Harrison Township (part 2 of 37)

Josiah C. Shaw was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm of his father and gained his education in the common schools of the locality and period. He was a boy at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, and he so effectively applied himself to his studies that he became eligible for pedagogic honors and as a young man was for several years a successful teacher in the rural schools. He became one of the representative farmers of Washington Township, where also he operated a saw mill ior a number of years. In 1852 he removed with his family to Brown Township, where eventually he became the owner of a fine landed estate of nearly GOO acres, on which he erected a large residence on the line between Brown and Augusta Townships. There his death occurred on the 10th of January, 1.883, and his remains rest in the cemetery at Minerva. He was one of the progressive and influential men of the county, was first a whig and later a republican in politics, and he filled various offices of local trust, besides having been elected ni 1870 a member of the Board of Equalization for Carroll and Stark counties. He was a charter member of Oak Ridge Grange No. 661, and in connection with his farm enterprise he became one of the leading sheep-growers of this section of the state. A man of generous and affable nature, tolerant and kindly in all of the relations of life, he commanded the unqualified confidence and esteem of all who knew him and his memory is held in lasting honor in the county that represented his home during virtually Ills entire life. His widow, who will celebrate on the 6th of August, 1921, the ninety-eighth anniversary of her birth, still resides in Carroll County, ns one of the most venerable and revered pioneer women of her native county, she being held in affectionate regard by all who have come within the compass of her gentle and gracious influence. Mrs. Shaw is a daughter of Gabriel and Mary (Townsend) Walton, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was bom November 17, 1777, of English lineage, and the latter September 8, 1781, of Welch ancestry. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Walton was solemnized, March 12, 1801, at New Garden, Columbiana County, Ohio Territory, and they became the parents of eleven children. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Walton returned to Pennsylvania, where they remained three years in the city of Philadelphia. They then came again to Columbiana County, Ohio, whence, about the year 1815 they came to Carroll County, where Mr. Walton took up 640 acres of Government land in the present Augusta Township. Here he died April 18, 1845, and his widow passed away November 15, 1862.

was bom in Washington Township August 26, 1842, developed one of the finest farm properties in Brown Township and Is one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county, where he has continuously , maintained his residence save for a period of fifteen years passed in the city of Alliance, Stark County. He was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He took part in many important engagements, including the battle of the Wilderness, in which he received a severe wound which fractured the bones of his right leg and incapacitated him for further service, besides entailing injury that has caused him a measure of trouble during his later life. He has been an appreciative and honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic for many years. Mahlon Shaw, immediate subject of this review, was the second son. Eli D. likewise upheld the prestige of the family name in connection with farm industry In Carroll County, and he served twenty years as county surveyor. He achieved distinctive success in life and was president of the Minerva Savings & Trust Company at the time of his death In 1915, at the age of sixty-three years. Ida Theona, the only daughter, was born March 19, 1860, and she died on the 8th of April, 1876, at the age of sixteen yeara

Mahlon Shaw was reared on the old home farm and received the advantages of the district schools and of well conducted seminaries at Minerva and Malvern, after which he entered Mount Union College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1871. In the meanwhile it had been his to give four months of service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. In May, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry with which he continued in service until the close of his term, when he received his honorable discharge. After leaving college he was for a time employed in a white-lead factory at Alliance, Stark County, and in 1872 became actively associated with operations in the oil fields of Butler County, Pennsylvania, where his original service was in the drilling of wells. He continued his alliance with the great oil industry about thirty-five years, and he achieved marked success in which connection his operations extended into Kentucky and Indiana, as well as in Pennsylvania. He became well known as a successful oil operator and was a member of leading oil exchanges in Pennsylvania. In 1908 Mr. Shaw became a substantial stockholder in the Owen China Company of Minerva, and after having served for some time as its president and treasurer he abated his executive activities to a certain extent, though he is still a director of the company and as its vice president is influential in the directing of its policies. He has been for about fifteen years actively identified also with the Minerva Savings & Trust Company, of which he became vice president upon the death of his brother Eli D., who had been its president.

In politics, though never animated by any desire for official preferment, Mr. Shaw is a staunch republican, and as a liberal and publicspirited citizen he takes deep interest in all things pertaining to the welfare of his native county, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances, his popularity being not curtailed by reason of the fact that he has remained in the ranks of eligible bachelors.

Joseph F. Strausbaugh. To those who have never had the opportunity of visiting a modern Harrison County farm, the mention of farming may bring to mind a team of hot, tired horses, a hand plow and a horny-handed, dusty son of the soil, toiling endlessly from sun-up to sunset. Those who have such ideas would be considerably surprised if they visited the farm of Joseph F. Strausbaugh of Archer township, where they would find powerful machinery taking the place of the ordinary plow of former years, and comfort and recreation in plenty for the farmer and his family. No longer are the rural districts isolated. First the telephone and then the automobile brought the farmer into close contact with the centers of industry, and many who in former years left the farm for the city are returning to the soil, realizing that the land 'makes better returns for the time and money expended upon it, and at the same time affords healthful and happy living conditions difficult to secure in the more congested districts.

Joseph F. Strausbaugh belongs to a family of agriculturalists, and he was bora in his present county, in Green Township, on July 17, 1852, a son of Michael Strausbaugh, who was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1811, and died in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1870. His wife, who was Mary Morehead before her marriage, was bora in Adams County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of James Morehead. Michael Strausbaugh was one of the early settlers of Green Township, but in 1864 moved to Archer Township, which continued to be his home the remainder of his life. He and his wife had the following children : Daniel S., James M., Joseph F., and Mary Jane, who married Charles Dudgeon. The* parents were Presbyterians, and reared the children in the faith of that church.

Joseph F. Strausbaugh attended the district schools of Green and Archer townships, and at the same time learned to be a farmer. When he was a young man he began farming, and has continued in this line ever since, and has also worked considerably as a carpenter. His homestead comprises fifty-seven acres of well-improved land.

In 1883 Mr. Strausbaugh was married to Helen Dudgeon, a daughter of William Dudgeon, and they became the parents of the following children: Ray V., who married Ethel Walker, and has two children, Eugene and Paul, and lives at 8teubenville, Ohio ; Metta, who married Harry Coen and lives at Mingo, Ohio; Lola, who lives at Canton, Ohio; Doyle, who is a veteran of the great war; and Frank, who is also a veteran of the same mighty war. Mr. and Mrs. Strausbaugh belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jewett, and are held in the highest esteem by their associates in the church just as they are by their neighbors.

Doyle Strausbaugh entered the service on April 2, 1918, and was trained at Camp Sherman. On June 28, 1918, he sailed for France from Hoboken, and landed at Brest, France. He served with Company F, One Hundred and Third Infantry, Twenty-Sixth Division, and was in the Saint Mihlel and Verdun offensives. On April 5, 1919, he landed at Boston, Massachusetts, and was discharged on April 24, at Camp Sherman.

Frank Strausbaugh entered the service in September, 1917, and after he was trained at Camp Sherman he sailed for France in June, 1918, landing at Brest, France, after which his command, Company L, Three Hundred and Thirty-Second Infantry, Eighty-Third Division, was sent to Italy. He returned to the United States about the middle of April, 1919, and was discharged at Camp Sherman May 1 of that year. This Is the only family in Archer Township to have two sons in the overseas service, and were also fortunate inasmuch as the stars in their service flag did not turn to gold, and the young men were returned home safe and sound In spite of active participation in some of the hard-fought engagements of the last days of the war.

Henry S. Barricklow. While Henry S. Barricklow, of Cadiz, is a native of Harrison County, having been born December 10, 1847, In Athens Township, his ancestry dates back to Holland. His great-great-grandfather, Daniel Barricklow, and a brother, Darrick Barricklow, came from the lowlands of Holland to America, settling in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The brother Darrick settled on Long Island. In Holland the name was spelled De Barick of the Ba ricks, but the later generations Americanized it. Joseph Barricklow, father of Henry S., was born June 12, 1805, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Phoebe (Bartow) Barricklow, the mother of Henry S. Barricklow, was born May 21, 1813, in Guernsey County, Ohio. She was a daughter of Eli and Charity (Leverage) Bartow, the family being of French-On nadian stock. The Bartows were among the pioneers of Harrison County. There was but one house in Cadiz when they came to the county. They had lived for a time in Guernsey County.

The grandfather, Hendrick Barricklow, was born In 1772 in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and he married Maribah Ogelvee, who was born in Cecil County, Maryland. Conrad Barricklow, of the preceding generation, was born in 1742, In Middlesex County, New Jersey. The Barricklows certainly belong to the Colonial period in United States history. The wife of Conrad Barricklow was Sarah Miller. He was a Minute Man in the War of the Revolution, and was wounded at the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. There were five children in this Colonial Barricklow family; Anna, 1768; Daniel, 1770; Hendrick, 1772, to whom H. S. Barricklow traces his lineage; John, 1775; and Farrington, 1777. Few families have more record of their colonial ancestry.

