Harrison Township (part 24 of 37)

James A. Lawrence was reared on the home farm and after having profited fully by the advantages of the public schools he continued his studies in Harlem College, at Harlem Springs. Thereafter he was for eight years a successful teacher in the rural schools, and after his marriage, which occurred when he was twenty-two years of age, he established his residence on one of his father's farms, in Lee Township. Eight years later, in 1881. he purchased from his father a farm of forty-five acres, to which he has since added until he now has a splendidly improved and valuable farm estate of 140 acres, all in one body with the exception of twelve and one-half acres, situated on Elkhom Creek, in Lee Township. His Orchard Hill Fruit Farm is one of the show places of the county, with its fine orchard of fifteen acres. In this orchard are 700 apple trees, 250 peach trees, and cherry, plum and pear trees to the number of about sixty. Mr. Lawrence has made a close study of horticulture and brings to bear modern scientific methods in the management of his orchard, from the fine products of which he receives substantial financial returns. He has been a member of the Ohio State Horticultural Society since 1895 and has attended and made exhibits at many fruit shows and county fairs. He is a member also of the American Pomological Society, and attended its meeting when it was the collective guest of the Ohio State Horticultural Society, in the city of Columbus, December 1-3, 1920. In the autumn of 1920 Mr. Lawrence exhibited at the Carroll County Fair fifty varieties of fruit from his fine orchard, and he has done much to raise the standard of fruit culture in this section of Ohio. His orchard is situated at an elevation of 1,350 feet above sea level, with the most effective of drainage and with a soil that conserves prolific yields of fruit of the best type. The orchard has been visited by many of the country's lending pomologists and fruit-growers. In all other departments of his farm enterprise Mr. Lawrence has shown the same energy and progressiveness and has taken deep interest in furthering the industrial precedence of his native county. His civic loyalty has been on a parity with his successful personal achievement, and he is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party. He served seven years as clerk of Lee Township; from 1890 to 1900 he was land appraiser of this township; and in 1881-2 he was assessor of personal property in the township. From 1884 until 1915 he was a member of the school board of his township; he was for two terms a member of the county election board: and was appointed by Governor Cox for three years ns a member of the county board of assessment or complaints. He was the only man in Carroll County who received 100 per cent in the civil - service examination for district assessor of real estate. lie served three years on the jury commission of the county, and he has served a number of times on juries, including the federal grand and petit juries at Cleveland. In 1911 he was his party's candidate for representative of Carroll County in the state legislature, and though the normal republican majority in the county is from 1,200 to 1,400 votes, he was defeated by only ninety-eight votes. He made a spirited campaign, in which he gave special emphasis to his desire to bring about measures for the raising of the standard of the public schools in the county, especially the rural schools, and his personal popularity and secure hold upon the confidence of the people of the county were significantly shown in the results of this election, even though he met defeat. Even the brief statements made in this article show that Mr. Lawrence has almost constantly concerned himself with the public affairs of his home county, and he is a progressive and representative citizen whose benignant influence has touched many phases of the communal life. He is one of the leaders in Straw Camp Grange No. 1204, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he served four years as master, and which he represented ns delegate at the meetings of the Ohio State Grange at Columbus in 1919, and at its meeting at Cleveland in December, 1920. On January 20, 1920, he was sent by the County Farm Bureau to appear before the State Tax Commission in Columbus ns representative of the county in opposition to re-appraisement of real property at that time.

A specially potent work that has been done by Mr. Lawrence in connection with moral and spiritual influences has been in connection with his membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has held all of the lay offices of the church of this denomination at Harlem Springs, of which he is now a steward, besides being recording steward for the Harlem Springs circuit and a trustee of the district parsonage, at Steubenville. He served many years as superintendent of the Sunday school, has been a delegate a number of times to represent his circuit at the annual lay conference, and in the autumn of 1919 he was chosen a lay delegate from the North-East Ohio Conference to the General Conference of the church, at Des Moines, Iowa, in May. 1929. In the spring of 1919 he was appointed a Minute Man. and in July, attended the Centenary Celebration at Columbus of the Methodist Episcopal Church : and also assisted his pastor very materially, in the Centenary Financial campaign. His wife likewise has been zealous and influential in various departments of church work.

On the 30th of April. 1877. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lawrence to Miss Mina M. Oliver, who was born in Trumbull County. Ohio, October 10, 1858, a daughter of Charles and Mary (Parke) Oliver, the former a native of Holland and the latter of Ireland. Charles Oliver left home as a boy of eleven years, entered upon a seafaring life and he had circumnavigated the globe several times before he left the sea and established his home in Trumbull County. Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence have three children : Mary Blanche is the wife of

Edward C. Shaffer, of Trumbull County: Homer K. is one of the successful farmers of Lee Township; and Albert W. remains at the parental home and is associated with his father in farm enterprise. The fine home of the Lawrence family is situated about one mile east of the village of Harlem Springs, which is the postofflce address. One of the highest ambi- tions of Mr. Lawrence and his wife has always been to make their home one of Christian hospitality, culture and cheerfulness, in which friends would always find a welcome, and from which the needy would never be turned away empty. They have always insisted that any person's life must be looked upon as a failure, who does not leave the community in which they have lived, and the world at large, some better for their having lived in it.

William James Donaldson. For many years connected with the agricultural history of Carroll County, William James Donaldson is now taking life somewhat more easily, and maintains his residence on ten acres of land in the vicinity of Seroggsfield, and is recognized as one of the representative citizens of Fox Township. He was born in Fox Township, April 3, 1845, a son of Richard B. and Mildred (Donaldson) Donaldson, natives of Florida, New York, and Schenectady, New York, respectively. The paternal grandfather was Rev. John Donaldson, and the maternal grandfather was William Donaldson, and both were very early settlers of this part of Carroll County.

After their marriage Richard B. Donaldson and his wife settled near Cadiz, Ohio, and for a time he worked on the turnpike for fifty cents per day. Later he bought a farm, on which Seroggsfield now stands, and after he sold this land he moved to Washington Township, to a farm just across the Fox Township line, and there both he and his wife passed away. Five of their children survive, namely: Samuel, who lives in Center Township; Mitchell who lives In Washington Township; William James, whose name heads this review; Jennie, now living in Carrollton ; and David, also living in Carrollton. Henderson. John, Mary, Millie, and Richard are deceased.

Growing up In his native county William James Donaldson attended Its rural schools. Loyal to his government, with the outbreak of the war between the North and the South, he espoused the Union cause, and December 3, 1863, gave practical proof of this by enlisting in Company M, Sixth Ohio Cavalry, and was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. He participated in many of the principal engagements of his regiment, including those at Wilton Railroad, Davies House, Yaughn Road, Gravely Run, Boydon Plank Road, Stony Creek Station, Hatches Run, Dinwiddle Courthouse, Jettersville and Appomattox Courthouse, where occurred the surrender of General Lee. Following that Mr. Donaldson was on patrol duty in many counties of Virginia, was one of the color guards of the regiment, and was honorably discharged August 7, 1865, at Cleveland, Ohio, after which he returned home. A brother, Richard B. Donaldson, was a member of the same company, but after an engagement at Saint Mary's Church, he was missing and no trace of him has ever come to light. Another brother, John P. Donaldson, was in the eastern army, and was wounded at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, by a gunshot wound in the thigh. Still another brother, Henderson Donaldson, enlisted and was sent to the front, but got no further than Baltimore,

On January 19, 1869, William J. Donaldson was married to Christiana Andrews, who was born in Fox Township, November 26, 1849, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (George) Andrews, natives of Virginia and Fox Townships, respectively, and granddaughter of Robert and Sarah (Ramsey) George, very early settlers of Fox Township. Robert George was one of the first judges of Carroll County. He entered a large tract of oil land, and was a man of considerable Importance. Strong in his disapproval of slavery, he maintained one of the "stations" of the "underground railroad." For three years following his marriage Mr. Donaldson lived on his father's homestead, and then left Washington Township for Fox Township where he owned a farm. Until 1908 this farm was his home, but in that year he sold it and moved to the property owned by his wife in the village of Seroggsfield, where they now live. Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson became the parents of the following children: Sheridan and Newton, both of whom reside in Fox Township; Mary Elizabeth, who is Mrs. Emmet Shane, her husband being a merchant of Seroggsfield ; Agness, who is Mrs. Frank Scarlett of Dillondnle, Ohiq; Sarah, who is Mrs. William McClave of Bergholtz, Ohio; Anson, who lives in Washington Township; Everett, who died at the age of sixteen years; Harper, who lives at Albuquerque. New Mexico; Lemoyne, who was killed in an accident, September 6, 1919.

Always active in the republican party Mr. Donaldson has served as township trustee, assessor and been otherwise honored by his fellow citizens. Zealous in the Grand Army of the Republic, he has long been a member of Harlan Post Number 624 and is now serving as chaplain of it. The United Presbyterian Church has him on its membership rolls, and he gives it a generous and effective support. Having spent his life in Fox Township, Mr. Donaldson's interests are naturally centered in this neighborhood. He can recall with pleasure many interesting Incidents of the earlier days, and compare those times with the present with the gratifying knowledge that he has been connected with much of the constructive work of this part of the county, and that his influence has been exerted in favor of law and order and moral uplift.

John Cross is one of the sterling citizens of Monroe Township, Carroll County, where he resides upon his well Improved farm on rural mail route No. 1 from Sherrodsville. He was born and reared in this township, the year of his birth having been 1852, and of the honored family of which he is a popular representative adequate record is made on other pages, in the personal sketch of his brother James N.

