Harrison Township (part 18 of 37)

The great-grandfather, George Brokaw, was born in New Jersey and his wife was Mary McCullough. The great-great-grandfather, George Brokaw, was one of two brothers who left Germany because of religious and military conditions, and comidg to the United States they were pioneers in the new country. When George Brokaw, the German immigrant, first came to Harrison County he located his sons on Government land, and he later built the first frame house in Harrison County. He attained to the ripe old age of ninety-six. He spent his first year in a tent after locating in Cadiz Township, and he was a Harrison County soldier in the second war with England.

The children of this soldier of 1812 were: William, George, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, John, Benjamin, Sarah, Martha, Mary and Isabelle. Great-great-grandfather George Brokaw helped build Crab Apple Presbyterian Church. He died in 1878, in his ninety-seventh year. As a man Grandfather George Brokaw located in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, and he died there March 25, 1892.

In the next generation of Brokaws are the following children: Thomas, George, who died in childhood, and John M. Brokaw, the father of Thomas Ray Brokaw. In 1870 J. M. Brokaw married Elizabeth Henderson, a daughter of James C. Henderson. In the previous year he had bought the farm in Athens Township where the son T. R. Brokaw now resides, and there is where he established his household. He improved the farm and lived there until 1892, when he returned to the old home in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, to care for his mother in her declining years. She died In 1896, and he returned to Athens Township and lived on the farm again until 1898, when he located in Saint Clairsville, Ohio. There were six children born to John M. Brokaw, but James. George and Anna are dead, and their mother died October 8, 1918. Those living today are Jane, Thomas Ray and William C., the latter a Jeweler in Saint Clairsville. He and his sister Jane live with their father.

Thomas Ray Brokaw was educated in public school and went to the Wheeling Business College. For two yea re he worked in Wheeling, then went to Old Philadelphia, where he remained twelve years. He was a watchmaker there. For ten years he was a Jeweler in Saint Clairsville. In 1912 he returned to the farm in Athens Township, Harrison County.

In 1906 Mr. Brokaw married Helen Shearer. Their children are Virginia,' Howard C. and Raymond E. The family are members of Crab Apple Presbyterian Church, as were the Brokaws of past generations in Harrison County.

Obediah: R. K. Oubant, who is numbered among the substantial farmers of North Township, Harrison County, is a native of this county and a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families, besides which his paternal great-grandfather, John Ourant, was one of the earliest settlers in Columbiana County, this state, the maiden name of his wife having been Rachel Hewett, and their four children having been Obediah, Matilda, Harriet and Washington.

Washington Ourant, grandfather of him whose name initiates this paragraph, was bom In Columbiana County, Ohio, September 15, 1808, and he was a mere boy at the time of his father's death. He was then taken into the home of an uncle, Rudolph Hines, and the family soon afterward came to Harrison County, where Mr. Ourant was reared to adult age. At Moorefleld, this county, when a lad of fourteen years, Washington Ourant entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of hatter under the direction of William Kennedy. He later severed this association, and he completed his trade under the supervision of another hatter, George Kinsey, with whom he remained until his marriage, January 22, 1830, to Miss Mary Martin, who was born April 5, 1808, a daughter of Arthur Martin. After his marriage Washington Ourant continued working at his trade in the Village of Moorefleld for some time, and he then purchased a diminutive tract of land in Nottingham Township. He later acquired other tracts in that and Stock Townships, and he was one of the substantial landholders and successful farmers in Nottingham Township at the time of his death, September 13, 1884. His political allegiance was given to the republican party from the time of its organization, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which both his first and his second wives likewise were members. Mrs. Mary (Martin) Ourant passed to eternal rest on the 20th of March, 1866, their children having been eight in number: John M., James K., Eliza A., William G., George W., Enos B. Joseph R. T. and Mary M. For his second wife Washington Ourant married Miss Ann Horn, who was born March 21, 1813, and who survived him by several years.

John M. Ourant, son of Washington and Mary (Martin) Ourant was born in Nottingham Township. Harrison County, on the 27th of June, 1831, and he was reared to manhood on his father's farm, his educational advantages having been those of the common schools of the locality and period. He remained after his marriage on the old home farm until 1854, when he removed to Wyandot County, which was the stage of his farm enterprise until 1859, when he engaged in the same vocation in Tuscarawas County. Later he was for a time similarly engaged in Crawford County, but in 1881 he returned to the old homestead In Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where he remained until his death, in 1903, his wife having died previously. He was a man of strong personality, well informed and of sterling attributes of character. He never sought public office but gave loyal and intelligent allegiance to the republican party.

April 18, 1852, recorded the marriage of Mr. Ourant to Miss Harriet Kennedy, who was bom in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 1st of June, 1834, a daughter of John L. and Matilda

(Ourant) Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. Ourant became the parents of nine children: Alexander Kinsey was born July 8, 1853, and died June 29, 1867 ; George W. was born May 2, 1866, and resides in Nottingham Township ; Mary M., born March 16, 1858, became the wife of William H. Dunlap, and they reside in Moorefleld Township; Charlotte Ella was born February 14, 1861, and is the wife of John W. Jackson, of Nottingham Township; Citizens J. K. was born September 2, 1862, and died November 4, 1864; Rachel J. was born August 4, 1864, and died October 9, 1865; Hattie O. was born May 17, 1866, and died June 19, 1885; Obediah R. K., immediate subject of this review, was born July 4, 1868; and Angeline V., who was born August 16, 1873, is the wife of Thomas Adams, now residing in Nottingham Township.

Obediah R. K. Durant is indebted to the district schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and he continued to be associated with his father in farm enterprise until his marriage in 1891. He then began independent operations as a farmer in Nottingham Township, where he remained until 1904, and then established his residence in the Village of Stio, where he remained six years. For the ensuing seven years he was a farmer in Monroe Township, - and in March, 1918, he located on his present farm in North Township. Here he is the owner of seventy-four acres of fertile a-nd productive land, the farm being equipped with good buildings and other improvements, and being given over to well directed agricultural and live-stock industry.

In October. 1891, Mr. Ourant wedded Miss Linnie B. Milliken. daughter of William and Sarah (Hines) Milliken, of Harrison County, and she was summoned to the life eternal in the month of February, 1900, being survived by two sons, Harry W. and Lyle K., both of whom were in service in the World war, as will be noted in appending paragraphs. Harry W. married Miss Freda Ferber and they now reside in the City of Gary Indiana. Lyde K. is at the paternal home at the time of this writing, in 1920. In 1902 Mr. Ourant contracted a second marriage, when Miss Alice Stonecker became his wife, she being the daughter of Abraham Stonecker. No children have been born of this union.

Harry W. Ourant enlisted in the United States Marine Corps In July, 1917, and continued in service until August, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. In January, 1918, he went with his command to France, where he participated in much of the heavy conflict which brought honor to the American Marines. On the 18th of July. 1918. he was wounded In the left shoulder, but he was not long Incapacitated. He took part in four of the important offensive movements of the allied forces, and after the signing of the armistice he was with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany.

Lyle K. Ourant entered service in April, 1918, and. at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was assigned to the Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers, with which command he sailed for France on the 3d of June of that year. He was in active service

In France and also with the occupying allied forces in Germany, and he returned home in July, 1919, duly receiving his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman.

John B. McClain resides upon the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth in North Township, Harrison County, and is a scion of an honored pioneer family of this county, adequate data concerning his parents and the family history being given in the personal sketch of his older and only living brother, Charles S., on other pages of this volume, so that a repetition of the record is not here demanded, inasmuch as the index makes reference to the sketch of the brother a matter of facility.

Mr. McClain was born May 24, 1871. He gained his youthful education in the public schools of North Township, attended University of Ohio at Athens for two terms, and was graduated from Muskingum College. He has supplemented this discipline by private study and by wide reading of the best in literature. The old home place has been the stage of his activities from his boyhood to the present time, and here he is progressive in the management of the fine farm, which comprises 117 acres, - a property of which he became the owner upon the death of his parents, to whom he accorded the deepest filial solicitude during the closing years of their lives. Mr. CcClain is a bachelor and maintains a hospitable bachelor's hall at the attractive old home, which is endeared to him by many gracious memories and associations.

Nathan M. Wallace has given a full quarter of a century to effective service as a sturdy blacksmith in Nottingham Township, where he erected his present well equipped blacksmith shop in the year 1914, and where the scope and character of his trade patronage attest alike his skill as an artisan and his personal popularity in his native township. He was born in Nottingham Township on the 30th of May, 1866, and is a son of William H. and Ruth Anna (Miller) Wallace, the former of whom was born near Steubenville, Jefferson County, this state, April 27, 1841, and the latter was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, on the 12th of October, 1840, a daughter of Nathan and Amy (Jones) Miller. As a young man Nathan Miller worked as a millwright in Washington Township, where later he became a successful farmer, besides following the trade of shoemaker. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Miller continued their residence in Washington Township until their deaths. They became the parents of five children - Ruth Anna. Jason, John N.; Ardena, Jane and Alwilda.

