Harrison Township (part 19 of 37)

Adam D. Porter, Jr., gained his youthful education in the district school locally known as the Pike's Peak School in Cadiz Township, and his initial experience of practical order was gained In connection with the work of his father's farm. As a young man he worked at the carpenter's trade at intervals, but the basic industry of agriculture has claimed his allegiance during practically the entire period of his independent career. He continued as a farmer in Cadiz Township until 1908, when he removed to his present excellent farm of eighty-four acres in Athens Township, where he stands as an exponent of agricultural and live-stock enterprise. He is a democrat in his political adherency and his wife holds membership in the First Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.

On the 15th of September, 1886, Mr. Porter married Miss Samantha Jane Thompson, who was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Shields) Thompson. In the concluding paragraph of this sketch is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Porter:

George married Miss Florence Coleman and is engaged in farming in his native county. Mary is the wife of Chester Bushy, of this county. John Joseph was one of the gallant young men contributed by Harrison County to the nation's service in the late World war. On the 6th of October, 1917, he entered service at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and in the following month he was sent to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and in April, 1919. went to Camp Mills, New York. On the 10th of the following month he sailed for the stage of war, arriving at Dover, England, on the 24th of that month and in France on the 5th of June. He forthwith entered active service with the American Expeditionary Forces, and he took part in the famous Chateau Thierry campaign, in which he was wounded in the left arm on the 18th of July. His injury caused him to be confined five weeks in Base Hospital No. 36, and on the 11th of September, 1918, he rejoined his command as a member of Company A, Fifty-eighth Infantry. Fourth Division. He took part in the Meuse- Argonne offensive movement of the allied troops September 25 to October 19, 1918, and after the signing of the historic armistice he was with the army of occupation in Germany until July on the 11th of which month he left Coblenz for Brest, from which port he sailed for the United States on the 24th of that month. He arrived in the port of New York city on the 1st of August, and received his honorable discharge on the 8th of that month. He endured the full tension of the great conflict on the blood-stained fields of France, and made a record that shall ever reflect honor upon his name. He returned to the parental home after receiving his discharge. Adam Craig Pdrter, the next younger son, entered service at Camp Sherman October 6, 1917, was later assigned to the remount service, and with his command sailed for France October 6, 1918. There he continued in the remount service until the close of the war, and he arrived in his native land In July, 1919, his honorable discharge having been received on the 8th of that month, and he likewise having gladly returned to his native county, as one of the honored young veterans of the World war. The two younger sons, still at the parental home, are William H. and Carl H.

Jasper H. Roudebush. The career of Jasper H. Roudebush is an expression of well-directed and intelligent industry, of devotion to the best Interests of the community, and of promotion of the best tenets of agriculture. His financial standing Is indicated by the possession of 354 acres of highly valuable land, located all in one body in Washington Township, a community In which he has passed his entire life and where the people recognize him as a practical agriculturist and skilled raiser of stock. Mr. Roudebush is a self-made man, and all his possessions have come to him through the exercise of thrift, good management and business sagacity.

Jasper H. Roudebush was born February 6, 1875. on a farm in Washington Township, Carroll County, a son of Mathias and Anna (Blazer) Roudebush. His paternal grandparents were Jesse and Jane Ann (Poole) Roudebush, early settlers of Washington Township, and his maternal grandfather was Philip B. Blazer, who was numbered also among the early residents of Carroll County. Mathias Roudebush was born in Washington Township, where he was reared and educated and, following his marriage to Anna Blazer, who was born In Center Township, this county, settled on a farm in Washington Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Roudebush died when her son was only three years old, Mr. Roudebush surviving until July, 1918. They had but two children: Jasper H. and Philip, the latter of whom is now deceased.

Jasper H. Roudebush acquired his educational training in the district school adjacent to his father's farm and remained on the home place until two years after his marriage, when he bought 110 acres of land in Washington Township. To this he has since added by thrift and industry until he now has 354 acres, all in one body, on which he has modern improvements and the best of buildings and equipment. In addition to carrying on general farming, he is successfully raising Shorthorn cattle, hogs and other live-stock, and in all departments of his work operates under modern methods. He has kept pace with the advance in agriculture through the various mediums at the disposal of intelligent students of land culture, and is a valued member of Washington Township Grange No. 1981, of which he was formerly master. He belongs to the Mount Olive Disciples Church, in which he is an elder. Politically a republican, Mr. Roudebush wields a distinct influence in the ranks of his party and for many years was a member of the central committee. Since 1914 he has served in the office of justice of the peace, and in the fall of 1920 was elected County Commissioner. A man of sterling general worth, he is respected by all with whom he is associated, and represents, in the variety and extent of his success, an example worthy of emulation by the youth of the rising generation.

On January 10, 1900, Mr. Roudebush married Miss Margaret Shepherd, who was born April 6, 1874, in Center Township, Carroll County, a daughter of James and Ann Eliza (Bothwell) Shepherd, early settlers of Carroll County. To this union there have been born two children: Alma, who is* a teacher in the public schools of Carroll County, and Martha, who resides with her parents and is in high school.

James A. McLaughlin. The late James A McLaughlin, of Short Creek Township, was for thirteen years one of the successful farmers and live-stock men of his community, and his name is held in the highest esteem in Harrison County, while his own career and the history of his family lend distinction to the pioneer annals of this section of Ohio.

Mr. McLaughlin was born at Adena, Jefferson County, Ohio, November 24, 1849, son of William J. and Elizabeth (Berry) McLaughlin. His father was born at the old McLaughlin homestead near Adena in Jefferson County March 3. 1812. His mother was born near Venice in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1815. They were married October 20, 1840. The parents of Elizabeth Berry were William and Jane (McConnell) Berry. Her father was born and reared in Washington County, where he learned the carpenter's trade in youth, later became a successful operator of a flour mill at Venice, and owned and developed a good farm in that locality, where he spent his entire life. He served more than thirty years in office as justice of the peace. He and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as an elder for many years. Their children were named John, Mary, Elizabeth, William, Matthew, Prudence and James.

John McLaughlin, founder of the family of that name in southeastern Ohio, was born in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and married there Miss Anna Johnson. In 1801 he became one of the earliest settlers in S'mithfleld Township, Jefferson County, where he and his wife endured the circumstances of the frontier while he was reclaiming a farm from the forest wilds. He was an honored and Influential citizen of the county and for seventeen years was a member of the Lower House of the Legislature, having a record of sixteen consecutive years in that office. He impressed his ability upon the legislative record of the period and was the first to suggest and urge the establishment of a state asylum for the deaf and dumb. He and his wife were revered pioneers of this county. They were United Presbyterians. Their family of children were Eliza, Polly, Nancy, Peggie, Anna, William J., John, James M., Jane, Catherine and Samuel R. Samuel R. was distinguished by a brilliant intellect, being only twelve years old when he gained admission to Franklin College at New Athens.

William J. McLaughlin was reared and educated in Smith field Township, Jefferson County. Virtually his entire active career was devoted to farming, with a high degree of success and accompanied with the responsibilities of an influential citizen. He was a republican, and he and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian Church. His death occurred in January, 1894, while his wife passed away December 28. 1898. The names and respective birth dates of their children were: John M., January 8, 1843 ; Jane, December 25, 1845 ; William G., April 25, 1847; James A., November 24, 1849; Samuel, March 24, 1854 ; and Martha, October 8, 1856.

The late James A. McLaughlin during his youth acquired a fortifying experience in connection with the work of the old home farm, and at the same time profited by the advantages of the district schools. In his native township as a young man he commenced farming for himself, and during the long intervening years gave unwearying industry and allegiance to the production of crops and live-stock, with a degree of success merited by his labors and good judgment. The scene of his farming enterprise continued in Jefferson County until 1907, in which year he removed to Short Creek Township and for the next six years was engaged in partnership with his sons William W. and Wilmer M. in farming and live-stock operations. In 1913 he and his son Wilmer M. became partners in the operation of the old I^add farm, and he so continued until his death on February 14, 1920. During his time the partnership became notable for the successful breeding of registered black-top Spanish Marino sheep and registered Jersey cattle.

Mr. McLaughlin was a republican, though he never sought or held public office. He and his family were United Presbyterians and at the time of his death he was an elder in the Harrisville United Presbyterian Church.

February 26, 1874, Mr. McLaughlin married Miss Sarah A. Barkhurst. She was also born and reared in Jefferson County. Her father, William Barkhurst, was of pioneer stock. Mr. McLaughlin was bereaved of his devoted companion of more than thirty years on February 22, 1906. The memory of her kindly personality is deeply cherished in Jefferson County and by her children and grandchildren in Harrison County. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. James A. McLaughlin Ella May, born February 29, 1876, is the wife of George T. Davis and has three children, named James Howells, Sarah Catherine and Martha. Mary E., who was born January 10, 1879, is the wife of Rev. Herbert Haldy, a clergyman of the Society of Friends. They have two children, Helen Avien and Josephine A. The sons of William Wilson and Wilmer M. are accorded special mention in these pages. Jennie B., who was born May 1, 1886, died July 3, 1891. Russell H., the youngest, was bom November 16, 1888. married Miss May Rogers and has two children, John Howard and Martha Marie.

