted as a private in the Continental army and that she actually fought in several battles. In whatever capacity she served, official records show that she received pay from the state of Pennsylvania as a private in the army. John Berry and Elizabeth Gilmore were married in 1780 and continued with the army until the close of the Revolution. After peace was declared they settled at Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, lived there until the spring of 1794, and then removed to Washington County. Pennsylvania. John Berry bought a farm in 1796 from George Washington. The original deed for this land is still in the Berry family. John Berry died at his old homestead in southwestern Pennsylvania, June 7, 1809, at the age of fifty-six. His widow died on the same farm August 31, 1823.
WILLIAM F. COMPHER To the thoughtful person, the reading of history carries with it a large measure of enjoyment, be it of nations. communities or individuals, but most particularly is it interesting when it portrays the life and efforts of the family to which he belongs, if that family has had a long and honorable record well worthy of preservation. Such is the situation in regard to one of Harrison County's old and substantial families, that of Compher, that has belonged to Moorefield Township for more than qne hundred years. Its original home was Germany. After immigrating to the United States, it sojourned for a time in Pennsylvania and then removed to Loudon County, Virginia, to which section of the country most interest is attached by the Ohio Comphers, as there was the family seat for many years.
William Compher, father of the late Samuel Compher. was born in Loudoun County, Virginia. July 13. 1796, and was a son of Peter and Maria (Cramer) Compher, who owned and lived on their plantation there until they died. They had a family of five children, two daughters and three sons, John, Peter and William. John Compher married Margaret Spring, who became a widow and married Peter Complrer as her sec, ond husband. In 1817 William Complier married Mary Spring, who was born September 19, 1793, a daughter of Frederick and Barbara (Stoneburner) Spring. Frederick Spring was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. As a youth of sixteen years, William Compher had enlisted in a Virginia regiment for service in the War of 1812. but was taken ill with a fever and after six months was discharged because of this disability,
In the fall of 1817. accompanied by his wife, William Complier left Virginia to seek a home in the rich lands open to settlement in Ohio, and after wearisome travel reached Harrison County, where he entered the northeast quarter of section 22, Moorefield Township, the deed for which bears the date of March 7, 1818. His land was entirely unimproved at the time but he soon had a comfortable log house erected on a cleared space, in which almost all his children were born and in which he lived until 1839, when he built the present commodious brick residence. William Complier was a man of great energy and of marked good judgment. He took part in public affairs and was prominent in church matters, and as time passed acquired one tract of land after the other until he was one of the heaviest tax payers in the township and owned sufficient land to be able to give all his children who reached maturity, an unencumbered farm.
To William and Mary (Spring) Compher the following children were born: Susanna, born January 3, 1818, married Hiram Cecil, died September 21, 1883; John, born February 8, 1819, married Mrs. Amanda M. (Collins) Huston, died July 23, 1902; Elizabeth, born September 19, 1820, married James Sproal, died October 22, 1911; Adam, born May 5, 1821, married Elizabeth Boone, died October 31, 1899; William, born December 13, 1823, married Elizabeth Moore, died November 7, 1868; Miriam, born April 15, 1826, married George W. Win- rod, died March 27, 1903; Peter, born April 25, 1828, married Elizabeth Hall, died November 8, 1913; Jacob, born March 3, 1830, married Mary McAdam, died January 15, 1919; Samuel, born January 28, 1833, died February 15, 1912; Joseph. born March 25, 1835, married Mary E. Smith: and Sarah Jane, born June 27, 1840, died July 20, 1844. The parents of the above family were sturdy, vigorous people into old age, the father dying April 4, 1872, and the mother. August 27. 1877. Originally the family belonged to the German Lutheran Church. After coining to Moorefield Township, William Compher and his wife united with the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, but prior to the Civil war dissention arose over the abolition of slavery question, which caused their withdrawal to the Stillwater Free Presbyterian Church. After the war old contentions were either forgotten or viewed in a Christian spirit, and the Comphers returned to the Nottingham Church.
Samuel Complrer was long one of Moorefield Township’s most respected citizens. He was born, reared and spent his entire life on the land his father had entered from the government his own farm containing 133 acres. He was a man of upright character, an intelligent and thrifty farmer, and a quiet, peace-loving man. greatly attached to his home. While never very active in politics, he was always awake to anything concerning the welfare of his township and ever ready to bear his share as a responsible citizen.
Samuel Compher was married November 28, 1855, to Jane Moore. who was born October 11, 1835, and died August 15, 1864. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Williamson)
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Moore, of Moorefield Township. Four children were born to this marriage, as follows: Mary Elizabeth, who was born October 27, 1856; John La Fayette, who was born May 17, 1859, died July 23, 1879; William B., who was born December 25, 1861, died September 16, 1864; and James L., who was born April 7, 1864. married Jennie M. Green, had one child, Lillie May, and died June 30, 1913.
Mr. Compher's second marriage took place April 18, 1866, to Mary Scott, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hogg) Scott, who was born July 4, 1838, and died July 11, 1866. On December 19, 1867, Mr. Compher was married to Caroline Bethel, who was born October 10, 1838, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Oglevee) Bethel, and three children were born to them, namely: Ella J., who was born October 27, 1868; Addison, who was born March 15, 1872; and William F., who was born July 20, 1875. The mother of the above family died January 28, 1917, the father having passed away February 15, 1912. William F. Addison, Miss Ella J., and their half sister, Miss Mary Elizabeth, reside together on the old homestead, preserving the comfortable old family ways and traditions. They are all highly esteemed in the township and all are members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church.
The ancestors on their mother's side of the above children were among the earliest settlers of America. Bethel family is of Welsh origin, but for many years residents of England. The first Bethel of which we have any special record was James Bethel, third son of Richard Bethel, of York County, England, who at twenty-seven years of age embarked from the port of London August 10, 1635, on the good ship "Safety" with John Graunt as Master, arriving at Jamestown, Virginia, the same year. He married Miss Danbridge, they being the ancestors of the Bethels of America. The Bethels were residents of Virginia for a number of years, and there a great number of their descendants still live.
Edward Bethel, son of James Bethel who was a great-grandchild of the tirst James Bethel of Virginia, moved from Charles City County, Virginia, to Stafford County, Virginia, about ,the year 1800, where he was known as Edwin of the Forest, so called from his residence in the tract of land granted to Lord Culpepper, he immigrated to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Flushing Township, Belmont County, and was the ancestor of the Bethels of Ohio. They followed the pursuit of agriculture, and being of a home- loving disposition remained much in the same community, and at the present time their descendants probably number more than any other family of Eastern Ohio. Edward Bethel was the father of nine children as follows- Henry, Anna Katherine, Elizabeth, Simpson, William, James, Thompson, Katie, and John Thornton.
Simpson Bethel, son of Edward Bethel. was born in Virginia July 23, 1781, and married Nancy Holloway, to this union was born five children: John, Mary. James, Caroline and Hiriam.
John Bethel, son of Simpson and Nancy Holloway Bethel, was born in Stafford County, Virginia, June 29, 1806, he with his parents came to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Athens Township, Harrison County, where the family resided the remainder of their lives. They made the journey in covered wagons through unsettled country over roads that were little more than trails through the new country. John Bethel's educational advantages were limited, but by diligence and perseverance be succeeded in securing an unusual education for that time and engaged in teaching school in the winter and in farming the remainder of the time, and by his energy and good business management he was very successful in both occupations. He married March 7, 1827, Elizabeth Oglevee, a daughter of. John and Mrs. Agnes (Passmore) Patterson Oglevee, who was born February 4, 1804, and died December 5, 1881. His death occurred April 4. 1887. and their remains now rest in the cemetery at Nottingham.
To John and Elizabeth (Oglevee) Bethel the following children were born: Simpson, born December 29. 1827. married Francis Clemens. died September 5. 1905; Agnes, born August 26, 1829. married John Price, died January 20, 1i 03. John Holloway. born November 7. 1831, and died in infancy; Sarah Jane, born February 12. 1834, married Monroe C. Dunn. died June 3. 1898: Mary Ellen. born May 16, 1836, married Samuel Dunlap, died in 1872; Caroline, born. October 10. 1838, married Samuel Compher December 19. 1867. died January 28, 1917; Hiriam. born February 15. 1840, died in infancy; Isaac H.. born September 17. 1843; Elizabeth, born June 18, 1846, married William J. Dunlap.
Mrs. Caroline Compher was a member of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church from childhood. possessing .ii large measure of the Master's spirit. she loved the church dearly, and in her quiet manner gave herself diligently to the work of the Savior’s Kingdom on earth. Her sweet kindly spirit won for her the deepest regard of the entire community and the ardent love of those who knew her best.
EMERSON MCCORT CAPPER. Emerson McCort Capper, owner of a large general and stock farm in Union Township of Carroll County, represents some of the pioneer names of this section of Ohio.
He was born in Perry Township March 7. 1866. son of James and Elizabeth G. (McCort) Capper. the former a native of Perry and the latter of Union Township. His paternal grandparents were David and Mary (Elliott) Capper, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio, and they came to Carroll County more than a hundred years ago, entering Government land in Perry Township. The maternal grandparents were James and Ann (Fawcett) McCort. both natives of Ireland, and they likewise were early settlers in Ohio.
James Capper and wife were married May 30, 1861. and lived for seven years in Perry Township and 1, ter bought land in Union Township. where he owned 240 acres and for many years was a successful grower of livestock. James Capper died December 25, 1903, and his
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widow who was born March 7, 1840, is still living at the old home place.
Emerson McCort Capper, only child of his parents, was well educated, attending Harlem Springs College. October 17, 1889, Mr. Capper married Carrie Fawcett, who was born in Union Township December 4, 1868, daughter of Charles W. and Elsie (Norris) Fawcett also natives of Union Township. Mrs. Capper's grandparents were Alexander and Elizabeth (Brooks) Fawcett, natives of Carroll County, and William and Martha (McComas) Norris, all numbered among the early settlers in Carroll County. Mrs. Capper was the youngest of six children, the others being William W. of Harrison County; James A. of Carrollton, Martha E. and David, both deceased, and Melville S. of Union Township.
After his marriage Mr. Capper bought the old homestead of his father, where he has erected a fine frame house, and has continued to make substantial improvements and carry on the affairs of the farm with commendable prosperity. He is one of the leading growers of Merino sheep in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Capper's children are: Melville B., at home; James W., of Union Township, married Anna Tripp and has two children named Ralph and Wilda ; Charles E., of Union Township; Frank R., of Harrison County; Grace A., Lawrence E., Lester P., David Norris and Kendall, all at home.
Mr. Capper is a trustee of Mount Pleasant Methodist Protestant Church. He has served as township clerk and is now a member of the school board. He is a republican, is active in the Petersburg Grange and is deputy master of the Ohio State Grange. His father during the Civil war served as a member of Company I of the 98th Ohio Infantry.
CARY A. GAMBLE. Carroll County has profited by the stable citizenship and faithful industry of the Gamble family since the beginning of the '60s. Practically all bearing the name have been interested in agriculture, but their services have been extended also to politics, education, religion and society. Cary A. Gamble, a resident of East Township, where he is successfully engaged in farming and stock raising, is a worthy representative of this family and a valued citizen of his community. He was born in East Township, June 19, 1868, and is a son of Jacob M. and Margaret Jane (McMillin) Gamble, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and his maternal grandfather being John McMillin. All were early settlers of this part of Ohio.
Jacob M. Gamble was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, where he was educated, and after growing to manhood married Miss McMillin. who was born in East Township. Following their union, they settled on a farm in Hanover Township, Columbiana County, but after a short residence there Mr. Gamble bought the Joseph Cox farm in East Township, which had been entered by Mr. Fox from the United States Government. Here the parents rounded out long, useful and honorable careers in the pursuits of agriculture, the father passing away
December 18, 1892, and the mother surviving about nine years and dying December 9, 1901. They were the parents of the following children: John A., of Alliance, Ohio; Jane J., the wife of Nathan Rakestraw, of Berlin Center, Ohio; Mary Ann, the wife of Jesse McBride, of East Rochester, Ohio; George W., of Salem, this state; Cary A., of Carroll County; Delbert H., of Salem, Columbiana County.
Cary A. Gamble received his educational training at the Oak Dale district school, taught school for one term, and was reared to farming under the instruction of his father. On March 10, 1892, he married Maggie Stenger, of Loudon Township, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Ann (Wier) Stenger, the latter born in Washington Township, Carroll County. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gamble spent the first summer on the farm of Mr. Gamble's father, then going to Mechanicstown, where for four years Mr. Gamble divided his time between farming and conducting a charcoal kiln. At the end of that period Mr. and Mrs. Gamble returned to the home farm, and in 1898 Mr. Gamble bought eighty acres of that property. This was partly improved, but he added new improvements and more substantial buildings, and in 1913 increased the extent of his holdings by the purchase of an additional twenty-five acres of land. He has continued in the work of clearing the brush and timber, and of building good structures and adding equipment, and at the present time has a valuable and attractive farm, on which he is making a decided success in his general farming operations, as well as in the raising of Holstein cattle. Among his associates and acquaintances he is known as a man of the strictest integrity and the worth and sincerity of his citizenship has never been doubted. He has rendered efficient and valued service to the community in the capacity of township clerk, an office of which he was the incumbent seven years and four months, and likewise acted capably in the position of township trustee, holding that office two terms, and holds the office of assessor at the present time. In politics he is a republican. His fraternal connection is with the Knights of the Maccabees at Augusta, and he also holds membership in the Kensington Grange. Mr. and Mrs. Gamble belong to the Still Fork Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Gamble Is an elder.
Mr. and Mrs. Gamble are the parents of two daughters: Flo Ina, the wife of Ralph Man- full, an agriculturist of Augusta Township, Carroll County; and Eulah Jane, the wife of Earl Long, also farming in that township.
FRANCIS P. WALLACE. The growth of intelligence and sound optimism has advanced agriculture to a combination of art and science, the profound possibilities of which can be but imperfectly mastered by any one man during his comparatively brief span of years. Man, whose faith is pinned to the soil, and whose delight and privilege it is to use its stored fertility for the most enlightened needs of civilization, has brought it to a stage of usefulness unequaled in any other walk of life. To such must come the greatest material satisfactions also, as wit-
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nessed in all prosperous farming communities, of which Carroll County is one of the best examples. Since the early history of this part of the state, certain families have been connected with its continuous advancement, lending color and enthusiasm and splendid purpose to its unfolding prosperity. Of these, in Fox Township, few are better or more favorably known than that of which Francis P. Wallace is a representative.
Mr. Wallace was born on his father's farm in Fox Township, October 31, 1866, a son of John and Mary (Allmon) Wallace, natives of the same township, and a grandson of Isaac and Matilda (Kean) Wallace and B. P. and Elizabeth (Wood) Allmon, all natives of Jefferson County. John Wallace was reared in his native township, where he was educated in the public schools, and where his marriage to Miss Allmon took place. When the Civil war came on he enlisted in Company K, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which organization he served bravely and faithfully to the close of the struggle, in which he was twice wounded, once in the jaw at the Battle of Resaca and once by gun-shot wound in the leg at the battle of Chattanooga. Three of his brothers also served in the Union army during that conflict, William, at home, Francis who died at Vicksburg, and James, who is still living and served three years. On his return from military service Mr. Wallace again took up work on his farm in Fox Township, on which his son, Francis P. was born, and resided there until 1875, when he took the family to a new farm which he had purchased, and which is now owned by his son. Here Mr. Wallace rounded out his worthy and useful career as a tiller of the soil, dying September 1, 1900, aged fifty-eight years, seven months, while his wife survived until December 12, 1919, and was lacking a few days of seventy-six years at her demise. They were the parents of the following children: Francis P.; Emma, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the widow of David McCay; Wilford, of East Liverpool, who married Mary Martin and has had six children—Lola, the wife of William Kirkum, Hugh who is deceased, Otis, Marie, Edith and William; Annie, who married Albert W. Rush of Berkholz, and has seven children—Frank, Wilma, Blaine, Cora, the wife of Paul Madison of Salineville. Harry, John and Clara ; John W., of New Somerset, Ohio, who married Sarah Edmonson and has four children—Clyde, Lester. Margaret and Laura May; and Marie E., who is unmarried and a resident of East Liverpool.
