(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) VOLUME II BIOGRAPHICAL. THE SARCHET FAMILY. The Sarchet family were among the first to settle in this county, being among the number of families that emigrated from the island 0f Guernsey (France) in 1806, and as the family have been prominent in the history of this county, which was named for the island they came from, it may be of intereSt to the reader of l0cal hist0ry to know something in detail 0f the ancestry as well as of the members of the family who have left their impress on their adopted country. The Sarchet family, of the island of Guernsey, Europe, were descendants of the De Souchets, of the north of France. Thomas, a Son of that family (who were zealous Catholics), obtained, during his minority, a French Bible, which he persisted in reading, against the protest of his father and mother, as also the parish priest, who threatened the anathemas of the church. The Bible is still in the Sarchet family as a precious relic. Through fear, he fled from his home to the island of Jersey, from there to Guernsey, where he assumed the name of Sarchet. This was about the year 1670. He married and had one son. This son married and had two sons, Thomas and Peter, who became the heads of two families in Guernsey. Thomas, John, Peter and Nicholas were the sons of Thomas, and Peter, the only son of Peter, and, these five sons having all emigrated to Guernsey county, Ohio, the name is now extinct in the island 0f Guernsey. Thomas, the elder son of Thomas, succeeded to the patrimonial estate, the old "Sarchet mansion," a massive stone structure of the olden time, with fourteen acres of land attached. He was a cultivator of fruits and vegetables for the market of St. Petersport, and also a carter or drayman of the city. John was a ship's blacksmith, a maker of chain cables and anchors ; a man of more than ordinary ability, shrewd and cunning; he was an advocate of free trade, and represented the Iron-master's Union of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, in a report advocating free-trade in iron. His report was bitterly assailed by Henry Clay, as coming from a dirty-handed 458 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. smuggler of the island of Guernsey; the report was sustained by Albert Galliten, in an able speech, wherein he pronounced that, though John Sarchet's hands were dirty, it was fr0m honest toil, and that his argument waS unanswerable. Peter Sarchet was a carpenter, and Nicholas was a blacksmith, each of whom were quiet, frugal, industrious men, filling their places in society with credit to themselves and families. Peter, son of Peter, was a gentleman of leisure and means, with the title of Sire Peter. THOMAS SARCHET, SR., the pioneer of the Guernsey families of Guernsey county, Ohio, was born in the parish of Saint Samson, island of Guernsey, in Europe, June 29, 1770, and waS married to Anne, or Nancy Birchard, a daughter of James Birchard and Esther Gallienne, of the parish of La Quartie, in the year 1789, to whom were born four sons and two daughters, Thomas, David, Peter B., Moses, Nancy and Rachel, all of whom were born in the island of Guernsey. In the year 1806, when all Europe was under arms and the eagles of the first Napoleon were spreading fr0m kingdom to kingdom, and kings and crowns were at his disposal, the island of Guernsey, in the English channel, between the two great contending powers, was made the rendezvous for the troops of England and her allies. The inhabitants were compelled to supply the troops with provisions, and "press-gangs" were over-running the island, pressing all able-bodied men into the English service. Thomas Sarchet, a philanthropist and Christian, opposed to war, resolved to seek a home in the New World of the West. The old ancestral home, the home of Victor Hugo, the French republican, who would not follow the lead of the "man of December" during his exile, was disposed of, and in May, 1806, Thomas, John and Peter Sarchet and Daniel Ferbrache, a brother-in-law, with their families, boarded a fishing smack at Saint Petersport, bound for a Jersey port, where they were to take passage in an English emigrant ship bound for Norfolk, Virginia. On the v0yage to Jersey the smack was boarded by a "pressgang" and two young men named Simmons, who were passengers bound for America, were taken from the boat. On arriving at Jersey, Thomas Sarchet appeared before the governor of the island and demanded the immediate release of the two young men, which he succeeded in obtaining. This is mentioned to show a distinguishing trait of his character—a heart that went out after the distressed and oppressed. The English ship, commanded by Captain McCrandal, a son-in-law of Sire Peter Sarchet, was convoyed by an English man-of-war out of the Eng- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 459 lish channel into the ocean until it was thought the ship was safe from the French cruisers, when the farewell and lucky journey was extended and the ship and escort parted. After being a few days out, a French cruiser was sighted in full pursuit. A canvas had been prepared for such an emergency, and soon the name of the ship was covered by "The Eliza of Boston" and the American Jack proudly floated to the breeze. The French cruiser not being aware of the ruse, and the United States and France being on good terms, gave up the chase. The ocean voyage was calm and pleasant, without any unusual occurrence, excepting the death of a child of the Ferbrache family, the body being wrapped in a sheet and consigned to the ocean, after the impressive burial service of the Episcopal church had been read by the captain, to await the day when "the sea shall give up its dead." The landing was made at Norfolk, June 3, 1806, and shipping taken for Baltimore, Maryland. At that city, wagons, horses and equipments for the overland journey were procured, and they passed out of Baltimore June 16th, the sun then being in total eclipse. The point of destination in the west was Cincinnati, Ohio. The journey over the mountains was a long and tiresome one, beneath the hot, sultry sun of July and August. Arriving at Cambridge, August 14, 1806, the town being just laid out and the underbrush cut off Main street, a consultation was had with the proprietors of the town, Jacob Gomber and Zaccheus A. Beatty, which resulted in a determination to stop and settle. A brush tent was hastily built near a spring, on land in what is now known as Lofland addition to Cambridge, and here "their wanderings were o'er." Thomas Sarchet purchased lot number 518, corner Main and Vine streets as then known, and at once began the erection of a hewed log house, which was completed in the summer of 1807, and is still standing (October, 1910). It is the oldest landmark of the pioneer settlement in Cambridge, it having been one hundred and three. There pioneer Sarchet lived the remainder of his weather-boarded, however, which greatly preserved it intact all these years— days, dying April 21, 1837, aged sixty-seven years, and there also his good wife resided until her death, April 2, 1849, aged eighty-three years. A number of years before his death Mr. Sarchet lost almost entirely the use of his limbs and had to he carried to his church, a duty that was cheerfully performed by his religious brethren, as a tribute to his worth and their esteem for the old father of the church whose great delight was in communion with the saints. He sang, with rapturous delight 0ne of the old Methodist hymns : "My latest sun is sinking fast, My race is nearly run." 460 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. The funeral services of Thomas Sarchet and Anne Sarchet were conducted by Rev. Cornelius Springer, with whom they had fellowshipped, both in the "Old Side" and "Radical" church. He died early in life; his children all lived t0 be three score and ten. Thomas Sarchet was not a man of leisure; he was a busy man—a man before whose strong arm the "wilderness was made an habitation, and the desert to rejoice and bloss0m as the rose." He began to take hold of such enterprises as the necessities of a new country required. He made a journey to Pittsburg with pack horses to procure salt. He made a journey to Philadelphia, for store goods, and opened out the first store in Cambridge in the spring of 1808. Prior to this he had leased the "saline lands," at Chandlersville, Muskingum county, from the state of Ohio, and there began the manufacture of salt. These saline springs had been used by the Indians, with their rude implements, for salt making, which led to the reservation by the state. He continued to make salt from these springs until about the close of the war of 1815, when he bored the old Sarchet well, where he owned a section and a half of land, and continued to manufacture salt until the fuel gave out and the works were abandoned. This was an artesian well. The water was forced twenty feet above the surface by gas, and flowed many years. While engaged at the salt works at Chandlersville a nephew, Daniel Ferbrache, fell into the "cat-hole," and was so badly burned that his death followed in a few days. An account of his sufferings, Christian resignation and triumphant death, published in the Methodist Magazine, from the pen of Thomas Sarchet, entitled "Passing Through the Fire," was read with interest and largely copied into the secular papers of the day, as showing how well Christians could die. Strength and agility were traits prided in by the pioneer settlers, and it was not unusual for reputed "bullies" to engage in the then manly (now brutal) sport of the prize ring; but no bully ever bantered Thomas Sarchet. He was known as the "strong man," and was said to have carried, on a wager, upon his back, one thousand pounds, from his dray into a mill at Saint Petersport, Guernsey. At house-raisings and log-raisings, when the weight seemed too heavy for the force applied, his brave "Ho, boys, heave," meant the log must move. A member of the Wesleyan connection of the church in Guernsey, and a licensed exhorter, he brought with him and his family the nucleus of the Methodist Episcopal church of Cambridge, organized from the "French Class," of which he was the leader, by the Rev. James Watts, in 1808. His house became the place for preaching, and his home and hospitality was open and free to the horseback itinerant of the early, church. Many of the great men GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 461 of the church, of sacred memory, partook of his bounty, and reposed in quiet and security beneath his hospitable r0of. Among the number may be named Bishops McKendree, Hedding, Soule, Waugh, Hamline, Morris and J. B. Finley, John P. Durbin, Charles Elliott, James Quinn, David Young and others whose names have been forgotten. When "mutual rights," the rock that split in twain the Methodist Episcopal church, began to be agitated, opposed as he had been to the kingly prerogative in the old country, he became an advocate of lay delegation and against the tenure for life of the office of bishops, and when the final split came he went into the new organization, and, in a large meaSure, built the first Methodist Protestant church, at his own expense, in Cambridge, in the year 1832, and continued in it, as he had been in the old church, a leader and a pillar. His reason for leaving the "Old Side" church, as it was called during those heated days of controversy, and connection with the "Radicals," as the new organization waS styled, he had published by John Hersh, then editor of the Guernsey Times, and circ.ulated throughout the places where the disturbing question was most agitated. His reasons were based on the republican idea of equality and fraternity, with no privileged sect. But, like all reformers, he lived in advance of his days, and as all that was demanded then has become a part of the polity of the Methodist Episcopal church of today, except the life tenure 0f bishops, his reasonS, which he bequeathed as a legacy to his children, may be accepted as not coming from a fanatic without reason. The fruit trees planted in Cambridge were carried on horseback by him from the Putnam nursery at Marietta, where he procured seed and planted a nursery, from which the older orchards of Guernsey county were derived. He held no civil office higher than road supervisor. He lived and died enjoying the fullest confidence of the people in his honesty and integrity of character, and it came to be a saying, "If Thomas Sarchet says so, it must be true " He had no blot upon his character, unlesS the necessities of the pioneers in converting their surplus grain into alcoholic liquors in order to secure a market, might be called a blot,—when ministers and laymen drank from the same bowl,—for he was a brewer of beer and a distiller of whisky. As the pioneer, he was followed in 1807 by James Birchard, William Ogier, Thomas Naftal, Thomas Lenfesty, Daniel Hubert, Sire Peter Sarchet and John Marquand, with their familieS, and John Robin, Peter, John and Nicholas Toroade, Nicholas Poedwin, Peter Corbet, NicholaS Sarchet, and Peter Langley, young men. The following is a roster of the family of pioneer Thomas Sarchet : Thomas, born July 2, 1790; married Catherine Marquand ; sons, Solo- 462 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. mon, Thomas Y., Charles M.; daughters, Nancy, Anne, Martha Matilda, Maria, Lucinda. Nancy, or Anne, born December 5, 1793; married Capt. Cyrus P. Beatty; sons, John A., Thomas, Zaccheus; daughters, Nancy B., Ellen, Rachel. David, born November 14, 1797; married Mary Hill, Margaret Britton, Jemima De Hart, Mary Toroade; sons, Simon P., Fletcher B., David T., Alpheus T., Elmer G.; daughters, Nancy, Margaret, Elizabeth and Rachel. Peter B., born May 6, 1800; married Catherine Holler, Martha McCully, Mary Mitchell; sons, Thomas H., Joseph H., John M., Cyrus T. B., George M.; daughters, Harriet, Lorette. Moses, born April 17, 1803; married Martha Bichard; sons, Cyrus P. B., Thomas, James B., Charles J., John H.; daughters, Nancy B., Rachel M., Harriet J. Rachel M., born April 14, 1805 ; married John P. Beatty; son, Zaccheus A. daughters, Anne M., Margery L., Sarah K., Ellen A., Harriet A., Margaret M. and Cecelia F. MOSES SARCHET, son of Thomas and Ann Sarchet, natives of the island of Guernsey, was born on that island April 