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founder of the Campbell family in Lower Chanceford Township was William Campbell, who was born of Scotch parentage in the State of Delaware in 1767, but was brought to York County, Pennsylvania, and reared among friends until manhood. Being a popular young man, he married into an excellent family of Scotch-Irish pioneers, founded by John Stewart, a Revolutionary soldier bom in 1740, and whose wife was Elisabeth Henry of Baltimore, Maryland. William Campbell, whose vocation was that of a farmer, married Margaret, the daughter of John Stewart, in 1790, and to them were bom ten children, six sons and four daughters, of whom survived to establish families two daughters, Mrs. John Workman and Mrs. Hugh Anderson, in Baltimore, Maryland, and three sons, James, Robert and John, who lived as neighbors on or near the old home and reared large families.

The second brother, Robert, was born in 1802 and died in 1888. In 1829 he married Mary, the daughter of Alexander Gowan, Esquire, who came from Ettrick, Scotland, in the middle of the eighteenth century. Mary Gowan was bom in 1798 and died in 1879. Both were natives of York County, where they spent their lives. To their marriage were boro five sons: William, who died when two years old, Alexander Gowan, Robert Gowan, James Hervey and Isaac Williams. The second son, Alexander, married Margaret A. Smith, of York County, and died In Martins Ferry, Ohio, in 1894, leaving a numerous posterity. James H., the only living brother of Dr. Robert G., resides near Arkansas City, Kansas, and is the father of six sons and two daughters, all grown and settled In the great west. His wife was Agnes Smith, of York County. Isaac Williams Campbell married Agnes W. Grove, and lived and died in York County, leaving one son and two daughters, of whom two are married and one a widow.

Robert Gowan, the third son, married in 1863 Euphemia Elizabeth Smith, youngest daughter of Joseph B. Smith, of Belmont County, Ohio. To them were bom foul* daughters and one son : Carrie Lauretta, Emma Blanche, Robert Addison, Margaret Felicia and Edna Crete. All graduated at Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, but Margaret F. only in music.

Carrie L., bom in 1865, at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, was married to Rev. Oscar J. Gregg, of Belmont, Ohio, and died in 1908, leaving one son, Howard Campbell, who after graduating from Wooster College in 1918 went to France and participated in the great war and is now doing school work in Ohio.

Emma Blanche, bom at Martin's Ferry in 1867, was married to Rev. Harvey Graeme Furbay in 1890 and died in 1896, at Tyrone, Pennsylvania, leaving two daughters, Faye Campbell and Helen. Faye is the wife of Theodore N. Westlake, of Newburgh, New York, and has three children, Theodore, Jr., Helen and Walton Harney. Helen was married to E. L. Wynne, of New York City, and lives on Staten Island.

Robert Addison, only son of Reverend Doctor Campbell, was bom in 1869, at New Athens, Ohio, studied medicine, and for over a quarter of a century has been one of the leading physicians and surgeons at Homestead, Pennsylvania. He married in 1910 Bessie LaRue Goon, of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Their four children were named Robert Addison, Jr., Laura Elizabeth, Mary Florence and John Gowan. Mary Florence died at the age of two and a half years.

Edna Crete, youngest daughter of Doctor Campbell, born at New Athens, Ohio, was married in 1904 to Rev. M. L. MacPhail, D. D., of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. After long pastorates in Boston and Pittsburgh Doctor MacPhail is now pastor at Auburn, New York. His congregation numbers 1,300 members. They have one son, Robert Campbell, fifteen years of age and attending school.

Margaret Felicia Campbell has been the faithful companion and careful housekeeper of her father since her mother died in 1898. She Is a teacher of instrumental music and a church organist.

During his youth on his father's farm in York County, Pennsylvania, Robert Gowan Campbell was trained to the occupation of farming. His ambition to secure a liberal education led him to pursue classioal studies under the direction of his pastor, Rev. William Carlile. He made encouraging progress, and at the same time taught in common schoola After attending one term in 1854 at Port Royal Academy in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, in May, 1855, he started on a long journey to Madison College at Antrim, Guernsey County, Ohio. Remaining there three months, he started on foot and traveled the National Pike toward Saint Clairsville, Ohio, thence north to Wheeling Creek, and in Belmont County found friends and relatives and a generous welcome. He applied himself again to teaching, and in 1856 entered Franklin College, graduating with honors in 1858. His theological studies were pursued in the Pittsburgh United Presbyterian Seminary, where he was graduated in 1863. As a minister Doctor Campbell has held pastorates at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, four years ; New Athens, Ohio, nineteen years; Uniontown, Ohio, twelve years and Roney's Point, West Virginia, six years.

If was in 1867 that he was called to New Athens as president to revive Franklin College after the war. In that college he remained four years as president, fifty years as vice president and fifty years as a member of the board and forty years an instructor. Since 1906 he has received a Carnegie pension. He was honored with the Doctor of Divinity degree from Franklin College and Rochester University of New York at the same time, and later the Doctor of Laws degree from Franklin.

In politics Doctor Campbell is a republican, and his first vote was for Abraham Lincoln. He is by birth and education a United Presbyterian. He intends to live at New Athens, Ohio, until the going down of life's sun.

George E. Roche. The record of the Roche family of which Professor George E. Roche, superintendent of schools in Harrison County, is a representative, seems to begin with the coming of two brothers to Belmont County. William H. Roche, the father of Professor

Roche, was then a boy of seven, while his brother James was two years older, and they came here to live with a friend of their family. In later years, when W. H. Roche had grown .into manhood, he located in Harrison County and became a Short Creek Township farmer. He died there in 1912.

Professor Roche was born September 21, 1871, near Harrlsville, Short Creek Township, while his father was born in 1829 near Winchester, Virginia. He married Emily Carver, a native of Harrlsville. She was born in 1835 and was a daughter of Thomas and Tamson (Gray) Carver, the father from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Soon after their marriage they located in Short Creek Township. The home farm was purchased by Thomas Carver, father of Mrs. Roche, in 1818, and is now owned by Professor Roche. The children in the Carver family are: Joseph, Elizabeth. Mary, Julia and Emily, the youngest daughter becoming the wife of W. H. Roche. Her death occurred in 1906, while he lived six years longer.

The children bora to Mr. and Mrs. Roche are: Thomas C. (deceased), James F. (deceased), William H. (deceased), Ella L., Joseph B., Albert C., Frederick S. (deceased), Clarence F. (deceased), Clara T., George E. and Eva V. Roche. They all had common school advantages, and when he had finished high school at Harrlsville G. E. Roche went to Columbiana and later he studied in Sclo College. In 1900 he graduated from Franklin College. He has been a teacher since completing his education, and from 1895 to 1809, prior to his graduation from Franklin College, he was a township superintendent of common schools In Coshocton County. Mr. Roche entered the Ohio State University in September and on December 7, 1900, was admitted to the Ohio State Bar as an attorney at law. In 1917 he was elected superintendent of schools in Harrison County. He was re-elected in 1919, and as an educator his mark is high and his success excellent.

In 1898 Mr. Roche married Emily Love, a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Rusk) Love, of Coshocton County. Their son, William Carver, Is a student in Ohio State University, and there is a daughter, Emily Gray Roche. While Mr. and Mrs. Roche were reared as Presbyterians they are now members of the Methodist Church in Harrlsville. He Is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. While he is admitted to the bar as an attorney, the call of the school room is unremitting and Mr. Roche is at heart an educator.

John F. Meebyman Is one of the busy and enterprising citizens of the Village of Cadiz Junction in German Township, Harrison County,, where he conducts a grocery and meat market and is a dealer In real estate. He has found In his native county ample scope for successful achievement, and is a popular citizen whose personality and ancestral record entitle him to recognition in this history.

Mr. Merryman was born at Hopedale, Harrison County, on the 22d of October, 1868, and is a son of Charles and Mary A. (Frazier) Merryman, both natives of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. Mrs. Merryman was a daughter of David and Susanna (Lam born) Frazier, who remained on their old homestead farm in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, until the close of their long and useful lives. In that township Charles and Margaret (Bell) Merryman, paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, likewise continued to reside until their deaths, the grandfather having been a representative farmer of that county. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and their children were three in number - Mary, Margaret and Charles.

Charles Merryman was bora in the year 1833 and was reared to manhood on the old homestead farm of his parents, the while his educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality. About the year 1856 he came to Harrison County and engaged in the meat-market business at Hopedale, the butcher's trade having engaged his attention during the major part of his active career. In 1876 he removed to a farm in Green Township, near Cadiz Junction, but still continued his butchering business in connection with the activities of his farm. In 1890 he established his residence at Cadiz Junction, where for the ensuing decade he conducted a meat market and grocery and where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1906, his wife having passed away in 1899. She was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven children: Margaret, Martha, Cora, John F., Charles, Louisa and Carrie. Of the children only Cora and John F. are now living.