Wilmeb M. McLaughlin, of Short Creek Township, Harrison County, is recognized as one of the successful and representative farmers and stock-raisers and is a son of the late James A. McLaughlin, of a prominent pioneer family of Jefferson County and whose connections with the life and affairs of that county and also with Harrison County are reviewed in the preceding sketch.

Wilmer M. McLaughlin was bora in Belmont County, Ohio, November 19, 1882. He was reared in that county and educated in the schools of Belmont and Jefferson counties. In 1907 he came with his father and other members of the family to Short Creek Township, and he and his father and brother, William W., engaged in farming and the stock business in partnership, their partnership being continued for six years, until terminated in 1913. The son Wilmer M. and his father continued partnership relations in farming and stock-raising on the old Ladd farm until the death of his father in 19(20. Since then Wilmer M. McLaughlin has continued the operation of this well known stock farm and is one of the recognized authorities on pure bred cattle and sheep in that section of the state.

He stands for all that is best in citizenship, and is an honor to his community, is industrious. and has exemplified the quality of fair dealing and consistency in his relations both to business and the fundamental religious principles of life. He is a member of the Harrisville United Presbyterian Church and a republican in politics.

September 18, 1912, Mr. McLaughlin married Miss Matilda McFhrland, who was born in Short Creek Township July 26, 1898, daughter of James T. and Hattie (Lynn) McFarland. Her father was a native of Cadiz Township and her mother of Short Creek. Mrs. McLaughlin was educated in the district schools of Jefferson County and in the Harrisville High School, and is a member of the Harrisville United Presbyterian Church. She is a most estimable woman, wife and mother, and an earnest helpmate to her husband. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin are the parents of a daughter and a son, Sarah Marie, born August 14, 1916, and George William, born December 29, 1919.

John S. Evans. It would be difficult to find a family more representative of the solid reliable qualities deemed so desirable in a neighborhood of hard-working, thrifty and loyal Americans than that bearing the name of Evans, of whom John S. Evans of Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, is a worthy member. He was bora at Covington, Kentucky, in 1870, a son of George Evans, and grandson of Hugh Evans, both of the last two being natives of Lannasanna, North Wales. Hugh Evans was a minister of the Methodist faith, who died in North Wales when forty-five years of age. In addition to discharging his mfnisterial duties he owned and operated a woolen factory in his native place. Hugh Evans was the father of the following children : Anna, Mary, Margaret, Ellen. Jane, William, Richard, John, George and an unnamed infant son.

George Evans, who was bora in 1834, was reared in North Wales, and there was married to Jane Jones, who was born in North Wales in 1838, the marriage taking place in 1861. As a young man he learned the bricklaying trade, but did not find the opening he desired in his own land, so decided to seek his fortune in another. About 1865 he came to the United States, bringing with him his wife and one child. They stopped for a short time at Troy, New York, from whence they made their way westward as far as Cincinnati, Ohio. A few months later they made another change when they went to Covington, Kentucky, and that city continued to be their home until 1870, when they went to Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, and during the short time they lived in that city George Evans was employed on the construction of the old Postoffice Building. In 1871 he came to Cadiz, Ohio, and there he assisted in erecting the mill, and set the first steam engine in it. About 1875 he and his family returned to England. but he came back to the United States by himself in 1884, and after three months spent at Cadiz, Ohio, getting things ready for them, he sent for his family, who then joined him. From then on he continued to reside in Harrison County. He and his wife had the following children : Mariam Jane, who married James Mattern; Anna, who married Asbury Freshwater; John S>., whose name appears at the opening of this review; William, who married Clara Mealey; George, who was fifth in order of birth; and Ellen, who married Charley X. Raynard. George Evans died in October,

John S. Evans followed his father's example and learned to be a bricklayer, and worked at his trade for a number of years, and during that period did some contract building. For the post nine years, however, he has been engaged in farming and also deals in stock to some extent. His ninety-five acres of land are well cultivated and devoted to a general line of diversified crops and the raising of some stock.

On November 2, 1892, John S. Evans was married to Margaretta Osburn, a daughter of John and Sarah (Amspoker) Osburn, of Archer Township. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have two children: Susie Alice, who married Oakley Henniss, and has one child, Ellen ; and Sarah Margaret, who married Benjamin H. Findling, and has one child, Dorcas Winnifred, who was born October 28, 1916.

James S. Gillogly has shown no indirection or uncertainty in the management of his substantial farm industry, and has gained the maximum returns from his well improved farm of 100 acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison County.

Mr. Gillogly was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, on the 21st of December. 1862, and is a son of Andrew J. and Eliza (Grim) Gillogly, both of whom were born and reared in that county, where the father devoted his entire active career to farming enterprise, save for a period of three years spent in similar activity In the State of Illinois. Both he and his wife were venerable citizens of their native county at the time of their deaths, and both were consistent members of the Baptist Church. To them were born eight children - Mary Anna, William (died in childhood), Arbelle, James S., Spencer, Flora Jane, Laura and Andrew Perry.

James S. Gillogly is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early education, and there also was staged his first independent enterprise in connection with farming. He became the owner of one of the excellent farms of Greene County, and there continued his residence until 1907, when he sold his property in the old Keystone state and purchased his present homestead farm in Short Creek Township. The original purchase was a tract of 127 acres, to which he has since added until he now has a productive and well kept farm of 160 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of good types of livestock. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are active members of the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville.

The year 1895 recorded the marriage of Mr. Gillogly to Miss Dora L. Smith, who likewise was born and reared in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where her father, George Smith, was a prosperous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Gillogly became the parents of four children: Gail died on April 9, 1917, at the age of twenty-four years; and the surviving children are Straus James, who married Florence Mulvihill, of Cadiz Township; Leona, who married Craig

Seibert, of Short Creek Township; and Howard. Straus James, the elder son, represented his home county in the national military service in the late World war. On the 25th of July, 1918, he entered service at Camp Sherman, and on the 9th of the following September he embarked for the stage of war. He landed In Glasgow, Scotland, on the 22d of the same month, proceeded thence to Southampton, England, from which port he sailed for France. He landed at Havre and in the American Expeditionary Forces he was assigned to Company C, Three Hundred and Sixty-second Regiment of Infantry, Ninety-first Division, his original assignment having been to Company E, Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. He took part in the final drive of the allied forces in Belgium, and was in the front lines at the time when the historic armistice was signed and brought hostilities to a close. On the return to his native land he arrived in the port of New York City on the 11th of April, 1919, and on the first of the following month he received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio.

John J. Duswald passed his entire life in Harrison County, was reared to manhood in North Township, and received the advantages of the local schools of the period. With the passing years he so directed his activities as to become one of the representative farmers of Rumley Township, and as a citizen of sterling character and worthy achievement he held inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He remained on his farm until his death, December 31, 1915, and his status in the community was such that a tribute to his memory and a brief record of his career find consistent place in this history.

Mr. Duswald was born in North Township, this county, on the 25th of April, 1847, and was a son of James and Sarah (Shook) Duswald, the former a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the latter of the State of Maryland. In his youth James Duswald received excellent educational advantages and gave considerable time to the study of medicine. He was a young man, however, when he abandoned the plan of preparing himself for the medical profession, and a radical change was made In his course when he adopted a seafaring life. In his voyages as a sailor he visited Palestine and the leading ports In Europe and Asia, and he was still a young man when he came to Harrison Oounty, Ohio, where his marriage was solemnized, and where he engaged in farming in North Township. He was a man of broad views and fine intellectual ken, and was influential in community affairs. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while his wife was a member of the Lutheran Church, and they were well advanced in years at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of four children - John J., subject of this memoir; Sarah Amanda, Mrs. Frank Ramsey; Mary A., Mrs. William Holmes, and Thomas W., who married Ellen Corbett and he is now deceased.

John J. Duswald spent his early life working on farms in North Township. In about 1869 he began saw milling, and continued in that work until about 1883. In that year he engaged in farming in North Township on his own account, and in 1887 he came to the George Shambaugh farm in Rumley Township. Following the death of Mr. Shambaugh. his father-in-law, in 1904, Mr. Duswald bought the farm, on which he passed the remainder of his life and on which his widow and their only surviving son still maintain their home. On this fine farm of 180 acres Mr. Duswald made many excellent improvements, including the erection of a large and modern barn and all other buildings except the two houses on the place. He was a man of energy, enterprise and good judgment, and in his farm industry he won substantial and well merited success. He never sought public office but was loyal and liberal as a citizen. He was a democrat in politics, and held membership in the United Brethren Church, as does also his widow. John J. Duswald served in the Civil war in the Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, from February, 1864, until the close of the war, he having been mustered out July 4, 1866.

On the 29th of May, 1873, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Duswald to Miss Mary C. Shambaugh, who was born and reared in Rumley Township, this county, and who is a daughter of George and Matilda (Hazlett) Shambaugh, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania. George Shambaugh was a boy of about four years when he came to Rumley Township with his parents. His father, who likewise bore the name of George, was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1787. The original American progenitor was George Shambaugh, who was born and reared in Germany and who was one of the early settlers in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he became a man of wealth and influence. The George Shambaugh who was the grandfather of Mrs. Duswald married Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Wirt, a young widow who was born in 1777, a daughter of Michael Brown, who was of German lineage. In 1817 George Brown came with his wife to Harrison County, Ohio, and obtained a large tract of Government land in Rumley Township, where he reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds and where he remained until his death, September 4, 1867, his wife having passed away many years previously. They became the parents of four children - Philip, Michael (died March 20, 1863), George (father of Mrs. John J. Duswald), and Margaret (wife of Samuel Hazlett. both being deceased). George Shambaugh had served in the War of 1812, and one of his uncles, Jacob Shambaugh, was a youthful soldier in the Continental line in the War of the Revolution, he having been a boy when he entered the service and his duty having been principally that of military teamster.

