Harrison Township (part 31 of 37)

The son Charles was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1799, gained his early education in his native land and was a vigorous youth of seventeen years when he accompanied his parents to the United States and loyally girded himself to bear his share of the burdens and responsibilities of the pioneer farm in the forest wilds of Ohio. In 1820 he wedded Miss Margery Brooks, who was born in Ireland, about the year 1800, and who was sixteen years of age when she came to America. After his marriage Charles Fawcett remained on the old homestead farm, in Union Township, until 1857, when he removed with his family to Iowa and became one of the pioneer settlers and farmers of Cedar County, where he remained until his death, in 1873, his widow surviving until 1882 and both having been consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Fawcett was originally a whig in politics but united with the republican party at the time of its organization and ever afterward was a staunch supporter of its cause. Prior to his removal to Iowa he has served several years as justice of the peace in Union Township. His children were eleven in number: Nancy Grace, John, Dr. Henry. Letta (Mrs. Kneen), Rebecca (Mrs. Butler), Alexander A., Dr. Charles, Dorinda (Mrs. Teter), Thomas, Margery (Mrs. Moore), and James. Of the sons Thomas and James served as soldiers of the Union in the Civil war. and Alexander A.

Alexander Armstrong Fawcett was born in Union Township, Carroll County, May 16, 1829, and was there reared to manhood under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days. He remained on the old home farm until his marriage, in 1855, on the 1st of February of which year Miss Ellen Kneen became his wife, she having been born in Loudon Township, this county, in September, 1829, a daughter of William and Mary (Kenyon) Kneen, natives of the Isle of Man. William Kneen and his wife came to the United States about 1820, and upon coming to Ohio they first located in Cleveland. Later they removed to the vicinity of New Rumley, Harrison County, whence they shortly afterward came to the present Carroll County, where, about the year 1825, Mr. Kneen purchased a slightly improved farm of 165 acres, in Loudon Township. For this property, in section 7, he paid $500. He reclaimed and developed the farm and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. In their declining years they were cared for with earnest solicitude by their daughter Ella. Mrs. Ella Fawcett was born on the homestead farm, as were also all of her children, and here she died in April, 1906, her husband passing away in May of the previous year and the memories of both being revered in the community in which they long lived and wrought to goodly ends, their religious faith having been that of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Fawcett having been a republican in politics. Of the children the firstborn was Mary, who be came the wife of J. W. Reed and who died when a young woman; William C. is a civil engineer by profession and now resides at Martin's Ferry, Belmont County; Ella and John H. remain on the old home farm, in the ownership of which they are associated with their brother William C. ; and Flora Is the wife of Harvey H. Cogsil, a prosperous farmer in Loudon Township.

John Henry Fawcett, to whom this review is dedicated, was born on the farm which Is his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was April 21, 1864. After having attended the district schools he continued his studies two years in Harlem College and one year in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. When twenty-five years of age he went to Iowa, where he visited for some time with kinsfolk and thence, in company with his sister Ella, he went to Los Angeles, California, in which state they remained a few months. In the following year they again went to that state, and on this occasion remained nine months. After his marriage, which occurred in 1892. he and his wife maintained their home at Kilgore, Carroll County, about three years, during the major part of which time he was clerk in a mercantile establishment Thereafter he assisted in the management of his father's home farm and then moved to another farm owned by his father in Loudon Township. After the death of his mother he returned to the old farm upon which he was born, and here he has since remained, as one of the progressive agriculturists and stockgrowers of his native county. As before stated, he is associated with his brother William C. and sister Ella in the ownership of this fine farm of 160 acres. He is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and has been active in public affairs in Loudon Township, where he served two terms as township treasurer, where he has been township trustee since 1918, and where he has represented the township as a member of the County Board of Education from the time of its organization. He is affiliated with Kilgore Lodge No. 342, Knights of Pythias, and is an active and valued member of Kilgore Grange, in which he holds the office of overseer in 1921. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore, and he is serving as a steward of the same.

February 25. 1892. recorded the marriage of Mr. Fawcett to Miss Mary Smith, who was born at Kilgore, this county, a daughter of John H. and Emma J. (Stenger) Smith, natives of Loudon Township and representatives of old and honored families of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett have two children, Ralph S. and Lucile, both of whom remain at the parental home. Ralph S. gives much of his time to his technical service as a driller of oil wells for the American Gas Company. He married Miss Minnie Wile, and they have two sons. James Wendell and John Kenneth.

It is worthy of mention that Mr. Fawcett has marked talent as a musician, ns a skilled player on the cornet. He initiated his career as a member of a band when he was but fifteen years old, and since that time has been a member of several different bands organized in his native county. Since 1900 he has been the lender of the Kilgore Band, in which his son plays the slide trombone, his daughter the E-flat bass, while William Shearer, a partner of Ralph S. Fawcett in drilling oil wells, plays the baritone horn in this band, which has attained to a high degree of proficiency.

Peter K. Herstine has developed a valuable farm in Rose Township of Carroll County and is recognized ns one of the leading representatives of the agricultural class In that section.

He was born in Fairfield Township, Tuscarawas County. Ohio. October 13, 1856, son of Joseph Triver and Rachel (Kollar) Herstine. The family was an old established one in Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania. The grandparents were Abraham and Catherine (Zimmerman) Herstine. who were married in Westmoreland County and were the parents of five daughters and three sons. When Joseph Triver Herstine was five years of age the family moved to Tuscarawas County and later to Owen County. Indiana. Joseph T. Herstine died in December, 1903, and his wife on March 19. 1908.

Peter Iv. Herstine acquired his early education in the public schools of Owen and Clay counties. Indiana, and when he was nineteen the family returned to Tuscarawas County, where he attended several winter terms of school in Fairfield Township until he was twenty-two. He also assisted on the farm and on March 27, 1891, he married Emma Magdalena Worner, daughter of James Christopher and Catherine (Wertz) Worner, of Fairfield Township. Her father was thirteen years of age when his parents came from Wuertemberg. Germany, and settled in Tuscarawas County, where he married and where he died February 23. 1909, Mrs. Herstine's mother passing away September 13, 1913. She was the oldest of three sons and five daughters, all of whom are living. Mrs. Herstine attended the Possum Hollow School until she was sixteen, and was twenty-nine when she married.

After his marriage Mr. Herstine located on a sixty-acre farm adjoining his present home, and was a renter there for nine years. He made progress, supported his family and accumulated the means which enabled him to purchase his present farm of forty-five acres. He took the land comparatively undeveloped, built a good home, and has been doing well ever since. He is a carpenter by trade, and that occupation has fitted in well with his farming enterprise, enabling him to keep busy practically the entire year. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church and he is Independent In politics. Mr. and Mrs. Herstine have two children : Leona Idella and Glen wood Harold, both at home.

Charles W. Simmons passed his entire life In Carroll County, save for the period of his gallant and patriotic service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and he was a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this now opulent and progressive section of the Buckeye State. Mr. Simmons was born in Loudon Township, this county, on the 24th of November, 1841. and he passed the closing years of his life on his well improved farm in Lee Township, this county, where his death occurred January 5, 1918. He was a son of William and Elizabeth (Albaugh) Simmons, the former of whom was born near Hagerstown. Maryland, December 3. 1795. and the latter August 11, 1800, a daughter of John Peter and Leah (Cook) Albaugh. who were numbered among the sterling pioneers of what is now Carroll County, Ohio. William Simmons was a lad of about ten years when he accompanied his older brothers. John, Adam and Jacob, to Ohio, and here he remained in the home of his brother Adam until he had attained to his legal majority. In March, 1820, he married Miss Elizabeth Albaugh, and they established their home on an embryonic farm of 155 acres which he had previously purchased, in Loudon Township. Carroll County. The young couple had as their domicile a log cabin of the true pioneer type, and with the passing years Mr. Simmons reclaimed much of his land from the forest and developed a productive farm. On this old homestead he remained until his death, December 22, 1876, his widow having passed away February 1, 1883, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mr. Simmons having been a staunch republican In politics. They became the parents of eight children - Levi, Mary, John, Sarah, Matilda, Eliza, Charles W. and Jacob. Charles W. Simmons was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the common schools of the locality and period. He represented Carroll County as a soldier of the Union during the closing period of the Civil war. On the 14th of February. 1865, he enlisted as a private in Company A. One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment commanded by Col. Thomas E. Welds, while James E. Phelps was captain of Company A. The command was assigned to an independent brigade of the First and Second Divisions, Department of the Cumberland, and Mr. Simmons accompanied his regiment In turn to Murfreesboro, and Cleveland, Tennessee; Dalton, Georgia, from which latter point it proceeded to Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the 10th of May. In that locality the regiment remained until July 20, when it moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he continued to be stationed until September 19, when it was ordered to Columbus, Ohio, where Mr. Simmons received his honorable discharge on that date, his services having thus continued for several months after the surrender of Generals Lee and Johnston. In later years he vitalized the associations of his military career by his appreciative affiliation with the post of the Grand Army of the Republic then maintained at Harlem Springs, Carroll County, nearly all of the comrades of this post having now passed away, so that the organization has lapsed.

