Harrison Township (part 21 of 37)

Wesley McCombs is one of the venerable native sons of Harrison County and has been long and successfully identified with farm industry. He still has the general supervision of his excellent farm in Stock Township, and is a sterling citizen who is well entitled to representation in this history. He was born In Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 22d of October, 1844, and is a son of the late Joseph and Jane (Tipton) McCombs. That the family was founded in the county in the early pioneer era needs no further voucher than the statement that his father likewise was born and reared in Archer Township, where he became a successful farmer, as had been his father, who here reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds. Joseph McCombs and his wife were venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of their deaths, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Wesley McCombs gained his early education in what was known as the McOoy school house in Archer Township, and later continued his studies in one of the district schools of Stock Township. In the latter township he initiated his Independent farm enterprise when he was a young man, and the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing have enlisted his effective co-operation during the long Intervening years. He is" the owner of a valuable landed estate of 221 acres, and for more than a quarter of a century has resided on his present homestead farm in North Township. He has been influential in local affairs, served eight years as trustee of Stock Township and three years as assessor of that township. Both he and his wife are representative members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, In which he served. many years as a trustee.

On the 7th of July, 1870, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCombs to Miss Emma Jane Campbell, daughter of the late Sylvester Campbell, and of this union the four surviving children are here mentioned : Harry married Miss Ida Huterly and they reside at Carnegie, Pennsylvania ; Laura is the wife of William Homer Henderson, subject of a personal sketch following this; Beatty has the active charge of the old home farm; and Earl married Miss Mary Snyder, their one child being a son, Allen.

William H. Henderson has resided continuously. save for a period of twelve years during which he was engaged in the photographic business at Scio, on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. This place, comprising 130 acres, is one of the valuable farms of North Township, Harrison County, and its owner was here born on the 7th of November, 1850, a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this township. John Henderson, grandfather of William Homer Henderson of this review, was born in Ireland and was sixteen years old at the time of the family immigration to America. He was reared to manhood in Maryland, after having run away from his parents and the other members of the family, who did not gain trace of him till many years later. This Independent youth finally went to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he formed the acquaintance of a daughter of George Henderson, who was of Scotch lineage. This young woman became his wife, she having been a girl at the time of her parents* death and having received from them a goodly heritage of property. From Maryland the young couple removed to Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1816, when they came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became pioneer settlers in Rumley Township, where Mr. Henderson secured a large tract of land and reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds. On this frontier homestead he continued to reside until his death, in February, 1862, and his widow passed away May 13, 1877. They became the parents of four sons and seven daughters, and all but one of the number attained to years of maturity, the while nearly all continued their residence in Harrison County after establishing homes of their own James Henderson, son of John, was bom in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1813, and was about four years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, Ohio, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and afforded the advantages of the primitive schools of the period. As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he became a specially skillful workman. Though he developed one of the excellent farms of North Township, he continued for many years to give more or less attention to the work of his trade. He and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of him the following appreciative estimate has been written: "Kind of heart and genial In disposition, he was an agreeable companion and excellent neighbor. He was noted for his great hospitality in his home, and his kindness to the poor and his sympathy for those in affliction or distress knew no limit. He was always ready to help in time of need."

In October, 1838, was solemnized the marriage of James Henderson to Miss Susannah McClintock, of Monroe Township, she having been a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fisher) McClintock, whose marriage was solemnized in Harrison County. Mr. McClintock was a child at the time of his parents' immigration from Ireland to the United States. He developed one of the excellent pioneer farms of Monroe Township, and there he and his wife remained until their deaths, their children having been ten in number. Mr. McClintock was a member of the Presbyterian Church and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which she was reared. Her parents were early settlers of Harrison County. James Henderson remained on his farm until his death, on the 1st of November, 1880, and his widow survived until the year 1893. Concerning their children the following brief record Is consistently entered : John C. was one of the representative farmers of North Township at the time of his death in December, 1018, his birth having occurred July 21, 1830; Thomas M. died in the year 1873; Alexander served as a member of an Ohio regiment under enlistment for a term of one hundred days in the Civil war. Elizabeth Jane, who became the wife of John Lyle, died in 1918; George died in the year 1903; Lovina became the wife of John R. Mc- Cauley and is now deceased; Barbara is the wife of Dr. Judson T. Beall ; Henry W. died in the year 1867; and William Homer, subject of this review, is the youngest of the number.

William Homer Henderson gained his early education in the public schools of Hanover, which village Is situated near the old home farm on which he was born and reared and on which he now resides. Here he has been continously identified with agricultural and live-stock industry from his early youth save for a period of twelve years devoted to the photographic business in the village of Scio, this county. He keeps the farm of 130 acres up to high standard and is one of the highly esteemed citizens of his native county. He is a democrat in politics and served two years as trustee of North Township. For fully a quarter of a century he has served as an elder of the Ridge Presbyterian Church, in which he and his wife are zealous and influential members.

November 12, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Laura McCombs, daughter of Wesley McCombs, of whom specific mention Is made on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have one child, Emma Almeda.

Chari.es A. Scott owns and give his active supervision to one of the fine farm estates of Harrison County, the same comprising 220 acres and being eligibly situated adjacent to the village of Germano, German Township, Harrison County. In that village Mr. Scott has an attractive home, and his is secure vantage-ground as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native county. He is a brother of Bingham C. Scott, in whose personal sketch, on other pages of this work, may be found adequate record of the honored family of which they are popular representatives.

Charles A. Scott was bora at Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, on the 28th of March, 1881, and is a son of Allen Will and Bertha Jane (Croskey) Scott. He gained his early education in the excellent public schools of hi9 native town and those of Germano, to which village his parents removed in 1895. He remained at the parental home until his marriage. in the autumn of 1903, and within one year thereafter he purchased a farm of 170-19/50 acres, known as the old John Gault farm in

German Township. He remained on this place until 1916, when he sold the property to the Apex Coal Company and purchased his present fine farm adjoining the village of Germano. Here he follows the most progressive policies in modem agriculture of diversified order, and in the live-stock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the breeding and raising of registered Aberdeen- Angus cattle. He is a republican in political allegiance is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Unionport, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at New Jefferson.

On' the 28th of October, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Margaret Johnson, daughter of John B. and Nettle Johnson, of German Township, and they have a fine family of five children - John Will, Martha Jane, Bertha Margaret, Charles Allen, Jr., and Harry Dean. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are popular figures in the representative social activities of their home community.

Edwabd H. Busby. The necessarily circumscribed limitations of this publication render it inexpedient to give dual entry of family records, and In the present connection this is avoided by directing attention to the ample family data appearing on other pages, in the sketch of John Busby, brother of him whose name initiates this paragraph.

Edward H. Busby holds prestige as one of the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in German Township, Harrison County, and his secure hold upon communal confidence and esteem is indicated by the fact that he is now serving as township trustee, the duties of which office he assumed in 1919. He was bora In Archer Township, this county, July 10, 1858, and is a son of Martin V. and Belinda (Healey) Busby. The district schools of his native township afforded him his early education, and he continued to be associated with the activities of the old home farm until his marriage, in 1878, as well as for a year thereafter. For the next six years he gave his attention primarily to the operation of a saw mill and a threshing machine, and the ensuing three years found him In sturdy service as a locomotive fireman on the Panhandle Railroad. Since his retirement from railroad work he has followed farm enterprise successfully and vigorously - In Archer, Green and German townships. His residence in German Township has covered a period of twenty years, and here he is now farming on rented land, as the year 1918 was marked by his selling his excellent farm of 117 acres, to the coal company which is conducting mining operations in German Township. In his operations as an agriculturist and stockgrower Mr. Busby is utilizing, in 1920, a tract of about 162 acres, and he has prestige as one of the substantial representatives of these basic industries In his native county. He is a democrat In politics and, as already noted, Is serving as trustee of German Township. He is also trustee and steward of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he and his wife are zealous and honored members.

In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Busby to Miss Letltia Dudgeon, daughter of William and Anna Jane (Weir) Dudgeon, of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Busby have four children: Laura Bell is the wife of William Dennison; Blanche Anna is the wife of Burton P. Myers of this county, and they have three children - Venus, Jay Clark and Edward; Mary Is the wife of Alonzo Tipton, and they have four children - Beatrice, Fred, Gayl and Hazel; Frank, a prosperous farmer in German Township, married Miss Bessie Moffett and they have three children - Duane, Donald and Glenn Franklin.

