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CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 381 CHAPTER XIX POLITICAL AFFAIRS COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS-PRESIDENTIAL VOTE-PROMINENT MEN-CADIZ CLERKSHIPS IN WASHINGTON. COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS The following named persons served on the judicial bench of Harrison County prior to 1851: President Judges—Benjamin Ruggles, 1810 to 1814; George Tod, 1814 to 1816; Benjamin Tappan, 1816 to 1823; Jeremiah H. Hallock, 1823 to 1836; George W. Belden, 1837 to 1839; William Kennon, 1840 to 1846; Benjamin Cowan, 1847 to 1852. Associate Judges—James Roberts, 1813 to 1819; Samuel Boyd, 1813 to 1819; Ephriam Sears, 1813 to 1818; Matthew Simpson, 1818 to 1819; Alexander Henderson, 1819 to 1827; John McCullough, 1820 to 1834; John McCurdy, 1820 to 1825; Thomas Bingham, 1825 to 1839; David Campbell, 1827 to 1829; John McBean, 1829 to 1836; Robert Maxwell, 1834 to 1841; John Hanna, 1840 to 1846; Samuel Moorehead, 1841 to 1848; Thomas Lee, 1841 to 1848; James Maxwell, 1846 to 1853; William McFarland, 1848 to 1852; William Boggs, 1848 to 1852. Judges after 1851-Thomas L. Jewett, 1852 to 1854; Thomas Means, 1854 to 1855; Samuel W. Bostwick, 1855 to 1861; George W. Mcllvaine, 1862 to 1870; John H. Miller, 1870 to 1877; James Patrick, 1877 to 1882; Joseph C. Hance, 1882 to 1884, and also from 1889 to 1891; John S. Pearce, 1884 to 1889; John Mansfield, 1892 to 1902; Walter G. Shotwell, 1899 to 1914; John B. Worley followed Judge Shotwell and is still on the bench. Fletcher Douthitt was also elected in 1892; he died in 1899 and Shotwell was appointed to fill out the term and later twice elected judge. STATE SENATORS The following is a list of State Senators from, and who were residents, of Harrison County: Daniel Welch, 1811 (then from Jefferson County); Samuel Dunlap, 1814 to 1815; Matthew Simpson, 1816 to 1820 and 1822 to 1828; James Roberts, 1820 to 1822; Daniel Kilgore, 1828 to 1832; Joseph Holmes, 1832 to 1834; Thomas C. Vincent, 1834 to 1838 ; Chauncey Dewey, 1841 to 1842; Samuel G. Peppard, 1852 to 1854; Charles Warfell, 1856 to 1858; Marshall McCall, 1860 to 1862; John C. Jamison, 1864 to 1866; James B. Jamison, 1868 to 1872; Samuel Knox, 1872 to 1878; David A. Hollingsworth, 1880 to 1884; George W. Glover, 1888 to 1890; Charles M. Hogg, 1892 to 1896. 382 - CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES STATE REPRESENTATIVES Samuel Dunlap, 1803 to 1808 and 1810 to 1813 (from Jefferson County) ; Stephen Ford, 1808 to 1810 and 1813 to 1818, from Jefferson County, prior to 1813; Andrew McNeely, 1810, 1814 and 1815, from Jefferson County in 1810; William Moore, 1816 to 1819; John Patterson, 1819 to 1820-1821 to 1822-23-24 and 1826 to 1830; Ephriam Sears, 1820 to 1821; William Wiley, 1822 to 1823 and 1824 to 1826; Walter B. Beebe, 1830 to 1831; Joseph Rea, 1831 to 1833 and 1838 to 1840; Samuel W. Bostwick, 1833 to 1836; John Gruber, 1836 to 1838 and 1842 to 1843; Josiah Scott, 1840 to 1842; William McFarland, 1843 to 1844; Jacob Lemmon, 1844 to 1846; Samuel A. Russell, 1846 to 1848; John Hammond, 1849 to 1850; Marshall McCall, 1850 to 1854; Reynolds K. Price, 1854 to 1856; Ephriam Clark, 1856 to 1858; James Day, 1858 to 1860; William. H. McGavran, 1860 to 1862; Smith R. Watson, 1862 to 1866; Ingram Clark, 1866 to 1868; Lewis Lewton, 1868 to 1870; Anderson P. Lacey, 1870 to 1872; David Cunningham, 1872 to 1874; Samuel Herron, 1874 to 1876; A. C. Dixon, 1876 to 1878; Jesse Forsythe, 1878 to 1880; Oliver G. Cope,_ 1880 to 1882; Samuel B. McGavran, 1882 to 1884; Jasper N. Lantz, 1884 to 1886 and 1888 to 1890; George M. Patton, 1886 to 1888; Wesley Hearn, 1890 to 1892; Samuel K. McLaughlin, 1894 to 1898; Samuel Hamill, 1898 to 1900; J. H. Beall, 1900 to 1903; R. H. Minteer, 1902 to 1907; L. H. Scott, 1906 to 1913; R. H. Beetham, 1912, and still serving. CONGRESSMEN From the Congressional district which Harrison County has been situated the sub-joined have served as members of Congress from this