John F. Merryman gained his preliminary education in the district school near his father's farm in Green Township, and later availed himself of the advantages of the normal school at Hopedale and also those of Scio College, leading institutions in Harrison County. As a young man he gave ten years of effective service as a teacher in the rural schools, and for two years thereafter was engaged in farm enterprise in Green Township. He then, in 1905, established his residence at Jewett, this county, where for two years he was engaged in the meat-market business. In 1907 he removed to Cadiz Junction, where he has since continued as one of the leading business men of the village. He is a democrat in political allegiance, and he served eight years as justice of the peace in German Township, his administration of this judicial office having fully justified his election thereto and having strengthened his secure place in popular confidence and esteem. He is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Unionport; the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Cadiz; and holds membership also in the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. Both he and his wife are earnest and valued members of the Howard Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is serving as a trustee and in which he served one year as superintendent of the Sunday school.

V. S infield, daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Tipton) Sinfield. Thomas Sinfield was born in Bedfordshire, England, Jane 12, 1883, and his wife was born in Harrison County, Ohio, March 4, 1840, a daughter of William and Jane (McKittrick) Tipton, well known pioneer citizens of the county. Mr. Tipton was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of eight children - Mary Ann, Drusilla, Edmond, Catherine, William, James, Eliza and Julia. Thomas Sinfield was reared and educated in his native land, where his parents, Thomas and Ann (Burr) Sinfield, passed their entire lives. In November, 1858, he came from England to the United States, and within a short period thereafter he established his residence in Harrison County, Ohio, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of painter. Only a few years elapsed ere he showed his loyalty to the land of his adoption by tendering his aid in defense of the Union at the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted In Company G, Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served three years, as a member of the regimental band. Shortly after his return to Harrison County he married, and both he and his wife were residents of German Township at the time of their deaths, he having followed his trade during virtually his entire active career. His death occurred in 1910, and his widow passed to eternal rest in 1918. They became the parents of eight children, namely: Jesse Burr, Anna, William, Addie, Alice, James, Laura and Clayton.

Mr. and Mrs. Merryman have five children - Mary A., Nora A., Charles, Kermit S. and Francis, and they contribute youthful Joy and good cheer to the pleasant family home, which is known for its generous and unassuming hospitality.

James C. Babgab. For many years actively and prominently associated with the development and advancement of the agricultural interests and prosperity of Stock Township. James C. Bargar is distinguished not only as a native born citizen, but for his pioneer ancestry, both his paternal and his maternal grandfathers having been among the earlier settlers of Harrison County. A son of Jacob Bargar, he was born in Stock Township, February 22, 1848, and has here spent his entire life.

Peter Bargar. his paternal grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania, came with four of his brothers. John, Henry, Valentine (Feltie) and Jacob, to Ohio, and all settled in Harrison County. Peter Bargar became a pioneer of Cadiz Township, where he reclaimed a good farm from its original wildness. He married Susan Keokler, and they became the parents of seven children, as follows: Abraham, Isaac. Jacob, Julia, McIntosh. Peter and John. Tie was deeply religious, and at the time of his death was serving as an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.

grew to man's estate. He learned the carpenter's trade when young, and after his marriage located in Stock Township, where he bought land, and was subsequently engaged in farming and carpentering until his death, July 29, 1891. He was a member of the Christian Church at Minksville, to which his wife also belonged, and was ever faithful to its teachings. He married Abigail Mary Campbell, who was born in Stock Township, where her father, James Campbell, was a prominent pioneer farmer. James Campbell, who moved from western Pennsylvania to Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in early days, married Lydia Shrieve, and they reared seven children, as follows: Samuel, Hugh, Matilda, Valentine. Abigail Mary, James and Lydia E. Of the union of Jacob and Abigail Mary (Campbell) Bargar three children were born, as follows: James C., the special subject of this sketch; Susan, who lived but eleven months; and Elmer P., of Stock Township.

Acquiring his education in the district schools of Stock and Nottingham townships, James C. Bargar learned the trade of carpenter when young, and followed it successfully until twenty-nine years of age. Desirous then of establishing himself permanently, he bought fifty acres of his present farm, to which he soon added by purchase another tract. Having that under cultivation and yielding profitable harvests, Mr. Bargar was encouraged to buy more land, finally acquiring title to 276 acres of choice land. He has deeded 100 acres of his farm to his sons, his property now including 176 acres, on which he has made practical and substantial improvements. He carries on general farming, Including the raising of some stock, chiefly sheep, and formerly operated a saw mill during the winter months.

On November 22, 1877, Mr. Bargar was united in marriage with Anna M. Rogers, and they are the parents of five children, namely; Louie A. ; Violet ; Clarence A., deceased ; Lanceolet H., who married Bess Fulton, and has one child* Robert F. ; and Wlnnlfred E., who married R. Park Heavilin, and has two children, Phyllis Jane and Eugene Vincent. In 1913 Mr. and Mrs. Bargar took into their home to rear to manhood a lad of nine years, Francis Thomas Barchie, who graduated from the Deersville, Ohio, School with honors and is now a student in high school. Active and influential in public affairs, Mr. Bargar was for four years a trustee of Stock Township, and served twelve years as a member of the local school board. Religiously Mr. Bargar is a member of the Christian Church at Minksville, while Mrs. Bargar belongs to the Bethel Methodist Church.

Eugene C. Parrish. While the name Parrish is inseparable from the history of Harrison County. Eugene C. Parrish of Green Township was born January 15, 1856. at Mendota. Illinois. His father. Charles Parrish, was born in Cadiz Township, and the mother. Mary Jane, daughter of Joseph Clokey, was bom in Washington County. Pennsylvania. They had listened to Horace Greeley about going west, "Go

In the Parrish ancestry the grandfather, Benjamin Parrish, came from Maryland. He was one among the pioneers of Harrison County. When he came there were only two houses in Cadiz, and he located nearby on a farm, where his active days were passed, and he spent his declining years In the town where he died. His children were John, Joshua, Charles, Susannah, Mary and Eliza. The pioneer Parrish family were Friends. It is through the line of the third son, Charles, that E. C. Parrish represents the Parrish homestead In Harrison County.

As a young man Charles Parrish was a farmer and stockman in Cadiz Township, but a few years after his marriage he and his wife and one child removed to Illinois, remaining one year at Mendota. They returned to Harrison County, and the father died in 1861. He was a farmer and horse buyer in his days of business activity. The dealer in horse flesh is almost unknown today when almost every family rides out in an automobile of some description.

The children of the generation to which E. C. Parrish belongs are Benjamin A., Eugene C., Charles and Anna Jane. After the death of Charles Parrish, father of the family, the mother became the wife of John Singer, and there were two children born to them, Cortney, deceased, and Mary Singer, now a teacher In New Athens. The Parrish family are Presbyterians.

After the second marriage of the mother, who removed from Cadiz to Green Township, Eugene C. Parrish went along and thus his early education was obtained in two different localities. As a young man he began farming in Green Township, but in 1875 he listened to the admonition, "Go west, young man," and for two years was a Nebraska farmer. However, he returned to Harrison County, January 4, 1883. E. C. Parrish married Sarah Elizabeth Adams, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Adams (see sketch of Roy H. Adams). As a man of family Mr. Parrish has always lived in Green Township. He owns 135 acres of land and combines farming and livestock production.

The Parrish children are: Charles A.; Frank G. ; Cora B., wife of Roy McClellan ; Mary Myrtle, deceased, wife of Wilmer Smith; Russell Clokey and Ernest Clark. They are members and Mr. Parrish is an elder in the Presbyterian Church in Beech Springs. He has served two terms as trustee of Green Township.

J. Elmeb Tarbert initiated his active experience In connection with farm enterprise when he was a mere boy, and was but fifteen years of age when he began working by the month as a farm employe. He thus continued his efficient services for a period of ten years, and in the meanwhile carefully conserved his earnings, with the determined ambition eventually to engage in the same line of industrial activity in an independent way. He has realized this ambition and is today giving excellent account of himself as one of the successful agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native township of Nottingham, Harrison County, where his activities are centered on an excellent farm of 154 acres and where he gives special attention to the raising of sheep. He has proved himself one of the world's productive workers, and all who know him are gratified to note his Increasing success in his chosen sphere of endeavor. He takes loyal interest in community affairs, gives his support to the cause of the republican party, and his wife hold membership in Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, the while they are popular figures in the social life of their home community.

J. Elmer Tarbert was born on his father's farm in Nottingham Township December 22, 1881, and is a son of Albert and Mary E. (Palmer) Tarbert, both natives of this county, where they still reside on their farm. J. Elmer Tarbert was reared to the sturdy discipline of farm life and in the meanwhile attended the public schools at Freeport. His good judgment has been shown in his continued adherence to the occupation in which he is fortified by practical experience, and he is doing well his part in upholding the prestige of Harrison County in connection with productive farm industry.

The year 1904 recorded the marriage of Mr. Tarbert to Miss Mary M. Palmer, daughter of Andrew and Rachel (Yarnall) Palmer, concerning whom more specific mention Is made in an individual sketch appearing elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Tarbert have three children - Francis Wayne, born February 27, 1908; Lawrence Delbert, born January 17, 1912; and Vern Leroy, born August 12, 1919.

Clement W. Gotshall, one of the solid, sensible and reliable men and steady and industrious farmers of Rumley Township, is a man who stands very well with his neighbors. He was born in Rumley Township February 10, 1.864, a son of Daniel and Amanda (Wortman) Gotshall, and a grandson of Jonas Gotshall. Jonas Gotshall was one of the pioneer farmers of Rumley Township, coming to Harrison County from Pennsylvania, and here he continued to live the rest of his life. He married Pollie Lacer, and their children were: Anna, Matilda, Elizabeth, John, Jerry, Jacob, Daniel and Samuel. In their religious convictions they were all Lutherans except Samuel, who was a Methodist.