George Shambaugh, father of Mrs. Duswald, was reared under the conditions marking the pioneer days in Harrison County, and eventually he became one of the successful exponents of farm industry in Rumley Township, where he and his wife died when venerable In years, both having been earnest members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of nine children : Sarah J. became the wife of Mathias Markley and is now deceased; Jacob and Susannah died in early childhood; Isaac

C. is the widow of the subject of this memoir; Michael L. maintains his home in Nebraska; Andrew J. is a resident of the State of Louisiana; and Daniel S. lives in Nebraska. It will thus be noted that of the immediate family Mrs. Duswald is now the only remaining representative in Harrison County. She, like her parents, holds membership in the United Brethren Church. George Shambaugh was twice married, wedding for his second wife Susana Bradley. She lives in North Township, Harrison County.

In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Duswald : George J. remains with his widowed mother on the old home farm, and of him more specific mention will be made later; Sarah M. is the wife of Ott W. English, of North Township, and they have two children - Florence M. and Clyde; Charles W. died in early childhood; Edna E. is the wife of L. J. Duncan, and they reside In the State of Texas; Bertha M. is the wife of John Dunlap, of Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio, and they have two children - George A. and Mary Vivian; and J. Wilbur died in childhood.

George J. Duswald was born in North Township March 2, 1879. In addition to receiving the advantages of the public schools he completed a commercial course at Scio College, this county, and he has since remained on the home farm, of which he assumed the active management upon the death of his father. In connection with diversified agriculture he is a successful stock-grower and gives special attention to the breeding of Aberdeen-Angus cattle.

David M. Kail. Some of the former energetic agriculturists of Harrison County are now living in retirement, but the work which they accomplished still stands as a monument to their industry and good management. One of these substantial retired farmers of German Township is David M. Kail of Germano. He was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a son of Uriah and Maria (Miser) Kail. Gabriel Kail, his paternal grandfather, was the pioneer of the family in Harrison County. Born in Pennsylvania, he left his native state in young manhood and journeyed westward to Ohio until he reached Harrison County. Buying a farm in Rumley Township, he continued to live on it until his death, which took place in 1850. A wagonmaker by trade, he alternated working at it and farming. His second wife, Elizabeth De Vore, was the grandmother of David M. Kail, and they had the following children : Gabriel, Hiram. Steven, Joseph, Uriah, Lucinda, Anna, Tabitha and Phoebe.

Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1825, and died there in 1873. He learned the trade of wagonmaking from his father, and worked at it in Rumley and Jefferson townships. His wife, Maria Miser, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of David Miser, who was a tanner of Jefferson County. Mrs. Kail was one in the following children: William, David, Henry, Elizabeth, Maria, Catherine, Mary and Maggie. All were Lutherans in religious belief. Uriah Kail and his wife had the following children born to them : Elizabeth, David M., Margaret, Alexander and Eva Jane. Mrs. Kail belonged to the Reformed Church.

Growing up in German Township, David M. Kail attended the district schools and learned to be a farmer. His initial experience in farming was acquired in German Township, and he continued to be engaged in that calling during all of his active years, In time becoming the owner of eighty-two acres of land in that township. In 1916 he retired and moved to Germano.

In 1890 Mr. Kail was united in marriage with Maria Bell Stringer, a daughter of William and Isabell Stringer, of Adena, Ohio, and she died August 4, 1918, leaving a wide circle of warm, personal friends to mourn her loss. Mr. Kail belongs to Knights of Pythias of Jefferson.

T. Newell Osborne has been since 1911 one of the interested principals in the Spence-Roberts Company, which conducts a well appointed and splendidly equipped general merchandise establishment in the Village of Jewett, Harrison County, and he has served continuously as village clerk since 1914. He is deeply interested in all that touches the civic and material welfare and progress of his home village and native county, and is one of the representative business men of the younger generation in Harrison County. For the greater part of the time since leaving college he has been associated with the mercantile business with which he Is now connected and in which he has been a stockholder since 1911.

Mr. Osborne was born at Jewett on the 18th of August, 1883, and his personal popularity in his native place sets at naught any application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country." He is a son of Richie and Susan Maria (Ramsower) Osborne, and in the public schools of Jewett he continued his studies until his graduation from the high school as a member of the class of 1900. Thereafter he was for two years a student in Scio College, and the greater part of the time since leaving school has found him allied with the mercantile enterprise in which he is now a partner, as previously noted. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Scio, where he and his wife also hold membership in the adjunct chapter of the Order of the Eastern St>** .d In their home village they are active .^mmunicants of the Lutheran Church.

who was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and who is a daughter of the late Elias and Ann (Macklin) Yost, the former of whom was born in Frederick County, Virginia, December 2, 1805, and the latter of whom was born in County Armagh, Ireland, December 2, 1842, and who was a young woman when she came to America and established her residence in Ohio. Mr. Yost died December 2, 1896 on the ninety-first anniversary of his birth, and his widow passed away on the 21st of May, 1901.

The Yost family, of German origin, was founded in America in the colonial period, and representatives of the same were valiant soldiers of the Continental line in the War of the Revolution. Michael and Rachel (Keckley) Yost, grandparents of Mrs. Osborne, were born and reared in Virginia, and in 1806 they came with wagon and five-horse team from the Old Dominion State to Harrison County, Ohio, where they settled in the midst of the forest wilds near the present village of Harrlsville. They endured the full tension of frontier life and did well their part in the initial stages of development and progress in this now favored section of the Buckeye State. The substantial brick house which Michael Yost erected on his pioneer farm is still standing, and is one of the venerable landmarks of Harrison County. He was born November 3, 1776, and died on the 2d of February, 1849, his wife, who was born in 1780, having survived him by only seventeen days, both having been devout communicants of the Lutheran Church. Of their eleven children ten attained to years of maturity, and the family name has been prominently and worthily identified with the history of Harrison County since the early pioneer period.

Elias Yost, the seventh child, was not yet one year old at the time of the family migration to Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and where he became one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of the community In the vicinity of Harrisville. A man of fine character, he commanded the respect of all who knew him, and in his patriarchal years had the pleasure of being the head of a numerous family representing three generations. He first married Kezia Kithcart, who was born in 1812, In Pennsylvania, and who died in 1878, after having became the mother of eleven children. In 1880 Mr. Yost married Miss Ann Macklin, and they became the parents of two daughters, of whom Mrs. Augusta Osborne is the younger. The parents were numbered among the most venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of their deaths. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have two children - Newell Yost, born November 10, 1914, and Katherine, born October 19, 1916.

James C. Anderson. One of the enterprising agriculturists of Harrison County, James C. Anderson, of Rumley Township, has been engaged for the past forty years in breeding blooded Clydesdale horses, and he has also devoted himself to raising a diversified line of crops and other stock, achieving very gratifying results in all of his undertakings. He was born in Rumley Township April 10, 1850, a son of James and Violet (Caldwell) Anderson, and grandson of John Anderson.

John Anderson was born in Ireland, but came to the United States when his son James was twelve -years of age, setting out from Belfast for the trip across the ocean. After arriving in this country he located in Washington County, Pennsylvania, but later moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and about 1849 the family moved to Rumley Township. Harrison County, where John Anderson lived until his death. His children were as follows: Ellen. Mary. Bell, Andrew, Richard, Wiliam, John and James, all of whom were born in Ireland. The family all belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.

James Anderson was a farmer of Rumley Township for practically his entire life, although his last days were passed at Kilgore, Carroll County. Ohio. His wife was born at Cannonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they had the following children : James C., whose name appears at the head of this review: and Violet, who has never married and lives at Canton, Ohio.

James C. Anderson attended the local schools of his native township, as well as those of German Township, and in Lee Township, Carroll County, and at the same time learned how to be a practical farmer under his father's experienced supervision. In 1877 Mr. Anderson located on his present farm and now owns 219 acres of land in one piece. Although he is generally recognized as a successful farmer, it U as a breeder of Clydesdale horses that he is best known.

On December 29, 1872, Mr. Anderson married Lydia A. Levengood, a daughter of Jacob Levengood, and they had the following children : Olive Ellen, who was born January 15, 1874, married Newton Dutton, now deceased, and they had one child, Jesse Scott Dutton, whose military record is given below; Annie Bell, who was born March 14, 1876, died August 10, 1876; Jesse L ., who w'as born December 20, 1879, married Susie Montgomery, and they have two sons, Robert and George, and live with Mr. Anderson on the home farm; and Lydia E., who was born October 2, 1887, died January 25, 1888. Mrs. Anderson died November 7, 1890. In 1891 Mr. Anderson was married to Lena Beck, a daughter of Louis and Dora (Shantz) Beck. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Reformed Church and active in its work. They have no children of their own, but about 1904 they took into their home a thirteen months-old baby, Charles Otto Fleming. Later they adopted him and he is known as Charles Otto Anderson.

