Harrison Township (part 22 of 37)

The year 1910 recorded the marriage of Mr. Harrison to Miss Eva Carpenter, who was born and reared in Guernsey County, and who is a daughter of Frederick and Mary (McCourt) Carpenter. The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison is brightened by the presence of their three children - Charles, Kathryn and Mary Martha.

Dempsey S. Hines is effectively maintaining both as a citizen of loyalty and public spirit and as a successful exponent of agricultural industry the distinctive honors of a family name that has been linked with the history of Harrison County for more than a century, and it is pleasing to record that his activities as a farmer are staged on the fine old homestead in Cadiz Township upon which his great-grandfather, Rudolph Hines, settled in 1814.

Rudolph Hines was born in Germany, a son of John Hines, and was a youth when he accompanied his parents to America, prior to the War of the Revolution, in which he took part as a valiant young soldier in the Continental Line. He came to Ohio in the early part of the first decade of the nineteenth century, as is demonstrated by the fact that it is a matter of record that in 1806 he removed with his family from Steubenville. Jefferson County, this state, into Virginia, where he was engaged in farming about eight years, within which time he saw the first steamboat pass down the Ohio River. In the spring of 1914 he came with his family to Harrison County and established his home in a pioneer log house that long remained a landmark in Cadiz Township, on the farm now owned and occupied by his grandson Dempsey S., of this sketch. He reclaimed much of his land from the virgin forest and continued to occupy the little log house until his death, at the age of ninety years, his wife surviving him but a short time. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom are now deceased.

William Hines, son of Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) Hines, was bom in Allegany County, Maryland, March 19, 1800, and was four years old when the family home was established at Steubenville, Ohio, whence about one year later removal was made to Virginia, as above noted. Thus he was about twelve years of age when the family home was established in Harrison County. Ohio, where he was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm, and where on the 15th of February. 1827. was solemnized his marriage to Isabella, daughter of John and Jane (Mahon) Hitchcock, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ireland, she having been a child at the time of the family immigration to America, and the parents of her husband likewise having been natives of the Emerald Isle. William Hines continued to reside upon the old home farm of his father until he too was summoned to eternal rest, September 8, 1887, his wife having survived him by more than a decade, her death having occurred April 15, 1660. Mr. Hines was eighty-seven years of age at the time of his death, and was one of the best known and most highly honored pioneer citizens of the county, where his valuable landed estate comprised about 380 acres at the time of his death. His widow was born January 24. 1806, and thus was ninety-three years of age when she passed from the stage of mortal life, secure in the reverent affection of all who knew her. They were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Hines was first a whig and later a repupblican. Of the children the eldest was John R., who was born May 14, 1828, and who was a resident of of Iowa at the time of his death; Sarah Jane, born October 29. 1830, became the wife of Gillespie Haverfleld and she died in January, 1915; the next child, a son, died in infancy; Lemuel Browning, bom April 15. 1834, finally established his home in the state of California, and he died In the fall of 1920; William F., father of the subject of this sketch, will be more definitely mentioned in a following paragraph; Mary Ellen, born January 13, 1839. became the wife of Joseph McBeth. of Deersville, Harrison County, and she died January 13. 1920: Samuel M., bom April 27. 1841, was a successful farmer in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and his death occurred October 29. 1901; James M. was born March 5, 1844. and died In May, 1920: Thomas H. was born July 5, 1847, and died on the 30th of the following December; and Ezra Lawson, who was bom May 20, 1851, died May 17, 1865.

William -Fletcher Hines was bom on the old homestead in Cadiz Township February 28, 1837, and he received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He remained on the home farm until the outbreak of the Civil War, when, in 1861, he enlisted a* a member of Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and with which he continued in active service nearly three years. He participated in sixteen major battles, besides many skirmishes and other minor engagements. He was slightly wounded in one engagement, but this did not long incapacitate him, but it was his misfortune, however, to have contracted typhoid fever, which caused him to be confined four months In a military hospital at Nashville. Tennessee. TTpon his recovery he rejoined his regiment, with which he remained until the close of the war. his honorable discharge having been received June 10, 1865.

After the close of his faithful and gallant service ns a soldier of the Union Mr. Hines returned to the home farm, and on the 7th of February. 1867, was united in marriage to Miss Christina Spiker. who likewise was bom and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of Christopher and Ara (Carnes) Spiker. who were pioneers of the county, where the father died in 1870 and the mother In 1879. William F. Hines continued his active operations as one of the representative farmers of Cadiz Township until 1911, when he removed with his wife to Cadiz, where he lived retired until his death, which occurred December 7, 1917, and where his widow still resides. His farm, a part of the land entered by his grandfather, is now occupied by his son Dempsy 8. In politics Mr. Hines was unfaltering in his allegiance to the Republican party, he was affiliated with the Orand Army of the Republic, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his venerable widow likewise Is a devoted member. They became the parents of five children : Ara Bell is the wife of Oliver B. Tipton, of Harrison County; Dempsey S., Immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Philip Ora is a resident of the city of Chicago ; Mary Maude is the wife of D. R. Baker, of Harrison County; and Lemuel Oscar died In childhood.

Dempsey 8. Hines was born near the farm upon which he now resides, and the date of his nativity was January 21, 1860. His early education was secured in the public schools of Cadiz Township, and for the past twenty years he has had the active management of the old homestead farm on which his great-grandfather settled more than a century ago. Here he now owns 102 acres, and he is one of the enterprising and progressive agriculturists and stockgrowers of his native county. He has served since 1918 as a member of the Board of Trustees -of (Cadiz Township, and is loyal and liberal in support of measures advanced for the general good of his home community and native county, his political allegiance being given to the Republican party and both he and his wife are active members of Asbury Chapel of the Meth- odist fkflscopal Church, not far distant from tthetr attractive rural home.

August 3, 1898, recorded the marriage of D. R. Hines to Miss Myrtle Belle Smith, daughter of Frank and Sarah Elizabeth (Johnson) Smith, of Cadiz Township, and the two children of this union are Wilma Frances, bora June 1, 1809, and Pauline Bernice, born May 3, 1913. Wilma married on January 21, 1920, William McClellan Patterson, son of William N. Patterson, of Harrison County.

Michael H. Finnicum has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth, is a representative of an old and well known family of the county and Is today numbered among the prosperous exponents of farm industry in German Township. Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum gave two of their sons to the nation's service in the great World War, and have reason to take pride in the records made by these sons in that patriotic service.

Mr. Finnicum was bora In Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 14th of July, 1860, and Is a son of John Finnicum, who was bora in the same Township December 30, 1832. John Finnicum first married Miss Henrietta Bishop, and she was still a young woman at the time of her death. The two children of this union are David E., bora July 31, 1853, and Albert D., born April 1, 1855. For his second wife Mr. Finnicum wedded Miss Mary Shambaugh. who was born July 27, 1836, and the names and respective birth-dates of the children of this union are here made a matter of record: Teresa April 13, 1857; Jesse William, July 17, 1858; Michael H. (subject of this review), July 14, 1860; Samuel, May 9, 1862; Hettie E., July 26, 1864; Charles H., October 8, 1867; and Minnie Margaret, March 23, 1872. The mother was born in Harrison County, a daughter of the late Michael Shambaugh.

Michael H. Finnicum gained his early education in the district schools of Rumley Township and the village schools at New Rumley. His native township was also the stage of his Initial activities as an independent exponent of farm enterprise, but after his marriage in 1887 he established his home on his present fine farm, comprising 265 acres of the productive soil of German township, Harrison county. He has made many improvements on the place, including the erection of most of the buildings that now mark it as a center of thrift and prosperity, and he has proved one of the vigorous agriculturists and stock-growers of the county, with special attention given to the raising of fine Delaine sheep. Mrs. Finnicum is not to be outdone In initiative and successful enterprise, as shown in the success which she has achieved in the raising of chickens of the White Wyandotte type. Mr. Finnicum is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church.

