Harrison Township (part 5 of 37)

David Sears was but three years of age when brought by his parents from Nottingham Township to Freeport Township, and In the latter locality his education was acquired in the early public schools. He early adopted the vocation of farming as his life work, and this he followed without cessation during a long and honorable career, and not only accumulated a valuable property but won the esteem of his fellow-citizens in unqualified degree. To have known him was to have one's confidence in human nature strengthened and one's faith in the homely, straight-forward virtues which tend to public confidence fortified. Mr. Sears married Miss Margaret Morton, who was born in Harrison County, November 12, 1826, and died May 2, 1906. She was a daughter of Samuel and Jane (McKee) Morton, the former a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, and the latter of the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Morton was one of the pioneers of Harrison County, and he and his worthy wife were the parents of ten children : Margaret, John, Esther, Thomas, Belle, Mary, Hannah, Archibald, Sarah and Elizabeth.

who died in childhood; Albert and Amanda, who are still residents of the old home farm and highly-respected citizens of Freeport Township, where they have numerous friends; John T. ; James, deceased; Hannah B., who died when small; Wesley D. deceased; Delno; Susan, the wife of Christopher E. Arnold, an agriculturist of Freeport Township; Charles; Jonathan, who died in infancy; Emma and Hattie. The old home property is still kept in the family name by Albert and Amanda Sears, who operate the property and carry on general farming and stock-raising In the same worthy and progressive manner that made their father successful.

Geobge C. Rankin. No mediocre success has been that achieved by Mr. Rankin in his selfreliant activities, and he now has secure place as one of the representative business men of Carrollton, Judicial center of Carroll County, where his well equipped jewelry and optical establishment has a large and appreciative supporting patronage.

George Cummings Rankin was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 8th of January, 1882, and is a son of William A. and Emma (Cum- -mlngs) Rankin/ both likewise natives of Jefferson County. The paternal grandparents rtf the subject of this sketch were Thomas and Ann Jane (Tennant) Rankin, the latter of whom was a daughter of a sturdy Scotsman who became one of the earliest settlers in what is now Lee Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed a pioneer farm and where he continued to reside until his death, at the patriarchal age of 101 years and three months. William A. Rankin learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith, and this trade he followed actively at Amsterdam, Jefferson County, and at other places in this section of his native state.

When George C. Rankin was a lad of eight years he was taken into the home of the Lawrence family of Lee Township, Carroll County, and with this family he remained until he was twenty years of age. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Carroll County, as well as those of the academy at Harlem Springs, this county, and thereafter he further fortified himself by taking a course in a business college at East Liverpool. It was also at East Liverpool that he initiated a practical apprenticeship to the jeweler's trade, in which he became a skilled workman. There he remained eight years, after which he worked at his trade six months in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and an equal period In Detroit, Michigan, in which cities he perfected himself in the art of engraving as applied in connection with the jewelry business. For three years he was employed at his trade at Flint, Michigan, and during the ensuing three years he was similarly engaged at Youngstown, Ohio, from which city he then came to Carrollton and established his present business, in which he is meeting with unqualified success. Mr. Rankin is affiliated with Hebron Lodge No. 55, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Youngstown; and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Carrollton, in which he is serving as a member of the Official Board.

In June, 1910, Mr. Rankin wedded Miss Winona Cravin, who was born at Harlem Springs, Carroll County, and who died in February, 1916, no children having been born of this union. In May, 1918, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rankin to Miss Eleanor Miller, who was bora in Lee Township, Carroll County, a daughter of John J. and Mary (Lee) Miller. Mrs. Rankin was graduated from the Carrollton High School, and prior to her marriage had been for eight years a popular teacher in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin have a fine little son, George Erwin, who was born November 6, 1919.

Gbobge H. Collins has been long and prominently associated with important business and industrial interests in his native county and is the efficient and popular cashier of the Jewett State Bank, a position of which he has been the incumbent from the time of the incorporation of this substantial Harrison County institution. He is one of the liberal and progressive citizens of the thriving village of Jewett, and is entitled to special recognition in this publication - not only by reason of his personal achievement but also on account of his being a representative of an honored pioneer family in Harrison County.

Mr. Collins was born in Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, on the 2d of September, 1850, and is a son of Zachariah and Rachel (Willoughby) Collins, whose marriage was solemnized on the 16th of August, 1849. Zachariah Collins was bora at Frederiektown, Maryland, on the 7th of April, 1829, and his wife was bora in Knox County, Ohio, on the 14th of October, 1831, a daughter of Henry and Maria (Furnice) Willoughby. Henry Willoughby was born in England In the year 1800, and was a son of William Willoughby. When a lad of fourteen years he ran away from home and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to America. He settled In Can- ada, and there entered the Canadian forces of the English army, in which he continued to serve seven years and six months. After his retirement from military service he made two visits to his native land, and finally he came from Canada to the United States and settled in Knox County, Ohio, whence he later removed with his family to Morrow County, though the closing years of his life were passed near Mount Vernon, Knox County, where he died in 18S2. He was a life long communicant of the church representing the established Anglican faith, his membership in the United States having been maintained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife preceded him to the life eternal. Their children were ten in number. Mr. Willoughby was a mason by trade and did a large amount of important construction service at his trade during the period of his residence in Knox County, Ohio, he having been the master mason in the construction of that enduring stone structure, Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio.

Zachariah Collins was a son of George and Eliza (Bear) Collins, both of whom were born at Prederlcktown, Maryland, in which state they remained until 1832, when with wagon and a four-horse team they made the long overland journey to Ohio and settled in Moorefleld Towmship, Harrison County. In the village of Moorefleld Mr. Collins engaged in the work of his trade, that of shoemaker, and later he turned his attention to farm enterprise in Moorefleld Township, where he remained on his homestead farm until his death in 1870, at the age of seventy-four years, his wife likewise having been well advanced in years at the time of her death and both having been devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he gave earnest service in the office of classleader. They became the parents of a fine family of fourteen children, and the names of the eleven who attained to years of maturity are here designated : William, Amanda, Catherine, Mary, Zachariah, George P., Nicholas, John W., Cyrena, Eliza A. and Thomas.

Zachariah Collins was about four years of age at the time of the family migration to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood and received the advantages of the pioneer schools in Moorefleld Township. As a youth he learned the shoemaker's trade under the direction of his father, and he had the satisfaction of personally manufacturing the first pair of boots that he himself used. In 1850. within a few months after his marriage, Mr. Collins purchased about three acres of land in Moorefleld Township, and on this miniature farm he and his young wife established their home in a pioneer log house. Eventually Mr. Collins became the owner of an excellent farm of 163 acres in Moorefleld Township, and on his land he platted a portion of the village of Piedmont. He remained on his farm, upon which he had erected good buildings, until his death, which occurred on the 12th of November, 1884, his widow remaining on the old homestead until May, 1901, when she purchased a residence In Jewett, Ohio, where she resided about three years. She passed away on March 18, 1904. Her remains were laid beside her husband in the Belmont Ridge Cemetery in Flushing Township, Belmont County, Ohio. She was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The religious faith of Mr. Collins was that of the Protestant Methodist Church. Of the children George H., of this review, is the eldest; Nicholas B. is a lawyer by profession and is now a representative member of the bar of Ohio's capital city, Columbus; Elizabeth died July 5, 1S04 ; Ann Eliza became the wife of David N. Reynolds, and they resided in Belmont County, but both died In Piedmont. Ohio; Parley A. is the wife of Frank J. Mead, of St. Clairsville, Belmont County; and William W., who remained with his mother on the old home farm, is now a resident of the city of Detroit, Michigan.

In the Belmont Ridge district school, on the line between Harrison and Belmont counties, George H. Collins obtained his preliminary education, which was supplemented by a two years' course in the McNealy Normal School at Hopedale. where he was a student in 1869-70. Thereafter he devoted about six years to successful service as a teacher in the district schools, and in 1878 attended the celebrated Eastman Business College in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. In the autumn of the following year he erected a store and dwelling house in the village of Piedmont, and in April, 1880, he installed in his store a stock of general merchandise. the same having represented a valuation of $2,800. He developed a substantial and prosperous mercantile business, to the management of which he continued to give his attention until 1893, when he sold the stock and business. In the meanwhile he had served two terms as postmaster of the village. After his retirement from business Mr. Collins passed one year on the old home farm in Moorefleld Township, and for eighteen months thereafter he was engaged in farming in German Township. On the 1st of April, 1896, he established his home in the village of Jewett, where he has since resided. On the 5th of September, 1898, he here became associated with Dr. William L. England and Robert W. Read in establishing the Jewett Bank. They continued the enterprise successfully as a private bank until 1909, when the business was reorganized and incorporated under the present title, the Jewett State Bank, operations being based upon a capital stock of $25,000 and Mr. Collins having continuously served as cashier of the institution, the success of which has been in large measure due to his careful and conservative management and progressive policies.. Mr. Collins is a republican in his political allegiance. has given effective service as a member of the village council of Jewett and also ns a member of the municipal board of control. His wife is an earnest communicant of the local Lutheran Church, to which he gives liberal support.