Jesse Scott Dutton, grandson of James C. Anderson, is a veteran of the great war. He entered the service April 30, 1918, and was sent to Camp Sherman for his training, and while there was assigned to Company F, Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers, Eighty-third Division. On June 3, 1918, he left New York City harbor with his organization for overseas, and landed at Liverpool, England, June 15, from whence he went on to France by way of Southampton, England, landing at Havre on June 20. While in France he served with his organization in the Aisne-Marne offensive from July 28 to August 6; the Oisne-Alsne offensive from August 18 to September 9; the Meuse-Argonne offensive from September 26 to November 11. From December 13, 1918 to May 20. 1919, he served at Neustadt, Germany. Mr. Dutton arrived in the United States on his way home June 26, 1919, and received his honorable discharge July 8, 1919, at Camp Sherman. Ohio. He is the only member of Mr. Anderson's family who came within the military age of the first draft, and naturally all of the Andersons as well as the Duttons are very proud of him and deeply grateful that he is not one of the brave American boys whose white crosses In France have created so many gold stars at home.

John B. Stewart. The qualities of adaptability, persistence, common sense and good judgment have prevailed in the energetic life of John R. Stewart, of Freeport Township, Harrison County, winning for him an enviable position among the business, civic and social elements of his community. While he is the owner of a farm, he has passed his life at the carpenter trade. He was born in Freeport Township May 14, 1868, a son of George W. and Mary (Booth) Stewart.

James Stewart, the great-grandfather of John B. Stewart, was born in Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneers Into Freeport Township, Harrison County, but after a short stay removed with his wife. Mary, and children into Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where his death occurred. He had a family of nine children: John, George. Samuel, James. Andrew. William, Mary, Catherine and Massie. Of these children James Stewart, the grandfather of John B., was born in Pennsylvania, and was a child when he accompanied his parents to Harrison and later to Tuscarawas County, in which latter he passed the rest of his life as an agriculturist and became a well-known and highly-respected citizen. He married Mary Randall, who was born in Guernsey County. Ohio, and they became the parents of five children: Amanda, Ananias C.. George W. and Thomas Benton, twins, and Marilda.

George W. Stewart, father of John B.. was bora in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, March 31. 1839. and as a young man worked on a farm and in a sawmill, later learning the trade of carpenter. He was married in 1862 to Mary Booth, who was born in Tuscarawas County, a daughter of John and Nancy (Hart) Booth and in 1865 removed to Freeport Township. Harrison County, where from 1865 to 1873 he was proprietor of the Freeport Mill. For about four years he was engaged in farming in that community, but in 1877 returned to Tuscarawas County, where he conducted a sawmill until 1890 and then came back to Freeport Township, Harrison County, where he farmed and worked at the carpenter trade. In 1911 he retired from active pursuits, having accumulated a competence, and moved to the Town of Freeport. For some ye:irs he continued to accept small contracts as a carpenter, but since 1919 has lived quietly in his comfortable home. Mrs. Stewart died in 1870, having been the mother of four children : Addle, who died young; Ella, the widow of Porter Mitchell; John B. ; and William, who died in infancy. In 1872 Mr. Stewart was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Leeper, daughter of Moses and Rachel (Carr) Leeper, and they had five children : Allan, who is deceased ; Alfred, a resident of New Philadelphia, Ohio; Thomas, who resides in Iowa ; Carlton, who lives at New Philadelphia : and George, a resident of Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church of Freeport.

John B. Stewart attended the public schools of Freeport, and when a young man adopted his father's trade of carpenter, which he has followed throughout his life. In all parts of the country surrounding Freeport are found evidences of his skill and ingenuity, and he has always adhered to the principle that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, with the consequence that he has a reputation as a careful, skillful and reliable workman. He Is esteemed also for his Integrity and moral worth, and for his consideration and fairness as an employer of labor. He is the owner of a farm >f 100 acres, which is being operated by his f*>ns.

In 1890 Mr. Stewart married Miss Mary Rowland, a daughter of James and Mellle Ann (Tool) Rowland, born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. James Rowland's first wife was Jane, a daughter of Jacob and Jane Heflin. As a young man James Rowland started farming in Cadiz Township, but about 1880 removed to Freeport Township, where he carried on operations until his death in 1917. By his first marriage he had seven children : George, Nancy, Sarah, Jacob, W. R.. Hannah and Lydia. His children by his second marriage were Kennedy, Mary. Jennie, Alice, Thomas, James and Jessie. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart: Everett deceased. Earl B., Ray. Ella and Dewey. Earl B. Stewart enlisted in the United States Army September 19, 1917, and after intensive training was sent overseas to France June 4, 1918. as corporal of Company F. Three Hundred and Eighth Engineers of the Eighty-third Division. He participated in the battles of the Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne. Meuse and Argonne. returned to the United States June 26. 1919. and was honorably discharged with a splendid record, July 7, 1919. at Camp Sherman. Since his return from foreign battlefields this brave young soldier has applied himself to the duties of peace, and is assisting his brothers in the cultivation of his father's farm.

William C. Gunnell. When he was but thirteen years old William C. Gunnell, superintendent of the Cadiz Flouring Mills, began working as a miller's apprentice, and he has been "In the grind*' practically all of his life. Since 1902 he has lived in Cadis. Mr. Gunnell was born January 5, 1866, in Eaton County,

Michigan, although his father, Thomas Gunnell, came from England. He married Sarepta Brummeling in the State of New York and they located on a farm in Michigan. He was a contractor and builder as well as farmer. He died in Eaton County in 1871 and Mrs. Gunnell died in 1910 in Litchfield. The oldest son, William C. Gunnell, lived in Harrison County several years. His brother, Frank H. Gunnell, lives in Great Falls, Montana, and Fred T. lives in Detroit.

Thomas Gunnell died, and the mother married Charles Rozell, and there is a daughter, Vera, wife of John Berry. The Gunnell children had common school education in Eaton County. Michigan, but while yet a school boy, W. C. Gunnell was learning the miller's trade. In the old days of the water mill it was always said the miller had fat hogs and yet no one knew whose corn fattened them, as the miller took toll from all the grists, but in these days of steam mills nothing is ever said about it.

When Mr. Gunnell came to Cadiz he was superintendent of the Cadiz Flouring Mills, but in 1906 he bought the property, and he now buys wheat and grinds it. The Moss Rose Flour is known to the trade, and Mr. Gunnell has established himself as an expert manufacturer of the best flour on the market today.

In November, 1889, Mr. Gunnell married Minnie B. Reed, a daughter of Henry Reed. Their two daughters. Catharine and Martha, are decease*!. Catharine was the wife of Stewart Yonnelly. hut Martha died in childhood.

W. C. Gunnell is s member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias Lodges, and with his wife he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church In Cadiz. While his early life was spent in Michigan he is now identified with the business interests of Harrison County. There is no industry more necessary to the prosperity of any community than a well conducted flouring mill, and Cadiz is fortunate in having Mr. Gunnell connected with its flour industry.

John P. Liggett. When a man has always lived in one community he is interested in its history. John P. Liggett, the Green Township farmer ami contractor, was born December 21. 1859. and has always lived in the vicinity of Hopedale. He owns a farm of 279 acres In Green Township, just outside the Hopedale corporation. and he also owns farm land in Jefferson County.

Mr Liggett is n son of Theodore Liggett, who was horn September 11, 1830. at Wellsburg, West Virginia. He married Nancy Maholm, of Cnliz Township, who was one year younger than himself. She was a daughter of Samuel and N*1 ncy (Delaney) Maholm. She died February 5. 1912. and Mr. Liggett died February 8, two years later. Samuel Maholm was born July 12, 1801, in Oadlz Township - territorial days in Harrison County, Ohio. HJs wife, Nancy Delaney, was s Maryland woman. They were Harrison County pioneers, taking np Government land one mile east of Cadis.

Maholm and his wife removed to Holmes County. In 1852 he was killed by a falling tree. Their children were: Eliza Jane, born July 25, 1823; James. May 10, 1825; William, August 7, 1827; Martha, July 30, 1829; Nancy, May 9, 1831; Margaret, March 16. 1833; Albina, March 18, 1835; Deborah, July 12, 1838; John, May 16, 1840; Cyrus, May 31, 1842; Marta, May 31, 1845; and Charlotte, July 10, 1847. The above list is an Interesting study since there are twelve children, with regular Intervals between them, the first birth occurring in July and the last in the same month twentyfour years later.

In the Liggett ancestry, Samuel Liggett, the grandfather of John P. Liggett, was bom In 1803 In Maryland. His wife, Jennie Stockholm, was bom the same year in the same community. He died in 1860, while she lived until 1893, and was ninety. They came to Annapolis, Harrison County, in 1825 from Maryland. As a young man Samuel Liggett went to Wellsburg, West Virginia, but after a few years he returned to Green Township, Harrison County.