On the 24th of February, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Finnicum to Miss Anna Isabel Johnson, who is a sister of Mrs. George O. Fleming, the latter being the subject of a personal sketch which appears on other pages and which gives due incidental record concerning the parents and family history of Mrs. Finnicum. Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum have four children - John Alexander, Ralph Harold, Lester Acheson and Marshall Leroy. John Alexander Finnicum owns and successfully conducts a well directed business college at Newark, Ohio. The maiden name of his wife was Alwllda M. Lutz. When the nation became involved in the World war John A. Finnicum enlisted In the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, and on the 15th of August, 1917, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster's Corps. From the original camp he was sent to Chillicothe, Ohio, and in October, 1917, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Quartermaster's Department, In the city of Washington, D. C. There he won promotion to the office of first lieutenant, and later to the rank of captain. He continued In active and efficient service at the national capital until June 15, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. Ralph Harold, the second son, was born January 30, 1891, and is associated in the work and management of the home farm. Lester A., the third son, was bora August 22, 1898, and upon entering the nation's service in September, 1919, he was sent to Paris Island, South Carolina, where he received three months' training for duty In the United States Marine Corps. He was then transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, and in August, 1919, he was assigned to duty at Washington, D. C. Thence he was sent to Philadelphia on the 1st of the following December, and on the 7th of that month sailed for Haytl, where he remains in active service at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1920. Marshall Leroy, the youngest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum, was born on the 8th of December, 1906, and remains at the parental home.

William S. Tope, whose farm of 120 acres is situated in Monroe Township, Carroll County, on Rural Mail Route No. 1 from the village of Dellroy, has secure standing as one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, and he gives special attention to the raising of sheep and Shorthorn cattle, besides which he has established a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock.

Mr. Tope was born in Union Township, this county, on the 4th of February, 1857, and is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage and his paternal great-grandfather came to America from Scotland. The grandfather, Stephen Tope, was one of the early settlers of Carroll County, where he developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their children were eleven in number.

William S. Tope Is a son of Jacob and Jane (Parker) Tope, who passed their entire lives in Carroll County, the father having been one of the representative farmers of Monroe Township at the time of his death, In 1886, and William S. was the eldest In a family of three children.

The district schools afforded William S. Tope his early educational advantages and in the meanwhile he gained equally valuable experience in connection with the work of the home farm. He continued to attend school during the winter months until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and his association with the activities of his father's farm was not Interrupted until the time of his marriage, when twenty-one years of age, to Miss Dane Campbell, daughter of James and Catherine (Hustin) Campbell, of Harrison Township. Mrs. Tope passed to the life eternal in 1906 and Is survived by three children: Oliver James, who resides in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, married Miss Elva Woods, and they have two children, - James and Sarah Jane. Jackson Ralph, the second son. is engaged in farming in Stark County. The maiden name of his wife was Lettie Brooks, and their three children are Linn, John Lindsay and Katherine. Anna, the only daughter, is the wife of Donald Elliott, of Harrison Township.

On the 11th of June, 1919, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Tope to Mrs. Melissa Holmes, daughter of William and Rebecca (Boggs) Holmes, of Harrison Township, the Holmes family having long been one of prominence and Influence in Carroll County.

his farm enterprise ten years. He then became associated with his brother Robert In the hardware business In the village of Dellroy, vfrhere they continued successful operations, under the firm name of Tope Brothers, for a period of thirteen years. The building and stock were then destroyed by fire, and William S. resumed his association with farm enterprise. For three years he utilized a farm of 160 acres In Harrison Township, a property which he rented, and he then purchased a farm of equal area in the same township. There he remained eight years, at the expiration of which he sold the farm and engaged in the dry-goods and grocery business at Dellroy. Three years later he sold this business and purchased his present well improved farm of 120 acres, where he has since continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower.

Mr. Tope is a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party, and has been Influential in public affairs of a local order. He served three years as trustee of Monroe Township, and has given effective service also as Township Treasurer and as a member of the school board. He is a charter member of Dellroy Orange, Patrons of Husbandry, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Tope is a woman of fine intellectuality and takes lively interest in all things tending to advance the social and material welfare of the community, besides being a popular factor in social affairs.

John A. Dunlap. In the compilation of the various personal and family reviews appearing in this edition It has been specially gratifying to note that there remain in Carroll and Harrison County a large percentage of representatives citizens who are scions of sterling pioneer families of this section of the state, and this distinction applies to Mr. Dunlap, who owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm in Cadiz Township which figures as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred December 1, 1859. His grandfather, .Samuel Dunlap, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, a son of Adam and Rebecca (Work) Dunlap, the former of whom was a native of Ireland, whence he came with his parents to America when he was a lad of ten years. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, where his marriage occurred, both he and his wife having passed the closing years of their lives In Harrison County, Ohio, where they were pioneer settlers. In the old Keystone State, about the year 1800, Samuel Dunlap married Miss Sarah Dickerson, daughter of Thomas Dickerson, and in 1807 they came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and established their home in a pioneer log cabin In the midst of the forest, Mr. Dunlap having secured 168 acres of government land in Cadiz Township, and having reclaimed the sa me into a productive farm, which continues in the possession of the family to the present day. His death occurred October 2, 1839, and his widow passed away November 11, 1858, their name having place on the roster of the honored pioneers of Harrison County, where they liyed and labored to goodly ends. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now deceased, one of the last survivors having been Mrs. Nelson Pearce, of Cadiz Township.

Adam Dunlap, father of John A. Dunlap, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and thus was a child of about two years at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions and influences of the early pioneer days, his educational advantages being limited to the primitive subscription schools, which he attended in his boyhood. He eventually became the owner of his father's old homestead farm, on which he continued to reside until his death and which is now owned and occupied by his son John A. He added to the area of the original tract and was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 400 acres at the time of his death, in 1883. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and assisted in the erection of 'the Nottingham Presbyterian Church edifice, he having been a liberal supporter of this church, of which his wife was a zealous member.

As a young man Adam Dunlap married Miss Martha Thompson, daughter of David Thompson, of Cadiz Township, and she was still a young woman at the time of her death. They became the parents of three children: Sarah became the wife of John Porter; Martha married Samuel M. Porter: and Mary became the wife of John D. Barricklow. The second marriage of Mr. Dunlap was with Miss Elizabeth Jane S pratt, who was born in Pennsylvania but who was a child at the time of her parents' removal to Harrison County, Ohio. She preceded her husband to eternal rest, her death having occurred May 15, 1871, when she was forty-two years of age. Of their children the eldest. Nancy E., now deceased, became the wife of A. M. Ferrell, and they established their home in West Virginia ; Elizabeth Jane, deceased, became the wife of Robert Holliday, of Moorefleld Township, Harrison County ; Samuel died in early childhood: Amanda Adeline, deceased, became the wife of Henry Bartow, who survived her; John of this review, was the next in order of birth: William S., deceased, was a substantial farmer in Athens Township; and Clara Belle died at the age of eleven years.

John A. Dunlap learned in his boyhood and youth the best methods of carrying on farm enterprise, for he early began to lend his aid in the various activities of the old home farm, which has continued to be the stage of his progressive service as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Harrison County to the present day. He is the owner of a well improved and valuable landed domain of 300 acres and is one of the substantial and influential citizens of his native township. In the live-stock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the raising of sheep and Shorthorn cattle of the best types. In his many years of active association with farm industry he has kept abreast of the advancements made in this important field of enterprise.

and as a citizen he is loyal and public-spirited. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.

On the 6th of December, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Mary Hannah Chaney, who was born and reared in Cadiz Township, a daughter of James and Margaret Chaney. Mr. and M3rs. Dunlap have three children : George Alvin, who is now superintendent of the public schools at Jewett, Harrison County, married Miss Anna Dickerson, and to them were born two children, Vivian Maxine and John Albert, but the son is deceased. Chauncey Adam married Miss Ola Garner, and they now reside in the city of Cleveland. Clyde Beatty, of Cadiz, married Miss Helen Grear, and they have six children - Mary Josephine, Elizabeth Jane, Zora Leonda, Mildred Ellen, Edith May and a baby daughter.

Fre Patton. The indubitable consistency and value of thought and study as applied in connection with farm industry has received striking demonstration in the career of this well known citizen and native son of Harrison County. With an exceptionally comprehensive and well selected library in his attractive farm home, in Archer Township, the scientific volumes on agronomy, horticulture, Irrigation, food preservation and conservation, etc., give evidence of the close study which he has given to them, and he has gained wide reputation as an authority in practical and scientific truck farming, of which industry he is one of the foremost and most successful exponents in Ohio. His vigorous and well disciplined mind has found numerous channels through which to exert progressive influence, as later paragraphs in this review will disclose, and it is gratifying to accord to him in this publication the recognition due him as one of the representative men of his native county.