After the close of the war Mr. Simmons resumed his active association with farm enterprise in Carroll County, and after his marriage. in 1SS3, he resided on his well improved farm of eighty acres, in Lee Township, until his deafh, his widow still remaining on this place and their sons having active management of the same. Mr. Simmons erected the substantial buildings on this farm, including the attractive house, and here he continued his successful activities as on agriculturist and stock-grower until the close of his life. A man of inviolable integrity In all of the relations of life, he commanded secure place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew him, and his influence In community affairs was ever benignant and helpful. He was a staunch republican and he served several terms as trustee of Lee Township. He had served also as a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. of which his widow likewise Is an earnest member.

On the 12th of August, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Simmons to Miss Ellen Hosterman, who likewise was bom and reared in Carroll County, and who Is a daughter of the late Peter and Rebecca (Hibbs) Hosterman. Of the children of this union the eldest was Mary, who was born May 20, 1884, and whose death occurred April 27, 1917. She became the wife of Oscar Shepard and Is survived by four children - Harold. Ellen, Earl and Joseph. William, who resides at Carrollton, the county seat, married Miss Jessie Brooks and their only child. Martha Marie, died in early childhood. Frederick, of Lee Township, married Miss May McIntyre and they have one daughter, Pauline. Bert F., likewise associated with farm industry in Lee Township, married Miss Ruby Cogsil and they have one child, Mary. Jesse and Earl remain with their widowed mother on the old home farm and have active charge of its operations. Jesse was in the nation's military service in the late World war. as a private in the Ninety-first Division, which was called into active service overseas. After the close of the war he received his honorable discharge, in

Hugh Milton Rinehabt, one of the substantial farmers of Rose Township, has earned the right to be considered one of the prosperous agriculturists of Carroll County, and his fine farm of 115 acres shows the result of his practical knowledge and hard work. He was bom in Rose Township, May 7, 1864, a son of George and Harriet (Wall) Rinehart, of Pennsylvania- German stock, and grandson of David Rinehart, who was bom in Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania, and was a farmer. He married Elizabeth Snyder and they came to Ohio, locating on a farm near Waynesburg, Stark County, his father, Valentine Rinehart, accompanying them. Subsequently David Rinehart moved to Rose Township and settled in the woods two miles south of Magnolia, where he built a log hut. in which the family lived for a time. There were four sons and two daughters in the grandparents' family, of whom George Rinehart was the eldest. Mrs. Rinehart died April 5, 1896, her husband having died in 1891. He was lK>rn June 12, 1816, and they were married June 3, 1837.

George Rinehart resided in Rose Township until 1882, when he moved to Sumner County, Kansas. By his first marriage he had three sons and one daughter, namely: David Oliver, who lives at Ford, Kansas, is married and engaged in farming; John Elmer, who lives at Canton, Ohio, married Eva Minckley, and they have two sons and two daughters; Hugh Milton. who was the next in order of birth; and Sarah Elizabeth, who Is Mrs. John Parks of Kansas, has two sons and two daughters. There were two sons and one daughter bom of the second marriage of George Rinehart.

During the winter terms until he was nineteen years old, Hugh Milton Rinehart attended District School No. 9, in Rose Township, and took one summer course at the Magnolia Normal School. During the remainder of the year until he left school, he worked on either his grandfather's farm, or that of his Uncle James Rinehart, and then began working for neighboring farmers as a farm hand, and was so engaged until 1881. Going back to his grandfather's farm, he remained on it for a year.

On February 4, 1886, Mr. Rinehart was married to Rosa Belle Finefrock, a daughter of George and Belinda (Worley) Finefrock, of Sandy Township. Stark County, Ohio, of Pennsylvania-German stock. The grandfather John Finefrock married Elizabeth Harple, and they had four daughters and five sons. The members of the family for many generations have been farmers and stockbuyers. Mr. Finefrock. father of Mrs. Rinehart, died at Waynesburg. Ohio, at the age of seventy-four, and her mother died in April, 1886, aged fifty- four years. Mrs. Rinehart attended school at Waynesburg until she was sixteen years of age. and then remained at home until she was married.

After his marriage Mr. Rinehart bought eighty-two acres of land in Rose Township, and lived on that farm for thirty-three years, when he moved on the R. P. Beatty farm of 115 acres in October, 1919, and is now carrying on general farming and specializing in raising Shorthorn blooded stock cattle. This farm is one of the best Improved in the county, the buildings being splendidly adapted for their several purposes, and furnished with electric lights and other modern improvements. A republican, Mr. Rinehart is active In his party, and was elected trustee of Rose Township for six years, in .a strongly democratic township, and has also served on the School Board. The Lutheran Church of Waynesburg holds his membership.

Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart have three children, namely: Ema Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Domer, of Waynesburg, has four children, - L. Gidbert, L. Milton, Eileen and Ivan Francis, and one who died in April, 1918, at the age of eighteen months, little George Arthur; Sarah Olive, who married Harvey E. Sherer of Magnolia, has two children, - Hugh George and John Glenwood; and George William, who married Jessie Olive DeFord, August 15, 1920, and lives with his parents.

George William Rinehart attended the district schools of Rose Township and the Magnolia High School. On July 24, 1918, he was called to the service under the selective draft, at Carrollton. and sent to Camp Sherman, where he was placed in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, and trained as such for a month, when he was transferred to Company B, Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Machine Gun, Eighty-fourth Division, In which he was a buck private. He was then sent to Camp Mills, Long Island, for a week, and then sailed for Quebec, Canada, on Labor Day, on an English ship, and landed at Liverpool, England, with a convoy of twenty-two tvessels. From Southampton, England, the unit sailed for Havre, France, where three days were spent, following which five days were taken up with a trip to Bordeaux, where they arrived October 29, 1918. He, with the rest of his command, was sent to the training area and transferred to Company A, Thirteenth Machine Gun Corps, and he was under fire all through the Argonne campaign until the signing of the armistice. He was also under shell fire in the Meuse engagement and becoming sick was sent to the hospital. After he recovered he was sent to London, and from there to different points in France. Transferred to the Fifth Military Police, he was sent to Arlen, Belgium, and then to Esche, Luxemburg, on police force there, and he was placed on detached duty, and remained in that principality until in March, 1919, when he was transferred to Trier, Germany. Two days later he left for Savoy, France, and finally sailed on the "Ryndam." hospital ship, June 19, 1919, and landed in New York City. June 29. For four days he was at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and was then returned to Camp Sherman, and mustered out July 9, 1919. as a first-class private and returned home. He is a member of Waynesburg Post No. 432, American I region, and is chaplain of his post.

how to carry on his work and taken an interest in it he has achieved a more than ordinary success. He and his wife display an openhanded hospitality not very generally found today, and welcome to their beautiful home their many friends whom thwr entertain delightfully. As a public official ne justified tba confidence displayed in him and has every reason to be satisfied with what he has accomplished in life.

Ross P. Buchanan. Belonging to that class of workers whose practical training, quick perceptions and great capacity for painstaking labor have advanced them to positions of agricultural leadership, Ross P. Buchanan is known as one of the substantial citizens of Union Township, where he owns a large and valuable property which produces not only all the standard crops of the locality but a high grade of oil as well. He is a native of Carroll County, born on a farm in Monroe Township February 10, 1870, a son of Samuel and Ann (Rutledge) (Griffin) Buchanan.

The great-grandparents of Mr. Buchanan, Samuel and Susanna Buchanan, natives of Pennsylvania, came to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1800, and there purchased a large tract of land, on which they spent the rest of their lives in agricultural pursuits. Their son. John Buchanan, followed in the footsteps of his father, and applied himself to farming, first in Harrison County and later in Carroll County, where he owned a valuable property in Union Township. John Buchanan married Mary W. Pittenger, and among their children was Samuel Buchanan, who was born In Union Township and there grew to manhood and married Mrs. Peter Griffin, a widow, who had one son by her first marriage, William Ira, who now resides with Ross P. Buchanan. Ann (Rutledge) Griffin was a daughter of Robert and Jane (Brooks) Rhtledge, natives of Ireland, who were brought to the United States as children, their respective families settling in Union Township, where they met and were married. After the union of Samuel and Ann (Rutledge) Buchanan they bought a farm adjoining that of Mr. Buchanan's father, but soon moved to Monroe Township, where they spent a few years. Returning then to Union Township, they purchased the old family place, to which Mr. Buchanan added until he had 240 acres, all brought under cultivation and containing numerous Improvements. On this farm Mrs. Buchanan died January 11, 1907, Mr. Buchanan surviving until March 24, 1920. They were the parents of the following children: Mary E.. who married James Brackln, of Union Township: Ross P. ; and Lettie J., who married Howard Lytle, of Union Township.