Elmer E. Henry is staging his vigorous and successful enterprise on a well improved farm of ninety-six acres In Archer Township, Harrison County, and has made for himself a secure place as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county. He was bora In Athens Township, this county, where he was reared to adult age and received the advantages of the district schoola As a young man he left the parental homestead farm and found employment as a farm hand in his native township. Later he was similarly engaged In Archer Township, and in the late '90s he purchased sixty-six acres of his present farm and instituted his Independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. His ability and energy brought success to him and he eventually purchased an adjoining tract of thirty acres, so that his admirable farm now comprises ninety-six acres, as previously noted In this paragraph. He is alive to all that touches the welfare of the community a%nd is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. His political support is given to the republican party and he is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.

Elmer E. Henry was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, on the 5th of January, 1862, and is a son of Nicholas S. and Mary (Thompson) Henry, the latter being a daughter of Thomas Thompson, a sterling pioneer citizen of Harrison County. As a young man Nicholas S. Henry followed the carpenter's trade. In which he was a skilled workman, and later he turned his attention to farm enterprise In Athens Township, where abundant success attended his well ordered activities. He and his wife became the parents of ten children, namely : Martha, William T., Ebenezer S., Thomas H., Elmer E., Maggie, Caroline, Rachel, Mary Ann and Margaret.

The year 1897 recorded the marriage of Elmer E. Henry to Miss Flora Smylie, who was born and reared in Archer Township and who was a representative of one of the old and influential pioneer families of Harrison County. She was a daughter of John and Julia A. (Cox) Smylie, both of whom likewise were bora In Harrison County, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days. John Smylie was born in Archer Township November 9, 1826, a son of William and Rachel (Borland) Smylie. William Smylie was born In Washington County, Pennsylvania, In 1794, and was a son of David and Sarah Jane (Coon) Smylie, who were born and reared in Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in the latter part of the seventeenth century. David S'ymlie followed his trade, that of tailor, during the period of his residence In Washington County, Pennsylvania, whence he removed to Westmoreland County, that state, where the family home was maintained until 1815, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became a pioneer citizen of Cadiz, the present county seat. Here he died on the 13th of September, 1S43, and his wife survived him by only a few days. William Smylie learned the trade of blacksmith, which he continued to follow more than thirty years. He remained in Pennsylvania until 1825, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased a small farm in Archer Township. He later purchased another farm of 180 acres in the same township, and there he remained until 1855, when he numbered himself among the pioneer settlers of Washington County, Iowa, where he acquired an entire section of land and where his death occurred in 1858, his widow there passing away In March, 1875. They became the parents of a fine family of fourteen children.

John Smylie became one of the most successful exponents of farm industry in Harrison County, and he was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Archer Township at the time of his death. He was a democrat, was called upon to serve in local offices of public trust, including that of township trustee, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their eight children Flora, wife of the subject of this review, was the seventh in order of birth. Mrs. Smylie was a daughter of George and Sarah (Titus) Cox, who were early settlers in Harrison County and who here remained until their deaths, Mr. Cox having been one of the early superintendents of % the county infirmary and farm and having become the owner of a large and valuable farm property in Archer Township. George Cox was born in New Jersey in 1784, and his father, Richard Cox, was a native of Holland, he having first settled in New Jersey and having later become a very early settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he acquired land and developed a farm. On a part of his old homestead is situated the city of Steubenville, the judicial center of that county.

Mrs. Elmer E. Henry died in January, 1921, leaving one son, Donald S., who was born on the 17th of August, 1902, and who Is a student in the Cadiz High School, class of 1922.

Andrew J. Davis was one of the venerable and highly honored native sons of Carroll County at the time of his death, June 19, 1919, and he passed virtually his entire life on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth in Monroe Township. He was a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the county, his paternal grandfather, David, having been born and reared in Wales and having first established his residence in Pennsylvania upon coming to the United States. From the old Keystone State he came in an early day to Ohio, and was one of the substantial farmers and highly esteemed pioneer citizens of Carroll County at the time of his death. Of his two children the elder was David and the younger was George, father of the subject of this memoir. George Davis was born and reared In Monroe Township, Carroll County, and here continued his active association with farm industry until the close of his life. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Ellen Kale, and both were in advanced years at the time of their deaths. George Davis was one of the successful farmers of Monroe Township, and of his old homestead the farm later owned by his son Andrew J., of this memoir, was a part.

Andrew Jackson Davis was born January 12, 1841, and thus he was seventy-eight years of age when he passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. He was the younger of the two sons of his parents, was reared to the sturdy and Invigorating discipline of the farm and gained his early education in the common schools of the locality and period. His studies were pursued in what was known as the Buchanan School, district No. 1, Monroe Township, and here his attendance was principally during the winter terms, when his services were not In requisition in connection with the work of the home farm. He was a man of distinctive energy and ambition, of well poised mind and of sterling integrity in all of the relations of life. He achieved worthy success through his effective alliance with farm industry, and since his death his widow continues to reside on the fine old homestead farm of 162 acres on rural mail route No. 3 from the city of Carrollton.

The year 1863 recorded the marriage of Mr. Davis to Miss Mary C. Dong, who was born in Union Township, this county, March 11, 1839, a daughter of Alexander and Nancy (Scott) Long, of whose twelve children she was the sixth in order of birth. Alexander Long and his wife were born and reared in County Donegal, Ireland, and were young folk when they came to America and established their residence in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, whence they came to Ohio in the year 1832 and established their home on a pioneer farm in Union Township, Carroll County, where they passed the remainder of their lives, both having been more than eighty years of age at the time of death and both having been devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Alexander Long was a democrat in politics, was a man of strong individuality and inviolable integrity, and he left a benignant Impress upon the community in which he long maintained his home and to the civic and material development and progress of which he contributed his quota. Mr. Davis is survived by two children. George Alexander, who Is engaged in clerking at Bowerston. Harrison County, married Miss Leona Vasbinder, of Bowerston, and they became the parents of three children - James Lawrence who is nineteen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920; Mary, who died in infancy, in 1902: and Mary Cora, thirteen years of age. Nancy Cora, the younger of the two children, is the wife of Raymond Homer Vasbinder, of Carrollton, and concerning their children the following brief record is consistently entered: Roy Davis, now twenty-six years of age, married Mias Sarah Tope, and they reside in Carrollton; Harold Samuel married Miss Florence Williams, who died in 1919 and who is survived by one child, Irene; Mary Lois is a popular teacher in the public schools at Amsterdam, Jefferson County; Nancy Ellen is the wife of Everett Saila, of Minerva, Stark County; and Perry Jackson is the youngest of the number.

Mr. Davis gave his political allegiance to the democratic party, and while never ambitious for public office he took loyal interest in community affairs and was always ready to support progressive measures and enterprises tending to advance the general wellbeing of his native county. He was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pleasant Hill, as is also his widow, who, as before stated, still remains on the old home farm, where she delights to extend welcome and generous hospitality to her wide circle of friends in the county that has ever represented her home.

Oliver H. Carman, in the personal sketch of whose older, and only, brother, John W., on other pages of this volume, is given adequate record concerning their parents and ancestry, was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, June 27, 1874, and was a lad of ten years at the time of the family removal to German Township, Harrison County. Here he was reared to manhood, his early educational discipline having been received in the Grassy Run District School in his native township and the Blue Ridge District School in German Township, Harrison County. He gained at first hand his knowledge of farm Industry, as he early began to assist in the activities of his father's farm, with the work of which he continued to be associated until he formed an alliance with his brother in connection with the latter's general store at Carman, a postoffice hamlet maintained in connection with a coal mining camp and established on the Carman farm. With this business he continued his connection about ten years, and on September 28. 1904, he purchased the old home farm, which comprises ninety-six and one-fourth acres and which he has made the stage of his successful operations a 8 an agriculturist and stock-grower, and on which for several years past he has made a specialty of the dairy business. This is one of the fine farms of German Township, with facilities and Improvements of modern type. Mr. Carman pays loyal allegiance to the republican party, though he has manifested no desire to enter the turbulent course of practical politics, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 11th of November, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Carman to Miss Nannie M. Graham, who was born and reared near East Springfield. Jefferson County, and who is a daughter of John C. and Ruth (Stewart) Graham. Mr. and Mrs. Carman have one child, Ruth Hobson, who is a popular figure In the social activities of the young folk of the home community and also is a member of the

Milton M. Shields is another of the native sons of Harrison County who has expressed his appreciation of its advantages and attractions by continuous residence within its borders, save for a period of five years marked by his engagement in farm enterprise in Belmont County, and he Is now one of the substantial representatives of agricultural and live-stock industry in Short Creek Township, where he is the owner of a well improved farm of 104 acres. In the past few years Mr. Shields has extended his activities by dealing in cattle, horses and sheep, of which he has become a successful buyer and shipper.

