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JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO. - 171 MT. PLEASANT TOWNSHIP. John L. Barkhurst, a highly respected citizen of Mt. Pleasant township, is the youngest of a family of six children born to William and Nancy Haynes Barkhurst, natives of Ohio, who were married 172 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. August 19, 1805. Their children were: Isaac, born May 3, 1806; Sarah, born November II, 1808, died August 21, 1880; Joshua, born July 13, 1811; Margaret, born March 30, 1813, died April 29, 1836; Polly, born August 29, 1816, deceased; and John L., born October 7, 1821. The father, a farmer, and very estimable man, served for nearly three years in the war of 1812, under Gen. Harrison, and died April 18, 1861, aged seventy-six years. His wife died August 22, 1842, aged fifty-eight. John L. Barkhurst was born near Little York, Jefferson county, and was raised on the farm. In August, 1844, he was married to Louise Parkinson, daughter of Jacob and Polly Parkinson, of Jefferson county, who became residents of Jefferson county in 1814. She was a faithful member of the Methodist Protestant church, from the time her husband and she united with the same in 1856, and the church as well as her husband suffered a severe loss in her death, which occurred August 22, 1882, at the age of fifty- eight years. On January 28, 1885, Mr. Barkhurst, was married to Sarah Kithcart, daughter of Cunningham and Jane (Dunlap) Kith- cart. He and wife are active members of the Short Creek Valley Methodist Prosestant church. In 1872 Mr. Barkhurst left the farm and purchasing the Updegraff mills, engaged in milling, in which he has been quite successful. This mill was formerly run by Samuel Dennis, for eleven years, and a fourth interest is now owned by John Craven. The mill has now adopted the roller process and is doing a large business being situated in a fertile wheat country. Mr. Barkhurst now resides on property within the limits of the new town of Dillon, where he has platted town lots. This promises to be a village of importance. The Dillon coal mines, opened on the Barkhurst and Craven farms, are expected soon to yield twenty-five to 150 car loads of coal daily. William Barkhurst, a leading farmer of Mt. Pleasant township, was born in Jefferson county, January 27, 1831. He is the son of Jacob Barkhurst, by his wife, Mary Moore. Both parents were natives of Ohio, and the father was an industrious man, who, by following the callings of farmer and shoemaker, succeeded in becoming well-to-do. The mother died December 25, 1837, and the father was subsequently married to Jane Reynard, of this county. The children of the first marriage are William B. and Naomi, the latter the wife of George A. Walker, of Mt. Pleasant. William Barkhurst began work on his own account at the age of twenty-five years, and his steady industry and good management since then have enabled him to achieve considerable success and earn a high place among the best people of the county. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church, and in politics is republican. In 1888 he removed to Mt. Pleasant and is now leading a retired life. Mr. Barkhurst was married January 5, 1860, to Rebecca, daughter of Silas and Martha Moore, of Jefferson county. Her father, a farmer and member of the Methodist Episcopal church, died November 15, 1872, at the age of eighty years, and the mother is living in her eighty-fourth year. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Barkhurst are Sylvanus, who married Elizabeth White; Nancy J., wife of Hugh JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 173 Best, and Micajah S., who married Lenora Heltabridle. Mr. and Mrs. Barkhurst have the following children: J. Elsworth, who married Jeannette Jones; Dr. S. 0. Barkhurst, a physician at Smithfield, Ohio; Mary J., wife of Homer Cheffy; Martha A. and Ada at home. Mrs. Barkhurst is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Benjamin F. Bone, grocer and confectioner of Mt. Pleasant, was born September 5, 1846, son of Benjamin and Lenora (Evans) Bone. The father, a native of England, came to this country when about fifteen years old, married Miss Evans, a native of the county, and they lived happily together until her death in 1860, at the age of forty- eight years. He died December 1, 1877, at the age of sixty-three. Eleven children were born to them, as follows: Sarah (Mrs. J. H. Butler) ; Hannah, wife of S. Packer, died aged thirty-four years; Josephine, wife of C. C. Harris; Robert, Pickley L., Benjamin F., Alfred E.; Lenora, wife of George Dugan; Belle, wife of William Jones; William H., and Mary, wife of George Bowers. The sons did valiant service for their country, Robert serving in the federal army and navy, five years, Pinckney, three years, Benjamin, eight years, and Alfred one. Benjamin F., in his nineteenth year, left his Mt. Pleasant home and enlisted, July 18, 1866, at Wheeling, for the term of three years in the regular army. At the expiration of that period he was engaged at home at the trade of shoe-making until April 8, 1870, when he re-enlisted at Cinninnati for the term of five years. He served three years on Governor's Island in New Yark harbor, in what is known as the "permanent party," selected on account of height, and passed there a monotonous period, devoted to drill, parade and the firing of salutes. While there he experienced an attack of cholera. He also took an ocean voyage of thirteen days, conveying prisoners to Texas for the Seventeenth infantry, and went through a violent storm of twelve hours' duration. On the western plains he served four years in Indian warfare and garrison duty, was in seven engagements with the red men, and helped construct Fort Lincoln. He marched 472 miles in Kansas and Indian territory, 1,500 in Montana and Dakota, and also traveled in all sorts of conveyances while in the service, in all about 17,000 miles. In May, 1875, he resumed civil life, and after working at his trade two years, embarked in his present business. He was married March 4, 1879, to Maggie, daughter of Saul and Jane Davis, of Columbiana county. Mrs. Bone is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is a Mason and in politics a prohibitionist. Joshua A. Carter, an honored early resident of Jefferson county, came from Maryland, his native state, in 1812, with his father, Henry Carter, who settled near Smithfield, and farmed there until his death. Joshua also was engaged in farming all his life, and after a useful career, died in 1880, in his seventy-ninth year. The farm upon which his father settled is now owned by William Barkhurst. The wife of Joshua Carter was Sarah Evans, daughter of Cadwallader and Sarah Evans, who left Pennsylvania, where their daughter Sarah was born, starting from Pittsburgh on a raft, and proceeding down the river to 174 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. Wanington, where they landed and taking an Indian trail, came to the site of Smithfield and entered a section of land. There the parents spent the rest of their lives. The mother died at the age of eighty-nine, the father somewhat earlier. The farm they settled upon is now owned by Augustus Carter. Sarah Carter died about 1872, aged about seventy-nine years. She and her husband Joshua had nine children: William E., deceased; Ira, deceased; Nelson, Elihu; Hiantha, deceased; Augustus, Sarah; Pernelia, deceased; Mary, deceased. Nelson, the oldest of the family living, was born in Jefferson county, December 18, 1820. He has spent his life on the farm and is esteemed as a valuable citizen. March I, 1849, he was married to Mary E. Barkhurst, by whom he had four children: Theodore C., who