Ross P. Buchanan attended the public schools of Union Township and Mount Union College. Alliance. Ohio, after his graduation from which be became a teacher in the district schools. This vocation he continued to follow for twelve years, becoming one of the popular and highly efficient instructors of Carroll County, but in the meantime continued to reside on the home farm, where he assisted with the operations during the busy summer months. Following his marriage he acquired possession of the homestead on which he has lived since he was two years of age, and on which he carries on general farming and stock raising, being a wellknown and successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle. He is a capable agriculturist and able business man, and is held In high esteem by those with whom he has been associated. His farming property is made doubly valuable by the presence of sixteen producing oil wells.

Mr. Buchanan was married November 5, 190S, to Miss Lizzie Long, who was born in Union Township, a daughter of William and Nancy (Shotwell) Long, the former a native of Union Township, Carroll County, and the latter of Tuscarawas County, this state. Her grandparents were Alexander and Nancy (Scott) Long, natives of Ireland, and Jacob and Mary (Carlisle) Shotwell. the former a native of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan have no children. Mr. Buchanan is a republican in his political allegiance, but has not sought public office. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as steward and class leader.

Thomas M. Smith. No better farm land can be found anywhere in Ohio than that of Carroll County, and the fine agricultural properties in this region show that the persons owning them are developing the natural resources to the utmost and realizing from their industry a fair income and excellent living conditions. One of these enterprising citizens is Thomas M. Smith, owner of seventy acres of valuable land in Harrison Township. He was born In Union Township, Carroll County, March 23, 1859, a son of David and Margaret Ann (McElderry) Smith and grandson of David Smith, who moved from Washington County, Pennsylvania, Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and there was engaged in farming until his demise. He and his wife had three sons and one daughter, and of all their children David Smith was the eldest, After his marriage the younger David Smith moved to Center Township and there passed his life. His widow survived him, but she, too, is now deceased. They had five children, of whom Thomas M. Smith was the second in order of birth.

Crowing up in his native county. Thomas M. Smith attended the Cold Spring School until he was eighteen years old, during the winter months, and the remainder of the year made himself useful under his father's watchful sul*ervision, in this way learning farming in all of its details and laying the foundation for his future prosperity. At the age of twenty-one years he was married to Luella J. Orin, a daughter of John and Amelia (McCully) Orin, of Harrison Township. Following his marriage Mr. Smith was engaged in farming In Center Township for one year, and then moved on his present farm, where be has since carried on general farming with profitable results. He has always given a sincere support to' the principles and candidates of the democratic party. The Presbyterian Church at New Harrisburg, Ohio.

affords him expression for his religious faith, and he is one of the most active members of the congregation. In every respect he measures up to the best conception of American manhood, and he and his wife are held In great esteem by their neighbors.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Todd Orin Smith, who is now state chemist of the State of New Hampshire, with headquarters at Durham, New Hampshire, which important position he has held for eleven years. He was graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada. Ohio, following which he took a course in the Bloomington, Indiana, College, and also graduated from the Valparaiso, Indiana, University.

Perry Harsh. A visit to Carroll County will disclose excellent conditions among the farmers. The land is not only fertile but advanced and intensive farming has made it produce to its fullest extent and crops raised here are banner ones. The buildings are modern and the premises are well kept and orderly. One of the men who has proven by his success that it pays to devote time and attention to farming is Perry Harsh of Harrison Township, and he was bom In this township, on the farm adjoining the one of ninety-eight and one-half acres which he owns and operates.

Perry Harsh Is a son of Philip and Rachel (Wyman) Harsh, and grandson of Lewis Harsh, who married Sarah Thomas, and of their thirteen children Philip Harsh was the youngest born. The grandparents came to Brown Township, Carroll County, from Pennsylvania, and there both died, the grandfather prior to the birth of his youngest child.

Philip Harsh moved to Harrison Township after he reached his majority and settled on his homestead of 1G0 acres, where he died in 1913. His first wife, who was the mother of Perry Harsh, died in February, 1881, and he was afterward married to Sarah Galier, and they had two children. He was a farmer all his life with the exception of the time he spent in the army during the war between the two sections of the country, he having enlisted in Company I, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. but was taken sick and was discharged on account of disability. Later he re-enlisted In .Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During his periods of service he took part in some sharp skirmishes. but did not participate in any important engagements.

Until he was twenty-one years old Perry Harsh attended the country schools and at the same time assisted his father in the farm work, and remained at home until he was thirty-one years old, at w'hieh time he was married and moved to his present farm, where he has since been occupied with a general line of farming, with very gratifying results. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg, which he is serving as trustee, and he is superintendent of the Sunday school. As a member of the National Grange at New Harrisburg Mr. Harsh Is receiving and giving assistance, and he Is serving it as assistant steward. All his

On September 11, 1912, Mr. Harsh was united in marriage with Sarah Elizabeth Westfall, a daughter of Samuel Wesley and Mary Ruth (Beamer) Westfall, of Washington Township, Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Harsh have two daughters, Elizabeth Marie and Ezma Ruth.

Harvey P. Leyda. The production of food has become the most important industry of the country, and the men engaged in it are recognized as citizens of importance. One of the men of Carroll County who has found in farming a congenial occupation and a source of profit is Harvey P. Leyda, who operates a rented farm of 107 acres in Harrison Township. He was born in Harrison Township in 1883, a son of David and Samantha (Pottoll) Leyda. His grandfather Leyda came to Harrison Township at an early day, becoming the owner of a fine farm. He and his wife had five children, of whom David Leyda was the youngest. David Leyda was always a farmer, and he lived on his valuable property of 227 acres in Harrison Township until his death.

The youngest in a family of four sons and five daughters, Harvey P. Leyda remained at home until his marriage, learning from his father to be an excellent farmer. Until he was sixteen years old he attended the country schools during the winter months, working on the farm the remainder of the year.

In 1908 Mr. Leyda was married to Varilla Johnson, a daughter of Jasper and Mary E. (Wallace) Johnson, pf Brown Township. Mr. and Mrs. Leyda have four children, namely: Lela Verne, Walter E., Earl W. and Robert Leland.

After his marriage Mr. Leyda began operating the homestead and was so engaged for eight years, and then moved to Malvern, Ohio, and for two years was occupied in teaming. In 1920 he located on his present farm, where he Is carrying on general farming. Having spent practically all his life as a farmer, he has a wide experience in this calling, as well as a liking for it, and is bound to be successful. It Is very seldom that a practical farmer meets with failure, it is only those who go on a farm without knowing any of the details of their work who find that they cannot make a living at it. In his political inclinations and actions Mr. Leyda is a republican, but he has not cared to run for office. The local Presbyterian Church has him on its membership rolls, and he is generous In his support of it. Publicspirited, when It comes to improving his locality he Is among the foremost in working for measures which will bring about such conditions, and the people of Harrison Township regard his settlement among them as a stroke of good fortune.

James Vance Smith and his son, Charles C. Smith, are numbered among the leading farmers of Harrison Township. The former owns land in both Harrison and Center townships, but lives in Harrison Township. He was born in

Union Township, this county, February 13, 1866, a son of David Smith and Margaret Ann (McElderry) Smith, and grandson of David Smith, who married Elinore Hanna and had four children, of whom David Smith. Jr., was the eldest.

At an early day the younger David Smith drove overland from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Carroll County, Ohio, and became a farmer of Washington Township. He died at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife is also deceased. Of their five children James Vance Smith was the first born.

During his boyhood and youth James Vance Smith attended the rural school at Cold Spring Run for three of the winter months, and the remainder of each year assisted his father in operating the farm he had bought in Harrison Township, remaining at home until he was twenty-one years old. He was married to Mary C. Hemming, a daughter of Richard Hemming, and they became the parents of five children, namely: Grace Leyda, who married Edgar Orin, of Elbert, Colorado, and has one child. Morris Edgar; Charles C., who is mentioned at length further on; George Milton, who was killed at Alliance, Nebraska, in a railroad accident in 1908, when twenty-five years old ; David Edward, who married Ola Gotschall, of Carrollton, Ohio, and has three children, Pearl E., Moyne E. and Maxine V.; and Richard D., who married May Davis, a daughter of Robert Davis.

