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On January 1, 1909, he restocked and resumed business as before. Mr. Vickers carries a large and first class stock, deal- ing in dry goods, ready made clothing, millinery, groceries, feed and flour. In his busy seasons he employs six clerks and keeps one delivery wagon.
Mr. Vickers was married in 1890, to Miss Cora Sloan, of Monroe County, Ohio, and they have one child, Mabel. Mr, and Mrs. Vickers are members of the Metho-
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ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH. STEUBENVILLE
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dist Protestant Church. He is identified with the Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World and the Protected Home Cirele.
HON. WILLIAM MeD. MILLER, a member of the bar at Steubenville, O., and a prominent citizen who is identified with many of the leading business concerns of that section, was born October, 1858, in Steubenville, O., and is a son of Martin L. Miller.
Martin L. Miller was born on the bound- ary between Beaver and Washington Coun- ties, at a place then known as Millersburg and in 1854 came to Jefferson County, Ohio, locating nt Steubenville, where he became one of the most successful business men. He was one of the first pharmacists to locate here. Hle became a white lead manufacturer and afterward served eight years as postmaster of Steubenville un- der the MeKinley and Roosevelt admin- istrations.
William MeD. Miller seenred a connon school education, graduating from the Sten- benville High School, after which he spent two years studying Latin and Greek under Profs. Andrews & Rowe. He then took up the study of law under MeCurdy and Spen- eer, Esqs., was admitted to the bar in 1883 and one year later embarked in the practice of law at Steubenville, where he was soon after elected and served seven years as city solicitor. Mr. Miller has always been an active participant in the work of the Republican party, and was especially in- terested during MeKinley's iadministra! tion, as a member of the State Central Committee. He was appointed probate judge by MeKinley and served eight years in that capaicty. Mr. Miller represents various companies and corporations as counsel. making a specialty of traetion, telephone, gas and oil companies. He was for nine years president of the Herald Printing Company, organized The Steuben- ville Building and Loan Association and is a director of the Steubenville and East Liverpool Railway and Light Company. He
is also a director in various other smaller concerns.
Hon. William MeD. Miller was married in June, 1892, to Jessie Mossgrove, of Steu- benville. He holds membership with the First Presbyterian Church, and is a mem- ber of the board of trustees and treasurer of the same.
FRANK M. MYERS, deputy recorder of Jefferson County, and one of the rising young business men of Steubenville, O., was born in Toronto, O., in 1884, and is a son of A. W. and Harriet ( McFerm) Myers. A. W. Myers, now deceased, was born in Toronto, O., in 1835, and during his active career carried on a general contract- ing business at Toronto. He is survived by his widow, who is a resident of Toronto, O., and the following children: Mary, who is the wife of Charles W. Moran, of Jeddo, O .; Frank M .; Sadie, who married Hugh Wilberts, of Toronto; and Jennie, who is the wife of D. D. Hnseroft, county recorder of Jefferson County.
Frank M. Myers was reared in Toronto, O., and after a common school education was engaged in the wall paper business at Toronto with his brother for some time, then entered the employ of the American Sewer Pipe Company, after which he was employed at the Carnegie Steel Works at Mingo until September. 1909, since which the he has been serving as deputy re- corder of Jefferson County. Mr. Myers holds membership with the Methodist Protestant Churchi, of Toronto, O. He is a Mason of the 14th degree, recognized as one of the able and efficient men of the younger generation at Steubenville.
PAUL CASTNER, a prominent citizen of Millvale, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he has been engaged in a general mer- cantile business since 1893, emme here as one of the earliest settlers. in 1870. He was born in Island Creek Township, Jef- ferson County, September 26, 1845, and is a son of Rassellas and Christina (Limon- stell) Castner.
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Rassellas Castner was born in Island Creek Township, to which his father, Michael Castner, had come from Penn- sylvania. He became a man of prominence and wealth in Island Creek Township and owned and improved the farm on which John D. Kilgore resides and built the brick house standing on that farm, which, at the time of its erection was considered one of the finest residences in all this section. Rassellas Castner was afforded a collegi- ate education and was an unusually intelli- gent and well informed man. His entire life was spent in Island Creek Township, where he died February 19, 1883. He was well known all over Jefferson County and had he so desired, could have been elected to many public offices by the Republican party. He was married first to Parmelia Rex, and they had two of their four chil- dren survive infaney : Michael C., residing in Island Creek Township, and Edwin S., residing near Newark, O. His second union was with Christina Limonstell and five children were born to that marriage. namely : Paul; Hannah, who is the wife of Joseph Blackburn, of Steubenville: Rod- erick M., who lives at Steubenville; Sarah, who is the wife of M. W. Ginger, of Sten- benville; and Eli T., who also resides in that city.