On the 11th of May. 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Collins to Miss Elizabeth A. Hilbert, who was born in German Township, Harrison County, on the 6th of February. 1854. and who is a daughter of the late Henry and Margaret (Flnnicum) Hilbert Mr. and Mrs. Collins became the parents of two children. Earl H. was boro April 9, 1881, and has served since 1905 as assistant cashier of the Jewett State Bank. He married Miss Mary Hauck, and they have three children: Edwin H., bom Febraary 9, 1910 ; Hilbert S., bom March 2, 1912, and Eleanor E., bom May 12, 1914. Clara M. Collins was bom Jane 22, 1883, and her death occurred on the 25th of August, 1897.

Nelson B. Simpson is one of the progressive farmers of Washington Township, Harrison County, where he stages his productive enterprise on the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. He is a popular representative of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of Harrison County, with whose civic and industrial development the family name has been closely associated for more than a century. The' progenitor of this wellknown Harrison County family was John Simpson, who was bom in Ireland and who came to America in 1798, his marriage to Miss Mary McElroy having been solemnized in Washington County, Pennsylvania. About the opening of the nineteenth century John Simpson came with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio and numbered himself as one of the sturdy, self-reliant and ambitious pioneers of Harrison County. He reclaimed from the virgin forest a productive farm in Stock Township, and with his noble wife he endured the manifold hardships and straggles which fell to the lot of the early settlers in this now favored section of the Buckeye State. Here these worthy pioneers reared their large family of children, who in turn took up the labors and responsibilities incidental to continued development and progress in the county, and the names of these sterling founders merit a place of honor in the history of the county.

John Simpson, Jr., son of John and Mary (McElroy) Simpson, was bom on the old pioneer homestead in Stock Township in the year 1814, and it was here that his father died in 1836. He was reared under pioneer conditions and influences, early gained fellowship with the arduous work of the pioneer farm, and in the meanwhile profited by the advantages of the primitive schools of the locality and period. At the age of twenty-five years he married Miss Margaret Law, of Monroe Township. Of this union were born the following children : Mary Ann (Mrs. Joseph Patterson), Martha (Mrs. Robert Birney), Margaret (Mrs. Frank Welch), Matthew W., William, Frank and Ella. The parents were earnest members and supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Simpson became a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party. Mr. Simpson's death occurred In the year 1877, and his wife survived him by several years.

Matthew W. Simpson, of the third generation of the family in Harrison County, was bom on his father's farm in Stock Township on the 20th of August, 1846, and here he was reared to manhood, with educational privileges such as the common schools of the day afforded. September 16, 1869, recorded his marriage to Miss Rebecca Birney, who likewise was bom and reared in this county and who Is a daughter of the late John Birney. In the spring of 1871 Mr. and Mrs. Simpson established their residence on their present fine homestead farm in the eastern part of Washington Township, and here they have remained during the long intervening years which have compassed the development of their farm into one of the finest in the township. Mr. Simpson achieved unqualified success in his effective enterprise as an agriculturist and stockgrower, and on the place he erected in 1887 one of the most substantial, commodious and attractive farm houses in the county. This fine brick structure, designed by Mr. Simpson himself, is in the form of a Greek cross, with large bow windows extending from the ground floor to the roof projection. The building has a slate roof, and the interior finishing, in chestnut, blackwalnut and oak, marks the house further as one of the most attractive in Harrison County. The farm estate of Mr. Simpson comprises 240 acres, and In the gracious evening of their long and useful lives he and his wife occupy their beautiful home and enjoy to the full the rewards of former years of earnest endeavor - secure in the high esteem of all who know them and honored as worthy representative of pioneer families of this section of the state. In connection with his extensive farm enterprise Mr. Simpson for many years conducted a substantial business In the buying and shipping of live stock.

At the inception of the Civil war Mr. Simpson was too young to be eligible for military service, but on the 10th of May, 1864, at the age of seventeen years, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he participated In a number of skirmishes and other minor engagements, his regiment having been assigned to the Army of the Potomac and his service having continued until September 10, 1864, when he received his honorable discharge. Mr. Simpson has ever been a stalwart In the local camp of the republican party, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, In which he has served In various official positions. Of their three children Vincent, the youngest son, remains with the parents on the old homestead; John died in infancy; and Nelson B. is the subject of this sketch.

Nelson B. Simpson has been continuously associated with the varied operations of the fine old homestead farm from his early youth, and his present farm, a part of the family estate, adjoins the homestead place of his father. He gained his youthful education in the public schools of his native county, and here he has proved a worthy successor of his honored father in the active prosecution of well ordered agricultural and live-stock enterprise. He Is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party, is loyal and progressive as a citizen and takes deep interest In all things touching the wellbeing of his native county.

October 25, 1894, recorded the marriage of Mr. Simpson to Miss Margaret Hamilton, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and is a representative of an honored pioneer family. She Is a daughter of Adam and Margaret (Mehollin) Hamilton, whose marriage was solemnized In 1856, the father having been bora in Moorefleld Township and the latter in Cadiz Township, this county. Mrs. Hamilton was a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Mc- Fadden) Mehollin. Adam Hamilton became a substantial farmer in Moorefleld Township, but about the year 1868 he removed to Nottingham Township, where he passed the remainder of his life and where in connection with his farm enterprise he operated a saw mill for a number of years. His death occurred May 11, 1872, and his widow passed to the life eternal on the 20th of March, 1014, both having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of five children : Sarah died at the age of eleven years; Joseph died on the 8th of February, 1918; John died in early childhood; Margaret, wife of the subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth and is now the only surviving member of the immediate family; and Andrew died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have four children, Francis Clyde. Ralph Hamilton, Ernest Dorris, and Dwight Birney. Francis Clyde is at the home of his parents and is associated with his father in the farm work. Ralph Hamilton taught school three years in his home district and one year at Friendly Ridge, and is now a student at Elliott's Business College, Wheeling, West Virginia. Ernest Dorris is in the employ of the McLaughlin Steel Plant at Martins Ferry, Ohio. Dwight Birney is attending the Freeport High School.

Frank W. Adams, who is conducting a finely appointed clothing store at Cadiz, the judicial center of Harrison County, was born at Georgetown, this county, April 29, 1877, and is a son of Joseph W. Adams, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this volume, so that further review of the family record Is not demanded in the sketch here presented. Frank W. Adams acquired his early education in the public schools of his native village, and while still a boy he began clerking in his father's general merchandise store at that place. In 1910 he became associated with the large department store of the Scott-Wright Company at Cadiz, and after having remained with this concern three years he and his brother Half red J. in 1913 engaged in the retail clothing business at Cadiz, under the firm name of Adams Brothers, which continued until October, 1919. when H. J. retired from the firm. The business has been developed into a substantial and representative enterprise and the establishment is essentially modern in its equipment and service. In the store are to be found the best grades of men's clothing, in quantity and variety adequate to meeting the demands of the large and discriminating patronage, and the stocks of furnishing goods and men's shoes are also of the most approved type.

Mr. Adams is liberal and progressive both as a business man and a citizen, his political allegiance being given to the republican party, and he has been a member of the republican executive committee of Harrison County for a number of years and is now its treasurer. In 1915 he was appointed a member of the city couacil to fill a vacancy and has been twice elected to that body. He is also a member of the County Board of Education. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of the Masonic order, and with the lodge of the Knights of Pythias.

In 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Adams to Miss Leora P. Lewis, daughter of Isaac P. and Nancy V. Lewis, well known citizens of Harrison County. Mrs. Adams* passed to the life eternal in September, 1918, and Is survived by three children, Virginia. William L., and Helen Leora. Mr. Adams was married on July 6, 1920, to Mrs. Hazel (Hunt) Tollinger, the daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Hunt, of Springfield, Ohio. Mrs. Adams has a son, Edward, by her former marriage.

Halfbed J. Adam 8, a clerk in the Fourth National Bank of Cadiz, was born at Georgetown, Harrison County, February 15, 1879. He was afforded the advantages of the excellent public schools, and as a mere boy began to assist in the work of his father's general store. In 1905 he took the position of shipping clerk in the wholesale grocery establishment of the Speidel Grocery Company at IJhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, and with this house he continued until 1909. Thereafter he continued to be associated with his father's mercantile business at Georgetown until 1912, when he took a position in the department store of the Scott-Wright Company at Cadiz. In the following year he and his brother formed a co-partnership and established a retail clothing business at Cadiz, which they successfully conducted under the firm name of Adams Brothers, until October, 1919, when he withdrew from the firm and entered the employ of the Fourth National Bank of Cadiz.

