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lived in the vicinity of Cadiz. October 27, 1842, he married Emeline Lavely, who was born in Maryland April 30, 1822, daughter of John and Annie (Gorsuch) Lavely. The children of John N. Haverfield and wife were Henry L. and Harriet .A., both now deceased, William K., a resident of Denver, Colorado, and Emmett Nathan. The family in this generation were Methodists, and staunch whigs and republicans in politics.
Emmett Nathan Haverfield was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, but in 1861 his parents moved to Stock Township, where his father farmed until his death in 1894. The mother died in 1913. After getting his district school education in Stock Township Emmett Nathan Haverfield took up the responsibilities of farming there, but in 1887 left the farm for Cadiz, where from that year until 1908 he was in the publishing business. His career as a banker began with the Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Cadiz, subsequently consolidated with the First National Bank of Cadiz, of which institution he is president. Mr. Haverfield also owns the old homestead of 223 acres, and his interests in farming have never lapsed. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Cadiz.
Mr. Haverfield married Mary A. Finnical, daughter of Robert and Sarah Margaret (Hines) Finnical. His two children are daughters, Eva Deane and Anna Fay. The former is the wife of Howard J. Smith, an employe of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company at Coplumbus, Ohio. Anna Pay died in January, 1919, was the wife of Alfred C. Long and is survived by a son, Emmett Edwin Long.
SAMUEL ROSS. The late Samuel Robb was one of the best known and successful citizens of Harrison County, and when he died he left a name honored and respected by the community. For, while he was successful in business far beyond the ordinary degree, the methods he used in business affairs were always above reproach.
He was a native of Ireland, but of English descent, his ancestors having left England and settled in 1reland at the time of the religious revolution in England during the reign of Charles V. The parents of Samuel Robb, Joseph and Mary (Porter) Robb. were born in Ireland. The Porter family was of Irish descent.
Joseph Robb came to America in 1851, leaving his family in Ireland to follow later. In that same year he settled in Harrison County. The following year his wife and children, with the exception of his three sons. Robert, Samuel and James, the latter at that time about three years of age, came over and joined the father. In 1859 the above three sons joined the family in Harrison County. Five days after they arrived their father was accidentally killed. A horse, one of a team he was handling, became entangled in the harness, fell on Mr. Robb, crushing out his life. His widow survived him until 1891. Twelve children were born to them.
Samuel Robb, third son of his parents, was born at Mathamacregon, County Tyrone, Ireland, on October 29, 1842. He was seventeen years of age when he came to America. In Ireland he attended the common schools, and for two years after coming to Harrison County he attended the Craig School near Cadiz.
The first two years of his business life were spent in the employ of others. He then engaged in buying and shipping sheep in partnership with John Gory. After the death of his partner Mr. Robb handled sheep, cattle and hogs for a number of years. Later he began dealing in blooded horses. He was the first man to bring thoroughbred Kentucky hors's into Harrison County. One of his famous Kentucky horses was "Gold King," a magnificent stallion which became noted among the horses in this section and won many prizes at county fairs. Mr. Robb's home farm in Green Township, comprising 160 acres, was well improved, and is still owned by his family. Several years ago both gas and oil were found on his farm. He leased the land to operators who sunk a number of wells, nine of which were producers. The royalties received on gas and oil by Mr. Robb reached a large sum. On the farm also is found a nine-foot vein of coal and large quantities of fine timber. At one time he owned a farm in Marshall County, Iowa, which he sold, and his estate still owns land in Missouri, Oklahoma and Florida. in which he invested. He was a director in the First National Bank of Hopedale, Ohio, and of the Fourth National Bank of Cadiz, and a stockholder in the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, the Scio Gas Company, the Christian & Todd County Telephone Company of Kentucky and in other enterprises.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was affiliated with the democratic party, but never sought public office. He was progressive, broad-minded, a good citizen and a most excellent man and neighbor and a kind husband and father. He died on his home farm on April 6, 1918.,
On July 20, 1880, Mr. Robb was united in marriage with Miss Mollie C. Bishop. She was born in Licking County, Ohio, on December 25. 1854. the daughter of Walter J. and Catherine (Emswiler) Bishop.
The Bishop family is of English descent and has been in Virginia for several generations. Samuel Bishop, grandfather of Mrs. Robb, was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, and became a pioneer of Licking County, Ohio, he having settled on the old National road, fifteen miles east from Columbus at an early date. He married Nancy Summers, of Scotch descent, who was also a native of Virginia. Their children were: John. Walter J., Mary, Samuel, Harriet, Rebecca and Eli.
Walter J. Bishop was born in Hampshire County, Virginia. He was a boy of seven years when his parents removed to Ohio. He became a successful farmer and well known citizen of Licking County. His wife, Catherine, was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, the daughter of George and Fannie (Corbin) Enswiler. The Emswiler family is of English descent. Their American ancestors came over from England in 1622 and settled near Ford's Mill in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. At least
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one Emswiler served in the American Revolution. The Emswilers were slave holders; the Bishops were abolitionists. George Emswiler settled in Licking County, Ohio, at about the same period as did the Bishops.
The children of Walter J. and. Catherine (Emswiler) Bishop were: Eliza J., born in 1843, married Philip Longstreth and died in August, 1905, leaving one son, Walter; Malissa Frances, born November 13, 1845, died at the age of fifteen years; John H., born in 1848, now resides in Oklahoma ; Mollie C., Mrs. Robb; and Sarah Emily, born in 1856, died in 1871.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Robb are as follows: (1) Flora Catharin, born July 28, 1881, married Ross E. Mattern, of Harrison County, and they have one daughter, Mary M.; (2) Mary Bishop, born August 11, 1886, married Percy Keene, of Roanoke, Virginia, now of Columbus, and they have two sons, Samuel E. and Percey M.; (3) Irene Leumas, born on March 19, 1891, married Oscar Peters, of Roanoke, Virginia, now of Columbus, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Catharin.
HARRY E. PHILLIPS was for a long term of years identified with railway service, and his experience has included also association with mercantile business, but in farm industry In North Township, Harrison County, he has achieved his maximum success. He is a representative of a well known pioneer family of Coshocton County, Ohio, where he was born August 17, 1862, and it is interesting to record also that one of his ancestors on the paternal side was John Hart, who was one of the signers of that important document, the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Phillips is a son of Elijah H. and Melvina A. (McMath) Phillips, the former of whom was born in Coshocton County, this state, and the latter in Harrison County, she having been a daughter of James and Almira McMath and her father having been one of the early merchants at Deersville, Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. James McMath became the parents of seven children—William, Jesse, H. Adolphus (the first mayor of Cadiz, Ohio), Gideon, Almira, Lorinda and Melvina. Elijah H. Phillips became a representative merchant at Linton Mills, Coshocton County, and there he died in 1864, when his son Harry E., of this sketch, was a child of about two years. Just prior to his death Mr. Phillips had been actively engaged in raising and organizing a company for service in the Civil war. Of the two children Harry E. was the firstborn, and the second child, Rosa Lee, died in infancy. After the death of her husband Mrs. Phillips and her little son became inmates of the home of her father, who was at that time a resident of West Lafayette, Coshocton County. In 1889 she returned to Dennison, and later she married Henry Hillier, of Tappan. She died in Dennison, Ohio, in 1911.
Harry E. Phillips gained his early education in the public schools of West Lafayette, Coshocton County, and as a young man of eighteen years he found employment in the roundhouse of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Dennison, Ohio. About eighteen months later he was advanced to the position of locomotive fireman, and In this department of service he continued five years. By reason of his impaired health he was then transferred to the position of brakeman on passenger trains, and later he was made baggage master in the train service. He continued in this department until 1904, when he established his residence upon his present farm, but eighteen months later he engaged in the general merchandise business at Conotton, Harrison County. This enterprise engaged his attention about three years, after which he was similarly engaged in the Village of Scio, this county, about one and one-half years. His wife's death occurred at this time, and he then sold his business and went to the City of Cleveland, where he re-entered railroad service and remained two years in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He then returned to his present farm, which has since continued the stage of his successful activities as a progressive agriculturist and stock-grower and which comprises 170 acres. He is a republican in political allegiance, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which she was reared.
The year 1894 recorded the marriage of Mr. Phillips to Miss Martha E. Borland, daughter of David Borland, and her death occurred June 22, 1912, no children having been born to this union. On the 22d of December, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Phillips to Miss Leone Smith, daughter of Stephen and Margaret (Sharp) Smith, residents of Bloomfield, Jefferson County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have no children.
ANDREW J. MORRIS is associated with his sons in the ownership and operation of a fine farm estate of 202 acres in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where he established his residence in the year 1901, upon coming to Ohio from his native state of West Virginia, which was still a part of Virginia at the time of his birth, and which he represented as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. Now venerable in years, he gives the active management of the farm over to his sons, but still takes a lively interest in all of its activities and maintains a general supervision of affairs, with a circumspection and judgment begotten of long and successful experience. Mr. Morris has won a secure place in popular esteem within the period of his residence in Harrison County and it is pleasing to accord him merited recognition in this history.
Andrew J. Morris was born in Monongahela County, Virginia (how West Virginia), on the 5th of February, 1845, and is a son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Hayhurst) Morris, both likewise natives of that county, where the former was born in 1809, as was also the latter, she having been a daughter of David and Rachel (Warren) Hayhurst. Zedic Morris, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Delaware and served as a patriot soldier during the War of the Revolution, his entire period of service having comprised seven years, six months and line lays after the crose or the war he estab-
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lished his home in Monongahela County, West Virginia, where he and his wife, whose family name was Dawson, passed the remainder of their lives. Ezekiel Morris passed his entire life in Monongahela County, where his active career was marked by close association with farm enterprise. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and both were venerable in years at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of thirteen children—Alpheus, Lavina, Elizabeth, David W.. Sarah (died in childhood), Michael, Marian, Maria, Andrew J., James T., Ezekial A., Edgar (died in childhood), and Martha Ann.
In his youth Andrew J. Morris was afforded the advantages of the pioneer subscription schools maintained in his native county, and he was sixteen years old at the time of the inception of the Civil war, so that he was not eligible for service in the early stages of the conflict. On the 4th of September, 1864, however, he enlisted in Company G, First West Virginia Cavalry, with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 8, 1865. His company was principally engaged in scouting service along the line between West Virginia and Ohio, and while he did not take part in any major battles he participated in a number of skirmishes and other minor engagements with the enemy forces.
After the close of the war Mr. Morris continued his activities as a farmer in his native state until his removal to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1901. He was thus engaged in Monongahela County until 1887, when he removed to Marion County, West Virginia, where he became the owner of the farm which was the stage of his farm enterprise until he sold the property and came to Ohio, he having also developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock in West Virginia. The well improved farm which is his present place of abode is devoted to well directed agriculture and the raising of good grades of live stock, with special attention given to sheep. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he is affiliated with J. F. McCready Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Cadiz, where he holds membership also in the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons and the Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
On the 6th of May, 1869, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Morris to Alps Mary I. Berry, who likewise was born and reared in West Virginia and who is a daughter of the late Samuel Berry, of Monongahela County, that state. Mr. and Mrs. Morris became the parents Of six children: Cora Alice married Lee Murray and is now deceased, she being survived by three children, Ray, Bessie and Opal B., the last mentioned having been reared in the home of her maternal grandparents after the death of her mother; Oliver Ernest, Norman and Oliver are associated with their father in the management of the home farm, and Norman is married, the maiden name of his wife having been Elizabeth Dickerson and she being a representative of one of. the old and honored families of Harrison County; Laura Belle is the wife of Howard I. Heavlin, 111. D., of Cadiz; and Eva May remains at the parental home.
JAMES T. FLEMING. Not all of the successful and representative farmers of Harrison County claim the county as the place of their nativity, and an exception is found in the case of Mr. Fleming, who is the owner of a fine farm property of 257 acres in Cadiz Township, where he established his residence in October, 1903, the property having been purchased by him in the preceding year. Mr. Fleming was born at Mannington, Marion County; West Virginia, on the 31st of August, 1866, and is the only child of William C. and Lavina (Taylor) Fleming, the former of whom was born at Fairmount. West Virginia, and the latter was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania. William C. Fleming, a son of James Fleming, was reared and educated in West Virginia, where his entire active career was marked by close and successful association with agricultural industry and where his death occurred in 1892.
James T. Fleming acquired his youthful education in the public schools of his native state, and there he continued to be associated with the work and management of the home farm until his fatherls death, when he assumed the entire control of its operation. He finally disposed of his property interests in West Virginia and, as previously noted, has been a successful representative of farm industry in Harrison County, Ohio, since the autumn of 1903. He raised the various crops best suited to the soil and climate of this section of the Buckeye State, and in the live-stock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the raising of sheep of excellent grade. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and attends and supports the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a member. In 1888 Mr. Fleming wedded Miss May M. Tetrick, and they have three children: Ina is the wife of Fred Hatton, of Cadiz; William A. is associated in the activities of the home farm; and Gypsie married Frank E. Mattern, of Cadiz.
'SAMUEL RALPH MCCAUSLAND. The farm of Samuel Ralph McCausland in Center Township of Carroll County is one of the well improved rural properties of this section of Ohio, and the premises show the care of an efficient farmer and good business man. He is one of the prominent dairymen of Carroll County and his success and prosperity are largely due to the thorough business judgment and energy he has put into all his undertakings.
Mr. McCausland was born near Harlem in Lee Township, Carroll County, November 21, 1875, son of Erasmus J. and Mary (Harsh) McCausland. His grandfather, Thomas McCausland, was an early settler in Lee Township, a native of Ireland. His old homestead in Lee Township comprised eighty acres. He and his wife had children named John, Erasmus J., Thomas, Mary, Jane, Mattie, Emma and Florence. Erasmus J. McCausland was a farmer in Lee Township for a number of years and when his
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son Samuel was six years old moved to Center Township, where he acquired 318 acres and continued active farming until he retired. He had acquired his early education in the Harlem Public School and High School.
Samuel R. McCausland, the fourth in a family of seven children, attended Washington Hall School until he was twenty years old, chiefly during the winter terms. In the meantime he was performing an increasing share of the work on his father's large farm. In 1900 he married Sarah R. Harsh, daughter of Jackson and Anna (Craven) Harsh, of Harrison Township. Mr. and Mrs. McCausland have two children : Loren Harsh, born in 1904; and Samuel Ralph, Jr., born in 1906.
Mr. McCausland's first independent farm enterprise was the renting of 207 acres in Lee Township. He continued there for seven years, and for five years rented the Ebersole farm. This he conducted as a successful dairy proposition, and he has always been able to make money at dairying and is also a all around stock farmer. Mr. McCausland gave up farming to purchase a flour and feed mill in Richland County, Ohio. He was making profits out of that industry, but after a few months the mill was in the path of the destructive flood of 1913 and that disaster was a heavy loss. He then determined to resume farming in his home county, and in 1913 he bought 102 acres in Center Township. That is his present home, and recently he added 120 acres more, giving him a large farm suitable for his business as a general farmer and dairyman. He produces large quantities of milk and delivers in Carrollton. He is also interested in the raising of Helaine sheep. He is a stockholder and a director and is now president of the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton. He is a charter member of the National Grange at Washington Hall and in politics is a republican. Mr. and Mrs. McCausland are members of the Presbyterian Church in Carrollton.
WILLIAM ALLEN RAY, of Center Township. Carroll County, has been solving the problems of farm life for thirty or forty years, is still one of the busiest men in his community, and has accumulated extensive interests represented in the ownership of a large amount of land and by outside connections with financial and other enterprises.
Mr. Ray was born in Fox Township of Carroll County September 3, 1854, son of Abraham and Hannah (Haines) Ray. He is of Pennsylvania German ancestry. His grandfather, Thomas Ray, moved from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Fox Township at an early day, was reared in that community and married Lydia Roudebush. Their family consisted of three sons and five daughters. Abraham Ray lived for several years in Fox Township, afterward ip Washington Township, and devoted his life to farming. He died in 1878 and his wife in 1883.
Oldest of five children, William A. Ray acquired an education by attending the winter sessions of the Glendale School in Washington Township until he was seventeen years old. He learned farming by working with his father, who owned 240 acres, and he planted and tilled a number of crops before he married and started life for himself.
In 1881 Mr. Ray married Sarah M. Roudebush, daughter of Matthias M. and Mary (Marshall) Roudebush, of Washington Township. Six children were born to their marriage: Sherman A., born in 1882, a bachelor who still lives at home; Lawson M., born in 1885, married. Alice Guess and has a son, Kenneth E., now seven years old; Minnie Belle, Mrs. Irvin Pool; Chester Manson; Daisy Viola, who died in 1895 ; and Clayton, who died in 1897, at the age of five years.
After his marriage Mr. Ray farmed a place of eighty acres included in his father's estate. This he bought and owned many years. For five years he lived on a 240 acre farm at Specht in Washington Township, and since February 29, 1912, has lived at his home place in Center Township. He has always farmed progressively and has used a large acreage in his enterprise. His home place in Center Township comprises 178 acres. He also owns a farm of 120 acres partly in Union and partly in Center Township, and forty acres in Washington Township, altogether 338 acres.
Mr. Ray is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton and the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton, and has other interests in a business way. He has served as township supervisor of Washington Township and as school director, is a republican in politics and a member of the Disciples Church of Carrollton.
ALBERT R. HAINES. A strong, resolute, well poised and noble character was that of the late Hon. Albert R. Haines, whose ability and achievement enabled him to leave a marked and worthy impress upon the history of his native county, and he was one of the most influential and honored citizens of Carroll County at the time of his death, which occurred May 2, 1907, at his beautiful old homestead, Church Hill Farm, in Brown Township. He was born in this township September 15, 1826, and Carroll County continued to be his home until the close of his long and useful life. Records of indubitable authority show that the founder of the Haines family in America was Jacob Haines, who was a devout member of the Society of Friends and who came to America with William Penn in the early part of the seventeenth century. He became a member of the historic Quaker or Friends colony in Pennsylvania, where his marriage was solemnized. He became the father of four sons, and the family continued to be one of prominence in Chester County, Pennsylvania, for a number of generations. Survey of family records indicates that Jacob Haines, great- grandfather of the subject of this memoir, migrated from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Frederick County, Maryland, where his death occurred in 1820, his wife, Esther, having died in 1804. Three of their five sons, John, Abraham and Isaac, migrated to Ohio about the year 1816 and settled in Stark and Carroll counties. Of these sons, John, grandfather of Albert R., married Margaret Castleberry in Frederick
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County, Maryland, about the year 1797, and they became pioneer settlers in what is now Carroll County, Ohio. They became the parents of three sons and six daughters, of whom Joseph, father of Albert R., was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1799, and who was about seventeen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Carroll County in 1816, the family home being established in the midst of the forest wilds, near the present village of Pekin, where the father and his sturdy sons began the reclamation of a pioneer farm. Joseph Haines married Hannah, a daughter of John and Catherine Shriver, who came from Maryland and became pioneer settlers in Stark County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Joseph Haines and his young wife settled on a small farm about a mile northwest of Pekin, and there were born their four sons and six daughters.
Albert R. Haines was reared on the old home farm mentioned above and gained his early education in the pioneer schools. At the age of twenty-two years he went to Wayne County. Illinois, and engaged in teaching school in a primitive pioneer community. The death of his father caused him to return home, and for several years he had charge of the old farm, besides devoting his attention to teaching during the winter terms of school. Later he became the leading merchant in the village of Malvern, where he continued his association with this line of enterprise for a term of years. He then purchased and removed to the fine place to which he gave the name of Church Hill Farm. and this he developed into one of the best improved places in the county.
Mr. Haines became one of the most influential men in the Carroll County ranks of the democratic party, and was active in the party councils and campaign service. He was a frequent delegate to county and state conventions, and represented the Eighteenth Congressional District as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1888. ' He represented his district in the State Senate, and his ability and character well equipped him for leadership in community sentiment and action. He was a man of broad views and well fortified convictions, was tolerant in his judgment and was kindly and generous in his association with his fellow men, so that he naturally gained and held secure place in popular confidence and good' will. He broadened his intellectual ken by extended travel throughout the various sections of his native land, besides which he visited the principal European countries in an extended tour which he initiated by crossing the Atlantic in the autumn of 1889. So remarkably significant at the present time are the following statements concerning Mr. Haines, and taken from a previously published review of his career, that it is considered but consistent to reproduce the same in this sketch: "Mr. Haines has taken but little part or interest in military affairs. In this he believes, as did his illustrious Quaker ancestors, that the general diffusion of civilization, education, moral ethics and religion ought so to elevate and enlighten all nations to the result that they 'should learn war no more,' but live in perpetual peace and prosperity. He believes that countries and governments, morally and religiously, have no more right to settle their differences of opinion and their disputes by the shedding of blood than communities and individuals have; but that all matters of dispute and misunderstanding should and can be better settled and adjusted by the justice and wisdom of the people through their leaders and representatives by civil law and arbitration. He is Quaker enough to proclaim every day, `Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war,' and philosopher enough to believe, with Franklin, that 'There never was a good war, or a bad peace'." It will be remembered that these estimates were published prior to the death of Mr. Haines and nearly a quarter of a century prior to the inception of the great World war.
In the autumn of 1857 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Haines to Miss Almira Harsh who was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Leonard Harsh, another of the honored pioneers of the county. Mrs. Haines survived her honored husband by more than a decade and passed to the life eternal on the 29th of July. 1919, both having been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children: Lula Hannah is the wife of Joseph T. Wallace, of Los Angeles, California, and they have one son, Albert. Joetta is the wife of Walter Myers, of Minneapolis, Minnesota ; Minnie Albert is the wife of Isaac N. Pennock, of Cleveland, Ohio, and they have two sons, Robert and Paul; and Carrie Elizabeth is the wife of William S. Moses, of whom individual record is made following, their place of residence being the old home farm of her father.
WILLIAM S. MOSES has so directed his energies and policies as to gain secure place as one of the substantial and representative exponents of farm industry in his native county, and the estate which is the stage of his progressive activities is what is known as the old homestead of his father-in-law, the late Hon. Albert R. Haines, who was one of the honored and influential citizens of Carroll County and whose fine old homestead, now under the active control of Mr. Moses, of this review, is situated in Brown Township, not far distant from the Village of Malvern.
William S. Moses was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, in the year 1865, and is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Woods) Moses, the mother having been a daughter of the late George Woods, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages .of this volume. Jacob Moses was a son of John and Rebecca (Stattler) Moses, who were early settlers in Rose Township, Carroll County, where they secured and settled on a tract of Government land, the same having remained in the possession of their descendants until 1919, when the property was sold. Jacob Moses was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was a boy at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, Ohio, where for many years he was successfully engaged in farm enterprise and where in earlier
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life he worked at his trade, that of millwright. He died in 1917, at the venerable age of eighty- nine years, and his widow passed away in 1911, one of the aged and revered pioneer women of the county. Both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though the father was reared in the faith of and originally held membership in the Lutheran Church. His political allegiance was given to the republican party. The children of Jacob and Margaret (Woods) Moses were five in number—Mollie. Isaac. William S., George and Catherine.
William S. Moses was reared on the old home farm in Harrison Township, and his early educational advantages were those of the public schools. He made good use of his opportunities and so fortified himself that he became eligible for the pedagogic profession and was for several years a successful teacher in the rural schools of his native county. His active career, however, has been mainly one of close and successful association with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and since the time of his marriage he has remained on the old home farm of his wife's father, the same comprising 240 acres of excellent land and the place being one of the well improved and model farms of Brown Township. Mr. Moses gives special attention to the breeding and raising of Holstein cattle with an average herd of about twenty-five head. and he is essentially vital and progressive in all departments of his farm enterprise. In politics he gives his loyal support to the cause of the republican party, but he has had no desire for the honors or emoluments of public office of any kind.
December 27, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Moses to Miss Carrie Elizabeth Haines, who was born and reared in Carroll County, the place of her birth having been the old homestead on which she and her husband now reside. To her father, Hon. Albert H. Haines, a memorial tribute is paid on other pages of this work, so that further record concerning the family is not here demanded. Mrs. Moses attended the public schools of Malvern. including the high school, and thereafter completed a course of study in Steubenville Seminary at the county seat of Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Moses have three children: Almira attended the Malvern High School and at the time of this writing, in 1920, is a student in the Dodge School of Telegraphy at Valparaiso, Indiana; Merton S. was graduated in the Minerva High School and in 1920 was graduated in the department of electrical engineering in the Ohio Northern University at Ada ; and Thomas H. is a member of the class of 1921 in the Minerva High School.
CHARLES I. KIRKPATRICK, who is now successfully engaged in the retail grocery business at Malvern. with a well equipped establishment that receives a representative patronage, has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth and in both the paternal and maternal lines is a scion of honored pioneer families of this county.
Charles Isaac Kirkpatrick was born in Brown Township, this county, on the 8th of December, 1567, and is a son of Isaac and Nancy (Reed) Kirkpatrick, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and the latter of whom was born in Brown Township,. Carroll County, Ohio, in 1825, she having been a daughter of John Reed, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and whose father, John Reed, Sr., came to Carroll County in the early pioneer days and here passed the remainder of his life. John Reed, Jr., became one of the prosperous farmers of Carroll County, and here his death occurred August 22, 1872.. He came to this county about the year 1820, and his original farm was in Brown Township, whence he later moved to what is now known as the J. W. Gorell farm, where his death occurred. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Thompson, was likewise a native of the old Keystone State, and her death occurred in 1867. They became the parents of seven children: William, Nancy. Elizabeth, John, Mary, Robert and Eliza.
Isaac Kirkpatrick was a son of William and Betsey (Swisshelm) Kirkpatrick, both natives of Pennsylvania. William Kirkpatrick was born and reared in Westmoreland County, that state, and there continued his activities as a farmer until 1832, when he came with his family to Carroll County. Ohio, and purchased 120 acres of land in Brown Township. There he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in 1841 and his wife having passed away in the preceding year. They became the parents of six children: Betsey, Nancy, Priscilla, Catherine (Mrs. McKinney), Joseph S. and Isaac.
Isaac Kirkpatrick was eight years of age at the time when the family home was established in Carroll County, where he was reared to manhood and where eventually he came into possession of his father's old homestead farm. He continued as one of the representative exponents of farm enterprise in Brown Township until his death, on the 12th of December, 1891, and his devoted wife passed away on the 2d of the following March. They became the parents of eight children: Almira, Elva, John, Jane, William, James, Oliver and Charles Isaac.
Charles Isaac Kirkpatrick passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and in the meanwhile received the advantages of the public schools of Brown Township. He continued his active alliance with farm industry in Brown Township until 1892, when he established his residence in the village of Malvern. For the ensuing period of about twenty years he was employed in various manufacturing establishments in this village, and in 1913 he here engaged in the grocery trade, to which he has since given his attention. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.
The year 1891 recorded the marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick to Miss Sadie DeWalt, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, October 26, 1866, a daughter of Henry and Caroline (Fogle) De- Walt, who passed their entire lives in that
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county. Mr. DeWalt, a carpenter by trade and vocation, died in 1908, aged fifty-five years, and his widow passed away in 1911, aged fifty-eight years. They became the parents of ten children, of whom five are living at the time of this writing, in 1920. Henry DeWalt was a son of Adam and Sarah (Hershbarger) DeWalt, the former having been a native of Germany and having been a pioneer settler in Stark County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick have no children.
JONATHAN KIMMEL passed his entire life in Harrison County, was a successful representative of farm industry throughout his entire active career and was known alike for his sterling character and his business acumen. He was an intluential and honored representative of a family whose name has been one of prominence in Harrison County for more than a cetury and the various generations of which have contributed materially to the development and advancement of this now favored section of the Buckeye state. Such are the families whose achievement justifies the compilation of histories of this nature, and in Harrison County none is more worthy of consideration than that of which the subject of this memoir was a member.
Jonathan Kimmel was born in a pioneer log cabin in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 15th of July, 1815, and in his fine farm residence, near the site of this log cabin, his death occurred on the 13th of July, 1894, his entire life having been passed in his native township save for a period of nine years during which he was engaged in farm enterprise in North Township. His father, Henry Kimmel, was born iy Pennsylvania in 1789, and in June, 1814, he married Miss Christena Gidenger, who was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and who was fourteen years of age when she accompanied her parents to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1808a Mrs. Kimmel was a daughter of 'Martin and Elizabeth B. Gidinger, both of whom were born in Germany. Mrs. Kimmel was born on March 7, 1794, and died in October, 1894, one of the most venerable and revered pioneer women of Harrison County at the time of her death, at the remarkable age of 100 years, six months and 26 days, and her memory compassed virtually the entire period marking the development of the county from the forest wilds into one of the beautiful and progressive sections of Ohio. Her husband was well advanced in years at the time of his death, and had been one of the substantial farmers of Rumley Township. He was a son of Leonard Kimmel, who was born in Germany in 1741, and who was a youth when he severed the ties that bound him to his native land and came to America in 1758. He settled in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and there he married Miss Susan Zimmerman, whose parents were very early Settlers in that county. Leonard and Susan Kimmel became the parents of eight children: John, Adam, Henry, Leonard, Frederick, Nancy, Mary and Susannah. About the opening of the nineteenth century the family removed to West Virginia, where a home was established on Cheat River. There the three elder sons engaged in the manufacture of millstones, which were shipped on rafts to different points on the Ohio River, including those used in a pioneer mill at Scio, Harrison County, Ohio. From the proceeds derived from this manufacturing enterprise the three brothers made investment in wild lands in Harrison County, Ohio, where they acquired about 800 acres. In 1807 Leonard Kimmel, the next younger brother, established his home on an embryonic farm in Rumley Township. He reclaimed a goodly part of his. land to cultivation and -here remained until his death in 1S25, his widow having passed away in 1828.