William II. Wallace was a son of Mark and Margaret (Robinson) Wallace,, both natives of Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they immigrated to America within a year thereafter. Mr. Wallace was born November 23, 1806, and his lineage traces back to staunch Scotch origin, as the name implies.

Within a short time after their arrival in the United States Mark Wallace and his wife established their residence in Jefferson County, Ohio, whence they later came to Harrison County and located in Moorefield Township, where he engaged in farming and also did a prosperous business in the operating of a huckster's wagon. Mr. Wallace died on the 3d of November, 1862, and his widow passed to the life eternal on the 21st of February, 1886, both having been devout and zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of five children, whose names and dates of birth are here recorded: William H., April 27, 1841; John W., June 6, 1843; Mary J., September 16, 1845; Thomas R., February 24, 1848; Leander M., September 7, 1852 (died July 11, 1905). William H. Wallace was reared and educated in Nottingham Township, and there he became a prosperous farmer. He continued his residence in that township until his death, on the 13th of November, 1895, and his widow passed away on the 23d of November, 1907, at a venerable age. Mr. Wallace held membership in the Presbyterian Church and his wife was a member of the Disciples or Christian Church. Their marriage was solemnized in June, 1865, and they became the parents of three children : Nathan M., the immediate subject of this review; Miss Amy, who married Harvey Forsythe and resides in North Township, Harrison County; and Ella M., the wife of Emanuel Mallernee, of Cadiz Township*, their children being five in number - Eva E., Herbert E., Paul R., Rusk and Carl.

Nathan M. Wallace profited duly by the scholastic advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township, and there he continued his association with farm industry until he was twenty-nine years of age. since which time he has here maintained a shop and worked successfully at his trade, that of blacksmith. He is a republican In politics, is affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose, and is a member of the Christian Church at Minksville, as was also his wife.

. In 1887 Mr. Wallace was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth E. Mallernee, daughter of Lewis and Lovina (McFadden) Mallernee, of Harrison County, and she was twenty-nine years of dge at the time of her death. Her only child, Ada Ethel, is the wife of John H. Cope, of Nottingham Township.

Ross M. Hawthorn Is another of the native sons of Harrison County who is giving vigorous and effective impetus to farm industry in this county, and since May. 1911, he has staged his activities on his present excellent farm of 130 acres in Short Creek Township. He was born in this township December 17, 1868. and is the eldest in a family of three children, his next younger brother being Reed I.. now a resident of the State of Indiana, near South Bend, and the youngest of the three being William Boyd Hawthorn, who is individually represented on other pages of this work.

Mr. Hawthorn Is a son of James Lemmon and Jennie (McLaughlin) Hawthorn, whose marriage was solemnized on the 18th of October, 1866, and who now reside at Harrisville, this county, where the father is living retired. The mother is a representative of a pioneer family of which due record is given in this publication.

James L. Hawthorn was born in Mount Pleasant Township Jefferson County, Ohio, May 14, 1844, was there reared and educated and there learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith. During the early years of the Civil war he was a Government blacksmith, stationed at Nashville. In the winter of 1862 he engaged In the work of his trade at Harrisville, Harrison County, where he continued as the sturdy and honored village blacksmith until 1900, when he purchased and removed to a farm adjoining that village. He continued the management of the farm until 1908, when he sold the property and returned to Harrisville, where he has since lived retired. He is a son of William and Mary (Lemmon) Hawthorn, the former of whom was bom in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, in March, 1817. His death occurred in 1896. His wife was born in 1822 in Harrison County and is also deceased. She was a daughter of Griffith Lemmon, who was a native of Ireland and a sterling pioneer settler In Harrison County. William nawthom was a son of John Hawthorn, who was born on the vessel on which his parents took passage in immigrating from Ireland to America, and he became an early settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he passed the residue of his life. William Hawthorn learned in his youth the courier's trade, but the greater part of his active life was given to farm enterprise. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children - Martha. James, Alexander and Sheridan.

Ross M. Hawthorn is indebted to the public schools of Harrisville for his early educational discipline, and as a young man he engaged In farming in Jefferson County. He continued his activities in this line six years, and for two years thereafter was engaged in the lumber business at Adena, that county. In 1902 he returned to Harrisville, where he maintained his home until 1911 and where he gave the most of his time during this period to the lumber business. In May, 1911, as previously noted, he removed to his present farm, where he has since continued his activities as one of the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of his native township and county. He is a republican In politics and he and his wife and son hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville.

April 29, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hawthorn to Miss Elizabeth L. Simpson, daughter of Edward and Catherine Simpson, of Harrison County, and she was summoned to the life eternal on the 26th of March, 1907, a devoted member of the United Presbyterian Church. Ralph S.. the only child of this union, is associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm. In December, 1910. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hawthorn to Miss Jennie Shields, daughter of Joseph Shields, of whom more specific record is given

George L. Poulson exemplifies a full measure of sponsorship for constructive enterprise In connection with agricultural and dairy enterprise in North Township, Harrison County, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 170 acres. He was born in Wayne Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 28th of August, 1871, and is a son of John W. and Mary M. (Davis) Poulson, the former of whom likewise was born in Belmont County, and the latter was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of George Davis, who was a prosperous farmer in that county. John W. Poulson was reared and educated in Belmont County and is a representative of an honored pioneer family of that section of the Buckeye State. In that county were born his parents, Mortimer and Olivia (McFadden) Poulson, who there passed their entire lives, the father having devoted his active career to farm industry and he and his wife having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of five children - George W., Franklin, John William, Margaret and Hannah.

John William Poulson was reared and educated In his native county, as previously stated, and there he became not only a successful farmer in Wayne Township but also gave effective service as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. About the year 1914 he and his wife removed to the State of Arkansas, where he Is now engaged in farming near Wheeling, besides continuing his earnest church service, both he and his wife being specially zealous in the activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children : Josephine is the wife of William F. Clark and they reside in the State of Missouri; George L., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Charles R. is a clergyman of the Methodist Church and at the time of this writing holds a pastoral charge at West Salem, Wayne County, Ohio; Emma M. is the widow of Dr. M. J. Skiff and lives at Northeast, Ohio; Omar B. is a pastor of a Methodist Church at Altoona, Pennsylvania; William Arthur resides at Canton, Ohio; Jennie Is the wife of Thomas Carpenter, of Bellville, Richland County, Ohio; Herman remains at the parental home; and Mary died in early childhood.

George L. Poulson gained his early education in the district schools of his native county and supplemented this by attending the high school at Somerton, that county. He remained at the parental home in Belmont County until his marriage in 1895, and for two years thereafter he found employment on the fine dairy farm of Dorsey Brothers in Washington County, Pennsylvania. For a time thereafter he was associated with the operation of a saw mill at Loydsville in Belmont County, Ohio, and In 1901 he rented a farm near S'cio, Harrison County, where he conducted a successful dairy business during the ensuing five years in partnership with his brother-in-law. Thomas S. Wood, of whom individual mention is made on other pages, their alliance in this field of enterprise having continued thirteen years. In 1906 Mr. Poulson purchased and established his home upon his present farm, which he has brought to a high standard of productiveness and on which he continues his successful dairy business, with the Village of Scio as the principal market for his products. Mr. Poulson is a republican in his political proclivities, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, Ohio.

November 12, 1895, recorded the marriage of Mr. Poulson to Miss Hattie A. Wood, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Turner) Wood, of Belmont County, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of their son Thomas S. Mr. and Mrs. Poulson have five children - Clifford E., Grace Leah, Mary, Dean Allen and Veda. Clifford E. Poulson was one of the gallant young men who represented Ohio in the nation's military service in the late World war. He entered the service in May, 1918, at Columbus, Ohio, and ten days later was sent to Camp Dix, where he was stationed about two weeks. He was then sent to Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, to receive training for service as railroad fireman, and later he received instruction in rifle practice at Fort May, Virginia. In September, 1918, he sailed for France, where he served first with the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Engineers in the railway department of military activities and later with the One Hundred and Eighteenth Engineers at Le Mons, and he continued in active service until September, 1919, when he returned to his native land and shortly afterward received his honorable discharge at Camp Dix, when he was not yet twenty -one years of age. He is now associated with the activities of the home farm.

Joseph H. Porter. Farm enterprise in Athens Township, Harrison County, finds a resourceful and progressive representative in the person of Mr. Porter, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, March 2, 1881, and who is a scion of a pioneer family of the old Buckeye State. He is a son of Nathan M. and Ella R. (Herney) Porter, both likewise natives of Jefferson County, the former a son of Nathan and Nancy (Andrews) Porter, early settlers of that county. The paternal grandfather of Nancy (Andrews) Porter was an officer of the Continental Line In the War of the Revolution.