county: Daniel Kilgore, 1834 to 1838; John A. Bingham, 1855 to 1863 and from 1865 to 1873; D. A. Hollingsworth, elected in 1908 for Sixty-First Congress; elected in 1914 for Sixty-Fourth Congress; elected in 1916 for the Sixty-Fifth Congress. MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS Samuel Moorehead, 1850 to 1851: Josiah Scott, 1850 to 1851; William G. Waddle, 1872 to 1873; D. Cunningham, 1912. PRESIDENTIAL VOTE SINCE 1896 The vote in Harrison County for Presidents of the United States, since and including 1896 has been as follows: 1896-William McKinley, republican, received - 3,151 votes William Jennings Bryan, democratic, received - 2,235 votes 1900—William McKinley, received - 3,268 votes William Jennings Bryan, received - 2,265 votes 1904—Theodore Roosevelt, republican, received - 2,927 votes Alton G. Parker, democratic, received - 1,332 votes 1908 William Howard Taft, republican, received - 3,069 votes William Jennings Bryan, democratic, received - 1,911 votes CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 383 1912—William Howard Taft, republican, received - 1,950 votes Woodrow Wilson, democratic, received - 1,714 votes Theodore Roosevelt, progressive, received - 704 votes 1916—Charles A. Hughes, republican, received - 2,517 votes Woodrow Wilson, democratic, received - 1,911 votes 1920—Warren G. Harding, republican, received - 5,053 votes James M. Cox, democratic, received - 4,473 votes PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS Walter B. Beebe, 1813 to 1834; Josiah Scott, 1834 to 1838; Edward M.. Stanton, 1838 to 1839; Samuel W. Bostwick, 1839 to 1844; Thomas L. Jewett, 1844 to 1848; Samuel G. Peppard, 1848 to 1851; Allen C. Turner, 1851 to 1853; Lewis Lewton, 1854 to 1856; Jesse H. McMath, 1856 to 1861; Amon Lemmon, 1861 to 1863; William P. Hayes, 1863 to 1866; David Cunningham, 1866 to 1869; John S. Pearce, 1869 to 1875; David A. Hollingsworth, 1875 to 1877; John C. Given, 1878 to 1881; John M. Garvin, 1882 to 1887; Walter G. Shotwell, 1888 to 1893, resigned; John M. Garvin, appointed and served until January, 1894; William T. Perry, elected 1893, served from January, 1894 to January, 1900; Barclay W. Rowland, served from 1900 to 1914; Frank B. Grove, 1914 to 1918; Barclay W. Moore, 1918 to 1922. COUNTY RECORDERS William Tingley, 1814 to 1829 ; Joseph Harris, 1829 to 1832; William Johnson, 1832; Samuel M. McCormick, 1832 to 1838; Matthew M. Sloan, 1838 to 1844; William Boyce, 1844 to 1850; Lancelot Hearn, 1850 to 1857; William A. Hearn, 1857 to 1858; Joseph Rea, 1859 to 1868; George Woodborne, 1868 to 1874; John Graybill, 1874 to 1880; Landon B. Grimes, 1880 to 1886; Albert B. Hmes, 1886 to 1892; Thomas Arbaugh, 1892 to 1898; S. Edwin Thompson, 1898 to 1904; G. W. Hines, 1904 to 1908; R. F. Ramsey, 1908 to 1912; R. H. Anderson, 1912 to 1916; C. D. Conaway, 1916 to 1921; James Fogle was elected in the fall of 1920. SHERIFFS Elescondo Henderson, 1814 to 1816; James Boswell, 1816 to 1817; John Stokes, 1817 to 1821; Resin Arnold, 1821 to 1824; Baruch Dickerson, 1824; John S. Lacey, 1824 to 1826; Matthew McCoy, 1826 to 1832; James McNutt, 1832 to 1835; William Mulligan, 1836 to 1839; William Cady, 1840 to 1842; William Barrett, 1842 to 1846; John McCormick, 1846 to 1848; David Hilbert, 1848 to 1853; James Boyd, 1853 to 1855; Alexander Barger, 1855 to 1858; Edwin S. Woodborne, 1858 to 1861; Stephen R. McGee, 1862 to 1866; John E. McPeck, 1866 to 1870; James Moore, 1870 to 1872; Samuel S. Hamill, 1872 to 1876; Elisha Hargrave, 1876 to 1878; Emanuel Howard, 1878 to 1880; James C. Carver, 1880 to 1886; Jefferson C. Glover, 1886 to 1888; Albert Quigley, 1888 to 1892; David P. Host, 1892 to 1896; Samuel B. Moore, 1896 to 1900; Davis Garvin, 1900 to 1904; O. A. Craigo, 1908 to 1912; Thomas A. Boyd, 1912 to 1916; J. M. Steven- 384 - CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES son, 1916 to his death, October, 1919, and David Stevenson to January, 1921, when 0. K. Martin, newly elected, succeeded him. CLERKS OF THE COURT Joseph Harris, 1813 to 1815 ; William