Francis P. Wallace attended the public schools, and from the age of fifteen years until twenty resided with his paternal grandparents at Berkholz. In 1886 he began farming at Bergholz, and continued to be so engaged until his marriage, June 5. 1895, to Mary A. Boyd. who was born at Mooretown, Ohio, November 23, 1871, a daughter of John and Melissa (Hess) Boyd, natives of Amsterdam, Ohio. Mr. Boyd served three years in the Union army during the Civil war. Following his marriage Mr. Wallace continued to farm in the Bergholz community until 1900, in which year he bought out the heirs to the home estate in Fox Town ship, where he is now the owner of Walnut Hill Farm, a splendidly cultivated tract of 200 acres. He carries on general farming and is accounted one of the practical agriculturists of his locality.
Mr. Wallace is a republican in politics and at one period in his career served his township as trustee for one term. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Bergholz, in both of which orders he has numerous friends. He and Mrs. Wallace are consistent members of the United Presbyterian Church. They have three children: Cora May, who is the wife, of Clare H. Snyder, of Canton, Ohio; and Helen C. and John F., who reside with their parents.
DAVID ALLEN FINEFROCK. Visitors in Rose Township of Carroll County have occasion to comment upon and admire the productive farm and the improvements created by David Allen Finefrock. Through hard work and courageous facing of adverse circumstances he has come to independence and a position of esteem, and is a good farmer and an equally good citizen.
Mr. Finefrock, whose home is near Sherodsville, was born on the old Phillipi farm In Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio, near Waynesburg, April 25, 1864. His grandfather, John Finefrock, came out of Pennsylvania and was an early settler in Rose Township of Stark County, and famed that place the rest of his life. He married Elizabeth Ha rpel, and they died within eight hours of each other. Their family consisted of seven sons and three daughters. Of these Nathaniel grew up on the home farm in Stark County, acquired his schooling there, and about 1869 moved to Rose Township in Carroll County, where he married. He followed farming and was also a harness maker by trade. His death occurred in July, 1910, and he was survived by his widow just ten years, until July, 1920.
David A. Finefrock was five or six years of age when brought to Carroll County, and during the winter sessions he attended school in District No. 9, and later was a student in the Magnolia Academy until he was about nineteen. In the meantime he had worked on the farm.
In 1898 Mr. Finefrock married Anne (Tressel) Newhouse, widow of James Newhouse of Cumberland. To their marriage were born three children: Clarence Brice, born in 1899, who died in 1900 at the age of nine months, twenty-three days; Azilla May, born in 1901; and Hazel Lucile, born in 1904, now a pupil in High School. The mother of these children died in 1905. In 1908 Mr. Finefrock married Margaret (Borland) Molls, widow of Joseph Molls and daughter of Washington and Magdalena (Ea sterday) Borland.
After his first marriage Mr. Finefrock rented a place of 150 acres at East Sparta in Stark County, remaining there one year, and then on another place of 150 acres near Sparta for two and a half years. Leaving the farm he moved to Magnolia, and was employed in a brick yard there for three and a half years.
After the death of his wife he returned to the home farm for a year and a half, and in spite of discouragements have always kept his affairs
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moving along and eventually was able to buy and come to his present farm of eighty acres. Mr. Finefrock is an independent republican, usually voting for the man rather than the party. He is a member of the Lutheran Church at Waynesburg.
HARVEY L. THOMPSON was born in Carroll County, Ohio, on June 7, 1842. He was the son of Gabriel D. and Elisabeth (Allen) Thompson who were born in Maryland, and who later removed to and became residents of Carroll County, Ohio, where the following ,children were born, viz.: Gilbert, Lydia Ann, Antoinette, Howard, Bathsheba, Harvey L., Joseph and Sarah A.
Harvey L. Thompson grew up as a farmer's son, acquiring a practical knowledge of farming and also a common school education such as the country schools of that day afforded, and there the seeds of patriotism took deep root in his heart, and he later manifested his loyalty by enlisting in the service of his country on August 13, 1862, as a private in Company A, 126th Regiment O. V. I.
He was promoted to corporal and then to sergeant, and took part in quite a number of the bloodiest battles of the Civil war, among them Harper's Ferry, Second Bull Run, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, Cedar Creek, and many others, and was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. After his discharge in 1865, Mr. Thompson returned home and still desiring a better educational training he entered the Hopedale Normal College at Hopedale, Ohio, in 1865, and later became a student of the Scio College at Scio, Ohio, following which he taught school a few years and then went into business with N. E. Clendennin at Conotton, Ohio, where they conducted a general store.
On August 3, 1871, Harvey L. Thompson was united in marriage to Maria Shambaugh, born August 22, 1844, a daughter of Michael and Hettie (Hazlett) Shambaugh; Michael Shambaugh being one of the sturdy, honest and strictly reliable, as well as successful farmers of Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and whose family were as follows: James, Elizabeth, Mary, Simon B., Adam H., Charlotte, Maria, Jane, John and Philip. Mr. Shambaugh was for many years one of the pillars of the United Brethren Church at New Rumley and led a truly and exemplary life, his family all being reared in this faith and uniting with the church. In 1874 Harvey L. Thompson having been elected treasurer of Harrison County, with his family removed to Cadiz, Ohio, where he served as treasurer for two terms, with a highly creditable record; while Mr. Thompson's aspirations were for a higher education along literary and other educational lines, he sacrificed these in a degree and chose the rural life, purchasing a farm in Archer Township, Harrison County, on which he resided until his death which occurred on February 3, 1907, and which is still known as the home farm. He was a good business man, possessed with rare social qualities, a great reader, and one of Harrison County's prominent men.
Harvey L. and Maria (Shambaugh) Thompson were the parents of the following children:
Simon Edwin, born July 9, 1872, served as recorder of Harrison County six years, he was married to Mildred R. Ryder, of Scio, Ohio, whose children are Andrew R., Marie, Harvey (deceased), Margaret and Frederick, S. Edwin dying in 1910. B. Frank Thompson, born August 28, 1874, married Charlotte A. Probert of Richmond, Ohio, an accomplished musician widely known as a composer and teacher. Their children are Anna Doris, and Harvey Duard. Charles H. Thompson, born November 30, 1876, married Jennie Spence of Jewett, Ohio, their children are Charles Spence and Donald. Mary C., born October 30, 1878, single and living at home. J. Paul, born January 13, 1880, who is now an attorney at Cleveland, Ohio, married Georgella Ikert, of East Liverpool, Ohio. Nellie, who died in 1888, aged six years. Fred A., born June 16, 1888, married Carrie Grove of Jewett, Ohio, their children are as follows: Forrest, Mary Florence, John, Gwen and Eva.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Thompson were members of the Methodist Church of Jewett, Ohio, of which religious organization their children are all members. Mrs. Thompson is a lady of more than ordinary ability and refinement and of a literary and artistic temperament, her natural talents. She still remains on the farm in company with her daughter Mary, and at this writing still radiates an influence for good in all community welfare, and in trying to carry out the desires of her late husband for the best interests of the family and community at large.
FREDERICK L. ROOF. That a main has attained to venerable age is a matter of little more than biographical significance, but if those years which give him this status have borne their evidence of worthy character and worthy achievement, then the life record of that man can not fail to offer both incentive and inspiration. Frederick. L. Roof, who is now living in retirement in the village of Dellroy, Carroll County, has passed the eightieth 'milestone on the journey of life, and in the evening shadows that lengthen from the golden west there is to he discerned in his career the transfiguring glow of large and worthy service as one of the world's workers and the gentle radiance indicative of nobility of character and loyal stewardship. He is one of the venerable native sons still residing within the borders of Carroll County and is in every sense entitled to recognition in this history.
Mr. Roof was born on the old family homestead farm, in Monroe Township, Carroll County, November 28, 1841, and is a son of Frederick and Sarah (Albaugh) Roof, to whom was given a due share of pioneer distinction in this favored section of the Buckeye State when Frederick Roof entered Government land in Jefferson County in 1812. The memory of Mr. Roof compasses much of the period of development and progress in Carroll County, and his boyhood and youth were marked by effective service in connection with the reclamation and other activities of the home farm, the while he attended during the winter terms the pioneer schools of the locality. His sturdy young manhood brought to him the graver duties and re-
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responsibilities born of patriotism, and in 1862 he enlisted, at Carrollton, for service as a soldier in the Civil war. He became a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and thereafter experienced the full tension of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation was preserved, his service having continued until the virtual close of the war, in 1865, in which year he was mustered out and received honorable discharge. After the tragic death of President Lincoln Mr. Roof was one of those honored by appointment to service as bodyguards at the bier of the martyred President, in which connection his service continued twenty-four hours, in alternate watches of four hours' duration. He took part in the second battle of the Wilderness and many skirmishes and other minor engagements, and finally he suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever, as a result of which he was placed in a hospital at Harper's Ferry and was at one time reported dead. He recovered, however, in due course of time and after his return to his native county he married Miss Sarah Ann Tressel, daughter of Daniel and Abbie (Alfred) Tressel. The marriage was solemnized in the year 1867, and concerning the children resultant therefrom it may be stated that the eldest is Daniel Ira, who married Miss Bird Eick, of Tuscarawas County, their home being now at Canton, that county, and their one child, Gladys, being a young woman of eighteen years at the time of this writing, in the winter of 1920-21. Emmet C., the second son, is individually mentioned in an appending review. Ada Florence is the wife of Alva Hoobler, of Rose Township, Carroll County, and their daughter Zana is the wife of Jeremiah Baxter, of Dellroy, and they have two children, Earl and Wayne. Lloyd Clark Hoobler, their son, is again residing in Carroll County, after having served loyally as an American soldier in connection with the great World war, he being an active member of the American Legion. Daisy May is the wife of Walter Beatty, of East Liverpool, Ohio, and they have four children: Frederick David, Donald, Dorothy, and Elizabeth. William Howard, the fourth son, resides at Dellroy. Maude Pearl died in childhood, on the 1st of January, 1885. Grover Cleveland is actively associated with farm industry in Center Township, Carroll County. Alfred Loy and Lewis Franklin, youngest of the sons, are specifically mentioned in sketches that follow this article.
Frederick L. Root, to whom this review is dedicated, gave virtually his entire active career to the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, in connection with which he gained substantial success and high standing. After the close of the Civil war he resumed his association with the activities of the old home farm, which comprised at that time 160 acres. This property came into his possession and with the passing years he added gradually to the area of his landed estate in Carroll County until it comprised 280 acres. This finely improved property still continues in his possession, and offers lasting evidence of his ability and progressiveness as a farmer and business man. He has so ordered his course in all of the relations of life as to merit and receive the unqualified esteem of his fellow men, and has been a loyal and public-spirited citizen. He has never deviated from the line of strict allegiance to the cause of the democratic party, and while not imbued at any time with desire for office, his civic loyalty was shown in his effective service as trustee of Monroe Township. He and his wife are earnest communicants of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, in Rose Township. He remained on the old home farm until 1916 and since that year has lived retired in a pleasant home in the Village of Dellroy.
EMMET C. ROOF. In the preceding brief review of the career of his honored father is given adequate information concerning the honored pioneer family of which Emmet Clark Roof is a popular representative in Carroll County, where his activities are centered on his excellent farm of 120 acres, in Rose Township, and situated on rural mail route No. 1 from the Village of Sherodsville.
On the old family homestead farm in Monroe Township, Carroll County, Emmet C. Roof was born September 30, 1871, and an appreciable part of his active career has been marked by continued and successful alliance with the basic industry of farming, under the influences of which he was reared. In the Atwood District School of Monroe Township, Mr. Roof applied himself to study in the gaining of his rudimentary education, and from the age of ten years to that of sixteen he attended the Atwood School. In the meanwhile he had not lacked practical discipline in connection with the work of the home farm, and after leaving school he continued to be identified with its operations until he had attained to his legal majority. Thereafter he gained broadening experience by means of his travels and services in the capacity of stationary engineer, to which work he gave his attention sixteen years. Within this interval he worked at various places. including Akron and Cambridge, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, besides which he followed his vocation for a time in connection with coal mine operations in different sections of Ohio. From 1901 to 1903 he was a conductor on the street-car lines of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He finally returned to his native county and to the vocation with which the family name has here been long and prominently identified. In 1911 Mr. Roof purchased a farm of 114 acres In Rose Township, but in 1914 be purchased and removed to his present model farm of 120 acres, in the same township. Here he has since continued to put forth his best efforts as a vigorous and progressive agriculturist and stock-grower, and he takes loyal interest in all things touching the welfare of his home township and native county. He has had no ambition for political preferment but is a stalwart in the local ranks of the democratic party, besides which he is found actively affiliated with the Atwood Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and the Carroll County Farm Bureau.
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In May, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Roof to Mrs. Olive (Bartchy) Motter, widow of Henry E. Motter and a daughter of John J. and Ida (Stewart) Bartchy, the latter a daughter of the late Dr. E. P. Stewart, of Carroll County, Ohio. Mrs. Roof was born at Bakersville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1882, and she was nineteen years of age at the time of her graduation in the high school. Mr. and Mrs. Roof have no children, but their pleasant rural home is brightened by the presence of Mrs. Roof's three children by her first marriage—Rosa Elba, Evelyn Ida and Harry Blake.
ALFRED L. ROOF is associated with his youngest brother, Lewis F., in progressive farm enterprise on one of the fine landed estates of Monroe Township, Carroll County, where they utilize in their operations a tract of 280 acres, besides which the subject of this sketch individually owns eighty-nine acres in the same township. The brothers are numbered among the most enterprising and successful farmers of the younger generation in their native township and on other pages of this work individual mention is made also of the younger brother.
Alfred Loy Roof was born on the old homestead farm, in Monroe Township, October 20, 1888, and was the fifth in order of birth of the six sons and two daughters of Frederick L. and Sarah (Tressel) Roof. Alfred L. received the advantages of the district schools and attended the village schools of Dellroy for one term. At the age of twenty-four years he initiated an apprenticeship to the trade of telegraphist, at Bayard, Columbiana, County, and after perfecting himself in the art he continued to be employed two years as an operator in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Within this period he held positions at various places, including Alliance, Malvern, Waynesburg, Steubenville, Brilliant, Martins Ferry and Yorkville. Thereafter he passed one year as a tire builder for one of the great rubber-manufacturing companies in the City of Akron, and he then returned to the old home farm, in the operations of which he is now associated with his youngest brother, under partnership relations. The brothers exemplify utmost vigor and progressiveness as agriculturists and stock-growers and are contributing materially to the prestige of their native county as a center of farm industry. Mr. Roof is a staunch democrat, is affiliated with the Grange at Atwood, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church in Rose Township, of which he is serving as a trustee.
The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Roof to Miss Floy Sharp, daughter of Samuel
C. and Margaret Elizabeth (Beamer) Sharp, of Sherodsville, and they have a fine little son, Chester Loyd, who was born In 1917.
LEWIS F. ROOF is a young man who is fortified with the energy and practical experience which conserve success in connection with productive farm enterprise, and in this basic field of industry he is associated, under partnership alliance, with his brother, Alfred L., of whom individual mention is made on preceding pages. They have active charge of the fine old homestead farm of 280 acres, in Monroe Township, Carroll County. On this farm Lewis Franklin Roof was born, the youngest of the six sons and two daughters of Frederick L. and Sarah (Tressel) Roof.
Mr. Roof was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and in the meanwhile continued to attend the Atwood public school until he had attained to the age of seventeen years. He has been continuously associated with the activities of the old home farm from his boyhood to the present time and here is a vital and progressive exponent of modern methods and policies of agriculture and live-stock enterprise. He is a staunch democrat, and his personal popularity in the home community was significantly shown when, in the fall of 1919, he was elected trustee of his native township, for the regular term of two years. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Village of Dellroy.
June 12, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Roof to Miss Myrtle W. McQueen, daughter of John H. and Cora A. (Teeter) McQueen, of Dellroy, and the one child of this union is Wayne Francis, who was born in the year 1916.
