Harrison Township (part 9 of 37)

Isaac Kirkpatrick was eight years of age at the time when the family home was established in Carroll County, where he was reared to manhood and where eventually he came into possession of his father's old homestead farm. He continued as one of the representative exponents of farm enterprise in Brown Township until his death, on the 12th of December, 1891, and his devoted wife passed away on the 2d of the following March. They became the parents of eight children: Almira, Elva, John,

Charles Isaac Kirkpatrick passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and in the meanwhile received the advantages of the public schools of Brown Township. He continued his active alliance with farm industry in Brown Township until 1892, when he established his residence in the village of Malvern. For the ensuing period of about twenty years he was employed in various manufacturing establishments in this village, and In 1913 he here engaged in the grocery trade, to which he has since given his attention. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he and his wife hold membership In the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.

The year 1891 recorded the marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick to Miss Sadie DeWalt, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, October 26, 1866, a daughter of Henry and Caroline (Fogle) De- Walt, who passed their entire lives in that county. Mr. DeWalt, a carpenter by trade and vocation, died in 1908, aged fifty-five years, and his widow passed away in 1911, aged fifty-eight years. They became the parents of ten children, of whom five are living at the time of this writing, in 1920. Henry DeWalt was a son of Adam and Sarah (Hershbarger) DeWalt, the former having been a native of Germany and having been a pioneer settler in Stark County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick have no children.

Jonathan Kimmel passed his entire life in Harrison County, was a successful representative of farm industry throughout his entire active career and was known alike for his sterling character and his business acumen. He was an influential and honored representative of a family whose name has been one of prominence in Harrison County for more than a cetury and the various generations of which have contributed materially to the development and advancement of this now favored section of the Buckeye state. Such are the families whose achievement justifies the compilation of histories of this nature, and in Harrison County none is more worthy of consideration than that of which the subject of this memoir was a member.

Jonathan Kimmel was born in a pioneer log cabin in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 15th of July, 1815, and in his fine farm residence, near the site of this log cabin, his death occur red on the 13 th of July, 1894, his entire life having been passed in his native township save for a period of nine years during which he was engaged in farm enterprise in North Township. His father, Henry Kimmel, was born in Pennsylvania in 1789, and in June, 1814, he married Miss Christena Gidenger, who was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and who was fourteen years of age when she accompanied her parents to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1808. Mrs. Kimmel was a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth B. Gidinger, both of whom were born in Germany. Mrs. Kimmel was born on March 7, 1794, and died in October, 1894, one of the most venerable and revered pioneer women of Harrison County at the time of her death, at the remarkable age of 100 years, six months and 26 days, and her memory compassed virtually the entire period marking the development of the county from the forest wilds into one of the beautiful and progressive sections of Ohio. Her husband was well advanced in years at the time of his death, and had been one of the substantial farmers of Rumley Township. He was a son of Leonard Kimmel, who was born in Germany in 1741, and who was a youth when he severed the ties that bound him to his native land and came to America in 1758. He settled in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and there he married Miss Susan Zimmerman, whose parents were very early settlers in that county. Leonard and Susan Kimmel became the parents of eight children: John, Adam,

Henry, Leonard, Frederick, Nancy, Mary and Susannah. About the opening of the nineteenth century the family removed to West Virginia, where a home was established on Cheat River. There the three elder sons engaged in the manufacture of millstones, which were shipped on rafts to different points on the Ohio River, including those used in a pioneer mill at Sclo, Harrison County, Ohio. From the proceeds derived from this manufacturing enterprise the three brothers made investment in wild lands in Harrison County, Ohio, where they acquired about 800 acres. In 1807 Leonard Kimmel, the next younger brother, established his home on an embryonic farm in Rumley Township. He reclaimed a goodly part of his land to cultivation and here remained until his death in 1825, his widow having parsed away in 1828.

Henry Kimmel continued as one of the representative farmers and citizens of Rumley Township until the close of his long and useful life, and both he and his wife were earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church. Their children were eight in number: Susan (Mrs. W. Crumrine), Jonathan. Henry, Abraham. Elizabeth (Mrs. William Schilling), Isaac, Christena (Mrs. M. Sawvel) and John. Isaac enlisted for service in the Union army at the inception of the Civil war, was captured by the enemy and died in a southern war prison.

Jonathan Kimmel exemplified in character and achievement the sterling attributes which has significantly marked the family of which he was a member, and at the time of his death he was the owner of a large and valuable farm estate in Rumley Township, the property being still in the possession of the family and the sons having prestige as leading exponents of farm industry in their native county.

In January, 1836. was solemnized the marriage of Jonathan Kimmel to Miss Maria Catharine Nupp, daughter of John P. and Catharine (Wolf) Nupp, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Kimmel was Influential in locafl affairs and served twenty years as trustee of Rumley Township. Both he and his wife were active communicants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of eleven children : Sarah

Jane is the widow of Jacob Condo, of Germano, Harrison County; Elizabeth, who was the widow of Jacob Stahl, of this county, died in 1916; Nimrod was killed while serving as a member of an Ohio regiment in the Civil war; Christena still resides in Harrison County; Titus is deceased; Simon P. is a farmer in Rumley Township: Jonathan, Jr., is more specifically mentioned in following paragraphs; George is deceased: Isaac is the subject of more individual consideration in a later paragraph; and Mary Magdalena and Martin are deceased.

Jonathan Kimmel. Jr., and his brother Isaac have always lived on the old home farm, which represents land taken from the Government by their grandfather more than a century ago, the property having remained continuously in possession of the family during 4he long intervening years and the two brothers being associated in the ownership of this valuable property, which comprises 201 acres. The brothers have secure place as successful representatives of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in their native county, and in all of the relations of life they are well upholding the honors of the name which they bear - a name that has been one of prominence and significance in connection with the civic and material development and upbuilding of Harrison County. Jonathan Kimmel, Jr., is a bachelor, and Isaac, on the 25tb of January, 1898. married Miss' Jennie Abel, whose death occurred on the 26th of June, 1914.

Robert T. ArrowsmitR. Contributing definitely tb the 'ind ustrial prestige of the village of Scio, Harrison County,' as a substantial manufacturer of wooden oil tanks, Mr. Arrowsmith is following a line of enterprise with which he became associated In his youth and in which his father became a successful representative in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Arrowsmith was born at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, on the 14th of October, 1873, and is a son of Robert T. and Sarah (Rankin) Arrowsmith, the former of whom died in 1918, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which city his widow still resides. The father removed tb the northwestern part of Pennsylvania in $*65, rtnd long maintained his residence at Pittsburgh. He developed a prosperous business in the inannfacturing of oil tanks, and was otherwise associated with the oil industry in the Keystone State.

He whose name initiates this review7 acquired his early education principally in the public schools of Warren, Pennsylvania, and as a young man became associated in his father's business, under the firm name of Robert T. Arrowsmith & Son. He contihued his residence in Pennsylvania until 1898, when he' came to Harrison County. Ohio, where he has since been successfully engaged in the manufacturing of wooden oil tanks, and where also he has been president of the Bell Drilling Company from the time of its organization In 1910. * This company has developed a substantial business in the drilling of oil wells in this section of Ohio. In politics Mr. Arrowsmith fs independent, and he and his wife are zealous and valued members of the Presbyterian Chhrch at - SCio, in which he is serving as an elder.

In 1909 was sole^iKized the marriage of Mr. Arrowsmith to- Mfes#$B$tfe Master, daughter of William A. and Htoyiefta (McGavern) Master, of Harrison C6unt£, JmPthe five children of this union are i ' WilliftB&, Elizabeth, Robert T. (Ill), Henrietta and Martha Jane.

William Glenn Waddle, D. D. It was a case of walking- ih the footsteps of his father when Rev. William Glenn Waddle, of New Athens, * entered the ministry* He is a son of Dr. Benjamin Waddle, who devoted more than fifty years of his life to the ministry. William Glenn Waddle was born February 12, 1835, at Rushville, Fairfield County, Ohio. On the first Sabbath in November, 1919, he rounded out fifty years of continuous service in the same church - CassVille United Presbyterian, having filled his pulpit regularly for a half century. Father and son gave more than a century to the gospel ministry.

Dr. Benjamin Waddle was born June 2, 1802, at Wheeling, West Virginia, and he earned the funds necessary to defray his expenses as a student in the Wheeling Academy while fitting himself for the ministry. He later studied theology at the Associated Reformed Seminary at

Allegheny, and on April 28, 1828, he was licensed as a gospel minister. He held pastorates at Jonathan's Creek, New Concord and Kenton, and he was always active in promoting educational enterprises. He was the founder of Muskihgum College, and It 'Was throdgh hi& efforts that that institution was located «t .New. Concord.' - His son. Dr. W. G. Waddle,. and thi# daughter, Elizabeth Waddle, Were graduated from the. same college, and at the death of. Dr. Waddle on October 13,* 1920, be was the' oldest living- graduate of the institution.