Daniel Gotshall was born in Rumley Township. and was here engaged in farming all his life, with the exception of seven years when he lived in Carroll County, and at the time of his death he owned 160 acres of land. His wife was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and she bore her husband the following children : Mary, who married Samuel Arbaugh, and Clement W., whose name heads this review. Daniel Gotshall was married the second time, wedding Eliza Ann Wood, of Loudon Township. Carroll County, and they had one daughter, Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Gotshall also belonged to the Lutheran Church.

His first experience in farming on his own account was gained in Rumley Township, and he has continued to be interested in the agricultural matters of this township, where be owns 160 acres, and he also owns eighty-seven acres in Loudon Township, Carroll County. These two farms join each other, so that he has 247 acres in one piece. On this land he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising, with very gratifying results.

On November 11, 1890, he was married to Miriam Cunningham, a daughter of Thomas H. and Elizabeth (McGavran) Cunningham, residents of New Rumley, where Mr. Cunningham was a merchant for many years. He is deceased, but is still survived by his widow. The Cunningham family was established In Harrison County by Mrs. Gotshall's grandfather. Dr. William Cunningham, who came to New Rumley from Pennsylvania, and for some years was the only physician of the county. She was born in the house her grandfather built for his family residence. Mrs. Gotshall was one in a family of seven children, of which she was next to the youngest, the others being as follows: John, who lives at Kansas City, Missouri; William E., who lives at Scio, Ohio; Ellsworth, who is deceased; George A., who is a painter and decorator of New Rumley ; Thomas H., who is a farmer of New Rumley; and Finley, who is deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Gotshall have the following children: Elizabeth Marie, who was graduated from the Jewett High School and Oberlin College, is now a teacher of Hubbard, Ohio; and Pearl, who married Waldo Thompson, and has one son, Kenneth Waldo. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson live in Loudon Township, Carroll County, Ohio. For the past five years Mr. Gotshall has been a director in the Jewett State Bank. The Lutheran Church of New Rumley holds the membership of Mr. and Mrs. Gotshall. They are very fine people in every sense of the word, and it would be difficult to find any who are more representative of the best elements of the county and state.

W. M. and J. G. Culbebtson. Because they are associated in a business way and live in the same home William M. and John G. Culbertson, of Athens Township, united in commemorating their ancestry in the History of Carroll and Harrison Counties. They are sons of John and Sarah Jane (McDowell) Culbertson, who were among the thrifty, conservative pioneers of Harrison County. These brothers are the oldest and the other children are: Samuel C., Charles A., Robert H., George W., Frank C., Mary Jane, Emma Florence, Clarence C. and Hugh W., beside one stilLbom child, and all are well-to-do citizens of the community.

Robert Culbertson, who founded the American branch of the Culbertson family, was a native of Ireland. He was twice married before leaving the Emerald Isle, the first wife leaving four children : James, John, Samuel and Ezekiel. In 1811 they all came with their father to the United States. They located in the wilderness of Harrison County. The father married a second time in Ireland, and there were ten children from this union: Thomas, Robert, Benjamin, William, Hugh, Joseph, George, Annie, Mary and Gillespie. It Is the youngest son, Gillespie, through whom the present day Culbertsons are descended, and he was born in October, 1816, in Harrison County.

Gillespie Culbertson remained with his parents as long as they lived, the father, who was the first Culbertson in the community, attaining to eighty-seven years and being buried in 1840 on Christmas day. He had been a stone mason in Ireland, but In Ohio he gave his undivided attention to agriculture in helping to develop the new country. He had been a member of the Seceder Church in Ireland and cast his ballot with the democrats in America.

On December 17, 1840, Gillespie Culbertson married Dorcas Holt, of Guernsey County. Their children were: John, Mary, Sarah Ann and Robert. The mother died August 15, 1865, and Mr. Gillespie married Eliza Jane, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (McKinney) Duncan. She was also from Guernsey County. One daughter, Dorcas Eliza, was born to them. In the meantime the parents had retired from the farm and were living in New Athens when on September 11, 1800, Gillespie /Culbertson entered the life beyond the grave. The family homestead passed into the hands of his son John Culbertson, and for more than a century the Culbertson farm has been a landmark in Harrison County. John Culbertson, father of W. M. and J. G., was born September 20, 1841, on the old Robert Culbertson farm, in Athens Township. His wife, Sarah J., was bom in Athens Township August 1, 1846, and died September 19, 1890. He married Sarah Jane Robinson, who was born March 27, 1843, and died July 15, 1906.

William M. Culbertson was born August 20, 1867, on the old McDowell farm in Athens Township, and after leaving the district school he attended Franklin College In New Athens. In 1898, he married Marie Gillespie, a daughter of Barclay and Susan (Barnes) Gillespie. Within a year he and his brother John G. Culbertson entered into a partnership business relation, and they buy. sell and invest their money together. Mrs. Culbertson died June 3, 1919, and the two brothers live alone. Since 1899 J. G. Culbertson has lived in the home of his brother. W. M. Culbertson has been trustee of Athens Township and a member of the Board of Education in the community. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church in New Athens.

Edmond S. Goodwin. After many years of hard work as a farmer, during which he prospered on account of his industry and thrift, Edmond S. Goodwin, of Short Creek Township, is now living practically retired on his small farm of thirteen acres. He was born in Short Creek Township June 30, 1850, a son of Kinsey and Alice (Shields) Goodwin. The Goodwin family was brought to Harrison County many years ago by Jesse Goodwin, grandfather of Edmond S. Goodwin, who became one of the prosperous farmers of Short Creek Township.

ship, Harrison County, where he was engaged in fanning for a time, and In 1863 moved to Morgan County, Ohio, and died there in 1865. Following his demise his family returned to Harrison County. Kinsey Goodwin and his wife had the following children bom to them: Edmond S., who was the eldest; Lydia, who was an invalid for thirty years and is now deceased ; Sarah Emilie, who also was an Invalid for thirty years and Is now deceased; William and Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin were consistent members of the Presbyterian Church.

Left fatherless when still a lad, as the eldest In the family Edmond S. Goodwin early became self-supporting, and chose farming as his life work. His farming ventures have taken him from Short Creek Township, where he began them, into Jefferson and Belmont counties, but he has since returned to his native township.

The first wife of Mr. Goodwin was Catherine Henderson, a daughter of Mathew Henderson, and they had the following children: Ola V., who married Charles Holmes; Sarah, who married J. A. Frasier; John H., who died in 1910. Mrs. Goodwin died February 14, 1891. After her death Mr. Goodwin was married to Mattie Moffett, who was born near Beech Springs Church in Green Township, the daughter of John and Margaret (Moore) Moffett. There are no children by his second marriage. Both Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Harrlsville, Harrison County, Ohio. They are held in the highest esteem not only In their immediate neighborhood but elsewhere, and deservedly so, for they are good friends of and always willing to render assistance to those with whom they are brought into contact.

Theodore N. Vail. Of distinguished Americans who were native sons of Carroll County one was the late Theodore N. Vail, who as chief executive of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was head of the largest telephone system in the world. He was not only its nominal head but was from the first the genius that promoted the popular use of the telephone, was the first to establish long distance communication by telephone, and when past seventy years of age was still the initiative head of a system that numbered nine million telephone subscribers and represented an Investment of a billion and a half dollars.

He was born in Carroll County, Ohio, July 16, 1845, a son of Davis and Phoebe (Quinby) Vail. Four years after his birth his parents moved to Morristown, New Jersey, where he was educated at the old Academy, and for a time studied medicine. Subsequently, in view of his distinguished services, be was honored with the Doctor of Laws degrees by Dartmouth, Middlebury College, Princeton University and Harvard. Abandoning medicine through his interest in the telegraph, he became an operator and was employed on. the Union Pacific Railroad' in Wyoming in 1868, soon after the opening of the first transcontinental railway. In 1873 he was appointed assistant superintendent in the railway mall service at Washington, and served as assistant general superintendent in

1874 and as general superintendent from 1875 to 1878. In 1878, two years after the telephone instrument was demonstrated as a commercial achievement, he became Identified with that business and in the next ten years did much to popularize and extend Its use. There was a period from 1887 when impaired health compelled him to seek recreation in travel, and from 1893 to 1896 he was a Vermont farmer. In 1896 he went south to Argentine, South America, and was engaged in the promotion of electrical enterprises, introducing American electric system of street railways to Buenos Ayres and telephone systems in principal cities. In 1907 Mr. Vail was elected president of the American Telegraph & Telephone Company, and continued as its chief executive officer until his death on April 16, 1920.

For many years he called his home the farm community in Vermont known as Lyndonville. He was a member of many learned and technical societies, both in this country and abroad, and altogether was one of the most constructive men of business produced in his age.

Marion B. Barrett. By a series of crossreferences, with Incidental Index facilities, it has been possible in the preparation of this work to incorporate more detailed and complete family records than would have been possible were the attempt made to repeat such data in the various individual sketches of the different representatives of these numerous leading families. Thus in the case of Marion B. Barrett ready reference may be made to the amplitude of family data that appear on other pages, in connection with the personal sketch of his older brother, Meredith M. Barrett, and the repeating of this record is therefore not required in the article here presented.