Following his marriage Mr. Smith moved on part of his present farm, the original purchase being of thirty-three acres, to which he later added thirty acres. For a number of years he has been engaged in saw-milling, and he operates a thresher in season. In his farming he raises a general line of diversified crops. In politics he Is an Independent democrat. The Presbyterian Church holds his membership, and he is generous in his donations to it. For some time he has been a stockholder in the Farmers Exchange at Carrollton. Mr. Smith practically adopted a young man named Homer Lutz, who works on the farm and lives with the family. He is a fine young man. a credit to his foster parents, who have given him the same care and affection they bestowed on their own children. He was drafted into the service and called to the colors September 1, 1917. From September 5, 1917, to July 8, 1918, he was at Camp Sherman, as a member of Company Three, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, Eighty-third Division. On July 8, 1918, the unit sailed from New York and landed at Liverpool, England, from whence after five days they were transferred to Havre, France, and four days later to Longues and placed in the reserves. For nine weeks he was in the offensive at and about Chateau Thierry, and was then sent to Italy, and was In the trenches for two weeks. His ability and bravery earned him promotion and he was first made a corporal and then a sergeant. Mr. Lutz saw action on the Piave River. Following that drive he was sent to Venice and sailed on the Adriatic to Dalmatia at Zelenco, where he was one of the Army of Occupation for five weeks. The com- mand was then ordered home, and he landed in New York City in April, 1919, and participated in the big parade of that metropolis. Sent to Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Lutz after some time in Camp Merritt and Camp Sherman mustered out of the service May 2, 1919, and then returned to the home welcome awaiting him. His father was Rev. John Herbert Lutz, pastor of the Lutheran Church of Carrollton at one time. He came to Carrollton from Charlotte, North Carolina, and married Lillian Wilson, who died August 9, 1915. Homer Lutz is the second in a family of nine children, and was born in 1894. Until he was eighteen years old he attended school at North Woodstock, Virginia.

Charles C. Smith, son of James Vance Smith, married Gertrude Hendricks, a daughter of Armstrong and Mary (Swinehart) Hendricks, on February 22, 1910, and they have two children, Dennis D. and Teddy Dale. Mr. Smith owns a farm of 128 acres adjoining that of his father, and is one of the capable agriculturists of this region.

William C. MoCabtney is owner of one of the well improved farms of Rose Township, near Dellroy. His life for thirty years has been spent in Carroll County as a practical farmer.

Mr. McCartney was born in Warren Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 21, 1865, oldest of the four children of Alfred and Mary (Bartholomew) McCartney. He is of Scoteh-Irish and German ancestry. His grandfather was Robert McCartney, who brought his family from Pennsylvania in early days and settled in Jefferson County, Ohio. The family came over the mountains with wagon and a four horse team to Ohio. Robert McCartney subsequently moved to Tuscarawas County, where he enjoyed a high place in local citizenship and where he died in 1900. Of his eleven children Alfred McCartney was born in Jefferson County, but the greater part of his life has been spent in Tuscarawas County, where he is still living. His wife died in 1916.

In the rural community of Warren Township of his native county William C. McCartney grew to manhood, taking advantage of the winter terms of the district schools, and working at farm labor the rest of the year. For three years he conducted a general store at Sberrodsville, but in 1891, when he married, he resumed farming on the place of his wife's father in Rose Township. Since 1907 he has owndfl and cultivated his present place of 137 acres, and has shared in the general prosperity of this rich agricultural community. He is a member of the Grange of Dellroy. and casts his vote as an independent democrat.

In 1891 Mr. McCartney married Regina German. daughter of J. T. and Abbie (Hayden) German, of Rose Township. They have two children. Harvey Edison, the son, lives at Dellroy. and by his marriage to Erma Snively has three children, named Kenneth A., Irene and Doris. The daughter, Ethel, is the wife of Elmer Lindner, of Monroe Township, Carroll County, and has a son. William Edward, born in 1917.

James Roy Baxter, a leading stockman and farmer in Harrison Township, belongs to the noted Baxter family which has been in Carroll County for more than a century. One of the very definite community names in the county is Baxter's Ridge, where Mr. Baxter's great-grandfather settled in the early part of the nineteenth century and the topography and community were named in his honor.

The Baxters are of English lineage. The great-grandfather was Cornelius Baxter, who came from Pennsylvania. He acquired eighty acres of Government land at Baxter's Ridge, and in 1814, in his log house, was held the first meeting for organization of a Methodist Church, and the Baxter's Ridge Methodist Church has been in existence ever since. After living at Baxter's Ridge twenty years Cornelius moved to Willow Run in Harrison Township, and died there at the age of sixty. He married in Pennsylvania Rachel Pillars, and of their seven children the grandfather of James Roy Baxter was fourth in age. He was born at Baxter's Ridge, but for many years cultivated a farm of 160 acres in Harrison Township, where he died in 1910. His wife was Ianthe McCrary, of Rose Township, who died in 1915, leaving ten children, nine of whom are still living.

The oldest of these is Finley Baxter, who was born in 1853 and Is still numbered among the intelligent and highly respected citizens of Harrison Township. Though retired from farming he still owns a place of eighty acres here. At different times he conducted cider mills and saw mills In connection with his farming. He is a republican, served three years as a director of the local School Board, and four years as township supervisor of Harrison Township. In 1874 he married Emmeline Suitor, and they have four living children.

The youngest of these two sons and two daughters is James Roy Baxter, who was born in Harrison Township April 19, 1881. He received his education in the same school as his father attended, the Willow Run School, which he attended during winter terms until he was eighteen. After leaving school he found his time and energies taken up by work on the home farm.

In 1904, at the age of twenty-three, he married Texas Inez Davy, daughter of Abraham Gardner and Sarah (Little) Davy, of Rose Township. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter had five children: Helen Beatrice, born in 1907: Sarah Emmeline, born In 1911 : Ralph Finley, bom in 1914: Verna Evelyn, who died in April, 1918, at the age of eighteen months: and Wilford Otis, who died in January. 1919, aged nine months.

After his marriage Mr. Baxter became a renter, and for seven years had charge of the eighty-acre Henry Smith farm. While he began in comparatively moderate circumstances he acquired much valuable equipment and livestock. saved some money, and in 1911 bought land of his own and has since occupied his place In Harrison Township. This is the old Strayer farm and contains 158 acres. Its cultivation is well diversified under Mr. Baxter's management, and he has done some advanced

Mr. Baxter Is a member of the National Grange at Dellroy, is a republican In politics, and is a member of the Lutheran Church of Rose Township.

John L. Scott has significantly proved in his independent career as an agriculturist and stock-grower that he followed the course of wisdom when he decided to remain on the fine old home farm which was the place of his nativity and which has afforded him excellent opportunities for successful achievement. This farm, comprising 1 02 acres, is eligibly situated in Monroe Township, Carroll County, on rural mail route No. 4 from Carrollton, the county seat, six miles distant. On this farm John Loman Scott was born September 6, 1871, a son of Wilson and Elizabeth Anne (McClintock) Scott. On this same ancestral homestead farm Wilson Scott was bora and reared, and here he passed his entire life, during which he never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the basic industry of the farm, in connection with which he gained substantial success. He was a son of Thomas and Isabelle (Carlisle) Scott, who were natives of Scotland and who were numbered among the pioneer settlers of what is now Carroll County, where they established their home at the time when this county was still a part of Tuscarawas County, Carroll County having been organized in 1833. Thomas Scott was bora July 28, 1789, and his wife was born on the 18th of the same month and year, their marriage having been solemnized February 13, 1817. Upon coming to America from his native land Thomas Scott first settled in Brooke County, Virginia, and it was from the historic Old Dominion state that he came in an early day to Ohio and numbered himself among the pioneer settlers of the present Carroll County. The quarter section of land which he here obtained from the Government constitutes the major portion of the farm now owned by his grandson, John L., of this sketch, who retains in his possession the original parchment deed to the property, the same bearing the signature of James Monroe, who was then President of the United States. Thomas Scott reclaimed his land from the virgin forest and with the passing years prosperity attended his earnest and well ordered activities as a pioneer farmer. He and his noble wife were venerable and honored citizens of Carroll County at the time of their deaths, and remained on the old home farm from the time they came to Ohio until they passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, Mr. Scott's death having occurred on December 21, 1870, and that of his wife April 20, 1862. They became the parents of four sons and three daughters, of whom Wilson, father of the subject of this review, was the youngest.

After the death of his parents Wilson Scott came into full possession of the old home farm, he having purchased the interests of the other heirs, and here he continued his resourceful and successful activities until his death, which occurred January 16, 1912, his wife having passed away August 11, 1906. They became the parents of two sons and three daughters, all of whom are living, and of the number John L. is the youngest. Wilson Scott, a man of strong mentality and well fortified opinions, gave unqualified allegiance to the republican party, and his civic loyalty was shown in his effective service in the offices of trustee and treasurer of Monroe Towqship. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy.

John L. found the period of his boyhood and youth varied by work on the home farm and attending the district schools during the winter terms. The old farm has continued as the stage of his independent enterprise in connection with progressive agricultural and live-stock industry, in connection with which, as in his civic relations, he is well upholding the high prestige of the family name. He is a republican in politics and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy. He takes a lively interest in community affairs, is a member of the Grange at Petersburg, and is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton.