As a young man Hendrick Barricklow learned the tailor's trade in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, but later he abandoned the trade and worked on flat boats up and down the Ohio River. In 1809 he moved with his family to Athens Township, Harrison County, where he bought a quarter section of land, the title or patent being signed by President James Madison when the property was transferred from the Government to him. He died in April, 1852, on this land he had acquired from the Government in Harrison County.

Henry, Julia, Conrad and Farrington. The four* older ones were born in Pennsylvania and the* others In Ohio. There is Revolutionary ancestry In both the Barricklow and Ogelvee families*. Joseph Barricklow became a farmer and stockman in Harrison County, buying the homestead of his father and dying there April 13, 1875, while his wife died February 29, 1895. They were members of Rankins Methodist Church. Henry S. Barricklow is their oldest son. His sister, Maribah, who died In 1919, was married twice, wedding Simeon Pickering and Washington J. Vance. The brother, Joseph E. Barricklow, who died in 1905, married Mary' Walker.

In 1882 Henry S. Barricklow married Lizzie B. Haverfleld. She died September 13, 1883, and in 1893, Mr. Barricklow married Lizzie Mc- Fadden. Their children are: Harold J., Bessie, Mary Helen, Pauline, Henry S., Jr., and Gretchen. The family are members of the Methodist Church in Cadiz. Harold J. Barricklow was the first Harrison County boy to enlist in the World war. He was in a Tank Brigade and had six months overseas service in France.

H. S. Barricklow has extensive farm interests and until 1916 when he located in Cadiz he had always lived in the country. Up to one year ago Mr. Barricklow owned 738 acres of which he has since sold 147 acres. Beside city property in Cadiz, Columbus, Ohio, and Fargo, North Dakota, he owns land in Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, in North and South Dakota which, added to his Harrison County land, makes Mr. Barricklow one of the largest land owners of eastern Ohio. He also holds large Interest in coal and oil lands. For more than thirty years he has been a director of the Harrison National Bank in Cadiz, and for the last few years has been vice president of that institution. While Mr. Barricklow has always lived in Harrison County, his business activities are not confined to one locality. He has been a successful man and has accumulated sufficient property to take care of him when he ceases business activities. 8

Horace G. Kerr owns and is giving his attention to the vigorous operations of the fine old homestead farm which figures not only as the place of his birth but also as that of his father, the latter's parents having come to Harrison County in 1828 and here established their home on this farm in Cadiz Township, the place having been at that time a tract of forest land, with no improvements, and theirs having been the herculean task of reclaiming the land to cultivation. James Kerr was born and reared in Scotland, and after his marriage he and his wife removed to Ireland, where the wife and mother died. Their son Alexander was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and in the early years of the nineteenth century he came with his father to America. They settled near West Liberty, Ohio County, West Virginia, and there James Kerr remained until 1860, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he passed his declining years in the home of his son Alexander and where he died in 1856, at the age of eighty-eight years.

Alexander Kerr was reared to manhood in West Virginia, and among his early experiences after coming with his father to America was that of clerking for a time in a mercantile establishment in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In West Virginia, which was at that time still a part of Virginia, he married Mary Blair, a daughter of Raunel and Annie Blair, of Brooks County, and in 1828 he and his wife came to Harrison County, Ohio, and established their home on the frontier farm which has been developed into the well improved homestead now owned by their grandson, Horace G.t of this review. Mrs. Kerr passed to eternal rest in 1838, at the age of forty years, and Mr. Kerr was seventy-four years of age at the time of his death, about the year 1860. Of the children the first born, Elizabeth, died in childhood, as did also the second, Mary Ann; Jane never married and was about seventy-four years of age at the time of her death, as one of the revered pioneer women of Harrison County; Alexander B., father of Horace G., was the next in order of birth; and Evelyn died when young. The religious faith of the family was that of the Presbyterian Church, and incidental to the religious differences in the church relative to the question of slavery, Alexander Kerr, who was an uncompromising abolitionist, was led to secede from the parent church and become one of the organizers of the local branch of what was known as the Free Presbyterian Church. A man of strong convictions and will power, he was a leader in community sentiment and action, and in the period leading up to the Civil war he was actively identified with the historic "Underground Railroad," through the medium of which many fugitive slaves were assisted to freedom. He served several years as trustee of Cadiz Township. It is worthy of note that this sterling pioneer was opposed to the use of whiskey, the drinking of which was in those days takeu as a matter of course, and that he was the first man in his community to abolish the use of whiskey by men working in the harvest fields - a regulation to this effect having been adopted by him on his farm and he having stood firm against all protests against his action.

Alexander B. Kerr, owing to the conditions of time and place, had limited educational advantages in his youth, and he early began to bend his youthful energies to the arduous work of the pioneer farm. He passed his entire life on this old homestead and was the owner of a well improved farm of 140 acres at the time of his death. In 1857 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Lucy Smith, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in December, 1832, a daughter of William and Mary Smith, her father having been a soldier in the War of 1812 and having passed the closing years of his life on his farm In Washington Township, Harrison County. His widow was a resident of Steubenville, Jefferson County, at the time of her death. Alexander B. Kerr continued to give his close attention to the work of his farm until the exigencies of the Civil war resulted in a further call for volunteers in 1863, when he left his wife and children on the farm and went forth to aid in defense of the Union. In that year he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in defense of the national capital and later took part in the famous campaign and varied battles of the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. Though he was never wounded or captured, he was prostrated by fever and was confined several weeks in a military hospital. Upon the expiration of his term of enlistment he returned home and resumed the management of his farm, three and one-half miles west of Cadiz and consisting of 140 acres. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and he and his wife held membership in the Presyterian Church. Of their children Horace G., of this sketch, is the second in order of birth, and in his home remains his only, an elder, sister, Mary who has never married; William died in January, 1901, in his native county; and two children died in infancy. The devoted wife and mother passed to the life eternal September 19, 1881, and Alexander B. Kerr died in October, 1907, honored by all who knew him. It may be recorded that his maternal grandfather, Raunel Blair, was a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution, after the close of which he secured land in Ohio County, Virginia (now West Virginia), but the closing years of his life were passed In the state of Vermont, the Blair family having been founded in New England in the early colonial period of our national history.

Horace G. Kerr was identified with the activities of the old homestead farm from the time of his boyhood, and is now owner of this valuable farm of 140 acres. From 1883 to 1885 he was engaged in the livery business at Cadiz, and thereafter he conducted a shoe store at that place until October, 1887, when he became a locomotive fireman on the Panhandle Railroad. He continued to be thus employed until 1891, and in 1893 he returned to and assumed active management of the old home farm, in the operation of which his vigorous and well directed activities have brought to him substantial returns.

B., who married Miss Norma Cooper and who has been engaged in the drug business at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, since May, 1912. The second marriage of Mr. Kerr was solemnized in April, 1901, when Miss Carrie A. Hines became his wife. She was bom and reared in Cadiz Township as were also her parents, Daniel and Martha (Laughlin) Hines, who there passed their entire lives. Mr. Hines died April 9, 1910, and his wife passed away in March of the following year. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of three children: Ina B., who died when

Robert Brothers, former county auditor of Carroll County, has spent most of his active life in railroad service and is a clerk in office of the W. & L. E. Railway Company at Carrollton.

The record of his family runs back into the pioneer times in Carroll County. His greatgrandparents were Stephen and Elizabeth (Castleberry) Brothers, who were among the first settlers in Brown Township, Carroll County, where they bought land and made a home in the wilderness and where both of them spent the rest of their years. In their family were twelve children, Benjamin, Joseph, William, Isaac. Levi, John, Abram, David, Francis, Jacob, Margaret and Mrs. Yengling.

Of this family Levi was born in Maryland June 22, 1799, and was a youth when brought to Carroll County. He married Lydia Clark, who was bora in Columbiana County, Ohio, September 13, 1799. They were married in Columbiana County and during 1820 moved to Carroll County and settled in Brown Township. A portion of their farm is still owned by their son Richard Brothers. This land had been entered by Richard Yaughn, grandfather of Lydia Clark, who was the daughter of George and Anna (Vaughn) Clark. A great-grandson of George Clark, Henry Clark, now owns the old homestead. Levi Brothers and wife were the parents of thirteen children, and those to reach mature years were George, Joseph, Lydia, Stephen, John, Austin, Fannie and Richard. Three of the sons, Austin, John and Stephen, were soldiers in the Civil war, all were wounded in battle. John being shot through the chest and Austin through the mouth. These soldier brothers are still living except Stephen, the oldest of the family, who died about 1908.