Mr. Shields was born in Short Creek Township on the 24th of September, 1861. and is a son of Joseph and Lucinda (Ruth) Shields, the former of whom was bom in Chester County, New Jersey, March 22, 1825, and the latter was born and reared in Harrison County, Ohio, where her father, Parker Ruth, was a pioneer settler. Joseph Shields was a son of Benoni and Lydia (Woodward) Shields, the former of whom was bom August 6, 1780, and the latter on the 16th of September, 1782. Their marriage was solemnized In their native State of New Jersey, whence in 1829 they came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where they remained on their old home farm until the close of their long and useful lives. They became the parents of eleven children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded: William, 1804; James, 1806; Sarah, 1808; Ell, 1812; Mary, 1813; Eleanor, 1815; Thomas, 1818; Alice, 1820; Lydia, 1822; Joseph, 1825; and Jackson, 1827. These dates show that all of the children were born prior to the family migration to Ohio.

Joseph Shields was about four years old when the family home was established on the pioneer farm in Short Creek Township, where he was reared to manhood and where he continued his active alliance with farm enterprise until the close of his life. He was the owner of a good farm of 160 acres at the time of his death, which occurred June 16, 1880. The maiden name of his first wife was Martha Stires, she having been a daughter of John Stires, another pioneer settler of Harrison County. Mrs. Shields died in the year 1854, as did also her first two children - John and Sarah Emily, and the one child who attained to years of maturity was the youngest of the three - Cynthia Eleanor. Mrs. Lucinda (Ruth) Shields, the second wife of Joseph Shields, died in the year 1905. Both were active members of the United Presbyterian Church at Adena. They became the parents of nine children - Joseph Milton M., Thomas, William T., Clayton, Anna, Lizzie, Jennie and Hannah.

Milton M. Shields has reason to look back with satisfaction on the benignant influences that compassed his childhood and early youth. He was reared on the home farm and made good use of the advantages afforded in the dis- trict schools of Short Creek Township, within whose borders he initiated his independent career as a farmer. Here he has been continuously engaged in farm industry from his youth to the present time, except for the five years passed in Belmont County, as previously noted. He has neither time nor inclination for the activities of practical politics or the honors of public office, but is a loyal supporter of the principles of the democratic party and is progressive in his attitude as a citizen. His wife holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On December 11, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shields to Miss Phoebe J. Wright, who likewise was bom and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of William and Elizabeth Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Shields have five children : Chester married Miss May Bennett and they now reside at Caton, Stark County; Dora is the wife of Dallas McCue, of Harrison County: Veda Is the wife of Leslie Fox, and they reside in the City of Akron, Ohio; Halford married Miss Irene Stephens, and operates a garage at Georgetown, Harrison County; and Faye is the wife of Raymond Braumbaugh, of Akron, Summit County.

Charles H. Polen now resides in the Village of Germano, German Township. Harrison County, but continues to give his active supervision to his well improved farm about two miles distant from the village mentioned, and in addition to his successful farm enterprise has for a number of years devoted attention to the buying and shipping of live stock. He is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of the Buckeye State and was bom in Salem Township, Jefferson County, on the 25th of November, 1847. He Is a son of William and Sarah Jane (Wallace) Polen, the former of whom was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 16, 1815, and the latter of whom was bora in Jefferson County, Ohio, in the 3d of June of the same year, she having been a daughter of William Wallace and the family name of her mother having been Hamilton. William Wallace was born in Scotland and his wife in County Clare, Ireland. They became early settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where Mr. Wallace reclaimed and developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their religious faith having been that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of eight children - James, Hamilton, William, George Washington, Hugh, Elizabeth, Anna and Sarah Jane.

William Polen, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was born and reared In Loudoun County, Virginia, and the family name of his wife was Pegg. They were numbered among the early pioneer settlers in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where Mr. Polen obtained Government land and reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds, this old homestead having remained in the possession of the Polen family until about 1905, and eighty acres of the tract being still retained in the family. William Polen and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and they endured with fortitude the trials and vicissitudes that ever fall to the lot of pioneers. They became the parents of ten children - John, Nathaniel, William, George, Charles, Peter, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Anna.

William Polen, Jr., father of Charles H., was a boy at the time of the family removal to Jefferson County, where he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days, and where he initiated his independent activities as a farmer in Salem Township. There he remained until 1860, when he came with his family to Harrison County and settled on a farm In German Township. In 1870 he removed to Columbiana County, and there both he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having died in the year 1876 and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of a fine family of fourteen children, of whom three died in infancy. The names of the other children are here recorded : William, Martin, Thomas J., Mary Ann, Elizabeth, John, Peter, Charles H., Johnson W., Sarah Jane and Reuben.

Charles H. Polen gained his youthful education in the district schools of Salem Township, Jefferson County, and German Township, Harrison County. In the latter township he began his Independent farm enterprise when a young man, and with this important line of industry he has continued his association during the long intervening years. Though he has now passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten he is still alert in mental and physical powers and takes satisfaction in giving the general supervision to his farm, from which he removed to the Village of Germano in 1906. He has followed the even tenor of his way as a man of industry and loyal citizenship, has had no desire to enter actively into political affairs, but is aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party. He and his wife have long been representative members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano, in which he has held the office of steward for fully thirty years and in which he served twenty years as superintendent of the Sunday school.

On the 22d of June, 1871, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Polen to Miss Anna Bell Miser, who was bom in German Township, Harrison County, and who is a daughter of the late John and Angeline (Stonesifer) Miser. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Polen: Jesse A. married Miss Margaret Groves, and they have three children - Harold, Marie and Charles A. Sarah A. remains at the parental home. John W. married Miss Eva Christwell, and they have six children - Dean, Daisy, Harry, Frank, May and Robert. Harvey, the third son, died at the age of seventeen years. Clyde died in early childhood. Grace is the wife of Milton Ingler and they have two daughters - Ruth Ella and Naomi Frances. Howard M. sacrificed his life on the altar of patriotism while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the great World war. He entered service October 0, 1917, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was assigned to a depot brigade. About the 1st of November, 1917, he was transferred to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and from that camp was later transferred to Camp Green, North Carolina. In April, 1918, he was sent to Camp Mills, later he was stationed at Camp Merritt, and thence he sailed with his command for France, where he was assigned to Company E, Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Division. He was killed in action on the first day of his service In the front lines at Chateau Thierry, July 18, 1918, and his name shall ever have place on the exalted roll of honor that records the names of those fine yoilng men who gave their lives In behalf of patriotism and the cause of human liberty. He made the voyage to France on the transport "Moldavia," and it will be recalled that this vessel was torpedoed and sunk by the enemy on the voyage, the most of the soldiers on board having been transferred from the boat before It disappeared beneath the waves. Nannie L., ^he youngest daughter, married Ernest A. Johnson, and they reside in German Township. Archibald Is still at the parental home.

Frank M. Welsh owns and is vigorously supervising an excellent farm of sixty-eight acres lying adjacent to the old homestead farm in Archer Township, Harrison County, upon which he was born, the date of his nativity having been January 23, 1875, and due rpcord concerning the family being given on other pages of this volume, in the sketch of the career of his father, Lyons A. Welsh.

In addition to profiting fully by the advantages offered in the public schools of his native township Frank M. Welsh attended Scio College two years, this being one of the well ordered educational institutions of Harrison County. He continued his active association with the work and management of his father's farm for a few years after his marriage, and he then removed to his present well improved farm, upon which he is successfully engaged In agricultural and live-stock enterprise, with standing as one of the progressive and popular exemplars of farm industry in his native township. He takes loyal interest in all matters touching the community welfare, is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church In the Village of Hanover.

The year 1904 recorded the marriage of Mr. Welsh to Miss Dora Birney, who likewise was bom and reared in Harrison County and who Is a daughter of William J. and Margaret (Barrett) Birney. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have two children - Edwin Birney and William Andrew.

