AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 701 onstrated by the success that attended his efforts and continued year after year, until he has built up his present large business. His three-story brick building, with dimensions of 44 by 115 feet, with basement, is stocked with seasonable goods and a complete line of staple and fancy groceries, giving evidence of the large amount of patronage at his command. He has associated with him in business his four older sons, and they are all well educated, practical young men. Mr. Keane married Miss Margaret Reidy, who was also born in Ireland, and they have five sons and one daughter: Thomas J., James S., Robert L., Harry A., Charles A., and Mary, the last named being the wife of Dr. V. R. Shannon, a dental surgeon at Steubenville. Mr. Keane and family are members of the holy Name Catholic Church, and he and sons are all members of the Knights of Columbus, and belong also to the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Keane is a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Library. C. G. MILLER, a member of the firm of Miller and Dever. conducting. the leading china and art store in Steubenville, has been a lifelong resident of this city and has a wide acquaintance throughout this part of Ohio. He was born in Steubenville. in 1875, and is a son of Henry Miller, who was born in Germany and is now a resident. of Steubenville. C. G, Miller received a public school education. after which he worked six years in the old Jefferson Iron Works. In 1897 he formed a. partnership with M r. Dever and they established their present store. in which they carry a fine line of china and art work. They deal exclusively in these lines and have built up a very large trade. In 1898 Mr. Miller' was united in marriage with Miss Lucy Burns, a native of Steubenville, and they have three children: Lucile, George and Lyda Belle. Religiously thev are members of the Congregational Church, Mr. Miller serving on its official board. He is a member of and past chancellor commander of Steubenville Lodge, No. 1, K. P. ; also a member of the Woodmen and of the Carpenters' Union. ALBERT FRANKLIN SMITH, who has occupied his present comfortable home, a very attractive residence at Mt. Pleasant, O., for the past twenty-one years, belongs to a well known family of this section. He was born in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, O., October 14, 1859, and is a son of George W. and Deborah (Barkhurst) Smith. George W. Smith, who is a retired resident of Mt. Pleasant, was born here seventy-five years ago, the only child of Reese and Sarah (Frazier) Smith. Reese Smith was married four times, his union with Sarah Frazier being his first one'. His second marriage was to a Miss Gardner, and they had one child, Jane. Of his third marriage, to Love Meek, there was no issue. His last marriage was with Martha Fisher, and they had the following children: Lyeurgus, Harry, Edward, Melvin, Charles, Ross, Belle, Maria, Mina, Florence, and a babe that died at Martin's Ferry. Reese Smith was born at Pleasant Grove. Belmont County, 0., and came to Mt. Pleasant in early manhood, where he worked at the blacksmiths' trade for a number of years. Later he discovered a process for manufacturing steel and transferred his interests to Martin's Ferry. George W. Smith married Deborah Barkhurst, who was born in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, and died in January, 1887. her father was married three times and had twelve children in all, three of whom were born to his first union —Nancy, Rebecca and Mary—one to his second marriage—Deborah—and eight to his third marriage, with Hannah Marshall —William, .John, Jacob, Elizabeth, Margaret, Jane, Martha and Hannah. To George W. Smith and wife the following children were born: Albert Franklin, Walker, Roy, Robert, Isaac, Isabella, Hannah Mary, Louisa, Helen and Elizabeth, 702 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY and of these Isaac, Louisa and Elizabeth are now deceased. Both the Smith and the Barkhurst families were of the Methodist faith. On November 29, 1882, Albert Franklin Smith was married to Miss Hattie Withrow, a daughter of Merrick and Mrs. Sarah (Hogg) (Simeral) Withrow. Mrs. Smith has one sister, Miss Ella Withrow, and she had also a brother, who died in infancy. By her marriage with Mr. Simeral she had four children—Mary A., George, James and Elizabeth—all now living. The ancestry of M rs. Smith may be traced as follows: Merrick Withrow was born on a. farm in Mt. Pleasant Township, this county, in 1832, and ill early manhood moved to Alt. Pleasant, where he learned and later followed the tailors' trade for many years. His death took place in 1885. His parents, Gordon and Eliza (McMasters) Withrow, were Married February 18, 1S29. Eliza McMasters. daughter of David and Anna (Starr) McMasters. was born May 4. 1812, and died in I904. aged ninety-two years. David McMasters, who was a Methodist preacher, was married in Virginia. and from there went to North Carolina and later. in 1808. to Ohio. His birth took place in 1754 and his death in 1827. David McMasters married Anna Starr. who was born in 1789 and died in 1845, Merrick Starr. the great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Smith, was born in 1754 and lived to be about eighty years of age. Isis pa relit s were Merrick and Phoebe Starr. and they came to Mt. Pleasant from Virginia in 1807 and he built two log houses side by side, one for his own family and one for his daughter. His son. Merrick Starr, married Anna Pearson. a daughter of Benjamin and Mary Pearson. Grandfather Gordon Withrow Was born at Stevensburg. Va.. in 1802. and died in 1847. The mother of Mrs. Smith was born at Mt. Pleasant in 1827 and died in 1893. She was a daughter of John and Miriam (Brown) Hogg, who were married in 1812. :John Hogg was born at Bedlington. England, in 1788 and came to Mt. Pleasant in 1809, where he died in 1857. He was a merchant and also owned seven tanneries at one time. His wife was born in Virginia and was taken to Brownsville, Pa., and from there came to Mt. Pleasant with her parents, who were Joel and Barbara (Schumann) Brown. He was a Quaker and she a. Seceder, and at the time of death he was laid to rest in the Quaker graveyard at Short Creek and she in the Seceder graveyard. The great-grandfather, Merrick Starr, was also a Quaker. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six children: Ralph Starr, who is a resident of Mt. Pleasant, and was married December 23, 1903, to Miss Cornell Barnes; Lee Crawford, who lives at home; George Rowland, also living at home; Deborah, who is a senior in the High School; and Eleanor and Merrick Brown, who are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is identified with the Republican party. E. A. KING for many years was a well known citizen of Island Creek Township and was proprietor and founder of Kings-dale Gardens, a richly cultivated tract of forty acres devoted to market gardening. Mr. King was about sixty-four years of age at the time of his death, which occurred October 26, 1896. He was a native of Paterson, N. J. In early manhood Mr. King established himself at Pittsburgh, Pa., and from there came to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he engaged in general fa ruling and gardening, first in Steubenville Township and later in Island Creek Township. Many dealers in Steubenville and Toronto have depended for a long time for their choice produce to be shipped them from Kingsdale Gardens, and Mr. King also shipped at times to New Cumberland. W. Va. He was a very successful gardener and had his products on the market very early in the year, often before the southern shippers were prepared for business. in addition to this tract, Mr. King's estate contained other AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 703 farms, aggregating 205 acres, all valuable land. The business is still continued by the firm of King Brothers, made up of the three sons of the late E. A. King. Mr. King married Miss Amelia Campbell, of Allegheny, Pa., and three sons were born to them: Alexander, Ezra A., and David. All reside in Island Creek Township and all are interested in Kings-dale Gardens. Alexander King, the senior member, was born at Allegheny, Pa., in 1856, and was a small boy when he accompanied his parents to Jefferson County. This is a very important business concern of Jefferson County, one of the best conducted and most extensive as well as entirely reliable in its line. The widow of Mr. King survived until March, 1904. JOHN C. BUTTE, president of the Butte Laundry Company, Limited, is a substantial citizen of Steubenville, O., where he has a wide acquaintance and is held in high esteem. He was born in Germany, May 24, 1857, and was thirteen years of age at the time of his arrival