Harrison Township (part 29 of 37)

Walter A. Holliday was born in Moorefleld Township, on the 5th of December, 1879, and his early education was obtained in the district schools of Moorefleld. Cadiz and Athens Townships, and in the public schools of Cadiz, the -ounty seat. As a young man he initiated independent farm enterprise In Moorefleld Township, but a year later he removed to the ancestral Holliday homestead farm, in Cadiz Township. where he remained until November, 1919, when he returned to his father's farm in Moorefleld Township, where he is now conducting his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He and his wife now own a well improved farm of 167 acres in Cadiz Township, but the title to the place on which they now maintain their home is still vested in his father. He is one of the loyal supporters of the cause of the republican party and both he and his wife hold membership in the Nottingham Presbyterian Church.

On the 14th of February, 1911, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Holliday to Miss Mary J. Smith, who was born in County Tyrone. Ireland, a daughter of Walter and Christina (Barton) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Holliday have six children - John C., Laura May, Helen Elizabeth. Alfred Wayne. Margaret Virginia and Robert S.

As a matter of historic interest, it is worthy of record that representatives of the Holliday family were the first to bring sheep into Harrison County. The original flock comprised twelve or fifteen head, and each night they had to be placed in an enclosure, to guard them from depredations by wolves, besides which it was frequently necessary to maintain guard with rifles when the prowling wolves were particularly Insistent in their sanguinary intentions.

Samuel A. Gunning. A visit through the rich agricultural sections of Ohio and acquaintance with the leading farmers of such localities as Harrison County is an interesting experience. It proves that careful old-time cultivation of the soil Is still a great and prosperous industry and that the quiet, busy owners of the hundreds of productive acres are men of high Intelligence, well equipped to carry on their enterprises in a progressive way. One of these practical and enterprising farmers is found in Samuel A. Gunning, whose splendid farm of 265 acres, lies in Washington Township, Harrison County.

Samuel A. Gunning belongs to an old and substantial pioneer family of Harrison County that was established in Franklin Township by his grandfather, Alexander Gunning, who was born In Pennsylvania. He married a member of the McGill family and they came to Harrison County, lived as farmers in Franklin Township and reared the following children: John, Thomas, Martha. Nancy and Jane. They were worthy people and assisted in founding the United Presbyterian Church In their section.

John Gunning, father of Samuel A., was born in Franklin Township. Harrison County, and spent his life there as a general farmer and died August 14, 1901. He married Elizabeth Boyd, who was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, and died May 11, 1919. Her parents were Samuel and Nancy Boyd, both of whom were born in Ireland, came early to Ohio and were members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd had children as follows: Samuel. Robert. William, Allen, David, Sarah, Agnes, Martha, Mary, Alice and Elizabeth. Five children were born to John and Elizabeth Gunning, as follows: Nancy Jane, who died in October, 1911. was the wife of Simeon Rose; Samuel A., who is a representative citizen of Washington Township; Allen S., who lives in Franklin Township; Thomas W., who lives at Beach City, Stark County, Ohio; and Mattie

Alice, who Is the wife of Frank Knisley, of Philadelphia, Ohio. The parents of the above family were faithful members of the Presbyterian Church.

Samuel A. Gunning was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, April 9, 1874, and obtained his education in the Brownsville Public School. He grew up on the farm, where his training was thorough and practical, and remained in his native township as a farmer until his marriage, which took place on March 8, 1900, when he was united to Miss Bertha Irwin, daughter of Oscar and Emma (Riley) Irwin, and granddaughter of Ninian and Sarah Ann (Carpenter) Irwin, who came to Franklin Township, Harrison County, among the eaVly settlers. The Irwins have all belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the grandfather's family there were five children, namely: Oscar, Albert, Mary, Alice and Demaris.

Oscar Irwin, father of Mrs. Gunning, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, and Is a leading citizen and substantial farmer In Franklin Township. He married Emma Riley, who was also born In Harrison County. Ohio, daughter of John and Catherine (Suddett) Riley, and they have the following children : Bertha,

Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gunning have lived on Mr. Gunning's farm in Washington Township. It is a fine property, well situated and well watered, and Mr. Gunning is successfully carrying on general farming and stockraising. Mr. and Mrs. Gunning have one son, Noble Edmond, who was born June 26, 1906, and is attending school. The family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Westchester. Mr. Gunning has never been very active in politics, but he is a thoughtful and well Informed citizen, and casts his vote intelligently. He belongs to the Order of Knights of Pythias, attending the Lodge at Tippecanoe, and In that order as in other connections with his fellow citizens he Is held In respect and esteem.

Gex>rge H. Johnston made in earlier years an excellent record in connection with productive farm industry in his native county, but he has found his potentiality equally effective In the lumber business, in which he has been successfully established at Bowerston, Harrison County. since 1905.

George Harry Johnston was born in Monroe Township, within whose borders the Village of Bowerston is situated, and the date of his nativity was July 26, 1868. He is a son of Joseph E. and Hannah S. (Smith) Johnston, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the names of both families have been prominently identified with civic and industrial affairs since the pioneer days. Joseph E. Johnston was born in Monroe Township, August 11, 1832, and the place of his birth was a log cabin of the characteristic pioneer type. His father. Samuel R. Johnston, was born at Baltimore. Maryland, December 3. 179S. of Irish parentage, and Samuel R. was a child when he accompanied his widowed mother to Charleston. South Carolina, where he was reared to manhood and gained his initial business experience. In 1824 he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased a tract of land in Monroe Township. Here he eventually reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds, and he was one of the venerable and highly honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death. November 10. 1883. Of him the following consistent estimate has been written: "He was an exemplary man, quiet and unassuming, reserved and dignified, firm and unwavering in his opinions. His religious belief was free thought, the universal brotherhood of mankind, and his precept the Golden Rule, guided by reason. His integrity was like his character, unimpeachable, and in his daily life among his fellow men he never suffered himself to lapse from his chosen standard. He was a man of more than ordinary attainments and education, and became a deep thinker, a close observer and a careful reasoner."

Samuel R. Johnston commanded unqualified respect and confidence and was a leader in community thought and action. He served in various local offices, including those of township trustee and clerk, was a staunch democrat and was significantly generous, loyal, liberal and public-spirited.

July 20. 1826, recorded the marriage of Samuel R. Johnston to Miss Rebecca Barnhill, who was born and reared in Harrison County, where her parents, William and Mary Barnhill, natives of Ireland, settled in the pioneer days, the remainder of their lives having been passed in Monroe Township. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston became the parents of three sons and eight daughters, and those who lived to mature years were: William B., Mary (Mrs. Joseph McKelveen). Joseph E., Margaret (Mrs. Jacob Norrick). Rebecca (Mrs. Simeon Smith), Elizabeth (Mrs. Daniel Smith), Cecelia (Mrs. Jonathan Manbeck). The loved wife and mother died August 23, 1873, and Mr. Johnston survived her by ten years, his death occurring in 1883, as previously noted in this context.

Joseph E. Johnston owned the old homestead farm on which he was born and reared, and there he continued to reside until 1907. when he retired from the arduous labors that hod long been his portion in connection with farm industry and removed to the Village of Bowerston, where his death occurred August 4. 1914, and where his widow still maintains her home. Mr. Johnston gained his youthful education in the pioneer schools and passed his entire life in Harrison County, with the exception of four years devoted to pioneer farm enterprise in Iowa, to which state he removed in 1855. Thereafter he remained with his pa rents until their death, except for the period of his loyal service in defense of the Union at the time of the Civil war. In 186^ he enlisted in Company B. One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio National Guard, in which he was commissioned sergeant of his company, and with which he participated in engagements at Snicker's Gap. Harper's Ferry and Winchester. After receiving his honorable discharge he returned to the home farm, and oil the 26tli of January, 1875. he married Miss Hannah S. Smith, who was bom near

Laceyville, Harrison County, a daughter of the late William P. Smith, a sterling pioneer of the county. In addition to the old home place, of 153 acres, Mr. Johnston owned a farm of eighty-three acres in North Township. He served nine years as justice of the peace, was a democrat in politics, was called upon to serve also as township trustee, and was a valued member of R. M. Lyon Post, No. 406, Grand Army of the Republic, at Bowerston. He had deep reverence for the verities of various religions, but, like his father, was a free-thinker and adnered to no religious dogmas. Of the four children the eldest is Melvin S., who resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the maiden name of his wife having been Eyler Eurilla and their one child being a daughter, Hannah Grace. George Harry was the next in order of birth. Anna N. is the wife of Robert H. McGuire, of Harrison County, and they have three children - Nina Dean (Mrs. Eugene Bowers), Verne and Samuel. Samuel R., the youngest of the four children, is individually mentioned on other pages of this volume.