Marion B. Barrett, a scion of one of the prominent pioneer families of Harrison County, was born in Cadiz Township, this county, on the 16th of June, 1840, and in the schools of that township and Nottingham Township he received his early education. He was one of the gallant sons of the county who served as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. On the 9th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he participated in the battle of Perryville, an engagement in which he was struck in the ankle by a spent minie ball, besides having his haversack shot from his back. He took part in various other engagements, mostly of minor order, and remained with his regiment until June, 1863, when he received his honorable discharge. After the close of his military career Mr. Barrett engaged in farming on his present fine farm, which has continued his home during the long Intervening years and which comprises about 165 acres of the valuable soil of Nottingham Township. He has made the place the stage of well ordered industry in the departments of diversified agriculture and stock-growing, and in the gracious evening of their lives he and his wife find themselves compassed by ideal surroundings, having the high regard of their home community and the companionship of friends who are tried and true. They are members of Asbury Chapel (Methodist Episcopal), and he has served as a member of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Barrett is a republican in politics, and his continued interest in his old comrades of the Civil war is indicated by his appreciative affiliation with McCready Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Cadiz, the county seat.

In 1896 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Barrett to Miss Emma Hagedorn, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Floto) Hagedorn, and the one child of this union is William M., who is associated in the management of the home farm.

David M. Gibson has depended entirely upon his own ability and energy in gaining his present secure place as one of the substantial farmers of his native township, and is now staging his vigorous operations on his well ordered farm of 145 acres in German Township, Harrison County. He was born in this township on the 19th of January, 1859, and is a son of George W. and Frances (Gutschall) Gibson, both likewise natives of Harrison County. Mrs. Gibson was born in German Township, a daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Fisher) Gutschall. Samuel Gutschall was bom in Maryland in 1795. and was a son of Nicholas Gutschall. who came from the old Keystone State to Ohio in 1800 and became one of the earliest and most influential settlers in German Township, Harrison County, where he erected and operated the first saw mill and grist mill in the township, besides reclaiming a good farm. Samuel Gutschall was reared and educated under the conditions that obtained in the pioneer period of Harrison County history, and he became one of the prosperous farmers of German Township, where he remained until his death. By his first marriage he became the father of five children - 'Mary A. (wife of Dr. Aaron Bishop), James, Margaret (Mrs. Jacob DeVault), Elizabeth (Mrs. John Peepels), Frances (Mrs. George W. Gibson). By his second marriage Mr. Gutschall had one son. David, and of his third marriage were bora two children - Samuel and Ellen. The maiden name of his second wife was Ellen McL»ean. the family name of his third wife was Wnesettler, and for his fourth wife he married Ruth Graham. The members of the Gutschall family in the several generations have held principally to the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

James and Mary (Wiiiard) Gibson, paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, were bora in Maryland and became early settlers in Harrison County, where Mr. Gibson was a pioneer teacher and farmer and where he died when his children were not yet of adult age. his widow having survived him by many years and having been a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. The children were four in number - Agnes, Dorcas, Caroline and George W.

George W. Gibson passed his entire life in German Township, where he was continuously associated with farm activities from his youth until his death, which occurred when he was about seventy-seven years of age. his widow passing away at the age of about eighty-five years and both having been active members of the German Reformed Church. They became the parents of four children: Samuel B. married Miss Belle Vealy, and they now reside in Los Angeles, California ; David M. and James Leslie were twins, the latter having died at the age of twenty-four years; and George B. married Miss Irena J. Bawsley, their home being now in German Township.

David M. Gibson gained his early education in the district schools of German Township and later was a student for one year at the Northwestern Ohio Universitv at Ada. He was a young man when he initiated Independent farm enterprise in his native township, where in 1890 he purchased a tract of thirty acres near Cadiz Junction. He remained on this place ten years, and in 1903 he purchased a farm of 100 acres in the same township. Five years later he sold this property, and in 1914 he purchased his present farm, which comprises 145 acres and is one of the valuable farms of German Township. lie takes lively interest in all that touches the community welfare. Is a democrat in politics, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.

November 3, 1885, recorded the marriage of Mr. Gibson to Miss Sarah S. White, who likewise was bora and reared in Harrison County, and they have seven children - Iva, Walter L.. Viola, George F.. David Crawford, Grace Victoria and Earl H. Iva is the wife of Clarence BIraey, a farmer in German Township, and they have three children - Lawrence, Walter and Mary Rozella. Walter L., the eldest son of Mr. Gibson, married Miss Lena Freshwater, and they have three children - Thelma, Alvin C. and Virgil Dean. Viola is the wife of Larra Kimmel, and they reside in Stark County. Mr. Gibson served as Township Trustee for fourteen years.

William H. Patterson, county commissioner of Harrison County, and one of the prosperous farmers of Archer Township, is rightly adjudged one of the representative men of this region. He was born in Hopewell Township. Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 9. 1855, a son of John and Jane (McClelland) Patterson, and grandson of James Patterson. .Tames Patterson was born in County Down, Ireland in 1780, and in 1787 was brought to America by his father. They located in Washington County. Pennsylvania, and there James Patterson spent the remainder of his life. He married Mary Miller, who was bora in Washington County. Pennsylvania, in 1786. Their children were as follows: Elizabeth. Jane.

John Patterson was born in the same house as his son. the date of his birth being December 6. 1822. His wife was bora In Hopewell Township. Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1822. and they were married in 1850. She was a daughter of Thomas McClelland, one of the well-known men of Washington County, Pennsylvania. John Patterson spent his entire life on the farm on which he was bora, and died who was born April 9, 1851; Thomas, who was born April 1, 1853; William H., whose name heads this review; and John L., who was born May 30, 1859. The parents belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.

William H. Patterson was brought up in his native township and taught to be useful and industrious. and was given the educational advantages afforded by the neighborhood district schools. As a young man he began farming in Washington County, and continued to operate there until 1903, when he moved to his present farm of 163 acres in Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where he has since resided. He also owns 100 acres additional in the same township.

In 1882 Mr. Patterson married Zella, a daughter of Major George T. and Cathrina (Denny) Work. During the Civil war George T. Work organized a company in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was commissioned Its captain. later was promoted and at the close of the war he was mustered cfut with the rank of major. Hater he served as sheriff of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mrs Patterson died on December 28, 1886, leaving two sons: George W., who married Nannie Borger. and they have one daughter, Martha Zella: and John Vance, who married Carrie Meyers, and they have two sons. Allen and George. In November. 1888. Mr. Patterson married Laura. a daughter of Walter Denny. She died April 10. 1911. leaving three children : Etta Lee, who married Joseph Reed

Thompson, and they have three children. Ralph, Eleanor and Laura Louise. Walter W., who married Lucile Bigger, and they have three children, Laura Louise and Mary Lee and Margaret Irene (twins) : William McClellan, who married Wilma Hines (no children).

At the November election in 1916 Mr. Patterson was elected a commissioner of Harrison County, and was re-elected in 1918. He is one of the sound, conservative men of this section, and a man who has made his own way in the world, so that he is thoroughly practical and knows how to handle the affairs of the county in an effective manner.

Robert M. Bothwet.l. For over thirty years Robert M. Both well has had some of the unusual responsibilities of farm management in Carroll County. A practical farmer and also a successful dairyman, he owns the City Dairy, one of the chief sources of the pure milk supply of Carrollton. He is a good business man and has linked his private interests with the essential interests of the community.

Mr. Both well was born on the old Infirmary Farm, a mile and a half from Carrollton in Union Township, April 16. 1867. His parents were Armstrong and Catherine (Hill) Botbwell. His mother was a daughter of John and Rebecca Hill, whose lives were identified with pioneer times In Carroll County. John Hill was a noted hunter and frequently Invaded the bear dens which were then rather plentiful in this section of Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Bothwell were George and Jane

Both well, who entered land in Lee Township and improved a farm that is now owned by J. W. Maple. Armstrong Bothwell was bom In Lee Township In 1831 and his wife in the same community in 1834. They were married April 17, 1855, and he died at Carrollton February 9, 1912, his wife passing away February 8, 1903. Armstrong Bothwell combined the occupations of farming and stone mason, and for nine years was manager of the County Infirmary. Eventually he bought the Infirmary farm of a hundred fifty-five acres, and subsequently bought twenty-five acres more and was rated as one of the prosperous and substantial farmers and land owners of the county. While always busy with some practical work, he was Interested in literature and a great reader and kept up with the times. Politically he was a republican, and he and his wife were among the supporting members for many years of the Methodist Church at Carrollton. In their family were five children: Evallne, bom July 20, 1856, and died February 1, 1901; John Chalmers, bom March 9, 1860, and died January 19, 1911; Robert M., the third of the family; Vincent Grant, bora January 6, 1872, and died in Infancy; and Mary Laura, bom December 9, 1875.

Robert M. Bothwell came to manhood in the farm environment, and had a practical training as a youth which well fitted him for the responsibilities he has since carried. He began life with a public school education. At the present time he owns three hundred acres of Carroll County land. His chief farm and home are on eighty acres adjoining the corporation of Carrollton, and this Is the headquarters of the City Dairy. The dairy farm Is equipped with modern buildings and other facilities for the production and handling of milk. He keeps a herd of fifty cows, and uses two large silos for their feeding. The operation of this dairy in Itself is a public service, and probably for that reason Mr. Bothwell has never aspired to office. He is a republican voter and is a member of the Methodist Church which his parents attended so many years.