in America. Upon coming to this country John C. Butte located immediately in Steubenville, O., where he has resided ever since. He was for a time engaged in business on South Fourth Street, but for the past fourteen years his business location has been at No. 508 Market Street. In 1907 he organized the Butte Laundry Company, Limited, of which he is president; John C. Butte, Jr., secretarv and treasurer; and F. A. Butte is general manager. Mr. Butte has taken a prominent part in the affairs of the city and has done his full share to aid in its material progress. Ile was elected to the Board of Public Service, on which he served ably for three years, a part of the time being vice president of the board. He. has always been an active worker for the success of the Republican party, and has served on the Republican County Central Committee and on the City Committee. John C. Butte was married Mav 6, 1880, to Miss Lena Persohn, who was born in Steubenville, and they have the following children: William P. Butte, of Los Angeles, Cal.; John C., Jr.; Frank A.; Phillipena; and Wilhelmina, wife of W. B. Melville, of Steubenville. Mr. Butte and wife are members of the Fifth Street German Lutheran Church. Fraternally, he is a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 35, K. P., of which he has been treasurer a number of years; of the Germania Turnverein, which he joined in 1871, and of a number of other local societies. JAMES M. SIMERAL, who resides on his valuable farm of seventy-six acres, situated in Wayne Township, is a leading citizen of this section and is a representative of old settled families and one of the few surviving grandsons of a soldier who took part in the Revolutionary War. He was born at Bloomfield, O., June 6, 1834, and is a son of Archibald and Mary (Ferguson) Simeral. Archibald Simeral was born in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. His father, Alexander Simereal, was of Scotch-Irish extraction and was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. After his services in the patriot army he located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and from there came to what was then the wilderness of Jefferson County and selected a home in the forest in Cross Creek Township. Archibald Simeral married Mary Ferguson, also of Scotch ancestry, a (laughter of William Ferguson, who settled in Wayne Township in 1800, coming to this section from Washington County, Pennsylvania. They had a family of children of which there are three survivors: James M.; Margaret C., who is the widow of Robertson Day, and a resident of Fair Play, 0.; and Martha M., who is the widow of Hiram H. Cope, late of Mansfield, and resides at Bloomfield. James M. Simeral was only ten years of age when his father died, but he remained on the home farm and has made agriculture his life business. He has been very 704 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY active in public affairs in Wayne Township and has served for a long time in offices to which his fellow citizens have elected him, in this very convincing way showing the esteem and confidence in which he is held. For sixteen years he was not only a member of the school board of the township, but was its president. For six years he served as a trustee of Wayne Township, for eight consecutive years was assessor of Wayne Precinct, and in 1900 was township appraiser. His brother, the late William F. Simeral, served several terms as auditor of Jefferson County. On September 28, 1865, Mr. Simeral was married to Miss Nancy Gilkison, who was born in Wayne Township, a daughter of William B. Gilkison, one of the early settlers, and four children were born to this union : Blanche, who is the wife of William C. Wolfe, of Smithfield; William B., of Wayne Township ; and Grace M. and James G. Blaine, both of Wayne Township. Mr. Simeral and family are members of the Presbyterian Church at Bloomfield. He has always been a loyal Republican. During the Civil War he served in the 100-day service and at its close was honorably discharged, and as long as the G. A. R. post was maintained at Union port he was an active member of it. EMMETT R. GIESEY, physician and surgeon, at Toronto, O., with offices on the corner of Daniels and Finlay Streets, has been engaged in practice in this place since 1891 and has high standing here, both professionally and personally. He was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio, August 12, 1858, and is a son of Barnhardt and Julia A. (Ruble) Giesey, both of whom were born in Germany. Dr. Giesey is a self-made man and from the age of twelve years, when he left home, has depended on his own resources. Determined to secure a good education, he set about acquiring the means in the most practical way, working on farms until he had accumulated enough capital to enable him to carry out his plans. He alternated farm work with school teaching for some six years and was a student in several colleges, including Hopedale, Franklin and Scio, and then turned his mind toward a medical education. After preparatory reading under Dr. J. M. Wilson, of Harrisville, O., he entered medical college and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., in the class of 1885. He came immediately to Jefferson County and located first in the western part, at Annapolis, where he remained until the spring of 1891, when he came to Toronto. He enjoys a large and substantial practice at this place. He is a member of the Jefferson County and the State Medical Associations. In addition to being recognized as able and skillful in his profession, Dr. Giesey has more than a local reputation as a writer and poet. His " Stalwart Auver" has been copied far and wide, an indication that the sentiment embodied in it touches the right chord. Dr. Giesey married Miss Martha B. Ellis, who was born at East Springfield, Jefferson County, and is a daughter of the late William Ellis, who was one of the county's prominent men. Dr. and Mrs. Giesey have one child, Mildred E. The family attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is identified with the Masons and has taken all the degrees up to Knight Templar and is past master of Toronto Lodge, No. 583, F. & A. M. JOHN H. BEEM, one of Mt. Pleasant Township's substantial and self-made men, resides on his well c, ultivated farm of 104 acres, which he purchased in 1899. He was born near St. Clairsville, Belmont County. O., April 14, 1862, and is a son of Washington and Amanda (Booker) Beem. Washington Beem is a resident of Belmont County, where he was born in 1823, and his life has been spent amidst his early surroundings. He married Amanda Booker, who was born at Louisville, Ky., and taken by her parents to Belmont County, where her death occurred in 1909, at the age of seventy-six years. To Wash- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 707 ington Beem and wife were born two sons and five daughters : Julia, who is the wife of John Paseo, who lives one mile from Mt.. Pleasant in Jefferson. County; Maggie, who is the wife of William Patterson, of Belmont County; Minnie, who is the wife of Harvey Tunk, of Mt. Pleasant who is the wife of Commodore Wilkes, and takes care of her aged father; Amanda, who died when aged fourteen years ; Joseph, farmer in Belmont County, .who married Elizabeth Radcliff ; and John H., of Mt. Pleasant Township. John H. Beem attended the common schools near his home in Belmont County and ever since boyhood has been engaged in farm work. When he first came to Jefferson County he rented a farm on Scott's Ridge, where he remained for five years, and then moved to the Radcliff farm, now owned by Charles Gerke, and operated it for three years. He also lived some time on the Samuel Tomlinson farm. In 1899 he purchased his present farm in Mt. Pleasant Township and has made it a very valuable property. He carries on general farming and stock raising and the thoroughness of his methods are shown in his plentiful crops and his herds and flocks. Mr. Beem married Miss Elizabeth Zeller, of Jefferson County, and they have three children: Ethel, a young lady of twenty-one; Ella, who is eighteen, and Catherine M., eleven years old, all Modest, well informed and capable, fit for any society or for any demands that life may make upon them. Mr. Beem, his wife and the two older. daughters are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Democrat. For a number of years he has been identified with the local grange, which numbers as members the most intelligent class of farmers in every community. WILLIAM B. MARTIN, a well qualified man for the position he fills as chief of the fire department of the city of Steubenville, 0., came to this place in 1872 and has been identified with its interests ever since. He was born at Sistersville, W. Va., in 1853, and was reared there and attended the public schools. Chief Martin was about nineteen years of age when he reached Steubenville in search of employment, which he found in the key factory. From there he subsequently entered the rolling Mills, where he worked for six years, and then received his first appointment as a member of the fire department, of which he was appointed chief, on February 17, 1891. His service as such has been continuous for nineteen years, and in point of time he is the oldest chief in the state of Ohio. He has had many serious conflagrations to contend with, and has seen the development of the old fife apparatus into the modern equipment which, under proper management, can be made so serviceable in times of great fire danger, in protecting property and saving .life. In 1877 Mr. Martin was married to Miss Jennie Patton, and they have four children : J. W., who resides at Steubenville ; E. M., who is an inspector attached to the city engineer's office ; Kate, who is the wife of Vernon Smallwood, of Steubenville ; and Julia, who resides at home. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Christian Church at Steubenville, in which he has served as treasurer and trustee. JOHN JOHNSTON FULLERTON McCULLOUGH, a highly respected retired farmer, residing on a tract of three acres of land in Steubenville Township, about two miles south of Mingo Junction, 0., owns one of the best farms in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, which comprises 210 acres. Mr. McCullough was born on a farm in Marshall County, West Virginia, December 23, 1840, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Marshall) McCullough. John McCullough was born and reared in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer all through life. In early manhood he went to Washington County, and there subsequently married Rebecca 708 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Marshall, who died in 1845. They had two children: Margaret C., who married John Cook, and John J. F., of Steubenville Township. John McCullough married Esther J. Reed for his second wife, and she survived him. They had four children : Harriet R., who married Henry Gilbert ; Charity Ellen, deceased, who was the wife of Cyrus Swearengen ; Mary, who married William Scott, and James A. With the exception of one year spent in West Virginia, John McCullough lived after marriage until death in 1876 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. John J. F. McCullough resided on the home farm in Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, until he married, in 1870, and then lived two years more in Washington County, after which he moved to West Virginia. He remained there for two years, but found that agricultural conditions were better in Pennsylvania and returned for one year more to Washington County, afterward engaging in farming for six years in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. In 1884 he came to Jefferson County and bought the old Thompson farm of 155 acres in Cross Creek Township, to which he later added fifty-five acres, and there Mr. McCullough engaged in general farming and dairying until 1907, when he retired from active pursuits. He took up his residence in Steubenville Township, where his small farm of three acres gives him opportunity to still have growing things about him and to oversee them without taxing his strength. The larger farm is very capably managed by his sons. On June 30, 1870, Mr. McCullough was married to Miss Esther Margaret Hall, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Reed) Hall, and seven children were born to them, namely : Fullerton M., who married Flora May Tarr and has four children—Beulah M., Margaret E., Mary M. M., and Dora G.; John, who married Lucy Gelgrist and has three children—Eldon G., Rosanna M. and an infant; Charles. C., who died aged nine months ; Samuel C., who married Ruby McCann and has one child, Clarence M.; Nannie May, who married Ralph Farmer and has one child, John Edwin ; Hetty E., who died aged nine weeks ; and Clyde R. Mr. McCullough and sons are Republicans. ISAAC NEWTON MARTIN, a prominent and influential citizen of Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, resides oh a fine farm of eighty acres which he devotes to general farming, stock raising and dairying. He was born in Page County, Virginia, in November, 1838, and is a son of Jarvis and Nancy (Broy) Martin, and a grandson of William Martin. The parents of the subject of this sketch were both born in Virginia, where the father engaged in farming until his death which occurred when Isaac N. was two years of age. He was a Democrat in politics. He and his wife had the following children : William, John, Daniel, Isaac Newton and Jarvis, the only survivor being Isaac Newton. Isaac N. Martin received a public school education, after which he learned the trade of a miller which he followed for a period of eighteen years. He is a veteran of the Civil War, fighting with the Confederacy as a member of Company H, 10th Virginia. He served three years under Captain Young and then left the Southern Army and making his way north gave himself up to the authorities, being held in prison for one month. He then, in 1864, located in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he has made his home continuously since. He owns the farm of eighty acres in conjunction with his wife and it is devoted to general farm, ing. They have a dairy herd of sixteen head and sell their milk in Steubenville. On February 22, 1866, Mr. Martin was united in marriage with Miss Mary Eliza Hardy, a daughter of Abel and Anna Elizabeth Hardy, and a granddaughter of James and Rosanna (Dotie) Hardy. Her father was reared on the place on which she now lives, and her mother came from Pennsylvania. She was one of the following children : Colvin, Violet, Hamilton and Mary AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 709 Eliza (Martin). Mr. and Mrs. Martin became parents of the following : Carrie, wife of Logan Gamble, by whom she has a son, Joseph ; John Thomas, who married Mary Jane Porter, by whom he has three daughters, Margaret Lillian, Ethel May and Dorothy Fay ; Lunetta, deceased wife of John Rouse, by whom she had two sons and a daughter, Charles, Mary Matilda and John; and Emma, who is the wife of William Sosebee. Mr. Martin is a Democrat in politics, and has served some years as school director. Fraternally, he is a member of New Alexandria Lodge, No. 590, I. O. O. F. Religiously, they are members of Long's M. E. Church. HARRY ALVA RISHER, president of the Mingo Junction Board of Trade, a notary public, dealer in insurance and a real estate broker, is one of the representative citizens of the place and has been a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio, for the past forty years. He was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, just across the Ohio River from Steubenville, December 5, 1862, and is a son of John W. and Mary (McCord) Risher. John W. Risher was born at Steubenville, Ohio, March 20, 1846, and was one of a family of ten children born to Frederick Risher and wife. Frederick Risher was born in 1800 and was quite small when his parents settled in what was then the village of Steubenville. In manhood he became identified with the lumbering interests of Jefferson County and owned a sawmill where now stand the La Belle Iron Works. In later life he was a local Methodist preacher. His death occurred at Steubenville at the age of ninety-two years. John W., his second son, had been early identified with him in the lumber business, but later bought a saw-mill in Brooke County, West Virginia, to which place he moved his family, and they lived there for seven years, settling later at Mingo Junction, where he died in November, 1897. On July 26, 1860, he married Mary McCord, who survives. They had the following children : Robert, Harry Alva, George and Irene, twins, William, Margaret, Grace, Charles and Lottie. Of these, Harry Alva, George, Irene, William and Grace survive, the last named being the wife of Robert Smith. Harry A. Risher was seven years old when his parents moved back to Steubenville from West Virginia, and in that city he attended school and was twenty years of age when he accompanied his father to Mingo Junction and for several years afterward worked in the lumber business for him. In 1888 he went into business for himself, purchasing the plant of the Hodkinson Lumber Company, at Mingo Junction, which he operated until August, 1907, when he sold to George E. and William Risher, after which he traveled for a time through the South. He then returned, still having large business interests to look after and still continues to deal in lumber at wholesale, while his insurance agencies require a considerable amount of his time and attention. He represents :.the Hanover Fire Insurance Company ; the Penn Fire Insurance ; the Queen Fire Insurance ; the Northern ; the Western ; the Fidelity and Casualty Company ; and the North American Accident and Health Company. He has long been one of Mingo Junction's most progressive and useful citizens. He was one of the organizers of the Board of Trade of which he is president. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Risher was married June 7, 1887, to Miss Estella C. Dean, a daughter of William Dean, who was the founder of Mingo Junction. They have two sons : Robert, who is a graduate of the Mingo high school, is connected with the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company ; and William Dean, who is a student in the high school. The family resides in a comfortable and attractive residence on Clifton Avenue, Mingo Junction. Mr. Risher and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity. belonging to Blue Lodge No. 45, F. & A. M.; Union Chapter, No. 15, R. A. M., at 710 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Steubenville, and Steubenville Commandery, No. 4, of which he was past eminent commander in 1899. W. R. JOHNSON, secretary and treasure of the Mosel-Johnson Company, wholesale grocers, at Steubenville, O., is a member of an old Jefferson County family. He was born at Steubenville, in 1867, and is a son of Thomas Johnson. W. R. Johnson was educated in the Steubenville schools and the University of Michigan, spending three years in that institution at Ann Arbor. When he returned he went into the drug business with his father until the latter sold out, when he became connected with Armour & Company and for eighteen years was with them as superintendent and auditor. In November, 1908, Mr. Johnson entered into his present business connection, the firm of Mosel-Johnson Company being organized and incorporated, with J. H. Mosel as president, R. M. Castner as vice president, and \V. R. ,Johnson as secretary and treasurer. This is a large concern, keeping six traveling men on the road visiting every section, the trade being entirely wholesale. The business location is a, two-story anti basement structure, with dimensions of 50 by 168 feet, the stock carried being the best attainable and covering luxuries as well as stapies. On January 31, 1895, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Anna Lindsey, a daughter a John Lindsey. Mr. Johnson has taken eighteen degrees in Masonry and belongs also to the Elks. he is a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce and to the Steubenville Country Club. GEORGE E. SCOTT, whose highly cultivated farm of 123 acres is situated in Mt. Pleasant Township, is recognized as one of the most practical and progressive men in southern Ohio in matters pertaining to agriculture and dairying. He was born in this township January 1.1, 1854, and is a son of john and Elizabeth (Evans) Scott. John Scott was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in October, 1828, a son of Israel and a grandson of Jonathan Scott. Coming to Jefferson County in early manhood to visit an uncle he remained here and later married Elizabeth Evans, who was born in this county, a daughter of George I. and Sarah Evans, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, stock. John Scott died in 1876, his widow surviving him until October, 1886. Their family consisted of the following children: George; Edith L.; Sarah G., who died unmarried; Charles F. who lives at Mt. Pleasant; Mary E.; F., S., who is the wife of Arthur Evans, of Mt. Pleasant Township; Walter A., who is a successful man of business engaged in the manufacture of automobile tires (married a lady of Chester County, Pennsylvania) ; J. M., who is a dentist located at Mt. Pleasant; and Amy J., who is the wife of Heber Benton, a large cotton planter in North Carolina. George E. Scott taught school for several years after completing the high school course at Mt. Pleasant, the death of his father having prevented his carrying out plans for a higher educational course. For thirty-one years he has resided on his present farm engaging in general farming and dairying together with raising registered Jersey cattle, an enterprise in which he has been successfully engaged for more than twenty years. He devotes a part of his attention to raising grain and seed potatoes. He has always been a man of progressive ideas and a continuous student. 'For the past two years he has been chief Ohio dairy and food inspector under State Dairy Commissioner R. W. Dunlap and for eighteen years has been engaged in institute work, probably for a longer period than airy other man in the state. He is a member of the board of the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster. He was the organizer and for twenty-five years has been secretary of the Farmers' Institute of Southern Jefferson County. an organization that secures the best talent in the state to give lectures on agricultural subjects. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 711 On September 12, 1878, Mr. Scott was married to Miss Emma Catherine Pettit, born September 17, 1859, in Columbiana County, Ohio, a daughter of Milton R. and Sarah (Ladd) Pettit. Her father also was born in Columbiana County and her mother in Virginia. They came from Hanover to Jefferson County when Mrs. Scott was six months old. The father was born in 1822 and died in 1892, and the mother died May 21, 1895, at the age of sixty-four years. By a previous marriage Mr. Pettit had six children but of his second union only two were born, Mrs. Scott and a son who died in infancy. She is a graduate of the Mt. Pleasant high school. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Scott, namely : Edith Clare, who is the wife of Lyman E. Bundy, of near Co- lumbus, and the mother of one son, George Edmund; Sara Elma, who for five years was a teacher in the public schools and is taking a Normal course at Athens College and Charles Howard, who is a student. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are members of the Society of Friends at Mt. Pleasant. ROBERT BROOKS JORDAN, proprietor of the Center Meat Market at Mingo Junction, 0., where he has practically been a lifelong resident, was born November 6, 1884, in Wheeling, W. Va., and is a son of D. E. and Mary (Brooks) Jordan. D. E. Jordan was born and reared in Pittsburgh, Pa., but subsequently removed to Wheeling, W. Va., where he married Mary Brooks, who died in Mingo Junction about 1.891, the family having located there in 1886. D. E. Jordan worked in the mills at Mingo Junction and is still a resident of the place. Four children were born to D. E. Jordan and wife, two sons and two daughters, all of whom are deceased except our subject. Robert B. Jordan was but two years old when his parents came to Mingo Junction, where he has lived continuously since. Early in life he began learning the butcher's trade with McKee Brothers, with whom he remained for four years. He then spent four years in the employ of Armstrong Brothers, whom he bought out May 30, 1906, and has since carried on a successful business', his shop being located on Commercial Street. Mr. Jordan was married February 21, 1906, to Miss Lillian Ferguson, who is a daughter of Thomas and Agnes Ferguson, of Steubenville, 0., and they have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan reside on North Hill Street. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Jordan is a Republican. He belongs to the order of I. 0. 0. F., of Mingo, of which lodge he is a past officer. A. F. McCOY, vice president of the River Sand Company and a representative business citizen of Steubenville, O., was born in this city in 1858, and is a son of Samuel B. McCoy, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Samuel B. McCoy was not yet twenty-one years of age when he came to Steubenville. In early manhood he was in the river trade but later was connected for many years with the Means foundry. In politics he was a Democrat and was a well known citizen. A. F. McCoy was reared at Steubenville and was educated in the common schools and the old well remembered academy. He went to work on a river steamboat with Captain Wintringer, became a competent engineer and continued in that capacity on different boats until 1897, when, with others, he bought the T. M. Boyer and continued on that until it was sunk by the breaking up of the ice in the river, on January 21, 1903. Since then he has been interested in the present enterprise, the company handling river sand and gravel and operating dredges and barges. In 1884 Mr. McCoy was married to Miss Dora E. Quingland, and they have one son, Earl Q., who is a freight clerk in the offices of the Pan Handle Railroad. Earl Q. McCoy is a 32nd degree Mason and Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the Knights of Pythias at Steubenville. 