Mr. Cross gained through early experience a deep and enduring appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and endeavor, for he was but a boy when he began to lend his quota to the work of the home farm. He has never severed his allegiance to the basic industry of agriculture, but during much of his active career he has given his attention primarily to the manufacturing of lumber, as the owner and operator of a saw mill. In his varied activities he has contributed to the civic and material advancement of his native county, and here his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is affiliated with the Patrons of Husbandry, as a member of the Grange at Atwood, is a democrat in his political proclivities, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at New Cumberland, In Tuscarawas County, he being a member of the board of trustees of this church.

The year 1878 recorded the marriage of Mr. Cross to Miss Nancy J. Latimer, of Tuscarawas County, and of t£is union have been bom three children: Myrta Alice is the wife of Lewis

Waldman, of Mineral City, Tuscarawas County ; Margaret Ann was the wife of James Gordon, of Lawrence Township, Tuscarawas County. She died August 10, 1913. She had two children - Donovan Paul and Margaret Mable; Ed son L., the youngest of the children, is the subject of an individual sketch on other pages of this work.

Frederick Brandt has been a resident of Loudon Township, Carroll County, from the time of his birth, which here occurred on the 10th of February, 1851, and he has long held secure vantage-ground as one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers, as well as representative citizens, of his native township. He Is a scion of one of the honored pioneer famishes of this part of the Buckeye State. His farther, Frederick Brandt, Sr., was bora in Germany, in the year 1802, and in his native land was reared to pastoral life. At the age of twenty-one years he immigrated to America and he remained in the state of New York until 1829, when he came to Ohio and purchased a tract of virtually unimproved land, in Loudon Township, Carroll County. Here he reclaimed and developed a good farm, and that abundant success attended his earnest and well ordered activities is attested by the fact that at the time of his death, in December, 1868, he was the owner of a valuable landed estate of fully 1,000 acres. His first marriage was with Margaret Shawver, and they became the parents of four children - William, Elizabeth, Henry and Susan <Mrs. James). After the death of his first wife Mr. Brandt married Miss Elizabeth Able, who was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 5th of July, 1819, a daughter of Conrad and Mary (Shrlver) Able, whose marriage was solemnized in the state of Virginia and who became pioneer settlers in Loudon Township, Carroll County, where Mr, Able died in 1845 and his widow In 1853, their children having been twelve in number. George Able, father of Conrad, was one of the German soldiers subsidized by the English for service in the war of the American Revolution, after the close of which he settled in Loudon County, Virginia, where he passed the remainder of his life.

After their marriage Frederick and Elizabeth (Able) Brandt continued to reside on their farm in Loudon Township until their deaths, Mrs. Brandt having survived her husband by many years and having been eighty-six years of age at the time of her death. Both were communicants of the Lutheran Church, but Mrs. Brandt was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church the latter part of her life. The children of the first marriage are all deceased, and of the children of the second union the following brief data are available: George W. is a resident of Nebraska; Frederick, Jr., is the immediate subject of this review; Mary Etta is the wife of Robert Campbell, of Loudon Township; John M. is a prosperous farmer in this township; Lizzie Belle is the wife of George T. Burrier, of this township; Andrew died at the age of twelve years; and Harrison is a resident of the state of Oklahoma.

He whose name initiates this article has effectively upheld the prestige of the family name, both as a successful exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry and as a loyal, upright and public-spirited citizen. In addition to receiving the advantages of the schools of his native township he was for two terms a student in Mount Union College. After his marriage, in 1882, he established his home on his present fine farm, of 190 acres, in London Township, and he has since been recognized as one of the substantial and progressive farmers and citizens of this township, which he has served as trustee and in the communal welfare of which he has shown a lively and helpful interest at all times. He is a republican in politican allegiance, is an active member of Kilgore Grange, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore, in which he is serving as a steward.

In April, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Brandt to Miss Margery Fawcett, who was bora and reared in Union Township, this county, a daughter of John and Roseann (Crozier) Fawcett, both likewise natives of Carroll County. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Brandt the firstborn, John Curtis, died at the age of four years; Anna is the wife of Paul Shepherd, of Loudon Township; Flora remains at the parental home and is a popular teacher in the public schools; and Margery, likewise a successful teacher, is also a member of the parental home circle.

John Quincty Adams. Of the men whose ability, Industry and public spirit have added to the character, prosperity and good government of Fox Township, few are better known than John Quincy Adams. Mr. Adams is an agriculturist not only by training and long practice, but by temperament and preference. He has tilled the soil throughout an active and successful career. Political tendencies and executive ability have added to his possibilities of agricultural compensation and have broadened his efforts into the channels of school director, land appraiser and justice of the peace, in which last-named office he is now serving his eleventh year.

Mr. Adams was bora on a farm in Fox Township, Carroll County, Ohio, December 15, 1866, a son of Christopher C. and Eleanor (Lewton) Adams, natives of Carroll County, and a grandson of John and Elizabeth (Klmmons) Adams. John Adams was bora in the suburbs of London,

England, and as a young man adopted the vocation of a sailor, which he followed for some years. On his last trip his ship was wrecked off the coast of Cuba, and Mr. Adams, swimming ashore, subsequently made his way to the United States, where he was married, and settled down to an agricultural life in Columbiana County, Ohio. Not long thereafter he came to Carroll County, where he entered eighty acres of Government land in Fox Township, and there passed the remaining years of his life in tilling the soil. Jacob Lewton, the maternal grandfather of John Q. Adams, was likewise an early settler of Fox Township, where he followed farming.

Following their marriage, the parents of Mr. Adams located at Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, but later moved to Scroggsfleld, where Mr. Adams followed the trade of blacksmith. He was a man of ambitious character, and while working at his trade began the study of law, which he finally mastered and was admitted to the Ohio bar. He then went to Carrollton, where he engaged in successful practice for many years and advanced to a recognized place in his profession, being eventually elected Probate judge of Carroll County, an office In which he served efficiently for two terms. He died near Scroggsfleld in 1883, Mrs. Adams having passed away in 1880. They were the parents, of the following children: P. W., who is deceased; Lucinda, who is also deceased; George L, a resident of Newcastle, Wyoming; Eli J., who is engaged in farming in Fox Township; John Quincy; and Minnie, who is the wife of John A. George, an agriculturist of Center Township, Carroll County.

John Quincy Adams attended the public schools in his youth and resided with his parents until his marriage, at which time he moved to a farm in Fox Township owned by his father. This farm he later bought from his father's second wife, and at present his operations cover 220 acres of highly cultivated land, Mr. Adams being known as one of the leading general farmers of his community and as a man whose practical and progressive measures and methods have been productive of highly satisfying results. He is a well educated and well posted man, fully abreast of the times In all that pertains to agriculture and its most practical development, and takes a deep interest in politics, education, religion and home-making. He is a consistent member of the United Presbyterian Church, of which he is secretary. For four years he served as a member of the school board and also acted for a time as land appraiser. In 1810 he was appointed a justice of the peace, and subsequently was elected to that office, in which he has served to the present. In politics he is a republican. He holds membership in the East Township Grange, and as a fraternalist is affiliated with Lodge No. 752, Knights of Pythias, at Berkholz, Ohio, in which order he has numerous warm friends.

Mr. Adams was married March 31, 1896, to Miss Minnie Wiggins, who was born in Fox Township, daughter of John R. and Jennie (Ault) Wiggins, the former a native of Carroll County and the latter of Jefferson County,

Joseph B. Febgason. After being engaged in many lines of business, Joseph B. Fergason has definitely settled down upon that of farming, and for the past ten years has owned and conducted his father's old homestead of 110% acres of land in Fox Township. The results of his farming are such as to justify his selection, and in addition to his material prosperity he enjoys the confidence and respect of his associates. Mr. Fergason was bom in Fox Township, May 15, 1858, a son of Robert and Mary E. (Butcher) Fergason, natives* of New Jersey and England, respectively, and grandson of Henry and Priscilla (Berry) Butcher, natives of England. The parents came to Fox Township when young, and were married on the present farm of Mr. Fergason, March 24, 1853. The father, who was bora December 25, 1830, died in 1886; and the mother, who was bora July 14, 1834, died August 4, 1916. Their children' were as follows: Priscilla, who was born December 15, 1853, Is deceased; Thomas, who was born February 20, 1855, died In infancy; Sarah M., who was bora October 25, 1856, Is the widow of James White of Fox Township; Joseph B., who was next In order of birth; Henry S., who was bora June 15, 1860, lives at S'ebring, Ohio; Robert George, who was born May 21, 1862, lives at Salineville, Ohio; Hannah E., who was bom April 24, 1864, married B. E. Neel of Fox Township; David J. W., who was born February 5, 1868, died at the age of thirteen years; James A., who was born December 27, 1869, lives at Newburg, West Virginia ; Anna, who was born in 1870, married William Reed of Denver, Colorado; and Rachel Cora, who was born in 1872, married Addison Todd, of Denver, Colorado.

Until he was about seventeen years old Joseph B. Fergason attended the rural schools during the winter months, and then began working out by the month, and he also conducted a saw-mill, but his father took charge of his money until he was married. Following his marriage he resided with his father for about a year and then moved into a log house standing on the homestead. A few months later he went to another farm in the neighborhood. In 1910 he bought the old home farm, and has since then devoted himself to its cultivation. For eighteen years he was engaged in operating a threshing outfit, but gave that up In 1910.