The Liggett children of that generation were Theodore, Isaac, Sarah, Hannah, William, Mahala, John. Otho and Samuel. The four older sons were Civil war soldiers, as were some of the Maholm brothers. John P. Liggett is a son of the oldest child In the above scheduled family, and as a young man Theodore Liggett learned the trade of shoemaker. His three years' apprenticeship was served in Steubenville. In 1848 he came to Hopedale and opened a boot and shoe shop, which he operated until 1883, thirty-five years as a shoemaker In one community. He must have made and cobbled shoes for the fathers and mothers and all the brothers and sisters for miles around Hopedale.

In 1883 Mr. Liggett opened a retail shoe store and conducted it until 1905, and thus he was a shoe dealer almost fifty years in Hopedale. In his last days Mr. Liggett was associated with his son John P., who was then a horse buyer. He engaged in the horse business as a young man, buying, selling and shipping, but the time came when there was little market for horses. In 1910 Mr. Liggett dropped out of the horse market and began contract work, building roads, walks and pavements - all kinds of cement work, and he continues his residence at the farmstead.

The Liggetts are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Liggett spent three years and six months in the service in the Civil war. He was a member of the Seventy-Fourth Infantry and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga.

On January 27, 1886, John P. Liggett married Clara Belle Patton. She is a daughter of Ross J. and Elizabeth (Goodlin) Patton. Mr. Patton was bom September 12, 1843, in Rumley Township, and his wife came from Knoxville, Jefferson County. Soon after their marriage they removed from Harrison County, Ohio, to Iowa, but in a short time returned to Harrison County. The Pattons then moved to Jefferson County, where he was a miller for ten years. From Jefferson County they removed to Ravenna, and still live there. He was a Civil war soldier in the One Hundred and Twentysixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He spent three years in the service.

Mrs. Liggett is the oldest of the Patton children, and she has a brother, Edward, and a sister, Ina D. Patton. The children bora to Mr. and Mrs. Liggett are: Anna Vesta, wife of Albert Liggett. Their children are: Donald, Lamoln, William, Carl, Ross and LeRoy. Hazel Liggett is the wife of George Brickner. of Buffalo, New York. They have a daughter, Harriet. Helen May Liggett Is the wife of William Wilson, of Buffalo. Their children are June and John. The Liggett family are members of the Christian Church in Hopedale. Mr. Liggett is a member of the Board of Deacons. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Germano.

Binoham C. Scott has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth and since 1898 has conducted a substantial and flourishing general merchandise business in the Village of Germano, German Township, where he Is known as a representative merchant and as a loyal and progressive citizen. He was born at Hopedale, this county, on the 25th of September, 1870, and is a son of Allen W. and Betha Jane (Croskey) Scott. He whose name initiates this review was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Cadiz, the judicial center of the county, where he continued his studies in the high school until he was well qualified to assume a share of responsibility In connection with the practical duties and responsibilities of life. As a youth he became a clerk in a general merchandise establishment at Cadiz, and in this connection he gained an excellent knowledge of the details of this line of mercantile enterprise. In 1898 he established himself in the general merchandise business at Germano, where his personal popularity and the effective service given by his well equipped store have gained to the establishment a large and appreciative patronage.

In politics, though never desirous of official preferment, Mr. Scott is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the United Presbyterian Church in their home village. He is a member of Unionport Lodge No. 333 F. & A. M. ; Corson Lodge of Perfection (14° S. R.) ; Center Council (16° S. R.), and Drummond Chapter (Rose Croix 18° S. R.). His father was also a member of Unionport Lodge.

Dickerson, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of Charles C. Dickerson of Cadiz. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have two children - Allen W., born June 13, 1895, and Dorothy D., born August 5, 1897. Allen W. Scott was one of the gallant young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military service in the great World war. He entered service on the 21st of September, 1917, and at Camp Sherman was assigned to Company L, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment of Infantry, from which he was later transferred to the Three Hundred and Eighth Motor Supply Train, with which latter organization he was associated in driving motor trucks from Detroit to Baltimore, and within a period of three months he made three such overland trips. On the 13th of June, 1918 (his birthday) he sailed for France from the port of the City of Boston and after landing at Liverpool he proceeded with his command to France. There he was stationed with his motor-supply organization at LeMons. and he made the return trip to the United States on the George Washington, which was conveying President Wilson on his homeward voyage after his participation in the councils in Paris. Mr. Scott served as duty sergeant and convoy in France, and on the return voyage on the George Washington he was assistant to the detail and mess officer, with special privileges on board. He is now associated with his father in business at Germano. He is a member of Post No. 34, American Legion, of Cadiz. He was raised in Unionport Lodge No. 333, F. & A. M., on December 9, 1916; created Grand Elect Mason in Corson Lodge of Perfection (14° S. R.) on November 6, 1919; Prince of Jerusalem, Cutler Council (16° S. R.) on November 7, 1919; Knight of Rose Croix (18° S. R.) in Drummond Chapter on November 7, 1919; Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret (32° S. R.), Lake Erie Consistory, on November 14 1919. While serving with the American Expeditionary Force in France he was a member of LeMons (France) Sea and Field Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., and also a member of the American Masonic Club at LeMons, France. He is also a member of Hopewell Lodge No. 276 I. O. O. F. at Jewett. On October 14, 1920, he was married to Miss Bessie, the daughter of Robert and Nancy (Work) Long, of Cadiz, Ohio.

Holmes M. Thompson. Through father and son the Thompson family has lived for a good many years on the farm In Green Township where Holmes M. Thompson was born June 22, 1864, in Harrison County. Samuel Thompson, the father, was born at the same place in 1822, and his wife, Sarah J. (Moorhead) Thompson, a daughter of Samuel and Sallle (Holmes) Moorhead, was born in the same community. Mr. Moorhead, who was among the early settlers in Green Township, was a native of Adams County, Pennsylvania.

In 1850 Mr. Moorhead located in Archer Township, Harrison County, and lived there twenty years, when he moved back to Green Township. He was a member of the Ohio State Constitutional Convention assembled in

1851 in Columbus. He was a man of social and business acumen in Ohio affairs. He was a soldier in the second war with England. His children were: Eliza, /wife of Samuel Gray; John, deceased; Sarah J. ; Holmes, a Civil war soldier who died on a hospital boat on the Mississippi; and Morrison. This pioneer Moorhead family were Presbyterians.

Samuel Thompson, founder of the house of Thompson In Harrison County, and his wife, Elizabeth (Stewart) Thompson, were born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In 1813 they removed to their farm in Green Township. They had two children when they came to the Osburn farm of 160 acres, and constructed log buildings for their shelter from the storms of Ohio. In 1824 they built a good bam and in 1837 they built a brick house, and they ended their days at this family homestead.

The children in this pioneer household were: Marie, wife of Jonathan Gray; Martha, wife of Johnson Craig; Eliza, wife of Patterson Gray; Jane, wife of H. Stewart Black ; Margaret, wife of Samuel Cochran; Samuel, and Isabelle, wife of John J. Ray. The Thompsons were also Presbyterians. Samuel, the one son in the family and the father of Holmes M. Thompson, grew to manhood on the place where he was born, and he always lived there. He was a farmer and stockman and made many improvements while rearing his family at this old family homestead. He added to it until there are 280 acres in the Thompson farmstead. He died July 23, 1906, and Mrs. Thompson died October 31, 1917. Their children were: JLyra B., wife of John W. Osburn; Jennie, wife of S. A. Hanna ; Walter, wife of Edward Clifford ; Holmes M., the one son in his generation, as was his father in the generation before him; and Sal lie C. Thompson, who lives in Cleveland.

Holmes M. Thompson secured his education in the Green Township district school, and as a young man he farmed with his father. Since the death of the father he has farmed alone. On January 27, 1898, Mr. Thompson married Emma McFadden, daughter of George McFadden. Their children are: Samuel A. and Mary Lucile. They are members of the Presbyterian Church In Cadiz.

James N. Wilson, one of the reliable men and excellent farmers of Rumley Township, was bom on his present place February 27, 1875, a son of John A. and Isabel (McKitrick) Wilson, and grandson of William H. Wilson.

William H. Wilson was bora near Westmiddletown, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1803, and died August 9, 1887. His wife, Margaret (McCombe) Wilson, died March 8, 1884. In 1839 William H. Wilson came to Harrison County, Ohio, and bought 170 acres of land in Rumley Township, and lived on this farm until his death. The children born to him and his wife were as follows : Eliza, Ann, John A., David, who died in infancy, Mary who died young, William L., Margaret, James R. and Tabltha.

wife was bom May 21, 1840. They were married April 26, 1866. She was a daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Ferguson) McKitrick, the former of whom was a farmer and early settler of German Township. The children born to Ebenezer McKitrick and his wife were as follows: Elizabeth, Martha, Nathan, Jonathan. May, Isabel, Alexander, Agnes, Samantha, Juniatta, and one who died unnamed.

For practically all of his life John A. Wilson lived in Rumley Township, where he was engaged in cultivating his valuable farm of 108 acres of land. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: David M., who is deceased : Mary Eveline, who died when small ; Maggie Jane, who is deceased : and James N., who was the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were members of the Presbyterian Church, and died firm in that faith, he, June 18, 1911, and she, August 17, 1884.

James N. Wilson attended the schools of his district in Rumley Township, and has lived on his present farm, which still comprises 108 acres, and he is carrying on a general farming and stock-raising business with gratifying results, for he has good land and knows how to work it.