Nathan M. Porter was reared and educated in Jefferson County and there continued his activities as one of the substantial farmers of Wayne Township until 1892, when he came with his family to Harrison County and established his home on the farm now operated by his elder son, the immediate subject of this review. He made numerous improvements on the place after it came into his possession, and here he remained, as one of the highly esteemed citizens of the county, until his death, which occurred June 14, 1914, when he was fifty-eight years of age, his widow now maintaining her home in the Village of New Athens, this county, where she is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, as was also her husband during the entire period of his residence in the county. Of the three children Joseph H., of this review, is the eldest; Martha V. died February 2, 1911; and Nathan Audley now resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Joseph H. Porter acquired his rudimentary education iq the district schools of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, and later continued his studies in the district schools in Athens Township, Harrison County, he having been eleven years of age at the time of the family removal to the latter county. His higher education was gained through two years' attendance in Franklin College at New Athens and by his attending Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana, for one year. In the latter institution he completed a course in telegraphy, and after thus becoming a skilled operator he entered in 1904 the Signal Corps of the United States'Army, in which he served two years as a telegraph operator in the Philippine Islands. He received his honorable discharge from Government service in 1907 at San Francisco, California, and thereafter he was for the major part of the time in the telegraphic service of the Pennsylvania Railroad until June, 1914. After the death of his honored father he assumed active charge of the home farm, which comprises 10S acres and is one of the well improved and valuable places of Athens Township. His youthful experience well equipped him for independent activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his governmental and railway service have further fortified him in the successful handling of his business affairs. He is one of the alert and progressive young farmers of Harrison County, and he and his wife have made their attractive home a center of gracious hospitality. Mr. Porter is a republican in political allegiance and is affiliated with the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Cadiz. His wife is a member of the United Presbyterian Church at New Athens.

In 1915 Mr. Porter was united in marriage to Miss Nora Hawthorne, daughter of James and Margaret (Rogers) Hawthorne, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have a fine little son, James Nathan, who holds distinct dominion in the pleasant home.

Mr. Porter is a scion of a family that was founded in America in the colonial days and that has given soldiers not only to the War of the Revolution but also to the various other wars in which the nation has been involved.

Richard M. Adams Is a popular representative of a family whose name has been closely associated with civic and Industrial affairs in Harrison County since the year 1815, and in the personal sketch of his eldest brother, John F., on other pages of this work, is given ample record concerning the family history, so that repetition of the date Is not here required, even were the prescribed limitations of the publication such as to make such indulgence possible in this and many similar cases.

RichartJ. M. Adams, who is now numbered among the substantial farmers of his native county, was born in Stock Township, this county, August 27, 1853, and is a son of the late

Perclval Adams who was long numbered among the prosperous farmers and honored and influential citizens of that township. The district schools of his native township afforded to Richard M. Adams his early educational advantages, and on the home farm he gained thorough and practical experience which has been of inestimable value to him in his independent enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He continued his activities as a farmer in Stock Township until April, 1889, when he removed to his present homestead farm, which comprises 143 acres and about seventy acres of which are situated in Stock Township, the remainder, on which is the family residence, being in Nottingham Township and all being in one body. The political allegiance of Mr. Adams is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Chapel in Cadiz Township.

January 10, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Adams to Miss Mary Alma McCleary, who was born and reared in Nottingham Township, and who is a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Bush) McCleary, the former of whom was born in 1837 and the latter in 1842, her father, John Bush, having been an early settler in Harrison County. Joseph McCleary passed the greater part of his life in Harrison County, as he was a child at the time of the family removal to this county, where his parents, James and Lydia (Rogers) McCleary, became pioneer settlers. Their other children were David, Ross, Ruth Ann and Louise. Joseph McCleary was one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death, March 19, 1917, his wife having passed away December 20, 1897. They became the parents of ten children: Kate (died In infancy), Mary Alma,

Luther Martin, Ella May, Percival, Lydia Elizabeth, Frank Everett, James L., Walter Howard and Marion Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have two children. Ethel Agnes is the wife of Francis B. Merryman, of Cadiz, this county, and they have three children - Harold Eugene, Florence Irene, and George Howard. Madison Paul married Miss Dessie Hazel Garner, and they reside in Nottingham Township.

John H. Henderson, who is successfully engaged in the real-estate and insurance business at Scio, Harrison County, is one of the representative citizens of this village and served several years as clerk of Its municipal government. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, November 17, 1872, and Is a son of Oliver W. and Margaret (Guiney) Henderson, the former of whom was born in Ireland on the 12th of March, 1844, and the latter was born In Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio April 15, 1846. Oliver W. Henderson was a lad of about fourteen years when the family immigrated to America in 1858, and his father William Henderson, settled on a farm in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where he remained the greater part of the time during the remainder of his life, he having been for a short period a resident of Carroll County. He and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church.

Oliver W. Henderson was for a time engaged in farm enterprise In Jefferson County, but the major part of his active career was devoted to farm industry In Harrison County. He is now living retired, and he and his wife reside in the home of their younger son. the subject of this review. The elder of their two children is William A., who is a resident of Scio, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson are earnest members of the Presbyterian Church, In which he has held the office of elder for fully thirty years.

John H. Henderson acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of Stock Township, Harrison County, later attended the public schools at Cadiz, and in 1894-5 was a student in Scio College. As a young man he became associated with the general store conducted by the Davis Store & Mining Company at Redfleld, Perry County, Ohio, and he continued in the employ of this concern about three years. From 1898 to 1905 he conducted a general store at Smitlidale, Harrison County, where he also served as' postmaster, and from 1905 to 1910 was engaged in farming in Stock Township, this county. In the latter year he established his residence at Scio, where he has since been engaged in the real estate and insurance business, in which his progressive policies and honorable dealings have gained to him a substantial and prosperous enterprise and a representative clientage. He is a republican in politics and he and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio, in which he has served as a member of the official board and of which he is a trustee at the time of this writing. He gave several years of efficient and valued service as village clerk of Scio and as a member of local and county Board of Education and has taken deep Interest in all things touching the welfare of his home community. At Scio he is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons: at Cadiz he holds membership in the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; and he is identified also with the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry at Steubenville, Jefferson County, as well as with the Scio Dodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

On the 23d of March, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Anna Jj. Buxton, who was born in Stock Township. Harrison County, a daughter of Campbell and Mary E. (Smith) Buxton. Campbell Buxton who has long held prestige as one of the representative farmers of Stock Township, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 1. 1847, and he was about five years old when his parents, Haddon and Julia Ann (Mc- Crea) Buxton, came to Ohio and established their home on a farm in Stock Township. Harrison County, in 1852. Here Campbell Buxton was reared to manhood and eventually became owner of the old homestead farm, which he developed into one of the valuable properties of Stock Township. December 21, 1874, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary E. Smith, daughter of James P. and Ann (Crnmblett) Smith, and of this union were bora two children - Anna L. and Earl C. The i>a rents are specially zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have three children: Robert Buxton Henderson Is in the employ of the Timkin Roller Bearing Company at Canton, Stark County. He was graduated in the Scio High School and was a member of the Student Army Training School in the city of Columbus during the winter of 1918-19. Mary Margaret was graduated in the Scio High School as a member of the class of 1920. Elizabeth Virginia is at home.

Meredith M. Barrett not only has secure status as one of the representative farmers and venerable native sons of Harrison County, but he is also a member of a family whose name has been most prominently and worthily associated with the history of this county since the oj>ening decade of the nineteenth century. This is shown by the following quotation, which refers to his paternal great-grandfather: "In

1803 Arthur Barrett, the elder, came to Ohio, passing through the section on which the town of Cadiz now stands, and on which at that time was a solitary log cabin. Following an Indian trail and cutting his road through the forests, he reached the forks of Brushy Fork, and here, in Cadiz Township, he entered 640 acres of land in one tract and 320 acres in another. Here he erected a log cabin, and on this land he passed the remainder of his life, which came to its close in 1828, he having been a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church." This pioneer ancestor was born in Virginia in 1743, and to the frontier home in Ohio he brought his wife and their large family of children, of whom there were ten - Nancy, Susan, Hannah, Rachel. Sarah, Thomas, Arthur David. Enos and Isaac.