George Harry Johnston made good use of the advantages offered in the district schools of Monroe Township and thereafter continued his alliance with the vigorous activities of the home farm until his marriage, August 15, 1895, to Miss Jessie M. Betts, daughter of Brice E. and Isabelle Betts, of Monroe Township. After his marriage. Mr. Johnston engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township, where he continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower until 1903, when he established his residence in the Village of Bowerston. Here he followed the carpenter's trade for the first two years, and then, in 1905, he here engaged In the lumber business, with which he has since been actively identified and In which he has developed a prosperous enterprise in the handling of all requisite types of lumber and building materials. He is a democrat In political adherency. served for a number of terms as clerk of Monroe Township, is a member of the Bowerston Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and vice president of The Tope School of Phrenology. In religion he is a free-thinker, being a member of the Columbus Rationalist Society of Columbus, Ohio. He and his wife are popular factors in the representative social life of Bowerston. They have no children.

Samuel R. Johnston, youngest son of the late Joseph E. Johnston, resides upon and has the active management of the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and of the honored pioneer family of which he Is a popular representative adequate data are given on other pages, in the personal sketch of his older brother. George Harry Johnston, of Bowerston.

Samuel R. Johnston was born on his present farm, October 7, 1875, and the educational advantages which were his In his youth were those of the district schools of Monroe Township and the Bowerston High School, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896. Later he completed a course In the Duff Mercantile College, in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This practical business course did not, however, cause him to withdraw his allegiance to the great basic Industries under whose Influence he had been reared, and he remained on the old home farm for three years after his marriage, In the autumn of 1899. He then purchased a farm about one-half mile distant from the old family homestead, and after residing on the place four years he returned to his father's farm, which comprises 153 acres and which has been in the possession of the family since the pioneer days. Here he is a rigorous and successful exponent of modern agricultural and live-stock enterprise, In connection with which, as well as in loyal and liberal citizenship, he is well upholding the honors of the family name. He takes lively interest in community affairs and gave four years of effective service as a member of the Board of Education of Monroe Township, his political allegiance being accorded to the democratic party.

October 12, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Johnston to Miss Sadie B. Thompson, daughter of Andrew J. and Elizabeth (Betts) Thompson, of Monroe Township, and the two children of this union are Sadie Revelle, who married Roy C. Baker, of Monroe Township, Harrison County, and Joseph Andrew.

Samuel S. Betts w*ns born in Monroe Township, Harrison County. September 17, 1861, and is a scion of a sterling pioneer family of eastern Ohio. The genealogy is traced back to staunch German origin and representatives of the name settled in Pennsylvania prior to the war of the Revolution. In the old Keystone state Adam Betts was born and reared, and In 1802 he came from Reading, that state, to the wilds of Jefferson County. Ohio, where he purchased Government land and reclaimed a farm from the forest. There he passed the remainder of his life, and records show that he was a man of superior intellectuality and ability. He retained at the time of his removal to Ohio the original orthography of the family name, Betz, and the name is thus entered on the patent to the land which he obtained in Jefferson County, this deed bearing the signature of President Madison and being preserved as a family heirloom of historic interest and value. Adam Betts was twice married, three children having been born of the first marriage and nine of the second. William, eldest child of the second marriage, was born at Reading, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1787, and was thus about fifteen years old at the time of the family immigration to Ohio. He was reared to manhood on the frontier farm in Jefferson County, where he married Miss Elizabeth Vlers, who was born and reared in that county. He and his brother George served as soldiers in the War of 1812, and he continued as a farmer in Jefferson County until his death, which; occurred in April, 1883, his wife having passed away in 1862. They became the parents of two sons and five daughters: Rebecca (Mrs. William Powell), Eliza (Mrs. William H. Barrett), Permelia (Mrs. Samuel Scott), Margaret (Mrs. John Dunlap), Brice E. (father of Samuel S ) , McCourtney, and Lucinda (Mrs. George

Brice E. Betts was born on the old homestead farm in Jefferson County, where, in the little log house of the true pioneer type, he made his initial appearance June 13, 1824. He received his quota of opportunity in connection with the subscription schools maintained by the early settlers of the locality and that he improved these advantages is shown by the fact that as a youth he became a successful teacher in the rural schools. In 1846 he engaged in business as a general merchant at Salem, Jefferson County, where he remained until 1856. when he went to Missouri and purchased land, but the outbreak of the Civil war caused him to change his plan of removing with his family to that state. He accordingly resumed his association with mercantile business at Salem, but in the autumn of 1860 he sold his interest in this general store and the spring of 1861 marked his removal to Monroe Township, Harrison County, where he purchased the farm on which he continued to reside until 1864, his death having occurred February 20. 1604. and his widow passing away on the 24th of March, 1609. In May, 1864, Mr. Betts enlisted in Company B. One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio State Guards, with which he served in the Potomac and Shenandoah Valleys of Virginia and took part In various engagements, including the battles of Snicker's Gap, Harper's Ferry, Winchester and Maryland Heights. He received his honorable discharge, in the City of Columbus, Ohio, September 21, 1864. He was a still wart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and in Monroe Township he was called upon to serve as township trustee and member of the School Board, besides which he held for twelve years the office of justice of the peace. He became the owner of a valuable farm property of 260 acres and was a leader in community sentiment and action, with secure place in the esteem and confidence of all who knew him.

September 26, 1846. recorded the marriage of Brice E. Betts to Miss Isabel N. Guy. who was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, March 19, 1829, a daughter of Robert and Sarah Ann (Clarke) Guy, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ireland, she having come with her parents to America in 1810 and her marriage having occurred in the following year. Robert Guy was a brass founder by trade and vocation, and finally removed with his family from Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he followed the work of his trade, in an independent way, until his death in June, 1864, his wife having died April 10. 1843. They had four children, James. Margaret, Isabel and Robert, Jr., all of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Brice E. Betts were active members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of nine children, of whom three died in early childhood: Elizabeth A. became the wife of Andrew Thompson, of Monroe Township, and is now deceased : William L., who was a representative farmer of Monroe Township at the time of his death, married Samantha Conaway and they became the parents of four children - Myrtle, Isabel, Harry and Margaret: Eliza M. is the wife of John Turney, of North Township, Harrison County; George is a farmer in Stock Township, this county ; Samuel S. is the subject of this review ; and Jessie M. is the wife of George H. Johnston, of Bowerston, Ohio.

The school in District No. 1, Monroe Township, afforded to Samuel S. Betts his early education, and he thereafter continued his active association with the affairs of the home farm until his marriage, on the 2d of September, 1864, to Miss Lora E. Fisher, daughter of James and Martha (Hendricks) Fisher, of North Township. After his marriage Mr. Betts assumed the active management of the old home farm, his parents having at this time removed to the Village of Bowerston, where they remained until their deaths. Mr. Betts is one of the resourceful and successful exponents of farm industry in his native county and his farm estate comprises 166 acres. He is a republican in political allegiance, is a member of the Baptist Church at Beaver, and his wife was a member of the United Brethren Church. In the faith of which she was reared, her death having occurred on the 4th of February, 1916. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Betts the firstborn. Guy H.. died at the age of four years: Nellie M. and Mabel L. are successful and popular teachers in the public schools of Harrison County; Ralph E. and Wayne F. remain at the paternal home; Ruba F. and Rhoda F. are students in the Bowerston High School; and Ross C. and Martha I. are the youngest members of the home circle.

William L. Rowland has shown naught of indirection or faltering in connection with his vigorous enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower in his native county, and his well improved farm, of 105 acres, in Freeport Township, gives the patent evidences of thrift and good management that mark him as one of the successful farmers of Harrison County.

Mr. Rowland was born in Nottingham Township, this county, on the 25th of August. 1850. and is a son of the late Philip Rowland, whose death occurred May 13, 1614. Philip Rowland was born in Nottingham Township on the 25th of May, 1825, a date that denotes that the family was founded in Harrison County in the pioneer period of its history. John and Rachel (Engle) Rowland, grandparents of Philip, were born and reared in Maryland, where their marriage occurred and whence they soon afterward removed to that part of Virginia now constituting the state of West Virginia. There they remained until 1801, when the husband and father set forth on a prospecting journey into Ohio. He came to what is now Harrison County and selected a tract of wild land in Moorefield Township as now constituted. He then returned for his family, who accompanied him on the eventful overland trip through the wilderness to the new home, transportation having been by a team and covered wagon and many hardships having been endured on the joumey. On one occasion the wagon was overturned while crossing a river, and members of the family narrowly escaped drowning. Arriving a* their destination the members of the family took possession of the little log house that had been -erected for them. Here John Howland, a true frontiersman and resourceful pioneer, reclaimed a goodly portion of his land and here he remained until his death, in 1848, at the patriarchal age of ninety-three years, his widow surviving him but a short time. Their children were: William, James, Mary, Levi. Betsy,

John. Cyrus and Rebecca. John Rowland, founder of the family in Harrison County, has served as a soldier with the patriot forces in the war of the Revolution, and after its close he served three years as a government Indian spy, along the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. In this hazardous frontier service he encountered many dangers and hardships, including those incidental to suppressing invasions on the part of hostile Indians.