Kingley, 1815 to 1838; Thomas Vincent, 1838 to 1845 ; Samuel McCormick, 1845 to 1851; Charles Patterson, 1852 to 1854; Thomas C. Rowles, 1855 to 1860; R. M. Lyons, 1861 to 1863 ; John Fogle, 1863 to 1867 ; John Garvin, 1867 to 1875; Allen W. Scott, 1875 to 1882 ; Elias B. McNamee, 1882 to 1888; Martin J. McCoy, 1888 to 1894; E. B. Kirby, 1894 to 1902; H. S. Mills, 1902 to 1908; F. B. Grove, 1908 to 1912; E. L. Garner, 1912 to 1914; N. E. Hawkins, 1914 to 1918; F. F. Hamilton, 1918 to 1922. COUNTY SURVEYORS James McMillan, 1820 to 1825; Abner Hixon, 1825 to 1830 and 1834 to 1837; Curtis W. Scoles, 1833 to 1834; Daniel Morris, 1837 to 1840; Samuel McCormick, 1840 to 1847; Daniel Spencer, 1847 to 1849; Samuel Bell, 1849 ; Jacob Jarvis, 1849 to 1894; Benjamin J. Green, 1894, succeeded as follows: J. A. Gordon, Hartzell R. McCoy, J. A. Gordon, elected in 1920. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS John Pugh, 1813; James Cobean, 1813 to 1814 : Eleazer Huff, 1813 ; William Phillips, 1813 to 1816; William Wiley, 1813 to 1821; John Craig, 1814 to 1820 and 1824 to 1825 ; Robert Maxwell, 1816 to 1828; William Henderson, 1820 to 1826; Joseph Holmes, 1820 to 1824; David Thompson, 1825 to 1833 ; Thomas Martin, 1826 to 1832 ; Brice W. Viers, 1828 to 1831; John Caldwell, 1831 to 1834; Henry Ford, 1832 to 1838; John Ramage, 1833 to 1836; Samuel Colvin, 1834 to 1840 ; Jesse Merrill, 1836 to 1839; John Sharp, 1838 to 1841; Andrew Richie, 1839 to 1842; James P. Beall, 1840 to 1843; Thomas Day, 1841 to 1842; John Downing, 1842 to 1845; James Hogland, 1843 to 1846; Samuel Hitchcock, 1845 to 1851; Samuel Richey, 1846 to 1852 ; Luther Rowley, 1847 to 1853 ; John Carrick, 1851 to 1852; John Yost, 1852 to 1857; Elijah Carver, 1852 to 1855; Joseph Masters, 1854 to 1856; Jacob Chamblet, 1855 to 1861; Jackson Croskey, to 1863; Charles Wells, 1860 to 1866; James J. Billingsley, 1861 to 1867; Walter Craig, 1863 to 1865; Andrew Jamison, 1865 to 1871; Levi Snyder, 1866 to 1872 ; William Evans, 1867 to 1873; James Patton, 1871 to 1877; John Sloan, 1872 to 1874; Alexander Henderson, 1873 to 1879; John Latham, 1874 to 1878; ThomaS McMillen, 1877 to 1883; Enoch W. Phillips, 1878 to 1881 ; George Love, 1879 to 1882; Lindley M. Brason, 1882; Jackson Rea, 1882 to 1884; John Miller, 1882 to 1886; Michael B. Firebaugh, 1883 to 1890; Robert B. Moore, 1884 to 1891 ; Andrew Smith, 1886 to 1891; John W. Spiker, 1890 to 1896; William C. Adams, 1891 to 1897; Thomas Ryder, 1892 to 1898; John H. Pittis, 1896; John C. Patton, 1897; Henry P. Worstel, 1897; H. H. Finnical, 1902 to 1904; A. W. Cole, 1904 to 1906; R. W. Gallaher, 1906 to 1908; Tyler Cope, 1908 to 1912; Arbaugh and CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 385 Stringer, 1912 to 1914 ; Arbaugh Cramblett and Stringer, 1914 to 1918; Compher, Haverfield and Patterson; the present board is: Chester Branson, Orville Flenny and James H. Septer. PROBATE JUDGES Brice W. Viers, 1852 to 1854; Allen C. Turner, 1854 to 1867; Amon Lemmon, 1867 to 1894; Elias B. McNamee, 1894 to 1900; John B. Worley, 1900 to 1906 ; P. W. Boggs, 1906 to 1913; W. T. Perry, 1913, and still Probate Judge in 1920; re-elected in 1920 for four years. COUNTY AUDITORS The title of the first three was "Clerk of Commissioners"-Walter B. Beebe, 1813 to 1816; Lared Stinson, 1816 to 1817; James L. Hanna, 1817 to 1820; John Hanna, clerk and first auditor, 1820 to 1822; Joseph Harris, 1822 to 1832; Joseph Meek, 1832 to 1833; James Miller, 1833 to 1837; Charles Patterson, 1837 to 1840; Zephamiah Bayless, 1840 to 1843; John Sharp, 1843 to 1845; Robert Edney, 1845 to 1849; Reynolds K. Price, 1849 to 1853; John Sloan, 1853 to 1854; Will S. Granfell, 1855 to 1856; Kersey W. Kinsey, 1856 to 1860; Samuel Knox, 1860 to 1864; William H. McCoy, 1864 to 1869; Reuben A. McCormick, 1869 to 1871; William O. Potts, 1871 to 1875; Thomas W. Giles, 1875 to 1880; James M. Scott, 1880 to 1883; Henry Spence, 1883 to 1884; James W. Carver (deputy for Henry Spence), 1883 to 1884; George E. Crew, 1884 to 1891; Henry G. Forker, 1891 to 1896; Harvey B. Law, 1896 to 1903 ; J. S. Lacey, 1903 to 1909; O. C. Gray, 1909 to 1913; E. P. Hines. 