In 1888 Mr. Bothwell married Miss Jane Marshall, daughter of Joshua and Malinda Marshall, of Washington Township. Her mother died in 1901. To Mr. and Mrs. Bothwell were born six children: Marshall, bora in 1890;

Grace, wife of Edgar Boyd, of Union Township: Nina, wife of Carl Schnmo and the mother of two children, named Robert and Beth Jane: Laura, wife of Lawrence Dunlap; John and Earl, both at home with their father. The son Marshall responded to the draft in August. 1918. and was in training at Camp Sherman when stricken with the Influenza and soon afterward was granted an honorable discharge

David R. Zollars has given convincing evidence of his ability and progressiveness in connection with farm Industry in his native county, and is numbered among the successful representatives of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in German Township, Harrison County. He was bora In this township on the 6th of January, 1857, and is a son of David and Lu- clnda (Ritchison) Zollars, his father having been actively associated with coal-mining operations In Harrison County and having maintained his residence at Germano, where he died when his son David R. was a child of about two years, his widow surviving him by a number of years. They became the parents of nine children - Lydia, Lovlna, Mary, John (served as a soldier in the Civil war), Lucinda, Nancy, Emma, Hattie and David R.

After the death of his father David R. Zollars was taken into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller, and his fosterparents gave him the affection and care that they would have given to their own son. He was afforded the advantages of the district schools of German Township, and thereafter he found satisfaction in continuing his helpful association with the work and management of the farm of his fosterfather in German Township. Since 1909 he has been engaged in independent farm enterprise, with a valuable property comprising 258 acres owned by him and constituting one of the model farms of German Township. Experience and mature judgment have been brought to bear by Zollars in the prosecution of his progressive enterprise as an agriculturist and stock:grower, and he is an exemplar of modern methods and policies in this field of industry, of which he is a prominent and highly respected representative in his native township. He pays tribute of lasting appreciation and gratitude to his fosterparents, and on other pages of this work will be found individual mention of Henry Miller, who was well worthy of the filial devotion of him whose name initiates this article. Mr. Zollars takes loyal interest in community affairs, is liberal in support of enterprises projected for the general good, and in politics is aligned with the democratic party.

The year 1885 recorded the marriage of Mr. Zollars to Miss Jennie Roberts, daughter of George and Nancy (Benedict) Roberts, of Harrison County, and of this union have been born five children : Buena Vista is the wife of Clifford Ferguson, of Tuscarawas County, and they have two children - Wayne and Olive. Henry Miller Zollars is farming the old Miller farm adjoining his father's farm. He married Miss Hattie Kuhn, and their two children are Margaret Louise and Henry Raymond. Nannie Evelyn is the wife of Clyde Tucker, a merchant of Clarksfleld, Huron County, Ohio, and they have two children, David and Clyde Dean. Charles Monford is more specifically mentioned in a following paragraph; and John Roscoe remains at the parental home.

Charles Monford Zollars was one of the gallant young men contributed to the nation's military service by Harrison County in connection with the World war. He entered service May 14, 1918, was in training at Columbus, Ohio, for the ensuing two months, and was then sent to Camp Hancock, Georgia, where he remained about eight months. He was then transferred to Camp Dix, New Jersey, thence to Pittsburgh, and Inter to Washington. D. C., where he is now located in the War and Navy Building as a clerk. He was discharged April 24, 1919.

but continued in the employ of the Government. He was assigned to a machine gun battalion, and served as sergeant of the Fouth Headquarters Battalion of the One Hundred and Fifty- Third Depot Brigade.

Henry Miller, who was one of the venerable native sons of Harrison County at the time of his death in 1910, was a representative of one of the best known pioneer families of this county, with whose history the family name has been identified for more than a century. Adequate details concerning this influential family may be found in the sketch of Andrew B. Miller on other pages of this work. Henry Miller was a man of fine character ana marked ability, became one of the most successful agriculturists and stock-growers of his native township, and at the time of his death was the owner of a valuable landed estate of more than 300 acres in German Township. He achieved special success in the breeding and raising of Clydesdale liorse9, as well as the best type of standard-bred horses and also fine sheep.

Mr. Miller was bofrn in German Township, on the farm which was his place of residence at the time of his death, and the date of his nativity was August 27, 1824. He was a son of Daniel and Susannah (Lowmiller) Miller, and a grandson of John Miller, who came to Harrison County from Maryland in 1806. Mr. Miller passed his entire life on the farm on which he was born, and his early educational advantages were those of the pioneer schools. May 20, 1856, recorded his marriage to Miss E. W. Gault, who was born February 28, 1831, a daughter of John and Nancy (McKinsey) Gault, her parents having become residents of Harrison County in 1839. Mrs. Miller was seventy-one years of age at the time of her death, and both she and her husband were communicants of the Presbyterian Church. They had no children, but in their home they reared from childhood David B. Zollars, a representative Harrison County farmer of whom individual mention is made in the preceding sketch. Mr. Miller was a staunch democrat in politics and was liberal and publicspirited as a citizen, the while his generous and kindly nature gained for him the high regard of all who knew him. He lived and labored to worthy ends, achieved much of success, and by his character and accomplishment honored the country and state of his birth.

Ross Philip Rusk, M. D., of Cadiz, who has won recognition as a successful physician and surgeon, and gained prominence as a progressive citizen, is a native 9on of Ohio and is a representative in the third generation of two old and well known families of this part of the State.

The more important names and dates in his family relationship are here set down as a means of permanent record. His paternal greatgrandparents were David and Jane Rusk. David Rusk had three brothers and one sister, James. Humphrey, Michael and Polly.

Michael Rusk, son of David and Jane, was born September 23, 1796, and was one of the pioneers of Eastern Ohio. He died in Belmont County July 31, 1847. He married Catherine

McDonald, who was born September 15, 1807, and died September 13, 1878. She had ten brothers and sisters: Jeanette, John, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Margaret, James, William, Jane, Ruhama and Christianna McDonald. The children of Michael and Catherine Rusk were : Jane Riusk Love, born October 21, 1829, and died October 20, 1920; Eliza Rusk Morgan, born March 5, 1832, and died July 9, 1859; Archibald Rusk, born August 30, 1835; David Wilson Rusk, bom May 26, 1838, and died April 24, 1842; John Alexander Rusk, bom June 26, 1841, and died April 24, 1842; James Harvey Rusk, born May 17, 1842, and died August 9, 1889; and Margaret Malinda Rusk, bom August 4, 1846.

James Harvey Rusk, father of Dr. Rusk, spent his entire life as a farmer in Richland Township, Belmont County. He married Mary Ellen Morgan, who was born Januaiy 24, 1846, and died March 2, 1907. She was a daughter of Philip and Sarah (Seibert) Morgan, the former bom September 22, 1819, and died in 1892, and the latter bora November 26, 1826, and died in 1907. Sarah Seibert was a daughter of Adam and Rachel Seibert. Mary Ellen was the oldest of the children of Philip Morgan and wife, the others being: Marshall J., bora September 26, 1847; Martha Ann Coleman, bom August 14, 1849, and died in 1916 ; Malissa Jane Love, bom October 14, 1851, and died in 1906 ; John Albert Morgan, bom November 13, 1853; Milton Chalmers Morgan, born November 14, 1856, and died in 1861; Ada line Amanda Hedges, bom April 24, 1859, and died in 1914; Euphemia Alinda Love, bora June 18, 1861; and Ell Seibert Morgan, bom December 19, 1866.

Belmont County; Elmer M. of Missouri who married Ada M. Schenck; Sarah Jane, who married Harry H. Haverfleld and both are now deceased; Marshall A. of Harrison County who married Nellie Branson; Ina Etta who became the wife of D. S. Thompson of Belmont County ; and Dr. Ross Philip. «

Ross Philip Rusk was bom in Richland Township, Belmont County, October 11, 1877, and was graduated from the St. Clalrsville High School and from Franklin College with the class of '99, with the degree Bachelor of Science. Previous to his graduation from Franklin College he had taken one year of the Medical course at Starling Medical College at Columbus, and following his graduation from Franklin he returned to Starling, where after completing the four years' course, he was graduated with the degree M. D., class of 1902, and since he has been in active practice he has taken post-graduate courses both at Chicago Post Graduate College in 1908 and at the medical department of Harvard University in 1914.

Doctor Rusk entered the practice of his profession In Cadiz in 1902, and during his twenty years of practice his skill and ability have won for him a place among the prominent and successful members of the medical profession of Harrison County. He is a member of the Harrison County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

As a citizen Doctor Rusk has always been progressive and public spirited, always ready to give his earnest support to all civic movements having for their object the promotion of the welfare of the entire community. When the United States entered the World war he was on June 21, 1917, appointed by the Ohio Medical Society as one of three members of the Draft Board for Harrison County, the other two having been appointed by the Common Pleas Court of the county. He practically gave his entire time to the organization of the Board and Its subsequent work until he resigned on January 8, 1918, on account of the urgent requirements of his services in private practice, and even after his retirement from the Board he freely gave his time to the work of assisting In the physical examination of the boys who came before the Draft Board. He was the last member of the original board to resign, and his services were fully appreciated both by the Government and the community. On November 9, 1918, Doctor Rusk was enrolled as a member of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps authorized by the Council of National Defense and approved by the President of the United States.