Henry Kimmel continued as one of the representative farmers and citizens of Rumley Township until the close of his long and useful life. and both he and his wife were earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. Their children were eight in number: Susan (Mrs. W. Crumrine), Jonathan, Henry. Abraham. Elizabeth (Mrs. William Schilling), Isaac, Christena (Mrs. M. Sawvel) and John. Isaac enlisted for service in the Union army at the inception of the Civil war, was captured by the enemy and died in a southern war prison.
Jonathan Kimmel exemplified in character and achievement the sterling attributes which has significantly marked the family of which he was a member, and at the time of his death he was the owner of a large and valuable farm estate in Huntley Township, the property being still in the possession of the family and the sons having prestige as leading exponents of farm industry in their native county.
In January, 1836. was solemnized the marriage of Jonathan Kimmel to Miss Maria Catharine Nupp, daughter of John P. and Catharine (Wolf) Nupp, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Kimmel was influential in locaI affairs and served twenty years as trustee of Rumley Township. Both he and his wife were active communicants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of eleven children: Sarah Jane is the widow of Jacob Condo, of Germano, Harrison County; Elizabeth, who was the widow of Jacob Stahl, of this county, died in 1916; Nimrod was killed while serving as a member -of an Ohio regiment in the Civil war; Christena still resides in Harrison County; Titus is deceased; Simon P. is a farmer in Rumley Township; Jonathan, Jr., is more specifically mentioned in following paragraphs; George is deceased; Isaac is the subject of more individual consideration in a later paragraph; and Mary Magdalena andMartin a re decea sed.
Jonathan Kimmel, Jr., and his brother Isaac have always lived on the old home farm, which represents land taken froth the Government by their grandfather more than a century ago, the property having remained continuously in possession of •the family during the long intervening years and the two brothers being associated in the ownership of this valuable property, which comprises 201 acres. The brothers have secure place as successful representatives of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in their native county, and in all of the relations of life they are well upholding the honors of the name which they bear—a name that has been one of prominence and significance in connection with
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the civic and material development and upbuilding of Harrison County. Jonathan Kimmel, Jr., is a bachelor. and Isaac, on the 25th of January, 1898, married Miss Jennie Abel, whose death occurred on the 26th of June, 1914.
ROBERT T. ARROWSMITH. Contributing definitely to the industrial prestige of the village of Selo, Harrison County, as a substantial manufacturer of woodcn oil tanks, Mr. Arrowsmith is following a line of enterprise with which he became associated in his youth and in which his father became a successful representative in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Arrowsmith was born at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, on the 14th of October, 1873. and is a son of Robert T. and Sarah (Rankin) Arrowsmith, the former of whom died in 1918, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which city his widow still resides. The father removed to the northwestern part of Pennsylvania in 1865, and long maintained his residence at Pittsburgh. He developed a prosperous business in the manufacturing of oil tanks, and was otherwise associated with the oil industry in the Keystone State.
He whose name initiates this review acquired his early education principally in the public schools of Warren, Pennsylvania, and as a young man became associated in his fatherls business, under the firm name of Robert T. Arrowsmith & Son. He continued his residence in Pennsylvania until 1898, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, where lie has since been successfully engaged in the manufacturing of wooden oil tanks. and where also he has been president of the Bell Drilling Company from the time of its organization in 1910. This company has developed a substantial business in the drilling of oil wells in this section of Ohio. In politics Mr. Arrowsmith is independent, and he and his wife are zealous and valued members of the Presbyterian Church at Scio. in which he is serving as an elder.
In 1909 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Arrowsmith to Miss Pattie Master, daughter of William A. and Henrietta (McGavern) Master, of Harrison County, and the five children of this union are: William, Elizabeth. Robert T. (III). Henrietta and Martha Jane.
WILLIAM GLENN WADDLE, D. D. It was a case of walking in the footsteps of his father when Rev. William Glenn Waddle. of New Athens, entered the ministry. He is a son of Dr. Benjamin Waddle, who devoted more than fifty years of his life to the ministry. William Glenn Waddle was born February 12, 1.835. at Rushville. Fairfield County, Ohio. On the first Sabbath in November, 1919. he rounded out fifty years of continuous service in the same church —Cassville United Presbyterian. having filled his pulpit regularly for a half century. Father and son gave more than a century to the gospel ministry.
Dr. Benjamin Waddle was born June 2, 1802, at Wheeling, West Virginia, and he earned the funds necessary to defray his expenses as a student in the Wheeling Academy while fitting himself for the ministry. He later studied theology at the Associated Reformed Seminary at
Allegheny, and on April 28, 1828, he was licensed as a gospel minister. He held pastorates at Jonathan's Creek, New Concord and Kenton, and he was always active in promoting educational enterprises. He was the founder of Muskingum College. and it was through his efforts that that institution was located at New Concord. His son. Dr. IV. G. Waddle, and his daughter, Elizabeth Waddle, were graduated from the same college, and at the. death of Dr. Waddle on October 13, 1920, he was the oldest living graduate of the institution.
In 1S29 Dr. Benjamin Waddle married Martha A. Glenn, of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a young woman of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and Dr. William Glenn Waddle was one of the five children born to them. He had a rudimentary education in the common schools, and when he was twelve years old he entered Muskingum college. He graduated from there in the 1855 class, and immediately entered Allegheny Seminary, where he studied theology. On October 13, 1857, Doc- ton Waddle was licensed by the Second Ohio Presbytery. and on November 16, 1859, be was ordained to the ministry by the Wheeling United Presbyterian .Presbytery. In many ways father and son had similar experiences in the ministry. The son embarked in a limited way in politcs, and with the consent of his congregation in 1873-4 he was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention.
On June 5, 1860, Doctor Waddle married Janette S. Easton. She came of ministerial stock, being a daughter of Dr. John S. Easton, who come from Scotland as early as 1813, and lre was a licensed minister in the Philadelphia Associate Presbytery. On June 24. 1834. Doctor Easton entered upon his first pastorate at Kishocoquillas. Pennsylvania, and after eighteen years in one pulpit he went to Scroggsfield, Carroll County. Ohio, remaining there eleven years. In 116 lre went to Allegheny. Pennsylvania. where he became an associate editor of The Presbyterian. and at the sametime served a church in Braddock. where he remained seven year's. He died July 25, 1879, in Allegheny. Mrs. Waddle was a graduate of Washington (Pa.) Female Seminary. class of 1858, and at the time of her death. on September 27. 1920. she was the oldest living graduate of that seminary.
While engaged in ministerial labors Doctor and Mrs. Waddle lived many years on a farm in Short Creek Township. The Commemorative Record saying : "Their beautiful home, surrounded by the pleasures and evidence of a handsome competence. is located in a little valley, while en every hand the hills whose peaks are the first to catch mud the last to hold the coming splendor of the dawn and the fading glory of the day are mute but eloquent witnesses of the power, majesty and wisdom of the great Creator. The surrounding fields give evidence of a careful husbandry. and plainly show that it is there the Doctor seeks recreation from the fatigue of his labors and close confinement Of his study."
In 1911 Doctor and Mrs. Waddle gave up their farm home and came to live in New Athens. although for several years he continued in the
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ministry. He was an honorary director of the Pittsburg Theological Seminary, and for many years was a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin College.
HARVEY C. RAMSEY, a retired farmer of Nottingham Township, now residing in the city of Cadiz, was born on the farm which he still owns in the above township April 19, 1859. He is a son of John C. and Sarah J. (Hines) Ramsey, the former of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1823, and the latter of whom was born and reared in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where her parents, Isaac and Sarah (Patterson) Hines, were representative pioneer citizens. John C. Ramsey was a son of William and Mary (Anderson) Ramsey, and was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his parents from the old Keystone State to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood and where he learned the trade of cooper, to which he devoted his attention for a number of years. March 16, 1847, he married Miss Sarah J. Hines, and her death occurred in 1865. They became the parents of eight children: Isaac L., Mary E., William B., John F., James P., Harvey C., Robert F., and Martha A. The second marriage of John C. Ramsey was with Miss Emily Ford, who was born in Harrison County in 1825, and whose death here occurred in 1880. In 1882 Mr. Ramsey married Miss Angeline Hines, who was born October 31, 1831, a daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Carson) Hines, of Harrison County. Mr. Ramsey resided on his farm in section 6, Nottingham Township, from the time of his first marriage until that of his death, and he was one of the honored and influential citizens of that township. He became one of the most zealous advocates and supporters of the cause of the Prohibition party and was a resourceful worker in its ranks in Harrison County. His religious faith was that of the Disciples or Christian Church. His death occurred on the 7th of February, 1898, and his widow died when about seventy-five years of age.
Harvey C. Ramsey gained his early education in the schools of Nottingham and Cadiz townships, and as a young man, in 1882, he went to Williamson County, Tennessee. There he was engaged in farm enterprise for the ensuing four years, at the expiration of which he returned to his native township, where he continued farming, his place being a part of the old homestead on which he was born and reared, he having returned to this place in the autumn of 1913. For the past twenty-five years he has given much of his time to work at the carpenterls trade, which for the past decade has received the major part of his time. He has erected numerous buildings in Nottingham and adjacent township, and is known as a skilled artisan. He is a republican in politics, and both he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church.
June 14, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Ramsey to Miss Ida A. Haverfield, who was born in Cadiz Township, this county, a daughter of Gillespie and Sarah J. (Hines) Haverfield, both likewise natives of Cadiz Township. Mr. Haverfield was born November 14, 1818, and his death occurred March 17, 1882. His entire life was passed in Cadiz Township, where he became a representative farmer. The family name of his first wife was Clifford, and they became the parents of two sons, Clifford and Joseph, both deceased. The second wife likewise is deceased, and of this second union were born seven children: William H. (a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church), Mary Isabel (deceased), Catherine, Sherman, Ida A., Jeanette and Martha. Mr. Haverfield held membership in the United Brethren Church and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey have no children.
R. NASH OVERHOLT. Occupying a place of note in the business life of Carroll County, R. Nash Overholt, of Carrollton, has achieved success as a merchant, being proprietor of a finely stocked and extensively patronized shoe store located at 79 Main street. A son of the late Anthony Overholt, he was born in Medina County, Ohio, April 4, 1868. He comes of substantial pioneer stock, his paternal grandparents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Tinsman) Overholt, having been among the earlier settlers of Medina County, where they cleared and improved a homestead from its virgin wildness.
A life-long resident of Medina County, Ohio, Anthony Overholt was born in 1835, and died in 1917. As a boy and youth he assisted in the pioneer task of reclaiming a homestead from its original condition, under his father's tutelage becoming familiar with agriculture. Becoming a farmer from choice, he met with good success as a tiller of the soil and stock raiser. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Nash, was born in 1840 in Medina County, Ohio, where her parents were pioneer settlers, and died on the home farm in 1913. Five children were born of their union, as follows: Almira, who died in infancy; Ida Schaub; Minerva ; R. Nash, the special subject of this brief sketch; and Alverna Harter. The father was a loyal adherent of the republican party for many years, but later in life became identified with the prohibitionists. Both he and his wife were faithful members of the Mennonite Church.
Brought up on the parental homestead, R. Nash Overholt acquired his elementary education in the rural schools of Medina County, and later graduated from the Wadsworth Normal School. The life of a farmer not appealing to him, he began his active career as teacher in the district schools of Wadsworth Township and later embarked in business on his own account, continuing there as a shoe dealer until 1908. Coming in that year to Carrollton, Mr. Overholt purchased the stock and good will of Jacob Helfrech, and for ten years carried on a business in the Helfrech Block. His large and increasing trade demanding more commodious quarters, he removed to his present location on Main street, and is continuing with the same good success that has characterized his previous efforts.
Mr. Overholt married in 1911 Miss Jennie McGregor, whose parents, Joseph and Rebecca
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McGregor, were pioneer settlers of Carroll County. Her father was a prominent and successful farmer and stock raiser who about thirty-five years ago retired from active pursuits and removed to Carrollton, where his death occurred in 1915, and where his widow still re- skies. Mrs. Overholt is the youngest child in a family of four children, and has one sister living, Nannie, widow of W. Elliot, of Carrollton. Mr. Overholt is a republican in politics, and takes an active part in all local affairs for the best interests of his town and county.
ALBERT R. HOOBLER is a native son of Carroll County and for many years has been actively identified with agricultural and live stock interests here. Mr. Hoobler, whose home is in Center Township, was born in Rose Township February 26, 1856, and he still owns his farm of a hundred twenty acres in that township.
His grandfather, Adam Hoobler, was a native of Maryland, where he married Elizabeth Lawyer. They moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and spent the rest of their days on a farm there. They had five daughters and five sons, named Andrew, Adam, Jacob, William and Peter, and Margaret, Nancy, Mahala, Elizabeth and Rachel.
William Hoobler, father of Albert R., was born in Jefferson County, but immediately after his marriage moved to Carroll County and settled in the woods of Rose Township, where he lived out his life as a practical farmer and died Feb- ruary 13, 1884, at the age of seventy-two. He married Margaret Shocknesse, and their children were Adam, Elizabeth, James Madison, Lucinda, Perry, Mary Catherine, Cena Eleanor, Albert R. and Alvin B. Alvin now lives in Waynesburg, Ohio, Lucinda is Mrs. George Futchley, of Rose Township, Mary Catherine is Mrs. L. D. Sparks, of Stark County, Ohio, and Cena is Mrs. Joseph Briggle, of Canton, Ohio.
Albert R. Hoobler was a pupil in school district No. 1 of Rose Township until the age of seventeen. He also attended Summer Normal at Carrollton two terms, and for several years was actively identified with the educational work in his home county. He taught two terms in his home district. No. 1, one term in district No. 8 of Harrison Township, two terms in district No. 2 of Rose Township, and two terms in district No. 8. He then took an active part in the work of the home farm, and also began buying and selling livestock, a business he has continued more or less actively ever since.
At the age of thirty Mr. Hoobler married Miss Nancy J. Swinehart, daughter of Silas and Louisa (Bowers) Swinehart. of Perry Township in Carroll County. Her father was born in Orange Township of Harrison County and died in Perry Township of Carroll. County in 1916. Her mother was born in Harrison County and died in Perry Township also in 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler have two children. Roscoe Del- wood. the older, lives at Canton, Ohio, and by his marriage to Lenora Zingler has a son. Lester. Earnest Swinehart Hoobler lives at home with his parents. After his marriage Mr. Hoobler lived on his home farm in Rose Township until April, 1918, when he moved to Carrollton. He is a democrat, a member of the Lutheran Church in Rose Township, and while in the country he was elected and served two terms, eight years, as justice of the peace, and in November, 1919, was again chosen to that office in Center Township.
ROBERT H. WEBSTER. One of the most pleasing revelations incidental to the preparation of personal sketches for this history is that showing that within the borders of both Carroll and Harrison counties are to be found many native sons in the third and even fourth generations who are carrying forward successfully the same important industrial enterprise that engaged the attention of their fathers and grandfathers— that pertaining to the activities of the farm. Such a worthy citizen is Robert H. Webster, who was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, November 14, 1861, and who is still the owner of the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. Though he now resides in the village of Jewett, he continues to give his personal supervision to his valuable farm of- ninety-five acres, which he makes a center of intensive agriculture and stock-growing.
John Webster, father of him whose name introduces this sketch, was born in Maryland in 1809, and was a boy when his parents came to Harrison County and settled in Rumley Township. His father, John Webster, Sr., here purchased wild land, which was eventually developed into one of the productive pioneer farms of the county, though he himself died within a comparatively short time after coming to Ohio. His widow assumed the entire care of her family of small children, and remained on the farm until her death, in 1856. After the death of his father John Webster, Jr., assumed active management of the farm and in every way aided and cared for his widowed mother. In 1832 he married Margaret Buchanan, who died in 1841 and was survived by three children, Maria, David and Sarah. In 1847 Mr. Webster married Miss Ann Patton, daughter of the late Joseph Patton, of Rumley Township, and they became the parents of ten children: John. Joseph, Mary M., Catherine Jane, Matthew. Flo-. rence, Robert H., Mansfield, Cora and Ira B. Mr. Webster was a Democrat of well fortified convictions, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Ridge Presbyterian Church. His death occurred in 1876, and his wife survived him by a number of years. Mr. Webster was one of the honored citizens and successful farmers of Harrison County and merited the high regard in which he was uniformly held.
In connection with the work of the home farm Robert H. Webster early gained appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and endeavor, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages offered in the district schools. He has continuously made the old homestead farm the stage of his productive activities. and there he continued his residence until 1009, when he removed to Jewett, where he has an attractive home about half a mile distant from his farm, of which he still has the active management. December 29, 1886, was marked by the marriage of Mr. Webster to Miss Jeanetta Holland,
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daughter of Samuel and Emily (Maholm) Holland, well known citizens of Harrison County. His father was born May 3, 1830, and died May 21, 1907, and the mother, born May 6, 1844, died January 29, 1921. To Mr. and Mrs. Webster have been born six children : Harry Forrest, who was born in 1888, married Miss Helen Bowman, and they reside at Warren, Trumbull County, their one child being a daughter, Bettie Jane; Marguerite was born in 1891, and her death occurred in 1890; Byron was born in 1594 and died in 1905; Louise, who was born in 1897, died in the year 1900; Daniel, who was born September 30, 1899, is now if resident of Detroit. Michigan: and Lee W., born in 1903, remains at the parental home.
Harry Forrest Wcbster, eldest son of the subject of this review, served as a member of a battery of field artillery on the Mexican border during the period of the Government's military operations there, the battery having been for the most part made up of men from the city of Akron, Ohio. When the nation became involved in the World war he entered the first officers' training camp at Camp Grant, Illinois. and in August, 1917. received commission as captain in the Field Artillery. Thereafter he attended the Artillery School of Fire at Sparta. Wisconsin. and later was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. where he completed the work given in the School of Fire. He was assigned to Battery C, Three Hundred and Thirty-First Field Artillery. and iii August, 1918. went to France as a member of the advance detail from his brigade. Ile continued on duty in France until the signing of the historic armistice, and returned to the United States in March, 1919. Soon afterward he received his honorable discharge. after ,-Lich he returned to the employ of the Firestone Rubber Company at Akron. and is now superintendent of the D. & M. Cord Time Company, of Cleveland a nil Warren, Ohio.
DILLWORTH A. MAXWELL. In the handling of staple and fancy groceries and other table supplies Mr. Maxwell maintains at Scio. Harrison County. an establishment whose equipment and service have gained and retained to it 0 large a nil representative patronage. the while he has gained secure place as one of the progressive and influential business men of this thriving village.
Mr. Maxwell was born on a farm near Graysville, Monroe County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was October 1. 1860. He is a son of William ;Ind Letitia (Bigley) Maxwell, the former of whom was born On a site now included in the city of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. and the latter was born in Monroe County. Ohio. a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Core) Big- ley. Joseph Higley was a prosperous farmer of Monroe County. and there served as township assessor during the closing years of his life. Both he and Ids wife were communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they reared their children—Letitia, James, Elizabeth, Fannie and Mary.
Evan Maxwell. grandfather of the subject of this review, came from the old Keystone state to Ohio and became a resident of Monroe County in 1837. There he devoted the remainder of his active career to farm industry, though he later lived in Belmont and Athens counties, in the latter of which his death occurred. His children were eight in number: William, Evan, Jr., John, James, Thomas, Mary, Catherine and Jane.
William Maxwell became an independent farmer in Monroe County, but in 1877 removed with his family to Tyler County, West Virginia, where he purchased land and became a vigorous exponent of progressive farm enterprise. There he remained until his death, which occurred in 1902, and his widow passed away in 1907, both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The district schools of Monroe County, Ohio, gave to Dillworth A. Maxwell his rudimentry education, and he was a boy ten years of age at the time of the family removal to West Virginia, in which state he continued his studies until he had so advanced himself as to become eligible for pedagogic service and honors. As a young man he was for fifteen years a successful and popular teacher in the public schools in West Virginia and Ohio, and not until 1903 did he finally withdraw from service in this field of endeavor. Thereafter he resided at New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia until 1907. when he engaged in the general merchandise business at Ragland, Jefferson County, Ohio. Two years later, in 1909, he came to Harrison County and opened a well appointed retail grocery -Store at Scio, where he has since continued in successful business. He is a democrat. in politics: and he and his sons are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio, as was also his devoted wife, Who was summoned to the life eternal on the 2d of December, 1818. Mrs. Maxwell was born and reared in Tyler County. Wet Virginia. Her maiden name S Buoy M. Hensel_ and she Was a daughter of Philip H. K. Hensel. her marriage to Mr. Maxwell having been solemnized in 1890. Of this union were born four children: W. Earl. Dora Idled at the age of five months). P. Clydc ;Intl Clarence J. W. Earl married Miss Catherine Bees; Clarence J. is, in 1921, a student in the University of Ohio at Columbus: P. Clyde Maxwell was one of the gallant young men who entered the nation's military service in the great World war. On the 21st of May. 1918. lie became a member of the Fifty-Seventh Engineers. at Laurel. Maryland, and with his command he went to France in the following July. There he continued in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces until the signing of the armistice brought the war to a close. and after having been in France thirteen months he returned to his native land in August. 1919. receiving his honorable discharge within a short time thereafter.
LEROY H. BORLAND not only has prestige as being one of the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in North Township, Harrison County, but also the distinction of being a native of this township and a scion of one of its pioneer families of prominence and influence. On the 27th of January,
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1819, Samuel Borland, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and took up a tract of Government land in North Township, Harrison County, the deed to the property being still retained by the family and bearing the signature of James Monroe, then president of the United States. Mr. Borland left his land in charge of Juda Hess, another sterling pioneer, and returned to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1821, when he came with his family to the frontier farm in Harrison County and vigorously set himself at work in reclaiming the land from the forest and developing a productive farm. On this old homestead he remained until his death in 1862, at the age of seventy-seven years. His- first marriage was with Mary Little, who died ten years later, three children having been born of this union— William, who became a resident of Tuscarawas County; Washington, who established his home in Carroll County; and Lydia, who became the wife of James Waddington, with whom she removed to Nebraska in the pioneer period of the history of that state. For his second wife Mr. Borland wedded Miss Elizabeth Hevlin, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Hevlin, and of the two children of this union the elder was Mary, who became the wife of James Mackey and who died many years ago. David, the younger child, was the father of the subject of this review.,
Samuel Borland, founder of the family in Harrison County, was a son of Samuel and Lydia (Cary) Borland, whose marriage was solemnized in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he had established his residence upon immigration to America from his native Ireland. The parents passed the remainder of their lives in the old Keystone State, where the father was a farmer by vocation. Of Mrs. Borland the following statements have been written: "She participated in the defense of one of the old forts when it was attacked by the Indians, was a remarkable woman, accustomed to the hardships of pioneer times, and was an excellent shot with the rifle." Samuel and Lydia (Cary) Borland became the parents of ten children: Samuel, John, Rachel, William, Matthew, Margaret, David, Mary, Andrew and James.
David Borland was born on the old homestead farm in North Township, Harrison County, January 27, 1831, and on this place he passed his entire life, his death having occurred November 8,1907. Well and earnestly had he lived and wrought during the intervening years, and he stood as one of the sterling citizens and representative farmers of his native county, with character and achievement that gave him inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. His fine farm comprised 170 acres, about three miles distant from the village of Scio. He was a democrat in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
December 24, 1857, recorded the marriage of David Borland to Miss Catherine Ann Havnar, who was born and reared in Harrison County and whose parents, Dominick and Elizabeth Havnar, were residents of Monroe Township, this county, at the time of their deaths. Mrs. Borland, a woman of gentle and gracious personality, passed to the life eternal on the 26th of October, 1890, at the age of fifty-seven years, and her remains rest beside those of her husband in the cemetery at Conotton. Of the three children LeRoy H., subject of this review, is the eldest; Martha Elizabeth died at the age of forty-nine years; and Albert is now a resident of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Martha Elizabeth Borland, who was born November 28, 1862, became the wife of Harry E. Phillips and was a resident of Harrison County at the time of her death. Albert Borland was born February 20, 1870, and in his youth was afforded the advantages of Scio College. His first wife, who died in the year 1900, bore the maiden name of Jennie Law, and she is survived by two children, Frank and Wilbur. For his second wife Mr. Borland wedded Miss Myrtle Harding, and they have four children, Irma, Aline, Albert, Jr., and an infant son.
LeRoy H. Borland was born on the old homestead farm of the Borland family in North Township, and the date of his nativity was July 30, 1860. In addition to receiving the advantages of the district schools he was for two years a student at New Hagerstown Academy in Carroll County, and thereafter he remained at the paternal home and assisted in the work of the farm until his marriage, in 1882, when he established his home on his present farm, which is not far distant from the old place on which he was born and reared. He is now the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of 160 acres in Harrison County and an adjacent tract of 109 acres lying across the line in Carroll County. The excellent buildings on his farm have been erected by Mr. Borland, and the many other improvements which he has made likewise give evidence of his progressive.. ness, as well as of the abundant success that has attended his well directed activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. Iir the livestock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the breeding and raising of blooded Black Polled Aberdeen cattle and Delaine sheep.
In political affairs Mr. Borland is found loyally arrayed as a supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Conotton. At Scio he is affiliated with the lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and his further York Rite affiliations are with the Chapter, Council and Commandery at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, besides which he has received Scottish Rite degrees and is a member of the Scioto Consistory in the city of Columbus.
On the 23d of February, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Borland to Miss Sarah Trushell, who likewise was born and reared in North Township and who is a daughter of Valentine and Sarah (Smith) Trushell, the former of whom was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1805, and the latter in Harrison County, Ohio, January 21, 1825, she having been a daughter of Daniel Smith, one of the honored pioneers of the county. Valentine Trushell came with his parents to Harrison County in 1815, when he was about ten years old, and
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here he was reared on the pioneer farm. He became one of the substantial farmers of North Township, and there he continued to reside until his death, October 16, 1880. The maiden name of his first wife was Susannah Huff, and her death occurred November 8, 1845. The names and respective birth-dates of the children of this union are here recorded : Michael, November 6, 1832 Mary, December 19. 1834; Elizabeth, May 5, 1837; Rebecca and Anna, twins, December 19, 1839; and John, September 28, 1843. For his second wife Mr. Trushell wedded Miss Sarah Smith, and she preceded him to eternal rest, her death having occurred March 8, 1876, and both having been earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of nine children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted: Lydia, April 6, 1847; Jacob, October 3, 1848: Catherine, April 4, 1851; Daniel. March 10. 1853; Henry, October 20, 1855: Margaret, December 9, 1856; Melinda, March 24. 1860; Sarah (Mrs. Borland), September 22, 1863; and Caroline, June 5, 1866.
Mr. and Mrs. Borland have two children: Mamie Folsom is the wife of Frank C. Fier- bough, of Cleveland. Ohio; and Harry Oliver, who is a successfnl farmer in North Township, married Miss Mabel Lyda Pettay, their one child, a son, is Harold Edwin.
ABRAHAM B. MARKLEY. In North Township, Harrison County, is to be found the attractive farm home of Mr. Markley, whose popularity in the community is attested by his holding the office of township trustee, and whose progressiveness as an agriculturist and stock-grower needs no further voucher than the general air of thrift and prosperity that pervades his fine farm of 171 acres.
Mr. Markley was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, on the 30th of March, 1876, and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this section of the Buckeye state, his grandfather, Jonathan Markley, having been a native of Pennsylvania and having become an early settler and pioneer farmer in Harrison County. Henry H. Markley, father of the subject of this review, was born in North Township, Harrison County. and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth A. Baker, was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Abraham and Edna (Brock) Baker. Henry H. Markley became one of the substantial farmers of North Township, Harrison County, and continued as one of the representative citizens of his native township until his death, in June, 1918, his wife having passed away the following December, so that in death they were not long divided. They became the parents of four children: Charles 0., Abraham B., Laura Bell, wife of B. B. Johnson, and Georgia, who died at the age of three years.