WILLIAM BIGGER is one of the progressive farmers whose activities give to Archer Township a distinct prestige as one of the most attractive and productive divisions of Harrison County, and further interest attaches to his achievement by reason of the fact that he is a native of this township, where his birth occurred on the 22d of April, 1869. His father, John M. Bigger, was born in Crawford County, Ohio, September 29, 1839, and his mother, whose maiden name was Jennie Mitchell, was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, October 31, 1845, a daughter of Robert and Eliza Jane (Atkinson) Mitchell. Robert Mitchell was born in Archer Township, as a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of Harrison County, and here his death occurred in 1894, his widow, likewise a native of Archer Township, having passed away in August, 1904, Robert Mitchell was born January 5, 1816, and was a son of John and Mary (Hines) Mitchell, whose marriage was solemnized in Cadiz Township, this county, where the latter's father, Rudolph Hines, was an early settler. James Mitchell was born in Scotland and was a youth when he came to America. After remaining for a time in Maryland he came to Ohio and located at Steubenville, whence he shortly afterward came to Harrison County. He reclaimed and improved one of the fine farms of the county and here both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been zealous members of the Seceder Church. later known as the United Presbyterian Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the whig party. He died at the age of seventy- two years. His brother, Robert, served under Gen. William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812. Robert Mitchell, son of John, passed his entire life in Archer Township, where he became a representative farmer and influential citizen, his political support having been given
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to the republican party and both he and his wife having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church. Of thol: five children Jennie. the mother of William Bigger, was the firstborn, her marriage to John M. Bigger having been solemnized February 2. 1865. Her death occurred June 30, 1871, and her infant child died on the 22d of the following month, and two children, Laura and William, survived her.
John M. Bigger was a son of William and Sarah (Dunlap) Bigger. William Bigger was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and remained in the old Keystone State until he came to Ohio and numbered himself among the pioneer farmers of Crawford County, where he remained until his death. Thereafter his widow removed with her children to Jefferson County, their children having been six in number—Leander, Samuel, John M., Joseph, Sarah (Mrs. John A. Kithcart), and Helen, the last named having remained unwed. William Bigger was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, from which his widow eventually transferred her membership to the Presbyterian Church, of which her children likewise became members, she having passed the closing years of her life in Jefferson County.
John M. Bigger was a young man when he came from Jefferson County to Harrison County, and he passed the remainder of his life in Archer Township. He followed the trade of carpenter, besides becoming the owner of one of the excellent farms of the township, and he was one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of the county at the time of his death, on the 3d of May, 1916. Of the children the eldest is Laura E., who 'is the wife of John William Freshwater and has one daughter, Mary Helen; William, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; the next child, a son. died at birth; and Jennie L., who was born June 21, 1871, died on the 22d of the following month, as previously noted.
William Bigger acquired his early education in the district schools of Archer and Cadiz Townships, and he has been actively associated with farm industry from his youth to the present time. In the late '80s he initiated his independent activities as a farmer, in Archer Township, and since 1908 he has resided on his present fine farm of eighty-three acres, upon which he has made many improvements, including the remodeling and repairing of the buildings. The attractive home is situated about one and one-half miles northeast of Cadiz, the county seat, and in that village Mr. and Mrs. Bigger are active members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bigger is loyal and liberal in support of all things tending to advance the welfare of his home community and native county, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party.
November 3, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Bigger to Miss Maude Chaney, daughter of James and Margaret (Haines) Chaney, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the former was born February 24. 1831, and the latter on the 27th of April, 1841. James Chapey became one of the representative farmers in Cadiz Township, but passed the last few years of his life in Green Township, where his death occurred August 30, 1902. his widow having passed to the life eternal on the 14th of February, 1906, and both having been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of these children—N. A., Mary H. (Mrs. John A. Dunlap), William, James Beatty, Oscar E., Maude (Mrs. William Bigger), and Laura Belle (died May 26, 1903). Mr. and Mrs. Bigger became the parents of six children—Wilma, Lucille, Robert Clayton, Clarence, Bertha Irene and John M. Lucille is the wife of Walter Patterson and they have three children. Laura Louise and Mary Lee and Margaret Irene, the latter two being twins, born December 21, 1920. Robert Clayton Bigger was one of the young men of Harrison County who were called into the nation's service in connection with the World war. He entered Camp Sherman on the 5th of September. 1918. and there his death occurred on the 2d of the following month, he having been a victim of the epidemic of influenza. Clarence Bigger married Miss Nellie Carson and they reside at Cadiz and have one daughter, Grace Elizabeth, born February 12, 1920.
JOHN YOUNG. A man of sterling ability and worth, John Young holds high rank among the more progressive agriculturists and able business men of Stock Township. and is in all respects a valuable citizen of his community, fulfilling his duties as such with fidelity. A son of the late Robert G. Young, he was born July 6, 1864, in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, of Irish ancestry.
His paternal grandfather, also named John Young, was born, bred and educated in Ireland. Having married at an early age, and feeling the need of broader opportunities for 'supporting his young and growing family, he immigrated, soon after the birth of his third child, to the United States, and located, with his family, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Coming from there to Ohio, he bought land in Stock Township, Harrison County, and having partly cleared the farm now owned and occupied by his grandson, he there continued a tiller of the soil until his death, June 10, 1861. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Martha McDoogal, nine children were born, as follows— John, William. Jared. Robert G., Leonard, Mary, Susan, Jane, and Elizabeth.
Born in Washington County, Pennyslvania, on February 11, 1822, Robert G. Young came with his parents to Stock Township in boyhood. and bravely assisted his father in the pioneer labor of redeeming a farm from the wilderness. In 1852. desirous of trying the hazard of new fortunes. he. with his brother Leonard, his brother-in-law, George Sproul, James McDoogal and two other companions trekked across the country from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Sacramento. California. with an ox team, being six months on the road. The majority of the little band subsequently returned to Ohio, his brother Leonard, however, being accidentally drowned while on the return trip. After a stay of seven years in the Golden State, Robert
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G. Young returned to Stock Township, and, with the exception of one year spent in Tuscarawas County, and two years in Washington Township, Harrison County, was engaged in farming on the parental homestead, where his death occurred on September 16, 1884.
Robert G. Young married Mary Jane Sproul, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of William and Sarah (Gillis) Sproul, and they became the parents of three children, namely: James S., John, with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned; Mary, wife of L. W. Baker.
Brought up on the home farm, John Young acquired his early education in Stock Township, attending the Posy Hill School very regularly. Having obtained a practical knowledge of the agricultural arts while working with his father, he migrated, in 1889, to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he was engaged in farming for nearly four years. Returning then to Stock Township, Mr. Young bought the ancestral homestead, and in its management has since taken great pleasure, as a general farmer and stock raiser having met with far more than average success. On his finely cultivated farm of 257 1/2 acres, he has made improvements of value, his attractive home having steam heat, and running hot and cold water, the whole estate having an air of neatness and prosperity that never fails to attract the attention of the passer-by.
On June 11, 1888, Mr. Young was united in marriage with Anna Baker, who was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Henry Baker. A native of Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio. Mr. Baker bought land in Washington Township as a young man, and was there prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, January 9, 1892. He married Esther Woods, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Baker had a family of twelve children, as follows: Margaret Anna, who lived but a few years; Thomas; Mary; Eli died in infancy; Sarah; Oscar died in infancy; Ezirah; Arminda Jane; Emmett; Anna, who became the wife of Mr. Young; Lemrick and Ida.
Five children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Young, namely: Bessie D., wife of Russell E. Blackwell, who served in the World war for twenty-two months, going overseas with his command; Robert H., engaged in farming with his father, married Bessie Maier- nee, and they have one child, Anna Maxine; Mary Elizabeth lived but five months; Ida F. married Ray R, Walker, a soldier in the World war for ten months, served in France, and on three occasions went over the top; and Grace Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Young are worthy members of the Presbyterian Church at Deersville, and generous contributors towards its support.
HORACE A. PENNOCK was a native of Carroll ,County and a representative of the third generation of the Pennock family in this county, with whose civic and industrial development and progress the family name has been worthily , and prominently linked. He was born in Augusta Township, April 9, 1848, and is a son of Joel and Charlotte (Van Horn) Pennock, both of whom passed their entire lives in Carroll County. Joel Pennock was a son of Enoch and Rebecca (Pennock) Pennock, who were born in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1816 Enoch Pennock and his brothers George and Nathaniel came from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to what is now Carroll County, where they took up a large tract of land in the present Augusta Township, the greater part of this land being still in possession of the Pennock family, by representatives of which it was reclaimed from the virgin forest and developed into the fine farm property of the present day. Enoch Pennock here remained until his death, in 1865; George Pennock died at the age of forty-eight years; and Nathaniel, who remained a bachelor, survived his brother George by three years. In Chester County, Pennsylvania, the ancestor of Horace A. Pennock was granted a tract of land in recognition of his service as a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and the same lofty patriotism has characterized the Pennock family in all succeeding generations.
Joel Pennock was reared on the old pioneer homestead which was the place of 'his birth, made good use of the advantages afforded in the common schools of the period, and as a youth he learned the trade of wagonmaker, which he followed in connection with his farm enterprise for a number of years. He was one of the honored and influential citizens of Augusta Township, was a republican in politics from the time of the organization of the party until his death, served twenty-four years as justice of the peace, and both he and his wife were birthright members of the Society of Friends, to the faith of which they ever adhered with consistent devotion. They became the parents of seven children—Mary, Horace A., Isaac N., Willard, Martha, Sarah Rebecca and Almira, and the latter died at the age of four years; Roy Joel Pennock died when about sixty years of age and his wife passed away at the age of eighty-two years.
Horace A. Pennock passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm and in addition to attending the rural schools of Augusta Township he was for two terms a student in Harlem College, at Harlem Springs. In company with his brothers Isaac N. and Willard he became a successful contractor in the building of cars for different railroad corporations, and with this line of industrial enterprise he continued his active association for a quarter of a century. Thereafter he was engaged in the erection of houses and other buildings, as a representative contractor in his native county, but he gained special prominence as a railroad mechanic and contractor, his paternal grandfather having followed this line of work to a considerable degree in the early days of railroad operations. He formerly owned about eighty acres of land in and adjacent to the village 'of Minerva, and he retained .a tract of eight acres in the village, where, as a contractor, he erected many of the houses that add to the attractions of the place.
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The most of the houses which he thus built are situated on Valley Street, and on this thoroughfare his own attractive home was situated.
Mr. Pennock was unwavering in his allegiance to the republican party and for twenty-three years he held the office of Justice of the peace, besides which he served several terms as mayor of Minerva. He has lived for many years on the last farm which his father owned, in and contiguous to Minerva, and much of the land is now platted into village lots. He was continuously in his native county save for an interval of ten years passed in the oil districts of Pennsylvania, in Butler County.
On the 26th of September, 1868, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Pennock to Miss Melinda Harriett Long, who was born in Carroll County, in 1849, and whose death occurred in August, 1899, she having been a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of this union were born three children: Percy L., who was born January 26, 1872, is now in the grocery business in Minerva, the maiden name of his wife having been Mary Hotchkiss, and their one child being a son, Percy L., Jr. Lundy L., who was born May 28, 1877, and who is a traveling salesman, resides in Chicago, the maiden name of his wife having been Florence Bider. Hattie E., who was born March 7, 1888, received, like her brothers, the advantages of the public schools of Minerva and later was graduated in a high school in Pennsylvania, where the family home was at that time established. She was for six years a popular teacher in the schools of Carroll County and in 1910 she became the wife of Orrin C. Gotschall, their home being maintained at Minerva, Ohio.
On the 14th of February, 1902. Horace A. Pennock was united in marriage to Miss Angeline DeFord, a daughter of Alonzo L. and Mary A. (Pennock) DeFord, the latter a daughter of George Pennock, one of the three brothers who, as previously noted in this article, settled in Carroll County more than a century ago. John and Matilda (Littell) DeFord, grandparents of Mrs. Pennock, likewise were pioneers of this county. Mr. Pennock died March 17, 1921, and was buried in the old cemetery at Minerva. Mrs. Pennock will make her future home at Alliance, Ohio.
It should be stated that Mr. Pennock became widely known in former years as a breeder of fine draft and road horses, a line of enterprise to which he gave special attention for many years. within which he owned at times from six to eight of the best stallions he could purchase. He was one of the loyal and public-spirited men of his native county and a popular representative of one of its honored pioneer families.
HAMILTON R. BLAZER. Since its establishment in Carroll County many years ago, the Blazer family has unfailingly sustained the most intelligent and practical interests of the community in agriculture and in citizenship. Its men have demonstrated the worth of industry and integrity, and its women have kept their houses in order and taught their children to be fair. honest and considerate in their dealings with their fellow-men. It was in such an at mosphere of encouragement that Hamilton R. Blazer, for many years an agriculturist of Washington Township, but since 1910 superintendent of the Carroll County Infirmary, was reared by his parents, Philip Burget and Mary (Bothwell) Blazer.
Mr. Blazer was born in Center Township, Carroll County, in April, 1855. His grandparents, Basil and Jane (Burget) Blazer, were natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Jefferson County, Ohio, at an early date and there rounded out their careers in the pursuits of the soil. Philip Burget Blazer was born in Jefferson County, and in young manhood removed to Lee Township, Carroll County, where he met and married Mary Bothwell, who was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a daughter of George and Jane (Armstrong) Bothwell, natives of Ireland who after a stay in Pennsylvania came to Carroll County and here passed the declining years of their lives. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Blazer settled in Lee Township, but later moved to Center Township, where Mr. Blazer carried on farming until his death, May 10, 1889. By his first marriage, to Mary Allman, he had five children: William, James, Basil, Silas and Anna Mary, all of whom are deceased with the exception of Basil, who is a resident of Dellroy, Ohio. Philip B. and Mary (Bothwell) Blazer became the parents of eight children, namely : Hamilton R.; Thomas, of Center Township; David, of Carrollton; Joseph, deceased; Howard, of Stark County; Ohio; Morris B.. of Washington Township; John, of Center Township; and George W., deceased.
Hamilton R. Blazer acquired his educational training at the Possum Hollow district school in Center Township and remained on the home farm until his marriage, following which he rented land. At the time of his father's death, in the division of the elder man's estate, he received an inheritance of 130 acres in Washington Township. on which he carried on successful operations until 1910. In that year, when appointed superintendent of the Carroll County Infirmary, he sold his farm, and for eleven years has devoted himself uninterruptedly to the care of the county wards placed in his charge. Mr. Blazer has acquitted himself in an able manner in discharging the duties and responsibilities of his office and his record is that of a capable, conscientious and thorough public official. Formerly be was for many years a member of the agricultural board of Carroll County. When still in his infancy be was taken to the County Fair by his parents, and since then has not failed to attend every event of this kind held in Carroll County. In politics Mr. Blazer is an adherent of republican principles. His religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On December 6, 1877, Mr. Blazer was united in marriage with Miss Anna Moorhead, who was born in Lee Township, Carroll County, daughter of Abraham and Martha (Ralston) Moorhead, the former a native also of Lee Township and the latter of the state of West Virginia. To this union there have been born three children: Martha, the wife of Charles Moorhead of Los Angeles, California ; Zink. W.,
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of Carrollton; and Grace, who died at the age of twenty-eight years, as the wife of Paul George.
HENRY BRACHIN was one of the prosperous farmers of Union Township during many years of his useful life, and through his industry, thrift and good management accumulated a competency which left his family in comfortable circumstances when he died. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a son of Cornelius and Rebecca (Brooks) Brachin, natives of Ireland, who came to the United States about 1816. and located in Washington County, Pennsylvania, but soon thereafter moved to Salem, Ohio, and later to Carroll County where they bought a farm in Union Township. Subsequently Cornelius Brachin went to Iowa to enter land from the Government, but died on the way to that state. His widow passed away on the homestead. Of their nine children, one survives, namely: Rebecca, who is the wife of Dr. Jasper Tope of Petersburg, Ohio.
Growing up in Union Township, Henry Brachin attended its country schools, and remained on the home farm until his marriage, when he bought 160 acres of land in Union Township, but had to pay for it by installments, and at the same time he was doing this he looked after his mother as long as she lived. The farm had an old house on it, which Mr. Brachin later rebuilt, and he erected all of the other buildings now standing. At the time he secured it the land was nearly all covered with timber, which he cleared off, he erected the fences and made many other improvements, so that when he died in July, 1886, he left a valuable property. He was an upright, Christian man and a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he long served as a trustee. In politics a republican, he was active in his party, and served at one time as township assessor.