In March, 1913, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Adams to Miss Clara Robinson, daughter of Willis and Emma Robinson, of Dennison, Ohio, and of this union has been born one son, John Willis.

Joseph W. Adams has for more than thirty years been successfully engaged in the general merchandise business at Georgetown, Harrison County, and is a representative of one of the well-known families of Short Creek Township, within whose borders he has maintained his home from the time of his birth to the present. He was born In the village of Georgetown, his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was August 4, 1851.

Joseph WMlliam Adams is a son of Joshua and Jane (Brown) Adams, both of whom were born in Ireland and both of whom were young at the time of the immigration of the respective families to America. John Adams, father of Joshua, came to the United States within a few years after his marriage and established his home in Harrison County, where he followed the work of his trade, that of cabinetmaker, and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, Georgetown having been their place of residence during the greater portion of the time. Their children were five In number, John, James, Joshua, Hannah and Samuel. Joshua Adams learned the cabinetmaker's trade under the careful direction of his father, and this trade he followed at Georgetown during the major part of his active career. He and his first wife became the parents of five children, George, John, James, Henry and Joseph William. The death of Mrs. Jane (Brown) Adams occurred in 1865, and Mr. Adams later married Miss Ella Turner, the one child of this union being Ella, who is now the wife of Otto Jorne. Joshua Adams was venerable in years at the time of his death, and his second wife survived him by several years.

Joseph W. Adams is indebted to the public schools of Georgetown for his early education, and as a young man he gained practical experience as a clerk in a mercantile establishment in his native village. In October, 1889, he opened his present general store, in which he has built up a substantial and prosperous business as one of the leading merchants and representative citizens of Georgetown. His political support is given to the republican party, and he is an active member of the Methodist Church, as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Watson. Their marriage was solemnized in 1875, and her death occurred in 1907. They became the parents of five children : Georgia is the wife of Charles Giesey, of Harrison County; Frank W. and Halfred J. are both individually mentioned elsewhere in this publication; and Lillian and Fay remain at the paternal home.

Sam F. Dickerson, one of the old and honored families of Harrison County, dedicated his time and energies to the printing trade in early youth, and has been either a printer or a newspaper man for over a quarter of a century. He is owner, editor and publisher of the Cadiz Democrat-Sentinel , which of itself sufficiently identifies him in Harrison County citizenship.

He was born at Dickerson Mill, Athens Township, Harrison County, December 7, 1875. Some members of the old Dickerson family were among the first actual settlers of Harrison County. He is a direct descendant of Joshua Dickerson, who was born in 1634 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, being the second male child to be born in that county. Descendants of Joshua Dickerson came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1800. The grandparents of Sam F. Dickerson were John C. and Eliza (McFadden) Dickerson. The former was a native of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and was a small boy when his parents settled in Harrison County and Athens Township.

Samuel C. Dickerson, father of the Cadiz newspaper man, was born in Athens Township May 19, 1840. and succeeded to the ownership of the old Dickerson mill established by his uncle Adam. He converted this Into a steam power grist and saw mill and successfully operated it many years. During that time he also carried on farming and stock dealing and was widely known as a stock buyer all over this part of Ohio. He moved to the city of Cadiz in 1900 and thereafter lived retired until his death on August 27, 1918. His wife, the mother of Sam F. Dickerson, was Mary Elizabeth McCoy, who was born in Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, March 7* 1843, daughter of Frank and Abigail (Lantz) McCoy. Frank McCoy was born in Cecil County, Maryland, in

1812. Abigail Lantz was bom in Moorefleld Township, daughter of Peter Lantz, who married Mary Patterson, a sister of Rev. Samuel Patterson. Reverend Patterson was distinguished among the early ministers of Harrison County and for over forty years was pastor of Deersville and Feed Springs Presbyterian churches. Mrs. Samuel C. Dickerson is still living, and has her home with her son Sam at Cadiz.

Sam F. Dickerson grew up on the farm, attended district school and the Cadiz High School. At the age of seventeen, on leaving high school, he began an apprenticeship at the printer's trade in the office of the Cadidz Republican, then published by the late W. B. Hearn. He continued with the Republican for eight years. For several years he held situations as a printer in different cities, including Kokomo, Indiana; Saint Louis, Missouri: Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh. At Pittsburgh for a time he was on the reporter! al staff of the Pittsburgh Times.

January 14, 1905, he purchased the Harrison County Democrat from W. H. Host and in December, 1911, bought the Cadiz Sentinel from the estate of the late W. H. Arnold, then consolidated the two publications under the name of the Cadiz Democrat- Sentinel. This has been continued under his ownership and editorial and business management, and has become one of the leading weekly newspapers in eastern Ohio. During his ownership an old fashioned country newspaper office has been transformed into a modern news and job plant, equipped with power presses, type setting machine and other up to date features.

Mr. Dickerson is active in political, civic and church work, has served as a delegate to many conventions, Including senatorial and congressional districts and state conventions. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis. He is a member of the County Board of Elections and secretary of the Harrison County Agricultural Society. He is one of the active members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.

George W. Willoughby, who was born In Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, February 22, 1875, is now one of the enterprising and progressive representatives of farm industry in Washington Township and is finding in his native county ample opportunities for successful achievement in connection with the great basic industries under the influence of which he was reared, his early educational advantages having been those of the public schools. He is a son of Samuel and Rebecca (McAdams) Willoughby, his father having for many years been engaged in farm enterprise in Harrison County, first in Moorefleld Township and later in Freeport Township. He passed the closing years of his life at Deersville, this county, where his death occurred in 1915, his wife, who was born and reared in this county, having survived him by several years. They became the parents of eight children - Lizzie (as a child of four years met with on accident in which she was so severely burned as to cause her death), Lina,

George W. Willoughby was still a boy when he began working on neighboring farms, and it has been through his own energy and well directed efforts that he has made his way forward to a position of independent activity In connection with agricultural and live-stock industry. Since his marriage in 1902 he has been successfully engaged in farming in Washington Township, where his stage of activity is a well improved farm of 100 acres. His political allegiance Is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership In the Christian Church at Tippecanoe.

September 4, 1902, recorded the marriage of Mr. Willoughby to Miss Amanda Bell Carrothers, daughter of James and Mahala (Ervin) Carrothers. James Carrothers was born in Wash ington Township, Harrison County, about the year 1846. and Is a son of John and Susan (Burgess) Carrothers, both of whom were born in the State of Maryland, whence they came to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Washington Township, Harrison County, where the father entered more than 300 acres of Government land, for which he paid one dollar and twentyfive cents an acre, and which he developed into oue of the excellent pioneer farm properties of the county. Here he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths. Their children were seven in number - Lemuel, Elizabeth, Samuel, John, James, Thomas and Mary. With the exception of seven years of residence in Tuscarawas County James Carrothers has resided from the time of his birth to the present in Washington Township, where he is the owner of a fine landed estate of 555 acres. Though in his youth he received practically no educational advantages, his native ability has enabled him to achieve large and worthy success, and he is one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of his native township and county. His rise to a place of financial independence has been won entirely through his well directed enterprise in diversified agriculture and the raising of sheep. His wife died In February, 1918, and of their three children Mrs. Willoughby, wife of the subject of this review. Is the only survivor. Anna died at the age of fifty-two years and Sarah Jane died at the age of twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby have two children - Hattie Lena, born November 19, 1903, and James Roy. born November 9. 1905.

Harwood C. Ross is secretary and treasurer of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, one of the substantial industrial concerns of Carroll County. This corporation has contributed much to the industrial and commercial prestige of the village of Malvern, and in the manufacturing of fireproofing clay products and building tile it has developed a large and prosperous business.

Harwood Carroll Ross was born at Malvern April 19. 1874, and Is a son of Dr. Enoch C. aud Cordelia (Paessler) Ross, the former of whom likewise was born at Malvern, the date of his nativity having been October 3, 1846, and the latter likewise was born in Carroll County, a daughter of Christian and Christina Paessler.

Doctor Ross was a son of Samuel I. and Angeline (Cross) Ross, and was the youngest of their six children. Samuel 1. Ross was a son of Enoch Ross, who came with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled near Waynesboro, Stark County, In 1812. He and his wife there passed the remainder of their lives. Their son Samuel I. was bom In Green County, Pennsylvania, and was two years of age at the time of the family removal to Ohio. He was reared to manhood in Stark County, and the name of his first wife was Stansburg, all of their five children being deceased and the last to survive having been Rev. Jasper S. Ross, a clergyman of the Disciples' or Christian Church. In Carroll County Samuel I. Ross wedded Miss Angeline Cross, who was here born and reared, her parents, John and Margaret Cross, natives of Ireland, having been early settlers in this county. About the year 1842 Samuel I. Ross removed to the village of Malvern. where he opened and conducted one of the first hotel 8 of the place. At Malvern, as a popular and highly honored citizen, he continued to reside until his death, which occurred January 17, 1890, he having there served forty years in the ofllee of justice of the peace.