In 1905 Doctor Rusk was united in marriage with Ola, the daughter of Elwood Johnson of Flushing, Ohio. She died on February 5, 1911. On December 25, 1912, the doctor was united In marriage with Beulah Van Zandt Schenck, the daughter of William Schenck, of Brookfield, Missouri. To this marriage three children have been bom as follows: Ross Philip, Jr., bora

Doctor Rusk is a member of Cadiz Lodge No. 219, F. and A. M., and of Cadiz Chapter No. 171, R. A. M. He is a republican in politics and the family belong to the Cadiz Presbyterian Church. He is a director in the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz.

Thomas I. Tope. Carroll County claims a specially fine contingent of native sons who are here actively identified with farm Industry and stand exponent of loyal and progressive citizen ship. Of this number is Thomas I. Tope, whose well improved farm of eighty acres is situated in Monroe Township, on rural mail route No. 4 from Carrollton, the county seat. He was born on the old home farm in this township, near Leavittsville, September 16, 1868, and is a son of Gabriel, and Elizabeth (McCue) Tope, the former of whom still resides on and has general supervision of his farm, though he is now venerable in years. Gabriel Tope was bora and reared in Carroll County and is a son of Jacob and Katherine .(Kale) Tope, Jacob Tope having come from Pennsylvania and numbered himself among the pioneer farmers of Carroll County, where he secured land near Petersburg and where he and his wife remained until their deaths. Their children were eleven in number. Gabriel Tope has devoted his entire active career to agricultural and live-stock industry, and is one of the venerable and honored native sons of Carroll County. His wife likewise Is of advanced age, and both are devout members of the Presbyterian Church. Their son, Homer D., is general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League for the district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of its organizers and has gained fame as a reformer and eloquent public speaker. He was the oldest in order of birth of the family of four children, and Thomas I. was the fourth child.

Thomas I. Tope is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and he continued to be actively associated with the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority. After his marriage, which occurred in the spring of 1896, he established his residence on a farm of eighty acres in Monroe Township, and here he continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stockraiser fourteen years. He then sold the property and purchased another farm of 160 acres in the same township, and in the spring of 1920 he sold this place, upon advantageous terms, and purchased his present farm, which likewise he is making the stage of progressive and successful agricultural and live-stock industry. He is a staunch republican, has been active In local affairs of a public order and served as city committeeman. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Church.

February 15, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Tope to Miss Hattie Rainsberger, daughter of Thomas Rainsberger, of whom individual record is given on other pages of this work. The one child of this union Is John Clayton Tope, who was born in the year 1897 and who is now employed in the city of Canton, Stark County. John C. Tope was one of the sterling young men who represented Carroll County in the nation's military service in the late World war. He entered service in September, 1918, passed three months in the training camp at Toledo, and was then transferred to Camp Oglethorpe, at Atlanta, Georgia. Two months later he was sent to Baltimore, Maryland, as a private of the first class, and after the signing of the historic armistice he continued in service until April, 1919, when he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge.

John F. Leyda. A prosperous stock man and farmer Illustrates by his experience the ups and downs of his line of business, Its fascinating promises of fortune as well as its equally abundant opportunities for failure. One of the men of Carroll County who has had some of these vicissitudes of fortune, who has made several changes in location and business, but each one dictated by good judgment, and by determination has overcome obstacles and is now enjoying a well earned prosperity is John F. Leyda of Harrison Township.

Mr. Leyda was born in Harrison Township in December 17, 1867, son of David and Samantha (Putoff) Leyda. His father was also a native of Harrison Township and a well known farmer there. Oldest of nine children, John F. Leyda had his early education limited to terms of winter school until he was seventeen. He learned farming by work at home, but had practically no capital when he married Miss

The first year of their married life they lived on the Wright farm of a hundred acres. He then rented a hundred acre farm in Rose Township, spent a year there, another year on a hundred fifty acres in Brown Township, farmed a hundred sixty acres at Magnolia for a year, and then returned to the Wright farm in Monroe Township, where he continued his varied efforts at agriculture for seven years. After a public sale of his stock and equipment Dr. Leyda located at Dellroy, and employed his labor and a teaming outfit as his principal business for five years.

In 1914 he bought his present place of a hundred five acres. This is now a well equipped farm, and he has made it the source of a steady income for the past six years.

Mr. Leyda is an independent democrat and member of the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy. Two children were born to their marriage. Gladys was bom in 1906. Marie died in 1898, at the age of two years and one day.

James Grant Snively was reared under the discipline of the farm and has depended wisely upon Ids knowledge of agricultural and livestock industry in making his way to the goal of independence and stable prosperity. He now has secure place as one of the prosperous and representative farmers of his native county, eighty acres of the place being in Loudon Township, Carroll County, and the remaining seven acres in Lee Township. He was born In Washington Township, this county, August 15, 1868, and is a son of John Milton and Eleanor (Figely) Snively, his father likewise having been a native of Washington Township, where he passed his entire life, his vocation having been that of farming. His parents, Henry and Mary (Carmon) Snively, were natives of Pennsylvania and became pioneer settlers in Carroll County, so that the family name has been long and worthily linked with the civic and industrial history of this Ohio county. Of the children of John M. and Eleanor Snively the eldest is Emma, who is the wife of Thomas Demilton, a farmer near Minerva, this county; Robert Is engaged in farming in Washington Township; James Grant, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Alvin is a farmer in Washington Township; Margaret is the wife of James McGee, of Augusta Township; Howard remains on the old home farm, in Washington Township; and Mary is the wife of Foster Roudebush and they reside in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

James G. Snively profited alike by the discipline of the district schools and the home farm, and upon attaining to his legal majority he began to work by the month, as a farm employe. After his marriage, in 1890, he continued to farm on rented land for a period of eighteen years, and he then purchased his present farm, which had been permitted to run down and which thus placed distinct challenge upon his characteristic energy and progressiveness. He has brought the place up to a high standard of productiveness, has remodeled the buildings, and has made other improvements which likewise indicate the supervision of a keen, determined and enterprising owner. Mr. Snively takes loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home community and native county, is a staunch republican and Is affiliated actively with the Kilgore Grange.

December 21. 1890, recorded the marriage of Mr. Snively to Miss Matilda A. McCully, who was born and reared in Harrison Township, this county, a daughter of William and Jennie (Smith) McCully, the former a native of Harrison Township and the latter of Fox Township. Mr. and Mrs. Snively have six children: Maude Is the wife of James Simmons, of Loudon Township: Erna Is the wife of Harvey Mc- Cartney. of Dellroy, this county: Lillie is the wife of Oscar Reigle, of Carrollton: Mary now resides In the city of Carrollton: and James W. and Wilbur S. remain at the parental home.

James Mii.ton Finefrock, one of the prosperous farmers of Carroll County, operating the old homestead, 280 acres of as well-developed land as can be found in Rose Township, is recognized as one of the important factors in the agricultural life of his neighborhood. He was horn in Rose Township, September 26, 1890. a son of Atwell John and Mary Elizabeth (Shine) Finefrock, and grandson of John Finefrock, who was born in Lancaster County. Pennsylvania, in 1792. He married Elizabeth Harple, who was born at Wurtemberg. Germany, in 1798, and came to the United States with her parents, who located near Lancaster. Pennsylvania. They made the trip on a sailing vessel which took eight weeks to cross the Atlantic ocean. The marriage ceremony which united John Finefrock and Elizabeth Harple was performed at Lancaster In 1817. and for six years thereafter they resided in that city, and they moved to Centerville. Ohio, now Carrollton, making the trip by wagon and being four weeks on the road. On July 4, 1823, they located on a farm in Rose Township. Carroll County, which remained in the family until 1918. After twentyseven jfears spent on this farm, they moved to another one one mile south of Waynesburg, Stark County, where five years were spent. They then moved to Waynesburg, and spent twenty-four years. Being then advanced in years they went to live with their son. John Finefrock. who resided one-half mile north of Waynesburg, and nineteen months later, January 9, 1881, they passed away within eight hours of each other. By trade John Finefrock wps a locksmith, but was also engaged in farming. There were ten children in his family, seven sons and three daughters. Atwell John Finefrock was a farmer for many years, and owned 280 acres of land in Rose Township, but Is now retired. Both he and his wife are still livintr. They had nine children, of whom James Milton Finefrock is the seventh in order of birth

Growing up In Rose Township, James Milton Finefrock attended district school Number 6 during the winter months until he was sixteen years old. and has always been engaged in farming. After his marriage he took charge of the homestead, and has remained on it ever since, and carried on general farming. His property is In fine condition and he takes great pride in keeping everything up-to-date.

On February 28, 1912, Mr. Finefrock was married to Lou Emma Halter, a daughter of George and Minnie (Yarger) Halter, of East Sparta, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Finefrock have two children, namely: Helen Marie and Roy Herman.