In 1829 Dr. Benjamin Waddle: married Martha A. Glenii. of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a young woman of fScotch-lrisb ancestry, and Dr. William Glenn Waddle was one. of the five children born to them. He had a rudimentary education in the common schools, and when he was twelve years old he entered Muskingum college. He graduated from there in the. 1855 class, and immediately entered Allegheny Seminary, where he studied theology. On October 13, 1857, Docton Waddle was licensed by the Second Ohio Presbytery, and on November 16, 1859, he was ordained to the ministry by the Wheeling United Presbyterian Presbytery. IP many ways father and son had similar experiences in the ministry. The son embarked in a limited way in poiitcs, and with the consent of his congregation In 1873-4 he was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention.

On June 5, 1860, Doctor Waddle married Janette S. / Easton. She came of ministerial Stock, being a daughter of Dr. John S. Easton, who on ihe from Scotland as early as 1813, and he was a licensed minister in the Philadelphia Associate Presbytery. On June 24, 1834, Doctor Easton entered upon his first pastorate at Kishocoquillas, Pennsylvania, and after eighteen years in one pulpit he went to Scroggsfleld, Carroll Coulrty, Ohio, remaining there eleven years. In I860 he went to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he became nil associate editor of The United Presbyterian, and ^ at the same time served a chfifeh in Bnatidock, where he remained seven years. Jle -died 'July 25, 1879, in Allegheny. Mrs. Waddle was a graduate of Washington (Pa.) Female Seminar^, class of 1858, and' at the time of her death, on September 27, 1920, she was the oldest living graduate of that seminary.

While engaged in ministerial labors .Doctor and Mrs. Waddle lived many years on a farm in Short Creek Township, The Commemorative Record snyine: 4<The1r beautiful home, surrounded by the pleasures and evidence .of a handsome competence, is located in a little valley, while on every hand the hills whose peaks are the first to catch and the last to hold the coming, splendor of the dawn and the fading glory of the day. are mute but eloquent witnesses of the power, majesty and wisdom of the great Creator. The surrounding fields give evidence of a careful husbandry, and plainly show that it is there the Doctor seeks recreation from the fatigue of his labors and close confinement of his study." ministry. He was an honorary director of the Pittsburg Theological Seminary, and for many years was a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin College.

Habvey C. Ramsey, a retired farmer of Nottingham Township, now residing in the city of Cadiz, was born on the farm which he still owns in the above township April 19, 1859. He is a son of John C. and Sarah J. (Hines) Ramsey, the former of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1823, and the latter of whom was born and reared in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where her parents, Isaac and Sarah (Patterson) Hines, were representative pioneer citizens. John C. Ramsey was a son of William and Mary (Anderson) Ramsey, and was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his parents from the old Keystone State to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood and where he learned the trade of cooper, to which he devoted his attention for a number of years. March 16, 1847, he married Miss Sarah J. Hines, and her death occurred in 1865. They became the parents of eight children: Isaac L., Mary E., William B., John F., James P., Harvey C., Robert F., and Martha A. The second marriage of John C. Ramsey was with Miss Emily Ford, who was born in Harrison County in 1825, and whose death here occurred in 1880. In 1882 Mr. Ramsey married Miss Angeline Hines, who was born October 31, 1831, a daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Carson) Hines, of Harrison County. Mr. Ramsey resided on his farm in section 6, Nottingham Township, from the time of his first marriage until that of his death, and he was one of the honored and influential citizens of that township. He became one of the most zealous advocates and supporters of the cause of the Prohibition party and was a resourceful worker in its ranks in Harrison County. His religious faith was that of the Disciples or Christian Church. His death occurred on the 7th of February, 1898, and his widow died when about seventy-five years of age.

Harvey C. Ramsey gained his early education in the schools of Nottingham and Cadiz townships, and as a young man, in 1882, he went to Williamson County, Tennessee. There he was engaged in farm enterprise for the ensuing four years, at the expiration of which he returned to his native township, where he continued farming, his place being a part of the old homestead on which he was bora and reared, he having returned to this place in the autumn of 1913. For the past twenty-five years he has given much of his time to work at the carpenter's trade, which for the past decade has received the major part of his time. He has erected numerous buildings in Nottingham and adjacent township, and is known as a skilled artisan. He is a republican in politics, and both he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church.

June 14, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Ramsey to Miss Ida A. Haverfield, who was bora in Cadiz Township, this county, a daughter of Gillespie and Sarah J. (Hines) Haverfield, both likewise natives of Cadiz Township. Mr. Haverfield was bora November 14, 1818, and his death occurred March 17, 1882. JBUs entire life was passed in Cadiz Township, where he became a representative farmer. The family name of his first wife was Clifford, and they became the parents of two sons, Clifford and Joseph, both deceased. The second wife likewise is deceased, and of this second union were born seven children: William H. (a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church), Mary Isabel (deceased), Catherine, Sherman, Ida A., Jeanette and Martha. Mr. Haverfield held membership in the United Brethren Church and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey have no children.

R. Nash Ovekholt. Occupying a place of note in the business life of Carroll County, R. Nash Overholt, of Carrollton, has achieved success as a merchant, being proprietor of a finely stocked and extensively patronized shoe store located at 79 Main street. A son of the late Anthony Overholt, he was born in Medina County, Ohio, April 4, 1868. He comes of substantial pioneer stock, his paternal grandparents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Tinsman) Overholt, having been among the earlier settlers of Medina County, where they cleared and improved a homestead from its virgin wildness.

A life-long resident of Medina County, Ohio, Anthony Overholt was born in 1835, and died In 1917. As a boy and youth he assisted in the pioneer task of reclaiming a homestead from its original condition, under his father's tutelage becoming familiar with agriculture. Becoming a farmer from choice, he met with good success as a tiller of the soil and stock raiser. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Nash, was bora in 1840 in Medina County, Ohio, where her parents were pioneer settlers, and died on the home farm in 1913. Five children were born of their union, as follows: Almira, who died in infancy ; Ida Schaub ; Minerva ; R. Nash, the special subject of this brief sketch; and Alverna Harter. The father was a loyal adherent of the republican party for many years, but later in life became identified with the prohibitionists. Both he and his wife were faithful members of the Mennonite Church.

Brought up on the parental homestead, R. Nash Overholt acquired his elementary education in the rural schools of Medina County, and later graduated from the Wadsworth Normal School. The life of a farmer not appealing to him, he began his active career as teacher in the district schools of Wadsworth Township and later embarked in business on his own account, continuing there as a shoe dealer until 1908. Coming in that year to Carrollton. Mr. Over holt purchased the stock and good will of Jacob Helfrech, and for ten years carried on a business in the Helfrech Block. His large and increasing trade demanding more commodious quarters, he removed to his present location on Main street, and is continuing with the same good success that has characterized his previous efforts.

McGregor, were pioneer settlers of Carroll Comity. Her father was a prominent and Successful farmer* and stock raiser who about thirty-five years ago retired from active pursuits and removed to Carrollton, where his death occurred in 1915, and where his widow still resides. Mrs. Overholt is the youngest child in a family of four children, and has one sister living, Nannie, widow of W. Elliot, of Carrollton. Mr. Overholt is a republican in politics, and takes an active part in all local affairs for the best interests of his town and county.

Albert R. Hoobler is a native son of Carroll County and for many years has been actively identified with agricultural and live stock interests here. Mr. Hoobler, whose home is In Center Township, was born in Rose Township February 26, 1856, and he still owns his farm of a hundred twenty acres in that township.

His grandfather, Adam Hoobler, was a native of Maryland, where he married Elizabeth Lawyer. They moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and spent the rest of their days on a farm there. They had five daughters and five sons, named Andrew, Adam, Jacob, William and Peter, and Margaret, Nancy, Mahala, Elizabeth and Rachel.

William Hoobler, father of Albert R., was bora in Jefferson County, but immediately after his marriage moved to Carroll County and settled in the woods of Rose Township, where he lived out his life as a practical farmer and died February 13, 1884, at the age of seventy-two. He married Margaret Shocknesse, and their children were Adam, Elizabeth, James Madison, Lucinda, Perry, Mary Catherine, Cena Eleanor, Albert R. and Alvin B. Alvin now lives In Waynesburg, Ohio, Lucinda is Mrs. George Futchley, of Rose Township, Mary Catherine is Mrs. L. D. Sparks, of Stark County, Ohio, and Cena is Mrs. Joseph Briggle, of Canton, Ohio.

Albert R. Hoobler was a pupil in school district No. 1 of Rose Township until the age of seventeen. He also attended Summer Normal at Carrollton two terms, and for several years was actively Identified with the educational work in his home county. He taught two terms In his home district. No. 1, one term in district No. 8 of Harrison Township, two terms in district No. 2 of Rose Township, and two terms in district No. 8. He then took an active part in the work of the home farm, and also began buying and selling livestock, a business he has continued more or less actively ever since.