James Love was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 11th of February, 1855. and is one of the representative farmers and Influential citizens of his native township, of which he has served effectively as trustee and has given equally valuable service in the office of president of the township school board. His excellent farm comprises 117 acres and is the

Mr. Love Is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families whose name has been closely identified with the development and progress of western-central Ohio. He Is a descendant of George Love, who was bora and reared in Ireland, where he married Miss Isabelle Smith. In the year 1791 he came with his family to America and established a home In Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1800, when he came with his family to Ohio and became a pioneer settler In Belmont County, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and where they endured their full share of the hardships and trials that fell to the lot of the frontier settlers. George Love was a man of strong mentality and mature judgment, became a leader in community affairs and was actively concerned in the organization of Belmont County. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his wife held membership in the Seceder Church, later known as the United Presbyterian. Concerning their children the following brief record may consistently be given: John settled in Harrison County in 1808 and was the ancestor of the subject of this review: Thomas met his death while on one of his periodical trips in connection with pioneer transportation on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; George became a farmer in Belmont County and served with distinction as an officer In the War of 1812; William likewise assisted in the development of farm Industry In this section of the state: Jane became the wife of Thomas Gillespie: Catherine married Joseph Haverfleld; and Mary became the wife of Jacob Morgan.

John Love, son of George, was twenty-one years old at the time of the family immigration from Ireland to America and after coming to Ohio he married Mary, daughter of James Cooke, who was one of the earliest settlers in what is now Harrison County. After his marriage Mr. Love resided in Belmont County until 1808, when he came to Harrison County. Here he purchased a large tract of wild land in Athens Township, and he reclaimed one of the productive farms of the early days in this township. He was a man of prominence and influence in the communal life, served in various local offices of public trust, was a zealous and effective advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and both he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church. He died in March. 1860, his devoted wife having passed away December 16, 1830. They became the parents of six children - George, James C., Thomas, John, Nancy and Mary.

James C. Love, father of him whose name introduces this review, was born and reared in Athens Township, Harrison County, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Jane McFadden. Shortly afterward he engaged in farm enterprise in Archer Township, and here with the exception of a few years passed in similar occupation In Cadiz Township he passed the remainder of his life, his death having occurred In 1876 and his widow having survived until

1891. She was a daughter of Samuel Me Fadden. Of the children of James C. and Jane (McFadden) Love the first born was Samuel, who died from an attack of measles while serving as a soldier in the Civil war; John is a resident of Minnesota ; Mary, Elizabeth and Alexander are deceased ; and the three younger children are George. James and Nancy Jane. The parents were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.

James Love, the immediate subject of this sketch, gained his youthful education in the district schools of Archer Township, and here he initiated his independent career as a farmer. In 1882 he became a pioneer farmer in Stearns County, Minnesota, where he continued his residence until 1901. when he returned to his native township and county, where he has since continued his successful association with agricultural and live-stock industry.

The year 1882 recorded the marriage of Mr. Love to Miss Sarah Ann Merryman, daughter of the late John Merryman, of Harrison County, and they have two children : Goldie M. is the wife of Clarence Dickerson, of Archer Township; and Floy Josephine is a popular teacher in the district schools of Harrison County. Mr. Love is a democrat In political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership In the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.

Habvey G. Winings. In an enumeration of the representative farmers of Harrison County who claim the county as the place of their nativity and who have here a gracious heritage of pioneer honors a place of prominence is justly accorded to Mr. Winings, who owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm, which was the place of his birth, in German Township. Here he was born on the 28th of September, 1863, a son of Samuel S'. and Phoebe (Chase) Winings, the former of whom was born in the same township April 22, 1821, and the latter was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 2d of May, 1826, a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Manchester) Chase. Benjamin Chase was born and reared in the State of New York, whence he came to Ohio with an ox team and became one of the early settlers in Loudon Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he and his wife reared their children to lives of usefulness and honor and where they were early and influential members of the pioneer Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of twelve children - Joseph, Asa, Gary, Harvey, Elisha, Virgil, Buffin, Lydia Ann, Phoebe, Mary, Sarah and Libbie.

Samuel S. Winings was a son of John and Elizabeth (Snyder) Winings. John Winings was a child at the time when his parents came to Harrison County and became pioneer settlers in German Township where they passed the residue of their lives and where he was reared to manhood on the frontier farm. Here he eventually became the owner of a farm of 160 acres, to the management of which he continued to give his attention during the remainder of his active life, and there he and his wife maintained their home until their deaths, the remains of both being interred in the Zion Cemetery in German Township. They were zealous and consistent communicants of the Lutheran Church, in the faith of which they reared their children - John, William, Samuel S. and S'allie, the only daughter having remained unmarried till her death.

Samuel S. Winings passed his entire life in German Township, where he became the owner of a valuable farm of 212 acres and where he stood as an honored figure in productive industry and loyal and progressive citizenship. His death occurred on the 12th of June, 1890, and his second wife passed to the eternal rest on the loth of September, 1898. On the 11th of August, 1842, Samuel S. Winings wedded Miss Elizabeth Beckley, who was born June 3, 1823, and who was survived by three children - Clark, Jane (Mrs. J. Henry Mills), and Rebecca (Mrs. George Mills). In February, 1854, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Phoebe Chase, and they became the parents of three children - Hannah Belle (Mrs. John W. Shultz), William A. and Harvey G. The parents were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father was a republican in political affiliation.

Harvey G. Winings availed himself of the advantages of the district schools of his native township and in the meanwhile has gained valuable experience in connection with the work of the home farm, which has been the stage of his successful operations during his independent career as a progressive agriculturists and stockgrower. He is the owner of a well improved and admirably equipped farm estate of 221 acres and is a leader in farm industry in Harrison County, of whose manifold attractions and advantages he is deeply appreciative. His sterling character has gained to him unequivocal popular esteem, and his local status Is such as to render Impossible any application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country." He Is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano. of which he has served as a trustee for fully a decade. His wife likewise was a devoted member, and all of their children save the youngest holds membership in this church.

On the 2d of March, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Mary Florence Sawvel, who was born in German Township October 1, 1871, a daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Beckley) Saw veil. The supreme loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Winings came when his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, her death having occurred on the 5th of February, 1906. She Is survived by six children - Ralph S., Zella Mae, Ula Vern, Albert G., Earl B. and William Donald. Ralph S. Winings, the eldest son, w$s one of the patriotic young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military service in the World war. He entered service April 2, 1918, and at Camp Sherman was as- signed to Company K, Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, Eighty-third Division. May 28, 1918, he left the Ohio camp and was transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and on the 12th of the following month embarked with his command on a Government transport that in due time disembarked the troops in Liverpool. England. He passed five days at Winchester. England, and landed in France on the 1st of July. There he was transferred to Company F, One Hundred and Third Infantry* Twenty-sixth Division, and on the 12th of September he arrived at the front-line trenches. He "went over the top" that same morning, on the St. Mi hi el sector, and continued in active service at the front until the 14th of that month. He was absent from the front one week and after his return was eventually transferred to the Verdun front. He endured the full tension that marked the conflict between the opposing forces and after the signing of the armistice he remained in France until February 24. 1919, when he sailed for home. He landed in the port of New York City on the 7th of March, and at Camp Sherman. Ohio, he received his honorable discharge on the 8th of April. He is now at the parental home, and his military record is one that will ever reflect honor upon his name and upon the county and state which he represented. Zella Mae. the elder daughter of Harvey G. Wlnlngs. married December 23, 1920, Robert Curtis Roof, and they reside with Mr. WInings. ITla V.. second daughter, is the wife of John M. Jones, and they reside at Hamlin, Pennsylvania. The other children remain at the paternal home.

William A. Winings Is the only brother of Harvey O. Winings. in whose personal sketch. Immediately preceding this, are given ample data concerning the family history. Mr. Winings, like his brother, is numbered among the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in German Township. Harrison County, where he owns and gives charnoteiistically effective management to his fine farm of 206 acres.

Mr. Winings was bom in German Township on the 6th of August. 1858. and his early educational advantages were those of the district schools. He early began to lend his quota of assistance in connection with the activities of the home farm, and with the same he continued his association until he purchased his present homestead place, - one of the valuable farm properties of German Township. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and be is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano. as was also his wife, whose death occurred January 18, 1909.