17, 1803, His parents emigrated to this country in the autumn of 1806, locating at Cambridge. Moses Sarchet married, on March 23, 1826, Martha Bichard, daughter of James and Rachel Bichard, who were also from the isle of Guernsey, coming here with Thomas Sarchet and his little colony. Mrs. Moses Sarchet was born in 1805. The children born to Moses and Martha (Bichard) Sarchet were as follows: Nancy B., Cyrus P. B., Rachel M., Harriet Josephine, Thomas, James B., Charles J. and John H., eight in all. At the death of Cyrus P. Beatty, Mr. Sarchet was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas, which office he held for fifteen years. He was twice mayor of the city of Cambridge, and for many years a justice of the peace and superintendent of the National pike a number of years. Was twice nominated for representative of Guernsey county and in each campaign was defeated by the Democratic party, he always voting the Republican ticket. He was a busy man and yet always found time to. entertain his friends in a hospitable manner. He had hosts of friends, who mourned his death, which occurred' September 9, 1890. He was buried in the cemetery at Cambridge, September 11th. His wife died March 1, 1887. At the date of her death there were twenty-eight grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. She was sixty-four years an acceptable member of the Methodist Episcopal church. As a mother, she ordered her household well. As a neighbor, she GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 463 was kind, obliging and charitable. At her request, she was buried beside her four sons, and now the husband rests beside her. She sleepS the sleep of the just. CYRUS PARKINSON BEATTY SARCHET was born in the house formerly owned by his grandfather, Thomas, this structure having been built the third one in Cambridge, and, with the exception 0f three years in his early manhood, his entire life has been Spent in thiS vicinity. He is the eldest son of Moses and Martha (Richard) Sarchet, and was born November 17, 1828. His ancestors were French Huguenots, who at an early day took up their residence on the island of Guernsey. The original Spelling of the name, it is supposed, was Sauchet, the French form of which would be De Sarcha, and some of the family have taken that name. About 1670 one Thomas Sarchet, a zealous Catholic, obtained a French Bible, which, he persisted in reading against the desires of his parents and the parish priest, and at length was obliged to flee from his country, going to Guernsey, having stopped for some time in the isle of Jersey. This Bible is mentioned elsewhere in detail in this work, and is still in the hands of the family here. Thomas married and had two sons, as shown in the accompanying genealogy. Upon arriving in America in 1806, and at Cambridge, Ohio, August 14th of that year, they found the hamlet just platted. The father bought a lot at the corner of Wheeling avenue and Seventh street and erected a log cabin, a part of which was still standing in the eighties, in a good state of preservation. Within this log house the grandfather, Thomas Sarchet, lived until his death, April 21, 1837, and his wife died there a dozen years later, His children all lived to be four score yearS of age. Moses Sarchet, the father of the subject of this memoir, was born April 17, 1803, and died in Cambridge September 10, 1890. At the age of sixteen years he entered the office of his brother-in-law, C. P. Beatty, as assistant clerk of the court of Guernsey county, holding such office until his marriage, in March, 1827, when he removed to his farm four miles north of Cambridge. For a long period he was engaged in the manufacture of salt, at the old Sarchet Salt Works north of this place. This salt well was in this county, it being constructed early—about 1815—and kept in active use until 1840. After the death of Mr. Beatty, Moses returned to fill out his unexpired term, and from September, 1828, to September, 1842, was clerk of the common pleas court of GuernSey county, during which time he was also township clerk, county school examiner, and overseer of the township poor. In 1847 he was the Whig candidate for representative, but was defeated. In 1848 he was appointed resident engineer of the National road, and 464 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. held the office for three years. In 1851, when the Central Ohio railroad was being projected, he was active in the movement to have it pass through Cambridge, being the largest local stockholder in the road and a contractor in its construction. This contract was completed, but a failure of the company crippled him financially during the remainder of his life. When the war of the Rebellion came on, he was appointed a member of the military commission of 'Guernsey county, and was also a draft commissioner during the war. He served for twelve years as justice of the peace, and during this period was also township trustee ; was two terms mayor of Cambridge, and master commissioner of his county. In his religious faith he was a devout Methodist. To himself and Wife were born five sons and three daughters. Of this family, only the following four survive : Col. C. P. B. Sarchet, James B. Sarchet, John H. Sarchet, all three living in Cambridge, Ohio, at this writing; Harriet Josephine, now widow of James M. Carson, of Zanesville. Of C. P. B. Sarchet it may be said that the earlier years of his life were spent in an uneventful manner, his time being given to farming and the attendance at the district sch0ols of that period. For a short time he also went t0 what was known as the Cambridge Academy. For a number of years he clerked in the local stores of his native city. In 1855, in company with his father, he commenced the publication of the Guernsey Times, with which he was connected for several years. About forty years of his industrious life were given to the tilling of the soil and general management of the farm. During this time he held a number of local 0fficial positions, in which he gave time and labor for the public good, without reward or hope thereof. Perhaps no man in Guernsey county has given as much time to the history of men and events connected with the growth and development of the same, or has given more in answer to enquiries relative to the statistics of the county and state affairs. During the Civil war Mr. Sarchet performed much provost duty, looking after soldiers who were away on furlough, and waS also appointed enrolling officer. In 1863, Governor Tod commissioned him captain and instructed him to organize the militia of this county into three regiments. After he effected this, he was elected colonel of the First Regiment, a title by which he has since been known. He took an active part in the John Morgan raid, was at Chillicothe, and later at Eaglesport, where he crossed the Muskingum river and followed the enemy until the latter were captured near Salineville, Ohio. For many years Mr. Sarchet was connected with the Guernsey County Agricultural Society, and was president of the Farmers' Institute of the county, and in the nineties was secretary of the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 465 soldiers' relief committee. Politically, he has been allied with the Whig, Republican and Democratic parties. He resides just to the east of the city proper, on Wheeling avenue, and with his almost daily trips to the city has covered about a thousand miles each year upon an average, making in the last thirty-five years thirty-five thousand miles—a distance which exceeds going around the globe and half way back, on foot ! Mr. Sarchet is a ready writer and has contributed much to the literature of his county and state. Many years ago he wrote the "Cambridge of Fifty Years Ago." This was published in the Jeffersonian in serial articles, of great interest. Along political lines he wrote of the 1840 Whig campaign, including the history of the thirty-three Whigs of the county central committee. His articles on the Morgan raid give a detailed account of the same, covering his personal recollections of his eight days' ride in the saddle, going through Noble, Morgan, Guernsey, Harrison, Belmont, Jefferson and Columbiana counties. By reason of his special ability as a collector of historic data and biographical knowledge of his fellow-citizens of Guernsey county, he was selected to supervise the writing of the 1910 history of the county, which the reader n0w holds, and no better man could possibly have been selected by the publishers to superintend this task. Concerning Colonel Sarchet's domestic relations, let it he stated that he married, on April 24, 1855, Margaret M., daughter of Andrew Moore. The children born of this union were : Frank M., deceased; Andrew M. ; Inez L., wife of Cyrus F. Wilson; Martha Blanche, In his religious faith, the Colonel is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which for many years he was the treasurer. In perusing the various newspaper files of this county, the writer of this memoir has found scores and hundreds of valuable historic items from Colonel Sarchet's ready pen. His knowledge of men and events in this portion of Ohio is indeed wonderful. In this month (November, 1910) this venerable old gentleman attains his eighty-second birthday. He ranks high among the plain, unassuming., practical and generous-hearted men of his day and generation, and of whom the world has none too many. JUDGE EDWARD W. MATHEWS, SR. One of the notable men of his day and generation in Guernsey county is Judge Edward W. MathewS, Sr., a man who, through a long and eminently (30) 466 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. commendable career in public and private life, has won state-wide recognition and who stands today an avowed leader of his fellowmen ; a man who has done much to mould public opinion in his locality and foster those movements that make for ultimate success and advancement. He is a man of the people in all the term implies, broad-minded, of keen discernment and unswerving integrity. By a life consistent in motive and action and because of his fine personal qualities, he has earned the sincere regard of all who know him, his ideas and ideals having always been high and his influence salutary ; so that his career might well be profitably studied by the youth whose fortunes are yet to be determined in the precarious vicissitudes of the coming years, for therein may be found many a lesson. Judge Mathews was born February 7, 1832, at St. PeterS Port, on the isle of Guernsey and is the son of Edward W. and Margaret (Blampied) Mathews. The father was a victim of the cholera epidemic that visited that country in 1832 and the following year the mother, in company with relatives, came to America and to Cambridge, then a small village of about six hundred people. Here the subject of this sketch spent his childhood and youth and here he has held his residence ever since, He was educated in the schools of Cambridge and also attended two different academies of the county. His home for a time was with his brother-in-law, John Mahaffey, who was a shoemaker, and while making his home here young Mathews worked at the shoemaking trade for three or four years. In 1850, when he was eighteen years of age, he went with a company of gold seekers to California by the overland route and experienced the hardships and adventures of such a trip in those early days. Shortly after reaching "the diggings" he was taken with typhoid fever and lay sick for several weeks. When able to go to work, he began labor in the mines for gold, and continued this for about two and a half years and 'was successful in accumulating considerable precious metal. He returned to Cambridge by the Isthmus route, landing in New York and thence by railroad and stage to Cambridge. Soon after returning to Cambridge he bought an interest in the drug business with E. R. Nyce, in Cambridge. The partners also bought a drug store in Cumberland, Guernsey county, of which Mr. Mathews took charge and conducted for tw0 years. E. R. Nyce was also postmaster at Cambridge, and after this business partnership had continued several years Mr. Mathews also took charge of the post- office, in connection with the drug store, and continued to manage the same until 1859. Having an ambition to enter the law, he had for two years been reading in the office of Mathew Gaston, at that time a prominent attorney of the county. On leaving the postoffice and drug store, he entered the Cin- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 467 cinnati Law School and graduated from that institution in 1860, returning then to Cambridge where he began the practice with his former preceptor, Mathew Gaston. Since that time he has been a member of the bar of Guernsey county and southern Ohio. For some years he was associated with Hon. J. W. White, who, during this association, was elected to Congress. Later he was ass0ciated with W. S. Heade in the practice 0f law, the partnership of Mathews & Heade continuing for about a quarter of a century; and in 1898 his son, Edward W. Mathews, Jr., became a member of the firm, the firm name then being Mathews, Heade & Mathews. In 1894 Mr. Heade retired from the firm, and since that time father and son have continued in the practice of law, the firm name being Mathews & Mathews. Judge Mathews has engaged in a large practice in all the county and state courts and is an attorney of recognized ability. In 1884 Mr. Mathews was appointed by Governor Hoadley, of Ohio, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Frazier, of the common pleas court. He was recognized as a judge of marked ability, but, being a Democrat in politics and the judicial district four thousand Republican, Judge Mathews was defeated for an election following this term, though by a very greatly reduced Republican majority. He is a Democrat of the old school and always loyal as a party supporter. He has served as mayor of Cambridge and also as a member of the school board for two terms. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention which met in St. Louis and nominated Grover Cleveland for President in 1888, and has been prominent in the party councils of the state. Judge Mathews has been very active in public affairs. He was active with Gen. A. J. Warner in promoting, building and operating the Cleveland & Marietta railroad. From the organization of the company he was its attorney and continued in this capacity with the original company and its successors until 1909, when he severed his connection. He has also had extensive real estate interests and has been enterprising and active in the improvement of the city of Cambridge, in erecting substantial business blocks and residence properties. At the organization of the Central National Bank, some years ago, he became a member of the board of directors and upon the death of Mr. Hutchinson he succeeded to the presidency of the bank, which position he still holds. Judge Mathews has been twice married, first in May, 1862, to Amelia Haynes, daughter of Dr. Vincent and Sarah Haynes. To this union two children were born, Edward W. Mathews, Jr., an attorney of Cambridge, associated in the practice with his father, and Minnie L., who died in infancy. 468 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Mrs. Mathews died in 1877. His second marriage was solemnized on January 30, 1879, to Anna Means, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Ackelson) Means. of Washington county, Pennsylvania. To this union were born, Margaret Amelia, now Mrs. Verne a Benedict, of Massillon, Ohio, and Gertrude B., at home. The Mathews home, at the southeast corner of Wheeling avenue and Ninth street, is located near the central portion of the business section of the city, and is a refined, cultured home, where good cheer and genuine hospitality are supreme. Judge Mathews and his family are members of the Presbyterian church and he served as trustee for eighteen years. He and his family have always been active in church and Sunday school work. Mr. Mathews was made a Mason in 1853 and has advanced to the thirty-third degree, an honor and distinction reached by but few men. He has led a busy life, but always has time to be agreeable with all with whom he comes in contact. A large, robust man, always full of energy and good cheer ; a splendid man, a splendid citizen, a lover of home life, a devoted husband and an indulgent father. As an attorney he ranks second to none in this section of the state and has been very successful. He is earnest, painstaking and persistent in his methods of procedure, a forceful, eloquent speaker and a man who is profoundly versed in all matters of jurisprudence. JUDGE JAMES W. CAMPBELL. In placing the name of James W. Campbell in the front rank of Guernsey county citizens, simple justice is done to a biographical fact, universally recognized throughout this and adjoining counties by men at all familiar with his history. A man of judgment, sound discretion and public spirit, he has so impressed his individuality upon the community as to gain the highest esteem of all classes. Judge Campbell was born September 20, 1847, in Middleton, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of Dr. James and Susan (Brown) Campbell, the former being a prominent practitioner here for many years, a man of influence, high character and intelligence. Born in this locality, which was settled by people from the island bearing the name of Guernsey, off the north coast of France, Judge James W. Campbell has, unaided, fought his way, step by step, to a position of eminence. At the age of fifteen years he, after repeated attempts, enlisted in the army and GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 469 became a member of the regiment which Whitelaw Reid, in his "Ohio in the War," credits with suffering the greatest hardships of any regiment at that time in the field. After coming out of the army the young soldier prepared for college and entered Williams with a personal letter from President Garfield to Mark Hopkins. He worked his way through college, cleaning recitation rooms, kindling fires and doing odd jobs to pay his way. After leaving college, Mr. Campbell worked as a printer, as editor, and read law, all at the same time, and in so doing laid the foundation for the high legal and business reputati0n that he has since acquired. He was specially admitted to practice by the supreme court before that body took general charge of admissions, and practiced in Cambridge, also in eastern Ohio, rising to a position of eminence in his chosen profession. No man in Ohio has ranked higher in law than Judge Campbell, and his legal attainments are equaled by few in this or any state. After nine years of practice he was elected to the bench, the youngest man ever elected to the judiciary in Ohio, and made a record which has not been surpassed both for amount and quality of work. Judge Campbell has been successful not only in legal circles, but also in a business way. He was vice-president and is still a director in the oldest national bank of Cambridge, among the first of national banks organized in the United States. He was special counsel for the Baltimore & Ohic railroad and the United States Steel Company ; he was receiver and general manager of the Eastern Ohio railroad, and is Still director in the Marietta & Lake and the Eastern Ohio railroads, and has been organizer, officer, director and attorney for various imp0rtant eastern corporations. He takes great interest in educational and literary movements and is familiar with the world's best literature and a writer of no mean order of ability himself. He is a member of the board of directors of the Cambridge public library. Recently the Judge has invested extensively in California orange and of properties, making his headquarters at Los Angeles. He is president of the Bankers and Merchants Oil Company and of the California Investment Com parry, vice-president of the Consolidated Midway Oil Company of California which owns the largest well in the world, flowing three thousand measure( barrels per hour ; vice-president of the France-Wellman Oil Company, an( treasurer of the Kern Westside Oil C0mpany; treasurer of the Elk Hill! Midway Oil Company. Judge Campbell was married February 13, 1873, to Martha White daughter of Hon. Joseph W. and Nancy (Sarchet) White, of Cambridge, prominent and influential family here, Mr. White having, for a number o years, represented the Cambridge district in CongresS. To Judge and Mrs 470 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Campbell one son has been born, Joseph W. Campbell, who, after graduation from the University of Chicago, entered the legal profession, having for a preceptor none other than his able father, consequently he made rapid progress in his studies, went through the Cincinnati Law School with high honors, and was duly admitted to the bar. He is now engaged very successfully in the practice at Joliet, Illinois, and he is also dealing extensively in real estate. He is a thoroughly competent and successful young man, to whom the future holds much of promise. The Campbell home is at the corner of Wheeling avenue and Ninth street, Cambridge, and is a commodious, modern brick house, thoroughly equipped and furnished with modern utilities and comforts, and is known as a place of old-time hospitality and good cheer. Throughout his entire professional and business career Judge Campbell has been animated by lofty motives, and made every personal consideration subordinate to the higher claims of duty. Broad and liberal in his views, with the greatest good of his fellow men ever before him, his conduct has been that of the lover of his kind and the true and loyal citizen, who is ready at all times to make any reasonable sacrifice for the cause in which his interests are enlisted. He is, withal, a man of the people, pr0ud of his distinction as a citizen of a state and nation for whose laws and institutions he has the most profound admiration and respect, while his strong mentality, ripe judgment and unimpeachable integrity demonstrate to the satisfaction of all his ability to fill honorably important 0fficial positions and to discharge w0rthily the duties of his trusts. BENJAMIN F. SHEPPARD. To the average individual so-called success is the reward of persistent striving and grim determination. It is sometimes gained through rivalry and competition, and frequently is attained by the aid of preference and influence. So powerful and necessary seem these aids that the one who does not command them is often disheartened at his prospects of success. Benjamin F. Sheppard, president of the Cambridge Bank, and one of the leading men of Guernsey county in financial circles, seems to have acquired the knowledge of how to achieve true success in the various walks. He holds worthy prestige in business circles, and has always been distinctively a man of affairs and wields a wide influence among those with whom his lot has been cast, having won definite results in whatever he has turned his attention to and at the same GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 471 time has shown what a man with lofty principles, honesty of purpose and determination can accomplish when actuated with high motives and unselfish ideals. Mr. Sheppard was born November 1, 1864, in Kirkwood township, Belmont county, Ohio. He is the son of Dr. I. H. and Harriet (Grimes) Sheppard, an old and influential family, these parents still living in the vicinity mentioned above, the father being one of the best known practitioners in that county, having practiced for many years, but he is now living retired and has reached the age of seventy-eight years. Doctor Sheppard was exceptionally successful in life, being a man of sound business judgment and keen discernment. Benjamin F. Sheppard, of this review, was educated in the public schools of his native c0mmunity, and the normal school at Fairview, Guernsey county. He spent a part of his youth on the home farm and ,engaged in wool and tobacco deahng. He was successful as a business man from the first and has accumulated a very comfortable competency, becoming the owner of large land interests in Guernsey county. He was the promoter of the Union Telephone Company of Fairview, which connects Fairview, Barnesville, Wheeling, West Virginia, Freeport and St. Clairsville, and he was manager of the company for a period of nine years, his judicious management resulting in an extensive enterprise being built up. The company then sold out to a telephone company of Wheeling. Then Mr. Sheppard turned his attention to his large estate and to banking interests. He was one of the prime promoters of the Cambridge Bank, organized under the banking laws of Ohio, in April, 1905. He was the first president of this institution and has held this position to the present time, managing its affairs in a manner entirely satisfactory to all concerned and building up one of the safest and most popular banking houses in eastern Ohio. He is essentially an organizer and promoter by nature, is a man of keen business acumen and discernment and makes few mistakes in his deductions and inductions. He is broad-minded, liberal and far-seeing, being a conservative hanker, conducting his bank along safe yet liberal lines at all times. In addition to his banking interests he has large real estate interests and other financial interests of a private nature. Politically, Mr. Sheppard is a Republican and he has long taken an abiding interest in public matters, but has never been an office seeker. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he has been a steward in the local church for many years, serving as trustee prior to that. They are active church workers and hberal in their support of the church. Mr. Sheppard was married on November 20, 1895, to Leanna Giffee, 472 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. daughter of Benjamin and Lida (Kannon) Giffee. Her father was a prominent farmer of Guernsey county, whose death occurred in 1902. Mrs. Giffee is still living. Mr. Giffee was eighty-two years of age at the time of his death; he was active in business and a man of sterling character and worth. He was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Sheppard is a lady of culture and refinement and is devoted to her home. Like her husband, she enjoys the friendship of a wide circle of acquaintances. This union has been graced by the birth of one son, Josiah B. G, Sheppard, now eleven years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard became residents of Cambridge in November, 1902. They have a modern, attractive and commodious home on the corner of South Eleventh street and Wheeling avenue. It is one 0f the most pretentious residences in the city and is known as a place where old-time hospitality and good cheer ever prevail. The Sheppard family is prominent in commercial, social, church and educational circles in Cambridge and Guernsey county. ALPHEUS L. STEVENS. A well known attorney of Cambridge, and the representative of one of the old and influential families of Guernsey county is Alpheus L. Stevens, whose birth occurred on July 25, 1864, in Londonderry township, this county. He is the son of James and Ann (Morrow) Stevens, the father a native of Germany and the mother of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. The Stevens family were pioneers here and influential in the affairs of their locality for several generations. James Stevens devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and was very successful in the same, establishing a good home and developing an excellent farm. Politically, he was a Republican, and while he kept well informed on political and current topics, he was never active in party affairs. After lives of usefulness and honor, he and his good life companion are sleeping the sleep of the just in the Antrim cemetery. Alpheus L. Stevens spent his youth on his father's farm and was found in the fields assisting with the crops at a very early age. He attended the public schools during the winter months. Being an ambitious lad, he studied hard and prepared himself for a career at the bar, being duly admitted to practice law in June, 1895. He opened an office in Cambridge and has been very successful, having built up a very satisfactory clientele. Politically, Mr. Stevens is a Republican and he has always been a party GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 473 worker. Recognizing his ability as a persistent, painstaking attorney and as a public spirited man of affairs, his friends urged his nomination for prosecuting attorney in 1899 and he was duly elected to this office, the