The eleventh in order of birth of a family of twelve children, Mr. Patton was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 12th of April. 1862, and is a son of Matthew M. and Sarah Jane (McCullough) Patton, the former of whom was born In Fayette County. Pennsylvania, September 3, 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, October 1, 1820. a daughter of Samuel McCullough, who later removed to Carroll County. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Patton was solemnized on the 3d of March. 1842, and after a gracious companionship of more than thirty-six years, the marital ties were broken by the death of the loved wife and mother, on the 13th of June, 1878. Mr. Patton had the sterling qualities that make for benignant influence in connection with social and industrial progress, and became one of the specially successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in Harrison County, where he accumulated a large and valuable landed estate, in Rumley Township, which section of the county continued to be his place of residence until his death, at the age of eighty- three years and sixteen days. He was influential in the local councils and work of the republican party, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. The names and respective birth-dates of their children are here made a matter of permanent record: Sarah Margaret (Mrs. Adam Miller),

Matthew M. Patton was a son of Joseph and Sarah (Burns) Patton, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Ohio in the spring of 1816; they became pioneer settlers in Rumley Township, Harrison County, where they reclaimed and developed the frontier farm which continued to be their home the rest of their lives. Mrs. Patton died in September, 1842, and his death occurred in February, 1851, the names of both meriting place on the roster of the honored pioneers of the county. They became the parents of ten children - John, Sarah, Joseph, Margaret, Matthew James, Mary, Cynthia J. David and Ann, all deceased. In politics Mr. Patton was a democrat, and he was influential in public affairs in Harrison County, where he served in various offices of trust. Further data concerning the Patton family are to be found on other pages, in connection with the personal sketches of Joseph and Thomas B. Patton.

Fre Patton is indebted to the district schools of Rumley Township for his early education, which has been effectively supplemented by his assiduous study and reading in later years, his home library giving evidence of his appreciation of the best In standard literature. Soon after attaining to his legal majority he became associated with his brother, Thomas B., in leasing the old homestead farm, to the affairs of which he continued to give his attention until January, 1888, when he removed to his present model farm of sixty-five acres, in Archer Township, about one mile southwest of the village of Jewett. He has made this splendid farm a center of remarkably successful enterprise in the raising of fruits and garden products, and has demonstrated in no uncertain way the possibilities in intensive truck farming in his native county and state. In 1911 Mr. Patton amplified his truck farming by establishing on his farm a canning factory of modern facilities and appointments, and he now markets virtually all of his products in cans, with special attention given to the raising and canning of tomatoes, beans and pumpkins, as well as cabbages of the finest type, the latter being largely manufactured into sauerkraut, which is canned on the place. There has been nothing uncertain or haphazard in the progressive activities of Mr. Patton, but, on the contrary, his study, his experimentation and his general industrial production have been carefully and scientifically directed, with the result that In many senses he has established a precedent, even as he has achieved large and gratifying success and high reputation in his chosen domain of enterprise. In 1895 Mr. Patton began planting catalpa speciosa trees on his farm, and his catalpa speciosa grove of seventeen acres now shows a total of fully 14,000 trees. He has made many and punctilious soil experimentations in connection with the propagation of these timber trees, his fine young forest of which has attracted attention from all parts of Ohio, as well as outside the boundaries of this commonwealth. Another of the admirable incidental works of Mr. Patton has been the development and application of the fine irrigation system on the bottom lands of his farm, his initial work in this direction having been done a quarter of a century ago. Many of the representative truckgrowers of Ohio have visited the Patton farm, to study its methods of cultivation, propagation, irrigation, etc. In his special field of industrial enterprise Mr. Patton is well recognized authority, and he takes pride not only in his achievement ns a successful truck-farmer and in the results that have attended his raising of catalpa trees, but also in the lesson and incentive which his work has given. He has gladly imparted to others the results of his study, experimentation and practical application. n'Yid has done a large amount of effective "missionary work" in connection with farmers' institutes throughout his native state, the state board of Agriculture and Experiment Station having repeatedly called upon him to give public addresses upon the subjects of truck farming, irrigation and forestry.

Outside of the progressiveness which he has shown in connection with productive farm industry. Mr. Patton has further manifested his initiative and self-reliance in the furthering of enterprise for the general good of the community. In May, 1994, he founded the effective telephone system which is maintained by him under the title of the Patton Telephone Company. This system now has sixteen miles of 7K)le-Iine. sixty-four miles of wire and fifty-one subscribers, its service is maintained at the highest standard.

Mr. Patton is well fortified in his opinions concerning economic and governmental policies and gives his allegiance to the republican party, though he has manifested naught of ambition for public office. Both he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church, and their attractive home Is a center of gracious hospitality, even as it is the stage of much of the representative social life of the community.

On the 11th of March, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Patton to Miss Annettle Viola Patterson, daughter of the late Capt. Joseph P. and Mary Ann (Simpson) Patterson, the former of whom died August 25, 1918, and the latter on the 24th of March. 1919. Of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Patton the first a son, died in infancy, March 18. 18S9. Paul F., born February 11, 1891, a prosperous farmer near Avella, Pennsylvania, married, April 14,

1916, Miss Frances Buchanan, of Washington, that state, and they have one child, Robert Paul, bom March 26, 1917. Leona Ruth, born January 26, 1896, married to Stanley M. Lawthers, July 30, 1920. And Hearn Lowell, January 4, 1899, are successful and popular teachers in the public schools of Harrison County. All of the children were given collegiate advantages and all have been successful teachers.

Capt. Joseph C. Patterson, father of Mrs. Patton, was bom in Archer Township, Harrison County, August 30, 1835, and was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death. His father, Joseph Patterson, was born in County Down, Ireland, in April, 1799, and his parents, who were of staunch Scotch lineage, immigrated to America when he was twelve years old. They became pioneer settlers In Harrison County, Ohio, where they remained until their death. Joseph Patterson reclaimed one of the pioneer farms of Stock Township and passed the closing years of his life in Cadiz Township, where he died in 1879. February 14, 1822, recorded his marriage to Jemima Hoa gland, daughter of James Hoa gland, a pioneer of Stock Township, and of this union were born six sons and five daughters. Joseph Patterson was first a whig and later a republican In politics, was a lender ill community sentiment and action and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Patterson survived her husband and was more than ninety-six years of age at the time of her demise.

Capt. Joseph C. Patterson was given the advantages of Hopedale College, and was one of the gallant young men who went forth from Harrison County in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. He left college and enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he soon won promotion to the office of captain of Company F. With his, regiment he took part In the various battles of the Army of the Cumberland, was with Sherman in the Atlantic campaign and the historic march * to the sea and continued in service until the close of the war. After participating in the Grand Review, in the city of Washington, Captain Patterson returned home and engaged in teaching. He eventually became one of the representative farmers In Stock Township and was one of the substantial and highly honored men and influential citizens of his native county. He was a stalwart republican and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 7th of September, 1865, Captain Patterson wedded Miss Mary Ann Simpson, daughter of John and Margaret Simpson and a representative of the Simpson family that gave the late Bishop Simpson and the mother of General Ulysses S. Grant. Captain and Mrs. Patterson became the parents of six children, of whom Annettie Viola, wife of Fre Patton, of this review, is the eldest, she having been bora October 17, 1866; Vernon was born July 11, 1868; Glenn V., October 10, 1871; Henry O., March 8, 1874 (died December 14, 1900) ; Minnie J., December 21, 1875 (died December 5, 1896) ; and Clara G., January 28, 1879.

Shebman W. Snee controls a substantial and representative mercantile business as a dealer in hardware and agricultural implements in the village of Dellroy, Carroll County, and is a popular citizen who has passed his entire life thus far in the section of Ohio to which this history is dedicated. He was born at Deersville, Harrison County, on the 5th of September, 1855, a son of William and Emma (Wells) Snee and a scion of staunch Scotch and Irish ancestry.

William Snee was born and reared in Pennsylvania, and there learned in his youth the trade of shoemaker. Upon coming to Ohio he established his residence in Harrison County, and he was engaged in the work of his trade at Deersfleld, that county, at the time of his death, In 1868. His wife survived him by many years and was of venerable age at the time of her death in 1901, both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of three sons and four daughters, and of the number Sherman W., of this review, was the fifth in order of birth.

Sherman Weller Snee gained his early education In the village schools of Deersville, and he was but thirteen years of age at the time of his father's death. The financial position of the family was such that he forthwith began to work at whatever employment he could find, and thus he aided in the support of his widowed mother and the other members of the family. At the age of eighteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade at Deersville, and after becoming a skilled workman he followed his trade as a Journeyman. On the 25th of November, 1880, he came to Carroll County and established his residence at Dellroy, where he engaged in the work of his trade with a partner. One year later he assumed full control of the business, and thereafter he successfully conducted his well equipped blacksmith shop in this village until 1906, besides which he conducted also a prosperous livery business for some time. In 1906 he engaged in the hardware business at his present location, and here he has built up a large and prosperous enterprise in the handling of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, and agricultural Implements and machinery, his trade extending throughout the wide area of country normally tributary to Dellroy as a distributing center. Mr. Snee also owns a well improved farm of seventy-seven acres In Harrison Township, and twelve acres in Monroe Township, and to this he gives a personal supervision.