On the 17th of February* 1887. was recorded the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Jackson and Nancy (Hosterman) Smith, of German Township. and she is survived by three children - Jesse O.. Harry S. and Nancy Phoebe. A fourth child. Theresa, died at the age of nine years. Harry 8. Winings married Miss Mary Edna Cox and they have two children - Ernest Wil liam and Everett Harry. Jesse O. Winings, the eldest son, was one of the gallant Harrison County boys who served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the great World war, and his record in this connection has added luster to the name which he bears. He entered service September 21, 1917, and at Camp Sherman was assigned to the supply company of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry Regiment, with which command he stilled for France in June, 1918. His regiment, however, was assigned to service in Italy, where it arrived on the 7th of August, and where he continued in service until March, 1919, when he departed for his native land, his return to Camp Sherman, Ohio, having finally resulted in bis receiving his honorable discharge on the 3d of July. 1919. He is now at the family home.

Winfield S Wright has long stood forth as a vigorous, discriminating and successful exponent of farm industry, is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of eastern central Ohio, and is today the owner of a valuable farm estate in Carroll County, the same comprising 257 acres in Monroe and Harrison townships and the attractive residence property being situated in the township first named.

Winfield Scott Wright was born in Tuscarawas County. Ohio, in the 23d of November, 1849. a son of James B. and Anna (Ickes) Wright. The genealogv on the paternal side trnces back to sterling Irish origin, and Samuel Wright, grandfather of the subject of this review, was numbered among the pioneers of Tuscarawas County. Ohio. He became the owner of a tract of land near the present Village of Reaver Dam. and the locality became known as the Wright settlement, his name having been applied to the same by reason of his prominence In community affairs. The portion of Tuscar*' w s County in which he established bis home Wer became Included in the new County of C rroll, and on his farm near Tabor, this county, he continued to reside until his death In 1852. his widow, whose family name w-'s Coleman, having long survived him and having passed to the life eternal In 1870. when venerable in years. Of their four sons James B. was the third in order of birth, and he continued bis active association with farm enterprise in Tuscarawas County until his death. His first wife, mother of the subject of this sketch, died on the 5th of January. 1880, and of tbelr seven children Winfield S. was the fourth in order of birth. By the father's second marriage were born three sons and one daughter.

Winfield 8. Wright early gained close fellowship with the activities of the old home farm, rwi his youthful education was acquired in the rural schools of his native count>\ He continued his association with the work of his father's farm until the time of his marriage, when he was twenty-seven years of age, and then established his residence In the Village of Dellroy. Carroll County, and fonnd employment in the coal mines in that locality. He continued to be thus engaged six years, and then purchased forty acres of his present landed estate. On this place he initiated the progressive activities through which he has achieved substantial and worthy prosperity, the best evidence of which is offered in his present ownership of one of the large and valuable farm properties of the county. The buildings on the place are of excellent order and all were erected by him. Mr. Wright has brought to bear splendid energy and progressive policies in farm enterprise, and thus his success has been of unequivocal order. He has taken loyal interest in all things touching the communal welfare, is affiliated with the Grange at Dellroy, and his capitalistic investments are of a noteworthy order, as is evident when it is stated that he is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Carrollton; the Beam Spring Company of Massillon, Stark County; the Ohio Northern Traction Company; the Gillian Manufacturing Company at Canton, Stark County; the Chicago & Aurora Traction Company, operating one of the most important suburban electric lines In the State of Illinois; the Worthington Pump Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Middle States Rubber Company of Cleveland, Ohio; the Berger Manufacturing Company of Canton; and other corporations. He has shown marked discrimination in his various investments and is the holder of Government bonds and of bonds issued in connection with various public and corporate enterprises. He is a stalwart republican in politics and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Dellroy, to the support of which he contributes liberally.

April 8, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wright to Miss Elizabeth Robart, of Robertsvllle, Stark County, a village named in honor of her paternal grandfather, who was one of the first settlers in that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have two children. Nettie is the wife of John F. Leyda, of Harrison Township, and their only child Is a daughter, Gladys. Annie C. is the wife of George Best, of Harrison Township, and they have two children - Lester Winfield and Paul Joseph.

Clement E. Miller has exercised with marked circumspection and progressiveness his functions as one of the constructive representatives of farm industry in his native county, and in German Township, Harrison County, he owns and resides upon the old homestead farm which figures as the place of his nativity. Here he was born on the 14th of June, 1863, and he is a scion of a family that was founded in this county more than a century ago, when this section of the Buckeye State was virtually a forest wilderness. John Miller, the original »representative of this family in Harrison County, came here from his native State of Maryland, in the year 1806, and In Rumley Township he reclaimed from the forest a productive farm, he having been the owner of an estate of 215 acres at the time of his death in 1836. His nine children were: Daniel, David, John, Jr., Jacob, Joseph, Catherine, Hannah, Polly and Sarah. Of these children Daniel, grandfather of Clement E. Miller of this review, was boro in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1788, and thus was a youth of about eighteen years at the time of the family removal to Harrison County in 1806. In 1817 he married Susannah Lowmiller, who was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, In 1796, and whose parents, John and Catherine (Long) Lowmiller. became in 1800 early settlers in Harrison County, Ohio. Daniel Miller acquired a large and valuable farm property In Rumley and German Townships, and was one of the substantial and influential citizens of the county at the time of his death, his widow having been more than ninety-five years of age when she passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. They had ten children - Catherine, Elizabeth, Sarah, John, Henry, Susannah, Rebecca, Margaret, Abigail and Eliza J.

John Miller, son of Daniel and Susannah (Lowmiller) Miller, was born in German Township, this county, on the 22d of February, 1822, the place of his advent in the world having been a log house of the pioneer type. He continued to be associated in the work of the home farm until the death of his fhther In 1854, and eventually he became one of the most successful exponents of farm industry in his native county as the owner of a large and valuable landed estate, including the fine old homestead now owned by his son Clement E., of this review. He was influential in local affairs of public order, served in various township offices, was a democrat in politics and both he and his wife were communicants of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Miller died at the age of eightyfour years and his wife at the age of eightynine years. They became the parents of eleven children: Oscar B., Rebecca Margaret, Henry A., Andrew B. (individually mentioned on other pages of this work), Daniel D. (a clergyman of the Lutheran Church), Samuel H. became a member of the faculty of Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, John O., Joseph M., Clement E., Clayton L. and Jessie L. On the 1st of May, 1849, was solemnized the marriage of John Miller to Miss Susannah Mikesell, who was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, February 15, 1824, a daughter of Peter and Mary A. ( Long ) Mikesell, pioneers who came to the county In 1800 from Frederick County, Maryland, and thus it Is to be seen that the subject of this sketch is a representative of fine pioneer stock in both the paternal and maternal lines.

Clement E. Miller was reared under virtually the same conditions and influences as other farm boys of his day and generation, and his early education was obtained mainly in district school No. 4, German Township. He has remained from the time of his birth on the old home farm, which comprises 166 67/100 acres in the portion owned by him, and here he has been engaged In independent and successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower since the year 1906. He is one of the county's leaders in the breeding and raising of pureblood and registered Poland-China swine, and in all departments of his farm industry he gains the maximum returns, owing to his progressiveness and mature judgment, as combined with his long and practical experience. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are active communicants of the Lutheran Church at New Jefferson.

On the 28th of March, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Mary Elizabeth Rutledge, who was born and reared in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Mahala (Skelley) Rutledge, both likewise natives of that township, where the respective families were founded In the pioneer days. Thomas Rutledge was one of the prosperous farmers and Influential citizens of his native township and county at the time of his death, in 1905, aged seventy-eight years, and his widow passed away June 5, 1915, at the venerable age of eighty-five years. They were devout communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church and four of their sons are clergymen in that denomination. Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge became the parents of nine children: James A. and Caleb H. are ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Margaret Jane is deceased; William A. and John S. are Methodist clergymen, and the latter has given effective service as president of the Anti-saloon League in the City of Cleveland; Bert M. is a resident of Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Miller) was the next in order of birth; Franklin P. resides on the old home farm of his parents in Jefferson County; and Myra R. married Howard Copeland, and they reside in Jewett, Ohio.

Hab&t M. Milliken is one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-raisers of the younger generation in his native county, where he owns fifty acres in Cadiz Township, this constituting his homestead place, and eighty-eight acres in the adjoining township of Nottingham. He is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Harrison County, and thus by ancestry as well as by reason of his individual standing in his native county he is specially entitled to recognition in this history.