duties of which he very. faithfully discharged, serving Guernsey county in this capacity for two terms, or a period of six years, in a manner that reflected credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned. On January 24, 1910, Mr. Stevens was appointed postmaster of Cambridge by President Taft, and he assumed the duties of this office on February 4th following. His selection to this important post has met with general approval. Mr. Stevens is a Mason and a member of the Presbyterian church. He is deeply interested in the welfare of his community and county, but is conservative and unassuming in all walks of life. PROF. BERT M. THOMPSON. The men most influential in promoting the advancement of society and in giving character to the times in which they live are of two classes, the men who study and the men of action. Whether we are most indebted for the improvement of the age to the one class or the other, is a question of honest difference in opinion; neither class can be spared and both should be encouraged to occupy their several spheres of labor and influence, zealously and without mutual distrust. In the following paragraphs are briefly outlined the leading facts and characteristics of a gentleman who combines in his makeup the elements of the scholar and the energy of the public spirited man of affairs. Devoted to the noble and humane work of teaching, he has made his influence felt in the school life of Guernsey county, and is not unknown to the wider educational circles of the state, occupying as he does a prominent place in his profession and standing high in the esteem of educators in other than his own field of endeavor. Prof. Bert M. Thompson, the able and popular superintendent of public schools of Byesville, Ohio, was born in 1881 at Senecaville, Guernsey county. Fie is the son of Luke D. and Ida S. (Nicholson) Thompson. Luke D. Thompson was also a native here, born one-fourth mile from where the subject was born about two miles southwest of Senecaville. He was prominent and influential in this locality in the early days of development. The Thompson family first came from central Pennsylvania, in the early days. Some of them were blacksmiths in the days when blacksmiths made 474 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. nails with hammer and anvil. The first one here was William Thompson, great-grandfather of the subject. He was a wagoner of the Alleghanies and hauled with six and eight-horse teams from Baltimore, Maryland, over the mountains. He had a fine set of horses and often got in a week ahead of the others, thereby earning the cream of the business. On one of his trips, in crossing the Potomac on the ice, he found himself floating away with his team on a large two or three-acre piece. He floated for two or three miles, when the ice swung around a sand bar, and he promptly whipped the team off onto the land. He came to this country at a very early day and located a mile west of Senecaville, and the Thompson family have lived in that part of the township ever since. William Thompson kept tavern on the public square at Senecaville soon after 1800. He died of cholera. William Thompson's son was also named William. Luke Thompson was the son of William Thompson, Jr., and Margaret (Dilley) Thompson. Margaret Dilley was the daughter of Abram Dilley, who was the son of Ephraim Dilley. The origin of the Dilley family is given as follows : Ephraim Dilley, grandfather of Margaret (Dilley) Thompson, was born in 1755 and died in 1844. His wife, Lucy (Ayers) Dilley, was born in 1762 and died in 1840, Ephraim Dilley's wife's maiden name was Lucy Ayers, daughter of William and Esther (Hardin) Ayers. Ephraim Dilley was the son of Aaron and Hannah (Perry) Dilley. Hannah Perry was related to Commodore Perry, who fought the battle on Lake Erie in 1813, being a sister of the Commodore's mother or grandmother, and had the same noble ancestry. She was a direct descendant of Sir William Wallace, the Scotch hero who was born in 1270 and who was an Anglo-Norman. His ancestors were not English, but were French Huguenots, who were in the massacre of St. Bartholomew and had to flee for their lives. They migrated from the isle of Jersey to England, thence to the United States. Ethnology places them as ancient Celts or Gauls. Ephraim Dilley was in the Revolutionary war and fought in the battle of Stony Point and other battles. Abram Dilley's wife was Jane Wilson McCleary Dilley. Jane Wilson McCleary was born in county Down, Ireland, and came to the United States when eight years old. She came in her Aunt Mary Roland's ship, her husband being the captain of the vessel. He died and she (Mary Roland) married a Mr. Wright, the mate. Jane Wilson McCleary's mother, or grandmother, was a daughter of Lord Wilson. She married a mechanic and her father disinherited her. The family crest of Lord Wilson was the 'wolf's head. Professor Thompsonsis mother was the (laughter of Jacob and Jane (Cramblett) Nicholson, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. She GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 475 was born and reared about two and a half miles from the town of Derwent. The Professor's father was born not far from Senecaville, and lived in that vicinity all of his life. Professor Thompson was the only child of the family and he grew up on the home farm. The father followed farming all of his life. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, as all of the Nicholsons are. Grandfather Thompson was a Presbyterian. The father, who died September 26, 1908, was a good man and highly esteemed by all who knew him. Bert M. Thompson attended the common schools in the country districts, graduating in 1899 from the Senecaville high school. He spent one summer at the National Normal University. He also took twelve terms at Athens, Ohio, completing the course in the normal college, He has also secured both common school and high school state life certificates, that being quite an unusual thing for one of more advanced years and experience. Thus well equipped for his lifework, in 1900 he began teaching in Richland township, and taught there for three years and afterward one year in Valley township. He then came to Byesville, spent four years as principal of the high school, and became superintendent of the schools in May, 1908, which position he filled for the two years' term. In 1910 he was again elected for a three years' term. He has done much to raise the standard of the schools of Byesville, is an able educator, a man of high character, genial and kind, a clear thinker, cogent reasoner, a platform speaker of ability, delivers commencement addresses, etc. He is geographical editor of the Ohio Teacher, is field worker for the Ohio School Improvement Federation, and has local license in the Methodist Episcopal church. He does considerable public speaking, both in school and church work. For the past ten years he has been very active in the Epworth League, has been 'for three years past president of the Cambridge district of the Epworth League. He finally gave this up for lack of time. When Professor Thompson came to Byesville there was only one school building and nine teachers; now there are three schools, with a teaching force of twenty-three teachers. A new high school building, costing thirty thousand dollars, and many improvements in the conduct of the schools are largely due to the progress of the public school system under his supervision. He is known nearly all over Ohio as a leader in educational matters. His field work, carried on earnestly, brings him in close touch with the work in every locality. He and his mother now live in Byesville, where they have a beautiful home. Unlike many of his calling who become narrow and pedantic, Professor 476 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Thompson is essentially a man of the times, broad and liberal in his views and has the courage of his convictions on all the leading public questions and issues upon which men and parties divide. He also keeps in touch with. the trend of modern thought along its various lines and being a man of scholarly attainments and refined tastes, his acquaintance with the best literature of the world is both general and profound, while his familiarity with the more practical affairs of the day makes him feel free with all classes and conditions of people whom he meets, and he is deserving of the large success he has achieved and of the universal esteem which he now enjoys. WILLIAM H. UPTON. A man of thorough virtue and honor, one who fully represents the best traits of his English ancestry, and who is a worthy citizen of the country of his adoption, is William H. Upton, who was born February 16, 1863, in Staffordshire, England, the son of William and Mary (Turner) Upton. His father was a puddler in the iron mills 0f his native country, and never came to America. The son, William H., had only three months of schooling and 'what education he has is self-acquired. He began work in the iron mills when only nine years of age, working in what were called the hoop mills. In time he became a sheet mill roller, and until 1892 worked in the mills of his native town. On August 4, 1892, he arrived in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and worked in the mills there until 1894, when he engaged with the new plant of the Morton Tin Plate Company of Cambridge, Ohio, and has the distinction of rolling the first trial piece in the new mill, He remained with this company until it sold out to the trust, and since has continued in the mill under the trust's operation. He is a head roller, has charge of the mill during his turn, and is one of the most valuable men in the service of the company, being considered an exceptionally expert roller. He was a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers until the trust mills were declared open, and the charter of the local organization surrendered. He is a charter member of the local order of the Protected Home Circle. Mr. Upton was married on March 26, 1882, to Emily Hartill, daughter of. James and Harriett (Goodright) Hartill, of Staffordshire, England. Mr. Hartill was an iron worker, and he and his 'wife died in England. To Mr. and Mrs. Upton have been born ten children : Sarah Ann, deceased; Emily GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 477 Amelia, now Mrs. Carl B. Stock, of Cambridge; Alice Maude ; Lucy, now Mrs, Frank Wilson, of Cambridge; Annie; William T., a worker in the mill with his father ; these six were born in England; four others have been born in America, Albert J., deceased ; Samuel, Florence and Mary. The sons and daughters have all had good school advantages. Alice Maude is a graduate of the Cambridge high school and for one year taught in the commercial department of West Lafayette College, in Coshocton county. Mr. Upton and his family are members of the Methodist church, and are active church workers. Some of the members of the family teach in the Sun- clay school. Mr. Upton has visited his old English home twice since coming to America—first in 1901, when he remained six weeks, and again in 1908, accompanied by his wife and oldest daughter, when he remained three months. He and his family are thoroughly Americanized and are ardent supporters of our institutions. Mr. Upton is a Republican, cast his first vote for McKinley in 1900, and is always interested in public matters, but is not an office seeker. The Upton family is a very interesting one and devoted to their home life. JOHN C. BECKETT. The name of John C. Beckett, having long stood for enterprise and right living, clean politics and altruism in its highest sense, is too familiar to the people of Cambridge and Guernsey county to need any introduction here, consequently the following paragraphs will deal in a plain, matter-of-fact manner with his useful and very active career. Mr. Beckett was born on August 21, 1842, in Monroe county, Ohio, on a farm near Woodsfield. He is the son of George N. and Margaret (Clingan) Beckett. The father was a native of Smith Ferry, Jefferson county, Ohio, and the mother was born in Monroe county, Ohio. Her parents, John and Mary Clingan, came from Ireland when young, and John Clingan and Mary Armstrong were married soon afterward. Grandfather Clingan was a Methodist minister and was interested in the work of spreading the gospel in the \Vest with the noted Peter Cartwright, and they became among the most influential of the pioneer preachers. John Clingan was one 0f the first men to preach in Cambridge, probably preaching the second sermon in the then struggling village. The father, George N. Beckett, a farmer and prominent stockman and wool buyer for many years, was prominent in public life, and 478 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. he served as adjutant-general of the Ohio militia in the early years of the state's history, probably about 1812. He was an active abolitionist and active in the operations of the "underground railroad." He was an exemplary citizen in every respect. In 1865 Mr. Beckett with his family, moved to Guernsey county, locating at Fairview and engaged in the general mercantile business until 1879, his son, John C., of this review, being associated with him. He resided in Fairview until 1880, when he moved with his wife to Barnesville, Belmont county, where they remained until 1885 when they moved to Cambridge. Mr. Beckett's death occurred in July, 1893, his widow surviving until February, 1900. Both are buried in the Cambridge cemetery. John C. Beckett grew to maturity on the home farm in Monroe county and attended the common schools, later the normal school at Woodsfield, taught by an Enghshman, John Moore, a former professor in one of the universities of England. Later Mr. Beckett took a commercial course at the Pittsburg Commercial College. He remained on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when he went into the mercantile business at Jerusalem, Monroe county, where he continued for some time, then went to Fairview in the same line of business with his father, which they continued, as already stated, until 1879, in which year he was elected auditor of Guernsey county on the Republican ticket. He assumed the duties of this office in November, 1880, and served two terms, or six years. In 1887 he was made cashier of the Central