Richard Brothers, father of Robert Brothers, was bora in Brown Township of Carroll County September 13, 1840, and has spent his life of practically fourscore years in that same community. He attended common schools and select schools at Minerva, and after his education turned his attention to farming. At one time he owned a hundred acres of the old homestead, and still retains fifteen acres. In March, 1920, he moved to Minerva, and is now living retired. He is a democrat, but the only office in which he has consented to serve has been as a member of the school board.

of William Woods. The Woods family were pioneers near Waynesburg in Brown Township, and other references to the family are made on other pages. Richard Brothers and wife lived to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, and she died November 26, 1919. To their marriage were born seven children: Frank W., Levi C.,

Robert Brothers, who is a member of the fourth generation of the family in Carroll County, was born in Brown Township August 3, 1873, and spent his youth in the environment of the old homestead. He attended district school there, later completed a course in the Ohio Normal University at Ada, and for two years was a successful teacher. In 1893 he began railroading with the Pennsylvania system at Cleveland, where he remained about five years. In 1899 he returned to Carroll County and was elected and served one term asjpounty auditor. After retiring from office with a creditable record he engaged in the hardware business for two years at Carrollton, but for the past seven years has given all his time to his duties as freight agent.

February 26, 1907, he married Miss Gertrude Sterling, who was born at Carrollton, July 6, 1873, daughter of Milton C. and Jane Elizabeth (Atkinson) Sterling. Her father was bora at Carrollton in 1843 and died in 1897. Her mother was born at Carrollton in 1846 and died in 1903, being a daughter of Isaac Atkinson, a relative of the Isaac Atkinson whom history calls the father of Carroll County. Milton Sterling was a son of Samuel Sterling, and this family is also represented elsewhere. Milton Sterling was reared and educated at Carrollton, worked In the Sterling drug store and was in business for himself many years, and since his death the business has been continued by his daughters, Mrs. Frank Ebersole and Mrs. Robert Brothers. This is the oldest drug store in the county. Mr. Sterling was a republican and a member of the Methodist Church. He and his wife were survived by two daughters, Fredalina, who graduated from the Carrollton High School in 1890, and was a successful teacher for seven years, until her marriage to Mr. Frank Ebersole. The other daughter, Gertrude, who became Mrs. Brothers, was also educated in the Carrollton High School.

Emmett A. Taylor, cashier of the Freeport State Bank, Is one of the reliable financiers of Harrison County, and a man who stands very high in public confidence. He was born In Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, August 24, 1865, a son of James and Louise (Thompson) Taylor, and grandson of William and Margaret (Gillespie) Taylor.

James Taylor was bora in Belmont County, and his wife was bora in Morgan County, Ohio, she being a daughter of Samuel Thompson. On her mother's side she is descended from the Dunn family of Morgan County. James Taylor was a farmer of Wheeling Township, Belmont County, for a number of years. The children born to him and his wife were as follows: Em-

Emmett A. Taylor was reared on his father's farm in Wheeling Township, and he acquired his educational training in the schools of his neighborhood. After he reached his majority he began farming, but was not content to remain in the rural districts, and so In 1903, left the farm and went to Cambridge, Ohio, where he was welghmaster and pay roll clerk for the Forsythe Coal Company for eight years. Leaving that concern, he became shipping clerk for the Hoyle & Scott Lumber Company, and held that position for three years. The last three years he lived at Cambridge he was manager of the Cambridge Ice & Storage Company and of the Guernsey Creamery Company, the two latter companies being owned by W. C. Brown of Columbus, Ohio. In October, 1918, Mr. Taylor came to Freeport to accept the position of cashier of the Freeport State Bank, and since then has continued to discharge its duties.

On May 17, 1809, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage with R. Nelle Coleman, a daughter of Joseph and Eliza Coleman, and they have one daughter, Audrey L. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Presbyterian Church and earnest in their support of the church. Mr. Taylor is a member of Freeport Lodge No. 415, F. & A. M., and Uhrichsville Chapter No. 114, R. A. M. He is a man who has steadily won his way in life through his fidelity and uprightness, and he holds the confidence not only of those who are closest to him, but all with whom he is brought into contact.

Wilmer C. Edwards is the owner of a fine farm of 108 acres in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, a property which he purchased in 1918. and he also owns twenty-three acres in Athens Township. He is proving himself one of the vigorous and resourceful exemplars of agricultural Industry in his native county and Is a representative of a family that was founded in the Buckeye State in the pioneer epoch of its history. Ignatius Edwtards, his great-grandfather, was born and reared in Pennsylvania and came with his family to Ohio in the early part of the eighteenth century and established a home in Belmont County. His son, Henry Edwards, was reared to manhood in Belmont County, and as a young man was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Schatzer, with whom he finally established his home at Charlestown, a little village in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of shoemaker, and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Their children were six in number - John, Ignatius, Henry, Jr., Rachel, Martha and Jane. The father not only followed his trade but also engaged in farming in Cadiz Township, an unassuming, reliable citizen of sterling character.

Henry Edwards, Jr., father of Wilmer C., of this review, was bom in Belmont County, April 30, 1842. When he came to Harrison County he first settled in Athens Township, but the year 1881 established himself upon a farm in Cadiz Township, where he remained until his death in 1801, his venerable widow still remaining on the old homestead at the time of this writing, in the spring of 1920, and being a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, as was he also. Mrs. Edwards, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Deyarmon, was bora in Jefferson County, Ohio, November 24, 1844, and is a daughter of David and Sarah (Paxton) Deyarmon, early settlers in that county. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards became the parents of four children who attained to years of maturity, and of the number Wilmer C., of this review, is the youngest; Lorena Bell, now deceased, became the wife of Edward Philpott and is survived by three children - Craig, Flora Bell and Mary; Alice, the second child, remains with her widowed mother on the old homestead; Lizzie Catherine, deceased wife of Charles Hagadorn, became the mother of three children - Harold, Raymond and Donald.

Wilmer C. Edwards was bora in Athens Township, Harrison County, December 18* 1879, and his early educational discipline was obtained mainly in the Science Hill School in Short Creek Township. He has been continuously associated with farming enterprise from the time of his early youth, and came into possession of his present excellent home farm in 1918, as previously noted in this sketch. He is one of the progressive farmers and stock-growers of the younger generation In Cadiz Township, and he and his wife have a host of loyal friends in their native county, both being members bf the Methodist Episcopal Church and his political allegiance being given to the republican party.

In 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Edwards to Miss Clara Warren, eldest daughter of James and Elizabeth Warren, of Cadiz Township, and they have a winsome little daughter, Leone, who holds gracious sovereignty in the attractive family home.

Charles F. Barnes has been continuously engaged in school work since 1894 and has been a popular and successful force in connection with educational affairs In his native county. He is now superintendent of public schools for a district comprising six townships in the northeastern part of Harrison County, Including the village schools at Scio, where he maintains his residence.

Mr. Barnes was bora in Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, on the 10th of March, 1869, and is a son of John G. and Ada J (Figley) Barnes, the former of whom was born on Belmont Ridge, Harrison County, on September 18, 1840, and died on April 22, 1873, and the latter was bora in Moorefleld Township, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Guthrie) Figley. Joseph Figley was one of the representative farmers of Harrison County for many years, and his father, Adam Figley, was one of the sterling pioneer settlers of the county. Joseph Figley and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of three children: Ada J., Thomas J., and Robert Marion, and two sons, who died young. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Richard and Susannah (Dorcy) Barnes. Richard H. Barnes was born September 6, 1827, in Prince William County, Virginia, and was a young man when he came to Ohio, where he became a pioneer in the work of his trade, that of cabinet-maker, and where he was called upon to manufacture many coffins for deceased citizens in the early days. He and his wife held the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and they were honored pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of their deaths. Their children were six in number - John G., William G., Emmaline, Mary A., James M. and Adaline, all deceased except Adaline, who married S. M. Bendure, and resides at Moorefleld, Ohio.

John G. Barnes was reared in Harrison County and here was a student in Hopedale College at the time when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation.. His youthful patriotism caused him promptly to abandon his college work and to tender his aid in defense of the Union. He enlisted on August 14, 1862 in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he took part in many important engagements marking the progress of the great conflict, and he continued in active service at the front for nearly three years, within which time he won promotion to the rank of sergeant He was wounded in the knee at the battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864. He was honorably discharged on June 25, 1866, and was mustered out at Washington, D. C. After his discharge he returned home, and after a due course of effective technical and practical discipline he became a skilled architect. He continued in the active work of his profession during the remainder of his life and was about thirty-three years of age at the time of his death. His venerable widow, now in her seventy-fourth year, resides at Scio, where she and her two sons established their home in 1890. She is a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, as was also her husband, and at one time they held membership in the Nottingham Church of this denomination in Nottingham Township, Harrison County. Of the two children Charles F., of this sketch, is the elder, and the younger son, Frederick M., is now a resident of Rossville, Illinois.