After having availed himself of the advantage of the village schools of Malvern Dr. Enoch C. Ross in 1861 became a student In Hiram College, in which historic old Ohio institution he continued his studies until he felt constrained by patriotic impulses to tender his service in defense of the Union. In May, 1863, he enlisted for a term of 100 days in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio National Guard, and upon the expiration of his term he re-enlisted, as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Fourth Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland and with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, with a record of having participated in the various battles and minor engagements In which his regiment was involved. After receiving his honorable discharge Doctor Ross continued his studies in Hiram College until 1S66, when he began the study of medicine under the preeeptorship of Dr. J. H. Tressel of Alliance. Stark County. Later he continued his technical discipline In what is now the Cleveland Medical College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1870. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession at Malvern, and here continued in service as one of the honored and representative physicians and surgeons of his native county until his death on the 28th of April. 1905. He also established a drug store at Malvern, and in the conducting of this business he was associated with his son, Harwood C., of this review, under the title of Ross & Son. Doctor Ross was a liberal and public-spirited citizen and took deep interest in all things pertaining to the welfare of his home village, county and state. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, and gave his support also to other enterprises that furthered the advancement of his native village. A stalwart republican, he was influential in political affairs in Carroll County, and in 1S85 was elected to represent the county In the State Legislature. At the expiration of his four years of service he was nominated for state senator, but he withdrew from the contest. Since the death of Doctor Ross his widow has continued to maintain her home at Malvern. In a fraternal way the Doctor was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and he held membership in the Carroll County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Of the three children the youngest, a daughter, died in infancy. The older son, Iverson H., passed the closing period of his life in his native village of Malvern, where he died on the 1st of March, 1914. His first wife, whose maiden name was Lyda Fast, died in 1896, and Is survived by one child, Eleanor C., who was graduated in the Southern University of California In 1918, and who after effective post-graduate work is now a successful and popular teacher at Santa Monica, California, with residence at Pasadena. For his second wife Mr. Ross married Miss Adelaide Newhon, who survives him, as does also their one child, Gretchen, who has shown exceptional musical ability and been given the advantages of the musical department of Heidelberg University at Tiffin, Ohio. She has appeared as a vocalist at public entertainments since she was a child of three years and is only thirteen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920.

Harwood Carroll Ross continued his studies in the Malvern schools until he had completed a course in the high school, and he then entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, In which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893, after completing a course in pharmacy. Thereafter he became junior member of the firm of Ross & Son in the drug business at Malvern, and in 1912 assumed the active management of the business of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer, a dual office of which he has been the incumbent from the time of the organization of the company in 1911. The company now gives employment to an average force of 150 persons and adds much to the civic and Industrial prosperity and prestige of the Village of Malvern. On Porter Street is situated the modern brick residence of Mr. Ross, and his wife, its gracious and popular chatelaine, has made it a center for much of the representative social life of the community. In politics Mr. Ross is a stalwart republican, and he served several years as postmaster of Malvern, besides which he has given loyal and effective service also as a member of the village council and the local hoard of education.

The year 1899 recorded the marriage of Mr. Ross to' Miss Ella Demaris Elson, who was born at Magnolia, Stark County, a daughter of Richard and Katherine (Baxter) Elson, the former of whom was born in that county in May, 1847, and the latter was born in West Virginia. Richard Elson, Sr., grandfather of Mrs. Ross, was one of the early settlers and influential pioneer citizens of Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Ross have no children.

James S. Bobden has been successfully engaged in the retail grocery business at Carrollton since 1915, and his well appointed establishment occupies quarters 20 by 120 feet in dimensions, the store being distinctly modern in its equipment and service and receiving a substantial and appreciative patronage.

Mr. Borden was bom in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 21, 1884, and Is a son of John W. and Nancy (Crumbley) Borden, both likewise natives of Columbiana County, where the former was bora In 1854 and the latter in 1853. John W. Borden was a son of Robert and Mary Ann Borden, who early became residents of Columbiana County, the father having found employment in coal mines when but ten years old and having continued his active connection with this line of industrial enterprise for seventy-two years - until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. Both he and his wife were honored pioneer citizens of Columbiana County at the time of their deaths. John W. Borden passed his entire life in his native county, where for many years he was associated with coal-mining Industry, and he and his wife were residents of Salineville. that county, at the time of their deaths, he having passed away in 1912 and she having survived until 1915.

James S. Borden received his early education in the public schools of Salineville and began to work in the coal mines in Columbiana County when still a boy. He continued his work in the mines until he there met with an injury which virtually incapacitated him for further service in this strenuous occupation, and he finally engaged in the grocery and meat-market business at Salineville, where he remained until 1907, when he came to Carroll County and established himself in the grocery business at Oneida. In 1915 he found a broader field for his activities by removing to Carrollton, the county seat, where he has developed a substantial and prosperous grocery business and is one of the vital business men of the younger generation. He gives his allegiance to the republican party, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership also in the Rebecca Lodge and in the Christian Church, as did also his parents.

In 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Borden to Miss Nettie G. Brackin, daughter of James Brackin, of Carroll County, and the three children of this union are Kenneth, Leveer, Virginia May and Carl Joseph.

John H. Estep, the New Athens druggist, is in the third generation of the Estep family In narrison County. He was born September 13, 1855, in Short Creek Township, and his father, Andrew Estep, was also bora there, the grandfather. John Estep, having come from Pennsylvania. Before coming to Ohio John Estep had married Sarah Smith, a daughter of Edward Smith, in Pennsylvania. They settled in the woods of Short Creek Township and rounded out their days, both attaining to more than four score years there. Their children were Harrison. William, Robert, Harriet and Andrew.

tory through his son, J. H. Estep, the druggist In New Athens. In 1850 Andrew Estep married Sarah, a daughter of Andrew and Martha (Nichol) Henderson, of Belmont County. Through the Nichol strain there is Scotch blood in the Estep family, the Nichol ancestry passing from Scotland through County Derry, Ireland, at the time of the persecution and from there they immigrated to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was in 1789 the Nichol family landed in America, living for a while in Cumberland and later in Westmoreland counties, Pennsylvania, and about 1800 they came to Colerain Township, Belmont Count, Ohio.

Andrew Henderson, the maternal grandfather, was born in 1798, while his wife was born in 1801 - both far off dates when surveyed from the time of life of John H. Estep, who cherishes his knowlege of them. The old Nichol family Bible, which is preserved as an heirloom, was purchased in 1805 at an expenditure of $15.25, which was a good deal of money for a settler to invest in a book, even of its character. However, through the possession of this Bible posterity today knows more of the Nichol family than of any other branch of the Estep ancestry. There was always a place in the old Bibles for the family births, marriages and deaths - records most valuable today when men and women are inclined to investigate their own origin and development. The census of 1920 has caused some families to bring out those old Bibles for data.

When Andrew Estep married he lived for a time at the Estep homestead in Short Creek Township, then moved to Steubenville for two years. In 1874 they migrated to Missouri, Kansas and later to Kansas City, Missouri, and here occurred the death of the father, the family remaining in Kansas City. Their children were: Thomas B., Emma, John H., James B., Harriet E., William C., Ella, Andrew S., Sarah C. and Charles. There have been Methodists, Presbyterians and Christians in the family relationship, and the father was a "Freemason," a term used at the time of his life, although the initials are used today to designate the order - F. and A. M.

While not much data is available about the Henderson ancestry, the generation of which Mrs. Estep is a representative is as follows: Martha, John N., Annie, Agnes, Margaret, Mary J., Andrew J., Sarah (who became Mrs. Andrew Estep), Isabelle, Andrew, Elizabeth, Harriet, William T., Thomas J. and M. N. Henderson Nichol. When the Commemorative Record was published some one with mathematical bent figured out that there were 94 grandchildren, 366 great-grandchildren, 428 great-great-grandchildren, with 32 in the next generation - greatgreat-great-grandchildren, and the question arises - where will the record be duplicated today?

When John H. Estep was thirteen years old he was thrown upon his own resources, and he has had a varied experience, supplementing his common school advantages with study in Franklin College In the way of preparation. He was a drug clerk In Cadiz, Steubenville and New Athens, and his first store of his own was in the "Old Erie House," which burned and he lost his stock. However, he started in business again. At one time and another he tried real estate and insurance, and at one time he was postmaster in New Athens. Mr. Estep is a democrat and has served as mayor of New Athens.