While early-lending his aid in the work of the home farm and thus learning the value of honest toil and endeavor Abraham B. Markley did not fail to profit by the advantages offered in the district schools of his home township. He re- mained at the parental home until the time of his marriage, in 1901, and since that time has been continuously engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township, his present farm having been the stage of his activities since 1906. He is liberal and progressive as a citizen, is a democrat in politics, and, as previously stated, is serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of North Township. His wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
November 23, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Markley to Miss Alice Calcott, a daughter of Benjamin and Jeanette (McLandsborough) Calcott. of North Township. Benjamin Calcott continued as one of the prosperous farmers of Harrison County until his death, and his widow and one of their sons remained on the old homestead farm until March. 1921. Mr. Calcott was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and was one of the eight children of Robert and Catherine (Rogers) Calcott. Robert Calcott was born and reared in England, where he learned the trade of baker and where also he worked at the trade of wool-comber as a young man. He was twenty years of age when he accompanied his parents to the United States, and the parents, Robert and Ann (Heritage) Calcott, became early settlers of what is now Carroll County, Ohio, where the father reclaimed a farm and where he remained until his death, in 1860, his widow having passed away in 1865. Robert, Jr., was the eldest of their five children. Robert Calcott, Jr., made Carroll County the stage of his initial farm enterprise, and later he became a prosperous farmer in Tuscarawas County, where he died at the age of seventy years, in July, 1885, his wife having died of typhoid fever in 1864, when thirty-five years of age. Five of the eight children contracted typhoid fever about the time when their mother succumbed to the disease, and of the three who survived Benjamin, father of Mrs. Markley, was the eldest. After his marriage, in 1869, Benjamin Calcott continued his association with farm enterprise in Tuscarawas County until the spring of 1882, when he came to Harrison County and purchased the farm on which he passed the remainder of his life and on which his venerable widow still resides. He was a staunch republican,' served as trustee of North Township, was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and was a communicant of the Lutheran Church, as is also his widow. He was one of the influential and honored citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Calcott became the parents of seven children: William 17,, Catherine Ann, John Robert, Alice. Edward, Mary, and one who died in infancy. Edward and Mary likewise are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Markley have five children: Grace, Helen, Thomas, Florence and Henry Earl.
THOMAS E. CHAMBERS gives to the vital little city of Scio, Harrison County, requisite modern facilities in the line of automobile enterprise, and his garage, with best of equipment, offers ample accommodations. In connection with the garage he maintains a sales agency for the popular automobiles manufactured by Dodge Brothers, and his well directed enterprise is conducted tinder the title of T. E. Chambers. The garage
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has a well ordered repair department, and an adequate stock of automobile accessories and supplies adds to the facilities of the establishment.
Thomas E. Chambers was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 5th of August, 1893, and is a son of Robert H. and Retta (Hill) Chambers, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Hancock County, West Virginia, a daughter of George Hill. From Jefferson County, Ohio, Robert H. Chambers removed to Perrysville, Carroll County, where he has since conducted a well equipped general store and has precedence as one of the representative citizens and business men of the village. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Thomas E., of this review, is their only child.
After having profited by the advantages of the public schools at Perrysville Thomas E. Chambers continued his studies in the high school at Scio and thereafter took a one-year commercial course at Oberlin College. He then became associated with his father's mercantile business at Perrysville, Carroll County, and this alliance continued until 1915, when he came to Scio and established his present business, which has been signally prospered under his progressive and effective management. Mr. Chambers is affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Masons, and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at Scio.
The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Chambers to Miss Pearl Slates, daughter of Nelson E. Slates, who is serving in 1921 as a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers have a winsome little daughter, Lois Alberta.
JOSEPH M. McCULLOUGH. On the excellent farm of 112 acres which is his present place of residence in Archer Township, Harrison County, Joseph M. McCullough was born May 12, 1852, and the fine old homestead has been the stage of his productive activities from his youth to the present time. He is a son of John and Jane (Welsh) McCullough, both likewise natives of Archer Township, where the former was born on the 5th of October, 1822, and the latter on the 6th of May, 1827—dates that show that the respective families were founded in this county in the early pioneer days. The mother of Joseph M. McCullough was a daughter of John and Jane (McClellan) Welsh, both natives of Ireland. John Welsh, a son of Samuel Welsh, was ten years of age when his parents came to America, and within a short time after their arrival in this country they established their home on a pioneer farm in Harrison County, where the father reclaimed his land from the forest wilds and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, as sterling pioneer citizens of Archer Township. John Welsh was reared under the conditions that marked the early stages of development in this county and became a prosperous farmer in Archer Township, where he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having been members of the Presbyterian
Church. Their children were ten in number : Samuel, John, Matthew, James, David, William, Mary, Elizabeth, Anna and Jane.
John McCullough was a son of Joseph McCullough, who came to Harrison County when this section of Ohio was little more than a forest wilderness, and he settled on the land which constitutes the present well improved farm of his grandson, Joseph M., of this review, the farm having remained continuously in the possession of the family since the early pioneer era. The name of the first wife of Joseph McCullough was Hanna, and they became the parents of seven children: John. James B. (became a physician), Elizabeth. Sarah Jane, Mary, Esther and Isabel. The religious faith of the family was that of the Presbyterian Church, and the lineage traces back to staunch Scotch-Irish origin.
On the ancestral farm which was the place of his birth John McCullough passed his entire life, and in his character and worthy achievement he well upheld the high honors of the family name. Both he and his wife were well advanced in years at the time of their deaths and both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas B. Copeland), Joseph M. (immediate subject of this sketch). Amanda J. (Mrs. Andrew J. Palmer), and John W. (died in childhood).
Joseph M. McCullough, the only surviving male representative of his generation of the family, gained his early education in the district schools of Archer Township and eventually became the owner of the old homestead farm, with the activities of which he has been associated from his youth. He is known as a farmer of resourcefulness and enterprise, and has been successful as a representative of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the neighborhood Methodist Episcopal Church known. as Bethel chapel.
The 30th of November, 1876, recorded the marriage of Mr. McCullough to Miss Elizabeth Birney, who was born and reared in Green Township and who is a daughter of the late Asbury and Eleanor (McCullough) Birney. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough became the parents of five children: Eleanor is the wife of Charles McKee. a prosperous farmer in Archer Township, and they have four children. Joseph Ross, William Birney, Mary Elizabeth and Anna Martha. Mary is the wife of T. S. Birney, of Washington Township. John, a farmer in Archer Township, married Miss Clara Ora Heavilin, and they have three children, Chester H.. Joseph Dwaine and Vula Elizabeth. Alice died at the age of four years, and Lela 0. remains at the parental home.
JUDGE WALTER GASTON SHOTWELL was born on the 27th day of December, 1856, in a substantial brick home in Cadiz. The house still stands on South street at the end of Main and is the same to which his father and mother moved when they were married and in which they passed the remainder of their lives. Both par-
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ents were of pioneer families that came to Ohio early and carved out farms in the wilderness. Both were born in log cabins, and after long lives of upright living and usefulness in the community they died, the father in 1890 and the mother in 1905. They were buried at Cadiz.
Stuart Beebe Shotwell, the father, was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1819. His family were English Quakers. They removed to America and settled near Elizabeth, New Jersey, as early as 1664. Here they remained and here Hugh Shotwell was born in 1764. He was the sixth of a family of eleven children. His father dying when he was young, he received his share of the estate in Continental money and that soon becoming depreciated he removed to the west, where land was cheap, to improve his fortunes. He settled first in Fayette County. Pennsylvania, near Brownsville, where he bought a farm. This he afterwards gave to his oldest son, John. With the rest of his family Hugh removed to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1813, settling first on the farm now occupied by John Rea in Cadiz Township. This farm later be gave to his second son, Joseph, while Hugh removed to other land he had acquired in Washington Township, some of which he had entered himself. This land he later divided between his two other sons William and Arrison, and here Hugh died in his nineteenth year. He was a man of intelligence, owned arid read his copy of Blackstone, and was the first county surveyor of Harrison County and laid out many of its roads and platted mnch of its land.
William Shotwell, third son of Hugh, received from his father the farm on Big Stillwater, now owned by Martha B. Shotwell, and on it William built the Shotwell mill. Later he removed to Cadiz and started a store in the building now occupied by Judge Shotwell's office. Neither the store nor the mill prospered, awl becoming tinancially embarrassed William retired. He married Rhoda Beebe, of Hampden County. Massachusetts, the daughter of Capt. Stuart Beebe and the sister of Walter B. Beebe, who was the tirst attorney at the Harrison County bar. It was while on a visit to her brother in Cadiz that they met and it was at his home that they were married. It was on their Stillwater farm that their first child, Stuart Beebe Shotwell, was born. The mother was a strong character, well educated in the Massachusetts schools, two of her brothers were graduates of Williams College and were lawyers, and she early determined that her son should also be a college graduate and a lawyer. And so at the age of sixteen Stuart was sent to Franklin College, where he spent three years, and then he quit college and entered upon the study of law at Cadiz with Dewey & Stanton. He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and thereafter practiced law in Cadiz for fifty years and until his death. He never held office, but was a man of sturdy sense, of good business qualifications and scholarly tastes. And by strict integrity, close application to business and good habits he was able at his death to leave a considerable estate to his family,
Nancy Gaston, whom he married, was a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Kilgore) Gaston. The Gaston family were French Huguenots that left France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. John Gaston was born in France in 1600. He left France in 1640, going to Scotland, where he was married. He had three sons born in Scotland. They went from Scotland to northern Ireland and thence came to America in 1720. James, the father of Nancy, was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His father, Hugh, had Married a remote cousin. Grace, the daughter of Robert Gaston, a colonel in the Revolutionary war. Hugh with his family removed from Pennsylvania to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1800. Here he had acquired four hundred acres of wild land. The removal was made in a wagon. His son James was only seven years old at that time. They lived in the wagon until a cabin could be built and in the cabin until some years later a brick house was built. They cleared fourteen acres that spring for corn and sowed it in wheat in the fall. That winter they cleared fourteen acres more for corn the next spring. And so the clearing went on thereafter from year to year.
James Gaston married Elizabeth Kilgore, whose home was on the adjoining farm. He had already bought a tract of wild land next to his father's and having erected a cabin on it he and his wife commenced to keep house there and proceeded to clear the land. It was in this cabin that Nancy was born. When she was only a year old and still the baby of the family a new frame house was finished, and it was agreed that they would take dinner in it on a particular day. And on that day one of the carpenters, taking the baby, Nancy, on one arm and the pot of corn from the crane over the wood fire on the other, remarked that he had his share of the moving and started for the new house. And having thus been brought to her new home Nancy there grew to womanhood. She graduated at the Steubenville Female Seminary and then came to Cadiz to teach in a select school which her uncle. Daniel Kilgore, had established. It was thus that she met her future husband, Stuart B. Shotwell. She was a woman of strong common sense and of fervid piety, and through her long life was greatly respected and beloved by her neighbors. They had five children: Mary, deceased; Martha B.; Walter G.; Stuart B., deceased; and William J., deceased. Martha graduated from the public schools and from Franklin College in the class of 1875.
Walter G. Shotwell's winters when young were spent in school and his summers on his grandfather's or uncle's farm in Columbiana County. On the farm he did the work of a farm lad, dropped corn, hoed it, raked sheaves and gathered them, tramped the hay and carried water to the men in the fields. And he fished in the creek. And one day while engaged in this sport he slipped and fell into the pool below his uncle's mill dam and narrowly escaped drowning. But a neighbor, William Conkle, seeing him unable to swim and floundering in water twenty feet deep threw off his coat and at the risk of his own life swam out and, getting him on his
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back, swam with him to the shore, and thus saved his life.
Walter's first teacher was W. B. Hearn, later the editor of the Cadiz Republican. He was a sincerely good man and an excellent teacher. The relation continued for seven years, Mr. Hearn advancing in the grade of the school as his pupil advanced in his studies. It was a very pleasant relation and left an enduring impression upon the pupil's life. They were always friends, and to this day the pupil retains an affectionate regard for the memory of this early benefactor. At the age of fifteen young Shot- well entered the preparatory department of Franklin College. And he continued in this institution for five years. During most of this time Andrew F. Ross, LL. D., was the president of the college and excelled as a teacher, especially of Latin and Greek, in which he had previously held professorships in Bethany and Oscaloosa College. Perhaps owing to a friendship that already existed between the father of young Shotwell and Dr. Ross a regard was awakened early for the new student. And it ripened into a sincere affection. Walter became a member of Doctor Ross's family and enjoyed a familiar association daily during term time with this excellent man. And so he had always afterward a reason to be thankful for another of these early associations. After graduating at Franklin young Shotwell went to Yale College at New Haven, Connecticut, where he passed an examination in the studies already pursued by the class and was entered as a senior. He graduated the next year in the class of 1878. Then he entered upon the study of law with his father, and two years later was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Cadiz and devoted himself to the bar. He opened an office in Cadiz and devoted himself to the work of his profession. On the 4th day of July, 1887, he was nominated by the republican convention for prosecuting attorney of Harrison County. He was subsequently elected and at the end of three years was renominated and re-elected for a second term. The work of the office during these years was exacting. owing to the strong feeling against the saloons and the building of the Wheeling and Lake Erie and the double tracking of the Panhandle Railroad. These large public works caused an influx of foreign labor as well as liquor into the county, and together they made work for the prosecutor. But young Shotwellls private practice had increased to such an extent that the office with its small salary had become unprofitable and he resigned it at the close of the fifth year. And thereafter he devoted himself exclusively to private practice for the next eight years. He worked hard and the labor brought success.
In 1899 he was nominated for the office of Common Pleas judge in the sub-division composed of Harrison, Jefferson and Tuscarawas counties, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Fletcher Doughitt. Judge Shotwell was renominated and re-elected in 1901 and again in 1906, the last time without opposition. the republicans presenting no other candidate in the convention and the democrats none at the election. The work of this office was very heavy. During nine of the fourteen years that Judge Shotwell served he did all the work of Tuscarawas County, and during seven of these years that of Harrison also. Thus in those seven years he tried the suits in the court of general jurisdiction for approximately 100,000 people. Then an additional judgeship was created for the sub-division owing to an accumulation of business in Jefferson County. And during the remaining five years of Judge Shotwell's judicial career he brought up the docket in Jefferson County besides doing the business of Harrison. Thus he had the satisfaction of seeing all the work done and the dockets up when he quit. He retired from the bench in 1913, receiving, as he went out a testimonial banquet from the bar of each county of the sub-division. And then, after thirty-three years of hard labor at the law, he quit the profession.
Judge Shotwell is the author of a Life of Charles Sumner, published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Company of New York, which has been favorably reviewed and has found its way into the principal libraries of the country.
On the 24th of December, 1884, Judge Shotwell married Miss Belle McIlvaine, of New Philadelphia, Ohio. They have one child, Margaret Mcllvaine, married to S. P. McLaughlin of Waterloo. Iowa. There are four grandchildren : Nancy Shotwell, Margaret Mcllvaine, Mary Elizabeth and Ann Parks.
In 1897 Judge Shotwell and his wife visited Europe, traveling through England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany and Holland. And since his retirement from the bench he has traveled extensively in the southern and eastern sections of his own country.
STUART B. SHOTWELL, JR., was born at Cadiz, Ohio, April 8, 1861, a son of Stuart B. and Nancy ( Gaston ) Shotwell. He was graduated from Franklin College in 1882, and after reading law with his father was admitted to the bar in 1884. For several years thereafter Mr. Shotwell was engaged in the practice of his profession at Saint Paul, Minnesota, to which city he had gone after his admission to the bar, and in that connection formed the acquaintance of men of extensive interests, and by some of them was induced to become vice president and treasurer of the Graves & Vinton Company, investment bankers and western managers of the Middlesex Banking Company. Still later Mr. Shotwell engaged in a brokerage business of his own, continuing to reside at Saint Paul, where his death occurred May 22, 1910.
In 1S92 Mr. Shotwell was married at Cadiz, Ohio, to Miss Caroline R. Mcllvaine. a daughter of Judge George W. Mclnvaine of the Ohio Supreme bench. Mrs. Shotwell died at Cadiz, April 7 ,1918, leaving one son, Stuart Mcllvaine Shotwell, who was born at Saint Paul, Minnesota, April 16, 1893. He was graduated from the public schools of his native city in 1910, and in the fall of that year entered Harvard University, and was graduated therefrom in 1914.
Immediately following his graduation Stuart M. Shotwell entered the banking house of Lee,
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Higginson & Company of Chicago, Illinois, and remained with this concern until in May, 1917, he enlisted for service during the great war and entered an officer's training camp. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and was sent overseas with his command to France. While there he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and remained abroad until July, 1919, when he was sent home and honorably discharged. At present he is in the bond department of the Irving National Bank of New York City, New York. He was married in October, 1919, to Bernice Myers, of Berwyn, Illinois.
CHARLES F. THOMPSON is the owner of a fine farm property of 257 acres in Archer Township, Harrison County, and is in a significant degree to he classed as a vigorous and influential representative of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county. His farm is equipped with modern improvements, and its operations are carried forward according to approved scientific methods, with the result that he gains from the property the maximum returns. He is a breeder of registered Shorthorn cattle, and has advanced views in connection with all features of productive farm enterprise.
Mr. Thompson was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 8th of February, 1869, and is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Shields) Thompson, whose marriage was solemnized in 1856. Joseph Thompson was born in Ireland in January, 1833, and his wife was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1836, she being a daughter of William and Ann (Thompson) Shields. William Shields passed the major part of his life in Short Creek Township, and for many years was engaged in the work of his trade, that of blacksmith, at Ha rrisville. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of nine children—Eli, James, Mary Eleanor, Hannah, Lydia Jane, Henry, Alice Ann, Sarah Elizabeth and Benoni. William Shields was a son of Benoni Shields, an honored pioneer of Harrison County and one of whom more specific mention is made on other pages of this volume, in the sketch dedicated to Milton M. Shields.
James Mitchell Thompson and his wife, Elizabeth, remained in Ireland until about the year 1848, when they came with their children to America and established a residence in Canada, where his death occurred within the following year. Thereafter Mrs. Thompson and her children came to Ohio and established a home on a farm in Green Township, Harrison .County, where the loved mother passed the remainder of her life. Her children were five in number—Joseph, James, Susan (Mrs. Joseph Mitchell), Nancy (Mrs. James Bullock) and Jennie (Mrs. James Howard).
Joseph Thompson, elder of the two sons in the above mentioned family, initiated his independent career as a farmer when he was a young man, and he remained in Short Creek Township until the early '80s, after which he was a farmer in Cadiz Township for four years. He then removed with his family to Archer
Township, where he became the owner of an excellent farm and where he continued to reside until his death, in 1904, his widow still maintaining her home in that township and being a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he likewise was a member. They became the parents of eight children: Elizabeth (Mrs. James Henderson), Mary Eleanor (Mrs. William Hedges), James Mitchell, Jennie (Mrs. Adam Porter), William (died in childhood), Charles F., Oliver J.( married Lucy Wood) and John (died at the age of eleven months). Charles F. Thompson acquired his youthful education in the district schools of Short Creek, Cadiz and Archer townships, and he remained at the parental home until the time of his marriage, when he was twenty-seven years of age. Since that time he has been independently engaged in farm enterprise in Archer Township. where his success is attested by the admirable appearance and general productiveness of his valuable farm. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his wife hold Membership in the Presbyterian Church in the Village of Jewett. They have no children. The maiden name of Mrs. Thompson was Jennie Baker, and concerning the family more specific record is given on other pages, in the sketch of Andrew H. Baker.
JAMES M. THOMPSON, a brother of Charles F. Thompson, mentioned individually in the preceding review, was born in Short Creek Township on the 5th of February, 1862, and he likewise is one of the representative farmers of Archer Township. He received the advantages of the district schools and from his young manhood has been successfully engaged in farm industry in Archer Township, where his homestead place comprises 145 acres, and where he owns also another farm of ninety-five acres not far distant from his residence place. He is a successful breeder of registered American Helaine sheep and registered Shorthorn cattle. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he served two years as assessor of Archer Township. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jewett.
On the 20th of November, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Thompson to Miss Nancy Reid, daughter of Nelson and Mary (Hustis) Reid, whose marriage occurred on the 15th of August, 1867. Mr. Reid was born in Archer Township April 21, 1841, and here he passed his entire life, his death having occurred September 9, 1871, when he was only thirty years of age and his entire active career having been marked by close association with farm enterprise in his native township. His widow. who was born December 4, 1844, was a daughter of John Hustis and survived her husband by many years. They became the parents of two children—Margaret E., who was born May 23, 1868, and whose death occurred November 4, 1881; and Nancy (Mrs. James Mitchell Thompson), who was born July 31, 1871, a short time prior to the death of her father. Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell Thompson became the parents of ten children, concerning whom the following brief record is available; Joseph
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Reid, who was born September 6, 1891, married Miss Etta Patterson, and they have two children-Ralph Edwin, born November 12, 1916, and Eleanor May, born May 9, 1919. Alma Elizabeth Thompson was born January 19, 1894, and her death occurred January 16, 1909. Mary Leona was born October 9, 1895. John Mitchell was born August 4, 1897; Walter Leslie was born September 28, 1899; Nancy Marie, July 24, 1902; Ruth Eleanor, May 31, 1905; Lucy May, May 5, 1907; Edna Frances, April 13, 1910; and Ralph Wayne, November 7, 1912.
K. W. KINSEY. It has been the privilege of Mrs. Emma H. Kinsey, of Cadiz, to "keep his memory green" by commemorating her husband, K. W. Kinsey, in the annals of Harrison County. The Kinseys belong to the early history of the community. An old record shows that John Kinsey, an English Quaker, came from London, arriving at New Castle on the Delaware in the ship Kent June 16, 1677, coming as one of the commissioners for the settlement of West Jersey under the purchase by Edward Byllinge. He was five years ahead of William Penn in the New World. Settlement was made at Burlington, New Jersey, and at this time John Kinsey bargained for 300 acres on the west side of the Delaware, in the locality afterward famous because of the treaty made between William Penn and the Indians- the treaty that was never sworn to nor broken, William Penn being a Quaker and opposed to the oath in such things.
While John Kinsey died before settlement was completed there, the Swede from whom he purchased the land made formal acknowledgment of his deed of conveyance to the widow, Elizabeth Kinsey, and thus the purchase was intact for the heirs. There was a son, John Kinsey, who came a year later to the colonies, and he afterward distinguished himself in public service, and in turn his son John, likewise a Quaker, later became chief justice of Pennsylvania. His brother, Edmund Kinsey, married Sarah Osburn August 21, 1708, and in 1815 they moved to Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, having friendly Indians as their guides, and there they made their homes in the wilderness, and from them the Ohio branch of the Kinsey family traces its lineage. Edmund Kinsey was much interested in the cause of religion and in 1720 he was one of the founders of the Buckingham meeting.
Edmund Kinsey was one of the foremost and most skilled mechanics of his time, and he established a scythe and ax factory in Buckingham. In it he installed a trip hammer operated by water power, which was a great improvement. There were nine children in his family, and from Benjamin, the eighth child, the Ohio family is descended. He was born October 22, 1727, and in 1749 he married Susannah Brown, and after her death he married Martha Waite in the year of the Declaration of American Independence. There were seven children by the first and nine children by the second marriage, one of them being George Kinsey, who on December 22, 1773, mar ried Mary Gillingham. In this family there were nine children: Sarah, Susannah, Edmund, James, Aaron, John, Charles and Ann, and It is through Charles that the relationship is carried down to the Ohio branch of the family.
Charles Kinsey was born May 19, 1786, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was a hatter by trade, and on June 1, 1815, he married Ann Worrall in Philadelphia. When he was only ten years old the Kinsey family came to Mount Pleasant, where there was a Quaker settlement in Ohio, and from there he returned to Philadelphia and worked as a hatter. When he married and came back to Ohio he settled in Cadiz Township, near the site of Lafferty's Mill, and here he continued the business of manufacturing hats until after the death of his wife, when he removed to Moorefield and continued making hats. On November 2, 1823, while a resident of Harrison County. a son of K .W. Kinsey, who is now commemorated in the annals of the community, was born, and he always lived in Harrison County. After going to Moorefield Charles Kinsey was married twice, the second wife, Talitha Catchel, becoming the mother of three children, and the third wife, Rody Boone, bearing him two children.
At the time of the gold discovery in California in 1849 Mr. Kinsey spent five years in search of the precious metal. He returned to Moorefield and resumed the business as a hatter, finally removing to Flushing in Belmont County. where he died at the age of almost eighty-eight years. At the time of his death Mr. Kinsey was the oldest Mason in Ohio, having been a member since 1816. when he joined in Gallipoils. His body lies buried in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery at Flushing. The children born to Charles Kinsey from his first marriage were: Gillingham, K. W. and Sarah Jane, and the oldest distinguished himself as an artist, some of his pictures being still in existence.
When he was a boy of fourteen K. W. Kinsey became a "bound boy" in Cadiz, but it was an unsatisfactory arrangement and in time he left and went to Mount Pleasant, where he remained four years. When he returned to Cadiz he spent ten months in a private school taught by Joseph Wood. after which he was a teacher, and at times he served as clerk in different bnsiness establishments. In 1855 Mr. Kinsey was elected auditor of Harrison County, and in 1860 he was re-elected. Later he engaged in business in Cadiz, being one of the most extensive wool dealers in Harrison County.
On May 6, 1847, K. W. Kinsey married Sarah Jane Haverfield and they had an adopted daughter, Emma Bingham Kinsey. On November 8, 1864, Mr. Kinsey married the second time, and the wife, Emma Holmes Kinsey, survives him, continuing her residence in Cadiz. She is a daughter of George and Hannah (Mansfield) Holmes. and her parents were pioneers in Harrison County. Col. Joseph Holmes, grandfather of Mrs. Emma Holmes Kinsey, was the founder of the house of Holmes in the county. He married three times, his first wife being Hannah Linn, the second wife was Tacy Thompson, and the third was Hannah Mansfield.
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The children born to K. W. and Emma Holmes Kinsey are as follows: Mary is the wife of Charles Brown. George married Ruby Hastings. His children are Kersey W. and Louise. Harry Kinsey married Mary Moore. His children are Sarah and Carolyn. George and Harry Kinsey live in Arcadia, Nebraska. Edith Kinsey is the wife of Edward Barringer. Her children are Marcella and Elizabeth. Nellie Kinsey is a supervisor of music.
The Commemorative Record of Harrison County gives a full history of the Kinsey family, and Mrs. Emma H. Kinsey adds something of the Holmes family story. Her father, George Holmes, who was a son of Col. Joseph Holmes and Hannah (Mansfield) Holmes, the latter a daughter of Thomas Mansfield, was a native of Short Creek, born there in 1799, while Ohio was still a territory. Colonel Holmes was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and he was a member of the first Ohio State Legislature. His children were: George, Asa, Abraham, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan and Cynthia. George Holmes owned about 500 acres of land in Short Creek and was among the well-to-do farmers of his day in Harrison County. The Kinsey family were members of the Methodist Church, and were always active in all movements for the welfare of the community.
ABRAHAM M. BUSBY is another of the native sons of Harrison County who is here causing the earth to bring forth its increase and who is known as one of the progressive and success fill exponents of agriculture and live-stock Industry in Archer Township, where he is the owner of the fine old homestead farm of 160 acres which was the place of his birth, the date of his nativity having been March 2S, 1864. He is a son of Martin V. and Melinda (Helea) Busby, honored citizens of whom adequate record is given on other pages, in the sketch of the career of another of their sons, John.
Abraham M. Busby is indebted to the district schools of his native township for his early educational discipline, and from his boyhood to the present time the old homestead farm has been the stage of his productive activities. In 1898 he purchased the interest of the other heirs and came into full possession of his valuable farm. upon which he has since made excellent improvements, including the erection of the present modern and commodious house, which is one of the attractive rural domiciles of Archer Township.
The political proclivities of Mr. Busby are indicated in his staunch support of the cause of the democratic party. and he is influential in community affairs, as is evidenced by his having served two terms as trustee of his native township. He and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Village of Jewett.
The year 1888 recorded the marriage of Mr. Busby to Miss. Mary Bell Dyson, who like* wise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Joseph and Julia (Swan) Dyson. Mr. and Mrs. Busby have two children—Bessie May, who is the wife of James
A. Dodds, and Audra Beatrice, who remains at the parental home.
CHARLES E. LAFFERTY is well entitled to recognition in this history, not alone by reason of his personal achievement in connection with farm industry in Harrison County, but also by reason of his being a popular representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this county. He was born in Athens Township on the 8th of October, 1869, and he is a son of Edward and Sarah A. (Cooper) Lafferty, whose marriage was solemnized September 7, 1865. Edward Lafferty was born in Athens Township, this county, November 25, 1826, and received his early education in the pioneer schools. The original representatives of the Lafferty family in America came from England and settled in Pennsylvania about the middle of the eighteenth century. In the old Keystone State was born Edward Lafferty, who there married Elizabeth Ramage. In the early part of the nineteenth century he came with his large family to Ohio and became one of the pioneer settlers in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, as now constituted. He purchased a large tract of wild land and began the reclaiming, of a farm from the forest, the while he assembled his family in a log house of the type common to the locality and period. He was one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death, and his widow attained to the remarkable age of 111 years, her death having occurred August 22, 1844, and both having been earnest members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. Their son Edward was born in Pennsylvania in 1789, and in his youth he assisted in developing the frontier farm in Harrison County. Here he married Margaret McFadden, a member of another sterling pioneer family, and they established themselves. on a pioneer farm in Athens Township, where they passed the remainder of their' lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them and both zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. Mr. Lafferty died on the 8th of November, 1836, and his widow passed to eternal rest on the 14th of September, 1864. They became the parents of ten children: Samuel, John, Eliza (Mrs. Thomas Gullies), Margaret (Mrs. Luke Vorhees), George. Joseph, Hiram, Edward, Findlay and Mary Jane.