On May 16, 1894, Mr. ^Vilson was united in marriage with Anna C. Kuhn, born October 6. 1872, a daughter of Henry A. and Phoebe (Ellwood) Kuhn. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson became the parents of children as follows: John H.. who was bora August 12, 1895: Wilma V., who was bora October 11, 1897: Harold Floyd, who was born November 16, 1899; and Clarence Owen, who was bora April 11, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are members of the Reform Church at Jefferson and are highly valued in that congregation as they are elsewhere, for they are fine people in every respect.

Barclay Welch Moore. The Moore family was founded in Harrison County in 1808 by William Moore, great-grandfather of the present generation. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1779, and married Sarah Corey. He became prominent in this county and was the first member of the Ohio Legislature elected from Harrison County.

Barclay W. Moore, prosecuting attorney of Harrison County, was born in Cadiz on July 18, 1884, the son of I. Craig Moore and grandson of John, the son of William, the pioneer.

I. Craig Moore was bora July 24, 1854, in Green Township, and his wife, Anna E. (Welch) Moore, was bora January 15, 1859, in Cadiz. She is a daughter of David Barclay and Martha C. (Lyon) Welch, and the Welch family history is contemporary with the history of Ohio. Her ancestry cnme as early as 1801, and had much to do with the development of the frontier community. They were active in organizing the Presbyterian Church, and the cemetery at Beech Spring Church was given to the community by this pioneer family. The Moores and Welchs were all early citizens in Harrison County.

John Moore, grandfather of B. W. Moore, was born in Green Township July 27, 1813, and his wife, Elizabeth (McCullough) Moore, was born five years later in the same community.

I. Craig Moore was but a boy when the family removed to Cadiz in 1868. As a young man he entered the First National Bank of Cadiz, of which he in later years became cashier. In 1897 he was appointed a special national bank examiner and traveled about the country four or five years. In 1902 he became secretary and treasurer of a savings and trust company in Sharon, Pennsylvania, but for the last few years he has been retired from active business, residing at Sharon, Pennsylvania.

Barclay W. Moore was graduated from the Cadiz High School in 1900, and then spent one year In the Kiskiminetas School at Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. Recognizing the advantages of a liberal education, he entered Washington and Jefferson College, receiving hds Bachelor of Arts degree in 1905, and a year later matriculated in the law department of Ohio State University In Columbus, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws In 1909. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1909, and since that time has practiced law in Cadiz. For two years he was private secretary to Hon. D. A. Hollingsworth, member of Congress. In 1918 B. W. Moore was elected prosecuting attorney of Harrison County and was re-elected in 1920 by the largest majority on the county ticket. He was local chairman of the War Savings Commission in Harrison County, and he is always active in any community effort. In October, 1918, he volunteered for overseas military service, and had his training at Fort H. G. Wright on Long Island, but the signing of the armistice prevented his going overseas and he was discharged November 26th of the same year with the rank of corporal. He immediately returned to Cadiz and entered upon his duties as prosecuting attorney.

While in Washington and Jefferson College Mr. Moore was a fraternity man, being a member of Delta Tau Delta, and at Ohio State University he was a member of the Phi Delta Phi. He is a member of Cadiz Lodge No. 219. F. & A. M.. and of Chapter 171. By nature and attainment Mr. Moore is suited to the profession he has chosen, and youth and ambition are all in his favor.

Joseph Miller, one of the substantial farmers and sterling citizens of German Township. Harrison County, is a representative of an honored pioneer family that was here founded in the early pioneer days. His grandfather, George Miller, reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and became one of the prosperous citizens of German Township. The family name of his wife was Sawvell. and both were earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. Of their children the following names are recorded: Solomon, Adam, George, Jr., Melinda, Lydia, Mary Ann and Catherine.

Joseph Miller was bora ka Loudon Township, Carroll County, January 4, 1851, and is a son of George Miller, Jr., and Catherine Lownailler) Miller, both natives of German Township,

Harrison County. Mrs. Miller was a daughter of Harry Lowmiller, who was bom in Maryland and was a boy when his parents came to Harrison County, Ohio, and numbered themselves among the earliest settlers in the present German Township. George Miller, Jr., was reared and educated in German Township and eventually became one of the representative exponents of farm industry in Loudon Township, Oarroll County, where he established his home soon after his marriage and where he continued his residence until his death, May 9, 1888. His wife died in August, 1892, and both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of the following children - Mary Ann (Mrs. Simeon Gotschall), Absolom, Jacob, Joseph, Sarah (Mrs. Abraham Baker), Hannah (Mrs. James Ryder), Henry (deceased, aged eight years), and Lydia (Mrs. John Shawver).

To the district schools of Loudon Township, Carroll County, Joseph Miller paid due academic tribute during the period of his boyhood and youth, and in the meanwhile he profited also by the sturdy discipline gained in connection with the activities of the home farm. In 1871 he assumed connubial responsibilities, and it was soon after his marriage that he established hi 8 residence on a farm which he rented in Rumley Township, Harrison County. There he continued his vigorous operations eleven years, and for the ensuing three years he rented a farm in German Township. The next two years found him engaged in farming in North Township, and in 1893 he purchased his present farm, which comprises ninety-one acres of fertile and productive land and is one of the valuable properties of German Township. He has erected substantial and modern buildings on the place, in fact all of the buildings that are here found were placed since the property came into his possession except the horse barn* The house is modern in design and appointments, is equipped with steam heat and has running hot and cold water in all rooms, so that it figures as one of the model farm dwellings of the community. Mr. Miller has had no ambition for political activities or official preferment, but is loyal to all civic responsibilities and gives his support to the democratic party. Both he and his wife are influential members of the Howard Chapel (Methodist Episcopal), and he has served as trustee and steward of the same.

The year 1871 recorded the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Nancy L. Zollars, daughter of David and Matilda (Richardson) Zollars, of German Township, Harrison County. Of this union have been born four children: George D. married Miss Carlie Rife and they had three children - -Harold, who is deceased; Nellie, who is the wife of William Dedrich and has one child, Harold: and Joseph E. David W. married Miss Anna Galligher, and of their two children, Josephine and Nancy Ellen, the former is deceased. Joseph Eugene first married Miss Louise Briney, and they became the parents of three children, Henry, Doris (deceased), and Lando (deceased). After the death of his first wife Joseph E. married Miss Helen Hardlngton, and they have two children, Marlon and

Ruth, the family home being now in the City of Columbus. Jacob S., who resides at Dillonvale, Jefferson County, married Miss Hazel Petty, and they have one child, Ward Eugene.

Samuel D. Cole, still a landowner of Rumley Township, although now living retired in Martins Ferry, Ohio, was formerly one of the active and progressive farmers of Harrison County. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1847, a son of Moses and Rebecca (Buxton) Cole, and grandson of Samuel Cole.

Samuel Cole was bom December 27, 1792, and his wife, Amy Perrine, was bora December 7, 1790, and they were farming people of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Their children were as follows: Moses, who was born February 26, 1815; Sarah, who was bora July 22, 1816; Judah, who was bom February 9, 1818; Peter, who was bom April 28, 1820; Ann, who was bora July 16, 1822; and Harmon, who was bora April 25, 1824. After the death of his first wife Samuel Cole was married to Ann Perrine, who was born December 27, 1800, and their children were as follows: Samuel, who was bora September 8, 1826; Margaret, who was bora February 27, 1828; Nancy, who was born December 4, 1829; Stephen, who was bora September 20, 1831; Amy, who was bora June 18, 1833; David, who was bora May 23, 1835; Mary, who was bora March 14, 1837; William, who was bom June 15, 1839; Catherine, who was bora March 29, 1841; and Caroline, who was born August 26, 1843, died February 22, 1910.

Moses Cole was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, but his wife was bora in Brook County, Virginia, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Davis) Buxton. Jacob Buxton was born February 12, 1774, and became a miller of Brook County, Virginia. He and his wife had the following family: Aris, who was bora August 14, 1808; Davis, who was bora April 28, 1810; Amos, who was bora December 4, 1811; Ezekiel, who was born July 11, 1813; Ezra, who was bom November 15, 1814; Hannah, who was bora October 8, 1816; Friend, who was born October 2, 1818; Rebecca, who was born September 1, 1820; Hadder, who was bora April 7, 1822; Absolom, who was born March 25, 1824; Amon, who was bom June 15, 1826; Elizabeth, who was born May 27, 1828; and Melissa, who was bora April 27, 1831.

Until 1848 Moses Cole continued to be a farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania, but in that year migrated to Harrison County, Ohio, and bought the farm in Rumley Township now owned by his son Samuel D. Cole, and here he continued to reside until his death, at which time he was the owner of 300 acres of land. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder for a number of years.