On October 18, 1860, Henry Brachin was married to Sarah Jane Lindsey of Monroe Township, a daughter of John and Mary (Rutledge) Lindsey, natives of Ireland, and William and Jane (Crosier) Rutledge, who were among the earliest settlers of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Brachia became the parents of the following children: Richard, who died at the age of eighteen years; Margaret, who died in infancy; James W. and Cornelius W., both of whom have been assisting their mother to operate the homestead since the death of their father; Rebecca, who is the widow of Elmer Tripp of Orange Township; and Martha E., who is Mrs. John Swinehart of ferry Township. All the members of the Brachin family are held in high esteem, and Mrs. Brachin has every reason to be proud of her children, for they are a credit to her and her husband.
JOSHUA DAVIS. Although the well-directed labor of Joshua Davis belongs to the past rather than the present of Linton Township, innumerable evidences abound of his sojourn within its boundaries, and particularly of his diligence in developing the farm now owned by his sons, Alpha and Newton Davis. Mr. Davis had a keen and practical business mind and probably understood as well how to get the most out of his land and general opportunities as any resident of the township. Moreover, he was a man of sterling integrity and high ideals of citizenship, an individual who could not fail to have an influence for good in the community in which his home was made for so many years.
Mr. Davis was born on a farm in Union Township, in 1857, and was a small child when his parents died and he was placed among strangers. His educational advantages were confined to intermittent attendance at the district schools, and his status until his marriage was that of an employe on the farms of others. After his marriage he gathered together his modest resources and engaged in renting, which he followed for some years, but after the death of his wife's parents he bought the old Fawcett homestead in Union Township, a tract of 163 acres, on which he began at once to make improvements. The old house was destroyed by fire, and in 1891 Mr. Davis erected the present frame residence, after which he erected other structures and installed modern equipment, making the property an attractive and valuable one. He was an earnest, hard-working man, who concerned himself chiefly with the interests of his farm, although he was at all times public-spirited and when he died, July 6, 1910, his community lost a man who had done much to further its welfare. He was a republican in politics, although not a politician, and a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On February 17, 1870, Mr. Davis married Miss Sarah J. Fawcett, who was born in Union Township, daughter of Henry Fawcett, an early settler of that township. She died April 2, 1916, leaving three sons: Henry, of Perry Township; and Alpha and Newton, of Union Township, the former born August al, 1878, and the latter born June 20, 1890. Neither Alpha nor Newton are married. They are republicans and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Alpha belongs to the Petersburg Grange. The sons are operating the home farm jointly and successfully, have developed many of the substantial traits of their honored father, and have won the regard and esteem of their fellow-citizens because of their industry and integrity.
THOMAS G. DONALDSON. No better gauge of a man's character can be afforded than the fact that he is chosen by his close associates to act as guardian of their children, assignee and administrator of their estate, and their representative in other trusts. It is not until a man has fully proven his dependability and uprightness that he is so selected, and were there no other distinguishing features of the busy life of Thomas G. Donaldson, one of the substantial farmers of Fox Township, and for some years a notary public, he would have the right to claim the respect of his fellow citizens. However, he has accomplished other things, and has been connected with much of the constructive work of his section of Ohio.
Thomas G. Donaldson was born in Fox Township, September 18, 1840, a son of Rev. John
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and Jane (Hamill) Donaldson, natives of Scotland and Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and grandson of William and Janet Donaldson, natives of Scotland. In 1816 they came to the United States, and settled in New York Slate. Rev. John Donaldson was an associate Presbyterian minister, and came as a missionary to Ohio. at an early day. About 1823 or 1824 he bought a tract of land containing 130 acres on section 32, Fox Township, which was partly improved, a portion of it from Robert George, and the remainder from the latter's brother. Although he owned the farm, it was conducted by his sons, as he continued his ministerial duties, and had charge of three congregations. The maternal grandparents were John and Susan (Sloan) Hamill, who were born in Pennsylvania, east of the Allegheny mountains, in Bedford County. Later they moved to Mercer County, that state, where he was elected sheriff, and he maintained his residence in the vicinity of Xenia, Ohio, for some time prior to his death.
On December 31, 1871, Rev. John Donaldson died, but his wife survived him until June, 1884, when she, too, passed away. Their children were as follows: Thomas G., who was the eldest; Frances, who live in Lyons, Kansas, is the widow of Hamilton Walker. By a former marriage with Mildred Goodwillic, Rev. Mr. Donaldson had the following children: Beatrice, who is deceased; Richard B., David, John and William, all of whom are also deceased.
Thomas G. Donaldson has always resided on the homestead, with the exception of about two years spent attending private schools, and one term when he was in school at Westminster, Ohio. In 1861 he bought this homestead, which was improved, but since then has put up all of the present buildings. In addition to the 130 acres in the home place he also owns forty acres on section 31 which he uses as pasture land. He has always carried on general farming, and raised Merino sheep, horses, cattle and hogs.
Mr. Donaldson has many interests, however, outside his farm, and for thirty-six years was a justice of the peace. Since 1908 he has been a notary public, and for two terms was township clerk, and has always been active in the republican party. He has discharged in all fifty-one fiduciary trusts as guardian, assignee, administrator and executor of estates in Carroll and Jefferson counties, and has written more than sixty wills. During the war between the two sections of the country, he served as captain of the state militia. For eight terms he taught school in Fox Township, and two terms in Washington Township, and was considered a capable educator. Mr. Donaldson was appointed by Governor Bushnell of Ohio, as a member of The Ohio Centennial Commission to represent the 16th District in the preparation required for holding an Ohio Centennial Exposition at Toledo, Ohio, in 1903. He made a report to the governor on the forestry in the state and he served as one of the directors of the Carroll County Fair Board for six years.
September 2, 1865, Mr. Donaldson was married to Sarah George, who was born in Fox Township, a daughter of Andrew S. George, who was born in Fox Township, and Ann (Robbins) George, who was born in Lee Township, and a granddaughter of Robert and Sarah (Ramsey) George, natives of Washington County, Pennsylvania, who came to Carroll County, and entered a tract of land from the government in Fox Township, in 1809. The maternal grandparents were John and Sarah (Crabb) Robbins, who were born in Jefferson County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson became the parents of the following children : John Goodwillie, who was born April 18, 1867, died in July, 1915; Anna, who died at the age of six years; Eliza Jane, who was born in January, 1871, is Mrs. Frank S. Robbins of Fox Township; Frances F., who was born February 21, 1873, died at the age of six years; Andrews George, who was born March 16, 1875, is a dental surgeon of Cleveland, Ohio; Sarah Bell, who was born April 14, 1877, is the wife of Rev. W. J. Engle of New Sheffield, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; Minnie Dunn, who was born February 23, 1879, lives at Denver, Colorado; Walter Mitchell, who was born June 20. 1881, lives at New Franklin, Ohio; Ida Estella, who was born September 21, 1883, is Mrs. Clarence D. Barr, of Birmingham, Alabama : Ralph Thomas, who was born May 17, 1886, conducts the home farm; and Bertha Nelson, who was born August 28, 1889, is at home. Mrs. Donaldson attended the district school of Fox Township. Mr. Donaldson is a member and elder of the United Presbyterian Church, and is very active in forwarding its good work. His manifold duties have brought him into contact with many people and his name is a well-known one all over this part of the state, and stands for good citizenship, upright moral character and a high order of administrative ability.
STEWART HESS. Since acquiring his first tract of land in Carroll County, Stewart Hess has secured excellent financial results and has evidenced a broad knowledge of agricultural science. Many years of practical experience contribute to his agricultural equipment, and his entire life has been spent in the free and independent atmosphere of the country. At the present time he is the owner of a splendid property consisting of 151 acres, all in Union Township, where Mr. Hess is well known for his public-spirit and modern tendencies.
Mr. Hess was born on a farm in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, September 21, 1862, a son of Moses and Susan (Dayhuff) Hess, the latter a native of Loudon Township, and a grandson of Daniel Hess. Moses Hess was born on the line between Harrison and Carroll counties, Ohio, and during the Civil war left his farm in Carroll County and enlisted in a volunteer infantry regiment from Ohio. He met a soldier's death in battle. and was not survived long by his young widow, who passed away in 1900. Stewart Hess was only seven years of age when he was put out among strangers, and his educational advantages were somewhat meager, although he attended the district schools and made the most of his opportunities. He was reared on the farm and in the home of the Smith brothers, in Union Township, with
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whom he lived until his marriage, in August, 1887, to Margaret A. Tope, of that township, daughter of Hiram and Eliza (Bracken) Tope, natives of Carroll County.
Following his marriage, Mr. Hess purchased a farm of eighty-five acres, located in Union Township, on which he erected all the present buildings With the exception of the bar. These are modern in architecture and material and substantial in character as well as pleasing in appearance and add much to the attractiveness of the place, as do the various other modern improvements made by Mr. Hess ,in the way of equipment, machinery, etc. From time to time, as his finances have permitted, Mr. Hess has added to his holdings, and now has 151 acres, all in one body with the exception of twenty- five acres, this small tract lying in another part of Union Township. While Mr. Hess is a general farmer, he has also found profit and enjoyment in specializing along certain lines. As a raiser of Jersey cattle and a good grade of horses, sheep and hogs, he has produced a product that meets with a ready and immediate market, and in his extensive poultry yard he has large flocks of Buff Orpington and White Leghorn chickens. He is an industrious and level-headed landsman, honorable in all of his dealings, and has the unqualified respect and esteem of all with whom he has come into contact in a business or social way.
By his first marriage, Mr. Hess had two children: Harry S., a resident of Canton, Ohio; and Florence, the wife of Herbert Widder, of Willoughby, this state. Mrs. Hess died July 20, 1896, and in 1900 Mr. Hess married Ella J. Maple, who was born in Union Township, daughter of James and Janet (Lotz) Maple, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Moody) Maple. Four children have been born to this union: Naomi, who is a popular and efficient teacher in the public schools of the country districts of Carroll County: Perry Linn, who resides at home and assists his father in the work of the farm; Dorothea Janette, who lives with her parents and attends school; and Ray Mont who died at the age of two years. fifteen days.
Mr. and Mrs. Hess are consistent members of St. John's Lutheran Church, in which he has served for some years. A friend of education, Mr. Hess has also been a member of the school board, and has likewise served his township very efficiently as township trustee, having filled that office for three terms. In politics he is a democrat. His only social membership is with Petersburg Grange. in which he has numerous friends and in the work of which he takes a great interest.
JAMES C. MAYES has had the practical experience and the fortifying prerequisite of scientific
study that insure him a maximum of success in his enterprise as a fruit-grower in his native county, and there is certain to be a marked measure of leadership on his part in connection with this special field of industrial enterprise, with which he has here been identified for a number of years but in which he is preparing to amplify and advance his productive service, on one of the fine farm estates of Loudon Township, Carroll County. He was born in this township, on the 12th of July, 1876, and in both the paternal and maternal lines is a representative of sterling pioneer families of this favored section of the Buckeye State. He is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Seaton) Mayes, both likewise natives of Loudon Township, where the father was born on the same farm as was his son James C., who is an only child. The paternal grandparents were James and Elizabeth (Gray) Mayes, the former a native of County Donegal, Ireland, and the latter of the city of Berlin, Germany, their marriage having been solemnized at Baltimore, Maryland. In 1811 Elizabeth Gray accompanied her parents, Nathaniel and Mary Gray, on their immigration to America, and the family home was established in Pennsylvania, not far distant from the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Both the Mayes and the Seaton families settled in Carroll County, Ohio, in the early pioneer days, James Mayes having purchased about 500 acres of land in Loudon Township and the village of Amsterdam being now on a part of this extensive estate, which Mr. Mayes purchased from the man who had obtained the tract from the Government. The parents of James C. Mayes came into possession of the ancestral 'homestead farm of the Mayes family, in Loudon Township, the same comprising 180 acres, in section 20. Here Joseph Mayes proved himself an able and successful agriculturist and stock-raiser. He remained on the farm until 1884, when he removed with his family to the Village of Amsterdam, where he owned an attractive residence property, as well as other realty, but his death there occurred on the 4th of September of that year. His widow survived him by more than thirty years and was of venerable age at the time of her death, on the 21st of December, 1916, both she and her husband having been earnest members of the Presbyterian Church and having commanded high place in the esteem of the people of their native county. James C. Mayes assumed the active direction of the fruit culture on the old homestead and for a long term of years he rented the part of the farm that was given over to agriculture. He continued to reside at Amsterdam until the spring of 1920, when he removed to the farm, where he is preparing to specialize, on a constantly expanding scale and in a thoroughly scientific way, in the raising of fruit, including apples, pears, peaches, plums and berries of select types and varieties. His early education was acquired in the public schools, principally those of Amsterdam, and in his native county his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He served for a number of years as clerk of the village council of Amsterdam, is a member of the Presbyterian Church in that village, of which he and his wife are zealous members, his political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he ,is affiliated with Amsterdam Lodge No. 373, Knights of Pythias, in which be has passed the various official chairs.
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ander, who was born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of Jesse and Rachel (Bell) Alexander. Mr. and Mrs. Mayes have a fine little son, Paul, who was born April 17, 1918.
FRANK A. SPRINGER. That fanning can be made one of the most satisfying and agreeable occupations of existence, that perseverance, industry and good judgment transform an individual's dreams into realities, and that integrity and fair-mindedness are among the most valuable of human assets, are facts illustrated in the career of Frank A. Springer, the owner of a valuable farm in Vast Township, who is serving his second term as a member of the board of township trustees.
Mr. Springer was born near Lisbon, Ohio, October 26, 1859, a son of John and Elizabeth (Hoffman) Springer, and a grandson of Peter and Katie (Gossert) Springer, early settlers of Columbiana County, this state. John Springer was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, and was a lad when brought to Columbiana County, where he met and married Elizabeth Hoffman, a native of Trenton, New Jersey. Following their marriage they settled two miles west of Lisbon, and there rounded out their careers as agriculturists, the father dying February 16, 1885, and the mother January 25, 1897. They were people highly respected in their community, and the parents of four children: Emma, who died as the wife of the late Clark Thomas; Catherine, who died as the wife of the late Alvin Lee; Louisa, the wife of Robert Pike, of Columbiana County; and Frank A.
Frank A Springer received his education in the public schools of the rural districts, and after attaining his majority remained for five years on the home farm, where he worked for his father. He then went to Cleveland and for a time was employed as conductor on a street railway, following which he came to East Township, Carroll County, and farmed for a few years. He returned then to Columbiana County for three years, but came back to East Township at the end of that time and bought an eighty-acre farm in section 16, on which he carried on operations for two years. Renting his farm, he went to Alliance, Ohio, where he secured employment with the Cassidy Furniture Company, but after three years came back to his farm in East Township, where he has since been busily occupied as general farmer and a raiser of Red Polled cattle. Mr. Springer has a ,set of modern buildings on his property and numerous up-to-date improvements. He is progressive and enterprising in his methods, and is justly accounted one of the substantial and reliable members of the farming element of Carroll County. He likewise is the owner of a well-cultivated and valuable farm of seventy and one-half acres in Franklin Township, Columbiana County.
In October, 1889, Mr. Springer married Miss Ida E. McCrea, who was born at Summitville. Ohio, a daughter of John and Mary (Ott) McCrea, the former a native of Columbiana County and the latter of Sandusky County, Ohio. Mrs. Springer is a graduate of the nor mal school at Canfield, Ohio, and prior to her marriage taught school in the country districts for four terms. One son has been born to air. and Mrs. Springer: John M., who had three months of special training for the heavy artillery service during the World war, but had not been called into active service when the armistice was signed, and is now his father's assistant on the home farm. The family belongs to Bethseda Presbyterian Church. Mr. Springer was township assessor for three years, and is now serving his second term as a member of the East Township board of trustees. His public service has been efficient and conscientious and through it he has further substantiated his position in the confidence and good will of his fellow-citizens.
ISAAC ATKINSON. The influences and the activities which gained for Isaac Atkinson the term "father of Carroll County" are discussed fully in this history. Something should also be said of his family, since several of his descendants are still living in Carroll County.