On September 30, 1880, Mr. Fergason was married to Gen ora Willson, who was bora in Fox Township, in February, 1862, a daughter of Hugh and Ann Jane (Lewis) Willson, natives of Ireland, and Salineville, Ohio, respectively. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Fergason was Madison Willson. Mr. and Mrs. Fergason became the parents of the following children: Berthetta, who was bora September 29,

1881, married John Morrow of Fox Township; Robert Hugh, who was bora October 8, 1883, lives In Columbiana County, Ohio; Earl Clyde, who was bora April 1, 1885, lives in Fox Town- ship; Mary E., who was born April 29, 1887, married Doctor O'Ran of Belleview, Ohio; and Nora V., who was bora August 13, 1899, married Harold Goddard, lives with her father. Mr. Fergason belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a steward of it for many years. Active as 6 republican he was a justice of the peace for thirteen years, and was elected to other offices within the gift of the people, in which he proved reliable and capable. He maintains membership with the Protected Home Circle. and is interested in its development.

John S. Dunlap. The monotony which often ensues from the continuous following of a certain line of work has never been a feature of the career of John S. Dunlap. Gifted with mechanical ingenuity beyond the average, this well-known wagonmaker of Fox Township has, at different times, followed the occupations of wagonmaker, carpenter and builder, saw-mill operator and farmer, in each of which he has demonstrated his ability. His career has been one in which he has worked industriously in his own behalf, but in which he has likewise found time to devote at least a part of his activities to the betterment of his community.

Mr. Dunlap was born on a farm in Harrison County, Ohio, September 20, 1856, a son of Hazzard Perry and Rebecca Ann (Brown) Dunlap. His father, a carpenter by trade, came to Fox Township, Carroll County, about the time of the birth of John S. Dunlap, and here purchased an eighty-acre farm. During the remainder of his life he divided his time between carpentry and farming and through his industry won a modest competency. He was a man of sound business integrity and a good citizen, and his standing in his community was accordingly high. When he died July 1, 1911, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years, there were many to mourn sincerely the loss of a true friend. Mrs. Dunlap, a woman of splendid qualities, passed away in February, 1892. They were the parents of the following children : William, who is a resident of Carrollton; Mary E., who is deceased ; John S., of this review ; Jane, who is deceased; Edward, who Is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Center Township. Carroll County; and Effle, who is the wife of Tipton Tobin, of Stark County, Ohio.

John S. Dunlap received his education in the rural schools in the vicinity of his father's farm, and was reared on the home place, on which he was associated in work with the elder man until he was about twenty years of age. At that time he turned his attention to the mastery of the trade of wagon-maker, which he subsequently followed for some years. In 1892 he purchased a tract of eight acres, located in Fox Township, on which he erected a fine home and wagon-making shop, and this property continued to be his place of residence until 1913. when he bought a farm of eighty acres, in the same township, with a stable and wagon shed. For the most part Mr. Dunlap has applied himself to wagon-making, although at various times he has followed farming, carpentry and sawmilling. He has always adhered to the principle that work worth doing at all was worth doing well, and in consequence has built up a reputation as a careful, skillful and reliable workman. He is esteemed also for his integrity and moral worth, and for his consideration and fairness as an employer of labor.

On September 29, 1881, Mr. Dunlap was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Potts, who was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, a daughter of William and Mary (Miller) Potts, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio. To this union there have been born the following children: Hallie M., who is the wife of Mervin Dorances, an agriculturist of Jefferson County, Ohio ; Dora Ann, who is the wife of John Cameron, of Lisbon, this state; Arthur, who is a resident of Jefferson County; Elva, who is unmarried and resides on the home place with her parents; and James, who is a resident of Salinesville.

Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part. In his political allegiance Mr. Dunlap is a republican, but has not been a seeker for personal preferment. He belongs to the Fox Township Grange, in which he is at present serving his fellow-members in the office of treasurer. Since his own attendance at the Potts and Greenbrier schoolhouses in Fox Township, he has been a friend of education, the movements of which find him a generous supporter as do all other worthy enterprises which promise to be of benefit to the community.

James Clendening. The great-grandfather of James Clendening was born and married in Ireland and his children were all born in that country. He came to America with his family in 1802. He located for a time in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and soon thereafter came as one of the early settlers to Jefferson County, Ohio, and located near Knoxville. William Clendening, oldest son of James, and grandfather of our subject moved to Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1844. John W. Clendening, third son of William and Elizabeth (Birney) Clendening, was born at Knoxville, Jefferson County, in 1839 and died at Freeport, Ohio, in 1918. John W. Clendening was five years old when the family moved to Harrison' County and located at Nottingham Township. His early life was spent on the homestead farm. In 1863 he left farm life and entered merchandising in partnership with his brother James in Freeport, Ohio, retiring in 1869 on account of declining health. He then purchased 320 acres adjoining his father's homestead and again gave his attention to farming which he continued to follow the remainder of his life with eminent success. He continued his residence on this farm, except for five years he resided on a farm he had purchased adjoining Freeport, until two years of his death, when he built a commodious residence in Freeport and moved to it a short time before his death.

In 1863 he was married to Sarah Niblock. daughter of John and Matilda (Kerr) Niblock. To this union tw*o children were born, James, born December 4. 1871, and Oliver Lentz, born

March 29, 1869. For a more extended account of the genealogy of the Clendening and Niblock families reference is made to the biographical sketch of Oliver Lentz Clendening on another page of this volume. Both branches of the family are pioneers in this section.

The first forty years of James Clendening's life was spent with his father improving his large acreage of grazing lands and in keeping the same stocked. In his early life he received a liberal education in the common schools of the neighborhood which was supplemented by a college course at Oberlin College. In selecting his life avocation he decided to follow the footsteps of his father and has always had an active interest in agriculture and stock raising, specializing In cattle, in which he has been eminently successful. He has always taken an active part in the local affairs of the neighborhoods in which he has lived, and is always found at the forefront in matters for the best interest of the community. After the death of his father in 1918 he was elected by the stockholders of The Fourth National Bank of Cadiz, to succeed him in the office of director in that institution, which is one of the strong financial institutions of the county. In 1919 he moved from his Washington Township farm near Freeport and located in the village, having purchased the old homestead occupied for many years by his uncle, Thomas Green, deceased. Thus he has provided excellent school advantages for his children, and located adjoining his father's late town residence, where he can cheer his mother in her declining years.

December 25, 1899, James Clendening was united in marriage to Ella Black, daughter of B. H. and Eliza (Fulton) Black. To this union three children have been born: Sarah Eliza, born July 27, 1905; Elizabeth, born January 30. 1907 ; and John Black, born February 7, 1909.

The family of Ella (Black) Clendening has been prominently connected with Freeport affairs for many years. In 1852 her grandfather, Dr. H. C. Black, moved to Freeport, Ohio, from Guernsey County and began the practice of medicine, and continued in active practice for more than fifty years, retiring only a few years before his death in 1906.

Daniel Black, the grandfather of Dr. Henry Clay Black, was a native of Ireland, where he was married. A short time prior to the Revolutionary war he and a brother. James, came to America and first located in Virginia. The family of Daniel Black consisted of seven children, viz.: James, Joseph K., Daniel. Ralph. Margaret. Mary and Elizabeth. In 1803 the family moved from Virginia and located in Guernsey County, Ohio, where both Daniel Black and his wife died and are buried near the old homestead in Adams Township.

Joseph K. Black was born April 16, 1794, in Virginia and came with his parents to Guernsey County when he was nine years old. In August, 1818, he was married to Ann Eliza, daughter of Joseph Hutchison, a resident of Loudon County, Virginia. They began their married life on the lands of his father. In 1832 they moved to a farm they had purchased near Cambridge, where Joseph K. Black died in 1850 and was buried in the old cemetery in Cambridge, and was followed by his wife in 1874, who was buried in the Baptist Cemetery at Center, Guernsey County. The following children were born to them: Lucretla (1819-1902), married John Scott; Clarinda (1820-1896), married Joseph Pugh; Cephas N. (1822-1912) ; Gain R. (1823-1921); Caroline A. (1824-1891), married George Scott; Henry Clay (1825-1906); Eliza F. (1827), married Joseph Linkhart; Charlotte C. (1829-1859), married R. I. Thaker; Mary C. (1832), married William Scott. This family have a remarkable longevity. Two are yet living and one died at the age of 30 years, yet the average life of the family is more than eighty years.

Dr. Henry Clay Black, grandfather of Mrs. Ella (Black) Clendening, was twice married. In 1848 he was married to Rebecca McCarty (1818-1881), a daughter of John and Sarah (DeFrance) McCarty, and a sister of Prof. H. D. McCarty, late State School Superintendent of Kansas. The issue of this marriage was four children: Clelia DeFrance (1850-1919), married James C. Carver; Rucinus McCarty (1851), married Jane Allen; Bourrienne Hutchison (1853-1917), married Eliza Fulton; Ottis King (1854-1917), married Ruth Caldwell.

Bourrienne Hutchison Black was born August 28. 1853, and was married in 1874 to Eliza Fulton, daughter of James and Mary (Boyd) Fulton. They lived in Freeport during their entire married life and until the death of the husband, March 3, 1917. B. H. Black was an active business man of Freeport for nearly fifty years and had a very wide business acquaintance. For many years he dealt in horses and sold farm machinery. To this union four children were born, Ella B., who married James Clendening, was born April 9. 1875; Lena, wife of Paul Lawrence, was born July 7, 1879; Charles F., married Bessie Willis and was bora November 28, 1883; Hal McCarty, born February 19, 1885, a lawyer of Wichita, Kansas, married Helen Simm.