Samuel D. Cole went to the district schools of his neighborhood, and grew up on his present home farm, where he spent his life since coming to it with his parents in 1848 until he removed on October 8, 1920, to Martins Ferry. He owns 168 acres of land, and until about 1917 was engaged in a general line of farming

On March 31, 1885, Samuel D. Cole was married to Esther Patton, of Sclo, Ohio, a daughter of James and Mary (Maxwell) Patton, and they became the parents of the following children : Mary, who lives at Martins Ferry, Ohio; Alonzo D., who was married August 25, 1915, to Ina Markley; Margaret K., who was married June 1, 1909, to Paul L. Henderson, and has the following children, Leroy K., born March 28, 1911; Lynn Paul, born November 20, 1913; Martha Mary, born October 16, 1918, and Ralph Cole, born October 17, 1920; Paul L. lives on the old Cole homestead, which he is managing; Bessie Martha, who is now principal of the public schools of Bowerston, Ohio; and James D., who married Florence Luciie Henderson October 25, 1916, lives at Cleveland, Ohio. The Ridge Presbyterian Church holds the membership of Mr. and Mrs. Cole and Mr. Cole has been an elder ip it for a number of years. He is a man who is held in the highest respect all over the county and deserves the prosperity which has attended him. He and his wife have reared a fine family, their sons and daughters doing them credit, and playing their part in the world's work.

Howard Isaac Heavilin, M. D. The Heavilin family of which Dr. H. I. Heavilin of Cadiz is a member has been in Harrison County almost from the beginning of its history. He was born January 30, 1880, in Archer, although his father, Frank M. Heavilin, is a native of Stock Township. Frank W. Heavilin married Jennie Anderson, of the same community. She is a daughter of Hugh and Catharine (Stewart) Anderson. The Heavilins and Andersons were all early residents of Harrison County.

The grandfather. Isaac Heavilin, was born in 1811 in Cadiz Township, and his wife, Susan (Bricker) Heavilin, was a native of Green Township. While Isaac Heavilin lived on a farm in Stock Township, he was a shoemaker and his sons did the farming for him. He died in 1900, having lived eighty-nine years in Harrison County. His sons were : Frank,

Frank M. Heavilin, father of the Doctor, Is a farmer in Archer, where he owns 320 acres, and combines general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of sheep. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Heavilin are: Anna, wife of Arthur Beck; Anderson, a Cadiz Township farmer and oil man; Howard I.; Beatty, who died In 1915; LeRoy, principal of the high school at Mycliff; Harry, at home; Park, a Tuscarawas County farmer; Vincent, at home; Pearl, who died in 1916; and Nellie, the wife of William Gibbin. They all attended Gilmore School in Archer Township, and for six years Dr. H. I. Heavilin was a teacher In public schools, attending Sclo College between times while he was a teacher. At spare times he worked as a carpenter while securing his education.

1910 graduated from there with the Doctor of Medicine degree. He immediately located in Cadiz and began the practice of medicine, and since that time has been a successful physician and surgeon. On August 3, 1909, Do tor Heavilin married Laura B. Morris, a daughter of Andrew J. Morris, and there are two children: Frank Morris and Gertrude. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association and president of the Harrison County Medical Society. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist Church in Cadiz.

Olives Bibney. Aside from the prestige that is his as one of the now venerable sons and representative farmers of Harrison County, Mr. Bimey has the further distinction of being a scion of an honored pioneer family that was here founded a century ago, when this section of the Buckeye State was little more than a forest wilderness.

Hugh Birney, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 17,80, and he was reared and educated in his native land. In 1801, at the age of twenty-one years, he came to America in company with two of his brothers, and he first established his residence in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in which commonwealth his marriage to Elizabeth Brown was solemnized in 1807. In 1819 Mr. Birney came to Ohio and purchased 121 acres of wild land in the present Green Township, Harrison County. Later he added 160 acres to his pioneer farm property, and he endured his full share of the hardships that marked that period of the county's history. He eventually reclaimed much of his land to cultivation, and on the old homestead he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, his death having occurred in September, 1862. The children of this sterling pioneer couple were eight in number - William, Wesley, Rebecca, Martha (Mrs. Samuel Hitchcock), Jane (Mrs. George Leas), Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob Hitchcock), Samuel and Asbury.

Asbury Birney was born on the pioneer farm of his father in Green Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was March 15, 1815. The primitive log schoolbouse was the scene of his early application to study, and the curriculum was very limited in scope, his broader education having been gained by selfdiscipline and association with the practical affairs of life. He continued to be engaged in farm enterprise in his native township during his entire active career, and was the owner of a well improved farm of 126 acres at the time of his death this having been the place on which he was born and reared. On the 23d of April, 1840, he was united In marriage with Miss Eleanor McCullough, who was born May 29, 1821, a daughter of Hugh and Isabella (Cunningham) McCullough, natives of Ireland and early settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where they established their home in the year 1810, the remainder of their lives having been passed in that county. Their children were six in number - Alexander, John, Isabella, Margaret,

Catherine and Eleanor. Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Birney continued to reside on their old homestead farm until the close of their lives, were earnest members of the Methodist Epscopal Church and commanded the high regard of all who knew them. Mr. Birney died November 30, 1888, and his wife died May 26, 1903. He was a man of marked energy and business ability, and in 1875 he erected as a family home one of the finest farm houses of the county at that time. Of the children the firstborn was Isabella, who died May 22, 1863 ; Oliver, immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Almond has long been a resident of Labette County, Kansas; Hugh W. remained on a part of the old homestead in Green Township until he removed to Cadiz and was one of the representative farmers of that section of his native county, his death having occurred November 24, 1916; John William, a resident of German Township; Elizabeth became the wife of Joseph McCullough, of Archer Township; and Rebecca J., now deceased, was the wife of Henry K. Ford, .of Salem Township JetTerson County.

Oliver Birney was born on the old home farm in Green Township April 5, 1843, and is indebted to the common schools of the locality and period for his early education. As a young man he began independent farm activities in his native township, where he remained until 1871, when he removed to his present farm of 125 acres iu German Township. Though he is now nearing the eightieth milestone on the journey of life, he is hale and alert, of mental and physical powers and takes pleasure in giving a general supervision to the affairs of his fine farm, besides which he has for more than half a century owned and operated a threshing outfit in his native county. He is a staunch democrat in politics, has served as trustee of German Township, and he and his wife In the gracious twilight of their long and worthy lives have the affectionate regard of the people of their home community, both being earnest members of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in their home township.

On the 24th of August, 1871, was solemn! zed the marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Elizabeth Beatty, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, a daughter of William and Charlotte (Law) Beatty, who there remained until their deaths. Mr. Beatty having been a prosperous farmer of that county. He was venerable in years at the time of his death in 1902, his wife having passed away in 1894 and both having been zealous members of Protestant Methodist Church. They became the parents of a fine family of twelve children, namely: Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Maria, John Wesley, Margaret Jane, Martha, Lucy, Sarah, William Law, Wilbur, Olive and Etta. In the autumn of 1860 eight of these children died within a single week, they having succumbed when attacked by diphtheria, then commonly known as "black tongue." At the time when this epidemic thus brought death in its wake there were only nine children in the Beatty home, and of the number Elizabeth, wife of the subject of this sketch, was the only one that survived, the other children having been is the wife of Wesley Mattern, of Green Township ; Elmer Emmett, now a resident of El Paso, Texas, married Miss Martha Bush and they have one child, Arlene; Charlotte Eleanor remains at the parental home; Jennie Olive is the wife of Elmer Hall, of Green Township, Harrison County, and they have one child, Lauress; Wilbur B. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Clara married Ernest Morgan, deceased, of German Township; and Mae Is the wife of Rolla Henry, of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County.

David Allison. The name of the late David Allison, of Green Township, is commemorated in the annals of the community by his son, Howard S. Allison, who is in charge of affairs at the old Allison family homestead in Green Township. Mr. Allison died there in 1894, after a long and useful life in the community.

David Allison was a native of Starke County, Ohio. Since his death Mrs. Allison and her sons have continued In possession of the family homestead near Hopedale. The mother and one son, Howard S., still live there. H. S. Allison has managed the Allison homestead farm for twenty-five years.

The Allisons are among the most highly respected people of the community. There are three sons. Harry F. Allison married Myrtle Baxter, and after she died he married Jeannette Shultz. Willard R. Allison married Clara Snively. Howard S. Allison is unmarried and lives in the old Allison homestead with his mother.

Joseph Mitchell McElboy. The late Joseph M. McElroy was one of the well-known and popular citizens of Rumley Township, Harrison County. He was born in Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 30, 1855, and was a son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Lee) McElroy, and grandson of James McElroy.

James McElroy was bom in 1774, near Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he had been a farmer for a number of years, in 1858. He married Mary Mitchell, who was bom in 1776, and died in 1850. Their children were as follows: Margaret,

Joseph McElroy was bora in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and his wife was bom in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of James and Ruth (Crouch) Lee. James Lee was one of the early farmers and stockraisers of German Township. During his younger years Joseph McElroy was a merchant, but later on In life he moved from German Township, where he had carried on his store, and became a farmer of Jefferson County, Ohio, and there he died December 4, 1863, his widow surviving him until June 11, 1876. Their children were as follows: Mary Virginia, James Lee, Joseph M.,

The educational training of Joseph M. Mc- Elroy was that afforded by the district schools of Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. As a young man he learned the harnessmaking and saddlery trade, and worked at it for a few years, and then went on a farm in German Township, Harrison County, and was engaged in farming and handling stock until 1896, when he moved to Jewett and became associated with Samuel Arbaugh in a grain, stock and wool business, which partnership continued until the death of Mr. Arbaugh in 1917. Mr. McElroy continued to deal in stock and handle wool, conduct his fine property in German Township, comprising 110 acres, until his death on November 8, 1920.