Paul Castner was reared on the home farm in Island Creek Township and at- tended the district schools. During early manhood he engaged in agricultural pur- suits and still owns a valuable farm of 102 acres, which is situated in Island Creek Township. He has been a general mer- chant at Millvale for the past seventeen years and was one of the pioneer business men of that place. Through his enterprise and interest he has done much in the way of building up this village.
On November 3, 1870, Mr. Castner was married to Miss Mary HI. Paxton, who was born in Jefferson County, O., and is a daughter of the late George and Margaret Paxton, of Island Creek Township. Mr. and Mrs. Castner bave had eight children. the six survivors being as follows: Ger-
trude M., who is the wife of Edward Cable, of Steubenville; Oella C., who is the wife of Jolin H. Priest, of Wellsville; Anna E., who is the wife of H. M. Benedick, of To- ronto, O .; Nina M., who is the wife of George N. Taylor, of Steubenville; and Charles and Edwin, both of whom reside at home. Margaret P. and Mollie are both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Castner attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. In poli- ties he has always been identified with the Republican party.
EVAN G. EVANS, a prominent citizen, financier and capitalist of Jefferson Coun- ty, has spent the larger portion of his life in the neighborhood in which his fore- fathers settled many years ago. He was born in Mt. Pleasant Township, this county, May 14, 1840, and is a son of George I. Evans and a grandson of Jona- than and Elizabeth Evans.
George I. Evans was born in Montgom- ery County, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and came to Ohio June 26, 1830. He was in the thirty-sixth generation in descent from the founder of his family as, in part, is given as follows:
The genealogy of the Evans family has been traced to Mervyn Vrych, King of Man, who was killed in battle with the King of Mercia, A. D. 843. King Mervyn married Esylt, daughter and sole heiress of Conan Tyndactly, King of Wales, who died in 818 or 820. Both Merwyn and Esylt traced their descent from Ihndd, King of Britain, who was a brother of Caswallon, the chief who resisted the inva- sion of Cæsar, before the Christian Era.
Passing over a number of intermediate generations from Mervyn Vrych the line may be taken up in the tenth generation from the Book of Gwynedd.
Ivan, known as Evan Robert Lewis, was living in 1601 and was probably then a young man. He removed from Rhowlas, or its neighborhood in Merionethshire, to Vrom Goch, probably in Deubighshire, and there passed the remainder of his life. He had five sons, all taking for themselves,
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according to Welch custom, the form of Ap Evan, as follows : John ap Evan. Cad- wallader ap Evan, Griffith ap Evan, Owen ap Evan and Eva ap Evan.
Evan ap Evan was the father of the four brothers who came to Gwynedd, in 1698, accompanied by Sarah, their sister and the mother of Robert Pugh. He was twice married and had two daughters by his first marriage and the four settler sons by his second.
Owen Evans, the third of these sons, emigrated from Wales in 1698 and died October 7, 1723, in his sixty-fourth year, having been born in 1659. His wife was Elizabeth.
Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, was a son of Thomas Evans and was the grandfather of the late George I. Evans and the great- grandfather of Evan Griffith Evans, of Mt. Pleasant Township, near Emerson. This Thomas Evans was born January 24, 1733, and died September 3, 1818. He married Elizabeth Roberts in 1765 (born Novem- ber 19, 1740, died in 1794), a daughter of John and Jane Roberts, of Whilpau.
Jonathan Evans, father of George I. Evans and grandfather of Evan G. Evans, was born in Montgomery County, Penn- sylvania, in 1778, and died in Mt. Pleasant Township, April 7, 1844, aged sixty-six years. He was married at Richland, Bucks County. Pa., October 5, 1809, to Elizabeth Iden, who died Jannary 23, 1824. Jonathan Evans tanght school at Richland, a half mile from Bunker's Hill, for two years after his marriage and then removed to Gwynedd, Montgomery County, where he taught until about 1816, when he settled at Sandy Hill and engaged in teaching there until the death of his wife in 1824. In 1832-3 he was in Ohio, near Mt. Pleas- ant, with his son, and then returned to Montgomery County and thereafter made his home with his brother Caleb.