The district schools of Harrison and Belmont counties afforded Charles F. Barnes his preliminary educational discipline, and in 1890 he and his mother and brother established their home at Scio, where he forthwith entered Scio College. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1904, with the degree of Ph.B. In 1888 Mr. Barnes taught his first term of district school in Moorefleld Township, and thus made a modest entry into the pedagogic profession, in which he has since achieved marked success and high reputation. He has been continuously identified with educational work since 1894. In September, 1809, he became a grade teacher in the public schools at Scio, where later he became principal of the high school. His effective service later brought him promotion to the positfon of superintendent of the Scio schools, and since 1914 he has served as district superintendent of schools, for six townships of his native county, as noted in the opening paragraph of this article. In this connection he has manifested excellent executive and administrative ability in addition to his well won pedagogic talent, and with the earnest co-operations of the teachers and patrons of the schools of his jurisdiction he has brought them up to a high standard of modern efficiency. He and his wife are numbered among the most zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at Scio, and he has served several years as an elder of the same. His well fortified political convictions are shown In the loyal allegiance which he accords to the democratic party, and he is affiliated with the local lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Scio.

On the 1st of January, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Barnes to Miss Alice B. Robinson, who was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, and who is a daughter of Elijah and Sarah (Freshwater) Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes became the parents of five children - Beatrice L., Bernice V., Thelma G., Edward Everett and Virginia Louise, the last named having died at the age of eleven months. Beatrice L. is now the wife of W. Eugene Masters, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of his profession at Boyerston, Harrison County, and they have one child, Helen Louise.

William A. Zellabs, M. D. Since 1892 Dr. William A. Zellars has lent dignity and stability to professional affairs at Freeport, while maintaining a high professional reputation and participating actively in the life of his adopted community. He is a native of West Lafayette, Coshocton County, Ohio, born April 30, 1886, a son of Michael and Melona (Roderick) Zellars.

The paternal grandfather of Doctor Zellars, John Zellars, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, whence he removed at an early day to Coshocton County, Ohio, and there followed the trade of blacksmith during the remainder of his life. He and his wife, Catherine, were the parents of two children: Michael and Daniel. Michael Zellars was born in Coshocton County, and during a long and honorable career followed the pursuits of farming, contracting and building, and died, highly esteemed, in 1903. He married Melona Roderick, a daughter of Absalom and Margaret (Barcroft) Roderick, the former a native of Virginia who married and moved to Coshocton County and there rounded out a worthy career In the pursuits of agriculture. He and his wife had seven children: James, Absalom, Jr., William A., Iva, Elizabeth, Ellen and Melona. Mrs. Zellars died in 1893, in the faith of the Methodist Church, of which her husband had been a member also. Their six children were as follows: Kemuel, who lives at Coshocton; Ellen, the wife of Charles Bagnell, of Williamsburg, Virginia; Loretta, the wife of C. H. Williams, of Coshocton; Rachael, the wife of Dr. D. M. Criswell, of Plainfield, Ohio; Dr. William A.; and Jessie, of Logansport, Indiana.

William A. Zellars graduated from West Lafayette High School, following which he pursued a course of two years at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, and then took up his medical studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland. Graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in 1891, he located at Washington, Ohio, for a short time, and in 1892 came to Freeport, where he has since been in the enjoyment of a constantly increasing and lucrative practice. He is a broad-minded and progressive prac- titioner, a careful observer of the courtesies and amenities of his profession and at all times a seeker of its most intelligent and praiseworthy compensations. He maintains membership in the Harrison County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, and as a fraternalist belongs to the Masonic Blue Lodge at Freeport and the Royal Arch Chapter at Uhrichsville. With his family he belongs to the Methodist Church. Doctor Zellars has several business connections and is vice president of the Freeport State Bank.

On January 31, 1894, Doctor Zellars was united in marriage with Miss Mary Craig, of Washington, Ohio, daughter of John and Mary Craig. Mrs. Zellars died in 1909, having been the mother of two children : Virginia and Robert, the latter of whom died in infancy.

Thomas J. Saltsman. Bankers represent composite business more definitely than any other one class of workers in any community, and their attitude is incidentally potent in the formulation and direction of public opinion, even as their ability and character have influence in the stabilizing and protecting commercial and industrial affairs and community interests in general. The fine little city of Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, is fortunate in having as one of its leading figures in the control of financial interests of broad scope and importance a man of such sterling worth and such well proved initiative and executive ability as Mr. Saltsman, who has gained through his own ability and achievement a high reputation as a financier and who is president of the Cummings Trust Company, one of the strong financial institutions of this part of the Buckeye State.

Mr. Saltsman was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, March 20, 1859, and the place of his nativity was a farm situated in the vicinity of the village of Tunnel Hill. He is a son of John K. and Jane Saltsman, the former of whom died in 1911 and the latter in 1916. Mr. Saltsman was six years old when his parents came to Carroll County and established their home on a farm near Mechanicstown. but two years later the family removed to West Salem. Wayne County. Thomas J. Saltsman acquired his early education in the public schools of his native state, and after the removal of the family to Wayne County he remained with his parents until August 23, 1875, when he came to Harlem Springs, Carroll County, where he took a clerical position in the general merchandise store of John Richards and Joseph Peterson. He thus continued to be associated with this firm for nine years and seven months, and after Mr. Peterson purchased the interest of Mr. Richards he admitted Mr. Saltsman to partnership in the business, which was thereafter continued under the firm name of Peterson & Saltsman until the junior member sold his interest and in February, 1885, returned to West Salem, Wayne County. After there holding a clerical position for eighteen months he came to Carrollton, where for the ensuing two years and ten months he was employed in the retail mercantile establishment of Kerns & Friedler. On the 1st of July, 1889, he initiated what has proved a signally successful and influential career in connection with banking enterprise, for on that date he took a position in the bank of James P. Cummings, an institution from which has been developed the present Cummings Trust Company, of wWch Mr. Saltsman is the president. This mere statement vouches for the exceptional ability that has been shown by Mr. Saltsman, for his advancement to his present important official position was won through effective service and through his admirable grasp of all executive details of the banking business. He has made a close study of economic and financial matters and has become a recognized authority in his chosen field of enterprise, which he has dignified alike by his sterling attributes of character and by his high sense of personal stewardship in safeguarding the interests of the community at large. He maintains duly conservative policies in his banking institution, but not at the sacrifice of the progressive methods that are demanded with over changing conditions. His success and prestige have been won through his own ability and efforts and no citizen commands a fuller measure of popular confidence and esteem. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city.

On March 30, 1886, Mr. Saltsman married Miss Jennie M. Taylor, at Harlem Springs, Ohio. Their five children are: Nellie, a teacher in tne public schools ; Olive, also a teacher in the home schools; William T., now assistant treasurer of the Savings Department of the Cummings Trust Company; and Isaac and Richard, twins who are now in their second year at Mount Union College and are making good as students.

Walter O. DeFord. A prominent, prosperous and highly esteemed citizen of Carrollton, Carroll County, Ohio, Walter O. DeFord was for many years intimately associated with the promotion of the financial and material prosperity of his home city, and having accomplished a satisfactory work is now living retired from active pursuits, devoting his time and energies to his personal affairs. A native of Carroll County, he was born December 8, 1874, in Augusta Township, of Huguenot ancestry, being a lineal descendant of one Jean DeFord. the immigrant, the line of descent being thus traced : Jean, John, John, William, John W., and Walter O.

In 1685, on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV, Jean DeFord, accompanied by his bride, Marie (Marchand) DeFord, fled from Toulouse, France, and later, in 1686 or 1687, came to America, settling in Kent County, Maryland, where all of their children, thirteen sons and one daughter, were born. From these sons all of the DeFords of this county are descended. The daughter became the wife of a Mr. Merchant, of Philadelphia. The old Huguenot family Bible brought from France by the immigrant ancestor, who inscribed therein the names of himself and family, is now in the possession of William DeFord of Baltimore, Maryland, a second cousin of the subject of this sketch.

John DeFord, a native of Kent County, Maryland, served as an officer in the Revolutionary war. Through the depreciation of continental money he lost his entire fortune, and subse- quently migrated to Pennsylvania, settling in Fayette County, then a part of Westmoreland County; He became owner of a mill near Red Stone Creek, and was accidentally killed while carrying, on horseback, a grist across the creek. He was married, and was the father of two sons, John and Merchant.

John DeFord, a native of Kent County, Maryland, was a lad of eighteen years when his parents settled in Pennsylvania. Coming to Carroll County, Ohio, in 1811, he entered a tract of land, and then returned to Pennsylvania. He made several other entries of land in Ohio, tne last entry having been made in 1826, when he had title to 900 acres. For full forty years he was a hotel keeper in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, at the foot of Laurel Hill, near Hopgood, which was named in honor of his wife's father. Coming from there to Carroll County, Ohio, in 1812, he settled in Washington Township, where he continued his residence until his death, December 25, 1873, at the remarkable age of one hundred and two years. He was a democrat in politics, and a member of the Protestant Church.

John DeFord was twice married. He married first, in 1799, Mary Hopgood, a daughter of Rev. John Hopgood, a Baptist minister of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She died in 1815, leaving six children, Hannah, John, William, Mrs. Harriet Broomfield, of Keen, Elizabeth and Daniel. He married for his second wife Lydia Broomfield, a native of Pennsylvania. She died in 1838, leaving one son, who settled in Kansas City, Missouri.