Isaac Atkinson was a son of Stephen and Mary Atkinson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The other children were Thomas and Matthew. Long before the organization of Carroll County Isaac Atkinson was proprietor of the Peter Bohart estate, and had distinguished himself as a progressive member of the community by building a grist mill, oil mill, installing a carding machine, and the power for operation of this machinery was secured by one of the old- fashioned tread mills, motion being given to the wheel by the feet of the oxen. Later a woolen factory was added, steam power was introduced, and the entire industry was destroyed by fire on September 20, 1843. It is said that Isaac Atkinson agitated for the formation of Carroll County for at least six years before his wish was consummated.
Isaac Atkinson married Hester Jones. They were the parents of twelve children: Robert J., Mary, Margaret, Matthew, Hester Ann, Sarah Jane, Maria Lou, Thaddeus S., Annie W., Isaac T., George Ray and. Mary. The only living son is Isaac of Denver, Colorado, and the only living daughter is Mrs. Lou Stilling of Kenton, Ohio.
Robert Jones Atkinson, a son of Isaac, began his career as a clerk in Carrollton, later was a member of the Legislature, and evidently went to Washington, D. C., where he served as third auditor in one of the departments until his death February 25, 1871, at the age of fifty-one. He was a democrat in politics, a Mason and a Presbyterian. He married Matilda Jackson, daughter of Kendall and Nancy Jackson. She was born December 18, 1820, and died at Carrollton November 17, 1899. She was the mother of six children: Stephen Eugene, who died December 2, 1916, at the age of sixty-seven, was educated in Washington, D. C., was a graduate of Columbian College, for a time was in business at Steubenville, Ohio, and in 1878 went out to Helena, Montana. He was cashier of the First National Bank of that city and in 1889 became one of the pioneers of Great Falls, Montana, where with his brother Frank
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he established the Cascade Bank and until his death nearly thirty years later was its president. He made that one of the oldest and most substantial institutions in Montana. He never married. Charles, the second of the family, has for over forty years been connected with the ,Treasury Department at Washington. He married Ida Cudlip and three children were born to them • Ethel, Isabel and Eugene, the last now deceased. Frank, who was associated with his brother at Great Falls, Montana. died in July, 1918, at the age of sixty-three. The three daughters, Emma, Hester and Matilda, are all living at Carrollton at the fine old home which was erected by their mother.
VERNON JOHN COGSIL. In addition to being aligned among the vigorous and successful representatives of farm industry in his native township, Mr. Cogsil is known for skill in the work of the veterinary profession, to the practice of which he gives no little attention. He is a scion of a well-known family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of Carroll County for more than seventy years. The paternal lineage traces back to Truman Cogsil, who was born near Roxbury, Connecticut, of English parentage. He married Civil Hawley, and they passed the remainder of their lives on their farm near Roxbury, both having been communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The names of their children were as follows: Harvey, Anson B., Elizur, Hawley, Mary, Almira, Nancy, Harriet, Sarah and Ann Harvey Cogsil, great-grandfather of Vernon John of this sketch, was born near Roxbury, Connecticut, April 17, 1798, and ,as a youth he made his way to Virginia, where he met and married Miss Mary Vincel, who was born in Loudoun County, that state, in 1801. Their marriage was solemnized in Virginia in the year 1820, and in that state they continued to reside until 1838, When they came to Ohio and established their home in Carroll County. Here Harvey Cogsil purchased 400 acres of land in Loudon Township, and later he added to the area of his landed estate in this county, besides becoming the owner of 2,000 acres in the state of Missouri. He made his Carroll County property one of the best farm estates in Loudon Township, and here he remained until his death, March 12, 1885, his wife having passed away June 30, 1876, and having been a devout member of the Lutheran Church. Harvey Cogsil was one of the influential and honored men of the county, was one of the founders of the Carroll county fair and was actively concerned in the building of the Carrollton & Oneida Railroad, which was the first railroad to enter Carrollton. He was a leader in the local councils and activities of the democratic party. The names of his children are here recorded: Oliver, George, John T., Harvey, Anson B., Antoinette and Mary F.
Of the children named above Oliver figures as the grandfather of him whose name initiates this sketch. He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and as a youth gained a due quota of pioneer experience in Carroll County, Ohio, where he became one of the prosperous farmers of Lee Township and where he passed the re mainder of his life, as did also his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Algeo. Their son John T. was born in Perry Township, this county, and passed his entire life within the borders of his native county. As a young man he married Miss Margaret A. Lawrence, who was born in Lee Township, this county, a daughter of Richard and Anna (Park) Lawrence, natives of Ireland and early settlers in Carroll County. After his marriage John T. Cogsil settled in the eastern part of Lee Township, Where he continued his successful farm enterprise until 1898, when he purchased a farm of 160 acres in the western part of the same township. On this farm he continued to reside until his death, February 9, 1917, and his widow still remains on the homestead. Of the two surviving children the subject of this sketch is the elder, and Edna C. is the wife of William Algeo, of Loudon Township.
Vernon John Cogsil was born in Lee Township, November 15, 1881, was reared to the invigorating discipline of the farm and his early educational advantages included those of the high school at Carrollton. He has never found it expedient or a matter of desire to falter in allegiance to the great fundamental industry under the benign influences of which he was reared, and he now resides on the old homestead farm which his father purchased in 1898, as above noted. He is the owner of an additional tract of 120 acres, in Lee Township and has a third interest in another farm of 140 acres, likewise in Lee Township. He is one of the vital and successful representatives of farm enterprise in his native county, is progressive and loyal in his civic attitude, given his allegiance to the republican party, holds membership in the Washington Hall Grange, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widowed mother.
The month of June, 1910, recorded the mar riage of Mr. Cogsil to Miss Carrie Haldeman, who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, a daughter of Richard and Phelina (Brogan) Haldeman, the former a native of Carroll County and the latter of Columbiana County. Mr. and Mrs. Cogsil have no children.
JAMES NOBLE, of Lee Township, Carroll County, owns and resides upon a part of the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, and he is a representative of one of the worthy families whose identification with the history of Ohio had its inception nearly a century ago. Mr. Noble was born in Lee Township November 30, 1851, and is the youngest of the four children born to William and Jane (Tripp) Noble. The eldest of the four children was William T., who is deceased; George and David are residents of Lee Township.
William Noble was born in East Bethlehem, Washington County, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of February, 1808, and was an honored—and venerable pioneer citizen of Carroll County at the time of his death, in 1901. He was a son of William and Eliza (Scarlott) Noble, who were born and reared in County Leitrim, Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to the United States in 1796.
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The father became a pioneer farmer in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1818, his widow surviving until 1854, and both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had seven sons and three daughters.
William Noble, Jr., was eighteen years old when he came to Ohio, in 1826, and at Youngstown he learned the trade of brick and stone mason. He continued to follow his trade in this section of Ohio until 1837, and thereafter at various towns along the Mississippi river in Iowa. After his return to Ohio he developed a fine farm estate in Carroll County, his farm property, in Lee Township, having comprised somewhat more than 350 acres. In his youth he assisted in constructing a bridge across the Ohio river at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and both in Ohio and the West he did a large amount of constructive work at his trade. He died on the 11th of July, 1891, his wife having passed away on the 3d of the preceding September. Their marriage occurred August 10, 1843, Mrs. Noble having been born in Pennsylvania, October 31, 1809, a daughter of Job and Rebecca (Kelley) Tripp, of Canonsburg, that state. In politics Mr. Noble was a democrat, but was not strongly partisan in connection with local affairs of public order. Both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church, and they were kindly, generous and upright folk who commanded the high regard of all who knew them.
James Noble found the period of his childhood and youth compassed by the invigorating environment and discipline of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he did not neglect the advantages offered in the local, schools. He has remained continuously on the old homestead, 153 acres of which he received as a heritage from his parents, and this farm is the stage of his activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. A considerable acreage of excellent timber remains on the farm, and of the rest meadows and pasture land take up all but thirty acres, which latter area is given to agriculture. In addition to managing his farm Mr. Noble has given more or less attention to work at the carpenter's trade for a long period of years. He is aligned in the local ranks of the democratic party, has served as a member of the election board, and has shown lively interest in the communal welfare. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
May 28, 1891, marked the marriage of Mr. Noble to Miss Susan Lawrence, who was born and reared in Lee Township and who is a daughter of James and Jane (Plant) Lawrence, natives of Ireland and early settlers in Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Noble have three children: Grover C., who is now associated in the work and management of the home farm, was one of the sterling young men who represented Carroll County in the nation's military service in the World war. In June, 1918, he became a member of Company B, Three Hundred and Ninth Engineers, and with his command he sailed for France in the following September. He remained in active service in France until the armistice brought hostilities to a close, and returned to his native land in June, 1919. Gladys. the only daughter, is the wife of Edward Griffith, of Burgoon, Ohio, and they have two children, James Joseph and Helen Lucile. James Paul, the youngest of the three children, remains with his parents on the home farm.
H. WORTHINGTON BIRNEY has brought to bear both practical experience and scientific methods in connection with farm industry, and is today numbered among the progressive and representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Monroe Township, Harrison County, where he owns a well-improved farm of 160 acres, this place being adjacent to the old homestead farm on which he was born and the date of his nativity having been October U, 1867. He is a son of William Alexander Birney and Emma (Spiker) Birney, the former of whom was born on the farm now occupied by his son, H. Worthington Birney, of this review, and the mother was born in Cadiz Township, a sister of Marion W. Spiker, in whose personal sketch. on other pages of this work, are given adequate data concerning the Spiker family. Hugh and Anna (Reynolds) Birney, grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were pioneers of Monroe Township, where the grandfather entered 180 acres of Government land, in the year 1826. and where he reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds. The Government deed to this property, signed by President John Quincy Adams, is still in the possession of the family and is a valued heirloom. Hugh and Anna Birney were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and were honored and venerable pioneer citizens at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of five children—William Alexander, Reynolds, Robert, Jane and Joanna.
William A. Birney was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm, received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period and continued his residence on the ancestral farmstead until 1894, when he removed to the state of Iowa, where his wife died in the following year and where he continued his residence until his death, in 1915, when well advanced in years. Mr. and Mrs. Birney were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Concerning their children the following brief data are available : H. Worthington, of this sketch, is the eldest of the number; Marion Lafayette died in young manhood ; Frank Howard died in early youth; Earl J. resides at Washington, Iowa; Robert N. died in childhood; Homer Clare is a resident of Washington, Iowa; Anna Elizabeth is the wife of Harvey Finney and they reside at Ainsworth, Iowa; and •Clyde resides at Washington, that state.
H. Worthington Birney supplemented the training of the district schools by attending Scio College, one of the excellent educational institutions of Harrison County, and thereafter he was for one year a student in the agricultural department of the Ohio State University. On the 21st of September, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Cora Rosena Jobe, daughter of Richard Watson Jobe and Sarah Jane (Pettis) Jobe. Mrs. Birney received her education at Scio College and at Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
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versity. Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Birney have continued their residence on the old Birney homestead farm, which he has made a center of vigorous and successful agricultural and live-stock enterprise and which is one of the model farms of Monroe Township. Mr. and Mrs. Birney have no children. They are members of the Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church, are popular factors in the representative social life of their home community, and Mrs. Birney is a member of the women's auxiliary of the Sons of Veterans, her father having been a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which his record was virtually that that marks the, general history of his regiment, the Fifty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry; in which he was a member of Company G. Richard W. Jobe, father of Mrs. Birney, was born near Kansas City, Missouri, and his wife was born at Deersville, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Hout) Pettis, the former a native of the Isle of Wight, England. and the latter of the state of Virginia. Richard W. Jobe became one of the representative farmers of Franklin Township, Harrison County, where his death occurred in 1912, and his widow still maintains her home in this county. Mr. Jobe was a son of John and Catherine (Miser) Jobe, members of families whose names early became identified with the history of eastern Ohio. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow. Of their two children Mrs. Birney is the elder, and Mary Lenore Is a successful teacher in the city of New York.
ENOS CROXTON, now living retired in the city of Carrollton, is one of the most venerable of the native sons of Carroll County still residing within its borders, and is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of the state. He was born in Washington Township, this county, March 13, 1844, and still owns the fine old homestead place on which he was ushered into the world. He is a son of William and Mary (McGee) Croxton, the former of whom was born near Croxton's Run, West Virginia, in 1800, and the latter of whom was born in old Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1803. William Croxton was a son of William, Sr.. who came with his family to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, in 1812, and settled in Center Township, where he took up about 320 acres of Government land and began the reclaiming of a farm from the virgin forest. He and his wife had separated before she came to Ohio and he was accompanied by his six children—Samuel, Elizabeth, Abraham, John, William and Mary Jane. This sturdy pioneer never contracted a second marriage and he passed the closing years of his life in the home of his daughter Mary, Mrs. Russell, in Fox Township, Carroll County.
William Croxton, Jr., was twelve years of age at the time of the family removal to Ohio, and he was reared under the conditions and influences of the early pioneer days. On what is now known as the Hervey farm, in Center Township, he established the first pottery in Carroll County, and thus became the pioneer in an industry that has become one of primary importance in this section of the Buckeye State. He continued in the pottery business five years, and after having made a trip to the city of Washington, D. C., he purchased eighty acres of land in Carroll County and engaged in the buying of live stock, principally cattle, which he drove across the mountains to the eastern markets. In Washington Township he gradually added to his landed holdings until he accumulated a tract of 240 acres, which he developed into a productive farm and upon which he continued to reside until about two years prior to his death, these final years having been passed in the home of his daughter Elvira (Mrs. DeFord) and that of his son Isaac, in the state of Kansas, where his death occurred when he was venerable in years. His wife died on the old homestead in Washington Township, in 1845, when their son Enos, of this review, was about one year old. In politics, with well fortified convictions, William Croxton was allied with the know-nothing party during the period of its maximum influence, and later he allied himself with the republican party, at the time of its organization. In the period leading up to the Civil war lre was a staunch abolitionist, and served as a conductor on the historic "underground railroad," through the medium of which many slaves were assisted to freedom. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children—John, Mary, Sylvester, Adaline, Shadrack, Elvira, Lydia, Isaac and Enos.
Enos Croxton was reared on the old home farm and acquired his early education in the common schools of the locality and period. He eventually became the owner of the fine old homestead farm, in Washington Township, and the same was the stage of his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower from his youth until 1901, when he removed to Carrollton, where he has since lived retired. He and his wife were formerly active in the affairs of the Grange, both are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a republican in politics.
In December, 1865, Mr. Croxton was united in marriage to Miss Martha Campbell, who was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, in 1843, a daughter of James R. and Catherine (Huston) Campbell, pioneer settlers of this county, where they continued to reside until their deaths. Mr. and Mrs. Croxton have three sons: Leonard L., born January 1, 1866, married Miss Margaret Figley, and they had two children—Myrtle, who is the wife of Ralph May and has one child. Marguerite; and William, who is married and has two sons. Leonard L. Croxton died in 1894. William N., born in 1868, was graduated in the normal school at Ada, Ohio, and at the age of twenty-one years went to New York City, where he entered the employ of James A. Cowen, a leading contractor and builder, with whom he is now associated as a partner, under the firm name of James A. Cowen & Company, He is married and has one child. Austin E., who was born in 1879, was
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afforded the advantages of Mount Union College, and thereafter remained on the old home farm for six years. For a number of years, thereafter he was employed in the city of Cleveland, and since 1911 he has conducted an automobile garage at Carrollton. He married Miss Ida Ellis and they have two children—Wilevene and Durglet,
ERNEST S. PATTERSON. One of the specially gratifying conditions to be noted in Carroll County is that a goodly contingent of ambitious and steadfast native sons of the younger generation are giving their admirable energies to the furtherance of the agricultural and livestock industries of the county, and of this number is Mr. Patterson, whose excellent farm, of eighty acres, is situated in Lee Township. He was born in Perry Township, this county, on the 26th of October, 1882, and is a son of John and Addle S. (Amos) Patterson. John Patterson likewise was born in Perry Township, a son of John and Elizabeth (McMillen) Patterson, who were natives of Scotland and who became early settlers in Perry Township, where John Patterson, Sr., obtained Government land and reclaimed a farm from his forest wilds that then marked this section of the state. John Patterson, Jr., was reared on this pioneer farm and on the place has continued to reside until the present time, his being secure status as one of the representative farmers of his native county and as one of the honored citizens of Perry Township. He was born in the year 1857 and his wife. who was born in 1859, passed to the life eternal in February. 1916. John Patterson held membership in the United Brethren Church, as did also his wife. Of the children the eldest is Bessie, who is the wife of James Logan, of Perry Township; Ernest S., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Sophia is the wife of Harry Smeltz, of Perry Township; Albert is engaged in farm enterprise in that township; Anna is the wife of Ray Umpleby, of Perryville, this county; and J. M. remains with his father on the old home farm.