The children of Jonathan and Elizabeth Evans were six in number. namely: Thomas I., born in 1810, died in 1883 mar- ried Ann Washington; George I., born in 1812; Caleb, born in 1815, married Sarah
Black; William R., born in 1817, married Mary W. Allen for his first wife and Martha S. Carr for his second wife; Job, born in 1820, died in the same year; and Hannah I., born in 1821, married Thomas D. Thomlinson, of Marietta, Iowa.
George I. Evans, father of Evan Griffith Evans, was born August 31, 1812, and died April 2, 1886. He was twice married, first in January, 1834, to Sarah Griffith, who was born in 1814 and died in 1846. She was a daughter of Evan and Elizabeth Griffith, of Mt. Pleasant, O. George I. Evans' second marriage was to Mary P. Richards, a daughter of Samuel and Ann Richards, of Mt. Pleasant. On June 26, 1830, George I. Evans moved to Mt. Pleas- ant Township and settled in the neighbor- hood of what was Trenton, now Emerson. He had large business interests and owned a number of valuable farms. He survived his second wife for ten years. her death occurring on September 20, 1876, while she was attending the Centennial celebration at Philadelphia. The children of George I. Evans were: Elizabeth E., born in 1835, who was married in 1853 to John Scott, both being now deceased; Julia A., born in 1837, who in 1849 was married to Thomas MeMullan, both now deceased; Evan Grif- fith; Sarah E., who was born in 1842, and died in 1863; and Mary A., born in 1844, who was married in 1870 to George W. Michner and died in 1889, leaving four children-Elizabeth, William W., George Evans and Mary Edith ..
Evan G. Evans obtained his educational training in the local schools and owing to the fact that he was the only son. was early called upon to assume business cares and responsibilities. Fortunately he was endowed with good judgment and has never regretted his early training along business lines. In the management of his father's property he learned how to take care of his own, which has grown to a large estate, he now being one of the capi- talists of this section. Mr. Evans is largely interested in a number of financial institu- tions of recognized standing, and is on the
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directing boards of the First National Bank of Mt. Pleasant and of the Mt. Pleas- ant branch of the State Bank of Ohio; he is a charter member of the Mt. Pleasant Sav- ings Bank and a director in the same and is also a charter member of the Mt. Pleas- ant National Bank and the Citizens' Sav- ings Bank of Mt. Pleasant. The solidity of these institutions is never questioned, their directing boards being made up solely of men of recognized ability and integrity.
On January 9, 1862, Mr. Evans was married to Miss Rebecca Croft, a danghter of William and Rachel Croft. Her father emne to Ohio from Virginia and died at the age of fifty-five years in Belmont Connty, Ohio, where he was engaged in business as a merchant. He married Rachel Spencer, who was born in Belmont Comty in 1809 and died at Emerson, Jef- ferson County, November 20, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have had children as fol- lows: Arthur W., born May 31, 1863, re- sides on the home place, married Annie J. Scott, daughter of John and Elizabeth Scott, and they have one daughter, Sarah Delphine; George Austin, born March 10, 1865, is a farmer residing near West Lih- erty, lowa, married Anna Burrell and they have two children-Lucile E. and Lawrence William; Sarah Ella, born April 29, 1871; Ellery Channing, born April 22, 1873, is a hardware merchant at Des Moines, Iowa; and Anna Clare, born April 21, 1875, married W. W. Michner, of Rocky Mount, N. C., and has one child, Anna Re- becca, born July 6, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Evans are members of the Society of Friends at Emerson.
JOHN A. FISHER, who is now serving his second term as president of the board of county commissioners of Jefferson County, Ohio, was born in July, 1860, in Steubenville, O., where for many years he was engaged in conducting a grocery and market. He is a son of Jacob Mi. Fisher, who was born in July, 1836, in Steubenville, where he was for many years
concerned in manufacturing and also in the mercantile business, and died here in July, 1909.
John A. Fisher grew to manhood and was educated at Steubenville, where, after clerking some time in a grocery store, he opened a meat market, which he condneted successfully for over twenty years. He was engaged in the grocery and market business at the time of his election to the board of county connuissioners in the fall of 1905, first taking office in September, 1906, and was re-elected in 1908, and is now serving his second term as president of the board. During the nineties he served four years as coroner of Jefferson County, having always taken a more or less active interest in politics. Mr. Fisher is a member of the Finley M. E. Church, of which he was for more than twenty years superintendent of the Sabbath-school, and is fraternally affiliated with the Masonic order at Steubenville, O.