At the age of thirty Mr. Hoobler married Miss Nancy J. Swinehart, daughter of Silas and Louisa (Bowers) Swinehart, of Perry Township in Carroll County. Her father was born in Orange Township of Harrison County and died in Perry Township of Carroll County in 1916. Her mother was born in Harrison County and died in Perry Township also in 1916. Mr. and Mrs. noobler have two children. Roscoe Delwood, the older, lives at Canton, Ohio, and by his marriage to Lenora ZIngler has a son. Lester. Earnest Swinehart noobler lives at home with his parents. After his marriage Mr. Hoobler lived on his home farm in Rose Township until April, 1918, when he moved to Carrollton.

He is a democrat, a member of the Lutheran Church in Rose Township, and while In the country he was elected and served two terms, eight years, as justice of the peace, and in November, 1919, was again chosen to that office in Center Township.

Robert H. Webster. One of the most pleasing revelations incidental to the preparation of personal sketches for this history is that showing that within the borders of both Carroll and Harrison counties are to be found many native sons in the third and even fourth generations who are carrying forward successfully the same important industrial enterprise that engaged the attention of their fathers and grandfathers - that pertaining to the activities of the farm. Such a worthy citizen is Robert H. Webster, who was born In Rumley Township, Harrison County, November 14, 1861, and who is still the owner of the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. Though he now resides in the village of Jewett, he continues to give his personal supervision to his valuable farm of ninety-five acres, which he makes a center of intensive agriculture and stock-growing.

John Webster, father of him whose name introduces this sketch, was bora in Maryland in 1.809. and was a boy when his parents came to Harrison County and settled in Rumley Township. His father, John Webster, Sr., here purchased wild land, which was eventually developed Into one of the productive pioneer farms of the county, though he himself died within a comparatively short time after coming to Ohio. His widow assumed the entire care of her family of small children, and remained on the farm until her death, in 1856. After the death of his father John Webster, Jr., assumed active management of the farm and in every way aided and cared for his widowed mother. In 1832 he married Margaret Buchanan, who died in 1841 and was survived by three children, Maria, David and Sarah. In 1847 Mr. Webster married Miss Ann Patton, daughter of the late Joseph Patton, of Rumley Township, and they became the parents of ten children : John. Joseph. Mary M., Catherine Jane, Matthew. Florence. Robert H., Mansfield, Cora and Ira B. Mr. Webster was a Democrat of well fortified convictions, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Ridge Presbyterian Church. His death occurred in 1876, and his wife survived him by a number of years. Mr. Webster was one of the honored citizens and successful farmers of Harrison County and merited the high regard in which he was uniformly held.

In connection with the work of the home farm Robert H. Webster early gained appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and endeavor, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages offered in the district schools. He has continuously made the old homestead farm the stage of his productive activities, and there he continued his residence until 1909, when he removed to Jewett, where he has an attractive home about half a mile distant from his farm, of which he still has the active management.

daughter of Samuel and Emily (Maholm) Holland, well known citizens of Harrison County. His father was born May 3, 1830, and died May 21, 1907, and the mother, horn May 6, 1844, died January 29. 1921. To Mr. and Mrs. Webster have been born six children : Harry Forrest, who was born in 1888, married Miss Helen Bowman, and they reside at Warren, Trumbull County, their one child being a daughter, Bettie Jane; Marguerite was born in 1891, and her death occurred in 1S90; Byron was born in 1894 and died in 1905: Louise, who was born in 1897, died in the year 1900; Daniel, who was born September 30. 1899, is now a resident of Detroit, Michigan; and Lee W., bom in 1903, remains at the parental home.

Harry Forrest Webster, eldest son of the subject of this review, served as a member of a battery of field artillery on the Mexican border during the period of the Government's military operations there, the battery having been for the most part made up of men from the city of Akron, Ohio. When the nation became Involved in the World war he entered the first officers' training camp at Camp Grant. Illinois, and in August, 1917, received commission as captain in the Field Artillery. Thereafter he attended the Artillery School of Fire at Sparta. Wisconsin, and later was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he completed the work given in the School of Fire. He was assigned to Battery C, Three Hundred and Thirty-First Field Artillery, and in August, 1918, went to France as a member of the advance detail from his brigade. He continued on duty In France until the signing of the historic armistice, and returned to the United States in March, 1919. Soon afterward he received his honorable discharge, after which he returned to the employ of the Firestone Rubber Company at Akron, and is now superintendent of the D. & M. Cord Tire Company, of Cleveland and Warren, Ohio.

Dillworth A. Maxwell. In the handling of staple and fancy groceries and other table supplies Mr. Maxwell maintains at Scio, Harrison County, an establishment whose equipment and service have gained and retained to it a large and representative patronage, the while he has gained secure place as one of the progressive and influential business men of this thriving village.

Mr. Maxwell was born on a farm near Graysville, Monroe County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was October 1, 1806. He is a son of William and Letitin (Bigley) Maxwell, the former of whom was born on a site now included in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the latter was born in Monroe County, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Core) Bigley. Joseph Bigley was a prosperous farmer of Monroe County, and there served as township assessor during the closing years of his life. Both he and his wife were communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they reared their children - Letitia, James, Elizabeth, Fannie and Mary.

in 1837. There he devoted the remainder of his active career to farm industry, though he later lived in Belmont and Athens counties. In the latter of which his death occurred. His children were eight in number: William, Evan, Jr., John, James, Thomas, Mary, Catherine and Jane.

William Maxwell became an independent farmer in Monroe County, but in 1877 removed with his family to Tyler County, West Virginia, where he purchased land and became a vigorous exponent of progressive farm enterprise. There he remained until his death, which occurred in 1902, and his widow passed away in 1907, both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The district schools of Monroe County, Ohio, gave to Dillworth A. Maxwell his rudlmentry education, and he was a boy ten years of age at the time of the family removal to West Virginia, in which state he continued his studies until he had so advanced himself as to become eligible for pedagogic service and honors. As a young man he was for fifteen years a successful and popular teacher in the public schools lu West Virginia and Ohio, and not until 1903 did he finally withdraw from service in this field uf endeavor. Thereafter he resided at New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia, until 1907. when he engaged in the general merchandise business at Rayland, Jefferson County. Ohio. Two years later, in 1909, he came to Harrison County and opened a well appointed retail grocery store at Scio, where he has since continued in successful business. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his sons are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio, as was also his devoted wife, who was summoned to the life eternal on the 2d of December. 1918. Mrs. Maxwell was born and reared in Tyler County, West Virginia. Her maiden name was Ruey M. Hensel. and she was a daughter of Philip H. K. Hensel, her marriage to Mr. Maxwell having been solemnized in 1890. Of this union were bom four children : W. Earl, Dora (died at the age of five months), P. Clyde and Clarence J. W. Earl married Miss Catherine Rees; Clarence J. is, in 1921, a student in the University of Ohio at Columbus; P. Clyde Maxwell was one of the gallant young men who entered the nation's military service in the great World war. On the 21st of May. 1918. he became a member of the Fifty-Seventh Engineers, at Laurel, Maryland, and with his command he went to France in the following July. There he continued in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces until the signing of the armistice brought the war to a close, and after having been In France thirteen months he returned to his native land in August, 1919. receiving his honorable discharge within a short time thereafter.

Leroy H. Borland not only has prestige as being one of the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in North Township, Harrison County, but also the distinction of being a native of this township and a scion of one of its pioneer families of prominence and influence. On the 27th of January,

1819, Samuel Borland, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and took up a tract of Government land in North Township, Harrison County, the deed to the property being still retained by the family and bearing the signature of James Monroe, then president of tbe United States. Mr. Borland left his land in charge of Juda Hess, another sterling pioneer, and returned to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1821, when he came with his family to the frontier farm in Harrison County and vigorously set himself at work in reclaiming the land from the forest and developing a productive farm. On this old homestead he remained until his death in 1862, at the age of seventy-seven years. His first marriage was with Mary Little, who died ten years later, three children having been born of this union - William, who became a resident of Tuscarawas County; Washington, who established his home in Carroll County; and Lydia, who became the wife of James Waddington, with whom she removed to Nebraska in the pioneer period of the history of that state. For his second wife Mr. Borland w'edded Miss Elizabeth Hevlin, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Hevlin, and of the two children of this union the elder was Mary, who became the wife of James Mackey and who died many years ago. David, the younger child, was the father of the subject of this review.

Samuel Borland, founder of the family in Harrison County, was a son of Samuel and Lydia (Cary) Borland, whose marriage was solemnized in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he had established his resjdence upon Immigration to America from his native Ireland. The parents passed the remainder of their lives in the old Keystone State, where the father was a farmer by vocation. Of Mrs. Borland the following statements have been written : "She participated in the defense of one of the old- forts when it was attacked by the Indians, was a remarkable woman, accustomed to the hardships of pioneer times, and was an excellent shot with the rifle." Samuel and Lydia (Cary) Borland became the parents of ten children: Samuel, John, Rachel, William, Matthew, Margaret, David, Mary, Andrew and James.