William Rowland, son of John and grandfather of William L., had his full share of experience in connection with the development of the frontier farm, his birth having occurred in Maryland and he having been a boy at the time of the family removal to Ohio. After his marriage to Jane Fulton, daughter of Philip Fulton. another sterling pioneer of Harrisqn County, he settled on a farm in Nottingham Township, and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their earnest, worthy and useful lives, secure in the respect of all who knew them. They became the parents of the following children: John. Levi, Philip, James, Sarah. Rachel. William. Hannah, Rachel, Mary (Mrs. Elihu Petty), and Alexander. All of the children are now deceased.

Philip Rowland was reared in Nottingham Township, where he received the advantages of the common schools of the period, and in that township he was associated with farm industry until 1861, when he removed to Freeport Township. where he became the owner of a valuable farm of 250 acres, about two miles distant from the village of Freeport. Here he remained, one of the substantial and honored citizens of his native county, until his death, on the 13th of May, 1914, his first wife having passed away in 1893. In August. 1847, was solemnized the marriage of Philip Rowland to Miss Piety Ann Ford, daughter of Lewis and Ann Ford, and she passed to the life eternal in 1865. Of this union were born six children - William L., Emily J.. Siemens. Rebecca. Arizona and John Newton. Of the number William L. and Siemens are the only survivors. For his second wife Philip Rowland married Julia, daughter of Benjamin and Myrtilla Hart, of Harrison County, and she lives in Freeport. Five children were born of this marriage - Benjamin. George, Myrtle. Philip, Jr., and Burton. Mr. Rowland was a staunch supporter of the prohibition party for a time but always a republican. He and the members of his family held the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

William L. Rowland acquired. his early education in the district schools of Nottingham and Freeport Township, and he continued his active association with the work of his father's farm until his marriage, August 5, 1880, since which time he has resided continuously on his present farm, upon which he has made good improvements of a permanent order, besides keeping the place up to high standard in every way. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Freeport.

On the 5th of August. 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rowland to Miss Clara V. McCave. who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Levi and Delilah (Martin) McCave. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland have six children : Charles O., a prosperous farmer in Moorefleld Township, married Miss Odessa Baker and they have six children - Florence. Lucille, Denver. Vivian, and Leona and Iona, twins. Oliver F., a representative young lawyer at Athens, judicial center of the Ohio county of the same name, married Miss Louise Wooley. and their one child is Don Edwin. Roy D.. who is now a resident of Guernsey County, married Miss Winifred Golden and they have three children - Clara, Granville and Mildred. Minnie May is the wife of Forrest L. Perkins, of Wheeling. West Virginia. and they have two children - Rodney L. and Dorothy Ilene. Bryce Martin, whose record in connection with service in the World war will be more definitely mentioned in an appending paragraph, is a student in Valparaiso University. at Valparaiso. Indiana, and in the same institution his younger brother. Halley H., is a student in the law department.

Bryce Martin Rowland entered the nation's military sendee April 1, 1918, and at Camp Sherman he soon won promotion to the office of corporal of Company K, Three Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Infantry, which became a part of the Eighty-Fourth Division. Early in July, 1918, he sailed with his command for France, and while the regiment was there stationed at Le Mans he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to the headquarters company of another regiment. He remained In service at LeMans until he was given the privilege of entering the University of Montpelier. France, where he continued his studies about three months. He then returned to his native land and shortly after his arrival in July. 1919. he received his honorable discharge, at Camp Sherman.

Jesse Marshall, who for many years has been well known in business and the public life of Carroll County, was born in Washington Township, October 14, 1853.

This branch of the Marshall family lives for several generations in West Virginia. His grandfather Joshua Marshall came from West Virginia to Carroll County at a very early day, spending the rest of his active life on a farm in Washington Township. Eli Marshall, father of Jesse Marshall, was born in Washington Township In 1830. He married Sarah Jane Rondebush, who was born in Carroll County in 1835. The Roudebush family is one of long and honorable distinction in this section of Ohio. The ancestry goes back to two brothers, Abraham and Jacob, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam In 1650, the early colonial period. Later the family was established in Maryland,

1666, and also in Pennsylvania and they became people of large resources and many business enterprises. The first of the family came to Carroll County in 1816, and other followed fn subsequent years, and the history of Carroll County makes frequent reference to many of the name. The father of Sarah Jane Roudebush was Jesse Roudebush who was bora in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1705. He died at Carrollton in 1868. He and his brothers and other members of the family founded the Church of Christ at Mount Olive in Carroll County.

Eli Marshall spent his active life on a farm in Washington Township where he died in 1883, and his wife is still living at the age of eightysix. She was the mother of three children: Jesse. Levi and Anna M. who is the wife of James N. Lawrence of Carrollton.

Jesse Marshall attended the country schools and made good use of his opportunities. For fifteen years he was a successful teacher, and in 1888 removed to Carrollton where for thirteen years he was engaged in the wool and grain business. He was elected county treasurer on the republican ticket and served two terms. For the last fourteen years he has been in the monument business.

In 1878 he married Miss Catherine A. Dennis, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio. Her father Christian Dennis spent the last twentythree years of his life in the Marshall home and died at the age of ninety-one. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall who are members of the Church of Christ have three sons: Elmer G. : Clayton who lives at Canton, Ohio, and married Hazel Hines; and Cecil Dwight who married Exa Mills on June 18, 1619.

Thomas S. Birnfy has had the circumspection and judgment that have enabled him to appreciate the advantages offered for successful farm enterprise in his native township and is here numbered among the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation of Washington Township in Harrison County. Aside from his admirable personal achievement he has the further distinction of being a representative of one of the honored and influential pioneer families of this county.

Thomas Simpson Birney was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, on the 17th of May, 1883, and is a son of Robert M. and Martha J. (Simpson) Birney. Robert M. Birney wras born in Washington Towmship. this County, on the 10th of January. 1849, and was a son of John and Hannah (McKee) Birney. John Birney wras born and reared in Green Towmship, this county, where his parents settled in the early pioneer days, and soon after his marriage he removed to Washington Township, where he eventually accumulated and developed a fine farm estate of 500 acres and W'here he remained until his death. September 9, 1885. His first w'ife died in 1872. their children having been six in number - Rachel (Mrs. Henry Pittis), Nelson, Robert M., James X., Rebecca J. (Mrs. Matthew' Simpson), and John T. For his second u-ife John Birney wedded Sarah Eaton, who survived him by a number of years. He w'as pi eminent in the local councils and activities of the republican party and was zealous in support of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was an active member for many years prior to his death.

Robert M. Birney continued his successful association with farm Industry in Washington Township during his entire active career, and also developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock. He was the owner of a valuable farm property in his native township at the time of his death. November 29. 1888, his wife having passed away on the 17th of July. 1883, and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 28th of May. 1868, was solemnized the marriage of Robert M. Birney to Miss Martha J. Simpson, who was born in Stock Township. Harrison County, October 4. 1842, a daughter of John and Margaret (Law) Simpson. John Simpson was born in Stock Township, this county, in 1814. and was a son of John and Mary (McElroy) Simpson, whose marriage w'as solemnized in the state of Pennsylvania. the father having come from Ireland to America in 1798. John Simpson, Sr., continued his residence in Washington County, Pennsylvania, until about the opening of the nineteenth century, w'hen he came with his family to Harrison County. Ohio, where he eventually developed a productive farm in the midst of the forest wilds and where he continued his residence in Stock Towmship until his death. In 1836. John Simpson, Jr., was reared under the conditions and influences that marked the pioneer epoch in the history of Harrison County and continued to be identified with farm industry in Stock Towmship until his death, in 1877. He achieved substantial prosperity through his own well directed endeavors and his character w'as shown in his high sense of personal stewardship in all of the relations of life. He was a stalw'art republican and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven children - Mary Ann (Mrs. Joseph Patterson). Martha (Mrs. Robert M. Birney). Margaret (Mrs. Frank Welch). Matthew, William. Frank, and Ella. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Birney became the parents of three children, of whom Thomas S. of this sketch is the youngest and the only survivor. Etta L. was born May 16. 1869. and died on the 12th of March. 1878- and Clarence M. died on the same day as did his only sister, he having been eight years, seven months and twenty days of age at the time of his demise.

Thomas Simpson Birney was but two months old at the time of his mother's death and but five years old when his father died. He was thereafter reared in the home of his father's sister. Mrs. Rachel Pittis, of Deersville. Harrison County, where he was afforded the advantages of the village schools. He has resided on his present farm since he was tw'enty-one yeors of age. and under his ownership the place is maintained at a high standard ns a center of successful agricultural and live-stock enterprise. The place comprises 197*£ acres and is w'ell improved. Mr. Birney is a republican In his political proclivities and he and his wife are active mem-

May 22, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Mary Belle McCullough, who was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, and who is a daughter of Joseph M. and Elizabeth (Birney) McCullough, her father being individually represented in a personal sketch on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Birney have a winsome little daughter, Eva Elizabeth, whose advent in their home came on the 16th of December, 1919.

Richard H. Gordon, who with his brother, Claude O. Gordon, owns the most efficiently managed and well equipped garage in this part of Ohio, is one of the dependable business men of Bowerston, Harrison County. He was born in Stafford County, Kansas, August 28, 1889, a son of Dr. Johnson Wier and Louisa J. (Host) Gordon.

