Harrison Township (part 37 of 37)

190*. llis capital a ml enterprise were then turned in a direction that resulted in much industrial benefit to Carrollton. In 1909 he installed the first ice plant in that city and in 1911 organized the Carrollton Creamery, operating in connection with the ice plant. The creamery was sold to the Canton Cold Storage Company in 1915 and the ice plant to Joe Miller in 1920. Thus relieved of his responsibility in local industrial affairs. Mr. Kbersole assisted in 1920 to organize the First National Hank of Carrollton and is one of its charter members and on the Hoard of Directors. At present he is owner of a large stock and dairy farm adjoining the city limits of Carrollton.

In ixditics he is a progressive republican. November 4. 1902. at Carrollton he married Fmln 1 mu Sterling, daughter of M. C. and Jane Klizabeth (Atkinson) Sterling. Her father is a well-known druggist in Carrollton.

William Thomas Fluky, who is the present probate judge of Harrison County, was horn in Short Creek Township. Harrison County. Ohio, on September 2S. 1*5*. and has lived in the county all his life. In every community there are always some citizens who per force of their natural endowments, coupled with a determination to achieve something worth while in the battle of life, have become successful in their undertakings and been h<Md in high esteem by their co- workers and fellow citizens generally. It is of such a one that this biography will treat. Of his immediate ancestry it may be said that he is the fifth son of William W. ami Klizabeth (Kelly) Perry. The grandfather was William II. Perry, who was the son of a Revolutionary soldier.

William W. Perry was the father of six children: John II. Perry, a Civil war veteran, who died in 1911: James A. Perry, who died in 190*; Albert K. Perry, who died in 1912: Samuel K. Perry, who died in infancy: William T. Perry, of this notice: and Joseph I). Perry.

The father. William W. Perry, was a soldier of the Civil war in Company F of the One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Regiment, and diet! in 1*05 from the effects of the Maryland Heights' battle. His widow. Klizabeth Perry, died in March. 1900. at the advanced age of ninety-two years.

Judge William T. Perry was educated in the common schools of his native county, and studies! at home completing a college course, reciting on Saturdays to the professors in Hopedale College and New Athens College, though never matriculating as a student in either of these institutions. In 1*75 he began teaching school in Harrison County, continuing until 1SS3, when he moved from near Cadiz to Jewett and organized the Jewett High Schools, taking charge of the same for a period of seven years. In 1**5 he m-eived on examination the first state certificate ever issued to a resident of Harrison County. He served as teacher's examiner in Harrison County for eight years - tlie last eight years of his teaching.

until March 7. 1**7. when lie was admitted to the liar in the Supreme Court of Ohio on actual examination, receiving the second honor of his class. He studied law at home and under the tutorage of John C. (Jiviu and John N. (larvin, two eminent attorneys of the county seat town. Cadiz.

On October 1. 1*90. he oinuied his law office in Cadiz, Ohio, and has practiced law ever since. In the autumn of 1*1)3 lie was elected prosecuting attorney of the county, and held the office from January 1. 1*94. to January 1. 1900. In 1912 he was elected probate judge of Harrison County, and has held the office ever since, being re-elected to a third term, which will expire February 9, 1925. Considering the imjjortance of this office in a county like Harrison this three term incumbency bespeaks much for the ability, promptness and accuracy with which Mr. Perry has dispatched business in the Probate Court of the county, where the estates of scores and hundreds of the citizens of the - unry ; re at stake.

Politically Judge Perry is and always has been since old enough to cast his vote a republican. has been active in campaign work, in demand as a speaker in political party work, in church. Sunday school and social gatherings, as well as in the temjierance movements of the state and county. He is what may be termed "an active dry on the temperance question.'' Fraternally let it be stated that Judge Perry is an honored member of the Masonic bodies of the county, the Knights Templar, the Shrine, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and Sons of Veterans. In religious faith he is a Methodist Episcopal adherent.

Judge Perry was united in marriage September 2, 1S78, to Miss Mary J. Blackburn, eldest daughter of John H. and Addie (Granville) Blackburn, of Tappan, Ohio, and unto this marriage were born four children: William Clyde Perry, a public accountant of Akron. Ohio: John Hinton Perry, of Oklahoma: Mary K. Perry, wife of K. R. Hoagland, of Uhrichsville. Ohio: and Charles B. Perry, an attorneyat-law of Newton Falls, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have four grandchildren - Charles MeC. Hoagland. Irma H. Hoagland, Hinton Hoagland. all of I'hrichsville. Ohio, and William T. Perry. Jr., of Akron. Ohio. William C. Perry was married to Virginia McDennitt, of Canton. Ohio: Mary K. Perry was married to Earl R. Hoagland, of near Cadiz, Ohio: and Charles Bingham Perry married Mary Clark, of Cadiz, Ohio.

I'-msha McGi'ikk was the kind of character, exemplified the type of manhood, and lived the daily life that must always prove an inspiration to all who regard substance as more than show, and integrity as more important than material wealth.

