Harrison Township (part 4 of 37)

William M. Shepherd was bom and reared in Carroll County, is a representative of one of the old and honored pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State and has for many years been actively identified with mercantile and banking enterprises in the city of Carrollton, where he now owns and conducts one of the leading general stores of the city. He was bora in Center Township, this county, March 21, 1861, and is a son of James and Sarah (Mills) Shepherd, both likewise natives of Carroll County, where the former was bora In 1818 and the latter in 1826. William Shepherd, grandfather of him whose name introduces this paragraph, was born in Ireland, of Scotch lineage, and in his native land he married Miss Elizabeth Fee. In 1810 they became numbered among the pioneer settlers in Carroll County, Ohio, where they established their home In the midst of the forest wilds of Center Township. There Mr. Shepherd reclaimed a productive pioneer farm and there he continued to reside until his death, in 1860. his widow passing away in 1875, and having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were members of sterling Scotch-Irish famMles of County Cavan, Ireland, and a number of their kinsfolk likewise became pioneers of northeastern Ohio. William and Sarah (Clear) Mills were the material grandparents of the subject of this review, Mr. Mills having been born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and his wife in Jefferson County, Ohio. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and upon coming to Ohio he finally settled In Jefferson County, where his marriage was solemnized. About the year 1824 he established his residence in Center Township, Carroll County, and in 1860 removed to Rose Townbhip, where he died in 1863, his first wife having died a number of years previously and his second wife likewise having died in Carroll County.

James Shepherd was reared on the old homestead farm and acquired his early education In the pioneer schools of Carroll County. He here continued his active and successful association with farm industry during the major part of his long and useful life, and his land holdings included his father's old homestead of 160 acres in Center Township. He was a republican In political adherency and his religious faith was first wife died in 1863, and was survived by five children, Mary Ellen, Elizabeth Nancy, Charlotte, Salina C. and William M. For his second wife James Shepherd married Mrs. Eliza Jane Hill, and they became the parents of three children, Emma Alice, Margaret Gertrude and La vina Jane.

William M. Shepherd was reared to the invigorating discipline of the home farm, and after completing the curriculum of the district schools he took a course in the high school at Carrollton. At the age of seventeen years he engaged in teaching in the district schools of his native county, and his pedagogic service continued for five terms. He then became a clerk in the mercantile establishment of William H. Tripp at Carrollton, and later became similarly engaged in the general store of Judge Junius C. Ferrall, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume. When Judge Ferrall was elected judge of the Probate Court of Carroll County Mr. Shepherd became manager of the store, in which he purchased a half Interest. For several years thereafter the business was conducted under the firm name of Ferrall & Shepherd, and the junior partner then purchased the interest of Judge Ferrall and assumed full control of the well-established and prosperous business, which he has since continued with unqualified success as one of the leading mercantile enterprises of Carroll County. In 1901 he purchased the building in which his store is located, this substantial structure having been erected in 1841 and being one of the landmarks of Carrollton. He has remodeled the building and his store is now modern in equipment, appointments and facilities, with a comprehensive and select stock of goods in the various departments. The store has a frontage of forty-seven and one-half feet and a depth of ninety-three feet. Fair and honorable dealings, and efficient service, as combined with the personal popularity of the owner, have gained to this mercantile establishment a large and appreciative supporting patronage. In 1920 Mr. Shepherd was one of the organizers and the first president of the First National Bank of Carrollton.

Essentially a business man, he has had no desire to enter the arena of practical politics, but gives loyal support to the cause of the republican party and takes deep interest in all things touching the welfare and advancement of his home city and county. Both he and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he united when he was sixteen years of age.

June 20. 1889. recorded the marriage of Mr. Shepherd to Mtss Mary E. Whitecroft, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, she being a daughter of Henry Whitecroft, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere In this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd have two children, Leland Henry and Lois Gertrude. Leland H. Shepherd was born June 19, 1890, and after his graduation in the Carrollton High School he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University in the city of Delaware, in which institution he was graduated. At the time of the nation's becoming involved in the great World war he enlisted in the aviation service of the Naval

Reserve Corps, and he was receiving technical training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the time when the war came to a close. He is now a salesman for the Goodrich Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, witji headquarters in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. The maiden name of his wife was lone Deggs. Miss Lois G. Shepherd, who was born in 1894, is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University and is, in 1920, a teacher of Latin in the public schools of Ashland, Ohio.

Oliver Brough. Noteworthy for his good citizenship and many excellent traits of character, Oliver Brough has helped to establish Harrison county's reputation as a fine agricultural region, his farm in Stock Township being under a good state, of cultivation and well improved. He was born October 18, 1851, in Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on the same farm that his father, John Brough, first drew the breath of life. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Brough, a native of Germany, immigrated to the United States in early manhood, locating In Pennsylvania. Soon after his marriage he bought a tract of land in Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, and on the farm which he improved all of his children were born, their names having been John, George, Esther, Sally, Sarah, Elizabeth and Susan.

Brought up on the parental homestead in Ligonier Valley, John Brough selected farming as his life work. Wishing to better his financial conditions, he went westward in the early '50s, and for five years lived in Lucas County, Iowa. Not meeting with the anticipated success in that locality, he returned as far east as Ohio in 1857, and having bought land In Cadiz Township, Harrison County, there continued his farming operations during the remainder of his life.

John Brough married Sarah Dennison, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Dennison, who were the parents of two other children, James and Margaret. Thomas Dennison was born and bred in Ireland. Coming to America, he settled in Ligonier Valley. Pennsylvania, where he followed the weaver's trade until his death. Children were born into the home of John and Sarah (Dennison) Brough as follows: Amos: Elizabeth, who married Samuel Mc- Combs; Maria; Jacob, a veteran of the Civil war, died while in service at Hilton Head, South Carolina; Thomas, of Scio, Ohio; Oliver, the subject of this sketch ; and John. Both parents were worthy members of the Presbyterian Church.

Acquiring his early knowledge of books in the district schools in Cadiz Township, Oliver Brough became familiar with the rudiments of agriculture while assisting his father on the home farm. The work proving congenial to his tastes, he continued his agricultural labors, and soon after his marriage assumed possession of the farm which he has since occupied. It is advantageously located in Stock Township, and was formerly owned by his wife's father and grandfather. It contains 175 acres of good land, and in addition to carrying on general farming with satisfactory results Mr. Brough is greatly interested in the breeding of high graded stock, mak-

Mr. Brough married September 25, 1879, Rachel McKinney, who was born in Scio, Ohio, a daughter of George McKinney, Jr., and granddaughter of George and Mary (Campbell) Mc- Kinney, who came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in pioneer days, settling in Stock Township, Harrison County, on the farm now owned and occupied by Mr. Brough. Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1806, George McKinney was a lad of eight years when in 1814 he came with his parents to Stock Township, where he grew to man's estate. Subsequently learning the blacksmith's trade, he followed it in Scio. Ohio, a few years, and then returned to Stock Township, where he spent the remainder of his life as a farmer, owning and managing the farm which he had assisted his father in clearing from its pristine wildness. He married Elizabeth Conaway, a native of Stock Township, and they became the parents of five children, Martha; Mary; Eliza Jane; Rachel. wife of Mr. Brough: and Nannie. Both George McKinney, Jr., and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Brough have two children, Mary, wife of Homer F. Moyer, a well-to-do farmer of Stock Township; and Clarence L., who has the management of the home farm. A man of influence, Mr. Brough served for four years 'as a trustee of Stock Township. Religiously both he and his wife are faithful members of the Presbyterian Church.

Marion W. Spiker. The Spiker family has long Identified with the history of Harrison county. Marion W. Spiker, a Cadiz Township farmer, was born July 24, 1848, in Stock Township. He is a son of William Spiker, whose time of life was from 1821 to 1853. His wife was Elizabeth Finical, born in 1817 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. M. W. Spiker is In the third generation of Spikers in Harrison County, his grandfather, Isaac Spiker, having been a pioneer farmer in Stock Township. He lived and died there. The children in the pioneer Spiker household were: William, Isaac, John. Mary, Catharine, Sarah and Christina.

M. W. Spiker, of Cadiz, is a son of William, the oldest son In the second generation of the house of Spiker in Harrison County. As a young man William Spiker attended the public school, and he became a Stock Township farmer, dying in 1853 in that township. His children are : Sarah Ann, wife of Jeptha Barger; Emma, wife of William A. Berney ; Marion W. ; Virginia, wife of J. L. Humphreys; John Wesley, deceased. The mother died In 1887. As in the pioneer Spiker family, they were all Methodists.

Marion W. Spiker as a boy went to the district school in Stock Township, and he began farming there, but in 1887 removed to the farm in Cadiz township, one-fourth mile north of Cadiz, on the Cadiz and Steubenville road, where he owns sixty acres. Mr. Spiker made the improvements there himself.

On September 21, 1870, Mr. Spiker married Martha Humphreys, born March 9, 1861, a daughter of William and Jane (Law) Humphreys. Their children are: William Clair, a graduate of Cadiz High School, Scio Business College and Cornell University in the class of 1900, in the department of civil engineering. He is employed as a civil engineer at Atlanta, Georgia. During the ship building rush in the World war he left his work and entered the Government service as an engineer in connection with ship construction. He was chief designer in the concrete department, and was in the ship yards in Philadelphia. He married Blanche Potter, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Pierpont P.. W. Sterling and Deryk P. Spiker.