Of these children Edward was the father of him whose name introduces this review, and he 11";1S reared on the old home farm. the while he profited by the advantages of the common schools of the period. In 1S65, as already noted, he married Miss Sarah A. Cooper, a daughter of William C. Cooper, who was a pioneer settler of Nottingham Township, and whose children were nine in number—Benjamin, William. John. Stephen. Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Louisa and Sarah A. Edward Lafferty became one of the substantial farmers in Athens Township. where he continued his residence until his death, April 2, 1886. His wife survived him by several years. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens, and in politics he held to the ancestral
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faith, that of the democratic party. He well upheld the honors of a family name that has been one of prominence and influence in Harrison County since the early pioneer era, and he and his wife commanded the high regard of the community in which they lived and labored to worthy ends. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here made a matter of record; George T., March 26, 1867; Charles E., October 8, 1869; Eliza Caroline, Mrs. Charles K. Norcott, August 4, 1871; William A. and Margaret E., twins, August 31, 1874, the latter being the wife of George McFadden; and Mary , E., Mrs. Jesse Mitchell, November 22, 1881.
Charles E. Lafferty found the period of his boyhood compassed by the influences of the home farm, and in the meantime made good use of the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township. There also he initiated his independent activities as a farmer, and there he continued this association until 1909, when he removed to his present farm in Nottingham Township, where he owns seventy- nine acres and has proved himself eligible for registration as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county. He has been unfaltering in his support of the principles of the democratic party and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. in the tenets of which he was reared.
On the 14th of June, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lafferty to Miss Luella Jones, who was born in Stock Township, this county, October 8, 1873, and who is a daughter of George M. and Mary E. (Laughlin) Jones, the former of whom was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and the latter in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. George M. Jones was one of the young patriots who represented Ohio as a soldier in the Civil war. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the history of this gallant regiment constitutes the virtual record of his military career, which involved participation in many important battles, as well as innumerable skirmishes and other minor engagements. Mr. Jones was with General Sherman on the historic march from Atlanta to the sea and took part in the Grand Review of the victorious armies in the City of Washington. He was honorably discharged on September 21, 1864. After the close of the war Mr. Jones became a prosperous farmer in Stock Township, Harrison County, where he remained until 1890, when he removed to the farm now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Lafferty in Nottingham Township, where he remained until his death on the 26th day of January, 1917, his wife dying January 24, 1917. He was a man of worth and ability and was an honored member of the post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Deersville. Of the three children Mrs. Lafferty is the youngest; Alfred P. resides in Carroll County, Ohio, and Ruth A. is the wife of Emmett Maxwell, of Nottingham Township. Mr. and Mrs. Lafferty have no children. Mr. Lafferty is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
ELMER E. BLACKWELL is one of the progressive farmers of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 137 acres and where he gives successful attention to diversified agriculture and to the raising of good grades of live-stock.
Mr. Blackwell was born in Franklin Township, this county, June 12, 1861, and is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the county.. He is a son of William J. and Rhoda L. (Jenkins) Blackwell, the former of whom was born in Nottingham Township, this county, February 5, 1817, and the latter of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Jenkins, who came from the old Keystone State to Carroll County, Ohio, where he became a snccessful farmer and where he passed the remainder of his life, his two sons having been Josiah and Samuel, the former of whom died while serving as a Union soldier in the Civil war. William J. Blackwell, Sr., was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, a member of a family that was founded in the Old Dominion state in the colonial days. There he was reared to manhood and there was solemnized his marriage to Catherine Fencer. About the year 1815 they came to Harrison County, Ohio and settled in Nottingham Township, whence they later removed to Franklin Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. Blackwell not only having been one of the honored pioneer farmers of the county but having also served as a soldier in the War of 1812. His children were: James R., Isaac, Samuel, Benjamin, William J., Jr., Lanie, Nancy and Mary.
William J. Blackwell, Jr., passed his entire life in Harrison County and was one of the substantial citizens and representative farmers of Franklin Township at the time of his death, his wife likewise having died on the old homestead. They became the parents of eight children—Francis A., Addison W., Theopolis' M., Martin L.. Elmer E., Ulysses S., Rosetta M. and Ida Amelia.
Elmer E. Blackwell was reared on his father's farm in Franklin Township, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages afforded in the district schools. He remained at the parental home until his marriage in 1890, and for six years thereafter was engaged in farming in Washington Township. In 1897 he removed to his present farm in Nottingham Township, where he owns 137 acres and where he has since continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. His political allegiance is accorded to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.
In the year 1890 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Blackwell to Miss Mary S. Street, daughter of Saint Clair and Volumnia (Hefling) Street, the former of whom was born in Maryland in the year 1820, and the latter of whom was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, August 8, 1828. Dr. Saint Clair Street was one of the early physicians and surgeons of Harrison County, where he developed a large and representative practice and where he continued his residence in the Village of
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Tippecanoe until his death in 1865, at the age of forty-five years, one mouth and twenty days. His first wife was survived by two children, Sarah Elizabeth and Shadrach W. Of the second marriage Mary Samantha, wife of the subject of this sketch, is the only child, and her birth occurred on the 28th of February, 1865. only a few months prior to the death • of her father. Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell have three children—Clarence M., Lyle St. Clair and Helen Street. Clarence M. Blackwell entered the nation's military service on the 5th of October, 1917, at Camp Sherman, whence he was later transferred to Camp Forrest. Georgia. where he was assigned to the Thirty-third Company of the Ninth Training Battalion of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Depot Brigade. In April, 1918, he sailed with his command for France, and while at sea became so seriously afflicted with rheumatism and pneumonia that he was returned home on the same transport, without having landed in France. At Camp Sherman, Ohio, he received his honorable discharge December 27, 1918, and be has since remained at the parental home.
DANIEL. KILGORE during the first half of the nineteenth century was one of Ohio's most influential citizens. While his later enterprises affected many counties, he laid the foundation of his success while a resident of Harrison County.
He was born on King's Creek, West Virginia, a son of William and Nancy (Kelly) Kilgore, who some years previously had come from Ireland. On April 14. 1816, Daniel Kilgore married for his first wife Mary, Pritchard, who was born May 18, 1800. To this marriage were born two children, Narcissa, born in 1817 and became the wife of Charles Paulson, and John P., born in 1823, who married Mary Wilson. The mother of these children died February 3, 1825. and on April 5, 1831, Mr. Kilgore married Ellen Downey, who was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1811. The children of the second marriage were Daniel, Ellen, Alice, Charles, Dolly, William, Anna and Harry.
During his boyhood Daniel Kilgore went from West Virginia to Steubenville, Ohio, and learned the trade of making nails by the old manual process: With this trade as a chief capital he came to Cadiz and established a little shop a short distance below the present site of the Harrison National Bank. From nail making he opened a stock of hardware and then of general merchandise, and gradually resigned the making of nails to employes while he gave his attention to the enlarging business of his store. He had a business genius and everything he touched seemed to prosper. His success was undoubtedly in a large measure due to his high standard of honesty. He was not only honest in the big things but in even the smallest details. Once while traveling in a stage coach when the driver forgot to collect the fares a fellow passenger indicating that he would not remedy the omission Mr. Kilgore insisted not only in paying his own fare, but in collecting from his companion as well. With a thriving mercantile business he also dealt in real estate and an associate of Chauncey Dewey and John Olmsted. In more prosperous years he started the Harrison branch of the State Bank of Ohio, that being the first banking establishment in Cadiz, and he was the first president of the branch bank. His half brother, Robert Lyons, became its cashier.
Daniel Kilgore earned the confidence of his fellow citizens and enjoyed many positions of trust and honor. He served in the Legislature from 1828 to 1832, and from 1334 to 1833 served in Congress. After leaving Congress he became the original promoter and first president of the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, the nucleus of which has since developed as the Panhandle part of the Pennsylvania system. It was his intention to build the road through Cadiz on the route from Steubenville to Dennison. At that time railways were built largely on money voted to the companies by township and other localities. Cadiz Township voted for the railroad but other townships along the route, believing that Mr. Kilgore's influence would not overlook the claims of Cadiz, refused to vote the allotted bonus. Townships in the northern part of the county on the other band all voted for the aid for the railroad and it was built there instead of through Cadiz.
Mr. Kilgore at the time he was elected president of the railroad company moved to Steubenville, the city he claimed as his home until his death. While on an eastern business trip in connection with his railroad. interests he died- in a hotel at New York City., By that time he had seen his railroad completed from Steubenville as far as Bowerston Tunnel. This original railroad has grown until it Is one of the strongest branches of .the Pennsylvania system. -
Mr. Kilgore while living in Cadiz established a select school for the purpose of teaching the higher branches,. and was instrumental in securing a building for it at the northwest corner of the Court House Square, the lower part being used for the school while the upper floor was the Odd Fellows Hall. This building also served as a temporary Court House during the erection of the present. Court House and later was torn down.
Daniel Kilgore in every way was a man of impressive character. About six feet tall, square built, well: proportioned, with black hair and dark eyes and dark complexion, always clean shaven, he was the physical embodiment of resourcefulness, unlimited energy, and a kindly and wholesome personality.
EMANUEL WRIGHT. Not only is- Emanuel Wright, of Burnley Township, one of the successful farmers of Harrison County, but is also It dealer in stock, and interested in several banking institutions of Harrison County, so that he may be fairly considered as a man of large atfairs. He was born in Monongahela County, West-Virginia, May 18, 1864, a son of Jeremiah S. Wright and grandson of Jonathan Wright.
Jonathan Wright was also born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, and there he spent his life, devoting himself to farming activities. He married Catherine Snyder, and they had the
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following children : Jeremiah S., John W., and Martha. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Jeremiah S. Wright was born in Monongahela County, West Virginia. There he lived all of his life and died in 1901, aged seventy-three years, and, like his father, he was a farmer. Jeremiah S. Wright was first married to Mary Moore, and they had four children, Noah, Jonathan, Catherine and Mariah, Noah being the only one living. After the death of his first wife he was married to Delilah Moore, and their children were: Michael, Eliza Jane, deceased; Emanuel; Solomon, who died when small; William J., and Martha, deceased. All of her life Mrs. Wright was a consistent and earnest member of the Christian Church. Her father, Solomon Moore, was a farmer of Monongahela County, West Virginia, and his children were as follows: Perry; Emanuel, who was a Union soldier and was killed in the service; Levi, Phoebe, Eliza and Druscilla, all deceased; Juilianna, Mary and Delilah, deceased. The Moores were all members of the Christian Church.
Emanuel Wright went to the district schools of his native county, and at the same time learned to be a farmer in a practical way. As a young man he began dealing in stock, and for about twenty-five years was engaged in butchering in West Virginia, but in March. 1909, he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and bought his present farm of 188 acres in Burnley Township, and here he is carrying on general farming and stockraising, and deals in stock. His residence is in Rumley Township, along the Jewett and Cadiz tnrnpike For fifteen years Mr. Wright has been a director of the Dunkard Valley Bank of Blackville, West Virginia, and for six years has been a director of the Jewett Bank. He is otherwise interested in Harrison County enterprises, and never loses an opportunity to advance the welfare of his community.
On March 28, 1888, Mr. Wright was united hi marriage with Isophene Berry, a daughter of Solomon and Selina (Stine) Berry, and they have one son, Frank L., who is assisting his father to operate the homestead. 'Frank L. Wright was married to Margaret Boyce, and they have a daughter, Helen Virginia. The Christian Church holds the membership of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Wright.
Solomon Berry, father of Mrs. Emanuel Wright, was born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, but his wife was born in Monroe County, Ohio. He was a wagonmaker by trade, and followed his calling in his -native county. He and his wife had the following children: George H., who is deceased; Maria Jane, who is also deceased; Mary M., who was third in order of birth; Isophene, who Is Mrs. Wright; Ellen, who is fifth in order of birth; and Bell, who is deceased. The entire family belonged to the Christian Church.
John Berry, the paternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Emanuel Wright, was born in England, but his wife, Mary (Huffman) Berry, was born in Maryland. After coming to the United States he located in West Virginia, where he engaged in farming. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: George, Frances, Solomon, Joseph, Thomas. Alpheus and Catherine.
The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Emanuel Wright. Benjamin Stine. married Jemima Birch, and they had the following children: Isaac, an ex-Union soldier; Asbury. an ex-Union soldier; Evander. an ex-Union soldier; Jane, Ellen, Selina. Isophene and Minerva. Early in life Benjamin Stine was a miller, but later became a farmer.
From the above records it is easy to prove that the ancestors of Mr. and Mrs. Wright have been for several generations upright, industrious and honorable, and played their part in a quiet way in the development of this country.
WILLIAM T. PALMER is effectively showing his executive mettle and practical resourcefulness in his independent operations as a farmer in his native township, and is a son of Andrew Palmer, who likewise is a prosperous exponent of farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and who is made the subject of a personal sketch on other pages of the volume, so that a repetition of the family record is not demanded in the present article.
William T. Palmer was born in Nottingham Township on the 28th of November, 1874, and his boyhood and youth found him not neglectful of the advantages offered in the district schools of his native township, where he was reared on his fatherls farm. As a young man he found employment as a farm workman, and he continued his effective service in this capacity until in 1901 he engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township. After having there rented a farm and given his attention to its management for one year he rented a farm in Stock Township. where he centered his vigorous farm enterprise for the ensuing five years. Success attended his determined and well directed efforts, and in February, 1907, he found himself so effectively reinforced as to enable him to purchase his present farm, which comprises seventy-two acres of the fertile and valuable land of Nottingham Township. Here he has gained the real status of independence as a representative of the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and his success has been a fitting reward for his earnest and faithful endeavors. Mr. Palmer gives his political support to the republican party. and he served one term as trustee of Nottingham Township. His wife is an active member of the Christian Church.
On the 20th of March, 1900, Mr. Palmer wedded Miss Celeste Merryman, who was born and reared in Nottingham Township, and who is a daughter of Jeremiah C. Merryman. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have two children—Wilbur Carson and Frances Gayle.
ROBERT K. DUNLAP is a representative of the fourth successive generation of the Dunlap family in Harrison County, with whose civic and industrial history the family name has been worthily linked for more than a century. He owns and resides upon the fine old homestead
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farm of his father in Cadiz Township; and in addition to this place of 165 acres he owns also an adjoining tract of 158 acres, his effective management of all departments of his farm enterprise marking him as one of the leaders in this important domain of industry in his native county.
Mr. Dunlap is a great-grandson of Adam Dunlap, the honored founder of the family in Harrison County, within whose borders he first made his appearance in 1807, long before the organization of the county under the present name. Adam Dunlap was born in Ireland of Scotch-Irish parents. He married Rebecca Work. They became the parents of six sons and six daughters. Upon coming to America he first settled in Pennsylvania, in which state some of his children were born, and in 1808 he established the family home in what is now Athens Township. Harrison County, :Ohio. In the preceding year he had erected a smaii log cabin on his land and for Hie purpose had made as clearing in the midst of the forest. With the passing years he brought a considerable portion of his land under effective cultivation, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, with a record of noble achievement under Pioneer conditions. 'Mr. Dunlap died September 20, 1830, and his widow passed away May 20, 1846, both: having been devout members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. of which he was one of the founders. Adam Dunlap was a leader in community affairs and was influential in the councils and activities of the democratic party in this section of the Buckeye state.
Robert Dunlap. grandfather of Robert K.. was born in Fayette Comity, Pennsylvania, in 1794, and was a vigorous youth when he :accompanied his parents to Harrison County, where he assisted in the reclaiming and other work of the home farm. There he remained until his marriage to Mary Pattison. daughter of Hugh :Ind Nancy Pattison, who were natives of Ireland and who settled in- Pennsylvania, where Mr. Pattison died soon afterward. After his marriage Robert Dnulap cleared and improved :I farm in Athens township, and there he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths. he having become the owner of 363 acres of land in that township, all of which is still in the family. His wife died September 29, 1852, ;tad he passed away March 2, 1860, their remains being interred in the Nottingham Cemetery and both having been active members of Hie Presbyterian Church. He was a. democrat, and as a man of ability and sterling character was called upon to serve in the various township ̊them They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now deceased---Adam, Hugh P., Samuel, Nancy, Rebecca, Mary and Robert.
Hugh .p. Dunlap was born in Athens Township in the year 1822, and there he was reared to manhood. Ile continued his association with farm enterprise. in that township until 1869, when he purchased and removed to the- farm now owned and occupied by his eldest Son. Robert K. Here he was tile owner of a fine farm of 250 acres, and here he and his wife remained until their deaths, he having passed away March 28, 1894, and his wife died May 17, 1919. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and he held to the political faith of the democratic party. As a young man Hugh P. Dunlap wedded Miss Sarah J. Kennedy, who was born in Rush Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of Napoleon and Mary (Gilmore) Kennedy. Napoleon Kennedy was born in the District of Columbia, a son of Matthew Kennedy, whose wifels maiden name was Hines. They were numbered among the pioneer settlers in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where their son Napoleon was reared to manhood and whence he removed to Tuscarawas County after his marriage. There he took up Government land and developed the farm upon which he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Their children were seven in number— Samuel G.. Eliza, Sarah J., Martha, Christina, Matthew and Mary. The death of Hugh P. Dunlap occurred March 28, 1894, and his widow passed to the life eternal May 17, 1919. They became the parents of seven children, of whom four are living—Robert K., Joseph B., Samuel P. and Albert C. John A, died in June, 1865, Amanda B. died February 6, 1901, and Mary died in the fall or 1920.
The district schools of Athens Township afforded Robert K. Dunlap his early educational advantages, and from his boyhood to the present time he has been actively associated with the work of the old home farm, of which he owns his relative share in association with the other heirs, besides being the owner of an adjoining tract of 158 acres, as previously noted in this review. He is a native of Athens Township, where he was born February 24, 1859, and was about ten years old at the time of his family removal to the present farm. He is a progressive and successful agriculturist and stock-grower, is a democrat in his political proclivities,: and holds to the faith of the Presbyterian Church, under the influences of which he was reared. His name is still enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in Harrison County.
WILLIAM W. FAWCETT, Green Township, Harrison County, claims as one of its progressive exponents of farm industry this well known and popular citizen, whose active career has included also effective association with mercantile business, as well as earlier service as- a teacher in the district schools. He is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Carroll County, Ohio, of which he is a native, and thus he is doubly entitled to recognition in this history of Carroll and Harrison counties.
Mr. Fawcett was barn in Union Township; Carroll County, on the 24th of July, 1851, and in the same township were born his parents, Charles Wesley Fawcett in 1827 and Esther (Norris) Fawcett in 1830, she having been a daughter of William and Martha (McComas) Norris, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Washington County, Pennsylvania. William Norris was a pioneer settler in Union Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed and developed a good farm where he and his
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wife remained until their deaths, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of six children—David, Sarah, Elizabeth, Elsie, Esther and Nancy.
Charles Wesley Fawcett, whose personal name indicates the religious faith of his parents, was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Brooks) Fawcett, both natives of Ireland, where the former was born in the year 1808. Alexander Fawcett likewise was numbered among the early settlers in Union Township, Carroll County, to the development and pr Tess of which he contributed his full quota as a successful farmer and sterling citizen, and there both he and his wife remained until their deaths. both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of eleven children—Charles Wesley, John W.. Jane, Letitia, Mary, Alexander, Elizabeth, Margery, Thomas H.. Nancy and Margaret.
Charles W. Fawcett passed his entire life in his native township. where he became one of the substantial farmers and highly honored citizens of Carroll County and where he and his wife. were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On his old homestead farm of 176 acres he remained until his death in 1910. and his widow passed away in 1914. Of their children William W., immediate subject of this review, is the eldest: James A. resides at Carrollton; Martha became the wife of Cornelius B. Ka il. deceased. and her death there occurred in 1877: David died at the age of two years: Melville S. remains on his father's old homestead farm in Carroll County; Sarah is the wife of Emmerson M. Capper. of Union Township. that county.
William W. Fawcett gained his early education in the district schools of his native township and the public schools in the City of Carrollton. That he made good use of these advantages is evidenced by his record of four years of service as a popular and successful teacher in the district schools of Carroll County. His initial business venture was made as au independent farmer in the township which was the place of his birth. and in 1877 he engaged in the general merchandise business at Petersburg. that county. He successfully continued this enterprise nine years and then traded his stock and business for a farm in Carroll County. After operating- this farm five years he sold the same and purchased a general store at Conotton, Harrison County, where he continued in business about two years. His store and its contents were destroyed by fire in 1893, in which year he established his residence in Green Township. Harrison County. where he has since continued his active and successful association with agricultural and live-stock industry. In 1915 he purchased his present farm, which comprises 1141,,:, acres and which is well improved. A public-spirited citizen of well fortified views relative to political matters, he is found arrayed in the ranks of the republican party, and he is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. as was also his wife, whose death occurred October 4, 1909.
November 12, 1879. recorded the marriage of Mr. Fawcett to Miss Nancy Jane Melvin, and thus their companionship continued thirty years —until the gracious ties were severed by the death of the loved and devoted wife and mother, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John and Susanna (Boles) Melvin. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett became the parents of a fine family of fifteen children, of whom all but four are living: Norris M., now a resident of Canton, Stark County, married Miss Rada McCort, and they have one child, Helen; George I. died at the age of two years; Charles A., a resident of Carrollton, married Miss Rena Stanley, and their one child is a son, Howard; Elsie is the wife of Willard Thompson, of German Township, Harrison County, and they became the parents of four children—Marietta, Francis, Raymond (deceased) and Wilma; John and Howard remain at the paternal home; Elizabeth is the wife of Frederick 0. Phillips, of Hopedale, and they have three children—Lester, Laurence and Isabel; Mary is the wife of Frank Rutledge, of Carroll County, and they have two children— Eva and Wilma; Jessie V. remains at the paternal home; Melville died at the age of two years; Carrie resides at Carrollton; William M. and Russell died in early childhood; and Ida and Etta are members of the paternal home circle.
JOHN N. HINES owns and resides upon an excellent farm of eighty-six acres in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and has impressed himself as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native county, where he is a scion of a representative pioneer family.
John Newton Hines was born in Cadiz Township, this county, on the 10th of July, 1879, and is a son of James M. and Elmira J. (Carson) Hines, the former of whom died on the 12th of May, 1919, and the latter of whom still resides in the county of her birth, her ancestral record tracing back to an early period in the history of Harrison County.
James McMahan Hines, son of William and Isabella (Hitchcock) Hines, was born in Harrison County on the 5th of March, 1844, and here he received the advantages of the common schools of the period. His father was born in Allegany County. Maryland, March 19, 1800, and was four years of age when his parents, Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) Hines, came to Jefferson County, Ohio, whence about a year later they removed to what is now the State of West Virginia, where they remained eight years. In the spring of 1814 Rudolph Hines came with his family to Harrison County. where he secured land and began the development of a farm in the midst of the virgin forest. Here he and his wife remained as honored pioneer citizens until their deaths, he having been ninety years of age when he passed away and his widow having soon followed him to eternal rest. They became the parents of twelve children.
February 15, 1827, recorded the marriage of William Hines to Miss Isabella Hitchcock, daughter of John and Jane (McMahan) Hitch-
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cock, and thereafter they remained on the old homestead farm of his father until they both passed away, Mr. Hines having been eighty- Seven years of age at the time of his death, in 1887, and his wife, who was born January 24, 1806, having survived him by several years. Mr. Hines was prospered in his earnest activities as a farmer and at one time was the owner of 300 acres of land. He was first a whig and later a republican in politics, and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of ten children, one son having died in infancy, and the names of the other children being here recorded: John R., Sarah Jane (Mrs. Gillespie Haverfield), Lemuel Browning, William Fletcher, Mary Ellen (Mrs. Joseph McBeth), Samuel Montgomery, James McMahan, Thomas Hogg and Ezra Lawson, the last two sons having died when young.
Rudolph Hines, the founder of the family in Harrison County, was a son of John Hines, who immigrated to America from Germany prior to the war of the Revolution, in which the son Rudolph served- as a soldier in the Continental Line, his later career as a pioneer in Ohio having been noted in a preceding paragraph.
John McMahan Hines, father of him whose name introduces this review, went forth as a representative of Harrison County in the Civil war. On the 7th of August, 1863, he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Independent Battalion of Ohio Rangers, with which he served in the mountains of Kentucky, where he took part in many skirmishes and other minor engagements. After serving about seven mouths he returned home, but on the 2d of February, 1864, he re- enlisted, as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was a part of the Army of the East, with which he continued in service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 31, 1865, at Baltimore, Maryland. November 3, 1868, recorded the marriage of Mr, Hines to Miss Elmira J. Carson, a daughter of Elijah and Margaret (Mahaffey) Carson, the former of whom was born in Maryland, of Welsh ancestry, and the latter of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. John Carson, father of Elijah, was one of the sterling pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, where his death occurred in Nottingham Township. Elijah Carson was a farmer and shoemaker in Nottingham Township, became one of the staunch supporters of the prohibition party and served many years as justice of the peace. He was born in 1810 and died in November, 1887; his wife was born in 1803, and died in 1884. They became the parents of seven children. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hines established their home on the farm which continued to be his place of residence during the remainder of his life and on which he died May 12, 1919, as previously noted. Mr. Hines was a staunch republican and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic.
John Newton Hines acquired his early education in the district schools of Cadiz Township, and he remained at the parental home until his marriage, October 25, 1899, to Miss Lida E.
Mallernee, daughter of Lemuel J. and Lida E. (Brown) Mallernee, of Stock Township. After his marriage Mr. Hines began farming in Nottingham Township, where he has since continued to follow this vocation, save for two years during which he was similarly engaged in Stock Township, and two years in Cadiz Township. The names and respective dates of birth of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hines are here given: Ora 0., March 6, 1901; Mina Florence, March 9, 1904 ; Cloyd D., August 8, 1907; and Victorine P., February 11, 1919.
Lemuel J. Mallernee, father of Mrs. Hines, was born in Nottingham Township, this county, on the 5th of July, 1851, a son of Levi and Eleanor (Johnson) Mallernee, the latter a daughter of Benjamin and Eleanor Johnson, pioneer settlers in Harrison County. Levi Mallernee was born in Nottingham Township, this county, February 12, 1816, and was a son of Emanuel and Rachel (Matthews) Mallernee, the former of whom was born November 3, 1779, and the latter on the 13th of December, 1788, a daughter of Francis and Mary Matthews. Emanuel Mallernee came from Jefferson County, Ohio, to Harrison County about the year 1804, and became a pioneer farmer in Nottingham Township, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. The names and respective birth-dates of their children are here recorded : William, March 30, 1807; Aquilla, January 6, 1909; Mary Ann, August 7, 1811; Matthew, October 12, 1813; Levi, February 12, 1816; Emanuel, November 3, 1818; Lewis C., May 18, 1822; and Elizabeth, May 25, 1825. After the death of his first wife, June 24, 1828, Emanuel Mallernee eventually married Miss Hannah Eaton, and they became the parents of three children: Benjamin, born October 4, 1830; Rachel Ann, born August 13, 1832; and Jared, born September 10, 1834.
As a young man Levi Mallernee established a livery stable at Cadiz, and this he was conducting at the time when, on the 4th of July, 1840, he met with an accident that caused the amputation of his right arm, which was virtually shot off in the discharge of a gun at the time of a patriotic celebration at Cadiz. A short time thereafter he removed to Nottingham Township, where he continued his association with farm industry during the remainder of his active career. He passed the last few years of his life at Deersville. Franklin Township, where he died on the 1st of June. 1880. December 6, 1838, he married Miss Eleanor Johnson, who was born in Nottingham Township, January 27, 1820, a daughter of Benjamin and Eleanor Johnson, and she passed away December 2:3, 1863, three days after the birth of the youngest of her nine children, whose names and dates of birth are here noted: David Turner, November 18, 1839; Emanuel, March 22, 1843; Mary Ann, March 25, 1846; Benjamin J., February 10, 1849; Lemuel J., July 5, 1851; Lydia Ann, August 3, 1854; Caroline L., August 26, 1857: Eleanor Jeanette. July 18, 1860; and Kinsey C., December 20, 1863. For his second wife Levi Mallernee married Mrs. Jemima (Garner) Hines, and they became the parents of three children-James G., born October 10,
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1866; Levi E., born October 20, 1868; and Ruth J., born January 6, 1871. After the death of his second wife Levi Mallernee married Rachel Crabtree on the 1st of June, 1879, and his death occurred exactly one year later. Mr. Mallernee was a republican in politics and was for many years prior to his death a zealous member of the Baptist Church.