John McCarty, the great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Clendening, was one of the early settlers in western Pennsylvania. He married first Ilepsibah Green, and had Issue as follows: Elizabeth, married John Stewart; Hepsibah, married Robert Johnson, and later William McClure: Timothy, married Jane McConnell; Polly, married Andrew Birch; John, married Sarah DeFrance; Sarah, married Thomas Conner. By his second wife, Kesiah Cooper, John McCarty had the following children: Katharine, married James McDowell; Nancy, married David Walsh; Jane, married Robert Thompson; James: Kesiah, married William Elder; Samuel. married Sallie Aires and later Mariah Henry.

John McCarty, Jr., was bom August 23, 1782, and on May 30, 1809, was married to Sarah DeFrance, who was bora January 13, 1794. and had issue as follows: Jane, married William Lindsey; Hepsibah, married Robert Cassiday: John, married Julia Marquis; Rebecca, married Dr. II. C. Black; Timothy, married Ann Smith; Ilugli: Sarah, married Wiliam K. Mathewson;

Sarah DeFrance, the great-grandmother of Mrs. Ella Black Clendening, was the daughter of John and Jane (Caldwell) DeFrance. The DeFrances in France were a titled family and this branch of the family were early settlers about Fort DuQuesne, near the present site of Pittsburgh. There is a family legend that at one time one of the DeFrances traded the land now occupied by Pittsburgh for a horse, saddle and bridle. John and Jane (Caldwell) De- France had issue as follows: Sarah, married John McCarty; John; Jane, married John De- France ; Hugh ; Allison, married Pattie Alender ; Rebecca, married Robert DeFrance.

The maternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Ella Clendening on her mother's side, was Wiliam Boyd (1794-1868). His father, John Boyd, came from Ireland about 1812, and settled in Freeport Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and entered the northeast quarter of section 25 under date of November 6, 1915. John Boyd died on this same farm in 1832, leaving two children, Samuel and William.

William Boyd (1794-1 868), was born in Ireland and came to America with his father. In 1823 he married Annie White, bom in Ireland in 1802 and died at Freeport in 1879. During his early life William Boyd kept a store in Westchester, Tuscarawas County, but soon after his father's death he returned to the homestead farm and continued to live there until his death. Eleven children were bom to their marriage, as follows: John (1824-1863), married Sarah, daughter of William and Mary (Moore) Fulton; Hannah (1825-1905), married Dr. W. H. Williams; George (1827-1914), married Eliza Markee; Eliza (1829-1880), married William Fulton; Mary (1830-1856), married James Fulton; William (1832-1898), married Mary Phillips; Anna Boyd (1834-1857) ; Melancthon (1838-1862); Margaret Boyd (1840-1865); Belinda (1842-1894), married James Kerr; Martha (1845-1871), married Rowet K. Niblock. Nearly all the members of the Boyd family are buried on the old home farm in Freeport Township in what is known as the Boyd Cemetery.

The maternal great-grandmother of Mrs. Ella Clendening on her mother's side, Annie White (1802-1879), was a daughter of Hanah White, who died in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1849. She was born in Ireland in 1774 and continued to live there until the death of her husband. These children were bom to them: John; George; Eliza (1800- 1872), married Robert Holliday; Annie (1802- 1879), married William Boyd; and Margaret White (1809-1892). During the War of 1812 the Widow White left Ireland with her family and emigrated to America. While on the Atlantic they were intercepted by a British man of war and all able bodied men were drafted into the British service. John, being a young man, was pressed into the service against the country of his adoption, and the passenger ship was diverted to Nova Scotia, where the passengers were landed. The White family continued there for some two years when they had an opportunity of getting to America, and soon

James Fulton, grandfather of Mrs. Ella Clendening, was a son of Wiliam and Mary (Moore) Fulton. William Fulton (1792-1871) and Mary Moore (1803-1882) were married in 1823. This union resulted in these children, viz.: William, James, Robert and Sarah who married John Boyd. William Fulton was bom in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. When he first came to Ohio he located for a time in Green Township, Harrison County. Later he moved with his family to Washington Township and altered the southeast quarter of section 23, just north of Tippecanoe.

James Fulton was bom September 10, 1826, in Washington Township, Harrison County, and was united in marriage to Mary Boyd, bora in Freeport Township, Harrison County, in 1853. To this union two children were born: Eliza, bom December 23, 1853, married B. H. Black; and Albert, bom April 6, 1855. Soon after their marriage the entire foregoing Fulton connections moved to Illinois and located near Bloomington. Mrs. James Fulton died there in 1856, and later Mr. Fulton again married and continued to live near Bloomington until his death. William Fulton and wife also were buried at Bloomington.

Sarah (Moore) Fulton, the great-grandmother of Mrs. Ella Clendening, was the first child of a family of thirteen children bora to William (1779-1847) and Sarah (Coroy) Moore (1783- 1863). William Moore was bom in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and came to Harrison County, Ohio, about 1898. Sarah Corey was bora in New Jersey. They were married in Westmoreland County in 1802. Nancy (1809- 1881), a sister of Mary (Moore) Fulton, was married to William Birney in 1830, and soon after their marriage moved to Washington Township, Harrison County, near the Fultons, and soon thereafter began preaching under very peculiar circumstances. Every two weeks on Sundays after doing the usual morning work she would be compelled to go to bed and soon sank into what was then called a "trance." She was usually attended by her husband, who sat by the bedside and would wipe away a froth that would work out of her mouth, and also wipe away great drops of perspiration that would raise on her forehead. At about 10:30 o'clock a. m. she would ask to be raised up to a sitting posture in the bed. With eyes closed and apparently unconscious to the surroundings, she would begin a religious service, by first offering a prayer, and then take a text of Scripture and begin to preach and expound the Scripture in a most intelligent manner and to the astonishment and amazement of the hundreds of people who would often congregate for the service. The service would last for about an hour. At the conclusion she would fall back to a reclining position and show signs of physical exhaustion, but without signs of being conscious of her surroundings. She said she had no recollection of anything she had done or said. Her physical condition was supposed to be a peculiar form of catalepsy. Her discourses were reported as being quite logical and interesting. This condition and program continued for thirty years or more, every two weeks on Sundays at 10:30. During the earlier years of this phenomenon people came from miles to these services, largely as a matter of curiosity, probably, but went away deeply impressed. The place on many, many occasions had the appearance of a country picnic. Many of the older people about Tippecanoe are still living to testify to these facts.

Oliver Lentz Clendening. The Clendening family has been actively connected with Harrison Oounty history since the year 1844, when William Clendening, the grandfather of our subject, with his family, moved from Jefferson County, Ohio, to Nottingham Township in Harrison County, and located on what became their homestead farm of 240 acres on the Deersvllle and Freeport road, at a point midway between the towns which for many years has been known as Clendening cross roads. Later a postofflce was established called Clendening. E. D. Clendening acted as postmaster for many years until the establishment of rural mail routes. The farm continued In the family name until 1916. After the purchase of this tract Mr. Clendening later added an additional quarter section to his land holdings, which was later transferred to Israel B. Clendening, a son, and the same continues to this day in the name of a grandson, Denver C. Clendening.

William Clendening was the son of James Clendening, who was bom and married In Ireland, and was a weaver by trade. Early in his married life he immigrated to America and located for a number of years at or near Hickory, Pennsylvania. He had four children, William, James, Margaret and Nancy. About 1830 the latter daughter became the second wife of Hugh Bimey, to which union two children were bom who are located in the western states. She was bom In 1794 and died In 1854.

William was bom in 1789 and was thirteen years old when the family immigrated to America. While in Pennsylvania he received quite a good education for his time and was considered a man of more than average talent. Early in 1800 he and probably other members of the family moved from Hickory, Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Jefferson County. Ohio, where he acquired quite a tract of forest lands which he continued to hold until about the time he moved to Harrison County. December 19, 1833, he was married to Elizabeth Bimey, daughter of William and Elizabeth Bimey, of Deersvllle, Ohio. They began their married life at Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, and continued to live there until 1844. To tills union six children were bom: James (1834-1871), married Arminda Holliday: Israel B. (1837-1915), married Sarah Wages: John W. (1839-1918) : Ebenezer D. (1841-1904), married Metta Burris: Elizabeth married W. F. Lafferty; Oliver D. (1849-1884), married Mary Hanley. The father, William Clendening, died September 15, 1867.

1813, was a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Letchworth) Bimey. William Bimey and his three brothers, John, Hugh and Robert, came from Ireland to this country about the year 1800, first locating near Brandywine, Pennsylvania. William Bimey was bom In Ireland In 1782. In 1814 he and his brothers John (1777- 1854) and Hugh (1779-1861) emigrated from Pennsylvania to Green Township, Btarrison County, Ohio, and located near Cadiz Junction, and were among the early settlers of Harrison County. With their help Bethel Church, one of the first In the county, was established. Soon after they came to Ohio, they were joined by their brother, John, and the early religious sentiment of the communities was the result of their influence.