Minnie Jane Spiker was born in 1875 and died in 1903. She ''was a graduate of Cadiz High School and of Scio College. She also graduated from the Buckingham School of Canton. She was in the Cleveland School of Art at the time of her death. She had been there two years and expected to graduate, being an artist of much natural ability. She died August 17, 1903, in Cleveland. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Cadiz.

Mrs. Grace C. (Cameron) Ebersole. In nearly every city and large town of Ohio, as well as of other states, it is safe to say that at the present time women are to be found actively and earnestly employed in professional work, business circles or in the various lines of industry, and are making good in whatever position they are filling. Prominent among the number thus engaged is Mrs. Grace C. (Cameron) Ebersole, a woman of conspicuous ability, indomitable energy and persistency, who is meeting with unquestioned success as a merchant. having a large and rapidly increasing trade in her home city. Carrollton. A daughter of the late Samuel J. Cameron, she was born in Carrollton, Ohio, March 19, 1876, of honored Scotch- Irish ancestry.

James Cameron, the immigrant ancestor, a native of the north of Ireland, immigrated to America prior to the Revolutionary war, settling in Virginia. Entering land, he cleared and improved a homestead, on which he and his wife 9pent the remainder of their days. He married in Ireland Jane Sharp, and they became the parents of nine children, William, John, James, Joseph, Alexander, Samuel, David, Thomas and Margaret.

Thomas Cameron, the next in line of descent, was the ancestor of the Ohio family of Camerons, the lineage having been continued through his son James. Thomas, who attained the age of ninety-two years, married Jane W. Maxwell, a daughter of William Maxwell, and continued his residence in Virginia. To him and his wife, who died in 1857, at the age of three score and ten years, ten children were born, James, Sarah, William, John, Joseph, Jane, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary and Samuel. Their son James was born May 30, 1799, was the first member of the Cameron family to locate in Carroll County, Ohio. Coming here with his wife, he bought land in Washington Township, and was there engaged in tilling the soil until 1840, when, having been elected on the democratic ticket treasurer of Carroll County, he moved to Carrollton, where he was

Thomas Cameron, the seventh child of Thomas and Jane (Maxwell) Cameron, was born on the Virginia plantation February 19, 1812. Coming to Carroll County as a young man, he remained through one summer, and then returned to his native state. Soon after his marriage, In March, 1837, to Mary Jane Moorehead, he came again to Ohio and took up land in Washington Township, and on the farm which he improved lived and labored until 1863. Removing then to Carrollton, he lived retired from active pursuits until his death. Alexander Moorehead, the father of Mary Jane Moorehead was a life-long resident of Virginia, and was of Irish extraction. He married Nancy Gibson, a daughter of James Gibson, who was captain during the Revolutionary war of a company of English troops. His sympathies were entirely with the colonists, and after the battle of Bunker Hill he refused to call out his company, saying "I will never rejoice over the shedding of human blood." He was tried, found guilty, and ordered to be executed. Escaping, he found protection in the hold of a vessel, where he laid for ten days before securing passage for America, where he was subsequently joined by his wife and children.

The union of Thomas and Mary Jane (Moorehead) Cameron was blessed by the birth of nine children as follows: Alexander M., who during the Civil war enlisted in Company A, Thirty-Second Ohio Volunteer [Infantry, was killed at Harpers Ferry September 15, 1862; Eliza L. ; Samuel J., father of Mrs. Ebersole; Nancy M. ; James T. ; Cyrus B. ; Ezra B. ; and Robert M. The father, a republican in politics, served for fourteen years as clerk of Washington Township, and both he and his wife were worthy members of the Presbyterian Church.

Samuel J. Cameron was bora in Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio, July 2, 1847, and in 1863 came with his parents to Carrollton. Leaving school the following year, he entered the office of the "Free Press" as printer's devil on April 4. 1864, serving under McCoy & Teter. Subsequently going to Columbus, he worked on a morning paper in that city for a year, and then returned to Carrollton to become foreman of the "Free Press". Buying McCoy's interest in the paper on July 1, 1869, he was junior member of the firm of Teter & Cameron for three and one-half years, when he bought Mr. Teter's interest, which on the very next day he sold to John H. Tripp, with whom he remained in partnership for eight years.

Going east in 1881, Mr. Cameron purchased the outfit for the "Carroll Republican," and on April 21 of that year issued the first number of that paper, sending out 2,400 sample copies, and in six weeks* time he had 1,000 names on his subscription list. He succeeded well as a journalist, and continued his residence in Carrollton until his death. January 24, 1894.

Samuel J. Cameron married January 21, 1873, Sarah E. Crumrine, who was born in Carrollton, where she is now residing, in 1852, being a daughter of Isaac Crumrine. Three children were bora into the home thus established, namely: Charles C., bora March 3, 1875; Grace

the subject of this sketch ; and Isaac Thomas, bora May 5, 1885. A stanch republican in his political affiliations, Mr. Cameron served for two terms in the City Council.

Isaac Crumrine was born in Carroll County, Maryland, in 1823, and as a boy came with his parents to Carroll County, Ohio, in early pioneer days. His father spent his last years in western Ohio, but his mother died on the home farm in Carroll County, Ohio, her death occurring before his. They reared the following named children. Henry, George, Peter, William, Martin, John, Eliza, David, Isaac and Sarah. Leaving the parental homestead at the age of eighteen years, Isaac Crumrine went to Canton, Ohio, where he served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, which he followed a number of seasons. Returning to Carrollton, he opened in a brick building standing just west of the Stemple House the first hardware establishment in the place. Selling out at the close of the Civil war, he opened another store where the late George J. Butler was for many years engaged in mercantile business, and later established the store which was subsequently managed by his son George. Mr. Crumrine had also other interests, having been proprietor of an elevator and warehouse from 1878 until 1887. His death, which occurred September 11, 1887, was a loss to the community, and was deeply regretted by a host of friends and associates.

Isaac Crumrine married Susanna Aller, and they became the parents of seven children, as follows : Two who died in infancy : Mary, who married George H. Swift; Sarah E., who married Samuel J. Cameron; Anna, who became the wife of H. A. Kennedy ; George D. ; and Charles. Mr. Crumrine was a democrat in politics, and a member of the Lutheran Church.

Grace C. Cameron was bred and educated in Carrollton, and after her graduation from the Carrollton High School in 1893, she taught school for five years In Canton, Ohio. On April 25, 1900, she was united in marriage with John A 1 vernon Ebersole, who was born in Carroll County. Ohio, May 10, 1869, and died April 19, 1904. He was a grandson of Judge John Ebersole, a pioneer of Carroll County, and one of its most highly respected citizens. A man of superior ability and talent, John A. Ebersole acquired an enviable reputation as a consulting engineer, and spent two years in Denver, Colorado. as superintendent of electrical construction of the five sugar plants being built by J. F. Kilby of Cleveland, the plants being located in Colorado at Loveland, Fort Collins. Greeley, Eaton and Windsor, and he held the position through the years of 1902 and 1903. and until his death in 1904. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, to which Mrs. Ebersole also belongs. Two children were born of their union, Margaret Grace, who died in 1903. aged two years: and Dorothy, at home. Mrs. Ebersole is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

A woman of energy and enterprise, possessing excellent executive ability, Mrs. Ebersole embarked in business on her own account in 1906, opening a dry goods store on the Public Square. Succeeding from the start, she has built up a highly remunerative trade, and on October 4,

1920, assumed possession of her own building, adjoining the building occupied by the Cummings Trust Company, which is advantageously located on the Public Square.

During the World war Mrs. Ebersole, in 1917 organized the Red Cross of Carroll County, and in its Interests she called on all parts of the county personally and in the membership drive in 1918 was county chairman of the Red Cross organization. In 1919 and 1920 she secured the rest room in the Court House which was furnished by the Red Cross organization.

William P. Hanna. While he is in the third generation from an Irish immigrant, William P. Hanna, of Cadiz, and his father before him are natives of Harrison County. He was born in Green Township, October 81, 1849, and his father, John M. Hanna, was bom in the same locality June 16, 1814, and died there the day he was sixty-four years old. He was a son of William and Mary (McDonald) Hanna, who came from Ireland and were pioneers in Green Township. He was a carpenter and cabinet maker, like so many other pioneers who had acquired some useful trade before venturing into the wilderness of Harrison County. Nearly all the settlers who crossed the water knew something of handicraft before coming to America.

John M. Hanna married Louisa Parry, a daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Smith) Parry. While she was born In Harrison County, her father came from Winchester, Virginia. When he reached Cadiz on New Year's night, 1803, there was a band of Indians camped where the Harrison County Court House stands today. He was a hatter by trade, and after a few years In Cadiz he removed to Salem, Jefferson County. He was in business there a few years when he returned to Cadiz, spending the remainder of his life In Harrison County. He was a Harrison County soldier in the War of 1812, there being few families who came to the community earlier than Stephen Parry. He had a son, Stephen, and a daughter, Louisa, who became Mrs. John M. Hanna.

John M. Hanna was a farmer and lived all his life in Green Township. His children are: Sarah, wife of George A. Crew; Samantha E., wife of Ebeneezer Gray; William P. Hanna; Alice, the wife of John A. Copeland; and John A. Hanna. They all had common school advantages, and as a young man W. P. Hanna engaged in farming, continuing in that business In Green Township until in 1917 he sold the farm of 1G0 acres and removed to Cadiz.