Dr. J. W. Gordon was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and his wife was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of James and Margaret J. Host. James Host was a stock buyer and dealer of Franklin and adjoining townships in Harrison County. Mrs. Gordon is still living, and she and her husband had the following children: Nora, who married R. W. Bowers; Margaret, who married A. E. Bowers; Bertha, who married L. B. Timmerman; Florence, who married W. L. McQuean; Sadie, who married T. P. Cunningham; Richard H,, whose name heads this review; Claude O., who is mentioned at length further on in this article; Hallie J., who was eighth In order of birth; and Nellie, who Is deceased.

Doctor Gordon was graduated in medicine at Columbus, Ohio, and in Surgery at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he also was a graduate of an ear, eye. nose and throat college at Dayton, Ohio, and of an eclectic course. Later on in life he took up post graduate work, and five or six years before his death he was graduated in a steam electrical engineering course from the Scranton Correspondence School. Doctor Gordon began the practice of his profession at Bowerston, Ohio, but later went to Kansas, and from that state moved on to Missouri. He then returned to Bowerston, Ohio, where he continued to practice until his death, which event occurred March 2, 1917. He was a student of untiring energy and kept constantly busy, devoting all of his spare moments to study.

Richard H. Gordon attended the public schools of Bowerston, and when he completed his school days he learned the blacksmi thing trade and worked at It for three years, and then for four years was employed as a machinist. In 1914 he and his brother, C. O. Gordon, opened a garage at Bowerston, and are still in partnership. They have the agency for the Overland, Reo and Ford cars, and handle farm light plants, and have a battery service station. They do repair work of all kinds and carry a complete line of auto parts and accessories. Like his father he is a Blue Lodge Mason, the younger man maintaining membership with the lodge at Leesville. Doctor Gordon also belonged to the Grotto. Richard H. Gordon Is a member of Bowerston Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is popular in his fraternities, as he is socially.

Claude O. Gordon, brother of Richard H. Gordon, was born June 26, 1891, and was reared at Bowerston. He and his brother had just begun to get their garage business in first-class shape, when he responded to the call of his country and entered its service, March 9, 1918, in the aviation branch, at Cadiz, Ohio, and was sent to San Antonio, Texas. He was at Kelly Field but two days when he was transferred to Camp John Wise, Texas, where he was assigned to the Forty-third Balloon Corps, and remained with it until the close of hostilities.

On May 2, 1918, his organization left Camp John Wise for Morrison, Virginia, where It arrived May 8, 1918, and remained there until June 19, 1918, at which time his company sailed on the "S. S. American" from Newport News, Virginia, for France, and arrived at Brest July 13, 1918. Two days later the company left Brest for a baloon school, where the men were in training until August 6, 1918, when they were sent to Tours, France, and after seven days there, moved on to Toul, France. They were in the Saint Mihiel sector, arriving there August 19, and on August 31 were under fire, and were on the front line under fire constantly from then on until the signing of the armistice. At 1 :00 A. M., September 13, the historic Saint Mihiel drive started, and Mr. Gordon's company participated In it until September 20, when it was transferred to the Argonne Forest front. On September 21 Paris was reached, and the following day the company arrived on the Argonne-Meuse front. On September 25, at 11:30 P. M., the drive started and the company remained on that front until November 11, 1918. On August 1, 1918, Mr. Gordon was made a chauffeur of the first class, which grade he held until he was discharged. During the time the company was on the front its members did observation balloon work all the time, and lost a balloon which caught on fire while in the air.

On April 19, 1919, Mr. Gordon went aboard the "Susquehanna" at Genecort, France, and the following day set sail for the United States, arriving at Newport News, Virginia, May 3, 1919. On May 9 the company marched to Camp Stewart, and there took boat for Camp Lee, ninety miles down the James River. On June 13, 1919, Mr. Gordon left Camp Lee for Camp Sherman, and he was there discharged from the service, June 17, 1919, and returned home.

The Forty-third Balloon Company has the distinguished honor of being the only organization in the American Expeditionary Force, or of the whole American army, to have a standard and completely equipped band within itself. Mr. Gordon played a melaphone in this band from the time of the organization of the company until it was mustered out of the service.

Both these young men are held in high esteem by the people of Harrison County, and many traveling through this district have good cause to remember them on account of the splendidly efficient service they are rendering In their garage at Bowerston.

James Coons Lyons has enviable standing in connection with financial affairs in his native county and is the efficient cashier of the First National Rank of Bowerston. which village, in Harrison County, figures as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 26th of December. 1887.

James Coons Lyons is a son of John C. and Sarah (Coons) Lyons, the former of whom was one of the representative farmers of Harrison County at the time of his death. February 8. 1901, and the latter of whom still maintains her home in this county. John C. Lyons, the* second in order of birth in a family of six sons and four daughters, was born in Butler County. Pennsylvania, and was a son of Thomas Lyons, who likewise was a native of the Keystone state and who was a son of William Lyons. William Lyons was born and reared in Ireland and after immigrating to America he showed his loyalty to the land of his adoption by serving as a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution. The conflict left him with a rifle ball in one of his hips, and this momento of the Revolution he carried until his death, the surgeons having been unable to extract It. He passed the closing years of his life in Morgan County, Ohio, and was for a time a resident of Harrison County. Thomas Lyons became extensively engaged in lumbering operations in Pennsylvania, where he floated his lumber down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, which was at that time but little more than a village. He married Menie Lowrle, who was born in Scotland and who was a child at the time of her parents* immigration to America. She was a sister of Walter Lowrie. who is supposed to have been the one of this name who served as secretary of state in the cabinet of President John Quincy Adams and who resigned to accept the post of secretary of the Foreign Missionary Society, of which position he continued the incumbent until his death. About the year 1820 Thomas Lyons came with his family to Ohio and took up a tract of land on which the Village of Tippecanoe now stands, in Harrison County. Later be was a pioneer farmer in North Township, and both he and his wife passed the closing period of their lives In Carroll County.

John C. Lyons was a boy at the time of the family settlement in the forest wilds of Harrison County, and here he was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer era in the history of the county. At the age of twentythree years he married Susanna Forbes, a daughter in another pioneer 'household, and they settled on a farm In Monroe Township. Many years later they removed to the Village of Bowerston, and there Mrs. Lyons died on the Sth of February, 1883. Of this union were born one son and three daughters, all of whom are now deceased. The only son. John F., was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. as a member of Company A. Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he was still in service at the time of his death, in 1865. at Resaea, Georgia, as the result of illness contracted while with his command. In 1K.S6 John C. Lyons wedded Miss Jennie Coons, who was born In Licking County, Ohio, where her parents, James M. and Mary Ann (Van Dorn) Coons, were early settlers. James M. Coons was bom in Virginia and was about five years old when his parents settled in Franklin County, Ohio, in the early pioneer days. His wife died April 22, 1873, aged fifty-one years, her parents having come to Ohio from the State of New Jersey. John C. Lyons became the owner of a large and valuable farm property in Monroe Township, where he had a fine farm of 320 acres, besides an additional tract of twenty acres lying adjacent to the Village of Bowerston. He was one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death. February 8. 1901, and his widow now resides in the Village of Bowerston. Mr. Lyons was a man of fine mentality and sterling character, was a democrat in politics and served many terms as township trustee. Of his second marriage James C. In the only child.

James C. Lyons continued his studies in the public schools until his graduation in the Bowerston High School, as if member of the class of 1907. and before the close of that year he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Bowerston. On the 12th of January. 1909. he was advanced to the position of assistant cashier, of which he continued the incumbent until August 11. 1913, when he was made cashier of this substantial and important financial institution of Harrison County, an office in which he has continued to serve with characteristic efficiency and in such a way as greatly to advane the prosperity and influence of the bank of which he is a valued executive.

Mr. Lyons has had no desire for political activity but is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and Is progressive and public-spirited as a citizen. He is affiliated with Orange Lodge No. 406 Free and Accepted Masons of Leesville and is a member of Cyrus Chapter No. 114 Royal Arch Masons: Gebal Council No. 50, Royal and Select Masters and Saint Bernard Commandery No. 51, Knights Templar, the three latter of TThrichsvIlle. Both he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bowerston, as Is also his mother, who is now residing in this village, as previously noted.

November 23. 1911. recorded the marriage of Mr. Lyons to Miss Agnes Griswold, daughter of John C. and Susan Griswold, of Harrison County, and the one child of this union is a daughter. Eloise, born October 13. 1913.

Joseph T. Phillips Is one of the progressive citizens who is carrying forward in Harrison County the successful farm enterprise which is made possible under modem conditions, with improved facilities and methods, and he has maintained practical and business policies that have enabled him to gain the maximum returns from his excellent farm of 168 acres, in Washington Township. He was bom at New Franklin. Missouri, on the 9th of November. 1876. but is a representative of a prominent pioneer family of the county in which he now maintains his home.