He was one of the last of the real pioneers of Carroll County to pass away. His family was rontenvporary with the Beattys, the McCooks. the Shobers, the Cogsils, the Atkinsons and others. His father. John McGuire, was of the rugged Scotch-Irish ancestry which i>eopled and gave character still largely maintained to the mountain and hill districts of the old Virginias and Carolinas. John McGuire as a young man moved out of Virginia to the Northwest territory, and settled in what afterwards became Jefferson County. Ohio. September 29, 1803. he married Miss Sarah Milligan, and located on a farm near Steubenville. John McGuire and wife had a family of six sons and three daughters. In 1816 the family moved to what is now Union Township in Carroll County, on the farm afterwards known as the old Jake Everhart farm and still later as the George Kail farm. This farm adjoins Angonquin. Their home was virtually in the wilderness there until 1828, when the family located at Centerville, now Carrollton.

Elisha McGuire was fifth among the children of John McGuire and wife. He was born December 4, 1812, and was therefore four years of age when brought to Carroll County. His was the environment of a real pioneer. With growing strength and years he took his share in the clearing of the timber and the working of the fields. In after life he admitted that the aggregate of years sj»ent in school under a master was less than six months. The schools he atteuded were conducted on the subscription plan, and the schoolhouses were log cabins, with puncheon floors, split log benches and greased paper windows, and a fireplace.

He was sixteen when the family moved to Centerville, and at that time was bound out to a trade, being indentured to John Morrison, the general blacksmith and wagon maker of East Springfield. After three years' apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman two years in Springfield and Steubenville. In 1833, the year Carroll County was organized and Centerville under the new name of Carrollton became a Court House town, he opened a wagon and plow shop there, and was more or less actively connected with this work all his remaining years. He was an active, athletic, vigorous young man. full of life and energy and fully endowed with an inherited spirit of progress and "gift of gab" from bis strain of Irish ancestors. A prominent factor and figure on muster days and known throughout four counties for his shrewd common sense, his good fellowship, his progressive business and working qualities, and as "a man who could stock twelve plows a day" - no title Mr. McGuire earned during his long and useful life gave him more satisfaction than the achieving of the one mentioned, it being considered a fair day's work to stock three plows.

T u 1846 ^*r. McGuire was chosen by the democrats as their candidate for sheriff, and although Carroll County was strongly a whig countv the ponulnrity of the Scotch-Irish wheelwright elected him a second term. That was a vigorous canvass and the candidate traversed the county north, south, east and west on horseback, there being no decent wagon roads in those days. After the expiration of his second term he returned to his manufacturing interests and also established a foundry - the only one between Steubenville and Canton - for the casting of plew-|K>ints, farm bells, stoves (which were then coming into general use), hollowware and anything needed for which it was possible to make a pattern.

In 1852 Elisha McGuire established "Mc- Guire's United States Mail and Stage Une" from Steubenville to Massillon with a daily line of four-horse stages over the State Rood - now Main Street. Disposing of this route to the Ohio Stage Company he devoted his time to the mail and stage routes connecting Carrollton with Wheeling, New Lisbon. Cadiz, New Philadelphia. Wellsville. Summlttsville and other I>oints. This service continued until the growing system of railroads.

Always on active progressive business man and enjoying an enviable patronage, his very nature precluded his ever amassing any considerable wealth. He was too progressive to hoard: money meant nothing except for investment In the aid of enterprise and this spirit was maintained until his death. Charles A. Dana's motto of "Move on, Move on." could well have been Elisha McGuire's: nothing was allowed to stand still which he hod the means, influence or physical power to aid forward. He lost money heavily in the re- incarnation of the old "elderberry branch" Carrollton & Oneida Railroad, and under the new name of the Ohio & Toledo Railroad he was its president and general manager. This line formed the nucleus and made possible the later Cleveland. Canton & Southern Une. now part of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. He and his associates began their task with only "two streaks of rust and a right of way" ten miles long. Mr. McGuire and General Eckley devoted years of hard work and thousands of dollars only to see the result of their labors and untiring efforts enrich others. It was characteristic of lmth men that no sign of regret ever escaj)ed them over the lack of reward or wage hardly earned and justly due. They had secured the town a "sure enough" railroad - no matter for personal losses and misunderstood plans and work of theirs.

During the Civil War Mr. McGuire was esjjecially active in aid of recruiting and the work of forwardng supplies from home to volunteers. During 1862-63-64 he made frequent trips to the western army, in which the Ninety-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteers served, and of which regiment his son and son-in-law were members as well as a number of Carroll County men. On each of these trips he carried a large quantity of supplies for the soldiers which had been gathered by patriotic citizens of the community. He had the acquaintance and the personal friendship and esteem of Ohio's famous and greatly beloved war governor, David Tod.