In 1894 Mr. Hanna married Susannah Laughrige, a daughter of Edward and Susannah (Conoway) Laughrige. Edward Laughrlge was married twice, his first wife being Marjorie McConnell, and the children of that marriage were Jane, Joseph, Margaret, Thomas, Robert, Edward, Elizabeth, Nancy, John, William and Samuel. The mother died, and on April 1, 1869, Mr. Laughrige married Susannah Conoway, who became the mother of two children, John H. and Susannah. Edward Laughrige was a son of Edward Laughrige. who came from County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1800, living for a time in Wilmington, Delaware, before locating in Brooke County, Virginia, and later in Jefferson County, Ohio. The children born to William P. and Susannah (Laughrige) Hanna are: Virginia, wife of Donald Baker; and John Edward Hanna, who married Lydia Meizer.

On January 2, 1918, John Edward Hanna enlisted in the Sixth Cavalry, and on March 16th, he sailed from New York, landing at South Hampton, England, on March 28, and aftei a few days in England he went on to France, where he remained "Somewhere In France" for fifteen months. On the return voyage he landed at Newport News June 29, 1919, and on July 12 he was discharged from Camp Lee. His overseas service will be something he will remember to the end of his life, although it convinced him that there is no country like America.

While a resident of Green Township Mr. Hanna filled different political offices, being a township assessor and for eleven years serving as trustee of the township. The Hanna family belongs to the Methodist Church at Cadiz. For more than one hundred years the Hanna family story has been part of the history of Harrison county.

Clarence G. Hilligas, one of the enterprising and progressive young farmers of Short Creek Township. Harrison County, was born in this township on the 5th of March, 1881, and is a son of Francis A. Hilligas, of whom individual mention is made on other pages so that a repetition of the family record is not required in the present connection. He whose name introduces this paragraph gained his early education in the public schools of Short Creek and Green townships, and his alliance with farm industry has continued without interruption since his early youth. Since his marriage he has resided upon and had the general supervision of the fine old homestead farm of the late William Spicer Fox, whose daughter he wedded on the 21st of October, 1911. The marriage was solemnized by the Short Creek monthly meeting of the Society of Friends, known as the Hicksite Branch, of which the Fox family have been affiliated for many generations; it being one of the oldest and most influential in Harrison County, an account of which Is found elsewhere In this publication. The farm of 100 acres on which Mrs. Hilligas was born and raised and which is yet her home was received as a heritage from her honored father. It is of historic interest. located on the Cadiz and Wheeling "pike" and besides being well improved and under a high state of cultivation It was one of the first rural homes in Harrison County to be equipped with a water system (1906) and with an electric lighting plant (December, 1916).

Mr. Hilligas shows marked energy and progressiveness in the management of both the agricultural and livestock departments of his farm enterprise, being a successful breeder of registered Percheron horses and Scotch Shorthorns. He is a director of the Peoples National Bank of Adena, Ohio, and also of the Pittsburgh and Ohio Investment Company of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. His political alliance Is given to the republican party, and he served one term as township trustee. He aims to ever be on the side of moral and reform issues.

William Spicer Fox, father of Mrs. Hilligas and son of Charles James and Esther Cooper Fox, was the second of four children. He was born in Short Creek Township, September 22, 1839, and his death occurred January 28, 1908. In 1876 he married Miss Esther G. Moore, daughter of Jeremiah Moore and Sarah (Evans) Moore, of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, who departed this life May 23, 1913. They were members of the Society of Friends, as were their parents for several generations.

Charles James Fox was a son of Josiah Fox, who was born In Falmouth, England, October 9, 1763, and who after receiving a good education, served three years as an apprentice to the shipbuilding business at Plymouth, England. He entered a seafaring life and visited many foreign ports. In 1793 he was employed by the United States Government to plan and supervise the building of ships to be used in the navy of the yet new republic. He designed several that became famous in the War of 1812, and for this he was "disowned" by the Friends, who ever opposed warfare. Early in the second decade of the eighteenth century he came with his family to Colerain, Belmont County, Ohio, and there he died at the age of eighty-four years. Charles James Fox was born In Washington, D. C., October 17. 1806, and developed and improved one of the fine farm properties of Harrison County, Ohio, which was his place of residence from his marriage until his death, June 21, 1896.

William Fox gave his political support to the republican party. He served in various local offices and did a large amount of important work a 8 civil engineer and general surveyor, was a justice of the peace, a notary public and a township trustee. He was one of the honored and influential citizens of the county and a member of the directorate of the First National Bank of Cadiz for two decades.

Of his three children, Mary Moore was the first born. John Francis was drowned in 1897 In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he was attending the George School. Erie Esther is the wife of William Wilson McLaughlin, subject of Individual mention on other pages of this work.

Mr. and Mrs. Hilligas have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are recorded as follows: Harold Fox, February 18, 1913; John Kenneth, May 5, 1915; and Rachel Esther, June 3, 1917.

Wallace L. Handley has been engaged in the active practice of law at Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, for thirty-six years, and in both a professional and civic sense has kept pace with the splendid development and progress of his home city, whose bar numbered seventeen members at the time he here initiated practice. He has long maintained precedence as one of the leading lawyers of this section of his native state and his professional activities have not been confined to Carroll County. He has appeared In connection with much of the important litigation in the courts of Ohio during the course of many years, and his clientage has been at all times of representative order. Aside from his professional service he has been most enthusiastic and liberal in furthering the various agencies and enterprises which have made Carrollton a flourishing industrial center and attractive place of residence. His efforts have been for right, and with his combative spirit backed by unusual good judgment his influence in the community has been on a parity with his unqualified personal esteem.

Wallace LaMoine Handley was born in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, January 13, 1S56, and is a son of David and Lydia (Fogle) Handley, who likewise were born in that township, where their parents were early settlers. The childhood and early youth of Wallace L. Handley were compassed largely by the influences of the farm, and in the meanwhile he gained his initial cultural discipline by attending the district schools. He was twelve years of age at the time of the family removal to Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, where he continued his studies in the public schools. After several years of residence in that county the family returned to Harrison County, where the subject of this review attended the Normal College at Hopedale, and where he was favored in receiving special consideration and assistance from the late Cyrus McXeely, founder of that college and known as an educator of high attainments. While attending this college Mr. Handley also gave close attention to the reading of law. He continued his law studies under the effective perceptorship of Samuel M. Crain, then one of the strongest legal minds of the Carroll County bar. In 1881 he was admitted to the bar, upon examination before the Supreme Court of Ohio, being one of seventeen of a class of thirty-six who passed the examination, and he forthwith began his novitiate as a member of the bar of Carrollton. His were the personal qualities and the technical knowledge that make for success in the exacting profession of his choice, and he soon gained his share of the law business centered at Carrollton, which at that time had a population little in excess of 1.000 persons. It is but a matter of justice to state that at no period in the history of Carroll County has there been a lawyer who has here developed and maintained a larger and more important practice than has Mr. Handley, and such success bears its own significance, with no need for analysis or laudatory Indulgence. More than twenty-years ago Mr. Handley was retained as local legal representative of the old Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, now the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, and he is now counsel for this road. He is also attorney for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, one of the New York Central lines. He has always had an extensive corporation clientele and in addition to his railroad connections represents the Bergholtz Telephone Company of Jefferson County, Ohio; The Eastern Ohio Telephone Company of Columbiana County, and the Metropolitan Paving Brick Company, Canton and Minerva, Ohio. He is also legal representative of a number of the most important industrial and financial corporations of Carrollton, among which is the Sebright Chinn Company, with plants at Carrollton and Scio, Ohio, and his general law business has long been one of broad scope and importance. With full appreciation of the responsibilities which personal success Imposes, Mr. Handley has shown the utmost civic loyalty and progressiveness and has gladly paid his full quota of taxes, with no desire to minimize his resources. He has been in the forefront in the progressive movements that have inured to the growth and commercial and industrial importance of Carrollton, and was chairman of the citizens' committee through the splendid service of which $65,000 was raised at Carrollton for the purpose of securing the first pottery established here. He personally contributed $1,000 to this fund, and his liberality has been equally noteworthy in connection with other enterprises projected for the advancement of his home city and county. Mr. Handley is a staunch advocate of the principles and policies for which the republican party has ever stood sponsor and he always has given loyal and effective service in behalf of the party cause and been influential in formulating and directing public sentiment and action in his county. He is the owner of numerous pieces of real estate* at Carrollton, Including his attractive home on Oak Hill, in which section of the city he has resided during the entire period of his professional life in Carrollton. He also owrns interests in farms and some oil productions in Carroll County. He Is an active church worker, supports all denominations and has a class of forty-two members in the Presbyterian Sunday School and takes great interest in this work.

In 1877 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Handley to Miss Anna J. Wathey, who was bora and reared in Carroll County and who was the only child of the late Zachary and Mary Wathey, early settlers of this county, where Mr. Wathey served as county commissioner and was otherwise influential in community affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Handley became the parents of three children: Winfield H. was born December 9, 1878; the second son was born April 23, 1882, and died on that date; and Zachary Archibald, who was born December 13, 1886, died June 12, 1888. Winfield H., the one surviving son, is now residing on the Wathey farm. In August, 1908, Mrs. Handley was called by death, and since then Mr. Handley has maintained his home on Oak Hill and kept "the home fires burning." He has with him his two grandchildren, Lamoine and Irene, whose companionship has counted for much in the maintenance of their old home, and the loss of any one of the three means to Mr. Handley the dissolution of the family home.