David Borland was born on the old homestead farm in North Township, Harrison County, January 27, 1831, and on this place he passed his entire life, his death having occurred November 8, 1907. Well and earnestly had he lived and wrought during the intervening years, and he stood as one of the sterling citizens and representative farmers of his native county, with character and achievement that gave him inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. His fine farm comprised 170 acres, about three miles distant from the village of Scio. He was a democrat in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

December 24, 1857, recorded the marriage of David Borland to Miss Catherine Ann Havnar, who was born and reared in Harrison County and whose parents, Dominick and Elizabeth Havnar, were residents of Monroe Township, this county, at the time of their deaths. Mrs. Borland, a woman of gentle and gracious personality, passed to the life eternal on the 26th of October, 1890, at the age of fifty-seven years, and her remains rest beside those of her husband In the cemetery at Conotton. Of the three children LeRoy H., subject of this review, is the eldest; Martha Elizabeth died at the age of forty-nine years; and Albert is now a resident of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Martha Elizabeth Borland, who was bom November 28, 1862, became the wife of Harry E. Phillips and was a resident of Harrison County at the time of her death. Albert Borland was bom February 20, 1870, and In his youth was afforded the advantages of Scio College. His first wife, who died in the year 1900, bore the maiden name of Jennie Law, and she Is survived by two children, Frank and Wilbur. For his second wife Mr. Borland wedded Miss Myrtle Harding, and they have four children, Irma, Aline, Albert, Jr., and an Infant son.

LeRoy H. Borland was bom on the old homestead farm of the Borland family in North Township, and the date of his nativity was July 30, 1860. In addition to receiving the advantages of the district schools he was for two years a student at New Hagerstown Academy in Carroll County, and thereafter he remained at the paternal home and assisted in the work of the farm until his marriage, in 1882, when he established his home on his present farm, which Is not far distant from the old place on which he was bom and reared. He is now the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of 160 acres in Harrison County and an adjacent tract of 109 acres lying across the line in Carroll County. The excellent buildings on his farm have been erected by Mr. Borland, and the many other improvements which he has made likewise give evidence of his progressiveness, as well as of the abundant success that has attended his well directed activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. In the livestock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the breeding and raising of blooded Black Polled Aberdeen cattle and Delaine sheep.

In political affairs Mr. Borland is found loyally arrayed as a supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Conotton. At Scio he is affiliated with the lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and his further York Rite affiliations are with the Chapter, Council and Commandery at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, besides which he has received Scottish Rite degrees and is a member pf the Scioto Consistory In the city of Columbus.

On the 23d of February, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Borland to Miss Sarah Trushell, who likewise was bora and reared in North Township and who is a daughter of Valentine and Sarah (Smith) Trushell, the former of whom was bora in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1805, and the latter in Harrison County, Ohio, January 21, 1825, she having been a daughter of Daniel Smith, one of the honored pioneers of the county. Valentine Trushell came with his parents to Harrison County in 1815, when he was about ten years old, and here he was reared on the pioneer farm. He became one of the substantial farmers of North Township, and there he continued to reside until his death, October 16, 1880. The maiden name of his first wife was Susannah HufT, and her death occurred November 8, 1845. The names and respective birth-dates of the children of this union are here recorded : Michael, November 6, 1832 ; Mary, December 19, 1834 ; Elizabeth, May 5, 1837; Rebecca and Anna, twins. December 19, 1839; and John, September 28, 1843. For his second wife Mr. Trushell wedded Miss Sarah Smith, and she preceded him to eternal rest, her death having occurred March 8, 1876, and both having been earnest communicants of the Lutheran Cnurch. They became the parents of nine children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted: Lydia,

Mr. and Mrs. Borland have two children: Mamie Folsom is the wife of Frank C. Fierbaugh, of Cleveland, Ohio ; and Harry Oliver, who is a successful farmer in North Township, married Miss Mabel Lyda Pettay, their one child, a son, is Harold Edwin.

Abbaham B. Markley. In North Township, Harrison County, is to be found the attractive farm home of Mr. Markley, whose popularity in the community is attested by his holding the office of township trustee, and whose progressiveness as an agriculturist and stock-grower needs no further voucher than the general air of thrift and prosperity that pervades his fine farm of 171 acres.

Mr. Markley was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, on the 30th of March, 1876, and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this section of the Buckeye state, his grandfather, Jonathan Markley, having been a native of Pennsylvania and having become an early settler and pioneer farmer in Harrison County. Henry H. Markley, father of the subject of this review, was born in North Township, Harrison County, and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth A. Baker, was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Abraham and Edna (Brock) Baker. Henry H. Markley became one of the substantial farmers of North Township, Harrison County, and continued as one of the representative citizens of his native township until his death, in June, 1918, his wife having passed away the following December, so that in death they were not long divided. They became the parents of four children : Charles O., Abraham B., Laura Bell, wife of B. B. Johnson, and Georgia, who died at the age of three years.

While early lending his aid in the work of the home farm and thus learning the value of honest toil and endeavor Abraham B. Markley did not fail to profit by the advantages offered in the district schools of his home township. He remained at the parental home until the time of fcis marriage, in 1901, and since that time hai been continuously engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township, his present farm having been the stage of his activities since 1906. He is liberal and progressive as a citizen, is a democrat in politics, and, as previously stated, is serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of North Township. His wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

November 23, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Markley to Miss Alice Calcott, a daughter of Benjamin and Jeanette (McLandsborough) Calcott, of North Township. Benjamin Calcott continued as one of the prosperous farmers of Harrison County until his death, and his widow and one of their sons remained on the old homestead farm until March, 1921. Mr. Calcott was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and was one of the eight children of Robert and Catherine (Rogers) Calcott. Robert Calcott was born and reared In England, where he learned the trade of baker and where also he worked at the trade of wool -comber as a young man. He was twenty years of age when he accompanied his parents to the United States, and the parents, Robert and Ann (Heritage) Calcott, became early settlers of what is now Carroll County, Ohio, where the father reclaimed a farm and where he remained until his death, in 1860, his widow having passed away in 1866. Robert, Jr., was the eldest of their five children. Robert Calcott, Jr., made Carroll County the stage of his Initial farm enterprise, and later he became a prosperous farmer in Tuscarawas County, where he died at the age of seventy years, in July, 1885, his wife having died of typhoid fever in 1864, when thirty-five years of age. Five of the eight children contracted typhoid fever about the time when their mother succumbed to the disease, and of the three who survived Benjamin, father of Mrs. Markley, was the eldest. After his marriage, in 1869, Benjamin Calcott continued his association with farm enterprise in Tuscarawas County until the spring of 1882, when he came to Harrison County and purchased the farm on which he passed the remainder of his life and on which his venerable widow still resides. He was a staunch republican, served as trustee of North Township, was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and was a communicant of the Lutheran Church, as is also his widow. He was one of the influential and honored citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Calcott became the parents of seven children : William D., Catherine Ann. John

Robert, Alice. Edward, Mary, and one who died in infancy. Edward and Mary likewise are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Markley have five children: Grace, Helen, Thomas, Florence and

Thomas E. Chambers gives to the vital little city of Sclo, Harrison County, requisite modern facilities in the line of automobile enterprise, and his garage, with best of equipment, offers ample accommodations. In connection with the garage he maintains a sales agency for the popular automobiles manufactured by Dodge Brothers, and his well directed enterprise is conducted under the title of T. E. Chambers. The garage has a well ordered repair department, and an adequate stock of automobile accessories and supplies adds to the facilities of the establishment.

Thomas E. Chambers was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 5th of August, 1898, and is a son of Robert H. and Retta (Hill) Chambers, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Hancock County, West Virginia, a daughter of George Hill. From Jefferson County, Ohio, Robert H. Chambers removed to Perrysville, Carroll County, where he has since conducted a well equipped general store and has precedence as one of the representative citizens and business men of the village. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Thomas E., of this review, is their only child.

After having profited by the advantages of the public schools at Perrysville Thomas E. Chambers continued his studies in the high school at Scio and thereafter took a one-year commercial course at Oberlin College. He then became associated with his father's .mercantile business at Perrysville, Carroll County, and this alliance continued until 1915, when he came to Scio and established his present business, which has been signally prospered under his progressive and effective management. Mr. Chambers is affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Masons, and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at Scio.

The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Chambers to Miss Pearl Slates, daughter of Nelson E. Slates, who is serving in 1921 as a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers have a winsome little daughter, Lois Alberta.

Joseph M. McCullough. On the excellent farm of 112 acres which is his present place of residence in Archer Township, Harrison County, Joseph M. McCullough was born May 12, 1852, and the fine old homestead has been the stage of his productive activities from his youth to the present time. He* is a son of John and Jane (Welsh) McCullough, both likewise natives of Archer Township, where the former was born on the 5th of October, 1822, and the latter on the 6th of May, 1827 - dates that show that the respective families were founded in this county in the early pioneer days. The mother of Joseph M. McCullough was a daughter of John and Jane (McClellan) Welsh, both natives of Ireland. John Welsh, a son of Samuel Welsh, was ten years of age when his parents came to America, and within a short time after their arrival in this country they established their home on a pioneer farm in Harrison County, where the father reclaimed his land from the forest wilds and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, as sterling pioneer citizens of Archer Township. John Welsh was reared under the conditions that marked the early stages of development in this county and became a prosperous farmer in Archer Township, where he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having been members of the Presbyterian

John McCullough was a son of Joseph McCullough, who came to Harrison County when this section of Ohio was little more than a forest wilderness, and he settled on the land which constitutes the present well improved farm of his grandson, Joseph M., of this review, the farm having remained continuously in the possession of the family since the early pioneer era. The name of the first wife of Joseph McCullough was Hanna, and they became the parents of seven children: John, James B. (became a physician), Elizabeth. Sarah Jane, Mary, Esther and Isabel. The religious faith of the family was that of the Presbyterian Church, and the lineage traces back to staunch Scotch-Irlsh origin.