Lemuel J. Mallernee was reared and educated in Nottingham Township, and he has to his credit a long record of successful association with farm industry in his native township. In 1878 he purchased and removed to a farm of eighty-three acres in Stock Township, and there he remained until his death on December 24, 1920. In 1869 he married Miss Lida E. Brown, daughter of Elisha Brown, and her death occurred in 1881. Of the two children of this union Mrs. Hines, wife of the subject of this review, is the younger, and Cloyd A., who married Miss Mabel Mount, resides at Dennison, Tuscarawas County. For his second wife Mr. Mallernee married Eleanor Shissler. daughter of David Shissler, and she passed to the life eternal on the 11th of March. 1918. Of the second marriage were born two children : Bertha, who is the wife of William Flaherty, and Estella, who is the wife of Sherman Busby.
DAVID CUNNINGHAM. It has been the pleasure of Mrs. Laura Phillips Cunningham, of Cadiz, to commemorate the name of her husband, the late David Cunningham, who from 1859 until his death, December 14, 1917, was a member of the Harrison County bar and an attorney at law in Cadiz. Since the coming of David Cunningham, the grandfather, in 1812, the name has been identified with the history of Harrison County. David Cunningham, the lawyer for so many years, was born March 1, 1837, after the family had lived many years in Nottingham Township, but his father, John Cunningham. was born, October 29, 1808, before the family left Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
The David Cunningham who brought the family name to Harrison County was born May 6, 1783, in Pennsylvania. On December 23, 1806, he married Mary McLaughlin, and they came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County on their bridal journey, riding on horse back, and when they located their new home in the forest the trees had to be cut away for their cabin home in the wilderness. He later donated the land and helped build the first church in the community.
On February 23, 1829. John Cunningham married Nancy Sharp in Harrison County. He was a farmer and spent most of his life in Nottingham Township, finally moving to Cadiz, where he died August 17, 1870. The Cunningham home in Nottingham Township was a brick farm house built in 1825, the fresco and wall decorations in it being the handiwork of David Cunningham, senior, who had done something of that line of work in Pennsylvania. Two children were born there to John Cunningham: Mary, who married Eldred Holliday, and David, who spent his years of business activity in Cadiz. Throughout its history the Cunning ham family has been identified with the United Presbyterian Church.
While David Cunningham had the common school advantages afforded him in Nottingham Township, he was ambitious and later attended Franklin College, graduating in the class of 1857 from that well known Harrison County educational institution located in New Athens. He was reading law in the office of the Hon. John A. Bingham Of Cadiz at the time of the breaking out of the Civil war, and with other young men of the community he enlisted in August, 1861, and when the young men of Harrison County were formed into Company B of the Thirtieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he was unanimously chosen captain. This regiment became part of the Army of the Potomac, and Captain Cunningham was its commander in some of the hard fought battles— South Mountain, Antietam, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Vicksburg and others.
On November 29, 1862, Captain Cunningham was commissioned a major on account of his bravery and efficient military service. As major he was in command of the regiment at Vicksburg and Jackson, but on account of serious illness caused by continued exposure in the low lands of Mississippi, on September 20, 1863, he was forced to resign and two days later was honorably discharged from the Union Army. However, before his discharge, Major Cunningham was brevetted colonel, a military recognition highly appreciated by him.
When discharged from the Union Army Colonel Cunningham returned to the study of law in Cadiz, and in 1866 became prosecuting attorney in Harrison County. In 1871 Colonel Cunningham was elected to the House of Representatives in the Ohio Legislature by the republicans of Harrison County. In 1876 be was a member of the Electoral College that decided in favor of President Rutherford B. Hayes in a contested election, in 1896 he was a member of the National Republican Convention that nominated William McKinley for president of the United States, and also served as a member of the constitutional convention.
Colonel Cunningham was chairman of the commission named by the United States Government to locate the position of the Ohio regiments engaged in the great battle of Antietam, and to superintend the placing of the monuments to commemorate the bravery of the soldiers who fought in that battle. All of his life Colonel Cunningham was interested in the military affairs of Harrison County. In 1866 he became a director of the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, and in 1881 became its president. He filled this position continuously until 1910, when he voluntarily resigned.
On October 13, 1859, while engaged in the study of law, Colonel Cunningham married Laura Phillips, of Cadiz. She is a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Williams) Phillips. Thomas Phillips was born in 1792 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1871 in Cadiz. In 1816 he married Elizabeth Williams and brought her as a bride to Cadiz. His first business venture was to build a brick hotel on the corner of Steubenville and Warren streets,
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and beside conducting the hotel he engaged in the manufacture of shoes, employing a number of men in his shoe factory.
A few years later Mr. Phillips was appointed postmaster, and served the community sixteen years in that capacity. For twenty years he was a justice of the pence in Harrison County. His wife was a daughter of Bazaleel and Jane (Blair) Williams, and their children were: Adaline, Rachel, Mary, William, John, Caroline, Lanni and Martha, all born in Cadiz. It was Laura who became Mrs. David Cunningham, and who now commemorates her relatives in the history. Her father, Thomas Phillips, was a son of William Phillips, whose time of life was from 1763 to 1854, and whose wife was Rachel Hamilton. Their children were: Robert, Jane, William. Mary. Margaret, Eliza, Thomas, John and Martha. They were all born and reared in Chester County. Pennsylvania.
The children born to David and Laura Cunningham ore: Mary, wife of John M. Sharon, of Cadiz: John. who married Mary Welch, lives in Evanston. Illinois; Ralph, who married Ada Schreiber, lives in Pittsburgh; Helen is the wife of E. V. Rawn and they live in Hopkinsville. Kentucky. Mrs. Cunningham maintains her residence in Cadiz.
JOHN A. McAFEE, who is now living virtually retired at New Burnley, Harrison County, proved well his ability and progressiveness during many years of active association with farm industry in his native county. and is a well known representative of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of Harrison County for nearly a century.
Mr. McAfee was born in Rumley Township, this county. on the 23d of April, 1856, and is a son of James McAfee, Jr.. who was living retired at New Rumley at the time of his death, April 25, 1898. James McAfee, Jr.. was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the year 71817. -and was a son of James and Mary (Wybel) McAfee. both likewise natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1785 in Washington County. and where the latter was born in 1700. a daughter of George and Polly (Rummel) Wybel. who came from Germany and established their home in the old Keystone State, whence they later came to Ohio and gained pioneer experience. James McAfee, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a son of James McAfee, a native of Ireland and a very early settler in Washington County. Pennsylvania, where he and his wife remained until their deaths. their children having been three sons and four daughters. The death of James McAfee. the original American progenitor occurred about 1795.
James McAfee II was reared to Manhood in Washington County. Pennsylvania, and received educational advantages somewhat superior to those accorded to the average youth of the locality and period. In 1823 he numbered himself among the pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, where he settled on the northwest quarter of section 24, Rumley Township, and instituted the reclaiming of a farm from the forest wilds. In the early days he found requisition for his effective services as a teacher in the pioneer schools of the county, and he was known as a man of fine intellectuality and high ethical standards—one well qualified for leadership in popular sentiment and action. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife were zealous and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which they maintained affiliation in Harrison County. In 1832 Mr. McAfee sold his original farm and removed to North Township, where he continued his farm operations until the early '50s, when he purchased the old Custer homestead at New Rumley, and established his residence in the house which figured as the birthplace of Gen. George Custer, the distinguished army officer Who met death in the historic Indian massacre which perpetuates his name. Mr. McAfee died in the year 1876, his wife having passed away several years before.
James McAfee, Jr., was about six years of age at the time when his parents established their residence in Harrison County. where he was reared on the old home farm in Rumley Township, and in the meanwhile profited duly by the advantages afforded in the pioneer schools. In 1340 he married Miss Letta Gordon, daughter of David and Libbie (Archibald) Gordon, and they became the parents of three children—Mary (Mrs. Martin Kail), Elizabeth (Mrs. John W. Finnicum), and Letta Manbeck (died in March, 1882). Mrs. McAfee died in the year 1846, and in 1849 James McAfee, Jr., wedded Mrs. Margaret (Hendricks) Ackerson. By her first marriage she had one daughter, Catherine. Mrs. McAfee was born 'August 6, 1823, a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Webster) Hendricks. . Mrs. Margaret (Hendricks) McAfee was summoned to eternal rest in September. 1878, and was survived by three children—Andrew, who died in 1889; James (fourth of the name), who became a successful farmer in Rumley Township; and John A., who is the immediate subject of this sketch. In October, 1880. James McAfee, Jr., contracted a third marriage with Miss Sarah Jane Gundy, daughter of William and Susanna (Gotshall) Gundy, and she died in 1S92.
James McAfee, Jr., remained on his farm in Rumley Township until 1889, when he retired and established his home at New Rumley, his residence having there continued until his death. on the 25th of April, 1898. He was originally as republican, but his earnest convictions eventually led him to become actively affiliated with the prohibition party, of whose principles he continued a staunch advocate during the remainder of his life. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a man who ever commanded secure place in the confidence and regard of those with whom he came in contact in the varied relations of life.
John A. McAfee acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of Rumley Township and supplemented this by attending Scio College for two terms. He was a young man when he began his independent career as farmer in Rumley Township, and a generous success attended his vigorous and well directed
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enterprise in connection with agricultural and live-stock industry. He continued his active association with the work and management of his farm until the autumn of 1917, when he removed to New Rumley, in which village he has since lived practically retired and in the enjoyment of the peace and prosperity which should ever crown years of earnest and effective endeavor. He is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Rumley, of which he has served many years as a trustee, and is a trustee at the present time.
In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McAfee to Miss Susanna A. Manbeck, who was born and reared in Rumley Township and who is a daughter of William and Isabel A. (Miller) Manbeck, the former a native of Rumley Township and the latter of German Township, this county, their marriage having been solemnized June 25, 1849, and both having been residents of Rumley Township at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of fourteen children: John, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Heidy), Daniel, Charles R., Sarah Margaret (Mrs. Michael B. Boor), Maria Catherine (Mrs. William Long), Marianda Andora (died in early childhood), Susanna Almira (Mrs. John A. McAfee), Isabel Angeline (died young), Phoebe Jane (Mrs. Reid Arbaugh), Jacob Miller and Thomas Ellsworth (twins, the latter (lying in infancy), William Austin, and Omer W. (died in January, 1917). Mr. and Mrs. McAfee have four children: Edward E., a farmer in Rumley Township, married Miss Florence Kohler, and they have four children— Dorothy May, Bertha Marie, Blanche C. and Edna Josephine. Ross S., who resides at Jewett, this county, married first Hattie Kohler, who met her death from a stroke of lightning. This occurred while she and her mother-in-law were engaged in seeding cherries at the McAfee home: A storm coming up, the two ladies went to the barn to put the buggy in its place. On their way back to the house, and while under a small apple tree, a bolt of lightning struck the tree and the younger woman was instantly killed, while the older woman was knocked senseless, the bolt having ripped her shoe down the back as though cut with a knife. Ross S. McAfee's second marriage was with Laura Hall. Eva M. is the wife of Homer E. Sawvel, of New Rumley, and they became the parents of four children, of whom three are living—Ruth (died at the age of seven years), John Leo, Charles E. and Henry Dwight. Margaret Isabel is the wife of Lester G. Amos, of Rumley Township, and they have one child, Coyla.
ALFRED B. MANBECK needs no further evidence than the general appearance of his fine farm estate in Rumley Township, Harrison County, to determine his status as one of the progressive and successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county, but aside from his achievement in this important field of enterprise he gained distinctive prestige in the pedagogic profession, as a representative of which he gave nearly thir teen years of effective service as a teacher in the schools of Harrison County.
Mr. Manbeck was born at New Rumley in the township which is his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was January 10, 1876. His parents, Joseph and Bathsheba (Bishop) Manbeck, likewise were born in this township, and the latter was a daughter of John and Naomi (Martin) Bishop. Her father came from Pennsylvania and was an early settler in Rumley Township, where he developed an excellent farm and where he remained until his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety-six years, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. Their children were eleven in number, namely : Hiram, Frederick Z., Oliver, Susan, Lucinda, Rebecca, Henrietta, Vermelia, Louise, Bathsheba and Bethia.
John Manbeck grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Pennsylvania and became one of the pioneer representatives of farm industry in Rumley Township, Harrison County, where he stood exponent of loyal and liberal citizenship until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. His first wife died when a comparatively young woman. They became the parents of seven children—John, Jr., Samuel, Jonathan, James, Joseph, Mary and Diana. After the death of his first wife Mr. Manbeck contracted a second marriage, and of this union was born one son, William.
Joseph Manbeck was reared on the pioneer farm of his father and passed virtually his entire life in Rumley Township, his death having occurred in 1901 and his wife having passed away in 1895. Both held membership in the United Brethren Church. Their children were nine in number : Elizabeth (Mrs. John C. Glover), Mary Edith (died in early childhood), John W., Harry 0., Edward 0., Alfred B., Della (wife of Ralph W. Riley of Trumbull County), Viola (Mrs. Joseph Croghan), and Goldie A. ( deceased ) .
Alfred B. Manbeck gained his preliminary education in the district schools of Rumley Township, and thereafter attended Scio College for a short time. His ambition made him an avidious student, and that he profited fully by the advantages that were his is shown by the fact at the age of eighteen years he proved himself eligible for pedagogic service and became a teacher in the district schools. He continued his work as a successful and popular teacher for a period of somewhat more than thirteen years, and in the meanwhile his service and continued study brought to him marked intellectual advancement. During the eight years which he taught in the district schools he gave five years to teaching in the Cole school in Rumley Township. During the last five years of his service as a teacher he held the position of principal of the public schools at New Rumley. At the time of his retirement he held a five-years' certificate as a teacher.
In the spring of 1907 Mr. Manbeck engaged in farm enterprise in Rumley Township, where he is now the owner of a well improved farm of 209 acres, which he has made a center of successful agriculture and stock-raising, his attention being given specially to the breeding
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and growing of live stock of high standard. A man who gained his higher education largely through self-discipline, during many hours of earnest application to study, it was to be taken for granted that in connection with farm enterprise Mr. Manbeck should manifest the same tine ambition and progressiveness, and his achievement in the later field, as in teaching, stands to his enduring honor. He is a republican in politics, takes a broad-minded and loyal interest in public affairs, especially in his home community and native county, and he served two years as a member of the election board of Harrison County, besides having been its clerk for one year. He and his wife are zealous and valued members of the United Brethren Church at New Rumley, of which he has been a trustee for several years and in which he is serving also as classleader at the time of this writing, in 1920.
April 27, 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Manbeck to Miss Vinnie L. Naragon, daughter Of Irvin Naragon, of Miller's Station, Ohio, and of this union have been born six children: Herman W. entered the Students Army Training Corps in preparation for service in the World war, was mustered in October 18, 1918, and received his discharge on the 11th of the following December. He is now associated in the work of the home farm. Marlin N. died at the age of one year. Alton K. is, in 1920, a student in the Sclo High School. Lois U, is attending the district school. Francis E. and Venus L. died in early childhood.
JOHN BRICKER. One of the very earliest families to settle in Harrison County in Green Township was that of Bricker, which has been represented here by members of at least four generations. Of the third generation was the late John Bricker, who recently died at the age of nearly eighty-five, one of the oldest native sons of the township. His great length of years was accompanied by industrious and good management of his landed interests and a stanch upholding of the beet standards of citizenship.
The years of his old age were spent in the same house where he was born December 11. 1835. The Bricker family originated in Pennsylvania, and his grandfather, Anthony Bricker. came with his wife, Margaret, to Harrison County in 1804 and entered a quarter section of Government land in Green Township. Anthony Bricker acquired other land holdings, and was a man of notable business enterprise, operating one of the pioneer mills in the community. He died January 25, 1813, leaving over a section of land to his descendants. His children were George, Henry, John and Elizabeth.
John Bricker, Sr., the third son, was born in Pennsylvania May 9, 1793, and was about eleven years of age when his environment was transferred to the wilds of Harrison County, Ohio. After reaching manhood he took up the interests to which his early training had qualified him, those of farmer and stock man, and at the time of his death he owned 340 acres. He never neglected the duties of good citizenship, and for many years was a trustee of Green Township. He and other early members of the family were active in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. On Saint Valentine's day in 1833 John Bricker, Sr., married Anna Busby, who was born in Harrison County February 27, 1812, daughter of John Busby, another pioneer of the county. John Busby, Sr., and wife had three children, David, who never married, John and Elizabeth, the latter becoming the wife of Dr. William Beadle.
The late John Bricker came to manhood at a time when schools were largely of the subscription variety, and his early advantages were chiefly confined to the fundamentals of learning. He learned industry and the lessons of thrift and self reliance on the home farm with his father, and at the age of twenty-two he and his brother David became managers of the old homestead. Except for a brief residence at Laceyville John Bricker lived all his life at the homestead where he was born. He is remembered as a good farmer, a thoroughgoing man in everything he undertook. For a number of years be had 230 acres in use for general farming purposes, and was always interested in livestock and made livestock growing the source of his revenue. He handled sheep and cattle, and at one time raised fast horses and was a lover of good horses at all times. Mr. Bricker died on July 3, 1920, in the same house in which he was born.
The late Mr. Bricker was twice married, and children and grandchildren survive to hold his memory in respect and honor. May 31, 1864, he married Lucinda, daughter of Henry and Mary Bricker. She died May 24, 1879, mother of the following children: Annie Elizabeth, born August 19, 1865, widow of A. W. Laughlin; George Fenry, born December 24, 1866; John B., born September 26, 1869, deceased; William Beadle, deceased, born April 5, 1872; David E., deceased, born May 8, 1874; Charles E., deceased, born December 27, 1876.
September 8, 1881, Mr. Bricker married Margaret Jane Holmes, who survives him and Is an active member of the Methodist Church at Cadiz. She is a daughter of Robert and Ann J. Holmes. To the second marriage were born two children, Holmes V. on August 10, 1882, and Ralph C., who was born February 28, 1884, and died February 14, 1896, at the age of twelve years.
RANKIN DELMER LEE. Not only has Rankin Delmer Lee been connected with the agricultural interests of Harrison County for a number of years, but he still owns his fine farm in Archer Township, and has been connected with other enterprises of Jewett, where he now makes his home. He was born in Perry Township. Carroll County, Ohio. June 23, 1852, a son of Thomas M. and Mary (McCullough) Lee, and grandson of James Lee, one of the early settlers of Harrison County. For a number of years James Lee operated a large tannery at Cadiz, Ohio, and there he maintained his home. He married a Miss Crough, and they had the following children: Rankin, Allison and Thomas M.
Thomas M. Lee was born at Cadiz, Ohio, and his wife was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph Mc-
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Cullough. For a few years after reaching man's estate Thomas M. Lee taught school, but later began farming in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and when in 1862 he moved to Archer Township he continued in that calling until 1893, at which time he moved to Jewett. He died in this city in 1907. His wifc died some years before him, passing away in 1893. Their children were as follows: James Allison, Joseph M., Rankin Delmer, Jennie. Emmett C. and Ross. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lee belonged to the Presbyterian Church.
Rankin Delmer Lee went to school in Perry Township, Carroll County, and Archer Township, Harrison County, but did not go beyond the eighth grade. Having learned farming under his father's supervision, Mr. Lee engaged in farming for himself in Archer Township. and remained on his farm until 1893, when he moved to Jewett. Two years later he went into the milling business, and for the subsequent eleven years operated the grist-mill at Jewett. He still owns his fine farm of 140 acres in Archer Township, but continues to reside at Jewett.
On December 31, 1879, Mr. Lee was united in marriage with Anna Smilie, a daughter of Robert and Hannah Smilie, and they have the following children: Jessie, who married O. B. Groves, of Jewett, now resides in Stephenville, and they have three children, Ralph, Paul and Evaline Jane; Thomas DeWitt, now residing in Steubenville, married Ella Carson of Hopedale, Ohio, and they have three children, Vernon, Louise and Robert; Mary E,. unmarried, now teaching music in Steubenville; Anna Ruth. who married Byron Arbaugh, of Jewett, now an attorney of Canton, Ohio; Pauline E., teaching school at Witten, near' Wooster ; Jean, a student at the University of Wooster, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lee and their family all belong to the Presbyterian Church of Jewett, in which Mr. Lee has been a trustee for a number of years. He is one of the highly esteemed men of his community, and having spent practically all of his life here, is deeply interested in the progress of this region and willing to do anything within reason to aid in advancing the neighborhood, although he is not in favor of a wasteful use of public funds no matter what the object may be.
JACOB STAHL. Although many years have passed since the late Jacob Stahl was called from the scene of his earthly activities he is still remembered with kindly affection by the older generation, and his children are showing in their upright lives the effects of his example of industrious and thrifty habits and honorable methods of doing business. He was born at Jewett, Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, February 24, 1833, and his farming activities were carried on in his native township.
Jacob Stahl was a son of John and Mary Ann (Condo) Stahl. The birth of John Stahl took place in Maryland, July 16, 1810, and his wife was born in York County, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1813, and their marriage took place at Cadiz, Ohio, March 28, 1832. She was a daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Shuss) Condo. John Stahl was a son of Jacob Stahl, who was born in Maryland, August 13, 1784, and he married Elizabeth Shilling. In 1816 he brought his wife and children from Maryland to Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and settled in section 36. Here he lived until his death, which occurred in 1845. He and his wife had the following children: William, who married Susannah Carnaga ; Elizabeth, who married George Summons; John, who was third in order of birth: Lydia, who married Jeremiah Condo; Margaret, who married Peter Manbeck; Catherine, who married Abraham Gotchall; Susan, who married Abraham Kimmell; Mary, who married Daniel Hilbert; Matilda, who died young; and James, who married Elizabeth Shuss. The Lutheran Church held the membership of the entire family.
Reared in Rumley Township, John Stahl became one of the prosperous farmers of the county and the owner of over 200 acres of land, the present city of Jewett standing on his old homestead. He laid out the original town of Jewett in 1851, and lived in it until his death, taking an active part in its affairs, especially those connected with the Lutheran Church of the place, which he assisted in organizing, and of which he and his wife were very active members. John Stahl and his wife became the parents of the following family : Jacob, whose) name opens this review; Margaret, who married Thomas Lucas, is deceased, as is also her husband; Catherine, who married Arnold Wheeler, and both are deceased; Mary Ann, who is the widow of David Hazellett; Susan, who died in childhood; Samuel, who also died in childhood; and Samantha Jane, who was the youngest.
Jacob Stahl went to the district schools of his neighborhood, and grew up to be a farmer. As a young man he began farming on his own account and also dealt in stock, and in March, 1867, he bought the farm in Rumley Township, three-quarters of a mile north of Jewett, on which he resided until his death. His original purchase was 136 acres of land, and on it he carried on general farming and stock raising. His death occurred in 1872, and since then his sons John Thomas and Joseph have been operating the place, doing general farming and stock- raising and specializing on sheep. The sons have rebuilt all of the buildings, so that they are now in splendid condition and thoroughly modernized, and have added to the farm until they now have 182 acres. This property is one of the best in the county, well kept and finely cultivated, and the entire premises reflect great credit upon the owners. The two brothers and two sister live on the old place, and they are excellent farmers. The members of the Stahl family belong to the Lutheran Church of Jewett the grandfather assisted in organizing.
Jacob Stahl was married to Catherine Knouff, a daughter of John Knouff, and she died November 21, 1855, leaving one son. John Thomas. After her death Jacob Stahl was married to Elizabeth Kimmel, a daughter of Jonathan and Maria Kimmel, and they became the parents of the following children: Samuel, who was born June 16, 1858, died when small; Martha, who married Samuel H. Mikesell, has three chil-
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dren; Lena, Lawrence and Anna Maud; Mary, who married M. L. Arbaugh, has two children, Paul and Norris; Catherine, who lives on the farm; Joseph, who married Lillie Shilling, has two children, Margaret Elizabeth and Catherine Marie; Anna Maria, who lives on the farm. Mrs. Stahl survived her husband for many years, but was taken away September 21, 1916.
The history of the Shilling family, with which Joseph Stahl is connected by marriage, is also worthy of preservation. Mrs. Lillie Stahl, wife of Joseph Stahl, is a daughter of Franklin Shilling, and granddaughter of Jacob Shilling, one of the pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, who was born in Maryland, as was his wife, Christena Steffin. In an early day Jacob Shilling came to German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and conducted the mill in the vicinity of Franklin, but later on moved to Itumley Township, where he owned a farm: He and his wife had the following family : John. Elias, William, Jacob, Martin, Franklin and Mary Ann, who married James Laughlin. Both he and his wife belonged to the Lutheran Church.
Franklin Shilling was born in Rumley Township, June 8, 1835, and he attended the schools of his native township. On January 11, 1862. he enlisted in Company G, Seventh-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; for service in the war between the states. He received his honorable discharge May 2, 1865. During the intervening (period he participated in the following battles: .Siege of Nashville, battles of Stone River. Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, Dug Gap, Georgia, Chickamauga, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Mary Ridge, Tennessee, Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and others of less importance, at all times proving himself a brave man and faithful soldier.
In 1867 Franklin Shilling was married to Margaret Knepper, a daughter of John and Hannah (Custer) Knepper. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shilling continued to live at Jewett until 1886, at which time they moved to the farm they still occupy. It comprises sixty acres, and on it Mr. Shilling is doing general farming. Mr. and Mrs. Shilling became the parents of the following children: Lillie D., who is Mrs. Joseph Stahl; William Clyde, who married Cora Mack, has a son, William, and they live at Denison, Ohio; Robert Wilson, who married Emma Boyd, has two children, Robert B. and Helen Louise; Harry Franklin, who is the fourth in order of birth; and Paul D,, who married Golda Hosterman, and they have two children, Mary Ruth and Dorcas May.
Robert Wilson Shilling is a physician and surgeon, and during the World war served with the rank of first lieutenant in the medical branch of the service. He was for a year at the Moss- ley Hill Hospital at Liverpool, England. Upon his return to this country he received his honorable discharge, and he resumed the practice of his profession at New Somerset, Ohio.
LAWLIS BROTHERS (Marion and John). When they left the farm for the oil fields working .together was when Marion and John Lawlis first advertised in a business way as Lawlis Brothers, and now that they are farming again they are still Lawlis Brothers and own property together. They are sons of Cyrus W. Lawlis, who lived in Monongahela County, West Virginia. Marion Lawlis was born February 2, 1866, and John was born November 18, 1869, in West Virginia. Their parents always lived there.
Cyrus W. Lawlis was born September 26, 1835, and Sarah A. Brewer, was born February 15, 1838, in the same community. They were married November 8, 1863, and always lived in Monongahela County. Mrs. Lawlis was a daughter of Enoch and Margaret (Wolford) Brewer, the father a Monongahela County farmer. Her brothers and sisters were : Justice, Ephraim, Mary Jane, Martha, Elizabeth, Violinda, Samuel and Margaret. The Brewers were Baptists.
The Lawlis family were pioneers in Monongahela County, John Lawlis, father of Cyrus W. and grandfather of the two Harrison County Lawlis Brothers, having been born there February 11, 1812, and the grandmother, Elizabeth Fleming, October 30, 1816, and their marriage day was November 30, 1834. Their children were: Cyrus W., through whom Lawlis Brothers are descended; Melissa, born February 15, 1838; Clara, October 29, 1840; Orlando, December 20. 1842; Mary Ann, in 1845; Evelyn C., May 15, 1847; Lydia C., February 16, 1850; Jerome, April 8, 1854; James L., July 8, 1856, and Victoria A., November 12, 1858, the children numbering as many as most Ohio families of the period. The Lawlis family were members of the Christian Church. Cyrus W. Lawlis died June 5, 1872, aged thirty-six years, eight months and nine days. Few families anywhere furnish more exact data than have Lawlis Brothers. Some families do not possess sutficient record to give out any information about themselves.
This West Virginia father died while yet a young man. The Lawlis children are: Rosena, born August 21, 1864; and Marion and John, of Cadiz Township. Their mother now lives with John Lawlis in Cadiz Township. When the father died the mother and sons continued farming in Monongahela County until the sons went to the Pennsylvania oil fields. They were educated in the district schools of Monongahela county and at the school known as Mountain Tea College. The boys worked at home until 1888, when they went to the oil fields and did teaming, taking contracts for oil field jobs. In 1897 they went back to the old home farm in West Virginia. They remained there until March 31, 1903, when they removed to Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio.
Lawlis Brothers had already bought a farm of 157 acres, and they both lived on it and worked together until 1908, when they bought another farm of 145 acres about a mile from there. They have always farmed together. They are breeders of registered Hereford cattle, aid combine farming and livestock, making the pennies count in all their dealings.
On November 29, 1890, Marion Lawlis married Laura J. Ridgway, daughter of Zacharlah and Elm. (Ramsey) Ridgway. Their children
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are: Harry C., born January 18, 1892; John M., born March 2, 1893, died August 29, 1903; Iva Ethel, born April 6, 1894. The mother died April 29, 1895, and sixteen years later, in January, 1911, Mr. Lawlis married Flora, daughter of William and Mary (Hennis) Medley. At this time Mr. Lawns removed to the second farm the brothers had purchased. The children of this marriage are: Elmer E., born March 5, 1912; Lindsay C., April 6, 1915; and Mildred V., August 5, 1917. Mrs. Lawlis is a member of the Methodist Church in Cadiz.