Arthur Barrett, Jr., grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Virginia in 1780, and thus was a youth of about twentythree years when he accompanied his father to Ohio. He married Miss Mary Huff, daughter of William Huff, who was an early settler in eastern Ohio and who became well known as an Indian scout and fighter, as was also his brother Joseph An Indian chief made the boast that he had taken ninety-nine white scalps and that he intended to take the one hundred. Joseph learned of the chiefs boast. The old chief was found sitting on the roadside by Joseph Huff, who afterwards said : "I saw him

(the chief) sitting by the road, and saw' his pipe fall out of his mouth." That was the last of the old chief. Mr. Barrett continued as a farmer in Cadiz Township until his death in 1845, his first wife having died in 1814. the mother of four children - Meredith, Eewis, William IT. and Mary Anna. After the death of his first wife Arthur Barrett married Miss Elizabeth Wolf, and they became the parents of four children - -Louisa. Enos. John and David. Mrs. Barrett survived her husband by more than forty years and passed to eternal rest in 1887. both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

on the old homestead he was reared to manhood, his educational advantages having been those of the primitive subscription schools of the pioneer days. In his youth he learned the hatter's trade, which he followed several years at Cadiz and Salem. Thereafter he developed a prosperous business in the buying of live stock, which he drove overland to the market in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After his marriage he remained on the old homestead farm in Cadiz Township until 1845, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Nottingham Township, where he became the owner of a fine property of more than 300 acres and where he became specially successful in the breeding and raising of sheep. He continued as one of the substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of Nottingham Township until his death. May 4, 1891, about one month prior to the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birth, both he and his wife having been earnest and faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In this connection it is interesting to record that his father's second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Wolf) Barrett, offered the first prayer in the original Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, besides there making the final prayer before the church was abandoned by the congregation, which took possession of the new edifice.

On the 25th of May, 1837, was solemnized the marriage of William H. Barrett to Miss Eliza V. Betz, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 22d of June, 1817, a daughter of William and feliza (Veers) Betz, who were honored pioneers of that county, where Mr. Betz reclaimed and developed a productive farm. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven children - Rebecca, Eliza V., Parmelia, Margaret, Lucinda, Brice and Mc- Courtnoy. Mrs. Barrett passed to the life eternal at the age of seventy-nine years. Of the children Meredith M., of this review, is the eldest; and the names of the others are here recorded : Marion B. ; Mary E. ; Mrs. Henry

Haverfield: Brice W., who became a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and died shortly before his graduation In the college at Mount Union. Ohio, in 1SG6; Margaret E.. Mrs William Birney: Emma E., Mrs. Samuel Crawford : William Fletcher, a resident of Colorado; and Flora M.

Meredith M. Barrett found in the Ramsey school in the home district the advantages that Inured to effective educational advancement in his youth, and he recalls that one of his early teachers was Kersey Kinsey, while later he continued his studies in district school in Nottingham Township, his birth having occurred on the old homestead in Cadiz Township on the 19th of August. 1838. He was a young man when he initiated his independent career as an agriculturist and stock-raiser on the farm which is still his place of residence and which comprises 112 acres of the excellent land of Nottingham Township. From the time of his marriage he has remained continuously on this farm, save for an interval of two years. He has always taken loyal interest in community affairs and has supported measures projected for the general good along both civic and material lines. He served two years as trustee of Nottingham Township, and was for thirteen years a member of the school board of the township. He and his wife have long been zealous and honored members of Asbury Chapel (Methodist Episcopal), and in the same he served more than fifty years as class leader. HL political views have been well fortified, and are indicated in his unfaltering allegiance to the republican party.

On the 2d of September, 1862, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Barrett to Miss Sarah Amanda Christy, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of the late Robert and Jane (McOleary) Christy. Mr. and Mrs. Barrett have four children: George W., a resident of Tuscarawas

County: Carrie, the wife of John Rea, of Harrison County; Frank V., who now has active charge of the old home farm married Miss Ella Mallernee. who is deceased, and who is survived by three children - Veda, Benjamin B. and Olga : and Olive is the wife of Joseph S. Webb, a farmer in Harrison County.

John C. McFadden. With the exception of a short residence in Green Township, John C. McFadden of Athens Township has always lived In one community. He was born March 31, 1850, and is a son of John J. and Esther (Clifford) McFadden. The father died February 7, 1897, and the mother, December 12, 1907, and both came of pioneer stock in Harrison County. The American branch of the McFadden family dates back to 1760, when John McFadden was bom in Ireland.

When he was a young man of nineteen John McFadden came from Ireland and established himself in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In a short time he married a daughter of Col. George Sharpe, of the United States army and in the year 1800 he came with others to Cadiz Township. Harrison County. It was then territorial days, so that the McFadden family belongs to the pioneer element in society. In the following year Mr. McFadden brought his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Their children were: Samuel, George, John, Joseph,

It was John McFadden that continued the family name in Harrison County. He was seventeen when he came with his parents from Pennsylvania to Ohio. He married Mary, a daughter of Adam and Rebecca (Work) Dunlap. They were pioneers in Harrison County, having come from Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Eleven children were bora in this generation: Margaret, Adam, Rebecca,

Mary, John J.. Sarah, Samuel R., George, Esther, Rachel and Jennie. The McFaddens of that day and generation were consistent members of the Union Church, although later the family is connected with the Presbyterian Church in New Athens.

John J. McFadden, fourth son of John, was bora In Cadiz Township, Harrison County, October 21, 1820, and his time of life was when great strides of advancement were being made in civilization. His school days were in the time of the log school house with a huge fire place, and when the New Testament and the National Speller were the text books in use in the community. On February 28, 1844, J. J. McFadden married Esther, a daughter of John Clifford. Mr. Clifford was from Ireland. Their children were: Mary, Margaret Jane, Rebecca Ann. John C., George D., Edward S., Sarah, Adam and the Rev. Samuel W.

From the beginning the McFaddens have voted the democratic ticket, and John J. Mc- Fadden was several times elected to office and was treasurer of Athens Township for thirty consecutive years.

On January 6, 1876, John C. McFadden married Mary Evelyn, a daughter of Adam Dickerson. Their children are : Edna and Cora E., the latter the wife of H. F. Warne of Washington, Pennsylvania, and their children are John Hiram and Florence Esther. Walter J. McFadden married Mabel Anthony, and they have one daughter, Ruth. They live in Sioux City, Iowa. Jane D. is the wife of A. C. Warne. They live in Washington, Pennsylvania. Howard W. Mc- Fadden married Ella May Kirkpatrick, and their children are Mary Evelyn and Helen Irene. Charles McFadden married Zada Moore.

Mrs. Mary Evelyn McFadden died in 1890, and on January 30, 1900, John C. McFadden married Mary Alice, a daughter of John T. and Sarah M. (Jackson) Harris. For 140 years there have been McFaddens in the United States who know themselves to belong to one parent stock, all descended from the Irish immigrant, John McFadden.

Ervin M. Minard was born in North Township, Harrison County, on the 4th of July, 1857, and the patriotic significance of his natal day has not been more significant in his pronounced civic loyalty than have his fealty to and appreciation of his native county, in which he has found ample opportunity for successful achievement as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with which important lines of industrial activity the family name has been associated in North Township since the pioneer period in the history of the county. John and Frances Minard, grandparents of the subject of this review, were among those who endured the hardships and well performed the labors that fell to the lot of the early settlers in Harrison County. John Minard was born In Germany and was a man of vigor and ambition when he came to Harrison County and took up eighty acres of Government land in North Township, where he reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilderness and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of three sons and several daughters, the names of the sons being Solomon. George and Daniel. Of these sons Daniel, father of him whose name introduces this article, was born and reared on the old pioneer farmstead in North Township, and there he devoted his entire active life to resourceful and successful farm enterprise. He developed a fine farm property of 200 acres, was influential In community affairs, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Scio. He died at the age of sixty-eight years, and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-six years. The maiden name of Mrs. Daniel Minard was Rebecca Knouff, and she was born in German Township, Harrison County, where he father, John Knouff, was a pioneer settler and representative farmer.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Minard became the parents of eight children - John, Amos B., Morris, Andora, Ervin M., Eunice, Luther and Grant Of the number John, Amos B. and Andora are deceased.

Ervin M. Minard continued his association with the activities of the parental farm from his boyhood until the time of his marriage, and in the meanwhile he made good use of the advantages offered in the district schools of North Township. In 1887 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Margaret Buxton, who was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, a daughter of Haddon and Julia (McCrea) Buxton, who came from Pennsylvania and established their home in Harrison County in 1852. The father became a substantial farmer in Stock Township, where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives. For four years after his marriage Mr. Minard was engaged in farming in Stock Township, and he then, in 1892, assumed ownership of his present attractive homestead farm in North Township, where he is the owner of a valuable and well improved estate of 240 acres, besides which he retains one-fourth interest in his father's old home farm of 200 acres. It is thus to be readily understood that he stands as one of the representative exponents of farm industry in his native county, whdre his loyalty has been shown in his ready support of measures and projects advanced for the civic and material good of the community. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he Is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at Scio. Mr. and Mrs. Minard have three children : Pearl is the wife of Everett O. McClain, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work ; Julia is the wife of Berlin D. Law, who likewise is represented in a personal sketch Immediately following; and Grace remains at the parental home.