On the ancestral farm which was the place of his birth John McCullough passed his entire life, and in his character and worthy achievement he well upheld the high honors of the family name. Both he and his wife were well advanced in years at the time of their deaths and both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas B. Copeland), Joseph M. (immediate subject of this sketch), Amanda J. (Mrs. Andrew J. Palmer), and John W. (died In childhood).

Joseph M. McCullough, the only surviving male representative of his generation of the family, gained his early education in the district schools of Archer Township and eventually became the owner of the old homestead farm, with the activities of which he has been associated from his youth. He is known as a farmer of resourcefulness and enterprise, and has been successful as a representative of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the neighborhood Methodist Episcopal Church known as Bethel chapel.

The 30th of November, 1876, recorded the marriage of Mr. McCullough to Miss Elizabeth Birney, who was born and reared in Green Township and who is a daughter of the late Asbury and Eleanor (McCullough) Blmey. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough became the parents of five children : Eleanor is the wife of Charles McKee, a prosperous farmer in Archer Township, and they have four children. Joseph Ross, William Birney, Mary Elizabeth and Anna Martha. Mary is the wife of T. S. Birney. of Washington Township. John, a farmer in Archer Township, married Miss Clara Ora Heavilin, and they have three children, Chester H., Joseph Dwalne and Vula Elizabeth. Alice died at the age Of four years, and Lela O. remains at the parental home.

Judge Walter Gaston Shotwell was born on the 27th day of December, 1856, in a substantial brick home in Cadiz. The house still stands on South street at the end of Main and is the same to which his father and mother moved when they were married and in which they passed the remainder of their lives. Both par- ents were of pioneer families that came to Ohio early and carved out farms in the wilderness. Both were born in log cabins, and after long lives of upright living and usefulness in the community they died, the father in 1890 and the mother in 1905. They were buried at Cadiz.

Stuart Beebe Shotwell, the father, was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1819. His family were English Quakers. They removed to America and settled near Elizabeth, New Jersey, as early as 1664. Here they remained and here Hugh Shotwell was born in 1764. He was the sixth of a family of eleven children. His father dying when he was young, he received his share of the estate in Continental money and that soon becoming depreciated he removed to the west, where land was cheap, to improve his fortunes. He settled first in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Brownsville. where he bought a farm. This he afterwards gave to his oldest son, John. With the rest of his family Hugh removed to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1813, settling first on the farm now occupied by John Rea in Cadiz Township. This farm later he gave to his second son, Joseph, while Hugh removed to other land he had acquired in Washington Township, some of which he had entered himself. This land he later divided between his two other sons William and Arrison, and here Hugh died in his nineteenth year. He was a man of intelligence, owned and read his copy of Blackstone, and was the first county surveyor of Harrison County and laid out many of its roads and platted much of its land.

William Shotwell. third son of Hugh, received from his father the farm on Big Stillwater, now owned by Martha B. Shotwell, and on It William built the Shotwell mill. Later he removed to Cadiz and started a store in the building now occupied by Judge ShotwelTs office. Neither the store nor the mill prospered, and becoming financially embarrassed William retired. He married Rhoda Beebe, of Hampden County, Massachusetts, the daughter of Capt. Stuart Beebe and the sister of Walter B. Beebe, who was the first attorney at the Harrison County bar. It was while on a visit to her brother in Cadiz that they met and it was at his homo that they were married. It was on their Stillwater farm that their first child, Stuart Beebe Sitwell, was born. The mother was a strong character, well educated in the Massachusetts schools, two of her brothers were graduates of Williams College and were lawyers, and she early determined that her son should also be a college graduate and a lawyer. And so at the age of sixteen Stuart was sent to Franklin College, where he spent three years, and then he quit college and entered upon the study of law at Cadiz with Dewey & Stanton. He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and thereafter practiced law in Cadiz for fifty years and until his death. He never held office, but was a man of sturdy sense, of good business qualifications and scholarly tastes. And by strict integrity, close application to business and good habits he was able at his death to leave a considerable estate to his family.

Nancy Gaston, whom he married, was a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Kilgore) Gaston. The Gaston family were French Huguenots that left France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. John Gaston was born in France in 1600. He left France in 1640, going to Scotland, where he was married. He had three sons born in Scotland. They went from Scotland to northern Ireland and thence came to America in 1720. James, the father of Nancy, was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His father, Hugh, had married a remote cousin, Grace, the daughter of Robert Gaston, a colonel in the Revolutionary war. Hugh with his family removed from Pennsylvania to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1800. Here he had acquired four hundred acres of wild land. The removal was made in a wagon. His son James was only seven years old at that time. They lived in the wagon until a cabin could be built and in the cabin until some years later a brick house was built. They cleared fourteen acres that spring for corn and sowed it in wheat in the fall. That winter they cleared fourteen acres more for corn the next spring. And so the clearing went on thereafter from year to year.

James Gaston married Elizabeth Kilgore, whose home was on the adjoining farm. He had already bought a tract of wild land next to his father's and having erected a cabin on it he and his wife commenced to keep house there and proceeded to clear the land. It was In this cabin that Nancy was born. When she was only a year old and still the baby of the family a new frame house was finished, and It was agreed that they would take dinner in it on a particuhir day. And on that day one of the carpenters, taking the baby, Nancy, on one arm and the pot of corn from the crane over the wood fire on the other, remarked that he had his share of the moving and started for the new house. And having thus been brought to her new home Nancy there grew to womanhood. She graduated at the Steubenville Female Seminary and then came to Cadiz to teach in a select school which her uncle, Daniel Kilgore, had established. It was thus that she met her future husband, Stuart B. Shotwell. sue was a woman of strong common sense and of fervid piety, and through her long life was greatly respected and beloved by her neighbors. They had five children: Mary, deceased; Martha B. ; Walter G. ;

Walter G. Shotwell's winters when young were spent in school and his summers on his grandfather's or uncle's farm in Columbiana County. On the farm he did the work of a farm lad, dropped corn, hoed it, raked sheaves and gathered them, tramped the hay and carried water to the men in the fields. And he fished in the creek. And one day while engaged in this sport he slipped and fell into the pool below his uncle's mill dam and narrowly escaped drowning. But a neighbor, William Conkle, seeing him unable to swim and floundering in water twenty feet deep threw off his coat and at the risk of his own life swam out and, getting him on his

Walter's first teacher was W. B. Hearn, later the editor of the Cadiz Republican. He was a sincerely good man and an excellent teacher. The relation continued for seven years, Mr. Hearn advancing in the grade of the school as his pupil advanced in his studies. It was a very pleasant relation and left an enduring impression upon the pupil's life. They were always friends, and to this day the pupil retains an affectionate regard for the memory of this early benefactor. At the age of fifteen young Shotwell entered the preparatory department of Franklin College. And he continued in this institution for five years. During most of this time Andrew F. Ross, LL. D., was the president of the college and excelled as a teacher, especially of Latin and Greek, in which he had previously held professorships in Bethany and Oscaloosa College. Perhaps owing to a friendship that already existed between the father of young Shotwell and Dr. Ross a regard was awakened early for the new student. And it ripened into r a sincere affection. Walter became a member of Doctor Ross's family and enjoyed a familiar association daily during term time with this excellent man. And so he had always afterward a reason to be thankful for another of these early associations. After graduating at Franklin young Shotwell went to Yale College at New Haven, Connecticut, where he passed an examination in the studies already pursued by the class and was entered as a senior. He graduated the next year in the class of 1878. Then he entered upon the study of law with his father, and two years later was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Cadiz and devoted himself to the bar. He opened an office in Cadiz and devoted himself to the work of his profession. On the 4th day of July, 1887, he was nominated by the republican convention for prosecuting attorney of Harrison County. He was subsequently elected and at the end of three years was renominated and re-elected for a second term. The work of the office during these years was exacting, owing to the strong feeling against the saloons and the building of the Wheeling and Lake Erie and the double tracking of the Panhandle Railroad. These large public works caused an influx of foreign labor as well as liquor into the county, and together they made work for the prosecutor. But young Shotwell's private practice had increased to such an extent that the office with its small salary had become unprofitable and he resigned it at the close of the fifth year. And thereafter he devoted himself exclusively to private practice for the next eight years. He worked hard and the labor brought success.