In politics Mr. Finefrock is a republican. He finds it beneficial to maintain membership with the National Grange of Magnolia, Ohio. The Lutheran church of Waynesburg has him on Its rolls as a useful member, and he gives it a generous support. An excellent farmer, good citizen and honorable man Mr. Finefrock measures up to the best standards, and deserves the confidence he always inspires in those with whom he has dealings.

J. Finley Mattebn. One of the old established and highly honored families of Harrison County is that bearing the name of Mattern, and it has representatives here which belong to the highest type of American citizenry, one of them being J. Finley Mattern, a prosperous farmer of Archer Township. He was born in Green Township, where the family was first established many years ago by his great-grandfather, John Mattern. a native of Maryland. J. Finley Mattern came into the world on February 17, 1860. a sou of John Mattern, born in Green Township on July 12, 1837, a son of Abraham Mattern, and grandson of the original John Mattern of Maryland. The mother of J. Finley Mattern bore the maiden name of Margaret Leas, and she was born in Green Township on August 2, 1839, a daughter of George and Mary (Bream) Leas. Both the Mattern and Leas families not only were very prominent In agricultural matters, but they also participated to a marked degree In the establishment and support of the old Bethel Methodist Church of Green Township, of which John Mattern and his wife have been members for over fifty-eight years. They are both living and conducting their farm of 120 acres on which they located In 1866.

For about two years J. Finley Mattern attended the district schools of Green Township, but his parents then moving to Archer Township he completed his studies In the latter. He remained at home until his marriage to Mary Bell Maxwell, a daughter of Allan and Mary Anna Maxwell, and following that event he located on a farm of his own in Archer Township. His first wife died on August 15. 1888, and on October 2. 1889, he was married to Isabel Snyder, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Bradford) Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have sixty-one and one-quarter acres in their present farm, and she owns sixty-seven and threequarter acres not far away. Mr. Mattern carries on general farming and stock raising, and Is. like the other members of his family, a man of means and influence.

who was born on November 2, 1893; and Wilmot Doyle, who was born on April 8, 1896, Is at home. Having been brought up In the faith of the Methodist Church, both Mr. and Mrs. Mattern are members of the old Bethel Church of that denomination in Green Township.

Prank Everett Mat tern Is a veteran of the great war, having enlisted in the service on May 30, 1918, and was trained at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia. About the middle of July of that year he left Camp Gordon with his organization for Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, on July 24,

1918, and landed in England on August 8, 1918. Following a stay of two days at the American rest camp at Winchelsea, England, he sailed from Southampton, England, for France and landed on French soil on August 12, 1918. He took part in the Saint Mlhiel and Argonne offensives, and was gassed on October 3, 1918, serving with the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry, Fortieth Division, and the Eighteenth Infantry, First Division. Sailing for home, he landed at Hoboken, *New Jersey, on March 18,

1919, and was discharged at Camp Sherman on May 23, 1919, and returned home, where he is now engaged in assisting his father and brother in conducting the homestead.

Mrs. Emma Fitzsimmons is one of the property owners of Harrison Township, her valuable farm of 100 acres being one of the best In her locality. She was born in Rose Township, Carroll County, May 1, 1874, a daughter of Jacob Hope and Margaret (Sangler) Warley, and granddaughter of Joseph Warley, who married Dosla Burwell, of Brown Township, and they had ten children, six sons and four daughters. The grandparents are both deceased, the grandmother dying In 1886, in Brown Township. Jacob Hope Warley was born in Brown Township, was married in Harrison Township, but first lived at Mineral City, Ohio. Later he bought forty acres in Rose Township, where Mrs. Fitzsimmons was born, she being the third In a family of one son and three daughters.

Growing up in her native township Mrs. Fitzsimmons attended the district schools of her neighborhood until she was fifteen years old, and remained at home until her marriage, which took place September 6, 1898, when she was united with Patrick Fitzsimmons, a son of Luke and Ellen Fitzsimmons, both natives of County Cavln, Ireland, where they spent their entire lives. For the first five years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons lived at Canton, where he was night watchman for the Canton Axle Works, and then they moved to the old homestead of Mrs. Fitzsimmons, comprising ninety acres, but a year later bought her present farm of 160 acres, moving on it April 5, 1904, and since the death of Mr. Fitzsimmons, November 1, 1915, she has continued to operate It very successfully, specializing in general farming and short-horn cattle.

Mr. Fitzsimmons was born In County Cavan, Ireland, and was twenty-one years old when he came to the United States. He spent several years In western states, Arkansas and Texas, and located at Canton, Ohio, in 1889.

There he met his future wife, whom he courted for three years before they were married. For two years of that time he was with the Canton Axle Works as night watchman. He was independent in politics. The Catholic Church held his membership. A man of quiet tastes, he was a student of literature and very well informed. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons became the parents of three sons, Robert Jacob, Marion Theodore and Elmer Patrick, all of whom are at home. Mrs. Fitzsimmons Is recognized as an excellent farmer and a lady of unusual force of character. Left a widow, she has reared her sons to be a credit to their parents and neighborhood, and has every reason to be proud of what she has accomplished.

Frederick J. Mekryman. The rich soil of Carroll County has already made generous returns for efforts expended upon it, and now that modern scientific methods are being so widely adopted, there are years more of fertility left for It. Some of the most properous men of the county are those who have devoted themselves to cultivating this land, and among them one who Is worthy of special mention is Frederick J. Merryman of Rose Township, owner of 158 acres of as valuable land as can be found in this part of the state.

Frederick J. Merryman was born in Wayne Township, JefTerson County, Ohio, April 24, 1879, a son of Nicholas William and Effle Ann (Elliott) Merryman, and grandson of Jared Merryman, who located In Wayne Township. JefTerson County, Ohio, at an early date, and married Mary Jones. His life was spent In agricultural pursuits. Of their large family, Nicholas William Merryman was the fourth in order of birth. He spent his entire life on the home farm in Wayne Township, where he died January 10, 1906, his widow surviving him until March 4, 1907. During the winter months, when somewhat free from the responsibilities of farming, he made apple and molasses barrels. casks and other cooperage. He and his wife had two children, namely: Mary Belle,

Until he was fifteen years old Frederick J. Merryman attended district school Number 9, Wayne Township, during the winter months, and In the spring and summer worked on the home farm of seventy-seven acres. Following his completion of his schooling he spent the greater part of his time on this farm until he was twenty-five years old, when he married, and then he took charge of the farm and conducted it for four years. In 1908 he came to his present farm in Rose Township, and here he Is carrying on general farming, and is very successful. His farm has thoroughly modern buildings which are equipped with electric light and he takes a great pride in having everything in first-class order about his place. Mr. Merryman Is very progressive and is always learning something new, and many of his experiments are so successful that his operations are followed with profit by his neighbors.

In 1904 Mr. Merryman was married to Eva Blanche Fritchley, a daughter of George and Lucinda (Hoobler) Fritchley of Rose Township, and granddaughter of John Fritchley, who came to the United States from Baden, Germany, December 9, 1817, with his father, John Fritchley, and was one of six children. In 1829 he moved to Brown Township, Carroll County, where he died June 15, 1845. The grandfather was married to Christina Wetzel and they had ten children, of whom George Fritchley was the eldest. George Fritchley died May 15, 1908, but his mother is still living. Mrs. Merryman attended the district schools of Rose Township and the Waynesburg High School for two years. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman have two children, namely : Edna O., and Donald Fritchley.

A republican, Mr. Merryman has taken an active part In local affairs, and was elected a member of the school board for three years, and was re-elected for a second term, which office he is still holding. He is an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Waynesburg.

Mr. Merryman is proud of his father's record ns a soldier during the war between the two sections of the country. He was a private in Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisting May 15, 1884. After the war he became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and maintained connections with the post at Smithfleld, Jefferson County, Ohio. On the maternal side Mr. Merrynaan is descended from Revolutionary soldiers.

Walter M. Cope, who is a member of one of the old and highly respected families of Harrison County, operates a valuable farm in Archer Township. He was born In Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on September 8, 1883, a son of Jacob and Amanda R. (Rose) Cope, and grandson of Samuel Cope and Hugh Rose, both of whom were for years prosperous agriculturists of Nottingham Township. With the exception of a few years passed in Illinois Jacob Cope spent his life in Nottingham Township, and he, too, devoted himself to farming. His death occurred in Nottingham Township in 1897, but his widow survives him and lives in Cadiz City. Their children were as follows: Ida May, Nancy Emma, Jacob O., Thomas Blaine, Lucy L., Walter Milo and Denver L.

The Cope family is of English origin, Oliver Cope having come to the American Colonies from Wiltshire, England, in 1687 and located permanently in Pennsylvania, where some of his descendants are still living. Others, however, went to Virginia, and from the latter state in 1812 John Cope, animated by the same spirit that prompted his ancestor to brave the unknown perils of a long ocean voyage and those of a practically unexplored country to leave the Old for the New World, came to Ohio. After a year in Belmont County he settled in what is now Harrison County, and from then on members of the Cope family have been connected with the constructive work of this part of the state.

working knowledge of farming under the experienced tuition of his watchful father. After his marriage in 1906 he began fanning in Cadiz Township, and there farmed the John Devore farm in Archer Township until March, 1921, when he moved to the James Strausbaugh farm in Archer Township. He is engaged in a general line of farming and stockraising, and the results of his training show In his successful operations.