John 8. Bose is another of the substantial citizens who is contributing a generous quota to the furtherance of the agricultural and livestock prestige of Washington Township, Harrison County, where he owns the old family homestead of ninety-nine acres, to which he has added until the place now comprises 185 acres in Washington Township, with an adjoining tract of fifty-two and nine-twentieths acres in Nottingham Township. Through his own ability and well directed endeavors Mr. Rose has gained secure place as one of the successful and representative exponents of farm enterprise in his native county, and he is a sterling citizen who is well entitled to recognition in this history.

John Stanley Rose was born in Washington Township on the 14th of April, 1854, and is a son of John S. and Betsey (Ford) Rose, both likewise natives of Harrison County and the latter a daughter of the late Clayton and Amy Ann (Alton) Ford, of whose eight children she was the seventh in order of birth, the names of the others being here recorded: Erasmus, John M., William B., Stephen D., Prudence, Emily and Julia Ann. John S. Rose, Sr., not only became a prosperous farmer in Washington Township, but for a number of years he gave no little attention to work at the trade of stonemason, In which he was a skilled artisan. He was still a comparatively young man at the time of his death, in 1864, and his widow survived him by more than forty years, her death having occurred August 31, 1909. They became the parents of twelve children - Francis Marion (resides near Thornville, Perry County), Sarah Elizabeth (deceased), Ruth Amanda. Arminta M., James (died at the age of eight years), Julia Ann (deceased), John Stanley, Amos O., Hiram S., Martin L. (died in young manhood), McClellan B. and Clement L.

John Stanley Rose gained his early education in the district schools of Washington Township. and at the age of sixteen years he began working by the month as a farm hand, besides which his early experience included work at the trade of stone-mason. In initiating his independent career as a farm workman his cash capital was represented in the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, and he did not possess even a pocketbook in which to place this modest capital. He continued three years in the employ of one man, and thereafter was employed by the month or by the job or by the day until he attained to the age of twenty-three years, when, in 1878, he married Miss Sophia Garner, daughter of Edward Garner and a sister of Edward L. Garner, in whose personal sketch, on other pages of this volume, is given adequate record of the Garner family. After his marriage Mr. Rose engaged in farming on his father's old homestead, and by gradually buying the Interests of the other heirs he eventually came into full ownership of the property, to which he has added materially, as noted in the opening paragraph of this article. His entire farm property, well improved and under effective cultivation, is in one body and constitutes one of the valuable places of the county. Mr. Rose has won independence and prosperity entirely through his own efforts, with the earnest and valued co-operation of his wife, who has been a true helpmeet, and he is one of the successful agriculturists and stockraisers of his native county, as well as one of its well known and highly esteemed citizens. He is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Deersville. They have two children : Albert Edward, the elder son, married Miss Nellie Edith McConnell and they now reside at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County. Lawrence V., who farms a part of his father's landed estate, married Miss Audry V. Mallernee and they have four children - Verna Viola, Helen Irene, Olive Pauline and Frances Lucile. Into their home Mr. and Mrs. Rose took Ora Allen Rose when he was a child of three months, and they have reared him as a son, he being seventeen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920. He is a son of M. B. Rose, brother of the subject of this sketch, and was an infant at the time of his mother's death.

James A. Cummins has been engaged in farming enterprise in Freeport Township, Harrison County, since the year 1889, and his success as a vigorous and forward-looking agriculturist and stock-raiser has been such as to mark him as a leading exponent of these industries in the county. His farm estate comprises 285 acres and is one of the well improved and valuable properties of Freeport Township. Of the family record of Mr. Cummins adequate information may be gained by reference to the personal sketch of his brother, David W. Cummins of Cadiz, on other pages of this volume.

James A. Cummins was born and reared in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and the date of his nativity was January 1, 1S64, so that he was a right welcome New Year's arrival in the home of his parents, David and Elizabeth (Allison) Cummins. He received the advantages of the public schools of his native county and there remained on the parental farm until the time of his marriage, which incidentally led to his establishing his residence in Harrison County, Ohio, in the following year. On the 6th of February, 1888, he wedded Miss Addle L. Sproul, who was born and reared in Freeport Township, this county, and who is a daughter of the late Hugh and Jane (Shaw) Sproul. The old homestead farm of Hugh Sproul is that now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Cummins, who maintained their residence in Washington County, Pennsylvania, for a period of about one year after their marriage and who then, in 1889, established their home on their present fine farm. Hugh Sproul was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on February 27, 1819, and died February 12, 1874. His wife was a native of the same county and state, born January 8, 1826, and died October 29, 1880. Her mother was a native of Ireland. Hugh Sproul was a son of Francis and Elizabeth (Edgar) Sproul, who were pioneer settlers in Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, and whose children were eight in number - Francis, Adam, William. Margaret, James, Hugh, John and Mary. Mrs. Jane (Shaw) Sproul was a daughter of James and Elizabeth Shaw, whose only other child was likewise a daughter, Margaret. After the death of his first wife James Shaw married a second time, the family name of this wife having been Wilson, and they were residents of Harrison County at the time of their deaths. He married for his third wife Henrietta Ross.

Mr. and Mrs. Cummins are the parents of four childern - Lena Belle, Harold Sproul, Mary Elizabeth and Laura Emily. Lena Belle is now the wife of Seth L. Snyder, a farmer in Freeport Township, and they have one daughter, Ruth Marian.

In addition to his farming interests Mr. Cummins has been for the past score of years the president of the Eastern Ohio Mutual Fire & Tornado Insurance Company. He has been known for his distinctive progressiveness and civic liberality as well as for his business acumen, and has been influential in public affairs in Freeport Township, of which he served ten years as a trustee. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and both he and his wife are zealous and representative members of the Presbyterian Church of Freeport, in which he has served about twenty years as a deacon and for practically a similar period as superintendent of the Sunday School, and at the present time (1921) is filling that position. His musical talent has made him further prominent in the affairs of this church, in which he has given more than twenty years of effective service as leader of the choir.

Joseph H. McElboy owns and conducts the Rexall Drug Store in the city of Carrollton, and in its appointments, completeness of stock and effective service the establishment is maintained at a metropolitan standard. In addition to the customary lines of drugs, proprietory remedies, sundries, toilet goods, etc., Mr. McElroy has a fine sodawater fountain, which caters to a large and appreciative patronage, and handles the celebrated Columbia Graphanola and records and the Ansco Cameras, with requisite photographic supplies for same.

Mr. McElroy was born In Harrison County, Ohio, May 31, 1881, and Is a sou of Joseph M. and Irene (Winnings) McElroy, of whom mention Is made in ample detail on other pages of this work. The founder of this family in America was James McElroy, who was born and reared in Ireland, of Scottish lineage, and who settled in the City of Baltimore, Maryland, upon coming to America. Later he removed to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1820. His son James came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Steubenville, Ohio, in an early day, and there he died in the year 1858. His son Joseph, grandfather of Joseph H. of this review, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was a pioneer settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary Jane Lee, was a resident of narrison County at the time of her death. Family records show that the McElroy family was founded in America as early as 1700 - probably some little time prior to the opening of the eighteenth century.

Joseph H. McElroy was reared in Harrison County, and his early educational discipline included that of the high school in the village of Jewett, that county. Thereafter he was graduated in the school of pharmacy of Scio College at Scio, Harrison County, and he then took a clerical position in a drug store at Wellsville, Columbiana County. Later he was similarly employed at Steubenville and East Liverpool, this state, and in one of the leading drug stores of the north side section of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 1904 Mr. McElroy came to Carrollton and purchased the drug store and business of L. D. Stockon, and he has since conducted this store, in which he has made numerous improvements, besides making the establishment distinctly modern in equipment and all details of service. He has designated his establishment the Rexall

Drug Store, in consonance with his policy of handling the celebrated Rexall preparations and drug supplies, and he has made his store one of the most attractive and popular In the city. Mr. McElroy is serving as a member of the Board of Education and takes lively Interest in all things touching the welfare and advancement of his home city. In politics he maintains an Independent rather than a partisan attitude.

In 1903 was recorded the marriage of Mr. McElroy to Miss Maud Baird, of Sclo, Harrison County, and of this union have been born six children, all of whom are living except the firstborn, Flora, who was born In 1904 and died In January, 1914. The names and respective birth dates of the surviving children are here recorded : Joseph, September, 1906 ; Harold, October, 1910; Mary, October, 1912; Lee, August, 1915; and Ruth, November 28, 1919.

J. Graham Murdock, now one of the venerable and highly honored retired citizens of Malvern, Carroll County, was here actively engaged In the drug business from 1863 until 1907, and during this long interval he held distinct prestige as one of the representative business men and loyal and progressive citizens of the village, which was one of most unpretentious type at the time when he here established his residence.