National Bank of Cambridge, where he remained two and one-half years, when he resigned. He then engaged in the mercantile business with John Boyd under the firm name of Boyd & Beckett, in a room where the present elegant Central Bank building is located. He was engaged at that stand for four years. He then became interested in promoting the Cambridge Iron and Steel Company, the first industry established in Cambridge of any importance. Mr. Beckett donated the land for the location of the plant and he was stockholder and secretary of the company at its organization. He continued in this position until he sold his stock in the company, when, with others, he promoted and built the Morton Tin Plate Company, this being the second tin plate mill built in Ohio. Mr. Beckett became the secretary of this company at its organization and later became manager of the sales department in addition to his duties as secretary, continuing thus in his active position until the plant was sold to the American Tin Plate Company, which later became a part of the United States Steel Company. The Cambridge mill was the last mill in the United States to sell to the American Tin Plate Company, which took over all the operating mills of the country. This mill was successfully operated from the beginning, making a particular high grade of GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 479 tin plate of special brand, which brand and quality is still continued by the United States Steel Company, its superior quality being universally recognized. It is but just to Mr. Beckett to say here that no small part of the large success and prestige of this plant was due to his wise counsel and judicious management. After leaving the mill he invested in real estate, both farm lands and city property, and he was interested in various enterprises until 1907, when he moved to Wharton county, Texas, which place is now his legal residence. He has very extensive land interests in the Lone Star state and is extensively interested in rice culture, but he is now beginning to diversify his line of farm products. He is located in the best part of the rice belt of Texas, largely on account of their inexhaustible shallow water and superior drainage. Mr. Beckett has become a genuine Texas booster. On March 16, 1870, Mr. Beckett married Rebecca C. Talbott, daughter of William A. and Rebecca (Davenport) Talbott, of Barnesville, Ohio, both parents being Virginians. The father of Mrs. Talbott, Judge Davenport, was a pioneer merchant of Barnesville. William A. Talbott was also a lifelong merchant of Barnesville and a highly respected citizen. Both Mr. and Mrs. Talbott have been dead several years. They never lived in Guernsey county. To Mr. and Mrs. Beckett two children were born : George A., who married and is living with his father in Texas, assisting with the general farming, and Emma, who married Thomas E. Amos, business manager of The Daily Jeffersonian at Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. Beckett has always been a Republican and is active in public affairs. Prior to being elected auditor of Guernsey county he held various township offices in Oxford township, where he lived prior to coming to Cambridge in 1880, and he has been active as a member of the Republican county central and executive committees, and a frequent delegate to county, district and state conventions, and he has always been regarded as a safe counselor and advisor. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Cambridge and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and are active in church work. No man stands higher or has a cleaner business and official record than Mr. Beckett, and he is known throughout the state as a public spirited citizen of unusual ability and fine traits. While not at present a legal resident of Guernsey county, his interest in the county has remained unabated. He will always retain a warm place in his heart for old Guernsey county, where he was active in business and public affairs for so many years, and the people of this county likewise retain for Mr. Beckett and his family an equal esteem and always welcome them back most heartily. 480 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN GUERNSEY COUNTY. The Catholic church in this section of the state is not served by a more faithful, unselfish, kind or more highly revered man than the Rev. J. H. Wagner, who, however, is modest and unassuming, as one befitting his calling and station in life, content to know that he is doing the will of the Good Shepherd.. A brief history of the Catholic church in Guernsey county would not be out of place here,. The first Catholic church in this county was probably built about 1840 at Washington, a few Catholics having previously settled in that vicinity, and they continued to hold services there until about 1865, which were in charge of priests from various parts of the state, and particularly the priest from Beaver township, Noble county (then part of Guernsey). About the year 1867 Father Jacket, pastor at Temperanceville, Belmont county, built the church at Gibson Station. He used some of the material of the church at Washington in constructing this church. Father Jacket came to Temperanceville in 1854 from Tennessee, and he served the congregations in this section of the state by traveling horseback over Guernsey, Belmont and Noble counties. In 1868 he was transferred to Coshocton, Ohio. Fathers O'Brien, Laughlin and Hall succeeded Father Jacket in the order named, each remaining a short time. About 1870 Rev. Father Heary, now of Denison, Ohio, came to Temperanceville, and he attended to the wants of the Catholics of Guernsey county. He said mass and held services part of the time at the residence of Steve Quinn at the corner of Second street and Gomber avenue and part of the time at Michael Slaymon's, at Guernsey Mines. At this time there were perhaps twelve families in and near Cambridge. Father Heary was succeeded by Father Montag. He held services for a long time at Slaymon's, Guernsey mines, then the Adams hall, near the court house, was rented; :finally he rented the Carlisle hall on Wheeling avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets. He was succeeded by Rev. Nathaniel McCaffrey in 1897, who was the first Catholic priest to reside in Cambridge. Soon after he came here the Catholics bought the Shultz property, at the corner of Gomber and North Seventh streets. While they Were erecting a small church on the rear of the lot, he said mass and held services at William Armbruster's, on West Wheeling avenue. The first Catholic church in Cambridge was on Gomber avenue, between Seventh and Eighth streets, and was dedicated by Bishop Watterson in December, 1897. A very large attendance was reported at the dedication, for but few of the citizens in this community had GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 481 ever seen or heard a Catholic bishop, and many wished to hear Bishop Watterson, who had a national reputation as a temperance advocate. Father McCaffrey organized the first parish in Cambridge. He was a profound scholar, very congenial and well liked by most of the citizens.. Father James Slevin succeeded Father McCaffrey, but remained here only eight months, retiring on account of old age. Rev. C, H. A. Watterson was appointed pastor of Cambridge in July, 1901. He 'was a good, zealous priest, and the parish grew considerably under his pastorate. In June, 1904, he was selected to organize a parish in East Newark, Ohio. In the same year and month, just mentioned, he was succeeded by Rev. J. H. Wagner, the present pastor. Father Wagner was born at Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1865. After graduating from the Lancaster parochial school he spent eleven years studying for the ministry, four years at Mount St. Mary's, a classical school at Emmettsburg, Maryland, five years at Mount St. Mary's, a theological seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was ordained in 1894 at Pittsburg, Penn-, sylvania. His first charge was at Newark, Ohio, then McCollinsville, Ohio, then Millersburg, Ohio, and then to Cambridge. Father Wagner has been at the head of St. Benedict's Catholic church for the past five years, during which time the church has grown and many improvements have been made. During this time he has paid off an indebtedness of about eight thousand dollars. While here he has built the Catholic church at Byesville, Guernsey county. Father Wagner's crowning achievement has been the erection of the beautiful new edifice of St. Benedict's Catholic church and parochial school, located on the corner of North Seventh street and Gomber avenue and facing the former street. The building has a frontage on North Seventh street of sixty-four feet and extends back along Gomber avenue one hundred and thirty feet. The main entrance is ten feet wide, on North Seventh street. The building is two stories in height, with two school rooms on each floor, one above the other. The building is divided by a large hall running back to form an entrance to the large auditorium at the rear, which has a seating capacity of about seven hundred. The building is very substantial, built entirely of brick, and is practically fireproof. The auditorium is finished in mission style and the altars are works of art, the main altar costing eight hundred dollars. The entire building is heated by hot air. The building was begun in March, 1910, and the corner stone was laid with impressive ceremonies on Sunday June 5, 1910, and was dedicated Sunday, November 20, 1910, with morning and evening ceremonies conducted by Bishop Hartley, 482 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. of Columbus, Ohio. He was assisted by the following priests, all of whom are well known in this city, while others have assisted in previous ceremonies in connection with St. Benedict's church : Father Wagner, as celebrant; Father Cahelan, of Zanesville; deacon, Father Watterson, of Newark ; sub-deacon, Father O'Neill, the Bishop's secretary ; Father O'Boylan, of Newark ; Father Mattingly, of Lancaster ; Father Leininger, of Zanesville; Father Berry, of Byesville, and Father Dunn, of Dresden. The Bishopsis secretary acted as master of ceremonies. The church was thrown open to the members of the congregation and others wishing to inspect the interior, before the ceremonies of dedication, but later all were requested to leave the building and remain out until after the ceremony, which was carried out carefully according to the teachings of the church, in which the Bishop, priests and altar boys marched around the entire building. Following this the party entered and then the crowd was also permitted to enter and find seats. During the high mass following the Bishop occupied the throne, assisted by Father O'Boylan, of Newark. The dedicatory sermon was delivered by Father Watterson, who at one time was in charge of the congregation here. Reverend, Wagner is an able and conscientious worker in the cause of the Master, and is popular with his people, exercising a broad influence in the community, even beyond the membership of his church, being a man of the finest personal characteristics. THOMAS AUSTIN BONNELL. Precedence among any one of the several professional lines to whose following both pre-eminent and mediocre ability has been given, can be attained by no side-path, but must be gained by earnest, heroic work ; it must be the result Of subjective native talent, supplemented by closest application, and a breadth of intellectuality that will render possible. the ready and practical use of mere theoretical knowledge. Among the large number who essay the achievement of preferment and honor, the percentage of failures is far in excess of that of successes, a fact that supplies direct proof of statements already expressed. Success has attended the efforts of Thomas Austin Bonnell, 0ne of the best known of the younger members of the Guernsey county bar, because he has been endowed by nature with the qualities that win and also because GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 483 he has worked assiduously along his chosen line of endeavor. He was born on January I, 1875, on a farm in Madison township, this county, and he is the representative of one of the excellent old families of Guernsey county, being the son of Thomas C. and Jennie (Boyd) Bonnell, both also natives of this county. The father grew to maturity and was educated in his native community and became a progressive farmer. When the Civil war was in progress he enlisted in the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served two years until the close of the war, seeing some hard service. He was a Republican in politics and took much interest in public affairs. He served Madison township several years as a member of the board of trustees. Thomas A. Bonnell remained on the home farm with his parents until he was eighteen years of age and assisted with the general work on the place, attending the country district schools in the wintertime. He applied himself very assiduously, to his studies and began teaching at the age mentioned above. He followed this during the winter months and attended college through the summer until he had prepared himself for some profession. He selected the law, and became a student in the office of Rosemond & Bell, of Cambridge, finishing his course under Judge J. A. Troette, of this city, and he was admitted to the bar in January, 1906. He has retained his interest in educational matters and is active in all efforts to promote and advance the cause of education. He is at present one of the county school examiners and resides in Cambridge, where he practices his profession, and he has built up a very large and rapidly growing clientele. As an attorney he is painstaking, accurate, cautious, deeply versed in jurisprudence and he is an earnest, logical and forceful speaker before a jury and his uniform courtesy to the court and his opponents wins the respect and admiration of all concerned. Politically, Mr. Bonnell is a Republican and he takes an abiding interest in public matters;, especially such as will promote the best interests of the people of Guernsey county. In May, 1910, he was nominated by his party as their candidate for representative in the Ohio Legislature, being successful at the election held