The career of Ernest S. Patterson has not been marked by dramatic incidents but has been normal and regular, earnest and progressive. As a boy and youth he aided in the work of the home farm and profited by the advantages offered in the district schools. By the very discipline which came to him in the formative period of his character, he became well fortified for the work that has engrossed his attention during his independent career. He has proved himself a practical and resourceful farmer and takes pride in his continued association with the basic industries which are the most important in the entire scheme of human activities. His marriage occurred in the year 1906 and shortly afterward he and his wife established their home on the old home farm of the latter's parents, in Lee Township. After the death of Mr. Wenner. father of Mrs. Patterson. Mr. Patterson purchased the well-improved farm, and here he has continued his successful activities as a vigorous and careful agriculturist and stock-grower. His high standing in the community is indicated by the fact that at the time of this writing he is serving as chairman of the board of trustees of Lee Township. He and his wife hold membership in the United Brethren Church.
February 7, 1906, recorded the marriage of Mr. Patterson to Miss Minnie O. Wenner, who was born on the farm which is their present place of residence and who is a daughter of John and Rebecca (Slate) Wenner, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Perry Township, Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have a fine family of seven children— John, Loren, Addle, Elva, Scott, Mary and Rena.
NELSON ORWICK owns and resides upon the "Fairview Stock Farm," which comprises 222 acres and which is situated in section 16, Lee Township, Carroll County. This now valuable and productive farm, the former home of Doctor Moody, had been permitted to run down and was in somewhat inferior condition when Mr. Orwick assumed ownership. Under his vigorous and effective management the soil has regained its prestine integrity, buildings have been placed in good condition, and other improvements have been made, with the result that the place is now one of the best farms of this section of Carroll County.
Nelson Orwick was born in Fox Township, this county, on the 4th of July, 1867, and is a scion of pioneer stock in both the paternal and maternal lines. He is a son of Henry and Margaret (Maple) Orwick, the former of whom was born in Springfield Township, Jefferson County, and the latter in Washington Township, Carroll County, and Mrs. Orwick was a daughter of Ezekiel Maple, who was an early settler in Washington Township. Henry Orwick passed his entire life in Jefferson and Carroll counties and was a farmer by vocation. His wife died February 28, 1915, at the age of seventy-eight; he still survives at the ripe old age of ninety-three.
In the district schools of his native township Nelson Orwick continued his studies until he was fourteen years of age, when be became in large measure dependent upon his own resources. He continued to be employed at farm work the greater part of the time until his marriage, though his services were frequently enlisted also in carpenter work, in which he had acquired marked skill. After his marriage, in the spring of 1889, he rented a farm in Center Township. but one year later he removed to a farm in Lee Township. where he continued operations four years. For five years thereafter he was similarly engaged in Fox Township. and the next seven years be farmed on rented land in Lee Township. He then purchased a farm of 155 acres in that township, but three years later he sold this property and purchased his present fine farm estate, which he has made the stage of vigorous and successful agricultural and livestock industry. Mr. Orwick has been at all times loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, has supported measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community, is a republican in politics, and he served four years as township trustee of Lee Township, in which capacity he made a record notable for support
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of progressive and careful administration of township and county affairs. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Harlem Springs, Ohio, and he has served as trustee and also as treasurer of the same.
On the 28th of March, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Orwick to Miss Laura B. George, who was born in Lee Township, this county, on the 6th of February, 1869, a daughter of James and Martha (Potts) George, the former a native of Lee Township and the latter of Fox Township. James George became one of the representative farmers of his native county and here he and his wife remained until their deaths. His parents, Thomas and Jennie (Maple) George, were pioneer settlers in Carroll County, and his wife was a daughter of David and Rachel (Wiggins) George, likewise representatives of well known pioneer families of this section of Ohio, Mrs. Rachel (Wiggins) Potts having been born in Lee Township, a daughter of Isaac and Rachel (Green) Wiggins, whose marriage was solemnized in Pennsylvania. Isaac Wiggins was born in Chester County, that state, in 1781, and he continued to work at the carpenter's trade in his native state the greater part of the time after attaining maturity until the year 1819, when he came with his family across the mountains of Pennsylvania to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, where he obtained a tract of wild land in the present Fox Township. He not only developed a productive frontier farm but also had the distinction of becoming the founder of the present attractive village of Harlem Springs, which has long been an educational center in Carroll County. He platted this village about the year 1832, and there he served a number of years as postmaster and justice of the peace, besides which in the early days he was a pioneer physician of the county. He was one of the influential citizens of his day and for a term of years conducted an old-time inn or tavern at Harlem Springs. There his death occurred August 16, 1849, and his widow passed away in the year 1862, at a venerable age. They became the parents of three sons and three daughters, all of whom are now deceased—Thomas, Abel, George W., Sarah R., Rachel (Mrs. David Potts) and Eliza Anne.
Mr. and Mrs. Orwick have two sons: James, Ralph, who was born January 28, 1890, and who is now associated in the work and management of his father's farm, represented Carroll County in the nation's service at the time of the late World war. He enlisted in the aviation corps, at Cleveland, July 30, 1917, and his exceptional mechanical skill soon gained him promotion to the position of instructor in the Aviation Mechanic Training School at S. Paul, Minnesota. He continued his services until the signing of the historic armistice which brought active hostilities to a close and after receiving his honorable discharge he returned to the parental home. Clay Roy, the younger son, was born May 6, 1892, and he is engaged in farm enterprise in Lee Township. He married Miss Alice Ruby Shotwell and they have two fine children, a son John Nelson and a daughter Elma Louise.
FRANK C. BORLAND Carroll County is a great agricultural district, and here are valuable farms owned and operated by first-class farmers who understand their business and are proud of the prestige of this region. One of them is Frank C. Borland, a representative man of Center Township, whose fine farm of 185 acres of land is located in Center and Harrison townships. He was born in Monroe Township, this county, February 1, 1866, a son of Washington and Magdalena (Easterday) Borland, of Irish-Scotch ancestry. The grandfather, Samuel Borland, married a Miss Little, and they came to Harrison County from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. They had three children, of whom Washington Borland was the second in order of birth. Washington Borland spent his entire life in Harrison and Carroll counties, where he was engaged in farming. His death occurred in September, 1904, he surviving his wife for some years, as she died in 1895. In politics he was a democrat, and at one time was township trustee.
Frank C. Borland attended the Glendale School of Monroe Township until he was seventeen years old during the winter months, and during the summer ones he made himself useful on the farm. On May 19, 1909, he was married to Mary Elizabeth Harple, a daughter of Peter H. and Isabelle Jane (Young) Harple, of Harrison Township, and of German-Irish ancestry, Peter Harple, Mrs. Borland's grandfather, married Christina Hawk, and they had five children, of whom her father was second in order of birth. The Harple family came to Ohio from Pennsylvania.
Following his marriage Mr. Borland located on his present farm, which then contained sixty-five acres and to which he later added more land. Here he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising. Mr. and Mrs. Borland have two children: Lloyd Franklin and Clare Ethel. His political convictions lead him to give his support to the candidates of the democratic party. The Presbyterian Church affords both he and his wife expression for religious faith and he has long been a member of that denomination. In his farm work Mr. Borland shows the effect of practical training and concentration in his work, and his success ought to stimulate others to follow his example and devote themselves to agricultural activities.
HARRY W. MAPLE, whose fine farm of 160 acres is situated in Lee Township, Carroll County, is a native of this township and a popular representative of a family whose name has been long and worthily identified with the history of this favored section of the Buckeye state.
Harry Winters Maple was born March 3, 1866, and is a son of James and Henrietta (Lotts) Maple, the former of whom was likewise born in Lee Township and the latter in Union Township, a daughter of Henry and Phoebe (Johnson) Lotts, her father having been a native of Germany and a pioneer settler in Carroll County. Mrs. Mary (Moody) Maple's parents were among the very first settlers in Lee Township, and both the Maple and Johnson families
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have been prominent factors in the civic and industrial development and progress of Carroll County, with pioneer honors like those of the Moody and Lotts families. James Maple became one of the successful farmers of Carroll County. where he originally had a farm in Lee Township, whence he removed to a farm in Union Township, where his son Harry W. of this sketch passed the major part of his childhood and youth, his early education having been obtained mainly in the district school known as the Foot school. James Maple was one of the sterling and influential, men of the county and served many years as a member of the board of directors of the county infirmary. He was a republican in politics and was an active member of the United Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow, who now resides at Carrollton. Of the children the first born was Edwin, who is deceased; J. W. is a farmer in Lee Township; Harry W., of, this review, was the next in order of birth; Flora is the wife of George Ray, of Carrollton; Anna is the wife of Jacob Allen, of Alliance, Stark County; Ella is the wife of Stewart Hess, of Union Township; John is a resident of the city of Alliance: Gertrude is the wife of Martin Southern, of Carrollton; and Perry maintains his home at Alliance.
Harry W. Maple continued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm until the time of his marriage, in 1891, and he then rented a farm in Center Township. One year later he removed to a farm in Lee Township,- where he continued his activities six years, the following year having been passed on a farm in Loudon Township. He then, in 1900, purchased his present farm, upon which he has made excellent improvements. including the partial remodeling of the substantial old brick house that has long stood on the place. He is numbered among the vigorous and successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and while he has had no ambition for public office his civic loyalty has been shown in his effective service as a member of the school board of his district. He is affiliated with the local Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry and holds membership in the United Presbyterian Church, as did also his wife, who passed to the life eternal on the 28th of October, 1912.
The year 1891 recorded the marriage of Mr. Maple to Miss Rena Maude George, who was born and reared in Lee Township and who was a daughter of James L. George. a representative of another of the sterling pioneer families of Carroll County. Mrs. Maple is survived by five children: Mearle is the wife of Albert R. Rutledge, of Lee Township; Martha is the wife of James Ohler, of East Palestine, Columbiana County; Nellie is the wife of Oscar Ohler. of Fox Township, Carroll County; and James Harry, and Wilda remain at the paternal home.
FRANK JENKINS is one of the vital and progressive young men who are making splendid record in connection with farm industry in Harrison County, and the stage of his activities being an excellent farm of 153 acres, in his native township of Washington. He was born on his father's farm in Washington Township on the 13th of October, 1889, and is a son of James A, and Emma Linda (Davidson) Jenkins, the former of whom was born in Washington Township on the 4th of February, 1858, and the latter in Freeport Township, a daughter of Bartlett and Mary Jane (Baker) Davidson. Mr. and Mrs, James A. Jenkins reside on the old homestead farm of the former's father, in Washington Township, where he is the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 300 acres and where he has long held prestige as one of the representative agriculturists and stock- growers of his native county. He is a republican in political allegiance and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children Frank is the eldest; Nannie is the wife of Dent Webb and they reside at Akron, Summit County; Alice is the wife of Paul Mallernee, of Harrison County; and Frederick M. and Clarence W. remain at the parental home. Clarence W. Jenkins represented this honored family and his native county as a gallant young soldier of the nation in the late World war. On the 26th of December, 1917, he enlisted in the aviation service, and was sent to Kelly Field, in the state of Texas. Later he received two months of technical instruction in Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to Kelly Field, where he remained until May 25, 1918. In the following month he sailed for England, where he landed, in the port of Liverpool, on the 6th of July. He passed six weeks at Winchester, England, and then proceeded to France, where he was assigned to service as a mechanic with the Twentieth Air Squadron of the American Expeditionary Forces. With his squadron he was in active service in connection with operations at the front during a period of four and one-half months, and was actively concerned with the great offensive movements of St. Mihiel and Argonne sectors. After the signing of the armistice brought the war to a close he remained in France until April 22, 1919, when he sailed for home. At Camp Sherman, Ohio, he received his honorable discharge on the 24th of May, 1919.
James B. Jenkins, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, December 5, 1819, and here his death occurred on the 6th of November, 1885. He was a son of William and Nora (Morris) Jenkins, who came from Nova Scotia, Canada, to Ohio and who established their home on a pioneer farm in Washington Township. Harrison County, in the year 1814. They became the parents of seven children. In 1849. at the time of the memorable discovery of gold in California, William Jenkins, in company with his son James B., set forth with a party to make his way across the plains to the new Eldorado, but while en route he succumbed to an attack of cholera, which was then epidemic, his wife having passed away on the 8th of November. 1842. James B. Jenkins continued his way to California after the death of his father, and was successful in his quest for gold. Upon
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his return to Ohio he engaged in business, but one misfortune followed another and he lost all that he had made in his California operations. Under these depressing conditions he again made his way to California, where he remained for four years and effectively recouped his fortune. Upon his return to Harrison County he purchased a large tract of land, and this he developed into one of the valuable farm properties of the county. He passed the remainder of his life on his home farm and his death occurred about one month prior to his sixty-sixth birth. day anniversary. He was a staunch republican, a man of impregnable integrity, a 'loyal and progressive citizen, and an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe, in which his widow likewise maintained membership until her death. On the 13th of February, 1845, Mr. Jenkins wedded Miss Nancy Wright, of Tuscarawas County. and they became the parents of eight children—Luira, Margaret J., Alice E., Sarah, Hannah, James A., John A. B., and Emma L.
In his individual service in causing the earth to bring forth its increase Frank Jenkins has effectively supplemented and extended the work of his honored father and grandfather. He was reared on the old home farm and gained his youthful education in the schools of Washington township. He has lived continuously in his native township, has been associated actively with farm enterprise from his boyhood days, and since 1912 he has owned and resided upon his present well improved farm. He is found aligned in the ranks of the republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1909 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jenkins to Miss Mabel L. Mallernee, daughter of J. G. and Alice (Hefling) Mallernee, and the four children of this union are: Merle, Edith, Hazel and James.
E. ROSS MATTERN, one of the hardworking, steady and reliable men and successful farmers of Harrison County, is the owner of sixty- four acres of well developed farm land in Archer Township. He was born in Archer Township on April 27, 1872, a son of John Mattern and his wife Margaret (Leas) Mattern, grandson of Abraham and. Mary (Brown) Mattern. and great-grandson of John and Nancy (Tipton) Mattern, the latter being pioneers of Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, to which locality they came from Maryland.
John Mattern, the father of E. Ross Mattern, was born in Green Township, Harrison County, on July 12, 1837, and his wife, also a native of Green Township, was born on May 12, 1859, a daughter of George and Mary (Bream) Leas. In 1866 John Mattern moved to Archer Township, where he and his wife have continued to reside ever since, their farm being one of the excellent ones in this neighborhood, and comprises 120 acres. John Mattern has always been interested in general farming and stock- raising. His children, living and dead, are as follows: J. Finley, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume: Oscar Orlando. who died at the age of fourteen months; E. W., who was third in order of birth; Mary Etta, who married William Beaty; E. Ross, whose name heads this review; and John H. Mr. and Mrs, Mattern are devout members of Bethel Methodist Church of Green Township, and have been connected with it for about fifty-eight years, and are still active In its good work.
E. Ross Mattern attended the district schools of Archer Township, and was brought up to habits of usefulness and thrift. He remained at home with' his parents until his marriage which occurred on November 1, 1899, when he was united with Flora C. Robb, a daughter of Samuel and Mollie C. Robb, since which time he has been residing on his present farm. Mr. Mattern has erected all of the present buildings and made the other improvements and is naturally proud, as he ought to be. of the manner in which he has increased, through his own hard work and effective planning, the value of his property. Here he carries on general farming and stockraising.
Mr. and Mrs. Mattern have one daughter, Mary Margaret. Mrs. Mattern belongs to the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, but Mr. Mattern does not belong to any religious organization, although he was reared a Methodist.