Berlin D. Law is one of the progressive farmers of the younger generation In North Township, where he maintains his residence upon his excellent farm of 120 acres and is vigorously directing his attention to diversified agriculture and stock-growing. He was born in this township on the 4th of October, 1890, and is a son of William B. and Florence (Donaldson) Law, his father having likewise been born and reared in this county, a son of Matthew Law, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Law, settled in Monroe Township, this county, about the year 1828, here passing the remainder of their lives. Matthew Law married Miss Rebecca Birney, whose death occurred in 1864. and he passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors on the 9th of September, 1879, when seventy-one years of age. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of four children -

John, William, Robert B. and Jane, the only daughter having died in infancy. Matthew Law became the owner of his father's old home farm in Monroe Township, and there he passed the major part of his life. William B. Law has well upheld the high prestige of the family name in connection with farm industry in Harrison County, and he accumulated a fine farm property of 254 acres in North Township.

Berlin D. Law was but four years old at the time of his mother's death, but was reared and educated in his native county, where he lived with different families for varying intervals until the time of his marriage, on the 2d of April, 1912, to Miss Julia Minard, daughter of Ervin M. Minard, whose Individual representation precedes this sketch. Since his marriage Mr. Law has resided on his present farm, and the attractive home, with Mrs. Law as its popular chatelaine, is further brightened by the presence of their son, Cliff M., who was born November 25, 1913.

John T. Scott has proved himself well worthy of upholding and advancing the prestige of the family name in connection with farm Industry and loyal and progressive citizenship in his native county, and is one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of North Township, in which section of Harrison County his father likewise followed farm enterprise, while the latter's father, Robert Scott, was one of the pioneer settlers and substantial farmers of Rumley Township, this county. Robert Scott and his wife, Nancy, became the parents of a fine family of fifteen children and were sterling pioneer citizens who had secure place in popular confidence and esteem, both having been prominent members of the Ridge Presbyterian Church, in which he served many years as a deacon.

John T. Scott was born in North Township, Harrison County, on the 27th of June, 1878, and is a son of Robert M. and Nancy (Sproul) Scott, the former of whom was born at New Rumley, Rumley Township, this county, July 8, 1840, and the latter was born in North Township, February 27, 1837. a daughter of John and Jane Sproul. Robert M. Scott was one of the gallant young men who responded to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers when the integrity of the Union was menaced by armed rebellion. He enlisted in an Ohio regiment of volunteer Infantry in 1861, and he served duringvirtually the entire period of the great conflict between the states of the North and ttie South, it having been his to participate in the many engagements in which his command was involved and to have made a splendid record as a valiant young soldier of the Union. He received his honorable discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 10th of July, 1865. He then returned to the parental home in Harrison County, and later he was for a time a resident of Hagerstown, Carroll County, where his par ents were then living. After his marriage, which occurred February 27, 1872, he continued his successful enterprise as a farmer in North Township, Harrison County, until his death, which occurred October 12, 1909, his wife having been seventy-three years of age at the time of her death. He was an earnest member of the Ridge Presbyterian Church. Of the three surviving children the subject of this review is the youngest and he is the only son; Serena Belle is the wife of John A. Thompson, of Scio, this county; and Miss Mary E. likewise resides in that village.

John T. Scott gained his early education in the public schools of North Township, and he remained with his parents on the home farm until his marriage, on the 27th of November, 1901, to Miss Jennie Page, a daughter of Joseph and Ann (Oliver) Page. Joseph Page was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1832, and in that county he passed the closing years of his life, his death having occurred in 1895. He was a man of fine intellectuality and gave about forty years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools, his later years having been devoted to farm enterprise in his native county. His first wife's maiden name was Lucinda Miser, and they became the parents of twelve children - Serena, Melissa, William O., Henry W., John A., Charles F., Forbes M.. Amos V., Thomas S., Joseph F., Clark H. and Elizabeth. After the death of his first wife Mr. Page wedded Mrs. Ann (Oliver) Page, widow of Jesse Page and a daughter of Alexander Oliver. Mrs. Page was born in Tuscarawas County and by her first marriage had two children - Alice A. and Mary. The two children of her second marriage are Marvin J. and Jennie (wife of the subject of this sketch). For the first year after his marriage Mr. Scott was engaged in farming in North Township, and for a period of about twelve years thereafter was identified with operations in the oil fields In this section of Ohio. In the spring of 1912 he established his home on his present farm, but for three years thereafter he continued to work more or less In the oil field. He now gives virtually his entire time to the management of his excellent farm, which comprises 167 acres and which he has made a center of successful agricultural and live-stock operations. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Conotton. They have two children - George E. and Zema Pearl.

Geobob A. Speer maintains his home in the village of Georgetown in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, which place has been his stage of residence from the time of his birth until the present, save for an Interval of about two years passed in the west. In the community in which he is best known he long followed the work of his trade, that of plasterer, but in the summer of 1920 he entered the employ of the Short Creek Company.

Mr. Speer was born at Georgetown on the 4th of March, 1864, and is a son of Charles E. and Hannah E. (Courtright) Speer, the former of whom was born at Coatsville, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1825, and the latter of whom was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 3d of June, 1832. The marriage of the parents occurred on the 28th of January, 1851, and the mother died on the 23d of February, 1865, when the subject of this sketch was not yet one year old. Charles E. Speer established his residence at Georgetown about the year I860, and here he passed the remainder of his life, his entire active career having been devoted to the trade of plasterer. He was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Georgetown at the time of his death, May 18, 1918. He first married Miss Sophia C. Hutchinson, who was born in the state of Maryland July 6, 1824, and whose death occurred In 1849, the only child of this union having been a daughter, Mary A., now deceased. The names and respective dates of birth of the children of the second marriage are here recorded : Charlotte E., December 12,

On the 8th of May, 1873, Charles E. Speer contracted a third marriage, when Elizabeth M. Graham became his wife. She was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, July 1, 1838, and died in Georgetown in October, 1920. Three children were born of this marriage - Charles B., February 25, 1874; Walter G., September 7, 1875; and Clara P., February 4, 1882, deceased. The parents held membership In the Methodist Episcopal Church, and at the time of his death the father was. from the point of years of active affiliation, the oldest member of the Masonic fraternity in the state of Ohio. He lived a useful, upright and unostentatious life and commanded the unqualified esteem of his fellow men.

To the public schools of his native village George A. Speer is indebted for his early education, and as a youth he learned the trade of plasterer under the effective direction of his father, which he followed successfully for many years in Georgetown. It is needless to say that his native village is endeared to him by many gracious memories and associations and that he takes deep interest in all that concerns its wellbeing. His political support is given to the republican party.

September 26, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Speer to Miss Hannah J. Shields, a daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Ruth) Shields and a sister of Milton M. Shields, In whose sketch, on other pages of this work, are given ample data concerning the family history. To Mr. and Mrs. Speer have been born four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted : Charles Joseph, May 2, 1897 ; Floyd Clayton, September 8, 1900 (died July 28. 1917) ; Ada Lucille, October 16. 1903; and Wilma Crey, January 26, 1907.

Walter S. Spence, M. D. While Dr. Walter S. Spence, of Hopedale, is an Ohioan, he Is the son of an Irish immigrant. He was born May 25. 1866, in Jewett, Ohio. His father. Henry Spence, was born April 26 1827, in Ireland When he came to the United States he married Eliza M. Scott, of Carroll County, Ohio. Her father, Robert G. Scott, came from Washington County, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Elizabeth

In the Spence lineage the grandfather, Thomas Spence, and the grandmother, Mary J. (Rainey) Spence, were from Ireland. It was in 1832 that they came to America and located In Utica, New York. In 1838 they came to Steubenville, Ohio. After four or five years they removed to Amsterdam, where they lived as farmers for many years. Their oldest son, Henry, is the father of Doctor Spence. His brothers and sisters are: Nancy, Mary Jane,

William, James, Elizabeth, Violet, John and George. The children in the Scott family are: Belle, Dorinda, Eliza (mother of the Doctor), Ada, James, Riley, Chalmers and William. The generation enumerated were Presbyterians.

In 1864 Henry Spence became a merchant, and was located in Germano, Jewett, Kilgore and Germano again. He died there in 1909, having been a merchant many years. His wife died in 1894. Their children are: John K.,

Thomas O., Harvey, Margaret, Robert, Walter S., Carrie and William. After graduating from public school in Germano, Doctor Spence spent two years in the Normal School at Ada. In 1889 he entered the medical department of Western Reserve University, graduating in 1892, and he immediately began the medical practice in Germano.