1913 to 1917; F. M. Beall, 1917 to present time. COUNTY TREASURERS Samuel Osburn, 1813 to 1828; John S. Lacey, 1828 to 1836; James McNutt, 1836 to 1840; William Milligan, 1840 to 1844; Zephamiah Bayless, 1840 to 1848; Ralph Barcroft, 1848 to 1852 ; David Hilbert, 1852 to 1855; J. J. Johnson, 1854 to 1858 ; John Russell, 1858 to 1860; Thomas Richey, 1860 to 1862; Frank Grace, 1862 to 1864; Wesley Poulson, 1864 to 1866; Elias Foust. 1866 to 1870; George A. Haver- field, 1870 to 1876; Harvey L. Thompson, 1876 to 1878; Nimrod B. Pumphrey, 1878 to 1882: Albert J. Harrison, 1882 to 1886; Samuel A. Moore, 1886 to 1890; Nathaniel E. Clendennin, 1890 to 1894; Robert Stewart, who was elected in 1894, whose term would have expired 1899, followed by Joseph J. Sears, 1899 to 1903 ; Smith A. Hines, 1903 to 1907; followed by James M. Adams, whose term began in 1907 and would have ended in 1911, but he died in 1909 and his son, Paul L. Adams, was appointed and filled the unexpired term; followed by Allen L. Adams, 1911 to 1915; followed by George A. Martin, 1915 to 1919; followed by J. H. Livingston, 1919 to 1923. PROMINENT MEN OF HARRISON COUNTY Among the prominent men who were born in Harrison County none of military fame stand out bolder than Gen. George A. Custer, 386 - CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES Civil war commander and later an Indian fighter in the far west where in the summer of 1876 he was massacred (some say) by the Sioux Indians. John Giles, an early resident of Scio, gave Historian Henry Howe a lengthy sketch of Custer, from which many of the facts herein are taken. The original spelling of the name was Kuster. The first American ancestor was from Hesse-Cassel, who came over during Revolutionary war times and fought "mit de Hessians." Emanuel, father of the general, was a blacksmith and justice of the peace. Young Custer was born at New Rumley, this county, December 5, 1839, and became the great cavalry leader of Civil war days. Among the important historic points in this man's career were these : At the battle of Williamsburg he accompanied the advance as aid-de-camp under General Hancock, capturing the first battle-flag by the army of the Potomac. He was the first person to cross the Chickahominy, which he did by wading up to his armpits in the face of the enemy's pickets. At Gettysburg he held the right of the Union line, and utterly routed Hampton’s cavalry. In this battle he had two horses shot under him, and in the course of the war eleven horses. At the battle of Trevillian Station five brigades attacked his one. Against such odds he fought for three hours. His color bearer was shot when the flag was only saved by Custer tearing it from its standard and concealing it around his body * * * At Winchester he took nine battle-flags, and took more prisoners than he had men engaged. * * * When Sheridan arrived at Cedar Creek, after his famous ride, he said, "Go in Custer." Custer went in, drove the enemy for miles, captured a major-general, many prisoners, and forty- five pieces of artillery. For this he was brevetted Major-General of Volunteers. He was the man who received the white flag from Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Sheridan presented Mrs. Custer the table on which Lee signed the surrender. * * * He never lost a gun or a color; he captured more guns, flags and prisoners on the battle field than any other general not an army commander, and his services throughout his eventful career were indeed most brilliant. Whitelaw Reid in his sketch on Custer states : General Custer was six feet in height, of great strength and endurance, broad shouldered, lithe and active with a weight never above 170 pounds. His eyes were blue, his hair long and golden. At the age of twenty-three he was made brigadier-general, at twenty-five a major-general, the youngest man of his rank in the army. For quick dashes and vigorous spurts of fighting he had no superiors