September 12, 1900, recorded the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Jessie B. Johnston, who was bora February 14, 1876, in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Andrew J. and Samantha (Smith) Johnston, of Harrison County. The father of Mrs. Scott was a son of Andrew Johnston, Sr., who was born and reared in thp north of Ireland, and at the time of his arrival in the United States his financial resources were reduced to the lowest limit, though he was well fortified in energy and self-reliance. He married Margaret Humphreys, likewise a native of Ireland, and they became the early settlers in Harrison County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where Mr. Johnston was a farmer by vocation. Of the eight children Andrew, Jr., was the seventh in order of birth, and is the only one of the number now living. He is one of the substantial farmers and highly respected citizens of Harrison County, where he and his wife reside on their excellent farm in Stock Township. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have four children - Elizabeth, Milton K., Mildred and Mary Smith.

William Watson, one of the men of Carroll County who have assisted very materially in developing this portion of the state with reference to agriculture, owns 121 acres of valuable land in Harrison Township, and is recognized as one of the best farmers of this region. He was bora in Brown Township, Carroll County, October 7, 1869, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Moorhead) Watson. The paternal grandfather came to Brown Township from Pennsylvania, and here spent the remainder of his life. In his family there were three sons. Henry Watson was reared in Brown Township, and learned the carpenter trade, following it at Pekin, Ohio, where he died in 1902, but his widow survived him until 1915, when she, too, passed away. They had eight children, of

William Watson grew to manhood in Brown Township, and attended the country schools until he was seventeen years old, during the winter terms only. Upon leaving school he worked as a teamster until he was twenty-two years old, at which time he embarked in a teaming business of his own and conducted it for seven years. He then bought timber land in Brown Township, sawing down his timber in the woods and selling it under contract, and did the same thing in Harrison and Monroe Townships. During this period he lived at Dellroy, Ohio, and was engaged in this line of business for nine years. In 1906, having been saving, he had sufficient money to buy ninety acres of his present farm. From time to time he added until he now has 121 acres, all well improved, and he takes great pride in having everything thoroughly modem. Ever since he began farming he has raised a general line of crops, and has met with success in this calling as he did in the others in which he has been engaged.

In 1897 Mr. Watson was united in marriage with Mary Hoobler, a daughter of Elias and Elizabeth Hoobler, of Rose Township. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have three children, namely: Wayne Elias, Miriam Elizabeth and Kenneth Alfred, all of whom are at home. Active as a republican Mr. Watson has served as township trustee for two terms, and has been eminently acceptable to his constituents in this office. The Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg holds his membership. An intelligent man, he takes great interest in the improvement of his neighborhood, has always been a friend of good schools and good roads, and is willing to support those measures tending to further maintain what he believes are necessities to the people.

Solomon E. Turney is the fortunate owner of Liberty Hall Stock Farm, one of the best improved and most valuable rural estates in Carroll County. He purchased this fine property in the year 1919, and his management of it has added to the high prestige which it had gained under the control of a former owner. Liberty Hall Stock Farm is situated seven miles distant from Carrollton, the county seat, and twentyfour miles south of Canton, the metropolis and judicial center of Stark County. It has been authoritatively pronounced the best equipped stock farm in eastern Ohio. There is running water in every field, and it has given splendid yields in the agricultural department as well as maximum returns in the domain of stock raising. The excellent soil produces the best of fruits, and the land shows also several veins of coal. The modern house of ten rooms, with large stone cellar, is heated by furnace, supplied with gas from an acetylene plant, receives its running water from the private water system installed on the place at a cost of $800, and has other modern facilities of the best order. The other buildings on the place are of equally modern order and the property represents a conservative value of fully $17,000. From these brief statements it becomes evident that the initial sentence of this paragraph is fully Justified. The farm comprises 162% acres and is eligibly situated in Monroe Township.

Solomon E. Turney was born in Crawford County, Kansas, on the 2d of August, 1880, and is of Pennsylvania-German ancestry. Two brothers of the name immigrated to America from Germany in an early day and became pioneer settlers of the old Keystone State. Later one of them removed to the south and the other, the ancestor of the subject of this review, became a pioneer in Ohio. Solomon Turney, grandfather of Solomon E., became a substantial farmer in Holmes County, Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives and where both died in the decade of the '60s. Of their twelve children the third was Jesse, father of him whose name initiates this article. Jesse Turney was born on the old homestead farm in Holmes County, Ohio, and there he continued his activities as a farmer until his removal to Kansas, shortly after he had returned from serving as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. At Wooster he enlisted as a member of the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command continued in active service two j'ears, three months and nine days, at the expiration of which he received his honorable discharge. He participated in the various battles and minor conflicts in wThich his regiment was involved, and in an engagement on Graham's Plantation was slightly wounded. After the close of his military career he returned to Ohio, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Catherine Hetrick, and within a short time thereafter they numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Crawford County, Kansas. They became the parents of nine children, of whom Solomon E. was the seventh in order of birth.

Solomon E. Turney received the advantages of the public schools of his native county, and from his youth to the present time has been one of the world's constructive workers in connection with farm industry. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the old home farm in the Sunflower State until his marriage, at the age of twenty-two years, when he came to Ohio and established his residence on a farm of fifty acres in Knox County. He there remained one j^ear and the ensuing seven years he passed on another farm of seventy-one acres in the same county. He then assumed charge of the old homestead farm of his father in Liberty Township, that county, and on this place of 150 acres he continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower for a period of eight years. He then purchased his present farm, and in the management of this model rural estate has proved himself admirably fortified for progressive achievement of most substantial order, his attention being given to diversified agriculture and stock-growing.

Mr. Turney is not self-centered, but takes a loyal interest in all things pertaining to the communal welfare and is always ready to support progressive measures and enterprises tending to advance the civic and material welfare.

He is a staunch republican, is actively affiliated with the Grange at Petersburg in Carroll County, and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church.

On the 11th of February, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Turney to Miss Francis J. Milt, daughter of Henry C. and Elizabeth Ann (Kenner) Milt, of Liberty Township, Knox County, Ohio, her father being a representative farmer of that county and of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His wife is of English lineage. Mr. and Mrs. Turney have made their beautiful home a center of generous and gracious hospitality, and its precincts are brightened by the presence of their three children - Edith May, Dwight S. and Velma Anne.

Evan Jones established his home in Carroll County, Ohio, in the year 1880, and for seven years thereafter was employed in connection with the coal-mining industry in this county, a line of service with which he had become more or less familiar in his native land. A man of energy, ambition and resolute purpose, he has made the best of the opportunities that have presented themselves, and through his own efforts, fostered by the devoted co-operation of his wife, has gained place as one of the substantial citizens of the county. The well improved farm which he owned comprised eighty acres, being situated in Harrison Township, on rural mail route No. 1 from the village of Dellroy. In March, 1921, he sold his farm and removed to Dellroy where he is now living retired.

The north of Wales figures as the place of birth of Evan Jones, who was there born April 25, 1853, a son of John and Mary Jones, representatives of families long established in that part of Wales. There the Jones family had been tenant farmers for many generations, the large landed estates being held by wealthy proprietors, under the old English tenant system, and the tenant farmers having no opportunity to acquire ownership of the land which they cultivated. Evan Jones was reared to manhood in his native land, received a common-school education and early began to- work on the farm, besides gaining experience in the coal mines for which the north of Wales has long been noted. In 1876, a few years after his marriage, Mr. Jones left his family in Wales and came to the United States for the purpose of making investigations and formulating definite plans for establishing a home in this country. He made his way to Plymouth. Pennsylvania, and there worked in coal mines one year, at the expiration of which he returned to Wales. Three years later, in company with his wife and their four children, he came again to the United States, and it was at this time that he made Carroll County, Ohio, his destination. He established the family home at Sherodsville, and for the ensuing seven years was engaged as a workman in the coal mines of this locality. He and his wife practiced the utmost frugality and economy, and finally his savings justified him in the purchase of a farm, to the management of which he gave his attention, until recently, the whi^e definite independence and prosperity attended his earnest and vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. He made numerous improvements on his farm and became one of the substantial and honored representatives of farm enterprise in Carroll County. In politics he maintains an independent attitude and votes for men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy.

Mr. Jones was twenty-three years of age at the time of his marriage to Miss Mary Emanuel, who was born January 11, 1855, daughter of Jarmidan and Sarah Emanuel, of North Wales. Of the ten children of this union all are living except one, who died in early infancy: John

Francis, who resides at Dellroy, married Miss Bertha Kelley, of Leesville, this county, and they have six children - Mary Elizabeth, John Kenneth, Floyd, Pauline, Florence and Irene. Edward Emanuel, the second son, is now a resident of the city of Chicago, Illinois. The maiden name of his wife was Grace Schusler, and their two surviving children are Rutih and Donald, a third child, Dwight, having died in 1906, aged one year. Evan, Jr., the third son, resides at Magnolia, Carroll County. He married Miss Ada Shearer and they have two children - Richard and Mary Evaline. David Thomas, the fourth son, is a resident of Canton, Ohio. He married Miss Eva Chester, and they have three children - Earl, Mary and Hellen. William married Miss Pearl Unkerfer and they reside in Canton, their two children being William and Howard David. Mary, the eldest daughter, is the wife of Oren West, of Dellroy, and they have one child, Clayton Oren. Sarah Ann Is the wife of Walter Little, formerly of Dellroy. They have one son, Ivin Daniel. Margaret is the wife of Clare Close, of that village, Emma is the wife of Leslie Holmes, of Harrison Township.