Mr. Phillips is a son of John and Mary Elizabeth (Fletcher) Phillips, the former of whom was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, June 14, 1843, and the latter In the State of Kentucky, August 17, 1847, a daughter of James and Nancy (Nell) Fletcher. John Phillips is a son of Joseph and Jemima (Johnson) Phillips, the former of whom was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 14th of January, 1803, he having been twelve years of age at the time of the family removal to Washington Township, Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood and became a prosperous farmer, besides which, as a young man, he was a successful teacher in the pioneer schools of the county. After his marriage, in 1833, he settled on the farm now owned by his son Amasa, in Washington Township, and there he passed the remainder of his life. Joseph Phillips died April 10, 1886, and his widow died September 3, 1888, both having been venerable pioneer citizens of the county at the time when they passed from the stage of life's mortal activities. Of the nine children John was the fifth in order of birth, and his youthful education was acquired in the pioneer schools of Washington Township, besides which he here learned the trade of shoemaker. In 1862 Mr. Phillips went to the State of Iowa and engaged in the work of his trade. He there remained three years, and in that state his marriage was solemnized. At the expiration of the period noted he returned, with his family, to Ohio and for two years maintained a shoe shop at Westchester, Tuscarawas County. It should be noted that while a resident of Iowa he drove a team of four yokes of oxen from that state to Pike's Peak. Colorado, where the gold excitement was then at its zenith. In 1867 Mr. Phillips went to Denver. Iliinois, and after there working at his trade one year he removed to S'mithton, Missouri, where he was similarly engaged for the ensuing five years, at the expiration of which he established his residence at New Franklin, that state. There he remained in charge of his shoe shop until 1877, when he returned with his family to Westchester, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he conducted a shoe shop until about 1895, when he purchased the small farm upon which he has since maintained his home, in Washington Township, Harrison County, his wife having passed away on the 8th of January, 1888. They became the parents of nine children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded : James G., April 13, 1866, died when about forty-one years of age; Della, November 5. 1867; Alcanie. September 3, 1869; John E. died in Infancy; Minnie, July 29. 1873: Nancy died in infancy: Joseph T., November 9. 1876; Maude. February 28. 1879; and Frank, November 12, 1881.

Joseph T. Phillips gained his early education principally in the public schools of Tuscarawas and Harrison counties, and he initiated his endependent career when he was a youth of seventeen years. During the greater part of the intervening period he has been actively associated with farm enterprises in Harrison County, and since his marriage, in 1906, he and his wife have lived on their present farm, comprising

On the 1st of April, 1906, Mr. Phillips was united in marriage to Miss Effie Green, who was born and reared In Harrison County and who is a daughter of George and Hannah (Jenkins) Green. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two children - Dane born November 9, 1906; and Myron, born March 30, 1908.

C. Perry Dickey. There Is no other occupation so important as that of farming because the man who tills the soil is the one who produces the raw materials without which the world cannot go on. Therefore upon his industry and success rests the prosperity, the life even, of humanity. Ohio has always had among its citizens some of the best farmers In the country, and the finely cultivated fields and sleek cattle, together with the sanitary and modern buildings and machinery bear witness that the present generation is not falling behind, but is keeping up the reputation already gained. One of these representative farmers of Harrison County, who has the distinction of having spent his life upon his present farm, is Perry C. Dickey of Franklin Township.

Perry C. Dickey was born in Franklin Township, April 16, 1874. a son of William W. and Cecilia (Barrett) Dickey, and grandson of Benny Dickey. William W. Dickey was born in Harrison County, Ohio, and spent his life in agricultural pursuits. After reaching man's estate he began farming in Franklin Township, and became the owner of 160 acres of land. His death occurred in 1914, but his widow survived him until 1917, when she too passed away. Their children were as follows: Alice A.. Nancy Jane, Mary and C. Perry. The family all belonged to the Christian Church. During the war between the North and the South William W. Dickey was a soldier in the Union army, and for eighteen months served in the Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

C. Perry Dickey received his educational training in the public schools of Franklin Township, and his practical knowledge while working on the homestead under his father's supervision. He has spent all of his time and efforts on developing and cultivating his farm which contains 155 acres, and here he is now engaged in a general farming and stock-raising business with very satisfactory results.

On August 29, 1896. Mr. Dickey was married to Amy McGill, a daughter of Thomas and Esther (West) McGill and a niece of Robert McGill. Thomas McGill died March 15. 1920, and his widow still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Dickey have two children, twins, Ralph W. and Doris Wilma. Ralph W. Dickey married Guilah Patterson and they have two daughters, Doris Jane and Marjorie June, and live at Dennison, Ohio. Doris Wilma Dickey married Bryce Smith and they live at Deersville. Ohio, and have two children. Ralph Dwight and Elda Madeline. The Christian Church of Franklin Township holds the membership of Mr. Dickey and his wife, and they are highly regarded by the congregation.

Wabneb Phillips. In reviewing the various personal sketches appearing in this publication one can not fail to be impressed with the pleasing revelation that a goodly percentage of the representative farmers of the present day in both Carroll and Harrison counties are native sons of this favored section of the Buckeye state and scions of honored pioneer families. Such conditions apply in the case of Warner Phillips, who is one of the substantial devotees of farm industry in Washington Township, Harrison County, and who is a member of the fourth generation of the Phillips family in this county. He was bom in Washington Township. June 15, 1868, and in the same township his father, Amasa Phillips, was born on the 22d of September. 1838, a son of Joseph Phillips, who was bom in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 14, 1803. and who was twelve years of age when his parents became pioneer settlers in Washington Township. Harrison County, where he passed the remainder of his life. Joseph Phillips was one of the successful and popular teachers In the pioneer schools of this county, and in the meanwhile he carried forward the work of reclaiming a farm in Washington Township. May 9, 1833, he married Jemima Johnson, and they immediately afterward settled on the farm now owned and occupied by their son Amasa, now venerable in years. They became the parents of nine children: Comfort Ann (Mrs. Warner Rogers), Sophia. Amasa. Almeda (died in childhood), John. Elihu. Margaret, Joseph and Jemima. Joseph Phillips died April 19. 1886. and his widow passed away September 3. 1888.

Amasa Phillips was reared on the old home farm, which has continued to be his place of residence during the long Intervening years and which is one of the fine old places of Washington Township, with an area of 166 acres. He has specialized in the raising of live stock and though now venerable in years he still gives a general supervision to the affairs of his farm. He has given long and effective service as township trustee and member of the school board, is a democrat in politics and is one of the honored and influential citizens of his native township. June 5. 1862, recorded his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hogue, a daughter of the late Mark Hogue, and she passed to the life eternal on the 30th of May, 1880. Of this union were horn five children - George. Warner. Joseph. Mark and Elizabeth. February 19, 1885, Amasa Phillips wedded Mary Ellen Crouch, whose death occurred on the 30th of the following August. On the 26th of May, 1886, he married Miss Elizabeth Mears, daughter of William Mears, and they still maintain their home on the farm which was the place of his birth. They have one son. Amasa Alonzo.

The early youth of Warner Phillips found him with no dearth of demand upon his time and attention, for he assisted in the work of the home farm and made proper use of the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township. At the age of seventeen years he went to the State of Illinois, where he was employed at farm work for three years. He then returned to his native county and has ever since been actively identified with farm industry in Washington Township, where from the time of his marriage he has resided on his present well Improved farm, comprising 175 acres. He is a democrat in politics and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Westchester.

April 27, 1901, is the memorable date in the career of Mr. Phillips, since he was then united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Galbraith, who was bom in Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of William H. and Eliza (Harding) Galbraith, the former a native of Perry Township, Tuscarawas County, and the latter of Guernsey County, her parents having been Wesley and Rebecca (Carson) Harding. William H. Galbraith was one of the gallant young men who went forth in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated. He volunteered shortly after the inception of the war and, as a member of Company M, Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, he took part in the many engagements that marked the record of this valiant command, including the historic battle of Gettysburg. He continued in service until 1864, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Galbraith was a man of superior intellectuality and devoted about twenty-five years to teaching In the public schools of Ohio. His death occurred on the 13th of December. 1889. His widow still survives, and makes her home with Mrs. Simpson. They became the parents of six children - Emily Ginevra. Frank R.. John H. (died in early childhood), Rebecca Elizabeth. Harry B., and Cornelia Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two children - William Vernon and Mary Lucille.

Amasa Alonzo Phillips, only child of Amasa and Elizabeth (Mears) Phillips, and halfbrother of him whose personal sketch precedes this paragraph, was horn on the old homestead farm, in Washington Township, December 20. 1891, and he has remained continuously with his parents on the old home place, though he has taught eight terms of district school, with a record of effective and popular service in the pedagogic profession. Greater, however, was the service which he gave in connection with the nation's participation In the late World war. In July, 191S, at Camp Sherman. Ohio, he was assigned to the One Hundred and Fortyninth Hospital Unit, and eventually he was transferred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained until his discharge, in January, 1919. In May, 1918, Mr. Phillips married Miss Lucille Ross, and he now has the active management of his father's farm.