and scarcely an equal. His career was disasterously closed in an attack, June 25, 1876, on an Indian encampment, on Little Horn River, in Montana, when his command of 277 cavalrymen were overwhelmed by about 1,600 Sioux Indians, under Sitting Bull, and massacred to a man-not one spared to tell the story. The old chief, a year or two later, was asked at a conference the particulars, whereupon Sitting Bull replied, "I do not know where the Yellow Hair died." A National Cemetery was surveyed at the scene of this battle, in 1879, and there in that far away place rests the soldiers of "Custer's Last Charge." CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 387 HON. EDWIN M. STANTON —The great Civil war secretary, under President Lincoln, was among, if not indeed the strongest character in the cabinet. His was a will of iron but he possessed a fine brain and excellent judgment. As a lawyer he began his career in Cadiz. Intensity of purpose was his leading trait. He was bent on the suppression of the Rebellion at all hazards. He told Governor Morton of Indiana, that if the cause failed he did not care to live longer. As a lawyer he never took a case that he believed to be a bad one. The cause for which Stanton lived and labored as Secretary of War, did not fail, but the intense work he took upon himself as truly ended his life as though his heart had been pierced by a bullet. He came to Cadiz in 1836 and went into partnership with Chauncey Dewey, remained until 1840, when he left but retained his partnership with Dewey until 1842. At the time, Stanton was a democrat, PICTURE OF THE HOME OF EDWIN M. STANTON, CADIZ, SECRETARY OF WAR IN LINCOLN'S CABINET and was prosecuting attorney of Harrison County for three years. He was then but twenty-two years of age, broad shouldered, but never weighing more than 125 pounds while residing in Cadiz. He was very near-sighted and at first the people in this county called him "Little Stanton." He was very methodical, kept his papers and office in perfect order and his industry was a wonder to all who knew him. He would read law sixteen hours a day. Stewart B. Shotwell, of Cadiz, with whom he studied law, said of Stanton : "I have known him to work all day in court and until 9 o'clock at night trying cases and then filing them. Then he would get into his buggy, ride to Steubenville for some paper or authority bearing on the case, be back at court-time next morning, after riding a distance of fifty miles, and work all day as fresh as ever." Ordinarily he cared but little for society—especially of women— but he was exceedingly attached to his first wife. When she died he 388 - CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES shut himself up in his room and spent days in grief. Then seeing that he was breaking down, he rallied and plunged deeper than ever into business. Many pages could be published on the life and character of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton, but this volume was not designed to go further into the biographies of noted men who have at one time lived in these counties, than to give an outline, leaving other authors to furnish the completed sketches. HON. JOHN A. BINGHAM —This distinguished statesman, whose home was for many years in Cadiz, and whose beautiful bronze- granite statue adorns the courthouse square today in Harrison County, was born January 21, 1815, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. In his childhood he resided four years in Ohio; then passed two and a half years in learning printing in Mercer ; was then educated in the Mercer Academy and Franklin College and in 1840 came to Ohio and followed the practice of the law. In the Harrison campaign he took an active part as a whig orator and twice held public discussions with Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, having been challenged by him. In the national whig convention of 1848, he proposed a resolution which it was thought too dangerous to adopt, but which was the keynote to his subsequent force, viz : "No more Slave