In 18S2 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Snee to Miss Alice Yant, daughter of Samuel and Ester (Wyse) Yant, of Dellroy, and of their three children the eldest is George Raymond, who is now associated with his father's business. George R. Snee was one of the patriotic young men who represented Carroll County in the nation's military service in the late World war. He entered service in 1918, and after being for some time in training at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was sent to Virginia, from which state he was later transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he continued in service until the signing of the armistice, which brought the war to a close. Upon his return to Camp Sherman he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge. Ethel, the second of the children, was graduated in the Dellroy High School and has been for the past eight years a successful teacher in the public schools of her native county. Mary B., the younger daughter, was graduated in the Dellroy High School and in Scio College in Harrison County, and she likewise is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools.

Mr. Snee is a democrat in politics and has been a staunch advocate of prohibition. He is known as one of the progressive and publicspirited citizens of Dellroy, has served two terms as mayor of the village, besides having been otherwise a member of the village council for a number of terms and having also given effective service as a member of the Board of Education, as treasurer of Monroe Township, and as a member of the Dellroy Board of Health. Both he and his wife, as well as their daughters, are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Dellroy, in which he has served in virtually all official (positions for which a lay member is eligible.

Almeb E. Muxs was born in German Township, Harrison County, on the 30th of October, 1852. He was reared to manhood on the old homestead farm of his father, gained his youthful education in the public schools of the county, and in his independent career he has shown the urge and ambition and progressiveness and gained and maintained a place as one of the substantial exponents of agricultural and livestock industry in his native county and township. Here he Is the owner of a valuable farm property of 282 acres, and he has Insistently followed methods and policies that have conserved the productiveness of his broad acres, which yield generous returns from season to season, the while he has been equally successful in the raising of live stock of excellent types. Since coming into possession of this attractive and valuable farm Mr. Mills has erected the substantial and commodious house which is the family home, and has effected other improvements of permanent value. He has never failed to do his part in the furtherance of measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of his community, is a loyal and liberal citizen who commands unqualified popular esteem, and he served two years as trustee of German Township. His political views are indicated by his active support of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in the neighboring village of Annapolis, Jefferson County, he being an elder of this church at the time this sketch is in preparation, in the summer of 1921.

Aimer Emerson Mills is a scion of the staunchest of English stock. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Webb) Mills, the former of whom was bom in Worcestershire, England, on the 4th of July, 1804, and the latter of whom was born in the city of London, England, January 3, 1814, a daughter of George and Sarah (Dowland) Webb. The Mills family has long been one of prominence In connection with Worcestershire, England, and there Henry Mills, grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life, his vocation having been that of farming.

John Mills was reared and educated in his native land, where his marriage was solemnized and where the first two of his children were born. In 1842, accompanied by his wife and these two children, he came to the United States, and within a short period after his arrival he. established his family in a house next door to that of the Custer family at New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio, Gen. George Custer, who later lost his life in the historic Indian massacre that perpetuates his name, having been a small boy at the time when the Mills family came to Harrison County. After remaining at New Rumley six months Mr. Mills re moved with his family to Salem Township, Jefferson County, but nine years later returned to Harrison County and became a farmer in German Township, where he remained until his death in 1861, his widow having survived him by more than a quarter of a century and having been venerable in years at the time of her death, in 1888. They became the parents of seven children - John Henry, George William, Thomas Anthony, Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Wheeler), Charles Albert, Aimer Emerson and Flora Jane (Mrs. Ezekiel Kerr).

On the 12th of February, 1884, was solemn ized the marriage of Aimer Emerson Mills to Miss Harriet V. Davis, who was bora and reared in Harrison County and who Is a daughter of William and Nancy (Grimes) Davis. Mr and Mrs. Mills have five children: Bertha is the wife of John Miller, a prosperous farmer in German Township, and they have two children - Vera Virginia and Mary. Walter R. is a physician and surgeon and is engaged in the successful practice of his profession at East Springfield, Ohio. Warner D., a substantial farmer in Salem Township, Jefferson County, married Miss Inez Dye, and they have three children - Aimer Eugene, Walter and Doyle. Harold and Emerson, the two younger sons, remain at the parental home.

William H. Miller, who maintains his residence and business headquarters at Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, has become one of the representative buyers and shippers of live stock In his native county, and is a scion of one of its well known pioneer families. He was born in Center Township, this county, June 19, 1858, and Is a son of John and Susanna (Cox) Miller, the former being a native of Union Township and the latter of Center Township. Jonas Miller, grandfather of William H., was born and reared in Lancaster County. Pennsylvania, and from the old Keystone State he and his wife came in an early day to Carroll County and settled on a pioneer farm in Union Township, he having taken up a tract of Gov- eminent land there and having reclaimed the same from the forest into a productive farm. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives on this old homestead.

John Miller was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days, receiving the advantages of the common schools of the period, and eventually became one of the substantial and representative farmers of his native county, where he died when about seventyfour years of age and where his wife passed away when about seventy-two years of age, both having been zealous members of the Reformed Church and Mr. Miller having been a republican in political adherency. They became the parents of six children - Sarah Ann, Jacob Alice, William H., Hannah and Caroline.

William H. Miller was reared on the home farm which was the place of his birth and is indebted to the public schools of Carroll County for his early educational discipline. As a young man he was engaged in independent farm enterprise about eight years, and since 1886 he has been engaged successfully in the buying and shipping of live stock, with residence in the city of Carrollton, where he occupies the handsome and modern residence which he erected in 1915. on West Main Street. He is a stockholder in the Cummings Trust Company, of Carrollton, and also in the First National Bank of this city. Though never manifesting aught of ambition for political activity or preferment, Mr. Miller is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Miller is still actively associated with the basic industry of agriculture, as the owner of two well improved farms, in Washington Township, and in addition to his substantial business as a shipper of live stock he also buys and ships wool each successive season. His reputation Is that of a vigorous, resourceful and successful business man. His maternal grandparents, Henry and Hannah (Price) Cox, the latter a native of Scotland, were early settlers in Center Township, where Mr. Cox de« veloped a good farm, though he was a young man at the time of his death, hfs wife having survived him by many years.

In September, 1881, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Lucinda Adams, who likewise was bom and reared in Carroll County and whose death occurred in 1888, she having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She is survived by her only child, Grace, who is the wife of Robert E. Cameron, of Carroll County, they having become the parents of five children - Helen. Miller (deceased), Margaret, Robert and Dorothy.

In 1891 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Maude Florence Stewart, who was bom in Perry Township, Carroll County, June 23, 1865. The one child of this union is John Stewart Miller, who is engaged in the electrical business, and resides at Lorain, Ohio.

He married Miss Ruby Moore, and they have one child, Lois Adrianna. Mrs. Miller Is a daughter of Edward and Martha Ann (Davis) Stewart, the former of whom was bora in Perry Township, Harrison County, a daughter of William Davis, a pioneer of that county. Edward Stewart became one of the most substantial farmers and influential citizens of his native township and also operated a tannery for a number of years. He owned a fine farm of 464 acres, was a republican in politics, and served with marked ability as a member of the board of county commissioners, both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and both having been venerable in years at the time of their death. Their marriage was solemnized in 1847, and they became the parents of eleven children. Edward Stewart was a son of Mahlon and Elizabeth (Park) Stewart, natives of Maryland, and in 1804 they became pioneer settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, whence they came in 1820. to what Is now Carroll County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he remained until his death, in 1879, when nearly ninety-two years of age, his wife having passed away In 1871, at the age of eighty-four years. Mahlon Stewart became a resident of Carroll County more than a decade prior to its organization, and in 1835, on his land, he laid out the village of Perrysville. He was first a whig and later a republican in politics and he and his wife held membership In the Methodist Episcopal Church, though she was a birthright member of the Society of Friends. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are notv deceased.

John W. Cabman has been a resident of Harrison County since he was a lad of twelve years, and is now* one of the progressive farmers of German Township. He was bora in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 24th of March, 1872, and is a son of Lewds N. and Mahala A. (Hobson) Carman, both of whom likewise were born in Jefferson County - the former on the 8th of October, 1840, In Wayne Township, and the latter in Salem Township, on the 23d of March, 1876, she being a daughter of Caleb and Sarah A. (More) Hobson.