Mr. Fisher was first married to Miss Cora G. MeNeal, a daughter of A. R. Me- Neal, who died in 1900, leaving three sous : George E., of Steubenville; J. Donald, who is in the employ of the U. S. Glass Com- pany, of Pittsburgh; and John A. Mr. Fisher formed a second union with Miss Cora H. Clifton, a daughter of O. P. Clif- ton, who died Jannary 9, 1909, and to them were born: Leone C., Olive Daisy, and Helen Virginia.
WILLIAM GLADDEN was formerly one of Knox Township's well known and respected citizens, one of the men of whom it may truly be said that his word was as good as his bond and his friendship was cherished by those to whom it was given. lle was a faithful friend, a good neighbor and devoted husband. He was born near Midway. Pa., January 13, 1830, and died on his farm in Knox Township, April 13, 1891 His parents were Joseph and Jane (Donaldson) Gladden.
William Gladden was reared to man's estate in Pennsylvania and there he at- tended school in boyhood but for only a
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short period as he practically had his own way to make in the world and began work early. About 1864 he came to Jefferson County, Ohio, and settled on the farm on which his widow still resides, and here the remaining years of his life were passed. He devoted himself entirely to farming and stock raising.
On May 30, 1876, Mr. Gladden was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca E. Warren, who was born in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, March 21, 1832, and is a daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Pollick) Warren. Her father was born in Pennsylvania; her mother, born in Jef- ferson County, died when Mrs. Gladden was four years old. Her paternal grand- father was William Warren, who settled in 1806 in Knox Township, on the farm now occupied by Andrew Warren. William Warren was a soldier in the War of 1812. William Gladden was a consistent member of the United Presbyterian Church at Knoxville, O. Mrs. Gladden belongs also to this church. She is well known and very highly esteemed in her locality. She had four brothers, who fought for the preser- vation of the Union in the great Civil War. Her farm has 190 acres, but her nepbew owns it, she, however, retaining a life lease of it.
JOHN L. MARTIN, who owns thirty- five acres of fine farming land in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and eighty-two acres just as valable in Steubenville Township, was born in the latter township, July 12, 1868, and is a son of John and Emma ( Menschke) Mar- tin. John Martin and wife were horn in Germany and both came to America young and were married at Steubenville. During some years of his life he worked as a stone mason, but later followed farming. They had the following children : William, Robert and Mary, both deceased, and John L.
Jolın L. Martin attended the common schools in Steubenville Township, after which he engaged in farming for a few
years and then began contracting, and bas been connected with A. W. McDonald in the contracting business for a number of years and combines his two lines of busi- ness. In a general way he is a Republican in his political views, but frequently uses his own judgment in giving support to ean- didates. He is numbered with his town- ship's representative citizens. Mr. Mar- tin was married May 27, 1897, to Miss Clara C. Pfabe, a daughter of Emil and Amelia (Atterholdt) Pfabe. The parents of Mrs. Martin were both born in the United States, but the grandparents were natives of Germany and residents of Butler County, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mar- tin has six brothers: Charles, Philip, Al- bert. William, Andrew and Clarence Mr. and Mrs. Martin have one son and three daughters, John, Anna, Helen and Grace. The family belongs to the Methodist Epis- copal Church.
S. H. CAREY, secretary of The Myers Company, scenie painters, designers and decorators, at Steubenville, was born at Hudson, O., Jannary 1, 1871, and was there reared and educated. When twenty years of age Mr. Carey became connected with the Pennsylvania Company and remained with that corporation for ten years, after which he became associated with J. Ross Myers and came to this city from Toronto, O. In 1904 The Myers Company was or- ganized and incorporated. its officers being: J. Ross Myers, president and treas- urer; Panl Nordstrom, vice president, and S. H. Carey, secretary. The business is one that covers a wide trade territory. The main office is situated at No. 144 North Third Street, Steubenville.
In 1896, Mr. Carey was married to Miss Blanche Glenn, of Toronto, O., where she was born and reared, and they have one son, R. Glenn. Mr. and Mrs. Carey are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, of Toronto, and he has been a member of its official board, the leader of the choir and superintendent of the Sun- day-school. He is a 32d degree Mason and
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is past master of the Blue Lodge at To- ronto, and belongs to the Lodge of Per- fection at Steubenville and to the Con- sistory at Columbus, O.