712 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY JOHN BOYD, who resides on his well improved farm of 120 acres situated in Ross Township, Jefferson County, is an honored survivor of the great Civil War and a comrade of Harry Hale Post, No. 427, G. A. R., at Richmond, 0. Mr. Boyd was born March 10. 1844, at Amsterdam, 0., and is a son of David and Barbara Ann (Lyman) Boyd. David Boyd was born in Hancock County, Pennsylvania, and during the greater part of his life he followed the tailor's trade at Amsterdam. He married Barbara Ann Lyman and they had a family of thirteen children, of whom eight are now living. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and at death they were buried in the Presbyterian cemetery at that place. John Boyd attended school at Amsterdam and acquired a good education. He then learned the blacksmith's trade with David Stein, of Amsterdam and had almost completed his apprenticeship when the War of the Rebellion broke out and he enlisted as a soldier. He became a member of Company 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Captain Kemper, of Stark County, Ohio, and for three long years he remained in the service, being with the 4th Corps, Army of the Cumberland. During all this time he performed every soldierly duty with courage and was fortunate enough to escape injury, but was once made a prisoner. he was recaptured. however, two hours afterward and never again fell into the hands of the enemy. He was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tenn., in ;Tune, 1865, and returned to Amsterdam. Mr. Boyd was employed for one year as a blacksmith with H. Burk, at Steubenville. O.. and then built his own shop at Mooretown, in Ross Township, where he remained for eighteen years. Ile then retired from blacksmithing and moved On his present farm where he has made many improvements and has done considerable building. In November. 1866. Mr. Boyd was married first to Miss Margaret M. Hess, a daughter of David Hess. and they have seven children, namely: William, of Ross Township; Charles, a resident of Carroll County, Ohio; Mary (Wallace), of Carroll. County; Katie (McMasters), of Bergholz, 0.; Edward, a physician residing in Ludlow, Ill.; Maurice, residing at home; and Emma (Shilling), residing at Somerset. Tile mother of these children died and was buried at Simon's Ridge, near Kilgore, 0: Mr. Boyd married for his second wife, in October, 1884, Miss Jennie Casey, a daughter of John and Sarah Ann (Dennis) Casey, old residents of Mooretown. They have one son, John Raymond, who remains at home. Mr. Boyd is not an active politician but he is a good citizen and lends his influence to all that promises to be of benefit to his neighborhood. He votes with the Republican party. CYRUS M. YOCUM, lumber dealer and contractor, at at No. 1159 Stanton Boulevard, Steubenville, 0., is one of the representative business men of this city. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1852, and is a son of David Yocum, one of the early settlers and a farmer in Jefferson County for a number of years. Cyrus M. Yocum remained on the home farm until eighteen years of age, and then learned the carpenter trade at Steubenville and worked as a carpenter for about seven years, after which he went into roofing and contracting, winch he continued until 1901, when he turned the roofing interest over to his soil. Floyd Yocum, who still continues it. Mr. Yocum then gave more attention to other lines and has successfully carried on a large lumber, together with a. general contracting business. ever since. he takes an active interest in local politics and his public spirit. as a citizen and his stability as a man have frequently caused his election to responsible civic offices. Ile has served usefully in the city council and was a member of the board of public works when the new water works system was installed, a most desirable public utility, with a plant not excelled in any other city in eastern Ohio. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 715 In 1872 Mr. Yocum was married to Miss Margaret Culp, of Jefferson County, and to them were born the following children: Floyd M.; Mary, who married John Moreland, of Jefferson County; Daisy, who married Percy H. Harris, of Steubenville; Birdie, who married Rev. E. D. Salkeld, a minister of the Christian Church, located at Lakewood, 0.; Cyrus M., who is pastor of the Central Christian Church at Cincinnati; Albert B., who resides at Steubenville ; Margaret, who married Harry S. Welch, of Steubenville ; and Gilbert, Elsie and Florence, who reside at home. Mr. and Mrs. Yocum are members of the Steubenville Christian Church, of which he is a trustee. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum and to the Odd Fellows. HON. JOHN H. S. TRAINER, formerly a member of the law firm of Trainer & Son, at Steubenville, O., was a prominent attorney of this city for many years, devoting a long life to his profession without turning his brilliant gifts in any other direction. He was born in Lancaster, Pa., January 22, 1826, and died at Steubenville, May 11, 1901. John H. S. Trainer was ten years old when his parents settled on farm in Springfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and until he was seventeen years old he assisted his father and secured what educational training be could in the district schools. This meager knowledge did not satisfy him and he finally prevailed on his lather to send him to In academy at New Hagerstown and when he completed his course there he commenced to teach school. He is remembered as an efficient teacher through Harrison County, where his energies in the educational field were expended for two years, but this profession was merely a means to another end, his decision having already been made in favor of the law. It is recalled of him that he made his law books his inseparable companions and the director of his reading, Hon. T. L. Jewett, had no more apt or interested a student. He was admitted to the liar at Steubenville, April 7, 1848. Close attention to his studies together with his performance of duties as a teacher, for so long a period, had somewhat undermined his health, and after six months of practice, with Judge Stewart, he was obliged to take a season of rest. Later, for two years he was associated with Judge Belden, at Canton, and then opened an office of his own at Wellsville, where he continued until he came to Steubenville, in 1853. Here he was subsequently associated with the leading men of the legal profession, including up to November 1, 1868, such prominent attorneys as: Hon. George W. Mason, Robert Martin, J. F. Daton and Milton Taggart. In 1873 he entered into partnership with Hon. John M. Cook, and this connection continued until Mr. Cook retired, in 1878, in order to assume the duties of prosecuting attorney. Mr. Trainer in the following year admitted one of his students, James F. Bigger, to partnership, and the firm of Trainer & Bigger continued until 1884, when Mr. Trainer formed a partnership with his son, John W. Trainer, the firm name becoming Trainer & Son, which remained during the rest of the life of the senior member. In his death it was generally recognized that the Steubenville bar had lost one of its ablest members, one possessed of all those qualities which go to the making of a successful lawyer. He cherished no political aspirations, his profession and his family embodying all for which he had enthusiasm. Mr. Trainer was survived by a widow, who died January 5, 1910, a daughter and two sons—Mary C.. who resides with her mother in the beautiful family home which is situated at No. 627 North Fourth Street, Steubenville ; William M., who is engaged in an insurance and real estate business, and is also clerk of the city council of Steubenville; and John W., who is an assistant attorney in the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. SHAFFER N. HOLSTEIN, vice president of the First National Bank of Mingo 716 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Junction, O., and prominently identified with many other important interests here, is a roller in the La Belle steel mill at this place, and has been a resident of Jefferson County since January, 1886. He was born at Mendon, Adams County, Ill., December 28, 1864, the only son of David and Sarah M. (Hayes) (Shaffer) Holstein. David Holstein died in 1864, six weeks prior to the birth of his son, Shaffer N. Ile had been a resident of Illinois when he was married to Mrs. Sarah M. (I (Hayes) Shaffer, widow of James Shaffer, to whom she had been previously married in Pennsylvania. James Shaffer died in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer had four children: Amanda, Elizabeth, Melissa and Henrietta, 'Elizabeth being the only survivor. After the death of her second husband. Mrs. Holstein returned to -Westmoreland