Wilson E. McGonagle. a prosperous general farmer and stockraiser of Franklin Township, has brought his farm of 155 acres into a high state of cultivation, and through his enterprising methods set a dependable example to his neighbors. He was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County. Ohio, October 10. 1862. a son of Thompson McGonagle. grandson of Thomas McGonagle, and a descendant of one of the sturdy families of Scotland, in which country the grandfather was born. Coming to the United States at an early day Thomas McGon- agle became one of the pioneers of Franklin Township, and developed Into one of its representative men. He married Mary Thompson, a daughter of Andrew Thompson, born in Ireland, and they had the following children : Thompson, Wilson, Samuel, William, Martha and Elizabeth. After the death of Thomas McGonagle, his widow married Samuel Hitchcock.

Wilson McGonagle, son of Thomas McGonagle, and uncle of Wilson E. McGonagle, served in the Union army during the war between the states as a member of the Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served for three years. On account of conspicuous bravery during the siege of Vicksburg, he was awarded a medal.

Thompson McGonagle, the father of Wilson E. McGonagle, was a farmer of Franklin Township and continued to be engaged in this line of industry until his death, which occurred in 1909. He was first married to Asenith Vickers, born In Franklin Township, a daughter of John and Eliza (Howard) Vickers, and half-sister of John and James L. Vickers, successful farmers of Franklin Township. She died in 1887, having borne her husband two children : Agnes, who died when twenty-seven years of age; and Wilson E.. whose name heads this review. After the death of his first wife. Mr. McGonagle was married to Catherine Phillips, but they had no children. For many years they were active as members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Franklin Township.

Wilson E. McGonagle received his educational training in the public schools of Peersville, Ohio. Until 1888 when he was married, Mr. McGonagle remained at home, and during that period acquired a useful fund of knowledge relative to the best methods of carrying on agricultural operations. With the exception of three years when he was away. Mr. McGonagle has lived on his present farm since 1888, and is now recognized as one of the best farmers in his neighborhood.

On September 6, 18,88. Mr. McGonagle was married to Alice White, a daughter of Joseph and Meheliah (Johnson) White, and their children are as follows: Jesse, who married Ada Birney, a farmer of the State of Wyoming; Harry L., who married Gladys Eslick, is engaged in farming with his father; and Melvin, who is at home. Mr. McGonagle belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church and his wife is a member of the Christian Church. Since January, 1918. Mr. McGonagle has served as trustee of Franklin Township. For two years he was a member of the township School Board, and for four years he was assessor of Franklin Township, proving himself as capable in public office as he has always been when conducting his private affairs, and he stands very well in public esteem.

George J. Butler. The good citizenship and the enterprise of the Butler family have been a steady growing influence in the community of Carrollton almost from the very beginning of that pioneer village. One of this notable family was the late George J. Butler, a veteran merchant and influential citizen, whose record may be trusted to remain long cherished in the hearts of his fellowraen. His life work was well done when death overtook him early in 1920, after a half a century of continuous association with his native city as a merchant. He had been in business at one location from the year 1879.

George J. Butler was born in West Main Street, Carrollton, February 10, 1849, and his life was a part of the village and city until his death on February 14, 1920.

He was a great-grandson of Rev. John George Butler, a native of Germany, who came to America when a young man and subsequently enlisted and served as a soldier in the American Revolution. After that war he gave many years of earnest and consecrated service as a minister of the Lutheran Church in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. He was a resident of Cumberland, Maryland, at the time of his death in 1823. He married a Miss Mills, and they had five sons and one daughter. The names of the sons were George William, Paul, Gideon, George Whitefleld and Jonathan.

George Whitefleld Butler, representing the second generation of the family in America, and the founder of the honored nil me in Carroll County, was born and reared in Maryland, and at the age of twenty-five came to Ohio and at Carrollton established the first tannery in Carroll County, his enterprise being an important' asset and a stimulus to the industrial character of the pioneer village. This tannery was conducted by him for a number of years. He also bought land and developed and improved several farm properties In the vicinity of Carrollton. Before coming to Ohio he had served as a lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment in the War of 1812. Many years later he was postmaster at Carrollton during the Civil war. He died in 1873 and his wife in 1868. All of their twelve children are now deceased. Their names in order of birth were Washington, Franklin, Jonathan, Morgan, Lafayette. George. Adams, Amanda, who became Mrs. Miles O'Connor. Harriet, who was Mrs. Benjamin B. Moore. Elizabeth, Cynthia Ann and Jefferson. Of those to grow up only Washington remained a resident of Carroll County to the end of his life.

Washington Butler was born at Carrollton April 6. 1819, and obtained the education of a pioneer village. His associations were with his father's tannery until he was elected to the office of county auditor. He filled that position for two terms and afterwards for many years was deputy auditor. In partnership with L. D. Rowley he embarked in 1864 in the mercantile business at Carrollton, was a dealer in men's furnishing goods and also a merchant tailor. He continued In business until his death in April, 1883. at the age of sixty-four. Washington Butler was an uncompromising republican and was a delegate to the national convention which nominated General Grant for President in 1872. Washington Butler married Susanna Van Buskirk, who survived him many years and passed away June 6. 1905. at the age of seventy-nine. He had seven children : William F., of whom more Is said on other pages of this publication; Ann Elizabeth, who died the widow of James W. Cellars, of Carrollton ; George J. ; Mary F.. who was married to Rev. Absalom T.

Aller and they removed to Kansas; Marshal J., widow of George H. Aller, of Carrollton, Carroll County; Joseph C., whose record also finds place elsewhere in this publication; and Harry Sumner, now deceased. The latter, long identified with the mercantile establishment of his brother, George, was born January 12, 1864, and as a youth had the distinction of being the first newsboy at Carrollton, distributing Cleveland and Cincinnati papers. He married in 1886 Miss Mary Morris and was the father of one child.

George J. Butler acquired a substantial common school education at Carrollton. In 1868 he became a clerk in the drygoods store of James Huston. This store was in the building now occupied by the Carrollton Laundry. During 1869 he again attended school at Carrollton, and In 1870 began work as clerk in the general store of Isaac Crumrine. Mr. Crumrine had one store in the present City Laundry Building and another in the old McCook Building. It was in the latter establishment that Mr. Butler was employed. In 1879 he bought the business, and thereafter for forty-one years until his death he kept it one of the most progressive and popular of the general mercantile establishments of the city.

The late Mr. Butler gave an unwavering allegiance to the republican party. His good citizenship was attested by the ability with which he filled such offices as city treasurer, city councilman, and member of the Board of Education. . He and his wife were both active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

April 26, 1873. Mr. Butler married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Skeeles. She was born in Tuscarawas County. Ohio, daughter of Maj. David and Rhuhama Skeeles. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Butler is Gertrude A. She is the wife of Paul H. Kemerer. formerly business manager of the Carrollton Freepress Standard, and now one of the owners of the Western Lyceum Bureau at Waterloo. Iowa. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Kemerer are Elizabeth, Alice Delo. George Duncan and Virginia Ruth. Elizabeth Kemerer is now the wife of Vance T. Grimes of Claysville. Pennsylvania, and their son. Vance T., Jr., is the only great-grandchild of Mrs. Butler.

George J. Butler died after a brief illness. There has been a tangible vacancy in the business community where he functioned for so many years. His friends and associates admired not only his success but also the regularity and methodical promptness and faithfulness, the best evidence of his love for his work. It is said that he was at his place of business 313 days in the year. Personally he was quiet and unassuming, and outside business hours his life was lived for his home and family and the public honors bestowed upon him were not of his own seeking. He was liberal to church and charity, but his real generosity was expressed in many unremembered acts of love that were unknown even to his most intimate friends. Mr. Butler owned one of the finest homes in the city, and he had long realized the worthy ambition to provide well for his family.

Samuel B. Boor. As president of the First National Bank of Bowerston, Harrison County, and as proprietor of a well equipped hardware, tinning and furnace establishment, Mr. Boor has secure status as one of the representative business men and influential citizens of the thriving village that figures as the place of his birth, with the civic and business history of which the name of the Boor family has been identified since the pioneer days, besides which, on the maternal side, he is a representative of the family in whose honor Bowerston was named.

Samuel B. Boor was bom at Bowerston on the 17th of January, 1875, and is a son of William Henry Boor and Mary M. (Bower) Boor, whose marriage was solemnized on the IStb of December, 1855. It is specially interesting to record that the parents continued to reside until their death in the house which became their abode, at Bowerston. at the time of their marriage. William Henry Boor was bora in a log cabin in North Township, this county, on the 8th of March. 1835, and was the sixth in order of birth in the family of eleven children born to Michael and Caroline (Barantz) Boor, the former of whom was born near Carlisle. Pennsylvania, February 5, 1S97, and the latter near Harrisburg, that state, on the 10th of September. 1802, her parents having come from Germany to the old Keystone state in the pioneer days, as did also the parents of Michael Boor. About the year 1830 Michael Boor came with his family through the wilderness that extended most of the distance between Pennsylvania and Ohio, and after arriving in Harrison County the family home was maintained in North Township for several years. In the late '30s Michael Boor established his residence at Bowerston, where for a quarter of a century thereafter he operated a grist mill. He then became a pioneer farmer in Van Wert County. Ohio, but in 1855 he removed to DeKalb County, Indiana, and resumed his association with the milling business. Eventually he located on a farm in Defiance County, Ohio, and there his death occurred in 1867. his widow having long survived him and having been venerable in years at the time of her death.