SAMUEL C. GILL. By the death of Samuel C. Gill, which occurred at his is- land home, Beaumaris, Canada, on August 17, 1909, Steubenville lost one of her most active and popular citizens. Mr. Gill be- longed to the Mt. Pleasant family of that name, where he was born on March 10, 1851. His early education was in the schools of Mt. Pleasant, then as now being above the average of village schools, sup- plemented by a course at Earlhamn College, Ind., and a two-year term at Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca, N. Y. With his brothers, Hon. J. J. and J. W. Gill, he was one of the founders of the Exchange Bank (in 1873), once the National Exchange, in which he always maintained an interest and held a directorship for several years preceding his death. When his brothers entered into the glass business, as is more fully related elsewhere, he embarked in the same enterprise, in which business he remained during life, and was also one of the originators of and part owner in the Ohio Valley Clay Works, which have grown from a comparatively small beginning to one of the leading industries of the city.
In 1900 Mr. Gill was appointed a member of Governor Nash's staff, with the rank of colonel, and served in that capacity during Nash's two terms. Besides possessing a taste for literature and the arts, Mr. Gill was quite an extensive traveler and was a keen observer of all that came in his way. Several years previous to his death he pur- chased one of the beautiful islands in Lake Muskoka, Canada, where he built a sum- mer home, and where he and his family pleasantly sojourned during the heated terms, and where, as stated above, he passed away. He was interested in social and civic enterprises, being a director of the Steubenville Country Club, and a memu- ber of the Ohio Society of New York, and the Caledon Club, Toronto. On October 5.
1881, Mr. Gill married Miss Willmena Hol- ton, of Steubenville, who survives him with one son, James Holton Gill, one of our most worthy and popular young citizens.
EDWARD DAVID MeKINLEY, stock raiser and fariner in Island Creek Town- ship, who resides with his family on the old Patterson farm of 147 acres, which be- longs to his wife, was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, March 22, 1871, and is a son of John W. and Sarnh ( Waugh) Me- Kinley, who now reside also in Island Creek Township, to which they came in 1874. Mr. Mckinley was three years old when his parents caine to Jefferson Conn- ty, and he has made his home here ever since. From the public schools he entered Richmond College, a former well known educational institution which is no longer in existence.
On September 3, 1902, Mr. MeKinley was married to Miss Laura M. Patterson, who was born in Island Creek Township, April 2, 1874, on the farm on which she has always lived. This land was seenred in 1800 by her grandfather, William Pat- terson, and has never since been out of the family. Her father, the late Andrew .J. Patterson, was born and spent his life here. Mr. and Mrs. MeKinley have one daughter, Martha M., who was born Feb- rmary 8, 1906, on the same day of the month as was her grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. MeKinley are members of Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee. In polities he is a Democrat, He is numbered with the successful agri- culturists of Island Creek Township and is one of the leading sheep raisers.
GEORGE WILSON TILTON, propri- etor of a general store at Yorkville, O., was for many years engaged in agricul- inral pursuits, and was born June 25, 1851, on Deep Run, about three quarters of a mile from his present home in Belmont County, Ohio. He is a son of Joel and Cynthia ( Hartzell) Tilton, and a grandson of Joseph Tilton, who was one of the early
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settlers of Warren Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. . He owned a section of land running from Deep Run to Tiltonville, which town was named after him, and was an Indian trader and farmer. He died in the old house, which was over one hundred years old, in 1860, at the age of ninety- three years, three months and sixteen days. Joseph Tilton and his wife were often obliged to take turns at night watch- ing through holes in the sides of the old log house for the Indians, who then dwelt in this locality in large numbers and were unfriendly. Joseph Tilton and wife were the parents of four children: Noalı, deceased; Joel, father of our subject; and two daughters.
Joel Tilton was born on the farm in Warren Township in the old log house, which at that time was considered very fine, and he has a little bracket made from the old walnut logs of the house in which his father was born. Joel Tilton was reared in this township, became a farmer and subsequently came into possession of part of the old home place. He married Cynthia Hartzell, a native of Pennsylva- nia, who with their eldest child often rode alone on horseback over the mountains to her parents' home in Pennsylvania. They had seven children: Noah, a resident of Martin's Ferry, O .; Mary, who is the wife of Mack MeKim, of Kansas City; Indiana, who married W. J. Darrah, of Martin's Ferry; Joseph, who lives in Ohio County, West Virginia; John, deceased; Frances, who lives in Topeka, Kan .; and George W. The father died in 1875, aged sixty-five years, and the mother died at the home of our subject in 1903, aged eighty-nine years.
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