Lewis N. Carman w^as a son of Andrew and Isabelle (Maxwell) Carman, and a grandson of John Carman, who was bom in Maryland, of Welsh ancestry. John Carman was born in the year 1785, and in 1817 he became a pioneer settler in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. He went forth as a soldier in the War of 1812. and it was after the close of this conflict that he established his home in Jefferson County, where he reclaimed a productive farm and where he remained until his death, in 1861. His children were ten in number: Andrew,

Samuel. Marshall, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Patience. Thomas, Jane and Cyrus. Andrew Carman was born in Maryland, in the year 1810, and thus was about seven years old at the time of the family removal to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he was reared to manhood, and where he passed the rest of his life, his active career having been marked by close association with farm industry. His first wife was surviyed by two children, Selena and John. For his second wife he wedded Miss Isabelle Maxwell, and they became the parents of six children, all of whom are now deceased - Enoch, Oliver, Lewis X., Andrew, Matilda and Ann (Mrs. John Walker).

Lewis N. Carman was reared and educated in his native county and when the Civil war was precipitated he was one of the gallant young men of Ohio who went forth in defense of the nation's integrity. October 16, 1862. he enlisted as a member of Company E, Fifty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this regiment he continued in service at the front until the expiration of his term. January 16, 1863. He then returned to his home, but on the 10th of May of the following year he re-enlisted in Company B. One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he continued in service until September 10. 1864, when he received his honorable discharge. After his return to his native county he was there associated with the work of his uncle's farm until March 4. 1869. when he was united in marriage to Miss Mahala A. Hobson. In December, 1871. he purchased a farm In Salem Township. Jefferson County, and there he remained until 1884, when he sold the property and came to Harrison County. Here he purchased a farm in German Township and he developed the same into one of the best stock farms In this section of the county. On this fine old homestead he continued to reside until his death, in 1901, and his widow still maintains her home in this county, she being an earnest member of the Christian Church, as was also Mr. Carman. They became the parents of four children - Sarah R.. deceased. John Oliver H. and Caleb. the latter having died in childhood.

John W. Carman gained his rudimentary education in the district schools of Salem Township, Jefferson County, and after the family removal to Harrison County he continued his studies in the district schools of German Township. Thereafter he was a student in the normal school at Hopedale during one year, and attended Scio College two terms. He put his scholastic acquirements to practical test and effective use by entering the ranks of the pedagogic profession, as a representative of which he was for four years a popular and successful teacher in the district schools of Harrison County. Tn the early '90s he established a general store at Carman, a little village developed in connection with a coal mining enterprise on the farm which he now owns, and he continued this business until 1911, in the meanwhile having served as postmaster at Carman. Since his retirement from mercantile business he has given his attention to the management of his farm, which comprises fifty acres and which is given over to diversified agriculture and stockraising. Mr. Carman is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Fnionport. where both he and his wife also hold membership in the adjunct organization, the chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, besides which

On the 25th of June, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Carman to Miss Mary A. Wallace, daughter of William and Rachel A. (Rife) Wallace, both natives of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Carman have one son, Eugene Lewis, who was born March 20, 1902.

Thomas Rainsbebgeb is a sterling citizen who is specially entitled to consideration in this publication, for he is not only one of the venerable native sons of Carroll County, a representative of an honored pioneer family and known for his worthy achievement in connection with farm industry, but he is also a man whose character and ability have gained to him inviolable esteem in the county w'hich has ever represented his home. He resides on and continues In the general supervision of his excellent farm of sixty acres in Monroe Township, some distance from Sherodsville, from which village the farm receives service on rural mail route No. 1.

On the old homestead farm of his father, in Monroe Township, this county. Thomas Rainsberger was born July 27, 1849, a son of John and Patience (Davis) Rainsberger, the former of German and the latter of Welsh ancestry. John Rainsberger. great-grandfather of Thomas Rainsberger, was born and reared in Germany and was a young man when he immigrated to America and established his home In Pennsylvania. From that commonwealth he went forth as a loyal soldier of the Continental Line In the War of the Revolution, and after the war he continued his residence in Pennsylvania, as a farmer, until the close of his life. His son John, grandfather of him whose name initiates this article, became the founder of the family in Carroll County, Ohio, where he established his residence in 1812, more than a quarter of a century before this county was created. He obtained a quarter-section of government land near the present village of Sherodsville, In Orange Township, and he reclaimed from the forest wilds a productive farm, this place having continued to be his home until his death, in 1842. at the patriarchal age of ninety-seven years. This sterling pioneer endured his full share of the hardships and heavy labors that fell to the early settlers of this section of the state, and contributed his quota to the initial development of Carroll County. In the earlier period of his residence here he found it necessary to make his way on horseback to Syracuse. New York, to obtain the salt required In the proper maintenance of his live stock. He was born in Pennsylvania, on the 25th of June, 1790. Mr. Rainsberger married Miss Susan Alba ugh, a member of the representative pioneer family of that name in Jefferson County, Ohio. In July, 1819. the father of Mrs. Rainsberger took up 146 acres of Government land In what is now Monroe Township. Carroll County, which section was then included in Jefferson County, and here the family home was established in a pioneer log cabin. Mr. Albaugh continued to reside on this farm until his death, in an epidemic of fever, in 1835, his children having been eight in number. It was In the pioneer home of Mr. Albaugh that was organized the little religious society which was the nucleus of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leavittsville, Carroll County.

John Ralnsberger (III), father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the pioneer homestead farm in the present Orange Township, and the year of his nativity was 1821. Here he passed his entire life, and as a farmer and as a loyal and substantial citizen he well upheld the prestige of the family name. He became one of the representative farmers of Monroe Township, was a staunch republican in politics, served at one time as road supervisor, and he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife became the parents of three children - Isabelle, George D. and Thomas. >

Thomas Ralnsberger was reared on the home farm which is still his place of residence, and his youthful education was obtained In the common schools of the locality and period. He attended school during the winter months and during the summer seasons applied himself vigorously to work on his father's farm, he having been a mere boy when he began to do a man's work, including plowing and other arduous farm service. He continued to attend school until he was eighteen years of age, and upon attaining to his legal majority he further signalized his independence by taking unto himself a wife, his marriage to Miss Margaret A. Pearch, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth Jane (McDevitt) Pearch, of Monroe Township, having been solemnized in the year 1870. After their marriage they remained nine years on the old farm of Mr. Rainsberger's father, and then, in 1879, purchased and removed to their present farm, which at first comprised only thirty-three acres and which a subsequent purchase increased to its present area of sixty acres. Here Mr. Ralnsberger has continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower during the intervening years, and he has secure status as one of the representative citizens of his native township, of which he served one term as trustee, besides which he held for six years the office of constable, and was a director of the county infirmary six years - 1900-1906. He is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

I>ong, of Jewett, Carroll County, and they have one child, Katherine Nellie, sixteen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920. Homer B. married Miss Alice McCourt, of Loudon Township, this county, and they have three children - Lois Patience, Wilma Edith, and Arthur Bruce. Hattie Violet is the wife of T. I. Tope, of Monroe Township, and their only child is a son, John Clayton. Leroy Ross, the youngest of the children, resides in the city" of Cleveland. He married Miss Una B. Orin, of Monroe Township, Carroll County.

Robert S. Busby. Numbered among the prosperous farmers of Archer Township is Robert S. Busby, owner of 280 acres of highly developed and valuable land. He was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, February 1, 1874, a son of Jacob Busby, grandson of Joshua Busby, and great-grandson of Abraham and Deborah (Kemp) Busby. Joshua Busby was born in Archer Township, but in young manhood moved to Perry Township, Carroll County, where he continued to farm the remainder of his life. He was married to Catherine Bear and their children were as follows: Jacob, who is mentioned below; Deborah, who married William S'thal ; and Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Bracker.

Jacob Busby was born in Perry Township. Carroll County, and his wife, Nellie Steel, was born in Loudon Township, a daughter of James and Mary (Sells) Steel. Commencing his farming on the same farm that had given his father his start, Jacob Busby remained on It for a quarter of a century, but then came to Harrison County, and for the past ten years has been a resident of Bowerston, Ohio. Here he and his wife are held in the highest esteem and they are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the place. Their children, living and dead, are as follows: Glenn, who married Mansfield Liggett; Robert S., of this sketch ; Wade, who died when about thirty-two years of age; Clyde, who was fourth in order of birth; Nellie, who married Harry Keys, lives at Canton, Ohio; and Ruth, who married Walter Pender, also lives at Canton, Ohio.