married Margaret Williams (who died December 24, 1887), and has four children: Margaret F., died November, 1881, was wife of I. K. McCue, and mother of four children; Viola S., wife of George McCue and the mother of three children; and Albert S. The mother of these children died May 14, 1874, at the age of forty-five years, having been a true member of the Methodist Episcopal church from girlhood. In 1879, Mr. Carter was married to Sarah A., daughter of Josiah and Mary Glover. Albert S. Carter, youngest son of the above, was born in Jefferson county, June 29, 1858. He was engaged in farming until 1887, when he moved to Martin's Ferry and became a partner with McCue Brothers in the livery business. After eight months he disposed of his interest there and came to Mt. Pleasant, where he and George W. Tweedy bought a stable of McCue Bros., and now run two stables, one here and one at Martin's Ferry. They have prospered well in business. Mr. Carter was married January 2, 1883, to Missouri M., daughter of William and Eliza (Soroule) Marshall. Mr. Marshall was one of the prominent citizens of Jefferson county, was an able teacher, was deputy auditor for several years, and surveyor of the county. Both he and his wife died of consumption, he June 2, 1876, at the age of fifty-one, and she July 29, 1876, aged forty-one. Their children were Anna A., connected with the orphan's home, at Lebanon; Wilbur S., an attorney of Dayton, Ohio; Maria M., deceased; May V., wife of J. G. Haines, of Waynesville; Jane A., deceased; Missouri M., Sumner S., Robert R., and Herbert H. Mr. Carter is a republican in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have had one daughter, Anna Blanche, who died October 22, 1887, at the age of four years. Elihu Carter, one of the surviving sons of Joshua Carter, was born in Jefferson county, March 7, 1823. After spending a youth of industry on the farm he naturally adopted agriculture as his calling, and beginning independently in 1848, has achieved a creditable place among the worthy and responsible people of the county. He was married in 1848, to Rebecca U. Barkhurst, daughter of Isaac Barkhurst of this county, and have had nine childred: Hiantha, who is the wife of Thomas Marchbank, and has one child, Eva M.; Matilda V., who married Robert Baker, and died June 9, 1883, aged thirty-two years; Isaac B.; Henry C., died March 31, JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 175 1889, aged thirty-three; Ida B., died November 22, 1884, aged twenty-three years; William S., married to Mary H. Marchbank; John W., Mary E., and Ruth A. Mrs. Carter died April 13, 1889, aged sixty- three years. She was an exemplary and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr. Carter and several of the children are members. In politics Mr. Carter is a republican. Benjamin Comly was born on Big Short creek, Smithfield township, Jefferson county, May 9, 1827, the fourth son of David and Sarah Comly. The latter were married in 1821, and settled on what was known as the Jacob Holmes farm, which was obtained from the government by the latter for his services as a spy during the revolutionary war. On this site was built the first Methodist Episcopal church on this side of the Ohio river, which has always borne the name " Holmes" in honor of that distinguished patriot. When the wild game became scarce in the valley, Mr. Holmes exchanged this beautiful home for one on the Tuscarawas valley. David Comly was born in Washington county, Penn., in 1798, and died September, 1866. Sarah Whinery, his wife, was born March 3, 1796, and died April 13, 1858. The Comly family moved to Ohio in 1812, and settled first at Smithfield, then in the Tuscarawas valley near Leesburg. Three years later they came to Jefferson county. The Comly family came to America in the colony with William Penn. At one time Jacob Comly, an ancestor of Benjamin, advanced money to William Penn, and took for security a mortgage on lands where the city of Philadelphia now stands. Some effort, rumor says, was once made to look the title up, but the matter passed into forgetfulness. Benjamin Comly was married in 1858 to Mary E., daughter of William and Sarah E. Hope, and they have two children: Mary Eva and Anna B. He and family now live at Mt. Pleasant, but he still owns the old Comly-Holmes homestead of 260 acres, and is proud of the title of farmer, having spent the vigor of his manhood in that calling. He is now president of the board of the Mt. Pleasant high school, his associates being Dr. James V. Finley and Capt. James Thacker. Mr. Comly was appointed by William Reed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Updegraff in 1882. The latter was the life and support of the school. As president of the board, assisted by Mr. Reed, he did valuable service. Mr. Comly served his senatorial district as member of the state board of equalization in 1878-9. He had little ...early schooling, but by the aid of his library, one of the best in the county, and by his contact with men in high social and business standing, he has steadily grown in intellectual strength, in influence, usefulness and honor. Mr. Comly is a member of the Masonic order and is a republican. He is a strong advocate of education, and a friend to every good enterprise. John Comly, grandfather of Benjamin, was born in 1753. His parents died during his early childhood, and he was raised by his brother-in-law, Richard Hooker. John married Hannah Vaughn, who was born in 1756, and in 1778 they moved to Washington county, Penn., and in 1812 to Smithfield, Ohio, where he died April 28, 1828. Hannah, his wife, died in Washington county, 176 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. Penn., in 1810. John and Hannah Comly had ten children: Sarah, who married Col. Gault, of Columbus, Ohio; Elizabeth, who married Richard Baxter, of Carrollton, Ohio; Rachel and Ellen, who married brothers of the name of Hunter, influential people of Virginia; Hannah, a lady noted for scholarly attainments and womanly worth; and James and John, who settled in Perry county, Ohio. Some of the descendants of the latter have been noted, both in politics and war. James Comly, of Columbus, cousin of Benjamin, served in the late war as general. Sarah, the mother of Benjamin, was the daughter of William and Abigail (McMillen) Whinery, of Columbiana county. Of a worthy family, she was a woman of fine education and spared no pains in the culture of her children, of whom there were six. The oldest was Dr. John Comly, of Harrisville, Ohio. The next, William and James, twins, the latter now dead. William is still living at the Davis homestead. His wife, Susan, was daughter of Josiah Glover. The only daughter, Eliza J., wife of Kenworthy Hoge, died, leaving one son, Dr. William Hoge, of Portland, Ohio. David, the youngest, lives on Short creek. He married Anna, daughter of Charles Kinsey, of Moorefield, Ohio. John Craven, a miller and farmer and resident of the village of Dillon, is part owner of the Dillon flouring mills, and also an owner of part of the land upon which that town is platted. He is a liberal, enterprising man, and is greatly esteemed throughout the county. His first wife was Martha L. Tweedy, by whom he had three children: George W., Anna E., now the wife of George W. Carson, and mother of one daughter, Gracie, and James E. The mother of these children died October 30, 1865, at the age of twenty-nine, and her youngest child died on the ninth of the same month. Mr. Craven was subsequently married to Mary Whitson, of this county. George W. Craven, eldest son of the above, was born July 4, 1853. He was reared on the farm and has all his life devoted much of his time to agriculture, though now mainly occupied in