Mr. Milliken was born in Nottingham Township August 22, 1885. His father, William Milliken, was born in Cadiz Township in the year 1838, his entire life having been passed in Harrison County, where he was continuously identified with farm industry, - in Cadiz and Nottingham Townships. He was the owner of a valuable farm property of 187 acres at the time of his death, on December 13, 1916, his wife having passed away in 1889. He was a son of Michael Milliken, who was born in Green Township, this county, October 25, 1812, wh-m this section of the Buckeye State was mainly a forest wilderness. He was a son of John and Hannah (Karbaugh) Milliken, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized. Mark Milliken, father of John, was a native of England and w**s a young man when he came to America and established his home in Penngylvnla. in the old Keystone State John Milliken learned the shoemaker's trade, and this he found of much value after he and his young wife became pioneer settlers in Harrison County, Ohio, where Mr. Milliken first settled on a tract of wild land In Green Township, whence in 1815 he removed to the farm which later was owned and occupied by their son Michael. Here John Milliken died In 1856, at the age of seventy-nine years, his wife having passed away at the age of sixty years. In 1838 Michael Milliken was united in marriage to Charity Day, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and they passed the remainder of their lives on their old homestead farm in Cadiz Township, Mr. Milliken having reclaimed much of his land from the native forest. He became the owner of 248 acres of land, In Cadiz and Nottingham townships, and was one of the honored and influential men of his community. His political support was given to the whig party until the organization of the republican party, when he allied himself loyally with the latter. He and his wife were venerable in age at the time of their deaths, and of their four children, William, father of the subject of this sketch, was the eldest; John is deceased; Adeline became the wife of George Christie, and they established their home in the State of Iowa; and Hannah Margaret became the wife of Albert Rogers, a farmer of Cadiz Township.

William Milliken was reared on the home farm and secured his early education in the common schools of the locality. In his active career he well maintained the prestige of the family name through his loyalty as a citizen and his resourceful and productive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. Following their marriage he and his wife returned to Nottingham Township, where (the wife died September 13, 1887. In 1891 he married Hanna (Hines) Blair, the widow of Albert Blair, and then came to Cadiz Township where he died. His widow survives. By his first marriage William Milliken became the father of three children: Lennie became the wife of Obediah K. Ourant and she is deceased; Nannie is the widow of Frank Carson; and Harry M. is the youngest of the children.

Harry M. Milliken is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his youthful education, and he was associated with his father in the work and management of the old home farm until the latter's death, his present farm property being a portion of the land formerly owned by his father. He gives his attention to well diversified agriculture and also raises excellent grades of live stock. He is a republican, but has no desire for political activity or official preferment. August 18, 1909, recorded his marriage to Miss Florence Keesey, daughter of John and Mary (Haverfleld) Keesey, of Harrison County, and they have three children - Allen Scott, born May 26, 1910; Neva Elizabeth, born January 25, 1912; and John William, born February 21, 1915.

Wiluam H. Riohey, who is one of the prosperous and enterprising farmers of Cadiz Township, is a representative of the fourth generation of the Richey family In Harrison County, where his great-grandparents, Thomas and

Mary (Clifford) Richey, established their modest home in a log cabin when this section of Ohio was little more than a forest wilderness. Thomas Richey and his wife were born and reared in Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to America about the year 1705. For the first decade they maintained their residence in New York City, and they then girded themselves to face and bravely meet the trials and vicissitudes of pioneer life in the wilds of Ohio. In 1805 they made their appearance in what is now Harrison County, and at first they lived on a tract of land owned by a former neighbor in Ireland, who had induced them to come to Ohio. Within a short time Mr. Richey secured a tract of 160 acres of heavily timbered land, on which he made a clearing in the midst of the forest and provided space for the erection of his little log cabin. A man of vigor and ambition, he not only began the reclaiming of his land but also established within a comparatively short time after coming here a saw mill. This was located on his embryonic farm and was one of the first mills in the county. He developed a prosperous business in supplying rough lumber for the incoming settlers, and he was one of the leaders in the pioneer community. His loved and devoted wife, who shared with him in the experience of frontier life, died In 1823. at the age of fifty-three years, and he died in September of the following year, both having been earnest members of the Associated Reformed Church. Of their children two died in infancy; Mrs. Margaret Milliken was a resident of Allen County, Indiana, at the time of her death; Mary became the wife of James Haverfield and both died in Harrison County; Jane became the wife of Joseph Watson, of this county, where they remained until their deaths; Samuel passed his entire life in this county; John M., grandfather of Wiliam H., of this sketch, was the next In order of birth; Sarah married Nimrod Wagers, and after his death became the wife of John Weaver, and she died in Harrison County; Thomas was a farmer in Cadiz Township until the close of his life; and Nancy was the wife of John Haverfield, a well known citizen of Harrison County.

John M. Richey was reared on the pioneer farm and profited duly by the facilities afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. As a young man he married Miss Anne Gilmore, who was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Collins) Gilmore, and after their marriage they remained with George McFadden, an uncle, in whose home Mrs. Richey had been reared, until his death, when they came into possession of a farm in Cadiz Township on which Mr. Richey had been born. There they remained thirty-one years, at the expiration of which they removed to the Village of Cadiz, where the death of the loved wife and mother occurred three years later. In 18,80. Mr. Richey survived her. He was a democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of ten children: Mary became the wife of Samuel McFadden, and her death occurred In her native county; Ruth married Craig Gilmore, and they established their home in Illinois; George died young; Eliza Jane married Samuel McFadden, of Cadiz Township; Arabella became the wife of James McFadden, of the same township; Thomas J. is a success ful farmer in that township; Robert Gilmore married Susan C. Dickerson, and they removed to the State of Missouri; Samuel was the next in order of birth; Martha, whose twin died in infancy, became the wife of John Osburn, of Archer Township, and in her home her venerable father passed the closing years of his life.

Samuel Richey was born in Cadiz Township March 24, 1850, and was there reared to manhood on the farm of his father, the late John M. Richey, his educational advantages having been those of the district schools. September 10, 1873, he wedded Miss Martha M. Hedges, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Rowley) Hedges, of Cadiz Township, and In the following year they established their home on the farm in Cadiz Township which is their present place of residence, within a comparatively short distance from Cadiz, the county seat. Mr. Richey has long been numbered among the substantial farmers and influential citizens of Cadiz Township, and is now president of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Harrison County. He Is a stalwart in the local camp of the democratic party, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, of which he is an elder. Their home is one-half a mile northwest of that city, on the Moravian road, and their substantial brick residence was erected in 1838 by Thomas Henderson. the former owner of the well improved farm. Mr. and Mrs. Richey have but one child, William H.

William H. Richey was born on the old homestead farm in Cadiz Township, which was the birthplace of his paternal grandfather, and the date of his nativity was April 3, 1875. He duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of his native county, and in the meanwhile gained valuable experience in connection with the productive activities of his father's farm, with the work and management of which he continued his association until 1892. when he engaged in the livery business at Cadiz. He continued this enterprise six years, and he then removed to a farm not far distant from that which he now owns and occupies. To the latter farm, of 125 acres, Cadiz Township, he removed in 1903, and here he Is successfully giving his attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of live stock, with preference given to sheep. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, but he has had no ambition for political preferment, his community attitude being that of a progressive and public-spirited citizen. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.

On the 29th of January. 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Riche* to Miss Emma Dickerson. who likewise was bora and reared in Harrison County and who is a representative of another of the sterling pioneer families of this favored section of the Buckeye State. Mr. and Mrs* Richey became the parents of three children: Donald R., who was bom January 8, 1888, died on the 30th of July, 1905; Martha Elizabeth, who was bom August 5, 1902, was graduated in the Cadiz High School as a member of the class of 1920; and Samuel D., who was bom May 18, 1912, is attending school In the home district.

John M. Elliott has every reason to take pride in his fine homestead farm, and is the fortunate owner of a landed estate of 400 acres in Monroe Township, Carroll County, and his is secure vantage place as one of the progressive and representative exponents of farm industry in his native county. His farm is situated one-half a mile distant from the Village of Dellroy, which is his postofflce address.