Growing up amid rural surroundings Robert S. Busby gained a practical knowledge of farming from his father at the same time he was attending the district schools of his neighborhood. His first farming was done in Perry Township, Carroll County, but in the spring of 1902 he moved to his present farm In Archer Township, and rented it for about ten years, when he then bought. Here he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising, and is now specializing on dairying, keeping a herd of sixty cattle, and milking from thirty-five to forty all the time. Starting out In life with no capital, Mr. Busby has gone a long way on the road of success, and entirely through his own efforts. He is a man who knows how to make his efforts yield him good returns, and may be said to have had no failures in his undertakings.

In 1S99 Mr. Busby was united in marriage with Vettie Baker, a daughter of Thomas and Emily A. (Robertson) Baker, members of old families of this section. Mr. and Mrs. Busby have four children : Lloyd Forrest, Harry

Robert Merbiok. By scientific methods, strict business policies and progressive measures Mr. Merrick has achieved the maximum success in connection with farm industry in Carroll County, where his model farm, "Grand View," of 172 acres, is situated in Monroe Township, half a mile east of the village of Dellroy, which is his postoffice address. He is known as one of the most progressive students and exemplars of agriculture and horticulture in Carroll County, and the results have been shown in his reclaiming a run-down farm into one of the most productive in the county. He has conducted careful experimentations in fertilizing and in restoring the integrity of the soil throughout the medium of legume crops of diversified order. He was the first man in the county to mark practical appreciation of the value of powdered lime in restoring so called "sour" land to fertility, and he was also the first to plant sweet clover as a means of soil regeneration in this county. Mr. Merrick is a regular correspondent of the national Department of Agriculture, which has manifested marked interest in his various experiments and shown a desire to have complete record of results achieved. He has recourse to the leading periodicals representative of farm industry, and has contributed valuable articles to a number of these farm journals. Mr. Merrick has the largest and finest orchard of Baldwin apple trees in the county, and from the same he shipped fully 2.200 bushels from his crop of the season of 1920. By careful spraying. etc., he produces prize-winning Baldwin apples of the finest type, the same commanding the maximum market prices. He is an enthusiast in the reclaiming of sour land by means of lime and in the enriching of the soil by means of leguminous crops. With all his success and broad and scientific knowledge gained in these connections Mr. Merrick has been characteristically modest in working out his methods and plans, and has accepted both mistakes and successes with philosophic calm. His example has led to much emulation in Carroll County, and many who at first ridiculed his work are now copying his methods. One familiar with his indefatigable labors and earnest study and experimentation has pronounced him the most valuable citizen of Carroll County in the matter of instituting progressive measures In connection with the various departments of farm industry.

Mr. Merrick was born at Dellroy, this county, in the year 1879. and is a son of Robert and Mary Jane (Smith) Merrick. He is of Scotch- Irish lineage, and his paternal grandfather, Israel Merrick, came from Maryland and established his home in Harrison Township, Carroll County, where he became an extensive landholder and representative farmer.

Robert Merrick, Jr., subject of this review, acquired his youthful education In the public schools of his native county, and his broader education has been gained through self-discipline, well directed study and active association with the practical affairs of life. At the age of eighteen he took the position of engineer at the Dellroy coal mines, and he cqntlnued his service in this capacity for a period of fifteen years. With the money which he had saved he then purchased sixty-four acres of his present farm, to which he subsequently added an adjoining tract of 108 acres. Here he has achieved remarkable results in general agriculture, besides developing one of the finest apple orchards in this section of the state. He operates a coal mine on his farm, the product of the same being used largely in this and adjoining counties. Mr. Merrick has been emphatically one of the world's constructive workers, and his success and prestige have been worthily won. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton and has other financial interests. Though never a seeker of political preferment, he accords a loyal allegiance to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy.

In 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Merrick to Miss Mary E. Booth, daughter of Jeremiah and Matilda (Parker) Booth, of Harrison Township, she being the youngest in a family of six children and the original representatives of the Booth family in America having come from the north of Ireland. Jeremiah Booth was. the owner of a farm of sixty acres In Harrison Township and for many years worked to a greater or less extent at the trade of blacksmith. His death occurred In 1913, and his wife has also passed to eternal rest. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Merrick are: Harry, Doyle and Earl, aged respectively fifteen, eleven and nine years, in 1920.* The attractive family home is known for its generous and refined hospitality.

William McKibben. Worthy achievement is that of productive activity in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and stockraising. and he whose name initiates this paragraph has the distinction of being not only a representative farmer of his native county and township but also a scion of a sterling family that was founded In Ohio prior to the admission of the state to the Union. His well improved homestead farm, of sixty-five acres, is attractively situated In Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, and In addition to this farm he has also the management of another fine farm estate of 248 acres not far distant from the home place, and in connection with well diversified agriculture he gives special attention to the raising of sheep of excellent type, making this an important feature of his farm enterprise. The progressiveness and prosperity of Mr. McKibben are clearly indicated in the admirable appearance and facilities of his landed estate, and he Is a citizen whose sterling character has given him secure place In popular confidence and good will. _r

William McKibben was born on his fathers old homestead farm In Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, and the date of his nativity was July 30, 1861. He is a son of John and Isabelle (McMillan) McKibben, both natives of Athens Township, Harrison County, where the former was born January 27, 1833, and the latter on the 6th of October, 1829.

John McKibben was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer period in the history of Harrison County where he was reared on the old home farm and where he received the advantages of the common schools of the day. He was a son of George and Martha (Brokaw) McKibben. George McKibben was the youngest of eight children horn to Richard and Sarah McKibben, and it was about the year 1790 that Richard McKibben immigrated from his native state of Pennsylvania to Ohio, where he obtained a large tract of land in Jefferson County. Within a short time, however, he removed to Belmont County, later he resided in Harrison County, and finally he removed to Morgan County, where his death occurred in 1827. He was born and reared in Allegheny County. Pennsylvania, where his father settled upon coming from Ireland to America. George McKibben, grandfather of William McKibben, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, September 15, 1804, and in that and Belmont counties he was reared. The family name of his first wife was Brashers. who lived only a short time after the birth of her only child, Jesse, who eventually established his home in the state of Illinois. In 1830 George McKibben married Miss Martha Brokaw, and they became the parents of two sons, George and John. After the death of his second wife George McKibben wedded Miss Eleanor Morrison, and they became the parents of three children - William. Eleanor and Richard. The mother of these children passed to the life eternal and George McKibben thereafter contracted a fourth marriage, with Jane Beall, who died in 1887. George Beall developed one of the productive farms of Moorefleld Township and was one of the most venerable men of the county at the time of his death.

John McKibben's marriage to Miss Isabelle McMillan, daughter of Charles and Rosanna (Gilmore) McMillan, was solemnized January 3, 1856, the parents of his wife having been natives of Ireland and having become early settlers in Harrison County, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. McKibben continued his residence in Athens Township for two years, and in 1859 he purchased a farm of sixty-four acres, in section 31, Moorefleld Township, where he continued his successful career as a farmer until the close of his long and useful life. He was a republican in politics and he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of six children - George, John C.. Mary E., Sarah B., William and Thoma9 C.

William McKibben grew to manhood on the farm which was the place of his birth, and his youthful education was acquired in the district schools of Moorefleld Township. None can doubt his wisdom In having never abated his allegiance to farm industry, for in connection therewith he has won substantial success and lived a life of independence, with a home of which any man might well be proud. For three years after his marriage he was engaged in farming in Nottingham Township, and he then removed to the fine farm which has since continued his place of residence and which is one of the model places in Moorefleld Township. In politics he is a staunch advocate and supporter of the cause of the republican party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, In the faith of which they have reared their children.

On the 15th of December, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McKibben to Miss Lydia S. Porter, who was born in Cadiz Town- . ship, Harrison County, August 15, 1864, a daughter of John and Sarah (Dunlap) Porter. Concerning the children of this union the following brief record is consistently entered: John Allen, who was bom October 13, 1887, remained at the parental home, and he continued as his father's valued coadjutor in the work and management of the farm until January, 1929, when he entered service in the position of rural mail carrier on one of the routes from Piedmont Later he gave up his work as mail carrier and removed to Piedmont, where he is now residing. On November 24, 1920, he married Melva E.. daughter of Everett Leyster, of Guernsey County, Ohio.

J. Frank, the second son, was born August 10, 1890, and is giving his attention to farm enterprise in his native county. He married Miss Cora Simpson and they have had two children, Bertha Clara, who was bom January 29, 1892. died on the 2d of February, 1918, and Al- , bert*v Sherman, who was born September^ 24, 1 is engaged in farming in Moorefleld Township. Sarah Emma, who was bom November 23, 1897, is the wife of Wilbur Lee, of Moorefleld Township, and they have two children, Dorothy May and William.