William Henry Boor was reared under the conditions that marked the pioneer period in the history of Harrison County, and when about sixteen years of age he entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of blacksmith. In January, 1855, he rented a shop and engaged independently In the work of his trade at Bowerston. where he followed this vocation until the Civil war caused him to subordinate all personal interests and to tender his aid in defense of the Fnion. On the 13th of August, 1862. he enlisted in Company C. One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he proceeded with his command into West Virginia. He took part in the various engagements in which his regiment was involved, up to and including the historic battle of the Wilderness* in which he received a gunshot wound in the left shoulder. This injury, from which he never fully recovered, incapacitated him until November, 1864. when he rejoined his regiment at the front and participated in the two battles at Petersburg. He was present at the final surrender and was with the Sixth Army Corps when that command was sent forth in pursuit of General Johnston. He took part in the Grand Review in the City of Washington, where he was mustered out, and after returning to Ohio he received his honorable discharge, at Columbus. After returning home Mr. Boor continued to follow his trade, at Bowerston, until 1884, when he turned the active management of the business over to one of his sons. Thereafter he gave his attention to his undertaking and furniture business until about the year 1890, subsequently to which time he lived virtually retired, though he continued to give a general supervision to his farm property, near Bowerston, until his death, in October, 1917, his wife having passed away in 1898. Mrs. Boor was born in Monroe Township, near Bowerston, and was a daughter of Henry Bower, a member of the representative pioneer family in whose honor Bowerston was named. Mr. Boor was a staunch republican, and though he never sought public oflice he gave long and effective service as constable and as a member of the municipal board of trustees of Bowerston. He was a charter member of R. M. Lyon Post, No. 405, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he served as commander, besides holding the office of post chaplain for two years, and he was also a charter member of and influential figure in the local tent of the Knights of the Maccabees. Mr. Boor was the virtual founder of the United Brethren Church at Bowerston, has supervision of the erection of the church building and long held official j>osition In this church, of which he and his wife were zealous and honored members for fully forty years prior to their death. They became the parents of thirteen children, of whom six sons and three daughters are living at the time of this writing, in 1921.

Samuel B. Boor is indebted to the public schools of Bowerston for his early education, and as a youth he learned the tinner's trade, as well as gaining a thorough knowledge of the furnace business. In 1899 he became associated with his brother. D. William, in the purchase of their father's furniture and undertaking business, and two years later he purchased his brother's Interest in this enterprise. In the spring of 1901 he sold the business to William Arbaugh, and in the meanwhile he had been continuously an interested principal in a hardware. tinning and furnace business in his native village. To this latter enterprise he gave his attention about three years, and thereafter he was again associated with his brother in the undertaking business until June. 1917, when he sold his interest to his brother. Since 1901 he has conducted a well equipped general hardware, tinning and furnace establishment at Bowerston. and the substantial and representative patronage Indicates alike the effectiveness of service given by and the personal popularity of the proprietor. In 1904 Mr. Boor became one of the organizers and incorporators of the First National Bank of Bowerston. and he has served continuously as a director of this institution since 1905. In 1914 he w'as elected vice president of the bank, and since 191G he has served as its president, his careful executive policies having done much to further the prosperity of this substantial and well ordered institution.

The political allegiance of Mr. Boor is given unreservedly to the republican party and his civic loyalty has been showm in effective service as clerk of Monroe Township, a position of which he wras the incumbent two terms; by two terms of service as a member of the village council ; and by effective connection with the Board of Education, of which he has been a member since 1912. At Bowerston Mr. Boor holds membership in the organization of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees; at Leesville, Carroll County, he is affiliated with the Ixxige of Free and Accepted Masons and the adjunct chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, of w'hich he is serving as worthy patron at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1920. At Uhrlchsville, Tuscarawas County, his Masonic affiliations are amplified by his membership in Cyrus Chapter, No. 114. Royal Arch Masons; Gebel Council, No. 56, Royal and Select Masters; and Saint Bernard Commandery, No. 51, Knights Templar. He and his wife are zealous members of the United Brethren Church at Bow'erston. and he has served as a member of its Board of Trustees for nearly a quarter of a century.

In June. 1901, wTas solemnized the marriage of Mr. Boor to Miss Nellie May Albaugh, daughter of William J. and Mary Albaugh, of Bowerston. and the one child of this union is William A., who w*ns born April 8, 1911.

Da niki. J. Little, one of the substantial farmers of Carroll County, ow*ns a fine farm of 160 acres in Rose Tow'nship. which he has brought into a high state of cultivation. He is a son of D* niel and Rosanna (Mow*e) Little, m l a grandson of Mathias Little. wTho came to Ameri from Switzerland in 1809 with his wife, Barbara, and four children, and first located on a small farm near Carrollton, Ohio. Later he moved to Morges, Rose Tow'nship. and was engaged in farming and working at his trade as a tinker. Still later he owmed a small farm near Lindentree, Rose Township, and there he died in 1840, and is buried at Morges. His wife died in 1856.

Daniel Little was the youngest of his parents' children, and one of his brothers is Frank Little, of Stark County. Ohio. Another brother is Christian Little, of Cedar Rapids. Iowa. One sister. Barbara, now Mrs. John Wagner, lives in Carroll County, Ohio, and the other, Susan Newport, of Owen County, Indiana. Growing up on bis father's farm. Dmiel Little attended the public schools of Carrollton and Morges during the winter months, and adopted farming as his life w'ork. He and his wife had six children, namely: Rebecca, who is Mrs. Hoobler. has three sons and tw'o daughters; Mrs. Sarah Davy, who lived in Rose Township where she died in 1919, has three daughters and one son ; James Harvey, wTho died in 1891 at the age of forty; Marion, who died at the age of thirty-six years; I. Wilkes, who lives in Stark County ; and Daniel J., whose name heads this review. The father of this family died in Rose Township, where he had always resided, in 1905, the mother having passed away in 1889.

Daniel J. Little attended District School No. 2, in Rose Township, during the winter months until he was twenty years old, and in the summertime assisted his father with the work on the farm. On September 2, 1886, he was married to Molly E. Finefrock, a daughter of Emanuel and Rebecca Jane (Robertson) Finefrock, of Rose Township. Following his marriage Mr. Little rented a farm of eighty acres in Rose Township for eighteen months, and then moved to another eighty-acre farm one mile north of the first one. In 1888 he bought this latter farm, and lived on it until 1910. when he bought his present one, on which he has since lived. On September 22. 1920, he sold his first farm at a fair profit. All the time he has been farming he has raised a general line of crops, and has been very successful. He is a democrat, and very staunch in his support of his party. The Lutheran Church of Rose Township holds his membership.

married Sarah Jones of Harrison Township, has one child, Irvin Daniel: Verna May, who is Mrs. George Borland of Harrison Township, has one child, Ralph Howard: Ralph Forest, who married Nannie Dunlap, of Magnolia, Ohio, has one son. Roy Donald : and Donald Wilbur, who is now at home. Forest was drafted Into the United States Army in September, 1918, at Carrollton, Ohio, and sent to Camp Sherman, Infer to Camp Cole, at Gettysburg. Pennsylvania, and three weeks later was transferred to Camp Dix. New Jersey. After three weeks in the last named camp, he was returned to Camp Sherman, and honorably discharged.

Oliver J. Davis has resided since the year 1910 on his present farm of eighty acres, in Monroe Township, Carroll County, the place being situated seven miles southwest of Carrollton on rural mail route No. 4 from that city. He is known as one of the enterprising farmers and loyal and progressive citizens of his native township and county, and is here a representative of the third generation of the family, his grandfather. George Davis, having been one of the substantial pioneer farmers of Carroll County and having here remained until his death. The elder of his two children was David, father of Oliver J.. of this sketch.

Oliver Jackson Davis was born in Monroe Townshjp. this county. In the year 1874. and is a son of David and Margaret (Pittenger) Davis. David Davis was born June 5. 1880, in Monroe Township and passed his entire life in Carroll County, where lie paid close allegiance to farm industrv from the time of his youth until his death, which occurred March 10, 1919. his wife having passed to the life eternal in December. 1914. Oliver J. Davis was the third of their four children. The parents were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church and the father

The district schools of his native township afforded Oliver J. Davis his early educational advantages, and when a mere boy he began to aid in the work of the home farm, In which connection he learned the lessons of practical industry and came to place true value upon honest toil and endeavor. At the age of eighteen years he varied his experience by finding employment in a saw mill, and with this line of industrial operations he continued his association at intervals until 1906. His independent farm enterprise was initiated by his renting a farm of seventy acres, in Monroe Township, where he remained three years. He then, in 1910, purchased and removed to his present farm, which he has since continued the stage of his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. Mr. Davis pays allegiance to the republican party and takes loyal interest in community affairs, though he has manifested no desire for political activity or public office. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Leavittsville.