County Pennsylvania, where her people were among the leading and substantial residents, and there her death took place in 1888, when aged sixty-four years and four months. Shaffer N. Holstein was a babe of eight weeks when his mother returned to her native state, and he grew to manhood in the village called Coketown, in Westmoreland County, where be attended the public schools and later the Bakersville Academy. He studied hard and was rewarded by securing a teacher's certificate, although he did not make use of it. While growing up he worked in a brickyard, around a coal bank and also on a farm. In 1884 he went to Benwood, W. Va., and secured employment in the Riverside Steel Works, where he remained for two years, and then came to Mingo Junction, O., and entered the steel mill, in which he continued for eighteen years, working from the bottom up to be superintendent. In July, 1904, he went to Canton, O., called there to start a mill for the United States Steel Company, and remained there one year, and then returned to Mingo Junction and became a roller in the La Belle mill.. Mr. Holstein is a successful self-made man, and his life history must be interesting to those who believe in the almost certain rewarding of continued effort, backed by the qualities that are the results of careful living and business integrity. Since locating permanently at Mingo Junction, Mr. Holstein has been a most active and interested citizen. He is 'a zealous Republican and a prominent party man in the county, having served seven years on the Central Committee and being secretary and treasurer of the Republican County Committee. During 1895-6 he served as at member of the Mingo Council and for eight years has been a member of the school board. He has mercantile and banking interests. Since 1904 he has been connected with the First National Bank and formerly was a stockholder and a member of the hoard of directors of the Steubenville Building and Loan Company. In partnership with Mr. Wagner and under the firm name of Wagner & Holstein, he conducts the only exclusive shoe store at Mingo Junction, the senior partner, W. J. Wagner being manager. Its location is on Commercial Street, opposite the postoffice. On January 12, 1887, Mr. Holstein was married to Miss Frances N. Roe, a daughter of Scott Roe, an old and respected citizen of Mingo, and they have five children, namely: Haves M., Stewart R., Mildred G., Donald S. and Mary Louise. The family home is an attractive residence situated on Steuben Street, Mingo Junction. Mr. Holstein is a Knight Templar Mason and is identified with the branches at Steubenville, and with the Odd Fellows at Mingo Junction. WILLIAM GIBSON, whose excellent farm of fifty-five acres is situated in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, was born in England, November 1, 1852, a member of a respected old family of Northumberland. His parents were Thomas and Catherine (Hope) Gibson. Thomas Gibson followed farming all his life and neither he nor his wife ever came to America. They had the following chil- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 711 dren: Elenore, who married James Dunn, and lives in England; Mary, who married John Laing, and lives in England ; Jane, who married William Robeson, and also lives in England; and William, who was the only member of the family to leave his native land. His grandparents, Thomas and Elizabeth Gibson and William and Martha Hope, also spent their lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. William Gibson attended school in his own neighborhood until he was fourteen years of age and then helped on the home farm for four years, after which he became a coal miner and followed that life for seventeen years in the mines of England. In 1887 he came to the United States and located at Monongahela, Pa., in the center of the coal district, and for nineteen more years he engaged in coal mining. By that time Mr. Gibson had become practically independent and then came to Jefferson County and purchased his present farm from Thomas Thompson, of New Alexandria. Mr. Gibson immediately started to improve the place, exercising both taste and good judgment in the setting out of trees, and converting a part of the land into orchards. He has two houses on the place and resides in one of these and rents the other to a tenant. He devotes himself to general agriculture and finds in the tilling of his land pleasure and profit. Mr. Gibson was married in May, 1883, to Miss Mary Johnston, a daughter of John and Margaret (Henderson) Johnston. Mrs. Gibson was born, reared and married in England, where her parents spent their lives. She has three brothers : John and Arthur, the eldest being an Episcopal clergyman, now rector of a church at Atlanta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have two children : Margaret C. and Dorothy M. Mr. Gibson and family belong to the Episcopal Church in Cross Creek Township. He votes with the Republican party. WILLIAM M. HELMS, a leading business citizen of Steubenville, identified with many important interests, is also a survivor of the great Civil War. Ile was born in Steubenville, 0., in 1835, long before it had attained its present commercial importance, but when it already had a large trade on account of its fine situation. The father of Mr. Helms was L. W. Helms, long identified with railroad affairs in this section. After his school days were over, William M. Helms learned the blacksmith's and carriage and wagon making trades and worked at them for forty-eight years with but little interruption. In 1864 he joined the Union army, enlisting in Company B, 157th Regiment, Ohio National Guard. He is a member of E. M. Stanton Post, No. 166, G. A. R. Mr. Helms has an interest in different enterprises and is officially identified with others. He is vice-president of the G. A. Gescheider Company, vice-president of the Steubenville Building and Loan Company and is a stockholder in the Steubenville Hardware Company. Mr. Helms was married in 1857 to Miss Nancy J. Davidson, who died in 1906; survived by two sons, Robert Davidson and Thomas C. Mr. Helms is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church and has served on the board of trustees. For many years 1w has been an Odd Fellow. JAMES McBANE, a representative citizen of Irondale. O., which has been his place of residence for forty-one years, was born in Brush Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 15, 1838, and is a son of Angus and Elizabeth (McKenzie) McBane. Angus McBane was born in Scotland, January 13, 1800, and died at his home in Brush Creek Township, Jefferson County, January 18, 1883. He was the only son and eldest child of a family of seven who accompanied their parents to America in 1817. After living at East Liverpool, 0., for a few ears, the McBanes settled in Brush Creek Township. In 1834 Angus McBane was married to Elizabeth McKenzie and ,fie too died on the Brush Creek 718 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Township farm, a large part of which her husband had secured by patent from the government. They were members of what was known as the old Brick Church, of the Presbyterian faith, and their burial was in the Chestnut Grove cemetery. The following children were born to them : Jeanette, who died when approaching womanhood; Elizabeth, who married James Smith, and resides in Brush Creek Township ; Isabella, deceased, who was the wife of George L. Moore; Marjorie, deceased, who was the wife of Peter Adams ; Margaret, who died when aged two years; Daniel, deceased, who was a farmer in Brush Creek Township ; and James, of Irondale. James McBane obtained his education in the district schools and remained at home engaged in agricultural pursuits until he was thirty years of age. In 1869 he moved to Irondale where he engaged at first in a teaming business and later in the manufacture of brick, and after selling out his brick business he invested in coal lands, on which he opened up a mine and for the past quarter of a century has been in the coal business and he deals also to some extent in real estate. He resides in the .same house which he purchased shortly after coming to Irondale. He has always been affiliated with the Republican party but is a man of decided, views of his own and in politics, as in other things, regulates his actions according to the dictates of his own judgment. In 1867 Mr. McBane was married to Miss Eleanor J. Smith, a daughter of Daniel Smith, of Washington Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, and they have three daughters and one son, namely : Elizabeth Ellen, who lives at home ; Eva, who married Warren Shaft, resides in Colorado, and they have two children ; Jennie, who resides at home ; and Frederick, who is in the mercantile business at Irondale. Frederick McBane married Edith Thomas