in November, 1910, and his candidacy was regarded as a most fortunate one not only by his constituents but by supporters of other parties, his peculiar fitness in every respect for this important public trust being universally recognized. Mr. Donnell was married on September 6, 1899, to Aurelia Wirick, daughter of Jacob C. and Elizabeth (Shipley) Wirick, of Madison township, Guernsey county. These parents are both natives of this county and are both living, being regarded as among the well established and highly 484 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. honored pioneer people of this locahty. Mr. Wirick was one of the brave band of "fortyniners" who crossed the great western plains in 1849 to the gold fields of California, and he was successful in that venture. He is now one of the prosperous and progressive farmers of Madison township. He was one of the men of the Buckeye state who offered their services to the Union during the Civil war. Politically, he is a Republican. Mrs. Bonnell is a lady of refinement and many estimable traits of character. She is the mother of one son, Rollo W. Mr. Bonnell is popular with the masses, being a man of unquestioned character and ability. He is well versed in the law, a close student and is fast coining to the front not only in his profession but in all things that make for high grade citizenship. HON. JOHN H. MORGAN. The name of John H. Morgan is well known to the people of Cambridge and Guernsey county, .where he has long been identified with important interests and has proved himself a loyal citizen, although he comes to us from foreign shores, having been horn in Wales, February Li., 1862. He is the son of David T. and Elizabeth (James) Morgan. The father was an iron worker in the mills and furnaces of his native country and he came to America with his family in 1869. and located at Newark, Ohio, where he was employed in the iron mills for several years. This family then moved to Cleveland, where Mr. Morgan also found employment in the iron mills, remaining there until he retired from business, and both he and his wife still reside in Cleveland and are people of high character and sterling Welsh integrity. John H. Morgan. of this review. was first employed in the glass works of Newark at the early age of thirteen years and his education was obtained in the public schools of that city before the age mentioned. When the family moved to Cleveland he went into the iron mills with his father in the sheet mill department. He began at the very bottom of the business and persevered until he became a sheet roller. In 1885 he left Cleveland and found employment as a sheet roller in the mills of Bridgeport, and in May. 1890, he came to Cambridge when the sheet mill was started here. He was one of the original rollers of this plant and in 1899 he began working in the sheet mills of Niles and Pittsburg, continuing for several years. although retaining his residence in Cambridge. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 485 Mr. Morgan was married, October 6, 1890, to Emma Wilson, daughter of Samuel I. and Sarah (Moore) Wilson, of Bridgeport, Ohio, where they were born and spent their. lives. Mr. Wilson was a farmer in early life and later became a carpenter and contractor. He and his wife are both deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Morgan four children have been born, namely : Laura E. ; John H.. deceased ; Edna and Ethel; all the daughters are at home. Mr. Morgan is a Republican in politics and has been active in party affairs. He has served as district member of the Republican state central committee and frequently as a member of the county committee, and a delegate to county, district and state conventions. In 1895 he was elected to the Ohio Senate from the eighteenth and nineteenth districts, serving two years in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents, making his influence felt in that body. He held membership on several of the important Senate committees. He was chairman of the labor committee and most of the legislation affecting labor was enacted during the sessions of Which Mr. Morgan was a member of the Senate and chairman of the labor committee. In December, 1901, because of his eminent fitness, he was appointed by Governor George K. Nash as chief inspector of the department of workshops and factories and having performed his duties in a very faithful and able manner he was re-appointed after four years of service, which everyone deemed most efficient, his last appointment being by Governor Myron T. Herrick, and he served with his usual fidelity to duty until June 15, 1909. During this time the department grew from a force of eighteen persons, clerks and deputy inspectors, to forty people, the scope and efficiency of the department being greatly extended. The child labor bill was passed and put in force, and during his term w0men district inspectors were placed in the department, having a supervising inspection over factories employing women and children. The inauguration and passage of a law regulating the sale, use and storage of light explosives is credited to Mr. Morgan. He was an efficient and painstaking official and gave the state such high-grade service that he won the esteem of men of all parties throughout the commonwealth. While he has always been an ardent Republican, his work for his fellows has probably been more ardent in behalf of labor organization than in any other line. , He is an unswerving advocate of better conditions for the laboring masses and an indefatigable worker to these ends. He is widely known as an uncompromising worker in trades union movements, his reputation along these avenues of commendable endeavor having far transcended the boundaries of the Buckeye state. For several years he was vice-president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. He 486 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. gave up the vice-presidency to accept a trusteeship in the same organization and he served until he was appointed chief factory and workshop inspector, then retired from the board of trustees. He was a member of the conference 'committee of the 0rganization continuously for fifteen years. He took an active part in the organization of the Guernsey Valley Trades and Labor Assembly and was the first secretary of the organization. He has been active and prominent in all movements having in view the betterment of the condition of the laboring classes. He is a member of the Masonic order, having taken the Knight Templar and Shrine degrees and he is prominent in Masonic work, well known in state fraternal circles, and, judging from his daily life, he endeavors to carry out the noble precepts taught by this old and time- honored order in all the relations with his fellow men. Mr. Morgan is a member and liberal supporter of the Baptist church, while his wife and children are members of the Presbyterian church, all being active church workers. He has been resting since his retirement from state office, and on July 1, 19m, he opened a grocery store in Cambridge, which is being well patronized. He carries a large and carefully selected stock of staple and fancy groceries and has a neat, up-to-date store. Although Mr. Morgan's school advantages were very meager, yet he is a fine type of that class of men who deserve to bear the proud American title of self-made man. He has always been an ardent student and is well advised on current events, profoundly versed in the world's best literature, a broadminded, cultured, generous, hospitable, genteel gentleman with high ideals and noble aspirations, whom to know is to respect and admire. COL. GORDON LOFLAND. Among the residents of Guernsey county in pioneer days none is more deserving of having his name perpetuated on the pages of history than Col. Gordon Lofland, who has long been sleeping the sleep of the just. His life was fraught with so much good and his example so worthy of imitation that he is yet spoken of with reverence by the older inhabitants of the county. He performed his work well, whatever he had to do, never shirked his duty or quailed at dangers or obstacles. Colonel Lofland was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, on September 19, 1794, and his death occurred on December 17, 1869, at his home in Cambridge, Ohio, at the age of seventy-six years. He was the son of Dorman GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 487 and Mary H. Lofland. In the year 1800 his parents moved from Virginia to Fairfield county, Ohio, and took up their residence near Lancaster, Ohio. In 1816 Colonel Lofland came to Cambridge, where he resided until his death. There was little connected with the growth and prosperity of the town and vicinity with which he was not familiar and actively connected. He was a public spirited man and stood in the front rank of progress and endeavored to keep pace with advancing civilization. He was very patriotic and was one of the most useful citizens in the state during the Civil war, devoting much of his time and private means to the cause of the Union, which he held to be insoluble. He raised recruits and in endeavoring to keep alive the spirit of patriotism among the people he embraced every opportunity, and his services along these lines were incalculable. His patriotism was recognized by Governor Tod, of Ohio, who seldom, if ever, disregarded his counsels. He was appointed by the Governor as Ohio's commissioner for the Gettysburg cemetery in 1863 and in 1867 he was appointed commissioner for the Antietam cemetery. He was always prompt in the discharge of his duties connected with the several positions he was called upon to occupy, and the people were always pleased to delegate their interests to his hands, he being frequently called upon to represent them in different ways and upon different occasions during most of his life. During the years of his activity he was seldom absent from public assemblies, political and patriotic, and even during the last year 0f his life he attended a meeting of the veterans of the war of 1812 and a political meeting addressed by Governor Hayes on September 2d preceding his death. He was a most worthy character and held a conspicuous position in the estimation of all the people. In 1824, Colonel Lofland married Mrs. Sarah P. Metcalf, widow of Thomas Metcalf and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gomber, who came to Cambridge from Frederick City, Maryland, in 1808. Her father's name is intimately associated with the history of Cambridge, he being one of the original projectors of the city. Mrs. Lofland's death occurred on November 5, 1870, in the seventy-sixth year of her age. She was a most worthy woman and in every way a fit life companion for her distinguished husband. She was kind and quiet in her disposition, and as a wife and mother looked well to the wants of her household. She enjoyed, as she well deserved, the love of her entire family and the respect and confidence of her acquaintances and all who knew her were her friends. The representatives of the family yet living and residing in Cambridge are a son, Col. Gordon C. Lofland, and a daughter, Mrs. Caroline Hutcheson. 488 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. The deceased children are, Thomas A., Mary, Jacob G., Susan, and Sarah P. The parents and members of the family are all buried side by side in the first cemetery dedicated to burial purposes in the city of Cambridge. which is now near the center of the business section of the city. WILLIAM H. TURNER. A distinguished citizen who needs no introduction to the readerS of this work is William H. Turner, of Cambridge, who was born January I, 1850, in Cambridge in the part of the city which at that time was woodland. He is a son of George and Eliza Jane (Porter) Turner, the father of English descent, but born near Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio. The mother was of Irish descent and was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Grandfather James Porter came to Guernsey county with the early pioneers and was a school teacher and a shoemaker, was postmaster at Creighton, Guernsey county, a justice of the peace, and a man of affairs of high standing. Three of his sons, brothers of the mother of the subject of this sketch, went through the Civil war. They were Joseph ; James, who rose to the rank of major of an Iowa regiment ; and William; Joseph and William were members of Company A, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with splendid records. James and Joseph are now deceased, but William is living in Winter- set, Iowa, engaged in the mercantile business, having gone West soon after the close of the war. The parents also moved West, locating at Monmouth, Illinois, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The maternal great-grandfather, Robert Porter, was killed by the Indians in the early pioneer clays at a locality near Fort Pitt (at what is now Pittsburg, Pennsylvania), as were two of his children. James Porter, the grandfather, served through the war of 1812 as a drummer-boy. The Turners came from England in about 1800 and settled in Harrison county, Ohio, where George Turner, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1812. In the family of Grandfather George Turner were : George ; Mary, who became the wife of James Wagstaff, who emigrated to California, where they died ; Margaret, who married James McGonigal, a prominent pioneer family, both now deceased. The father of the subject of this sketch, George Turner, came to Guernsey county with his mother, his father having been accidentally killed by a falling tree. Before coming to Guernsey county, the father had learned the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 489 trade of a blacksmith and followed the trade here and was known far and near as "The Village Blacksmith." He was active in securing the right of way for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad to Cambridge, the opponents protest. ing that the railroad would see the grass growing in the streets of Cambridge. He was a man of affairs and he became interested in real estate, and Turner's addition to the city of Cambridge is an important addition. He also invented and patented the Turner corn-sheller, the first practical corn-sheller to be successfully operated in the country