milling. He is regarded as one 0f the thrifty and energetic people of the community. He was married November 16, 1886, to Maggie M., daughter of John and Isabel E. Coss, residents of Belmont county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Coss are: Alfred D., Robert J. A., Ella A., Maggie M. Rachel R., Anna M., George M. Lizzie M. and John A. Both of Mrs. Craven's parents are living. M., and Mrs. Craven are members of the Methodist church, and he is an active republican. The town of Dillon, in which he is interested, bids fair to become an important place, as the coal mines at that place are developing in a manner that indicates that they are among the best in the United States. Evan G. Evans, a prominent farmer of Mount Pleasant township, was born in Jefferson county, May 14, 1840, the son of George I. and Sarah (Griffith) Evans. George I. Evans, who was one of the leading farmers of the county in his life-time, was born at Gwynedd, Montgomery county, Penn., August 31, 1812, and was the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Evans, the former of whom was born in the same county in 1778, and died at the age of sixty-six years. The father of JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 177 Jonathan was born in 1733, and died in 1818, and the father of the latter, Thomas Evans, was born April 11, 1695. The genealogy of the family has been traced to the thirty-seventh generation from Evan G., and the ancestry of the mother of George I., has been traced to the year 1236. George I. was first married to Sarah Griffith, who was born in 1814, daughter of Evan and Elizabeth Griffith, by whom he had the following children: Elizabeth E., who married John Scott (both are deceased, she dying in November, 1886), and had eight children: George, Edith, Sarah, Charles F. Annie, Walter, Jessie, Arnie; Julia A., who married Thomas McMillen, and had five children: Inez, Hallie, Addison, Charles and Nellie; Evan G.; Sallie, who died in 1863, aged twenty-one years; Mary A., who was married to Warner Michener, and died July 13, 1889, at the age of forty-five, leaving four children: Lizzie G., William W., George I. and Mary E. The family removed to Ohio in 1830, and here the mother of these children died in 1846, and Mr. Evans subsequently married Mary P. Richards, of Pennsylvania, who was born March, 1810 and died September 20, 1876, while on a visit to the centennial exposition, leaving one daughter, Hannah Jane, wife of Horace G. Smith. The father, George I., died April 2, 1886. Evan G. Evans was reared on the farm until twenty-two years of age, when he began for himself. He is one of tile intelligent and progressive farmers of the county, and has one of the most beautiful homes of the region, occupying a remarkably handsome mansion which he moved to, or bought two years ago. He was married January 9, 1862, to Rebecca Craft, daughter of William and Rachel Craft, both of whom are deceased. By this union he had six children: Arthur W., Austin G., Sarah E., Channing E., Anna C. and Marietta, all of whom are, with their parents, birthright members of the Society of Friends. Adam R. Hope, farmer, of Mt. Pleasant township, was born in Jefferson, county, Ohio, February 25, 1830. His father was William S. Hope, born in Chester county, Penn., in 1806, and came to Ohio with his mother when very young, and after the death of his father, who had retired from his vocation as a farmer only a few years previous to his death, caused . by falling from a barn which was being taken down. This occurred in 1869, when he was sixty-three years of age. His wife, the mother of the subject of this mention, was Elizabeth Stringer, who died in 1868, aged sixty-two years. To these parents were born six children: Adam R., the eldest; Jane, who died at the age of seventeen years; Sarah; Mary E., wife of Benjamin Comly; Maria, who died at the age of one year, and Rebecca, who died at the same age. Mr. Hope began farming on his own account at the age of thirty years, and in the following spring was married to Isabella A., daughter of Edward Duncan and his wife, Isabella Balance, natives of Ireland. Her father, an architect and builder of Dublin, Mrs. Hope's native city, had nine children, of whom Mrs. Hope's brother Richard is the only other survivor. Her grandfather was Rev. Edward Henry Duncan, rector of Dun Boin church, in Ireland. Mr. Hope has been very successful in his occupation, and has a farm
178 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. of 430 acres, mostly underlaid with coal, pleasantly located about one mile from the town. About forty acres, at the station of the Lake Erie & Wheeling railroad, which will be the outlet for a large tract of country to Toledo and Wheeling, he has laid out in town lots, and his prospect for advantageous sales is very flattering. Mr. Hope and wife have two children, William S. and C. D., who superintend the farm. Mr. Hope is a member of the Masonic order, and with his wife is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is generally esteemed as one of the representative farmers of the county. Thomas Horton, a popular merchant of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, was born in Chester, Penn., June 24, 1822. At seven years of age he came to Ohio with his father's family, and settled in Belmont county, and he worked at the pottery business with his father until he was of age. He then learned the carpentry trade, which he followed seven years, until he was crippled by being struck on the ankle by the fore-foot of a horse, which caused white swelling. He has been a cripple ever since, and has been engaged in merchandise. He removed from Belmont county to Mt. Pleasant some fifteen years ago. He was married in 1848 to Rebecca Street, by whom he had three children: Jonathan S.; Joseph M., deceased at the age of twenty-two; Elizabeth A., who married Jesse K. Vicars, of Washington county, Ohio, and died at the age of twenty-five. The mother died in 1860, at the age of thirty. She was a member of the Hixite Friends. Mr. Horton was married in 1865 to Phebe Maris, of Morgan county, Ohio, daughter of Lewis and Sidney Maris, natives of Delaware county, Penn. Mr. Horton is a son of Joseph H. and Agnes (Malin) Horton, natives of Delaware county, Penn. The father was a volunteer in the war of 1812. He was a potter and carried on that business quite extensively. He died in 1851 at the age of sixty years. He was a member of the Friends. His wife died in 1877, in the eighty-sixth year of her age. They had five children: Elizabeth, died August 1886, aged sixty-five; Thomas; Joseph, who married Anna Murdick, and has three children: Rebecca A., Irene, and Lizzie, wife of Ellis Cannon; Malin, who married ,Catherine Wells, and has five children: Jesse L., Mary A., Addie E. and Ross, and Winchell, deceased. Lewis and Sidney Maris, parents of Mrs. Horton, had eight children: David, who married Mary D. Purviance, and died in September, 1851, aged thirty-two; Rachel H.; James D., who married first Elizabeth Worall,, and, on her decease, Hannah Tedrow; Phebe; Deborah, deceased; Mary, deceased; Jared, who married Isabella Fletcher, now deceased, and then Margaret Adams, of Lebanon, Ohio; Thomas C., who married Susan Jennings. The father, Lewis Maris, died in 1876, aged eighty-three years, and his wife died in 1879, aged eighty-seven years. John Salkiln, the maternal great-great-grandfather of our subject, was a Quaker minister who came from England with William Penn. He was a very able as well as eccentric divine. He .had a son John who married and had a daughter Agnes, who married a Winchell. They had a daughter Grace, who married Thomas Malin. Their daughter Agnes was the mother of our subject. Benoni Griffith, the