From 1906 to 1909 Doctor Spence practiced medicine in East Springfield, and then returned to his old practice in Germano, where he remained ten years. In the spring of 1919 he located In Hopedale and practices in the community. In 1892 Doctor Spence married Mina J. Park, a daughter of N. R. Park, of Ada. Their children are Mignon Tragesez, Park R. and Donald S., and they have been given educational advantages.

James M. Spiker was a young man when he became associated with the prosperous lumber business conducted by his father at Scio, Harrison County, and in 1901 he was admitted to partnership in the business, of which he assumed full control upon the death of his honored father on the 1st of July, 1918. This enterprise had its inception in 1885, when the father, the late Gideon D. Spiker, formed a partnership with Joshua Arbaugh and erected and equipped a planing mill at Scio. Mr. Spiker purchased his partner's interest in 1888, and thereafter developed a substantial and successful industrial enterprise in the manufacturing of sash, doors, blinds, etc., and the handling of lumber and building supplies. Since his death his only son has continued the business, In connection with which he is well upholding the prestige of the family name.

James Madison Spiker was born at Scio, his present home village, and the date of his nativity was November 22, 1872, he being the elder of two children, and his sister, Miss Kitturah M., being likewise a resident of Scio. The father, Gideon D. Spiker, was born In Stock Township, this county, on the 26th of Decem- ber, 1S46, and thus was one of the venerable native sons of the county at the time of his death. His father, William Spiker, was likewise a native of Stock Township, where he was born in the year 1826, a son of Christopher Spiker, who was born in 1806, on the same ancestral farm which wTas the birthplace of his son and grandson. Christopher Spiker and his wife, whose maiden name was Aerie Carnes, passed their entire lives in Harrison County, where the latter died in March, 1870, aged sixtysix years, and where his death occurred in 1879, when he was seventy-two years of age. He had not only been a prosperous farmer but had also operated a grist mill for many years. The original representatives of the Spiker family In America came to this country from Holland in the early colonial period of our national history, and the father of Christopher Spiker came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in a very early day and became one of the first settlers in what is now Stock Township, Harrison County, with the history of which county the family name has continued to be prominently and worthily linked during the long intervening period of more than a century.

William Spiker assisted in the work of the pioneer farm and grist mill of his father, and at the age of nineteen years he married Mary, a daughter of Adam Cottrell, her father having been a native of Scotland and having come to America when seven years of age, an orphan boy. He was a sterling pioneer of Harrison County, where he and his wife remained until their deaths In 1842 and 1886, respectively. After his marriage William Spiker engaged in farming, and ten years later he turned his attention to work at the carpenter's trade, as a contractor and builder. He was a resident of Deersville, this county, at the time of his death, and both he and his wife attained to advanced age. He was a stalwart republican, was influential in public affairs of local order, served several years as township treasurer, and was for two terms a director of the county infirmary. His children were eight in number : Gideon D., Harvey, John C.. George W.t William H., Jane, Margaret and Anna.

Gideon D. Spiker was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and in addition to attending the district schools of the locality and period he took a higher course of study in Scio College. He was twenty-three years of age when he completed his collegiate course, and thereafter he was for six years a successful teacher in the district schools of his native county. He then became a contractor and builder and erected many buildings in and about Scio. as well as in other parts of the county. In 1885 he was associated with Joshua Arbaugh in erecting a planing mill at Scio, and concerning his career from that time to his death adequate record has already been given in this article. Mr. Spiker was a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio. In 1871 was recorded the marriage of Gideon D. Spiker to Miss Lizzie B. Gibson, who was horn and reared in Stock Township and who was a daughter of Edward and Catherine Anna (Graham) Gibson. Edward Gibson was a pioneer settler in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he remained a few years, after which he came to Harrison County and settled on a pioneer farm In Stock Township. There he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and both held membership in the Pleasant Valley Methodist Church. They became the parents of six children - Anna, Mol lie. Catherine. Margaret, Lizzie B. and James A. Mrs. Lizzie B. (Gibson) Spiker was sixty-seven years of age at the time of her death on May 14, 1917, and is survived by two children, as already noted in a preceding paragraph.

himself of the advantage of the high school, and thereafter he pursued a higher academic course in Scio College. As previously stated, he became a partner in his father's planing mill and lumber business in 1901. and since the death of bis father. July, 1918, he has successfully continued the business in an individual way. Since 1901 he has been secretary of the Home Savings, Building & I>oan Association at Scio, and he is one of the most loyal and progressive citizens and business men of bis native village. At Scio he Is affiliated with the lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and at Cadiz, the county seat, he holds membership in the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and in the Council at rhrichsville. His political allegiance Is given to the republican party.

The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Flora A. Starkey, daughter of Rev. William D. Starkey, D. D., a distinguished clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Spiker are zealous and influential members of the church of this denomination at Scio. They have four children - Mary K. (Spiker) Barman, deceased; William Draper, deceased; Elizabeth Anne; and George Donald.

Israkl Rankin, whose death occurred on the 26th of June, 1904, had been up to that time the only representative of bis generation of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of Harrison County, and his two sons, James J. and William D., are associated in the ownership and management of the fine did homestead farm of 168 acres in Athens Township. Of the early history of the Rankin family in America the following interesting data is available: The lineage is traced back to ataunch

Scotch origin and the first representative of the family in America vgas William Rankin, who settled In the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The maiden name of his wife was Abigail Tassia. and their children were eleven in number, namely: William. Jr., David,

Matthew. John, James. Zacharlah. Thomas, Mary, Abigail, Samuel and Jesse. The father and some of the children finally removed from Virginia to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where they lived In a block-house on their large landed estate of 1,809 acres. The son James was killed by the Indians when en route from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, In which latter commonwealth he had purchased a large tract of land. Thomas settled In Harrison County, Ohio, in 1805, long prior to the organization of the county under the present name, and here he passed the remainder of his life - the founder of the family in this now opulent section of the Buckeye State. His eldest son, James, was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1784, and on the 15th of December, 1809, he married Miss Hester Earley, who was born near Chartiers, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1793. They became the parents of eight children - Jane, Thomas, Margaret, Nancy, Sarah, William, Matilda and Israel. James Ranktn served as a minute man in the War of 1812, and in 1813 he settled in Harrison County. Ohio, on the farm which later passed into the possession of his son Israel, subject of this memoir, and which is now the residence of his grandsons, James J. and William D. Thomas Rankin, father of James, died May 12, 1832. William Rankin, the founder of the family in America, was born in Scotland about the year 1720, and was in his eighteenth year when he came to the New World. Thomas Rankin married Nancy Foreman, and they became the parents of five children - James, William, David, Jane and Nacy.

Thomas Rankin participated In numerous battles with the Indians during the period of his residence in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and one of these conflicts, known hs the Poe battle, at the mouth of Tomlinson Run on the Ohio River, found the white men outnumbered by the Indians in the ratio of three to one. Of Mr. Rankin's part in this battle the following record is given: "He had taken shelter behind a tree, and an Indian who discovered his place of concealment drew his gun to fire, but in cocking his own gun Mr. Rankin broke the mainspring; one of Mr. Rankin's comrades, seeing the situation, fired, and killed the Indian, whose gun was used by Mr. Rankin in his further participation in the fight." In 1805, as before noted, he came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he settled in what is now Moorefleld Township. The Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church was the third organization of this denomination in eastern Ohio, and the original church edifice, a log building of the true pioneer type, was situated on land deeded by Thomas Rankin for the purpose in Moorefleld Township. The church organization 'was effected in 1815 and this land deed was dated 1819. The church was organized by Rev. James Roberts and Thomas Dickerson, and among Its members at that time were Thomas Rankin, Sr., Mary Rankin, James Rankin, Hester Rankin. Arthur Barrett, Sr.. Isaac Barrett, William Jones, Rachel Jones, Sarah Foreman, Martha White, Mary A. Mofflt, Mary Love, John Porter, Samuel Jones and others. This faithful band of pioneer Christians first worshiped in the log cabin home of Thomas Rankin, who was one of the first trustees of the organization, the others having been Leonard Barnes, Ephraim Sears fend Edward Rubjy. The remains Of Thomas Rankin and his wife rest in the pioneer cemetery adjoining the Rankin Church.