and has been the foundation of all shellers that have followed. He was a man active in everything to advance the commercial development of Cambridge. He also operated, with James McGonigal, one of the first flour mills in Cambridge. He was in the mercantile business for a time and he also built houses and sold them to new comers and manufacturers. He burned the brick for the first brick church (the Methodist Episcopal) in Cambridge. When he thus became active in affairs he gave up his trade of blacksmithing. He was one of the foremost Citizens of his time and did much to advance Cambridge and give the city an important place on the Ohio map. In politics he was originally a Whig, a strong anti-slavery man and a worker in the "underground railroad," helping many a slave to freedom. He later became a Republican and a strong supporter of the Union cause, during the dark days of the Civil war, having three sons who served in the army. His family consisted of eight sons and three daughters, namely : Milton, deceased; James, killed at Atlanta during the war; George, now in Texas; Cassalin, deceased; William, the subject of this sketch; Hanna C., now the Wife of H. H. Hunt, a railroad man in Nebraska ; Isabelle, now Mrs. James Hardesty, of Cambridge ; Mary is the widow of Austin Siens; John P., a lawyer of Cambridge, and Samuel F., of Columbus, Ohio. The father died in April, 1864, by a sudden illness, in the prime of life at the age of fifty-two years. His widow survived until 1900, in July of which year she passed to her reward. Both are buried in the Lebanon cemetery, in Adams township. The mother was a school teacher before her marriage, and as her family grew up, she gave great attention to their education. The son, William H., obtained much of his early education at his mother's knee, getting very little in the public schools, probably not more than a year all told. When he was ten years of age he began his life in the coal mines, in the year 1860. He began as a pick miner, when coal mining in Guernsey county was in its infancy, before even powder was used for mining, all done with a jack and wedge. He has been a miner or connected with mine work ever since. There is nothing about a coal mine that he has not done, except boss or superintend, and these two positions were not passed for lack of op- 490 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. portunity, but because he did not accept the preferred place. AS soon as he became a miner, in 1860, he made up his mind to know all there was to known about mining and he began to study geology and coal formation. He made a close study of mine chemistry and ventilation, the formation of gases and how to prevent explosions. He began with a study of the best authorities. has probably as fine a library as there is in the state upon these subjects and he is recognized as an authority upon them. Because of his great ability along these lines he has been active in securing legislative protection for the miner and directing the operation of mines, which resulted in the establishment of the department of mines and mining in 1873, during the administration of Governor William Allen. This department was first organized with one inspector for the entire state. This was followed with one assistant inspector, and the department has grown in importance until now there is a chief inspector with twelve assistant inspectors and a corps of office clerks in the chief inspector's office in Columbus. Without application for the position, in 1891, Mr. Turner was appointed an assistant inspector by Hon. R. M. Haseltine, chief inspector of mines, for three years, for district No. 4. This appointment came unsolicited and because of his recognized ability in mining matters. At the expiration of three years, because of death in his family he was compelled to give up the work, and in 1900 waS again appointed to the position by E. G. Biddison, then chief inspector, and served three years and was reappointed by the same chief for another term of three years. At the expiration of his term, in 1906, he was reappointed for three years by George Harrison, chief inspector, serving until August 1, 1910, serving fourteen months additional time before his successor was appointed. He has served in the department a total of thirteen years and two months and served under seven different governors of the state. During all these years he has never been reversed in his decisions, never has involved the mining department or operators in any legal action. His official duties have been very satisfactory to the department, the miners and the mine operators. With all of his activity and study, he was one of the founders of the miners' organization in this section of the state. This was known as the Ohio Miners Association, formed in the fall of 1879, and in 1880 the first local union was organized in Guernsey county and Mr. Turner was made secretary of the organization, which grew through the activity of himself and others until it included several counties. When a ditrict organization was secured, known as district No. 9, Mr. Turner became secretary and treasurer, and at the same time was made a member of the state executive board. He filled these positions for five years, and in 1887 he was made GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 491 president of the district organization and in 1890 he was elected national vice- president of what was known as the National Progressive Union of Miners, all over the country. He relinquished this to give his attention to that of inspector in Ohio. William H. Turner has been twice married, first on January 1, 1872, to Malissa O. Davis, daughter of Nathan G. and Amanda M. (McVay) Davis. Her father was a miner, served through the War and again took up mining, when he became a resident of Guernsey county, and died here some years ago, as did his wife. To this union were born five sons and four daughters : Frank, of Cambridge; Flora, now Mrs. John Shaw, whose husband is a farmer of Guernsey county and a miner; Anna Maude, now Mrs. Fred Gibbs, of Cleveland, Ohio; Hattie, now Mrs. John Evans, of Indiana Harbor, Indiana; George E., of Cambridge; John W., who died an infant; Earl C., of Cambridge; Ada G., now Mrs. Ward Wilcoxen, of Cambridge. The wife and mother died on January 28, 1893. Mr. Turner was married a second time October 12, 1897, to Mrs. Eva A. Earl, widow of John Earl, of West Virginia, and a daughter of John and Mary (Thayer) Ward, of Lewis county, New York state, and the mother of two children, Roie E., wife of A. T. Jones, of Cambridge, and Percy D. Earl, of Cambridge. The Ward family never came West, but were of Revolutionary stock, and John Ward was a soldier in the Civil war. John Earl was also a soldier in the Civil war. Mr. Turner is a Republican in politics, always interested and active, and has served as a member of the city board of education and president of the board for a time, also a member of the city water works trustees. He has served as a member of the Republican county committee, as secretary of the executive committee, has been a delegate to county, district and state conventions, and has been a very effective campaign speaker during various campaigns. At the time of the Manongah mine disaster at Fairmount, West Virginia, on December 6, 1907, Mr. Turner joined a volunteer rescue squad of experienced and expert miners and assisted in rescuing three hundred and sixty-six bodies from the mine, after twelve clays of unremitting work. He is essentially a self-made and self-educated man, with very little schooling and such instructions as his mother could give him, she having been a school teacher before her marriage. The care of a large family came to the parents of small means. The boy began hfe as a miner at the age of ten years, but all of his spare time was devoted to books upon mining and mine equipment, and after mastering these he broadened out and became a man of broad 492 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. information and rare intelligence. He never played a game of cards in his life; while the other boys were thus engaged he was with his books, and he never read a book or story of light fiction, his mind being constantly on "What can I get the most good for the future from." Mr. Turner and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and liberal supporters of the same. The family home is commodious, comfortably furnished and modern in all of its appointments, and good family cheer and genuine hospitality are its characteristics: Mr. Turner, since his retirement from the service of the state mining department, has devoted his time to advisory mining engineering, and as an expert his services are in great demand. Upon his retirement from his duties as inspector Mr. Turner was presented, on September 30, 1910, by Chief Inspector George Harrison and the twelve district inspectors, with an elegant gold watch and fob as a testimonial of the high esteem in which his long and valuable services to the department were held. WILLIAM F. BIERLY. To the business efficiency of William F. Bierly, the cashier of the People's Bank of Pleasant City, the institution owes much of its success and its soundness as a financial institution. For Mr. Bierly is a man of experience in financial matters, conservative and safe in judgment, and of the highest integrity. William F. Bierly was born at Mineral City, Ohio, on December 9, 1869, the son of John and Louisa (Spies) Bierly, still well known residents of Mineral City. He grew up in his native town, after leaving school was engaged in his father's store at Mineral City, and on reaching manhood took a place in a bank in the same town, where he remained until 1892. In that year he came to Pleasant City in the interests of George J. Markley, of Mineral City, who was among the first to develop the coal industry in the region of Pleasant City. Mr. Markley was also engaged in mercantile business here, owning a large store in the lower end of the city, and in the center of the store was a bank. In order to look after these varied interests, Mr. Bierly was sent to Pleasant City. In February the store and other buildings were destroyed by fire, and the business was transferred to the corner of Mill and Main streets, where R. 0. Knott's store is now located, and there they remained until 1904, when they erected the present handsome structure occupied by the bank and the postoffice. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 493 Mr. Bierly has been cashier of the bank ever since it was organized, and as Mr. Markley is a non-resident, he is practically in entire charge of its affairs. Aside from the banking business, he is also interested to a considerable extent on his own account in real estate in various localities. Financially he has prospered because of his able management of business affairs. In 1898 Mr. Bierly was married to Lillian Secrest, the daughter of Joseph B. and Minerva (Spring) Secrest. She was born at Pleasant City, and there grew to womanhood. Her father is a son of Harrison and Mary E. (Alhson) Secrest, early residents, whose parents were pioneers of Pleasant City, and has lived in the city of his birth all his life. The Secrest family is widely known and highly esteemed in Guernsey county. To Mr. and Mrs. Bierly have been born two daughters, Pauline and Countess. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bierly are faithful members of the Lutheran church, and at present Mr. Bierly is the superintendent of the Sunday school. In his business relations Mr. Bierly is a man of influence in his community, and his contact with others is refined and courteous. His integrity is unquestioned, and he enjoys the fullest confidence of those who know him. It is a trait of his family, that their word, once given, must never be broken, and in the keeping of a man of this character, no financial institution could fail to be safe and established on a sound basis. THE PEOPLES BANK OF PLEASANT CITY. Among the ably managed and well tried financial institutions of Guernsey county is the Peoples Bank of Pleasant City, which was organized in 1893 by George T. Markley, a prominent financier of Mineral City, who is the present owner, and which is under the efficient management of William T. Bierly as cashier. The Peoples Bank has from the beginning done a conservative and progressive business, along the lines of both a commercial and a savings hank, and is considered by competent authority as one among the strong private banks of the state. The institution has a responsibility of two hundred thousand dollars. During its career the bank was at one time forced to undergo a heavy run, which was brought about by the circulation of misstatements as to its condition. Unprepared as it was, on twenty-four hours' notice it was able to pay all depositors in gold. and, pihng the gold up in the hank, the cashier invited all depositors to come and get their money. 