maternal great- JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 179 great-grandfather of Mrs. Phebe Horton, came from Wales. His son Nathan had a daughter Mary, who married Isaac Hooper, whose daughter Sidney married Lewis Maris. The name of Prof. George K. Jenkins is prominent in the religious and educational history of Jefferson county. He was born June 5, 1810, in Belmont county, Ohio, the son of Michael and Sarah (Kimsey) Jenkins, the former of whom was a native of Virginia and the latter of Bucks county, Penn. These parents had four children, Rachel, wife of Owen Maris; Mary J., wife of Clark Terrell, and mother of fifteen children, three of whom died in infancy; George K. and a sister who died in infancy. George K. Jenkins lost his father by death while he was a child and when he had grown to boyhood and began to manifest the strong desire for learning which characterized his life, he found his progress much impeded by the lack of help. In obtaining his education he depended largely upon his own exertions. At the age of seventeen he began to teach, and by that means supported himself through a course at Franklin college, where he was graduated in 1835. Subsequently, until 1842, he was connected with the public schools of Wheeling, and Mt. Pleasant, the Friends' boarding school of Mt. Pleasant, and with Franklin college as professor of mathematics and classics. In 1842 he established at Mt. Pleasant a select high school in which he continued to teach until 1864, gaining a repu tation as a teacher which drew pupils to his school from a wide territory. His scholarly enthusiasm and thoroughness was an inspiration to his pupils, and in his thirty years of labor as a teacher he exercised an influence for good, which it may readily be believed will never cease to be felt. In 1840, he was one of the originators of the Union Sabbath school at Mt. Pleasant, and was one of its executive committee support. For the amelioration of the condition of the Indians and the abolition of negro slavery, he strove unceasingly, and he was spared to see the fruition of some of his hopes. He was not a seeker for official position and held no office save that of school examiner for over twenty years, and subsequently for nearly fourteen years he was the superintendent of the Friends' Sunday-school. Of the Friends' society he was an earnest and devoted member, and to every effort for the betterment of his fellow-man, he gave his enthusiastic from 1842 until his death. On September 30, 1841, he was married to Sarah E. Updegraff, eldest daughter of David and Rebecca T. Updegraff. Her father was a son of Nathan and Ann Updegraff, who came to this country from Virginia in 1802. Prof. Jenkins died March 0, 1879. Of the five children who were born to him and wife, three survive, Rebecca A., wife of A. H. Johnson, of Oberlin, 0., and mother of two children: Cliffe U. and Albert M.; Charles H., who was first married to Alice, daughter of L. V. Johnson, of Sandusky, 0., who died in January, 1880, and whose present wife is Catherine Ross, of Cleveland, by whom he has one son, Kenneth R.; and Elizabeth M. Jenkins who resides at home, was a student for several years at Howland school, of Union Springs, N. Y. Edward B. Jones, mayor of the village of Mt. Pleasant, and one of 180 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. the extensive landowners and farmers of the county, was born at Roxylvania, Iowa, February 22, 1859. His father, Lewis W. Jones, a native of Ohio, was born about 1829. He married Mary Binns, a native of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Society of Friends, who died July 20, 1879, at the age of forty-nine. Three children were born to them, Luella, who died in childhood; Anna E., wife of Mahlon P. Hill, of Jefferson county, and Edward B. The latter spent his youth in the Mt. Pleasant schools, and graduated there in 1876, after which he entered the Eastman business college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was engaged one year in the First National bank of Mt. Pleasant and then returned to the farm, where he has since been engaged. He has a farm of 300 acres, and makes a specialty of breeding thoroughbred cattle, having a herd of twenty, partly of the St. Lambert family of Jersey cattle. Mr. Jones is a very progressive, intelligent agriculturist and has good grounds for claiming to be the pioneer in Jefferson county in the construction of the " silo " for the preservation of green feed in its succulent condition. Many persons have visited him for information and instruction in regard to this valuable contrivance. He is one of the foremost citizens in public affairs, is one of the commissioners of the Adena, Mt. Pleasant and Martin's Ferry turnpike, is a member of the Society of Friends, a Good Templar, and in politics republican. Mr. Jones was married June 14, 1883, to Lizzie Robb Chambers, daughter of Robert Chambers, of this county. They have two children, Mildred M., and Helen B. William S. Kithcart, a leading farmer and stock-raiser of Mt. Pleasant, was born there March 12, 1844, the son of Cunningham and Jane (Dunlap) Kithcart. The father, a native of Pennsylvania, after coming to this state was engaged successively as a blacksmith, tanner and butcher, and then became a farmer, at which he was occupied until his death, June 4, 1876, at the age of seventy-six years. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. His wife, a native of Ohio, and a member of the same church, died September, 1883, aged seventy-seven years. Nine children were born to these parents, of whom eight lived to maturity. Their names are: Elizabeth A., wife of Daniel Parkinson; Joseph A., who married Martha A. Yost; Kate D., died in February, 1865; Sarah K., married John L. Barkhurst; Martha E., married J. E. Henderson; William S., James T., who married Mary A. Cole; and Mary E., wife of David F. Elliott, of Smithfield. William S. Kithcart worked on the farm with the other brothers until about 1880, when he moved to the residence he now occupies near the town, which is beautifully located. In politics Mr. Kithcart is a democrat, and the religious affiliation of himself and wife is with the Presbyterian church. He was married November 21, 1867, to Martha J. Reynard, daughter of Robert and Jane (Vale) Reynard, of this county, and four children have been born t0 them: Emma J., Lizzie M., Maggie F. and Robert R., Mrs. Jane Reynard, the mother of Mrs. Kithcart, died July 8, 1855, aged thirty-six years. She was the mother of the following children: Marmaduke, deceased; Martha J.; Ruth A., deceased; William E., of Martin's Ferry; JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 181 Thomas B., of Belmont county; Natham H., of Ringgold county, Iowa; and James B., of the same county. John Lloyd and Mercy (Baldwin) Lloyd, his wife, with their family of six children, emigrated to the state of Ohio, from Pennsylvania, in the year 1806, settling on a farm of 30 acres that had been previously purchased in Belmont county, on Little Short creek, two miles south of Mt. Pleasant. It being new land and heavily timbered required much energy and enterprise to fit it for cultivation, and to build up the home in which they expected to (and did) spend the remainder of their days, until their business activities had ceased. He erected a saw-mill, cleared the farm, converting much of the heavy timber into building material, and in addition to his farm work, built up, and for a number of years conducted a tannery. He was an active and useful member of the Society of Friends, he and his wife both filling the position of elders in the church. John Lloyd died March 15, 1838, aged seventy-four; and Mercy, his wife December 13, 1835, at the age