On December 27. 1877, Mr. McElroy was united in marriage with Irene Winings, a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Chase) Winings. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McElroy are as follows: Mary Estella, who married Cortez

L. Williams, an attorney of Steubenville, Ohio, has one living child, Cortez McElroy, the other one, Edwin Dee, being deceased ; Joseph Harold, who married Maude V. Baird, lives at Carrollton, Ohio, and has had the following children, Flora Irene, deceased, Joseph William, Harold Baird, Mary Elizabeth, Lee Montgomery, and Ruth Joan; William H., who married Clara Pratt, lives at East Cleveland, Ohio, and has two children, William H., Jr., and Beatrice Marguerite: Wilma Katherine, who is unmarried and is teaching in the Steubenville, Ohio, public schools. Mrs. McElroy died December 5, 1902. On October 24. 1907, Mr! McElroy was united in marriage with Jennie Herron, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Hanna) Herron. Robert Herron was bom in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1817, ad died June 17, 1884. His wife, who was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, July 10, 1825, was a daughter of James and Mary (McCleary) Hanna. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Mc- Elroy, Andrew Herron, was born in Maryland, but became a farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Neely.

Robert Herron was a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and in 1847 came to Harrison County, Ohio, as assistant pastor at the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church. In 1848 he was made pastor of the Ridge Presbyterian Church of Archer Township. The Rev. Mr. Herron was a man of great scholastic ability and a graduate of Muskingum College, class of 1845. He had also attended the Western Theological Seminary for his professional training. His pastorate of the Ridge Church lasted until 1874, and he was beloved by his people, to whom he w*as a tender and sympathetic friend as well as a spiritual director and pastor. His death occurred June 17, 18S4. his widow surviving him until November 27, 1901. The children of Robert Herron and his wife were as follows: Andrew, who was a Presbyterian minister, is now deceased; John, who was also a minister of the .same faith as his father and brother, is deceased: and Mrs. McElroy, who was the youngest born.

Mr. McElroy was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Jewett, and belonged to General Custer Lodge, K. of P., at Scio, Ohio. A man of energy and determination, made a success of his various undertakings, and while doing so he did not neglect his duty as a citizen, and ever took an active interest in local matters. Mrs. McElroy is a member of the Jewett Presbyterian Church.

David P. Host. While David P. Host has been a resident of Cadiz for many years his birth occurred January 3, 1842, in West Carlyle, Coshocton County, Ohio. His father, Samuel Host, was born in 1801, near Smithfleld, Jefferson County, but the mother, Jane (Hines) Host, Is a native of Harrison County. She Is a daughter of William and Sarah Hines, who came from Ireland. They were married in Ireland and later came to America. They were pioneers in Harrison County. Their children were: Mary, Christopher, William, John, David, Zilla and Lovina.

There has been evolution in the spelling of the name Host, as the grandfather, Samuel, called himself Hoss. He was a blacksmith in Smithfleld, Jefferson County. His children were: Harvey, Samufel, William and John. The son, Samuel, through whom the lineage is traced, was later a blacksmith in Coshocton County, Ohio. In 1847 he removed to Laceyville, Harrison County, where he was a blacksmith the remainder of his days. In 1825 he married Louisa Oxley, and their children were: Henry. James. John and Louisa. She died, and his children by a second marriage were: William, David, Eliza and Amos.

David P. Host enjoyed common school advantages at the Sampson School in Stock Township. and as a young man worked on a farm in that community. On November 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company C of the Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was out three years and eight mouths as a Civil war soldier. He was discharged July 13, 1865, and returned to Harrison County. Mr. Host was wounded at the battle of Corinth. Mississippi, and was in a hospital thirty days as a result of it. He was in some of the hardest fought battles and was with General Sherman in his march from Atlanta to the sea. When he returned to civil life Mr. Host first engaged in mercantile pursuits at Tappan, Harrison County. Two years later he engaged in the coal business in Tuscarawas County. He afterward operated a saw mill in Harrison County for thirteen years.

Finally Mr. Host went on a farm near Tappan and remained there until 1892, when he was elected sheriff of Harrison County. He was sheriff four years and served as deputy sheriff four years, and when out of office he remained in Cadiz. For many years he has been a justice of the peace, and he is known to almost everybody in Harrison County.

On June 5, 1872, Mr. Host married Catherine M. Granfell, daughter of Miles and Jane Granfell, and their children are: Amos Edwin, Grace Irene, the wife of W. C. Nicholas; Ivan Warren. James A. and John Warren. They are the members of the Methodist Church in Cadiz. Since

1871 Mr. Host has been a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and he is a member of the R. M. Lyon Post, G. A. R., at Bowerston, Ohio, of which he was a charter member and served as its first adjutant.

John Cbosket. When John Croskey, of Green Township, counts back to the third generation he finds that he is an Irishman. John Croskey, who is now past four score, was bom July 22, 1836, in Green ^Township, Harrison County, where his father had come as a settler. William Croskey was bom in 1796, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and his wife. Mary Crabb. was bora in Jefferson County, Ohio.

Just one step backward in the Croskey lineage shows that Robert and Catherine (Ringland) Croskey came from Ireland. They came to America in 1774 - colonial period in American history. They lived in Maryland through the Revolutionary struggle, and later they located in Washington County, Pennsylvania. It used to be said that Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1802. later historians to the contrary, but according to recent data they were settlers in Ohio one year before statehood was granted, locating in Harrison County. They owned 100 acres of land and ended their days on it.

The children in the second generation of Croskeys in America are: John, William, Robert, Samuel, Catherine, Rachel, Margaret, Elizabeth and Mary. John Croskey is descended from the youngest son, William Croskey. He always lived in Green Township, Harrison County. In April, 1845, he moved to the farm where his son John Croskey lives today. He died there in 1872. His children were : Robert, Margaret, Henry, Anna, Mary, Sarah, John and William. The Croskeys are Presbyterians.

John Croskey had the meager educational advantages of his day, and early turned his attention to agriculture. He now owns 520 acres of land. In 1866 he married Eliza Ann Mansfield, a daughter of John and Rhody (Welch) Mansfield. Their children are: William B., Rhody W., John M. and Ephraim S. William lives at the family homestead and John M. near by, and they farm It together. John M. Croskey married Emma Porter, and their children are Naomi, Eliza, John and Mary.

The annals of the Mansfield family show that John Mansfield was a farmer in Wayne Township, Jefferson County. He built the first brick house in that part of the country. The Mansfield children are: Welch. Thomas. Eliza. Cyrns and Reason. John and William died in childhood. The Mansfields are Presbyterians. The Croskeys are among the well known families of Harrison County. For more than a century the name has been written In the archives of the commonwealth of Ohio.

Edward Clifford. While Edward Clifford is a prosperous Green Township farmer and stockman, his father before him was an immigrant from Ireland, being one of five children who came with their widowed mother to the United States. Mr. Clifford was bom In the community where he now lives December 16, 1856. His father, John Clifford, was bora forty years earlier in County Cavan, Ireland. The father died May 30, 1900. He married Mary Ann Jamieson, of Cadiz Township, after coming to Harrison County. She was a daughter of Andrew and Mary (McFadden) Jamieson.

John Clifford, Sr., was the head of the house of Clifford In Ireland. His wife was Mary Byers, and after his demise she brought her five children to the land of promise across the Atlantic. After stopping for a while in Washington County, Pennsylvania, they located in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. The children of this immigrant family were: Margaret, John, Edward, Mary and Esther. They must have come from the north of Ireland, as they were Presbyterians. It was in 1841 that the Cliffords came to America, and much devolved upon this oldest son through whom Edward Clifford is descended.

As a young man and a "stranger in a strange land" John Clifford worked out on farms in Harrison County by the month, and finally, when he started farming for himself, he bought a farm in Green Township. Here he spent the remainder of his active business life, retiring to Cadiz finally. Think of a young Irish immigrant with a mother and other dependents who accumulated a competence and had 347 acres of land in Harrison County. Horace Greeley said: "Go west, young man," but he did not say anything about crossing the Atlantic ocean in order to "grow up with the country." The children of John Clifford were: Mary, who died in young womanhood: and Edward and Andrew are the two sons, and three other children died in childhood. Their mother died September 3, 1864, and in 1866, Mr. Clifford married Ann Croskey. and they had two children, Anna and William. The daughter became the wife of L. A. Morehead.

Edward Clifford attended the district school of the community, and as a young man he began on the Clifford farm. On October 1, 1885, he married Alice M. Thompson, who was born in Green Township, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Morehead) Thompson. For a time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Clifford lived on a farm on the Hopedale road in Green Township, and in 1902 they bought and removed to their present farm. It is a tract of 340 acres and Mr. Clifford is a breeder of Shorthorn cattle and fine wool sheep combined with diversified farming operations. The children of MV. and Mrs. Clifford are Helen M. and Isabelle E. The Cliffords are Presbyterians.

Rev. Robert Gowan Campbell, D. D., LL. D. The effectiveness of Franklin College at New Athens as an institution of higher education and Christian training and as registered in the minds and hearts of all who were enrolled as students there from the close of the Civil war until a comparatively recent date is by general accord attributed to the personality and active presence of Rev. Robert Gowan Campbell as president and for forty years a member of its staff of instruction.