In November, 1881, Mr. Estep married Mary L. Cannon, a daughter of J. E. and Agnes (Cooke) Cannon, and their children are: Arthur E., who is a druggist at Steubenville; Paul C., who was a soldier in the World war stationed eight months at Camp Sherman in the department of the Adjutant General, he married Eleanor, a daughter of Taylor Holmes, of Columbus: and Frank Bill, who died in childhood. The Estep family has many years of history behind it in Harrison County. Combined with his drug and insurance business, J. H. Estep is the local representative of a Canton Stock and Bond House. He is vice president of the Flushing Telephone Company. He has been a member of the official board of the Methodist Church In New Athens for many years.

William Mbxritt Beall is the owner of a well improved farm In Nottingham Township, Harrison County, which township has represented his home from the time of his birth, and he Is not only one of the substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county but also a scion of an honored pioneer family. Concerning the family history adequate record is given on other pages, in the sketch of the career of his brother, Frank M., present aditor of Harrison County, with further data in the sketch of another brother, George W.

William M. Beall was born in Nottingham Township on the 2nd of October, 1882, was here reared on the old homestead farm of his parents and here gained his early education in the district schools. In his independent career he has manifested no desire to abate his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stockgrowing, and he Is known as one of the progressive and successful exponents of farm industry in his native county. In politics he is a republican and he and his wife hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church. The farm on which he stages his activities is the old homestead of the Cope family, and his wife's parents remain with them on the place.

In 1907 Mr. Beall married Miss Bertha Olive Cope, daughter of Wendell G. Cope, D. V. S., of whom Individual record is given in following paragraphs. Mr. and Mrs. Beall have no children.

Dr. Wendell G. Cope was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 8th of March, 1860, and is a son of John P. and Martha M. (Brown) Cope, the former of whom was born in this township in the year 1825, and the latter of whom was born at Sandusky, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. Clark Brown, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John P. Cope, whose death occurred April 20, 1890, was a son of Jacob and Mary (Pugh) Cope, the latter a daughter of John and Rachel Pugh. Jacob Cope was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and was a young man when he came in 1807 from the old Keystone State to Harrison County. Ohio, in company with his parents, David and Margaret (Brown) Cope, and settled on the farm which is now the home of Dr. Wendell G. Cope. Jacob Cope here obtained 160 acres of Government land and proceeded to reclaim and farm it in the midst of the forest wilds. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, honored as pioneers and as worthy citizens of superior qualities of mind and heart. They became the parents of ten children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded : Sophia, 1806; Rachel, 1807; Margaret, 1809; Ellis, 1811; Hannah, 1813; Nathan P., 1815; Elizabeth, 1817; Martha, 1823; Mary, 1823; and John P., 1825.

The recorded genealogy of the Cope family runs back to Saint Arnold, who died in the year 640. Oliver Cope, the first representative of the family in America, came to this country in 1682, and from him, in successive generations, the descent is through his son John, the latter's son John, and through David, son of the last mentioned John and great-grandfather of Dr. Wendell G. Cope.

John P. Cope passed his entire life on the ancestral farmstead in Nottingham Torwnship, was one of the honored and influential men of his community, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As previously stated, his death occurred April 20, 1890, and his widow passed away March 11, 1897. They became the parents of six children : Miss Alice D. resides at Cadiz, judicial center of her native county; Dr. Wendell G. was the next in order of birth; Elvira J. is the wife of Joseph V. Hayes, of Cadiz; G. Beecher died in infancy; Miss Ada C. died at Webster City, Iowa, as did also Mary M., who was the wife of Howard Knight.

Dr. Wendell G. Cope was reared on the old family farm which is still his place of residence, and his youthful education was obtained In the district schools of Nottingham Township. While a youth he devoted six years to reading medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. W. Wherry, of Moorefteld, and since 1894 he has held a state certificate as a veterinary surgeon. As a skilled veterinarian he has long controlled a large and representative practice - in Harrison, Belmont, Guernsey and Jefferson counties. He has resided continuously on the old home farm in Harrison County save for a period of seven years - 1886-1800 - passed at Moorefteld, this county. Doctor Cope and his wife and daughter are members of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church in Moorefteld Township. He is a republican in political allegiance, and is at the time of this writing serving his second elective term as trustee of Nottingham Township, on office which he had previously held one year by appointment to fill a vacancy.

In 1881 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Cope to Miss Caroline Simpson, daughter of Thomas and Martha Simpson, of Athens Township, Harrison County, and the one child of this union is Bertha Olive, wife of William M. Beall, whose name introduces this review.

Alexander James Hammond. Strong has been the influence which the Hammond family has exerted in connection with civic and material affairs in Harrison County for more than a century, and the successive generations of this sterling pioneer family have continued to add honor and distinction to the family name. The record has not been one marked with pretentiousness, but there have been men who have wrought nobly and well and women who have lived gentle, kindly and gracious lives. True service has been given in connection with the practical responsibilities and social relations of communal life, and the record is one upon which members of the present generation may well look with pride. The subject of this memoir represented Harrison County as a valiant young soldier in the Civil war, and for many years he was one of the leading merchants of the City of Cadiz, where he continued to maintain his home until his death, in the year 1904.

Alexander J. Hammond was born on a farm near Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio, August 14, 1846, and was a son of John H. and Nancy (Carrick) Hammond, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the former was born January 21, 1822, and the latter a few years later, she having been a daughter of David and Elizabeth Carrick, early settlers in Cadiz Township, where both died when venerable in years, Mr. Carrick having served as a soldier in the War of 1812. John H. Hammond was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth ftlanna) Hammond. Alexander Hammond was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a son of Robert and Jane (Cassell) Hammond, both natives of Ireland, where the former was born in 1765, in County Tyrone, and where the latter was born in 1764, in County Down, ancestors of both having been soldiers in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Robert Hammond and his wife came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in an early day, and later they became pioneers of Belmont County. Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives, he having passed away in 1845 and his widow having died in 1852. Both were zealous members of the Seceder Church. They became the parents of six sons and four daughters. Alexander Hammond, the second son. came to Harrison County in 1809. and here he learned the trade of cloth fuller. In 1812 he wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Duncan) Hanna, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1763. and the latter of whom was born in Scotland in 1766. Samuel Hanna settled in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. In 1801. After his marriage Alexander Hammond settled on a pioneer farm of fifty acres in Harrison County, and In Short Creek Township he erected a fulling mill, which he operated twenty years. Thereafter he devoted his attention to farm enterprise until his removal to Harrisville, where he died in 1874 - one of the most venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county. His widow was ninety-three years of age at the time of her death in 1886. In the early days Alexander Hammond was a strong supporter of the cause of the liberty party, and he was once its candidate for representative in the State Legislature. He was an ardent abolitionist prior to the Civil war. and made his home a station on the historic "underground railroad," by means of which he assisted many a fugitive

John H. Hammond assisted in the reclaiming and development of his father's farm. By close application he gained a really liberal education, as gauged by the standards of the locality and period. His marriage occurred in 1845, and he continued to devote himself to farm enterprise until the outbreak of the Civil war. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and with which he took part in a few engagements, with the rank of second lieutenant. Prostrated by fever, he was compelled to leave his regiment and return home, but in 1864 he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Regiment, with which he served in defense of the City of Washington. He was a staunch republican and he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church. In 1868 Mr. Hammond engaged in the dry-goods business at Harrisville, and in 1872 he became associated with his younger son, Anderson N., in the hardware business at Cadiz, in which village he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They had only the two sons, of whom the subject of this memoir was the elder. <

Alexander J. Hammond acquired his early education in the common schools of Harrison County and an academy at Savannah, Ashland County. He remained on the home farm until he was seventeen years of age, when his youthful patriotism was no longer to be denied action, as shown by his enlistment in the spring of 1864 as a member of Company C, Ninetyeighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in General Sherman's Atlanta campaign, including the battles of Kenesaw Mountain and Peachtree Creek and the siege of Atlanta, and thereafter was with Sherman's forces on the historic march from Atlanta to the Sea. He continued in active service until the close of the war, and received his honorable discharge in August, 18651 He then returned home, but within a short time thereafter made a trip through the West, and upon his return to Harrison County he became associated with his brother in conducting a hardware store at Cadiz. In 1878 he here engaged in the drygoods business, and for many years thereafter he conducted one of the leading establishments of this kind In Harrison County, with a large and representative patronage.

Mr. Hammond was unfaltering in his support of the principles of the republican party and served about ten years as clerk of Cadiz Township. He was affiliated with the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a zealous member of the United Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, as is also his widow. He served sixteen years as superintendent of the Sunday school of this church. A man of the highest principles, of gracious personality and abiding human sympathy and tolerance, Mr. Hammond won to himself the staunchest of friends and was essentially one of the representative men of his native county at the time of his death.