THOMAS F. REPPART concentrates his activities as a productive exemplar of farm industry on one of the fine farm properties of his native township and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Harrison County. He was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 13th of November, 1858, and is a son of William S. and Nancy (Smith) Reppart, the former of whom was born in Short Creek Township, in 1830, and the latter in Tuscarawas County, this state, a daughter of John Smith. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Reppart was solemnized November 15, 1855, and they became the parents of three children—John S., Thomas F. and Junius 'L. William S. Reppart passed his entire life in Harrison County and in the house which was the place of his birth, his death occurred in November, 1898, his widow having passed to the life eternal on the 25th of February. 1903, and having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
William S. Reppart was a son of Daniel Rep- part, who was born in Wales in the year 1778, and who was a young man when he came to America and established his residence in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his first marriage occurred. He and his wife. with their four or more children, were living at Redding, that state, when there came a visitation of yellow fever, of which the wife and all except one of the children were victims, the one surviving child, Frederick Jesse, having remained in Pennsylvania when the father came to Ohio. and trace of him having been lost in Inter years by the Ohio representatives of the family. In 1825 Daniel Reppart married Miss Hannah Stephens. who was born July 26, 1786, and within a short time after their marriage they came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Harrison County, where they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. Reppart having died December 10, 1858, and
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his wife on the 23d of the preceding May. They became the parents of two sons—David, who was born in 1826 and whose death occurred May 28, 1887, and William S., who was the father of Thomas F. of this sketch.
William S. Reppart was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County, and profited duly by the advantages offered in the common schools of the period. As a young man he learned the trade of stone mason, and as a skilled workman at the same he assisted in the building of the various bridges of the old-time plank road from Cadiz to Adena. He found much demand for his services as a mason, but his major occupation was that of farming and he was the owner of the fine old homestead farm on which he was born and on which his death occurred, as previously noted. He was reared in the faith of the United Presbyterian Church.
Thomas F. Reppart looked with a characteristic boyish favor, or disfavor, upon the enforced work which he did in the district schools of Short Creek Township, but be made good use of the advantages of the same and laid the foundation for the broad and valuable knowledge which he has later gained in connection with the practical duties and responsibilities of a busy and successful career. When he was a lad of thirteen years he began working by the month on a neighboring farm, and he continued to be thus employed until he was about twenty-two years of age, when he initiated his independent career as a farmer. His experience and his alert mentality have enabled him to direct his farm operations with marked success and he is today the owner of a well improved farm of 145 acres. in Short. Creek Township. On this attractive homestead he erected the present modern house, which is supplied with hot and cold water, the water being piped from a sparkling hillside spring on the farm. He is one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county and is one of the substantial and public-spirited citizens of Short Creek Township. He and his family hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
On the 9th of August, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Reppart to Miss Anna M. Morgan, a daughter of Dr. John and Martha E. (Yost) Morgan. of Short Creek Township, where Doctor Morgan was for a number of years engaged in practice as one of the able physicians and surgeons of the county and where, in later years, he gave his attention principally to the management of his farm. Doctor Morgan died in the year 1904 and his widow remains on the old home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Reppert became the parents of nine children—Lena E., Kate L., Oarrie Ellen, John W., Leslie S., Frank T., Ralph G., Roy A. and Ferne E. Lena E. is the wife of John K. Cummins; Kate L. is the wife of George A. Hilligas; Carrie Ellen, who became the wife of Oliver Haverfield, died in 1914; John W. married Miss Helen McCoy; and Leslie S. married Miss Ruth Johnson. The four younger children remain at the parental home. John W,, the eldest son, was one of the loyal sons of Harrison County who represented Ohio in the nation's military service in the late World war. He initiated his training October 6, 1917, at Camp Sherman, where he remained until the following May, when he left the camp with his command and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to join the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He landed in England on the 1st of June, 1918, and thence proceeded to France, where he was in service with the Three Hundred and Eighth Motor Train until he returned to his native land, his arrival on American soil having occurred in July, 1919, and his honorable discharge was granted within a short time thereafter, at Camp Sherman.
SAMUEL P. DUNLAP, one of the progressive farmers of the younger generation in Athens Township, Harrison County, is a son of William Finley Dunlap, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work, so that a repetition of the family record is not here required. He whose name initiates this paragraph was born on his father's present homestead farm, in Athens Township, December 15, 1887, and his youthful education was obtained chiefly in the excellent school of District No. 16 in his native township. He continued thereafter to be associated in the operations of his father's farm until his marriage, in 1915, since which time he has successfully conducted independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower on rented land in Athens Township. He is a democrat in his 'political allegiance and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.
March 9, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Pearl J. McFadden, daughter of Joseph McFadden, a representative farmer in Cadiz Township and of this union have been born three children—Francis Clark, Neil McFadden and Edwin Dean.
WILLIAM J. BAXTER, deputy clerk of the probate court of Carroll County, Is a popular scion of a family that was founded in this county in the year 1810. He was born in Center Township, this county, January 11, 1857, a son of William and Catherine (Albaugh) Baxter. His paternal grandparents, Richard and Elizabeth (Comley) Baxter, came from Kentucky to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, in 1810, their one child at the time having been a daughter, Hannah. Settling in the midst of the forest that then marked Center Township, Mr. Baxter secured a tract of Government land, near the present fair grounds of the Carroll County Agricultural Society. His first log house was destroyed by fire, as was also the second, and he then erected one of the first brick houses in the county, the same being still in excellent preservation and being now occupied by Frank True. In this home Richard Baxter passed the remainder of his life, and his widow was a resident of Carrollton at the time of her death, in the home of one of her daughters. Of the children, as previously noted, Hannah was born in Kentucky, and the others were born on the old homestead in Carroll County—Joshua, William, Mary, Edith. Edmund and Ellen (twins), and John C. Joshua died in early childhood,
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and records indicate that he was the first child to be interred in the cemetery at Carrollton. The maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch were early settlers of Carrollton, to which place they came from Baltimore, Maryland. They made the long overland trip with team and wagon and continued to reside at Carrollton until their deaths.
William Baxter passed his entire life in Carroll County. He was born in Center Township, in 1812, and his wife was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1813. He became one of the prosperous farmers of his native township, was a republican in politics from the time of the organization of the party. his wife having been a birthright member of the Society of Friends. William Baxter was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death, in 1891, and his widow passed to eternal rest in 1894. They became the parents of eleven children— Harriet, Mary. Hannah, Edmund, Richard, Sarah, Elizabeth, Edith, Margaret, Emeline and William J. Of the children only Mary, Elizabeth, Edith and William J. are living.
William J. Baxter remained on the home farm until he was sixteen years of age. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Carrollton, and as a youth learned the trade of telegrapher, as a representative of which he became the first operator for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad at Carrollton, where he continued his services in this capacity for six years, in the meanwhile having been elected township clerk, of which position he continued the incumbent ten years. Thereafter he served a number of years as treasurer of the Village of Carrollton, and for three successive terms be held the office of county recorder. For four years thereafter he was assistant cashier of the private bank of L. D. Stockon and since 1902 he has served continuously as the efficient and popular deputy clerk of the probate court of the county. He is a staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and holds membership in the Reformed Church. Mr. Baxter is still found arrayed in the ranks of eligible bachelors in his native county.
JAMES R. HILL, an efficient member of the staff of rural mail carriers from the Carrollton postoffice, is well known and held in high esteem in his native county, and he is entitled to special recognition in this publication. He was born in Lee Township, Carroll County, October 20. 1857, and is a son of Cheesman D. and Eliza J. (Bothwell) Hill, the latter a daughter of George Bothwell, an honored pioneer. The paternal grandparents were John and Rebecca (Drake) Hill. John Hill was a son of James Hill, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, and he became a pioneer settler of Carroll County, where he and his wife, Nancy, remained until their deaths. John Hill became the owner of the old homestead farm of his father and on this place he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives. Cheesman D. Hill, father of James R. of this sketch, died on the old homestead, in 1860, when but twenty-eight years of age. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which he was reared. His wife likewise held membership in this church, and she was eighty-one years of age at the time of her death, in 1915. Of the two children James R. is the younger, his sister, Mary, being the widow of James Ballentine and maintaining her home at Sebring, Mahoning County.
James R. Hill was not yet two years old at the time of his father's death and remained on the old homestead of his paternal grandparents until he had attained to the age of thirteen years. His widowed mother then became the wife of James Shepherd. After her second marriage the mother of Mr. Hill took him into her new home, where he was reared to adult age. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd became the parents of three children; Emma became the wife of Hiram Scott and is now deceased; Margaret is the wife of James H. Roudebush, of Carroll County; and Miss Jane Shepherd re- Sides at Carrollton.
The public schools of his native county afforded James R. Hill his early education, and as a young man he was engaged in farm enterprise, in Center and Lee townships. Thereafter he spent seven and one-half years as a farmer in the State of Nebraska, and upon selling his property in that commonwealth he returned to Carroll County, where, in 1907, he became a carrier on one of the rural mail routes from Carrollton, a service in which he has since continued. He owns and occupies a good residence on Main Street in the City of Carrollton, is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
To Mr. Hill and wife eight children were born. John A., who is now retained in the position of wool specialist in connection with the agricultural department of the University of Wyoming, married Miss Evelyn Corthell, and they have four sons—Robert, John, Ross and Nellis. John A. Hill enlisted in 1917 for service in the 'World war, was sent to an officer's training camp in the State of Washington, and was made captain, he having continued in service eighteen months. Alva L., who is clerk in one of the leading mercantile establishments of Carrollton, married Myrtle McCausland, and they have one son, Donald. Mabel is deceased. Robert, a bachelor, is engaged in farming in Carroll County. Harry H., who is employed as a Government chemist in the State of Oklahoma, married Miss Natalie Berry. Elizabeth was graduated in the domestic science department of the University of Ohio, and is now taking a course in the training school for nurses maintained in connection with a leading hospital in the City of Jackson, Michigan. Inez remains at the paternal home and holds a position as operator in the telephone office at Carrollton. Scott M., who holds a position with one of the leading manufacturing concerns in the City of Canton, Ohio, enlisted in the Marine Corps of the national service in 1917, and continued in service somewhat more than two years, within which he accompanied his com-
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mand to France. he having been in Paris at the time of the signing of the armistice which brought the great war to a close.
CHARLES C. JACKSON was born at Carrollton in April. 1845, son of Isaac and Julia (Adams) Jackson. The Jacksons were among the early settlers of Carrollton. Isaac Jackson was a carpenter and contractor and did much of the early building in this section. He and his wife were devout Methodists. Their children, all now deceased, were Marion, Martin. Mason, Charles, Theresa and May Jane. Of these Mason was in the Civil war with the rank of captain and major, and his body now rests in the National Cemetery at Arlington, D. C.
Charles C. Jackson was reared and educated in Carrollton, learned the trade of carpenter, and at the beginning of the Civil war he and his father were engaged in a contract for the making of coffins at Washington, District of Columbia. He soon went into the army as a carpenter and subsequently went out as a substitute in Company K of the Seventy-first Ohio Infantry. When the war was over he returned to Carrollton and was an honored and useful resident of the city until his death on June 10, 1911. He was also active in the Methodist Church.
In 1871 he married Miss Mary Hardesty, who was born in Carroll County January 21, 1849, daughter of William and Priscilla (Kirkpatrick) Hardesty, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The Hardestys when they came to Carroll County remained only a short time and removed to Wooster, Ohio, but subsequently returned and William Hardesty bought and operated for many years the flouring mills at Carrollton. He died at the age of sixty-eight and his wife at sixty-seven.
Charles C. Jackson is survived by his widow, and by two daughters, Jessie and Louise. Jessie, who graduated from the Carrollton High School, attended Scio College, and for nine years was a teacher in Carrollton and since then has been one of the prominent educators of Cleveland, being now principal of the Roosevelt Schools at Warren. Louise, who is also a graduate of the Carrollton High School, taught in her native city, took a business course at Cleveland and taught a year in business college, and is now the wife of Fred H. Nash, of Cleveland. To their marriage were born two children, Louise, who died at the age of four months, and Marjorie. Marjorie Nash, now ten years of age, received an unusual degree of fame by her astonishing accomplishment of being able to read at the age of three years. Newspapers all over the country carried a report of her achievement and her pictures.
HARRY C. JENKINS has been a resident of Washington Township, Harrison County, from the time of his birth, which occurred on the 13th of March, 1889, and as a citizen and vigorous exponent of farm industry he is well upholding the honors of a family name that has been identified with the history of Harrison County for more than a century. William Jenkins, founder ,of the family in this county, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and in 1814 he and his wife, whose maiden name was Nora Morris, settled in Washington Township, Harrison County, where he instituted the reclamation of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds. On this homestead the devoted wife, who had become the mother of seven children, died in the year 1842, and Mr. Jenkins set forth for California in 1849, at the time of the discovery of gold in that state, but he succumbed to an attack of cholera within a short time after initiating his journey to the New Eldorado. His son James B., who was born in Washington Township December 5, 1819, started with the father for California, and after the latter's death he continued the long and weary journey across the plains. He was successful in his gold-seeking operations, but lost his accumulations after returning to Ohio, through unfortunate business enterprise. He went again to California, remained four years and again met with substantial financial success. Upon his return to Harrison County he purchased a large tract of land in Washington Township, where he improved one of the fine farm estates of the county. Here his death occurred November 6, 1885, and his widow, whose maiden name was Nancy Wright, survived him by several years, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their eight children John A. B. was the seventh in order of birth. He was born in Washington Township on the 7th of November, 1863, and from his youth to the present time he has maintained active alliance with farm industry in his native township, where he is the owner of a valuable farm property of 240 acres. He is a stalwart advocate of the cause of the republican party and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 22d of December, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of John A. B. Jenkins to Miss Margaret Watson, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of Richard and Mary (Randall) Watson, both likewise natives of that county. Mr. Watson was one of the representative farmers of Perry Township, Tuscarawas County, at the time of his death, on the 17th of April, 1902 and his widow still resides in that county, she being a member of the Presbyterian Church, as was also her husband. Of their children Mrs. Jenkins is the eldest ; Della resides with her widowed mother; and Arthur is a resident of the City of Denver, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. John A. B. Jenkins have six children—Harry C., Hallie M., Roy, Ralph E., Azalia O. and Clyde. Hallie M. is the wife of John Craigo, a farmer in Tuscarawas County, and they have one child, Lewis. Roy married Miss Laura Hunt and they reside at Newport, Tuscarawas County, their one child being a son, Ray. John A. B. Jenkins has been a citizen of prominence and influence in his native county, and is now serving as township trustee, a position of which he became the incumbent in January, 1920, and in which he had previously served four years-1908-12. His son Ralph E. was one of the young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's service
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in the late World war. He entered the service in September, 1917, and at Camp Sherman was assigned to the Three Hundred and Eighth Army Corps. He sailed for the, stage of warfare in June, 1918, and in France his corps was in active service as a part of the Thirty- seventh Division. After the signing of the historic armistice he passed nine months in Germany, as a member of the army of occupation, and after his return home he received his honorable discharge, in October, 1919.
Harry C. Jenkins is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his youthful education and has not faltered in his appreciative allegiance to the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, of which he is now a successful and progressive representative in Washington Township, as the owner of a well improved farm of 127 acres. He takes a loyal interest in community affairs of public order, is a republican in political adherency and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe.
In 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jenkins to Miss Elizabeth Van Fossen, daughter of John and Belle (Persons) Van Fossen, of Washington Township, and the five children of this union are: Carl, John, Lucile, Harry C., Jr., and Earl.
CASPER MOTTER, a prosperous farmer of Rose Township, has spent a large share of his life on the farm of eighty acres he now owns, having been engaged in agricultural pursuits since he was old enough to take any active part in helping to carry on his father's work, and at the same time he has been engaged in carpentering. He was born in Rose Township, on a farm of 30 acres, March 2, 1860, a son of Michael and Catherine (Brankle) Motter. Michael Mot- ter was born in Wiersheim, Alsace, France, and was twenty-two years old when he came to the United States. By trade a cabinetmaker, he learned this trade in his native land. He was the youngest of eleven children, and when his father died in Alsace, he returned to his old home for his mother, whom he brought back to a farm in Harrison Township, Carroll County. When he was twenty-eight years old he was married to Catherine Brankle, • of Rose Township, and then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked at his trade for a year. For the next year he continued working at his trade at Cape Girardeaux, Missouri,, and then moved to Waynesburg, Stark County, Ohio, but after a short period returned to Carroll County, and settled on a thirty-acre farm in Rose Township. This continued the family home for eleven years, when removal was made to another thirty-acre farm in another part of the same township. At the expiration of ten years and ten months he bought eighty acres in Rose Township, now occupied by his son, and here he died in May, 1897, aged seventy-seven years, his wife having passed away in November, 1896. They had eleven children, namely: Casper, who was the seventh; Clara Catherine, the youngest, who was born January 8, 1868, has .never married and keeps house for her brother, Casper, who has also never married; and William Henry, who was born May 24, 1864, is a farmer and school-teacher of Rose Township.