and they have one child. Mr. and Mrs. McBane are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is one of the elders. The family is one of the most highly respected in the place, quiet, substantial people, good neighbors and ready helpers in benevolent movements. HON. JOHN A. BURCHFIELD, mayor of Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, and a leading member of the Toronto bar, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, August 15, 1853, and is a son of Milton and Margaret (Stewart) Burchfield, both of whom are now deceased. John A. Burchfield was seven years old when his parents moved from New Jefferson, in Jefferson County, to a farm in Salem Township, not far from Fairfield, and there he w as reared: He taught school for seven years prior to entering upon the study of law, but prior to this had taken the classical course in a college at Richmond, 0., where he was graduated in 1876. His law reading was done in the office of Trainer & Cook, well known attorneys at Steubenville, and he was admitted to the bar in 1881. He engaged in the practice of law in that city until 1885, when he came to Toronto and this place has been his home ever since. He has been more or less active in politics for a number of years and is one of the influential Democrats of Jefferson County. In the fall of 1909 he was elected mayor of Toronto, succeeding Hon. E. S. Casey. Mayor Burchfield is an earnest, public spirited citizen and in the administration of municipal affairs he proves these qualities. He is popular with all classes. Mayor Burchfield was married to Miss Ada Gilkison, who was born in Knox Township, Jefferson County, and is a daughter of John Gilkison. They have seven children : Lloyd, Mamie, wife of Charles Stenger ; Ada, wife of Charles Koehnlein ; Ray ; Nellie : Frank ; and William. J. T. THOMPSON, principal of the Steubenville Business College, of Steubenville, 0., has been a resident of this city for fourteen years. He was born at Marion, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 719 Williamson County, Illinois, where he was reared and where members of his family still reside. Professor Thompson attended the public schools and had three years of academic and high school training at Marion, and later attended the Northern Illinois Normal and Dixon Business College at Dixon, Ill., for three years, being graduated in 1896 in the Post-Graduate Commercial Course, Pen, Art and Oratory. When he came to Steubenville in August of that year he found it necessary to build up his college from the very bottom, having no appliances, and but one student asking for instruction. It reflects great credit on Mr. Thompson that within a very short time he had provided ample accommodations for all who wish to profit through his instruction, and that now he has a finely equipped institution with every modern convenience, stock and appliances required in a first-class business college; has four thoroughly competent and experienced instructors and an annual enrollment of over two hundred students. His success is well deserved. His graduates find no difficulty in securing and satisfactorily filling positions of trust and responsibility, and they are the best advertisements Professor Thompson could have. He has devoted the best part Of his life to the building up of this enterprise, and Steubenville takes great pride in it and gives it liberal support. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, and was married last March to Miss Luella S. Hinkle, the only daughter of Mr. C. V. Hinkle, of Toronto, 0. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen and the Red Men, and holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce and Y. M. C. A. For years he has been identified with the National Commercial Teachers' Federation and Private School Managers' Association of the United States. ROBERT MEARS, who was a brother of Thomas Mears and an uncle of Mrs. Robert S. Hill, of Steubenville, was born at Gortanewry House, the fine old Mears family home situated one mile north of Moneymore, County Derry, Ireland, March 17, 1819, and was a son of John and Mary (Brooks) Mears. He came to America in 1839, and lived in Pittsburgh, Pa., for a short time and came to Steubenville in 1840. He joined the Free Masons in Ireland and became a member of the Steubenville Lodge soon after coming here. He was the most successful business man that has ever lived in Steubenville, and was always foremost in anything that favored the growth and advancement of the city. He was a member of the firm of Frazier, Kilgore & Co., afterwards the Jefferson Iron Works, and at one time was in partnership with Mr. McKinney, but later on with his brother, Thomas Mears, under the firm name of R. & T. Mears. The leading characteristic of Robert Mears and the one which, more than all others will cause him to be remembered, was his munificent charity. Was a church to be repaired or built, an entertainment to be given, a fund to be raised for the poor during a specially hard season, his name was always the one that headed the list of contributors. Large, however, as were the amounts thus given, they were as nothing compared to the donations known only to God, the recipient and himself, and of houses let rent free, of barrels of flour, gifts of groceries and clothing and presents of money where such were sorely needed, there is no record. At Christmas, on Thanksgiving Day and other holidays be fed the poor by the hundreds with the best that could be bought. He willed the sum of $10,000 to the city of Steubenville, to be invested under the orders of the city council, the interest of the sum to be distributed to the poor and needy of the city. He also gave the sum of $5,000 to St. Paul's Church, which he attended. He died January 21, 1869, at the residence of his brother, Thomas Mears, No. 720 South Street, Steubenville, and is buried in the Mears family lot in the Union Cemetery. 720 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY So passed one of Steubenville's most noted philanthropists and worthy men. REV. JOHN WRENSHALL, a great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Robert S. Hill, was the founder of Methodism in the city of Pittsburgh, Pa. He was ordained by Bishop Francis Asbury, on Saturday, September 10, 1803, under a tree in the grove surrounding the Hopewell meeting house, Jefferson County, Ohio. This was the first ordination among the Methodists in the Northwestern Territory, now the State of Ohio. On the certificate Bishop Asbury wrote that it was the first ordination in the State of Ohio. After the close of the solemn ceremony he ordered John Wren-shall to open the new Hopewell Meeting House by preaching in it that evening and the newly ordained minister complied. On the day following, Bishop Asbury preached at ten o'clock and then administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper to a great concourse in the open air. Mrs. Hill preserves and treasures a copy of the certificate of ordination given to her kinsman, Rev. John Wrenshall. The original is preserved in the church archives, at Martin's Ferry, O. JAMES GEORGE, mayor of Bergholz, O., and for many years a leading citizen in Brush Creek and Ross Townships, Jefferson County, was born on his father's farm at Mooretown, three miles east of this borough, December 19, 1836, and is a son of Robert and Martha (McLaughlin) George. Hon. Thomas George, the grandfather of Mayor George, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in 1775, became a prominent man in Jefferson County and was elected a common pleas judge in 1816. His children were : Robert, David, John, Thomas H., Alexander, Christiana, Anna, Esther and Sarah. After retiring from public life he resided in an old stone mansion which he built in Ross Township in 1818, and there he died when aged eighty-eight years. The old stone house was one of the most important stations on the Underground Railroad, and Robert George and our subject were important cogs in this system of freeing the slaves. Thomas George was a member of the Covenanter Church in early manhood and later of the Presbyterian bodies. Robert George, father of Mayor George, attended the early schools as opportunity afforded and followed farming until his marriage, when he embarked in a store business at Mooretown. Some years later he bought a farm and later the old homestead and lived on it until his death, June 12, 1887, his burial being in the cemetery attached to the United Presbyterian Church at Mooretown. He was affiliated with the Republican party, but never cared for office. He married Martha McLaughlin, a daughter of James McLaughlin, of Carroll County, Ohio, and they had the following children : Thomas, who was killed in the Civil War, being a member of Company K, Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry; James, subject