In 1870 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hammond to Miss Charlotte Hunter, who was bora and reared at Cadiz and of whose parents specific record will be given in appending paragraphs. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond became the parents of two children - -Percy Hunter and Helen. The latter married George Carnahan, of Cadiz, and she is deceased. Percy H. Hammond ha s achieved distinction as a dramatic critic and literateur, and at the present time holds the position of dramatic critic for the Chicago Tribune. He married Miss Florence Carnahan, and their son John, a graduate of Harvard University, saw service with the United States Marine Corps during the 'period of the World war.

Mrs. Charlotte (Hunter) Hammond is a daughter of Joseph R. and Letitia (McFadden) Hunter. Her father was bora in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1802, and was a son of Cyrus Hunter, who was a member of the staunch Presbyterian colony which early migrated from Fauquire County, Virginia, to western Pennsylvania. Cyrus Hunter came with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio and took up Government land in Wayne County, as one of the earliest settlers of that county. Later Joseph R. returned to Pennsylvania and worked at the trade of cabinetmaker in the City of Pittsburgh. Upon his return to Ohio he established himself in business at Cadiz, Harrison County, as a manufacturer of furniture. He developed this into one of the leading manufacturing industries of this section of the state, and long continued as one of the leading business men and honored and influential citizens of the county, where his death occurred April 4, 1886. He was a man of commanding presence and classical facial contour, and had eminently the qualities that make for leadership, though his environment was such that these never came into full play. Through broad and well directed study and reading he became a man of specially high intellectuality, and his memory was phenomenal in its compass and ready response to every demand. As a Jacksonian democrat he was active in politics in the early days, and he gained reputation as a forceful public speaker. He was a staunch abolitionist, and thus was led to espouse the cause of the republican party at the time of its formation, but, loyal to his convictions, he voted for the democratic nominee for governor in 1883, and for the democratic presidential candidate in the following year. As a young man he had read law under the preceptorship of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of state under the administration of President Lincoln during the Civil war, and though he never applied for admission to the bar he found his technical knowledge of much value in connection with his business activities, as well as In his service as justice of the peace and as mayor of the City of Cadiz. Concerning this man and his distinct character the following words have been written: "He was a man of strong prejudices, and when he took a position that he thought to be right, nothing could change him. For the last twenty years of his life, not being in active business, he gave his time to reading, and was one of the best informed men in the county. In

English and Roman history he had even the minutest detail of every event at his tongue's command. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, was leader of the choir of a church of this denomination while in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and for many years was the precentor of the church at Cadiz. He stood high as a man of honor and Integrity in the community where he was best known. To his friends he was companionable, sympathetic and affectionate, yet dignified."

March 24, 1835, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hunter to Miss Letitia McFadden, daughter of Samuel McFadden, who was a leading merchant at Cadiz in the early days. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary the year prior to his death, and his widow survived him by only a few days, she having passed to the life eternal April 12, 1886, and his death having occurred on the 4th of that month. Of their seven children, the daughters Mary and Lydia preceded them to the life eternal; Rev. Cyrus J., D. D., is a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania; Judge Samuel M. is a resident of Newark, Ohio; William H. is editor and publisher of a paper at Chillicothe, Ohio, in company with his younger brother, George F. ; Lydia is the deceased wife of William EL Arnold; Mary died when young, in 1859: and Charlotte is the widow of the subject of this memoir. Mrs. Letitia Hunter was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1815, a daughter of Samuel McFadden, who came with his family to America and first settled in Philadelphia, whence he came to Cadiz, Ohio, in 1831. Here he was a prosperous merchant for many years prior to his death. Of this noble and gracious woman the following estimate is well worthy of perpetuation in this connection : "She was a Christian, having all the noble virtues that this name implies - kind, gentle, charitable, and, withal, possessing a happy, cheerful disposition. There are few households in the town of Cadiz to which she had not been called as ministering angel in sickness or to console In death. During her long life she was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Her Influence in church affairs was more than local, she having been the means of influencing Bishop Simpson to enter the ministry. She also organized the first Presbyterian Sunday School in Cadiz and was a teacher in the school for many years. She died without regret for action or word, full of years, as one whose mission on earth was completed."

William R. Flowers, one of the prosperous exponents of farm Industry in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, is a scion of a family whose name has been Identified with Ohio annals since the pioneer period and with the history of the United States since the colonial epoch, within which representatives of the name established their residence in the historic old commonwealth of Virginia.

Mr. Flowers was born ig Gallia County, Ohio, January 31, 1873, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Sophia (Richey) Flowers, the former of whom was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, and the latter in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where her father, Andrew Richey, was a pioneer farmer and a member of a family that has been one of prominence in this section of the state since the opening period of the nineteenth century.

Benjamin Franklin Flowers was a son of Charles and Sarah (Jordan) Flowers, the former of whom was born in Loudon County, Virginia, and the latter was born near Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of Adam Jordan. Charles Flowers died in Tennessee while serving as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he was a member of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His eldest son, Adam, served during three years of the Civil war, was captured by the enemy and was held a prisoner of war for eight months and three days. Aaron and Jesse, the next two sons, died in childhood. Harris died while serving in the Civil war. Benjamin Franklin was the next in order of birth, and the other children were David, Christianna, Mary and Rachel. Aaron Flowers, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life in Virginia, where he was a prosperous planter in Loudon County.

Benjamin F. Flowers was reared and educated in Gallia County, where he was engaged In farming until his removal to Muskingum County, and finally he went to Mason County, Virginia, where he now maintains his residence. His wife passed away in 1903, survived by three children - William R., Elizabeth and Maude.

The public schools of his native state afforded William R. Flowers his early education, and from his youth he has been continuously associated with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing. In 1887, when fourteen years of age, he came to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he lived about fifteen years in the home of David Minteen, and In the spring of 1914 he purchased and established his home on his present farm, which comprises eighty-three acres and upon which he has made numerous improvements, especially In modernizing the farm buildings and the installing of an effective private electric-light plant. He Is progressive not only in his farm enterprise but also as a liberal and public-spirited citizen. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harrlsville.

November 27, 1892, recorded the marriage of Mr. Flowers to Miss Alice C. Dickerson, who was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of William and Gabriella (McCoy) Dickerson. Mr. and Mrs. Flowers became the parents of two children - Edgar D., who remains at the paternal home, and Alice Carrie, who died at the age of four months. Mrs. Flowers passed to the life eternal on the 4th of May, 1903, she having been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 15th of August, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Flowers to Miss Carrie Keyser, daughter of John and Martha (Heaton) Keyser. John Keyser was born and reared In Belmont County, Ohio, and finally he removed to and engaged in farming in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he remained until about the year 1894, returning then with his family to his native county, where he passed the remainder of his life. His children were eight in number - Emma, Amos, Charles. Alvin, William, John (died at the age of three years), Carrie and Laura. Mr. and Mrs. Flowers have uo children.

Joseph S. I/>dge is a man whose career has shown his full appreciation and utilization of the opportunities offered for achieving success in connection with farm industry, and is numbered among the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Short Creek Township, Harrison County.

Mr. Lodge was born in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio. June 26, 1853, and in the same county were born his pa rents, Thomas and Rebecca J. (Smith) Lodge, the latter having been a daughter of Joseph S. and Rebecca (McMillen) Smith, pioneer citizens of that county, where Mr. Smith was a farmer by vocation. Thomas Lodge was born and reared in Richland Township, Belmont County, and was a son of Abner and Tamzen (Nichols) Lodge, who were born and reared in Loudon County, Virginia, and whose marriage was solemnized in their native state. In an early day they came to Belmont County, Ohio, where the father reclaimed from the forest wilds a productive farm and where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest and birthright members of the Society of Friends. Their children were eight in number - Thomas, Abner, Harmon, Laban, William, Emily, Mary Elizabeth and Christena.

Thomas Lodge was reared under the conditions of the pioneer period and in due course of time became one of the substantial representatives of farm enterprise In his native county. He was the owner of one of the valuable farms of Wheeling Township, Belmont County, at the time of his death in 1911. His second wife passed away In 1964. His first wife was Nancy Ellen (Merritt) Lodge, and she was still a comparatively young woman at the time of her death, the three children of this union having been Sarah Elizabeth. Abner and John M. The last named died in 1911, and his wife died March 17, 1920. Thomas and Rebecca J.

(Smith) Lodge became the parents of seven children - Joseph S., Emmett (died in early childhood). Thomas, William S., Nancy E., Mary A., and Alice. The parents were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.