494 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. This incident proved the strength of the bank, and it has been in high esteem ever since. In addition to its regular banking business, the Peoples Bank has an insurance department, deals in foreign and domestic exchange, and books on the leading steamship lines to and from foreign countries, which, be- cause of the large foreign population in and around Pleasant City, is a considerable feature of its business. The Peoples Bank is kn0wn to carry as large a reserve as any of the banks of the state for the amount of business done. It is housed in its own building, which is the handsomest and most substantial business building in Pleasant City or near-by towns. The institution is ably managed by men of experience in financial matters, and extends to its patrons every accommodation consistent with safe banking, for it has been the idea of the management to make this bank as safe as it is possible for any bank to be, and they spare no facilities to insure the protection of their depositors, for they recognize that the strongest asset which a bank can have is this assurance of safety, which can be attained only by the proper efficiency of organization and management. SAMUEL M. BURGESS. The name of Samuel M. Burgess, now living in honorable retirement from active business in his beautiful and historic home at Cambridge, is too well known to the people of Guernsey county to need an introduction or fulsome encomium on the part of the biographer, for he has long been a very potent factor in financial, civic and social circles of this locality, and as president of the Citizens Savings Bank Company, of Cambridge, he has wielded an influence for the advancement of this community that has been second to that of no other man. His life has been one of unceasing industry and perseverance, and the notable systematic and honorable methods he has ever followed have won for him the unbounded confidence and regard of all who have formed his acquaintance. He is a man of rare soundness of judgment, keen discernment and, possessing the ability to foresee with remarkable accuracy the future outcome of a present transaction. He is the scion of one of the old and most worthy of the honored families of this county, the various members of which have been leaders in various walks of life. Mr. Burgess was born September 20, 1857, in the city of Zanesville, GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 495 Muskingum county, Ohio, and was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Conyngham) Burgess. The father was born in England and the mother in Washington county, Pennsylvania. The father came to America in 1835, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Burgess, landing in New York city, and came to Pittsburg, where they remained for Some yearS, the grandfather being a coal operator. Later the family moved to Beverly, Ohio, where the grandfather died in 1852. His son, Samuel, the father of the subject, married Elizabeth Conyngham and moved with his brother Josiah to Zanesville and engaged in the hardware and tinware business until 1857, when Samuel moved to Cambridge, where he continued in the same • business until his death, January 5, 1885. His widow died March 8, 1908, and both are buried in the Cambridge cemetery. Mr. Burgess was a Republican in politics, but never an office seeker. He gave his entire attention to his business, and was a man of high character. He was a Royal Arch Mason and held the confidence of all the people. He had a family of eight children, seven of whom are yet living : Walter, of Owensboro, Kentucky; Lollie, now Mrs. Nelson A. Noble, of Binghampton, New York ; Samuel M., the subject of this sketch ; Retta, now Mrs. Frank K. Raymond, of Washington, D. C.; Milton, deceased; William 0., of Tyner, Ohio; Homer, of Washington, D. C.; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Dr. Perry C. Johnston, of Enid, Oklahoma. Samuel M. Burgess spent his life in Cambridge and was educated in the public schools of that city. After leaving school he entered his father's- store and was connected with his father until the latter's death. Samuel M. then became administrator of his father's estate, and managed the Burgess Manufacturing Company, the business name of his father's concern. He continued as manager until the death of his mother in March, 1908, when he became the owner of the business, which he sold soon afterwards to Thomas Williams, but the business is still continued under the name of the Burgess Manufacturing Company, one of the oldest business names in the city. Mr. Burgess was married September 17, 1902, to Martha M. Atkins, daughter of Robert and Martha (Hyatt) Atkins, a prominent Cambridge family. This union has been without issue. Mr. Burgess is president of the Citizens Savings Bank Company, and has held this position since its organization in 1899. He is also a director in the National Bank of Cambridge, organized in 1865. He is a trustee and treasurer of the Cambridge Public Library. He has a large city and farm property interests and is a very prominent man in all that pertains to Cam- 496 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. bridge's growth and prosperity. He is now living a retired life except aS his large and diversified interests occupy hiS time and attention. He has a summer house on Grand lake, in northern Michigan, where he and MrS. Burgess spend Several months every summer, hunting and fiShing. Mr. Burgess is a Republican in politics, but not an office seeker, though he is always interested in public matters. He has served in the city council and as cemetery trustee, being a public spirited citizen along all lines. He has been a member of the Masonic order since 1884. He served two years as master of Cambridge Lodge No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons, was made a Royal Arch Mason in 1886 and served as high priest in 1890. He was made a Royal and Select Master in 1890 and served as thrice illustrious master in 1896. He was made a Knight Templar in 1888 and elected eminent commander in 1896, and is at present treasurer of all these bodies. He received the thirty-second degree in Scioto Consistory at Columbus, Ohio, in 1907. He has been a Shriner since 1893, which degree he received in Cynan Temple in Cincinnati. He is one of the three trustees of the Cambridge Lodge No. 66, Incorporated, and is secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees. Mrs. Burgess is a member of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Burgess is a regular attendant and a liberal contributor to the support of the same. The Burgess home is at No. 724 Steubenville avenue, where he and his parents lived before him for forty-two years. It is a fine, attractive home, modern in architectural design and all of its appointments. Mr. Burgess has a valuable and rare collection of coins, also of stamps, and a remarkable collection of Indian arrow heads and other Indian relics. He has given these collections intelligent attention and they are worthy of a place in any museum. JOHN EMMETT GABLE, M. D., D. O. Among the professional men of Guernsey county who have risen to eminence in their chosen field of endeavor is Dr. John Emmett Gable, of Cambridge, an osteopathic and general physician of more than ordinary talent and skill. His career has been that of a broad-minded, conscientious worker in the sphere to which his hfe and energies have been devoted and whose profound knowledge of his profession has won for him a leading place among the most distinguished men of his class in eastern Ohio. John E. Gable was born July 19, 1867, in Jackson townShip, Guernsey GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 497 county, and he is the son of Philip and Malissa (Jackson) Gable. The father was born in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, and he came from that country with his parents to America when two years old, and settled near Wheeling, West Virginia, though his residence was on Ohio soil, in Belmont county. Later the family moved to near St. Clairsville, that county, when Philip, the father, entered the Union army in 1861, in Company A, Twenty- fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served three years, then re-enlisted and served until the close of the war, participating in the Grand Review at Washington. He participated in twenty-two battles, many of them the greatest of the war, including Gettysburg, and he is one of three survivors of that battle now residing in Guernsey county. He performed his duty as a soldier in a most faithful manner. He came to Guernsey county in 1865 and has resided here ever since. He is now living near Byesville. He engaged in farming and coal developing until a few years ago, when he retired. His wife died in 1889. They were the parents of eleven children, eight of whom are living, John Emmett, of this review, being the oldest ; Mary La Fonda ; Joseph S., deceased; Ella Maude married J. W. Croyle, a farmer in Jackson township; Ira A. is farming in Jackson township; Grace E. married Anson Frame, a farmer of Jackson township and a mine superintendent ; Clyde A., a physician of Chicago; Anna is living at home ; Cora is deceased ; Lola is deceased ; Roy lives in Jackson township. Philip Gable, the father of these children, has alwayS been interested in public affairs and he is the only man living in Jackson township who voted for Hon. Neal Dow, the Prohibition candidate for President. He was a war Democrat during the early sixties, but in recent years he has been a Republican. He is a highly respected citizen and has a host of friends throughout the county. Dr. John E. Gable, of this review, obtained a public school education in Jackson township and he worked on the farm during his youth. From the time he was seventeen years old he worked in the coal mines, after which he entered Doan Academy at Granville, Ohio, where he remained three years. He then went to Kirksville, Missouri, and became a student of the American School of Osteopathy, graduating from that institution in 1902, and in the same year he went to Chicago to practice and he took a course in the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, from which institution he was graduated in 1909. He came to Cambridge, Ohio, March 1, 1910, and opened offices in the Central Bank building, and he practices both osteopathy and homeopathy, being well prepared in every respect for these lines. His offices are thoroughly equipped for the practice and care of patients, with an 498 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. X-ray apparatus and all modern appliances and instruments for surgical work. He keeps well abreast of the times in all modern research work pertaining to these professions and has been very successful since coming here. Politically, Doctor Gable is a Republican, and while not active, he is always interested in public matters. He is a member of the Masonic order, Point Pleasant Lodge No. 312, also the Knights of Pythias lodge at Wilmington, Illinois. He is a member of the National Osteopathic Association. Doctor Gable was married June 16, 1896, to Hattie Mabel Wilson, daughter of Joshua and Rachel (Mercer) Wilson, of Jackson township. Her father was a farmer of that township and he died about thirty years ago; his widow is still living. T0 Dr. and Mrs. Gable one daughter, Vertine La Fonda, was born. The wife and mother was called to her rest on May 26, 1910. She was a highly educated, cultured and refined lady, a graduate of the art department of Sheppardson College at Granville, Ohio, also a graduate of the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, and she practiced with her husband. Before her marriage she was a successful and progressive teacher for a number of years. She was a favorite with a wide circle of friends and admired by all for her superior attributes of head and heart. She was a member of the Baptist church, and prominent in social life. The Doctor is also a member of the Baptist church. JOHN PERRY MAHAFFEY. The life of John Perry Mahaffey, one of Cambridge's substantial and well liked citizens, has been replete with success well earned, for he has always been a hard worker and has sought to advance himself by no questionable methods, always striving to live up to the Golden Rule and follow the example set by his ancestors. He is the son of John and Margaret Mahaffey and was born in Cambridge, Ohio, on April 16, 1845, and practically his entire life has been spent in this city. His father was horn in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1813. Coming to Cambridge at an early age, he made this community his home until his death, on March 5, 1852. He was a man who took an interest in the affairs of his community, and was highly respected for his integrity, and he established a very comfortable home here. The mother of the subject, known in her maidenhood as Margaret Newman, was born on the isle of Guernsey, April 3, 1817, and there she grew to maturity, emigrating to America in 1834 and locating at Cam- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 499 bridge, Ohio, where she continued to reside until her death, on January 3, 1892. John P. Mahaffey, of this review, after receiving a common school education, learned the printer’s trade, and that has been his chief occupation ever since, being very proficient in the "art preservative." He has always been a Democrat and an earnest and untiring advocate of the party's principles and prominent in its conventions in the town, county and state. He served one term as clerk of courts of Guernsey county, from 1879 to 1882, and made a very commendable record. He was candidate for presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 190o, and in 1904 he was the Democratic candidate for clerk of the supreme court of Ohio, but went down in defeat with the balance of the ticket. In 1905 he was elected state senator from the eighteenth and nineteenth districts, composed of Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe, Tuscarawas and part of Noble counties, and he made such a commendable record and gained such universal favor that he was re-elected in 1908. He made his influence felt in that important body and his record has been so praiseworthy in every respect that he won the admiration of all fair minded citizens, irrespective of party algnment. During the war of the Rebellion Mr. Mahaffey proved his patriotism and loyalty to the national government by enlisting in the One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served in a very faithful manner. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and he takes a great deal of interest in these lodges. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and is faithful in his support of the same. On March 1, 1882,, in connection with T. W. Ogier, Mr. Mahaffey purchased the Cambridge Herald, which the firm continued to publish until August 10, 1910, when the plant was sold to other parties, since which time he has been leading a retired life. He made this paper one of the leading journals of its type in eastern Ohio and it was a success from a financial standpoint under his judicious management, its circulation having gradually increased and its value as an advertising medium was made apparent ; its columns teemed with the best and brightest news of the day and with able and convincing editorials,—in short, he rendered it an indispensable molder of public opinion. Mr. Mahaffey was married on March 21, 1872, to Sarah F. Scott, (laughter of Thomas and Lydia (Langell) Scott, natives of Nova Scotia, who came to Cambridge in early life. Mrs. Mahaffey's death occurred 0n February 9, 1873. This union resulted in the birth of one son, G. F. Mahaffey.