of seventy-five, thus having more than lived out the three score years and ten, assigned to man. Life's work wisely and faithfully done, they passed to their eternal home, to receive the reward of the righteous. Their children, Joshua, Ann, Isaac, Jesse, Susan and Rachel, progressive and valuable people, all married except Jesse, and are now all deceased. Isaac Lloyd, second son of John Lloyd and Mercy (Baldwin) Lloyd, born 1794, married December, 1818, to Ruth Harrison, daughter of William and Margaret (Jordan) Harrison, natives of York county, Va. In the autumn of 1835; he became owner of the old homestead, and pursued with comparative success the industries pertaining to the place with the addition of a grist-mill. They raised, educated, and started well in life, a family of ten children. He was a liberal spirited man, of good judgment, energetic and earnest in whatever he engaged in, of marked integrity of character, a practical Christian, ever maintaining a deep interest in the welfare of church and state, a member of the Friends church, and an ever uncompromising believer in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As the evening shades of life approached, his hopes brightened, and faith increased, and in the triumphs of that faith. He fell asleep in Jesus, 3rd of January, 1869. His faithful and devoted wife surviving him nine years, died 18th of June, 1878. William J., the eldest son of Isaac and Ruth Lloyd, married Eliza P. Hough in 1845; he, and their only child, died in 1848. John married Margaret Andrews, lives in Marshall county, Iowa, and has five children: Martha, Syble J., Elizabeth B., Ruth and John C. Ruth married a Mr. Stubbs; Margaret J. married Nixon Morris, of Indiana, in 1862; he died in 1868, and she has one daughter, Edith L., who married a Mr. Patterson. Joshua married Abigail Dillingham, lives in Tennessee and has three sons: Charles H., Elwood A., and Samuel. Charles H. married Mary Wilson, of Kansas, and lives in Tennessee. Samuel, Who now has his residence in Kansas, and has been a minister in the Society of Friends for many years, is now, accompanied by his wife, traveling in England on a Gospel mission. He has three sons: William G., Louis D., and Joseph J., all of whom are married. Mercy 182 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. married William G. Kinsey of Cincinnati, now residing near Mt. Pleasant, they have six children: Margaret L., Isaac L., Eward F., Annie R., Samuel A., and Mary E. Isaac married E. E. Cattell; Margaret L. married a Mr. Jenkins; Isaac Lloyd, Jr., married Hannah W. Butler; they are now living in Columbiana county, Ohio, and have two children: Elizabeth T. and Chester I. Ruth, deceased, was a minister of the Friends, and as such traveled quite extensively. Jesse, who married Edith Dillingham, sister of Abigail, is an evangelist of considerable fame in West Virginia; he has four children: Albert H., Edward W., Henry B., and Josephine. Susan, the youngest of the ten children, makes her home with her sister Margaret, now residing in Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio. In 1890, the old homestead is still in the family. David N. Milner, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Mt. Pleasant, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 19, 1814, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Neiswanger) Milner, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Pennsylvania. They were well-known citizens of Ohio, and for a time kept the only hotel between Wheeling and Zanesville. The father was drafted for the war of 1812, but being about to marry, sent a substitute. After his marriage in February, 1813, he settled in Guernsey county, and raised a family of six sons and six daughters, of whom seven are living. He died in 1855 at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, who died in 1866, aged seventy-five, was a noted practical botanist and floriculturist, and when they lived in Carroll county, her extensive gardens attracted people from many miles around. Their son, David N. Milner, at the age of sixteen, learned the trade of saddlery, which he has now worked at for sixty years, and is the oldest man in that business in the county. In 1842 lhe opened a temperance hotel at Mt. Pleasant, the first of the kind, and he was also an " underground railway conductor," the humorous title of many worthy and benevolent men in the days of slavery. After keeping hotel five years, he bought and removed to the old Buchanan property. This house has a romantic history. It was owned by a Mr. Buchanan who willed it to his wife " as long as her name was Buchanan." He died and she was left alone, but some time afterward she managed to have both the property and a second husband, by accepting the proposals of another man of the same name. In this house two soldiers were enlisted for the war of 1812, and here Mr. Milner courted and married his wife, who was a daughter of William Chambers, of Mt. Pleasant. She died March 14, 1874. Six children were reared by them. Anna M., wife of Jesse Williams, is the oldest. Next is Duncan C., who served in the Ninety-eighth Ohio regiment during the war, was sergeant-major three years, and was wounded at Chickamauga. Subsequent to the war he graduated in theology at New York, and went west. He established a Presbyterian church in Missouri, and another at Kansas City. By his marriage to Lucy Reid, of Mt. Pleasant, he has five -children. The remaining children are Dr. William A., a graduate of Philadelphia medical college; James R., graduate of Michigan law department, JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 183 Ann Arbor; Martha, wife of R. N. Theaker, and Bessie, wife of John P. Mitchell, all residents of Springfield, Mo. Mr. Milner is a notable church worker, whose daily life is of such purity that it testifies to the sincerity of his faith, He helped organize the first Sunday-school here, and has belonged to every temperance organization since the Washingtonians. Thomas F. Mitchell, a popular teacher of Jefferson county, is a son of John F. Mitchell, a leading stone mason and builder of Mt. Pleasant. The latter came to this country in 1849, from his native city, Liverpool, England, and traveled over the western states. In the fall of 1850 he returned to England, but in the following spring came back and settled at Philadelphia, where he followed his trade until 1855, when he traveled west and south as far as New Orleans. Returning to Jefferson county in May, 1857, he made that his permanent home. He has been a member of the Masonic order since 1857, was made a Knight Templar in 1867, and since 1860 has been chairman of the township committee of the democratic party. His father, Thomas J. Mitchell, a merchant of Liverpool, came to 'America in 1849, and went to California, where he amassed a considerable fortune in the gold fields. At the age of seventy-five he was killed at the Grand Junction, Jersey City. He and a friend were crossing the tracks, and in avoiding a locomotive about to pass in front of them he stepped in the way of one passing in the rear, and being struck died the next day. John F. Mitchell was married May 13, 1851, to Jane, daughter of William and Mary (Reid) Somerville, of England, and the following children were born to them: Thomas F.; Anna L., wife of James R. Smith; John C., Clara, a teacher and for several years an efficient deputy postmaster.; and Julia E., wife of William B. Frames, a lawyer of Martin's Ferry. Thomas F. was born at Cincinnati, April 10, 1855. He finished his education at Cornell college, Ithaca, N. Y., and then after clerking for Fogle Bros., at Mt. Pleasant, about three years, adopted the profession of teaching. Since 1874 he has taught