William Finnicum has long been numbered among the substantial farmers of Carroll County, which has been his place of residence from his childhood and in which he is a representative of sterling pioneer families - on both the paternal and the maternal sides. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 18th of March, 1853. and is a son of James D. and Eleanor (Moorehead) Finnicum. both of whom were born and reared in Carroll County, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they soon afterward removed to Jefferson County and established their home on a farm near Steubenville. In 1858 they made the venturesome journey by water to California, where the gold excitement was still at its height, and they located at Forest Hill, Placer County, that state, James D. Finnicum did not give much time to the search for gold in the mines, but for thirtysix years he drove stage for the Wells- Fargo Express Company, within which long period he had many interesting experiences In connection with frontier life. He now resides at Chico, as a patriarchal citizen of ninety-three years, his birth having occurred on the 6th of October, 1827. His devoted wife passed to the life eternal in August. 1903. Of their children the first, Angeline, is deceased; William, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Meriman died March 19, 1921, in Chico, California; and at Chico reside also Mary, who Is the widow of James Barnes, and Elizabeth, who is the wife of Harry Kregger.

The paternal grandparents of William Finnicum were William and Maria (Richards) Finnicum, the former a native of the north of England and the latter of Carroll County, Ohio, where her parents settled in the early pioneer days. Thomas and Mary (Hill) Moorehead, the maternal grandparents, likewise were numbered among the early settlers of Carroll County, where they obtained land from the government and did well their part in the Initial development of the county.

He whose name initiates this review was about five years old when his parents went to California, and he was taken Into the home of his maternal uncle. Crawford Moorehead, of Lee Township. Carroll County. Here he was reared to adult age, and in the meanwhile he did not neglect the advantages offered in the district schools of the locality. After the death of his uncle he remained with his widowed aunt on the farm until she, too, passed away, in the spring of 1876. On the 6th of December of the following year he married Miss Margaret J. Taylor, daughter of John and Mary (Swickard) Taylor, of Jefferson County. He then worked a farm in Lee Township, and after remaining on this place two years, with Incidental attention given to the mining of coal in this locality, he purchased a farm of eighty acres In the south part of Lee Township. About ten years later he sold this property and purchased eighty acres of his present farm, one mile northwest of Harlem Springs. Later he added fiftyfive acres to his farm property, but by the subsequent sale of two acres the tract was reduced to its present area - 133 acres. Mr. Finnicum has always been known as an earnest and industrious exponent of farm enterprise, and his success as an agriculturist and stock-grower has been such as to attest his good Judgment and his close application to productive Industry. For a number of years he gave considerable attention to the digging of coal during the winter seasons, an appreciable amount of coal having been mined on his own farm. He Is a republican in political adherency, has served as a member of the election board but has had no desire for public office. He has always been ready to do his part in the furtherance of measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community and his is an inviolable place in popular confidence and good will.

In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum: James D. is a resident of Raymond, Washington ; Charles M. resides in the city of Minneapolis. Minnesota ; John F. maintains his home at Carrollton. judicial center of his native county: William Albert is a progressive farmer of I>ee Township; Alanson Is engaged in farming In Columbiana County; Jesse W. died at the age of about thirty years; Crawford R. remains at the parental home and is associated in the management of the farm ; Mary Eleanor is the wife of James Nape, of Washington Township, Carroll County; and Annie C. is the wife of Perry Roudebush, of Lee Township. Two of the sons. Jesse W. and Crawford R., represented Carroll County as valiant young soldiers with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World war. and while in service both contracted Influenza. Jesse W. having been confined In a hospital In France for ten weeks and having virtually sacrificed his life in the cause of patriotism, as he did not long survive after his return to his native land, his death occurring in Canton, Ohio, on the 7th of May, 1920.

Frank B. Spiker is a representative of the fourth generation of the Spiker family In Harrison County, within whose gracious borders his paternal great-grandparents settled in a very early day, upon immigrating to Ohio from Pennsylvania. in which latter commonwealth the original American progenitors established a home upon coming from their native Holland, in the colonial period of our national history. The great-grandfather took up Government land In what is now Stock Township, Harrison County, and began reclaiming a farm in the midst of the primeval forest. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and endured the hardships that fell to those who thus established homes on the frontier, in the late part of the eighteenth or early part of the nineteenth century. Christopher Spiker, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was bom on the pioneer farm In Stock Township, in the year 1806, and he became one of the substantial farmers of his native township. where he also operated a grist mill in the early days. He was seventy-two years of age at the time of his death. In 1879, his wife, whose maiden name was Ara Carnes, having passed away in March. 1870.

Frank B. Spiker was born in Stock Township, Harrison County. December 3, 1863, and is a son of John W. and Nancy (Crawford) Spiker. both of whom were likewise born and reared in Stock Township and the latter was a daughter of Josiah Crawford. John W. Spiker was born July 31. 1833, and remained until his death on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. He became the owner of a valuable landed estate of nearly 600 acres and was one of the leading agriculturists and sheep-growers of Stock Towmship, besides which he became associated with his sons in the buying and shipping of live stock, a portion of his farm property having been situated in Franklin Township. He was a staunch republican, was an honored and influential figure in his community, served many terms as township trustee and In 1889 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners, in w'hlch office he served with characteristic loyalty and efficiency. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Deersville. in which he held for many years the office of trustee. He was eighty-three years of age at the time of bis death. December 30. 1916. and his wife passed to eternal rest at the age of eighty-one years, on the 3d of January, 1913, their children having been five in number - Edward C., Flora, Frank B., Crawford and Birdella.

The early life of Frank B. Spiker was passed like that of the average farm youth of the locality and period, and he profited duly by the advantages of the district schools of his native township. He continued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm until the time of his marriage, in 1900, since which time he has maintained his residence in the village of Deersville, Franklin Township, where he continues to conduct a large and prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock, with which line of enterprise he has been actively identified for fully a quarter of a century, besides which he gives a general supervision to his farm property, in Franklin Township. For the past several years he has been one of the owners of the grist mill at Deersville, but he has given but little of his time to the active management of this industrial enterprise. He is a republican in political allegiance and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church in their home village.

In the year 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Mary Belle Fulton, and they have one child, Helen B. Mrs. Spiker was born and reared in Nottingham Township, this county, and is a daughter of William P. and Emma J. (Cunningham) Fulton. William P. Fulton was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 23d of October, 1835, and was a son of William and Elizabeth (Pugh) Fulton, the former of whom was bom at Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, April 25, 1806, and the latter in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, February 6, 1813, their marriage having been solemnized on the 3d of May, 1832. Mrs. Elizabeth Fulton was a daughter of William and Bethsheba (Johnson) Pugh, both natives of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days, Mrs. Pugh having been a daughter of Benjamin Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. William Pugh became the parents of seven children - John, Benjamin, Ellis, Enoch, William, Jr., Elizabeth and Rachel. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Pugh became the wife of John Heavilin, and they became the parents of two sons, Byron and Albert, the last mentioned having served as a soldier in the Mexican war. John Pugh, the founder of the family in Harrison County, came here from Maryland and in Nottingham Township he reclaimed from the wilderness the farm now owned by Marion D. Barrett. Here he reared his two sons, David and Wiliam, and his several daughters, and here he and his wife remained as sterling pioneer citizens until the close of their lives.

The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Spiker were Philip and Hannah Fulton. Philip Fulton was a pioneer school teacher at Steubenville, Jefferson County, and among his pupils was Edward M. Staunton, who later served as secretary of war in the cabinet of President Lincoln. Mr. Fulton later became a pioneer farmer in Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he was a leader in community affairs, he having served many years as justice of the peace. He and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which they reared their children - Alexander, William, Philip, John, Hannah, Jane, Mary, Eliza, Julia and Sarah. The son William became a substantial farmer and stock-grower in Nottingham Township, where he owned at one time 464 acres of land and where he achieved special success as a sheep-grower. His children were eight in number - John Calvin, William P. (father of Mrs. Spiker), Alexander, Winfield Scott (died while serving as a Union soldier in the Civil war), Hannah (died at the age of four years), Rachel, Louisa and Ellis.