States; no more Slave Territory; the maintenance of freedom where freedom is, and the protection of American industry." He was first elected to Congress in 1854, and served in all sixteen years ; in 1873 he was appointed by President U. S. Grant as Minister to Japan, where he resided until the advent of Grover Cleveland's administration. In the sixteen years of his service in Congress he served on the most important committees. For four years he was chairman of the judiciary committee. He was chairman of the managers on behalf of House on the trial for the impeachment of President Andrew Jackson. He was author of the first section to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, save the introductory clause thereof. He was appointed special judge-advocate for the trial of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. He was given other important official trusts, spending in all eighteen years in Washington, giving unwearying labor to the nation in its most eventful period. Besides his many speeches in Congress, he spoke in half of the States for "The Union and Constitution.' The large, square, plain brick mansion near the public square in Cadiz was his happy home many years, and it is now doing service as a portion of the Christian church edifice, his old library room serving as an Old Ladies' Sunday School room. A few years ago the citizens of Cadiz and community raised a fund of about $3,000 from which the attractive, permanent memorial was erected in the courthouse square. This solid granite base and artistic life-like, large size bronze statue of Mr. Bingham speaks volumes when one reads the simple inscription—a saying of his as early as 1848, concerning slavery as an institution. PROMINENT CITIZENS Harrison County Ohio, has produced a number of notable men —men who went out into the busy world and made for themselves a CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 389 marked success in their chosen callings. Among this number wilt never be forgotten such illustrious characters as Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, President Lincoln's Secretary of War during the Civil war period, who was a statesman with brains and an iron will; the Cadiz Bar was also honored by men of talent in the persons of Waiter B. Beebe, Chauncey Dewey, S. B. Shotwell, Samuel W. Bostwick, Samuel A. Russell, Josiah Scott, Joseph Sharon, Jesse H. McMath, Lewis Lewton, J. M. Estep. Members of the Constitutional Conventions-1850-1851—from this county, were Samuel Moorehead and in 1872-1873, William G. Waddle. In the realm of religion, perhaps no greater light ever flashed out and continued to burn throughout his long life, than that of Bishop Simpson, who was a native of this soil and preached his first sermon in this county. He was universally beloved not alone by Methodists, but by all denominations of Christians. Among other persons who have "made good" from Harrison County should not be forgotten the present vice president of the great Pennsylvania Railroad system—W. J. McCarty, who was born in Conotton, Harrison County, and was started out in life by William B.. Penn, of Bowerston, who turned the young man's attention to railroading in which he has made wonderful success and is now in line- for the presidency of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was. started in life right by friends who saw something promising in his. make-up and he kept steadily pressing onward and upward. CADIZ CLERKSHIPS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. The town of Cadiz was represented by various persons holding government positions in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1900, the same coming back that autumn in order to cast their votes, for McKinley and Roosevelt at the Presidential election: Hon. Samuel Knox, treasury department. J. R. Finney, internal revenue department. J. S. Wier, treasury department. R. B. Wasson, revenue department. I. W. Thompson, census department. J. Jamison, department of the interior. William E. Perry, department of interior. |