In 1875 he was the democratic nominee for representative, and made a vigorous fight against an overwhelming republican majority. Several times he was chosen a member of the Board of Education in spite of politics and the republican precinct in which he lived. Thus democrats and republicans respected and admired the rugged, strong, outspoken character of "Uncle Lisha" and no personality could have been missed more deeply from the town where he lived so many years. For six years he was pro-

Despite the fact that his politics differed from the strong majority of the citizens of his township. his neighbors took delight in honoring him with offices of trust. He was the most open and outs|x>ken friend of the new school project when the building of the new Union schools was a local issue. As a member of the Board of Education he was the moving spirit in the first Teachers' Institute held there and through his energy and hard work these institutes were for a number of years more successful and productive of more good in Carroll County than in any other county in eastern Ohio.

Mr. McGuire's social and family relations were of the pleasantest nature - his family connection being perhaps the largest in this township. A trace of his Scotch ancestry developed itself lierhajis in Uncle Lisha's making it more or less a clan - not an unfriendly and depredatory clan, but a hospitable clan - a clan for the promotion of good fellowship, family and neighborly feeling, and of which "The McGuire" was early the chief and leading spirit about which all delighted to center. An outspoken, kindly man. sincere in his likes and dislikes temi>ered by the characteristic of forming no unreasonable dislikes, earnest, sincere and aggressive for the right as he saw the right ; he lived a long, active and useful life which made a lasting impress upon the community. It was in the eighty-seventh year of his age and almost at the end of the century when he passed away May 11, 1899.

Himself a strong man, he was the founder of a strong raice. When he died, besides his own children, lie was survived by sixteen of the twenty-six grandchildren born, by twenty-five out of twenty-eight great-grandchildren, so that forty-five direct descendants mourned his passing. His own children are now all gone, the last surviving Elisha McGuire nearly twenty years.

In 1838, then a young wheelwright and plow maker, he murried Miss Hannah Baxter, daughter of a promlueut old Center Township family. She preceded her husband to the grave by five years, passing away June 5, 1894, some six years after they had celebrated their golden wedding. She was the mother of nine children, two of whom died in childhood. The seven who grew up were: Elizabeth, w'ho married Robert Stewart. and reared her family In Iowa; Mary, who became the wife of Major Robert F. Williams, and died May 16, 1994; Emma, who was the wife of Willi, in Bright, of Wellsville; Edith, who became the wife of James P. Whitcraft and died December 14, 1914; Lieut. Richard McGuire, who was wounded at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was brought home by his father and died at the family home October 16, 1863; Annie, who became the wife of John W. Gould, and died in 1906; and Frank W. McGuire, who passed away Septemlier 27, 1918.

Robert Forbes McCauley. Numbered among the successful agriculturists of Harrison (Vanity, the late Robert Forbes McCauley of Monroe Township accumulated during his lifetime a competency and left a valuable farm and good name to his family. He was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, September 27. 1852, a son of Robert McCauley.

and grandson of Robert McCauley and his wife Mary (Booth) McCauley, who had three children, Namely: Margaret, Samuel and Robert. Of these children of the graudfather, Margaret and Robert came from Ireland to the United States in 1832, ut which time Robert McCauley was seventeen years of age as he was born in Ireiand, March 17, 1815. They settled at once in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and liought eighty acres of land. The following year their parents and Samuel joined them, and ail sjient the remainder of their lives in this township.

Robert McCauley was the only one who left descendants. Samuel McCauley never married, and while Margaret was married to Alexander McCauley, she had no children. They were all consistent memliers of the l'resbyteriou Church, and they were of Scotch-1 rish descent from County Tyrone, Ireland. The wife of the secomi Robert McCauley Inire the maiden name of Sarah Forbes, and she, too, was born in Ireland, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Johnson ) Forbes. The children born to Robert and Sarah McCauley were as follows: Booth, who married Elizabeth Smiley; Sarah Jane, who never married ; Robert F., whose name heads this review. This generation also belonged to the Presbyterian Church.

Robert F. McCauley attended the district schools of Monroe Township, and lived at home until he was married on May 6, 1880, to Sadie A. Brown, a daughter of James and Rebecca (Evans) Brown. James Brown was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, February 12, 1834, and his wife was born August

Laura E., Robert D., Mary Ida, Emma, Elizabeth. James Edmond and Bell Jane. The Browns were Methodists. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. McCauley were John and Sarah (Davis) Brown, natives of Ireland. John Brown came to the United States as a young man, and was one of the pioneers of Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio. John Brown and his wife had the following children: Margaret, George, Joseph, William, Samuel, David, .lames, Jeremiah and Hester Ann. They, too. were Methodists.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCauley came to the farm now owned by Mrs. McCauley, which Is near Bowerston, in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and contains 160 acres. On it Mr. McCauley carried on general farming and stock-raising until his death, which occurred November 26, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley had two children: Olive M. and Ida

J. The latter was marred to L. C. Price and lives at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since the death of Mr. McCauley, Mrs. McCauley and her daughter, Olive M., have continued to live on the farm. Mr. McCauley was a supporter of the Presbyterian Church, but his widow and daughters Wong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a Blue Lodge Mason, belonging to the lodge at Leesville, Ohio. A man of the highest principles he lived up to them and was recognized as a person of fine character and pleasant manner, and left behind his many friends in addition to his family, to mourn his loss.