William Bimey was married to Elizabeth (Letchworth) while they resided in Pennsylvania. She was a daughter of a Quaker preacher, of old Philadelphia. In 1825 they moved from Green Township to Franklin Township and located on a quarter section of land joining the town of Deersvllle, on the west, which land continues in the family name. Quite an acreage of the land entries of Harrison County were originally made by these brothers. At one time William Bimey owned more than 1,200 acres. To this union eleven children were bom, John, Israel, Letchworth, Ebenezer, Oliver, Jane, married John Baker; Mary, married Hiram Palmer; Debora, married Phillip Bartlett ; Isabelle, married Samuel Moore; Rachel, married Zontz Bonnett; and Elizabeth, married William Clendening. Elizabeth Letchworth, wife of William Bimey, wps bora in 1787 and died at the old Clendening homestead in 1871. Her daughter, Elizabeth Clendening, wife of William Clendening, died at the same homestead September 7, 1885.

John W. Clendening, third son of William and Elizabeth Clendening, and father of our subject, was born August 23, 1839, and was reared to manhood on the home farm and received a practical business education in the common schools. In 1863 he entered the mercantile business in partnership with his brother James at Freeport, Ohio, continuing a prosperous business until 1869, when his health required his retirement from the business. Soon thereafter he purchased 320 acres of land in Nottingham Township which has since been known as his homestead farm, and is regarded as one of the best stock farms in this section of the county. For many years prior to his death in 1919 he was known as one of the most extensive live stock growers in Harrison County, and was recognized as having a place at the head of the progressive business men of the county, and always foremost to assist in enterprises for the advancement of the public weal. He was one of the organizers of The Fourth National Bank, of Cadiz, Ohio, and a member of its first board of directors and continued in such connection until his death.

June 2, 1868, he was married to Sarah Niblock, a daughter of John and Matilda Kerr Niblock, of Freeport Township. To this union there was born two children, Oliver Lentz, March 29, 1869, and James, December 4, 1871.

John Niblock, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was of Irish descent, and was born March 29, 1807, on Wall Street, New York City, a son of John and Jane (Taylor) Niblock. To this union six children were bom, Jane, James, Robert, John, Julia and William. When John was six years old the family moved by wagon from New York to Tuscarawas County. Ohio, and such was the condition of the roads that the family were compelled to walk nearly the entire distance. In 1846 the father died and was followed by his widow in 1870. In early life John Niblock was apprenticed to a millwright and during his young manhood followed this trade. He was a man of very strong characteristics. After his marriage he turned his attention to agriculture and soon was rated one of the best farmers of this section. For many years his farm in the southern part of the township was highly improved as for that day and was reputed one of the best farms in the township. In 1829 while he yet held a residence in Tuscarawas County he was married to Sarah Grewall (1808-1840). Soon thereafter he removed to the vicinity of Freeport. To this union three children were bom: Mary (1832- 1892) ; Nancy Green (1835-1911) ; Caroline Johnson (1838-1888). In 1840 he was again married to Matilda Kerr, daughter of Rowet and Susan Stewart Kerr. To this union was born Sarah Clendening, bom July 11, 1841 } Rowet K., deceased: Margaret, who died young; William Albert; James, deceased; Henry A., also deceased; Susan J. Bear; Dorcas B. Alexander. In 1889 John Niblock married Margaret Porter, daughter of James Porter of Cadiz Township.

Matilda Kerr Niblock (1816-1881), the maternal grandmother, was a daughter of Rowet and Susan Stewart Kerr. Rowet Kerr (1772- 1869) was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and there married Susan Stewart (1775-1871). He was a son of John Kerr, and had two brothers, John and Robert His father, John Kerr, was a Revolutionary soldier and lost his life during that war by being blown from a war vessel during a storm and drowned. Rowet Kerr, with his family, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Freeport Township with his brother-in-law, James Stewart and family, about 1816, and they jointly entered the northeast quarter of section 34, for many years locally known as the John Niblock farm. The first year they were on this tract after their crops were nearly mature, an alarm was given that the Indians were on the war-path against the settlers. The neighborhood settlers at once thronged to the fort at Freeport for protection. These two families gathered together such stuff as they could carry on their horses and came to the fort, but instead of returning after the alarm had been proven false, they continued back to Pennsylvania and spent the following winter there, leaving their crops to be harvested by their neighbors, the Davidsons on Craborchard. The following spring they returned and became permanent settlers thereafter. To this union of Rowet and Susan Kerr the following children were born: Mary McCullough; Margaret McCullough; Rachey Deeper (1801-

1869); Matilda Niblock (1816-1881); Sarah, James (1820-1804), married Belinda Boyd (1842-1894). Susan Stewart Kerr's grandfather, Andrew Stewart, was a native of Ireland, County Tyrone, where he married and had two sons, .Andrew and Daniel. Daniel immigrated to this country from Ireland when thirteen years of age, coming with a family by name of Gibson, leaving behind his brother, Andrew, who later died there. It was reported that a large for tune was willed to his brother in America but so far as known it was never received by* either him or his posterity. Daniel Stewart, father of Susan Stewart Kerr, was married to a Miss Perry, who was of French descent, and who was a cousin of Com. Oliver H. Perry, who in 1812 engaged the British squadron on Lake Erie, forcing it to surrender. Daniel Stewart had twelve children, nine boys and two girls besides Susan.

Mrs. Sarah Niblock Clendening, widow of John W. Clendening, is living at this date, 1921, at the age of eighty years, in their commodious Freeport residence, which was built but a few years before the death of her husband, and is given every possible comfort and care by her son, our subject, Oliver Lentz.

The early life of Oliver Lentz Clendening was largely spent on the old homestead farm of 320 acres of excellent pasture land. His education was acquired at the common schools supplemented by a college course at Oberlin College. The old homestead has come to him from his father's estate, and he continues to keep the same fully stocked in much the same manner followed by his father. He is a Presbyterian in his church connection, thus following the admonition of a saintly mother. The Clendening generations have been democrats in their political affiliations, but since 1896 John W. Clendening has been as ardent an advocate of republican principles, and his sons are following in his footsteps.

Denver C. Clendening. Some of the best farms in Ohio are located in Harrison County, for. not only is the land unusually fertile and the drainage excellent, but the agriculturists understand their work and take a pride in improving their property, with the result that banner crops are here grown and the landowners are becoming wealthy men. One of the prosperous farmers of the county who has proven his worth as a factor in its agricultural life and also as a citizen, is Denver C. Clendening of Freeport, owner of 238 acres of valuable land in Nottingham Township.

Mr. Clendening was born in Nottingham Township. November 3, 1875, a son of I. B. and Sarah (Wagers) Clendening. I. B. Clendening was born In Jefferson County, Ohio. April 4. 1837, and his wife was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, February 11, 1836, a daughter of Nathan Wagers. Until 18115 I. B. Clendenning lived on his farm in Nottingham Township, but in that year moved to Freeport, and resided thereuntil his death, which occurred December 25, 1915. His wife had died April 6, 1909. Both were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and very active in religious work. Their children were as follows: Edwin M., who was born October 1, I860, died January 9, 1889: John F., who was born December 30, 1860, died November 29. 1861; Otis C., who was bom September 20. 1863, died February 20, 1866; William, who was bora September 28. 1865, died November 1, 1865: Wilmer, who was born November 21, 1866, died February 22, 1867 : Earl, who was born May 21, 1868, died April 9, 1908: and Denver C. who is the youngest and only survivor.

Denver C. Clendening was reared on his father's farm and sent to the district schools of Nottingham Township. He remained with his parents as long as they lived and inherited the homestead of 238 acres of valuable land on which he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising, although he resides at Freeport. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church of Freeport. A Mason, he is a member of the Blue Lodge of Freeport and the Chapter of Uhrichsville.

Salathiel M. Hamilton. With a fine farm of 380 acres, in Moorefield Township. Harrison County, Mr. Hamilton has secure prestige as one of the substantial and representative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, where he stands also as a representative of a well known pioneer family, his father, Andrew Hamilton, having here passed his entire life and having been a successful farmer. He was in the very prime of his useful manhood at the time of his death, in 1805. when his son Salathiel L. was about two years of age. Andrew Hamilton chose as the wife of his young manhood Miss Maria Kennedy, who was born in Moorefield Township, a daughter of Return Matthew Kennedy, who was one of the honored and influential citizens of Moorefield Township at the time of his death. June 16, 1888. Mr. Kennedy was born at Georgetown, District of Columbia. March 15, 1803. a son of Matthew and Christina (Hines) Hamilton.

whose marriage was solemnized in the District of Columbia. Matthew Kennedy was bom in Scotland, in 1767, and was there reared to manhood. He was a young man when he immigrated to America and he remained near Georgetown, District of Columbia, until 1806, when he came with his family to Jefferson County, Ohio, whence he came to Harrison County in 1811. He took up 160 acres of Government land in Moorefield Township, and in 1814 he removed thence to a tract of 320 acres which he entered in section 13 of that township. There he passed the remainder of his life, as one of the sturdy and industrious pioneers of the county and as an influential representative of the democratic party in this locality. He was the father of a fine family of seventeen children, of whom two died in infancy.

Return Matthew Kennedy was eight years old at the time when the family home was established in Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood under the conditions of the early pioneer period. On the 19th of February, 1824, he married Miss Jane Moore, who was born September 20. 1792, a daughter of Robert and Margaret (Armstrong) Moore, and of this union were born six children - Mary A., Howard, Robert, Jackson, Maria and Salathiel. Mary A. and Howard died young. About 1828 Mr. Kennedy removed to Tuscarawas County, but in 1849 he returned to Moorefield Township, Harrison County, where he passed the remainder of his life. His first wife died September 25. 1866, and later he married Martha McCollough. who survived him by several years.