from eight to ten months every year. He holds a professional certificate. As a teacher he has given good satisfaction, and won the general esteem. He has also acquired the trade of stone-cutting to which he devotes his vacations: During the administration of President Cleveland Mr. Mitchell held the office of postmaster at Mt. Pleasant four years, and was an efficient and faithful public servant. He is a member of the Masonic order, and of the Episcopal church. On June 18, 1884, he was married to Mary, daughter of Griffith and Rebecca Lemon, of Harrisville, Ohio, and they have one child, Clyde Griffith. Abram Ong, a well-known carpenter and esteemed old citizen of Mt. Pleasant, was born in Jefferson county, October 15, 1821, one of nine children of John M. and Mary (Cuppy) Ong. The names of the other children are: Mary, wife of A. T. Purviance; Jacob, Nathan, Susannah, wife of D. R. Graves; Mifflin, John; Anna (Mrs. C. Dally), deceased; and Isaac L. Mr. Ong was married October 30, 1845, to Elizabeth H., daughter of Nathaniel and Susannah Moore, of Jeffer- 184 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. son county, whose other children are: Mary, wife of Robert Brown; Richard, Jacob B., Charles F., Enos, Hannah, wife of J. Wheeler; Nancy J., wife of J. W. Sutherland; Nathaniel; Susannah, wife of David Crumley; Matilda, wife of William Harriman; Sarah, wife of Joseph Holmes; Ambrose U.; Rachel, wife of James Harriman; Ruth A., wife of David McGee; and Martha M. These parents died, the father at the age of eighty years and the mother in February, 1876, at the age of eighty-three. The ancestors of both Mr. Ong and wife were early in the country, and had adventurous histories. Perrin, the great-grandfather of Abram, was killed by the Indians at the mouth of the stream, Perrin's run, which bears his name; Jacob Holmes, the grandfather of Mrs. Ong, Abraham Cuppy, the maternal grandfather of Abram Ong, and McKnight, were scouts in this region three years before there were any white settlers, and for his services in that connection, Jacob Holmes received a patent to land one mile east of the site of Adena, on which he became the first white settler on the west side of the Ohio. Jacob Ong, paternal grandfather of Abram, moved to Ohio, about 1802, was a minister of the Friends church, and being a carpenter, built the Friends church at Mt. Pleasant. He died in 1847, and his wife, Mary, died in 1850. John M. Ong died December 27, 1877, aged seventy-eight, and his wife died June 2, 1867, aged seventy years. Abram Ong, whose marriage is mentioned above, had the following children:. Hannah J., wife of George W. Tweedy; John W., Nathaniel W., Ambrose U., deceased; Enos O., deceased; Isaac L., deceased; and Ruth A., deceased. John W., now a carpenter at Mt. Pleasant, was born June 29, 1851. Nathaniel M., also a well-known carpenter, is a prominent young man, a member of the Masonic order, a republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church. He is married to Mollie Thomas, and they have five children: William, Earl, Lena, Lafie and Elizabeth M. Richard L. Ricks, a well-known citizen of Jefferson county, was born February 2, 1817, in Southampton county, Va., son of Oswin and Marcia (Lawrence) Ricks, who were native Virginians and worthy members of the Society of Friends. The father, a farmer, died January 5, 1848, at the age of fifty-eight years, and the mother passed away November 3, 1861, aged sixty-seven. They had three children: Richard L., Nathaniel W. and Ann S. Richard L. was married August 8, 1839, to Missouri Clark, daughter of Col. William Clark, a soldier of the war of 1812. His wife, Elizabeth, is still living, aged ninety years. He died in 1820 at the age of twenty-eight years. He was a son of John Clark, who died in 1819, after representing his county in the legislature for twenty-five consecutive years. Clark, the explorer, is a relative of this family. Mrs. Ricks was born August 16, 1819. On August 8, 1889, she and her husband celebrated their golden wedding. The following children have been born to them: Mary M., wife of James Newly, of Tennessee; Oswin, deceased; Elizabeth W., widow of the late Hon. Jonathan T. Updegraff, M. C.; Marcia M., wife of Prof. J. A. White; Missouri M., deceased; William C., deceased; Julia W., wife of Prof. William M. White, and JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 185 Lucy K. Of the other children of Oswin Ricks, Nathaniel married Mary Winston, and has three children, and Ann S. is the wife of Dr. Bates, of Wheeling. Horace G. Smith, attorney at law, and a prominent citizen of Emerson, Ohio, was born at Mt. Pleasant, July 7, 1852. He is the son of Louis and Emma (Righter) Smith, both natives of Montgomery county, Penn., who were married in that state, and afterward removed to Ohio, and settled at Mt. Pleasant. The father was a civil engineer, and followed that profession many years. He and wife are still numbered among the most esteemed citizens of Emerson. Four children were born to thcm, two of whom survive: Mira, wife of Richard E. Roberts, of Emerson, and Horace G. The latter received his early education at Mt. Pleasant, and then attended the law department of the university of Michigan, where he was one of the graduating class of 146 members in 1881. He began the practice of law at Steubenville, where he still continues the practice, temporarily residing at Emerson. Mr. Smith is an attorney of much promise, and has the confidence of the community. He was married September 30, 1886, to Jennie H. Evans, a member of the Society of Friends. Mrs. Smith is the only child of George I. and Mary P. (Richards) Evans. Her mother is a daughter of Samuel and Ann Richards, who were born in Pennsylvania in 1778. On November 2, 1824, they set out for Jefferson county, with their seven children: Isaac W., aged twenty-one; Jacob W., aged nineteen; Beulah W., aged seventeen; Mary P., aged fourteen; Sarah, aged thirteen; Samuel, aged ten; Ann W., aged four. Jesse Roberts, a nephew, also accompanied them. They came from Valley Forge, Penn., hauling their goods with a four-horse team, the father and children walking most of the way, and after a trip of 635 miles reached here December 18, 1824. Of the family named only Samuel and Ann survive. Samuel resides at Ironton, Ohio, and Ann at Westgate, Iowa. Samuel Richards, Sr., died at Martin's Ferry, September 8, 1851, and his wife died at New Trenton, July II, 1849. Both were members of the Society of Friends. Bradway Thomas, an aged and highly respected retired farmer of Mt. Pleasant township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, May 15, 1815, the son of Peter and Mary Thomas. The former was the son of Isaac Thomas, born in 1754, died in 1825. Peter, his father, emigrated from Virginia to Ohio early in the century, and being married in 1808 to Mary Thompson, reared a family of twelve children. The mother died in 1861 and the father in 1864. Bradway was reared on the farm of his parents, and has followed the vocation he there learned until the weight of years has caused him to retire from labor. On November 30, 1837, he was married to Rachel, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Patterson) Hall, and in 1846 they removed to Mt. Pleasant township, which has since been their home, and where they are highly esteemed by all. Mr. Thomas has been successful not only in a material way, in making himself a comfortable home and amassing a considerable property, but has raised a family of children who delight to honor him, and to whom he will leave a good name as their choicest 186 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. inheritance. He and his wife are birthright members of the Society of Friends, to