Victor S. Couts is one of the representative farmers of the Sherodsville district of Monroe Township, Carroll County, where he owns an excellent farm of 188 acres on rural mail route No. 1 from the village mentioned.

Victor Shaw Couts was born in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 5th of February, 1875, and is a son of Gershom Kilgore and Mary Elizabeth (Little) Couts. of whose nine children he was the first born. The father still resides in Tuscarawas County, where he has been long and successfully engaged in farm enterprise, and the mother died when her son Victor S., of this review, was nineteen years of age.

As a boy and youth Victor S. Couts gave effective assistance in the work of the home farm, and during the winter terms he attended the Peoli district school until he was seventeen years of age. Thereafter he continued his association with the activities of his father's farm until 1893, and he then passed one winter in the state of Idaho, on the farm of Hon. Frank Moos, near Payette. There he had charge of the large stock farm of Mr. Moos, who was then a member of the State Senate of Idaho, and after giving effective service in this capacity for a period of seven months he returned to his father's farm, but the following winter found him identified with farm enterprise in Wayne County, Nebraska. He then returned to the paternal home, where he continued his alliance with the work and management of the farm until 1899, when he purchased a farm of 163 acres in Perry Township, Tuscarawas County. This property he sold three and one-half years later, and after selling the property he staged his activities on a farm of forty acres in Washington Township, of the same county for the ensuing ten years. He then sold this property, and for the following decade worked at the carpenter's trade in the city of Akron, his natural mechanical ability and previous experience having made him a skillful workman. In 1920 he purchased his present farm and resumed the independent life which most appeals to him. His experience in the west, as well as In Ohio, has fortified him well for successful achievement as an agriculturist and stockgrower, and he is a distinct acquisition to the circle of progressive farmers in Carroll County. He is a vigorous advocate and supporter of the good-roads movement and always ready to give co-operation in the furtherance of measures advanced for the general good of the community. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Akron, and he and his wife are members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Gouts is a representative of a family that was early founded in the state of New Jersey, whence came the first representatives of the name in Ohio many years ago.

In 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gouts to Miss Linnie Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, a well known farmer of Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, and the three children of this union are: Adella May, Earl

John D. Snively. No one but a farmer appreciates the amount of work required to cultivate 125 acres of land even if it is located in so desirable a section as Carroll County. If the land is properly operated it will yield handsomely, but constant effort and intelligent care are necessary requisites. One of the men who is proving this, and that he is able to meet all the requirements of a good farmer, is John Dunlap Snively of Harrison Township.

Mr. Snively was born in Harrison Township August 29. 1877. a son of Daniel and Anna A. (Elder) Snively, of German ancestry, although long established in this country, where members of the family have always been agriculturists. The grandfather came to Carroll County from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and settling with his seven children in Augusta Township, there died, his wife passing away before him. Daniel Snively was the third child in the family. Moving to Harrison Township, he spent the remainder of his life here and died in 1889, his widow surviving him many years, and passing away in February, 1914. Of

John D. Snively was reared as any farmer's son of his day and neighborhood. During the active months on the farm he was kept busy, but during the winter term he had opportunity to learn the fundamentals of an education, and was a pupil of the Whitehall School until he was eighteen years old, after which until he was twenty-five years old he devoted all of his time to the homestead. At that time he married, rented 100 acres of land in Harrison Township for two years, and then bought his present farm, and ever since has been engaged in general farming, with gratifying results, and he also has other interests. A man of decided opinions, he prefers to vote independently for the man he deems best fitted for the office in question rather than to tie himself down to any one party.

Mr. Snively was married to Mary Seaburg, a daughter of Joseph and Kate (Woods) Seaburg, of Harrison Township, and they have four children, namely: Vera, Joseph, Carl and Ruth, very intelligent young people of whom their parents may well be exceedingly proud.

Herbert S. Hull, who is now living retired In the attractive old family homestead at Oneida, Brown Township, Carroll County, achieved substantial success through his long and varied association with business enterprise, and proved himself a man of energy, initiative and executive ability during his connection with business enterprises of broad scope and importance. He finds in his native county the gracious associations and manifold attractions that make life worth, the living, and here his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. He was born in the village of Oneida, Carroll County, January 27, 1864, and is a son of George and Abbie Jane (Shepard) Hull, both natives of New Hartford, New York, where the former was born November 17. 1813, and the latter in December, 1823. George Hull was reared and educated in the old Empire State and as a young man came to Carroll County. Ohio, and joined his brother Patrick, who had established his home in Oneida and who here lived retired during the closing years of his life. Patrick Hull and Gilbert Shepard, a brother of the mother of the subject of this review, were pioneers In the grain business at Masillon, Stark County, and there Gilbert Shepard erected and placed in operation the first steam flour mill in the state. The firm of Hull & Shepard had been one of the foremost in the business activities of Massillon in the early days.

George Hull formed a partnership with Amos Buss, under the firm name of Hull & Buss, and they established a general merchandise store at Oneida, where their partnership alliance continued for thirty-three years - until the death of Mr. Buss. Thereafter Mr. Hull continued the substantial business until he too passed away, his death having occurred in 1887, and his widow having been venerable in years at the time of her death, in 1907. They became the parents of seven children: Emily M., deceased,

Carroll County: Harriet A. Is the wife of John W. Trendley, of Youngstown, Mahoning County ; Fannie D. died in infancy; George T. is now a resident of the city of Denver, Colorado ; Lester H. died when forty-three years of age; Sarah

The early education of Herbert S. Hull was acquired in the public schools at Oneida and in the private school of Jonas Cook at Malvern. As a youth he learned telegraphy, and thereafter was for some time a telegraph operator in the general offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Columbus, Ohio. For four years he was a traveling salesman for the celebrated Quaker Oats Company. Severing his connection with this company, he, with his family, traveled In Europe for several months. Upon his return to Ohio he engaged in the flour and feed business in the city of Akron, and later he continued in the same line of enterprise at Ravenna, where he was thus engaged for one year. He then became associated with the Associated Press, and represented them in the office of the Akron Evening Times, and incidentally he did much to bring this paper up to a high metropolitan standard. He thus continued his association with the Associated Press until 1019, when he retired, and he now occupies the old family homestead in his native county, as previously stated. Mr. Hull is still the owner of valuable city property at Akron, and his financial success has been in consonance with his energy and ability during his long and vigorous association with business activities.

In politics Mr. Hull pays unfaltering allegiance to the republican party, though he has never had any ambition for public office, and he has been for many years affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.

In the year 1888 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hull to Miss Sarah Alice Cleveland, who was bom at Akron, Ohio, December 27. 1869, a daughter of Thomas F. and Flora Louise Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Hull are earnest communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They have four children : Charles T. was graduated in the Bexley Hall Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Gambler, Ohio, an institution connected with historic old Kenyon College, one of the earliest Episcopal schools established in the west, and after serving as rector of Grace Church at Willoughby. Ohio, he accepted a call to the welfare department maintained in connection with the great industrial establishment of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company at Akron. Ohio, where he is doing splendid sendee and finds satisfaction and inspiration in his work. He married Miss Lois M. Clark, and they have two children, Lucia and Margaret. Louise, who remains with her parents, and is a popular factor in the social activities of the home community, is a graduate of the Akron High School. Herbert

G. , who was formerly connected with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, is a chiropractic physician and is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Davenport, Iowa. The maiden name of his wife was Pauline Frances

McCoy, and their one child is a daughter, Marjorie Olive. Alice remains at the parental home and is a student in the high school at the time of this writing, in 1920.

Edson Latimeb Cboss is a son of John and Nancy J. (Latimer) Cross and a representative of one of the old and well known families of Carroll County, as may be seen by reference to the personal sketch of his father on other pages of this work. He is the owner of a well improved farm of seventy-five acres in Monroe Township, about two miles distant from Sher^ odsville, on rural mail route No. 1 from that village.