Mr. Elliott was bom In Rose Township, this county, on the 3d of August, 1860, and is a son of James Blaine Elliott and Mary (Wilson) Elliott, both likewise natives of this county. Aaron Elliott, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born In the north of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, and was there reared and educated. When ten years old he embarked on a sailing vessel at Londonderry, Ireland, and voyaged across the Atlantic ocean to the port of New York City with his mother and family. Thence he proceeded to Philadelphia and later to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he remained a few years. In 1817 he came to Carroll County, Ohio, and became one of Its sterling pioneer settlers, where he instituted the reclamation and development of a farm of 163 acres, a Government claim, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, his death having occurred In 1857. Of the family of two sons and five daughters James B. was the youngest, and he passed his entire life on the old home farm in Rose Township which was the place of his birth. He was one of the honored pioneer citizens and representative farmers of the county at the time of his death, in 1897, when sixty-five years of age, and his widow attained to the venerable age of eightyseven years, she having passed to the life eternal in 1917. They became the parents of three sons and one daughter and John M. of this review was the third In order of birth, The parents were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church and the father was a republican in his political proclivities.

John M. Elliott passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm, assisted in its work during the summer seasons and attended the district school during the winter terms until he was fourteen years of age. Thereafter he continued his studies in a well ordered select school In the Village of Dellroy until he had attained to the age of eighteen years. Thereafter he completed a short course In the Hagerstown Academy, and be put his acquirements to practical test by teaching one year in the district school at Mingo, Prairie Township. He taught the next year in the Willow Run District School in Harrison Township, and his successful pedagogic career Included also one year of service In a district school in Rose Township. After his marriage, in 1883, he continued to be engaged in farm enterprise on the old homestead until 1898, and in the meanwhile utilized eighty acres of the place in his operations. From this nucleus, with the increasing financial prosperity that has marked his course as a vigorous and progressive representative of farm enterprise, he has gradually added to his holding until he now has a valuable property of 400 acres, all well improved and devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent types of live stock. Mr. Elliott is a stockholder In the First National Bank of Carrollton, and as one of the popular and substantial citizens of his community he has been called upon to serve as trustee of Monroe Township and as a member of the School Board of his district. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party and has always been ready to lend his co-operation in the furtherance of enterprises projected for the general good of his home community and native county.

The year 1883 recorded the marriage of Mr. Elliott to Miss Margaret D. Davis, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, a daughter of William and Harriet (Parr) Davis, of Monroe Township. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott : Raymond Davis, who was born in 1886, Is now a resident of Whittier, California. Lorln S. married Miss Zella Pearl Brown, who died In April, 1916. Their two children are Arthur Francis and Margaret Esther. Winona is the wife of Ralph Downes, of Magnolia, Carroll County, and they have two children - Genevieve and Margaret Ellen. Paul, the youngest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, has to his honor a splendid record of service in connection with the nation's participation in the late World war. He entered service at Carrollton on the 29th of April, 1918, and after having passed three weeks at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he became a private In the Headquarters Company of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second United States Infantry. On the 8th of June, 1918, he sailed with his command for the stage of conflict. He landed at Liverpool, England, and proceeded thence to Southampton, and he arrived at Havre, France, on the 17th of June. His initial training and service In France was in the Chaumont district, and there he was assigned to the Regimental Band, the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry having become a part of the Eightythird Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. The regiment was sent to Turin, Italy, and thence to Verona, and it then proceeded with the forces sent to repel the Austrians in Trentino, In which district he remained until October 24, 1918. It next participated in the great Treviso drive against the Austrians, and in this action the command marched 100 miles in ten days, crossing the Piave River to Undine in Austrian Baden. After this expedition the regiment was sent to Montaigne, France, and finally it returned to Treviso, where it was sta- tioned at the time of receiving news of the signing of the historic armistice, which brought a termination to the conflict. With his regiment Mr. Elliott then proceeded to Geneva, Italy, and on the 31,st of November, 1918, the command set sail for the United States. The members landed, en route, at Gibralter, and Mr. Elliott was thus permitted to visit and view the sights of that great English stronghold. He landed in the port of New York City on the 14th of April, 1919, remained ten days in the national metropolis, and finally returned to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he was mustered out on the 5th of May, 1919, as a musician. In the Regimental Band he had played the alto horn. While in Italy he made three visits to the City of Rome, - on one occasion to take part in the concert given by his Regimental Band in honor of President Wilson, and on the other two occasions to pay similar tribute to other distinguished persons, his regiment acting os escort at these notable events. The varied experiences which Paul Elliott met during the period of his service in Europe will ever remain as an interesting chapter in his life history, and his record of patriotic service is one that will reflect enduring honor on his name.

Jeremiah Winings resides upon the fine old homestead farm in German Township, Harrison County, that figured as the place of his birth, and here he has added to the family name new laurels in connection with the progressive agricultural and live-stock Industry, which has here enlisted the attention of members of this family since the pioneer days. On his present farm Mr. Winings was born August 8. 1850. a son of John and Susan (Wagner) Winings, both likewise natives of German Township, where the former was bom on the 26th of March. 1817, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Baker) Winings. Jacob Winings was a son of John Winings, who came to Harrison County from Pennsylvania very early In the nineteenth century, obtained 160 acres of Government land in German Township, reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds, and here passed the residue of his life, both he and his wife having been honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of their deaths. It is interesting to record that the land which John Winings thus obtained from the Government Is now a part of the fine estate owned by his great-grandson. Jeremiah Winings. subject of this review.

Jacob Winings likewise gained a full quota of experience in connection with pioneer farm enterprise In Harrison County, and after a stage line was established through this section he conducted an old-time tavern or inn on the stage highway, the same having been a popular place of entertainment for sojourners passing along the stage line. Jacob Winings and his wife were venerable In years when they passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, and their names merit place on the roll of the sterling pioneer citizens of this section of the Buckeye State. They were earnest members of the Lutheran Church. The names and respective birth dates of their children are here recorded :

John Winings, Jr., father of him whose name Initiates this sketch, was reared and educated under the conditions that marked the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County, and, like his able forebears in the county, he gave close and productive allegiance to farm industry and stock dealing in connection with which substantial prosperity attended his jearnest endeavors. He was one of the prominent and highly esteemed citizens of German Township at the time of his death, October 18, 1884, his first wife having passed away February 12, 1859. Both were zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church, as was also the second wife. Mrs. Susan (Wagner) Winings was a daughter of John Wagner, who was born in Germany and who became an early settler in eastern Pennsylvania, whence he went forth as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution. After the close of this conflict he became an early settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, whence h6 later came to Harrison County and settled in German Township. His children were twelve in number: Reuben (died in early childhood), George, Levi, Daniel, John, Henry, Drusilla, Polly, Rachel, Susan, Sallie and Katie. John and Susan (Wagner) Winings became the parents of six children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted: John E., March 23, 1839; Jacob, September 5, 1841; Henry, May 22, 1843; Mary Elizabeth, March 10, 1845; Samantha Jane, September 12, 1847; and Jeremiah, subject of this sketch, August 8, 1850. After the death of his first wife John Winings married Elizabeth Shoemaker, who was born March 3, 1919, and who survived him by several years, no children having been born of this union.

Jeremiah Winings was reared on the old homestead which has ever continued his place of abode and which to him is associated with most gracious memories. After having profited by the advantages afforded in the district schools of German Township he attended the normal school at Hopedale and Richmond College at Richmond, Jefferson County. He has thus been well fortified in both mental powers and practical knowledge in carrying forward his activities as an agriculturist and stockgrower, and in this section of Ohio are to be found few finer farms than this well improved and valuable landed estate. The present buildings were erected by Mr. Winings, - the fine farm house in 1893, and the large barn in 1890. On November 1, 1920, he sold 200 acres of his fine farm, including his splendid residence and barn, to the Apex Coal Company of Cleveland, Ohio. A man of intellectuality and mature judgment, Mr. Winings is well fortified in his political conviction and is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party. He naturally takes loyal interest in all things toucb- ing the welfare of his home county, and while he has had no desire for official preferment he gave three years of effective service as a member of the German Township Board of Education. He and his wife and son are communicants of the Lutheran Church, and the family is one of prominence and distinctive popularity in German Township.

June 7, 1876, recorded the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Minerva Leas, who was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, April 1, 1855, a daughter of the late William and Elizabeth (Miser) Leas. Of this union were born two children - John Leas Winings and Clyde Blaine Winings, the latter having been born December 8, 1886, and his death having occurred August 21, 1889. John Leas Winings was born January 6, 1878, and after having been graduated from the high school at Germano he completed a course and was graduated in the Oberlln Business College. Except for the two years of his absence at school he has remained with his parents on the ancestral homestead, and he is his father's efficient coadjutor in the work and management of the fine farm.