which their children also belong. The names of the latter are Ann, David, Asenath H., Mary and Elma. The first is a milliner of Columbiana county. David, by his marriage to Lydia Brantingham, has four children: Mary E., Clarkson B., Anna L. and Rachel E. Asenath is the wife of Elwood D. Whinery, and has five children: Elma T., Hervey M. (deceased), Thomas B., Chester E. and Mary E. Mrs. Thomas's parents, Thomas and Mary Hall, were both natives of North Carolina. Her grandfather, Joseph Hall, who was born in 1751, came to this county in 1802, and settled on the farm now owned by Mary, widow of William Hall, Jr. Thomas Hall was born in 1788. His children were: David (deceased), Rachel, Anna, Rebecca (deceased), Mary P., Asenath H., Sarah and Thomas. Isaac Thomas, formerly an active farmer of Harrison county, now retired, was born in that county, June 1, 1813, a son of Peter and Mary (Thompson) Thomas. The father was a native of Virginia, and the mother of Pennsylvania. Her parents were Bradway Thompson, born August 16, 1764, son of Nathaniel and Hannah Thompson, and died March 7, 1824, and his wife Ann, born June I, 1769, daughter 1 of John and Sarah Cousins. Isaac Thomas, after leading an indus- triouslife as a pioneer farmer, is now living in quiet at Mt. Pleasant, honored and esteemed by his friends. He is a member of the Society of Friends by birth. He was first married January I, 1834, to Anna Ladd, by whom he had eleven children: Robert, whose first wife, De- borah Ladd, died in 1870, was married in 1873 to Ruth Green; Joseph, died in 1863, aged twenty-seven years; Peter L., whose wife is Mary T. Green; Israel, whose wife is. Elizabeth Branson; Martha A., wife of Hiram Cope; and Mary, Edna, Oliver, Lucy, Anna and Sarah. The mother of these children died May 5, 1872, aged sixty years. August 12, 1875, Isaac Thomas was married to Phebe Gibbons, of Adrian, Mich. Oliver Thomas, son of the above, was born December 10, 1846, in Harrison county. He received his education in the country schools and during twenty weeks' attendance at the Friends' seminary, of Mt. Pleasant. On January I, 1873, he was married to Martha J. Elliott, of this county. She is a daughter of Samuel Elliott, a prominent farmer and member of the Methodist Episcopal church, who died in January, 1874. Samuel Elliott and wife, the latter of whom is still living, had nine children: Mary E., wife of Plummer Peregoy, of Newcomerstown; Hameline H., Martha J.; Susannah, wife of Joshua Anderson; Reason W.; Sarah M., wife of Samuel Brokaw, of Belmont county; Aaron T.; Samuel H., deceased; William T., on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Thomas are active members of the Society of Friends, and have many warm friends. Two children have been born to them: Anderson and Isaac W. The name of the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Oliver Thomas was also Isaac Thomas. He married Elizabeth Holmes, and they had seven sons and two daughters. Three of the sons became ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church, and one of them was among the most able in the Pittsburgh conference. Rev. JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 187 Aaron H. Thomas, was born in 1824, and died in 1870, mourned by all, and honored by the church, who testified of him through one of his brother ministers, that " as a man, a Christian and a minister, his name is associated with all that is endearing and ennobling, and with the brightest pages in the history of the conference." Elisha Thompson, a respected farmer residing near Harrisville, Ohio, is a native of Jefferson county, and was born July 21, 1829, son of John and Sarah (Patten) Thompson. The father, a native of Ohio, died in January, 1884, at the age of eighty years, and the mother, who was born in Georgia, passed away in 1872, at the age of about seventy. Elisha Thompson was reared on the farm, and at the age of twenty-four began for himself as a farmer, a vocation in which he is still engaged. He has prospered, and is now rated as one of the wealthy and influential men of his township. His home is most pleasantly located, and no money has been spared in its improvement and adornment. Mr. Thompson was married in 1855, to Martha, daughter of Jesse and Ann Goodwin, of Harrison county, Ohio. To this union have been born four children: Abi, now the wife of Israel Packer, of Marshall county, Iowa, by whom she has six children: Walter, Bertha, Marion, Charles R., Leroy and Elizabeth; Kersey J., who died in Nebraska, October 10, 1885, aged twenty-four years; Anna, who died in her first year, and John M., a student at Franklin college, Athens, Ohio. In the family of the parents of Mr. Thompson were the following children: Eliza, who died at the age of four years; Elisha; Lewis, who died at Harrisville about 1854, and William B., who served in the Union army eight months and died of sickness at Bolivar, Tenn. Rev. David B. Updegraff, the well-known preacher, is of Quaker ancestry and comes of a long line of ministers and elders of the church. His grandfather, Jonathan Taylor, a Virginian, who became one of the first settlers of Mt. Pleasant, was a man of enterprise and energy, which in pioneer times made him of incalculable benefit to the community. Benevolence and unbounded hospitality, also, were marked traits of his character. Much of his time and means were devoted to religion, and in his house the Friends held their meetings until a church could be built. He died in Ireland in 1831 while on a religious visit to the churches in that country. His wife, Ann Taylor, survived him many years. She was a woman of rare mental endowments, 0f piety, energy and endurance. Many of her quaint sayings are household words to this day. She was widely known as a minister in the Society of Friends, and rode thousands of miles on horse-back in her ministerial work, and even after her ninetieth year, she traveled hundreds of miles in her private carriage on religious missions. David Updegraff, father of our subject, was a man of more than average ability, and sterling worth of character, who was very successful in his various business engagements. He was an elder in the church, where his decision of character and clear convictions made his influence felt for good. He always took the side of the oppressed, was one of the first outspoken anti-slavery men of the day, and voted with the first liberty 188 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. party from conscientious convictions. He lived an honored and useful life, and died in December, 1864, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, Rebecca (Taylor) Updegraff, whose memory is so tenderly cherished among Friends, was a minister for fifty years. She was a woman of exalted nobility of mind, highly cultured and refined— with peculiar attractiveness of person and manner, was eloquent and earnest and had a wonderful power over her hearers. She lived to the age of seventy-six years. Rev. D. B. Updegraff was born August 23, 1830, near Mt. Pleasant. His parents came to Jefferson county about 1800, from Loudoun county, Va. David, the father, was the son of Nathan and Ann Updegraff, who came from Winchester, Va., in 1802 and settled near Mt. Pleasant. He was the father of eight children, of whom but two, David B., and Mrs. George K. Jenkins, are living. One brother, Dr. J. T. Updegraff, a member of the forty-eighth congress, died in 1882. Their father's house was the home of antislavery advocates, and temperance lecturers, also a " station on the Under-ground Railway." His horses, carriages and servants were always at the disposal of the escaping bondman.' David B. Updegraff was a graduate of Prof. Jenkin's high school and later he took a brief course at