Edson Latimer Cross was born on his father's farm in Monroe Township on the 3d of June. 1886, and his youthful education was obtained principally in the public schools of Milltown, Tuscarawas County, not far distant from the home farm, he having been four years old at the time of the family removal to Tuscarawas County. He continued to attend school during the winter months until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and in the meanwhile he gave effective co-operation In the work of his father's farm. In his independent career he has continued his active association with farm enterprise, besides which he has been identified with the operation of a saw mill and has done more or less teaming. While still a boy he successfully managed his father's farm of seventysix acres in Monroe Township, Carroll County, for a period of three years and after his marriage, in 1910, he purchased of his father-inlaw a farm In Rose Township. There he continued his successful activities seven months, and after selling this property purchased his present farm, which he makes the stage of vigorous agricultural and live-stock industry, besides which he continues to derive good returns from his teaming business. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Grange and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, although he was formerly a Methodist. Mr. Cross is a young man of marked energy and progressiveness, and cumulative success has attended his well directed activities since he instituted his independent career.

In the year 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cross to Miss Zoanelle Schell, daughter of George and Lydia (Adams) Schell, of Rose Township, Carroll County, and the three children of this union are all sons - George E., William N. and John L.

George W. Green early gained practical experience in connection with both the work of the blacksmith trade and that of the farm, and each of these vocations has received bis attention in an independent way. He now owns and gives his supervision to his farm of 116 acres in German Township, Harrison County, and formerly operated a blacksmith shop near Laceyville, Stock Township, be having been a resident of Harrison County since his boyhood and claiming the Buckeye State as the place of his nativity.

and is a son of William and Elizabeth Ann (Yaraall) Green, the former a native of Franklin Township, Tuscarawas County, and the latter of Harrison County, where her parents, Aaron and Harriet Ann Yaraall, settled in the pioneer days. Aaron Yaraall was born in the year 1811, and was one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death, both he and his wife having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their children were seven in number: Ziba. John, Eli, Asbury, Elizabeth Ann, Sarah Jane and Rachel. John Green, paternal grandfather of George W. Green, was born in Maryland, was a foundry workman and became one of the early representatives of his trade in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Susanna Shimers, were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they reared their children - Hima, Zacharia, William, Barbara, Mary. Catherine and Susan.

William Green was reared and educated in Tuscarawas County, where also he learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith. He remained in his native county until 1S72, when he came with his family to Harrison County and engaged in the work of his trade at Laceyville in Stock Township. During the remainder of his active career he continued as the sturdy and popular village blacksmith in this rural hamlet, where he and his wife maintained their home until their deaths. They became the parents of the following children : George W., Harriet Ann, Catherine, James P., John W., Rachel, Charles R., William A. and Wallace.

George W. Green gained his rudimentary education in the schools of his native county and was about thirteen years of age at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he continued his studies in the village schools at Laceyville and where as a boy he began learning the blacksmith trade under the effective direction of his father. He became a skilled workman at his trade, but he was not denied early experience in connection with practical farm enterprise, as he devoted fully twenty years to farm work, in which he was employed by the month on various farms in Harrison County. In 1907 he opened a blacksmith shot) in Stock Township, near Laceyville, and here he continued successfully to follow his trade until 1912, when he purchased and assumed active charge of his present farm in German Township. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Christian Church.

The year 1891 recorded the marriage of Mr. Green to Miss Rachel Maxwell, daughter of Walker and Sarah Jane Maxwell, of Harrison County. The only child of this union is Ophie Melissa, who is the wife of James S. Rogers, a farmer of German Township, and the mother of two children - George D. and Rachel Annabel.

Thomas Patton, who is now in the employ of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, one of the representative industrial concerns of Carroll County, is a native of this county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born on his father's farm in Center Township December 6, 1869, and is a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth (Heggy) Patton, both likewise natives of Carroll County, where the father has the distinction of being the first white boy born at Carrollton, the present judicial center of the county. His father, Thomas Patton, was one of the very early settlers of the county, where he continued to reside until his death. Thomas L. Patton was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer epoch in Carroll County, and he was one of the gallant patriots who represented the county in the Civil war, in which he sawT service in three different Ohio regiments of volunteer infantry - Company G, Twenty-fith Regiment ; Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Regiment; and Company F, Sixteenth Regiment. While in service he was made second lieutenant, and he remained with his command until the close of the war. Thereafter he was for many years engaged in the sew'ing-machine business in his native county, and he passed the closing years of his life in the Soldiers' Home at Washington, District of Columbia, w'here he died in 1906, an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife preceded him to eternal rest, ami they became the parents of the following children: John B. (deceased), Thomas, and Henry, Charles, Ralph and Fred, all of whom are deceased, Charles having served as a soldier in the Spanish- American war.

Thomas Patton, the immediate subject of this review, w*as reared to manhood in Carroll County and received his early education in the public schools of Carrollton and Center Township. As a youth he entered the employ of Deckerman & Duty, manufacturers of brick, and with this firm he continued his association for the long term of twenty-three years, since wThich time he has been associated wdth the Malvern Fire Clay Company at Malvern as an expert workman. He owns his attractive residence property at Malvern, and for three years conducted a restaurant in this village, a business which he sold in April, 1920. He is a Republican in politics, and he and his family hold membership in the Christian Church.

In January, 1895, w'as solemnized the marriage of Mr. Patton to Miss Hattie Totten, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, a daughter of Henry B. Totten, of wrhom individual mention is made in the following sketch. To Mr. and Mrs. Patton have been bora six children : Edna is the wife of

Cecil Case; Hazel is the wife of Milton Baxter, and they have one child; Oliver, Lawrence and Perry remain at the parental home; and Donald Ray died at the age of two years.

Henry B. Totten owns and conducts a well appointed general merchandise store in the Village of Oneida, Carroll County, and is a representative of one of the wTell known pioneer families of this county. He was bora in Brown Township, Carroll County, May 3, 1854, and is a son of Thomas Hawkins and Rachel (Xeidick) Totten, the former of w'horn w^as born in Maryland in 1S25, and the latter was bora in Stark County, Ohio, in 1827. Samuel Totten, father of Thomas H., came to Carroll County with his family in the year 1829, and he settled on a pioneer farm of eighty acres in Brown Township. He reclaimed this farm and there remained until about 1S52, when he purchased and removed to a farm which he bought of Patrick Hull. About 1866 he purchased from Mr. Hull the grist mill and other property at Oneida. Shortly afterward the mill was destroyed by fire, in 1867, but he forthwith erected a new mill, to the operation of which he thereafter gave his attention until his retirement, a few years prior to his death. He died about 1877, at the venerable age of eighty- seven years, his widow having passed away about 1885, when venerable in age. They became the parents of twelve children - William, Mary, Martin. Jonathan. Israel (a soldier in the Civil war), David, James (likewise a soldier in the Civil war). Thomas H., Henry T. (soldier in the CiHl war). Samuel (killed in battle in Civil war), Catherine and Rebecca.

Thomas H. Totten was reared and educated in Brown Township, and as a young man he assumed charge of his father's mill, to the operation of which he continued to give his attention about eighteen years. His father was a shoemaker by trade, and all of the sons learned this trade. Thomas II. served about 100 days during the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his brothers who entered service having for the most part continued therein during the major port of the war. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife held membership in the Christian Church. About forty years ago they removed to Wisconsin, where Mrs. Totten died, after which he returned to Ohio, his death having occurred in the City of Cleveland and his remains being laid to rest in Liberty Cemetery in Stark County. His children, all natives of Brown Township, were nine in number - Mary Catherine, Henry B.. Homer. Edwin. George, Sylvester. Ross, Rebecca and Laura. The father of Mrs. Totten was Samuel Neidick. who became an early settler in Paris Township. Stark County. Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.

Henry B. Totten jmssed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm and secured his education in the public schools of the locality. As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, as a skilled workman at which he continued his activities about thirty years, becoming one of the successful contractors and builders in his native county In 1917 he erected a commodious store building at Oneida, and here he has since conducted a successful general merchandise business. He is a republican in politics, and after serving sixteen years as constable he refused to retain the office longer. His fraternal affiliations have been with the Knights of the Maccabees and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.

In 1874 Mr. Totten wedded Miss Eliza Maria Harsh, who was born in Harrison Township. Oarroll County, in 1853, a daughter of the late Samuel Harsh. Mrs. Totten passed to the life eternal in June. 1918. and is survived by six: children - Hattie Belle, Willis Corwin, Charity, Lawrence, IiOgnn and Henry Harrison. Hattie is the wife of Thomas Patton, of Malvern, of whom mention is made in the preceding sketch.