On November 28, 1906 Mr. Cope was united in marriage with Anna Laughlln, a daughter of Albert W. Laughlin. Mr. and Mrs. Cope have one son, Albert Lloyd. Having been reared in the faith of the Christian Church Mr. Cope naturally was inclined toward it, and has found it a medium for the expression of his religious views. For some years he has maintained membership in the congregation at Minksville. Both he and his wife are held in high esteem in the neighborhoods in which their lives have been spent, and they are proud of the records of their families, and are rearing their son to have a respect for his ancestors and a desire to emulate their example.

Samuel G. Moore is a successful and repre^ sentative exponent of farm enterprise in his native township, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 154 acres, so effectively improved and equipped as to make it an ideal place of residence and the responsive stage of progressive activity in diversified agriculture, stockraising and dairy farming, in which last mentioned department Mr. Moore utilizes principally Jersey cows of fine type. He is one of the substantial farmers of Harrison County and a scion in the third generation of a well known pioneer family of this favored section of the old Buckeye State.

Samuel G. Moore was born in German Township, Harrison County, on the 1st of May, 1863, and is a son of Thomas and Rebecca (Galbraith) Moore, the former of whom was bom near Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Samuel Galbraith. Thomas Moore, Sr., grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to Harrison County from Pennsylvania in an early day and established his home in the village of Germano, where for many years he followed his trade, that of tailor. The maternal grandfather, Samuel Galbraith, became a prosperous pioneer farmer in Rumley Township. Thomas Moore, Jr., father of him whose name initiates this article, learned the tailor's trade under the direction of his father, and to this trade he gave his attention during virtually his entire active career, he having been a resident of fhe village of Germano about seventy years and having been one of the venerable and honored citizens of the county at the time of his death, in December, 1914, his devoted wife having passed away in the preceding month, so that In death they were not long separated, both having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church at Germano. Of their two children Samuel G., of this review, is the elder, and William T. is a resident of

Samuel G. Moore profited fully by the advantages offered by the village schools of Germano, and as a young man he engaged in teaming, besides which he followed the butcher's trade for some time. Since his marriage, in 18S9. he has resided on his present farm, in the management of which his thrift and enterprise have enabled him to gain success and that secure Independence which no other vocation offers so distinctively. He has been influential in community affairs, is a democrat In politics, and his secure place in popular confidence and esteem is Indicated in his having served eleven years as trustee of German Township. He and bis wife are earnest members of the Reformed Church at Germano, in which he is serving as a deacon.

In 1889 Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Laura Peoples, who likewise is a native of German Township and who is a daughter of James and Ellen (Hahn) Peoples, the former's father, John Peoples, having been one of the early settlers In German Township. James Peoples* liecame one of the representative farmers of German Township, and his old homestead is the place now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Moore, Mrs, Moore having been an only child and the parents having remained on this farm until their deaths. Both were devout members of the Presbyterian Church but after the death of her husband she joined the Reformed Church at Germano. They commanded the high regard of all who knew them. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two children: Thomas

Earl was graduated in Scio College, Harrison County, and also in the University of Iowa. He is a chemist by profession and now resides In the city of Toledo, Ohio. He married Miss Bertha Shaub, and they have two children. Irma L. was graduated from the Jewett High School as a member of the class of 1920. and remains at the parental home.

Ralph E. Galbraith is one of the representative farmers of the younger generation in Archer Township, where he is associated with his father in the operation of the fine old homestead farm on which he was born and reared, the date of his nativity having been July 30, 1883. He is a son of James A. Galbraith, who was horn In Green Township, this county, on the 18th of January, 1844. a son of John D. and Margaret (Allison) Galbraith. John D. Galbraith likewise was born in Green Township, where be was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer period in the history of Harrison County. Hi9 father, James Galbraith, was born in Ireland and was one of the early settlers at Cadiz, Hartfson County, where he followed the carpenter's trade a few years. James Galbraith then removed to an embryonic farm in Green Township, and this he reclaimed to cultivation, the railway station known as Cadiz Junction hetng situated on his old homestead. He was one of the substantial and honored pioneers of the county and passed the closing years of his life in the Tillage of Hopedale. His children were seven in number -

As a young man John D. Galbraith engaged In independent farm enterprise in Green Township, but in 1858 removed to Jefferson County. In the autumn of 1861 he removed thence to Washington County, Ohio, where he became a successful farmer and where he remained during the rest of his active career. He passed the closing period of his life In Jefferson County, where he died in June, 1901, at a venerable age. His first wife died in 1857, and later he wedded Elizabeth Aiken. The four children of the first marriage were James A., John A., Isabel (Mrs. William Long) and Lavinla. David was the one child of the second marriage. John D. Galbraith and both his first and second wives were members of the Presbyterian Church.

James A. Galbraith acquired his early education in the schools of Harrison, Jefferson and Washington counties, and as a young man began working by the month as a farm hand. Finally he became associated with his brother. John A., In the purchase of a farm of eighty acres in Athens County, but about two years later he returned to Harrison County, where he has since maintained his residence. On the 4th of November, 1875, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Amanda McKee, daughter of James and Sarah (Lewis) McKee, and in the spring of 1880 they established their residence on their present fine homestead farm of 143 acres in Archer Township. Their only child Is Ralph E., whose name initiates this review. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith and their son hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cadiz, where the latter's wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which she was reared. Both father and son are to be designated as stalwart supporters of the principles and policies of the republican party. Mrs. Amanda (McKee) Galbraith was born in Green Township, Harrison County, on the 14th of October, 1847, the eighth In order of birth of the twelve children born to James and Sarah (Lewis) McKee. James McKee was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 11th of February, 1811, a son of Robert and Rachel (Wills) McKee, who came from Pennsylvania and became early settlers In Harrison County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Their religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. James McKee became one of the successful farmers of Green Township, where his death occurred on the 8th of May. 1886, bis widow surviving him by a number of years. Mrs. McKee was a daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Canby) Lewis, who came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County. Ohio, in 1829, and who here passed the residue of their lives.

Ralph E. Galbraith has remained with his parents on the old homestead farm from the time of his birth to the present, and here he has found ample opportunity for the exerting of his energies and the employing of his ability in connection with farm industry, he and his ftther having maintained a partnership alliance in the operation of the farm since 1907, and the combination of long experience on the part of the father, a man of mature judgment, and the youthful vigor and progressiveness of the son having proved specially effective in the co-ordinating and successful directing of the various departments of farm enterprise.

On the 19th of June, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Ralph E. Galbraith to Miss Mary V. Adams, who likewise was born, reared and educated in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Clark and Dora (Copeland) Adams. Adequate record concerning the Adams family appears on other pages of this work, in the sketch of the career of Roy H. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith have no children.

Ceral Arnold Orin. It has been proved that practical industry, wisely and vigorously applied, seldom fails of success. It carries the individual onward and upward, brings out his individual character and acts as a powerful stimulus to others. The most effective results of life are obtained through simple means and the exercise of common sense, perseverance and welldirected effort. In the field of daily activity one of the men of Carroll County who has won an enviable success is Ceral Arnold Orin. proprietor of a general store at New Harrisburg. He was born at New Harrisburg in 1892, a son of Cassius and Melissa (Holmes) Orin.

Until he was eighteen years old he attended the local schools and then took the summer term in the teachers' course at Scio College. Following this he became connected with the K-W Ignitor Company of Cleveland, Ohio, to learn the electrical business, and when he left after four years he was coil tester. Returning to the homestead, he conducted the general store his father had owned for seventeen years, and which at the death of the father in 1905 was taken over by Mr. Orin's sister, Mary Viola. She was the wife of James Long, but died in 1917, when Mr. Orin became the proprietor, and he has conducted it ever since with the exception of the time he spent in the army.

Under the selective draft Mr. Orin was called into the service of the United States Army June 26, 1918, at Carrollton, Ohio, and sent to Camp Sherman, where he was placed in the Twenty- Second Regiment of the Sixth Training Battalion, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, July 26, 1918. On August 1 of that year he was placed in Company C, Three Hundred and Ninth Ammunition Train, and sent to Cleveland, Ohio, and thence by army trucks to New York City, sailing from that port by the northern route to Port Sidney, Halifax, Nova Scotia. After two days there the command was sent to Liverpool, England, and spent a week at Knotty Ash Camp, from whence it was transferred to Havre, France. Following a week there Mr. Orin's unit was stationed at different French towns, finally going to Bourdeaux, where the men were engaged In the dangerous work of hauling ammunition, Mr. Orin being a wagoner, and was so serving at the time of the signing of the armistice. In February, 1919, he sailed from Bordeaux, France, for New York City, landing at Hoboken, and from there was sent on to Camp Sherman and honorably discharged February 14, 1919. Returning home he resumed operating his store.

In August, 1919, Mr. Orin was united in marriage with Helen Snook, a daughter of Benjamin and Cora (Haynam) Snook, of Columbiana County, Ohio, prominent people of that region. In politics Mr. Orin is a republican. His religious convictions find expression in the creed of the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the American Legion at Carrollton. The forethought, sound judgment and enterprise which form the elemental strength of Mr. Orin's character have brought him to a well-earned prosperity, although he is yet numbered among the young business men of his neighborhood.