William DeFord was born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1807, and was there educated, attending first the public schools and later Madison College, of which Rev. Henry B. Ba scorn was then president. In 1822 he visited friends in Wooster, Ohio, and in 1835 came here to stay. Settling on a farm in Carroll County, he carried on general farming most successfully for many years. He was a democrat in politics until 1861, but after that time was an active worker in the republican ranks. During the Civil war he assisted in raising troops, and in 1863 was elected as a representative from Carroll County to the State Legislature, serving with such ability that he was re-elected to the same high position in 1867. He served for several terms as a justice of the peace. Religiously he was a member of the Protestant Methodist Church. He married in 1838 Mary D. Williams, who was born in New Jersey in 1801, and died September 10, 1875, in Carroll County, Ohio. Two sons were born of their union, as follows: Nathan, a merchant and miller, who settled near Rochester, Ohio; and John W.

John W. DeFord was born on the home farm in Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio, May 29, 1840. He received excellent educational advantages in the days of his youth, and was well drilled in the various branches of agriculture. Inheriting from his father 160 acres of land in Washington Township and 100 acres in Augusta Township, he carried on general farming with highly gratifying results for many years, making his home in the meantime in Augusta Township. Coming to Carroll County on February 22, 1916, he made his home with his son Walter O. DeFord until his death, which occurred April 26, 1916. He was independent In politics, voting for the best men and measures, and attended the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife was a member. He married Elvira Croxton, who was born January 18, 1838. Her father, William Croxton, was born at Croxton's Run in West Virginia in 1800 and died in 1888. William Croxton married Jane McGee on April 12, 1827. She was bora in Amsterdam, Ohio, September 16, 1808, and died in 1845. Of the Croxton family there were nine children, four daughters and five sons. The Croxtons came to Ohio from West Virginia in 1812 and located on what is known as the Simpson Harvey farm near Carrollton. William Croxton, who spent his last years in Kansas, was a stanch republican, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. John W. DeFord had two children, Union C. and Walter O.

Union C. DeFord was born and bred in Carroll County, Ohio. Being admitted in early life to the Ohio bar, he acquired an enviable reputation as a lawyer, and for a number of terms served as probate judge of Carroll County. Going to Lisbon, Ohio, in 1903, he remained there three years, and then moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where as junior member of the firm of Harrington & DeFord he was attorney for the Heim & Osborne Corporation. His first wife, whose maiden name was Eva R. Rice, died in early womanhood, leaving one son, John W. De- Ford. He married for his second wife Grace M. Whitcraft, a daughter of Henry Whitcraft, and they have one child, Sarah W. DeFord. Henry Whitcraft, one time mayor, organized the J. P. Cummings Bank Company and the First National Bank, which in 1900 were consolidated under the name of the Cummings Trust Company. He was prominent in Masonry, belonging to Lodge, Comma ndery and Shrine.

Walter O. DeFord was brought up on the home farm and acquired his rudimentary education in the rural schools of his native township, later completing his early studies at the State Normal School in Ada. He was subsequently telegraph operator at Malvern on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad for awhile and afterward accepted a position in the office of his brother, judge of probate, at Carrollton, where he also became one of the original members of the Carrollton Band, of which very few are now living. In 1900 Mr. DeFord was made assistant cashier of the First National Bank, which on June 1, 1906, was merged into the Cummings Trust Company. In 1911 he formed partnership with Dr. Miller of the R. E. Miller Motor Car Company, and they had the first agency for the Ford and Dodge cars. In September, 1916, the partnership was dissolved and Mr. DeFord retired. Accepting the position of assistant secretary of that organization he held it until June 1, 1916, when he retired from active business.

Mr. DeFord has acquired property of much value, owning the old John M. Thompson residence. and with his brother having title to the parental homestead and to 640 acres of land In Butler County, Kansas. He invariably supports the principles of the republican party by voice and vote, but has never been an aspirant for official honors. He is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs to the Shrine. He is not affiliated with any religious organization, hut his wife and children attend the Lutheran Church.

On October 14, 1903, Walter O. DeFord was united in marriage with Clara L. Byder, of Carrollton, Ohio, a daughter of John G. and Margaret (Buck) Byder, neither of whom are now living, Mrs. Byder' s death having occurred in October, 1901, and Mr. Byder's, April 25, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. DeFord have two children, Ethel P., horn December 6, 1904; and Deane C., born June 4, 1906.

Griffith Lemmon passed his entire life in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, became one of the substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of his native township, and was a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the county, where his father settled in the early days and reclaimed a productive farm in Short Creek Township. The father, who likewise bore the personal name of Griffith, was born In Ireland, and was one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death. Both he and his wife were members of the old Scotch Seceders Church, which in Ameria has been developed into the United Presbyterian Church. His children were six in number - William, James, Mary, Fannie, Jane and Griffith, Jr.

Griffith Lemmon, Jr., was born In Short Creek Township on the 26th of November, 1829, and on his fine old home farm in this township he remained from his young manhood until his death, which occurred June 25, 1908. His wife passed away September 4, 1905, and both had been zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.

As a young man Mr. Lemmon wedded Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Pogue, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on the 3d of July, 1830, a daughter of George and Nancy Pogue, who were residents of Harrison County, Ohio, at the time of their death. Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon became the parents of seven children, and their lives were earnest, faithful and unassuming, marked by Christian faith exemplified in their daily walk and by the kindliness and tolerance which ever beget popular confidence and esteem. Of the children the eldest was Robert P., who was born September 15, l$fo7, and whose death occurred September 2, 1910; Virginia, who was born May 27, 1859, is the wife of Isaac P. Lewis; Mary B., who was born July 1, 1861, is the wife of Thomas F. Mitchell; Ruth A., who was born July 3, 1863, is the wife of John H. Siebert; Ida R., who was born April 3, 1866, is the wife of Charles D. Martin; Alma Viola, who was bom January 20, 1869, is the wife of Robert M. Francis, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume; George G. was bora April 9, 1873, is a farmer in Smithfleld Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and the maiden name of his wife was Mabel Nailer.

Robert M. Francis is one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers who are gaining maximum returns from the fine farm lands of Harrison County. He is a sterling citizen of Short Creek township, where he has a well-improved farm of 153 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of excellent types of live stock, with special attention given to the breeding of Percheron horses, Jersey cattle and Chester White swine. He is liberal and progressive as a citizen and man of affairs, is a republican In politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at Harrisville.

Mr. Francis was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 20th of April, 1862, and is a son of Robert and Catherine (Sutherland) Francis, both likewise natives of that county, where the respective families settled in the* pioneer days. Walter and Martha (Finney) Francis, paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, were pioneers of Smithfleld Township, Jefferson County, where they developed a productive farm, the old homestead having been the birthplace of their nine children - William, Martha, John, James, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Joseph and Margaret. Robert Francis passed his entire life in Jefferson County, where he owned a valuable farm of 174 acres and where he gained special prominence in the raising of fine wool sheep. Both he and his wife were well advanced in years at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of a fine family of twelve children, namely : Mary Elizabeth, Martha, Anna, David, Selina, Esther, Adaline, Kate, William, Robert M., Ross and Minnie.

Robert M. Francis gained his youthful education in the public schools of his native county, and there, in Smithfleld Township, he initiated his independent activities as a farmer. There he continued operations until 1903, when he removed to the village of Adena, that county, where for the following six years he was engaged in the real estate and building business. He then, in 1910, removed to the farm which is now his place of residence, and here unqualified success has attended bis vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. His first wife, Ella, was a daughter of Hamilton Kerr, of Harrison County, and she died in 1902, leaving no children.

In the year 1905 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Francis to Miss Alma Viola Lemmon, daughter of the late Griffith Lemmon, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Francis have two children - Elizabeth Rebecca, bora December 24, 1908; and Robert Floyd, born February 13, 1910.

Frederick C. Harbah. The Harrahs are a pioneer Harrison County family, Frederick o. Harrah having been born at the same farmstead as his father, February 10, 1874, and he has always lived there. The Harrahs live in Green Township, the father, Leslie Harrah, dying there February 15, 1901. He married Susannah F. Mansfield, who is still living, aged seventyone years, with her son. There is a previous record of the family in an old history.

Frederick C. Harrah supplemented his common school education by attending Sclo College from 1893 to 1896, and as a young man he began farming where he has always lived, combining the livestock business with agriculture. On August 30, 1906, Mr. Harrah married Lena

Carroll And Harrison Countties

Florents E. Hoff ee has effectively proved his executive and administrative ability during his incumbency of the position of cashier of the Minerva Savings & Trust Company at its Malvern office in Malvern, Carroll County, and is one of the prominent and popular representatives of financial enterprise in his native county.