In 1890 he was nominated for the office of Common Pleas judge In the sub-division composed of Harrison, Jefferson and Tuscarawas counties, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Fletcher Doughitt. Judge Shotwell was renominated and re-elected In 1901 and again in 1906, the last time without opposition, the republicans presenting no other candidate In the convention and the democrats none at the election. The work of this office was very heavy.

During nine of the fourteen years that Judge Shotwell served he did all the work of Tuscarawas County, and during seven of these years that of Harrison also. Thus in those seven years he tried the suits in the court of general jurisdiction for approximately 100,000 people. Then an additional judgeship was created for the sub-division owing to an accumulation of business In Jefferson County. And during the remaining five years of Judge Shotwell's judicial career he brought up the docket in Jefferson County besides doing the business of Harrison. Thus he had the satisfaction of seeing all the work done and the dockets up when he quit. He retired from the bench in 1913, receiving, as he went out a testimonial banquet from the bar of each county of the sub-division. And then, after thirty-three years of hard labor at the law. he quit the profession.

Judge Shotwell is the author of a Life of Charles Sumner, published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Company of New York, which has been favorably reviewed and has found its way into the principal libraries of the country.

On the 24th of December, 1884, Judge Shotwell married Miss Belle Mcllvaine, of New Philadelphia, Ohio. They have one child, Margaret Mcllvaine, married to S. P. McLaughlin of Waterloo, Iowa. There are four grandchildren: Nancy Shotwell, Margaret Mcllvaine, Mary Elizabeth and Ann Parks.

In 1897 Judge Shotwell and his wife visited Europe, traveling through England, Ireland, Scotland, France. Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany and Holland. And since his retirement from the bench he has traveled extensively in the southern and eastern sections of his own country.

Stuabt B. Shotwell, Jb., was born at Cadiz, Ohio, April 8, 1861, a son of Stuart B. and Nancy (Gaston) Shotwell. He was graduated from Franklin College in 1882, and after reading law with his father was admitted to the bar in 1884. For several years thereafter Mr. Shotwell was engaged in the practice of his profession at Saint Paul, Minnesota, to which city he had gone after his admission to the bar, and in that connection formed the acquaintance of men of extensive Interests, and by some of them was induced to become vice president and treasurer of the Graves & Vinton Company, investment bankers and western managers of the Middlesex Banking Company. Still later Mr. Shotwell engaged in a brokerage business of his own, continuing to reside at Saint Paul, where his death occurred May 22, 1910.

In 1892 Mr. Shotwell was married at Cadiz, Ohio, to Miss Caroline R. Mcllvaine, a daughter of Judge George W. Mclnvaine of the Ohio Supreme bench. Mrs. Shotwell died at Cadiz, April 7 ,1918, leaving one son, Stuart Mcllvaine Shotwell, who was born at Saint Paul, Minnesota, April 16, 1893. He was graduated from the public schools of his native city in 1910, and in thb fall of that year entered Harvard University, and was graduated therefrom in 1914.

Higginson & Company of Chicago, Illinois, and remained with this concern until in May, 1917, he enlisted for service during the great war and entered an officer's training camp. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and was sent overseas with his command to France. While there he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and remained abroad until July, 1919, when he was sent home and honorably discharged. At present he is in the bond department of the Irving National Bank of New York City, New York. He was married in October, 1919, to Bernice Myers, of Berwyn, Illinois.

Charles F. Thompson is the owner of a fine farm property of 257 acres in Archer Township, Harrison County, and is in a significant degree to be classed as a vigorous and influential representative of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county. His farm is equipped with modern improvements, and its operations are carried forward according to approved scientific methods, with the result that he gains from the property the maximum returns. He is a breeder of registered Shorthorn cattle, and has advanced views in connection with all features of productive farm enterprise.

Mr. Thompson was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 8th of February, 1869, and is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Shields) Thompson, whose marriage was solemnized in 1856. Joseph Thompson was born in Ireland in January. 1833, and his wife was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1836, she being a daughter of William and Ann (Thompson) Shields. William Shields passed the major part of his life in Short Creek Township, and for many years was engaged in the work of his trade, that of blacksmith, at Harrisville. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of nine children - Eli, James, Mary Eleanor, Hannah, Lydia Jane, Henry, Alice Ann, Sarah Elizabeth and Benoni. William Shields was a son of Benoni Shields, an honored pioneer of Harrison County and one of whom more specific mention is made on other pages of this volume, in the sketch dedicated to Milton M. Shields.

James Mitchell Thompson and his wife, Elizabeth, remained in Ireland until about the year 1848, when they came with their children to America and established a residence in Canada, where his death occurred within the following year. Thereafter Mrs. Thompson and her children came to Ohio and established a home on a farm in Green Township, Harrison County, where the loved mother passed the remainder of her life. Her children were five in number - Joseph, James. Susan (Mrs. Joseph Mitchell), Nancy (Mrs. James Bullock) and Jennie (Mrs. James Howard).

Joseph Thompson, elder of the two sons in the above mentioned family, initiated his independent career as a farmer when he was a young man, and he remained in Short Creek Township until the early '80s, after which he was a farmer In Cadiz Township for four years. He then removed with his family to Archer

Township, where he became the owner of an excellent farm and where he continued to reside until his death, in 1904, his widow still maintaining her home in that township and being a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he likewise was a member. They became the parents of eight children: Elizabeth (Mrs. James Henderson), Mary Eleanor (Mrs. William Hedges), James Mitchell, Jennie (Mrs. Adam Porter), William (died in childhood), Charles F., Oliver J.( married Lucy Wood) and John (died at the age of eleven months).

Chari es F. Thompson acquired his youthful education in the district schools of Short Creek, Cadiz and Archer townships, and he remained at the parental home until the time of his marriage. when he was twenty-seven years of age. Since that time he has been independently engaged in farm enterprise in Archer Township, where his success is attested by the admirable appearance and general productiveness of his valuable farm. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in the Village of Jewett. They have no children. The maiden name of Mrs. Thompson was Jennie Baker, and concerning the family more specific record is given on other pages, in the sketch of Andrew H. Baker.

James M. Thompson, a brother of Charles F. Thompson, mentioned individually in the preceding review, was born in Short Creek Township on the 5th of February, 1862, and he likewise is one of the representative farmers of Archer Township. He received the advantages of the district schools and from his young manhood has been successfully engaged In farm Industry in Archer Township, where his homestead place comprises 145 acres, and where he owns also another farm of ninety-five acres not far distant from his residence place. He is a successful breeder of registered American Delaine sheep and registered Shorthorn cattle. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he served two years as assessor of Archer Township. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jewett.

On the 20th of November, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Thompson to Miss Nancy Reid, daughter of Nelson and Mary (Hustis) Reid, whose marriage occurred on the 15th of August, 1867. Mr. Reid was born in Archer Township April 21, 1841, and here he passed his entire life, his death having occurred September 9, 1871, when he was only thirty years of age and his entire active career having been marked by close association with farm enterprise in his native township. His widow, who was born December 4. 1844, was a daughter of John Hustis and survived her husband by many years. They became the parents of two children - Margaret E., who was bora May 23, 1S68, and whose death occurred November 4, 1881; and Nancy (Mrs. James Mitchell Thompson), who was bora July 31, 1871, a short time prior to the death of her father. Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell Thompson became the parents of ten children, concerning whom the following brief record is available; Joseph

Reid, who was born September 6, 1891, married Miss Etta Patterson, and they have two children - Ralph Edwin, born November 12, 1916, and Eleanor May, born May 9, 1919. Alma Elizabeth Thompson was born January 19, 1894, and her death occurred January 16, 1909. Mary Leona was born. October 9, 1896. John Mitchell was born August 4. 1897; Walter Leslie was born September '28, 1899; Nancy Marie, July 24. 1902: Ruth Eleanor, May 31, 1905; Lucy May, May 5, 1907; Edna Frances, April 13, 1910; and Ralph Wayne, November 7, 1912.

K. W. Kinsey. It has been the privilege of Mrs. Emma H. Kinsey, of Cadiz, to "keep his memory green" by commemorating her husband, K. W. Kinsey, in the annals of Harrison County. The Kinseys belong to the early history of the community. An old record shows that John Kinsey, an English Quaker, came from London, arriving at New Castle on the Delaware in the ship Kent June 16, 1677, coming as one of the commissioners for the settlement of West Jersey under the purchase by Edward Byllinge. He was five years ahead of William Penn in the New World. Settlement was made at Burlington, New Jersey, and at this time John Kinsey bargained for 300 acres on the west side of the Delaware, in the locality afterward famous because of the treaty made between William Penn and the Indians - the treaty that was never sworn to nor broken, William Penn being a Quaker and opposed to the oath in such things.