Israel Rankin was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, November 20, 1830, and he profited fully by the advantages offered in the pioneer schools of the locality. He passed virtually his entire life on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, and he was not only one of the substantial representatives of farm industry in his native county but was also a prominent and influential citizen who maintained inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He was a stalwart and well fortified advocate of the principles of the democratic party and was influential in the local councils of the party, besides which he was called upon to serve in various offices of community order, including that of township trustee. He was one of the leading members of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, contributed generously to its support and served earnestly in its various lay offices. He served more than a quarter of a century as worshipful master of Lodge No. 298, Free and Accepted Masons, at flushing, Belmont County ; was high priest of Cadiz Chapter No. 98, Royal Arch Masons; and was affiliated also with Hope Comma ndery No. 26. Knights Templar, at St. Clairsville, Belmont County, besides which he was at the time of his death the only man in Athens Township who had received the Masonic order of the High Priesthood, which was conferred upon him in 1866 at Toledo. He also held membership in the Masonic Veterans of Ohio, organized in 1870.

August 18, 1870, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rankin to Miss Sarah Dickerson, daughter of Adam Dickerson, a member of another of the sterling pioneer families of Harrison County. Mrs. Rankin was called to the life eternal August 29, 1886, a devoted member of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, in the cemetery of which rest her remains beside those of her husband, who survived her many years. They became the parents of three children - Elizabeth Jane, James Jamison and William Dickerson, all of whom remain on the old homestead farm. Elizabeth and William never having married. All hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church, and the two sons are democrats in politics. As exponents of farm enterprise they are fully upholding the prestige of the name which they bear, as are they also in their loyal and liberal attitude as citizens. They are numbered among the representative farmers of Athens Township and in their native county their circle of friends is coincident with that of their acquaintances. James J. Rankin, on the 10th of December, 1913, was united in marriage to Miss Mary Daniel, and they have one child, James Frederick.

Lewis Carney Houze. Owning 155 acres of land in Rose Township, Lewis Carney Houze is so operating it as to win for himself a position among the most progressive and successful farmers of Carroll County. He was born at Hoff's Run Township. March 14, 1858* a son of William Henry and Cynthia (Need) Houze, of Irish and Pennsylvania-German stock. The grandfather, Henry Houze, located In Pennsylvania at an early day, was there married, and had two children, William Henry, and his sister Mary. During the War of 1812 he served as a soldier and received a pension for his services. Coming to Ohio, he secured eighty-eight acres of government land in Rose Township, and there he died at the age of eighty-eight years, and his wife passed away on the same farm. William Henry Houze was the younger of his parents' two children, and he was engaged In farming in Rose Township all of his life. His death occurred in 1905, his wife having passed away some years prior to that date. They had six children bom to them, of whom Lewis C. was the youngest.

Growing up on the homestead, Lewis C. Houze alternated attending school in District Number 5. Rose Township, during the winter months, with work on the farm in the summer ones, until he was seventeen years old, and then for two years he worked in the coal mines at Lindentree. Rose Township. After his marriage he bought his present farm, and has since been engaged in operating it, and also for twelve years operated a threshing outfit. He has been a general farmer all of the time since coming to this farm, and finds interest and assistance In his membership with the National Grange of Atwood, Ohio. He is recognized as one of the solid men of his township, and is held in high esteem by all with whom he is associated.

In 1886 Mr. Houze was married to Ellen Lucetta Harsh, a daughter of Enoch and Ann Catherine (Helfrich) Harsh, of Harrison Township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Houze became the parents of the following children: Homer

Franklin, who married Etta Van Pelt of East Rochester, has two children - Curtis and Harvey Albert: Ola, who is Mrs. George Shultz of Carrollton, has two children, Earl Le Moine and Wilma Ellen, living, and one, Gladys Rebecca, who died at the age of nine months; Edna May, who is at home; Anne Catherine, who is Mrs. Fremont Sommers of Malvern, Ohio, has three children, Alice Lueette, Lester and Rose; Chester Clark, and Loren Herbert, who are at home.

Chester Clark Houze served in the United States Army during the late war, entering the service at Carrollton. September 23, 1917, and was mustered out March 21, 1919. He was sent to Camp Sherman, where he remained until February, 1918. and was made a buck private of Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-Second Infantry. Transferred to Camp Forrest, Georgia, in April, 1918, he was placed in the Eleventh Machine Gun Company, and sent to Camp Merrett, New Jersey, and sailed for France from New York City, landing at Brest. He saw action in the offensives of St. MIhiel and Argonne. and at Verdun had the first and second fingers of his right hand shot off by a machine gun bullet at the second joint. This injury was much aggravated by his having to walk and crawl for three miles, during which time he lost a large amount of blood. At the time he was shot, his lieutenant lost his life. The young soldier was in several hospitals recovering from his wounds before he was sent home on the Leviathan, December 13, 1918, and landed in New York City. From there he was sent to the hospital at Camp Sherman, where he was detained until In February, 1919, and received his discharge on account of disability. On account of his injuries he receives a pension. He is one of the Carroll County boys who did not return uninjured, but his wounds are honorable ones, and serve to remind him of that time in1 his life when he arose above the average man's outlook on life, and rendered the best service In the world, for he risked his life In defense of his country and the Ideals of patriotism.

James A. Copeland. To all right-thinking people some proper tribute ought to be paid the memory of the dead not only as a token of respect, but also to keep before the public the name and virtues of the departed. From the days of the erection of the Egyptian Pyramids to the present it has been an accepted fact that no better means can be found for this outward expression of an inward affection and veneration than that afforded by the erection of a substantial monument over the last resting place of the dead. One of the men of Harrison County who is rendering valuable service to* the people of this locality in this line Is James: A. Copeland of Jewett, whose monuments areadmittedly among the most appropriate ancfl artistic to be found in the cemeteries of the state.

James A. Copeland was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on December 3, 1862, a son of John A. and Lucinda (Stayer) Copeland, the former born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on April 1, 1825, and the latter, born in the same township as her husband, was a daughter of Samuel and Emily (Lowry) Stayer. Samuel Stayer and his wife were of German origin, although the family has been in this country for many generations, and their parents came to Ohio from the eastern part of Pennsylvania. They were all members of the Lutheran Church.

John Copeland, the paternal grandfather, was born in Maryland. He married a Miss Armstrong, and they had the following children : John A.. Samuel, William, James. Alexander, George. David, Margaret, Mary J. and Sarah A. The Copeland family is of Scotcb- Irish descent. John Copeland became a pioneer of Salem Township, Jefferson County, and there he reared his large family and taught all of them to be useful. John A. Copeland became a farmer of Salem Township, and there he died in 1880, his widow surviving him until 1894, when she too passed away. Four children were bom to John A. Copeland and his wife, namely: Amanda E., William S., Mary E., and James A. The family all belonged to the Lutheran Church, and took an active part in local church movements.

Growing up in his native township, James A. Copeland attended the local schools and after he was grown he began farming, remaining in Salem Township until 1898, when he came to Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio, and for eight years was a salesman for Evans & Stevehsoto, who were in the monument business. Mr. Cbfleland then went Into the monument business for himself, and for thirteen years has been so

On June 1, 1889, Mr. Copeland was married to Mamie E. Porter, a daughter of James L. and Mary J. Porter, of East Springfield, Ohio. Two children were born of this marrftige, namely : William Howard, who married Ethel Hilbert, and had one child, James H. : and Loyal Herbert, who on June 6, 1918, enlisted in the hospital service for the great war after being refused admittance to a line organization. He sailed for Prance as a replacement unit the night after the signing of the armistice, and landed at Bordeaux, France, and was assigned to duty in the office of chief surgeon at Tours, France, American Headquarters, and was promoted to the rank of corporal. On July 10, 1919, he landed in the United States, and was honorably discharged not long thereafter.

The first Mrs. Copeland died on June 8, 1913. and Mr. Copeland was afterward married to Mrs. Susie M. Osborne. Mr. Copeland has taken an active part in civic affairs, and in addition to being a member of the City Council from 1911 until his election to the office of mayor he served that body as its president for six months, and is now the chief executive of Jewett. Under his careful administration of affairs the city is showing an admirable advance, and he is admittedly one of the best mayors the city has ever had, and succeeding officials will be hard put to it in order to make a better record than Mr. Copeland.

Fred A. Thompson is the owner of an excellent farm of eighty acres in Burnley Township. Harrison County, and is here proving his ability and progressiveness as an enterprising exemplar of agricultural and live-stock industry. Ho was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 16th of June, 1888, and is a son of Harvey L u and Maria (Shambaugh) Thompson. The father, now deceased, Is accorded a memorial tribute on other pages, so that in the present sketch further review of the family hjstory is not required.

Fred A. Thompson did not manifest' more than the usual amount of boyish reluctance when he was pursuing his rudimentary studies in the district schools of Archer Township, and later he applied himself with appreciation while a student in the village schools at Jewett. In 1906, after having been associated in the work of the home farm, he established his residence at Jewett, and for about ten years thereafter he operated a dray line in that village. After retiring from this business he was engaged in teaming during one year, and in 1917 he removed to his present farm, which he has since continued to make the scene of vigorous and successful enterprise along the lines of advanced agriculture and stock-growing. His political allegiance Is given to the republican party. His wife holds membership in the Lutheran Church at Jewett.