On May 7, 1893, John Lawns married Mary, daughter of J. J. and Rebecca (Lemley) Wharton. On February 5, 1896, was born a daughter, Claudia Lucile. Mrs. Lawlis died October 21, 1897, and his mother is the home maker there. Lawlis Brothers are good farmers and know how to make the money. They contribute to the Methodist Church in Cadiz, and they are members of the Lodge of the Maccabees. Conditions of agriculture in eastern Ohio are not very different from what they had known in West Virginia.
GEORGE MCCONNELL PATTON, Civil war veteran and well-known citizen of Harrison County, residing at New Athens, was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, April 9, 1844.
The Patton family is of Scotch-Irish descent. Samuel Patton, grandfather of George M., was born in County Down, Ireland. He was by occupation a sea-trader being part owner of a vessel which traded between Dublin and New York. In early manhood in the above trade he became a citizen of the United States, receiving his papers of citizenship at the hands of President Washington while his family remained in Ireland. He invested his money in flax-seed and sailed for Ireland, but the vessel was wrecked on the coast of Ireland in 1798, and lhe ship and cargo lost. Samuel Patton saved his life by swimming to shore.
He married a Scotch girl, Jane Friar, of County Down. on May 3. 1803. Samuel and his family sailed for America and landed at Philadelphia on August 1 of that year, and spent the following winter in Wheeling, West Virginia. He took up a section of Government land in Belmont County. and in the spring of 1804 he settled on this land, where he and wife spent the remainder of their lives. He became the father of three sons. James. William and John. James died in infancy in Ireland. John died in his seventeenth year.
William, son of Samuel, was born in Ireland in 1800 and was reared in Wheeling Township. Belmont County. where for many years he was a successful farmer. He died in Belmont County. He married Ann Clark. who was S the daughter of Alex Clark, of Belmont County. William Patton and wife became the parents of the following children: Samuel. Margaret, John, Ellen, Alex. C., Carrie, Calvin W., Sylvanus, all of whom are deceased; James B., George M.. the subject of this review; William L. and Thomas 1., living.
George M. Patton was reared in Belmont County, where he attended the common schools. on August 5, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he served throughout the war, taking part in every skirmish and battle in which the regiment was engaged. In 1862 he was wounded at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and at the battle of Atlanta, in 1864, he was again wounded, having spent three months in the hospital after each wound. In June, 1865, he was mustered out of the service.
Following the war Mr. Patton returned to his old home in Belmont County, where he continued to reside until 1868, in which year he removed to his farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. In 1908 he moved into the village of New Athens, and has since lived in retirement from active business.
On January 1, 1868, in Belmont County, Mr. Patton was united in marriage with M. Louise Campbell, who was born at Uniontown, Ohio, on March 29, 1848, the daughter of Dr. John Campbell. She died in 1904, leaving the following children: Mary Olive, who married Rev. James B. Ely; Carrie Downing, who married Rev. A. A. Giffen; Albert Belmont married Dr. Beatrice Armstrong; Jay B., who married Ella Watson; Margaret Keoka, living with her father; Clark Campbell, M. D., who married Marie Kellogg.
In 1886-7 Mr. Patton served as a member of the Ohio Legislature, he having been elected on the republican ticket from Harrison County. He is a member of James Love Post No. 686, G. A. R.. Department of Ohio. He is also a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
THOMAS B. PATTON. Since April 1, 1816, the name Patton has been in the annals of Harrison County, and Thomas Burns Patton, the hardware dealer in Hopedale, has seen fit to honor his ancestry by causing them to live again in the pages of history. The Commemorative Record says of the founder of the Patton family in Ohio: "In Rievery community are to be found those who are recognized as leaders." M. M. Patton, born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. September 3, 1815, was only a babe when his parents brought him to Harrison County. While there was a family of ten children born to Joseph and Sarah (Burns) . Patton, John, Sarah. Joseph and Margaret are older than M. M. Patton, and there were five children when the family came to Ohio. After the family reached Ohio the following children were born: James. Mary. Cynthia, David and Ann.
The Patton family located in Rumley Township, and in February. 1851, Joseph Patton died there. his wife having died in September, 1842, and they lie side by side in the Rumley Cemetery. When they came they purchased a quarter section of hind, and with the help of their children they cleared it. Some of their posterity still live in the community. M. M. Patton and the rest of the family were educated under primitive conditions. The school house of that day was a log cabin with a slab door, slab benches and greased paper windows. In such primitive surroundings, aided by a few well- worn books and a teacher whose muscular development was never doubted, but of whose literary qualifications little should be said, the
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children of the early settlers received their education.
On March 3, 1844, M. M. Patton married Sarah Jane, a daughter of Samuel McCullough, a resident of Carroll County. For a time he lived in North Rumley, when he purchased the Pratt farm, remaining there eleven years. After making extensive improvements he sold and bought a place where the family lived many years. His children are: Sarah Margaret. James, John H., Joseph, Samuel M., Addison, William, Fremont, Ida Fre, and Thomas B. Patton and an infant that was not given a name, :born after Fremont. Thomas B. Patton was born December 8, 1863, in Rumley Township, where the pioneers of the family had located so many years earlier.
Mr. Patton began life as a farmer, remaining in Rumley Township until October, 1903, when he located in Hopedale. His first business was a livery with a side investment in hardware, but the "horseless era" had come and he soon devoted himself to the hardware interests. Mr. Patton owned a half interest in the business with 0. E. Miller, but four and one-half years later Mr. Patton bought the Miller interest and later sold that interest to Charles Hedge, who remained for five years as a business partner. For the next five years Mr. Patton conducted the business alone and then took his son, C. H. Patton, as a partner. They carry a full line of hardware, builders' supplies and furnaces.
On March 30, 1888, Mr. Patton married Hattie E. Finnicum. She was a resident of Rum- ley Township and a daughter of John Finnicum. Their son, Beryl F. Patton, married Pearl Stringer, and there are two grandsons, Roy Patton, and William Thomas, the latter born January 2, 1921. Carl H. Patton married Etta Nation, and the granddaughter is Alice Louise Patton.
Matthew M. Patton, the father of Thomas B. Patton, had been a democrat, as had been his ancestors until the election of President Alexander Buchanan, when he changed his political relation to the republican party, then embodying the principles he advocated, and while he never sought or held office he was active in the affairs of the republican party. The Pattons today are republicans and Presbyterians. "Worthy sons of a worthy father," describes the family situation, this quotation being taken from The Commemorative Record of Harrison County.
WILBUR KARL BLACK, M. D. The great Galen boasted "I have done as much to medicine as Trojan did to the Roman Empire in making bridges and roads throughout Italy," thus emphasizing with the then greatest known marvels of accomplishment his own benefactions to humanity. And yet in the light of modern medical science how little Galen did and how radically wrong, remarkable as they were, proved many of his conclusions. To the medical profession the early teachers will ever continue great, but a physician or surgeon of the present day whose professional knowledge is not vastly broader, higher and deeper could not lay much stress upon his dependability or effectiveness, nor could he win or hold the confidence of his community. The members of this learned calling in Harrison County, fortunately for the people and themselves, however, are men of skill, thoroughly trained in modern professional institutions, and abreast of the latest discoveries, and many of the younger ones have seen service during the great war, none of them returning to their everyday practice without acknowledgment of the benefit they received in the broadening of their experience. One of these physicians and surgeons of the county deserving of special mention is Dr. Wilbur Karl Black, one of the active medical practitioners of Freeport and a veteran of the late war.
Doctor Black was born at Freeport, Ohio, October 11, 1880, a son of R. M. and Rebecca Jane (Allen) Black, and grandson of Henry C., and Rebecca Ann (McCarty) Black.
R. M. Black was born in Guernsey County, Ohio. His wife was born in Freeport Township, a daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Barrett) Alien. For about twenty-six years R. M. Black operated a general merchandise store at Freeport, but in 190 he branched out and began handling livestock, which occupied him until 1916, when he was made a member of the Ohio State Food Inspection Board, and the duties of this office are now absorbing his time and attention. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: Corday A., who is the eldest; Sarah, who married D. M. Starkey; Roy A., who married Minetto Mears, lives at Compton, California ; Wilbur Karl, whose name heads this review; Glenn, who married Rebecca Todd, lives at Chicago, Illinois; and Genevive. Mr. Black is a member of Freeport Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Both he and Mrs. Black belong to the Presbyterian Church and take an active part in its religious work.
Wilbur Karl Black attended the public schools of Freeport and Oberlin College, but after a year in that institution he entered the University of Indiana at Valparaiso, and there spent three years. For the subsequent year he was at Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, and in 1906 entered the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1910. Following that he served as an interne for a year at the Rockford City Hospital at Rockford, Illinois. and then for another year he alternated interneships between the Cook County and Saint Mary's Hospitals at Chicago. Doctor Black still further prepared himself for his life work by taking a year's internship at Saint Anthony's Tuberculosis Hospital of New York City. He then felt competent to enter upon the practice of his calling and began the practice of medicine at Lima, Ohio.
When the United States entered the great war Doctor Black was one of the men of his profession who offered the Government their services, and he was commissioned a first lieutenant of the medical corps in July, 1917, and was sent without training to England and attached to the English army. He served in an English military hospital for about six weeks, when he was sea to France and attached to the Thirty-sevent Division, Field Ambulance. He saw service
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Flanders, and was gassed in November, 1917, and sent to the base hospital at Havre, France. After a month in the hospital as a patient, he was attached.to it for duty and remained there until May 1, 1918, when he was transferred from the English army to the American army and attached to the One Hundred and Twenty- Seventh Infantry, Second Battalion, Thirty- Second Division, remaining with that division out along the front from Alsace to Belgium. He took part in the offensives of Chateau Thierry, Soissons and the Oise Aisne. In the taking of Juvigny Doctor Black won his Croix de Guerre from the French, with whose forces the Thirty-second Division were operating. Doctor Black was also in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and after the signing of the armistice he went beyond the Rhine into Germany, where he was on outpost duty until April 18. 1919, when his organization, which had crossed the Rhine on December 13, 1918, entrained for Brest, France. On February 6, 1919, Doctor Black was married to Marcelle Apte of Paris, France. Her father, who was mayor of a French town, was killed in the service of his country. In order to bring his wife along on the same boat with him Doctor Black crossed as a casual, leaving Brest May 14, 1919. on the "Victoria" and arrived at New York City, May 22. He received his discharge from Camp Dix, May 25, 1919. Returning to Ohio, Doctor Black established himself in practice at Freeport, where he has since remained.
Concerning his services in the World war the following testimonials of Doctor Black's efficiency are here recorded:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington.
September 14, 1920.
From: Colonel Russell C. Langdon, Adj. Genl's Dept., U. S. Army.
To: The Adjutant General of the Army.
Subject: Services of Captain Wilbur Karl Black, Medical Corps. Emergency.
1. I desire to place on record in The Adjutant General's Office, my appreciation of the services of Captain Wilbur Karl Black (Medical Corps, Emergency.
2. This officer is not now in the service, and so far as I know is not an applicant for the Regular Army.
3. He has not applied to me for any letter of recommendation, but nevertheless. I feel it only just to the Government and to himself to have placed with his papers a letter setting forth my estimate of his work while with the 127th Infantry in the American Expeditionary Forces.
4. Captain Black served with the British Expeditionary Forces for several months. In the middle of May, 1918, he was transferred to the American Expeditionary Forces. He joined the 127th Infantry immediately after I took command of that regiment on the 9th of July, 1918. He remained with it while the regiment occupied a trench sector in Haute-Alsace; throughout its service in Europe and returned with it to the States for demobilization in May, 1919.
5. Captain Black rendered splendid service as' medical officer with our regiment in the Aisne-Marne Offensive, the Oise-Aisne Offensive, and the first and last phases of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the march to the Rhine and in the occupation of the Coblenz bridgehead area.
6. He was tireless in his energetic care of the wounded and sick, and worked with such disregard for his own personal safety as to win the respect of all who knew him. I particularly recall how on one occasion during the fighting in the Argonne he showed considerable initiative in seeking out a new location for an advanced regimental aid station in the village of Gesnes, which at the time was subject to heavy artillery fire, but through which our wounded had to be brought from the front line. However, this was only one of numerous examples of courage and initiative displayed by Captain Black.
7. Captain Black throughout his work was always patient and gentlemanly with all who dealt with him, which made his work as a medical officer all the more valuable.
8. This letter is wholly unsolicited, but for the reason stated I feel it should be placed on record.
RUSSELL C. LANGDON.
RCL/AMS.
GRAND QUARTIER GENERAL
DES
ARMEES FRANCAISES DE L'EST
ETAT MAJOR
ORDRE No. 14251 "D." (Extrait)
Apres approbation du General Commandant en Chef les Forces expeditionnaires americaines en France, le Marechal de France, Commandant en Chef les Armees Francaises de l'Est, cite a 1' Ordre de In Brigade.
Capitaine Wilbur K. Black, Service de Sante du 127e. Regiment d'Infanterie Americaine:
"A fait preuve d'initiative et de grand courage en etablissant des postes de secours a proximite des lignes. A montre en tons temps un grand mepris du danger et a ete un bel exemple pour tout son personnel."
(English translation of the above.)
"Has shown unusual initiative and great courage in establishing advanced aid stations in line work. Has shown always great disdain for danger and has been a fine example for his men."
Au grand Quartier General, le 12 Mars, 1919.
Le Marechal,
Commandant en Chef des Armees Francaises de l'Est,
PETAIN.
HEADQUARTERS THIRTY-SECOND DIVISION AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY
FORCES.
GENERAL ORDERS - April 7th, 1919
No. 28
II. With the approbation of the Commanderin-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, the Commander-in-chief of the French Armies
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of the North and Northeast, being cognizant of the brave deeds on the field of battle of the following soldiers, awards them the Croix de Guerre and cites them in orders.
CAPTAIN W. KARL BLACK,
Medical Corps, 127th Inf.
"By his contempt for danger in establishing and maintaining advanced dressing stations, was inspiration to his men."
By command of Major General Lassister,
R. M. BECK, JR.
Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff.
ROBERT W. REYNARD has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth, is now the owner of one of the fine farms of Cadiz Township, where lre is staging his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower, and he is a representative of the fourth generation of the Reynard family in Ohio. His great-grandfather, Marmaduke Reynard, was born and reared in England. where was solemnized his marriage to Mary Shaw, a native of Scotland. In 1817 Marmaduke Reynard came with his family to the United States from Yorkshire. England. and became one of the pioneer settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the whig party. Their children were eight in number: John, William, Marmaduke, Jr., James. Thomas, Joseph, Mary and Hannah.
John Reynard, grandfather of Robert W. of this review, was born in Yorkshire. England, in 1806. and thus was about eleven .years old at the time of the family immigration to America. He continued his studies in the pioneer schools of Jefferson County, Ohio, and Was a young man when he came to Harrison County, where was solemnized his marriage to Julia Pittis, a daughter of John and Mary Pittis. she having been born on the Isle of Wight, England, in 181.7. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Reynard remained one year in Franklin Township, Harrison County, and they then removed to Meigs County, where they purchased 320 acres of wild land and began the reclamation of a farm in the midst of the forest. They there remained seven years and then removed to Jefferson County, but within a short time thereafter returned to Franklin Township, Harrison County, where Mr. Reynard engaged in farm enterprise and where he remained until his death, in 1864. His widow passed the closing years of her life in the home of her daughter Alice in the state Of Kansas. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Reynard was a whig until the organization of the republican party, when he transferred his • allegiance to the latter. Of their children the eldest is William, father of him Whose name introduces this article; Marmaduke is deceased : Mary D. became the wife of George Moore: Jane married Wesley Cox; Alice E. married Marion Hefling, and after his death contracted a second marriage, the name of her second husband being Watson and she being still a resident of Kansas; John W. likewise resides in the state of Kansas; Hannah is the wife of Worthington McFadden; Julia Josephine died young; Nancy Louis married Marion Tittis; Mrs. Jane Blackwell is the youngest of the daughters; and Thomas died young.
William Reynard was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, August 14, 1842, and was four years old at the time of the family removal to Meigs County, as noted in a preceding paragraph. He was about twelve years of age at the time of the return to Franklin Township, Harrison County, where he was reared to adult age and where he continued his association with farm enterprise until the summer of 1864, when he became a member of Company D, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he continued in active service nearly 150 days—or virtually until the close of the Civil war. Upon his return home he resumed farming operation in Franklin Township, where he developed and improved a fine farm of 225 acres, which he still owns, and when: he continued his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower for fully forty years. In the spring of 1908 he and his wife removed from their farm to the village of Deersville, where he still maintains his home, as one of the venerable native sons of the county, and where his devoted wife died on the 31st of October, 1917. In politics Mr. Reynard has always been a staunch republican, and he has served in various township offices, including that of trustee, of which he was the incumbent about eight years, besides which he served four years as member of the Board of Directors of the county infirmary and was for a long period a member of the School Board of his district. He has been a most zealous and influential member .of the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife likewise was a devout adherent, and has served as elder and treasurer of the church, as well •as superintendent of the Sunday School, which last-mentioned position he held for many years. Mr. and Mrs. William Reynard became the parents of four children: Mary Delphine, who is the wife of John Lyle Clark: Horace W.. who married Miss Marie Markley and is engaged in the drug business at Salem, Columbiana County;
Robert W., who is the immediate subject of this review; and Eva Lena. who is the wife of Arthur Wharton.
Robert W. Reynard is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his early education, and he continued his active association with the management of the old home farm for eleven years after his marriage. In the autumn of 1918 he purchased the John P. Ross farm of 138 acres in Cadiz Township, adjoining the farm of the county infirmary, and here he is carrying forward his progressive enterprise as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county. His politicial allegiance is given to the republican party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, the county seat.
On the ‘14th of November, 1907, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Reynard to Miss Nellie V.
Finical, who was born and reared in
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Cadiz Township, a daughter of John and Martha (Irwin) Finical, the former of whom died February 4, 1899, and the latter still resides in Harrison County, at a venerable age. John Finical was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1829, a son of Isaac Finical, and both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution. Soon after attaining to his legal majority Isaac Finical married Margaret, youngest daughter of Robert Anderson, of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they continued their residence in the old Keystone State until 1831, when they came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he died in 1854, at the age of .seventy-five years, his widow having been eighty-five years of age at the time of her death, and their children having been nine in number. John Finical was reared to manhood in Harrison County and as a young man became a successful teacher in the district schools, to which profession he devoted his attention for a number of years, though the major part of his active life was given to farm industry, in which he was successful. In April, 1856, he married Miss Martha 1rwin, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irwin, removed that same year to Iowa, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Finical became the parents of six sons and four daughters, and Nellie V., wife of the subject of this review, is the youngest of the five now living. Mr. and Mrs. Reynard have one child, John William, who was born April 4, 1914.
JAMES B. LYONS, who lives in Cadiz, has retired from active business pursuits, and yet he superintends his farm and keeps in close touch with agriculture. He was born in Cadiz May 12, 1833. Older inhabitants speak of that period as the year the stars fell, and he has always lived in Harrison County. His father, Robert Lyons, was born December 14, 1803, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and August 7, 1832, he married Ann W. Rowland of the same community. She was a (laughter of Robert Rowland, and they located in Harrison County. The grandfather, Mathew Lyons, of Pennsylvania ancestry, was born the year American Independence was declared, 1776, and he died in 1852 in Washington County. His wife was a Miss Kelly. He was a farmer. Their children were Mathew, Richard, Joseph and Robert..
The youngest son, Robert, founded the Lyons family in Harrison County. As a boy of fifteen years he came to Cadiz, and in partnership with Daniel Kilgore he operated a general store. He is listed among the pioneer merchants of Harrison County.
In 1847 there was a branch of the Ohio State hank organized in Cadiz, the first bank in Harrison County, and Robert Lyons became its first cashier. He remained with this bank until 1855, when he established a brokerage office in Cadiz, and he continued that business the remainder of his days. Of the five children of Robert Lyons, Nancy and Ann Eliza died in childhood. . The others are: James B., Martha C., who married Barclay Welch, and she is now deceased, and Richard Lyons. The mother died May 16, 1844, and on November 21, 1848, Mr. Lyons married Anne B. Allison.
After finishing public school in Cadiz J. B. Lyons entered Franklin College at New Athens. Like his father, he became a bank cashier. For many years he was cashier of the Frst National Bank of Cadiz, and in 1858 went to Cambridge, where he engaged in the brokerage business, and soon after the Civil war he went to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the produce business with William 'sham. After a few years Mr. Lyons returned to Cadiz and entered the brokerage business in the office of his father, finally buying a farm in Green Township, and since that time he has given his attention to general farming and the livestock business.
On January 3, 1858, Mr. Lyons married Sallie G. Thomas, who was born April 4, 1838, at Cambridge, Ohio. She is a daughter of Lambert Thomas. Their children are Anna B., wife of Dr. Frank Martin; Catherine G., Robert, deceased, Mary T., wife of Albert Bullock, and Nancy, wife of Jesse Slemons. The Lyons family are communicants in the Cadiz Presbyterian Church.
THOMAS A. PALMER has shown no indirection or lack of initiative energy in his long and successful career as one of the representative farmers of his native county, and though now advanced in years he still resides upon his old home farm in North Township, Harrison County, the place having comprised 140 acres until the spring of 1919, when he relieved himself of the cares of managing the entire place by selling ninety-two acres, so that he retains at the present time a farm of forty-eight acres and is giving his attention principally to growing apples. He is a man of marked mentality, is genial and affable, has lived a life of uprightness and producive toil, and no citizen of the community commands more secure vantage-place in popular confidence and good will.
Mr. Palmer was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 28th of October, 1849, and is a son of Adam and Catherine (Shirey) Palmer, both natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born in December, 1812, and the latter on the 11th of January, 1816, she having been a daughter of John and Rachel Shirey. Adam Palmer's parents, Jacob and Hannah (Archibald) Palmer, came from the old Keystone State of Ohio in the early pioneer days and were numbered among the first permanent settlers in Stock Township, Harrison County, where they established their home in 1814 and where the father reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds. Adam Palmer was about two years old when the family came to Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and attended the primitive schools of the period. In his youth he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in connection with farm enterprise in Archer Township until 1860, when he removed to a farm in North Township, this place having been improved and developed by him and having continued his place of residence until his death, October 15, 1881. His widow sur-
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vived him by fifteen Years and passed to the life eternal on the 29th of February, 1896, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded: Jacob G., October 18, 1838; Mary E., July 8, 1840; William, May 21, 1842; Israel A., June 2, 1844; Thomas A., subject of this review, October 28, 1849.
Thomas A. Palmer gained his youthful education in the rural schools of Harrison County and as a youth he learned the carpenter's trade, principally under the direction of his father. After devoting a few years to work at his trade he engaged in farthing, with which great basic industry he has continued his connection during the long intervening years, the while he has owned and resided upon his present farm since the time of his marriage, in 1875. He has always been ready to give his support to measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community, is a Democrat in politics, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, as was also his wife, whose death, on the 3d of March, 1911, brought the supreme loss and bereavement of his life.
April 29, 1875, marked the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Jennie E. Fowler, who was born and reared in Stock Township, and who was a daughter of James W. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Fowler, who passed the closing years of their lives on their farm in Stock Township, near Scio. Mr. Fowler was born in Monroe Township, this county, October 12, 1829, and was a son of Benjamin and Jane (Whittaker) Fowler, whose marriage was solemnized in this county. Benjamin Fowler was born in Pennsylvania October 31, 1802, and was a boy at the time of the removal of the family to Harrison County, Ohio, where his father, John Fowler, became a pioneer farmer and where he himself passed the remainder of his life, in Monroe Township. James W. Fowler married Miss Elizabeth Crawford on the 7th of June, 1852, and in 1861 they settled on the farm in Stock Township which continued to be their place of residence during the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer became the parents of two children: Nellie I. is the wife of Loyd M. Nixon, of North Township, and they have one son, Clyde; Mary E. is the wife of Rev. Robert M. Albaugh, a clergyman of the Baptist Church, and they reside in Portsmouth, Ohio, their two children being Roberta M. and William Carroll.
EDWARD L. GARNER has achieved marked popularity and success as a teacher in the public schools of his native county, served two terms as clerk of the court at Cadiz, the judicial center of the county, and is now one of the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in Cadiz Township, where he owns the old James K. Ourant farm of 115 acres, a property which he purchased in 1908, the place being well improved and constituting one of the valuable farms of Harrison County.
Mr. Garner was born in Nottingham Township, this county, August 6, 1872, and is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of that township, where his grandfather, Hezekiah Garner, settled about the year 1818 and reclaimed a farm from the forest, only ten acres of the tract of 160 acres having been cleared when the property came into his possession, and the original domicile of the family having been a log cabin, which soon gave place to a house that was far superior to the average dwellings of the locality and period. Hezekiah Garner developed a productive farm, and here he continued to reside until his death in 1866. He was born in Maryland about 1780, was there reared to manhood and thence went forth as a gallant young soldier in the War of 1812. By his first marriage he became the father of three children—James, John and Julia (Mrs. Hugh Rose), Julia having been the last to survive and having been a resident of Harrison County at the time of her death. For his second wife Mr. Garner married Sophia Tippitt, and they became the parents of eight children: Elizabeth, Mary Bell, Susanna, Sarah (Mrs. Titus), Nelson, Amanda (Mrs. Bean), Edward (father of the subject of this sketch), and Thomas. All of these children are now deceased.
Edward Garner was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, March 18, 1823, and there he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days. In his native township he gave his entire active life to agricultural industry as one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of the county, and he died in February, 1910, only a short time prior to the eighty-seventh anniversary of his birth. He was always a stanch republican in politics, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In the autumn of 1866 was solemnized the marriage of Edward Garner to Miss Julia A. Merryman, who was born in Cadiz Township, Harrsion County, April 3, 1831, a member of another of the representative pioneer families of the county. She passed to the life eternal on the 19th of December, 1886, and of the eleven children the subject of this review is the youngest; Elizabeth and Amos died in childhood; Sophia Rose became the wife of J. S. Rose, of Washington Township; Lucy married J. B. Beall, and they established their home on a farm in Nottingham Township; Merryman and Oliver located on farms in Nottingham Township; Amanda J. married A. W. Yarnall, of Freeport Township; Lavina became the wife of Allen Moore, of Moorefield Township; Emma A. became the wife of R. A. McKibben, of Moorefield Township; Mary B. became the wife of Albert B. Fulton and continued to reside in her native county until heir death, in October, 1918.
Edward L. Garner passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the home farm, and that he profited fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools is indicated by the fact that when eighteen years of age he became a successful teacher in the district schools. After thus following the pedagogic profession a few years he entered Valparaiso
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University at Valparaiso, Indiana, in which celebrated institution he completed a course in the normal department. He then resumed teaching in the schools of his native state, and to this important work he continued to devote the greater part of his time until he purchased and established his home on his present farm in 1908, save that four years of service were given by him as clerk of the courts of his native county, a position to which he was first elected in 1910 and of which he continued the incumbent two successive terms.
Mr. Garner is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is affiliated with the lodge of Knights of Pythias in the village of Adena, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church in Mooretield Township.
In 1896 Mr. Garner was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Josephine Easter, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is the only child of Joseph M. and Elizabeth (Barclay) Easter, the former of whom was born in Cadiz Township February 12, 1841, and the latter of whom was born in Nottingham Township, a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Kissick) Barclay, who were born in County Kerry, Ireland, where their marriage occurred and whence they came to America in 1826, becoming early settlers of Harrison County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives in Nottingham Township. Mrs. Elizabeth (Barclay) Easter was born February 18, 1841, and her marriage was solemnized March 6, 1871. Her husband passed to eternal rest on the 31st of the following December, and she survived him by, many years. She finally purchased a farm in Moorefield Township. She was an earnest member of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Garner have but one child, Esther Glenn, who is the wife of Francis M. Rea, of Cadiz, Ohio, and they have one son, John Edward. It should be stated that Mr. Garner still pays allegiance to the profession which he adopted in his youth. and is still engaged in teaching during the winter terms of school.
JOSEPH H. MYERS. It is claimed that a man reared on a farm never loses his love for the soil, and certain it is that many of the sons of farmers who for a period left ,rural surroundings for those more urban have returned to their first calling and are now to be found among the most dependable of the agriculturalists of the country. When such men return to the farm they make a success of their work. for they know just what the requirements are and how to engage in the cultivation of the soil in a thoroughly practical and efficient manner. Such has been the case with Joseph H. Myers of Rumley Township, who after some years spent in different occupations returned to his original calling and now owns a finely cultivated farm of 107 acres in Rumley Township.
Joseph H. Myers was born in Lee Township, Carroll County, Ohio, February 10, 1877, a son of Orlonzo and Nancy (Slates) Myers. Orlonzo Myers was born in Vinton County, Ohio, and his wife was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, a daughter of John and Abbie (Harner) Slates.