Mr. Hoffee was born in Rose Township, Carroll County, on the 11th of March, 1863, and is a son of Simon and Catharine (Sheraw) Hoffee, the former of whom was born in Shelby County, Ohio, April 12, 1828, and the latter of whom was born in Carroll County in 1832, a daughter of Sebastian and Elizabeth (Myers) Sheraw, who established their home in Rose Township about the year 1830 and who here passed the remainder of their lives. Simon Hoffee was about six years of age when in 1834 his parents came to Carroll County and established their home on a pioneer farm in Rose Township, which continued to be their place of residence during the remainder of their lives.

Simon Hoffee was reared on the old home farm in Rose Township and received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. In his youth he learned the trade of shoemaker, but the major port of his active career was given to farm enterprise in Rose Township. He was a man of energy and marked business acumen, was successful in his farm enterprise, was an active and loyal advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and both he and his wife were communicants of the Catholic Church. He passed away on the 11th of November, 1915, as one of the representative pioneer citizens of the county, and his widow entered into eternal rest on the 21st of April, 1916. They became the parents of seven children, S'ylvanus, Margaret, William, Florents E., Franklin H., Urban L. and John E. Margaret, William and Franklin H. are deceased.

He whose name initiates this review gained his earlier graded school in the village of Magnolia. Later he attended the Ohio State Normal School at East Sparta, and thereafter he continued his studies for some time in Mount Union College. For eight years he was a successful and popular teacher in the public schools, principally in Carroll County, and he then engaged in the clothing and shoe business at Malvern, where he developed a prosperous enterprise that continued to engage his attention for a period of eighteen years. Since January, 1909. he has held the office of cashier of the Minerva Savings & Trust Company at its Malvern office, and he has wielded much influence in the upbuilding of the substantial and important business of this representative financial institution. In the mercantile business he was associated with George W. Hemming and R. P. Hemming, and in 1903 they erected a substantial brick building, fortyfour by seventy-two feet in dimensions and threestories in height, which is known as the Hoffee

A Hemming block and in which they established their well equipped store, this being one of the best business blocks in the village, and one of the best and most patronized stores on Sandy Valley.

The democratic party receives the unqualified allegiance of Mr. Hoffee, but the only public offices he has consented to hold are those of treasurer of the village of Malvern, member of the village council and member of the board of education. Hie and his family are communicants of the Catholic Church.

In September, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hoffee to Miss Emma Remmie, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of George and Adaline (Perola) Remmie, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffee have three children - Lela who continued her studies in the public schools until she had completed a course in the Malvern High School and is now her father's able assistant in the banking office; Mabel, likewise profited by the advantages of the local high school and remains at the parental home, as does also Raymond, who is still attending school at the time of this writing, In 1920.

Morris Charms. Born and bred in a faroff eastern country of Europe, Morris Charms, of Carrollton, came to America a short time before attaining his majority, and in the years that have since elapsed has fully demonstrated his respect for American ways, methods and institutions, and has acquired an honored position among the loyal and valued citizens of Ohio. He 'is a self-made man in every sense implied by the term, and a brief record of his life may furnish to the rising generation a forcible example of the material success to be obtained by persevering industry and thrift. He was born September 15, 1885, in Russia, where he received his preliminary education.

Immigrating to the United States in 1905, Mr. Charms located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended night schools, acquiring an excellent knowledge of the English language, and during the day he became familiar with .various branches of industry. Coming from that city to Carrollton on February 14, 1911, he embarked in mercantile pursuits as a dealer in shoes and men's furnishing goods, his store being located on Main Street. Energetic, enterprising and progressive, Mr. Charms met with success from the start, having become owner not only of the substantial building, 28 by 130 feet, in which his business is located, but of one of the finest residences in Carrollton. A man of pleasing address, courteous and genial in manner, he has made friends with all classes of people, r.nd as he has the distinction of being the only Jew in the city his popularity was plainly shown when he raised, without difficulty, the tidy sum of $1,100.00 for the Jewish Relief Fund. He speaks seven different languages and has assisted greatly as interpreter, giving his services freely.

Mr. Charms married in February, 1912, Rebecca Comp, of Cleveland, and they are the parents of two children: Eleanor, born December 25, 1915; and Gladys, born February 28, 1919. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Charms are valued members of the Jewish Church. Frater- nally Mr. Charms is a member of Carroll Lodge No. 124, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Carrollton; of the Order of Knights of Joseph; of Benedict Spinoza Lodge No. 92, of Cleveland, Ohio, and also of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Judge John Bbough Worley. But few, if any, of the native born sons of Harrison County in the present generation have attained a greater prominence in their chosen fields of endeavor or have gained greater personal popularity as a man and citizen than has Judge John B. Worley, lawyer and jurist of Cadiz, and judge of the Common Pleas Court of Harrison County. He is in the third generation of his family in this county - a family which has had part in the annals of the county for over a hundred years.

The pioneer of the family in Harrison County was Thomas Worley, grandfather to* the present generation, who came into Ohio from Pennsylvania at the beginning of the nineteenth century and settled on his own land in Athens Township in 1809. He was a charter member of the Dickerson Methodist Episcopal Church which was one of the pioneer churches of the county and which is still in existence. He had four sons and six daughters, the sons having been Thomas, David, Daniel and James, all of whom are deceased.

Daniel Worley, third son of Thomas, the pioneer, was born on the old Worley homestead in Athens Township in 1812, and died on the same farm in 1887. Before the building of railroads in Harrison County he frequently made trips by wagon to Baltimore, Maryland, hauling local products to the city markets and returning with merchandise for the local stores. His return from the east over the National pike, driving a six-horse team hitched to a wagon laden with needed goods and supplies, was an event in the community. The round trip in those early days required approximately six weeks; the same trip at the present time can be made easily with an automobile in four days. Daniel married for his first wife Sarah Peregoy, who bore him three daughters. Temperance, Mary and Sarah. For his second wife he married Mary Goodwdn, who was born in Short Creek Township, this county. In 1826, of Quaker parents, and died in 1903. She was the daughter of Jesse Goodwin, a pioneer of Short Creek Township. To the second marriage were bom the following children : William S., Jesse A., Emory L., Martha M., Emma L. (deceased), John B., Flora Alice and Lafayett B.

Judge John B. Worley, son of Daniel and Mary (Goodwin) Worley, was born in Athens Township on February 4, 1863. As a boy he attended the district schools during winter and helped with the work on his father's farm In summertime. He was graduated from Franklin College with the class of 1888, spent three years in reading law under able preceptors, and was admitted to the bar in 1891. He entered the practice of law at Zanesville, Ohio, but a year later opened an office in Cadiz, and from that time on, with the exception of the time he has spent on the bench, he has continued in active practice In this city. He soon demonstrated his ability as an able attorney and took rank with the leaders of the bar. His ability as a lawyer and his personality as a man won him the esteem and confidence of the community to such a degree that it followed as a natural consequence that he should be called upon to enter the domain of public affairs. He served one term as mayor of Cadiz (1896-98) and then was elected Probate judge (1899-06). After serving two terms on the bench he retired in February, 1906, to private practice. In 1912 he was elected Common Pleas judge in the Eighth Judicial District, and in 1918 was elected Common Pleas judge for Harrison County under the law providing a Common Pleas judge for each county, and he is still presiding over that court.

At the time of the change in the judicial districts by constitutional amendment giving each county in Ohio at least one Common Pleas judge, it was also provided for the creation of the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court, who should have general supervision of the courts of the state, with power to call upon local judges to render service outside of their own jurisdiction. Under this system the chief justice has frequently called upon Judge Worley to render judicial service in many of the larger counties of the state, at different times assigning him especially to cases of more than ordinary importance, and during the last few years Judge Worley has presided on the bench at Cleveland, Akron, Elyria, Newark and other large cities.

From the time of the entrance of the United States into war with Germany and until the armistice was signed Judge Worley was very active in local World war work, and he probably rendered a greater amount of official and personal service than did any other one man in Harrison County. Even before this country had entered the war he was outspoken in his belief that the United States should go to the assistance of the allies, and advocated a declaration of war against Germany long before war was declared. He presided at the first war meeting and by virtue of his official position he recommended for appointment the members of the county Draft Board. He was chairman of the executive committee of the County Red Cross Chapter, was chairman of the local Advisory Board, was chairman of the County War Organization, and was chairman of the last four Liberty Loan campaigns.

In 1896 Judge Worley was united in marriage with Auta A. Groves, daughter of John F. and Levina Groves, of Belmont County, Ohio. Mrs. Worley taught in the public schools of Urichville, Ohio, for eight years before marriage. During her life In Cadiz she has been active in all community welfare work. To Judge and Mrs. Worley have been born a son and daughter - John G. and Mary Kathryn. John G., a graduate of Princeton College, class of 1920, was in training at Camp Sherman at the time the World war came to a close with the signing of the armistice. Mary K. was graduated from Maryland College for Wromen with the class of 1920. Judge Worley and family are members of the Cadiz United Presbyterian Church, of which church the judge has served as elder.