In December, 1909, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage to Mins Carrie Groves, daughter of Samuel Groves, and they have five children - Forrest, Mary, John, Gwen and Eva. In connection with his general farm operations Mr.

Harry A. Heavilin is numbered among the progressive young farmers of Archer Township, and is well maintaining the civic and industrial honors of a family name that has been long and worthily linked with the history of Harrison County. For adequate data concerning the Heavilin family reference may be made to the sketch of the career of Frank M. Heavilin, on "other pages of this work.

Harry A. Heavilin was bom in Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 16th of December, 1885, and to the public schools of his native county he is indebted for his early educational discipline. He gained first-hand knowledge of the details of agricultural and live-stock industry, as he early began to assist in the work of his father's farm, and he remained with his parents on the old home farm until the time of his marriage, since which time he has been successfully engaged in farm enterprise on a well improved place of 130 acres, and he is known as one of the vigorous and thrifty representatives of farm industry In his native township. He is a republican in politics and he and liis wife hold membership In the Asbury Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 30th of April. 1918, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Heavilin to Miss Wilma Auld. daughter of Allison P. Auld, of Washington Township, Harrison County, and they are popular factors in the social life of their home community.

John S". Reppait, who is the owner of a well improved farm of seventy-five acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, was bom in this township on the 19th of September, 1856, and during his entire active career he has been identified with farm industry in his native township, besides which he has owned and operated a threshing outfit during the past thirty years. He also has operated a saw mill for a long period of years, but since 1917 has found practically no requisition for his mill, owing to the limited amount of available lumber In the immediate sections. He has brought about an effective co-ordination in the agricultural and live-stock departments of his farm enterprise, and his only son is now his partner in the operation of the farm, the while they have become specially successful in breeding and raising registered Holstein cattle, Duroc- Jersey swine, and Cheviot sheep, the Reppart farm having exhibited its fine live stock at the Harrison COunty and other fairs since 1915. Mr. Reppart is a republican in politics, has always taken lively Interest in the welfare and advancement of his native county, and has secure place in popular confidence and good will. His wife bolds membership in the Presbyterian Church at Adema.

Mr. Reppart gained his early education In the schools of his native township and is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Harrison County. He is a son of William S. and Nancy < Smith) Reppart, the former of whom was bom in Short Creek Township in 1830, and the latter of whom was bom In Tuscarawas County, a daughter of John Smith. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Reppart was solemnized November 15, 1855.

Daniel Reppart, grandfather of the subject of this review, was bora in Wales in 1788. He was a young man when he came to the United States and established his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his first marriage occurred and where were born all of the children - three or more - of this union. On the occasion of an epidemic of yellow fever In Pennsylvania he removed with his family to Reading that state, and there his wife died of the fever, as did also all of their children except Frederick Jesse. In 1825 Daniel Reppart married Miss Hannah Stephens, who was born July 26, 1786, and shortly after their marriage they came to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Harrison County. His son Frederick J., of the first marriage, remained in Pennsylvania, and the members of the family in Ohio finally lost practically all trace of him. Daniel Reppart initiated the development of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds of Short Creek Township, and on the old homestead he and his wife remained until their deaths, Mrs. Reppart having passed away May 23, 1858, and her husband's death occurred on the 10th of the following December. They became the parents of two children : David, who was born in 1826 and whose death occurred May 28, 1887 ; ; and William S., father of him whose name introduces this record.

William S. Reppart attended the pioneer schools of Short Creek Township, and as a young man he learned the trade of stone mason. As a skilled workman at his trade he assisted in the building of the bridges on the old plank road from Cadiz to Adena, and in connection with farm enterprise he continued to work at his trade to a greater or less extent for a long term of years. He was one of the substantial and honored citizens of Short Creek Township, where his death occurred in November, 1898, in the house in which he was born. His widow passed to eternal rest on the 25th of February, 1903, she having been a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Reppart became the parents of three children - John S., the immediate subject of this sketch; Thomas F., who is individually mentioned on other pages; and Junius L., who likewise is Individually represented In this publication.

On the 13th of March, 1879, was solemnized the marriage of John S. Reppart to Miss Almira Johnson, who likewise was bora and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of the late Jonas and Sarah (Dunlap) Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Reppart have six children: Anna Belle is the wife of Jesse Nation, and they have three children, Olive Moslea, Alta May and Everett Emmerson. Charles J., the only son, is associated with his father in the operation of the home farm. He married Miss Mary Adams, and their children are Charles Floyd, John Ellsworth, Emmerson Roy, who died at the age of two years and eight months, and David Verner. Lucy L. and Sadie E. are twins, the former being the wife of Samuel Buchanan and they have four children, Bernice Berdena, Ruth Hannah, Edgar Franklin and Samuel Halford, and the latter is the wife of Charles Marchbank and they have four children: Raymond Lamoyne, Laura Elmyra, Charles Emmerson and John Wesley. Grace May is the wife of Oscar Singer and they have two living children and one dead, as follows: Albert Lloyd and Delbert Roy, and Eleanor Vincetta, deceased. Mary Alice is the wife of Orla Burdette, and they have one son, John Clifton.

Aoam D. Pobteb Is a representative ef the fourth generation of the Porter family to be Identified with farm Industry and to the exemplar of loyal and progressive citizenship In Harrison County, his paternal grandfather having been one of the pioneer settlers of Cadiz Township and he himself being one of the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Athens Township. His birth occurred in Cadiz Township, August 12, 1857. In the same township his father, John Porter, was born on the 31st of January. 1831, a son of Samuel and Rel>ecca (Dickerson) Porter, the former of who was born in Pennsylvania, September 17, 1800, and the latter was born August 23, 1802, their marriage having been solemnized April 5, 1827. Mrs. Porter was a daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Dunlap) Dickerson, and her father likewise was a sterling pioneer and successful farmer of Harrison County. Joshua and Sarah Dickerson became the parents of nine children - Joshua, Jr., John, Adam, William, Rebecca, Susan, Sarah (died in childhood), and Jane and Mary (twins).

Samuel Porter, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Burns) Porter, who were bom and reared in Pennsylvania, where the former learned the saddler's trade and where he remained until 1802, when he came with his family to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, where he became associated with his brother James in the ownership of an entire section of heavily timbered land. He reclaimed a farm in the midst of the forest, and as the only saddler in the county he found much demand for his service at his trade in the early days. He developed one of the best farms in the county, the land having been purchased from the Government, and here he continued to reside until his death, August 2, 1869, at the patriarchal age of 165 years. His wife was born August 15, 1786, and died in 1830, both having been sincere members of the Presbyterian Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party. This honored pioneer couple became the parents of eleven children - John, James, Smiley, David, Samuel, Jane, Jolly, Elizabeth, Nancy (died in Infancy), Irwin and Sarah, the last two having never married and having remained on the old homestead until their deaths. It should be noted In this connection that the Porter family was founded in Pennsylvania in the early colonial epoch and that representatives of the same were patriot soldiers in the war of the Revolution. besides which the family contributed one or more soldiers to the War of 1812.

. Samuel Porter, Jr., grandfather* of him whose name initiates this review, was a small child at the time of the family removal to Harrison (bounty, where he was reared under the conditions of the early pioneer period. He became one of the substantial farmers of Cadiz Township and there remained on his old homestead farm of eighty acres until his death, December 23, 1869, only a few months after the death of his remarkably aged father. His widow long survived him and was summoned to eternal rest on the 6th of February, 1892, both having been devout members of the Presbyterian Church. The names and respective birth dates of their children are here recorded; Joshua, May 20,. 1828; Sarah, September 8, 1829; John, January 31, 1831; Samuel, November 17, 1832; Mary Jane, October 7, 1834; William, April 7, 1836; Adam, November 30. 1837; Rebecca, June 21, 1840; and Susanna, July 10, 1842.

John Porter was reared on the old home farm and acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Cadiz Township. In that township he initiated his independent career as a farmer, and there he continued his residence on his farm until 1894, when he removed to Cadiz, the county seat. In 1901, however, he located on a farm near Cadiz Junction, and after remaining there six years he returned to the city of Cadiz, where he has since lived retired. He Is a democrat in politics and is a member of United Presbyterian Church as was also his wife. November 13, 1856, recorded his marriage to Miss Sarah Dunlap, daughter of Adam find Martha (Thompson) Dunlap, members of honored pioneer families of Harrison County. Mrs. Porter passed away on the 2d of October, 1901. Of their children the eldest is Adam D., Jr., immediate subject of this sketch, the names of the other five being as here noted : Martha J., Mary E., Rebecca Amanda (deceased), Sarah Lydia and Susan I.