Mr. Murdock was born at Wellsvllle, Columbiana County, Ohio, November 4, 1836, and was there reared and educated. He Is a son of William G. and Nancy (McClintock) Murdock, both natives of Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized, though In the meanwhile Mr. Murdock had come to Ohio and established his residence at Wellsvllle, as one of its pioneer business men. He was born at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, In 1804, and was reared and educated in Washington County. At the age of eighteen years he came to Ohio and located at Steubenville, Jefferson County, where he served an apprenticeship to the trade of harnessmaker and saddler. After completing his apprenticeship he became associated with his brother In establishing and conducting a harness shop at Wellsvllle, Columbiana County, and It was In the year 1832 that he returned to the old Keystone state to claim his young bride, who accompanied him to the new home at Wellsvllle, their overland Journey having been marked by a hazardous cross of the Ohio River, which was highly flooding at the time. This engaging young couple was destined to live in devoted and gracious companionship for nearly sixty years, and the bonds were severed only when the loved wife and mother was summoned to eternal rest August 9, 1890, at the age of eightyfour years. At the time of her death she was one of the most venerable and loved pioneer women of Wellsvllle, where her gentle Influence during the long period of years had been benignant in community life and gained to her the affectionate regard of all who knew her. She was born at Washington, Washington County. Pennsylvania, and her marriage was solemnized at West Middletown, that state, in 1832. She was one of the charter members of the Presbyterian Church at Wellsvllle, and she and her husband continued as zealous and Influential

William G. Murdock was actively concerned in the development and progress of Wellsvllle and was prominent and Influential In community affairs. He served at one time as mayor of the city, which was a mere village when he there established his home, and he held also the office of township clerk, while It is altogether probable that he was the first president of the Wellsvllle Board of Education. He served about twenty-five years as justice of the peace and caused the office to justify Its name. Of his many decisions not one met with reversal by courts of higher jurisdiction and his long Incumbency of this office led to his becoming familiarly known as 'Squire Murdock. He was appointed by the State Legislature an associate judge of the county court, but declined to accept the position. He was active In politics and wielded much Influence in the forming and directing of sentiment and action in his home community. He became acquainted with many leading men of his day and generation, Including Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war in the cabinet of President Lincoln at the time of the Civil war, and the subject of this sketch likewise grew to know the distinguished secretary in a somewhat more Intimate way. William G. Murdock likewise served many years as a notary public, and as the leading citizen of Wellsvllle he delivered the address of welcome, at the solicitation of the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, when that railroad sent Its first train into Wellsvllle from Cleveland. He continued his residence at Wellsvllle until the time of his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety years, he having survived his wife by a few years. Of the six children two died in infancy, J. Graham Murdock, subject of this sketch, being now the only survivor; Mary died in girlhood; and John M. is survived by one son, William.

The Murdock family was founded In Maryland in the colonial days and representatives later became pioneer settlers In Washington County, Pennsylvania, where James Murdock, grandfather of him whose name initiates this article, was a millwright by trade and a resident of Cannonsburg at the time of his death. William G. Murdock was the eldest of his children.

The pioneer village schools of Wellsvllle afforded to J. Graham Murdock his youthful education, and he continued his residence In Columbiana County until he established his home at Malvern, Carroll County, where he has since remained and where, as before noted, he was engaged in the drug business for more than forty years. He has been a loyal supporter of measures and enterprises that have Inured to the civic and material advancement of his home village and county, is a stalwart republican In politics, and has served continuously as notary public since 1871, his present commission expiring January 6, 1923. He has served also as clerk of Brown Township and he is, in point of continuous association, now one of the two oldest members of the Malvern Presbyterian Church the other being Mrs. Joseph Flshel. His wife likewise was a devoted member of this church, in the services and affairs of which she continued to take deep interest until her death, in 1907.

In 1863 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Murdock to Miss Martha E. Hewitt, who was born in Ohio in 1844, a daughter of John and Isabella (Arbuckle) Hewitt. Mr. and Mrs. Murdock became the parents of four children, of whom the first, a son, died in infancy; Rena M. was born in 1872 and died the following year; Lila was born in 1874, and her death occurred In 1880; and John H., the only one who attained to maturity, was born in 1882 and died in 1903, about the time of attaining to his legal majority, his death having been a severe blow to his devoted parents and a source of sorrow to his many friends. Sustained and comforted by abiding Christian faith and by the gracious memories of the past, Mr. Murdock, though deprived of both wife and children, is passing the evening of his life in peace and comfort, surrounded by friends .who are tried and true, and held in unqualified esteem in the county that has represented his home for nearly sixty years.

John Richard Williams, M. D. In point of years of continuous service Doctor Williams is the Oldest physician and surgeon in Carroll County. From the standpoint of quality, rather than time, he is conceded to be one of the ablest professional men in this part of Ohio. An extensive town and country practice keeps him constantly busy, even after he has well earned a leisure through forty years of consecutive work.

Doctor Williams was born in Carroll County February 18, 1858, son of Major Robert F. and Mary (McGuire) Williams. Major Williams, who was a native of Washington Township, Carroll County, removed to Carrollton in 1833. Early in the Civil war he organized a company of volunteers, was elected captain, and his company was mustered in at Camp Mingo August 22, 1862. The company was assigned to the Ninety-eighth Ohio Infantry, and for over two years Captain Williams was with his command in some of the severest campaigns of the war. He was in the bloody battle of Chickamauga, after which he was with Sherman's army during its advance on Atlanta and the Georgia campaign, including the battles of Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Rome, Dallas and Kenesaw Mountain. During the advance on Atlanta Captain Williams was wounded by a minie ball in the leg, and on account of the crowded condition in the hospital and sultry weather gangrene set in, causing his death August 10, 1864. For about a month before he received the wound he was performing the duties of a major, and the. commission for that rank was issued on November 3rd following his death.

June 19, 1856, Major Williams married Miss Mary McGuire, the daughter of Hon. Elisha McGuire, whose career and prominent relations with Carroll County are described elsewhere in this publication. Mrs. Mary Williams was born February 20, 1838, and died May 16, 1904, her death being the direct result of a fall. She was the mother of five children : Lee, who died in Infancy; John Richard; Robert C., who has a distinguished record as a soldier, having when a youth taught school in Carroll County, graduated in 1886 from West Point Military Academy, was commissioned a lieutenant and assigned to duty at Fort Randall, then Dakota Territory, and is now in the Philippine Islands, on the army retired list with the rank of colonel ; Emma W., wife of Mr. W. A. Miller, a retired minister of Conneaut, Ohio; and Mary Atlanta, who was born while her father was in the Atlanta campaign, Major Williams having selected the name for her, although he never saw her.

Four young children were left to the care of Mrs. Williams at the death of her husband, and she accepted and discharged her responsibility with a courage and fortitude that should make her example memorable not merely among her children and descendants. She kept her family together, reared and educated them, and sa w them successful men and women long before her death.

Doctor Williams was only six years old when his father died. He attended school regularly at Carrollton, but did much other work besides - clerking in a store for three years, and spending three years with a civil engineering party on railway construction work. He was also a teacher. In 1878 he began the study of medicine under that honored pioneer physician of Carroll County, the late Dr. L. D. Stockon, whose life is reviewed on the following page. He entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York, remaining a student there from 1879 until his graduation in 1881. He then returned to Carrollton and became associated with Doctor Stockon, a partnership that was continued until 1890. Since then Doctor Williams has continued in individual practice until he has now given forty years to his profession. Inspired by a rugged devotion to duty and sustained by abounding physical health and a cheerfulness of spirit, he has performed his work year in and year out, making an aggregate of service that can not be measured by any of the ordinary standards of success. Even now his country travel in professional d,uty exceeds a thousand tniles a month. Doctor Williams is exceedingly well preserved, and apparently can do as much work as he could in years gone by.

He served four years as county coroner, twelve years as a member of the Board of Education in Carrollton, ten years on the Board of Public Affairs, and for six years was pension examiner. During the World war he was medical adviser on the County Draft Board. He Is a member of the American Medical Association. is a republican and a Methodist. The troubles of others and the constant demand for his services have in a measure mitigated the deep personal sorrow of Doctor Williams in the loss within recent years of his beloved wife and his favorite daughter.

December 13, 1881, Doctor Williams married Miss Irene Stockon, daughter of his former preceptor and medical partner, Dr. L. D. Stockon. Mrs. Williams was born in Carrollton December 13, 1863, was married on her cept the time spent in college her entire life was lived in Carrollton, and almost thirty-five years in the happy companionship of her husband. She died suddenly after two days of illness from the "grippe" January 21, 1916. The nobility of her character was matched by the many absorbing interests she found in the life of her home and the community about her. For many years .she was one of the devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and worked in church and other organizations through which she could give expression to her kindly, sympathetic nature. This constant sympathy she radiated to many of her husband's patients, and in this respect she was a valued partner in the success that has attended his practice. Mrs. Williams also possessed some of the rare qualifications of a business woman. Through her untiring efforts local capital took over the rubber factory, and he was largely responsible for the purchase of that plant by Doctor Williams and H. J. Richards, and her subsequent interest in its operation was an important chapter in the industrial prosperity it achieved. This industry was the L. & M. Rubber Company, or, as now known, the Tuscan Tire & Rubber Company, a large and profitable plant.

Doctor Williams was one of the committee of three which raised sixty thousand dollars to start the Carrollton Pottery Company, the members of the committee becoming trustees of the property. He was also on the committee to secure the location in Carrollton for the Albright China Company, and one of the trustees of the property.

The older daughter of Doctor Williams is Lois, who was bom in Carrollton August 18, 1884. She was graduated from the Carrollton High School in 1902. Two years later she became the wife of Mr. M. J. Lanahan, a prominent shoe merchant of Carrollton, who died January 28, 1919. Since Mr. Lanahan's death she has shown much of the business and executive ability of her mother in carrying on the enterprise. She lives with her father, and assists in caring for her little niece, Irene.