While John Kinsey died before settlement was completed there, the Swede from whom he purchased the land made formal acknowledgment of his deed of conveyance to the widow, Elizabeth Kinsey, and thus the purchase was Intact for the heirs. There was a son, John Kinsey, who came a year later to the colonies, and he afterward distinguished himself in public service, and in turn his son John, likewise a Quaker, later became chief Justice of Pennsylvania. His brother, Edmund Kinsey, married Sarah Osburn August 21, 1708, and in 1815 they moved to Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, having friendly Indians as their guides, and there they made their homes In the wilderness, and from them the Ohio branch of the Kinsey family traces its lineage. Edmund Kinsey was much Interested in the cause of religion and In 1720 he was one of the founders of the Buckingham meeting.

Edmund Kinsey was one of the foremost and most skilled mechanics of his time, and he established a scythe and ax factory in Buckingham. In it he Installed a trip hammer operated by water power, which was a great improvement. There were nine children In his family, and from Benjamin, the eighth child, the Ohio family Is descended. He was born October 22, 1727, and In 1749 he married Susannah Brown, and after her death he married Martha Waite in the year of the Declaration of American Independence. There were seven children by the first and nine children by the second marriage, one of them being George Kinsey, who on December 22, 1773, married Mary Gillingham. In this family there were nine children : Sarah, Susannah, Edmund, James, Aaron, John, Charles and Ann, and It is through Charles that the relationship is carried down to the Ohio branch of the family.

Charles Kinsey was born May 19, 1786, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was a hatter by trade, and on June 1, 1815. he married Ann Worrall in Philadelphia. When he was only ten years old the Kinsey family came to Mount Pleasant, where there was a Quaker settlement in Ohio, and from there he returned to Philadelphia and worked as a hatter. When he married and came back to Ohio he settled in Cadiz Township, near the site of Lafferty's Mill, and here he continued the business of manufacturing hots until after the death of his wife, when he removed to Moorefleld and continued making hats. On November 2, 1823, while a resident of Harrison County, a son of K .W. Kinsey, who is now commemorated in the annals of the community, was born, and he always lived in Harrison County. After going to Moorefleld Charles Kinsey was married twice, the second wife, Talitha Catchel, becoming the mother of three children, and the third wife, Rody Boone, bearing him two children.

At the time of the gold discovery in California in 1849 Mr. Kinsey spent five years in search of the precious metal. He returned to Moorefleld and resumed the business as a hatter, finally removing to Flushing in Belmont County, where he died at the age of almost eighty-eight years. At the time of his death Mr. Kinsey was the oldest Mason in Ohio, having been a member since 1816. when he Joined in Galllpolis. His body lies burled in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery at Flushing. The children born to Charles Kinsey from his first marriage were: Gillingham, K. W. and Sarah Jane, and the oldest distinguished himself as an artist, some of his pictures being still in existence.

When he was a boy of fourteen K. W. Kinsey became a "bound boy" in Cadiz, but it was an unsatisfactory arrangement and in time he left and went to Mount Pleasant, where he remained four years. When he returned to Cadiz he spent ten months in a private school taught by Joseph Wood, after which he was a teacher, and at times he served as clerk in different business establishments. In 1855 Mr. Kinsey was elected auditor of Harrison County, and in 1860 he was re-elected. Later he engaged in business in Cadiz, being one of the most extensive wool dealers in Harrison County.

On May 6, 1847, K. W. Kinsey married Sarah Jane Haverfleld and they had an adopted daughter, Emma Bingham Kinsey. On November 8, 1864, Mr. Kinsey married the second time, and the wife, Emma Holmes Kinsey, survives him, continuing her residence in Cadiz. She is a daughter of George and Hannah (Mansfield) Holmes, and her parents were pioneers in Harrison County. Col. Joseph Holmes, grandfather of Mrs. Emma Holmes Kinsey, was the founder of the house of Holmes in the county. He married three times, his first wife being Hannah Linn, the second wife was Tacy Thompson, and the third was Hannah Mansfield.

The children bom to K. W. and Emma Holmes Kinsey are as follows : Mary is the wife of Charles Brown. George married Ruby Hastings. His children are Kersey W. and Louise. Harry Kinsey married Mary Moore. His children are Sarah and Carolyn. George and Harry Kinsey live in Arcadia, Nebraska. Edith Kinsey is the wife of Edward Barringer. Her children are Marcella and Elizabeth. Nellie Kinsey is a supervisor of music.

The Commemorative Record of Harrison County gives a full history of the Kinsey family, and Mrs. Emma H. Kinsey adds something of the Holmes family story. Her father, George Holmes, who was a son of Col. Joseph Holmes and Hannah (Mansfield) Holmes, the latter a daughter of Thomas Mansfield, was a native of Short Creek, bora there in 1799, while Ohio was still a territory. Colonel Holmes was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and he was a member of the first Ohio State Legislature. His children were: George, Asa, Abraham, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan and Cynthia. George Holmes owned about 500 acres of land In Short Creek and was among the well-to-do farmers of his day In Harrison County. The Kinsey family were members of the Methodist Church, and were always active in all movements for the welfare of the community.

Abraham M. Busby is another of the native sons of Harrison County who is here causing the earth* to bring forth its increase and who Is known as one of the progressive and success ful exponents of agriculture and live-stock industry in Archer Township, where he is the owner of the fine old homestead farm of 160 acres which was the place of his birth, the date of his nativity having been March 28, 1864. He is a son of Martin V. and Melinda (Helea) Busby, honored citizens of whom adequate record is given on other pages, in the sketch of the career of another of their sons, John.

Abraham M. Busby is indebted to the district schools of his native township for his early educational discipline, and from his boyhood to the present time the old homestead farm has been the stage of his productive activities. In 1S98 he purchased the interest of the other heirs and came into full possession of his valuable farm, upon which he has since made excellent improvements, including the erection of the present modern and commodious house, which is one of the attractive rural domiciles of Archer Township.

The political proclivities of Mr. Busby are indicated in his staunch support of the cause of the democratic party, and he is influential in community affairs, as Is evidenced by his having served two terms as trustee of his native township. He and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Village of Jewett.

The year 1888 recorded the marriage of Mr. Bushy to Miss Mary Bell Dyson, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Joseph and Julia (Swan) Dyson. Mr. and Mrs. Busby have two children - Bessie May, who is the wife of James

Charles E. Latferty Is well entitled to recognition in this history, not alone by reason of his personal achievement in connection with farm industry in Harrison County, but also by reason of his being a popular representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this county. He was bora in Athens Township on the Sth of October, 1869, and he Is a son of Edward and Sarah A. (Cooper) Lafferty, whose marriage was solemnized September 7, 1865. Edward Lafferty was bora in Athens Township, this county. November 25, 1826, and received his early education in the pioneer schools. The original representatives of the Lafferty family in America came from England and settled in Pennsylvania about the middle of the eighteenth century. In the old Keystone State was born Edward Lafferty, who there married Elizabeth Ramage. In the early part of the nineteenth century he came with his large family to Ohio and became one of the pioneer settlers In Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, as now constituted. He purchased a large tract of wild land and began the reclaiming of a farm from the forest, the while he assembled his family in a log house of the type common to the locality and period. He was one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death, and his widow attained to the remarkable age of 111 years, her death having occurred August 22. 1844, and both having been earnest members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church. Their son Edward was born In Pennsylvania in 1789, and in his youth he assisted In developing the frontier farm in Harrison County. Here he married Margaret McFadden, a member of another sterling pioneer family, and they established themselves on a pioneer farm in Athens Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them and both zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. Mr. Lafferty died on the 8th of November, 1836, and his widow passed to eternal rest on the 14th of September, 1864. They became the parents of ten children: Samuel, John, Eliza (Mrs. Thomas Guines), Margaret (Mrs. Luke Vorhees), George, Joseph, Hiram, Edward, Findlay and Mary Jane.

Of these children Edward was the father of him whose name introduces this review, and he was reared on the old home farm, the while he profited by the advantages of the common schools of the period. In 1865, as already noted, he married Miss Sarah A. Cooper, a daughter of William C. Cooper, who was a pioneer settler of Nottingham Township, aud whose children were nine in number - Benjamin, William, John. Stephen, Thomas. Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Louisa and Sarah A. Edward Lafferty became one of the substantial farmers in Athens Township, where he continued his residence until his death, April 2, 18S6. His wife survived him by several years. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens, and in politics he held to the ancestral faith, that of the democratic party. He well upheld the honors of a family name that has been one of prominence and influence in Harrison County since the early pioneer era, and he and his wife commanded the high regard of the community in which they lived and labored to worthy ends. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here made a matter of record ; George T., March 26, 1867 ; Charles E., October 8, 1869; Eliza Caroline, Mrs. Charles K. Norcott, August 4, 1871; William A. and Margaret E., twins, August 31, 1874, the latter being the wife of George McFadden; and Mary E., Mrs. Jesse Mitchell, November 22, 1881.

Charles E. Lafferty found the period of his boyhood compassed by the influences of the home farm, and in the meantime made good use of the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township. There also he Initiated his Independent activities as a farmer, and there he continued this association until 1909, when he removed to his present farm in Nottingham Township, where he owns seventynine acres and has proved himself eligible for registration as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county. He has been unfaltering in his support of the principles of the democratic party and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church, in the tenets of which he was reared.