Casper Motter attended the local schools of Rose Township during the winter terms until he was nineteen years old, and then learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked until 1894, at which time he located permanently upon the homestead and began to put to practical use the lessons in farming his father had taught him during his boyhood and youth. His farm is one of the well improved ones of the township, and he takes a pride in keeping his buildings in good condition and modern in every respect. He has been very successful in his operations and is a man of ample means.
Miss Clara Catherine Motter attended the school in District No. 3, Rose Township, until she was twenty-one years of age. She learned to weave carpet and manufactures all of the carpets for the house, all of them being marvels in workmanship. She is a very industrious person, and is noted for her housekeeping. Mr. Motter is a democrat. He belongs to the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Morges, and his sister is a member of the Altar Society of that church. They are held in the highest esteem in their neighborhood, where they have a number of warm, personal friends.
JOHN HENRY NAPE. With land at present-day prides in Carroll County, the man who owns a farm is fortunate indeed, for he has a property which is bound to increase in value while at the same time it is yielding him an income. John Henry Nape is one of these enterprising men, and his farm of 102 acres is located in Centre Township. He was born in this township, near Carrollton, January 24, 1851, a son of Frederick and Julia (Morgan) Nape, and grandson of Christian Nape, who was born in Germany in a colony which included the Lutz, Coons, Strayer families, all of whom came to the United States and settled in Carroll County, Ohio. Frederick Napes was also born in Centre Township, where he spent his life, and he died near Carrollton, in 1,900, having always been a farmer. His wife survived him and died in 1914. Of the four children born to them, John Henry Nape was the eldest.
John Henry Nape had but few educational advantages for the only school he attended was one held in a "mud" schoolhouse four months of the year, and he left this school, poor as it was, at the early age of sixteen years, in order to assist his father in conducting the homestead of eighty acres. From then on to the present day he has been a hard worker, and the success which has come to him has been won entirely through his own efforts.
In 1880 Mr. Nape married and moved on his present farm, where he has since been engaged in raising a general line of crops. He has made excellent investments and is a stockholder of the Farmers Exchange at Carrollton, Ohio. In politics he is a democrat, but confines his participation in public life to casting his vote for the candidates who meet with his approval. For many years he has been one of the sincere
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members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Carrollton.
In January, 1880, Mr. Nape was married to Belle Long, a daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Hibbs) Long, of Union Township, Carroll County, who came of English and Pennsylvania- German stock. Mrs. Nape was the sixth of their seven children. Until she was sixteen years old, she attended the Smith School. Mr. and Mrs. Nape became the parents of four children, namely: Dr. Frank LeRoy, of Canton, Ohio; Stella Grace, who died in 1884 when seven weeks old; and Sarah Gretchen, who married John Frank Miller, of Harrison Township, died in 1918, at the age of thirty years, leaving one son, John Henry; and Harry Milford, who is at home.
Dr. Frank LeRoy Nape was married first to Maude Morgan, of Carrollton, Ohio, and they had two children, namely : Naomi Isabelle, and Beulah May. The first Mrs. Nape died in 1918, and Doctor Nape was married second, in 1919, to Ada Zerbe, of Canton, Ohio. Mrs. Zerbe had one daughter, who is the same age as Naomi. Doctor Nape was graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1904, and for three years thereafter was engaged in practice at Mineral City, Ohio, but then moved to Canton, Ohio. He is an airplane enthusiast, and learned to fly in 1919 with a Curtis plane but now has a De Havelind, and often flies from Canton to his father's farm in twenty minutes, making his landing on the farm adjoining. Doctor Nape finds it convenient to make a number of his professional calls with his plane, and although he has been in the air many hours, has never had an accident. It is interesting to contrast this mode of travel with the power employed by his great-grandfather when he first came to this region, for he used cows to draw his plow and rude wagon. Doctor Nape feels confident that the day is not far distant when his example will be followed in a large measure, and that then airplanes will be as numerous as automobiles are today. Without doubt this is a changing age.
ANDREW PHILLIPS. When it is stated that Mr. Phillips was born on a farm in section 3, Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 24th of June, 1840, it becomes evident that this is a heritage of pioneer distinction in this favored section of the Buckeye State, and it is specially pleasing to record that he owns and still re- skies upon the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. To the family name and its association with Carroll County he added new honors by his gallant service as one of the valiant soldiers of the Union in the Civil war, and the same spirit of loyalty has characterized him in all of the relations of his long, industrious and useful life.
Mr. Phillips is a son of William and Mary (Simmons) Phillips, both likewise natives of Loudon Township, where the respective families were founded when this section of the state was little else than a forest wilderness. John and Priscilla Phillips, grandparents of the subject of this review, came from Maryland to this section of Ohio in the year 1807. The grandfather took up Government land in what is now Carroll County, here reclaimed a productive farm, and here he and his wife passed the residue of their lives. The maternal grandparents, Adam and Mary (Springer) Simmons, natives of New Jersey, likewise came to this section of Ohio about 1807, and Mr. Simmons obtained Government land and instituted the development of the farm on which he passed the remainder of his life, in Loudon 'Township. Upon his death he bequeathed ninety acres of land to his daughter Mary and her husband, William Phillips, and on this homestead Mr. Phillips continued his vigorous and successful enterprise as a farmer until about fifteen years prior to his death, the closing period of his life having been passed in the Village of Kilgore, this county, where he died about the year 1893, his wife having been comparatively a young woman at the time of her death, about the year 1854. Of their children the tirst three—Sarah Ann, Mary and Maria— are deceased; Andrew, of this review, was the next in order of birth and is the only son; Catherine is deceased; and the three surviving daughters are Elizabeth, Belle and Martha.
The district school at Simmons Ridge provided to Andrew Phillips his early educational advantages, and be continued his active alliance with farm industry in his native county until the outbreak of the Civil war roused his youthful patriotism to responsive protest and resulted in his enlistment, on the 5th of December, 1861, as a member of Company D, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee and the valiant record of which, marked by participation in many of the important campaigns and battles of the great conflict, virtually constitutes the history of his military career, as he continued in active service with his regiment until the close of the war. He participated in the Grand' Review of the victorious troops in the City of Washington, and received his honorable discharge on the 13th of August, 1865. In later years he has vitalized his interest in his old comrades and perpetuated the more gracious memories of his military career by maintaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic, at Harlem Springs, of which he has served as commander.
After the close of the war Mr. Phillips resumed his association with farm enterprise in his native county. and after his father moved to the Village of Kilgore the son assumed the active control and management of the old home farm, which has continued to be his place of residence to the present time, though he has lived virtually retired since 1910, when he turned the farm over to his youngest daughter and her husband. Lewis Slates, the latter having since been the active manager of the place.
December 5, 1867, recorded the marriage of Mr. Phillips to Miss Mary Seaton, who likewise was born and reared in Loudon Township, and who was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Jackman) Seaton. The supreme loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Phillips came when his loved and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, on the 27th of January, 1893, she
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having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Phillips has long
held membership and in which he is now serving as a trustee. He has been unwavering in his allegiance to the republican party and in past years was active and influential in community affairs, as shown by his having served one term as trustee of his native township. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. Phillips: Margaret is the wife of George Smith, of Kilgore, this county; Helen remains at the paternal home; Nancy Jane is the wife of George Parks, of Rocky River, Cuyahoga County; Howard married Miss Carrie B. Smith and they reside at Youngstown, Mahoning County; Mary is the widow of Charles Smith and maintains her home in the City of Cleveland; Minnie is the wife of Clyde Scott, of Harlem Springs, Carroll County; and Carrie is the wife of Lewis Slates, who has the management of the old homestead farm of her father, as previously noted in this context.
FLORENTS STEINBACH is a man who has never permitted himself to become discouraged, but has kept right along and as a result is now recognized as one of the best business men and farmers of Carroll County, and his valuable farm of eighty acres in Rose Township is one of the well-developed rural properties of his neighborhood. Mr. Steinbach was born on his present farm, September 8, 1871, a son of Frank and Mary (Weimer) Steinbach. Frank Steinbach came from Germany to the United States in young manhood, and met his future wife, who was born in Baden, Germany, at Steubenville, Ohio, where he worked in a paper mill for seven years. After they married the parents came to the farm now owned by their son, the original purchase comprising but forty acres. to which twenty acres were later added, and still later, twenty acres more. Here the father carried on general farming, and was active until his death, which occurred in 1896. His widow survived him until 1902. Of their five children. Florents Steinbach was the youngest, and of this family four are still living.
Growing up in his native township, Florents Steinbach acquired a knowledge of the fundamentals of an education at district school Number 5, Rose Township during the winter months until he was eighteen years old, and during the rest of the year was taught practical farming under his father's watchful supervision. He was then employed for five years on construction gangs hewing wood ties for the Pennsylvania Railroad, following which for two years he cut timber for George Clutz. For the next two years he was engaged in cutting and selling timber on his own account. His next occupation was that of a coal miner at the Linden- tree Mine in Carroll County, but on July 2, 1918, he was very badly burned on the arms and breast by a premature "shot" which caused an explosion a half-mile back from the mine entrance at the James Mine, Lindentree, and as a result he was incapacitated for six weeks. In 1895 Mr. Steinbach located permanently on his present farm, where he carries on general farm ing, and has been very successful. A hard worker, he has spent much time during the winter months in the mines, and has never spared himself, but has done everything he could to increase his income.
In 1895 Mr. Steinbach was married to Carrie Zangler, a daughter of James and Mary (Ricard) Zangler of Morges, Rose Township. Mr. Zangler was a stone mason by trade, and died in 1894, his widow surviving him until 1899. They had seven children, of whom Mrs. Steinbach was the youngest. She attended district school Number 6, Rose Township, until she was seventeen years old. Mr. and Mrs. Steinbach have no children, but adopted John O'Brien, when be was twelve years old and he made his home with them until he was married to Ida Rinehart in 1910. They have one son, William Richard. In politics Mr. Steinbach is a democrat. St. Mary's Catholic Church of Morges, Rose Township, holds his membership. Since his injury Mr. Steinbach employs a man to assist him in running the farm during the busy season.
WILLIAM R. THOMPSON. The one thing really significant and important in the scheme of human existence is worthy achievement, for this represents the concrete evidence of resolute thought and action. The life of the farmer offers much to the man who is willing to apply himself and has the good judgment to avail himself of proper methods and business principles. Such a representative of farm industry in Carroll County is William R. Thompson, of Lee Township, who has been a resident of the county from his boyhood and who has proved himself resourceful and persistent in the carrying forward of his activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with the result that he has achieved prosperity and made for himself a place as one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of the community.
Mr. Thompson was born at Richmond, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 25th of June, 1840, and is a son of John and Eliza (Wilson) Thompson, both likewise natives of that county, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days. In 1852 John Thompson came with his family to Carroll County and engaged in farm enterprise in Lee Township. He and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in this county and were residents of Augusta at the time of their deaths.
William R. Thompson was about twelve years old at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, and here he gained full fellowship with the work of the farm and profited by such advantages as were afforded him in the local schools. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to the age of twenty-four years, and for eighteen years thereafter he was employed by the year at farm work, on various farms in this section of the Buckeye State. At the expiration of this period he was so fortified as to be justified in the purchasing of a farm in Lee Township. On this place he continued his productive labors twenty-three years, and he then sold the property and, in the autumn of 1914. purchased his present farm, of seventy
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acres, in section 4 of the same township. Bringing to bear the energy and good judgment that are characteristic of the man, and profiting by former experience, Mr. Thompson has brought this farm up to an excellent state of productiveness, the place having been distinctly in a rundown condition when he purchased the same. In his work of revitalizing and improving the farm Mr. Thompson has had the effective aid and cooperation of his son, who is still associated with him in the work and management of the farm.
Mr. Thompson takes loyal interest in community affairs, is a republican in his political adherence, and he has served with marked efficiency as road supervisor. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The year 1877 recorded the marriage of Mr. Thompson to Miss Margaret Fawcett, who was born in Union Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Brooks) Fawcett, who were born in the vicinity of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, the former in 1803 and the latter in 1807. Mrs. Fawcett was a small child at the time when her parents embarked on a sailing vessel and set forth to establish a new home in America. The father died on the voyage and was buried at sea. The widowed mother continued her sad journey and eventually became a resident of Ohio, where she passed the remainder of her life. The parents of Alexander Fawcett immigrated to America about the same time as did the Brooks family, and they became pioneer settlers in Union Township, Carroll County. Alexander Fawcett became one of the prosperous farmers of his day and he and his wife remained in Carroll County until the close of their lives, their daughter Margaret having been the youngest in a family of thirteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have two children: Marietta, who was born August 2, 1878, is the wife of Henry Davis, of Perry Township, this county, and they have one child, Hazel, born in June, 1902. John M. was born October 2, 1880, and is associated with his father in progressive farm enterprise. He married Eliza Johnson, and their only child is a daughter, Ila Martha, who was born February 22, 1918.
DAVID MARION GAMBLE. "Back to the farm" was the call heard by David Marion Gamble after he had been an industrial worker for some years, and on the land and in the environment of his early youth he finds profit and satisfaction in the ownership and the products of his 100 acre farm in Rose Township of Carroll County in the Sherrodsville community.
Mr. Gamble was born in Rose Township February 23, 1873, son of Albert and Rebecca (Thorley) Gamble. His grandparents were Solomon and Anna (Young) Gamble, who came at an early day from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Harrison County, and when their son Albert was eight years of age moved to Rose Township, where they spent the rest of their years. Albert Gamble was fourth among eight children, gave his life to agricultural pursuits and died in 1897, his widow surviving him and residing at Dellroy.
David Marion Gamble is one of six children, and as a boy he lived on the farm and attended No. 4 District School in Rose Township. His education was continued through winter terms until he was twenty, but the balance of the year helped perform the various duties of the farm. Like most young men not being satisfied with the meager prospects of a farmer's career, he left home and for eleven years was employed in the steel mills at New Philadelphia, Ohio. Then taking a new view of a farmer's life, he returned to the country and in 1911 bought the old homestead farm of 100 acres and since then has devoted his best efforts to general agriculture and livestock growing.
Mr. Gamble's first wife was Anna Fisher, daughter of Joshua and Susan Fisher, of Jefferson County, Ohio. She died in 1904, the mother of eight children : Iva May ; Neva; Mary, who died at the age of three years; Lawrence, who died when one year old,, and four who died in infancy.
In 1907 Mr. Gamble married Myrta Drusilla Barrick, daughter of W. C. and Mary Margaret (German) Barrick, one of the old and notable families of Carroll County, living members and relatives of which hold an annual reunion that is one of the social events of the year. Mr. and Mrs. Gamble have three children : David Ray, born in 1908; Margaret Rebecca, born in 1910; and Marion Vinton, born in 1918.
Mr. Gamble is an independent democrat and several times has given his active support to the prohibition ticket. He was elected one term of two years as township clerk. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church at Union Valley.
THOMAS J. LONG is one of the progressive farmers of the younger generation in Carroll County, where he is the owner of a well-improved farm of seventy-three and one-half acres, in Union Township and four miles distant from Carrollton, the county seat, with service on rural mail route No. 4 from that city.
Thomas Jefferson Long was born in Union Township, this county, on the 17th of March, 1884, and is a son of George W. and Isabella (Scott) Long. Alexander Long, grandfather of Thomas J., was born and reared in County Donegal, Ireland, and upon coming to the United States he first settled in Pennsylvania, whence he later came to Ohio and engaged in farm- enterprise in Union Township, Carroll County. He became one of the prosperous farmers and honored citizens of Union Township and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, he having been venerable in years at the time of his death, in 1894. Of the twelve children One son and two daughters are now living.
George W. Long was born on the old homestead farm in Union Township and there he was reared to manhood. He eventually became one of the successful farmers of that township, where he and Thomas J. Long, his twin brother, were the owners of a well-improved farm of 160 acres at the time of his death, in 1915, his widow still remaining on the old homestead and being an active member of the Methodist Episco-