Florence, the younger daughter of Doctor Williams, was born in Carrollton November 8, 1895. She was a graduate of the Carrollton High School, also the Kent Normal School, having taken special kindergarten training at the latter, and was a teacher in the Carrollton public school for two years, being greatly loved by the children, to whom she was a "little mother." "Babe." as every one knew her, was talented in music and art, contributing liberally of the same in both school and church. She became the wife of Harold S. Vasbinder. She died January 25. 1920, three days after the birth of her only child, Irene, who is now being cared for In the home of Doctor Williams, the object of her grandfather's idolized affection, a love and devotion transferred to her from her mother, whose death was a bereavement that no philosophy can attenuate and must be accepted as It Is, an Irretrievable loss.

L. D. Stookon, M. D. There Is abundant reason for the esteem In which the name Stockon is held throughout Carroll County, where almost from pioneer times members of the family have been identified with the medical profession, and also with banking and other extensive interests. The late Dr. L. D. Stockon was a physician by training and through early years of practice, but is best remembered for his extensive financial and business connections with Carrollton and the county.

He was born at New Hagerstown in Carroll County, November 4, 1838, son of Dr. Samuel M. and Caroline (Winchell) Stockon. The Stockon ancestry is English, and the family has been in America for several generations preceding the late Doctor Stockon. His grandfather, Samuel Stockon, was a ship carpenter by trade, lived at East Haddon, Connecticut, and in 1810 moved to Hartford. Connecticut, where he followed gardening. Dr. Samuel M. Stockon at the age of fourteen became an office boy in a physician's office at Hartford, Connecticut. After two years he left and for about two years taught school on Long Island. He then resumed his medical studies in a doctor's office, and after a couple of years entered Barkley College at New York City. He served as under-physician in Bellevue Hospital until after the cholera epidemic of 1831-32. After graduating from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College he practiced for a short time at Collinsville, Connecticut.

At Collinsville September 15, 1833, he married Caroline Winchell, of an old and prominent Connecticut family. Dr. Samuel M. Stockon brought his bride to what was then the far west, and for about two years did a country practice in the small village of Brimfield in Portage County, Ohio. From there he removed to New Hagerstown, Carroll County, and for twenty years or more was a physician who spent the greater part of the hours of each day riding or driving about the country looking after his patients. In 1858 he removed to Carrollton, where he continued his practice until 1877. From 1876 he conducted a private banking business until his death on July 30, 1888. His widow survived him to very advanced years, passing away September 19, 1904.

The late Dr. L. D. Stockon had the example of his honored father before him in the choice of a career. He was educated in the public schools at Scio and Hopedale in Harrison County, and in 1859 began the diligent study of medicine with his father, with whom he practiced until 1877 and then with Doctor McLean and later with Dr. Williams. For fifteen years he conducted a drug store at Carrollton, from 1889 to 1904. and then sold.

The late Doctor Stockon was president of the Carrollton Savings and Trust Company, and at the time of his death was reputed to be one of the wealthiest men in the county. His later years were given entirely to his extensive business affairs. These were the source of duties and responsibilities that he discharged with an eminent degree of fairness and Justice to all concerned. He was a democrat in voting; until the democrats put up the free silver issue and was afterwards a republican, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

They had been married nearly forty-five years. On November 23, 1861, Dr. Stockon married Miss Juliet R. Thomas, daughter of Osmon and Julia (Matthews) Thomas, of Streetboro, Ohio. Her father was a native of New York and her mother of Massachusetts. Dr. and Mrs. Stockon had six children: Caroline, Daisy and Samuel M. ; all dying in infancy; Irene, the wife of the well-known Carrollton physician, Dr John R. Williams, to whom reference is made in the preceding sketch; Flora, who died April 13, 1917, was the wife of D. E. Keiper. There is a second son named Samuel M., who is living in Alliance, Ohio, conducting the Supreme Dairy Company.

John A. Frazier has been engaged In independent farm enterprise in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, since 1903, and in 1916 he purchased his present fine homestead farm, which comprises eighty acres, he having since sold twenty acres of the original tract of 100 acres. He is alert and progressive as an exponent of agricultural and live-stock industry, and gives special attention to dairy farming, in which his success is proving unequivocal. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrisville, the while they are popular factors in the representative social life of their home community.

Mr. Frazier was born in Belmont County, Ohio, on the 18th of January, 1879, and Is a son of John P. and Melinda (Satzer) Frazier, both likewise natives of Belmont County. John P. Frazier was reared and educated in Belmont County and was there actively identified with mining enterprise, principally in the position of mine foreman, during practically his entire business career. He is now living retired at Maynard, that county, his wife having passed to eternal rest in August, 1919, a devoted member of the Wheeling Valley Presbyterian Church, in which he likewise holds membership. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Frazier became the parents of eight children: Louemma, George W., Temperance, William, John Addison, Joseph B., Myrtle and Elmer.

John Addison Frazier acquired his youthful education in the Wheeling Valley public schools, and as a young man he gained practical experience in connection with farm Industry. He remained in his native county until the autumn of 1903, since which time, as previously noted in this article, he has been actively identified with farm enterprise in Short Creek Township, Harrison County.

On September 3, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Frazier to Miss Sadie Goodwin, daughter of Edwin Goodwin, of Short Creek Township, Harrison County. They have no children.

Robert Reid Cochran. The late Robert Reid Cochran was one of the well-known and highlyhonored men of Cadiz Township, where he spent his entire life as a successful and progressive farmer and raiser of registered short-horned cattle, in which latter enterprise he was the pioneer in Harrison County.

Mr. Cochran was bora on "Oak Dale Farm" (the old Cochran homestead), one mile north from the city of Cadiz, on September 14, 1822, the son of Robert and Sarah Jane (Calhoun) Cochran, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. Robert Cochran was bora near the city of Harrisburg, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on September 15, 1771, the son of Samuel and Mary (Shearer) Cochran. As a young man he accompanied his parents on their removal to Allegheny County, that State, where the family settled on a farm on the Monongahela River, twelve miles distant from the city of Pittsburgh, at what was formerly Cochran Station, now the city of Duquesne. There, on April 24, 1800, he married Dorcas Neal who died on March 1, 1801, leaving a daughter, Dorcas (Mrs. Whittaker, deceased).

In 1800 Robert Cochran came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased a heavily-timbered tract of Government land, one-half mile north from where was later located Cadiz, the county-seat. After making a preliminary clearing on his land he built his log cabin and gradually made other needed improvements, and then returned to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where, on April 7, 1807, he was married to Sarah Jane Calhoun, who was bora on January 8, 1787, in Mifflin Township, that county. Following their marriage they returned to Harrison County where together, they bravely faced the vicissitudes and trials of pioneer life, and to them the passing years brought success and happiness. Both died on their homestead, the former on February 1, 1861, at the venerable age of ninety years, the latter on April 4, 1867. They became the parents of the following children : Eleanor, bora February 11, 1808, died September 17, 1867; Samuel, bom March 31, 1811, died December 7, 1899; David Calhoun, born August 1, 1814, died October 30, 1883; Mary Ann King (Mrs. William Harvey Caldwell), born December 11, 1817, died July 23, 1899; Robert Reid (subject), born September 14, 1822, died September 2, 1902; Sarah Jane, born October 9, 1825, died August 5, 1911 (she never married and after the death of her parents always made her home with her brother, Robert Reid and his family; she was a woman of culture and refinement, and her memory will always be cherished with pride and gratitude by her nieces and nephews).

In his youth Robert Reid Cochran received educational advantages somewhat superior to the average of the locality and period. He early began to lend his aid in the work of the home farm of which he later became the owner, and which he developed Into one of the finest rural estates in Harrison County. On this farm In 1811 Robert Cochran, Sr., built a brick residence which was the first brick house in Harrison County. This structure was razed in 1851 by Robert Reid Cochran; and was succeeded by a second brick residence on the same site, and in 1875 Mr. Cochran remodeled the latter into the present handsome and commodious brick residence, and this country-seat as well as its predecessors has always been noted for its cordial hospitality.

On October 10, 1867, Robert Reid Cochran was united In marriage with Rachael Prudence Hedges, who likewise was bom and reared In Cadiz Township, the daughter of the late William Dunlap and Mary Jane (McClelland) Hedges. William Hedges was a representative of one of Harrison County's earliest pioneer families, his ancestors, Samuel Hedges, having come here from Virginia in 1800, accompanied by his wife Prudence Dunlap. Mrs. Cochran's mother was bom in County Down, Ireland, and was four years of age when, in 1829, her parents, John and Jennie (Beatty) McClelland, came to the United States and eventually settled near New Philadelphia, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They became the parents of the following children: Rachael Prudence (Mrs. Cochran), born November 16. 1844; John Norwood, deceased; Sarah Jane (Mrs. Alexander Osbum) ; Margaret Ann; Samuel Beatty; Martha Ellen, deceased, Mary Emma (Mrs. M. B. Osbum) ; and Clara. Cora, an infant son, and William, all deceased.

Robert Emmett married Sarah Ellen Hoffman. of Cadiz, Ohio, and resides on the farm in Cadiz Township. They became the parents of the following children : Mary Frances, Robert E., Jr. (married Mary Evangeline Thorpe), and resides in Portland. Ore.; Reid Hoffman, bom December 30. 1897, died September 23, 1910; Alice Calhoun, bom November 4. 1899, died August 27, 1902; John Frederick, bom August 31. 1901, died August 26. 1902: Clyde Carson, bom May 31. 1903, died October 28, 1920; Harold Benton, William Hedges, Samuel Raymond and Helen Florence.