Growing up in Ohio, Orlonzo Myers came to Carroll County in young manhood and for a time worked for different farmers. About 1883 he moved to Jefferson. German Township, Harrison County, and after a brief stay there located at Jewett, where he was employed on railroad construction work and operated a sawmill until 1905. In the latter year he bought 100 acres of land in Rumley Township, and has since been engaged in conducting this property. He and his wife became the parents of the following children : John W., Joseph H., Mary Bell, Eliza Pearl, Samuel C., Burton P.. Nellie V., an unnamed infant son deceased, Rennison. Jessie, Hazel, Della. Harry (who died when three years old) and Byrle. Mrs. Myers is a consistent member of the Lutheran Church.
Joseph H. Myers attended the public schools of Jewett. While still a boy he began working for farmers, and continued this practice for some years. during which period he learned to be an excellent farmer. Later he went into railroading, and still later was employed in work on the telephone lines. In 1902, however, he decided to return to Jewett, and for six years was engaged in operating a draying business.. Selling it, he bought his present farm in Rum- ley Township, and is making a great success of his venture, carrying on general farming and stock-raising in an effective and paying manner.
On October 20, 1898, Mr. Myers was united in marriage with Grace Hilbert, a daughter of Amos and Amanda (Reid) Hilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have had the following children born to them: Harry F., Arthur H., William Joseph and Myrle Allen and Marian Agnes, the last two being twins. Little Myrle Allen died when seven months old, but the other children are living. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are valued members of the Lutheran Church of Jewett.
LEWIS D. LATHAM. One of the best known names at Freeport is that of Latham, and it is borne by some of the best citizens and progressive business men of this part of the state. The family is an old American one, and dates back in Harrison County, Ohio, to John Latham, a soldier of the War of 1812, who, in 1816, came with his family to Moorefield Township, Harrison County, and bought some school land. He lived but a few years longer, but his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have lived up to his own high standards. The children born to John Latham and his wife, Lucy, were as follows: Robert A., John, George, Sarah, Mary, Anna, Fannie, Betsy and Lucy. All of his mature years he worshipped according to the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and upon coming to Harrison County immediately transferred his membership to the local congregation.
Robert A. Latham, eldest son of John Latham, was born in Virginia, and came to Harrison County with his parents. Here he was married to •Susan Davidson, born in Freeport Township. a daughter of Lewis Davidson, a pioneer farmer of Freeport Township, who entered land from the Government and became a prosperous
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farmer. The children of Lewis Davidson were as follows: William, John, Lewis, Mordecai, Thomas, Joseph, Jesse, Jonathan, Susannah and Mary. Like his father, Robert A. Latham was a devout Methodist.
Robert A. Latham lived in Moorefield Township until his marriage, and then moved to Freeport Township, where he lived until his death, which occurred when he was fifty-eight years of age, from typhoid fever. The children of Robert A. Latham and his wife were as follows: William, James, Lewis D., Mary Lucy, Eunice, Selma and Sarah Frances.
Lewis D. Latham, whose name heads this review, son of Robert A. Latham, and father of the five sons who compose the firm of L. D. Latham's Sons, was during his young manhood occupied with conducting a farm in Freeport Township, and later he bought the family homestead. In addition to his farming he dealt extensively in live stock and bought wool, and continued to be one of the active factors of his neighborhood until 1908, when he retired, moved to Freeport, and has made it his place of residence ever since.
On October 18, 1866, Lewis D. Latham was married to Louisa Hefting, born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, December 29, 1842, a daughter of Noah and Martha (Herron) Hefting. Mr. and Mrs. Latham became the parents of the following children: Olive, who married Rev. W. B. Maughman and has two children, Dean and Ploy; Frank M., who is mentioned below; Susannah, who married Endsley Adams, lives at Marshalltown, Iowa, and has two children, Lucile, now Mrs. Frank Eversole, and Pearl; John N., who is mentioned below; M. Eunice, who is at home; Lewis W., who is mentioned below; Robert Albert, who is mentioned below ; Minnie V., who is at home; and James V., who is also mentioned below. Like all the other members of their families Mr. and Mrs. Lewis D. Latham are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
FRANK M. LATHAM, eldest son of L. D. Latham and his wife, was born in Freeport Township August 21, 1870, and was educated in the schools of his district. On June 21, 1906, he was united in marriage with Arminda Asher, a daughter of Henry and Arminda (Stewart) Asher, and they have two children, Asher Frank and Panl Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Latham belong to the Freeport Methodist Episcopal Church. Since the firm of L. D. Latham's Sons was organized Frank M. Latham has been a member of it.
JOHN N. LATHAM, second son of L. D. Latham and his wife, was born in Freeport Township, Harrison County, Ohio, May 25, 1872, and lived at home until his marriage, alternating farm work with attendance at the district schools. On November 21, 1908, he was united in marriage with Edith Spencer, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Davidson) Spencer. There are no children. After his marriage John N. Latham began farming on a rented farm in Freeport Township, and still is interested in general. farming and stock raising. The first Mrs. Latham died in January, 1910, and December 25, 1917, Mr. Latham was married to Miss Irene Parker, a daughter of George W. and Daisy (Dean) Parker. By his second marriage John N. Latham has a daughter, Vivian Irene, Mr. Latham belongs to the Presbyterian Church of Freeport, although he was reared a Methodist.
LEWIS W. LATHAM, third son of Lewis D. Latham and his wife. was born in Freeport Township October 16, 1875. Like his brothers he remained at home until he was married, and he attended the district schools. On September 21, 1904, Lewis W. Latham was married to Miss Clio F. Shontz, a daughter of James 0. and Ada Shontz, and they have two children, Ethel Olive and Frances Marie. Both he and his wife belong to the Freeport Methodist Episcopal Church. Since 1905 Lewis W. Latham has been a resident of Freeport.
ROBERT ALBERT LATHAM, the fourth son in the above mentioned family, was born in Freeport Township June 5, 1880. After attending the local schools he took a course in the International Business College at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Until 1903 he continued to live on the homestead, but in that year came to Freeport, and since that date has been associated with his brothers in the firm of L. D. Latham's Sons. He, too, belongs to the Freeport Methodist Church.
JAMES V. LATHAM, youngest son of L. D. Latham and his wife, was born in Freeport Township April 21, 1886. He attended the district schools, the Freeport High School and Scio College at Scio, Ohio. Subsequently he was a student at the university at Valparaiso, Indiana, during 1908 and 1909. From 1905 to 1906 he was sales manager for the Cadiz Electric Company of Cadiz, Ohio, and since 1904 be has also been connected with the firm of L. D. Latham's Sons. Mr. Latham has also been actively interested in the insurance business for the past thirteen years, and for ten years has been a notary public. On December 21, 1910, James V. Latham was united in marriage with Ada Byron Dunlap, a daughter of Lycurgus M. and Ellen (Brokaw) Dunlap, and they have one daughter, Dorothy Elouise. They are members of the Freeport Methodist Episcopal Church.
The firm of L. D. Latham's Sons is one of the best known organizations in the county and handles hardwood lumber, live stock, poultry, wool, hay, straw, grain, hardware, salt, fertilizers and building materials. It would be diffrcult to find finer or more representative men than the Lathams anywhere in the country, and the father and sons hold the confidence of the public and the respect of all with whom they come in contact.
HARRY B. MCCONNELL. To have a hobby, if it be a useful one, is commendable, but an examination of this book would lead one to believe that Harry B. McConnell has a "whole stable full," since he contributes to this publication
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the "Harrison County Bird List," "Notes on Unusual Weather Phenomena," and also the list of books he has collected that relate in some way to Harrison County. As editor of the Cadiz Republican he is in control of one of the leading country newspapers of Ohio, but now the publication of it curtails the time he might otherwise devote to enlarging on his interest in birds and nature, as well as other things.
Harry Burns McConnell was born in Cadiz on Saturday, September 14, 1867, to William and Eliza Burns McConnell. He started to school in September of 1873, Miss Jennie Arnold being, the teacher of the primary room of the Cadiz Public Schools at that time, and she was also his Sunday school teacher for a number of years. He graduated as a member of the high school class of 1885, at the age of seventeen years, and the next day he entered the office of the Cadiz Republican to learn the printing trade, Wesley B. Hearn being the editor and proprietor at that time. He had previously served as "carrier boy," delivering the paper to town subscribers every Thursday mormng. He was able to "set" over a galley of type the first day he was in the office, having previously printed an amateur paper. In printing this small sheet during his spare time in the years 1882 and 1883 he exchanged with boys who were similarly engaged all over the country, and on one occasion, to attract attention, purposely dated the miniature sheet, which be called "No Name," as having been issued in 1782, so that the mistake would call attention to his efforts in embryonic journalism.
After being in the Republican office for fourteen months the foreman, Charles B. Davis, left Mr. Hearn’s employ to start an office of his own, and since the entire force at that time consisted of the foreman and two apprentices, Harry McConnell and Harry Kinsey, the subject of this sketch then had his first experience on job work and in making up newspaper forms. The first named apprentice was soon in full charge of the mechanical work of the office, and continued as foreman and assistant to Mr. Hearn in the work of editing the paper and keeping the books until a severe attack of neuritis in November of 1911 led the former proprietor to sell the paper to Mr. McConnell, the transfer of ownership taking place on February 12, 1912.
As editor of the Republican Mr. McConnell has kept the paper up to its high standard, and under his management the circulation, advertising patronage and job work turned out have considerably increased.
The McConnell family is one of the old families of Cadiz, Michael McConnell, the grandfather of Harry B. McConnell, having come to Cadiz from Steubenville in 1820, after serving as deputy sheriff in that county.
He was radical in his views on slavery, temperance and the use of tobacco, and was possibly the first man in Harrison County to vote the prohibition ticket. An incident that happened during the time he was conducting a grocery at Cadiz will show how he abhorred the traffic in intoxicating liquors. The dray- man had brought some groceries up from the depot and was unloading them in front of his store when Mr. McConnell noticed a barrel of whiskey on the same dray. "Take those goods back to the depot," was Michael McConnell's orders, "and haul them back without bringing any whiskey along with them," he added. And he never sold any tobacco in his store, since he did not wish to encourage a practice that he did not believe in.
Harry McConnell has in his collection of old relics and souvenirs six books which are bound in strawboard, containing every mention made in the Bible, giving the chapter and verse, that refers to intoxicating liquors and slavery. These books are in manuscript and were written by Michael McConnell. Along with these books is the "Constitution and By-Laws of the Order of Cadiz Templars of Honor and Temperance," printed in 1856.
The foregoing facts undoubtedly have something to do with the hatred of the liquor traffic entertained by his grandson, Harry B. McConnell, although the example set by his father, William McConnell, would have likewise greatly influenced him to refrain from the use of strong drink, since lb& also shunned the use of liquor and tobacco. There is something of a tradition, however, that William McConnell, as a boy, was once helping a farmer to harvest when hard eider was passed around and young William, without being aware of the possibilities of the beverage, indulged a little too freely, and in the midst of the resulting spree he managed somehow to mount on the back of a steer (some say it was a bull) and ride it through the streets of Cadiz. If this be true, it can be truthfully said it was his first and only indulgence in intoxicating liquor. He was a charter member of the Sons of Temperance, the first temperance order ever organized at Cadiz, and was also a member of the Cadiz Templars.
William McConnell also had an experience with the use of tobacco when a young boy. He was once with a few companions who had some cigars, and they were divided among them. William put his "smokes" under his hat and forgot all about them until they fell from under his headgear as he took it off to take his place at the supper table, and of course his father saw what happened, and William received a stern rebuke and emphatic lecture on the use of tobacco.
Rev. John Burns, D. D., the maternal grandfather of Harry B. McConnell, was the Methodist Protestant minister at Cadiz in 1850-1854. He was married twice, his first wife being Mary Jewett Pearson, who was the grandmother of the subject of this sketch. Jesse Pearson was the name of her father, and his wife's name was Mehitable Plummer, the Pearsons and Plummers being old and honored New England families, there being a record of the marriage of a Pearson and Plummer shortly after the settlement at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Doctor Burns took a prominent part in the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and presided over the deliberations of that body on one or two occasions. He served as chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary during the term of governorship of Richard M, Bishop, and his son,
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J. J. Burns, a prominent Ohio educator, was state commissioner of schools at the same time. Doctor Burns was a charter member of Harrison Lodge, F. & A. M., of Cadiz. The branch of the Burns family to which Doctor Burns belonged was descended from the Scotch family of the same name to which the immortal singer Robert Burns belonged.
It is the policy of the present editor of the Cadiz Republican to give ardent support to any movement that has for its object the betterment and advancement of his native town. Shortly after our first Chautauqua was held he wrote an article on artificial lakes and pointed out the possibility of the construction of a lake on the Chautauqua grounds. This project was subject to ridicule and adverse criticism at first. He also wrote an article before the removal of the County Fair Grounds from the McMechan site to the Chautauqua grounds and was the first to advocate such action being taken.
Mr. McConnell served for a short time as member of the Cadiz School Board, and in recent years has been president of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library. He has also served as both treasurer and vice president of the Buckeye Press Association, and takes a prominent part in the meetings of the association. He has written articles on nature study for the magazine section of Sunday newspapers, and also for New York magazines. He is a member of several ornithological clubs.
On October 15, 1891, Mr. McConnell married Miss Eva M. Dickerson, daughter of Samuel C. and Mary McCoy Dickerson. The Dickerson family is one of the pioneer families of Harrison County, and for over 100 years the name has been associated with the most progressive and representative people of this section. They have one daughter, Mrs. Isabel Ronsheim, Mr. Ronsheim now being associated with Mr. McConnell in the publication of the Cadiz Republican.
ENOS D. STATLER, a prosperous general farmer and stock-raiser of Rumley Township, owns and operates 208 acres of very valuable land that he has in a high state of cultivation. He was born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, July 11, 1867, a son of John W. and Anna B. (Moore) Statler, grandson of Jacob Statler and great-grandson of Jacob Statler, the latter being one of the pioneers of Monongahela County, West Virginia. He settled near Dunkard Creek, on a stream that was known as Jake's Run, and when a postoffice was established at this point it was called in his honor, Statler's Post- office. The elder Jacob Statler met with the fate of a number of the early settlers of this country, having been killed and scalped by hostile Indians, this atrocity being perpetrated on his own land.
Jacob Statler, the younger, was born on Jake's Run, and there he spent practically all of his life. He married Bettie Walker and their children were as follows: Sarah, Plezie, Catherine and John W. The family belonged to the Christian Church.
John W. Statler was born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, August 3, 1841, and his wife was born in the same county. She was a (laughter of Daniel and Priscilla (Tenant) Moore. Daniel Moore, maternal grandfather of Enos D. Statler, was a farmer of Monongahela County, a heavy landowner, and lived there all his life. His children were as follows: Gilbert B., Jacob R., Nimrod A., Anna B., Sarah Margaret, Eliza Jane, Rebecca, Luama and Ida Bell. Like the Statlers, the Moores belonged to the Christian Church.
Until 1909 John W. Statler was engaged in farming, but during that year he left Monongahela County and went to northern Nebraska, where he is still living. His wife died in 1917. Their children were as follows: James Newton, Enos Daniel, Mary Elizabeth, Priscilla Jane, Sarah Margaret, Rebecca, Newman Benson, Jacob Peter, Thomas and Lloyd. Mr. Statler, together with his children, belong to the Christian Church, and during her lifetime Mrs. Statler also belonged to this denomination.
Growing up in his native county, Enos D. Statler learned farming as well as gained the literary instruction furnished by the district schools. While still living in Monongahela County he commenced his independent farming, and continued it until 1897, when he moved to Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvama, and there he continued farming until 1910. He then sold and moved to Rumley Township, Harrison County, buying his present farm of 208 acres. He has been eminently successful in all of his operations, and has gained a well- deserved reputation as a general farmer and stock-raiser.
In 1889 Mr. Statler was united in marriage with Sarah Tenant, a daughter of Nimrod A. and Margaret J. (Lemley) Tenant. Mr. and Mrs. Statler became the parents of the following children: Claude C. is a commercial instructor in the Wheeling High School. Lonnie L., who is a veteran, of the great war, is a teacher in the South Hill High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He married Grace Strader and they have one son, Robert Allen, born September 4, 1920. Ray C., who is a graduate of the Elliott Commercial College at Wheeling, West Virginia, is now a commercial teacher in the Wellsburg, West Virginia, High School. Emma E. and Frank are both at home. Frank graduated from Germania High School, Jefferson, Ohio, in 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Statler are members of the Baptist Church.
Lonnie L. Statler entered the service December 20, 1917, and was assigned to Battalion A, Sixty-fourth Coast Artillery. On July 4, 1914, he sailed from Hoboken, and landed at Southampton, England, and from there went on to France, serving with his company until the signing of the armistice. He was returned to the United States February 23, 1919, and was discharged and returned home. Having done his duty to his country in time of war, he has quietly returned to it to give it just as valuable a service outside of the army. This country needs, and will continue to need, young men like Mr. Statler, who have taken part in a great undertaking and through the broademing effects of contact with other men and countries have learned of the advantages of their own and are prepared to continue to defend them
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to the utmost. In his present work of guiding the budding intellect of his pupils Mr. Statler is rendering his country just as important a service as he did when he wore its uniform, and it is safe to say that none who come under the influence of this brave young veteran will fail to carry with him into his after life something of the real Americanism which enabled the "Yanks" to hold back the hordes of the enemy and finally vanquish them.
GEORGE A. HILLIGAS is doing well his part in maintaining the high prestige of the family name in connection with civic loyalty and the furtherance of farm industry in his native county, and is one of the successful agriculturists and stock-raisers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he is the owner of a well improved farm of 210 acres, not far distant from the old homestead on which he was born and reared. He is a son of Francis A. Hilligas, and data regarding the family history may be found on other pages, in the sketch of another son, Charles C.
Mr. Hilligas was born in Short Creek Township on the 19th of July, 1883, and here the district schools fortified him in youthful education. His loyalty to his native county is unlimited and is shown alike in his earnest support of measures and enterprises tending to advance the general welfare of the community as well as in his energy and careful management in the furtherance of the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, of which he is a prominent exponent of the younger generation in Short Creek Township. He has made no effort to enter the arena of practical politics but is a staunch supporter of the principles and policies for which the republican party stands sponsor.
On the 22d of December, 1909, Mr. Hilligas was united in marriage to Miss Loraine Rep- part, who likewise was born and reared in Short Creek Township and whose father, Thomas F. Reppart, is the subject of an individual review in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Hilligas are popular figures in the social life of their community, and enjoy welcoming their many friends to their attractive home, which is known for its hospitality and good cheer. They have two children—Ralph Paul and Agnes Marie. Mr. and Mrs. Hilligas are members of the United Presbyterian Church.
LLOYD L. CARSON is numbered among the able representatives of farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and is a young man who has found in his native county a field of industry that challenges his best efforts and offers him the best of opportunities. He was born in Nottingham Township June 1, 1885, and is a son of Albert 0. and Lydia E. (Milliken) Carson, concerning whom adequate record is given on other pages, in the personal sketch of another son, William J.
The district Schools of Nottingham and Green Townships afforded Lloyd L. Carson his early education, and he remained on his father's farm in Cadiz Township until the year 1904, when he returned to Nottingham Township, which has since continued the stage of his successful activities as an agriculturalist and stock-grower, his farm comprising 102 acres of fertile and productive land and the place being kept at high standard under his vigorous management. He is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church at Minksville.
On the 9th of December, 1911, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Carson to Miss Julia L. Fulton, who was born and reared in Nottingham Township and who is a representative of a well known pioneer family of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Carson have no children. Mrs. Carson is a daughter of Ellis and Isabel (Mallernee) ton, both likewise natives of Harrison County. Ellis Fulton was born in Nottingham Township on the 18th of May, 1849, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Pugh) Fulton, the former of whom was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the latter was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where her father, David Pugh, was a pioneer settler. William Fulton was a son of Philip Fulton, who came from the old Keystone State to eastern Ohio in the early pioneer days. He and his son William, who was then a boy, walked from Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, to Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and with the axes which they carried on the trip they felled trees and prepared the logs for the erection of the cabin that was here to serve as the family domicile. After the primitive dwelling was made ready for occupancy the father and son returned to Steubenville, and shortly afterward the entire family came to the new home in the midst of the wilds of Nottingham Township, where was vigorously carried forward the development of the land that has remained in possession of the Fulton family during the long intervening years and which continued to be the home of Philip Fulton and his wife until they passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. Their children were ten in number— Philip, Alexander, William, John, Jane, Julia, Eliza, Mary, Hannah and Sarah.
William Fulton grew to manhood on the pioneer farm and with the passing years became one of the substantial representatives of farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, where he accumulated a valuable landed estate of about 500 acres, and where he and his wife remained until their deaths. Mrs. Fulton was a member of the Christian Church. They became the parents of eight children: John C., William P., Alexander, Scott, Ellis, Hannah (died in early childhood), Rachel and Louisa. The sons William P. and Scott entered the Union army when the Civil war began, William P. having served as a member of the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Scott was likewise a member of an Ohio regiment, and was mortally wounded in the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia.
Ellis Fulton was reared and educated in Nottingham Township, and in that township he has devoted his entire active career to farm enterprise, his well improved rural estate comprising 450 acres of excellent land of his native township. His wife is a daughter of the late Lewis
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C. and Lovina (McFadden) Mallernee, and they have five children: William E. married Miss Lulu Walker and they have two children— Myrtle and Howard. Lewis Craig Fulton first married Miss Rena Pugh, who is survived by two children—Vesta Gail and Roger Paul. Mrs. Fulton died in 1915, and for his second wife Lewis C. Fulton married Miss Nora Raber, the one child of this union being Harry Lewis. Julia is the wife of Lloyd L. Carson, of this review. Anna is the wife of George Cope. John married Miss Lulu Cope, and they have two children—Velma Belle and Ellis.
ALVIN O. FINICAL and his next older brother, James I., who is a bachelor, are associated in the ownership and management of a fine farm of 378 acres in Stock, Archer and Cadiz townships, Harrison County, and are representatives of a well known and highly honored pioneer family of the county, where their paternal grandfather established his residence nearly four score years ago.
Alvin 0. Finical was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, December 24, 1869, and is a son of John and Martha (Irwin) Finical, whose marriage was here solemnized in April, 1856. John Finical passed away on the 4th of February, 1899, and his widow still remains on the old home farm. Her parents came to Harrison County many years ago, and later became pioneer settlers in Iowa, where they passed the remainder of their lives.
John Finical was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1829, a son of Isaac and Margaret (Anderson) Finical, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, of pioneer German stock, and the latter of whom was a daughter of Robert Anderson, of Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father, a native of Ireland, was a gallant soldier of the Continental line in the War of the Revolution. Isaac Finical came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1831, and here he continued his association with farm enterprise until his death, which occurred in Cadiz Township, when -the was seventy-five years of age, his widow having passed away in 1885, at the venerable age of eighty-eight years. They became the parents of nine children: Eliza May (Mrs. William Spiker), Margaret (Mrs. Alexander Henderson), Jane (Mrs. William Miller), Frances C. (Mrs. David Steward), Mary E. (Mrs. Calvin Rodgers), Rachel (died in childhood), Robert, John and Thomas.
John Finical was about two years old when the family home was established in Harrison County, where he was reared and educated under the conditions of the middle-pioneer period, and where as a young man he was for a number of years a successful teacher in the district schools. After his marriage he settled on the farm in Cadiz Township which continued as the stage of his activities during the remainder of his long, worthy and useful life, and he was the owner of 378 acres at the time of his death. Mr. Finical was a staunch abolitionist in the period leading up to the Civil war, and was allied with the republican party from the time of its organization until the close of his life. His widow still survives him, as previously noted, as do also five of their ten children: Milton Beecher Finical is a resident of the State of Kansas; Lizzie Margaret, who became the wife of John P. Ross; William H., who resided in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Thomas A., who was a resident of the State of Kansas, are all deceased; James I. and Alvin 0. are associated in farm industry in their native county, as stated in the opening paragraph of this review; Martha V. married Ernest Carson; 'John died in 1905; Nellie V. married R. W. Reynard; and one child died in infancy. Mr. Finical was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his widow.
The district schools of Cadiz Township afforded Alvin 0. Finical his early educational advantages, and from his youth to the present time he has continued to be actively associated with farm industry in his native township, his removal to his present farm having occurred shortly after his marriage, this being one of the well improved and ably managed farm properties of Cadiz Township. He is a republican in political allegiance, takes a lively interest in community affairs as a loyal and public- spirited citizen, and he and his wife hold membership in Asbury Chapel, Methodist Episcopal, in their home township.
On the 17th of December, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Finical to Miss Olive V. Adams, who was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, October 18, 1871, a daughter of John F. and Amanda (Barger) Adams, and they have five children—Dora D., J. Clark, Ross A., Clara Isabel and T. Nelson. Dora D. is now the wife of Clyde Ramsey, of Dennison, Ohio. Ross A. is one of the sterling young patriots who entered the nation's Service when America became involved in the great World war. In September, 1917, he went forth with the first party of young men from Harrison County and was assigned to membership in the Three Hundred and Thirty-second United States Infantry, at Camp Sherman, this regiment being a part of the Eighty-third Division. Within a short time he was transferred to the Veterinary Corps of this division, and on the 29th of June, 1918, he landed in France. There he continued in active service until the signing of the historic armistice, when he went with his command into Belgium, later being for a time in Luxemburg, and thereafter being assigned to service with the Army of Occupation in German. In November, 1919, he returned to the United States, and after his discharge from the army returned to the home farm.
JOSEPH B. DUNLAP, of Cadiz Township, was born October 28, 1864, in Athens Township. He is a son of Hugh P. Dunlap and has the same lineal descent as R. K. Dunlap, whose sketch has already been written for the Carroll and Harrison Counties History. His education was secured in the Cadiz Township Public Schools, and his life activity has been agriculture.
On September 30, 1906, Mr. Dunlap married Mary Thompson, sister of Emmett Thompson,
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and her genealogy appears in this work. Her death occurred September 5, 1920. Her home was the Thompson family homestead, where the Thompson relatives have lived for more than a century. Agriculture and the live stock industry claim the attention of Mr. Dunlap.
D. W. KAIL, one of the progressive farmers of Rumley Township, and superintendent of the Burnley Township roads, is a man who has devoted a large amount of his time and energies to public matters, and is responsible for many of the improvements of this region. He was born in Rumley Township, November 6, 1857, a son of Hance W. and Elizabeth (Bricker) Kail, and grandson of Jacob Kali one of the pioneers of German Township. The children of Jacob Kail were as follows: Samuel. Fred, George, Enoch, John, Hance W., Lovina and Lucinda.
Hance W. Kail was born in German Township, March 11, 1828, and his wife was born in the same township, a (laughter of Henry and Mary (Smith) Bricker. Henry Bricker was another of the pioneers of German Township, and his children were as follows: Lucinda, Elizabeth, Julia, Enoch and George, the last named giving up his life in defense of the Union during the war between the states. Hance W. Kail was one of the successful farmers of Rumley Township, to which he moved in young manhood, and which he made his home until his death, September 20, 1917. Mrs. Kail is also deceased. They belonged to the United Brethren Church. The children born to Hance W. Kail and his wife were as follows: George, D. W., Heba, John, Mary and Ida.
D. W. Kail attended the country schools of his native township, and from childhood was engaged in farm work. During his young manhood he began farming, and he was also for ten or twelve years engaged in operating a threshing machine. Until 1914 he was actively occupied with farming, but since then he has lived adjoining the corporation of Jewett, but still holds his farm of 102 acres of valuable land. For the past five years be has been superintendent of the roads of Rumley Township, and also does much work for the county, particularly in the building of bridges. He has been quite important politically and has held the offrces of assessor of Rumley Township, and that of constable, being in the latter for twenty years.
D. W. Kail was married to Amanda Cogan, a daughter of Joseph and Lea Cogan, of Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kail became the parents of the following children: William, who is deceased; Bertha, who married John A. Shambaugh; Jessie, who mar- tied S. M. Shambaugh, and has the following children, Wilma, Harry, Merrill and Arthur; Charles, who married Maude Pratt; Asa, who married Effie Heidy; Grover, who married a Miss Wood; and Perry, who is also married. Mr. and Mrs. Kail are members of the United Brethren Church of Rumley. Having spent his life in Rumley Township, it is but natural that Mr. Kail's interest in it should be strong or that he takes a pride in the work he has been able to accomplish in its behalf. A friend to good roads, he has done much to bring about the improvement of those under his supervision, and has plans for further development along the lines already followed.
ARTHUR L. PURVIANCE is one of the live business men of Harrison County, who is engaged in merchandising at Jewett, and the policies he is pursuing are such as to win for him the confidence of his community and the respect of his competitors. Mr. Purviance was born in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 5, 1883, a son of William Purviance, and a grandson of Nathan Purviance, a farmer of Smithfield Township during the earlier days of Jefferson County.