Joseph S. Lodge gained his early education in the district schools of his native township, and there also was staged his initial activity as an independent exemplar of farm enterprise. He continued to be engaged in farming in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, until 1885, when he purchased and removed to his present farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. Here he has gained merited success in his vigorous and well ordered activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and Is the owner of an excellent farm of 149 acres, his live-stock oj>erations being principally In the raising of sheep. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

long intervening years. She was born on the island at Wheeling, West Virginia, and is a daughter of John aud Anna (Ferguson) Smith. John Smith was a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, while his wife was born in Belmont County, Ohio. In 1888 they removed to Oakland, California, where he died in 1906, while his widow died there in 1911. They were the parents of eleven children, ten of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and of whom six are still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Lodge have been born five children - Harold, who married Bertha Cooper, and they have one son, Joseph Wayne and they reside in Smithfield; Hazel, who died in early childhood; Clarence R., who married Zilda Johnson, and they have one daughter, Emma Marie, and reside at Shepherdstown; John B., who attended Dana Music Institute, Warren, Ohio, in 1914, 1915 and 1916, taking instruction on the piano and on tuning, receiving his diploma in the latter branch, and since then he has been teaching and tuning, and also plays in orchestras; and Mary Elizabeth.

Isaac B. Woods effectively proved his resourcefulness in the unequivocal success which attended his activities as one of the representative farmers of his native county and Is now living retired in the pleasant village of Malvern, as one of the sterling and highly esteemed citizens of Carroll County and as a representative of one of its honored pioneer families. His maternal grandfather, Christian Barkdoll. here established a home in the year 1816. He took up a tract of land in what Is now Harrison Township and instituted the reclamation of a farm from the forest wilds, with a pioneer log cabin as the family domicile. The paternal grandfather, William Woods, was probably born in the State of Virginia, and was a scion of a staunch English family that was founded in the historic Old Dominion commonwealth prior to the War of the Revolution. He was in the British army but deserted and joined Americans. Born and reared in Virginia, William Woods there remained until the early part of the nineteenth century, when he came to Ohio and first settled In Jefferson County, where was solemnized his marriage to Mary Pugh, a daughter of Isaac Pugh. He continued his residence in Jefferson County until 1833, when he came with his family to Carroll County and established his residence in Harrison Township. He was a leader in his community, where he was called upon to serve in various local offices of trust, he having been a democrat In politics and he and his wife having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in connection with which he became the founder of what was known as Wood's Chapel. He was one of the strong and worthy pioneers of the county, and here his death occurred In 1856, his wife having passed away seven months previously. They became the parents of ten children - Elizabeth, Isaac, George (father of the subject of this review), John, Robert, Jane, Mary, Margaret. Nancy Ann and Thomas.

Isaac B. Woods was born In Brown Township, Carroll County. August 20, 1840, and is a son of George and Catherine (Barkdoll) Woods, the former of whom was born in 1813 and the latter in 1811. George Woods was about twenty years old at the time of the removal of his parents from Jefferson County, where he was born, to Carroll County. In Harrison Township his father became the owner of a large tract of land. As a young man George Woods engaged in farming in Brown Township, where he reclaimed much of his land from the forest, and later he returned to Harrison Township, where he continued as an exponent of farm industry until his death in 1807, when but fifty-four years of age. His wife survived him by a quarter of a century and was one of the venerable and revered pioneer women of Carroll County at the time of her death in 1898. Both became earnest members of Wood's Chapel, mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and their son Isaac B.. of this sketch, now owns the land on which this pioneer Methodist Church was erected, on ground donated for the purpose by his grandfather In Harrison Township. George and Catherine Woods became the parents of six children - Margaret Jane, Lucinda, Isaac B., Elizabeth, Mary and Catherine. In politics George Woods adhered to the ancestral faith and was a staunch democrat.

Isaac B. Woods was about twenty-seven years old at the time of his father's death, and was reared to manhood in Harrison Township, where he received his early education in the common schools of the period, later having attended the graded school at Malvern, besides which he attended Harlem College at Harlem Springs, this county, for one term. Like his father and grandfather, he became a successful representative of farm industry in Carroll County, where he became the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of 312 acres. Of this property he sold 160 acres about the year 1905. and in 1919 he sold another portion of the property, though he still retains in his possession twenty-six acres, constituting one of the best farms in Harrison Township and now rented to- an approved tenant. On the 12th of November, 1919, Mr. Woods and his wife removed from their farm to the village of Malvern. where he has since lived virtually retired and where he owns an attractive and modern residence. He has been influential in public affairs in his native county and served seven and one-half years as county commissioner, besides which he gave equally effective service during his incumbency of the office of trustee of Harrison Township. He is a republican in political allegiance and is actively affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity at Carrollton, as well as with the Commandery of Knights Templar and the Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Cleveland. When It is stated that he is an appreciative and honored member of McKinley Post. Grand Army of the Republic, in the City of Canton, an organization named in honor of the late President McKinley, whose home was in that city, it becomes evident that Mr. Woods was one of the patriotic young men who went forth from Carroll County to defend the Union when the Civil war was precipitated upon the nation. In November, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he continued in service three years, the while he lived up to the full tension of the great conflict, was made corporal of his company and took part in many imjjortant engagements, besides numerous skirmishes and other minor conflicts. It may be noted that he participated in the battles of Iuka, Farmington, Corinth, Port Gibson, Clinton, Jackson, siege of Vicksburg and the battle of Missionary Ridge, which was the last in which he took part, his honorable discharge having been received November 5, 1864.

Christian and Elizabeth (Peters) Barkdoll, maternal grandparents of Mr. Woods, were born and reared in Maryland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Carroll County, Ohio, in 1816, their home being established first at Carrollton, where Mr. Barkdoll followed his trade, that of carpenter. About 1835 removal was made to a farm in Harrison Township, where the grandfather died In 1863, his widow having passed away about 1875, at the remarkable age of ninety-one years. They had five children - Catherine, Margaret, Sarah, Mary and Nancy.

In 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Woods to Miss Sarah J. Masters, who was born in Carroll County on the 30th of August, 1844, a daughter of William and Mary (Thompson) Masters, who were pioneer settlers In that township. Mr. and Mrs. Woods are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church In their home village, and in 1917, while still residing on their farm, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, the occasion being made one of gracious entertainment extended to their children and their manv devoted friends in their native county. To them have been born ten children : Catherine first married Edward Tresler. who is survived by three children, Vina, Oneta and Basil, and she is now the wife of William Marshall, a prosperous farmer of Carroll County. Ada is the wife of D. Grant Or in, of this county, and their one child is a daughter, Pauline. George C. Is a representative dentist of Magnolia of his native county. The maiden name of his wife was Minnie Griffith, and they have two children, Florence and Margaret. Elva is the wife of O. J. Tipe. and they live in Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania. They have two children, James and Sarah Jane. Emma is the wife of Frank L. Harsh, of Carroll County. They have no children. Pearl is the wife of Frank Cooper, of Harrison Township, and their two children are Sarah Jane and Emerlne. James B., who is another of the substantial farmers of Carroll County, married Miss Juanita Fields, but no children has been born of this union. Vern is the wife of Charles C. Shaffer, of Canton, Ohio. William Francis died at the age of three years. Charles Marion died at the age of ten years.

William A. Lewis has shown in his active career a marked versatility and has been identified with varied lines of business enterprise, Including intrepid onslaughts into the field of newspaper publishing, and he is at the present time conducting a specially appointed grocery store in the Village of Malvern, Carroll County, where his substantial and representative patron-

William Arthur Lewis was born in Carroll County, January 7, 1873, and is a son of William Clark Lewis, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume, so that further review of the family record is not here demanded. In the public schools of Malvern Mr. Lewis continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the high school, and when twenty- four years of age, reinforced with a capital of only twenty dollars but with a full quota of self-reliance and ambition, he purchased the grocery business of B. M. Woods of Malvern. After conducting this enterprise successfully about seven years he sold the same, and he then took a position in the office of the wholesale grocery establishment of John Orr's Sons at Steubenville, Jefferson County, for which he became also a traveling salesman. After the lapse of about one year he returned to Malvern, and three months later he purchased a restaurant in the Village of Magnolia, Stark County. After conducting this two and one-half years he sold the business and went to Canal Dover, Ohio, where he was engaged in office work for a wholesale grocery company eighteen months. Returning again to Malvern, he established and became editor and publisher of the Clay City Times. After publishing this paper three years he was compelled to dispose of the plant and business, owing to seriously impaired health, this action being taken while he was in a hospital in the City of Canton, where he remained for forty days. While still publishing this paper Mr. Lewis was made the democratic nominee for recorder of Carroll County, and in the ensuing election he made an unprecedented showing, as he was defeated by only fifty votes in a strong republican county, while his popularity in the Village of Malvern was significantly attested by his here receiving support on 215 out of a total of 288 ballots cast. After leaving the hospital Mr. Lewis returned to Malvern and opened an attractive restaurant, to which he gave the title of "The Sugar Bowl."