Isaiah Lam born (Lambobn Brothers). The late Isaiah La inborn and his wife, of Green Township, are commemorated in the annals of the community by Lamborn Brothers, the two sons who are in active management of the La inborn estate in Harrison County. The mother died February 21, 1908, and the father July 17, three years later. Isaiah Lamborn was bom November 16, 1856, and died while yet comparatively a young man.

Isaiah Lamborn was a son of Thomas Lamborn, of Chester County. Pennsylvania. His mother was Mary (Hayes) Lamborn. of the same community. Thomas Lamborn was a Pennsylvania farmer, but in the early '80s lie removed from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Cayuga County, New York, thence to Woodson County, Kansas. For a few years he followed farming and then engaged in the hardware business there. The children of that generation are: Israel, Isaiah, Joseph, Charles and Mary. The Lamborns were members of the Friends Church, Pennsylvania having been the scene of the activities of William Penn in colonial history.

As a young man Isaiah Lamborn begun farming in Cayuga County. New York, but in 1876 he removed to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio. In 1882 he removed to Belmont, where he remained twelve years. In 1,893 he came to the farm of a little more than a quarter section in Green Township, where he and his wife died later. His wife was Anna, a daughter of David and Amy (Smith) Hall. Their children are: Howard H. : Amy P. ; Mary, wife of George Stringer, of Hopedale: Alice, wife of Harry Blaney, of Ellen Grove, West Virginia; Edith, wife of Adam Dunlap: and Chester Earl, who married Bessie B. Elliott, and they have a daughter, Maxine Annahelle. and a son, Robert Earl. A brother, Charles, died in 1906. Since the death of the father and mother, Howa rd H. and Chester E. Lamborn have farmed the homestead. In 1912 they started a fruit farm, planting an orchard of 200 peach trees, seventyfive apple trees and a dozen pear trees, and in 1921 they planted 200 apple and 300 pencil trees.

John M. Garvin. The late John M. Garvin, of Cadiz, passed his entire life in Harrison County, became one of its strongest members of the bar. was a safe counsellor, a strong advocate before courts and juries, and continued his active practice of the law at Cadiz, the county seat, until the time of his death, which occurred July 4. 1897. He was a man of sterling character and was influential in the affairs of his county and community, and in addition to building up a large and lucrative law practice he served two terms as prosecuting attorney of his county and one appointed term in that office. He also served two terms as clerk of courts at the time he was studying law. He was a leader among men, was foremost in the organization of the Farmers and Mechanics National Rank of Cadiz, Ohio, of several building and loau associations, and was prominently mentioned for state and district offices, but consistently and persistently refused to suffer his name to be used for any office outside of his own native county of Harrison. He was one of the most forceful and resourceful trial lawyers at the bar.

Mr. Garvin was born at New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio, on the 16th day of May, 1845, and was a son of Daniel and Catharine Davis Garvin, his father having been an early settler at New Athens, where he long continued *n business as the village blacksmith (also farming some). and both he and his wife continued their residence in Harrison County until their deaths. Both were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven children: Davis, Mary, Nancy, Rebecca. John M., James and Margaret.

The subject of this memoir acquired his early education in the public schools of his native village and in a course at Franklin College, located in New Athens, Ohio, and from 1862 to 1870. saving the time he was a soldier in the Civil war, turned his attention to teaching in the common schools of the county and in the Cadiz High Schools. He early formulated plans for his future career, and in consequence therewith read law in the law office of Hon. David Cunningham of Cadiz. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and thereafter continued in the practice of law until his death, his life having been guided and governed by the highest principles of justice, and his profession having been honored by his worthy achievements therein. He was a republican in politics, and held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as does his widow also.

On June 14. 1862. he enlisted as a private In Company C of the One Hundred and Twenty- Sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry to serve three years during the Civil war, and he served with his regiment in its many battles. On May 6. 1804. at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, he was wounded, and on April 5, 1865, he was discharged at Alexandria, Virginia, by reason of gunshot wounds received in action. His death was caused by this gunshot wound.

As a young man Mr. Garvin married Miss Anna Lyons Bennett, and at her death she was survived by two children, Louisa, who is the wife of Webster B. Slusser. of Cleveland; and Norris Cunningham, who resides at Billings, Montana. On February 17. 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Garvin with Miss Addle D. Grider, who was born on Wheeling Island located in the Ohio River, near the City of Wheeling, West Virginia. She is the daughter of Lawrence Francis and Rebecca Jane (Martin) Grider, who passed the closing years of their lives at C»diz. Harrison County. Mr. Grider was born in Lititz. Pennsylvania, and came to Harrison County with his family In the '60s. He established his home in Cadiz, where for many years he followed the trade of painter, and he was of the venerable and honored citizen rf of the county at the time of his death. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their two children Mrs. Garvin is the elder, and Martha A., her sister, resides in Cadiz.

city of Cleveland, where he is associated with the Standard Oil Company. In June, 1917, he enlisted in the nation's service in connection with the great World war. He became a member of the One Hundred and Twelfth United States Enginers, and his company was assigned to duty at the headquarters of the Thirty- Seventh Division. With his command he went to France in June, 1918, and there he participated in the historic and terrific Argonne and St. MIhiel campaign. After the signing of the armistice he remained in France until April, 1919, when he returned to his native land, accompanying his command to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he was honorably discharged.

Rot Henry Adams. The Adams name has been carried to the fifth generation in Green Township through Roy Henr«r Adams in the fourth and a son bearing his name In the fifth generation of the family in Harrison County. John Adams, who brought the name to the United States, came from Ireland. It was in the spring of 1805 that he established a home in the wilderness of Harrison County. The children in his household were: William, James, Samuel, Hannah, Joshua and John. It is through Samuel Adams the name Is perpetuated in local history. John Adams, the Irish emigrant, died in 1812, and he lies buried in West Grove Cemetery. In 1846 the wife was laid beside him there.

At the age of sixteen years Samuel Adams was thrown upon his own resources, and he began farming for himself. In time he married Sarah, daughter of David Chambers. Their children are: Joshua, Rachel and John. The mother died February 7, 1851, and on April 2, 1857, Mr. Adams married Mary; a daughter of James Clark, of Athens Township. Their children are Clark and Sarah Elizabeth. While in its early history the Adams family in Harrison County had been Friends; the Adams family of this time are Presbyterians. Samuel Adams was spoken of as a self-made man, having made his own way in the world. The Commemorative Record says: "He had no capital save a good constitution, willing heart and hands, coupled with energy, perseverance and a determination to succeed," and he lived to realize his ambition. In most instances, however, the pioneer plodded along without much definite vision of the future.

It is through Clark, the son of the second marriage, that the Adams name is perpetuated to posterity. He was born September 12, lttol, and on November 26, 1884, he married Dora, a daughter of Henry Copeland, of the same community. Their children are: Mary V., born November 2, 1885, on June 19, 1907, became the wife of Ralph E. Galbreith; Samuel Wylie Adams was born February 29, 1888, and while he was almost twenty-seven years old when he died, May 1, 1914, he had only celebrated half a dozen birthdays. On January 1, 1914, S. W. Adams married Pauline Moore. R. H. Adams was born November 24, 1889, and Chester Clark was born December 14, ten years later. R. H.

and C. C. Adams are the farmers at the old family homestead today. In the study of calendars it is noted that R. H. Adams, born November 24, 1889, came into the world the year the figure 9 came into the calendar to remain permanently 111 years. While Mr. Adams lives he will never write a letter without using the figure 9 in dating it. There had not been a nine in the calendar for ten years until the time of his birth. The Adams family has now been in Harrison County more than a century. Clark Adams died October 19, 1907, and his wife died May 24, six years later.

While all the Adams family had common school advantages, R. H. Adams attended the Cadiz High School three years. However, the death of his father changed his educational plans and he returned to the farmstead. On June 25, 1913, he married Ocie Belle Henderson, a daughter of Aca and Delilah (Barrickman) Henderson. At that time Roy H. Adams bought the interest of his brother in the homestead and the latter now lives in Cadiz. He has acquired the ownership of 140 acres. Thoroughbred Jersey cattle and Ohio Improved Chester White hogs are the live-stock specialties there.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Adams are: Henderson LeRoy, born April 27, 1915; and Pauline Virginia, born November 16, 1918. While Mr. Adams Is a Presbyterian, bis wife holds membership in the Christian Church. In the old days when the circuit rider's horse knew the location of all the corn cribs in Harrison County, they would no doubt have belonged to church together, but conditions are different in the twentieth century. "Where the pot boils the strongest, the preacher stays the longest," is antedated everywhere in 1920 - the Tercentenary of the church in the New World. When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 they constituted themselves the first church in America.