In the year 1906 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davis to Miss Mary M. Brower, daughter of Israel and Rebecca (Rutledge) Brower, of Monroe Township, and the four children of this union are Dora Ann, David Israel. Wilbur Evan and Helen Nancy.

Vallandigham May. As a class the farmers of Carroll County are way beyond the average both as to methods and production, and among those who are maintaining this commendable prestige none stands higher than Vallandigham May. owner of 102 acres of valuable land in Rose Township. He was born in Rose Township. March 24, 1873. a son of James B. and Catherine (Bowers) May. The paternal grandfather was born in Ireland, but came to the United States in an early day and located in Pennsylvania, where he was first engaged in hauling merchandise from Pitsburgh to Philadelphia and back again. In those days horses and wagons were used and on one occasion he hauled a four-horse load of money, gold and silver put up in bags. He later became a farmer and continued his agricultural operations after he moved to Rose Township, where ho died. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Bailley, also died in this township. They had five sons and three daughters, of whom James B. May was the youngest, and he lived on his father's homestead until he retired. His death occurred September 9. 1918, and his wife passed away August 10. 1.898. Of their family of five sons and two daughters. Vallandigham is the eldest.

Until he was seventeen years old Vallandighani May attended District School No. 4. Rose Township, dining the winter months, and then became self-supi>orting. assisting his father in operating the homestead of 147 acres of land, working for the neighbors, and helping with threshing, saw-milling, and other tasks in order to get a start in life. After he was married he rented fifty acres of the home farm, and while conducting it, also worked in the coal mines at

Lindentree, Ohio. Still later he spent four years as a coal miner and machine boss for L. Davis R» R. Mining Company at Hoff's Run. A thrifty man, he saved his money and in 1909 was able to buy his present farm of 102 acres, and since then has devoted himself to its cultivation. A hard worker, he has made many improvements upon his farm and takes a pride in keeping everything in good order. He has many warm friends.

In 1899 Mr. May was united in marriage with Anna Dieringer, a daughter of Augustus and Elizabeth (Docker) Dieringer, of German stock. Mr. and Mrs. May have two children, namely: William Ambrose and Lyle Dieringer, both of whom are at home.

During the late war Grover C. May. a younger brother of Mr. May, entered the United States Army at Carrollton, Ohio, as a member of the First Remount Squadron, Three Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, and served overseas in France.

McKinney V. Gault now resides in the Village of Germano, German Township, Harrison County, but still gives a general supervision to his farm properties in this township, which has represented his home from the time of his birth. On both the paternal and maternal sides he is a scion of sterling pioneer families of Harrison County, and one of his sons represented the county as a gallant young soldier with the American Expeditionary Forces In France in the great World war. In which he sacrificed his life, as will be more definitely noted in a later paragraph.

Mr. Gault was born in German Township on the 6th of February, 1868. and is a son of George M. and Lucinda (Betz) Gault, whose marriage was solemnized October 28, 1849. George M. Gault was bom in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 24. 1826, and was a son of John and Nancy (McKinney) Gault, both likewise natives of the old Keystone state. John Gault did not become an early settler in Harrison County. Ohio, but the county had not yet emerged from pioneer conditions at the time when he established himself as a farmer in German Township, where he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths, both having been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children - George M.. Eliza. Mary and Margaret. John Gault was a miller by vocation in the earlier part of his career in his native county (Washington) in Pennsylvania, whence he came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1837. the remainder of his active life having been given to farming.

George M. Gault was about ten years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood in German Township. That he made good use of the educational advantages afforded him. is shown by the fact that as a young man he was a successful teacher in the district schools, in both Harrison and Jefferson counties. He was a man of energy and ambition, achieved precedence as one of the substantial farmers of German Township, where he accumulated a valuable property of more than 200 acres, and no citizen commanded higher place in popular confidence and good will. He served as township trustee and Justice of the peace, was influential in public affairs in the community* and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Lucinda (Betz) Gault was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 10th of January, 1830, and was a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Viers) Betz. William Betz was born in Northumberland County Pennsylvania, November 8, 1778, and his early education included Instruction in both English and German. April 22, 1812, recorded his marriage to Elizabeth Viers, who was born August 2, 1795, and they were numbered among the early settlers of German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he and his wife were honored pioneer citizens at the time of their deaths. As a young man Mr. Betz was a successful school teacher, and he served six months under General Harrison in the Mexican war, after having established his home in Ohio. William and Elizabeth (Viers) Betz became the parents of seven children - Rebecca, Eliza. Permilia. Margaret Eve, Lucinda, Brice Edington and John McCourtney. Mr. Betz died on the 3d of April, 1881, his wife having passed away June 6, 1863.

George M. Gault was about seventy-nine years of age at the time of his death and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-three years. They became the parents of five children : John and Lauretta are deceased; lantha is the wife of William J. Whigham, of Carroll County; William V. is deceased; and McKinney V., of this review, is the youngest of the number.

McKinney V. Gault found his chllrfhood and youth compassed by the invigorating influences of the home farm, and his early educational advantages were those offered in the district schools of German Township. His entire active career has been marked by association with progressive farm industry in his native township, where he Is now the owner of 177% acres (in separate tracts) and where he still maintains supervision of the various details of farm enterprise. though he and his wife have resided in the Village of Germano since the year 1906. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano, in which he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees.

June 12, 1890. recorded the marriage of Mr. Gault to Miss Cora Davidson, daughter of Cicero and Mary (O'Connell) Davidson, of Jefferson County. Of this union have been born five children - Wilma C., Rose D.. George M.t Arthur L. and John Cw all of whom are living except George M. Wilma O. is the wife of John W. Kohler. Rose D. married McCoy Benedict, and became the mother of two children, Kenneth and Eileen, of whom, the former is deceased. Her second marriage was to Frank Johnson, of Tuscarawas County.

after having been stationed seven weeks at Camp Gordon, and on the 21st of July, 1918, he embarked on the trans]K>rt that conveyed him to France, where he was assigned to the Fifty-ninth Machine Gun Battalion of the Fourth Division of the American Expeditionary Forces. He arrived at the front on the 15th of September, 1918, had his full share of the heavy and hazardous service thus implied, and after the signing of the historic armistice he became a part of the allied army of occupation in Germany. There he was attacked with bronchial pneumonia, was sent to an American hospital, and his death there occurred four days later, on the 4th of December, 1918. The name of George M. Gault has place on the honor roll of Ohio's gallant young men who thus made the supreme sacrifice in connection with the nation's participation in the World war.

William J. Caldwell is, with all of consistency, to be designated as one of the representative exponents of farming in German Township, Harrison County, where he has maintained his residence since 1909 and w'here he is the owner of a fine farm of 235 acres, this being the effective stage of his progressive and well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stockgrower.

William James Caldwell was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 23d of May, 1885, and is a son of William T. and Mary E. (Price) Caldwell, the latter a daughter of James and Nancy (Williams) Price and a granddaughter of the late James Price, who was a prosperous farmer in Belmont County for many years prior to his death. James Price and his wife were active members of the Uhited Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which they reared their three children - John, Luther and Mary E. William T. Caldwell was born In Richland Township, Belmont County, where he and his wife still maintain their home and where he has long been numbered among the representative farmers of Wheeling Township, both he and his wife being members of the Presbyterian Church, as were also his parents, William and Mary J. (Bell) Caldwell, who were honored pioneers of Belmont County, where the father became a successful farmer, he having been a native of Ireland. William and Mary J. (Bell) Caldwell became the parents of eleven children, and the names of those who attained to years of maturity are here noted: John, Patrick B., Jennie, Anna, Robert

B. . William T., George A. and Sarah. William T. Caldwell is the owner of an excellent farm of 160 acres and is one of the prominent citizens of Wheeling Township. Belmont County, where he and his wife are zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church at Cniontown. To them have been born ten children - Colena (died in young womanhood), Mary B. (Mrs. Charles H. Campbell), Nancy (Mrs. Frederick

To the district schools of his native township Is William J. Caldwell indebted for his early education, and he continued thereafter to be associated with the work of his father's farm until he assumed connubial responsibilities and established a home of his own. After his marriage, in 1909. he and his wife established their residence on their present fine homestead farm, and here he has had no difficulty in maintaining prestige as one of the enterprising and successful representatives of agricultural and livestock industry in Harrison County, the while he and his wife have secure place in the confidence and esteem of their home community. They hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in the neighboring Village of Annapolis, Jefferson County, and in politics he is aligned in the ranks of the Democratic party.

On the 25th of November, 1909. was recorded the marriage of Mr. Caldwell to Miss Katharine Armstrong, daughter of John and Martha (Trussed) Armstrong, of Belmont County, no children having been born of this union.

Samuel D. Henry. Harrison County, Ohio, enjoys a well deserved reputation as a great agricultural district because of the fertility of the soil, which has been splendidly developed through the efforts and enterprise of such progressive farmers as Samuel D. Henry, who for years has been engaged in agricultural operations in this county.

Mr. Henry was born in Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, September 4, 1875. He is a son of Mathew and Elizabeth (Miller) Henry, the former born in Washington County, this state, and the latter in Stock Township. Harrison County. His mother is a daughter of Rossel and Carrie Miller.