Ralph M. Wood, an automobile dealer of Cadiz, was born In that city on December 31, 1889, the son of William F. and Amanda (Laizure) Wood. William T. Wood was for many years actively connected with the business interests of Cadiz and community. He was born October 3, 1848, at Grinshall Grove, Shropshire, England. He is a son of Robert Wood and his wife, Ann (Owens) Wood, of Shropshire, England. John Wood, of the next generation was a wool buyer through Ohio in its early history. He lived at Putney Bottom, now called Grove Creek. When he retired from the wool business he moved to North Adams, Massachusetts, and died there.

Robert Wood was a cabinetmaker, and in 1862 he located in Cadiz, ending his days there. When he first came to Cadiz he worked for J. W. Gillespie In the furniture trade. Later he became a manufacturer of furniture. He had two sons, William T. Wood and Frederick, the latter dying in England at the age of four years.

While living in England Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wood were members of the Church of England - 'Episcopalian, but in Cadiz Mrs. Wood united with the Methodists. In 1868 W. T. Wood entered the grocery store owned bv Samuel Ferguson as a clerk, remaining ten years In the position. Later he clerked In other stores until 1879, at which time he formed a partnership with Regin Fur bay in a grocery store. Three years later Mr. Furbny disposed of his interest to J. H. Moore, and Wood and Moore were partners for a time. Finally Mr. Wood bought the partner's share and has continued the grocery, hardware and queensware business alone. As clerk and proprietor he has been in the grocery business more than half a century.

the Cadiz Electric Light and Power Company. In 1875 he married Amanda Laizure, a daughter of Elijah Laizure. Their children are: Fred C. Wood, who has mining Interests and lives in Denver, Colorado. Edith, wife of S. A. McCool, lives in Kansas City, Missouri; and Robert and Ralph M., of Harrison County. Mr. Wood is a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and with his family is a member of the Methodist Church in the community.

When he had completed his studies in the Cadiz Public Schools Ralph M. Wood entered Bliss Business College in Columbus in 1907, and graduated there. His first business relation was with the First National Bank of Cadiz as a bookkeeper, where he remained ten and one-half years. In May, 1919, he became cashier of the First National Bank of Hopedale, in Harrison County, where he continued about one year, since which time he has been handling the Dodge Brothers automobiles, he controlling one-half of Harrison County for the sale of that car. He still maintains his residence in Cadiz.

On June 7, 1917, R. M. Wood married Alberta, daughter of W. A. and Minnesota (Conwell) Holmes, and they have one daughter, Edith Jean. Mr. Wood is a Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason of Cadiz, and a Knight Templar of Steubenville.

Benjamin E. Harrison. In connection with his ownership of a fine farm of 100 acres In North Township, Harrison County, Mr. Harrison has in his possession the original patent or deed to the property, the same having been issued by the Government to Emanuel Hendricks, bearing date of December 10, 1827, and bearing the signature of John Quincy Adams, who was then President of the United States. This ancient document is on old-time sheepskin parchment and is an interesting historical object.

Benjamin Edgar Harrison was born in the township that is now his place of residence, and the date of his nativity was October 5, 1869. John Harrison, of Yorkshire, England, was one of the first English pioneer settlers in North Township, Harrison County, where he established his home in 1816 and where he secured a tract of Government land. In 1823, however, he returned to his native land, and there his death occurred about ten years later, when he was seventy years of age, his wife likewise having died in England, where he owned an excellent form of 114 acres, in Yorkshire. Joseph Harrison, son of John, was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Harrison County in 1816, and here He assisted In the reclamation of the frontier farm. He returned to England in 1823, but in 1826 he again came to Harrison County, where he developed a productive farm in North Township, and where he continued his residence until his death, April 13, 1878. He was first a democrat and later a republican in politics, and his earnest religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a man of ster ling character and marked ability, and he contributed his share to the civic and industrial development and progress of Harrison County. In 1828 he wedded Miss Ellen Hartley, whose father, Christopher Hartley, came from Carlton, England, and became a pioneer farmer In Harrison County. He remained in North Township until his death in 1864. at the venerable age of eighty-six years, and his widow was seventyeight years of age at the time of her death in 1867. Their children were seven in number. Mrs. Harrison died in 1863, at the age of fortyseven years, and was survived by two sons, John and William C., a third son. Joseph, having died in 1847, at the age of seven years. In 1867 Joseph Harrison married Sarah Heron, who long survived him and whose death occurred in 1800, when she was seventy-seven years of age. Mr. Harrison served as township trustee and was otherwise influential in community affairs, with high place in popular confidence and esteem.

William C. Harrison, son of Joseph and father of the subject of this review, was born on the old family homestead in North Township October 29, 1837, and in this township he passed his entire life, which was marked by continuous and successful association with farm industry. As a boy and youth he attended school at Richmond, Jefferson County, where for some time his roommate was Gen. George A. Custer, who met hls death in the historic Indian massacre that perpetuates his name, a personal letter from General Custer to William C. Harrison Mng one of the prized family heirlooms at the present time. In 1863 Mr. Harrison and hls wife established their home on the farm in North Township which continued to be the stage of his activities until his death, in 1912. He made excellent improvements on this place of 166 acres, and he was one of the representative farmers and influential and honored citizens of North Township, where he served two terms as township trustee. lie was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was a republican in politics and his widow, who now resides with her youngest daughter at Dennison, Tuscarawas County, is a devoted communicant of the Lutheran Church.

In the autumn of the year 1860 Mr. Harrison married Miss Elizabeth Ann Waddington, who was born iu Harrison County December 4, 1841, and who is a daughter of William and Ann (Wallace) Waddington, whose marriage was solemnized in this county in February, 1839. William Waddington was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1815, and came to America in 1835. His wife was born in Pennsylvania and, as before intimated, was a resident of Harrison County at the time of their marriage. They subsequently established their home on a farm in Tuscarawas County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of ten children - James, Elizabeth, John, William Henry, Mary Jane, Sarah, Amos. Isaac. David Fillmore and Elmer. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Harrison the first born was Elmer, who died at the age of eighteen months; Mary is the wife of C. Melvin Liggett, a farmer near Leesvllle, Carroll County; Anna is the wife of Frank McCullough, of Richmond,

Jefferson County; Hannah died In infancy; Benjamin Edgar, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Laura is the widow of Homer Porter and resides at East Springfield, Ohio; William W. is a resident of Denver, Colorado; Grace is the wife of Ross Stewart, of Carrollton, Ohio; Joseph is specifically mentioned in an appending personal sketch; and Florence is the wife of Chester Adrian, of Dennison, Ohio, where her widowed mother resides with them.

Benjamin Edgar Harrison, who is more familiarly known by his second personal name, gained his early education in the district schools of North Township and supplemented this by a commercial course of one year at Scio College. From his boyhood he has been continuously associated with farm industry in his native township, and his successful activities include a well ordered dairy business. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio, where he is also affiliated with the lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He Is alert and progressive in his farm enterprise and as a citizen takes deep interest In all things touching the welfare of his native county.

On the 6th of November, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harrison to Miss Sadie Markley, daughter of Mathias and Sarah Jane (Shambaugh) Markley, of whom adequate mention is made on other pages of this work, in the personal sketch of Jeremiah J. Arbaugh. The Markley family was one of pioneer prominence and influence in Harrison County, and Mathias Markley, father of Mrs. Harrison, passed his entire life in this county, his death having occurred on his old home farm In Rumley Township October 22, 1887, and his widow having survived him by a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have five children - Byron W., Ralph, Eva, Frederick and Edgar. Byron W. Harrison loyally responded to the nation's call for service in connection with the late World war, but was rejected one week after arriving at Camp Sherman, Ohio, by reason of impaired vision. He married on January 5. 1921, Sue Frances Crawford, daughter of Alexander and Nannie (Mitchell) Crawford, of North Township. Ralph Harrison, in and on the same date as his brother, this being a double wedding, wedded Vera Mae Easlick, daughter of Charles Easlick of North Township.

Joseph Harrison, younger brother of Benjamin Edgar Harrison, in whose personal sketch, immediately preceding this, is given adequate record concerning the family history, was born on the farm which is his present place of residence. in North Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was March 24, 1880. He has remained continuouslv on the old home farm, and his youthful education was acquired in the public schools of his native township. His practical experience in connection with farm activities has well qualified him for successful enterprise in this important field of endeavor, and he Is one of the representative agri- eulturists and stock-raisers of the younger generation in North Township. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.