Andrew and Maria (Kennedy) Hamilton became the parents of seven children: Matthew (deceased). Rebecca Jane (died at the age of eleven years). Evelyne, Robert. Adam (deceased). Salathiel M. and Daniel. After the death of Mr. Hamilton his widow became the wife of John G. Moore, no children being born of this union. She died In Kansas.

Salathiel M. Hamilton gained his youthful education in what was locally known as the Irish Ridge District School, in Moorefield Township, and as a young man he initiated independent enterprise as a farmer in his native township. Here abundant success has crowned his well directed endeavors, and he is now the owner of one of the large and valuable farm properties of this township, as noted in the opening paragraph of this review. His birth occurred in Moorefield Township on the 9th of December, 1862. He has taken loyal interest in community affairs but has had no desire for public office. His political support is given to the democratic party and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Moorefield.

In 1884 Mr. Hamilton wedded Miss Ella J. Moore, daughter of Allen D. and Mary (Haines) Moore, and of this union have been born eleven children: Evaline (the wife of Frank Toole); Robert A. (married Miss Orpha Abbott and now a resident of the State of Oregon) ; Howard M. (mentioned on other pages of this volume) : Ada B. (Mrs. Hugh A. Sproull) : Charles (married Miss Ollie Knight) : Harry Craig (married Miss Anna Dickerson); Jennie (wife

Howard M. Hamilton has found In his native county ample scope' for successful achievement in his chosen field of enterprise and is one of the representative farmers of the younger generation in Nottingham Township, Harrison County. He was born in Moorefleld Township, November 27, 1889, and due review of the family history is given on other pages, in the sketch of the career of his father, Salathiel M. Hamilton.

Mr. Hamilton early became familiar with the various details of farm industry, in the meanwhile profiting fully by the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township, and he continued to be associated in the work of the home farm until his marriage, April 20, 1910, to Miss Rosa Hunt, daughter of Daniel and Nettie (Shipley) Hunt, of Moorefleld Township. During the first year after his marriage he was employed at public work in the county, and since that time has given his attention to progressive enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. In 1916 he purchased his present farm, of 144 acres, Nottingham Township, and on the same he has since made excellent improvements, including the erection of most of the farm buildings.

His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Piedmont, as was also his wife, who passed to the life eternal on the 14th of March, 1919. They became the parents of four children, the second of whom died on the 3d of March, 1919, aged six years, his mother's death occurring only eleven days later. The surviving children are Albert Ross, May and Mary. On March 30, 1920, Mr. Hamilton was married to Elsie Johnson, daughter of Henry and Jane (Barcroft) Johnson, of Nottingham Township.

John W. Shotwell. Experience has taught a number of the prosperous men of Carroll County that there is profit in farming, and they are devoting their energies and abilities to this line of work. One of them deserving of more than passing mention because of what he has accomplished is John W. Shotwell of Union Township, whose valuable farm of 212 acres stands as a monument to his good management and energy. Mr. Shotwell was bom in this same township February 27, 1870, a son of James and Mary Ann (McCray) Shotwell, natives of Tuscarawas County, Ohjo, and Pennsylvania, respectively, and grandson of Jacob and Mary (Carlysle) Shotwell. the latter of whom was bom in Pennsylvania. After their marriage James Shotwell and his wife settled in the northern part of Union Township, and remained in Carroll County all of their lives. He died as the result of an accident when he fell out of the bam in February, 1910, and was survived by his widow, who passed away in August, 1919. Their children were as follows: Winfield Scott, who is a resident of Monroe Township ; H. Mary, who Is deceased ; Florence, who Is Mrs. Thomas J. Davis, of Carrollton, Ohio; Ella, who is Mrs. Charles Rutledge, of Lee Township; John W., whose name heads this review ; Bertha, who is Mrs. John E. Smeltz, of Lee Township; Anna B., who is Mrs. E. C. Herron, of Harrison Township; Sada B., who is Mrs. I. B. Phillips, of Cleveland, Ohio ; and Sarah Edna, who is Mrs John Ellenberger, of Dayton, Pennsylvania.

John W. Shotwell attended the district schools of his native township and took a ninemonths' course at the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and then from 1889 until 1898 was engaged in teaching school during the winter months, in the meanwhile living on the homestead of eighty-three acres, of which he owned thirty acres. In 1910 he bought ninetytwo acres of his present farm, to which he has added until he now has 212 acres, on which he is carrying on general farming and stock-raising. Taking as he does a great pride in his property, he is constantly improving it and has one of the fine farms of Carroll County.

On June 1, 1895, Mr. Shotwell was married to Rosa J. McCort who was bor nin Missouri, a daughter of Hugh and Margery (Fawcett) McCort, natives of Ireland and Carroll County, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Shotwell became the parents of the following children: Ruby, who is Mrs. Roy C. Orwick, of Carroll County ; Mary, who is Mrs. Okey German, of Monroe Township; Fay, who is Mrs. Lorin Marshall, of Washington Township; James and John, twins, who are at home; and Lynn, who is also at home. Mr. Shotwell is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a republican, and served for eight years as a member of the School Board. Believing in the efficacy of co-operation, he belong to the Grange at Petersburg, and is one of its active factors. An excellent farmer, good business man and dependable citizen, Mr. Shotwell has fairly earned his present standing in his community.

George W. Gotschall, owner of a very valuable farm of eighty-eight acres of land in Center Township, is one of the representative men of Carroll County. He was born in Louden Township, this county, June 26, 1862> a son of Ell and Malinda (Tingling) Gotschall, and grandson of George Gotschall, a pioneer of Carroll County, who married a Miss Albaugh, and they had four sons and one daughter, the former all becoming farmers. The grandfather Tingling came to Carroll County from Tuscarawas County, Ohio, married Mary Burler, and they had five daughters and one son. Eli Gotschall attended the public schools of Harlem Springs, Ohio, and became a farmer. His death occurred at Simmons Ridge, Carroll County, in 1904, but his widow survives him and is living at Amsterdam, Ohio. They had ten children, and of them George W. Gotschall was the fourth in order of birth.

Like the majority of the farmers' sons of his day and locality George W. Gotschall went to the rural schools during the winter months and worked on the farm In the summer ones, and grew up on the homestead, where he remained until he was twenty-four years of age.

On December 22, 1887, he was married to Essie Ann Brown, a daughter of David and Eliza J. (Long) Brown, Of Loudon Township, and of English stock. The grandfather of Mrs. Gotschall, Henry Brown, came to Loudon Township from Georgetown, Maryland. He married Sarah Shephard, who died in 1909, having survived her husband for many years, he having been killed in an accident when only thirtyseven years old.

After his marriage Mr. Gotschall rented a small farm and was engaged in a teaming business in Lee Township, where he remained for a year, and then moved to Louden Township and operated the homestead and continued doing the teaming for a time. Still later he rented a farm of 140 acres in the same township and conducted it for five years. He then moved to Center Township, and from 1906 to 1908 rented the Huston farm. At the expiration of three years he rented 134 acres of land, and after two years bought eighty-eight acres of it, which land constitutes his present farm, upon which he has since made a number of improvements. He raises a general line of crops, but specializes on dairying and has a herd of twenty-five Jersey cows.

Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall became the parents of the following children: Laura, who is at home; Ola B., who is Mrs. David Smith, of Carrollton, and has three children, Pearl, Moine and Maxine; Mary Florence, who is at home; George Frederick, * who is assisting his father on the farm, was drafted for service during the great war, but the armistice was signed before he was called; Forrest Herbert and Raymond Clark, both of whom are at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall are strong republicans, and exercise their right of suffrage. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Carrollton has in them earnest, purposeful workers and members. While they have attained success in a material way they have acquired something more important than the mere accumulation of money, the respect and friendship of those with whom they are associated, and are justly numbered among the worth-while people of Carroll County.

Adam Beameb. Inheriting his love of farming, Adam Beamer is making a success of his life work and owns 127 acres of very valuable land in Harrison Township, where he makes his home. His grandfather on the paternal side came to Monroe Township, Carroll County, from Maryland at a very early day. He married a Miss Stoody, and they had ten children, of whom Philip Beamer, the father of Adam Beamer, was the eldest. Later on in life the grandfather moved to Owen County, Indiana, where he died in about 1860, his wife having died In 1852. All his life he was a farmer. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.

Philip Beamer was also a prosperous farmer of Monroe Township. He died March 17, 1871, and his wife, whose name was Sarah Eick before her marriage, passed away April 1. 1899.

Adam Beamer was born in Monroe Township in 1853 and was the eldest of the children of his parents. He attended the public schools at Atwood, Ohio, until he was eleven years old, after which he was a student of Valley Hall School No. 3, Harrison Township, until he was eighteen years of age, and during that time assisted in the farm work.

When he was twenty-seven years old Mr. Beamer was married to Ruth Ann Scott, a daughter of William C. and Mary (Scott) Scott, of Tabor County, Ohio, the cereaony taking place on September 14, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Beamer became the parents of the following children: William C., who lives at Canton, Ohio, married Alvina Beider, and they have one child, Katherine; Shrah Isabelle, who Is at home; Mary, who is a school-teacher of Canton, Ohio; Alice, who married Archibald Krohe, of Harrison Township, and has no children; and John Wallace, who died February 5, 1893, when three months old.