Reid Burchfield, who is a civil engineer, married Eddie May Boatner. of Sbn Luis Potosi. Mexico, and resides in that city. They have the following children: Reid B., Jr.. Edward

Mary Eleanor, Frank McClelland and Henrietta King remain with the mother on the old homestead, of which Frank has had the active management since the death of his father.

Robert Reid Cochran was a man of sterling character and worthy achievement, loyal in all relations of life, an exemplar of the highest ideals of personal stewardship, and liberal and public-spirited as a citizen. He was a democrat in politics and a Presbyterian in religion. His father was a man of strong mind and fine characteristics, was an influential and useful citizen, and served many years as Justice of the Peace and surveyor. He also was a democrat and a Presbyterian.

George W. Glover. The early life of George W. Glover of Cadiz was passed in Jefferson County, where he was bom May 27, 1840, and his father, Josiah Glover, was also bom there in 1814, and died there in 1897, the parents both being bom in Smithfleld Township. The mother was Mary Barkhurst, a daughter of William and Nancy (Hayne) Barkhurst. Both the Glover and Barkhurst families were pioneer residents of Jefferson County. The grandfather, Josiah Glover, and his wife, Nancy (Hall) Glover, came from near Baltimore to Jefferson County. Shortly after their marriage they located at Smithfleld. He went to Missouri to look after some property when he was an old man, and died on a boat and was burled on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Josiah Glover, father of G. W. Glover, was a farmer in Smithfleld Township, and for many years he kept what was known as the Country Inn. It was a popular place with travelers and especially with drovers who were takihg livestock to market. He always lived there. He was trustee of Smithfleld Township for many years. His children are: Sarah A., Nancy, Susan, George W., Josephine, J. C., Elizabeth, Esther, Malona and William. The family belonged to the Holmes Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the oldest churches in Ohio.

George W. Glover attended the village school of York, and later he was a student in Hopedale McNeally Normal, and as a young man he combined teaching with farming for a number of years. When he began teaching he received twenty-five dollars a month, but after four years he was paid forty dollars a month. He was a teacher twelve years, teaching three years In a graded school in Illinois. He finally taught in the public schools of Cadiz In 1869, but was forced to abandon the profession because of ill health. For the next seven years Mr. Glover engaged in the boot, shoe and leather trade in Cadiz. In that time he was elected town treasurer and was also treasurer of the school board. For several years after quitting the store Mr. Glover bought and shipped livestock, and he also handled wool, buying and selling.

In 1866 Mr. Glover married Jennie A. Jamison, a daughter of Walter Jamison, who was a pioneer settler in Harrison County, having come into the community in 1801 - territorial days in Ohio. Mrs. Glover died in 1913. In 1864 Mr. Glover enlisted in Company H, One Hundred Fifty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil war, receiving his discharge after the close of the war, the following year. He is a member of the Cadiz Post, G. A. R., and he has been active in republican politics of Harrison County. In 1888 he was elected Joint senator from Harrison and Belmont counties, Ohio, and for a time he served as bookkeeper in the offlce of the treasurer of state.

Under the administration of Governor Bushnell Mr. Glover was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Institutions of Ohio. He held this position for five years and became familiar in that time with the institutional life of Ohio. For many years he was a member of the Board of Examiners of Harrison County. Mr. Glover Is a member of the Presbyterian Church in Cadiz.

For many years he was engaged in the breeding of blooded race horses, some of which gained not only a local but national reputation. He perhaps exhibited more live stock In the eastern counties of Ohio and the state fairs of

Ohio and West Virginia and won more prizes than any other exhibitor in eastern Ohio. The most noted of these horses was "Florence Nightingale," known as the "Home Missionary Mare," which name was given her by the fact that her owner agreed to give one-tenth of her prize winning money to the Home Missionary Society. She was one of the best known and greatly admired horses ever exhibited on a track in this section, admired not only for her beauty but for her speed.

Samuel Q. Morbow, treasurer of the Tuscan Rubber & Tire Company of Carrollton, has had many associations with the life and affairs of several communities of Carroll County. For many years he was a successful educator, has filled various offices of trust and responsibility, and there are few citizens whose public spirit and work are better appreciated in the community.

The Morrows have been residents of Carroll County for over fourscore years. The ancestry goes back to Ireland. One of the Irish family went to England and entered the employ of an English lord. He fell in love with the only daughter of the titled Englishman, his affections were reciprocated, and she eloped with her father's employe and they went to Ireland. She was disinherited, but according to all accounts lived very happy in her humble Irish home. It was from this couple that the first American ancestor of Samuel Q. Morrow descended. His name was William Morrow. He had a brother Thomas who preceded him to America, though his experiences after that were unknown. The mother of Samuel Q. Morrow also bore the family name Morrow, and it is supposed that she was a descendant of this Thomas Morrow.

William Morrow was born in Ireland, where he married, and about 1800 he immigrated to the United States, his only child dying on the voyage. After coming to this country fifteen children were born, two of whom died young. The sons who reached mature years were William, Samuel, James, Moses and Aaron, while the daughters were Mary, Lydia, Annie, Rachael, Miram, Kezlah, Hannah and Phoebe. William Morrow in 1816 left Pennsylvania with his family and moved to Stark County, Ohio, settling near Minerva. As a pioneer he entered a hundred sixty acres from the Government, and made many improvements and lived there until his death, about 1857. His wife also died on the old homestead.

Their son, James Morrow, was born in Pennsylvania in 1808 and was about eight years old when brought to Ohio. He grew up on a farm, was married in Carroll County, and then moved to Jefferson County, Ohio. In 1838 he acquired land in Carroll County, and on March 10, 1839, brought his family to Fox Township and lived on his farm there until his death in 1872. James Morrow married Priscilla Queen, who was born in 1811 and died In 1899. Her father was Samuel Queen, and she was a half sister of Jonah Queen, a name mentioned elsewhere in this publication. James Morrow was a republican In politics and a member of the Christian Church. He and his wife had eight children : Mary, who died in infancy; William F. ; Jane.

who became the wife of Jacob Zerbe and now lives in Kansas; Lydia, who died young; Aaron, who died about 1917 ; Jonah, who lives in Carrollton ; Obediah, who died young ; and Hannah, wife of Amos Moore% of Jefferson County, Ohio.

The third generation of the family In America is represented by the venerable William F. Morrow, who was born in Jefferson County June 1, 1838, but has been a resident of Carroll County since he was nine months old. He grew up on the farm In Fox Township, acquired a public school education and also attended the Hopedale College. During 1859-60 he taught in Washington County, Illinois, but for over half a century applied his efforts to the trade of carpenter and farming. He owned a hundred thirty-three acres, including the original eighty acres a c quired by his father in Fox Township in 1838. The Morrow farm was sold in 1919, in which year William F. Morrow removed to Carrollton, where he is still living at the age of eighty-two. He married Elizabeth C. Morrow, who was horn in Pennsylvania November 27, 1841. She died March 27, 1910, at the old homestead in Fox Township. To their marriage were born nine children. The oldest, Louisa Jane, is the wife of John Griffith, and they have four children; Lera Bell, wife of Charles Palmer, Elma and Elva, twins, and Frank. John, the second of the family, married Etta Ferguson, and to their union were born five children : Edna, who died in infancy; Dorothy, Joseph, John and Genora. Aaron, better known among his associates as "Tad," married Mary Kelley and has two children, Tipton and Edwin. The fourth of the family is Samuel Queen Morrow, who is a greatgrandson of the original settler, William Morrow. Fred Morrow, the fifth child, married Lulu Twiss, and they had ten children: Paul, who died February 8, 1920, at the age of twentythree; Lloyd, Lillian, Merle, who was killed in 1917, Claire, Jay, Helen, Ethel, Nettle and Martha. Sarah P. Morrow is the wife of Alexander McLain and has no children. Amos Leroy, known as Bob, married Mary Jane Ford, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Anna is the wife of Judge William Moffett, a well-known character mentioned elsewhere in this history. Frank, who lives at Denver, Colorado, married Mary Harlowe, and has four children, Helen, Emmett, Edith and Margaret.

These are the children of William F. Morrow, by his second marriage. His first wife was Elizabeth Griffith, whom he married in 1862 and who died in 1866. The older of her two children is James William Morrow of Fox Township, Carroll County, who married Isabel Dennis and had six children, Guy, Floyd, Elizabeth, Ella, Freeman and Sheldon. The second is Mary, widow of John Elliott and the mother of Bessie, William, Harry, Elizabeth, Anna, Orville and Hazel.

This is a remarkable family record. Past fourscore and with few of the Infirmities of that age William F. Morrow is the father of eleven children, all of whom are living, and it would take a large auditorium to seat comfortably all his children, grandchildren and other descendants and relatives. William F. Morrow has been a republican from almost the birth of the party,

Samuel Queen Morrow was born on the old farm in Fox Township August 18, 1873. In that rural environment he grew to manhood, attended the Greenbrier School in Fox Township, took an academic course at Mechanicstown, and in the intervals of teaching attended Mount Union College and the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He was graduated both in the commercial and pharmacy courses and in a general scientific course. The work of teaching engaged him continuously until 1900, in which year he took charge of the L. D. Stockon drug store at Carrollton. After leaving this business in 1904 he resumed teaching and was also in the insurance business until 1910. For the following three years he had charge of the business department of the Newcastle High School in Pennsylvania, and returning to Carrollton in June. 1913, became cashier and bookkeeper for the Tuscan Rubber & Tire Company, the business to which he has since devoted his time and efforts.