of this sketch, and John, who is deceased. The mother died in 1890. Both parents were Members of the United Presbyterian Church. James George obtained his education in the country schools and then turned his attention to helping his father on the farm. After his marriage be lived on a farm in Brush Creek Township, but this he later sold, buying one in Ross Township, on which he lived for five years, then removed to the old homestead in Ross Township. This place he improved and here be accumulated about 600 acres' of land. In 1.890 he moved from the old place and retired to Bergholz and the value placed on him by his fellow citizens was very clearly shown by their electing him to the highest office in their gift, in 1908. He formerly had served as a notary public and justice of the peace and for several years was postmaster at Mooretown. On September 15, 1857, Mr. George was married to Miss Mary J. Kirk, a daughter of John Kirk, of Circle Green, Jefferson County, and they have had seven children, as follows : Martha, who died in early AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 723 womanhood; Mary Luella, deceased, who was the wife of Samuel Dorrance (had two children, Marie and William Eugene) ; Thomas, who owns the old homestead in Ross Township, married Anna Dorrance, a daughter of William Dorrance, and has four sons and one daughter—Robert, Jesse K., Martha, James and William ; John E., who married Frances Crabb, a daughter of Mitchell Crabb, and has one daughter, Mary F; Robert William, who married Juanita Walker, and has two daughters and one son, namely, Erma, Meryl and James Walker; D. Bert, who lives in Alliance; and Mitchell, who died when aged four years. Mayor George and family are members of the United Presbyterian Church. WILLIAM ADOLPH TAPPE, one of Mingo Junction's substantial retired business men, was born at Wheeling, W. Va., March 2, 1861, and is a. son of Henry C. and Christina (Hartman) Tappe. The parents of Mr. Tappe were born, reared and married in Germany and in 1853 came to America, settling at Wheeling, W. Va. Henry Tappe died there in 1880, at the age of sixty-eight years but his widow survived until 1907, her death occurring in her ninety-second year. They had six children: Hannah, Henry C., Lewis, George F., Charles H. and William Adolph, all of them having been born in Germany except the last named. Two of the family are deceased: Hannah, who was the wife of Adolph Knoke, and George F. William A. Tappe grew to manhood at Wheeling where he attended the public schools and later took a business course in a commercial college and then entered the general store of Keller & Schreiner, with which he remained connected for seven years in the capacity of clerk. In 1884 he came to Mingo Junction and went to work with the old Junction Iron Company as a clerk and remained with that concern and its 'successors for twenty-three years, resigning in 1907. He had acquired other business interests in the meanwhile and was one-half owner of the S. V. Thompson Real Estate and Insurance Company, of Pittsburgh. In 1909 he sold his interest to Alfred J. Parker. He was also one of the organizers of the old Mingo Building and Loan Association, of which he was treasurer for eleven years, and was also one of the founders of the Mingo Junction Realty Company and served seven years as its secretary. Mr. Tappe owns valuable property at Buffalo and also at Mingo Junction, including his Own handsome residence on Steuben Street. On June 23, 1886, Mr. Tappe was married to Miss Margaret A. Ingler, a daughter of George M. and Emma F. (Garlick) Ingler, of Steubenville, the latter of whom is deceased. Mrs. Ingler was born in England and was brought to America when five years old. George M. Ingler was born at. Steubenville and came to Mingo at an early date and worked in the first furnace put up here. During the gold excitement of 1849, he made two trips to California, walking the whole distance. Mr. and Mrs. Tappe have three children : James A. Garfield, who is a student of theology in Kenyon College, at Gambier, 0.; Helen M. and Margaret Grace. Mr. Tappe and family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Tie gives support to the candidates of the Republican party. BOYLES LEWIS WILDPRET, engineer for the Eastern Ohio Sewer Pipe Company at Irondale, O., has been a resident of Jefferson County during the past eighteen years. He was born in Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio, March. 9, 1878, and is a son of Charles Franklin and Ellen (Riggs) Wildpret. The parents of the subject of this sketch moved from Belmont County to Jefferson County, Ohio, thence to Pennsylvania, but finally returned to Jefferson County, residing at the present time in Toronto, where Charles F. Wildpret is engineer for the Toronto White Ware Pottery. The mother of 724 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Boyles Lewis Wildpret was in maiden life Ellen Riggs. Her union with Mr. Wildpret resulted in the following offspring: William D., who married Anna McKee, resides at Toronto, and is employed as a machinist in the La Belle Iron Works at Steubenville; Boyles L.; Hughes C. who married Sadie Meyers, and is employed in the sheet department of the La. Belle Iron Works; Tuckie, who is the wife of J. R. Gilcrest, who formerly was proprietor of the Toronto Machine' Company and is at present building what is known as the Means Foundry and Machine Company of Toronto ; Mary Estella, who is the wife of James Green, of Brilliant, 0., who is a machinist by trade and in the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company at Mingo Junction; and Daisy Althea, who died at the age of ten months. B. L. Wildpret attended the public schools of Brilliant and \Vest Wheeling until he was fifteen years old, and then for two years was employed in the rolling mill at Brilliant, there learning the trade of engineer. He is also a machinist and has worked at either one or other of his trades from the time he was sixteen years old. He worked for some years as a machinist at the La Belle Iron W orks, and in December, 1909, gave up his position there to accept his present one as engineer for the Eastern Ohio Sewer Pipe Company. He is a capable man and enjoys the confidence of all who know him. He has made material progress in a business way and has real estate interests in Texas. In June, 1900, Mr. Wildpret was united in marriage with Miss Mary McCabe, a daughter of George McCabe, of Jeanette, Pa., and they have four children: Thelma. Ernestine ; Margaret and Marjorie, twins, the latter of whom is deceased; and Ruth, who also is deceased. The family attends the Irondale M. E. Church. Mr. Wildpret is a Socialist in politics. In fraternal affiliation he is a member of Toronto Lodge, No. 583, F. & A. M., at Toronto, 0., and is also a member of Local No. 2, United Clay Workers of America. WILLIAM E. BEVAN, a representative citizen of Island Creek Township and a candidate for county commissioner, conducts a large wholesale and retail ice business at Alikanna. He was born at Newport, England, in 1875, and was brought to America when eight years of age. In 1883 Mr. Bevan went to Youngstown, O., with his parents and attended school there. In 1886 he came to Jefferson County and for five years was employed in the works of the Riverside Iron Company, and for five years more was with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, after which he established his present business at Alikanna. He has been a resident of Island Creek Township for a number of years and has proved a worthy and useful citizen, having served acceptably as township trustee and in other offices. He is a Republican in his political views. In 1897 Mr. Bevan was married to Miss Anna L. Yocum, who died on May 27, 1910, having been the mother of three children, Esther, John and Alma. Mr. Bevan is a member of Steubenville Lodge, No. 1, Knights of Pythias. JAMES DAILY, whose excellent farm of 125 acres lies in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he is a well known and respected citizen, is a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, born in March, 1841, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Simonson) (Meyers) Daily. The mother of Mr. Daily was a daughter of Henry and Martha Simonson and she was married (first) to Jacob Meyers. He was a miller by trade and lost his life in an accident in his mill. He left six children : Susan, Martha, Rachel, Eliza, George and Jacob. Later, Mrs. Meyers was married to James Daily, who was a basketmaker by trade. It was his custom to leave home to sell his wares and from one journey he never returned and the family it trace of him. Mr. and Mrs. Daily had three sons : James, David and John. Of these, David Daily died while serving as a soldier in the Civil War. The mother of