After his marriage Mr. Beamer moved to his present farm and here he has since been engaged in general farming with very gratifying results. He takes great pride in his place and carries on his operations in a thoroughly efficient manner. Active as a republican, he was elected a school director of his township three times, and has served as road superintendent for fifteen years. The Presbyterian Church of Dellroy, Ohio, holds his membership and he is an elder in it. In addition to his other Interests Mr. Beamer Is a stockholder in the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton. He Is a man who has always been in favor of the public schools, good roads and other improvements, and recognizes the fact that no community can grow unless its people are public-spirited enough to make an effort to keep it abreast of the times. Both as a farmer and public official Mr. Beamer has borne his part in the expansion of his neighborhood, and deserves the confidence he inspires among his associates.

Winfield Scott Smith. Prominently associated with the representative farmers of Carroll County. Winfield Scott Smith owns 138 acres of land in Center Township and 220 acres in Harrison Township, 160 of which is owned in partnership with his son, and he is a man of ample means and flourishing Interests. He was born in Union Township, Carroll County, May 15, 1865, a son of Perry Andrew and Mary (Parker) Smith. The paternal grandfather married a Miss Gartrell, and they had six children, of whom Perry A. Smith was the only son. The latter was always engaged in farming, and died on his farm in 1897, but his widow survived him until 1916, when she, too, passed away. Of their four children Winfield Scott Smith was the youngest.

After attending the country schools In Orange Township and that held In what was known as Smith's schoolhouse during the winter terms until he was eighteen years old Winfield Scott Smith worked on the home farm until his marriage, when he bought fifty-seven acres of land in Orange Township and operated it for five years. Moving to Harrison Township at the end of five years, he rented 177 acres for eighteen months, and then came to his present farm in Center Township, which then comprised sixty-five acres. Having faith in the farm land in Carroll County he bought sixty- two acres in Harrison Township, to which he added more land, and is now kept busy operating all his acreage, doing general farming and stock-raising upon his land.

A republican, he was elected on his party ticket supervisor of Center Township, and was re-elected several times. Mr. Smith was married to Lucinda M. Cogan, a daughter of Henry and Mary (Easterday) Cogan, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Cogan is dead, but Mr. Cogan survives. Mrs. Smith was the second child born to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Smith became the parents of three children, namely; Clenton A., who is the eldest; Virgil Lewis, who was drafted into the United States Army during the great war; and Mary Vivian, who is the youngest. While Mr. Smith has attained to a large measure of prosperity, he has not made this progress without working very hard, practicing thrift and using good judgment in making investments. When he served on the county board it was his constant endeavor to act and induce his colleagues to do likewise. Just as though he were carrying out a private investment so as to give the taxpayers the benefit of the same sound principles which had proven so valuable to him. As a result his services were requested for the same office by his fellow citizens at the polls. He is a member of the Grange.

Alvah Otis Hoobler is one of the solid American citizens of Carroll County and has gained his independent circumstances as the result of many years of studious devotion to the vocation of farming. He lives in Rose Township, where he has a well improved farm of sixty-two acres.

He was born in Harrison Township of the same county October 9, 1868, oldest son in a family of two daughters and three sons born to Adam and Rebecca (Little) Hoobler. His grandfather was William Hoobler, who came to Carroll County from Jefferson County, and lived out his life in Rose Township, where he died in 1892. He was the father of five sons and four daughters. Adam Hoobler was bom in Jefferson County and has spent his active life in Harrison and Rose township, where he still owns 100 acres of farm land. For a number of years he operated threshing outfits and saw mills.

Alvah Otis Hoobler acquired his education in the Willow Run School of Harrison Township, and after the age of fifteen in the Hoffey School. Like most other boys in the country, he attended during winter session and had a round of duties on the home farm the rest of the time.

Mr. Hoobler remained at home and assisted his parents until 1892, when he married Ada Roof, daughter of Frederick and Sarah (Trusell) Roof, of Monroe Township. This Is one of the pioneer families of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler had two children. The daughter. Zana May, Is the wife of Jerry Baxter, of Dellroy. and has two young children, Earl Lloyd, born in 1916, and Chester Wayne, born in 1919. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler is an ex-service man, Lloyd Clark, bom in 1897. Just after he reached his majority he enlisted in Carrollton in 1918, was trained at Camp Sherman, at first as a private in the infantry but after a month or two was transferred to Company G of the First Gas Regiment and received his honorable discharge as a first class private in the Ninety-fifth Regiment December 15, 1918. He is now a member of American Legion Post No. 475 at Dellroy.

After his marriage Mr. Hoobler began his career as a renter, handling the James Little farm of ninety-five acres in Rose Township for two years. In 1894 he bought his present farm and there he has worked and reared his family and made himself a factor in local affairs. He is an independent democrat in politics.

Louis J. Gottsman, one of the practical farmers of Carroll County, is profitably engaged in operating his valuable farm of 157 acres in Rose Townshp. He was born in Alsace, France, September 11, 1863, a son of Jacob and Julia (Simon) Gottsman, of German-French stock. While the greater number of the members of the family were agriculturists, Jacob Gottsman was a weaver of cloth. He and his wife had the following children: Julia, who is Mrs. Alfred Dedre, of Paris, France, has two children ; Elizabeth, who died at the age of forty years, was a resident of Alsace; and Louis J., who was the youngest. Jacob Gottsman died in 1891, in his home town in Alsace, but his widow survived him until 1913, when she passed away, having reached the venerable age of ninety-one yea rs.

Growing up in his native province, Louis J. Gottsman attended the public schools until he was fourteen years old. He was then apprenticed to the saddlery trade, and for the first three years received no remuneration, not even his board. For two years more he worked to complete his apprenticeship, going to Paris, France, for this purpose, and left Paris at the age of nineteen years for Antwerp, Belgium. In May, 1884, he landed in New York City, from whence he came to Rose Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and until 1890 worked as a farm hand on different farms. In that year he married, and then he and his wife operated a farm for another party during the succeeding seven years, saving their money until they were able in the spring of 1899 to buy their present farm, then comprising eighty acres. In 1916 they added thirty-eight and one-half acres, and in the spring of 1917 bought thirty-six acres more, so that they have today 157 acres, which their industry has developed into a very valuable and productive property. Here they are carrying on general farming.

In 1890 Mr. Gottsman was married to Magdalena Steinbach. a daughter of Francis and Mona (Wilner) Steinbach, of Rose Township. Mr. Gottsman and his wife became the parents of the following children: Frank Jacob, who married Catherine Motter, of Rose Township, but has no children; Charles Augustus, who is at home; James Harvey; Herman Louis; Victor Raymond, and Eugene Valentine, who died at the age of nine months in the fall of 1899.

Since receiving his papers of naturalization Mr. Gottsman has voted the republican ticket and has been honored by his fellow citizens by election to the office of township trustee of Rose Township upon two occasions, and to that of school director. He and his family belong to Saint Mary's Catholic Church. During the late war Mr. Gottsman's sons Charles and James were drafted for service and called to the colors in 1917. They left Carrollton and went together to Camp Sherman, Ohio, from which James was sent to Camp Forrest, was assigned to Company L, Eleventh Infantry, Fifth Division, as a first-class private, and was sent to France in April, 1918, on the Leviathan to Havre. From there he was sent to Nancy in Alsace, and saw service in the Saint Mihlel and Argonne offensives, and participated in engagements of less moment. After the armistice was signed he was sent to Coblenz as one of the Army of Occupation, and still later to Luxemburg. Finally he was returned to Alsace, and was sent home July 5, 1919, uninjured in spite of his long and active service. The other son, Charles, remained at Camp Sherman until May. 1918, in Supply Company, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Eighty-third Division, and was then sent overseas to England, and thence to France, where he saw service, following which he was sent to Italy. Frank Gottsman was sent to Camp Sherman May 26, 1918, ns a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division, and was sent to France, where he was in the commissary department. He was slightly gassed while driving a supply wagon to the firing line trenches. He was returned home in May, 1919.

Mr. Gottsman is a hard worker and thrifty, and he and his wife richly deserve the prosperity which has come to them, for they have earned it. He is recognized as a good citizen, and a man worthy the confidence of all with whom he does business.

Sidney Sheppard Gallatin. Though he had to fight life's battles alone from the age of fourteen, Sidney Sheppard Gallatin early took his place as a man among men in Carroll County, where he is known for his upright and industrious character, and his successful operations as a farmer and horticulturist. His valuable farm of 206 acres is in Rose Township, on rural route No. 1 out of Sherrodsville.

He was bom in East Huntington Township. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1866, a son of Albert W. and Anne (Sheppard) Gallatin, and is descended from Albert Gallatin, who came from Geneva, Switzerland, was an officer in General Washington's army during the Revolution, and was an engineer by profession. He laid out the City of Geneva, Ohio, and survey ed many extensive tracts of land in northern Ohio. His son, Abraham Alphonse Gallatin, was for many years a Mississippi River pilot. His son, Daniel Gallatin, the next in line of descent, and grandfather of Sidney S. Gallatin, spent his life as a farmer in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1852. His second wife was Jane Montgomery, of Pittsburgh, who became the mother of nine children, including Albert W. Albert W. Gallatin was a soldier of the Civil war, being company clerk of Company B of the One Hundred Forty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, and was with General McClellan's army in the Richmond campaign. After the war he farmed, was also a teacher, and died September 28, 1918. His wife died in May, 1913.