William Vance Scott. Although living now in retirement at Hopedale, William Vance Scott has business interests in the community in addition to the fine farm he owns In Green Township. Mr. Scott was born May 21, 1850, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father, Josiah N. Scott, was born there in 1813, and the mother, Rachel Vance, was born three years later In the same community. Mr. Scott bears the maiden name of his mother. She was a daughter of William and Hannah (Patterson) Vance, and they lived in Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

William Vance was a Pennsylvania farmer, and the old Vance Fort was located on his farm in Cross Creek Township. He was at one time in the Pennsylvania Legislature and was speaker of the House. He served as a member of the Federal Grand Jury at Columbus one session. He was appointed by Governor Herrick as a delegate to the Farmers' Congress on two occasions. His children are: Joseph, Patterson, Allison, James, Thomas, John S., Cynthia, Elizabeth, Caroline, Anna, Rachel (the mother of William Vance Scott), and Jane. The Vances of that generation were Presbyterians.

His wife was Mary Wylie, and the name Wylie as well as Vance has been carried down through the different generations. In civil life General Scott was a blacksmith by trade. While the blacksmith is not so much in evidehce today when there are so many factory products, older persons remember how necessary a good blacksmith was in every frontier community. The poem, "The Village Blacksmith," will always live in literature. The children of Gen. Samuel Scott were: Josiah, William and Samuel.

William V. Scott, of Hopedale, is a son of the oldest son of General Scott, Josiah N. Scott, who in his day was a real son of the American Revolution, his father being the soldier. W. V. Scott easily establishes his eligibility to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. His wife died in 1866, and he died in 1894, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, after having spent all of his life in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Hannah Lauretta, Mary Anna, Samuel Clark, Lina, Alla M., William Vance, Jennie and Josiah Ernest, the latter a physician at New Hope, Pennsylvania.

It was in 1882 that W. V. Scott removed from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County, Ohio, locating on a farm in Green Township. He had been a farmer in Pennsylvania, and he is a farmer in Ohio. In the spring of 1919 Mr. Scott abandoned the farm and took up his residence in Hopedale. He owns a farm of 173 acres In Green Township, where he lived thirty-seven years. Mr. Scott is one of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Hopedale, having always been a stockholder and being elected a director at the time of its organization. He helped organize the Hopedale Telephone Company, and has served as president and is now a member of the Board of Directors. He is the mayor of Hopedale and a Justice of the peace of Green Township.

On June 8, 1880, Mr. Scott married Mary E. Smith, a daughter of William K. and Isabelle (Wylie) Smith. Their son, William Wylie, married Leola Caldwell, and the grandchildren in the family are William Walter and Wanda. Mrs. Scott died August 7, 1913, and later Mr. Scott married Effle McFarland. She is a daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Jane (Byers) McFarland, of Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

William Wylie Scott was graduated from Athens (Ohio) County; then spent three years at a medical college in Baltimore. He graduated from the Medical College at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and also from the Medical Department of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and is now a prominent and successful physician of Canton, Ohio..

Austin B both ees, now one of the most venerable native sons of Carroll County still residing within its borders, is entitled to special recognition in this history, both by reason of his own worthy life and achievement and on account of being a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of the county. After having borne to the fullest extent "the heat and burden of the day," he is now living in gracious retirement in the attractive village of

On the old homestead farm in Brown Township, this county, Mr. Brothers was bom July 14, 1835, a son of Levi and Lydia (Clark) Brothers, the former of whom was bora in the State of Maryland June 1, 1799, and the latter of whom was born in Columbiana County. Ohio, on the 13th of September of the same year, a date that indicates conclusively that her parents were numbered among the earliest settlers of that county. The marriage of the parents of the subject of this review was solemnized September 19, 1822.

Levi Brothers was a son of Stephen Brothers, of whom more specific mention is made elsewhere in this volume, and was a boy at the time of the family removal from Maryland to Ohio, where his father took up a tract of Government land in what is now Brown Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, as sterling pioneer citizens of the county. Levi Brothers was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days and in due course of time became one of the substantial exponents of farm enterprise in Brown Township, where he developed a productive farm and was loyal and liberal as a citizen. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Brothers passed away October 5, 1867, and his widow's death occurred on the 6th of November of the following year. They became the parents of thirteen children, and of the ten who attained to years of maturity brief record is consistently entered : Mary Jane was born October 31, 1823; George C., February 10, 1826; Joseph, September 16, 1827 ; Stephen, September 25, 1829 ; Lydia October 1, 1831: John, July 28, 1833; Austin, July 14, 1835; Fannie, August 30, 1837; Richard, September 13, 1840; and William, May 24, 1843. Of the number only two are living in 1920.

Austin Brothers was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm, received his educational training in the common schools of Brown Township, and there he eventually engaged In independent farm enterprise. Later he was successfully engaged in the same line of industrial enterprise in Brown Township, and after there remaining twenty-five years he felt Justified in retiring from the heavy labors and responsibilities that had so long been his portion, and he has since maintained his home at Oneida, where he is enjoying, in the gracious evening of his life, the peace and prosperity that are justly his due.

Mr. Brothers is unswerving in his allegiance to the democratic party, and while he never desired or sought official preferment his civic loyalty led him to give thirty-five years of effective service as school director of his district. Lasting honor shall attach to the name of Mr. Brothers by reason of the loyal and patriotic service which, as a young man, he rendered as a soldier in the Civil war. He responded to the first call for volunteers by enlisting in July, 1861, as a member of Company A, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he went to the front and with which he took part in many of the most notable engagements of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South. He was wounded several times, the most serious wound being received when he was shot through the mouth, but he did not falter in patriotism, and as soon as possible resumed his place with his regiment, his service continuing until the close of the war. He took part in the battle of Cheat Mountain, and the historic Atlanta campaign, including the siege and battle of Atlanta, in which he was wounded, and other engagements in which he participated were those of Green Briar, West Virginia; Camp Allegheny; MeDowell and Cross Keys, Virginia; Port Republic; Harper's Ferry (where he was taken captive) ; Port Gibson ; Raymond and Jackson, Mississippi ; Champion Hill, Siege of Vicksburg, Baker Creek, Clinton, Mississippi ; Kenesaw Mountain ; Nackajack Creek ; Peach Tree Creek ; and the great battle of Atlanta. In later years Mr. Brothers has vitalized the more gracious memories and associations of his military career by his active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the close of the war and the reception of his honorable discharge he resumed his alliance with farm enterprise in his native county, and he is still the owner of valuable farm property in Brown Township, where he gives personal attention to various portions of farm work and thus keeps himself in the fine physical condition that makes him in appearance and vitality deny the years that are his, for he is not satisfied to remain supine or inactive, and takes satisfaction in knowing that he is still able to get results when he applies himself to any piece of work in connection with his farm property.

In the year 1868 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Brother to Miss Mary Jane Rogers, who was bom in Steuben County, Ohio, in 1846, a daughter of John and Martha (Orem) Rogers, who came to Carroll County and passed the closing years of their lives in Brown Township, the father having served in the Civil war as a member of Company F, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the same regiment in which Mr. Brothers gallantly served during the entire period of the war. In fitting conclusion of this review is given a brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Brothers: Irvin is a bachelor and remains at the parental home; Vemer died July 4, 1896, aged twenty-five years; Laura was united in marriage January 1, 1902, to Charles A. Walter, who died in 1908, and she is now a practical nurse bv profession, the while she maintains her home with her parents; Stella died in 1881, at the age of ten months; Herbert, who has a rendering plant in Cleveland, was united in marriage in 1908 to Miss Blanche Zusehlag, and they have one child, Lillian.

Homer R. Vasbinder made an excellent record in connection with mercantile business in Carrollton until 1920, when he disposed of his business and has since been connected with the Bowman & Hosterman Company, manufacturers of aluminum ware, Carrollton, Ohio.

of Samuel B. and Nancy (Buchanan) Vasbinder, the former of whom was bom in Harrison County July 2, 1834, and the latter was born near Carrollton, Carroll County, June 17, 1839. Ephraim Vasbinder, father of Samuel B., was born in Pennsylvania May 4, 1809, and his wife, whose maiden name was Maria Buchanan, was born near Jewett, Harrison Coum,y, Ohio, June 26, 1805, her parents having been numbered among the earliest settlers of that county. Ephraim Vasbinder was a youth when he came to Ohio, and in Harrison County was solemnized his marriage to Maria Buchanan, his parents likewise having been pioneer settlers of that county. He became a prosperous farmer and continued his residence in Harrison County until his death in 1847, his widow passing away in 1849. John Buchanan, maternal grandfather of Homer R. Vasbinder, was born in Pennsylvania in 1807, and he and his father entered land near Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio. Later he came to Carroll County and purchased a tract of wild land in Union Township. This he reclaimed Into the productive farm now owned and occupied by his grandson, Ross P. Buchanan. He passed the closing period of his life near Amsterdam, Ohio, his wife, whose maiden name was Mary W. Pettenger, having died on the old homestead in Union Township July 6, 1860. Ephraim and Maria (Buchanan) Vasbinder became the parents of four children - William, Jacob, Margaret and Samuel B. John and Mary (Pettenger) Buchanan had five children - William, Samuel, Nancy, Susan and John.