In 1914 Mr. Lewis purchased the grocery business of J. K. Davy, and in 1917 bought also the grocery store of H. J. Wilson. He combined the two establishments, and in December, 1919, removed to his present modern store, where he has a large and appreciative supporting patronage. In politics he is a vigorous advocate and supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and he is a Methodist and his wife is a Lutheran. He is now serving his second term as village assessor of Malvern, and when he presented his official report to the county auditor that executive informed him that the report was the best rendered by any assessor in the county. Mr. Lewis is a wizard with figures, and in this practical mathematical field has few equals.

In 1901 Mr. Lewis wedded Miss Sarah Long, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Elsass) Long, the latter of whom is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis became the parents of four children, all of whom are living except one, Donald Alton, Margaret Ellen, Arthur Long (died at the age of four years) and Helen Virginia.

Charles C. Johnson. For about ten years Charles C. Johnson, of Athens Township, has combined an up-to-date dairy business with general farming, and the man who runs a dairy never allows soil to decrease in fertility. Mr. Johnson was bom August 28, 1807, in Short Creek Township, and he has always lived in Harrison County. He is a son of Albert and Rachel (Conoway) Johnson, both natives of the county. Charles Conoway, the grandfather, lived In Archer Township, being one of the pioneers of that community. The Conoway children are: Mary, Susan, Sophia, Jennie, Rachel, Michael, Charles, Enoch, William and John. The Conoways were Methodists.

As a young man Albert Johnson began farming in Short Creek Township and lived there until 1870, wffien he bought the farm where C. C. Johnson lives today. He died there in 1886, and Mrs. Johnson died in 1915, leaving their only son in possession of the farmstead. C. C. Johnson has two sisters. Jennie and Carrie, older than himself. The Johnsons are members of the Presbyterian Church of New Athens. Usually when a woman sustains one church relation and the man another they unite in her church - the Conoways, Methodists, and the J ohn sons, Presbyterians.

Mr. Johnson was educated in the public schools and in Franklin College in New Athens. Upon the death of his father in 1886 the management of the farm devolved upon him. He now owns 250 acres, and in addition to general farming he operates a dairy of about thirty cows, using the double unit milking machine. They have a modern house, and all the dairy and farm buildings are lighted with electricity.

On November 6, 1906, Mr. Johnson married Ola McFadden. She is a daughter of Law and Martha McFadden. Their children are: Louise and Harold. The Johnsons are members of the Presbyterian Church in New Athens.

Alfred B. Hildreth. It is only since 1909 that Alfred B. Hildreth, of Athens Township, has been a resident of Harrison County, Ohio. There must be something in a name, William notwithstanding, as Mr. Hildreth was born December 10, 1884, in Harrison County, West Virginia. He is a son of Elmer and Mary Hildreth, of West Virginia. She is a daughter of Joseph A. and Martha (Wadsworth) Hildreth. The grandfather and grandmother were John and Sallie (Criss) Hildreth.

Elmer Hildreth is a farmpr and still lives in Harrison County, West Virginia. Alfred B. Hildreth is the oldest child, the others being Leslie C., Snoye G., Carl, Cole, Roy and Estema. The family are members of the Christian Church. A. B. Hildreth, as was the rest of the family, was educated in the public schools of West Virginia.

On May 18, 1908, A. B. Hildreth married Jennie Freeland, a daughter of Caleb and Sarepta Freeland. Their children are: Vance, born December 22, 1913, and Irene Annette, born August 22. 1918. Within a year after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth bought a farm of ninety-one acres in Athens Township, on the Cadiz and New Athens road, where he is engaged in general farming and the livestock busi-

Frank M. Beall, who represents the fourth generation of the Beall family in Harrison County, has extensive business and agricultural experience, and was in every way qualified for the service he has rendered during the past four years as county auditor.

He was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, February 7, 1877, and Is a greatgrandson of James P. Beall, who brought his family from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was one of the early settlers of Nottingham Township. That community for upwards of a century has been strongly influenced by the activities of the Beall family. The children of James P, Beall were Zeflnia, James P., Minerva, John. Cyrus and Colmore.

Col more Beall, the youngest son, carries this branch of the lineal descent. He was a farmer in Nottingham Township and his wife, Hannah Rogers, was a native of the same township. Their children were John B., Ella wife of Lyle McDevitt; James Franklin, deceased; Nancy Minerva, wife of A. W. Johnson, and Emma L., wife of James W. Clark.

John B. Beall was born in Nottingham Township in 1860 and spent his active life as a farmer in that locality. December 30, 1875, he married Lucy M. Gamer, a daughter of Edward and Julia Ann (Merryman) Gamer. They became the parents of nine children : Frank M. ; Harry C. : Mary Olive, deceased; William M. ; George W. ; Ada Florence; Ella Vida; Anna Grace; and Clara R. Beall.

Frank M. Beall, oldest of this generation of the family, grew up In the old home community of Nottingham Township, attended the common schools and was also educated in Scio College. For four years he was a teacher, and by that occupation earned the money necessary to defray his college expenses.

In 1901 Mr. Beall went to Cleveland and for nine years was an employe of the American Steel and Wire Company. Returning to Nottingham Township in 1910, he took up the ancestral vocation of agriculture, but in 1916 entered the campaign and was elected auditor of Harrison County, going Into office in October, 1917. He has demonstrated the ability of the farmer to serve the community in official capacity and has maintained a high standard of efficiency as auditor, and recognition of his ability was given by the voters when, in 1918, he was re-elected auditor.

The Beall family has been identified with the Methodist Church, and the family vote has been cast with the republican party. Mr. Beall is identified with both the business and social interests In the community. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, the Maccabees, the Knights of Pythias and the Grange, and his church membership is in the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church In Nottingham Township, where the family have worshiped through several generations.

former a native of Ireland and the latter of Maryland. Patrick Gallagher was a blacksmith by trade and on coming to Harrison County had a shop for several years in Cadiz. In 1834 he bought land In Stock Township. This was a 160 acre tract of the state school land. He lived there the rest of his life. His first wife was Ann Gibson, and their children were Peter, Thomas, John, James, Mrs. Mary Brown, Elizabeth and Sarah, who married David Evans. Patrick Gallagher by his marriage with Martha Bevard had five children: Isabel, who became the wife of J. L. Simpson; Martha, who married William Whittaker ; Catherine, whose husband was Moses Conoway; Albert; and R. Wood Gallagher.

The father of Mrs. Beall is R. Wood Gallagher, who was born on the old family homestead August 29, 1.850, was reared there, and out of his industry increased the original 160 acres to 234 acres. On April 19, 1883, he married Clara E. Lemmon, a daughter of Amon and Rebecca (Forsyth) Lemmon. To this marriage were horn the following children: Carrie M., wife of Mr. Beall ; Robert L., who married Nelle Bell and lives at Cleveland, their four children being Henry W., Francis A., Lawrence B. and R. Stanley; George W., who was killed In a munition plant at Cleveland February 2, 1918; James A., who farms the old homestead, married Jessie Copeland and has two sons, Warren J. and Everett E. ; Morris Wayne, who entered the army in July, 1918, and while training at Camp Sherman was stricken with the influenza and transferred for treatment to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he died May 10, 1919.

Harrison County sustained the loss of one of its fine citizens in the death of R. Wood Gallagher on March 6, 1917. He had served two terms as county commissioner, from 1905 to 1909, and was also a trustee of Stock Township. These two old pioneer families - the Beall and Gallagher - were further perpetuated by the birth on September 27, 1920. of Frank M. Beall, Jr., Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Beall.

John H. Mattern, M. D., of Cadiz, is In the third generation of his family in Harrison County. His grandfather. Abraliam, came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to this county when he was a young man and became a well-to-do farmer in Green Township. His wife. Mary Brown, was born in Harrison County, Ohio. They became the parents of the following children : Hugh, John, Alfred, Wesley, Jane and Nancy.

John Mattern, second son of Abraham and father of Doctor Mattern, was born in Green Township in this county. He married Margaret, the daughter of George and Mary (Braim) Leas, who came from Adams County. Pennsylvania, to Green Township, this county, where their daughter Margaret was born. The Leas children were as follows: Jeremiah. George, Jacob, John. Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. After his marriage John Mattern resided in Green Township for three years, and then removed to Archer Township, where he has since lived. He became a successful farmer and at one time owned 300 acres of land, a large portion of which he has divided among his children. He and wife became the parents of the following children : Jacob F., Ellis W., Mary Etta, Emmerson R., John M. and Oscar O., but the latter son is deceased.