Haverford college. He was married September 23, 1852, to Rebecca B., daughter of William and Edith Price, of Smithfield, Ohio, and they had the following children: William P., deceased; Anna E., wife of T. Allen Hills, of Wilmington, Dela.; Oliver P., married to Mary P. Gill, of Topeka, Kan.; William R., married to Laura Heferling, of Havana, Ill.; Russell T., lumber merchant of Maple Hill, Kan. Mrs. Updegraff, who died August II, 1865, was brought up in the Friends church and was a woman of sterling piety and virtue. Rev. Updegraff's second marriage was in September, 1866, to Eliza J. C., daughter of Rev. Benjamin Mitchell, D. D., former pastor of Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian church for nearly fifty years. Their children are: Rebecca B., wife of H. H. Ratcliff, of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio; E. Grace, now a student of Earlham college, Ind.; Alice M., and David B. Rev. Updegraff, in 1869, entered fully upon the work of the ministry, and he has been practically the pastor of the church in which he was reared, for twenty years, yet his work has largely been amongst other evangelical denominations, in all parts of the country. The calls for his services from sister churches are constant, and many more than he can accept. He is well known as a successful leader and preacher at such camp meetings as Mount Lake Park, Md., Loveland, Ohio, and Pitman Grove, N. J. He is the editor and publisher of a beautiful quarterly magazine, the Friends' Expositor, now closing its third volume. This is exclusively a religious periodical, filled with the choicest matter from the pens of the ablest writers on spiritual themes. As a gentleman Mr. Updegraff is kind and courteous, and is rapid and versatile in conversation. His sermons are clear, forcible and practical. He has a wide circle of acquaintances, and he is well appreciated as friend, citizen, minister and evangelist. Hon. Jonathan T. Updegraff, deceased, formerly a distinguished member of the congress of the United States, was born May 13, 1822, JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO - 189 near Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, son of David and Rebecca Updegraff. His father, a son of Nathan Updegraff, one of the framers of the constitution of Ohio, removed to this state from Pennsylvania about the beginning of the present century. He was an elder, and his wife a minister, in the Society of Friends. Eight children were born to them, of whom two, Rev. D. B. Updegraff, and Sarah E. Jenkins, survive. The boyhood of Jonathan was passed upon his father's farm, and he began his education in the common schools. He studied also in Franklin college, and then having chosen medicine as his profession, at the age of nineteen entered the office of Dr. Flamer, at Mt. Pleasant, and subsequently was graduated at the university of Pennsylvania. Beginning the practice at the age of twenty- one, he soon became an eminent and successful physician, and added to his usefulness by completing his studies in 1851 and 1852 in the medical schools of Edinburgh and Paris, about which time he also traveled extensively through Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land. Toward the close of the war he served as field surgeon, with the rank of major, in the Union army. He became best known, however, by his long and useful political career. He was active in the organization of the republican party, and was its firm friend throughout life. In 1872 he was a presidential elector for Ohio, and cast his vote for Gen. Grant. During the same year and in 1873 he was a member of the state senate of Ohio. He was temporary president of the state convention in 1873, and in 1875 he served as chairman of the republican state central committee. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention which nominated R. B. Hayes for president. He was first nominated for congress in 1878, and being triumphantly elected, became a member of the forty-sixth congress. He was re-elected to the succeeding congress, and only a few weeks prior to his death he was elected a third time to the congress of the United States. On November 30, 1882, the day of national thanksgiving and of happy family reunions, his home was made sad and desolate by the death of the husband and father. His life was one that was most useful and honorable in every respect. His scholarly attainments, his extensive reading and travel, had given him breadth of thought; and his contact with men had added a knowledge of human nature that aided his judgment and made him quick to grasp an idea, and fertile in conception. His kindred were of the Friends society, and he was reared and died in that connection, having been converted in revival services held in the spring of 1864. In 1846 Dr. Updegraff married Phebe Underhill, of Indianapolis, Ind., who died shortly afterward leaving one son, Judge R. D. Updegraff of Cleveland. In 1856 he married Mary E. Evans, of Trenton, Ohio, who died in 1864, leaving two children, George T., of Helena, Ark., and Mary A., of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. In 1866 he married Elizabeth W. Ricks; their children were Fred C., Charles T., and Walter M., the latter died in 1879, aged three years. Prof. William M. White, superintendent of the public schools of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, was born February 21, 1836, in Jefferson county. 190 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. He is the son of John and Lydia (Phipps) White, the former of whom is a native of Pennsylvania, the latter of Ohio. Both are living, at the ages respectively of eighty-two and seventy-two. Ten children were born to them: William M., Almon G., who married Alvira Bear and has two children living; Addison, who married Marcia Ricks, and has the following children: William, Julia, Kyle and Libbie; Alonzo, deceased; Caroline E., wife of Alexander Richards, and the mother of three children; Anna, wife of Ellis Dalrymple, and the mother of eight children; Mary, John and Clara, deceased; and Emma, wife of Charles Harris, by whom she has five children. Clara the daughter of Caroline, is the wife of Harry Bonage. William M. White was occupied in early life in his father's tannery, attending school in the winter. At the age of eighteen years he began teaching, and in two years was able to earn enough to enable him to attend the Normal school at Hopedale one year and graduate. Subsequently going to Iowa, he was elected superintendent of Story county the first year he was there. After holding that office over a year, he resigned and joined a surveying party on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, with whom he remained one winter. He then returned to Ohio and has since been engaged in teaching, in Smithfield two years and at Mt. Pleasant twenty successive years. He and his brother Addison taught together in the public schools of Mt. Pleasant for a term of eighteen years, as associate principals, neither outranking the other, each, one-half the time in the grammar department and one-half in the high school, dividing equally the labor and remuneration. Prof. White is regarded as one of the leading educators of southeast Ohio, and noted as a good disciplinarian and for thoroughness of work. He and his brother have graduated over 100 pupils in the Mt. Pleasant school who are generally a credit to that institution. Mr. White was married August 15, 1864, to Julia, daughter of Richard L. Ricks, elsewhere mentioned, and they have one child: Philip R. Prof. White has served as county examiner for seven years. In politics he is a republican, and in his church relations is a Disciple. Mrs. White is a member of the Society of Friends. |