William Purviance was born in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, and there he was married to Nancy Polen, born at East Springfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Peter and Anna Maria (Graham) Polen. After being engaged in farming in Smithfield Township for a time William Purviance moved to Salem Township, the same county, and is still living on his farm. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: Arthur L., Walter, Edward, Harry, Frank, Lucy, Paul, Earl and Pearl. The family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The maternal great-grandfather of Arthur L. Purviance, William Polen, came from Virginia to Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1828. His wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Peg. One of their sons, Peter Polen, became the maternal grandfather of Arthur L. Purviance, and he was born in Virginia March 28, 1822, and died January 21, 1901. His wife was born November 27, 1829, and died May 5, 1911. Prior to his marriage Peter Polen began farming in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and continued his farming operations in that township the remainder of his life. Peter Polen and his wife had the following children: James . R., Mary, Daniel, Edgar (who died at the age of twenty-six years), William, Lucinda, George, Nancy (mother of Arthur L. Purviance), Ruth, Sarah Rosetta and Rosie (twins who died at the age of three months), Charles and Luther. Like the Purviance family the Polens all belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Arthur L. Pnrviance not only attended the schools of his district, but took a commercial course in a business college at Steubenville, Ohio. In 1908 he established a general store at Jewett, and has since been engaged in conducting his business, expanding with each year in a normal and healthy manner as a result of his good management.
In 1908 Mr. Purviance was married to Grace M. Johnson, a daughter of J. B. Johnson, and they have one son, William J. Mr. and Mrs. Purviance belong to the Presbyterian Church of Jewett and he is on its official board. Mr. Purviance is a Mason and belongs to Scio Lodge A. F. & A. M.
GEORGE S. SHULTZ, who is one of the vital and successful representatives of farm industry in North Township, Harrison County, bears the full patronymic of his grandfather, George S.
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Shultz, Sr., who was one of the sterling citizens and honored pioneer settlers of this county, where he continued his association with agricultural pursuits until his death. His wife was a member of the well known Hoobler family, which likewise has pioneer distinction in this part of the Buckeye State.
He whose name initiates this review was born at New Rumley in Rumley Township, Harrison County, October 26, 1871, and is a son of George W. and Rosanna (Lyle) Shultz, the former of whom was born in German Township and the latter in Rumley Township, this county, a daughter of William and Jane (Lewis) Lyle. George W. Shultz was yet a boy when he initiated an apprenticeship to the trade of wagon- maker, in which he became a skilled workman, his three years' apprenticeship having been served in Carroll County. Thereafter he engaged in the work of his trade at New Rumley, Harrison County, and in 1862 he left his wife and their three children to tender his aid in defense of the Union. He thus subordinated his personal interests to the call of patriotism, enlisting in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served two years and eleven months, or until the close of the Civil war. He participated in the many engagements in which his gallant command was involved, including the historic battle of the Wilderness, the battle of Cold Harbor and the siege of Petersburg. After having thus made a valiant record as a loyal soldier Mr. Shultz returned home and resumed the work of his trade at New Rumley. Later he turned his attention to the carpenter's trade, in which he long controlled a prosperous business, and he continued his residence at New Rumley until his death, at the age of seventy-five years, his wife having passed away when about eighty- three years of age and both having been earnest members of the United Brethren Church, while he was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. Arthur L., the eldest of the children, married Miss Margaret Donaldson, and was sixty years of age at the time of his death; John W. married Lydia Slutz, who is deceased, and he maintains his home in Canton, Ohio; Mary J. died when about fifty-nine years of age; and George S., of this sketch, is the youngest of the number.
The public schools of New Rumley afforded George S. Shultz his early educational advantages, and as a youth he began working with his father at the carpenter's trade, to which, as a competent artisan, he continued to devote his attention until 1900, when he became a farmer in Archer Township. His wife died the following year, and he then removed from the farm to New Rumley, his former home, and in December, 1902, he contracted a second marriage. For the ensuing four years he was engaged in farm enterprise in Stark County, and since that time North Township, Harrison County, has been the stage of his progressive activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser, his present farm, which he purchased in 1919, comprising 102 acres. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
March 6, 1894, recorded the marriage of Mr. Shultz to Miss Mary Robinson, daughter of Frank and Mary (Whittaker) Robinson, of Harrison County, and she passed to the life eternal in 1901. She is survived by two children: Emma is the wife of Ira Fife, of Archer Township, and they have three children—Mary Frances and Kenneth LeRoy; Ruth M., the youngest daughter, remains at the paternal home. On the 26th of December, 1902, Mr. Shultz wedded Miss Susannah Heavilin, who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Heavilin and a representative of an honored Pioneer family of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Shultz have three children—Rosa Elizabeth, Ralph H. and Lona Mildred. Into their home was taken Melvin J. Shultz when he was a lad of about eleven years, after the death of his mother, the wife of John W. Shultz, elder brother of the subject of this sketch. Melvin J. Shultz was born December 6, 1896, a son of John W. and Lydia M. (Slutz) Shultz, and he was reared to adult age in the home of his uncle, George S. Shultz, to whom this review is dedicated. It was given to this sterling youth to represent his native county and the Shultz family in the nation's military service in the World war. Entering the service on the 25th of July, 1918, he was assigned to Company D, Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry, at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and in the following September he accompanied his command to France. There, at Le Mons, he was transferred to Company L, Three Hundred and Sixty-first Infantry, Ninety-first Division, and on the 26th of September he went with this command to the front, in the Argonne offensive. He there served during thirteen days of the stupendous war activities in this sector, and then accompanied his regiment into Belgium, where he entered the front line on the 30th of October. He was there in the thick of the fray for five days, and on the fifth day, November 3, 1918, his right hand was injured by shrapnel from a high-explosive shell projected by the enemy. Thereafter his injury necessitated his confinement in hospital, and after having been in several different hospitals in Belgium and France he was sent to the Thirty-third Base Hospital at Portsmouth, England, where he remained until December 12, 1918, when he sailed for America. He arrived in the port of New York City on the 26th of that month, and after having remained two weeks on Staten Island he was transferred to the Walter Reed General Hospital in the City of Washington, where he remained until he received his honorable discharge, October 15, 1919. His injury has resulted in the permanent disability of his right hand, the little finger being absent, together with a considerable part of the rest of the hand. Since his discharge he has been living in the City of Canton, Stark County.
T. ELMER GROVE is effectively aiding in the maintaining of the reputation of his native county as a district marked by well improved and well managed farms, and in Cadiz Town-
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ship, Harrison County, are to be found few more attractive and valuable farms than his splendid rural estate of 332 acres, situated about two miles from Cadiz, the county seat, and known as the old homestead of the late Samuel Cochran.
Mr. Grove was born in Cadiz Township on the 19th of January, 1862, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Croskey) Grove, the former of whom was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of William and Mary (Crabb) Croskey, who were sterling pioneers of the county and of whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the sketch of John Croskey. Thomas Grove was a son of Francis Grove, who likewise was a native of York County, Pennsylvania, as was also his wife; whose family name was Cross. In an early day they came from the old Keystone State to Harrison County, Ohio, and established their home on a pioneer farm in Short Creek Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. As a young man Thomas Grove initiated independent activities as a farmer in Cadiz Township, but in the spring of 1889 he sold his farm and removed to Jefferson County, where he purchased a farm in Smithfield Township, this place having continued as his place of residence until his death, in the autumn of 1899. After the death of her husband Mrs. Grove returned to Harrison County and established her home at Cadiz, where she still resides, as one of the venerable pioneer women of the county. Of their children the eldest is William, a farmer in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County; Nettie is ,the wife of William Thompson, another of the prosperous farmers of that township; T. Elmer, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Dr. Augustus C., a representative physician and surgeon of Harrison County, is engaged in practice in the Village of Jewett; Emma is the wife of Harry Livinsston, of Cadiz; Carrie is the wife of Joseph Aiken and they reside at Jewett; Lois is a teacher in the public schools at Warren, Trumbull County.
The district schools of Cadiz Township gave to T. Elmer Grove his early educational discipline, and he continued to be associated with the work of his father's farm until the time of his marriage. He was twenty-six years of age at the time of the family removal to Jefferson County. His marriage occurred in 1898, and he then rented a farm in Smithfield Township, that county, but in the following year, after the death of his father, he purchased the latterls farm in that township, where he continued his successful activities until 1901, when he sold the property and purchased a farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. He remained on this place of 140 acres for a period of eight years and then, ever alive to advancement in his chosen vocation, he sold this farm and bought the William Work farm in Cadiz Township, a property which he sold about one year later. He then, in 1910, made another progressive move, by purchasing the old homestead of Samuel Cochran in Cadiz Township, and to the original tract of 316 acres he has since added until he now has a splendid farm property of 332 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent grades of sheep and cattle. Vigor and good management mark Mr. Grove as one of the most progressive exponents of farm industry in his native county, and his success has been cumulative since he initiated his independent activities in this all- important field of industrial enterprise. He has had no desire to enter the arena of political activity, but is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party.
In February, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Grove to Miss Mary V. Rife, who was born in Tuscarawas County and reared in Harrison County. They have four children— Catherine, Donald, Paul and Sarah. Mrs. Grove is a daughter of George and Rebecca (Court- right) Rife. Her father served as bugler in Company H, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in. the Civil war, and thereafter followed his trade in the operation of the leading flour mill at Dennison, Tuscarawas County, until the time of his death. Of his two children Mary Virginia, wife of Mr. Grove of this review, is the younger, and Caroline was the wife of Patterson Guthrie, of Tuscarawas County. She died 18 years ago.
CHARLES A. BOWER. Bowerston stands as a memorial to the perseverance, industry and thrift of members of the Bower family, which was founded in Harrison County in 1806 by Barnhart Bower, the great-grandfather of Charles A. Bower, postmaster of Bowerston, and the immediate cause for the writing of this article. Barnhart Bower, the sturdy pioneer, came from Washington County, Maryland, bringing his family with him, it then including his wife, Mary, and several children, and after he reached Jewett he found the wilderness so dense he was forced to blaze their way through. A miller by trade, he was looking for a suitable site for a mill, and found what he wanted on the site now occupied by Bowerston, and from then on his family has been very prominently connected with the affairs of this locality. He had six children, and among whom were David, Henry, Jacob and Catherine.
David Bower, grandfather of Charles A. Bower, was born in Washington County, Maryland, and reared in Monroe Township. As he was growing up he frequently played with Indian children belonging to friendly tribes, and found them much the same as white ones. In 1856 he was one of the men who laid out the village of Bowerston, and he was engaged in farming and milling all of his life, owning a large amount of land and being a man of importance. For a number of years he served as a justice of the peace. He married Elizabeth Swinehart, and they had the following children: Jeremiah, Iziah, Ezekiel, Obediab, William, John A., David T., Mary A., Caroline and Margaret.
Ezekiel Bower, father of Charles A. Bower, was born at Bowerston August 18, 1835, and died March 27, 1907. He was a painter and carpenter by trade, and lived practically all of his life in and about Bowerston. In 1860 Eze-
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kiel Bower was married to Sarah E. Jones, born at Westchester, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel and Sydney (Mossgrove) Jones, and they became the parents of the following children: Charles A., who was the eldest; Frank H., who died July 26, 1907; Edwin H., who lives at Dennison, Ohio; James A., who was fourth in order of birth; George T., who lives at Dennison, Ohio; Wilbur LeRoy, who lives at Toledo, Ohio; and Olive Blanch, who lives with her brother Charles A., is assistant postmistress.
Charles A. Bower attended the district schools of Monroe Township and the Heller School. He learned the trade of a painter, and also that of a carpenter under his father, but later worked at railroading and was in several railroad shops. In 1901 he began clerking in a general mercantile establishment, and continued in that line of endeavor until January 2, 1919, when he left in order to prepare himself for the duties of postmaster of Bowerston which he assumed on January 21 of that year, although he was only acting postmaster until August 5, when he received his appointment from President Wilson. Mr. Bower is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees, both of Bowerston. He has always taken a very active part in the work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bowers- ton, of which he has been a member of its council for several years. For twelve years he has-been superintendent of the Sunday School, and he is leader of the choir. Both as a man and public official Mr. Bower is worthy of all commendation, and is living up to the high standards of his forebears.
JOHN BUSBY. Harrison County has some of the most progressive farmers of this part of Ohio, men who have not been slow in inaugurating improvements on their properties, and are proud of the fact that they have taken advantage of modern inventions so as to increase their capacity and decrease the cost of production. One of these modern agriculturalists is John Busby of Archer Township, whose family is a well known one in this vicinity. He was born on his present farm on January 7, 1860, a son of Martin Van Buren Busby, who was also born on the old Busby farm on February 5, 1834. His wife, Malinda Healea, was born in Cadiz Township in 1836.
The paternal grandfather was Abraham Busby, who was born in Baltimore County, Maryland. He was married to Deborah Kemp, also born in Maryland, and following their marriage they came with a horse and wagon to Harrison County, Ohio, locating in Archer Township, where he entered 160 acres of land from the Government, and this is the farm that is now owned by his grandson, John Busby. Here he rounded out his useful life, dying respected by all who knew him. The children born to him and his wife were as follows: Joshua, Sheridan, John, Benjamin, Abraham, Shadwick, Martin V., Elizabeth, Amanda and Deborah.
The maternal grandfather, Edward Healea, was one of the early farmers of Cadiz Township, Harrison County, and here his daughter, Mrs. Busby, was born. He and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah Busby, had the following children: Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, Edward, George, John, Rachel, ;Anna, Jane, Sarah and Malinda. Both the Healea and Busby families were members of the Methodist Church.
Martin V. Busby spent all of his life upon the farm where he was born, but lived in a different house. He became the owner of 245 acres of land, and was one of the well-known men of his community, in which he was always esteemed. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: Edward, John, George A., Sarah. Abraham M., Clara J. (who married Noah Ballehugh, is deceased), Jessie (who married Daniel Tucker), Abbie, Emmett Thompson, Mary (who became the second wife of Noah Gallehugh), Joseph (who died at the age of nineteen years), Mattie (who married J. A. Stewart). Clark and Clyde.
Growing up in a neighborhood and at a time when children were taught to make themselves useful and were early trained in habits of helpfulness and thrift. John Busby was no exception to the rule. While he was learning the fundamentals of a public school education in his home district he was also engaged in assisting his father in the operation of the homestead, and in the course of time through inheritance and purchase has become its owner, the farm now comprising eighty acres, on which he is raising diversitied crops and stock.
In 1888 Mr. Busby was united in marriage with Maggie E. Creagh, a daughter of William and Hannah (Webb) Creagh. Mrs. Busby died in 1890, leaving one daughter, Abbie, who married Pearl Stewart. Both by inheritance and conviction Mr. Busby is a Methodist, and he maintains membership with the church of that faith at Jewett. For five years he served his township as assessor, and was elected a trustee of Archer Township, assuming the duties of that office on January 1, 1920. Archer Township is fortunate in having Mr. Busby as one of its official representatives, for he is a, man who fully recognizes the importance of agriculture, and the fact that in both peace and war the lives, liberty and well being of the world depend upon the production of a proper amount of foodstuffs, and he is anxious not omy to maintain old standards, but to increase the production from each acre, encourage the young people to remain in the rural districts, and to give to his section all necessary improvements, especially those bringing about good roads.
JOHN W. OSBURN. Much data of marked interest as touching the history of Harrison County to be recorded in connection with the career of this representative farmer and honored citizen of Cadiz Township. He is a native son of this county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families, and it was given him to go forth from this county as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and his loyalty in civic life has always been on a parity with that which he thus manifested in his service in the great conflict which perpetuated the nation's integrity.
Mr. Osburn was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, October 3, 1840, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Welch) Osburn, both
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natives of Pennsylvania, the former having been born in Wesmoreland County April 4, 1813, and the latter in Lancaster County August 26, 1816. Samuel Osburn was a son of Alexander and Mary (Barnes) Osburn, whose marriage was solemnized in Pennsylvania, May 10, 1808, and who became the parents of seven children: William, Susanna, Samuel, John, Jane, Martha (died in early childhood) and Mary. After the death of his first wife Alexander Osburn married Martha Rankin, of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and two children were born of this umon, James D. and Rebecca.
Alexander Osburn was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1785, and was a son of Samuel and Susanna (Garven) Osburn, whose marriage was solemnized in County Derry, Ireland, Samuel Osburn was born either in Scotland or Ireland and was a representative of one of the sterling old Scotch families that left their native land to escape the indignities showered upon those of the Seceder religious faith and who found refuge in the north of Ireland, which has continued a Presbyterian stronghold through the long intervening years, the Osburns having been rigid Presbyterians at the time of the memorable and historic exodus of those of this faith from Scotland into the northern part of Ireland. Samuel Osburn immigrated from Ireland to America about 1770, and established his residence in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He served as a soldier in an infantry regiment in the War of the Revoplution, and also assisted in driving the hostile Indians out of the western part of the Keystone State. He and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church and continued their residence in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, until their deaths. Their children were the following: Archibald (born in Ireland), Elizabeth, John (killed by accident when a young man), Martha, Jane, Matthey, Alexander and Mary.
Early in the year 1816 Alexander Osburn came with his family from Pennsylvania and numbered himself among the early settlers in what is now Harrison County, Ohio. He had previously acquired a tract of wild and heavily timbered land in the present Athens Township, and on the same he had erected a long cabin, so that a modest home was ready for his family upon their arrival in what was little more than a wilderness. On this pioneer farm the devoted wife and mother died January 5, 1824. aged forty-three years, and in 1828 he removed from this original homestead of 160 acres to the land which he then purchased in Archer Township, where he passed the remainder of his life and where he died at the venerable age of eighty- two years, his second wife having passed away December 25, 184S. Mr. Osburn was a man of marked vigor and progressiveness in his day and generation and did much to further the development of agricultural and live-stock industry in Harrison County, where it is believed he was the first to introduce fine wool sheep into Archer Township. He enlisted for service in the War of 1812, but the conflict came to a close soon afterward. He was a staunch whig in politics, and he and his family were most zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he served as ruling elder and in which he represented the Steubenville Presbytery at the General Assembly of the church in the :ear 1846.
Samuel Osburn was about three years old at the time of the family arrival in Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer epoch. He received the advantages of the schools of the locality and period and remained on the old homestead farm of his father in Archer Township until 1906, when he and his devoted wife removed to Cadiz, the county seat, where both died in the year 1908, after a wedded companionship of seventy- two and one-half years. The fine old homestead farm of 172 acres was made by him one of the most attractive and valuable in Archer Township, and he was an honored leader in community sentiment and action. He was originally an ardent whig, but united with the republican party at the time of its organization and ever afterward continued a staunch supporter of its: cause, the while he was specially active in support of the Government during the period of Civil war. Mr. Osburn was one of the leading members of the Presbyterian Church in Harrison County and served many years as ruling; elder, besides which he thrice represented the. Steubenville Presbytery in the General Assemtbly of the church, his wife likewise having been a devoted member. It is worthy of special record that Mr. Osburn had the exceptional distinction of serving simultaneously as elder, deacon, trustee and Sunday School superintendent of the Presbyterian Church in Archer Township, besides serving at the same time as leader of the singing at the church services. He and his wife were venerable and revered pioneer citizens of the county at the time when they passed from the stage of their mortal endeavors. Mrs. Osburn was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John and Jane (McClellan) Welch, her father having been a native of Ireland and having come to America with his parents when he was a youth. John Welch came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, about the year 1822, and settled in Archer Township, where he obtained 160 acres of Government land and where he remained until a few years prior to his death, when he rented the farm to one of his sons and moved to another farm in Stock Township, where he passed the remainder of his life, as did also his wife, both having been active members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of ten children: Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, Samuel, John, Matthew, Jane, James, David and William. All of the children are now deceased with the exception of William, who resides at New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County. Samuel and Elizabeth (Welch) Os- burn became the parents of six children: Alexander died July 24, 1875, at the age of thirty- four years, the maiden name of his wife having been Sarah Hedges; John W., immediate subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Jane is the wife of Morrison Moorehead, of Green Township; Martha is the wife of Granville Dickerson, of Nodaway County, Missouri; Amanda is the wife of Lyons A. Welch, of
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Archer Township, Harrison County; and Mat- they Beatty remains on his father's old home farm in Archer Township.
John W. Osburn gained his early education in the schools of Archer Township, and continued to be associated with the activities of the home farm until the outbreak of the Civil war, when his youthful patriotism soon found ways and means to manifest itself. On the 9th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but in 1863 was discharged for physical disability. After recuperating his health he responded to the call for volunteers by enlisting, in May, 1864, in Company K, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he was made sergeant of his company and with which he took part in two battles and several skirmishes. He was discharged September 10, 1864, and mustered out at the expiration of his term of service. After the close of his military service Mr. Osburn remained on the old home farm of his father until 1874, when he purchased and removed to his present farm of 126 acres in Cadiz Township, one and one-half miles southwest of the county seat. As an agriculturist and stock-grower Mr. Osburn's success has been based on long experience and upon vigorous and progressive policies, with the result that he has long been known as one of the representative exponents of farm industry in his native county. He is a staunch republican in politics, is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and he and his wife and their elder daughter are active members of the Presbyterian Church in the city of Cadiz.
In 1871 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Osburn to Miss Lyra Belle Thompson, who was born in Green Township, Harrison County, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah Jane (Moorehead) Thompson, and of this union have been born two children, Elizabeth Gertrude and Sarah Alice. The elder daughter remains at the parental home and is popular in the social life of the community, and Sarah Alice is the wife of Oliver H. Dickerson, of Duluth, Minnesota, where both hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their three children are sons—John Osburn, Joseph Holmes and Samuel.
Jane (McClellan) Welch, maternal grandmother of Mr. Osburn, was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Oliver) McClellan, who were living in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the time of the Revolutionary war, in which conflict he served as first lieutenant in the cavalry, then known as the "flying camp." He was taken prisoner at the surrender of Fort Washington and was confined on Long Island, New York. He managed to escape, but was recaptured and was held as a prisoner of war until his exchange was effected. N.,
MILTON B. ROSS is a representative of the fourth generation of the Ross family in Harrison County and is one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of Cadiz Township. His great-grandfather, John Ross, settled in the county about the year 1816, having here bought land in the midst of the virgin forest. John Ross was born in Scotland, and was a young man when he came to America and established his residence in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Charlotte Hatcher. As above indicated, they came to Harrison County, Ohio, in the early years of the nineteenth century, where he continued to reside until his death, at the age of eighty-three years. His widow passed the closing years of her life in the home of one of their sons in Morgan County, Ohio. Their children were Adam, William, John, James, Hannah, (married Wilson Shannon, governor of Ohio), Eve, Polly and Susannah. The last named, the widow of Miles Tipton, was the last to survive, her death having occurred August 31, 1889, at which time she was ninety-two years of age.
Adam Ross was born in Pennsylvania, as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Susannah Row. As a young man Adam Ross learned the blacksmith's trade, which he continued to follow in the old Keystone State until 1804, when he came to Ohio and settled in Harrison County. He applied himself vigorously at his forge until he went to the front as a soldier in the War of 1812. While in service he was Stricken with fever and died in the regimental camp at Fort Stephenson, Sandusky, Ohio. His widow remained with her children on the pioneer farm in Harrison County until her death in 1848, at the age of seventy years. Their children were six in number: John, Adam and George (twins), Caleb, and Joseph and Aaron (twins).
Aaron Ross, father of him whose name introduces this review, was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, July 3, 1811, and there passed his entire life. He was one of the leading exponents of farm industry in this township and was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 300 acres at the time of his death, when venerable in years, he having been one of the last survivors of the native sons of his generation in Harrison County. He contributed much to the civic and material development and progress of his township and was a man of fine mentality and high ideals. Both he and his wife passed their declining years on their old homestead, about four miles distant from Cadiz. On the 16th of June, 1853, Mr. Ross was united in marriage with Miss Nancy Harper, who was born and reared in Archer Township, this county, a daughter of Samuel and Casandra (Cox) Harper, who were natives of Scotland and who were venerable residents of Harrison County at the time of their deaths. Mr. Harper reclaimed one of the excellent farms of the county, where he died in 1897, his wife having died in Cadiz. They were members of the Seceder Church. They became the parents of nine children, all now deceased: James, Christopher, Samuel, Jared, Thompson, Nancy, Emeline and Angeline (twins), and Mary Ann. Aaron and Nancy Ross became the parents of three children: Milton B., the immediate subject of this sketch; Dr. Franklin Harper Ross, who became a successful physician and surgeon in the city of Brooklyn, New York; and Susan Elmaretta, who became the wife of William P. Hedges. of Cadiz Township, and she is now deceased.
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Reverting to John Ross, great-grandfather of Milton B., it may be noted that as a youth he went from Scotland and entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of linen weaver in the city of Dublin, Ireland. He found the vocation not to his liking, and came to America and established his residence in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, whence he went forth to serve with the patriot forces in the War of the Revolution, he having been ensign, lieutenant and quartermaster at Valley Forge. His son Adam was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and there was married to Miss Susannah Row, a native of that county. They established their home in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1806, and he died only thirty days after having entered service as a soldier in the War of 1812. His brother was with him when he died and split out puncheons with which to construct the rude coffin in which the patriot soldier was laid to rest at Fort Stephenson.
Aaron Ross was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party and cast his first presidential vote in support of General Andrew Jackson. He was twice the democratic nominee for the office of director of the county infirmary, but was unable to overcome the large republican majorities normal to the county. His wife was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Milton B. Ross was born in Cadiz Township, July 3, 1854, and here received his early education in the district schools. He remained on the old farm until he bought his present farm of 143 acres, the place being well improved and yielding good returns, as he has been essentially energetic and progressive in his activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower and is one of the representative exponents of farm industry in his native township. He is unflagging in his allegiance to the democratic party and both he and his wife hold membership in Asbury Chapel, Methodist Episcopal.
On the 2d of May, 1877, Mr. Ross was united in marriage to Miss Anna J. Lavely, who likewise was born in Harrison County, and was reared in Franklin County, Ohio. Her parents, Nathan J. and Mary (Patterson) Laveley, later became pioneer settlers in Kansas. Nathan died in Harrison County, while his wife died in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ross became the parents of four children, of who the youngest, Edith C., died at the age of three years. Josephine K. is the wife of William W. Armstrong, and they have one child, Anna Virginia, the family home being in Cadiz Township. Charles Franklin is married and resides in Great Falls, Montana. Aaron Clark died at the age of nineteen years.
Mr. Ross has in his possession a brass bullet and button mold, combined, which was owned by Adam Ross, the grandfather, and which bears the date of 1719.
CHARLES M. MITZEL has been a resident of Carroll County since his boyhood and since 1904 he has held the position of engineer at the large and modern plant of the Carrollton Pottery Company at the judicial center of the county.
Charles Milton Mitzel was born in Stark County, Ohio, October 31, 1876, and is a son of William G. and Amanda (Bortner) Mitzel, both of whom were born in the state of Pennsylvania, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. The father was a miller by trade and vocation, and after following his trade in Stark County, Ohio, for a term of years he finally came to Carroll County, in the year 1890, and became operator of the flour mill at Augusta, where he remained, a representative business man and honored citizen, until his death in 1914, at the venerable age of seventy-eight years, his wife having died in 1886, at the age of forty-five years. They are survived by eight children: Howard, Albert E., A. E., Sadie, Charles M., Frank L., Minnie and Wesley. The father was a communicant of the Reformed Church and the mother held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In the public schools of his native county Charles M. Mitzel acquired his early educational discipline, and he was fifteen years of age at the time of the family removal to Augusta, Carroll County, where he continued to attend school and where also he became actively associated with the work in his father's mill, with which he continued his service about ten years. He then turned his attention to the operating of steam engines, and as a skilled engineer he has been continuously employed at Carrollton since November, 1904, his position having been continuously that of engineer at the plant of the Carrollton Pottery Company, one of the leading industrial concerns of this section of the state.
In politics Mr. Mitzel has voted in harmony with his earnest convictions and , has been a staunch advocate and supporter of the cause of the prohibition party. He has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton since January 15, 1905, and his wife is a zealous member.
November 27, 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mitzel to Miss Carrie Kelley, who was born and reared in Carroll County, and they have six children: Esther, Mary, Ruth, James, Paul and Charles J.
ALBERT O. BARNES. As a school teacher and as an attorney Albert 0. Barnes, of Cadiz, has been identified with the history of Harrison County for over sixty years, and is now one of the best known and highly respected men in this section of the state.
Mr. Barnes was born at Deersville, this county, on November 26, 1843, and is the son of the late Dr. James P. and Eliza (Houser) Barnes. Dr. James P. Barnes was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Frederickton, that state, in 1806. He read medicine in Pennsylvania. and came to Harrison County in 1826 and became one of the early physicians of the county. He first located at New Athens, but a short time later removed to Deersville, where he made his home and was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in 1852. His wife, Eliza, was born near Paris, Kentucky, and was the daughter of Jacob Houser, who removed from Kentucky to Cadiz in 1820, and later to Conotton, Ohio. where the