William P. Fulton was reared and educated in Nottingham Township and he represented his native county as a soldier in the Civil war. In the autumn of 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Ninety -eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued in service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 19, 1865. He took part in numerous engagements, including the battles of Jonesboro, Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Rome, Kenesaw Mountain and Bentonville, and was with Sherman's forces on the historic march from Atlanta to the sea. At the close of hostilities he participated in the Grand Review, In the City of Washington. Thereafter he was numbered among the prosperous farmers of his native township until about 1890, when he purchased and assumed charge of the grist mill at Deersville, where he and his wife have since maintained their home. Here Mr. Fulton is an appreciative and valued member of John A. Norris Post, No. 495, Grand Army of the Republic, and his wife is a member of the Christian Church. July 5, 1866, recorded the marriage of Mr. Fulton to Miss Emma J. Cunningham. daughter of William and Jane (McCullough) Cunningham, of Nottingham Township, and of this union have been bom four children: Winfield Scott resides in the City of Columbus, Ohio; William Marshall maintains his home at Spokane, Washington; Mary Belle is the wife of Frank B. Spiker, the subject of this sketch ; and. Bessie Is the wife of Lance Bargar, of Deersville.

Edward C. Spiker, whose excellent farm of 120 acres lies partially within the corporate limits of the Village of Scio, Harrison County, where he maintains his residence, not only gives his supervision to this farm but has been for many years engaged In the buying and shipping of live stock, in which he was formerly associated with his father and brother. In the personal sketch of his brother, Frank B., in the preceding sketch of this work, is given adequate review of the family history, so that a repetition of the record is not here demanded. Suffice it to say that Mr. Spiker is a popular representative of one of the sterling pioneer families whose name has been identified with Harrison County history for more than a century.

Mr. Spiker was born on the ancestral homestead farm, in Stock Township, this county, and the date of his nativity was May 19, 1860. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the home farm until his marriage, In 1893, but In the meanwhile he had devoted nine years to successful service as a teacher in the rural schools of his native county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in North Township, and there lie remained until the autumn of 1917, when he removed to his present fine farm, lying partly within the Village of Scio, in the same township. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.

The year 1893 recorded the marriage of Mr. Spiker to Miss Anna J. Miller, daughter of John and Margaret (Smith) Miller, of Franklin Township, and the one child of this union, John J. M., is a member of the class of 1923 in the University of Ohio, at Columbus.

Richard Hetherington is one of the leading men of Fox Township, where he owns a valuable farm, although he devotes his attention to coal mining as boss of the Sterling Coal Company. He was bogs at Salineville, Ohio, October 6, 1876, a son of Richard and Jane (Vasey) Hetherington, natives of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, where they were married. The father was a miner In England, and continued to work at that calling when he came to Salineville, Ohio, for a time, but the last twenty-five years of life he was In the liquor business. His death . occurred about 1902, but the mother survived him until 1912. They had thirteen children, of whom the living are as follows: William and Robert, both of whom live at Salineville, Ohio; Maggie, who is Mrs. Henry Westlake of Salineville; John T., who lives at Cleveland, Ohio; Richard, whose name heads this review; and Charles, who lives in Fox Township.

When he was fourteen years old Richard Hetherington began digging coal, and has remained in the coal-mining business ever since. At one time he and his brothers, William, Charles and Robert opened a coal mine in Fox Township, which was a drift one, and three years later sold It to the Sterling Mining Company of Cleveland, after which Mr. Hetherington worked in the mine for two years. At that time he, William Hetherington, Richard Hetherington, Mathew Smith and Herman Granpner opened another mine In Fox Township and conducted it for about four years, and sold it to the Sterling Coal Company, Limited, of Toronto, Canada. They then leased the Y. & O. Mining Company of Barton, Ohio. Six months later Mr. Hetherington engaged with the Sterling Coal Company as mine boss, and has since held that position. In March, 1907, he bought a farm in Fox Township, which his sons conduct. Since making his purchase he has sold thirty-nine acres of the farm.

On January 20, 1897, Mr. Hetherington was married to Lula Saltsman, born in Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Martin and Eliza (Van Dyke) Saltsman, natives of Jefferson and Athens counties, Ohio, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Hetherington became the parents of the following children : Walter Leroy of Salineville, who married Verona Grove ; Erma, who married Fred Everitt of Salineville, has one son, Fred, Jr.; Harold, who is on the home farm; Ernest, who died in Infancy; and Helen, Richard and Delmar, who are at home.

Mr. Hetherington and his wife attended the public schools of their several neighborhoods. The Christian Church holds Mr. Hetherington's membership, and for several years he was a deacon, and has always been Interested in its progress. A republican, he has served as trustee of the water works and cemetery, and as a member of the school board at Salineville. Fraternally he belongs to Salineville Lodge No. 435, I. O. O. F. In every relation of life Mr. Hetherington measures up to the highest conception of American citizenship, and has fairly won the prosperity and good standing in his community he now enjoys.

Homes White, One of the widely known citizens and substantial iiarmers land stockraise rs of Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, is Homer White, who was born in this township April 12, 1860. His parents were Joseph T. and Mahala (Johnson) White, both of whom were born also In Franklin Township. William Johnson, the maternal grandfather, was an early pioneer In this section,, coming when a large portion of the land was yet heavily timbered and the home of many Indians. The children of William Johnson were four in number, namely : Sarah J., who married John Czatt; Harriet, who married Moses Gordon; Caroline, who died young; and Mahala, who became the wife of Joseph T. White.

Joseph T. White, the paternal grandfather, was bom In Pennsylvania, married Hannah Rodgers, bora in Hamilton County, Ohio. They came in pioneer days to Franklin Township, Harrison County and lived and died on their farm. They were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had children as follows: Wiliam Pinckney, Joshua, Warner, Joseph T., Charles, Permelia, Anna and Hannah, the two last named still surviving.

Joseph T. White the second, spent his entire life as a farmer in Franklin Township, and both he and wife died on the old homestead there. They were quiet, industrious, virtuous people and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Four children were bom to them, namely : Alice, who is the wife of Wilson E. McGonegal ; Homer, who is a representative citizen of Franklin Township; Jesse, who died at the age of seven months; and John, who married Bertha Wallace, of Carroll Comity, and still lives on the old homestead.

Homer White obtained his educational training in the Weaver School, in Franklin Township, and gave his father assistance on th>e home farm. For one year after his marriage, he resided at Uhrichsville, Ohio, but then returned to the home farm, which he conducted for the next seven years. In 1894 he purchased his extensive farm In Franklin Township, consisting of 200 acres, which property has closely engaged his attention ever since. He finds general farming and moderate stock-raising under his progressive methods quite profitable although requiring careful and Intelligent management.

Della, who resides at home; Earl who lives on one of his father's farms, married Birdie Hines, and they have two children, Helen and Lewis Homer; Frank B.. who is assisting his father since released from military service; and Forest M. and Florence Opal, both of whom are at home.

Frank B. White has an honorable record testifying to cheerful and efficient duty well performed during his five months' service in the National Army. He entered service in July, 1918, and was sent to Camp Sherman and assigned to the organization for foreign service when the armistice was signed. The young soldier received his discharge in December, 1918, and returned to his home.

For many years Mr. White has been active in politics to some extent and has been called upon to serve in important township offices. For four years he was a trustee of Franklin Township, and for a like period served on the township board of education. The family attends the Christian Church, of which Mrs. White is a member.

Benjamin F. Price has wisely followed in the footsteps of his honored father in his continuous and successful association with the great basic industries of agriculture and stockgrowing, of which he has long been a substantial exponent in his native township. He was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, on the 20th of October, 1847, and is a son of the late Joel and Sophia (Leas) Price, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County, thiH state, January 9, 1805, and the latter was likewise a native of that county, where their marriage was solemnized on the 24th of May, 1836. Mrs. Sophia Price was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Leas, who were born and reared in Adams County. Pennsylvania, where their marriage occurred and whence they came in an early day to Jefferson County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives as sterling pioneer citizens, their children having been seven in number - Leonard, Maria (Mrs. Miser), Sophia (Mrs. Joel Price), Jacob, Margaret (Mrs. Finnicum), Eliza (Mrs. Reukenbrod), and William. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Joel Price was a native of Germany and became an early settler in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he reared a family of six sons and six daughters. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Joel Price continued their residence in Jefferson County until 1846, when they came to Harrison County and settled on a tract of land which had been secured from the Government, by the father of Mr. Price. There the passing years marked the development of one of the fine farms of Franklin Township, and there Mr. and Mrs. Price continued to reside until their deaths, when venerable in years. Both were earnest and influential members of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs, in which Mr. Price served as a trustee and also as treasurer. The dates and respective dates of birth of their children are here made a matter of record : Jacob L., September 13, 1837; Catherine. September 30, 1839;