Mr. Morrow served one term ns coroner of Carroll County and has also been clerk and mayor of Carrollton. His long experience as an educator makes him a valuable member of the Carrollton School Board, and in January. 1920. he was chosen president of the board. Politically he is a staunch republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Rebekahs, and is a member of the Lutheran Church. March 31, 1904, Mr. Morrow married Miss Clara Merrlgan, of Carroll County. They have two children, Margaret and William Fred.

George E. Pretty in a comparatively brief career has made himself an important factor in the business affairs of Carrollton. One of the most Important business institutions of the county Is the Tuscan Tire & Rubber Company, with which he has been identified continuously for fifteen years, beginning practically when a boy. He is now head of the traffic and service department of the corporation.

Mr. Pretty was born on a farm in Center Township, Carroll County, August 8, 1888, son of William and Elizabeth Pretty. His parents were born in England, where they were married, and located in Carroll County in 1880. William Pretty was a farmer in Center Township until his death in 1902. All of their ten children are still living.

George E. Pretty grew up on the old farm, and was only fourteen years of age when his father died. Besides the district schools he attended the Carrollton High School and in 1905, at the age of seventeen, entered the Mitzel Rubber Plant, now the Tuscan Tire & Rubber Company. He was a factory workman, being employed for a time in the dipping department, later had charge of the inner tube department, and, showing ability and readiness to assume responsibilities, has had an active part In the business management practically ever since he reached his majority. Since 1917 he has had charge of the traffic and service department.

Mr. Pretty has also taken a considerable interest in politics and for the year 1920 has the responsibilities of executive secretary and member of the executive committee of the Carroll County democratic party. He has also served as clerk of the Election Board. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Pretty In 1909 married Letha Davis, of Columbus, Ohio, a daughter of George Wesley Davis.

Two of Mr. Pretty's brothers earned records as soldiers during the Wrorld war. Albert enlisted June 18, 1918, and was sent to Cincinnati and given an intensive course of instruction in cabinet making at the Hughes High School for about three months. Later he was at Camp Mead, Maryland, until the latter part of February, 1919, when he was sent to Fort Howard in the same state and received his honorable discharge in April. The other brother, Howard, left his work in the Tuscan Tire & Rubber Company's plant and enlisted June 18, 1918, in the naval aviation section. He was at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and July 5th sailed for France. He was on duty at Bordeaux until November, 1918, when he was sent to East Leigh. England, and in December returned to Pelham Bay, Long Island, and was granted his discharge in February. 1919.

William Lee Sharp, a druggist of Cadiz, was born in that city on July 14. 1862, the son of Dr. William T. and Elizabeth (Carnahan) Sharp. The Sharps are of English stock and the family was founded in America by William Sharp, great-grandfather of the present generation. who came over near the Revolutionary period. His son, John Sharp, was among the Harrison County pioneers. He married Catharine, a daughter of David Thompson, who was early in the community. However, In 1834 John Sharp and his wife removed to Holmes County. They were the parents of Dr. William T. Sharp, David. John. James, George, Samuel, Martha, Marc- ret and Joseph.

William T. Sharp was born on the outskirts of Cadiz and spent his boyhood on the farm. He attended Franklin College and was graduated from a college In Guernsey County, Ohio. He read medicine under Dr. John McBean, of Cadiz, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1859 with the degree of M. D. He began the practice of medicine in partnership with Dr. McBean, but in 1864 he opened a drug store, which he conducted in conjunction with his medical practice. On October 12, 1859, he mnrried Elizabeth Carnahan, the daughter of John and Martha (Henderson) Carnahan, and their children are John Clarence, William Lee, Preston McCready, Caroline Martha, Mary Belle and George Cunningham Sharp. In the Carnahan lineage. Elizabeth was the fourth daughter in the family of John and Martha (Henderson) Carnahan, the others being: Henderson, Belle. Thomas L. and Martha.

As a young man W. L. Sharp spent ten years as a Cadiz Township farmer, and in 1891 entered the drug store as the partner of his father. Since the death of his father he has conducted the business alone. On November 29. 1899, Mr. Scott married Lyda F.. a daughter of J. M. Stevenson. Their children are: John C., born September 27, 1900; William Lee, who died when eighteen months old: and Lee, born April 18,

The Stevenson family lineage shows John M. Stevenson was born In Lee Township, Carroll County, March 4, 1846, and that his father, David Stevenson, came from Londonderry, Ireland. The wife, Agnes Miller, was also born in Ireland and they were married there. Back of that the ancestry was Scotch, but it is known that David Stevenson was a young married man with four children born in Ireland. When he came to this country he located for a time in Steubenville, Jefferson County, coming finally to Carroll County. The children born in Ireland are: Matthew, Josiah, Fannie and John, the latter dying aboard ship while crossing the Atlantic and was buried in New York City. The children born in America are: Eliza Jane, Ellen, Mary Ann, David, William R. and John M. Stevenson. The Stevensons were also United Presbyterians.

As a young man Mr. Stevenson was an auctioneer combined with his farm activities. In 1885 he moved from Carroll to Harrison County, locating in North Township, near Scio, where he spent sixteen years as a farmer. In 1901 he removed to Cadiz, engaging for six years as a granite dealer. From Cadiz he removed to Cambridge, where he operated a livery and boarding stable six years. Mr. Stevenson finally returned to Cadiz, where he formed a business relation with Frank Longley, the firm being Longley and Stevenson, and they deal in granite. Since 1917 Mr. Stevenson has been sheriff of Harrison County.

twins, Agnes and Anna ; Lydia, Mrs. W. L. Sharp; and Pearl, deceased. Mr. Stevenson holds membership in the Masonic and I. O. O. fc\ lodges in Cadiz.

Christopheb E. Arnold, the proprietor of a valuable farm of eighty-seven and one-half acres in Freeport Township, Harrison County, and a farmer and citizen of substantial standing, still In the prime of a useful life, is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, and was born July 29, 1864, a son of David and Delilah (Decker) Arnold.

William Arnold, the paternal grandfather of Christopher E., was an agriculturist of Guernsey County, and there married Caroline Haden, by whom he had eight children: Henry, David, Azriah, Samuel, Lewis, Leander, Sarah Jane and Isabel. David Arnold was born in Guernsey County, where he followed the pursuits of the soil until about 1881, in that year removing to Freeport Township, Harrison County. He remained there only two years, however, subsequently moving to Nottingham Township, where he passed nineteen years in farming and raising stock, and finally located at Smyrna. Guernsey County, where his death occurred. He married Delilah Decker, who was also a native of Guernsey County, daughter of Joseph and Catherine Decker, farming people of that county, and the youngest in a family of six children, the others being: John. Lewis, Henry, Sarah and Mary.

the Methodist Church and the parents of eight children: Retta, Anna, Ross W.f C. E., Margaret, David H., Mary and Ida, of whom Margaret died when small.

Christopher E. Arnold attended the public schools of Guernsey and Harrison counties and was reared as an agriculturist, residing on the home farm until his marriage, January 30, 1890, to Miss Susan Sears, daughter of David and Margaret (Morton) Sears. Following his marriage Mr. Arnold commenced farming in Nottingham Township, but after one year removed to Guernsey County, which was his home and the scene of his agricultural activities for twelve years. In April, 1903, he moved to his present farm in Freeport Township, where he has eightyseven and one-half acres of land, all under a high state of cultivation and devoted to general farming and dairying. Mr. Arnold has a most modernly equipped estate in every particular, and his buildings are equipped with electric lights and other conveniences. He is an intelligent, systematic and progressive farmer, and has made an excellent record as a worthy representative of the best agricultural element of Harrison County.

and resides on the Arnold farm, and they have a daughter, Helen Louise; Ethel, who married Kenneth Smith and resides at Canton; Ralph, who married Dora Morris, and lives at Canton, with one son, Wayne; Wade W., who entered the United States service September 19, 1918, was stationed at Cincinnati in the General Mechanics' School, received his honorable discharge December 20, 1919, and now resides at Canton, married Hallie Clark and has one son, Robert Leon ; Kelly, who lives at Canton ; and one son who died in infancy unnamed. Mrs. Arnold is a member of the Methodist Church at Smyrna. Mr. Arnold takes a good citizen's interest in public affairs, and creditably fulfills his obligations as a member of the community. He is a republican.

David Sears. Harrison County counts among its roll of departed citizens few who left behind* more substantial evidences of association with its agricultural affairs than the late David Sears. As a farmer and public-spirited citizen he came and went among the people of Freeport Township from the time of his boyhood until his death, October 16, 1905, and there remains in his wake an impression of practical usefulness, of genuine, dependable character, due in part to his sterling ancestry, but more directly traceable to his untiring zeal and ready recognition of opportunity.

Mr. Sears was born June 22, 1815, in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, a son of Jonathan and Susan (Sing) Sears, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Chester County, that state. His father came to Harrison County prior to the War of 1812, in which struggle he participated for a short time, and lived in Nottingham Township until 1818, when ho went to Freeport and became a tanner, a business which he followed during the remainder of his life. He and his wife were faithful members of the Methodist Church and the par-