Oldest of a family of five sons and three daughters Sidney Sheppard Gallatin acquired most of his education in Rose Township of Carroll County. At the age of fourteen he began to earn his own living, and his subsequent education was paid for out of his own efforts, and he continued to attend school in winter sessions until he was twenty-one. When he was eighteen years of age he hired out to George Jameson, of Rose Township, as a farm hand at an agreed upon wage of a hundred dollars a year. Two years later he took the hand of his employer's daughter in marriage, Minerva Jameson, and she is a daughter of George and Emma (Williams) Jameson. Mr. and Mrs. Gallatin have four children : Oliver Bowman, born in 1888, married Elna Scarlott, of Rose Township, and their three children are Lester Sheppard, Iva Irene and Pearl. George Albert Gallatin, born in 1890, married Lucy Gilmore, of Atwood, Ohio. Charles R. Gallatin, born in 1895, married Mary B. Price, of Canton. The fourth and youngest child is Miss Effle Pearl, still at home with her parents.

Mr. Gallatin's extensive farm of over 200 acres is part of the old Jameson homestead, where members of that family have lived since 1815. Originally the estate comprised 320 acres, and the title to it rests upon a Government deed written on parchment and now more than a hundred years old. Mr. Gallatin has done general and diversified farming and has also been one of the leading apple growers of the county and still has a large orchard of fine trees. He is Independent In politics. At one time he was candidate for county commissioner, and he was elected and served two terms as township treasurer. He is a charter member of the National (Grange at Atwood and a member of the Methodist Church.

William Galbbeath Hebron. Having devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, William Galbreath Herron, of Harrison Township, is recognized as one of the leading farmers of Carroll County. He is conducting the 208 acre farm owned by him and his brothers, which is one of the best rural properties In this region. Mr. Herron was born in Monroe Township July 10. 1862, a son of Robert Power and Rachel (Galbreath) Herron, who came of Irish and Scotch stock. The history of the Herron family In America dates back to Charles Herron, who came here from Ireland during the eighteenth century and settled at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, but he died in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1818. The first name of his wife was Anna, and she died at Cannon sburg, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1803. Their children, all of whom were born in Ireland, were as follows: James, Robert,

Margaret and Wiliam. After the death of his first wife Charles Herron was married to a lady whose first name was Bridget The Herrons, however, trace still further back In their family record than Charles Herron, for the Herrons were found In Rouen, France, at a very early date, and went to England in 1066, at the time of the Norman conquest of that country by William of Normandy. Representatives of the family spread out into Scotland and Ireland.

James Herron, a son of Charles Herron, was born In County Tyrone, Ireland, In 1756, and came to America later on in the eighteenth century. On October 7, 1784, he was married to Rachel Reed, who died May 15, 1821, he surviving her until November 22, 1822, when he passed away in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Their children were as follows: Charles, John I., William, James, Robert, John II, Joseph, Thomas, Samuel and Rachel.

Of the above family, William Herron was the grandfather of William Galbreath Herron, of whom we write, and he married Mary Powers, a daughter of Robert Powers. After his marriage Wiliam Herron moved from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Holliday's Cove, Brooks County, Virginia, now in West Virginia, but in 1827 moved to Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he died December 17, 1848, his widow surviving him until March 12, 1875. Their children were as follows: James P., Elyaser, Robert, Margaret, Charles, Joseph B. and Rachel.

Robert Herron, father of William G. Herron, was bora at Holliday's Cove, West Virginia, September 4, 1830, but was taken to New Cumberland, Tuscarawas Countv. Ohio, and was there reared to manhood. In 1864 he traveled by wagon to Atwood, Monroe County, Ohio, and later on established himself as a farmer and stock-raiser near Carrollton. He married Rachel Palmer Galbreath, and they became the parents of the following children: William G., Robert Randall, and infant who died In 1866, at the age of six months; James Lawson, who died March 14, 1878; Calmet; Sedgewich, of Chester, West Virginia, who married Lena Gamble; Elroy C., and Joseph Glenn, a teacher at Malvern, Ohio.

An uncle of William G. Herron, Joseph B. Herron, served in Company H, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the war between the two sections of the country. During the battle of Perry ville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, he received a gunshot wound which received no attention from Wednesday, when it was received, until Saturday, when he was sent to a hospital at Louisville, Kentucky. On account of this unavoidable neglect and the severity of his injury he was honorably discharged for disability, and was attached to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, District of Columbia. After the death of President Garfield, Mr. Herron was selected as one of the guards of honor of the funeral cortege from Washington to Cleveland, Ohio. Joseph B. Herron died in April, 1882.

which period he had made himself useful on the homestead, and he was then afforded the educational advantages offered by the Carrollton High School for two fall and winter terms. Returning to the farm, he has made his home upon it ever since, carrying on general farming in conjunction with his brothers, their property being one of the best in the neighborhood. The homestead originally comprised ninety-seven acres, but they have increased it to its present size of 208 acres. William G. Herron belongs to the United Presbyterian Church of Carrollton, and he has been an elder of it since 1888. He is a republican, but aside from exercising ms right of suffrage does not participate in public life. In addition to his interest in the farm Mr. Herron is a stockholder of the Farmers Excnange at Carrollton. He is not married.

Robert Randall Herron, a brother of William G. Herron, was born in June, 1864, and he, too, makes his home on the farm, having never married. Another brother, Elroy Herron, also living on the home farm, is a school-teacher at Cold Spring Run, Carroll County. He married Belle fchotweli, a daughter of James W. and Alary Ann (McCray) JShotwell, of Union Township, in 1901, and they have two children, Mary neien ana John Wendell. Elroy Herron has had charge of his present school for twelve years, and has been a school-teacher since 1897, av that many of the young men and women of the county have been under his instruction at one time or another. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church.

The record of an old-fashioned American family like the Herrons is an interesting one, and those possessing it have every reason to be proud of their ancestry. The majority of the Herrons have been agriculturists, taking pride in developing valuable farms, and all of them have been earnest, purposeful men, upright in their dealings and devoted in their service te church and country.

Wilson Edoab Wherby Is a farmer of Carroll County who is demonstrating on his farm of 186 acres in Harrison Township that farming is an industry which requires the best of attention and skilled knowledge to make it a paying business. His experiments are watched with Interest and his results are used by his neighbors in their operations. He was bom on his present farm August 9, 1868, a son of Jackson and Margaret Ann (Foraker) Wherry, and grandson of Joseph Wherry, a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, who married a Miss Gardner, and with her came to Harrison Township, Carroll County, Ohio. They had two sons, Adam and Deams, when they came to Harrison Township, and the homestead then comprised 160 acres of land. He bought this farm from a Mr. Reed, who had obtained it from the Government, and the sale was made November 21, 1821. Joseph Wherry lived on this farm until his death, which occurred in 1875, and two years later his wife passed away. Five children were born to them after they came to this farm, making seven in all, and of them Jackson Wherry was the sixth in order of birth. His life was spent on this farm, and here he died in October, 1904, aged sixty-nine years. His widow survived him for a year. They had three children, of whom Wilson Edgar Wherry is the eldest.

Reared in his native township and sent to Its schools, Wilson Edgar Wherry worked for his father until he reached his majority, and then took charge of the farm where he has always lived. He carries on general farming. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Exchange at Carrollton. He is Independent in the matter of voting, but has been active in politics, and was elected on the democratic ticket trustee of Harrison Township, and as a member of the School Board, he holding the latter office for eight years. For twenty-seven years he has been ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg, of which he has long been a consistent member. Mr. Wherry and his sister, Mrs. Frank Harsh, of Harrison Township, are the only survivors of their father's family, their only other member, Arthur J., having died unmarried in 1893, at the age of twenty-one years.

On December 5, 1894, Mr. Wherry was married to Laura Viola Snively, a daughter of Joseph and Susan (Grander) Snively, of Washington Township, Carroll County. There were five children born of this marriage, namely: Mary Zella, who died August 27, 1918, was the wife of Roy B. Sutton, of Canton, Ohio, and left one daughter, Mildred Irene; Arthur Vale, who is at home, was drafted into the army during the World war, but the armistice was signed before he was called into the service; Earl, who died in 1904, aged ten months; Ruth Elizabeth, who is thirteen vears old, and Joseph Alton, who is eleven years old, and the youngest. Mrs. Wherry died November 11, 1920, and is deeply mourned as a lady of high Christian character and kindly disposition, which endeared her to all who knew her.

Simpson Orr Boggs. Practical farming is a line of business that yields ample returns for money and effort invested. Some of the most aggressive and level-headed men of Carroll County have devoted much of their time to agricultural pursuits and have no reason to regret their decision in favor of farming. One of these men thus prosperous is Simpson Orr Boggs, who owns and operates a valuable farm of 182 acres in Harrison Township. He was born on his father's homestead March 31, 1864, a son of Ezra and Clarentine (Scott) Boggs.

Growing up In his native county, Mr. Boggs attended the country school at Cold Spring Run during the winter terms, and at other times assisted his father and brothers in operating the homestead. In this way, when still a lad, he learned to be a practical farmer, and his early training has been of immense value to him in later years. He had to work hard, for he was the fifth in a family of ten children, but does not regret this, for he feels that his early training established his habits of thrift and industry.

Following his marriage Mr. Boggs lived for two years on the home farm, and then for five years conducted the Need farm, which he rented. He then moved on his present place, where he has since been engaged in general farming. During twelve years of this period he has been a timber merchant, sawing his timber in the woods and shipping it to different markets. In addition to these occupations he has other interests and believes in encouraging home industries. He is a democrat and active in his party, serving as township clerk for one term, and always taking an interest in politics with the idea of getting the best class of men in office. The Presbyterian Church holds his membership, and he is earnest in his support of its faith. Mr. Boggs has practically devoted his life to farming, and has made his work pay. At the same time he has established a reputation for fair and honest dealing, and is recognized as a good farmer and public-spirited citizen.