Jacob Wetzel, who is now living retired in the City of Carrollton, is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of northeastern Ohio and is now one of the venerable and revered native sons of Carroll County. He was l>orn in Harrison Township, this county, July 4. 1843, and is a son of Gottlieb and Regina (Smith) Wetzel, both of whom were bom and reared in Wurtemburg, Germany, where their marriage was solemnized and where was bora their first child. John Gottlieb, who was born in 1838, and who was a resident of Carrollton, Ohio, at the time of his death. February 15, 1917. In 1839 Gottlieb Wetzel, in company with his wife and infant son, and also his parents and other members of the family, immigrated to the United States, the voyage having been made on a sailing vessel and several weeks having passed before they landed in the port of New York City. The entire family came forthwith to Carroll County, Ohio, and all made settlement in Harrison Township. Gottlieb Wetzel was a son of John George and Christina (Steinbron) Wetzel, whose other children were Jacob. Christian. Frederick. Catherine and Christina. John George Wetzel purchased land and improved one of the excellent farms of Harrison Township, and there his devoted wife died September 21, 1851, he having remained on the old homestead until he too passed to eternal rest, on the 14th of May. 1877, the remains of both being interred in the cemetery of Emanuel Lutheran Church in Rose Township, and both having been lifelong communicants of the Lutheran Church. John G. Wetzel was honored as one of tl'e sterling citizens and substantial pioneer farmers of Harrison Township, and in politics he supported the republican party from the time of its organization until his death.

After coming to Carroll County Gottlieb Wetzel and his wife remained with his parents on the old home farm for several years, and he then removed to another farm in Harrison Township, where he continued his successful agricultural enterprise until his death, in 1847. when his son Jacob, of this review, was about four years old. He was survived by four children - John Gottlieb. Christian. Jacob and Christina, and the widowed mother later became the wife of Adam Karas, to whom she bore one son, George A. She was more than seventy years of age at the time of her death, about the year 1885.

After the death of his father Jacob Wetzel remained with his mother and stepfather until he was nine years old. when he became virtually dependent upon his own resources, as his boyish self-reliance led him to secure employment at farm work. When he was but ten years old the sturdy lad guided a team and plowed with goodly results on a hillside, and in the later years the same determined spirit characterized him and brought to him maximum returns for his well ordered industry. He at- tended school principally during the winter terms and continued his active association with farm work in Harrison Township until there came the call of higher duty, when the Civil war was precipitated on a divided nation. In October, 1861, when but eighteen years of age, Mr. Wetzel manifested his youthful patriotism by enlisting as a private in Company D, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he proceeded to the front and with which he took part in many engagements, including the historic battle of the Wilderness, the battles of Petersburg, Chancellorsville and Cold Harbor, and numerous minor engagements. He received his honorable discharge in October, 1864, and his record is one that shall ever reflect honor upon his name and memory. In later years he has vitalized his interest in his old comrades in arms by his active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.

After the close of his war service Mr. Wetzel resumed his association with farm industry in Carroll County, and he and his uncle, Christian Wetzel, were for two years engaged in the manufacturing of brick. Christian Wetzel was long numbered among the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Harrison Township, where he died in August, 1908, at the venerable age of eighty-eight years and eight months. Jacob Wetzel finally identified himself with the tanning business at Carrollton, and here he conducted a prosperous enterprise in this line for fully half a century. He finally disposed of his tannery and has since lived in well earned retirement in his home on Bast Main Street. The political convictions of Mr. Wetzel are clearly indicated by his many years of active affiliation with the democratic party, and he is a communicant of the Lutheran Church, as was also his wife.

was a daughter of John and Angeline (Albrecht) Lambright, who became residents of this county within a short time after their coming to America from their native Germany and who here passed the residue of their lives. The supreme bereavement in the life of Mr. Wetzel was that which came when his loved and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest in 1905, she having been fifty-six years of age at the time of her death. Of their children the eldest is John William, who was born at Perrysville, Carroll County, August 7, 1875. and whose public-school education included a course in the Carrollton High School. As a youth he assisted in the work of his father's tannery, and later he learned the trade of harnessmaker. to which he continued to give his attention six years: In 1898. still loyal to the leather industry, in which lie gained liis initial experience at the tannery and thus became an authoritative judge of values, he engaged in the shoe business at Carrollton, continuing the enterprise until 1961. lie then removed to Minerva. Stark County, where he has since conducted the largest and most prosperous shoe business of that thriving village and has secure place as a representative merchant and valued citizen. In politics he is independent, is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church. In 1900 John W. Wetzel married Miss Daisy Buck, a daughter of Lawrence and Isabel Buck, of Minerva Junction, Carroll County, the father having been a mine boss at the Pitkin Mills for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel have one child, Clarence, who is a member of the class of 1921 in the Minerva High School. Charles Wetzel, who is engaged in the blacksmith business at Carrollton, married Miss Edna Cummings, and they have four children - Dorothy, Ralph. Sarah and John. Samuel Wetzel died at the age of thirty-two years. Clara is the wife of Robert J. Beadle, of Marion, Ohio, and they have two children - Paul J. and Alonzo. Lewis O. Wetzel, of Elyria, Lorain County, married Miss Mary Sherman and they have two sons, Jacob, named In honor of his paternal grandfather, and Thomas.

Nelson A. Lewton was born and reared in Carroll County and has here become a prominent figure in connection with industrial and commercial activities of important order. In the Village of Malvern, where he has long maintained his home, he holds the position of superintendent of the Federal Clay Products Company. one of the important concerns in the clayworking industry In this section of the Buckeye State, and he is known and valued as a reliable and public spirited citizen.

Mr. Lewton was bom at New Harrisburg, Carroll County, March 28, 1864. and is a son of Abraham and Susan (Tressel) Lewton. both likewise natives of this county and both representatives of honored pioneer families of the county. Abraham Lewton was bora at New Harrisburg in 1826, and his wife was born in Brown Township in 1828. Isaac Lewton, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Scotland and was a man of herculean physique, his weight during his mature years having been more than 300 pounds, so disposed over a stalwart frame as not to impair his physical vigor and alertness. He and his wife were pioneer settlers in Harrison Township, and there he reclaimed from the forest wilds the old homestead long known as the Lewton farm and now in the possession of a man named Farber. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their mortal bodies rest in the cemetery of the Baxter Ridge Methodist Episcopal Church, about onefourth of a mile distant from their old home, both having been active members of this church. Their sons. Abraham, Isaac. Isaiah and Alexander, are all deceased: Nancy became the wife of John Taylor, of Carroll County, where they remained until their deaths; and Salina and her husband, Eli Grin, who was best known as 'Squire Grin, likewise died in this county.

John and Artimisia (Harsh) Tressel. maternal grandparents of him whose name initiates this sketch, passed their entire lives in Carroll County, and their old home farm near New Harrisburg is nowr owned by David Crawford. One of their sons. Dr. John Tressel, was for twenty-eight years a member of the corps of surgeons of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a position of which he was the incumbent at the time of his death, and his son John is now a representative physician and surgeon in the City of Alliance, Stark County.

Abraham Lewton was reared on the old home farm in Harrison Township and received in his youth good educational advantages. He continued his active association with farm industry until 1876, when he removed with his family to Malvern, where for about forty years he owned and conducted a popular hotel, known as the Lewton House. In this hotel, which still stands, he died in the year 1898, and his widow and other members of the family kept the hotel until she too passed away, her death having occurred in 1916. In politics Mr. Lewton was a staunch republican, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children all but one attained to maturity: Dr. James H. became a prominent and successful dentist in the City of Chicago, and he died in 1917. at the age of sixty-eight years: Almira became the wife of Richard P. Beatty, who died in 1917. and she maintains her home in the City of Canton, Stark County: Emma is the widow of William Dickey, who died in 1889. at Malvern, and she now resides in the City of Cleveland : Catherine is the wife of William Kirkpatrick, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume: Laura became the wife of Charles Double, of Canton, and there her death occurred: Nelson A., of this review, was the next in order of birth: Elizabeth is the wife of Charles Setterlin, of Columbus. Ohio; Lulu is the wife of Edward Gaum, of Canton; and Artemas died at the age of eighteen months.

Nelson A. Lewton was a lad of twelve years at the time of the family removal from the farm to Malvern, where he continued his studies in the village schools until his graduation in the high school. At the age of seventeen years he became a successful teacher in this district school, and he continued to follow the pedagogic profession several years. In 1889 he found employment in the Pishel & Buell planing mill at Malvern, and with this firm he remained about six years. He then became associated with the Canton & Malvern Fire Brick Paving Company, and after serving about two years as bookkeeper for this concern was advanced to the position of superintendent, of which he continued the incumbent nine years. He then resigned his place and entered the employ of the Pittsburgh-Malvern Paving Company, which erected a new and modern plant at Malvern. After having charge of this plant four years Mr. Lewton resigned and took the position of erecting engineer for the C. W. Raymond Company of Dayton, Ohio. In this capacity he traveled in the most diverse sections of the United States and Canada, and his effective service with the company continued until 1915. when he associated himself with the Federal Clay Products Company, of which he has since been superintendent, this company having well equipped manufacturing plants in various places in this section of the state, with headquarters at Mineral City, Tuscarawas County. Mr. Lewton is one of the influential citizens and men of affairs at Malvern, Is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.

October 3, 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Lewton to Miss Caroline Fishel, who was born at Malvern Marth 27, 1855, a daughter of Joseph and Fredericks (Buell) Fishel, of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Lewton have no children.