On the 14th of June, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lafferty to Miss Luella Jones, who was born in Stock Township, this county, October 8, 1873, and who is a daughter of George M. and Mary E. (Laughlin) Jones, the former of whom was born In Belmont County, Ohio, and the latter In Cadiz Township, Harrison County. George M. Jones was one of the young patriots who represented Ohio as a soldier In the Civil war. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the history of this gallant regiment constitutes the virtual record of his military career, which Involved participation in many important battles, as well as innumerable skirmishes and other minor engagements. Mr. Jones was with General Sherman on the historic march from Atlanta to the sea and took part in the Grand Review of the victorious armies In the City of Washington. He was honorably discharged on September 21, 1864. After the close of the war Mr. Jones became a prosperous farmer in Stock Township, Harrison County, where he remained until 1890. when he removed to the farm now owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Lafferty in Nottingham Township, where he remained until his death on the 26th day of January, 1917, his wife dying January 24, 1917. He was a man of worth and ability and was an honored member of the post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Deersville. Of the three children Mrs. Lafferty is the youngest: Alfred P. resides in Carroll County, Ohio, and Ruth A. is the wife of Emmett Maxwell, of Nottingham Township. Mr. and Mrs. Lafferty have no children. Mr. Lafferty is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Elm ex E. Blackwell is one of the progressive farmers of Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 137 acres and where he gives successful attention to diversified agriculture and to the raising of good grades of live-stock.

Mr. Blackwell was born in Franklin Township, this county, June 12, 1861, and Is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the county. He Is a son of William J. and Rhoda L. (Jenkins) Blackwell, the former of whom was born in Nottingham Township, this county, February 5, 1817, and the latter of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Jenkins, who came from the old Keystone State to Carroll County, Ohio, where he became a successful farmer and where he passed the remainder of his life, his two sons having been Josiah and Samuel, the former of whom died while serving as a Union soldier in the Civil war. William J. Blackwell, Sr., was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, a member of a family that was founded in the Old Dominion state in the colonial days. There he was reared to manhood and there was solemnized his marriage to Catherine Fencer. About the year 1815 they came to Harrison County, Ohio and settled In Nottingham Township, whence they later removed to Franklin Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. Blackwell not only having been one of the honored pioneer farmers of the county but having also served as a soldier in the War of 1812. His children were: James R., Isaac, Samuel, Benjamin,

William J. Blackwell, Jr., passed his entire life in Harrison County and was one of the substantial citizens and representative farmers of Franklin Township at the time of his death, his wife likewise having died on the old homestead. They became the parents of eight children - Francis A., Addison W., Theopolis M., Martin L., Elmer E., Ulysses S., Rosetta M. and Ida Amelia.

Elmer E. Blackwell was reared on his father's farm in Franklin Township, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages afforded in the district schools. He remained at the parental home until his marriage in 1890, and for six years thereafter was engaged In farming in Washington Township. In 1897 he removed to his present farm in Nottingham Township, where lie owns 137 acres and where he has since continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. His political allegiance is accorded to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership In the Christian Church.

In the year 1890 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Blackwell to Miss Mary S. Street, daughter of Saint Clair and Volumnia (Hefling) Street, the former of whom was born in Maryland in the year 1820, and the latter of whom was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, August 8, 1S28. Dr. Saint Clair Street was one of the early physicians and surgeons of Harrison County, where he developed a large and representative practice and where be continued his residence in the Village of

Tippecanoe until his death in 1865, at the age of forty-five years, one month and twenty days. His first wife was survived by two children, Sarah Elizabeth and Shadrach W. Of the second marriage Mary Samantha, wife of the subject of this sketch, is the only child, and her birth occurred on the 28th of February, 1865, only a few months prior to the death of her father. Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell have three children - Clarence M., Lyle St. Clair and Helen Street. Clarence M. Blackwell entered the nation's military service on the 5th of October, 1917, at Camp Sherman, whence he was later transferred to Camp Forrest, Georgia, where he was assigned to the Thirty-third Company of the Ninth Training Battalion of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Depot Brigade. In April, 1918, he sailed with his command for France, and while at sea became so seriously afflicted with rheumatism and pneumonia that he was returned home on the same transport, without having landed in France. At Camp Sherman, Ohio, he received his honorable discharge December 27, 1918, and he has since remained at the parental home.

Daniel Kilgore during the first half of the nineteenth century was one of Ohio's most influential citizens. While his later enterprises affected many counties, he laid the foundation of his success while a resident of Harrison County.

He was born on King's Creek, West Virginia, a son of William and Nancy (Kelly) Kilgore, who some years previously had come from Ireland. On April 14, 1816, Daniel Kilgore married for his first wife Mary Pritchard, who was bom May 18, 1800. To this marriage were born two children, Narcissa, born in 1817 and became the wife of Charles Paulson, and John P., bora In 1823, who married Mary Wilson. The mother of these children died February 3, 1825, and on April 5, 1831, Mr. Kilgore married Ellen Downey, who was bora in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1811. The children of the second marriage were Daniel, Ellen, Alice, Charles, Dolly, William, Anna and Harry.

During his boyhood Daniel Kilgore went from West Virginia to Steubenville, Ohio, and learned the trade of making nails by the old manual process. With this trade as a chief capital he came to Cadiz and established a little shop a short distance below the present site of the Harrison National Bank. From nail making he opened a stock of hardware and then of general merchandise, and gradually resigned the making of nails to employes while he gave his attention to the enlarging business of his store. He- had a business genius and everything he touched seemed to prosper. His success was undoubtedly in a large measure due to his high standard of honesty. He was not only honest in the big things but in even the smallest details. Once while traveling In a stage coach when the driver forgot to collect the fares a fellow passenger indicating that he would not remedy the omission Mr. Kilgore insisted not only in paying his own fare, but in collecting from his companion as well. With a thriving mercantile business he also dealt In real estate and an associate of Chauncey Dewey and John Olmsted. In more prosperous years he started the Harrison branch of the State Bank of Ohio, that being the first banking establishment in Cadiz, and he was the first president of the branch bank. His half brother, Robert Lyons, became its cashier.

Daniel Kilgore earned the confidence of his fellow citizens and enjoyed many positions of trust and honor. He served in the Legislature from 1828 to 1832, and from 1834 to 1838 served in Congress. After leaving Congress he became the original promoter and first president of the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad, the nucleus of which has since developed as the Panhandle part of the Pennsylvania system. It was his Intention to build the road through Cadiz on the route from Steubenville to Dennison. At that time railways were built largely on money voted to the companies by township and other localities. Cadiz Township voted for the railroad but other townships along the route, believing that Mr. Kilgore's influence would not overlook the claims of Cadiz, refused to vote the allotted bonus. Townships in the northern port of the county on the other hand all voted for the aid for the railroad and it was built there Instead of through Cadiz.

Mr. Kilgore at the time he was elected president of the railroad company moved to Steubenville, the city he claimed as his home until his death. While on an eastern business trip in connection with his railroad interests he died in a hotel at New York City. By that time he had seen his railroad completed from Steubenville as far as Bowerston Tunnel. This original railroad has grown until it is one of the strongest branches of the Pennsylvania system.

Mr. Kilgore while living In Cadiz established a select school for the purpose of teaching the higher branches, and was instrumental In securring a building for it at the northwest corner of the Court House Square, the* lower part being used for the school while the upper floor was the Odd Fellows Hall. This building also served as a temporary Court House during the erection of the present Court House and later was torn down.

Daniel Kilgore in every way was a man of Impressive character. About six feet tall, square built, well proportioned, with black hair and dark eyes and dark complexion, always clean shaven, he was the physical embodiment of resourcefulness, unlimited energy, and a kindly and wholesome personality.

Emanuel Wright. Not only is Emanuel Wright, of Rumley Township, one of the successful farmers of Harrison County, but is also a dealer In stock, and Interested in several banking institutions of Harrison County, so that he may be fairly considered as a man of large affairs. He was bora in Monongahela County, West Virginia. May 18, 1864, a son of Jeremiah S. Wright and grandson of Jonathan Wright.

Jonathan Wright was also born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, and there he spent his life, devoting himself to farming activities. He married Catherine Snyder, and they had the

Jeremiah S'. Wright was born in Monongnhela County, West Virginia. There he lived all of his life and died in 1901, aged seventy-three years, and, like his father, he was a farmer. Jeremiah S. Wright was first married to Mary Moore, and they had four children, Noah, Jonathan, Catherine and Mariah, Noah being the only one living. After the death of his first wife he was married to Delilah Moore, and their children were: Michael, Eliza Jane, deceased ; Emanuel ; Solomon, who died when small; William J., and MaVtha, deceased. All of her life Mrs. Wright was a consistent and earnest member of the Christian Church. Her father, Solomon Moore, was a farmer of Monongahela County, West Virginia, and his children were as follows: Perry; Emanuel, who was a Union soldier and was killed in the service; Levi, Phoebe, Eliza and Druscilla, all deceased; Juilianna, Mary and Delilah, deceased. The Moores were all members of the Christian Church.